skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole obsession over Super Ninja Rockstar MegaUltraDevelopers is getting to be a bit much. Everyone says they want the top 0.1%, which they just aren't going to get. Maybe it's because I don't consider myself "brilliant". I'm a reasonably intelligent guy with a good education, loads of experience, and a diverse skillset. But I'm not a genius. Very few are.

You've gotta be realistic, and I get the impression that unless a company is paying rather large salaries and/or offering extremely interesting problems to solve, they're only likely to attract people with overinflated egos with that kind of rhetoric, rather than the true best of the best.
What's the best license advice if you do want commercial organisations to be able to use your code without ambiguity?

I'm looking to open-source a few bits of code soon, and actively want commercial entities to not have to worry about using them, but am not sure what to go with.
On the Mac you can run it constantly and it won't ever crash. It's one of the most amazingly reliable pieces of software out there.
Do you have an SSD in the host system? As with many things when running outside of a VM, I've found that the SSD provides the greatest performance boost to most applications other than 3D gaming.

I've been doing web development work in a Windows VM for a number of years now and found it to be very responsive even on older MacBook Pros with with only one core of a Core2 Duo allocated to the VM. Adding more RAM helped a little bit, but the biggest speed boost was the addition of an SSD.
Very helpful - Like that first article as well, thank you. I wasn't attempting to bash the lean movement, though I have found it more difficult to implement with my own startup than I'd thought (emotions / fears find their way into the equation, spurring the batch death spiral). I just wanted to point out that there were other factors that will drive success now that the "secret" is out. Thanks again, and hopefully I can minimize the lessons I learn painfully.
Will that prevent your family showing up when they search for family members who like something? Or just prevent you from showing up with your own likes visible?
It will be interesting to see what MIT's response to Aaron's allies were...Edward Tufte said that he went to bat on behalf of Aaron with JSTOR (who more or less dropped their case), others must have done so with MIT. Did those petitions get to the right people? And if so, what justification did those MIT officials use to carry on with the case?

Also, did MIT feel any pressure from the Justice Department to carry on with the case? Perhaps MIT was reluctant to take action against Aaron but was convinced by the DoJ that something had to be done?
I believe all the Genesis stuff is actually GPL per Brian Gardner.
the FLORA and the GEMMA are not the lilypad, check out the FLORA page - GPS units, RGB LEDs, all possible with our platform. http://www.adafruit.com/flora
I hate to sound like a grumpy neckbeard but what's the world coming to when a clearly pretty clueful guy dismisses android as lot linux without a footnote but then goes on to call busybox and a handful of classic userspace command line tools a linux distribution?

Doesn't make it any less useful, but what's next - calling wine a windows distro?
Are the cloud providers (dropbox in this case) even allowed to look at the contents of your files?

I guess this would be up to the TOS for each site but the few sites i've actually read at least pretend that they value your privacy.

Also remember the shitstorm after 37signals announced that the millionth file ever uploaded to basecamp was an image of a cat? The official story after all complaints was that they never opened the file but they still "knew" because the filename in the logs showed up as cat.jpg.
Calling "Jedi" Ambassadors for closed beta
I guess for startup founders it's really all work and no play. At-least that's what happens to me. Most of my time is consumed towards work. Getting time for other stuffs is a luxury. I'd love to hear from other startup founders who are able to achieve a balance between work and play. What's their secret?
Quick a dirty CSS game from Music Hack Day, SoundCloud + The Echo Nest
Surgeon Sues Google for Unflattering Autocomplete Results
I think you may be missing the part where, by drawing in revenue, you help offset the risk of letting random people make use of your capital.

While I agree that perhaps in a better world everyone should simply share resources unencumbered by profit motive, the assignment of a usage fee to a couch or something does help prevent overuse of resources.

In the case of a friend sleeping on my couch, there is our personal relationship and desire not to cause future trouble that helps limit the possible risk of the couch getting destroyed--having a pecuniary barrier to entry for a stranger to use my couch seems reasonable.
Percentage-wise it looks pretty normal. $650 million out of $3.5 billion is a bit under 20%, which is common. I used to live in Santa Cruz, a much smaller town with a much smaller police department, but about the same percentage of city funding: police took $22 million out of $101 million (http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?doc..., pp. 22-23).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
I may have missed this, but where is 'Other' defined for a reason to request this information? It seems to happen a lot in the U.S.
if you're adjusting the browser zoom level while you're looking at a page, that's because you want to inspect something more closely.

Not me. HN is a good example where I have to zoom in to get the text at a decent font size on my phone. I absolutely want the page width to change and to reflow the text.
Pretty cool, I have a rough time getting my lazy friends to test my iphone apps :/
Nope, this is an even smaller version of the already tiny FLORA platform from Adafruit. https://www.adafruit.com/products/659 It says on that page that it is a completely different platform. Here's their FLORA project page: http://learn.adafruit.com/category/flora
See: http://log.maniacalrage.net/tagged/cscr

It is not "one of the most amazingly reliable pieces of software out there" by any stretch of the imagination.
Could you please change the prime (') in your header to a curly apostrophe (’, &rsquo;)? It drove me mental. :P
If he'd left it a while longer before fessing up (say until the US started waking up) he'd have got a lot more on that list.
Seconded. My wife takes our twin two year olds to the library twice a week for library story time and to play with the gigantic Thomas the Tank Engine. Both my wife and my kids like seeing their friends (and nobody has to get snacks or clean up their house for an afternoon playdate).
You don't need Grunt or the jekyll_asset_pipeline to get SCSS or CoffeeScript running working with Jekyll: http://quaran.to/blog/2013/01/09/use-jekyll-scss-coffeescrip...

That being said, I love it when people build on top of Jekyll - it's awesome to see how many workflows it can fit into.
because you can google why.
ya, but that's a different blog post. if you want to do that, do that. if you don't do it, don't make it seem like you did that.
I hate to be that guy but FSM help me, I am.

Segway: a goofy 2 wheeled scooter invented by Dean Kamen.

Segue: to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption: The conversation segued from travel anecdotes to food.
Within a week of its launch, I used the product in three different cities and multiple less urban locations on the east and west coasts. I had no major problems.

I'm know there were problems with maps, but a lot of the teeth gnashing was/is exaggerated drama. Google routinely places silly things at the corner of Van Ness and Market, because it has no idea where they belong -- you just don't hear about it because nobody nitpicks Google Maps the way they did Apple's launch.
Says the head of the new xbox division[1]

[1] According to an anonymous email I received 35 seconds ago
Google Fiber "not a hobby": scoring the web at 1Tbps
Great job! Can you speak (or maybe a blog post would be better) about how you put this together? What did you have to do get/massage the data? What tech did you use, etc?

It's nice to see stuff like this coming out of Philly.
Or this is a brilliant cover up from Microsoft on a genuine leak. That is the fun with paranoia - there is always one more level of distrust.

Also specs of next gen devices are not that hard to guess.

Assuming goals are 1080p x 60FPS:

If you aim for sub 500 USD of production cost that retail at 350-400 there are not many balanced hardware solutions that could fit. My wild guess is that we will have 6GB of ram (it is dirt cheap so it makes no sense to have much less), because the invisible walls are something players and developers has complained a lot. 2GB of video ram and four core cpu. And maybe 7870/660ti class GPU and what is left of the budget for storage.
Informix was everything you say it was, I concur.

Oracle you could fine tune nearly everything with a single text file through 8i. And even now that's still supported (the pfile vs spfile). Their recovery procedures are also bulletproof unlike the voodoo with say, Sybase ASE to this day.
He didn't notice it?

> I feel bad for lying, but it proves the point very well.
Lots of open source projects do similar- an example is Firefox, which owns their branding and resulted in "Iceweasel" for Debian ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re... ).
On a side note: I wish startups would start putting the company location somewhere in an easily accessible place. This would allow me to decide if an application is a valid option due to geography.
I was going with the first two being inherent since it was invented, but we can say that NetSol being given admin over .com in 1993 was the second 'w'. In 1995 NetSol was given permission to sell them to anybody.
Moreover, I would like to see all correspondence relating to the prosecution of this case, from MIT, JSTOR, and among the prosecutors themselves. The public has a right to know why the government, which is supposed to be working on our behalf, chose to prosecute Swartz in this manner (starting with 4 charges, then expanding to 13 -- yes, we can theorize, but how about letting us see what the people responsible said to each other so that we can actually know?). I would understand redacting any personal information relating to Aaron in that correspondence, but otherwise there were no individuals involved in this case and privacy should not be a major issue.
If you willingly put your name on something, you have editorial responsibility.
Why Futureful is what StumbleUpon would be were it built today
That's really not how people work. Haven't you ever programmed all day at work and then gone home to work on a personal project? It's very easy to get a second wind when changing projects, especially if it is something you find enjoyable.

And for all we know this was something that someone built outside of work they realized could be put to this use.
When and Why to Learn to Program
I've used Axure quite a bit, since v5. There's a steep learning curve once you want to use any of those advanced features.

I'm not sure how good your front-end coding knowledge is, but these days I find it's just as quick to prototype with Bootstrap.

Of all the features I use regularly, the main one is a hand-drawn library which is great for showing people rough layouts without them focusing on colours and typography.
X-Surface - Fake Xbox News Fools Big Sites
Barefigur.es
This is a great enhancement. It's been a problem finding quality repos on Github as one of the key indicators for me was the "freshness" or time since last commit. The previous interface did not make this easy to evaluate but it looks like this new search has enough options to make my searching actually useful.
WordPress.com does have a GPL requirement. As a designer, you must license your themes under GPL to sell them on WordPress.com.
Technically, it’s a single quotation mark :)

A prime is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)
Does it matter? The UK legal interference limit is 50 NANOwatts (prior to the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 ALL unlicensed FM transmitters were strictly illegal). This is almost certainly capable of exceeding that, perhaps even with just a bent wire antenna (and almost certainly with a tuned antenna). There are good reasons why those limits exist, and infringement can carry penalties up to a £5000 fine.
Steve Jobs was a scumbag. His reality distortion field created his legions of followers who have their heads so far up their asses that they can't see what an evil person he really was.

I want to barf any time I see those TV specials praising him after his death.
Don’t Get Up. App Makes Your Couch a Cool Spot
So just take it out of general government revenues (raise them if necessary). Trying to tax only those who use the service (which is probably 99.9% of people) is ridiculous. It just creates more bureaucracy and is a waste of time for everyone involved.
A lot more Hitler related images than I would expect. I didn't think Germans appreciated that type of humor (my wife is German).
MIT DNS hacked; traffic redirected
One of the major pain points with VMs is I/O. Get an SSD, and get a fast one, such as the Samsung 830/840Pro. Could be one of the smaller if short on cash.

This will do a lot to make your VMs responsive.
Actually I don't believe that's the case.

I believe that the video game journalism industry selects those that break stories fastest and quality is an afterthought or by-product. The difference is very slight, but I honestly don't think if people were suddenly paying for it, the quality of the stories would suddenly rise.

Nothing wrong with it, but as the tumblr account proves, bad actors can wreck havoc.
Now someone only needs to integrate this with the Facebook social graph search.
Some places mention that they have an XBox on site for you to play with, but that's usually just a red flag for me. I love playing games, but if I am going to be at work long enough to feel the urge to play then I am at work way too long.

These are probably the same places that think adding an extra hour to your work increases your productivity by 16%.
Every government appropriation is a change in the law. The government passes a bill every year that dictates how money will be divided amongst different agencies and departments. So, there is no way to appopriate tax dollars without a change in the law.
The treemap was made using D3 with some customizations. All the source and datasets are on github.

The department groupings are done with spacing. They are subtle, I know.

Right at this moment, I am adding color coding to the About modal.
Just took it for a spin. The implementation is fantastic.

Bravo, Github!
I also use grunt for optimizing pngs, concatenating JS into a single file, and uploading assets to S3.. it can do a ton of things. I may have only mentioned the first scss/cs use case though.
As Commodore's Jack Tramiel once said, "Business is war."
I'll be really pleased if this works in a usable manner, I'd very much given up on search in github.
I like the idea a lot. I worked at a larger company who offered a consumer service like this for a while. We found that most consumers really didn't convert well for the service and we had to pump in lots of marketing to get results. The most popular categories were 'psychics' and 'health'. Basically people who had STDs and were embarrassed and people who wanted their fortunes told. That said, there was a non-trivial amount of cash in those topics...

edit- I forgot programming. That was a big category as students often wanted their homework done for them...
Are there any plans to make this available through the API?
Nice one! Elasticsearch is great software for that purpose. I guess github's cluster is one of the bigger one out there now...
If you want to start a business but your appetite for risk is low (you have a family to support), you should look into a lifestyle business. It's like a startup, but instead of swinging for the fences and seeking VC investment and looking to be aquired or IPO, you seek to maintain a certain level of income to support your lifestyle. This may be easier for you in Pakistan than in a more expensive country.

Take me, for example. I make $100k+ as a software engineer, so if I wanted to quit my job and start a business, I'd need $9k per month to support my current lifestyle (pretty difficult to do). Maybe in Pakistan I would only need $1k per month (a little easier).

Ideas for businesses to make $1k per month include selling stock photography, WordPress templates, simple iOS/Android apps, etc. If you want something with more potential (but with more effort), try something like Skype tutoring, being a virtual assistant, or a content writer.
MIT or BSD are pretty permissive. The MIT one is arguably clearer because there's only a single version, whereas the BSD has a few (three clause, four clause, etc).
Apache or MIT seem to be the most popular.
Can you explain where it says this is required? I just looked at their web site and you can apply normally. The puzzles are optional.
It sounds like they are following the letter of the GPL but not the spirit. By licensing the PHP under GPL they are complying, but by licensing the CSS and image assets under a restrictive license they are activity trying to hinder the PHP from being useful if it were distributed. As the GPL is designed to do.

Did they really understand the GPL when they built their business on it?
"Other" is as compared to search warrants and subpoenas, i.e. it's describing the vehicle of the request rather than the reason for the request. It's defined, loosely, in a tooltip: "Includes court orders issued under ECPA by a judge and other court-issued legal process."
As a developer I find that I can only do certain kinds of activities while standing. I like standing for planning and responding to email, but if I'm writing code I generally like to sit down. I have a setup like this one: http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/blog/split-level-sitting-a...

I have two monitors and I just changed which one is hooked up to my laptop.
Worried that I'm too slow, I then tracked down the reference to the fizzbuzz test: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...
That one took me 11 minutes. There was less syntax and more logic tested with fizzbuzz. The only thing that tripped me up for a few minutes was I found out (through debugging) that integers in Python stay integers when divided. So I had to float(i) before dividing by 3 or 5 to get it to work.

I don't know if you're trying to weed out people weak on syntax but your test may very well do that. Syntax fluency generally gets better over time, I would think. Not sure basic logic and debugging skill gets better over time.
We really appreciate your feedback.
I know it's prominently linked early in the OP, but I was confused because I kept thinking that it was "Part 1" and the OP was "Part 2"...He did an excellent, very lengthy write-up just on the design aspects of the site:
http://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-design

(the difference in title was "Designing" vs "Developing")
Yes.

Mostly my friends just text each other, not talk. Google voice provides SMS and voice mail, so it saves me a lot of monies.

Then I use my paid minutes to return calls if needed. For making calls where quality is not critical, I put on headphones and make SIP voice calls.
A Conversation on Cloud Computing, PaaS, Distributed Systems & Marketing
Interesting idea - thanks for the suggestion!
Nice! Mostly just trying to spread the word that it's possible to get SCSS/CS working minimally with Jekyll instead of resorting immediately to complicated plugins and hacks.
Meizu MX2 lanzado en China con Unicom
There's been a running joke with my friend who always shows up as liking T-Mobile in my timeline (along with the timeline of everyone he's friends with) with whatever the latest T-Mobile update is, but he "unliked" T-Mobile over a year ago - pretty trivial, but also pretty annoying
This is very cool. Simple but useful. Great work!
What you say is both very true and very false, it depends a lot on the product.
Advertising can be an amazing way to get money and sometimes, even if you could directly sell to your users, advertising can perform WAY better.
The real important factor to decide wether you should put ads or not is "will I probably get a few paying customers or just a lot of users ?".
Advertising is all about the volume, the bigger it is, the more money you'll make and a good relationship with your advertisers can lead to really good revenues and a real business model.
When we launched our first product with my company, our only competitor was a paid app. We thought "f* it, we'll make it free!". We now have 600k monthly active users and make way much more than our competitor. So maybe not every business should "sell". With social media &cie, it's starting to be really easy to get a lot of users and ads can be an amazing way to monetize it !
Why do you consider it a barrier? It is not required. If you want to submit a resume the normal way, they have a link to do that too.
"People who like ruby and python and have write access in the php organization repositories"
Bike Sharing Needs to Be a Part of Public Transit
Not the ones you get on eBay from china. I was finally able to drag a handful of them over to someone who had a decent spectrum analyzer and was duly horrified.
I was going to say that 20% seems exceptionally low, but I see how the pensions were being backed out.

Fire and public safety, and their corresponding pensions, make up the bulk (like often >50%) of all municipal expenditures.
There are a few mostly-interchangeable flavors, but the ISC license is small and readable (and basically equivalent to the BSD license.)
When Trees Die, People Die
Github's just been killing it lately. Great start to the year.
Hello, Haiku: Writing Your First Program For Haiku OS
The product is what you sell. The business is the rest (marketing, sales, etc.). A product itself is not a business, because products don't sell themselves. No matter how good they are, someone needs to market them in any given way. Problem with hackers is that they falsely believe that building a great product is enough. Nope.

Ever see the mountain of downright awful products out there? How do people buy such such garbage? Because those products are marketed well. If people sell garbage with good marketing imagine what a great product and great marketing can accomplish. One word: Apple. Billions of dollars due to great marketing and great products.
Every time I hear someone say that democracy won't suffer as professional news orgs fold and that bloggers will fill the void I think of stories like this.
Ember Data Adapter for Parse - Updated to latest Ember Data
Well for one they don't HAVE to reproduce every paper. They only have to reproduce protocols proposed for these papers, and mostly you can stick to the ones with obviously wide implications. If, for example, there was one group who tested all of the methods for manufacturing graphene for efficiency and repeatability, that would make work much easier for dozens if not hundreds of labs around the world. Not to mention it would open up the way for startups, who can rely on tested protocols, to begin industrial scale work with graphene.

You can't predict which work would be important in general, yes, but when it comes to identifying important protocols in organic chemistry and biology, there is a lot more information on what is important and what is not. Most of the time, in o. chem, protocols are incremental improvements over previous protocols and it's very easy to figure out which of them are most often used.
Hal Abelson's Letter to the MIT Community about Aaron Swartz