skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I agree with your aversion to the "hang out test" because it's just wrong to do that, but I also know that for me personally, work is far more motivating when I'm friends with my coworkers. Especially when travel is involved.

I can't be the only one who feels this way, so it would be hard not to factor this in when hiring, especially with a small startup.

Do you really think that the added motivation from working with "friends" is insignificant?
While I will not argue that the mixpanel css is pretty bad (specifically the duplication making it harder to maintain and increasing the code size), but that margin example from FB is just as awful.

I know that there's recently been a backlash against the entire idea of the "separation of concerns" - but having your markup define your style margins is a bit insane. If suddenly you wanted 10px margins instead of 5 you have to grep your entire codebase for .m∗s (limiting the length of the string to 3 characters) and updating all those to .m∗m (or just defining both .m∗s and .m∗m to be 10px, which is just as dumb).

But, yes, most of the points in this article are somewhat accurate if not a bit outdated. Try not to use element selectors (and instead apply a class), avoid code duplication, write efficient selectors, etc.

(Note: asterisk changed to low asterisk and I hate markdown or whatever other text styling syntax HN is using).
3 reasons why you should take digital badges seriously
>dropped a glass of water on the case, and

Okay, so that sucks.

>razor sharp shards of glass ricocheted

Welp, you literally dropped a glass glass of water. Good lord, that's scary on a naked computer. This is a pretty awesome hack.

>(Be sure to get your finger partially in front of the lens while documenting this.)

Why does he say this? I don't understand.

I have another question. What is the present status of taking something like this on-board an airplane? Is the extended battery likely to raise alarm at the carry-in security section?
Warner Bros. DMCA Fraud and Abuse Case Goes to Jury
That's probably more closely related to the bad receiving NVidia is getting by the current Linux users, that have a less closed option nowadays.

It's almost certainly not gamers that complain abut the lack of free drivers. But people like me that want good performance but don't like the problems the proprietary drivers bring, or people concerned about the driver's security (everybody is paranoid now) and not wanting it at their datacenter.
I believe he means they setup their own mail server on the VPS, not that the mail itself was was provided by the VPS provider.
"NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs, with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau."

Seems like they just want Nouveau to work better during normal desktop usage. I doubt they plan to release enough information to make them competitive with their proprietary drivers.
The lack of affordance in iOS7 is a real usability killer.

Actually, it's a learnability problem: once you learn how to use its features, iOS 7 is a vast improvement over 6.
Not only that but they actively put in an intermediary redirect between the search results page and the destination, so that website owners will know they came from Google, but not the search term used.
Isn't what you're describing the easy way to change a site?
FireEye: A Story of Vision and Conviction
That is the core question: at what point does the conservative argument for safety/caution lose its justifying power in the face of the complete and total ineffectiveness of the normal, organized, accepted methods of dissent and change? At what point has the system so blithely steamrolled its opposition that revolutionary action becomes right?
>Isn't this why most competent hosts request/require a secondary contact e-mail, not hosted by them?

Enforcing that requirement would be... non-trivial, though. I mean, I could look at the MX records for the domain in question, but those quite often don't point at the final delivery servers.

Still, I should at least make that a rule, even if I don't enforce it.

edit: Also note, even when you contact folks successfully, sometimes they refuse to deal with it, as, well, properly dealing with a compromise involves formatting and re-installing, then restoring from a backup taken before the thing was compromised. Most people at this level are unwilling to go through the effort, meaning that they will remain compromised for as long as you leave them on your system.

Often I'll setup a new domain for them, with the old domain read-only, so they can pick through the data. More than half the time, within 24 hours, they are compromised again.
Don't let your job title define you
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A bit surprising that they went so harshly political, highlighting the Romney jokes on a lighthearted marketing page. The 47% of voters who supported Romney for President might react negatively to Amazon for that.
As an investment, educating, retaining, and attracting talented students in California would seem like a fundamentally positive way to raise the tax revenue in the state. Those university students will often work and start businesses where they are educated. We've seen recent articles with charts on individual ROI for college education cost vs additional future income - that should translate to long term increased state revenue.

I think the mistake of the article is to focus to much on budget costs, and too little on where value generation could be - not just as an abstract social good, but as a way to prioritize and or structure funding which yields a very real return on investment.
Since when did we start to call Ubuntu skins operating systems?
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Google looks to drop Netscape Plugin API support in Chrome
The state of cultural evolution in males: Are we just be apes?
That is total "Correlation is not Causation"-bait. Is "number of reviews" a leading or trailing indicator of box office performance? Is "amount of marketing spend" a confounding factor?
Ah. Yes, WP actually has built-in support for offering both a "try" and "buy" version of each app, allowing two apps to coexist as the same entry... but in practice, most follow the "free" and "pro" naming-convention and offer two separate apps.

I hadn't realized that Apple's strict curating prevented these patterns.
or feed it like wefunder.com will do .
My bet is on "lazy", but I think it's much easier to buy into the NSL explanation than the embarrassement one.
> That is called theft, plain and simple!

Not theft, but fraud. Unfortunately, it happens in many startups that don't have a qualified finance/business guy in a senior role.
I think the point that was missed here was that the idea wasn't the investment, investors invest in people. If one idea fails, the person is still capable of other ideas. If the failure was due to poor judgement, then the investor too, made a poor judgement, but there are many reasons why a startup, be it a tech startup or a restaurant might fail that are no "fault" of the management. Also investors are diversified, so while the startup failed, the portfolio as a whole might have still been up, so yet another reason why pg wouldn't get too upset.
Would anyone mind elaborating on how the current bubble could compare to the DotCom bubble? I could see them being similar because they are both related to tech, but for some reason I don't feel too scared right now (the DotCom bubble popping was pretty bad, right?).
Tesla: More than 3.2 million miles have been charged at Superchargers
In which case, we need some distinguishing factor, because you just argued for investing in a bubble ;-).
The Free Law Project
Quality should be there overall, but especially on those things that really matter. This may be features for an app like facebook, or performance in a highly responsive game. My point is blindly following performance is not achieving quality. Quality is in the eyes of the user and has different meanings depending on what the user perceives and is doing. We could say the web experience using browsers has extremely bad quality characteristics from an engineering point of view, yet it changed the world. So maybe Steve wasnt so spot on :)

On Instagram, have you read about its starting and also Pinterest. Instagram had a product about Bourbin or something that was not a widely used app, but did attach to a niche of presumably drinkers. What made Instagram is that they somehow recognized that people on the Bourbin site were really into the pics taken of their hobby. Instagrams next app was a buggy system apparently! However, I recall reading it was that they recognized the uptick by recognizing the users wanted to post pics (with the filter stuff). So here, there was no real quality, just a feature not exposed well in the social market. Pinterest also seemed to recognize that wedding dresses and women gained them traction. In my judgement its this recognition of opportunity and gaps in the social market combined with what you say, the right time and place. Right time and place can also mean partially that there is a need in the market for something thats not well done.
I had a similar experience recently when I was using many compose-able CSS styles. My solution was to use a preprocessor and make an aggregate style; for example:
<li class="u-paddingLarge t-important">

would become:
<li class="MyImportantItem">

with the SASS being:
.MyImportantItem {
@extend .u-paddingLarge;
@extend .t-important;
}

You can avoid writing inline styles, keep things DRY, and still have compose-able styles.
The joke flows a little better as: "How do you make a million dollars in the airline industry?" -> "Start with a billion dollars."
The main point behind this post was to get a sense of what folks are curious about and opinions on different web technologies. I've built production code using various frameworks and platforms and have my own opinions about them. I would love to hear yours. Why did you choose a specific direction on a recent project for example?
Reward without risk is the usual definition of arbitrage. Some people make good money that way.

Of course, you can construe any activity to have some risk. After all, there's always the possibility that your currency collapses, or something. However, ignoring that sort of possibility, risk is not necessary to make money in a capitalist system.
"If they really need to" and by default is a pretty big gap imo.
drivers themselves are an important piece of IP

I think it's this. From what I've been told, the line between software (driver) and hardware (graphics card/chip) is blurry, and moves around from generation to generation. The "graphics processing model" is only partly executed in hardware; the rest is in software.
It would be more interesting if he could talk about how to take advantage of a bubble
Satellite propulsion: It’s not rocket science
Bingo.

I have done a good deal of studying of UX, I come from a background in testing, and I am now a developer.

Systems I design take all three disciplines into account. A junior UX team asks for something wonky in V1 of their spec, I code it to spec, and then make allowances for what V2 is likely to actually do. Typically a few extra fields in a struct, or designing a state machine to be a bit more flexible than strictly necessary. Maybe I break some logic out of the main class into a secondary independent one that can be passed around.
Thank you! Everything looks very well made and I look forward to seeing it in action.
Digital Health Startups Get The Same Toys As Everyone Else
"... a significant uptick in the number of parties, hot girls roaming bars trying to chat with any guy that looks like he might be an engineer and looking for a job..."

Is anyone else noticing this phenomenon? Apparently I'm not invited to the right parties...
uhhhh.... iMessage is opt-in and isn't enabled until you actively sign up for it in settings. You don't want it taking over your SMS & MMS - don't opt-in to it.
that's it? that's so specific. For me this update brought the feeling that I can hardly see anymore. I'm always squinting now to try and distinguish things, whereas in iOS 6 and before I had no problem. What is it? The colors, the lack of depth, the low contrast, the super thin lines - all of it together and I struggle to make sense of it. That white on green is just blinding.

This is the problem - changing the l&f across the board is not a good MO in 2013. Yeah, I know, it's Apple and their fashion dictatorship. I've been through Mac UI changes since 1988. But I feel like I can barely use this tool now for what should be surfacey and easily hackable issues. I like the fundamentals, the animation is fine, the general UI tweaks are great.. it just hurts to use it now.

Apple needs to solve the one-size fits all UI problem. I don't care how they do it, I don't have a great suggestion ('theme support' is not one) -- but this state of affairs just sucks.
If you are a young/new engineer in a bubble you should recognize that excess salary is a function of the bubble, not your actual value. To that end bank as much excess salary as you can, (keep your personal burn rate low) and don't set your internal 'value meter' by a company that so desperately needed engineers they over paid for them.

I saw several engineers in the dot-com crush, graduate, work for a year at some BigCorp, then go to work for a startup as "Chief Architect" or some other vaulted title, lose their job when the crash hit, and then found themselves unemployable at some really vaulted title and salary because they really only had 3 - 4 years experience and it wasn't all that broad. That was sad to watch. Don't be that engineer if this is another bubble.
Absolutely agreed; I'm just saying that as the Pagerduty postmortem demonstrates, CP availability becomes trickier as you increase the number of sites--and there are unavoidable minimum latency bounds due to the speed of light. Those bounds may be unacceptably high; this is why Google Spanner chooses instead to enforce strong bounds on clock synchronization.
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Only if it's unsanctioned. Like Watergate.

But if the government as an official approved sanctioned policy directs an employee to do an action (like, hack into Facebook's servers), good luck trying to get that employee arrested. The government may be doing illegal acts, but no one can be arrested over those since they are sanctioned by the two law making branches of government (executive and congress).
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Sure. Say you're a bright young Harvard business school graduate. You might choose to either found a start-up, or go to a VC firm and help fund start-ups. The latter path is much lower risk (because you're not risking your own money, but rather that of the limited partners), but statistically you'll also probably come out ahead, financially, going that route.

Or to pose another example, starting a restaurant is probably riskier than starting a B2B software company, but also probably much less financially rewarding.
Finding My Mailbox Moment
The reality is though that virtually no airline routes are "perfectly competitive" (monopolies and duopolies are far more common; many routes are "natural monopolies") and airlines set (and constantly vary and test) their prices at levels they think will maximise yield, not at parity with some "market level" that everyone else charges for comparable routes. The difficulties in achieving profitability are all to do with high fixed costs and limited flexibility, and profits average close to zero largely because bailouts keep the airlines that are losing money in the sky as long as those which are highly profitable.
> Had PG been working as an engineer at HP at the time and had put a large sum of his personal money into a venture that failed (money that might be needed for his children's college fund)

This is why you never invest more than you are willing to lose. If you do, and the venture fails, the blame for your reduced quality of life rest not on the failed founder, but on the imprudent investor.

The nice thing about SV is not just the big pool of investors, but the big pool of prudent investors who don't behave foolishly.
> By the way, would you still call it harassment if you never got in the way of the person you were following, never acknowledged your presence, and generally let them go about their business while you were busily recording everything they did? Most people would still be very unhappy.

... they certainly are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz8PdALdQDI
You're dead on - our "whales" were 3% of our users.

We never released 10 books w/ out the Buy All option so you're assumption is correct - we have no data on this. You could be correct in that it was solely content as a gating factor, had we tested incrementally we would have firmer data in this area.
Access controls are in place, but they aren't absolute. Hence why intent is key in this case, and why he was found guilty.
I can't. I wasn't in college in the US at the time :(. That may have been a bigger factor though...
Free Music Streaming / Search API to build an app
I'm working on a music app which requires streaming from a music service like Grooveshark. I have used the Groovehshark API but it has a lot of limitations. Plus, I can't use Rdio, Spotify or any other service not available in India ( Ofcourse I can, but I can't make the users use a proxy ).

Please suggest some free music search / stream service. Thanks.
Yes, on a financial scale, there have been many missteps. But nobody cares about the new Blackberry Q10 the way Gruber cares about the 5s.

Even if you love Blackberry, you're not measuring the size of the icons and comparing them to the physical characteristics of the phone.
If I am understanding competition doesnt help the victim in a case like this. the victim isn't the consumer of the products produced, its the stock holders who own the company who are being fleeced.

I guess it seems to me one can buy a company not for the price of the valuation, but for the price of the board of directors.
While this is an excellent vote of confidence from Google regarding the web as a platform, I hope that we can avoid fragmentation while coming up with standards to fill the holes left by Flash et al.

I do get a little concerned at the prospect of losing access to all the legacy Flash content that we've built up. Here's hoping that Shumway keeps progressing: http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
Coursefork: a new way to collaborate on open education
Blaming the CRA has been extensively debunked.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/13/n...

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/a-global-view-of-the-ho...

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-blame...
Yes! Except I would phrase it differently: Never loan money to a friend or family member - either give money or don't. Oftentimes, the person you gave money to will later give you as much or more than you gave them, but that isn't a loan repayment, it's just them being kind to you in the same way you were kind to them.

To hnriot, who I can't respond to: No, it's not being a chump to willingly give money to those you are close to. The other side of the "be willing to give money to friends" coin is "be aware and careful of who you consider friends". You may be a chump if you give money to people actively taking advantage of your willingness to do so, but those people aren't friends. You should never give money to people who aren't your friends, and you probably shouldn't loan it to them either, unless you're in the lending business.
Just nit picking here, but I think your selectors are a bit redundant and long. What do you think about something like this?

.home-header-h1{
font-size: 20pt;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
line-height: 1.3;
}
h1.home-blue{
@extend .home-header-h1;
color: blue;
}
h1.home-green{
@extend .home-header-h1;
color: green;
}

But I think if I was trying to truly minimize maintenance I would do something like... (in LESS not familiar with sass)

h1.home {
font-size: 20pt;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
line-height: 1.3;

&.blue {
color: blue;
}

&.green {
color: green;
}
}
I'm fairly new to the Python world but I've been using PyCharm for a couple months now and it is absolutely amazing. JetBrains makes really great products, I've been a huge fan of IntelliJ IDEA (Java) for a few years now - converted many die hard Eclipse users over to it, and they never looked back.
> German region format obviously also emtails German day and month names. That's really quite obvious.

It's not. In fact, it's nonsensical. If I have a language setting, I want things in that language, not in an other one.

The format spells out where items are relative to one another, what the various separators and interspersed characters are and if applicable what size the various elements are (e.g. months could be spelled out in full, only the initial or in abbreviated form).

And this is supported since There are a "Germany" or a "France" format which do not override the language setting.
We use a review script that creates a temporary branch in github and sends an email to everyone you specify to review it. We then kill that branch when the review is over. Any time you push code, you run our test suite on your changes then create a review. Since these are encouraged to be small and behind config flags to not affect all our users immediately, it happens quite often. Once feedback is taken from the review you enter our push queue yourself and push it out yourself. If the code is possibly dangerous, we recommend those pushes wait from Friday night to Monday morning for safety's sake.
Why does it say to disable ipv6 along with the likes of no direct root login allowed in the "System and Bios hardening" section? (page 40)

https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/docs/GAMMA_2010_FinfFINFISP_e...
Generally speaking, For domestic flights, one bag, up to 50 lbs costs $25. International flights will get you 1 free checked bag.

I've thought of this as well. It's actually not very practical. Check out UPS shipping fees. Except in very edge cases, they are way more expensive than taking your bag with you.
Thanks Sam. I love your posts!

I think the rise in startup valuations, even at the early stage, while a bit frothy (and definitely more so in the bay area) is driven by some structural changes (i.e., the leverage allowed by the new tools which make development cheaper/faster) and access to much bigger markets (mobile, anyone?).

"Hot girls" at the bar looking for a job are probably doing so because tech is one of the few non-sucky sectors for young people.

Founders investing their capital in other startups doesn't strike me as so weird, given how Angel List and Funders Club, etc. are making it ridiculously easy to put a bit of money to work. Founders with disposable income used to invest in public equities and bonds if they wanted to. Now, startups.

There are trillions of dollars still sitting on the sidelines chasing growth. Not even a tiny fraction of that has been deployed to VC (mostly because the returns, in aggregate, are still pretty bad). Should that happen, I might begin to be a little apprehensive.
seems Google, Facebook, Yahoo etc. have been using this practice for decades.
The idea that the CRA was behind the US housing bubble in the 00's is a huge zombie myth.