skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
re: "Asshole Driven Development"

If you're in a design meeting throwing out a bunch of great ideas while helping others understand why their ideas won't work, and you can't spot the Asshole, then chances are...
I recognize this, and that the intention--as mentioned below--is to help out whatever poor sap has to wade through all the resume's coming in.

But, in the context of the present economic zeitgeist, my sympathies go out to the fully qualified guy or gal who is out of work and probably freaking out about it who now not only has to jump through hoops in order to submit a resume but also has to see her career marginalized with terminology like "code ninja" that was already trite five years ago. My sympathies most definitely do not go out to the person actually getting paid to read the resume, on the other hand.
Psychology: Alone in the crowd
Either that or the down-modders involved have enough of a sense of honor to not post spoilers...
Everything takes 2 weeks
The founder can contractually assign the IP to the company for a purchase price of usually $1.00.
Tell HN: Distributing processing to website visitors with web workers
A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome
Genius. I love the moment of brain-freeze: Wait, how do I remove the .. I can't .. oh!
Yes, but not before we all stop trying to suck the fun out of language.
Your guess is exactly right, to get the project over with. Though I had thought about leaving several times, the other projects I've worked on are not so bad. Plus the company is fantastic.
Don't forget what site you're on! ;)
Presently, 13/41 or 31% of respondents "hate" .Net.
Flot isn't really targeted to time series data but it works pretty well in our uses.
I wanted to play with web workers, and with node.js, so last night I hacked up a way to send data to clients to be background processed.

The queue server sends a javascript function and some data to web-worker capable clients to process as a background task.

The queue server is pretty basic but it does do things such as ensure that the result has been confirmed by more than one client.

Anyway, the code is on GitHub in case anyone wants to laugh at the quality :-)

(Incidentally 10% of my visitors are on web worker capable clients now. I don't think many of them would chose to opt in however. It would be more useful in a corporate type environment.)
I agree, but if you wait until a platform gets to be ultra-popular before developing, the chance of great success is much lower. It's classic risk vs. reward.

Apps aren't that difficult to make, so taking early risks on platforms like Facebook (with already a large userbase) and the iPhone (backed by Apple) aren't that bad, even if the platform fails.
Yeah, the first one looks particular good on a Mac with native widgets. I think they designed that one for Aqua.
We know what would have happened: It wouldn't have happened.

The claim lots of people make about "we'd be richer if we kept our taxes" is erroneous. How much richer would we be if we didn't have to pay for the operation of the network and the profits to thousands of shareholders who add no value? There are scales of projects where the profit motive hampers development.
Not due to a security risk, just a release management mistake.

https://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/msg/6247...
I don't like the term professional. I hope never to use it. I've learned enough to realize that even when I'm capable of turning out impressive work, it's without my knowing everything I can possibly know. (I'm also astounded when I finish work and it impresses other people. It's true what they say: You see your own flaws more clearly than others do.)

That said: Student in Philadelphia. Communications major. Sophomore.
Wish there was a way to edit an existing todo, fixing a typo for instance, but think that would take away from the simple UI
Feedback on my iPhone App: Underwear
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Use the codes I'll post below to try out the app. This is a little app I made to fulfill my artistic side - it's just underwear!

Yes, it's not standard fare for this site, but I'd still like someone to try it out and just randomly give me their opinion, so I have an idea what people think when they use my software.

Codes to get it free:
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I did some more digging, and found this PDF presentation on the case:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tlavian/spring2009/studentsPrese...

There's some clear prior art, especially the Nintendo Rumble Pak, so it's pretty hard to take this as an example of IP law rewarding creativity.
I played with this one for quite some time:

http://the389.com/works/tenori/
"An iPhone app called Bullet Flight enables snipers to calculate range and trajectory for their shots, and built-in satellite-positioning allows local weather conditions to be taken into account. The basic version costs $3.99 and the full military one--which even calculates how the Coriolis effect from the rotation of the Earth will influence a bullet’s flight--costs $29.99."

Am I the only one who find this strange? Even with local weather information, there's a lot of uncertainty on wind speed and direction, humidity, etc etc. Does the Coriolis effect actually matter or is it negligible?
Underrated truth: people will make or break your startup
Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive Government Docs
The one fact that they should have disclosed on this piece is the part where there is not a a thing where you see a specific person, and you lend that specific person money, which is the fallacy that has led to the confusion, but is really, ultimately, a minor point.
I do think that the truly great programmers blog very infrequently because they have better things to do.

This is really presumptuous, and makes a leap from correlative to causal on the back of a couple of blanket assumptions.

The first is that there are better things to do than blog: based on what? If someone feels the itch to write about something they really care about, and doesn't want to bother with more formal methods of publication, I think that blogging is one of the best things they can do with their time. It is not like they are producing nothing; they are producing something that will -- hopefully -- propagate ideas and critical thinking. This sounds like a very good thing. Not all problems that are looking for an answer will have that answer found in a block of code; sometimes the wetware needs to be refactored.

The second is that people who blog more than infrequently are apt to be technically rusty, and should be subject of suspicion. This make me suspicious of those who would assert that. Again, based on what assumption? I agree with the claim that if they blog more they have less time for other things besides blogging; rollover minutes only work on some cellphones. But to claim that because they blog more they know less; this is quite an extraordinary claim. It wants to lump everyone who blogs a lot in with the blowhards. What if someone has a lot to say, and thinks it is important to get those ideas out? It sounds like you would tell that person to shut up and get back to work. I worry about the consequences of this.
IE8 and HTML 5
yes, that's how I was trained as well.
Study says hourly employees happier than salaried
Crockford is such a lovable asshole.
Telling you why you weren't hired wouldn't have been courageous. It would have been a stupid business decision:

http://www.ihavenet.com/career_Do-not-Bother-Asking-Why-Not-...
There are 2 points it would worry me on; firstly SO score is a poor test of how good a programmer you are. I have a reasonable score here: but I'm not really an entrepreneur and compared to some I'm only an adequate hacker :) but I am active and I usually hold an opinion about everything.

Secondly it would set alarm bells: why are they so excited about their SO score? Is it intended to impress me so that I skim over the rest? (it's not the only flag I've noticed in interviews; there are lots of similar ones, you pick them up). [it'd also worry me that they haven't figured out it's not a great metric]

So what I am saying is: having a good SO score is definitely something great to mention to me. But only in passing or I would get suspicious :)

(on the other hand if I were hiring, say, an API community manager then it's an awesome metric! :) so I guess it depends)
I think that there should have been several more levels or something. Maybe different codes for black belt vs. yellow. Or Sensei vs student. Nice idea for basic skill testing though.
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not mine, but I just saw an interview between Andrew Warner and Andrew Fashion...and holy shit.

Basically the guy was making $200K a month from a myspace layout site(was the top result on Google), felt like he was on top of the world(bought a few BMWs cash), then he decided to improve the user experience and completely redesigned the site.

Well he forgot to do an htaccess redirect, and overnight he lost almost all of his traffic, since Google kicked him down to page 8, since w/o htaccess they felt he was a brand new site.

Then he spent $30K buying SEO, and only got up to page 5.

Then he tried to get some help by partnering up with some guy from Australia, and the guy stole his site(had access to the server), and released it as a $20 script template, so overnight there were hundreds of clones.

So within a few months, he went down from making $200K a month to $5K a month.

Seriously once Andrew throws up the site on mixergy, you have to go watch it.
developers shouldn't fix broken browsers.
If there was a web app that did this would you use it?

And the killer question: would it be worth a monthly fee if it really rocked and had desktop/iPhone apps?
ESPN, as a network, is tied pretty inextricably to the Cable nets.

They get somewhere between $3-$4 per subscriber a month regardless of whether you watch them. Thats about ~4 Billion a year they make from just subscriber fees.
Funny, this article reminded me to check, and one of my Arbor patents just got published.

From 2002.

That's about all you need to know about patents for startups. From the time you file to 6-9 years afterwards, the expense and effort of a filing buys you nothing. Meanwhile, the world continues to turn on its axis.

Is your company even going to be around for 9 years?

Of course, having the patent published doesn't really change much either. That's because you can safely add several more years to reach the date at which you'll actually see the inside of a courtroom if you decide to exploit the patent. It takes forever. With your counsel's meter running the whole time.
One worked for a harvesting company and received a good salary. Another did long distance trucking. All of these are “low paying” jobs, yet in the USA they receive excellent salaries.

That's not poverty. Not even close.

You do not have a problem with this, because you do not fall in the top tax bracket. That is the “not me” phenomenon in action.

I probably will.

Again, you view any money an individual makes as a gift from society. This is not so. For a voluntary transaction (where there is no coercion) no one owes a third party anything.

Society enables that transaction to happen. What happens if people stop doing their jobs? Shops close down, infrastructure fails, and no one can get any work done. Those transactions can't happen, because people can't get in to work.

The qualities of Universities in these countries are much lower than countries such as the United States.

That's because the US put a lot of money into universities/research in the 1940s-60s, which attracted a lot of talent. It's self-perpetuating, for now.
The holiday server checklist
Not all PC speakers are junky. Logitech and others make some really good sounding products these days. If you're using an AV receiver most allow you to independently select your audio channel so you could use standard composite audio in or use a USB adapter for optical audio. (I use the one Turtle Beach makes and it works really well)
One designer not mentioned on this list is Jason Fried of 37 Signals. Basecamp is very useful. Web App designers don't get the attention of flashy visual designers but after repeated usage of an application, you really get a sense of how well thought out it is.
Agreed. The shooter would still definitely have to make local estimations of wind speed and direction, there's no way the app could get that data in real-time or in sufficient resolution.

My understanding is that the Coriolis Effect only comes into play at very long ranges. That being said snipers nowadays are more and more using heavy caliber (generally .50BMG) rounds and taking their shots at much longer distances than in previous times.

As an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Furlong
Rob Furlong made a shot against a target that was 2,430 meters away. At that range the bullet's flight time was just under 3 seconds! At that sort of range pretty much anything can affect the bullet enough to deflect it off target...
Why you need a steel wallet. (No, really)
MLB is the only sport that keeps full rights to their internet streaming.

The rest of the sports have traditionally tied internet streaming to their broadcast deals.
Have a look: http://www.gunatics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5003

Yes, there's some uncertainty, but I'd assume snipers are used to estimating or measuring these values pretty well.
Funny how much things have changed in the last couple years. Lately I just assume that any cool new app will be a Mac app... and I'm usually right.

This one isn't the exception, great app. Worked quickly and from what I can tell far, flawlessly.
GWT 2.0
Great user experiences are meant to fade into the background. This is a great example of something that they clearly put a lot of thought into, specifically so you wouldn't notice it.

Chrome has a masterful UX, and I'm curious to see if it continues to remain that way as the app ages.
No. It's ok, really. Just consider it another (more interesting) way of saying 'senior' or 'experienced' without implying any kind of age, years-of-experience or (worse) educational-level-completed requirement.
Thanks for the feedback! that's actually something we did after our contract with them, so it's no surprise that we didn't do that well :)
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A couple bits on the interface.

When the app starts I begin at the "Yves Saint Laurent" underwear with the fish on it. If you swipe from right to left, it advances to the next picture. If you swipe from left to right, it "bounces" indicating no previous picture.

Pressing the right button at the bottom of the screen produces the same image as swiping right to left. But pressing the left button loads the last image in the gallery, which can't be done by swiping.

It would be cool if swiping and button pushing worked the same. Putting the images in a "loop" would make it easier to get to an image that appears at either end.

Also, it seems as if the only way to view the images in the app is to swipe/push through them. It would be nice to have a screen that tiles the images like Apple's Camera Roll. Then I could just zoom in on the ones I found interesting.

Just my $.02
A friend of mine recently made me a duct-tape wallet lined with tinfoil. The theory is that this will act as a Faraday cage to protect my Mastercard with Paypass. I haven't tested it yet, but next time I'm at a Paypass place, I'm going to give it a try. Anyone have any idea if this is sound physics, or just paranoia?
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Yeah recently noticed, I fixed that now.
Reacting to Security Vulnerabilities
I'm running Chromium 4.0.266.0 and they are fantastic. AdBlock+, AutoCopy, Context Search, Del.icio.us Tools, Drag and Go...
People like it because lists are easier to digest than ideas embedded in prose. It's also easier to write, so it's a symptom of sloppy articles.
The GUI showing the supervisor tree is the appmon application, it comes with erlang.
You can start it by typing appmon:start() from the erlang shell.
Or you could set a regex in a proxy to replace the value="" in the server response to value="foo" :-)
Thanks, I loved it! Now this is my third fixed tab, right next to Gmail's and Joe's Goals tabs.
This account does nothing but post articles from ITWorld. This time it's to pimp a $70+ (!) "identity-theft preventing" wallet.
In placing the close button on the right, Google have assumed that in the majority of cases, users are going to be wanting to close the most recently opened tabs first (likely to be the ones to the far right of the tab group) and have accordingly placed the close button on the right. Why? Because not only does this give the user the ability to close a number of tabs in one go without moving the mouse pointer (which Safari does not), it also means that the app does not need to exhibit the ever-so-slightly less normal behaviour of the ‘delayed resizing’ in the most-common case.

I would also wager that while Chrome is available on other operating systems, it's probably catering to Windows users by keeping the close buttons (be it a Window or Tab) on the right where most user expect them to be. Similarly, Safari, more at home on OSX than any other OS, would cater to those users by keeping it on the left.

As for the slick behavior Chrome emits when working with Tabs, I'll admit I never noticed it. But maybe that just proves the author's point, "It just works!"
The only dropped DRM on a subset of their digital content. Apple still sells plenty of DRM-encumbered material.
Copper mesh lining is probably a better (and more flexible) alternative.
Did you ever actually sit down and talk to those kids in high school? Beneath their greasy veneer and scatological obsessions, a lot of them were pretty damn funny.
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Erlang Creator Joe Armstrong Wants to Ditch AJAX, Loves Chrome's New Web Sockets
My only gripe: I wish the tabs weren't on top. Though, I'm sure I'd get used to it.
I don't know how easy this would be in Chrome, but with Firefox + Jetpack, you get a full fledged Image Editor in 14 LOC.

However, the extension review process is the real pull for me. I've waited between 2 weeks and 2 entire months for my Firefox extension to get accepted, so I'll take instantaneous anyday.
Crockford is not the asshole at all in this situation! He kindly has written a json encoder/decoder and given it away for free (and is basically the reason why json is popular today) and these online booty call assholes (note that they are the assholes in this situation) are paying him back by putting all the load on his servers while they reap the benefits of his hard work.

Edit: Maybe I'm overreacting to your comment, but this stuff just makes me angry.
I use Mnesia mostly to store temporary distributed data. If you want to store persistent data with another database you can just replace the implementation module for libsave with your own.
libsave is my library for storing objects to disk.

So far I don't know how many users my servers scales to, with some rough test I can have about 2000 players in the same spot, I recently added a quad tree and with that in place I hope that will increase a lot if players are spread out in the area.
Behold the Ring Wall, World’s Largest Touch Interface (Video)
Not much info in this article.

Would have love to have more details of other consumer grade products they buy.
Can't you watch UT with rabbit ears?
At the risk of feeding the trolls, I don't think you really understand what this release is about. It's not about theming (which by the way we support the same theme blocks and parameters that Tumblr does and its trivial to use all existing tumblr themes with Posterous).

The bigger idea here is being able to autopost as a group, which has not been done before as far as I know -- it's great for team twitter accounts, for instance.

Falling on its ass is rather insulting, and also totally untrue.

Rory, please chill out.
It means use whatever technology you need in order to get the job done.
That sounds like a great DIY way of doing what this "steel mesh" wallet does. I have heard though that different RFID chips broadcast on different frequencies that render certain materials less effective at blocking.

Here's another great product catalog with far cheaper prices for similar stuff: http://www.idstronghold.com/
It's definitely not for everyone but I don't think it's as grim as you state. I use my HTPC as a computer and forgo the remote control & full-screen-centric interfaces. Anyone who can handle using Hulu, Netflix or iTunes can use it. It's just a computer on a big screen.
DOM Inspector in Firefox does wonders for quickly changing a field's value.
Know your competition.

I think that's the shortest summary of a mixed-bag of an article. And knowing your competition is mostly a marketing challenge, especially where the competition is virtual, like the NULL competition of non-consumption/non-use (of your product/service).
Ask HN: Reasonably priced video cameras for startups?
I am in the process of creating promotional material for my product's landing page. I'm a strong believer that people trust companies with names and faces, and I want to create a video of me giving the elevator pitch on my product.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a reasonably priced video camera? Something that will get the job done reasonably well without breaking the bank. (Or, can I get away with using my MacBook iSight?)
I admire Crockford, but couldn't he just block by HTTP referrer with a simple .htaccess file?
Doesn't optimizing for closing multiple tabs without moving the mouse increase the chances of closing two tabs when you only intend to close one?
To my eye the tabs in Chrome make more sense visually too. The tabs appear connected to the document being viewed and not to the address bar like they do in Safari.
You have to admit that Crockford's method is more fun.