skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the good old days, when the government would simply abuse the existing legal process to screw the little guy instead of just declaring a new process by fiat ala NSL/executive order/etc when it suits them.
This is precisely why I like Fever as an RSS reader. Fever lets you separate feeds into low-volume kindling and high-volume sparks. Kindling are the feeds you want to keep up with regularly, while items that are mentioned across Sparks bubble up to the top (Its like having your own personal Hacker News).
I really liked this article for two reasons; one as an interviewer I feel better about a candidate when they ask me questions, and second because knowing that a place isn't right for you really helps with deciding if you want the job or not.

As an employer and an employee what I want is engagement not "headcount" that shows up to the milking barn on schedule, gets drained, and kicked back out into the field.
Yeah he lost me when he started saying that I'm doing it wrong just because I subscribe to high-volume feeds..

Years ago I came across someone's excellent strategy for organizing Google Reader under two top-level groups:

* Must Read
* Can Miss

Under those 2 labels I have other classifications, but those are the two main groups that all my feeds fall under.

The low-volume or high-importance feeds go into "Must Read" and the rest goes into "Can Miss".. Can Miss is for skimming, for catching up on the last few days of high-volume feeds or just for finding something to read through when I'm bored..

I regularly hit "Mark all as Read" on the "Can Miss" group, and I don't feel bad about it for a second, nor do I feel like I am somehow using RSS incorrectly.

But the "Must Read" label contains feeds that I really want to make sure I read all of, or don't miss anything from.. Like infrequently updated blogs, security update RSS feeds, some serial web comics or web shorts, etc.. In the last several years I don't think I've even once hit "Mark all as Read" in that label.

So while I agree that if your current approach to RSS is leading you to ignore most of what ends up in your reader, you might need a different approach, but that approach doesn't have to be "don't use RSS".
thats why the licenses recommend to put the license on top of EVERY SINGLE FILE. Failing to do so, is, well, not a good idea.

The pull request will then either contain a join copyright (then only THIS file has a joint copyright), either no change to copyright (explicitly assigning the copyright to you alone)

that's if the copyright goes to <your name, email>, not "et al", obviously
This approach worked at Google. However, as you point out, it does seem like there is a fundamental problem. Yahoo! is not pre-IPO Google. Or post IPO Google. It's not even pre-IPO Yahoo! What skilled programmer with good grades from a top university is even considering employment at Yahoo! ?
I don't see Eclipse as a 100-year program in its present form. I think it is too tied to Java and the JVM; it's also terrifically tied into the corporate system of today.

When the jvm fades, I think eclipse will as well.
So her response to the criticism regarding missing out on good people because they did not have degrees from top universities is to say "Why can't we just be good at hiring"? Seriously? Your employees are trying to tell you how to improve your decisions and be more flexible, and your response is to tell them "No, actually you just need to do as I say, but do a better job at it."

Did Mayer spend 25 years as a military officer? That seems to be her management style.
Goodbye, Zen Coding. Hello, Emmet
how do you like working for the IRS? Seriously - you're arguing FOR the group that takes money from people at gun point?
I believe the SublimeCodeIntel plugin will give you the alt+click functionality. It says so in the documentation at least: https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel - I haven't tried it though.
If she doesn't trust her HR department, instead of trying to personal do/correct their job, she should invest enough time upfront to hire people she can trust in HR and then let them do their job.

If she is really personally reviewing each new hire, she's not only slowing down the hiring process, but she's also demotivating her HR people.
Vertical Slums: Above The Law
The biggest "bullshit" is that I have to pay extra to tether.
I started with a hypothesis that LOC/commit might be an interesting way to compare the productivity of languages, and I frankly had no clue whether it would produce anything useful or interpretable at all. When it did, I figured it was cool enough to write it up, although it's definitely fairly noisy data.
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No, the USDA and pretty much anyone regulating food safety agree that storing food touching non food-safe plastics is always unsafe because the bags may be made with or coated with chemicals that WILL leach into your food. This is definitely accelerated by time (which brining involves) and temperature.

Ref:
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ftsep04.htm
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/big_thaw/
Intuit could not get the Minnesota tax returns right. Minnesota had to threaten to refuse any TurboTax generated returns for Intuit to fix the problem: http://www.twincities.com/business/ci_22767151/minnesota-tur...

"On Monday, March 11, the state released a list of 13 specific line items that led to errors on Minnesota tax returns filed through the Intuit software and other tax-preparation products from the company.

"These were very serious to us," Terri Steenblock, the state's assistant commissioner of individual taxes, said Monday at a news conference. "We've never seen issues like this."

Last week, the state advised people not to use Intuit products to file their state taxes. Those products include TurboTax, Lacerte, Intuit online and ProSeries."
Do you sandbox user input programs?
It's not about being a spectator sport. It's about identifying (potentially undervalued) opportunities early. I didn't make this list to speculate, it's where I'd put my money if I had money to invest.
It depresses me that GLS was a better programmer at 17 than I probably will ever be.
what are tags? Are there plans for in-itch discovery? As a buyer, the front page doesn't really help me at all.

as a seller, I can see the use case. Maybe integration with online arcades? kongregate, for example.
At the risk of seeming flippant, but if you can afford to pay a six figure mistake just "so my wife wouldn't stress", then she probably really didn't have too much to stress about, financial burden of penalties or otherwise.
The moisture charts he generated using a kitchen scale. To generate valid charts for taste, he would have to use a blind panel of skilled human tasters, which would have been much more expensive.
Curing red meat is probably a bad idea; it toughens and changes the color of the meet. When he was still at the French Culinary, Dave Arnold did a triangle test where he simply salted a steak prior to a low-temp cook --- he didn't leave it salting for days, just hours --- and all his tasters could identify the pre-salted meat and all preferred the non-pre-salted meat.

Another thing to bear in mind is that brining poultry will make the skin intractably flabby. You can air-dry the meat after your brine it (I had a fan setup to do that), or remove the skin prior to brining to compensate.
Is there something like this that works properly in the mobile browser?
Code Review vs Flow
Doesn't that require you to store your calendar data on Apple's servers?
politician and principles, there's two words that don't belong in the same sentence...
Digg, haha.
It's hard to chart subjective descriptions. He does describe the difference in taste/feel between different methods:

"there's a definite case of wet-sponge syndrome"
"the flavor a little bland"
"it's undoubtedly more juicy and well-seasoned, with a stronger chicken flavor"

Edit: s/objective/subjective/
I think you caught a little catachresis at the end there.
The writer of a patch is the copyright holder of that patch, as a result you cannot legally distribute your code with the patch applied unless you have a valid license from the patch writer (Because part of the code is copyrighted by the patch writer, who has exclusive rights to distribution and reproduction).

If the patch is submitted under the BSD/GPL/MIT license or similar, you are fine. All of those explicitly grant anyone that complies with those licenses to redistribute the patch code (and thus the patched project), with the usual restriction that your license is compatible and that said copyright notice and author names must be reproduced in the resulting entity. Normally you'd maintain an AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS files listing everyone's name in addition to the license files. There's no real hard and fast rule for this, though. Keeping the names in the contributed files would also work, for example.

The situation is somewhat murky if the patch writer specifies no license. In this case you are technically not allowed to redistribute the patched code. If the codebase is on github and licensed under some open source license you could (try to) argue in court that that implies the patch is submitted under the same license as the original code, but whether that defense works is up to the judge.
Nice list of frustrations with Go, though I wouldn't call it inelegant - the syntax may be homely, but the simplicity gives it a certain minimalist elegance.

Re nils, yes this still feels pretty ad-hoc, I wonder if they'd do anything differently there now if they could? Probably there is no easy way out now they're past 1.0.

It would be nice to see an extensible range and I've had this thought myself (as have others), there has been some discussion on the list, and they're not sure: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-n...

but then you can also turn it around and iterate by passing in a function to the structure to iterate:

func (self *DataStructure) Iterate(fun IteratorFunc)

Re GOPATH, what do you mean here?

Re packages having one level - I actually love this - if you want to nest things in folders, Go is trying to tell you to split it into sub-packages (in that opinionated manner it sometimes adopts). Of course this might feel restrictive, but if a package has lots of files I'd rather it was split up and organised into packages with clear boundaries between them rather than into an interconnected set of files/folders which only makes sense to the author of the code because it's all in one package with no boundaries. This restriction means we will see apps composed of packages by default rather than all in one namespace because it's easier.

Re the versioning, they originally resisted versioning the language, but eventually gave up on that idea and used versions, so I suspect for packages they'll eventually recognise the need for this when the ecosystem of packages grows sufficiently. Versions do introduce problems of their own (dependency hell), but IMHO being able to reliably import snapshots of a package (tag, branch or version) will be essential long term without having to fork a repo and rename it just to do so. If go becomes popular you can expect this to be addressed by third parties if the go team doesn't bother.

Re the tagging, in a way I'm pleased that they avoid adding lots of features like this, as this is the stort of thing I hate even in the limited version they have (on struct fields) - it's untidy and gets misused and overridden to try to extend the language (see sql libraries in Go tagging fields with all sorts of their own meta-data).

Re commas on lists, this bothers me less than having to put semicolon & LF on every line, I think it's a fair trade.

Re philosophy, I can't speak for the Go authors, but I've found radical simplicity to be its overriding principle, which explains some of the limitations which annoy you above and the ditching of a lot of OO baggage which languages nowadays are expected to carry whether they want it or not. I've found the simplicity worth the trade for some small frustrations.
Could not agree more, this is the exact use case for the 'power users' of RSS. And he is right that without RSS I don't know how these low-posting-frequency sites would keep their readership. If I had to give up one, I'd give up twitter or hackernews long before that low-frequency RSS feed. Those posts are gold and for niche subjects (I'm into bio) there is no where else they are aggregated.
Ironically, I use IFTTT to read the RSS and push sites like what he is describing into Instapaper. You lose the by-site organization of it, but if you don't overdo it you end up with a nice small selection of things to read every day when you fire up Instapaper.
MiiPC got funded in less than 24 hours on KickStarter
Mayer's weird actions make more sense in if the later context the article provides is true: that Yahoo is in a de-facto hiring freeze. If Yahoo were trying to grow it would be madness, but they aren't.

I think is her plan to limit managers ability to build empires by only allowing them to replace employees out of a tiny pool hand picked by Mayer. I wouldn't be surprised if it worked, but it's a stunning vote of no-confidence in the entire company structure...
I tend to add feeds only when the site doesn't generate either a significant number of comments or comments that are actually worth reading. Sites like HN I'm often as (or more) interested in the comments as in the actual article, so I'll just visit the site for that reason instead of using RSS.
Who cares, phones are interesting to people because they enable communication with others. Phone projects like this are interesting because they enable people who wouldn't ordinarily be able to build a cell phone, to build a cell phone.
I personally started using an RSS Reader to keep track of webcomics. Especially ones that update infrequently. Now they're all in one handy place and I never miss a panel.
Agreed -- it's a good filter for a higher probability of better talent (note: I say "probability" and not "guarantee") and their stock price and potential for growth speak for their human resources strategy.
So far, I hadn't seen written what's most obvious problem to me. A dead branch or something from the tree that falls from a building will kill or cause serious injury to someone. Now if a few trees were dead center on the roof, they likely wouldn't, but anything close to overhanging in high winds will shake loose objects very dangerous to humans.

sure you could protect people by adding nets. Well then you have a skyscraper that looks trashier than it did without plants at all.
Yea, I find the DMV surprisingly helpful. The old saying 'Good enough for government work' used to mean over engineered and built to last, now it's a euphemism for how much you can get away with when outsourcing government work.
Somehow this would be the first election where an army of botnets voting seems appropriate.
Are there any ecommerce sites using SPDY?
Maybe this comment will be totally out of the context, but please, Turkey is a country whereas turkey is an animal. Please be a bit more respectful. Thanks
That's how I used to use Reader. One "Important" folder for stuff that I was very likely to read, and another for skimming.

It's a common complaint about Twitter that once you start following a few people who produce high volumes of crap, it becomes useless. The usual advice is to be quick to unfollow, but I've always missed a "must read" feature for Twitter, to specially mark those few people where you really do want to see every single tweet.
Looking over my YC! application I think I got 5 of these squares but thankfully, no bingo. ;) Still time to edit before submission. :)
Why was this posted to HN? He's been getting some attention because he was hired by Yahoo, so better remind everyone that he was immature and annoying when he was 15! Can we really blame him? Who wasn't immature when they were 15. He'll grow up, we don't need to bring up someone's every flaw every time they achieve success.
What better way to learn what kind of things convince VCs to invest than by being a VC? Even if you never invest a dime in any other company, you'll be a better entrepreneur if you do this.
A Library For Printed Furniture, At Your Fingertips
I find getting into hot deals to be one of the tougher parts of VC/angel investing. There always seems to be a lot of money chasing the best deals.

That being said, I don't have to deal with salary caps and a bazillion other complications when I play Fantasy Football. And this looks like fun! Thanks for posting Sohail.
Challenging to get the inside scoop on valuations and such but conceptually it's an interesting play.

My suggestion is that you set up a prediction market, with play money of course, where you buy shares on a prediction, so "Foo - Acquihire" yes/no, "Foo - IPO" yes/no, "Foo - Acquistion" yes/no, and "Foo - Deadpool" yes/no. Maybe even lesser bets like "Seed", "Series A/B/C/D/E". You get the value of the shares if your prediction occurs, you get 0 if your prediction does not come true.

With enough participation I expect that could get a bit dangerous (actually moving the market) but its easier than my other idea which is take the stats for every known founder, engineer, marketer, Etc and create actual fantasy startups and have those fly or die based on events that the real people they are based on are seeing.
Contacts/access/name is about more than investors, in some industries that's what you need to reach customers or suppliers.
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The USDA link about garbage bags is in a graf about leaving foods to thaw out in the open; "garbage bag" is in the middle of a list including "basement", "garage", "dishwasher", and "kitchen counter". It's not discussing plasticizers.

None of the text on the UNL page contradicts my suggestion that the risk of chemical leaching is primarily caused by heating.

Definitely don't use garbage bags if they make you uncomfortable. For years, people have also been uncomfortable about doing low temp cooks in Ziploc bags for the same reason (it turns out that this is not a valid concern, but it was a reasonable one until recently). Also! I am sure there are trash bags you definitely don't want to put food in. Some bags are scented. Some of them are stiff and sort of starchy. I'd also stick with big brands.
Where Lean Ends
"Wait, you said you programmed this yourself, but I noticed that you're using c and some c libraries. That's not DIY! And you're using a compiler. That's also cheating! You should really be flicking toggle switches and pushing a button to enter the hex values directly."
Applied for patent != patented
Can't you sue your Government for this crime?

It's a crime, isn't it? Your government is doing it on the behest of all those companies who fund the lobbyists. You must be having some public litigation system.

It disturbs me when in countries like USA such policies that directly and greatly affect the citizens are controlled by lobbyists. My hope and enthusiasm for changes in my own country dims by a bit.

(BTW taxation has become very simpler off late here, relatively I mean).
Fortunately, someone stopped them from re-inventing wheels, axles, GSM stacks, etc.
He managed to get 238 of 242 House Republicans and 41 out of 47 Senate Republicans to sign his pledge. He's not elected, but his adherents certainly are.
k nearest neighbours suffers from over clustering problems and central nodes which have too many edges. at least tell people what causes the algorithm to fail in real life scenarios.
There is not really a rivalry between Rust and Go; they had different goals and Go is a fantastic language for its goals. For example, Mozilla uses both Rust and Go for different things. I don't see any need for tribalism either.
Are Yahoo, Mayer building an 'interest graph'?
So by "without processors or batteries" we mean "with a processor and a battery". Check.
How did you do the recording for the <canvas> demo of the product? You got my upvote just for that.
Misleading title, unless we now consider contractors and temp workers as freelancers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
Like many of the points but not following the conclusions because Google Reader doesn't aid long tail discovery...was just best place to subscribe post-discovery.

If the need for RSS reader remains, then others will simply fill the GR niche?
I think it's even more ridiculous than that - this is a decades old idea. In the 80s (and probably earlier), we had light-weight computer terminals connecting to mainframes. All Bezos did was combine that with a tablet.

Good idea? Yes.

Patentable? No, thank you.
Since you had a good experience then we are to suppose that everyone has a good experience? I believe there are a good number of stories to show that people have had rather bad experiences with the IRS. Just like you, I'm sure there are stories of people having a good experience with the IRS.

You used yourself as an example, he used himself as an example, so I fail to see how he is required to provide another counterexample to you at this point.
I haven't manually entered more than a trivial amount data into TurboTax in years. Most banks and brokerages seem to be on the direct-download bandwagon these days.
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Definitely, and many deals are based on some kind of personal relationship with the founder. It's funny: over time I've built up better access and relationships, but have no money to invest... So this will have to do for now :)

I'm looking forward to keeping the list updated and looking back in a couple years.
This is getting too complicated. :( Does anyone have a good link for which iPhone/iPad models work on each technology (HSPA+/LTE) in each tmobile market?
I would guess he recorded his keystrokes and then played them back with a timer? Totally a guess, I did something similar in that manner for a canvas game demo.
I used this cool project: https://github.com/rprichard/x11-canvas-screencast

It definitely deserves some stars. It's based off of https://github.com/sublimehq/anim_encoder
What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
If you have developers making changes to production systems with live customers, the real problems at your company have little to do with when people show up for work.

I rarely roll in to work earlier than 10 am, and that is down from about 11 am at my last job since this one has a regular 10 am scrum meeting. Yet, I wouldn't consider leaving a broken build active on Friday evening, and I'm just talking about the tip build in source code control, not a broken production system. I wouldn't even consider working for a place where developers just pushed new code willy nilly to live production systems, because that's just stupid.