skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I did not know that and a quick google gives me plenty of links to start on.

It reminds me of when I was a "Cub", we had a couple of girl members and several female leaders. I didn't think anything of it at the time but I remember one lunch time one of the girl cubs (who went to my school) grabbed me (literally - she was two years older and bigger!) from playing football so I could tell a dinner lady who didn't believe that she was a cub. It was all in good fun but actually before that moment I'd never really got that one was for girls and one was for boys, I just thought you could choose freely. And, well, I suppose you can!
So by obsolete you mean "not trendy to think about but still the single largest contributing factor to every aspect of day to day experience"?
Hospital introduces new gown design: It has a back
> the code was his least important contribution.

This is not really true. _why really embodied the 'ruby way' with his code through churning out solutions to all manner of complex tasks, consistently, quickly and with source code that was terse, readable and conceptually simple.

His contributions helped to validate ruby as a language for a lot of people and also helped the ruby community to define itself (I doubt you'd find a character like _why in the Python community for instance).

This is important, even if most of his source code is not used anymore (generally because when _why stopped updating it, nobody else really could or would).
I can't get over the Fiji comment. I'm from there you see and I'd never heard of this particular theory regarding the CIA.
Whatever happened to Upcoming as a concept? It took quite a while for Lanyrd to fill the gap for tech conference goers, but that's basically just "us".

I just wonder why this turned out not to be a viable service. I would think there would have been a market for a global event calendar, and Upcoming at one time seemed well on it's way to being that until it got "Flickr-ed" by Yahoo.
This is a good way to go.

My ancient brother multi supports Scan to FTP, so I set up an FTP user with a home directory inside my dropbox folder. Shared that folder with the wife, and now we can scan and have docs magically appear on all of our laptops in a predictable place with no drivers or software to screw around with.

If my wife can use the scanner, I'm doing something right :-)
Same could be said for Google.
A bit extreme. No doubt he had many warts, but few would disagree that his net contribution to society was enormously positive.
Too late for my wall post, but so obvious now you post it!
Upcoming Will Be Closing on April 30, 2013
I'm sure in due time we'll find that many of the questions asked today are as inane and conditional as the ability to distinguish between cuts of beef and cow organs.
I'm sure there are. But the video shows this guy just standing right up and walking off like it's nothing. If he had any sort of disability that required him to get around the house in a wheelchair, like he did upon entering (let alone if he was "paralyzed from the waist down"!), I would expect him to take a lot longer, and exhibit a lot more effort, than he did.
Good job pointing out at least some of the people responsible for propagating the mess. Public shaming might be the best tool to balance out the spread of misinformation. People need to realize that even publishing on the internet has consequences. Hopefully this will make people think for a minute before tweeting / re-tweeting loaded statements mindlessly.

The most ironic statement:
And then later, he continued, "Journalism students take note: tonight, the best reporting was crowdsourced, digital and done by bystanders. #Watertown."
If you're talking bare minimum, yeah. The software solution this company had wasn't quite that barebones. It was a robust suite, and actually did take some planning on the desktop and server side to set aside resources for it.

The software was part of a package that managed software installs as well.
I am not sure I get your second paragraph, but it seems to me that you want to build some kind of consulting company owned by top coders. Your offer would be to offer programming services, that only very competent programmers could do. My guess for such services would be: ultra scalable web apps, or creation of DSLs - it has to be something very advanced in order not to compete with the numerous consulting companies that are already existing, most of them doing mediocre stuff.

And I can see this taking off. Obviously not fast because most of your potential customers wouldn't even know yet they need your services, but that should be able to slowly bootstrap. And I suppose once you would have built a strong team and gotten some notoriety, you would be able to bootstrap your technological edge into some concrete product.

Having said that, I still have some doubts, mainly because I think we are in a coding bubble, and the future belongs less to the programmers than to the engineers who will build the new space rockets or the technology to exploit green energies from example, while with the standardization of functional programming and the development of various libraries it will be easy for a non programmer to start creating software components that are currently requiring programmers (IMHO there will be less "pure" programmers and more "X's who can program" as you once said here on HN).

Nevertheless I wish you can succeed with your idea, even though I don't think I'll be able to work in your company as I am not a top programmer.
Maybe the title should be "You don't want to be Steve Jobs" instead of "You are not Steve Jobs".
Ask HN: Did the tax department go after you, startups?
Early stage startups typically have little to no revenue at all. Many startups don't even have a revenue model in their early years. The founders may not take a salary. But startups do have expenses. Have you had to deal with the tax department when they are suspicious about your business being no revenue for a long period of time while having expenses. Do they understand the startup scene where a company may not even know how to make money. How do you explain to them?
A great many people seem to think we'd have been better off without Steve actually. They will tell you Steve/Apple set back the free software movement, and brought dictatorship to the world of software, when the web used to rule with anarchic democracy. They would tell you he sells closed devices that neuter people's creativity, and that the devices are hard to hack or dispose of.

I think he was a brilliant artist who made technology less imposing.
There are equal amounts of "Steve was awesome" and "Steve was an ass" stories. Conclusion? He was a human being, just like the rest of us.
Figure out how to create the first version with 1-2 people in 3-4 months. Figure out the core value proposition, create just that in the most elegantly simple way possible.

Launch it, get feedback, iterate until the end of time.
He made money by selling things. Good for him, but that doesn't make him a Saint.
I'll never work for any employer who does that, so I'd have trouble calling it a reasonable thing to do.
You should setup a test XMPP server, so we can try the client without having to actually sign-up for an account.
I found this one: http://jsperf.com/jquery-1-7-2-vs-jquery-1-8/29

2.0 is slightly faster on every measures.
I wouldn't be surprised if Eric Schmidt has forgotten more about the implementation details of TCP/IP than most of us have ever known. Keep in mind, he ran software development at Sun, which means he was in charge of one of the major teams of Unix developers in the pre-Linux days, while TCP/IP was growing in importance.
Depending upon the Beta Angle [1], the spacewalk could be in sunlight the entire time (though that's rare). It could be in darkness up to about 50% of the time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_angle
The Death of Upcoming.org
Government and schools, mostly.
I found a a great article by Pivotal about how they use tmux recently http://pivotallabs.com/how-we-use-tmux-for-remote-pair-progr... Anything else amazing that I'm missing?
Here in Portugal we just have the Scouts, and they're unisex. Well, actually we have two Scout groups, the Catholic and the secular, but they're both unisex.
Show HN: NBA Bracketology, a playoff bracket challenge site
It's just from scanning for keywords. Nothing to see here...
Give Yourself Time To Think
MVP = Minimum Viable Product.
I guess I'm one of the few. While he headed a company that spearheaded internal innovation, it also stifled external innovation. He was also a jerk, as well documented.
I was looking at this part:
>Note that from the 1814400 BTC awarded, 1148800 BTC has never been spent (63%). I suppose (but have not checked it yet) that these are exactly the segments that belong to the mystery entity

So I guess I'm confused the market bigger than the 1,814,400 that have been awarded somehow? I'm not that familiar with bitcoins so that's very possible, but the author seems to imply that Nakamoto has 63%.
Made a Hacker News group if any of you want to join in: http://nbabracketology.com/group/view/420
Exactly right. The best thing we can do is learn what made him great and what made him not great.

I really treasure the man because he had a lot of both. Just more to learn from.
Very ego-less of Steve to have put so much trust in the chain of command.
He was an awesome ass.
You shouldn't worry about that. Their app is so horrible that nobody wants to copy it.
It was added in C++ before that.
What do you mean by "where everyone stands"?

I agree that there are so many JS libs/frameworks now that it is hard to keep up with! I actually started on a super simple script for myself to compare git repos general stats.
What alternative do you think is reasonable to help track down problems like this after the fact?
> If the male CEO goes out of his way to exempt himself from the rules that his employees have to follow, then yes, the disgruntled employees have a valid point.

But Meyer is being criticized for the nursery, a perk which made it more convenient for herself to follow the no-telecommuting policy, not to exempt herself from it.
I wonder how difficult it would be to set up a MPTCP gateway/VPN, so that you could get the benefits of MPTCP all the time without requiring MPTCP support from the server you are connecting to.

eg:

+--------+ +---------+ +---------+
| Smart- +----WiFi----->| Gateway +---1Gb--->| Youtube |
| phone +-----3G------>| | | |
+--------+ +---------+ +---------+
MPTCP TCP
Thank you for your reply.

I've had two Thinkpads in the past (A21 and A31) before I switched to a Macbook Pro. I don't remember the thinklight being very useful, but that may just be me. Not sure how well the trackpad works as a mouse button.

It's a shame 16:10 has not been adopted by more laptop manufactures, it's a great resolution. Even 4:3 may be ready for a comeback, I'd really like to see a Chromebook in action, although I would prefer to run a more traditional Linux operating system on it.
Absolutely everything I have read about Steve Jobs paints him as a narcissistic asshole who is impossible to work with. How is it that he was so successful and how did apple become the behemoth it is today if the man at the wheel was so insufferable?

I want to believe that this has only been a recent development and that he used to be an easier person to deal with in apple's early days, because to be quite frank the only way I could see such an individual being so successful with the attitude he had was if he was just riding the coattails of other forces in the company.

Hopefully someone can enlighten me as to how this kind of person could lead a successful company when everyone fears him and doesn't question anything he says.
I vouch for it being used in a very high-profile, highly concurrent online service with great results.

In this particular case we owned both the client and server-side networking libraries - but all-in-all it worked quite well and helped us deal with NAT traversal issues among other things.
The only thing remarkable about these comments is how unremarkable they are. I'm not sure digging for tiny details from a killer is helpful. I understand that we want to know why killers do what they do, but we end up basically turning them into celebrities.
I don't know about you but that seems to be an over-simplification. You can find some pretty strong trends from these stories and, while I'm not quick to derive value judgment, Steve did exhibit a distinct personality. It's not an accident that stories like this are, in some sense, predictable.
Thank you for writing this. Substitute Steve Jobs -> Tony Fadell and Apple -> Nest Labs and you've got almost the experience I had.

We have to stop enabling these sociopaths and vote with our feet (immediately) when this stuff happens.
As a PhD dropout (computer science) who knew a lot of other PhD dropouts, my advice to anyone who thinks they want to do a PhD is to first have a very clear idea of why you want to do it. If you don't have that to motivate you, it's not likely that you'll make it through all those years of hard work, frustration, poverty and abuse.

Especially in computer science, there are lots of opportunities to work on cool stuff without spending several years of your life to get a PhD.
Looking for Meaning in Meaningless Blog Posts
The Russian Orlan suit [1] is pressurized higher than the US EMU [2], and gloves are not as dexterous. I don't know a lot about Russian spacewalks, but US gloves have caused fingernail delamination in many people, including myself (I'm not an astronaut, but I work with this hardware a lot).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suits

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit
Any powerful IT guy should be monitored and have his power checked. IT personnel have almost unmatched power in an organization to cause damage without detection.

Anything with lots of confidential information, or anything financial, and you are going to want to monitor all the people with access constantly. You may not want to snoop real-time, but you are going to want to be able to find and fix breaches after the fact, and do root-cause analysis.

It's not a matter of trust in the IT people, it's a matter of people go crazy sometimes, and people make bad hiring decisions sometimes.
Why Resumes are Obsolete and How to Hire Talent for Tech Startups Today
I didn't think I was going to like this from the opening paragraph but she quickly won me over. My take away is "You are not Steve Jobs. You are not a massive arsehole!" - pretty much in agreement with calinet6. However, actually it's a lot richer than that. I love this paragraph in particular:

"Now, regardless of whether no one in the inner sanctum of dudes-that-Steve-listened-to-at-the-time told him all the things we told our bosses, or who-up-the-chain-of-command was not brave enough to suggest we do something not-Apple-like — this was the system that Steve created. He made himself so fearful and terrible that an entire group of amazing, talented, hard working people, ended up getting screamed at wrongfully. It was his fault that the MobileMe launch went so poorly, not ours."

Even if that's not even remotely true (I wouldn't know), I find it a good lesson that a boss could be so terrifying that no-one wants to be honest with them and this flows down the hierarchy to the point of dysfunction. I've heard of it before, but I like the clarity of explanation this nth time around.
Former LulzSec member gets prison sentence for Sony Pictures hack
lets finish this cake before moving on to another one...k?
You can read about some Steve Jobs anecdotes during the original Macintosh era at folklore.org

http://folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&cha...
> and working from home wasn't part of the terms any Yahoo employee negotiated before joining the company?

If it was a contractual employment condition negotiated before joining the company, then there wouldn't be complaints, there'd be breach-of-contract lawsuits.

"Our policy is X", "Okay, cool, I'd like to work somewhere with that policy" isn't a negotiation for a benefit that the employer is obligated to continue to provide.
I don't think anything is wrong with the machine, fundamentally.

But seeing it in use just screams "I fear change" to me. In what other ways are these guys in the dark ages?
I believe he was successful in spite of his negative qualities, not because of them. What I mean by this is that we shouldn't worship his negative traits and spin them somehow to be positive qualities in a leader, such as some people have done. He was very much a human being. A highly-intelligent man and visionary in the right place at the right time, surrounded by the right people, making a lot of good, and a few poor, choices. Don't try to reverse-engineer his success so as to duplicate it.
We know when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sleeps
I couldn't do my job without ack. We have a code base with millions of lines of C/C++ and tons of PHP. I use ack every day to find code and files. I've been looking forward to 2.0 for a long time. Will try to help melt his server right now :)
Russia had foreign denominated debts and a collapse of real output. Try again.

http://pragcap.com/the-russian-default-what-happened
You seem to be arguing rad-resistance is the factor that made them decide on analog instead of digital video.

I doubt it.

Like someone said, initially they chose analog because back in the day nobody did digital video streaming. It has worked okay since then. And there just hasn't been enough reasons to justify a change to digital.
If Mayer's playbook is to make Yahoo like Google, and to do what Page does from quarter-to-quarter, I don't think that's a bad plan actually.

Yahoo exists strictly on momentum at this point, so it's not a matter of re-org to fix - it's a matter or org. Might as well clone Google for the seed and go from there.
Conception - a live programming environment experiment after 1 year
The Perl community has always had a large artist component. Perl Golf is an artistic endeavor. Perl Poetry is a real thing.

The UNIX community has a similar artistic component. It's built into the genes of the thing, really. There is humor, beauty, politics, and more, in the UNIX tradition. The free unices, in particular, have always been about a love of the process and a celebration of human expression.

_why took it in a highly original direction. No argument from me on that. I think _why was/is/always shall be awesome. But, it's not the first time someone used code as art, directly and without intermediary forms.

What makes _why special, perhaps, is that he made it impossible to miss the art. The art was not subtle, it was not for coders only, and it was cognizant of the knowledge gap that makes so many people fearful of code and unaware of the art contained therein.

_why's totally cool and stuff (and bold, and visionary, and very likable). But, let's not get hyperbolic about his place in the pantheon of code and beauty.
> So e-mail, chat, hangouts/skype, voip, etc. don't exist, as far as Yahoo is concerned?

"Do not exist" isn't required for the claim to be valid; "are not as effective as face-to-face, in the room communication at facilitating collaboration" is sufficient. And, a fairly widely recognized fact.
How much of it was Steve Jobs, and how much of it was Apple's company. Surely he had a huge influence on the company, but there were a lot of people who did.
As with most vim commands you can type a number first to repeat your command
The real issue is pay for performance.
I get the sarcasm, but I have to say it genuinely does piss me off if people consider hatred against gays or atheists to somehow be less offensive than racism or antisemitism.

The only real difference is the historical body count.
Maybe you are streaming at twitch too for donations? I bet many would subscribe to a blind gamer. Just be sure not to react to stuff on the screen or you will be banned.
Perhaps because the things he said were right, and he wasn't afraid to say them.

Other than that, I don't think being an asshole is a good strategy in general.
The areas where it would be important are on security/NOC systems, where there is almost unlimited power given the proper credentials.

The Runbooks that NOC teams have, quite often have them connecting to a lot of systems with greatly heightened privileges - It's not unusual for a NOC employee to have expansive sudo privileges on many of the unix hosts they manage. They are also often on privileged VLANs, with direct IP routing to a lot of hosts that normally wouldn't be reachable.

Most of our NOC guys have their own personal laptops, and they can hop onto the (unprivileged) wireless system and do their own thing when they aren't working an incident.

I'd have no problem having my screen captured once a minute when I was working in that type of environment.
Ben prints them whenever he wants, in unlimited quantities. Then he gives it to his buddies.
So, Either String a <=> Maybe a, but with a nice reason something went wrong.
I think Google got a deal because Provo's 1 Gbps is only equivalent to 1000 mbps according to the article.
Great article! I'm especially glad to see "what have we gained?" in the FAQ, as it is probably the most frequently asked question I've heard.

OP - I noticed you were thorough enough to mention both Fantom and Kotlin in one section, so for the preceding section you might want to note that CoffeeScript also has a safe-invoke operator like Groovy's.
I don't understand why Yahoo! never properly promoted Upcoming.org. In fact, I don't understand why companies like Yahoo! go out of their way to acquire nice things only to abandon them when the next new, shiny thing comes along.
> How is it that he was so successful and how did Apple become the behemoth it is today if the man at the wheel was so insufferable?

Strangely, it was partially because he was so insufferable that Apple became as successful as it is today. Steve Jobs was notorious for being in-your-face brutal about the quality of work being done simply not being good enough. Crying, screaming, throwing tantrums - all these histrionics went hand-in-hand with that.

What's interesting about this is that Steve had two things that most people lack: (1) vision in spades. And more importantly, very good vision. (2) an ability to push people beyond their limits by berating them, but then having really amazing work come out of that process.

Steve Jobs was awe-inspiring because he could dress people down and grill them on details that most other people either didn't notice or would gloss over. If you read many of the books about Steve Jobs, there's a common refrain said by many of those who worked under him.

"I'd never work for him again, but he pushed me to do things I never knew I was capable of."

[EDIT: forgot to add] The reason Steve was able to get away with all this negative behavior is that it produced amazing results. But for most people, being so belligerent and nasty without having an amazing vision to back it up will not get you very far. And, for the most part, such people are completely egomaniacal. (Steve was too, he just happened to be right a lot).
I've worked for an insufferable narcissistic asshole who was impossible to work with, and we built an incredible company.

The guy at the top doesn't really DO anything. If the idea is good, and the coders/architects etc are good, a company can be built regardless of how insane the top is.
Ask HN: Long landing page or multiple pages?
I've noticed that some startups use very long landing pages that seem to describe every feature of their product. I look at those and think they should really be split up over multiple pages. I'm wondering if anybody has any insight as to why those are becoming more popular?

My speculation is that it is for SEO purposes and that somehow one page covering everything is better than more targeted pages covering individual features? I'm seen some guides that imply the latter is a better way to optimize which implies long landing pages are bucking the trend.