skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very normal for startups to do this with the founders and with the first few hires. I've seen several startups where there's an internal wiki or google doc created from meetings with founders/early engineers, identifying roles and "who would you suggest for these roles, and who knows them/how". Same thing done for "key initial clients" and listing who you know at each, and vendors/BD partners/distributors.

(The sad thing is when this was then passed on to a clueless HR/recruiting drone later, and the people were spammed.)

At bigger companies I've seen "recommend 2 friends" and all the standard bonuses (it's hilarious how some places offer $500 referral bonus but will pay a recruiter $25k; OTOH I know someone at Palantir who ended up making more on his $10-15k referral bonuses than he did in salary. One interesting fact is that giving an outside referrer a $500-1500 item, like an iPad or MacBook Air, is a lot more effective than the same small amount of cash. But, real ($5-25k) amounts of cash work best.)
Everyone seems to be misunderstanding what I meant. I understand that those words have meaning in some contexts and I get that this is a Business Week interview and they're playing to the audience. All I'm saying is that if she would have added in just a couple of specifics in there the quote would have had meaning. What she said would have made sense if she were saying it to her design department but in this context it still stands as meaningless.
There are some fairly general reasons, like XMPP being a much newer, extensible (it's in the name!), yet mature messaging protocol with a big community, but there are also some specific ones.

One of big potential benefits I see is the XMPP concept of contact requests. Simply separating new senders from existing senders at an architectural level seems like a great start for an email replacement, both in terms of user experience ("who I know" is fundamentally separate from "who I don't know" regardless of the client), and in network utilization (spam is only ever as long as a request header instead of an entire message).
No. Kissing today requires ski goggles and an iPad.
Use multiple exclamation marks depending on level of excitement. This problem is already solved.
We could play AI augmented chess?
>Having not been told that he took shoddy notes and relied on human memory, perception and so on.

And now maybe he and other journalists will know not to write damaging pieces based on shoddy notes and their vague recollection of what happened. If Tesla Motors had told him in advance that they were collecting data, then he would have been more careful in that specific review, and then when he went to report on a less resourceful company that couldn't keep tabs on him, he'd fuck them like he tried to fuck Tesla.

The fact is that Tesla has been bitten by this kind of thing before (see Top Gear). Who can blame them for wanting to set an example at the nearest opportunity?
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Thanks for posting this. Good to see the evidence before the essay. I had no idea why anyone would post, or even care, about suit being 'in fashion'.
Definitely; I used bzr for years before using git and always thought, "how much faster can git really be?" Startlingly faster.

preemptive disclaimer: I haven't used bzr for years and understand that it's faster now than it was. I liked bzr. blah blah I really don't want to start a flame war/pissing contest. But people should try git out before dismissing its speed as a worthwhile advantage.
You cannot have a digital copy of the DC Code
It's a lot easier to browse social media without focus. It's like surfing the channels of TV. You can't browse a book in the same way, it's an activity that requires focus.
Junior high, which (in Canada and presumably the US as well) encompasses the ages of about 12 to 15. 8 years ago, RAZRs were in their prime[0]. When you were in high school, assuming that was 12 years ago, RAZRs didn't exist yet.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Razr
I've worked at 3 startups that did this.
>> because we complained at some point <<

That's not true, and you already know that's not true.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4599431

Please stop making this pathetic accusation.
Are you afraid that you won't be able to get a job? I mean, at all?

I have no idea about Newcastle or the Midlands but from what I understand Edinburgh, Dublin and London have a lot of opportunities for you to chase, either at small to medium companies or at startups. Same applies to Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin.

If there was ever going to be a time for software developers I think it is our time right now, don't worry that much.

Unless, as someone mentioned above, you want to be an academic or work for very big companies: in that case an MSc is a must and I believe you should aim for a higher ranked university.
I don't even get to code that much and I've found very compelling reasons to do all of:

- git rebase -i (the "cleaning" of history)

- git add -p (which requires a separate staging area)

- Using a bare repository (which, just for the record, I've also had to do with SVN, but we didn't have a special Googlable term for it)

- Track the difference between a local and remote branch (this is actually inherent to DVCS workflow, it's like going from DOS to UNIX and complaining that they make you track file permissions... you didn't even have the option on DOS!)

It's actually kind of embarrassing to see an SVN user claim that they don't understand the difference between a downstream concept of a central repository and the remote concept of the same repository, because I can sure as hell remember having to run "svn up" before "svn ci" just in case someone had made a commit to the remote repo in between the time of my last update and my upcoming commit.

master, "origin/master", and origin's own master all have corresponding concepts in SVN, even if master and origin/master had to be the same by definition.

One more thing: I'm pretty sure SVN now has only one .svn directory, just like git.
You can send the body in HTML as well as in plaintext, so you can craft the links in the HTML part.
Why not leave AMAs where they belong, Reddit?

Call me a hipster, but I like the peace, quiet, and esotericism of HN. Adding AMAs would screw everything up; we'd get tons of new signups and the community would be diluted like Reddit is currently. We'd get immaturity in droves.

Memes on the HN front page... The thought makes me shudder.
I feel your pain. It's not uncommon. I've managed teams using Git and consider myself mid-level using it, but give me a month without using it and I forget the sequence of commands (each with flags) I have to type... something that never happened with SVN.

I appreciate Git and hate going back to SVN when clients demand, but I'm convinced it takes a certain kind of brain to feel comfortable with it.
> …Is the same thing as people trying to buy a Ferrari. Demand vastly exceeds supply

I think the normal idea under these circumstances is to increase the price until the demand meets the supply.
If the Ubuntu mobile/touch devices become popular, I have no doubt that we'll come out with a product for writing Ubuntu mobile apps as well.

We're always looking into supporting other mobile platforms.

We've just pushed all of our MonoDevelop source code to public github and I'm sure that the Ubuntu packagers will be packaging it for Ubuntu very soon.
There a lot of great, fun games with no redo. The entire concept of a roguelike is based on death being permanent and having to start over. FTL, Spellunky, The Binding of Isaac and Dungeons of Dredmor are all recent examples of games that embrace this unforgiving play-style.

However, I think forcing this into Sim City is just a bad idea, and contrary to my expectations from such a game.
You're not. Maybe Google tested it and can prove it's good, but to me the landing page seems terribly confusing.
How do you define seed investor here? Most people need some sort of startup capital beyond the accelerator, as most companies don't get to profitability quickly enough. Also, I think this ignores B2B cases where you can't so easily build a highly stripped down product, but need to hit some quality threshold for businesses to pay. And that takes time.
For PHP I was looking at Yii
This article reads like notes for a stand-up comedy bit.

"Will my car be smart enough to follow the guy with shopping bag and car keys in his hand to his car and wait for his space or will it just park in the nearest (and most expensive) garage

But, hey, while all these geniuses are working on making cars smarter, how about maybe forgetting the self-parking idea and coming up with cars that [can tell] my kids in the back seat to pipe down if the decibel level gets too high"
New Yahoo: Google News dipped in Purple.
Good point. Though writing code goes smoother when you don't need to use the mouse (IMO).
Is there a solid alternative to OAuth that's third-party and not roll it your own?
For those interested or surprised by the quote "There is a huge performance difference between memory and disk. RAM is typically 100x to 1000x faster than disk" you may also enjoy Jeff Dean's (of Google) "Numbers Everyone Should Know."

L1 cache reference..............................0.5ns

Branch mispredict.................................5ns

L2 cache reference................................7ns

Mutex lock/unlock................................25ns

Memory reference................................100ns

Compress 1K bytes with Zippy..................3,000ns

Send 2k bytes over 1Gbps network.............20,000ns

Read 1MB sequentially from memory...........250,000ns

Round trip within datacenter................500,000ns

Disk seek................................10,000,000ns

Read 1MB sequentially from disk..........20,000,000ns

Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA.........150,000,000ns

http://www.regexprn.com/2009/12/numbers-everyone-should-know...
You can't blame google for this, I am the first to think that Glass is an invasive technology and currently pretty pointless, but this girl was just not that into you.
It's funny how some people can spin a story.
How to make unbiased tosses with a biased coin
Twitter finally launches Ads API
thats cool! you can do styling on native app with CSS.. :)
If that is true and it catches on, then it is terrifying.
The thing I miss most about Subversion was the involvement of the whole team. git is only for programmers. Subversion was for everyone: our graphic designers had no problem with it, our project managers had no problem with it, our dumbest QA people had no problem with it. Subversion is easily used by non-technical people. There are many GUIs for Subversion that make it drop-dead easy to use. And there were big productivity gains to be had by having the whole team using the version control system.

git has cut the team in 2. The graphic designers no longer know how to commit their work, nor do the frontenders, nor do most of the project managers. In particular, when a conflict comes up, nobody knows how to resolve the conflict (with Subversion we had a simple rule: "If you get a conflict, save your work outside of the project, then "accept theirs full", then re-integrate your work. A pain, but non-technical people could manage it). Instead, all of those people now send their work to the programmers, via email or Dropbox, and they say "Please integrate this into the project". This increases the amount of work that the programmers have to do.

We now use git for everything, because it seems like it is the thing to do, and it helps the programmers merge their work together. But the price is high: the loss of half the team, who can no longer use the version control system.
The point of PG's essay is well-taken, but I'm not really sure how the linked article really applies other than at a superficial level. I can't find a recent press release from which this article was derived; the closest one is the cited Bain & Co. note from Oct. 2012, which is pretty old by current standards.

Additionally, the reporter here seems to have at least done a modicum of original research, given that he's quoting actual clothing makers. This is in contrast with the USA Today article cited in PG's essay, which quoted a PR guy, a GQ editor, and a consultant.

Thus, to the extent that the submarine theory applies here, it's probably just to show the long reach that a well-manufactured eight-year-old marketing campaign can have. But there were plenty of other marketing campaigns from that time that didn't stick around this long, so maybe that's an indicator that there is some real substance to this trend?

Of course, I've only done a little research into this. If someone can turn up the actual press release or other marketing push from which this article was derived, I will gladly reverse my opinion.
What's the value of a short link? One of the best parts of this is that if you can read the URL you can get the color hex values.

Send someone the URL and they don't even need to open the link to start using the color values.
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Max Butler is famous for using the HTML application in IE to harvest credit card information way back in 1999.
> There's no shortage of sci-fi stories dealing with this sort of always-on recording. "Strange Days", "Black Mirror (#3)".

Also "A Deepness in the Sky", by Vinge. Early on one of the characters says to another something like "hey, check out the last 300 seconds of my POV".
I love the idea of barkbox!

Ever since I saw this guy's project, http://www.sotmclub.com/, I've also been racking my brain for other ways to leverage this model.
That is the best anecdote I've ever read on HN. Not only funny, but I'm much more likely to buy one of those if I ever should need it. Ha.
This. Though mercurial has it's own set of issues, and it doesn't mitigate the DVCS problems with maintaining extra repos (e.g. you still have many more steps in your workflow than in SVN, and you still don't have nice short, ordered, global revision numbers).
OfficeMax, Office Depot Confirm Merger Deal
What?

Do you get news saying a new Prius was unvelied by 豊田 章男? Or Leo Rafael Reif released a lunar robot vehicle?
So this is really cool to get started with, but I would worry that when you need to start taking advantage of various abstractions that Django provides, you'd end up having to do a huge refactor. Not that Django's abstractions are perfect, but if your app starts out living in a single file, you are more likely than not going to need to do some modularization at some point.
One thing Square continues to do right is design. Making a POS system sexy is not an easy thing to do.
Or she was just an employee who was lent a pair, and this is an easy explanation to give to random people in a bar.
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(not OP) I personally like using regular python for python project config files (like django does.) If you want to keep it simple, it will be simple, if you want to do something fancy you have the whole language.
Anecdata, of course, but comedians, who usually (try to) have their fingers on the pulse of society, have commented on the phenomenon of smartphone-induced antisocial bubbles.

Seinfeld: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0ZpH4Lhy8

Aziz Ansari: "I’ve been trying to call people more. Even friends. I’m sick of being addicted to my phone and going on the same seven websites for 30-minute loops, so I’m going to go to a hypnotist that helped a few friends quit smoking and see if he can get me to stop being addicted to my phone and mindless Internet browsing. Wouldn’t that be awesome if it worked?"
http://www.avclub.com/articles/aziz-ansari-candid-about-love...

It's interesting how both comedians are on opposite sides of the age spectrum.
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No, it's still very much alive and kicking: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/commits/master
Is this based on pdf.js? I couldn't seem to find out quickly. If so, very cool!

Edit: I was being lazy, it definitely is. Very nice that it's plugin-free and a pure HTML5 solution.
UPDATE: Actually, I've just come across this Steven Levy article in Wired that illustrates the perception challenge nicely. http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/epicenter-google-glass... On the LEFT: how Google wants you to think of Glasses. On the RIGHT: how you think of Glasses. And again: this was a Wired article, by Steven Levy.
Uh, it sounds like you have pretty poor luck...

I feel like I am in the minority because I don't think I know anyone who spends time buried in his/her phone like this. Hell, if I could get my friends to respond to my messages within a couple of days of me sending them, that would be a start!
Why is this news except the fact that Chrome has had this for years? Was Adobe paying Mozilla in the same way that Google paid them for the search bar preference?
They are, at least in Atlantic City and Vegas. I believe the wording of the regulation is something like "electronic devices," so they can ban even a digital watch (or Pebble, heh) that they don't like.
I really like their approach to referrals, in particular thinking of referrals as being limited to 'the best and smartest people [employees have] ever worked with'

A lot of companies completely miss the point of referrals. They say 'X% of our hires last year were referrals, so let's force everyone to blindly scrape their Linkedin networks and refer all of those people.' The highest quality referrals come when employees have actually worked with the people they're referring.
I think that the GP is calling attention do the word "treaty" versus "contract".
When you read reports like this, it's easy to guess the age of typical Anonymous hackers -- they're very young, too young to realize their strategy plays into their adversaries' hands.

The worst strategy would be one in which a large number of weak attacks results in progressive adaptation by the victims, creating a gradual evolution and improvement in cyber-defense.

The best strategy would be a long process of method development but no overt or detectable attacks, in order to strengthen the offensive methods, followed by an all-out attack with mature methods that completely overwhelm the adversary.

The worst strategy is almost as childish as the Anonymous hackers are themselves. The best strategy is the one the 9/11 attackers used -- quietly observe the adversary, detect weak points but don't betray your intentions, then launch a major attack all at once that causes a defensive reaction that is perfectly suited to the threat, but that arrives too late to contain the damage.

In this sense, Anonymous, by setting off many small alarms about unacceptable security practices, is only serving the needs of its adversaries in ways it doesn't understand.
U.S. CEO to France: ‘How Stupid Do You Think We Are?’
obviously. after driving 10 hours she was humoring him as much as possible, but it's pretty clear to anyone.
Well, it depends on where you were situated I guess, in 2004/2005 I was stil on dial up.
You're still in EU... imagine us in the third world countries.
"Hacking Politics," by Aaron Swartz, Ron Paul, Kim Dotcom, Alex Ohanian, et al
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The experience on Android phones is solid but this core feature is really late to the game.

I love firefox but cant keep using a browser thats always playing catch-up
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> There's a huge difference anyway between iPhones and books/newspapers. It's not a good comparison. The only similarity is the posture one holds when consuming them, which is why your photos sort of work for your argument. Reading a book or newspaper takes effort and concentration, whereas flicking through whatever stream on your iPhone takes little to no thought at all. It's active consumption vs. passive consumption.

You assume way too much about what people do on their phones. I used to commute to work via bus. I was one of the many people with his face stuck in his phone. You assume I was "flicking through whatever stream", not thinking at all. You'd be wrong -- I was almost always either reading books for leisure through the Kindle App, or reading some research paper PDF I had stored on my phone.

Many other people would be having SMS conversations, I'm sure. I don't know by what logic you can insist that this is less productive or worthwhile than having an idle chat with the person next to you, or just sitting there staring blankly (which is what most people not using a phone do).

> I believe that to live a healthy life you do need a good balance of production and consumption.

While this is true, it's irrelevant. You haven't shown or given any evidence to support that people who engage in social networking or who use smartphones for leisure have a worse production/consumption balance than those who read books, newspapers, or magazines.

> I'm simply worried about how ubiquitous and in-front-of-our-faces these devices are becoming, and how addictive they are.

You've yet to give a reason this should be something to worry about.

> I enjoy reading and going to the cinema

and you've offered nothing but your opinion to support that your choices of leisure are better than any other choices. You're not saying anything worthwhile, man. Give me a reason to think you're anything other than a kid who's emotionally immature enough to think that he's better than everyone else around him because he's not on Facebook.
> Perhaps my eureka moment is still to come.

The eureka comes when you stop using git by retrofitting Subversion workflow on it. The "Git forces me to learn obscure things" part precisely shows that.

The hardest part is not learning "obscure" git things, it's unlearning the habits and preconceived ideas about how SCMs work.
This quote is priceless:

> Git allows the topic-branch development style, where you maintain one short-lived branch for every task you work on. Like many people, I learned about this style from distributed version control. I love it. It’s an excellent way to switch between tasks, and maps well to the way I actually think about the state of the project.
But you don’t need Git to do this! Subversion has “svn switch”. It does have an annoying problem that if you specify the wrong URL to switch to, it will trash your local copy rather badly. However, Subversion seems to have fixed that problem in version 1.7.

Quite an annoying problem. I'm not really sure why the author is a git skeptic if it enables and introduced him or her to a wonderful workflow.

The ability to easily work on multiple branches and make offline commits is a huge selling point for any DVCS. I really like git rebase and git add -p now as direct arguments for git, but wouldn't have used them right away.

Edit: added clarification after quote
Do you mean "select text from whatever is displayed in the terminal" or "select text in Vim"?

I never select or copy anything from the terminal: pbcopy on the Mac OS X and xclip on Linux are what I use to get stuff from the shell into the system clipboard.

I don't think that's what you ask, but in Vim, visual selection is done by hitting v (character-wise), V (line-wise) and Ctrl-v (block-wise) followed by a motion or a text-object: va{, vit and so on.
I think the point is (from my other comment) this doesn't use a plugin, so is more secure (no Adobe security problems). It's based on pdf.js if you want to find out more.
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