skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that the marginal utility of dollars and success decreases. That means your first priority is to make the start up work, as the downside is failure and possibly having to take a job. With this in mind, think about whether any unfairness is actually worth jeopardizing the chance of success. Once you have enough money, and +/- a million means much less. The only question is whether your partner is essential to the company. Instead of directly fighting with salary and equity cuts, have a candid conversation about her goals and expectations. Understand her point of view. And maybe her balanced lifestyle is actually better in the long run.
Google Listen was killed off in August 2012:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/giving-you-better-goo...
Well, to be fair, does the sourced NYT article not say exactly what the quote indicates--specifically to the point of referencing the quote itself? Even the article's title says it is a, not the, Higgs boson that is found. Moreover, the article also says "it remains an "open question," CERN said in a statement, whether this is the Higgs boson that was expected in the original formulation, or possibly the lightest of several predicted in some theories that go beyond that model."

Sensationalism where?
I never meant that changing the certificate is impossible, just that it isn't trivial.
I dont know anything about the guardians chart here but certainly the charts in shops like Game are not based on any data at all, they're advertising slots, if you pay for the number 1 slot, you get it.

I know this because i had some interaction with a company that checked to make sure retails stores were putting the games in the right shelves that the game companies had paid for.

Anyway, just as a note, this guardian article doesnt provide any data, so it could simply be a paid for placement.
EDIT: oh wait, there you go blaming the user again. "Grandma should have known the difference between THIS app that requested her contacts and THAT app that requests her contacts and stole them. Jeez Grandma! Get with it!"

No, I didn't blame the user. I pointed out that most of the problem with malware on Android, for the overwhelming majority of users (who don't sideload), was that the Play store is a wild west right now, where people pay $25 and make an account where they can instantly publish "Temp1e Run" that is actually nothing of the sort. This is the cause of the overwhelming majority of malware on Android.

Should apps be able to have those specific rights (such as sending pay SMS')? Yes, absolutely they should. The ability for apps to do more interesting things is exactly what differentiates it and makes it better. Simply saying "keep every app in a silo where it can't do anything" is not a choice users want.

EDIT: And just to loopback again, you again claim that malware needs to somehow break the bounds of the Android system to do its evil deed (exceeding permissions, cracking ASLR, etc). That is absolutely untrue in practice. Malware on Android, courtesy of the practically unmaintained primary market, is largely a study of social hacking.
This guy sucks the joy out of being successful. Him and the oppressor of Omaha are my least favourite bourgeios.
Why is it that so many of these alternatives are hosted web apps? Isn't the lesson to learn from Google Reader going away that you might not want to trust hosted web apps for the long term? Why aren't there more client-side app alternatives?
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S corps are a month earlier than personal returns, presumably because they're pass-thru so you need time to get the K-1 to the shareholders.

So make sure your 1120S (or extension) is filed by 3/15
"Or elsewhere"

The contest is exactly a popularity in most of those categories. Make something people find useful and share it. That's the entire idea behind OSS.

I imagine the performance categories are going to be judged a little bit differently, but for most categories the criteria look reasonable to me.
Recognizing you aren't qualified to gauge someone's experience is a crucial first step, now take the next one. A "cheat sheet" of questions isn't going to help you either. Find an senior Windows developer you know/trust and have them talk to your potential candidates. They should be able to weed out the bozos quickly so you can focus your energy on candidates with real potential.
I stopped using Google Reader and RSS feeds a long time ago without actually intending on doing so. I just started finding so much stuff to read through Facebook, Twitter and Hacker News that I totally forgot about RSS.

That being said, I did make a simple ruby script to email me articles when an RSS feed gets updated. I did this mainly to help me keep tabs on service availability RSS feeds, i.e. Twitter's status RSS, Facebook's status RSS, Amazon AWS stratus RSS, and my local weather advisory RSS. It comes in very handy. Maybe I'll put the script on GitHub.
As with everything, there's a balance.
A good person to ping about this would be Scott Hanselman:

http://www.hanselman.com and @shanselman

He knows of quite a few and can help you.
What's in it for them, though?

A rising tide lifts all boats. If something is developed that makes the entire ecosystem more attractive, then everybody benefits.

I'm guessing that most of the developers want you to use their reader and I'm not sure there's an advantage (for them) in adding code that makes it easier for you to switch to another product.

Sure there is... because I'm more likely to try your product in the first place if I know I'm not locked into it. "The best way to capture users is to make it easy for them to leave" and all that.
Posted because someone I know almost got burned by this his first year. looks sheepish
The USA has ideal conditions for malaria. Washington DC was a giant malarial swamp at one point.
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> God is dead

You obviously don't live in the south, do you? ;)

It's sad to hear what Gates has to say. Unfortunately market and monetary pressures are the pitfalls of a pure capitalistic society where humanity takes a back seat.
This would be great for capturing usability tests as well.
It seems like the obvious thing to do is to create a standard, perhaps based on however Reader currently syncs, and then build against it. That way, people like me who aren't interested in e.g. "social" features or "sharing" could implement a simple backend, point our preferred clients at it, and call it a day. Let the client developers war it out over front-end features, and let clever people like the Newsblur fellow add cool new backend stuff.

Wishes, horses, riding beggars, &c.
I don't agree that people are willing to pay less over time.

Even if they did, that's EACH person you're talking about - if the content is popular, its base of consumers has gone up dramatically. If you double your viewers, but each is willing to contribute 40% less, that's still a net gain.
Show HN: Worpy - yet another replacement for Google Reader
Hey HNers,

In light of recent news, I wanted to bring attention to an RSS feed reader project I'm working on that is intended to fill the hole Google has now placed in your hearts.

It's called Worpy. If anybody has suggestions or comments, please feel free to be critical.

http://worpy.com
Apparently, Microsoft takes this Office 365 support thing seriously
That's a good point and likely the reason this won't ever happen. The upside for app developers is that they won't have to run their own servers or rely on a commercial third party to keep state in sync.
Looks like their definition of useful is based on how many people actually use it, by starring/forking the repo.
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As it happens, about a fortnight ago I was talking to a recently retired but still active professor at CERN (he is the father of a friend of mine). I asked him where things stood with the Higgs Boson, and his reply was that they are definitely seeing a pretty strong signal in the data they've gathered, but they're not sure what it is yet exactly. In particular, it could match any one of a number of different competing theories (Disclaimer: I am not a particle physicist so I might have misremembered the precise terminology he used).
Words of wisdom: Bjarne Stroustrup
One thing that a lot of tech people forget (including, frequently, myself) is that there are reasons systems are the way they are. It might be inefficient, it might be stupid, it might waste everyone's time, but if they wanted to change things, they'd already be looking for a solutions. That they aren't is evidence that they don't see it as a problem.
Yes, if given a choice of spending someone else's money on research to cure either malaria or baldness, they would pick malaria. However, it seems your step-father has already made the decision about how to best spend his own money.
Is the author suggesting that food is going to get really expensive?
AnandTech Podcast, followed closely by New Disruptors
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Have a look to see if there are any Planet type solutions for Ruby - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)

I'm going to spend some time looking at the two main Perl solutions, Perlanet & Plagger (used respectively by http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org & http://perlsphere.net).

* Perlanet - https://metacpan.org/module/perlanet

* Plagger - https://metacpan.org/module/Plagger

Failing that I may produce a custom solution with a feed aggregator library (for eg. https://metacpan.org/module/XML::Feed::Aggregator).
I'm so tired of an advertising-driven web.

Unit ad revenue (so-to-speak) continually falls. The income of business reliant on advertising drops, they cut costs, and the quality of content suffers. The focus on link-bait and trying to get a viral hit or SEO, overtakes the imperative to provide something that people actually want. It is not a sustainable model for most businesses.

Please, people, forget advertising. Provide something that people want, and charge a small and reasonable price for it.

I pay for a news app, it's a small subscription, it's great, I'm happy.

Back to Firefox we go.
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Google Reader made quite a lot of sense for Google but they castrated the service so far that it became a standalone product with no relevant connection to remaining Google environment.

So, I agree, after all those bad decisions it would have been very difficult to make Google Reader a relevant revenue source. However, long-term support of such a core service is part of Google's reputation, it was even so important to the users Google could at least have been able to cover the costs.
I wonder how much baldness research actually does go on, since the two main drugs weren't discovered by researchers working on baldness?
Another good option is, I use Opera so it works well on it
http://www.zentomi.com/
It fails on a crucial point.

My friends are not posting on it.
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I wasn't speaking directly to the NYT article. I was speaking to the multitude of sites that came up when I was searching for the source. Many of the headlines were along the lines of "god particle found."
Of course. If everyone was a perfect little rational automaton then they would weigh all the factors and choose appropriately.

Bu they aren't.

Social and cultural norms, advertising, pride, self esteem, distance and on and on influence people to choose the hair products over people's lives.

I'm not saying its wrong to want to keep your hair over saving people from malaria. But I am saying its wrong to think that "the market" is this perfect thing and "rational actors" actually exist.

The market is great, but it isn't right about everything, and people don't have enough information and are too easily influenced by everything else to be considered rational about anything.
Netflix didn't really pull the plug on the API -- everyone who was using it (which were only a few people) are still getting the same experience as they had before. There will just be no new growth in the use of the API.
Got it, thanks again
Here's a good food idea:

Don't eat sugar, any fruits which don't have a Greek or Hebrew name or any liquid which is less than 1,000 years old. (Taleb) ;-)
So, what is Gracenote up to in the post-CD era?
That's not entirely fair. What Netflix got wasn't production ready, but some of the ideas are still in the current version of the recommender.
Michelle Obama's credit report exposed by hackers
I only did something like that once, but it was absolutely trivial, since it included the ASCII header. Search, overwrite, add a little padding, done.
So RAID across network noes.
I just tried it out, but so far the only thing I can say is that it is potentially good, but way, way too slow.
It's early, but something we're working on with memamsa[1] is a way to keep up to date on your favorite topics using different types of sources: RSS/Atom, Twitter users/lists, and Hacker News. Combining the best of the traditonal (RSS) and modern sources of links.

[1] - http://memamsa.com/start/gr
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I started with Clojure about six months ago now and currently use it for all personal projects and day-to-day as part of my course of studies.

I started with Joy of Clojure and found it hard to wrap my head around - it's commonly recommended you read it as your second book on Clojure, and it quickly became apparent to me why :) I jumped over to Clojure Programming and things immediately started to click in a way they'd not with JoC; after a couple thousand more lines of code and a few tens of 4clojure problems, I reread fogus, et al's work and had a much better time of it.
Looks interesting but am hesitant about if this is a 2 person shop that will not have the security in place to protect my data. Their video was very unspecific about features and benefits.
In the conclusion, you say:

> What’s next? Well you can extend your app by adding payment options, email notifications, user feedback. . .

Aren't those core features of AirBnB? That's like saying "Next, you build the entire application." So you really haven't built a clone at all, you've just built an empty shell with a tiny fraction of the functionality.
The repo you fork is just a readme. Then you add in your submission, which you derive from all of the other open source software in the Netflix Github account.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this clearer? I've seen this question a few times.

Edit: Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've incorporated it into the page.
When timetotrade were hiring we needed a Java developer. We created a Java program that would compile and even run, but was horrifically inefficient. First task for the interviewee - how would they rewrite it. It had spelling mistakes, a mixture of variable naming schemes, differences in syntax ( brace inline, one true brace ).
If just you as the tech guy leading the interview create that test and hand it to the rest of the team you'll have a benchmark.
We gave a programming task before the candidate got their foot in the door. I believe we did generation of Pythagorean triples. Once again, we wrote one internally for comparison.
Grab the latest version of mono and write something similar in C#.

I don't have any experience with COM objects, I imagine the above would work for them too.

Ultimately it's going to depend on what you want from a successful candidate. If you want someone who lives and breathes work then it's going to be attributes A, B and C. If you want someone outgoing, active, social then you want attributes D, E and F. There might even be some overlap.

Basic questions are going to be - development environment, source control preference, latest languages dabbled with, interests outside programming. Don't think I've had an interview where I haven't been asked at least them.
Google Inc: Please do not shut down Google Reader
"Lambda functions are just syntax, they aren't "flexible" in any meaningful way I can see"

I disagree with that statement. To the best of my knowledge, lambdas functions are implemented as functors which are created by the compiler. So to have a comparable code you have to create those functors by hand. Which can be a lot of repetitive and boring work if you are doing something like an event system.

"virtually all major languages (other than C and C++03) have some form of straightforward anonymous function"

What about Java? :)

"virtually none of them make regular use of them. When they do, it's mostly just to have a convenient way of passing a callback."

Coming from Scheme (which yeah we can argue whether is a major language or not) I can see a lot of benefits of using closures, way more than just a convenient way to pass a callback.

"Lambda's are good. But as implemented in C++11 they really don't do anything to change the nature of the code being written."

Even when is not as powerful as the implementation in other languages still is a huge gain rather not having them at all. If you use them accordingly you would found a more concise and clear code in comparison with not using them. At least that was my personal experience.
I don't know how much I like this sort of statement. It seems like such a damning thing when someone professes that they'd do one thing, but end up doing another. We like to consider it hypocrisy, or at least inconsistency. (Note: for all I know, furyofantares' stepfather donates 2x as much money to malaria research/prevention than hair-loss prevention, I really have no idea).

But it seems like we all do this sort of thing, at least part of the time. Baldness is an issue apparently directly affecting furyofantares' stepfather, on a daily basis. Malaria isn't. Should we expect him to keep malaria constantly on his mind whenever making economic decisions?
There is also Railsberry coming up soon : http://www.railsberry.com/
What? Surely anyone with an address can open a bank account?
I should have specified that I was talking about the US. My point was the US markets serve the US's demands very well. And if demand grew to cure malaria, the market would solve it, much like any other demand.
There's a parser in the standard library that makes parsing Go code simple (regardless of format). This is actually what gofmt uses, I believe.
You're opting out of capitalism?
Something I've never understood about those cool looking vertical farm concepts is water management. Doesn't it take a TON of energy to pump enough water to irrigate a field up 50 stories?
Well, that's a bit of a false dichotomy.

But for argument's sake... Even if people (as in, most people) are irrational, that wouldn't necessarily lead to their rulers being irrational, would it? After all, we supposedly* select people who are good at ruling to be rulers, just like we supposedly select people who are good at healing people to be doctors. They are expected to be better at it because they are interested in it, have studied it and are focused to do it, not because they're supermen.

* yes, this could be tad optimistic, especially under democracy because of the very irrationality of most people
Capitalism is what created the billions of dollars that Bill Gates has in his Gates Foundation to spend on things like curing malaria.

Double-edged sword.
even selling contraband you are probably covered as long as you do not ship within the first hour or two of the order being placed. Within that time frame confirmations would have occurred or a problem identified. Even digital delivery goods that await confirmatins are fine, it really affects digital good sellers who send on 1st confirmation or do not require confirmations, bitcoins have a confirmation system for the protection of users, if you dont use that protection then you have only yourself to blame.
Are You Truly Building Competitive Barriers To Entry?
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> Wouldn't you do the same if someone came to your door looking to sell you something?

My usual reaction is "what else d'ya got?"--until they run out of "else"s.

This way, the situation is reframed as them not having anything I like, rather than me not being willing to accept what they have--and it's then much easier to just politely end the conversation.
The NIH also spends twice as much on researching female specific diseases as they do on male specific diseases.
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Put what you just said in the readme. With links. :-)
A link to the netflix github?
TBH I wouldn't mind them blocking AdBlock Plus for simple reasons of harming content creators. If people don't want ads that's fine, they don't have a right to view my content.

I know HN isn't, but it should be, on the sides of creators.
Coming up with measurable criteria is hard. It may not be perfect, but how else would you gauge community adoption?

Or are you complaining about netflix wanting projects "that contain a substantive contribution, working code and which have high community adoption"?

If that's what they want, then that's what they want and should award prizes accordingly.
> merchants are just going to have to stay on top of Bitcoin issues.

So, in other (foreign) words, caveat venditor?
I also sent an email as a test and didn't get any response.

[update] Just arrived. Appears to be running a little slow is all.
Doesn't reserve funds, it's rarely realtime. "Guarantees payment" just means that the cost has been shifted from the retailer to the card provider - for a while anyway, then the card provider starts grabbing money back.
Slightly tangential, but MIT decisions come out today at 6:28 (2 pi!), and last year's results were at 3/14 1:59.
Link to this more prominently:
http://netflix.github.com/

Also maybe spitball some examples of what you expect people will do with this. Lots of cool repos there but it is a bit overwhelming.
If this were a security product, I would hope so, but I would imagine that they'd just be using a standard HTTPS certificate that uses the system certificate store. I wouldn't be surprised if they were ignoring HTTPS certificate failures as well, like many applications do.
Interesting... I wasn't aware of this, I'll definitely give it a shot.

Thanks for the heads-up!
The article cites its source: http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=1559&s=1111

I don't see any reason why we would doubt it. Sims is selling cause the real world doesn't care about internet outrage.
I have no doubt that all the big unix vendors will support C11 (if they don't already).
Nice article. I wonder how reliable one can use the targeting mechanism. Essentially it depends on two installed programs, one in the programs folder and one in the $PATH. So by choosing proprietary programs, one can likely target one department of one organization. On the other hand there are programs which are highly suggestive of the user, for example one could target Autocad and therefore target engineers or Cubase and target musicians.

Guess we will find out, when the Iran runs some testing utility on their systems. ( And Ahmadinejad needs a nice topic for a press conference... )
When exactly did Microsoft not lag behind in anything?
How do you communicate with your team on projects?
Hey all, I read the guidelines and did not see anything about posting links to surveys for research. Since you are all mainly developers or work in tech I'd love your thoughts on a three basic questions for some research I'm doing. Takes less than 10 seconds.
In which the widgets are set free
I seriously doubt our food-producing future will look all kinds of architectural sexy.
Great idea! What do you use to handle the incoming emails?