skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Weird, I look at cities and wonder what the heck you all produce since you've closed your factories (they smell) and don't farm, ranch, mine, fish, or log."

Economics is subtle and much more complicated than what you describe. We are not heading to Mega City 1.
The article talks about crowd processing eliminating falsified balances, but it doesn't go into some exchanges getting hacked. Hasn't that been a security concern? Haven't people lost money that way? I know my credit card numbers can get stolen, is that the right comparison? Do exchanges just make you whole?
Are Chromebooks Taking Off
Can anyone link to AirBnB's 999 days without traction that he mentioned?
Counting Crows
As a coder, I couldn't agree more with the last paragraph (Let Me Code). Other than paring interview, I also like code submission. The company gives you a problem and couple of days and you write the code like you would in a real project. IMO, nothing reveals a developer's coding capability more than that.
2 questions

1) why would i need this info?

2) how do u track follow/like events
> Often I will see a white or white passing person call a person of color racist when the situation they are talking about is actually caused by the systemic racism that they benefit from.

If the actions are racist, it doesn't matter what caused them, they are racist. To say otherwise invites a double standard.

> This is not true. Black people will never be able to exercise systemic racism against white people in US society.

Yes it is true. your assuming racist == systemic/institutional. That is not the commonly held or actual definition. It is true that overall in the US Black people will never be able to exercise systemic racism. But that's not all racism is, nor is the US the only place on the planet. And systemic/institutional can range from a company to a state to a country.

> Racism at a society level different compared to individual acts of racism.

Yes, but its not the only form of racism, your trying to redefine a word and i can't see what good it does. Prefix it with systemic/institutional, limit its scope and then maybe you can make such statements (as you did your entire post) but alone by its self you just can't.
I was actually wondering if this was posted here for content or design reasons
Convention over configuration is fine until all you need is a little configuration, at which point it becomes a game of hunting down where the magic comes from and how to override it, because nobody thought that anybody would need anything other than the conventional approach, and so they didn't document how to configure it, and then your code turns into a bunch of workarounds.

I think Backbone is pretty aligned with this philosophy: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
The Touch-Screen Generation
He deleted that story.
Here's the cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Alimpe...
I think the person making $xx and living in a farmhouse on 10 acres in Idaho is richer than the person making $xxx and living in a 400 sq ft studio in Midtown.

I didn't always think that. Possibly my perspective has changed because I'm starting a family, and spending time with relatives and friends at home is vastly more important to me than going out on the town. You spend that time at your house, and if your house is a tiny apartment it sucks. Then you realize that you can't afford a house in the city on your $100k salary and it feels bad.

Some middle-income joe in Nebraska might make 1/2 of my income, but I bet he can afford a sweet house with lots of bedrooms for all his kids - something I can't afford. Who's the rich one?
Nice, I'm looking for a solution like this for an app I'm building. Didn't like the current offerings too much. Will check it out when I'm ready to add in video recording.
> Every major competitor to Ember (including its predecessor, SproutCore) has a data layer that does more than pass the buck off to jQuery

SproutCore had a robust data layer, but 2013-era frameworks mostly expose HTTP directly as the abstraction to use, either via $.ajax or a framework-specific HTTP library. Other frameworks are not trying to solve data persistence and loading beyond delegating to HTTP, but Ember's solution isn't ready yet (so we don't get to say that it's a win of using Ember over the competition -- yet).
Excellent article, a lot more "meat" than I expected, given the title and the usual level of discourse around this topic.

That said, I'd advocate considering starting an internal social network project using an Open Source foundation. And, if you'll indulge me a moment of self-promotion, I'll point out Fogbeam Labs' suite of projects[1] as a good place to start - especially for a firm who wants to help shape the direction of the product(s) they will be using, but don't necessarily want to be responsible for maintaining an ESN product for perpetuity.

The thing we believe sets our approach apart from a lot of the other ESN products out there (Yammer, Jive, etc.) is our approach to integrating business processes and workflow with the "social" aspect of the ESN. It's still very early, not everything is implemented, but some really awesome stuff is in the pipeline.

And to be fair, there are some other OSS ESN projects out there as well. There's always Elgg, and Alfresco have been adding some "social" aspects to their Document Management product.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.org/
>No middle-class college-educated person will work for $9.50 an hour-- it's a pride thing-- so the wage is reduced to a flat zero and the job type is redefined as a "learning experience".

Wow -- that's pretty far removed from reality, at least as I've seen it. I know plenty of people with undergraduate degrees who work for that or less, because they can't find jobs related to their field. They would definitely work paid internships that were minimum wage, if it was part of the career path.

In fact, that's about on par with what I get from teaching classes as an adjunct!
I live in Atlanta. It's no weirder than Xerox to mean photocopier honestly once you've noticed.
Wow, can't tell you how much I have seen and experienced the BS that you mentioned. The company I'm with right now may be hiring soon, fwd this article to my boss. Thanks
Cell Therapy Potentially Cures Leukemia In Small Study
Hey Lucas,

CT should work in all major browsers that can run flash. Right now (because of the flash dependency) most mobile devices are not supported. As soon as we get WebRTC polished we'll be 100% HTML and will work in most modern mobile browsers.

-c
or the local specialist who gets all the referrals
I'd really like to see more things built on top of email instead of using their own separate protocols (falling back graciously to email when possible).

Anyway, at this point it looks inevitable that I'll end up using 50 different apps/tools to do basically the same thing because everyone I talk to will use a different one...
They were using their feelings to back up their point. If their feelings are misguided, the point they were trying to make is invalid. There is no proof that they would ever be publicly humiliated for misusing a pronoun, so to live in fear of that is misguided, and to use it as a reason why you should change your actions is ridiculous.

I still don't see any impending doom. Her original photograph tweet was retweeted... 20 times, I think? The only reason that guy was fired was because it was featured on HN through no action of Adria's.
Politically expedient faux outrage.
How is that in any way similar to what the Soviet Union tried? michaelochurch wasn't advocating a centrally planned economy.
LOL.. Forgot to upgrade our own account :)
> It's much better for all of us that they be comfortable and (importantly!) consuming in the marketplace than that they be destitute and looking for work.

This seems like a false dilemma: Either they're on disability and consuming, or they're not on disability and destitute, with no middle ground. Grandparent's anecdote is about disability that "could be remedied fairly easily," with the implication that the "remedy" in this case might be "rent is due next week."

* Edit for clarity
Want to get my attention? Tell me you don't use email as a project management tool. Tell me you won't send me 5 emails a day. Tell me you don't want two status updates/meetings per day. Tell me you understand that the shotgun approach to adding features is stupid. Tell me that you don't randomly change features without any kind of data to back up the reason for making that change. Tell me you follow through on promises. Convince me you're not a fucking liar. Tell me you're offering benefits packages commensurate with your senior engineer position. After that, in addition to what OP said, I'll consider responding.
SpaceX's new rocket engine cleared for launch
In the south, you almost always ARE getting a Coke product. Pretty much only at Taco Bell/KFC are you getting a Pepsi product.
> If you don’t have genuine passion for where you work and you do the hiring, you’re committing some kind of moral fraud. You might want to see to that.

Never really thought about this before, but I totally agree.
My sister is a paramedic with asthma that sent her to the hospital regularly for much of her childhood, but has diminished as she's gotten older.
The only action she made that was extreme was posting the photo identifying it. Everyone else was OK. Everyone else was great! but the photo was out of line for something so minor, or as you say micro. It would have been a non-story if she hadn't identified them with a photo.

Not only that there 3 people in the photo, she doesn't even identify who it was and i feel for that poor guy on the left who had nothing at all to do with it.

She had no regard for the damage her actions could and did cause others and that makes her far worse then the man who made a stupid joke. he was a unprofessional and immature. She was a bully.
If I can be of any help when you're ready let me know. Chris@

-c
I've also recently found flyway (http://flywaydb.org/). Seems similar, with the added bonus of not doing everything in XML.
The union of the set of people you would be willing to have in your home and the set of people comprising the millions who claim they can't find work is, I suspect, small relative to the size of the US.

ie - The people we are talking about... you probably wouldn't hire.
Do you feel there's scope for pricing coming down a lot? I'm in a similar boat to TylerE: around a million monthly uniques, but in publishing, so there's really no way to justify $4k/month for Analytics when stuff like Google's already exists. 10% of that might be justifiable, but even then it's not a no-brainer.
I build quality is good. The socks are similar to the socks made by the company Sock It To Me
The Soviet Union didn't fail because of the funding of social safety nets, it failed because it had a command economy where too few people made resource decisions and they made them poorly. It matters little wether that command concentration comes from government or private sources. If the distribution of wealth becomes too skewed, the same economic failure could happen in capitalist economies. It's possible we've already seen the early symptoms of that kind of failure in the economy now.
It's not her right to expect that something necessarily needs to be done about it.

I'm offended. Okay.....
This article is very interesting. The only thing that I would love to see on it, is an example about how, using the registers according to the original design, would lead to more compression in contrast to using the registers freely.
Risky business imo. Also, wonder what the IRS would think of that in the US...
We use this strategy also. In setupController functions, (of your routes), we typically run fetches and fill content of our controllers. Why does everyone get hung up on Ember-data?
I'm injured! I want money! Can I get some money?
Fork My Dongle T-Shirts Raise Money for Girls Who Code
Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the government.

Holy cow. The working population in the USA is a little below 140 million; that's almost 10%.
Add to that the fact that we can control domestic horse breeding, whereas controlling human breeding is, you know, frowned upon.
I used to hate doing frontend work because of all the gruntwork: Now I love it.
I used to hate javascript: Now I love it.

I attribute a lot of that to structure and grunt-work-handling of Ember.js.

I can't go back. Ember.js might not be where we end up in terms of the SPA framework we end up using (but if I were betting I'd say yes), but in general this is where web apps are going.
The openness sounds interesting. What kind of stuff is in the pipeline?
A basic income guarantee is a far more important idea than free higher education or affordable housing. The argument for universal healthcare is that we're going to take care of the sick whether they purchased insurance or not. What argument do you have that the market is not a good mechanism for allocating funds to housing? Or education? I guess an argument can be made for subsidizing education on the grounds that an educated populace is good for society, but making it free doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Good points about velocity and monetary base. "satochi" spelling and decimals corrected. Thanks. The $6000 is just an order of magnitude >>>(80/12)*1000. Too many unknowns for anything beyond guesstimates: What percentage of the currency is hoarded by then (1/2? 1/3? 3/4?). How many bitcoins are lost forever? As you point out velocity, or even limits on transaction speed from block-size ...
The Bacon-Wrapped Economy (wealth in the Bay Area)
There was an interesting chat-log[1] someone posted on /r/Django on reddit talking about dealing with South migration merging/conflicts, and other issues that crop up in a multi-person project.

I'm curious about the best practices for data-migrations as well; I've seen a few places[2][3] suggest that wrapping your fixture loading "./manage.py loaddata <fixture>" in datamigrations is better than leaving it up to initial_data.{yaml,json}

Edit: here's the one I was thinking of: South common pitfalls: http://andrewingram.net/2012/dec/common-pitfalls-django-sout...

[1] https://gist.github.com/sjl/4438002

[2] http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2897/

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5472925/django-loading-da...
For wireframes we use balsamiq and for graphics we try to stick with svg, if we cant, png for each screen resolution that we target. Hope it helps!
In the city where I live, I walk to work. On the way, I see an uncountable number of cars with handicap placards. They are especially dense near large office buildings. My wife once drove to my work to have lunch, but ended up going home without us having lunch--there were no free parking spaces she could find after 30 minutes circling. This has got to hurt business.

I'm not saying there are a lot of disabled people in my city, but it shows the mentality. People want something for nothing and a lot more people that I would have thought don't mind pretending to be disabled.

My favorite is watching people pull up next to Lake Merritt to park, but before they get out they put up the placard, then proceed to walk 3+ miles around the lake.

My wife works in social services, and people are constantly trying to game the system by claiming disabilities.

On the flip side, our social safety net in the US is horrible and unemployment is very high. I don't really blame people to trying to use any means they can to live.

The bottom line is that if we had a real safety net that caught people slipping into poverty, there would be many fewer people claiming disabilities.
But the most popular WebKit browser keeps itself up-to-date with unprecedented efficiency:

http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/111206-c...

Full article:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/12/06/comparing-chrome-and-fir...
Where is the source stored currently? On the hard disk of the one person who usually writes the code? If so, what happens if he quits? Or if his machine gets hacked? In short, if you loose your one copy of the code, what happens then? How do you restore your application/source.
We've been working to solve this problem for a long time at https://workforpie.com/.

I completely agree with everything OP says, but I'll tell you what the real problem is: time. This is especially true in early stage startups and consultancies, where oftentimes the founders are still building stuff 95% of the time.

Recruiters are easy (as are, by the way, the new wave of non-recruiting recruiters like Developer Auction). Pay the man his money, and get a candidate in return. The founder doesn't have to spend time communicating with candidates or really doing any of the stuff OP mentions. That's why a lot of companies still hire recruiters. (Some of the companies) don't care what happens before the viable candidate walks thru the door, they just care that he/she does. It's like buying an iPad. Most of us don't think about, and don't care to think about what it took for that iPad to make it to us. We just care that it did and that it works as advertised.

Recruiting: the most important thing most companies don't have time for...

There's absolutely a better way, and in the end it's less time-consuming than what most companies do now. But the up front work is harder and more time-consuming. Convincing someone who's time is worth more than his money to adopt the better way is a hard thing to do.
> by poor personal decisions

So it's their fault that they're disabled?
Funny story. I'm from the US but during college, I rented a room from a family in Hamburg for a summer job. One day, the home's owner was driving me somewhere and jokingly explained to me that the purpose of the 'star' on a Mercedes Benz was to help the driver target jaywalkers and chase them back onto the sidewalk. What I inferred was that German drivers hate jaywalkers.
I'll bite, I can say I disagree on all counts.

1. Most of the startups are way too simple. -
https://www.leapmotion.com/, https://www.microryza.com/, http://www.farmigo.com/, http://www.doublerobotics.com/ and the list could keep going.. I wouldn't call what these guys are doing simple.

2. Startups are founded by non-enterpreneurs. -
There's a difference between starting a company legally and actually starting a company. I think the author is getting the two confused. The latter requires real work.

3. VC's are not your freinds. -
We know. They're not expected to be.

4. Incubators sucks. -
I would need more context to argue this point since none of was provided. Incubators are more than "Shared
office and shared secretary" and there are plenty of examples of companies that have benefited from being part of this program. As a startup founder, getting noticed means a lot http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/28/the-next-webs-top-t...

5. Incubator is not non-profit organization. -
And..that's life?

6. All the good ideas are taken. -
You should probably not start a company if you see nothing wrong with the world. "But do you know the complexity?" this directly contradicts author's point #1.

7. Incubators and startup accelerators must work with universities. -
False.
You're right, I mean there has to be something there or the people couldn't survive (unless they're all on disability). I would say though that 90% of these places don't have much except maybe farming. Maybe that's enough to sustain these places, but given how automated farming has become I'd doubt it. And farming is also concentrated the same way Ikea is. Modern farming tend to be much bigger scale (thus fewer players).
That's why he said "Set up a separate DB with one big table" ;)

I think it can actually work quite well, provided you can setup a separate service just for analytics. It's not too unreasonable to assume there are sites already doing this since the concept of a central repository that you alone control (and isn't provided by a third party) can be appealing.

Also, you have to worry less about privacy and just concentrate on keeping your own systems and services secure.
I've been wondering this ever since the rumors of Apple's watch began to circulate. Personally, I don't see the draw and have no interest in any of them.
Crowdfunders Fire Back Against Naysayers
Great article. Rudyard Kipling warned us of the same when he wrote:

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster /
And treat those two impostors just the same"

This is the main theme of the book "Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure", written by Andreas Kluth of The Economist. If you enjoyed the OP's post, and love history (or just great storytelling), get the book. Promise you won't regret it.

Some wisdom from the book (from notes I took):

Those who experience tremendous success early in life are likely to have hit a peak. The wandering types who experience success later in life are more likely to sustain success for longer. [The book has an entire chapter analyzing "Towering Peaks" vs. "Wanderers"…a must-read for those who feel behind.]

Always keep the end goal in mind. Don't confuse tactics with strategy. Succeeding in the wrong things will lead to failure.

Dealing with disasters: A “Fabian Response” is one that accepts reality for what it is and then goes with the flow of things that cannot be changed until there is something that can be changed. In other words, accepting reality and then not doing anything - until there are viable alternatives. The key wisdom here is that sometimes the best plan of action is inaction. But don't confuse this with giving up. In this case, inaction is tactical, a part of a plan to succeed.

Keep as clear and calm a mind as possible in pursuit of success, and in response to failure. Always maintain EQUANIMITY. In fact, don't worry about success at all....just focus on doing your best.

Success can be imprisoning in many ways, and needs to be feared. Here are some reasons why:
1) Success is often followed by less discipline and focus.
2) Distractions, such as too many opportunities, or just plain overload of low-value work. Often the source of the success in the first place is forgotten or demoted because of these distractions.
3) Hubris that makes one think he is invincible.
4) Affects social relationships due to paranoia that others aren't as trustworthy anymore, are acting different, etc. Successful people waste time & energy dwelling on these.
5) The confidence and relaxation that accompanies great thinking and creativity (and thus responsible for the success) are replaced with anxiety and self-doubt. This kills the freedom of the mind.
6) Stubbornness and inflexibility that comes with being an authority/expert, which also kills the freedom of the mind.

http://www.amazon.com/Hannibal-Me-Historys-Greatest-Strategi...