skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a large difference in my mind between a newsletter a company only sends out to its subscribers and unsolicited e-mail advertisements.
Sadly, there is no palette with this color available, if it doesn't show up in our search. I am sorry.
What "Psychopath" Means -- It is not quite what you may think
It seems like an attempt to convert developers from Play to Amazon Appstore. The $10M seed money will encourage a land rush (or at least they hope).

If it doesn't work out it will be easy enough to phase out the program by converting bought coins back to a store-credit.
Cool page, thank you.
I believe this release name would combine the best of both:

Fedora 20 ; rm -rf / # '; DROP table *; --
Html in email is bad.evil.wrong.stupid.
When will these people get it?
Oh ! I was thinking Sell Off, Merger, Acquisition or some other "up or out" ancronym

Thanks
Having worked at a company where the culture changed over time to the point where work began to completely drown out having a personal life, the attitude at SurveyMonkey is incredibly refreshing.

There's a lot to be said for a great work ethic and productive work culture, but it doesn't have to come at the expense of having a home life. I like that Dave Goldberg mentions family obligations - at my previous job I would basically not have seen my daughter during the week. That is no way to live.
Optimizing a Program Means Making It Run Faster, Right?
50,000 Lessons on How to Read: a Relation Extraction Corpus
SOMA (South of Market Area of San Francisco -- the South/East of Market Street, formerly a lot of warehouses) underwent a lot of renovation over the last 5 years as many of the new social/mobile tech companies moved in from Silicon Valley proper, in order to attract younger professionals who wanted a more urban setting for their work/personal lives.

It's something that was enabled by the current generation of software/internet/mobile startups that don't require much capital equipment or on premise IT infrastructure. It's difficult to do this running a chip startup, since you need all sorts of prototyping/testing equipment even if you are fabless.
https://github.com/crabasa/seattlehacks
Man, I'm getting tired of repeating these basic security issues:

Stop storing your wallet online. And if not that, stop letting flash/java autoload/run. Both Chrome and Firefox have "click-to-enable". Not only is it more secure, it also prevents auto-video-playing, background audio you can't find and shit like this from happening.
ATable creator here. My goal was to develop a functional, interactive grid that is easy to use with any data source, can handle huge amounts of data, and is as small as possible. This is my first open source project, so I'm definitely looking forward to getting feedback.
When You Are Your Product
>While the tone of your comment comes across as a bit negative, I appreciate it because it got me thinking about ways to automate CRUD apps even more than Rails already has.

Well, it's a little negative, but I've made my fair share of CRUD apps at one time.

>Of course, if someone made something like this and got business users to actually use it to build their CRUD apps themselves, it could put a lot of CRUD app developers out of business!

Hmm, I have a friend that attempted something like that -- his startup was featured on TechCrunch IIRC: http://app2you.com/site/index.html
From my experience with CUDA/OpenCL, its easy to get a working algorithm that provides some speedup, but getting it to fully utilize the GPU takes some manual optimization.

Things like optimizing memory accesses to prevent bank conflicts, using per thread-group shared memory effectively to reduce global memory accesses are a bit tricky to get right, and I'm not sure how well auto-generated code would be able to do this.
This has potential to be really fun! But how to select others to compete?
I use OS X. I develop in Obj-C occasionally (usually it's just GUI mockups), but I still have an old Linux laptop from 2005, and I love using it; I'd daresay using it is more enjoyable than my MacBook Air.

I don't think saying that C# is more familiar than Objective-C is really fair. Objective-C is far more widely used than C#; the amount of iPhone and iPad apps far outnumbers those of .NET applications.
I think in general we have a problem of deifying the concept of free speech (everyone loves the First Amendment), while at the same time we get our kicks censoring everyone whenever we get the chance (while gleefully pointing out the truth that the First Amendment restricts only the government).

This is a real problem. I don't think we value free speech as much as we say we do. If we did, we'd tolerate a LOT more before pulling the censorship card.

That said, canning Orth was a no-brainer. He set himself up as the ultimate anti-evangelist for the next Xbox console. He seriously undermined a product that hasn't been announced yet - this after the announced PS4 details had already positioned Sony as the "good guys".
"I would certainly not trust my life savings to some mysterious computer algorithm created by shadowy anonymous characters in a system that attracts underworld types."

Yes, because the central banks' hands are clean and they would never screw over customers for their own gain.... Oh wait....

I'm not saying Bitcoins are some magical currency that herald a new age of money but rather this article ignores many of the positives of Bitcoin while using week arguments to attack it.
It's not that bad, I'm a web developer too and I work in London at the moment. With my day rate I could probably fund a year in a cheap part of the world on 6 months work, but it would definitely stretch further if I could top it up with some freelance work :-)
Well, in order for this to work you'd have to have a BTC position in the exchange that's quoting higher in the first place. You would have to have entered that position at a price that is lower than your planned exit price in order for this to be profitable. You're still just as susceptible to volatility.
IMO Culture starts at the top. What was the CEO like at said former employer of yours? Did he lead the charge in assuming a more Spartan work schedule?
I think you should cut/paste this to his blog as well -- so people not getting there via HN get the news.
If the price drops, you use that as clear evidence that your models are correct. If the price rises, well then that's clearly just temporary market irrationality, and it will eventually drop again.
I am surprised at how I randomly go to my spam email address once a few months and end up interacting with services that I thought I would never go back to

It is like they get a second chance for sending me emails and not giving up on me.
Maybe I'm missing something, but when I look at the repository, all I see is a readme. What I don't see is the purported "Code & website".
Not only is there TOTP, they also sent free Yubikeys to anyone who requested one last year.
If I'm good at office politics and not good on writing code, then reasonable thing for me would be to do more office politics and less writing code.

Me spending more time on office politics would unload some of the office politics from your shoulders and let you focus more on software development which you do the best.

That way it would be a win-win.
Dammit - I read this and thought it was branded bitcoins!

Which reminds me - is there any cryptographic reason this cannot be done ?
Of course, if those people came to America, they would then consume goods and services of their own, which would provide opportunities to other Americans.
"Programmers are not some magical subset of people.."

Now that's just crazy talk!
Spyder has single-highhandedly allowed me to convert MATLAB users to Python.
Isn't this basically what Pathable offers for $799 / YEAR? http://www.pathable.com/pricing
The Economics Of Girl Talk
Doing DNS right on Heroku
I like plain text as well but I dislike the fact that it looks so ugly. Why do we need to insert line break at 72 (or something) characters? Can't we wrap text emails?
Flipboard: Infographic
Which is perfectly fine. As a parent, 6-9pm is the most valuable time of my day, because it's when my wife is home and my baby is sleepy and cute and getting ready for bed.

The battle that a lot of people have to fight is that they have to stay till 8-9 for the sake of appearances, then they got home when the kids are asleep and they have nothing to do but veg out on the internet until bed time.

If the boss keeps strict 8-9 to 5:30 "face time" hours, that can greatly free up everyone else to allocate their evenings in a more suitable way.
Yea, but that wasn't just expressing an opinion, that was harassing someone. It's not like he just posted his opinion about Chick-fil-a on his facebook or twitter.
I think it's immoral to burn through employees when they have employee-typical equity shares and your business model is still speculative.

Startups often get away with this because they're staffed by 20somethings who either don't have any better place to be on a Thursday night than in front of their giant monitor, or they value being able to get in at 1:00PM (or to randomly take a day off to go rock climbing) more than they value having a predictable schedule that permits a home life.

That's fine (except for the bit about startup employee equity upside) for young startup employees, but it's also easy to see how it creates an environment that (probably pointlessly) discriminates against people that have families.
I really don't understand why you'd use Windows for Python development unless you need to regularly use Creative Suite, mostly use Visual Studio/.NET and just do Python on the side, or for some reason play AAA games while you are working.
Still using mutt, huh?
> In trying to understand the gap, what they focused in on is that life success isn't just intelligence, its soft skills like stick-to-it-iveness, willpower, concentration, etc.

Do you have more information about these studies? I have always assumed that to be true. When you look at successful people, it is the indicator that stands out most often. I'd love to look at the formal research.
List of JS game engines
http://imgur.com/dvHjJoa

Granted, this is on Linux, but I think it's only a matter of whether or not your font has glyphs for the emoji characters -- correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see a technical reason to treat emoji differently from any other Unicode character.
Visualizing the Facebook equality meme
There are two issues here: one is not accepting Unicode properly, and the other is making incorrect assumptions about the content of strings. Both need to be resolved, and all this cultural butthurt is not productive to solving either of them.

Resolving the Unicode issues is undeniably a higher priority for speakers of foreign languages, but there are still plenty of languages and libraries whose support for Unicode ranges from nonexistent, to antiquated, to limited, to just plain broken.

There's nothing application developers can do in the short term to fix those problems, but by examining their own code and removing fallacious assumptions they can better facilitate the proper handling of Unicode once it becomes available in their underlying technologies. In the mean time, though, they may only have ASCII, or ISO 8859-X, or KOI8-R, or Shift-JIS, etc. to test with.
Anyone from middle-management up escaped the changes, which didn't help morale.
I was incorrect about trumpets, but not about other instruments. My point that many instruments are restricted to a particular scale is entirely correct.

Also, I was playing and recording music since before wikipedia even came into existence, so dial back those assumptions.
It appears we've confused just about everyone with our new homepage. :)

Yes, we sit between you and your oauth providers. This makes it easier to manage many oauth providers, because you just call us and we take care of the differences in their APIs.

On top of that, we build a dashboard for you that contains all of the user info we've seen and tie it to events on your site.

There is no lock-in. To migrate away, you simply send users directly to the OAuth provider, instead of using us as a proxy. Your users will not notice a difference either way.
I don't know how many times this will have to be pointed out before people get it...

Currencies don't have investors, they have users. Sure, there are currency traders but the point is to be used.
US unemployment is off record highs because people who used to draw unemployment have realized disability is a much better option. U3 was always a dicey number, but now it's entered the land of make believe.
They can probably only spend them at the company store.
"There are the people who don’t have any experience but are just really smart, talented, and motivated"

Would like to point out that people like that work well in the current environment with startups and the reward system (and age group as well). In more traditional business, particularly small business, someone who is "smart, talented, and motivated" tends to leave if not given an ownership opportunity in the venture or a path upwards (which may not even exist.). In other words in a traditional small wholesaler or even a small retail chain or manufacturer it can actually be problematic to hire people who have those qualities if you have no place to put them or aren't growing in a way that they can take advantage. Actually better (from my experience) to go with the b players who may be smart, have experience and have less motivation and ambitions.
CEO of EveryWhereElse.co startup conference Resigns as Winners Wait for Money
For The Enterprise IT Set: Steps To Success With Semantic Tech
I've done the media thing occasionally. It certainly works, and it's fun, but it's also feels like a distraction from doing the important things.

Many years ago a group of folks tried to move the industry away from the "find a bug, win a prize" model that the industry had settled into, seeing it as a local maximum. They didn't seem to have much success.
This makes it sound like anything with a legitimate business model is a product and anything without is a startup.
Modern email should be completely banning any markup but spaces, going to UTF-8-32 encoding. Maaaybe increasing the maximum column width from 80 to 120, but that's stretching it (hehe).
Krugman on Bitcoin's problems with deflation (2011)
Nitpick: The article both says he leaves work by 5:30 and he gets home by 5:30.

Short commute. :)
Oh, so that's why the value is crashing... people just wanted to get out once they saw the Winkelvii getting in.

Well that explains everything. I can go home now.
1/3 is the number, and while they do spend some on clinical trials, the vast majority goes to applied and basic research (their wording). That means 2/3 of the total R&D of medical innovation (US) need to go somewhere which is the drug development you are talking about.

Some people have argued that maybe those 2/3 should be tax money too. Its a bit weird situation where the state already pays for 1/3 of the R&D, and then on top of that give state enforced monopoly in 20 years periods for those who invest in the other 2/3 (additional monopoly period is also granted by the FDA after an successful drug trial). State enforced monopoly is often describe as tax raised outside congress control, and has its history and name (letters patent = royal decree) from that purpose.

One question we should ask is what the industry brings to the table if we took away all state funded involvement. Is it more efficient to bring competition through patent grants rather than direct research and development grants? Do we get larger and more spread out pool of investment that could not happen without a few blockbuster drugs to get gambling money? We should ask for data which prove that the current method (1/3 of the funding and granted state monopolies) is the best use of tax money. Maybe at least demand some kind of high standard when a company take research supported by the 1/3, and claim a new invention based on already known and disclosed techniques. The India model is to demand an increased efficiency, beyond showing that the modification of the old drug is novel.
It's called BACN.
> Objective-C is far more widely used than C#

> the amount of iPhone and iPad apps far outnumbers those of .NET applications.

[Citation needed]

Objc may be more "widely-used" in terms of end users, but I am extremely skeptical that objc programmers outnumber dotnet programmers. In fact, every survey I've seen places C# higher.

I'd also wager there are far more dotnet apps than iOS apps. Virtually all Windows applications are dotnet these days. Not to mention the vast number of web apps based on dotnet.
Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but I'm truly sick of the notion that workers serve their manager, not the other way around.

In the vast majority of companies in the US, workers generally serve the owner of the business they work for, and the managers are expected to carry out the will of the owner (directly or indirectly).

There are a few counterexamples proving that businesses don't have to follow this model in order to scale, e.g. Valve. But Valve is (a) fanatical about hiring, and (b) rolling in so much money that they won't have to make any tough decisions in the near future, e.g. laying off part of the staff to keep their company afloat (which can destroy the sort of culture necessary to sustain the model you're describing).

In the US, the incentive structure for a modern business penalizes letting average employees make major company decisions. One reason is because average employees often lack the motivation to carry out their vision through completion, or have unrealistic expectations. In other words, most mid-to-large businesses are penalized for trusting employees to do things other than what they're told to do (or received approval to do). It's hard to define that as anything other than servitude.

One way around this state of affairs is to work for a startup. When a company is small, such political scaffolding is unncessary.
I think America, as a policy, should have its borders as open as possible.

However, America absolutely has the right to secure its borders as its citizens wish.

(I don't think you are necessarily saying this; but replying to your comment just seems a sensible place to drop it into the conversation.)
I'm not sure the parties pushing these ideas want you to be able to easily work it out. The goal almost seems to be that whenever there's a dispute, a long, expensive and unintelligible process delivers a result that seems random (for those without enough money to do it right).
What else would you be expecting from joel? :)

Nice work.
Don't be disingenuous. Your comment introduced a group opposed to MRA's existence, then argued that they were wrong in doing so.

As for the rest, I have no interest in labeling people into petty little tribal buckets. I don't care what you call yourself.

That said, the amount of effort you are expending trying to undermine my opinion by personal attacks and misdirection strongly suggests you find my beliefs threatening, but lack either the evidence or the intellectual capabilities to produce a counterargument.

Finally, of course you are angered. On what other basis can you label my comments "inflammatory"?
While you may never read them, a surprising number of people do. I had an internship where my primary responsibility was composing HTML emails that went out to users on a weekly basis. If I remember correctly, the majority of our users opened the emails, and roughly 5-10% clicked on a link to content on the site. I imagine these number vary quite a bit, but for a site with a paid membership we saw a lot of traffic from HTML newsletters.
Ellen Pao Joins Reddit To Build Strategic Partnerships
He's probably still using email for communication and not free mass media content delivery.
Digital currencies: A new specie
Emailing people who are leaving more than a nice to have worked with you or let's connect on linked in always seems like a giant lose lose proposition.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

As you acknowledge, currencies obviously do have traders, like George Soros. So it's hard to start a comment with "currencies don't have traders".

One of the problems with Bitcoin, of course, is that it is intensely speculative; its "users" hoard it, and its transaction volume as a currency is so extremely thin (blog tip jars and "spa powder") that its "exchange rate" (more appropriately, it's spot price) is untenably volatile.
Didn't realize you could do loops in SCSS. Awesome.
Digital Ocean paying $50 for original tutorials
I'm curious, are the Ö Ä characters so common that they warrant dedicated physical space? I've seen "Spanish" keyboards that have a dedicated ñ, but it seems like the letter isn't that common and would be better served via a key-combo.

In fact, some IMEs already intercept " ' : etc and won't print them literally, but assume they're going into a combo with another letter.

I've talked to a few friends, and they said it was a holdover from typewriters and not really designed with modern computing in mind.
Do you know or does anyone know what the music of the video is?
Makes sense - thanks! Great job on the app!
I'm always amazed by the firehose of COMPLETELY unqualified people who apply to everything. Filtering IS needed usually.
Parameter Optimization with Zipline, PiCloud, StarCluster, and IPython Parallel
Let The Magic Happen
I want to underline one change they made that in my experience makes a huge impact: GET RID OF THE HEADER / LOGO

This is one of the basic steps that I've seen drive conversion almost every time be it ecommerce checkout / lead gen / email / etc.

The header distracts from your content, eliminate it or limit it as much as possible, especially when you have somebody that's already engaged (somebody added to cart, joined your list, etc).

In email they did exactly the right thing - center the user on the brand w/the "from address" or the title vs. wasting pixels in your content.

Several years ago I wrote about including company name in the email title as an "Always" winner for email:

http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/07/optimize-your-e...
Apparently, "goat teleportation" is some sort of inside joke at Google.
Poor Winklevoss twins keep taking the wrong decision at the wrong time...

"This social network idea looks great, let's tell Mark Zuckerberg about it!"

"Bitcoin has been rising so fast, we should sink a few million dollars into it!"
Does HubSpot Walk The Talk On Its Culture Code?
I'm one of the developers for the Direct Mail app mentioned in the article. Would be happy to answer any questions. Thanks for the interesting post!
Pulse Joins the LinkedIn Family
The worst HR filter I've ever head came from Microsoft somewhere between 1990-92. There recruiter informed a group of CompSci students gathered to hear about careers at Microsoft, that people graduating from our school were only allowed to apply for jobs in customer support. I think the professors were more ticked off than the students.
TL;DR Bitcoin mimicks the gold standard, so you'll see the problems with the gold standard play out all over again.
Insurance companies are not dumb enough to enter a market where fraud is rampant and they have no legal leverage against bad actors.
that's meant to end the game in case of stalemates
Yes, spam is a profitable business, that's probably why there is so much more of it than personal email.
Genetically Modified Foods: A Short Introduction
Deflationary, sure. But where are the problems? More people are CHOOSING to conduct transactions in bitcoin. If we can tolerate 2-8% inflation yearly surely we could tolerate that much deflation.
This is what I heard in my head while reading your comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpCM5cWkNM
And how HTML in emails is getting in the way of communication?

Most people use GMail as their email client, so even when they read plain text emails what they actually see is HTML email. The only difference is typeface, but you can configure that.