skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I beg to differ. Twitter is a block away from me. Within 8 blocks:

* iskoot
* slideshare
* rapleaf
* wikia
* ubisoft
* google
* gogrids
* pivotallabs
* technorati
* dropbox
* justin.tv
* engineyard
* heroku
* socialcast
* heyzap
* yammer
* sauce labs
* shopittome
* zenddesk
* gigaom
* twilio
* bigtent
* topsy
* scribd
* quantcast
* cnet
* lolapps
* videoegg
* snapfish
* instructables
* currenttv
* vark
* Sega
* Dolby Research Labs
* zipcar
* kink.com

It feels rather hublike to me. That is just a small subset of the tech companies in my neighborhod that I happen to know about.
the more tools for git the better. it makes for a healthier and broader ecosystem.

i notice that you can choose either
1. free 30 day trial
2. pay for license
3. free non-commerical license.

what does it mean to not use smartgit commercially? does that mean i can't use smartgit for projects i'm paid to do as a consultant? what about for my startup which currently has 0 revenue? or is this simply "pay for support"?
Steve Jobs on Successful Founders- Persistent, Passionate, and Talent Scouts
OT, but can we send a damn probe to Europa already? I want to know if there's liquid oceans there, and if so, do they harbor life? It's in our freaking solar system, for crying out loud!
If anyone has any questions about the program or the mentor network in Seattle please email me at andrew {at} techstars.org.
The password prompt is for a passphrase to unlock the private key. It's standard to encrypt the private key using the passphrase to provide some protection against the loss of the key.
How to reduce our carbon footprint
In Asian culture the women prefer lighter skin and see it as a sign of beauty. It's not that Unilever is saying non-white is a problem, they're just tapping into the cultural belief thats already there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorism
Have Job Boards Jumped the Shark?
>> "It's very appropriate, at least now I know what brand of ice-cream to never eat again."

There's nothing worse than the silly internet knee jerk reaction. Boycott first, ask questions later. It was a franchise. Jeez. And TBH it's up to them who they serve. Just like Hulu 'bans' non Americans.
As far as I can tell, the websocket pieces of Orbited were only in v0.5.0 and didn't make it into the latest releases. Am I wrong?
what a fucking douchenozzle
Insomnia Symptoms Linked With Medical Complaints in complaint
Much as I hate to diss my poor suffering state all you need to look at is the five terms of Detroit mayor Coleman Young if you want to see poor leadership.

Time magazine said he is 'singularly responsible for the demise of Detroit'. San Francisco's leadership could be better, a lot better but it has a ways to go before they reach the level of Detroit's mayors and city council.

Here's a sample from a council meeting less than a year ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqOSNI7l0bQ

How many of the San Francisco's mayors or council have been imprisoned for selling influence?
It's not hype, it's real. I have had my Korean date get pulled out of a nightclub in Vietnam because they said they don't allow locals. When we said she was not Vietnamese (she didn't even understand English, much less Vietnamese) the brown-shirts started demanding a foreign ID, which she carried with her, but the whole experience was too sickening for us to stay in and we left.

It gets ridiculous in the hospitality industry. In some fancy hotels in the middle-east, you will be harassed if you don't look sharp/rich, except if you come in wearing nothing but a towel and swimming trunks :-) I used to stay at friends' houses and everyday go swimming in the fancy 6-star hotel for free; I pushed my luck repeatedly, sometimes carrying with me water-pistols and pool toys. No problem, because no sane "arab" would be seen in speedos. The sad thing is that their pools go unused for the whole year, they're just expensive water tanks for display.

If I walked in dressed in my normal clothes, I would be harassed, asked for a foreign passport, and told to put down a credit card number .. depending on how expensive the car I came in was. But when I flash my junk and my hairy back, I get free complimentary cocktails, pool-side, uncarded.
So, what's an example of a big city in the US that's run exceptionally well?
not a bad tutorial, but i feel like this is more a demo of jquery's cycle plugin more than a lesson on code reusablility.
Any chance this is a hoax based on a photoshopped image? "... the outlet’s franchisee ... started claiming there never was any restriction on anybody entering the outlet." Maybe they were telling the truth?
Appify: A City-by-City App Store (Aditya's startup)
Could you diff a healthy genome and several cancerous genomes and come up with the offending commit? Can someone give me more background on the ins and outs?
I have read the article, but the noise puts pressure on HD to put the guy in check. I shot them an email with a link to my reply :-) tweeted as well.
If it is like the other tools, then the free version has less features.
Chrome for Mac: The Experience is in the Details
I'm pretty sure this is true in Australia too.
"What SmartGit is?"

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah. :(
I too would like to hear more about the aforementioned site. I skimmed the article but section #3 caught my eye as I was hoping for more details on your success.
You would be able to help direct capital to those businesses requiring it, thereby maximizing the benefit of investment to society. The stock market is not a lottery.
What happens when every surface is a 3.0 computing surface?
What will that world be like? Just take a second and try to imagine.

3.0 Computing =
Something like an inferential Google. What is now called the semantic web.

Surface =
SmartPaint that acts to make solar powered voice/touch-sensitive web-connected displays ubiquitous.

What do you think. Impossible? Inevitable?
It is a sign of beauty, in the sense that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's not unreasonable to give the customer what they want.
In Hong Kong Haagen-Daz sells an icecream on a stick. It's packaged in a plastic wrapper inside a paper box. I bought it once and when I finally got through all the packaging the actual icecream was half the size of the box it came in! What a rip-off.
Super-Earth: Newly Discovered Planet May Have Water
its nothing like hulu 'banning' non americans (or spotify 'banning' americans), they are both legally restricted by license holders.

I agree about the knee jerk reaction though
GRE
Anyone have any comments on the best book/software/websites for getting ready to take the GRE's.
Here are a few of my favorites

Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"
Henry Ford

Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgments
Mark Suster

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Tom Watson (IBM)
Gratuitous over-packaging in Asia is not really meant to rip you off, it's meant to make the product upscale. There's a strange subconscious feeling that anything lacking fancy wrappings is somehow worth less.

Serving sizes also tend to be much smaller in most parts of Asia, compared to America anyways. But then again, serving sizes in America tend to be much larger than most other parts of the world.
Great article, key points:

o In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

o Success here is measured by profit per employee, adjusted for capital intensity.

o What matters is its relative "share of customer value" in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

o The greater your share of differentiation is the greater your bargaining power with business partners is.

o The lower your cost to produce that value is, the bigger your profits are.
How do they know what it's made of? How do they even know the density?
> The atmos in the Bay Area is part of the reason SV is where it is.

I don't think you addressed evgen's point - Let's assume that the atmosphere in the Bay Area is part of the reason SV is where it is (having read Steve Blank's "Secret History of Silicon Valley" I'm not sure I'd agree) - to refute his point you would have to show that San Francisco is indeed a tech hub. Otherwise it could be the case the the tolerant attitude of the entire Bay Area caused SV to happen where it did, and San Francisco picked up its reputation as a tech hub because it is in the area and shares the atmosphere, even though San Francisco itself had nothing to do with the tech hub forming. I suppose you could argue that San Francisco and its history were indispensable in forming the Bay Area atmosphere and attitudes, but you did not say that.
It's a pilot franchise, their first in Delhi. Do you know how much coverage remote franchises get at the HQ? I worked for Starbucks as a lowly barista and we received photos of new baristas from every corner on earth. Corporate HQ takes the Delhi franchise very seriously. In business today, you're either in China or India. So I don't buy for a minute that the franchisee's actions are his own. It reflects on the entire brand. If they wanna do business in India they better respect the people there.
Zynga and DST talk about their big funding deal in social games
LOL. Read the comments and the India/Pakistan conflict goes global over the internet.
First the facts:

> Here’s what the researchers discovered: barely one-fifth (21%) of employees are truly engaged in their work, in the sense that they would “go the extra mile” for their employer. Nearly four out of ten (38%) are mostly or entirely disengaged, while the rest are in the tepid middle.

Now the unwarranted conclusions:

> There’s no way to sugarcoat it—this data represents a stinging indictment of the legacy management practices found in most companies.

It does? Why? Maybe without the managers, employees would be even less engaged.
It is intellectually interesting that someone would be this stupid.
And why exactly would one of India's leading newspaper's online blog post this? And who exactly would have anything against a single HD outlet in Delhi?
And the link to the official release is...
it bugged me, so i removed the zsh dependency. thanks for the feedback. ;)
I wouldn't know (to sell ads? a disgruntled former employee?). But it seems to me that an awful lot is being based on just one image here. And images are easy to fake.
Computer Modern.
2010 to be 'year of conflict' in mobile
GPLv3 explicitly says that you can link to the source being available elsewhere ("may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party)"), but if that server goes down, you have to come up with a new link. And of course, that only works if you're using the package unmodified; the source you link to has to be the source you compiled.

So it's not as if the FSF isn't trying to make things reasonable.
Check out Episode 50 of 'The Universe' -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29#Se...
Making Life Suck Less (While Building Scalable Systems)
When Minimalism Backfires: When Too Little Is Not Enough
So do we! We won't wait until then to start giving back. We just sent in our contributions, both from FC and personally. We've gained a tremendous amount from Rich--happy to play a part in supporting him and Clojure moving forward.
I wonder how much a single banner add would cost if you guaranteed that every user of Facebook would see it at least once.
My e-marketing Christmas present - Joke of the Week Annual edition
I read in the economist a few years ago that Atlanta is run well. Though they were comparing it to New Orleans.
It's not hype, it's real.

You're all over this thread, talking about how big a problem it is. Have you considered the possibility that you grossly exaggerate the issue? Maybe people are hateful racists, maybe they're just trying to make money. In the long run, greed pays the rent and racism doesn't, so you have nothing to be upset about except the timing.
Sounds like it will get there eventually. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...
No more so then a customer seeing an exception in a program written in C++.
Take a look at the homepage: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

Crime, gossip, celebrity news. This may be a big newspaper, but it doesn't look "leading".
Justin.tv Testifies to Congress about its Copyright Protection Systems
Same thing with halogen vs xenon car lights. One of the reasons xenon kits are illegal in many countries, they lack wipers and xenon lights can't melt snow (they usually also lack lenses, hence they dazzle other drivers).
Focus on one thing only: results. What I did, who it was for, why they needed it, and what they accomplished with it.

What of the developer who works on something ambitious that ultimately flops and becomes a total write-off for the company or client? What of the developer who coasted along doing nothing on a team of people who built some billion dollar product? What of the developer who can't really itemize their contribution in dollar amounts because they don't have the foggiest idea how much in dollar amounts they contributed, apart from how much they charged for their time?

Failure on a project is not a communicable disease that spreads to other projects through developers; success is likewise. Failure is so common that a developer without decades of work experience runs a non-negligible risk of not having a big success. And having a big success does not predict with a high degree of certainty future successes.

To add to the trickiness of this problem, we can't just tell people "sniff out projects that smell of failure, and avoid." How would they know? Developers are not clairvoyant, so the solution to this is to use heuristics. Some of these heuristics are unique to one individual who got burned in some particular way. Some are as ubiquious as development best practices. Either way, they can be wrong for a particular context, or sometimes wrong in general but kept in peoples' minds by inertia and repetition.

This is a harder problem than just quoting dollar amounts, and assuming that zero net dollars means zero talent. I can't help but think that when someone can put on their resume "Built a site that made $x million dollars," it may be as much a reflection on their luck of being at the right place at the right time as it is on their ability to execute after finding themselves there.
FOSS: How Did 2009 Shape Up
Poll on the site:

Do you want Steve Jobs to approve the app?

- No - Sorry, the No button doesn't seem to be working.

haha

(Full disclosure: I clicked on "Absolutely")
I hate unnecessary packaging of any kind. Especially when theres so much of it it becomes a struggle to get through. Unfortunately I dont think its limited to Asia.
Michael Seibel starts at about 21:00 and gets a very nice introduction for how much everyone else seems to want his blood.
Rackspace Chooses reMail (YC W09) To Bring Email Search To Its Customers
The gist: spectrum analysis of light that passes through the planet's atmosphere from the system's sun compared to light that doesn't pass through the planet's atmosphere. They look at what light bands the planet's atmosphere absorbed. (IANA astrophysicist, learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_spectrum )
The conclusions are supported toward the end: that 86% of employees love or like their job, and that they have serious problems with management:

Only 38% of employees believe that “senior management
[is] sincerely interested in employee wellbeing.” Fewer
than 4 in 10 agree that “senior management communicates
openly and honestly.” A scant 40% of employees believe
that “senior management communicates [the] reasons for
business decisions,” while just 44% believe that “senior
management tries to be visible and accessible.” Perhaps
most damning of all, less than half of those polled
believe that “senior management’s decisions [are]
consistent with our values.”

Calling that a "stinging indictment" seems warranted.
Comparing CDN Performance (Cloud Front, GoGrid, SimpleCDN, Cloud Files)
Along those lines, the moderncv package is excellent.
They do spectroscopy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy
Good books include :
1. Barrons GRE
2. princeton review
If you take a look at the top ten worst list Perot Systems was ninth and Dell was at the bottom.

Seeing as how Dell was acquiring Perot a wag suggested that it was a good culture fit between the company's ;<)
I don't really see why there's an issue with restricting something to tourists only. That's pretty usual. It's often not a popular thing to do, but I can see why companies do it, and I think they should have the right to decide.

Locals should also have the right to setup a competing shop that only serves locals and not tourists :/
Well, in the article it says there are 30,000+ mutations, so narrowing it down to the specific ones caused the cascade of other mutations is far from trivial.

A VC system with a corrupted database silently wrecking everything that touches it might not be a bad metaphor, though. (I've had it happen with Perforce. Not fun.)
Study vocab using spaced repetition software like Anki.
Two words, choose your pick:

1) jailbreak

2) android
Good point! Although with around N > 25 you're OK. See: http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/binomial.htm
The Times of India is probably closer to TMZ and the National Enquirer rather than the NYTimes or the WSJ :)
Hey Phreanix,

Do you have Javascript disabled, by chance? JS and Flash are required to display the product configurator.

I did some looking around, and I can't find another way that you might have arrived at this link (unless perhaps the JS did not initialize correctly).

If you still have trouble after ensuring that JS and Flash are both available, drop me an e-mail at scott@weareinstrument.com and we'll look into it right away.

Thanks!

- Scott
Well my point was that this isn't really a problem caused by hashed email addresses as much as it is a problem with using email addresses in general. Even if Gravatar used something to completely hide your email address - if you use the same email address in different places your gravatar will be the same and you've compromised yourself, regardless of how they stored them.
Seems to be a theme emerging here: http://www.nycway.com/
This is awesome. Price is right too, in my opinion.

The biggest value to me is to be able to upload and use my own photo; I don't care too much for the existing art, not that there is anything wrong with your selection.

Uploading the photo was easy and resizing and centering is easy and intuitive.

Couple things, though:
When I submit my uploaded pic for approval, it just spins indefinitely.

Also, when I was centering my custom picture on the phone, the picture filled the entire area of the phone, but not the entire "print area." I don't really get this. If the pic covers the whole case, how does this not cover the whole print area? It wasn't originally clear to me that the blue dotted square is the entire print area.
"Why, in one of the richest, most beautiful cities in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, are there large numbers of feral humans roaming around?"

Maybe because in other cities in the country those "feral humans" would simply be allowed to die off (or even helped on their way to extinction).

I've read that this is how NYC has "taken care of their homeless problem": they simply let the homeless die, which is quite easy to do in NYC during the winter by forcing the homeless to sleep outdoors, where the weather is much more deadly than it ever gets in San Francisco.

Also, it's pretty clear that many (if not most) of the homeless people in San Francisco are mentally ill. During the Reagan era the mental institutions were emptied, and the mentally ill were basically thrown out on the street. It's possible that San Francisco just has more mentally ill people than your typical American city (maybe because of the prevalence of drugs in the city, I don't know).

That's a lot of guess work on my part, but I've yet to hear a better explanation for why there are hordes of homeless in SF.

Saying that these people are "just lazy" because of their dependence on handouts and would just "get over it" if the help was taken away is just the sound of resentment without an ounce of compassion or understanding of the people who are really suffering.
I've been waiting for better git GUI tools to get git going amongst friends who are less terminal-happy than I am, so this should definitely help.

That being said, I feel perfectly fine with just a terminal.
From what I understand though there are some assumptions made based off the readings to arrive at the description we have? As in the same spectrum differences could mean more than one thing?
I disagree with the base assumption that a manager's job is to make employees engaged or inspired. A manager's role is to cause work to be done (by other people). Effectiveness of management is measured by productivity, not surveys.

More generally, there's a tendency to conflate management and leadership. Management is about operations and efficiency and production. Leadership is about inspiration and engagement. The two are related, to be sure, but distantly. Certainly, if I'm engaged, I'll work harder. But inspiration alone isn't going to streamline workflow, or increase accountability, or acquire the right tools, or choose the correct problem to be solving in the first place. It's not even going to do that great a job at keeping people on task and in scope.

To be sure, engagement is a useful quality. But first, it's not a necessary one, and second, it's not the role of management. If it's anyone's role, it's the role of executives. The ones with vision making bold statements and sweeping changes, not the ones down in the weeds doing the tactical work of maintaining the metaphorical tubes of work in the plumbing of productivity.
So, this is a little unexpected but here's my thoughts on why we're building appify: http://bit.ly/5ploPT and our official launch post: http://bit.ly/7D7owH

It's still early days for us but we're looking for anyone that's done a local app, because we think there's an incredible amount of exciting stuff happening there and our goal is to give as much exposure as we can to as many local and civic minded developers as we can.

So if you're a local app developer, please feel free to add your app, and/or get in touch (email in profile)!
Do you mean to say that there are plenty of fanboys who will go to great lengths about how great the AppStore review process it, that is to say that it is without flaws?

Because in all seriousness, I haven't seen any. Even hardcore fans of Apple universally acknowledge that the AppStore approval process is broken.
Best websites:

http://www.drrajusgre.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=15

I'm sure ETS isn't happy about this, but some test takers in India regularly post actual GRE quant questions to these forums.

http://www.quizlet.com

This fantastic site lets you create your own virtual flashcard sets manually or from other people's sets. Once you've got your sets there's a variety of study games they have to help you learn your words. Theres a couple high frequency GRE word lists here that you can hack up into manageable amounts and work through progressively.

Best book: Barron's

I also have a few helpful .pdf's I found during my studies. Noisedom@gmail.com if you want them. Good luck on your test, I take mine in January.
Linux System Monitoring Tools
Single page view:
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/12/16/ulocates-where-is-t...
Right you are (it was without a title line, so I missed it).

Also, my way of putting it was much scarier, since we have already built lots of radar stations. :-)
Websocket has been coming for about 12 months. Most of the spec was sorted out months and months ago.