skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Trust. Win. Trust. Win. Trust. Lose really HUGE. Trust again."

I'm going to do that this year. I've lost so much because I wouldn't allow myself to trust someone.
That's the real kicker for me, the idea that being currently employed under a W2 means anything for future earnings. That is a very outdated concept, IMO.
I clicked the link and I believe your reference is good, but don't have time to read through.

I agree with you that we need to find sometime to sit with our loneliness. But I tried to avoid to experience it too deep. Rather than feel it, I'd rather to see what I can do to get rid of it, say, find the root cause and remove the root cause.

For example, we may feel lonely when our business does not soar with enough supporters and customers, or when we have an idea, but nobody likes it. We can do something to resolve this problem.

Or When we feel lacking of objective to pursue, or we simple need to express our feelings. If it's pure emotional, but we have no SO (Significant Others, as some previous post mentioned) to share with, we have to distract ourselves by some other exciting things.

For me, two things are essential to stay away from loneliness: SO and something to pursue. They make myself fill confident with self-esteem, also make my life more meaningful. Having a good SO is hard, but important. All the rest kinds are not critical. Always be myself, don't rely on other people too much, even with SO. Build something cool is also very rewarded. http://kck.st/JNqv8z
Photos would definitely be cool, make it seem a bit more fun - plus writing is a lot of effort.

Would have to be careful about becoming the "Naked photo tweeter app" though.
This is nothing new. Conforming loans for self employed have always required 2 years tax returns. I just went through this process myself. It is more painful than W2, but if you have 2 years returns, acceptable debt to income ratio, and decent credit, you can get a loan. What has changed if there aren't many non-conforming loan options like there were in the bubble years.
"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
-- Alan Perlis
Of course I read it in full. You write a lot about how his comments on violins are wrong (which I say is irrelevant) and then say "I wish people wouldn't use analogies about things they don't understand" (which I say is also irrelevant, because it's effective).

You then misrepresent what he doesn't like, which I ignored because one can only pick on so many annoyances in one post, then you suggest he was criticizing violins (which he wasn't) in an effort to strengthen his argument (which he wasn't, and he isn't arguing anyway he's describing his viewpoint).
If I Had a Hammer
Yeah that's one of the ideas I've got down at the moment. The other is a hamburger menu?

I think swiping would fit better though, although there could be a lot of swiping happening if you've got a few counters.

Also, editable titles would let you name your counter.
Hmm maybe it should come with a tweeting from the grave warning...
can a white girl join black girls who code? a conflict nonetheless exists whether or not it is intended by the organization. remember the segregation concept of 'separate but equal' ? it wasn't intended and it was not the focus of segregation to deliver unequal qualities of life, but by the implementation that is exactly what happened and I'd say, conflicts created by organizations like this shouldn't be ignored. you call it misleading, I say it should be addressed. I wouldn't sacrifice the principal for the pragmatism.
Another way to interpret it is the higher your income, the less you expect to be able to advance in the future on sort-linear-log scale. Or the poorer you are, you tend to feel poorer (than you actually are) on a sorta log scale.

There are no poor people in America, only temporarily inconvenienced millionaires.
I'm a co-founder at Streak.com, and I think the problem you're describing is especially well suited for Streak (if you're using gmail). Obviously I'm biased but here's why:

1) We show you the context of your lead right next to the email you're reading in your inbox

2) Our primary interface to your leads is very spreadsheet like. You can search, sort, filter, group, etc to slide and dice your deals in different ways.

3) We extract useful information about your leads automatically (like the date you last emailed them). Combine this with (2) and you can filter and sort your leads so that you know exactly who you need to get back to next.

4) Our saved views feature might be especially useful to you - effectively you can put the leads that need attention right now at the top of your inbox, see here: http://blog.streak.com/2013/07/using-saved-views-to-organize...
Thanks!

I noticed that the app icon was weird. I realised earlier that it's because I uploaded the rounded version rather than the square one.

Regarding the app store screenshots, I've uploaded the right sizes (taken on iPhone 5 and simulator for iPhone 4) so I'm not sure what's happened there.

Thanks again :)
> how far behind they are and desperately trying to catch up

They are merely the market leader ...
Luckily, there are filesystems like ZFS to [help] counter the myriad of bizarre failure modes in today's storage devices...
We use SugarCRM, complemented with our own custom sales-intelligence tooling (which we are probably going to turn into a SaaS offering in it's own right soon. Keep a look out).
Honestly, who would want to read this drivel?
As a society, we haven't even stopped labor exploitation. You are asking for fair market already?

In most industries, manager vs worker unfairness exists for centuries and beneficiaries protect the trough with logic such as intelligence, leverage etc. In software, especially in silicon valley, the workers i.e. developers overtook managers, as there was no need for capital (where human capital is the only cost). Rest of the industries are yet to be disrupted as they don't have that advantage.
Exactly! I am happy being alone because it's a choice. And you're right that the blog post is about loneliness, not solitude.

I had the luck of being dragged out of my loneliness by some wonderful people (I'm not necessarily mentally and psychologically strong at all), and I only learned to be happily alone after that. But the ability to choose is crucial indeed.
What about parents and siblings? They should arguably be above SO. If you need somebody to talk to, don't forget your family!
Plus one for reading Nick (the author of 'Ask the Headhunter': http://asktheheadhunter.com/

The site has been 'online since 1995' and looks like it, but has a wealth of advice for taking control of your destiny when looking for a new job. This is my favorite piece on how to interview: http://asktheheadhunter.com/basics5.htm
The Secret Developers: Wii U - the inside story
As long as a rogue agent doesn't get their hands on this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/2122619.stm
Interesting legal/tax follow question? Does he still owe the tax money? I presume that argument won't go down well with the tax man, but could be interesting if he got to court.
Nice work. If I ever drop xmonad I'll give it a shot.
I love this concept, but it's not really granular enough. Although I agree with the premise that 8 hours is 'problem-sized', it doesn't lend itself well to humans. What would I call an eighth of one unit?
Have you (or anyone else) read Code Complete? If so, how do you feel about it? I started reading it because everyone recommended it, but I stopped at page 100 or so, because I felt it was getting no where.
Haha, go fuck yourselves .|.

c:
A lesson from the past: Speak your mind or fail
I've heard this one before. From a source in PayPal. Years ago. (although admittedly I don't know how high up this source is)
Ah that is a cool way of checking where you are - very cool.

This app came mainly from when we were students (now we are self-employed so it's a similar scenario) and had a similar set up where had to go to our basement (where our computers were) and turn off a similar app there.

However, we soon just learnt to turn it off and go back to bed as there was no penalty for doing so.

So by making it be at a place of work/study/exercise that isn't your home, it means you have to really out get of bed to defeat it.

It's all about finding something that works for you.
Wedding Dresses & Party Dresses  Unbelievable Prices
It seems to behave really good, thanks!
just watched it- wonderful! thank you
I think very few sites actually need to be SPA at all. Just because an e-commerce site has a real-time component doesn't mean it must be built in Meteor.

E-commerce sites are in fact a prime example of something that I think should be built using traditional technologies. Do you want price updates? Just poll them with AJAX and let the rest of the site remain static. It's far from a multiplayer game we're talking about.
I have the feeling that "intellectual property" and piracy are equally evil.
The hipster attitude I've experienced (and not all the ones I've known behave this way, but it's typical) is a contempt for anything "mainstream". Their coolness lies in the fact that they have secrets, like their "favorite" artist that no one else knows about (and therefore, no one is as cool as them).

It manifests in a holier-than-thou, I'm better than you because you're not cool, you're part of the unwashed masses that just don't know any better.
We worked closely with the bootstrap community to move the project to an independent home as part of the 3.0 release, you can read about it here: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/bootstrap-30
Uh, so the answer to 'how to find the unadvertised job' is 'look at company websites' or 'do google searches'?

I haven't been in the job market for years, so I don't have a great answer, but these seem pretty weak ways to find jobs that aren't advertised, because, if they are on company websites or available via Taleo, they are advertised.

How about:

* research a company, find out their biggest problem (competitive research), find the manager who should be tackling the problem (linked in), and email him an outline of a solution. I don't manage a ton of folks, but if someone did this, we'd definitely have a conversation.
* go to tech meetups and meeting interesting people
* comment on a corporate blog regularly
* offer to work for free (if you can afford it)
* ABL (always be looking)
* never eat lunch along
* blog about the industry you want to get into
* work on an open source project
* instagram (or whatever the kids are doing these days)

This is an oldie instance that one of my friends did to get hired back before the dotcom bubble: http://donwrege.com/XOR/home.html
Maybe star ratings should be removed in favor of text reviews with "ratings" based exclusively on sentiment analysis. Has machine learning reached a state where that's practical? If not, will anyone hazard a guess on when it will?
I wonder why, in the least risky list, he puts Translate before AdWords. There's no way Google will shutdown their money making machine, much less likely than shutting down Google Translate.

Am I missing something? What's so special about Translate?
>He stated "doing jobs white people don't like doing." How do you interpret this? This is, by definition, stating that by being white alone, the population carries a characteristic.

Only if you're a twat.

He was making a general observation: that minorities tend to do jobs that white people don't want to do.

And he's right. That's a simple observation, one which carries no value judgment. It just is.

That's not being racist; it's making an observation. If you think that any statement which differentiates between the races in any way - even if only tangentially - is a racist statement, then frankly, you need to get over yourself.
Would you use Erlang again?
Am I wrong to dismiss just about anything that depends on asking people? I don't have good ideas on how to measure happiness, but even the worst of them seems better than asking and leaving it at that.
Why Stanford CA is so poor? It's in middle of Palo Alto!
Definitely not a market leader in developer experience.
It didn't help that it turned out the CIA were running "fake" vaccination campaigns to gather information though - that would have helped confirm suspicions in the eyes of anyone, not just the uneducated.
Hours.

I still have to be on Manager time (standard time) when I'm interfacing with the rest of the world. But for flow states in a pure building mindset, I switch to Maker Time.
It looks like the map measures poverty by income in dollars without any cost-of-living adjustments. So it may be more of a map of regional cost-of-living than anything else.
this is a highly personal answer. it depends on a person's specific mechanisms of motivation and satisfaction. i realize this is a hypothetical "thought experiment", but you can see how this actually plays out in reality.

i've done both. i've lived in areas where i made significantly more than my neighbors (regular apartment complex in the middle of LA/hollywood), and now i live in a place where i make significantly less (i live in a modest condo next to giant $5-10M houses in santa monica and ultra-mansions a short distance further - think 'lower pac heights' in SF-speak)

it's obviously better living next to rich neighbors. everything in the neighborhood is much nicer, and i get to enjoy a lot of their wealth indirectly. for example, i live next to some of the best hospitals in the country. the public parks are ridiculously nice and all the streets are basically perfectly conditioned. seeing nice things/home/cars and rich people is also an aspirational trigger for me. also, for a very slightly higher prices on the things i actually buy, i get to enjoy better food and shopping.

in the other, poorer neighborhood where i made more money, everything was shitty (for US standards). the roads were in disrepair, there was crime, the food wasn't nearly as good, there was constant police activity, the roads would be blocked for public events, etc. seeing broke or down-and-out people everywhere bumemd it out. it was just an overall hassle.

if you took the median income from both areas, it probably wouldn't deviate by more than 50 grand. there are rich people in both areas. but one is significantly better than the other.

i really wouldn't understand the opposite point of view, that living next to poorer people is somehow better. perhaps if you lived in an imginary WORLD where you made significantly more than the rest of the people, but in the real world it's all about locales.
Students.
Stats actually seem to show that mobility is lower in the US than in the nordic countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#Country_compari...

Of course the US is a very different place, too.
Educated people it seems are just as likely to believe the ramblings of religious idiots.
Isn't this the definition of FUD? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

> Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) is a tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations,[1][2] politics and propaganda.

>FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information. An individual firm, for example, might use FUD to invite unfavorable opinions and speculation about a competitor's product; to increase the general estimation of switching costs among current customers; or to maintain leverage over a current business partner who could potentially become a rival.

>The term originated to describe disinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry but has since been used more broadly.[3][dubious – discuss] FUD is a manifestation of the appeal to fear.

>About Robin Harris

>Robin Harris has been a computer buff for over 35 years and selling and marketing data storage for over 30 years in companies large and small.

>Robin Harris is a president of TechnoQWAN, a consulting and analyst firm in Sedona, Arizona. He also writes StorageMojo.com, a blog which accepts advertising from companies in the storage industry, and has a 30 year history with IT vendors. He has many industry contacts, many of whom are friends and all of whom he has opinions about.

The poor performance of mechanical disks is the number one performance bottleneck for most IT systems. I believe that FUD like this is the main reason SSD costs are still relatively high.
Thank you for letting me know, I have no idea why that has happened. Apart from me describing someone's idea of Clojure as the next-gen Lisp as 'cute', which was maybe a bit rude, I don't think I've done anything to deserve being banned. I was never a fan of this hellbanning idea and now it seems I've become a victim of it. What do I do now?
I had a pretty detailed discussion with iOS engineers at a WWDC a couple of years back. It was a somewhat frustrating conversation, mostly because of how badly I wanted true user generated Framework support, but also because the engineers had decent reasons for the existing state of things. Primarily that Frameworks (in their fullest expression) are dynamically loaded.

Apple has made a decision that allowing 3rd parties to dynamically load code (outside of Apple certified frameworks) is a security issue on a mobile platform in particular. I don't have a solid counter argument, although there are certainly some technical constraints they could put in place to help mitigate the risk.

Anyway, agree with your essay in general. But I also understand how we got here.

Cheers
Diversity is good because all these networks will be testing out different ideas. The best ideas will be self-evident, and they will propagate by means of popularity and inclusion in future networks.
More than half of those are either totally gone or have been quietly rolled into other projects.
" When you see a job posted on (insert leading job board name here) somebody paid to have it advertised there. You know where it’s free for a company to post all of their jobs? Come on, guess… If you suspected a company’s own careers website, you would be correct!"

If somebody paid for it recently, it is a strong signal they really have an opening. Jobs on companies' own sites might only be there to:

a) show to customers and investors the company is in good shape.

b) keep their recruitment buffers filled just in case.

I've been through jobs in companies with "no recruitment" enforced due to budget cuts and guess what, the job ads on their sites were still there.
Nice trick to use in these situations; Give them an arbitraririly hard question to solve, too. As a general rule, I've found the people most willing to whip these kinds of questions on you in an interview are the least able to solve one when put on the spot themselves...It's a bit of an aggressive counter-move, but the power-reversal can make them think twice about dismissing you out of hand...
I think I just saw first color footage of a test match (if the caption is to be believed). That had more resonance with me than anything else in the video -- which is fantastic nonetheless.

PS. And oh yeah, England beat Australia here... strange ;-)
Lisa Simpson would like this
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-0.1/docs/Data-Text-F...

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-0.9.1/docs/Data-Ve...

Except it's bloody everywhere in the libraries you use and you can design your own libraries around it.

A language powerful enough that things like this can be done in libraries instead of in the compiler is a good thing.
Ever since I heard about this, it became an exciting idea to me.

60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day is just a mess for doing math and analyzing how long things take and what of our life they make up.

Eliminate all the timezone conversion nonsense and you've got another huge plus... the time system will eventually change, sooner or later. Coordinating the change will be difficult, but it's too obvious not to happen.
Yes. as a casual user its almost impossible to find useful not spying apps there. Its basically full of spyware.

Google apps has made it OK for developers to make money on what on windows is malware and requires anti malware software for.
Same thing for me on OS X 10.6.8 with Firefox 26.0.
Package a flask app in a deb
Does Psychiatry Need Science? The Strange Case of Melancholia and the D.S.M.
Another peculiar interpretation of the same data: People segregate strongly by income, and you're happier if your neighbors are wealthy rather than poor. Not just crime but schools and parks and services.
I think the twitter-hate was usually because Twitter started with a naive Rails approach on Joyent and would fail whale constantly in the early years.

Just recently they blogged how they finally completed a rewrite that improved per node performance to 100,000 messages per second instead of a few hundred - a better than expected result. Its just a bit OCD inducing how they had to solve problems of their own creation for a long time instead of "doing it right from the start".

I offer no opinion whether or not they were being smart and pragmatic or incompetent hipsters in the beginning.

Edit - Found it, here's the post:
https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-a...
It's clear from this post and his post on Khan Acadamy, that Bret Victor is uneasy about the immediacy of the recent "Coding Activism" movement and is probably motivated to write these types of posts because some coders taking part in this movement often cite him as their inspiration. I'm sure he feels compelled to emphasize that the intention put forth in the sum of the work of people like Papert and Douglas Engelbart was not to ultimately fuel the creation of a "cooler IDE".
> In this infographic Bret Victor claims that expecting college education to prepare you for a day job is an invalid idea.

No, he opposes forming policy around the idea that the primary purpose of education should be vocational. In reality, most US education policy already works this way, so completely divorced from any value judgement, as a student it would be foolish to pretend it isn't already true.

> Oh, you missed that in his infographic? It's probably because it conveniently wasn't there.

Maybe he left it out of the post because he is interested in criticizing a subset of the marketing, not because he wants to lambast code.org and needs to hide the fact that many of the quotations are agreeable.
> Which is to say, I'd be happy if it became possible in the near future to get laptops with 48GB of of DD3

The reason laptops still come with just 4GB of RAM has little to do with the cost of RAM. Each gig you add reduces battery life significantly.
Thanks for the recommendation. Just bought it.
I found the complete lack of horses more bizarre - I'm surprise just how motorised everything already was.
just to make it clear: im not saying they live the perfect life.. but both types of civilizations have things to teach one another.. we have things to teach, but we also have things to learn.. things that we lost in the way..

What we constantly see, is the "white man" notion of superiority, and therefore that he has nothing to learn, from "primitives"..

But the irony is that they have a lot to teach us..

Our societies are very complex, and one of the reasons for that is the infinite chain of the desire and need.. need this, need that.. never satisfied, never happy..

Being poor its not the problem, the problem its us.. the way we think and reproduce our lives and destiny.. looking at them can teach us a lot about ourselves and where we are doing wrong
Well, if it is true, then it could indeed change CFD. Imagine that the computational stencil can solve itself using a closed-form equation. A strong solution implies that you don't have to form matrices to couple the linearised equations.
Close.io

The platform is great - with built in voip - and does everything I need in one interface. I highly recommend it.