jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Vaguely -- being better at 'information processing'.

If you think about a typical person's browser bookmarks -- it's a mess with no hope of ever catching up, prioritizing and sorting. My project could help with that :)
Indeed, but here it's something that has two well understood prices. One, currency, which doesn't change over time, and two, gold, which fluctuates but generally increases over time. And despite being composed of these other things it has a third almost-totally-unconnected price related to artificial scarcity! I think that is super neat. It may also signal that humans are totally insane, but no matter.
Whoa! Totally!

Ahh, and I see now why it would have been so hard to author - it was based on motion capture.
I never tell my current salary in job interviews, you can only lose. And I never request this information.
What's also interesting is that some people reading HN cannot tell the difference between << public domain >> and << BSD licensed >>.

It's as if just because it's BSD we are talking about, you can break those 3 conditions at will. Not surprising actually, since some Linux kernel devs have also been doing it.
I thought alot about "Ofcourse, you should always dodge the question to let them give a number first" and I'm not sure this is true anymore.

Even Jack Chapman from "How to make $1000 a Minute" (highly recommended) is not sure any longer.

I currently tend towards telling what I want (because I want above average), it might be better to wait if you consider yourself sub-average.
Sorry I only could upvote you once :-) #classic
> I dunno about you, but I'm currently living in the climate, and intend to remain here.

There is no credible scientific analysis that indicates we are likely to suffer the effects of irreversible climate change within our lifetime.

>The general public's knowledge of climate change is the same as it was 20 years ago? Seriously?

It's probably worse; because it is full of misinformation. Their awareness is certainly higher; don't confuse the two!

> Look at household recycling as an example of public-opinion-driven change - how long did it take to go from the fringe to where it is now? and how feeble it still is compared to where it could be? How many people actually bother, compared to how many people understand? etc.

Actually a prime example of my point; that was all political point scoring as well. The main problem with recycling now is that the waste is simply not processed well with much of it still going to landfill.

You also may be forgetting the horror stories of the late 80's of mounting piles of rubbish we would face in "the near future". Obviously, shock tactics had an effect there... ;)

> and that we have barely enough time left to make any impact at all

This is not what the current scientific work is saying. We have plenty of time, assuming of coure proper action is taken in the next 10-15 years.

Of course; it is not yet known if we are able to stop climate change entirely or whether nature will simply force it upon us etc. Still more work has to be undertaken in these areas.

We simply do not have enough information to predict where things will end up. Action now has to come from the assumption changes will have to be made - and taking appropriate, rational steps.
I'll be the first one to sound the 'correlation is not causation' alarm over and over. After all, maybe the social issue is getting enough people to protest because society is already on the verge of change, rather than society changing because of the protests. Protesters may be getting the causation backwards. However, there's some evidence that protests are helpful in causing change.

My favorite study to establish a directional causal link looks at policies enacted after protests, accounting for the effect weather has on protests. The weather is presumably random enough to not be related to where society is, and it affects protest turnout, which lets you connect protest turnout to policy change causally. It's not definitive, but yeah, there's decent evidence.

I disagree with the other poster who is suggesting that marching is a necessary step for change, but it does seem to be a useful instrument for it.
FWIW gdb can record (sometimes) https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProcessRecord/Tutorial
Why you don't just retire or go in a sabbatical? Getting some distance will make this easier.
But most Mac apps will link against Cocoa…
I remember an old game developer mentioning that they put a test for flaky cache memory in their installer and hacked up an error if it failed. Which significantly cut down the number of support calls.
I did it a little over two years ago. I had a pretty high paying job, low-stress work and desire to make a difference. I definitely miss my fat paycheck but love my freedom of experimentation, learning and doing what I believe in. I learned a lot about building a company from the ground up, but most of the miseries could have been avoided. I had to learn most of this the hard way, which might have been easier when I was working in a big corporation. These are my learnings and may not be right for everyone:

TL'DR: Product is more than just code. It's building something that people love and would pay for. Learn marketing, sales, storytelling. Connect with folks who are not like you.

1. I should have built a network outside of my immediate circle. I am an engineer and my entire work network was engineers.

2. I should have identified some of the best folks in sales and marketing and learned from them. It is easier to know who are the best folks in your company and know them. It's easier when you are inside the company. They can also help you identify/interview other sales/marketing folks in their network when you need to hire them.

3. I should have learned how software products are evaluated, sold and bought in my company. Just a hint, the quality of the product has little to do with whether it will sell.

4. I should have learned the importance of UX design and why certain UX design decisions were made. I should have spent more time talking to designers and learn how to evaluate a good designer.

5. I should have talked with engineers outside my organization. It helps to broaden your horizons and understanding the challenges.

6. I should have understood how business development works and learn how they talk. Most of the sales decisions are made by folks who might not be using the product you are selling.

7. I should have identified who are the M&A folks in my company and understood how the process works. These folks are well connected and usually know others as well.

8. I should have learned storytelling from some of the amazing PM's that I worked with. Some of them were startup founders. I should have tried it internally and improvised.

9. I should have learned from their story, their mistakes and what they could have done differently.

10. I should have learned to talk less and listen more in discussions.

11. I should have spent more time, validating ideas when I had all the time and more money. Some of the groundwork can be done when you are already working as long as you are not building a product that competes with your day job.

12. I should have spent more time reading/writing. You'll spend a lot of time writing emails/ specs in addition to code.

13. I should have taken YC summer school when I was working. I learned a lot when I took it this year.
The President who has arguably undertaken the most aggressive campaign against information leakers in the modern American politics is going to do something about this. I agree.
I never understood the fascination with asking an applicant about minutia of data structures and algorithms. Isn't that the domain of reference material?

I gain much more insight into a person by asking them to describe a large system they've designed, what choices they made, the effects those choices had, ect. How did their initial assumptions hold up through the course of the project? How did they adapt to changing requirements? These are the things you can't find the answer to in 30 seconds on stack overflow.
I suppose if you're a network engineer http/udp/tcp is necessary to know maybe off hand but not really, http isn't even in the same network layer so I'd find it strange to even ask about the 'difference'. UDP and TCP differences are more or less a well known question but even then I've had some ask the question expecting the most basic of differences and others with the minutiae.

btree index is also something that can be learned conceptually in about 10 minutes.

It is far more important for me to see that someone can explain a project that they've worked on in the past with enough details to demonstrate sufficient technical knowledge than a litmus test based on somewhat arbitrary facts. 'don't know what lsof is? Not hired, I don't want someone who can't use shell'
Looking forward to that day myself! When you're grown up and married, a startup is a different problem altogether. There's a kind of negotiation with the spouse (mine anyway)... she agrees to let me do this, I agree to do it in a way that causes minimum financial disruption. That basically means I don't get to quit the dayjob (that I loathe more every day) until I'm generating a functional income.

The need for a financial transition led to a pivot from bootstrapping to seeking funding, and the realities of seeking funding in my limited bandwidth led to a pivot back to bootstrapping, with a greatly scaled-back scope. I think I'm in a much better place now, with achievable goals. But it's hard... in practice, I'm getting about 1/3 the productivity of working full time, at best.
A lot of Vimmers have this exact problem. Vim has thousands of features, but each person ends up using / loving a couple dozen. The problem is, it isn't the SAME couple dozen so for an emulator to make any significant subset of Vimmers happy requires implementing thousands of features.

This is why all attempts to clone Vim end up failing, and why even amazing implementations (like Evil) fall short when that ONE muscle memory you depend on is missing.
> The assumption here is that perpetuating English and French stereotypes is morally equivalent to doing the same to black American.

But it is, that is the essence of a stereotype. If we take out the ethnicity factor and go into personalities your argument is the same as saying that it is embarrassing and damaging for Librarians to be labelled as boring and strict, for Managers to be labelled as conniving bastards and idiots, for Artists to be labelled as always high on drugs, for Nerds to be labelled as outcasts and acne ridden.

I consider your argument flawed in that stereotyping will always have an element of "there's some truth in your fiction and some fiction in your truth".

Fiction and Fact are two completely different things. It's a good thing many people appreciate fact.

> This is tantamount to saying "I have a right to perpetuate racially-based stereotypes, despite any claimed or real negative effect they have, because my ability to be funny depends on it."

Not just my ability but also that of the Film Industry, TV Productions, Stage Plays, Books, Music, which all continue to use any form of stereotyping for good or bad.
So I just upvoted all of my critics. Fair points all.

That said, from a personal perspective, even though I'd like to I can't create more time through force of will. I could create more productive time, say, by developing the ability to worry less about stupid shit. But, ironically, my experience is that the best way to do this is to do occasional meditation, to relax more (and more purposefully) from time to time, and in many ways to take the exact opposite of the author's advice.
From comments DarkShikari gave (http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377), it looks like the format was frozen as soon as they released it, so that talk of "improving the format" is rather dubious.
A particularly long line perhaps?

I suppose that must have been one way to be passive aggressive in cuneiform.
We're far more concerned about a candidate's ability and flexibility to adapt and learn than degrees, certifications, etc.

Some of our employees hold PHDs and/or Masters degrees, others (like me) don't even have a Bachelors.
It doesn't affect the NSA because the NSA never brings criminal charges against people, so they don't have to worry about a defense attorney getting their evidence suppressed.

If you aren't familiar with suppression of evidence, here is an intro to the Exclusionary Rule: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1585
If the meetings are worthwhile, they don't need to be mandatory. Quarterly company review? Ok, make it good, and I'll be there. Mandatory is used to excuse bad meeting making. Mandatory safety meeting? Ok, that's one of your two.

Yeah, the rules are different for founders, etc. More meetings, more availability, etc.
@zura: yes, it's running on Cordova, but we'll move to React Native as soon as we're comfortable with it (we're using React right now, although the iOS version is still on Angular).
I love the idea of running entire VMs from ram.
The online apps don’t have 1:1 parity with the desktop software. For example, Word Online doesn’t allow creation of custom Styles, and Excel Online doesn’t support Pivot Tables.

The subscription model you are thinking of is called Microsoft Office 365 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_365).
or if you prefer watching instead of reading, watch Douglas Crocford talk about JavaScript early years in this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg
I use (Mac) Excel for a niche but handy purpose: as an editor tool for the game I'm building. Tabular data files for my game are stored in the (easily parsed) Excel 2004 XML format. There aren't really any similar, generalizable tools that are more modder-friendly and I'm not going to sit there writing YAML/JSON/XML to fill in stuff like "this wooden sword costs 10 coins" because there are vastly better things to be doing with my time.

I could use LibreOffice, as it supports Excel 2004 XML files, but Office is cheap enough and LibreOffice annoying enough that it's worth my time to just use the real thing rather than run the risk of a psychotic, gouge-my-eyes-out break from the still-horrible-in-2014 LibreOffice UX.
Thanks for making all your code available! I've used ircfs and httpd amongst others and it's also been a great reference of Limbo to look at.

I go through phases of doing as much as possible inside Inferno and it would be much more difficult without your contributions.
Haha, thats almost as cool as mine ;)
Oh, I'm so glad they've changed the former name (was Nimrod).
Member of the streaming team here. We're using a modified version of nginx-rtmp for HLS and RTMP and Icecast for WebM. There's some information about last year's setup in the 30c3 Infrastructure Review talk: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5609_-_en_-_...
That's a pretty moronic way of looking at it.
No but it is the trajectory of the future and it's very practical. I'm not saying there aren't oddball cases that will require new and delete, but for the most part, it simply isn't necessary.

As for the citation, if you are immersed in the C++ community in general (going native, c++ now, subreddits, irc, accu meetings, etc), it's the general feeling.
30+ mins
Osgiliath framework available on Maven Central
https://blog.osgiliath.net/?p=338
I'm proud to announce the General availability of the Osgiliath framework on the central repository!
Take a look at the <a href="https://blog.osgiliath.net/?page_id=224">presentation</a>, the <a href="https://blog.osgiliath.net/?page_id=272">documentation</a> or even the <a href="https://github.com/Tcharl/net.osgiliath.hello">Helloworld</a> sources on github for code Snippets.

You'll not be disapointed if you come from the EE world, but will learn some more cool stuff coming from OSGI!

<H1>A framework to rule them all!</H1>
李连杰
http://ent.163.com/special/00032GLM/movie_weekly15.html
功夫之王
Cloud Throw Down: Part 3 
http://compositecode.com/2010/11/08/cloudthrowdown-part3/
Now we’re going to throw down on something that I’ve had more than a few requests for. I’m going to break out and get some charts, graphs, and price differentials on AWS and Windows Azure. This throw down entry is going to be nothing but money, money, and more money. Have any guesses yet how this one is going to come out? Well read on!

Relational Database Storing 1 GB to 50 GB

This comparison may shock you. The two primary products from AWS and Windows Azure are AWS RDS, or Amazon Web Services Relation Data Store and SQL Azure. The following chart shows the initial cost at 1GB of storage in each, and then the progressive increase in price as we scale up to 50GB. There is one thing to add here, that at 50GB SQL Azure stops, so if you have more than 50GB of storage you want in a relational database, you don’t even have an option in SQL Azure. But let’s just take a look, and then I’ll go through and explain the pricing and declare the victorious.
IPhone paper prototyping kit
http://www.uxpin.com/mobile-kit.html
"Great devices deserves great apps. And we know you can make them. UXPin provides you with the first ever complete paper wireframing tool for iPhone.
You'll create amazing things with your kit - no doubt here. Just stick user interface cards to the iPhone on the notepad and enjoy app creation time.
It's all in your hands."
Sinatra and postgresql perform on a heroku stage tutorial
http://www.kylembrown.com/programming/sinatra-and-postgresql-perform-on-a-heroku-stage-tutorial
I documented a tutorial that acts as a primer to Rails. It covers building a web blog using Sinatra, sqlite database, git and the twitter bootstrap locally on a MAC and then deploying to heroku and migrating to a postgreSQL database.

I could not find a concise detailed tutorial so I combined several from around the web.
Ask HN: What are the best Hacker News tools and visualizations?
Googling proved not very effective for me, so perhaps we could start a collection of the best resources? Examples would be apps for accessing Hacker News, statistics about the rise and fall of articles, and so on.
Lanyrd (YC W11) seeks UX and visual designer to work with us in London
http://lanyrd.com/about/jobs/designer/
We are looking for a senior Graphic and UX designer to join our team.

Lanyrd ( http://lanyrd.com/ ) helps people get the most out of conferences and professional events. We serve a growing community of attendees, speakers and event organisers who use us to discover new events to attend, meet the right people while there and catch up on the slides, notes and video from the event afterwards.

We’ve recently announced our seed funding and are now concentrating on building an excellent team and developing our product further.

We are looking for an excellent web native graphic designer to join our team. Someone with a real creative flair, knowledge of user experience and information design and a deep understanding of social software. You will be happy getting your hands dirty; from scribbling on the whiteboard, sketching wireframes and thoughtfully detailed user flows to creating beautiful visual designs.

You will be working in a small team, so everyone gets involved in every aspect of the product. You’ll be working alongside talented developers, collaborating as your designs take form. In addition to helping invent new features for Lanyrd, you will also be involved in maintaining and updating the look and feel of the site and ensuring an excellent user experience throughout.

Enthusiasm is what we’re most interested in; you will have proven experience and a portfolio to prove it, but we want our team to be passionate about what they do.

In return we offer a competitive salary, 25 days of holiday (excl public holidays) which increases by one day per year up to a maximum of 28, a shiny new laptop or iMac, and a generous training budget.

If you’re interested, please send a covering letter, CV and portfolio to jobs@lanyrd.com
A proof of concept exploit for Sunway Forcecontrol SCADA Heap Overflow 
http://www.signalsec.com
A proof of concept exploit for Sunway Forcecontrol SCADA Heap Overflow Vulnerability. //
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-vBzY77Aeo
Nasıl kilo veririm
http://kadininsesi.net/nasil-kilo-veririm
Obez olan herkesin okuması gereken yazı
Easily connect to Mobile Money
https://github.com/fordarnold/codeigniter-yopayments
A CodeIgniter Library to interface with the Yo! Payments API
The Mind-Reading Machine
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/the-mindreading-machine
Veritas Scientific is developing an EEG helmet that may invade the privacy of the mind
10 Geeky Accessories Celebrating the Iconic Hand Cursor 
http://mashable.com/2011/11/13/pixelated-hand-accessories/
Take a look through our image gallery celebrating the hand-shaped pointer. Let us know in the comments which items you’d like to have at your fingertips.
Show HN: My two weekends project, LoggingNotify.com
Recently I accumulated a few Google App Engine instances to maintain, and I found myself wishing what if the instances could notify me when something goes wrong, then I don't need to log into each and everyone everyday just to check the error log.

So here it is: http://www.loggingnotify.com. It uses a wrapper class to send logging message from your instance to loggingnotify, which then emails you. I can make an iPhone app or add statistics later if any one has any interest in this. Also the wrapper class works only for python(like Django, GAE), but a Ruby or Java version should be very easy.
Obviel - client-side web framework build on top of jQuery
http://blog.startifact.com/posts/older/obviel.html
It looks interesting because it's simple and clean. Furthermore it's build on top of jQuery which you are suppose to use.
Show Spacecalnyc some love
http://www.spacecalnyc.com
Show spacecalnyc.com some love. Vote here: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I+vote+%23spacecalnyc+for+%40spaceapps+People%27s+Choice+Award!

For those who are still reading, I along with few other guys developed an app during a weekend hackathon and made it to the finals. There is a people's choice award which we are contesting on (currently 5/160).
If nothing else do visit the site, I've put the link up there, I am sure just like me you will learn something new.

Again, show us your love :)
New startup looks to change the art world.
http://www.prinnnt.com
With a dedicated team focused on promoting artists through an online platform, Prinnnt was created to fill a gap in the creative industry. Working with artists from Toronto to California; Prinnnt's goal is to create high quality, collectible prints. Artists enjoy creative freedom when working with us by working in whatever medium they choose. By maintaining an 'above and beyond' standard of quality, Prinnnt has become a destination for all things print.
Sr. Web Application Engineer Opportunity
http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?bj=o5rSVfw3&s=Reddit
Centro's technology team is building web applications for streamlining digital media planning. Our apps are built with SproutCore, Ruby, Rails and Postgres, but you don't have to be an expert in those to come work for us: We're looking for talented developers and designers with experience building great web applications in any language. Extra credit for Lisp or Smalltalk experience, as we find these languages correlate with the type of folks we enjoy talking to.

Centro is the #1 company on Crain's 2011 "Best Places to Work in Chicago" list, and for good reason: Developers get an annual training budget to allocate as they see fit on conferences, classes, books or anything else they can talk their manager into. Fridays are "build something cool" days, where you can go off-sprint and work on whatever you think makes our products, processes, or development environment better.
The Wheels on the Bus Make Startup Ideas Go Round and Round
http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2007/10/the-wheels-on-1.html
Rick Segal on why it's important to get real and think about how normal people will interact with your idea and incorporate it in their lives.