skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also an awful load of (from important to trivial) stuff that most version systems do that CC ignores.

And most of the CC features can probably be replicated easily with some scripting.

But I'll give that CC feature of 'mounting a filesystem' is found in no other place (AFAIK).
I like this, we're covering all direct costs, but we're not paying ourselves nearly what we're worth yet.
I made an account just to comment that yeh, being forced to make accounts for shit you dont want sucks.

not sure about the paypal thing, though - they want lots of info for that.
So what the previous poster should have said is "managers and my (or our) interests and priorities do not align" rather than being condescending. I couldn't agree more that it's not ideal for a software engineer.
How to develop applications with Swing components
Agree, the arcsynthesis is one the best OpenGL tutorials. But, I don't think it was targeted to a beginner.

A beginner wants to draw something after the first chapter, he doesn't need or wants to understand the hole picture first. This is the way most people learn, first they imitate without understanding, they practice and after a while they understand.
he's still listed on LinkedIn as working there..
It's totally actionable- moms should lick their kids more often.
yes, http://toptestprep.com
you can install directly from the pull request, without waiting for it to be merged: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Tips-N%27-Tricks

use this URL: https://raw.github.com/ridiculousfish/homebrew/9a481458491b6...
Your sample is biased. I assume you read most of this rants here (as do I), and this is a place mainly for software engineers and designers, not managers. They complain about their bosses, as do all, and that means you get a lot of complains about stupid managers (because everybody thinks the boss is stupid).

I don't believe for a second that there are no good managers, or that they are not necessary. Apple and Google produce the kind of software that they do because they have good managers (for the most part). The thing is, no one complains about his/her awesome manager. (In an episode of the Debug podcast, Don Melton describes his life as a manager and gives a little more insight about what goes on on a big company).

This is not to say that you couldn't have a system in which the engineers managed themselves, as in Valve.

Having said that, the quality of Samsung's software has not impressed anyone, so I kind of believe that they have a management problem.
GMail already is a platform; look at Mailbox.app -- it's a new UI for the GMail "platform". Building on top of the GMail platform obviates the need to actually do any of the grungy mail stuff. But as one commenter noted elsewhere in this thread, the lock-in implications are pretty sobering.

We made Inky from scratch -- without building on top of GMail, Outlook, etc. -- partly to avoid the lock-in, but primarily because it's hard to imagine fundamentally changing the email user experience without touching any of the code for the mail platform itself. The downside, of course, is the usual trade-off: by not layering on top of somebody else's already-debugged stack, we have to make our own huge raft of code work right.

The analogy to Lotus Notes should be a wake-up call to CIOs everywhere; our analysis of the enterprise email/messaging space makes it clear that the big companies still using Lotus Notes are doing so primarily because they have too much investment in the Notes ecosystem ("intranet web sites" built on top of Notes, etc.) to switch. They come up with an internal estimate of the cost to convert all the stuff they've built on the Lotus platform over to something else and realize that figure exceeds the likely N-year savings from switching. So, conversion project not approved by CFO. Next!
Ask PG: Can We Have An Honest Discussion Around Abusive Flagging On HN?
the below is a screengrab of http://news.ycombinator.com/news pages 1 - 3 (reformatted for continuous viewing), as of 13:00 EDT on Thursday / 16 May 2013. (highlighting and related commentary added).

i put this together as a high-level and informal analysis of post rank as a function of: time since submission (hours), upvotes (points), and the volume of comments posted. comparisons made relate to the post Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715168 (shown as highlighted in yellow; near the bottom..)

> http://i.imgur.com/ZCR2hun.jpg

without knowing exactly how rank is determined, the highlighted post’s positioning appears to be significantly depressed relative to where it should be, based on examining similar posts (in terms of time since posting, points, and comments).

it has been mentioned that this irregularity is likely due to said post being atypically ‘flagged’ as spam. i have no data to back this up, but having seen similar behavior before, i believe this to be the case - and it appears to be a fairly common occurrence with posts that present a viewpoint counter to that of the majority. i believe this apparent abuse of the spam ‘flagging’ feature on HN is seriously detrimental to the community.

i think it would be beneficial if we could: (1) get a statement clarifying rules/good practices around ‘flagging’ posts, (2) some form of verification that abuse of this feature has been occurring, or evidence contradicting it, and (3) a discussion around potential changes to the system.. i personally believe keeping the feature in-place makes sense, to help deal with actual spam, but would recommend implementing some logic to help mitigate its abuse (such as a upvote/comment threshold that, if achieved, negates the effect of flags).
>>>With their resources, they could do so many amazing things, but they seem to completely lack creativity.

They brought Multi-View to Android. I wish Android had that baked in.
You don't have to be smart to be a manager. I mean in our(developer circles) definition of smart is some one who gets the job done. I mean the real job. Something that is of value. Most people managers don't do that.

In most corporates management really is book keeping. Managing vacations, leaves, holidays. Filling up appraisal sheets, expense documents, coordinating with HR, forwarding Information, arranging meetings and all these kind of assorted chores. This classifies under what you can call as 'running the affairs' as they are.

This has nothing to do building something awesome. That is a different territory. What managers in most companies do ideally is enforce sanity by bringing in mediocrity. Much of their work is in bringing in a process so that their life gets easier. They need numbers, so they have to deal and force people to do things like fill in time sheets, constantly update some system to keep the their managers alerted. You get the point?

Situation only gets worse because, sooner or later all managers realize- they hit a career dead end unless they are politically well connected within an organization to get that next promotion or a travel opportunity. In many ways they are forced to, their position encourages them to. Imagine having no coding skills, no ideas, no ways to show that you got something real done in years. Over time your own value in the market will fall down to point you know you can't really get any real work done any where. This is the story of many middle managers in big corporates.

Most managers are really cost and work accountants.
Are we honestly that concerned with formality in this industry? I'd be more concerned with the contents and less with how formal they are. And what is wrong with using emoteicons in personal blog posts?

I don't necessarily agree with slagging off your former employer but his criticisms are still valid. The only thing that I didn't like was: "First of all I did this because this job was terrible boring for me (fixing code of other people is not especially exciting)." - That's not perhaps the best thing to write since he was a junior and this will make some people think he is lazy and does not want to take on the less fun jobs that we all have to do from time to time.

And like someone pointed out, English is not his first language. I'm sure you just didn't notice that though. :)
I run Mint 14 "Nadia" on one of my machines. I have no intention to upgrade to Mint 15 at this point.

The problem is, Ubuntu 13.04 is only supported for 9 months, and it's already been a month since the release. Since Mint recommends fresh installs rather than upgrading between releases, it means you'll have less than 8 months to play with it before you must wipe it and move to Mint 16. That's a rather short shelf life for an "ambitious" release.

Since Canonical seems unwilling to support any non-LTS release for more than a few months anymore, it might be a good idea for the Mint team to reconsider their release cycles as well. Perhaps they should stick to LTS releases and work more aggressively on backporting stuff. Perhaps they should finally switch their main distro to a rolling release based on Debian (LMDE). In either case, I don't think there's much point following Ubuntu releases as closely as Mint has done so far.
CoVim collaborative editing for Vim
I can still check-out with paypal without an account. It just deals directly with my credit-card details, and leaves it at that.
Thanks, that's hilarious. I can see someone thinking that unique passwords are a way to make sure that people aren't overusing common passwords - and not realizing that you are implicitly letting everyone know what passwords are currently in use.
The web has become a very crazy place. I'm not sure I'm able to tell Neal Stephenson novels and reality apart anymore.
Probably.

There are many smart people who are good talkers. But I only know them from the Internet.

The top scientists and engineers of our time. The leaders of the biggest companies are often engineers themself.

But they don't make the mass of smart people.

It seems like many managers have a network of mighty people, which just lets them float over the real world. They get fired here and a new job (as good paid manager!!) somewhere else in no time.
I like to prototype with a scripting language (LUA usually with ZeroBrane) and either Inkscape and/or Blender until mechanics / game design is fun. Not always but sometimes it needs to be almost completely rewritten to C++ or something else more performant than LUA (Cocos2D-x, Monkey language, Unity, Blender gamekit are my among my chosen poisons). Luckily most environments can be extended with a LUA engine, even if it's not supported natively.
Thanks for posting this. I'm glad to see you talk about the nuts and bolts of fund raising in such an open way. This is great. I'm impressed by your management skills as well, which is no doubt an indicator of your success.
How do you send/receive transactions to/from the blockchain, then?
Star Trek: Science mistakes
I live in Uruguay, and the kind of medical checks most of the population has are so superficial, most people who have a heart condition won't know about it until it hits (I haven't had a good checkout in years either !! I should, after reading this).

I know of a case here, the guy was one of 3 managers at a toxic company, the other 2 guys quit, and he took on their burdens. He died of a heart attack, at age 34. He thought he wasn't able to quit because of his children, but the result was obviously worse for them.
English isn't his first language.

The writing is poor (by native speaker standards; again, I think it's safe to chalk that up to not being a native speaker of English) but he's intelligent and way more honest (corporate jobs truly suck, and idiots are far too often in charge) than 99.99% of white-collar workers have the courage to be.
For years Scott Adams had serious letters accusing him of secretly being an employee in 'their' workplace and just transcribing meetings.
I have accepted a “part-time partner” role at Y Combinator
Show HN: A better news website for touch-screens
No one can determine fraud with absolutely no false positives. If there is no way to "appeal", then those false positives (no matter how few) will be thoroughly screwed.
..i posted this yesterday under a diferent account but it was apparently removed, almost immediately. hopefully the same doesn't happen again.

edit: for convenience, clickable link to image above http://i.imgur.com/ZCR2hun.jpg
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With the way FB's stock is going it will look cheaper and cheaper.
'crazy ants' are displacing fire ants in areas throughout southeastern U.S.
For me, powershell has very slow startup time. So I stick with cmd.exe. But it beefed up quite a bit.
I am using:

- msys-git (I have ls, rm -rf... all unix goodness)

- clink (better tab completion, history, all around good stuff)

- console2 (styling)

- ansicolor (colored prompt)

and also I got some usefull aliases.
If you are interested I can write down some steps for other people to follow.

screenshot http://i.imgur.com/hATwCVI.png
Warsaw software developers' job market has gotten really interesting since Google opened an engineering center here some umpteen months ago. There is just no reason to stick to crappy jobs at this time.

What makes you think Google is better?

Google pays decently, but the work isn't interesting unless you have social access. Being in an Eastern European satellite office, you're not going to get the machine learning work. You're going to get the stuff that California, Seattle and New York don't want to do.

I'm sure there are Polish companies that offer real work; OP would do better at one of those than in some multinational's branch office. The problem is that most corporations are still pretty colonial and you don't get high-quality work unless you're in the main office.
* We are women of Perl and we're actually quite happy with our community.*

I've heard that the Perl community is the most accepting of all the OSS communities out there, so this doesn't surprise me, and also delights me to hear :)
I'm playing around with fish since a couple of minutes and one zsh completion thing I am missing is "fuzzy" completion. In zsh with the following files in a directory:

log-20120103
log-20120104
log-20120503
log-20120603
log-20120604

I can do: "$ less 603<tab>"

And it will complete to: "$ less log-20120603"

I cannot recall whether I had to specifically enable this in zsh.
The Boston Marathon was a national tragedy because people saw it happen live, nationwide.

The Boston Marathon was televised. People were watching it before, during and after the tragedy happened. News outlets, even outside the New England area, make a big deal about Patriot's Day every year. Therefore, eyeballs were on it nationwide, so when a tragedy happens there, the media & government have to let people know they are in control of the situation & make a big deal out of it (I personally believe it shouldn't have been declared a "national tragedy", but that's beside the point here).

To be honest, I didn't know about this incident in New Orleans until today. I didn't even know they had a Mother's Day parade.
Definitely, mine would be "Yes, but not enough to live on just yet."
> Money doesn't actually fit into email

Actually.... bitcoin.
I think we can all start a Dilbert style comic to highlight weekly (if not daily) bizarre happenings @ the office.
Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday party hits a snag
No, but we got revenue. http://urlbox.io - We are screenshot as a service.
The main reason to scan urls at all would be to identify potential malware to be able to prevent users from visiting them.
> - Can't record a hangout and keep the recording private.

Yep, so you end up making it public, then going back and downloading it, then deleting it from YouTube.

Google seems to have a fixation that everything in the universe must exist on the web -- and be accessed by typing into the Google search box. Whatever we do in life, we get back to it from that little search box.
TL;DR: The US Government is in Hollywood's back pocket. The Ukraine has been identified as a major source of music and movie piracy.

"The Special 301 report identifies some of the key foreign threats to America's copyright industries," said MPAA chairman and CEO Chris Dodd:

http://www.screendaily.com/news/distribution/ukraine-on-pira...
I disagree that google rolling over and let Microsoft continue their abuse and bad citizenry would have been a better outcome (except for Microsoft and WP8 owners, of course)

An eye for an eye is a bit extreme, but fear of retaliation is an important component of balanced societies; see e.g. The cold war or the Stanford prison experiment. It's time Microsoft start behaving less like.a psychopath bully and more like a member of society.
Interesting, I was thinking of doing something like this to my macbook recently.
If you can't find it on reocities, try http://oocities.com as well. No idea which generally has more or if they both have pretty solid collections. My lame 12-year-old music fan site is preserved on both!
The Modern Workflow for Developing the Mobile Web
There are different kinds of bug fixing.

Hunting for an elusive hard to fix bug might be very satisfying. You get to know the environment, you might have to construct custom tools to gather data for the debugging purposes and you obviously get the bragging rights if you succeed.

Most bugs are not that challenging though. A textbox is too small to display a value, shoveling of records from point A to point B loses some data fields, this kind of stuff. You basically know right from the start what kind of fix is required and the only challenge is finding the place in the (potentially messy) code where the fix needs to be applied.
I recalled this line by Lawrence Lessig during Rand Paul's filibuster regarding drone strikes on American citizens:

There is plenty to disagree with Rand Paul about. But this filibuster is not. Thank you, sir. http://twitter.com/lessig/status/309415470879100928

I feel the same way about his efforts on Internet rights.
You might as well plug it now, I and others are probably curious about it now.
One thing that can really improve hangouts is eye contact.This is probably the main difference between video conferecing and the more expensive telepresence , which is replacing flights for business meetings.

While the eye-contact effect is harder to achieve on a pc[2], you can easily achieve similar effect by using a TV , putting the camera on top of the TV, and sitting in the right distance:

from "More than face-to-face: empathy effects of video framing"[1]":

"""
TV Set-top design
Viewing distances for large screen TVs make it easier
to design effective interactions. At an 8’-12’ viewing
distance, the recommended eye-camera distance is 8”-12”.
An off-the-shelf camera placed flush on top of the TV will
still leave several inches of screen space to accommodate the
eye-head distance. A full screen upper-body image should
give close to the recommended eye-camera distance for 5◦
error, and certainly within the 90% allowable angle error
of 8◦. The camera lens can easily be chosen to frame the
correspondent’s upper body (or the whole body which may
be more appropriate) at 8’-12’ viewing distance.
"""

[1]http://gsct3237.kaist.ac.kr/e-lib/Conferences/CHI/2009/docs/...
[2]https://plus.google.com/+GuyKawasaki/posts/KYADNHRgazS
Speaking for myself, there are a number of times when I have to source scripts from bash to get certain functionality I like. Most notably, when using virtualenv.
A Mother Finds Balance at MIT
How To Get Famous People To Respond To You
You don't need to be a coder to be winning in this game.

But you definitely need be somebody who gets the job done in whatever their area of expertise is. Those are the kind of people you quoted in your example.

There are somethings you can't teach a person. They have to learn by doing or go through the grind.
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Bureaucracy is everywhere, not only in big companies.

Back when I worked in research, I was in a small (at most 100 people) research institute in Germany; and I was working in a EU project.

Each month, I had to log what I did every hour in 3 different, independent and non-compatible (i.e., it was hard for me to automate the process... and believe me, I tried) places:

1. An excel sheet required by the European Union office in charge of overseeing the project: Log not only the time you spent in the project (doing what for each hour? wp1, wp2, etc.; or admin) but also hours completely unrelated to the project (teaching, other projects, etc).

2. A stupid program called Profiskal. One of those programs made in Java which are made with the feet.

3. Some internal web platform.
The documentation needs a lot of work. Every 'help' command I've tried just pops up a web page using xdg-open, which (a) won't work well in a headless SSH session, never mind a plane, and (b) doesn't make it easy to search for specifics.

I also don't like the implementation of the prompt text as a function. It's the first thing I wanted to customize, and it looks like I need to copy and paste the existing definition of fish_prompt and hack it into shape. There's no built-in equivalent of \$, so you need to find out if you're root and do it yourself. And the existing check just does it with a string compare of $USER with 'root', rather than euid==0.

Hacking preferences in like this isn't a problem to begin with. The real problem comes down the road, when the defaults change and improve, and you now have to be concerned with merging your customizations with the new and improved stuff.
I think a lot of people are idiots. Managers are just the ones that have the most control over other peoples' lives, so they're the ones people complain about the most.
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Congratulations - now stop being a wuss (a commencement address)
I expected this to be about an http redirect...
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Honest question: What about facebook do you find useful?

I hate that I have to preface a question as being sincere to ensure that it isn't read as an insult, but here we are.
Yep! (I feel proud and lucky to say that)

Bootstrapped on $60 in Adwords by my business partner when he was selling a finance spreadsheet in college. :)

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In teams of ordinary laborers, managers usually are smarter than the employees. But in teams "rocket scientists", it can easily be a misallocation of resources to employ another rocket scientist as the rocket scientists' manager. The management job may be one of task coordination and solving mundane people issues more suited to a normal college graduate rather than some genius-level person.

This can leave you in the awkward situation where the person in a higher position within the organization is not as intelligent as his employees. But given limited resources, as most companies are subject to, it may be the optimal structure for an organization, despite whatever "Dilbert" moments come out of it.