skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with getting your VPS and experimenting with it when you start (or early in the process). I use Debian on Linode, and I have learned so much. The experience is invaluable. Everything from configuration to automation to security.

This prepares you for the day that you go live, as going live won't be a completely new experience, it will be a new experience, but if you iterate on hosting a blog and sandbox apps, then you are much better prepared than if you go VPS cold with a new product.
That's why the article also proposes a loan system similar to college loans. Investing in immigration is very similar to investing in education for the individual - it's a large up-front cost that you expect to be well worth it over a lifetime.
I have a serious loathing for people who divide the world into "C players", "B players" and "A players". I have indeed worked in places where I could do things that other people couldn't. But I still feel that people fall down in performance because they aren't given things that suited their ability.

But, reading more, this so-and-so doesn't just incidentally divide people, he makes this division the foundation of his approach.

"They ("great people") only want to work with other great people. Once you recruit a few great people, you’re in a bit of a quandary. You’ll need to, from then on, only recruit other great people or the great people you do have will leave. And if you hire any good people by mistake, the great people will (directly or indirectly) want you to let the perceived mediocrity (i.e. good people) go. And letting go of someone that is good is really hard to do. So you’re stuck and that’s the rub."
(http://blog.summation.net/2008/02/the-power-of-gr.html). I actually haven't noticed that "rock star quality" makes people anything but jerks to work with. This moron's description of a great person sounds like the "brilliant" software engineer previously featured on hn who "write incredible code" and sneered at anyone who expected comments. He "only wants to work with great people". Right. Smart people who can keep their "genius bubble" intact can indeed run rings around the fools who accept their dodges.

Authentically good and pleasant people can work with many kind of people ...

The funny thing is that Rapleaf as company is a complete joke. Their server takes many minutes to up with the most minuscule bits of information from any email address. But the company keeps its genius bubble visible all the time. Their hiring smart engineers... maybe some more great people can make the scheme work.
Father of fiber optics explains how it began
Search for [good restaurant in SF] on Google and you get a restaurant guide from the San Francisco Chronicle as the top web result. That's a lot faster than asking your twitter followers for it.
How much have you actually used CAS? http://www.jasig.org/cas

While it's pretty much the only game in town for true SSO auth, it can end up being a huge pain in the ass to integrate with existing software because of two glaring deficiencies:

1) It only tells your app the authenticated username -- not even group membership! A lot of off-the-shelf apps would require significant refactorings to allow you to integrate with LDAP for groups/info but not auth. What ends up happening at a lot of universities (where CAS is used) is that each app keeps it's own native user database for everything but passwords, and it's fucking awful. It's so unfortunate that OpenID recapitulated the same problem all over again with no improvement.

2) It's easy to grow a fuckton of redirects. I distinctly remember a problem where Safari would follow one-fewer redirect than IE/Moz, and the semi-competent technical staff had set up several apps at the limit (maybe 10?).
She wants to make people pause and make sense of this little robot traversing washington square park--not something that happens everyday. By doing this, she has a lens into how people would interact with something (not necessarily human) in familiar spaces.

Thus, narrative about our relationship to space.
People would have to log in again on each domain independently, with separate login cookies for each.

That is not really Single Sign On.
If, by "fair," you mean, "Will I get a lot of up votes?" then Yes.

If, by "fair," you mean, "Is what I just said true?" Then no.
From the IA Summit 2009 to Modular Innovations of ClosR and Zoomorama
I think the initial hypothesis is that the robot would be destroyed, stolen or thrown away by someone, hence the cheap construction.
We use alix and Soekris boards for all kind of nuts and bolts networking and automation around here. The alix is from switzerland and hard to get hold of but if you're in the usa and want to get into this, the soekris is easy to get and use. They are full X86 computers that can run standard distros off compact flash and only require about 5 watts.

Get them right from the source in California at www.soekris.com. Soren and crew are great guys as well.
Make darn sure you high school kids read this page....

http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx

And then go read this page for PHP/MYSQL/ECLIPSE/APACHE/ and every other open source project out there....

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

Note how the first sentence of the GPL says it all...

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it...

In the open source world no one has to verify your status as a student, threaten you for violating a license, or warn you not to share your ideas with them...

Judge for yourself grasshopper. Choose your path wisely.

There is no such thing as FREE when you choose the proprietary path of learning....
"I'd suggest getting it the day you start your project."

I agree with this. Having the server sitting there ready and waiting, and costing you money, has a certain motivating effect. Every time that monthly accounts email comes in, and you haven't gone live yet, you're gonna feel like an idiot, and that feeling is good for you.

It's like a gym membership, just sitting there sucking your money, mocking you and shaming you into action. It appeals to the exact right part of your psyche - you're paying for this, where's the results?

Take the step. If you're serious, sign up for a server first thing, I say. Buy a domain and wire it up. Load your blank page and stare at it and feel like a loser. For best effect tell all your friends about it and make all sorts of grand promises, and then stare at your blank page some more and feel like even more of a loser until finally you cross the threshold of shame, get started and then - you're on the track my friend!

Ah, blackmailing yourself into action. Tried and true. Shouldn't be necessary but hey, we're only human, and the only thing that matters is results.
Twitter's firehose is license-only. Facebook is a walled garden. There's a lot that Google can't necessarily reach for free.
A-player vs B-player vs C-player is misleading.

I know that this is how everyone thinks nowaways but I think a solid team will beat a team of disagreeing rock stars.

Easy-to-work with B+ players are completely missed by the A,B,C system. There are some awesome engineers who will never be famous.
Yes. I wasted my time going to the link and trying to figure out if there were any answers to the posed question there and the only answers are in the comments here!
Have you looked at SAML? It may be too complicated for your use case, but the basic technique could be useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML
Welcome to Slashdot?
I understand where you're coming from, but I think you have interpreted the author in a very different way to me. You say:

I actually haven't noticed that "rock star quality" makes people anything but jerks to work with

Nowhere does the author suggest that A Players are jerks to work with. In fact, had he had this assumption, he surely wouldn't have called them 'A Players'. It appears to me that you have correlated something that he said 'being very good at what you do' with another trait 'being a jerk to work with'. In my experience, this is not a strong correlation. Maybe in your experience it is, hence your interpretation. But the crux here is that your issue with his points hinges on your addition: A Player = jerk to work with.

As to serious loathing for people who divide the world into "C players", "B players" and "A players" I really do see where you're coming from - it does sound a little distastefully, doesn't it? Anything that apparently force-ranks human kind risks sounding distasteful I feel. But this isn't about classifying the person themselves (in their entire life), it's about classifying the person's ability to job the job that they are currently pursuing. This is hugely important. Someone might be a B Player in the world of software engineering, but an A Player on the soccer pitch.
Is the west thwarting Arab plans for reform?
This is why Swedes have "förfest".
Capabilities for External Uniqueness (prototype in Scala)
There's a similar program for startups called BizSpark.
http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/
That's pretty incomprehensible. The high number of non-sequitur overshadows the main point... whatever it is. I couldn't read through to the end.
You can easily model something like this with regular old ordinary differential equations in Mathematica or MATLAB. The hard part would be gathering the data to design realistic equations.
Seasteading: Homesteading the High Seas for Liberty
I wouldn't put all those comments in the same category. I think some of these guys are trying to say that to them, a woman can be both intelligent and attractive. So it's a form of self-praise (I am this advanced, and in a post-feminist way) rather than trying to exclude women. That said, it does show that they are still thinking about women primarily as objects to be gazed upon, rather than say, a colleague to learn from or work with.

I don't know if that is fixable, or if the fix would be desirable. Corporate environments have stamped out a lot of overt sexism, mostly due to the fear of lawsuits. But they can't make people be truly non-sexist, so mostly they just train people to fear any reference to sex or sexuality. Meanwhile, people still hold sexist opinions, privately. The glass ceiling is still there.

And as for the charge that the Web 2.0 environment is a huge boy's club; as far as I can tell that's true.

I have no idea what I would do if I was female in this industry. Probably go do something else, which is what most of them end up doing. Google has the best deal for women who want stability, but obviously not everyone can work there. Maybe consulting, or start your own company.
Don't forget to remind the grasshopper that if he wants to eat he should probably consider learning the software that puts food on the table first.

Edit: Right, and down-mod me because there is no truth to what I said.

Someone remind me what percentage of open-source developers have their primary income come from their open source project.
I agree with most of your comment, and would add that there are hidden costs with choosing the windows platform that are not so obvious such as:

Easier access to support with OSS web platforms than .Net. I find OSS proponents much more open and willing to blog about difficult issues that they have solved and provide free code and workarounds. This is not as true in the .Net realm, but it is getting better.

Third-party libraries/plug-ins cost money in the .Net world. Its much easier to find free IDE plugins and libraries/apis for your platform in the OSS world. in .Net the alternatives cost money usually a small amount, but it does add up. (I'm guessing because it's cheaper for corporations to spend a small amount to solve a problem than hire a dev to custom build a solution, and .Net has a large corporate install base.)

However, I have to disagree with the statement about the tools and database. I gave them a try recently and actually found the experience much more pleasing than I thought... in fact going back to eclipse for work on the monday had me missing a few features in Visual Studio. I can't speak about SQL Server in a prod environment, but the db dev tools with the express version of visual studio are pretty cool. Rather than going by third person reviews, try it out yourself, you can get the web installer at http://www.microsoft.com/Web/downloads/platform.aspx and the MVC tutorial at (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/03/10/free-asp-n...)

Personally I think the tutorial just proves my original point if you do work through it. Its a chapter from a book by the creators of .Net MVC and whilst free, the whole book is not, most other popular frameworks would release the full book as a free download.
states will not allow significant competition. any seasteading communities that grow prosperous economically will be busted as tax shelters.
Oh, I haven't used it at all! It just sounded like he wanted some starting points, and no-one had mentioned it, so I thought it would be a good addition.

Hm. From point 1 - isn't that a design problem? Of course apps should not keep their own user databases .. I don't see that as necessarily a problem with CAS per se, more like people shooting themselves in the foot with the gun they're given. As you say, they're legacy apps, but still.

And point 2 - really? I would have thought a maximum of 2 - one to the CAS server, and one back! Any more details, out of interest?

Anyway, I looked at CAS and something about it didn't sit well with me, I don't even remember what, so I ended up rolling my own. Which, by the way, was not at all hard.
Any companies in NYC hiring summer interns?
Hey guys,

I'm a Stanford student with a really good background in coding (esp RoR) and I'm very interested in an internship in New York this summer. I got an interview at Fog Creek but that fell through :(. I've written a bunch of programming books (some international bestsellers on game programming), spoken at conferences around the world, developed a couple startups, and done lots of awesome projects.

Are there any companies in NYC with opportunities for internships? Let me know. I'm available starting the end of May. I'm 21 years old. You can email me at msethi@stanford.edu

Thanks a lot!

-Maneesh Sethi
msethi@stanford.edu
But does it really tell anything about the "relationship to space", or does it instead help us understand the "relationship to anthropomorphized robots". Without rigorously testing the robots in different contexts, it's pretty difficult to see what this says about "spaces" generally.

Also, the writing of this website is excessively jargon-y, and reads like business (or perhaps the worst kind of academic) babble:

> The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. <
Why put your photo on the net if you don't want comments on it?
Whilst we are talking about this type of thing, Sun do free software and heavily discounted servers etc. on the Startup essentials program http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/
>> "Meanwhile, people still hold sexist opinions, privately"

Most men are genetically programmed to enjoy looking at beautiful ladies. That makes them sexist... but there's not really any cure, and I do not see why we would want any cure.
so, what's wrong for a team of 3-4 people, that got 500k of investments to set up shop in the US (if they wanted to)?

Really, what's wrong? As of right they have to go through insane amount of immigration hoops, and sensless paperwork.

The cost for running a business in the UK/Western eruope is pretty high. It might make sense for some startups to move to SV/SF anyways. At e least they will have a lot of raw talent in here, and a support net.

While the local economy will benefit from this too.

It seems like a win-win situation. If your "startup" is in India, then you might want to think twice about it, but if it is from a well developed country, where costs of living are comparable, SV becomes a lot more attractive once the stupid artificial immigrations barriers are lowered.
There are lots of great programmers in the United States, they just want to be paid more than immigrants, so the companies lobby congress to allow them to import more cheap softare factories.

It's the same at every level of society.
That's called treating the symptom, not the disease.
Honestly, I have to say I consider this a stupid discussion.

On the Internet, where people are anonymous, you are going to have more rude comments from men. The male of the species is hardwired to see women as sexual objects and while that doesn’t forgive crude comments it does point to their cause being an evolutionary fact. Men are programmed with a strong sex drive to propagate the species.

So men are, by their nature, sexually driven and hence crude. But that crudeness is already considered socially unacceptable and that’s why the great majority of men don’t make them. So having a "discussion on the topic" is stupid.

Because all a discussion would yield is the rational conclusion that crude comments are wrong which we already know and which won't stop those who make them from continuing to do so.
What this needs is a chunk model - to be able to see what was written in one chunk, from the first insert up to the next delete, then to the next insert, etc. You'd be able to see more clearly the purpose of every keystroke and wouldn't miss the small word changes, while also not having to press "next" 60 times to see a sentence unfold.

Oh yeah, by the way, cool idea.
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Your idea of being non-sexist is mixed up with being non-sexual.

Sexism is discrimination. Sexuality is, what it is.

Since being non-sexual is an impossibility you conclude that sexism is permanent. To me that seems very wrong.

and I do not see why we would want any cure.

For the same reasons we might want cures for racism. Wasted human potential. Economic injustice.

I don't know how we get there, but somehow we have to have a world that's able to deal with sexuality but also not discriminate in the workplace on the basis of gender or attractiveness. Maybe better, objective metrics?
No, that does not make most men sexist. You can enjoy it without extrapolating that physical judgment into other domains. And even if you can't help that, which I doubt, you can certainly stop yourself from posting the kind of comments described in the article.
Microsoft can't even build a standards-compliant web browser. How can you expect them to have a good web development suite? A nonprofit feeding off donations from Google has constantly outperformed one of the largest software corporations in the world here. (!!)

Free software is chosen not because it's free, but because it's /good/ software. Hackers have helped develop their own tools and fixed bugs themselves, so most stuff is very stable. And when there's a need for a new feature, they make it, so it's very capable. It's like survival of the fittest for software.

I think a lot of people (and companies) have the idea that you can't get anything good for free. In the software world, that just isn't true.

Companies like Slicehost realize this, and give you full control over your slice. Before you deploy though, you could probably just do with a ubuntu box shoved under your bed.
I'm a high school student and I tried signing up for DreamSpark the initial day of it's public release and it says they only accept college students enrolled in the listed universities. Your comment made me think they started accepting high school students again and so I tried signing up again. The policy still hasn't changed.

Don't give people false hopes like that.

Edit: It seems they do allow high school students now, but I need to ask the superintendent or principal. The previous page ( https://www.dreamspark.com/wayf/StudentOption.aspx ) says it just has to be any teacher from the school so I'm not really sure who I should ask.

https://www.dreamspark.com/FAQ/HighSchoolStudentFaq.aspx
How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
"There is no such thing as FREE when you choose the proprietary path of learning...."

Sure... but as it put a nice copy of Windows Server 2008 on my laptop I quite like the program.

It also has removed any ambiguity between my current employer and myself about just who was going to cover the license for a copy of Visual Studio 2008 on my home machine.

Strangely I believe that our Gold Partnership includes a clause that allows developers to have a copy of software at home. But our IT department drag their knuckles on the floor and I was glad that doing a Computer Science MSc part-time gave me access to this program.

And what do I do with all of this? Just work stuff really.

What I'm actually working on is Python stuff on app-engine. But there's no doubt that I really appreciated the existence of this program to remove the doubt over the few things I did want soon (and didn't want to wait for a visit to the MS Corporate Shop to get).

It's all rather bizarre... I work for a Gold Partner, I'm a Developer Advisory Council member, I sit on TAP programs, I get visits to the MS Corp Shop... and yet the student program is what actually gave me dev tools in a pain free way. Just as well... being stubborn I was refusing to pay and as much as Ubuntu is lovely it still is problematic working in a Windows shop on Ubuntu.
When you say professional athletes, are you referring to those exclusively in endurance sports? Surely you cannot directly compare runners with tackle football players, etc.
Two things...

First, if you are going to make a distinction between sexism and sexuality than explain what the distinction is and not just your opinion of each thing.

Second racism, wasted human potential and economic justice don't help us continue to exist as a species.
Just because we may be adapted to long distance running doesn't mean it will necessarily boost your, or my, quality of life or life expectancy. By either measure we're a lot better off now than we were when we had to run down our own food.