skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey chime (god this is weird): we had that problem months ago, but we decreased the ping frequency and there haven't been any issues.

It doesn't currently do moderator mail, but I'll add it to the issue tracker. Thanks!
Enterprise Software Lessons: IT Services Keep Gaining Momentum
true, I've experienced that as well.
The morons who wrote shitty code, made project managers.
Considering the space requirements of a DB with a properly designed schema, I have to wonder what on earth you can do that generates beyond a few terabytes of data, and how you can make any sense out of it.

Also, your comment is rather ambiguous, I certainly hope you're not calling Postgresql experimental, because that would be laughable; and there are several examples of multi-terabyte databases using it.
Migration to Scala 2.10

Looking forward to the new language features and performance improvements :)
Thanks! We're just tracking the analytics with Google Analytics.
Perhaps its unusual but every company I have worked for this could be sorted out with a quiet word with upper management or HR. A little disruption moving people between teams is well worth averting a potential clashes
Wow, this is a slick interface. I love the Windows Metro look and feel. Great job with this, I'm excited to use this and not have to worry about keeping a bunch of tabs open! How often does it check for new notifications? It would be nice if you could set a variable to check for new notifications every 1 min, 5 mins, 15 mins, etc.

Do you have a donate link or something? I would love to say "thank you" with a little money gift to thank you guys for your hard work! :)
Well, 75% to 90% of my daily mail is unsolicited junk. I estimate that we throw out five to seven pounds of junk mail per week. If this is typical of most households this is a remarkable amount of stuff that is being thrown out on a daily basis.

Our of memory, the majority of the legitimate mail we get is from government agencies (bills, voting packets, etc.), a couple of catalogs and companies who haven't gone 100% online yet.

We switched to online banking and online bill payments a long, long time ago. Nearly every package delivery we receive is via FedEx or UPS.

You have to wonder, if the USPS was not allowed to deliver bulk junk mail, what would their financials look like?

According to this US census, there are over 132 million housing units (homes and apartments) in the US.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

If each of these homes is throwing out just TWO pounds of junk mail every week --just TWO POUNDS, not five like we do-- that represents TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR MILLION POUNDS of garbage per week and over FOURTEEN BILLION POUNDS (14,256,000,000) of garbage per year!

I am NOT a crazy environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination, but, I'm sorry, but that's just-about criminal. That is a disgusting amount of trash moved by the USPS for no reason whatsoever.

The problem doesn't end there. Besides environmental impact, think of all the fuel and waste by-products consumed by moving and having to deal with fourteen billion pounds of trash. Think of the USPS delivery pipeline, trucks, vans, airplanes and unnecessary people. Think of the additional capacity requirement in local trash pickup trucks and the fuel they burn. And think of the excess power, people, area and fuel required to process and recycle this trash.

Based just on the the above I'd say that, yes, the USPS either needs to go away or seriously shrink down and stop this nonsense.
Wearing sunscreen is likely the least important part of the speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
Haha, that's true. We use google analytics for anonymized data.
channel types can have methods, too ;)

http://gowithconfidence.tumblr.com/post/31426832143/stacked-...
The Gelding of the American Workforce Speeds Up
Say bye-bye to any negotiating power you might have derived from inflating your old compensation.
> Sounds like he's trying to report bugs in projects that are either dead,half-dead or just the work of one guy as a side project.

I'm one guy with a side project (http://gmsl.sf.net/) and I try to fix bugs and add features when they come in. I've been maintaining it for years.

The main thing to do is decide if you are going to maintain something, or if it needs to be handed over to someone else. I did the latter for POPFile (http://getpopfile.org/) which is handled by a small team of people since I no longer had the energy or time to maintain and improve it.
I know a huge bank that had problems that every developer they promoted, quit.

It was because their managment positions were so stressful and so communication heavy, that most developers were totally not suited for it, and just plainly quit.
Find a hobby (preferably separate from what you do at your job, but whatever) and find people who participate in it. I chose auto racing, and I'm volunteering to do corner stations at one or two ChumpCar races this summer. Hoping to get a team together next year.

If you're not the social type, don't worry about having lots of friends. For me, there's probably around 10 people that I consider friends and that's plenty. Just find something you like and find some other people who like doing it.
It's usually very hard to QA one's own work. You are trying to find out why you suck which is very weird. (I am currently testing the ever-living daylights out of a piece of open-source software I'm working on, but I inherited it from someone else, which I'm sure makes me more willing to find out how it handles.)

I have no problem QA'ing other people's work. And, I have no problem when someone else finds bugs in my code. Maybe we need a QA-swap-meet.
Wrong link. This is the one:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/6/3958672/new-xbox-always-onl...
It's not even that. It's that they don't care. Most often they care more about power and process than results. It doesn't matter if you're "indispensable" to the company. A company will cut off its own nose to spite its face, and it will relish doing so. Sure, it may mean a huge setback for them, it may cost them millions even, but often they don't care. They'll just hire more people and apply enough effort to continue working.

The one thing that took me a long time to realize is that even when it comes to something like software if you throw enough half-assed labor at a problem there is a reasonable chance that eventually something of significant legitimate value can be created. No, it probably won't be as good as something created by a bunch of geniuses, but it can still end up being "good". When you play the long game or the big game you can afford to rely on half-assedness to work out in the end.
There's actually a lot of forum software that works quite well.

I like the name though.
I'm not a designer but I wonder if a little more whitespace could give the already attractive look an even more professional, refined appearance?

Here's what the individual-thread pages look like with 20px margin-bottom added:
http://imgur.com/YLbXOVg

Also, what's the design philosophy behind the button-like category labels, seen on each forum page and on the categories listing:
http://try.discourse.org/categories

Besides the conflict with the action-type buttons (e.g. "Login"), the color of the labels almost get lost when juxtaposed to the jumble of colorful admin avatars (I assume the users in the headers are the forum admins). It seems like plain, black text would make the categories stand out more.

Otherwise, seems like a solid product, even without knowing everything all the details under the hood. Hopefully this will be a strong alternative for publishers who don't want to cede control to Disqus/Facebook.
My friends said it look like a crazy spreadsheet.

After taking a good look, yes, there are a couple of useless information in the main layout, I would strip one column or two.
Other areas that we've engaged counsel that might benefit you:

- Specific industry specialties (eg: Crowdfunded sites need S.E.C. guidance, B2C companies need Contest guidance, Commercial/Residential Real estate needs H.U.D. guidance.) - a specific package would have been nice. Even if not your specialty, you could get a lead gen fee.
- Financial instrument review/drafting (Term Sheets, Conv. Notes, etc)
- Founder / Employee Dissolution

Just thoughts.
Algos Learn to Adapt Via Machine Learning
Can't speak for the GP, but this time last year I felt the same way about my situation and had for multiple years. Last April I finally got out of that job and my disposition changed noticeably. Multiple people noted such, and my desire to work on my side projects returned. I still have other underlying issues I am addressing, but the job was an acute trigger.
Can you describe the benefits? I perused the release notes and I couldn't find any details.
A nested hypervisor for the cloud. Now in beta.
Another thing you may want to do is stop pinging Gmail if it returns a couple of failures. I noticed that when Gmail signed off automatically for any reason, any additional pings caused the account to be locked. This is purely anecdotal so dig into it yourself if you have some time. Last thing you want to do is cause Gmail to block your users' mailboxes.
Hopefully someone from Readmill is around to satisfy my curiosity - why would someone raise an eyebrow at that?

When I commuted into and around NYC, reading on a larger-than-phone device was always totally unremarkable, so I'm confused. There's probably a cultural difference here that's interesting.
All great points for how this benefits Amazon, but not the consumer. It just locks up your money in their ecosystem.
Anyfi Networks (http://www.anyfinetworks.com) - Malmö, Sweden (H1B equivalent can be arranged)

We are looking for embedded software engineers with C and Linux experience to join our engineering team. You will work alongside some very capable engineers to develop a 4G radio access technology with a disruptive price/performance ratio (see http://anyfi.net/documentation for more info). If you’re up to it you’ll also have the opportunity to travel the world and integrate the software you’ve developed in Wi-Fi routers and residential gateways from leading vendors.

Linux and C experience is a must. Internet Protocol and Wi-Fi driver experience is nice to have. We would typically expect a candidate to have an M.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent and 2+ years working experience (but talent and attitude is most important).

Please send you application to jobs@anyfinetworks.com. We're hackers so if you want to impress us tell us about something you've built.
This article would have been much better if it started with the second section without referencing society's greatest outliers.
Here's the PrintScr commit for Konsole: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-baseapps/konsole/r...
Caffeine Jitters
That's a useless platitude. The point of the article is to define what exactly "best" is. Everyone always wants to make the best choice, but they hardly know what that is. In this case, the author says "best" is top of class, a sentiment with which I vehemently disagree
New Xbox requires an always-on connection to block used games, says report
How are you buying Amazon Coins without a credit card? At the store with cash? Amazon already sells gift cards at retail locations.
Netstat: network analysis and troubleshooting, explained
Winning war against ‘superbugs’:attacking antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Although you may be correct, it seems too early to tell whether this is the case. There's bound to be some issues early on, as they are still so new. They will improve. I believe having that interaction with a professor is so valuable, and something that can't be easily replicated with the way MOOCs scale to the thousands of attendees.
Rise in laser pen attacks on airline pilots over London [video]
Transparent transistors printed on transparent paper: Flexible, green
This is quite the HN title/link bait (currently: "3 Lines of Code to Rank a Website to 1# on Google"). The real title of the article is "Pay Day Loan Rankings: The shady tale of Joomla hacks and Drupal leaks". The article is about how a Joomla plugin added malicious code to their plugins to get referral links via spam on websites.
Exclusively for Google Chro(Ctrl+W).

(But I liked the screenshot).
Any idea how much this has increased signups for you? >10% ? I think that you have implemented this really well in the demo.
I wonder, doesn't everyone of the big corp's do this?

E.g. I remember an episode of some show like "how it's made" showing some big producer of pasta, where they have all this machinery to check and balance out the different qualities of incoming wheats (gluten content, minerals etc).

And I assume changes in wheat are not as noticeable as those between half-ripe and half-rotten oranges.
Debian easily allows the install of KDE under alternative desktops in the boot setup menu instead of the default Gnome 3. Also recommend using at least Debian Testing repositories if you want things to be relatively new.

https://extendedreality.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/2_debian...
I was about to say something similar; last I checked, ImageMagick was far from dead or "just one guy". As I was reading TFA, I was thinking "Okay, two projects I haven't heard of, might be one offs" but then his retelling of his experience with ImageMagick made me sit up and take notice. If it's really this bad, it might be time for someone else to take it over.
I have tried. I set up project management software to try to get the team on the same page. Team liked it, manager scrapped it after 3 weeks.

I sent him a feature development blueprint which was well received but ignored.

Suggested he gave people more responsibilities, he did but then didn't like not being the conduit in which everything flowed so took all the responsibilities back.

Spent a day with him writing development goals for the next month. General goals for 3/6 months. This would get everyone on the page and stop priority switching. Trouble is he never stopped editing the document. Instead it just became a documented expression of his managerial style.

One day I got pissed off and wrote a pissy but constructive email about his managerial style. Again, fairly well received. He left alone for a week to complete the task I was on. Then everything went back to normal with random daily requests and project swapping.

I care for my work and want the company to succeed. I haven't been silent passenger :)
Which is why escape characters and quotations were invented
Japan definitely has substantially more delivery service than the U.S., but letters also cost roughly twice as much as the U.S.
How's he going to volunteer to run the bug tracker when the project maintainers don't respond to email?
If your bottom line is gross revenue, why not just A/B test your pricing?

In an app store this is really simple. Pitch the app at a different price tier every week (ideally during a stable period with no major public holidays or obvious seasonal variations). One week will make more money than most. That's your price.
For the purposes of those who it is marketed to, yes, yes it could.
Calligra 2.6 Suite Brings E-book Authoring Application
There isn't really an about page but this tech overview gives a good impression about its design goals.

Some earlier discussions:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091736

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781891

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4784070
There are a number of interesting links from that page, including Invictus, but perhaps the most interesting is the reference to this from Theodore Roosevelt (which has a wonderful connection to Rugby and Nelson Mandela):

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

I'm going to give that link to my teenage son who aspires to be a national level Rugby player! :-)
Haha, that's alright. We're considering support for Firefox and Safari soon depending on the initial response. Thanks!
Do you think there might be practical issues that you're not considering, or don't have exposure to, which might explain why such a vanishing percentage of companies work the way you're saying is obvious? Is it because no-one else is smart enough to have thought of this?
The first 3D-printed human stem cells
I would not wish a petty/spiteful manager on anyone. I was in a similar situation in my last company: personal problems between my manager and I forced my departure.

In my situation the terrible fact was that my manager's inability to separate his personal and professional life caused the top four of my hierarchy of needs to be threatened (it's hard to be creative and solve problems when you're in a very shitty situation).

At the very end of my tenure, instead of talking about and trying to resolve our personal differences, he chose to go hyper-managerial on me (in manner and communication), making it clear that this was how my day-to-day was going to be from then on.

I loved working with my coworkers and almost everything else about working there, but I found it no longer mattered when I sat next to someone who will only communicate with me in writing with HR cc'd.
Google's Gorgeous New Tel Aviv Office
Yea, michaelochurch have talked about "open allocation" before.
It sucks when you run a bug tracker and it's spammed relentlessly because you allow anonymous comments. It sucks when someone files a legit bug anonymously and there's no way to reach them for followup or clarification.
FWIW, Ormsby has been pointing out that she didn't write anything about Silk Road until months after Jassar first began using SR and she has no idea why her article is involved in the trial: http://allthingsvice.com/2013/02/05/when-a-journo-becomes-th... http://allthingsvice.com/2013/02/05/a-response-to-vexnews/
Great post. Love the point about switching personas to deal with crisis situations. How do you know when to switch though? Sounds like it'll be exhausting to sustain a switch over a long period of time.
Beside the link bait title (right now "3 Lines of Code to Rank a Website to 1# on Google"), I found it very misleading that the article mentions that a CWS being open source is a problem because it can be exploited.

It is implying security by obscurity, and this is always bad advice, obscuring your source code, won't make it safer, quite the opposite, it will make easy to if someone find a vulnerability, you won't have enough resources to close it fast enough.
This is solid content, but I was expecting a comparison of Coursera, udacity, KhanAcademy, and edX.

Additionally, may want to add a summary chart using one of the four variations to present a SWOT analysis --

http://i1-win.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/SWOT-ANALYSIS...
There is a rule that can be used for penalties. In practice the penalty rate, the number of actual penalties, is somewhere around 0%.
Buy.com renamed Rakuten Shopping: brilliant branding or massive mistake?
Problem for me wasn't so much my manager. He did a good job, as far as he could. It was higher than him. But the last job I left was due to management.
There multiple companies that do flat hierarchies. Most famous one is Valve.
You got an interesting project, try convincing others to join you.
very insightful article about how to deal with crisis.
This frustrates me too. I've run into a laundry list of Browser (mostly canvas) bugs over the years, 95% in Chrome (my main browser) and 5% in Firefox.

Typically they'd be ignored, fixed several months later if I'm lucky[1], and still ignored as they get closed by an automated bot[2]. Chrome specifically created an "icebox" to automatically close old bugs.

I'm convinced that the Chrome team at least has an internal bug-tracker they use and the external one (crbug.com) serves the same purpose as fake thermostats on the walls of office buildings.

(To Chrome's credit, they took the only security bug I filed very seriously and fixed it in a couple days.)

[1] Unlucky: Still an issue with broken translating gradients in non-hardware-accelerated canvas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774387

[2] This bug was ignored, fixed, and for a year I asked for it to be closed. It was finally closed by a street-sweeping bot: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62373
can I have Microsoft Exchange OWA integration?
u are a retard
I think it's true of Play 1.x but Play 2.x is a different animal. Yes Play 2.x overall is much better than Play 1.x. However Play 2.x threw out all of Play 1.x's developer convenience features that mirrored Rails. A good deal of Play 2.x is choose what you want. That's great for Play veterans, but not so much for new comers to both the Play, Scala, and Java ecosystem. Yes, you have to be somewhat familiar with all three sooner or later.
The Pulsion Telephone (1890)
USPS cannot go away because FedEx/DHS/UPS have no obligation to deliver to po-dunk-town, Montana where it would be infeasible for them to put it on their route. While USPS guarantees mail to small, forgotten areas.
We are in the process of adding persistent chat and conferencing to Twelephone (http://twelephone.com). These features, in addition to our existing audio/video calling and presence using Twitter as a directory service, should put our free service near feature parity with Skype. We're using HTML5 WebRTC with encrypted peerconnections and soon datachannels. Stay tuned...
Those are good points and I agree with everything you said. And even though anecdotes are informative, they may not be enough to make big important claims about how people should manage their mental energy.
The page should at least mention that Readmill is an e-book reader for the iPhone. It is not evident upfront from the blog post and the screenshots are not as clear. It almost seems like Readmill could be a read-it-later app like Pocket or Instapaper.
Thanks for the heads up! Gmail was the first service we implemented and have been testing thoroughly so we had some time to settle on an optimal ping frequency. As for now, we're confident this will not block your Gmail.
Put an Atom processor in the RT then I'm sold.
Why a CEO should champion Responsive Web Design
I'm fine with actual neuroscience.
Haaaa, literally laughed out loud here, thanks =).
Interesting article.

Makes me wonder how many Wordpress plugins are rogue. I have seen a few plugins on the Wordpress site that are suspect, but there is no way to report them to anyone at Wordpress, there is no report this plugin link anywhere. Anyone know how to report plugins on the Wordpress site?
I can't agree with the statement, "It's a laptop!". It's almost impossible to use in your lap comfortably the way you would a laptop.
For Python what may be happening is a good piece of software that is not native to Windows. It works well enough on Windows, but the windows installer is very low on the developers' priorities and expertise. So the windows install experience ends up an afterthought that just barely works.

It also shows how anyone claiming "my tool is special, unlike others it's better to install this under C:\" is not showing good neighbourliness. It just encourages others to make the same mistake.

For Oracle, that probably also holds ... except maybe for the "good software" part.
I agree with you as a generalization, but imagemagick is pretty much known to be a deadbeat project. Give graphicsmagick a go. The maintainer is well known for working with people who have questions, bugs, and such (if you can forgive the continued use of SourceForge).