skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to the point. IMHO this difamation laws are a patch to problem of people beliving blindly what they read. In times where the press was the most popular medium and few voices could be heard these laws had a reason of existence. In modern times, at least for now, everybody can speak on the internet and defend himself having the same reach as his attacker.

TL;DR Is someone difamatig you or your bussines? Post reliable evidence on the internet that shows what is what you actualy do and what other people think about it.
The problem with code blocks following lists makes the choice of markdown for literate CoffeeScript particularly frustrating.
This is how I feel. I love my job, and find computer science interesting. Why does that mean that I have to also be knowledgeable about the nuances of magic cards, star trek, or Dr. Who?

The idea that every software developer must also identify as a geek is rather immature.
I didn't even know this existed. Interesting site. How do you compare this to medium?
> The only time to code with the latest/shiny is multimedia intense projects like game development.

Your anecdote was exactly the refutation of this statement. :) Game developers are often encouraged to work on median-spec systems because games are expected to run on a variety of configurations. You don't want to develop The Sims on a quad-core Xeon with multiple GT680s, only to find that it doesn't run on your mom's 2005 Core 2 Duo with integrated graphics. The people working with the asset pipeline/level editor might want some extra horsepower (end-users aren't expected to be able to run the level-editor, so it's usually not very optimized) but the programmers don't frequently need it.

Also, though, I disagree with this:

> a startup doesn't have to think of liquidating their assets unless they are going out of business

The most important thing to keep in mind, as any sort of business owner, is your BATNA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...). It drives all your major decisions--should we raise funding, should we get acquired, should we IPO, should we declare bankruptcy, etc. And the "baseline" BATNA is always "how much money would we have as runway if we just liquidated everything, fired everyone, and started over?" It shouldn't be a consideration, but it should always be a benchmark to observe your distance from. More liquid assets means more negotiating room, basically.

But really, my point wasn't about liquidating assets, it was mostly about cashflow. A startup, like any business, both earns and spends money. Leasing means you have more cashflow. It's the same reason you don't buy physical servers right away--you don't want to lock that money up if you don't know if you'll need it.
Yes, it's cheaper. RAM, disk space, etc. continue to decrease in price, and as they get bigger and bigger I'd expect they're seeing better wholesale rates on those sorts of items as well.

S3 launched 7 years ago at $0.15/GB. It's now $0.095/GB, down about a third. The cost of storage per gigabyte went down dramatically more than that during that time.
South Florida PHP Developer Gets Co-Founder Equity in $1M Startup?
Hey.

I'm Chris Brisson and am the founder of Automize. We've built software SaaS products like Call Loop, AutoTeleseminar, and AutoWebinar.

We're a team of entrepreneurs, marketers, product people, and *developers.

Over the last 8 years, we've been able to create many amazing internet businesses and software companies, but have recently been faced with a limiting challenge.

That challenge being... GREAT developers.

We have the marketing (together my partner and I have generated well over $4M), design, but the development front end - that is our weakest link.

And that's where you come in... or not.

See, although our team is spread out all across the world: Florida, Oregon, UK, Orlando, Atlanta, Denver, New Jersey, San Francisco, and Connecticut we are looking to build a base team here where I live, Delray Beach (South Florida), FL.

Here's the deal:

We need a badass young developer that's looking to see their skills be put to the ultimate test: To have people whip out their wallet and buy the software product you helped create.

We're already doing this now with this product, but to take it to the next level to get to our dream number of 3K clients - we NEED you.

When done right with proper marketing, this product can net $500K it's first year and well into $1M - $3M range in less than 2-3 years. Our competition is well into the $5M range by now.

Most importantly, this piece of the action deal is for the developer who wants to focus 100% on coding, not admin or God-forbid marketing.

That's what "we" do best.

If this is you, then please take a quick minute and fill out this survey. It's our way of filtering out everyone to find the cream of the crop developer to join our team as a potential co-founder.

Again, it's not for everyone so please don't waste ours and your time if you do not meet this criteria.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/THJ8T6V

Thanks in advance,

Chris
Were these the most idiotic criminals of all time?

"Hey, Bob! Let's place our ATM skimmer right in the middle of a bunch of FBI goons and security experts!"
Ya, I'm still digging into the code trying to figure out how he wrote it...
seems to be slowly coming back up in fits and starts, but not looking real stable.
Absolutely - women sometimes internalize and participate in misogynistic and cruel behavior, and it can be hard to talk about.

I've seen this happen with the "fake geek girl" phenomenon - some women who feel that they are legitimate parts of the community participate in this kind of destructive policing because they've bought into the cultural misogyny and are often rewarded and have their status reinforced in their community.

On a much more damaging level, this happens with slut-shaming and sexual policing. One of the major factors in the recent suicides of teen rape victims was the rejection and shaming by their female peers.
US judge slashes $4bn Google royalty claim on Xbox
The extension runs perfectly fine on Linux.
Glad to have you guys onboard!
Yesterday, we and some friends walked around SF and counted at each bar & restaurant. We need help though so when you're out, tweet or DM us your venue, ratio, and how crowded it is. We'll be sure to tweet it.
This article is fantastic, juicy stuff to wrap my head around.

Anytime I whip up a new visualization in d3, I look like a wizard at the office. Thanks Mike! Owe you a beer if you're ever in DC.
How do I move into a project manager role?
I have almost 4 years of experience programming, and I am no longer satisfied with my role as a developer. How do I move into a project manager role?
Well, total compensation, say at Google, can be around 200k for senior guys. A lot of people in finance are making less than that and so people do leave for software jobs.

As I have said before, really huge compensation levels in finance exist for VP-level people. Please keep in mind that "VP" in finance means something like "pretty senior", he might no be a manager at all. These guys have around 5 years experience and if all went well for them they can be making around 300k. These would be hard to match en masse while avoiding a situation when of two engineers doing the same job one is paid X and another 2X.
Eslevels: JavaScript scope coloring based on esprima toolbox
Or learn to do what the locksmith does, which isn't all that hard for many locks.
Don't agree with the poke at MS, to me its another area that has deliberately gone backwards, or looped back.

Miracle of TV being broadcast invisible over air, then we start putting cables everywhere. Terminals and servers evolved to desktops, and now we go back to servers, or "Cloud". We had a Space Shuttle which was reusable and was plane like, now we ditch that and go back to olde skool rockets. Now this web design style, which to me throws out everything we were taught about usability, etc in the past.

No, not precise exact parallels, not with out good reason either, but to me its a broad, vague pattern. We seem to eventually loop everything backwards eventually.

Not saying this is wrong or bad, it just seems like what "we" do. Its sort of like music revivals, fashion revivals, or TV show remakes.

Look out for building block sized phones and black and white TVs in the future!!!

Oh, hang on. Phones... Used to get smaller and smaller, now smart phones are huge. There you go, another one!!!!
Well, most of the people in this comment thread haven't been reading good-enough science fiction, including Paul.

First, go read Accelerando by Charles Stross:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

And for the bits you don't understand, you can also check out the woefully incomplete but still helpful technical companion:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Accelerando_Technical_Companio...

Then you'll want to read up in general on molecular nanotechnology. K. Eric Drexler has updated Engines of Creation, and its also free online:

http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=503

So if we get visited by "aliens" there's an even chance it will be some runaway Von Neumann replicator seeds shot out from a nearby solar system, bent on converting our entire solar system to computronium. Or if we're lucky, some relatively benevolent replicator seeds merely intent on cataloging all the myriad of life that has arisen around the galaxy without actually intending to destroy said life.

There is just about zero chance than any recognizably biological (I prefer the term "squishy") life coming to visit us, just because sending any sizable chunk of matter across interstellar distances at any reasonable speed so so damn expensive, even for Kardashev type 2 civilizations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Great mentors don't have time, but less-than-great mentors do, and they are good enough for the target audience of Mentii.
Why did a perfectly interesting question about startups turn into a OS/Hardware pissing contest between Macs and Windows?

For the record I develop my startup on a shitty 5 year old Compaq that dual boots with Vista and Ubuntu 10.4, and Ruby/Rails/Gems all work great!
These Guys Are Selling Their App Divvy From The Back Of A VW Bus
Programming Is Failure
I am a girl studying computer science. I never understood the whole geek girl mentality of "I don't get OTHER girls! They only like shopping! I like nerdy things!"

I like shopping and makeup. I also like nerdy things like Lord of the Rings and programming hackathons. I get along with girly girls AND geeks.

People are more complex than "I only like shopping" or "I only like Star Wars". It's not hard to make friends with people who have different hobbies than you - in fact it makes your social group more interesting, I find.

Why does there have to be a divide?
Anatomy of a Crush — Love Is Complicated
At first blush, I think one could easily have the attitude that a picture of a key is no more dangerous than a picture of a gun. The vulnerability is clear but not completely obvious. Especially when prisoners can also see the real keys, as guards no doubt have to use them near prisoners from time to time.
Why I’d Rather Not Back Physical Kickstarters
Common Practice vs. Best Practice
Why You Should Work With Consultants
Yes but PhDs tend to be better on average than MFE graduates. If a fund has its choice of PhDs (which is the situation now) there is not much reason to hire someone with only a masters, except if she has some crazy skills.
I read the "Jobs" page and ran across something that I have a question about: what exactly is a "no assholes policy"?

While the page looks great to me there seems to be a lot of unprofessional text there. For me personally that's a red flag. I have no idea if that's an indicator of anything but unless I have a close friend who works there who can tell me otherwise I don't know if I'd trust a part of my career to a company that comes across the way it is portrayed on that page.
So, I have this brain tumor (2009)
I would like to see a few different charts:

1. Total number of distinct songs sold.
and
2. Total length of distinct music tracks.

If we assume that a CD consists of ten 3 minute songs (30 minutes) we can see how much effort the "artists" put in to recording their songs [that were sold, due to being included on the CDs] to the revenue generated vs single tracks. I wonder this because if artists could focus on playing gigs, finding the popular songs and only spending effort and time recording those songs and digitizing them for sale, then the revenue per hour of effort could result in a drastically better "hourly rate" for recording.

(There's nothing like "doing work" just to do work and have it "thrown away". Many developers know this feeling.)

EDIT: I hope you can see where I am trying to go. I want to compare distinct songs sold to sales and aggregated distinct song length to sales. Perhaps someone can elaborate and better communicate what I'm trying to say.
So what was the offer like? 2x Intel?
The chart shows a steep decline in CD sales starting in 2000 -- several years before iTunes. So "iTunes crushed sales" like seems a real stretch.

A different way of looking at it is that there's a pattern of format changes: vinyl to cassettes to CDs to digital. With the move to digital, unlike the others, there was sigificant downward pressure on prices. So more music is being consumed (on the units chart) at a cheaper prices. From a consumer perspective, this looks like market economics doing what they should :)
It does occasionally go well, but I would say that, yes, you were lucky. I've tried DTS many times and never had it be very useful, not even when it was clearly a bug on Apple's side that they would want to fix soon.
Before someone corrects you with a photograph, the ascent stage had fins in addition to the vectoring on the F-1s. However, my understanding, though I might be wrong, is that those were intended for stabilizing the vehicle instead of acting as control surfaces.
Even with the issues of markdown, I still prefer it over restructured text. For some reason I have never liked reST. I use Sphinx[1] for documentation, and while I love it as a tool, I still dislike reST.

I would love it if Sphinx (or if there was a decent sphinx alternative) supported creole or markdown, but it is quite tightly tied to reST.

[1]: sphinx-doc.org
Oh that had a little trick, the last button was actually a "large alert radius button".

Sorry for that! Just pushed a fix to make it more fair, no longer a radius.
I am guilty of this (using the term "guilty" because, as we're discussing in this thread, this can really turn people off of being in our field.)

My HN name is "memset", and if you've ever written C, you are quite familiar with this function. So if this comes up in conversation with other tech people, and they don't "get it", it tells me something about them. "Hm, we don't have the same background."

It remains to be seen how useful this is as a way to decide what kinds of people I feel I could learn from or want to work with in the future.
they had a bug with their scheduler which wouldn't terminate processes. What ended up happening was that customers got billed for processing time they didn't use. Heroku fixed the billing issue after they were told of this issue.

Is there something about our response here that you were unhappy with? Yes, we had a bug. No, we didn't notice it until we were told about it. But we fixed the bug as soon as we could and refunded affected customers. Obviously it would have been better if the bug was never introduced, but I'm not sure what aspects of our response you'd like to see improved.

edit:

I can only assume that the downvote was because this may have come across as an attack on you. On the contrary, I was merely trying to figure out exactly what part of this experience you were unhappy about. Everything you mentioned in your first post sounded like we had done everything we could have done, and yet you sounded unhappy.

Thank you for giving us more info on your experience so we can try to improve on those areas. I'd encourage you to reach out to Chris so we can figure out what happened with your support ticket.
Nice for those who like it, but I never liked "edit on the fly" on a CMS.

Except if it was an additional method, for quick edits, corrections etc. Else, it artificially restricts tons of stuff that could be done in a proper admin interface.
All I could think of was "this is what a DDoS attack will look like in Hollywood products for the next decade".

Awesome visualization.
Heh, one reason they are loaning top of the line cars is because the lower end ones may not have the range to reach the customer from the service center.
http://pict.com/

These guys have recently pivoted into something a bit less fashion-specific but are still oriented on that industry. Drop me a line if you're interested, email is in my profile
Self-destructing email
1 - fair enough, but I dont think the author is arguing what you claim he is, and doesnt seem to be a central point

2 - disease aside, the intent is important, the argument is that when technologically advanced meets less technological society the outcome is as much exploitation as possible

3 - artifical gravity is pretty tangential

4 - poodles being 0 or 1 is not your call to make, you as a 2 have no idea how a society at 100 would slice and dice it, its totally tangential but honestly maybe single cell lifeforms are 0, some kinda social structure ability to learn is 1, and 2 is less than a world wide society
they can say it's napster(read piracy)
I usually read something - book/paper/magazine every day but I find myself using my tablet more and more mainly for reading online articles, blogs, watching videos etc. This takes away from my traditional reading time. Recently I've taken active steps to curtail my tablet time so I can have more time for books and in-depth reading.
Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck On Lean, Agile, and Lean Startups
Everything in this comment rings true from my experience (ex-science-software engineer, current equity derivative financial engineer at an investment bank, pining for the start-up fjords).
Pegasus: natural language programming system
Agreed. The problem with reasoning about potentially unreasonable (at least to us) lifeforms is self-evident.
This is where I was a few years ago. You've found the enemy and it's Marxism.

However, Marxism is just an abstraction that is related to the underlying epistemological disease of the modern era which is that we use statistics to prove our assumptions regardless of an actual identified mechanism of the phenomenon. We discard the search for the theory because it's hard and we've become accustomed to believing hand-wavy explanations for fields or social phenomenon we are not experts in. Arguably, nobody is an expert here though because there is lots of murky data about these particular topics that is widely dispersed and subject to heavy confirmation bias by researchers.

Instead of looking for the "why" we cargo cult and focus on the other side. IMHO, it's better to understand the "why" whether it's the why of the "ideal curve activist" or the meta-why of the observer of the "ideal curve activist" or the meta-meta-why of me observing your understanding of the issue. However, figuring out the "why" and seeing through statistical "facts" is the only way to really improve our understanding.

In the natural sciences this is easy. We have the scientific method. In the social sciences there is endless opportunity for subtle errors or coming to conclusions that are incorrect occasionally due to error but usually due to sometimes carefully constructed but almost always omission filled perceptions of reality.
I think the argument is that the 'fuck it' level is not necessarily contact in terms of communication with the entire world but may be filled by simply picking up a couple specimens/pets and rolling onwards...
I'd definitely add the examples pane from the actual lessons to the home page tutorial. My impression after trying <button>Button</button> was that I need to go read the Foundation docs instead. They're pretty impressive, I doubt I'd have come back if I'd left to do that.
I don't know, I also sometimes work as a programmer with fashion people and I just made some time to learn all the references. These days I work as a sort of fashion person for a chip manufacturer. I can hold a conversation about Haskell and I wear designer clothes to the office.

Do both. When you're being Othered, ask questions, listen, and adapt.
I guess the question is where do you draw the line wrt "investing for the future." It's like the guy who works in his cave on a project and won't release it until it's perfect.

I find it amazing that people have the patience to wait for AMZN to generate profits when a company like AAPL is sitting there generating more profit in a single quarter than all of Amazon's historical profit combined. What good is having the last laugh if you are already dead? Just how discounted are future cash flows that have no known realization date? You really can't trust the market to be more patient than you are, there is nothing keeping the stock up other than buyers being more patient for profits than sellers.

I mean, I get it from a CEO perspective, Bezos enjoys having his company eat up entire markets, best his competitors, and have millions of happy customers, and he's already rich. I'm just talking about the value proposition for investors.
Triple Gear
I still inevitably have to look up the syntax, like which comes first, URL or text.
>women are [..] framed as victims of patriarchal socialization not responsible for their behavior

What conclusion did you read into the OP that framed the judgmental girls as themselves responsible for the culture that they were brought up in? Saying that they play a role in perpetuating the culture isn't the same as saying that they are responsible for it.
KDevelop 4.5 has new integration for Unit Tests and better support for C++11
Could it be that you are not using the SmartWake feature or are waking up in the middle of a REM cycle? That does bad things to your alertness and how you feel.
Fascinating story, but "Originally written in 2009 as a note to friends on Facebook."

Updates?
The point of that question is not really to find out your greatest weakness. Here's what they want to know:

1. Whether or not you're reflective and self aware enough to identify weaknesses you have

2. What steps you've taken to improve that weakness. This demonstrates you can follow up on your self-reflection with action.

Here's a way you could answer the question:

One of my weaknesses is that I like to take tasks and do them on my own. This usually comes from my enthusiasm to accomplish a task, but unfortunately, I miss a few things along the way.

For example, I was tasked to build product X. I (thought) I understood what was required, and just built it. I was super proud of myself for building X in record time and even added features that weren't requested.

When I showed the final product to my boss, he said it was nothing like he wanted! I had to do the whole thing over again. That was crushing.

I learned from that point on that I should ask clarifying questions to the people I'm working with and gather their input as I do my work. While this "slows" me down, I rarely build the wrong thing now.

You answer with a concrete story about how you identified a weakness and then addressed it later, you'll be golden.

Never just answer the question; get in the interviewers head and figure out what they're really asking, and answer that instead.
The article is fairly insane. The "sales" chart (the chart defaults to "units") clearly shows sales peaking several years before iTunes was released, and the decline continues (but slows slightly) after iTunes was released.

How does one look at that and conclude that iTunes "crushed music sales?"
Angry Birds AI Competition
I want to believe it yet every shorten night sends me to lengths of hellish angry letargious time.