skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I look at this site occasionally, and nothing seems to get done.

Also (pardon me if I take your good joke seriously :-) I don't see why we need planet scale RDF data stores. Instead, we need a very large number small SPARQL endpoints with some form of trust mechanism and a discovery mechanism.
Step 1. Find local group of entrepreneurs, ask them for a good lawyer to create startup.

Step 2. Pay said lawyer $500 to talk you through relevant options and pick the ones you like.

Step 3. Sign a pile of papers.

Step 4. A year later as your company changes pay same or different lawyer to bring the paperwork up to date.
This entire concept of "coming off as needy" and "TMI on a first contact is bad" is just depressing to me.

Whether it's true or not isn't what concerns me. What I find puzzling is that these are considered negative things. Sometimes totally self-reliant people can come off, to someone else, as needy. It's silly to make snap judgments like that without even speaking to them.

I adore people who are open. Openness is a quality that I think some people mistake for "neediness." I consider openness to be a very valuable quality. I think this would be a much better world if it was OK to be open.

The other day a guy walked up to me during a fair and said, "Oooo, damn, look at those legs." He was referring to some girl. I thought he sounded like an idiot, and could have said, "Excuse me, I have to run." Instead, I carried on a conversation and ended up speaking to him for over 2 hours. Discovered that I, a liberal, borderline hippie could easily converse with a former soldier who just came back from Iraq, on various political topics no less!

It was because we were both immediately open with each other, we were able to get along and have a great conversation despite each of our flaws (his gawking, my arrogance).

If someone writes you a sincere letter, I don't care how many of those you get, I hope you have the decency to reply, even if it's just to say that you're not interested. If you can't handle it, then what, may I ask, are you doing on that dating site in the first place?
The same two paragraph intro to the act copied from any HN post.
Do these 'sites' have journalists anymore or are they just a markov chain?
"Most users don't see a real distinction" is why Microsoft's design is so smart. It protects the user's privacy more often, without the user having to really think about it. And, at the same time, it lets users use auto-suggest for web searches, which is very useful.

I do agree that I am in a niche, in the sense that I care about maximizing online privacy enough to discuss it and try to improve it. But, privacy is not a niche feature, and people who don't know about privacy problems/solutions still deserve privacy.
haha if you had read our dry bios before you would have been bored out of your mind (or just stopped reading probably) - hopefully a bit of our personalities come out

re: telecommuting from S. America.. the only role open to telecommuting is the Developer Evangelist and it is 50% travel to developer communities in the U.S. -- for now. But when we're ready to address the Brazilian dev community (and others) I could see that working. I'm the hiring manager for that position, so if you're really interested you can email me at danielle@twilio.com
Sounds like an awful idea.
one day too soon
You should ask them about the big balloon and camera they use to photograph the world for Google Earth.
There is no doubt that many developers will use wkhtmltopdf.

I think that the Pdfcrowd's selling points could be 1) wide availability - only HTTP is needed so it can be used theoretically on any platform 2) no need to install any 3rd party software which makes the applications more portable 3) API bindings
Is it April 1st already?

Almost had me going for about 15 seconds :)
Does this mean it's now acceptable to put TL;DR in place of Executive Summary?
How many times have you deleted an email when you wanted to send one?
Where's the POSIX? This is bad example code.
OT: The site should really help to enforce such niceties. When you edit you should get a "reason for editing" box.
Announcing the First Emerging Languages Conference
Earth 100M years from now
Quickly switch to ALSA/OSS instead of PulseAudio
Actually it says the NSA illegally wiretapped a charity and two individuals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html

Bush is not involved in the lawsuit. He simply authorized the program. The title makes it sound as if he is personally affected by the decision.
Sounds good. If it works well, I'd love to see it become the new default on all *nix distros. It's about time some of these basic tools get updated for multi-core hardware.
The problem this approach is that you're not committing the same fallacy they have: you have dehumanized them by assuming bad things about them in order to make yourself feel better. Case in point: "they're not worth much as people".

How are they "likely" to be spoiled princesses with entitlement complexes? How do you know enough to make even a wild-ass guess as to their worth as people?

I understand your point about it hurting less, but I think it's an unhealthy track to walk down. Dehumanizing people is never healthy, regardless of the end goal. Not to mention by doing so you've sunk to their level.

Not to mention you'd be missing the entire point of this post: "	A real person, a lot like you "
Well, what is your preference then? "Please install this other bloated runtime from Adobe that actually DOES have a chance of taking over the web"? Or how about "here's the video that only 10% of the web users can see, runtime or not"?
What i don't agree with is that he focuses on the older generation, his mom, when the problems he describes won't exist as much for younger generations. His mom started using a computer past the point where it was hard for her to learn things. Of course it will be confusing to her.

Coming generations grow up with easy access to computers, and will know how to use them well. Eventually we will get to a point where very few people are computer illiterate.

Some anecdotal evidence. It took my mom 3 months to figure out how to make an itunes account, another few months before she figured out how to install an app. My 3 year old son had to show her how to play movies, on both the iphone and on boxee.
Interesting to choose a subject line pointed @ Bush, while Obama has had ample time to repeal the offending program, and has chosen not to. . .

This isn't democrat vs. republican, this is about citizen vs. gov't.
This has nothing to do with Google Maps, it's just a video about how the earth's surface looked from 500 million years ago to today and how someone thinks it will look in 100 million years. Their prediction seems to be today's map with lots of flooded areas, so maybe this is some kind of global warming propaganda.
Credit for startups: Still tight
Only 2?
This is REALLY useful when you are bundling AMI images.

When we changed NASA Nebula from XEN to KVM we had to tweak a few files in every image, this sped up the conversion by minutes per image.
http://socghop.appspot.com/
The dating site story left out the dozens of real losers who emailed her things like "hey ur hot" or "You might think I'm out of your league, and it's true that I make a lot of money, but I'm actually really into chicks with big legs." I don't buy the scenario that she got eight well-written, nice, well-targeted messages in a single day and didn't get at least that many messages from jerks. Unless she's got some kind of bizarrely good filtering set up, or is on a really, really niche site, those kinds of messages outnumber the earnest well-spoken ones. This is a case where tidying up an anecdote for dramatic effect completely changes its meaning. Her comment was probably aimed at the real losers in her inbox rather than the appealing ones mentioned in the story.

Plus, for a woman, being on a dating site is all about volume control. She probably only has time to go out with one new guy every week or month, so she picks the best guy out of the dozens of men who contact her every week. The rest are just noise. They're a boring and pointless part of her day. Calling them "losers" is unjustified, but none of them heard her, and she isn't obligated to spend an hour a day responding personally to every guy who emails her so he doesn't get his feelings hurt.
The sweet spot so far looks to be 25. The really fascinating data is slicing it up based on type of user, where they were referred from (Daring Fireball users will pay more than TechCrunch), what price they were shown versus what they want to pay, and of course how many blogs they have. There's also the clever guy from YC who put in -$500. :)
Parallel bzip2: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
Introducing The Do-It-Yourself CrunchPad Kit [video]
s/b4/before/g
The next parallelized compressor I'd like to see is LZMA. It's basically Lempel-Zip, like gzip, but with a much wider window (tens of megs, vs a few dozen k), and because it's dictionary-based compression it decompresses much faster than bzip.
That just shuffles who in the private sector gets the data to the IRS, although as long as they're successful they'll ensure the employment of more government workers to oversee the paper to digital capture system.

I'm talking about the necessary people, wherever they are, who then have to process the paper work, deal with random out of band requests, dun people who don't pay up, etc. etc.

That work has to be done somewhere (unless you prefer the model of Medicare with it's low, low overhead and insane level of bogus claims).
The corollary to this is that companies also need to treat their customers as people. Too often when I call customer service I'm talking to a robot who can barely speak my language well enough to coherently read the set-in-stone, no exceptions, this-is-how-it-is policy off of his computer screen. His claiming to be named "Bob" doesn't make him any more of a real human being to me.

And while I wouldn't be uncivil (or condone as much) towards "Bob," both sides of the conversation need to avoid dehumanizing each other. I wonder if the client in Derek's first example would have been such an ass towards
Sara if large companies hadn't preconditioned us to expect mechanical, uncaring customer service.
I only proposed getting rid of the state field, not the city. I have no idea whether cities share zip codes, but that seems a lot more probable than states sharing zip codes. And even if they did, unless that zip code also had two cities named the same, it would still be uniquely identify an address.
The idea of basing expensive audiophile equipment on unbalanced audio seems silly; if they really cared about quality, wouldn't they be using balanced signaling?
Creating Text Files Using PHP
This tutorial might come pretty handy to those who don’t want MySQL database to store their data.
Python Testing Tools Taxonomy
"How is it pronounced?"

Australians would pronounce it as "pig-zed". Just one of those novelties I guess... :)
Google Translate for Animals
Please not ;-) I don't want my audiobooks shouting at me!
those aren't required fields, if you don't like them you don't have to fill them out
also, already it's pretty clear you're going to have lots of people clamoring for new/more features... +1 for saying No.. a lot... somehow I don't think you'll have a problem with this :-)
Yes. Completely agreed; companies need to treat customers as people. Treating customer like annoyances, metrics or just "something to be dealt with" helps lead to customers who call up or contact you immediately on the attack.
I will start off with that to see if i can get anything.I have tried getting part time entry level programming jobs but they require me to do uni part time which i cannot do since am international student and have to be full time. Yesterday i went to a career fair hoping to find some companies that take in international students as interns but very few do. So i thought this might be the best place to ask for best places to get that experience.
I'm also developing an HTML->PDF feature and jumped when I saw this! I tried smashingmag.com - which is funny because i meant smashingmagazine.com but actually smashingmag.com is some japanese site. either way i got back a totally blank pdf - maybe japanese character set is to blame?

One other caveat is that having the ability to view flash would be awesome as well. main function of pdf as i understand it is to create a document that PRINTS completely identically on every setup, so frequently people are going to want to print flash, which is already a huge pain in the ass. Unfortunately it looks like it blanks out completely if there is flash on the page (2advanced.net)

if you could solve that i would start paying tomorrow.
It's in FreeBSD's ports:

/usr/ports/archivers/pigz Parallel GZIP
I'd hate to be the reader doing 5 different takes for the entire book, from whispering to shouting my lungs out for hours!
How do you code on the iPad? Programming books are not novels, imo, you need to pause every so often and try things out ..
Yes, absolutely. That's why I never fill out the To field when writing an email that I'm not sure I should send.
I am just curious, why not implement this within gzip instead of forking it out as a completely new project?
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
I inwardly cringe at the approach of this day every year.
Already April 1st in the UK.
Unless, perhaps, they have memories of watching Monkey during their childhood:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)
The allegations were initially based on a classified document the government accidentally mailed to the former Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation lawyers.

The classified document saw the light of day by accident. There was also a whistle blower for the Folsom St. wiretap, where in 2003 AT&T granted the NSA complete access to all voice and data communications going through the building at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco. http://libertyalabama.com/loeverate/posts/23-AT-T-Whistleblo...

I can only wonder how much we haven't found out about.
There are tons of unpaid internships in the US. It's not illegal at all.
Theoretically, you'd need to separate the tonal part of the voice and the noise part. The tonal part goes up/down, let's say, one octave at a time and becomes louder or quieter. Pure whisper is essentially only the noise part. The separation routine should look into the spectrum: the tonal part must look like narrower bands, while the rest is noise. Tonal transformations may be more complex in reality than just multiplication, but the simplest transformation might work OK too.
So, what's going on, is that one of the dimensions in the game world is getting switched out for a fourth dimension. The visual transformation that you see isn't very clear about what's going on, and I guess it's basically not possible to be clear about this in a rectilinear coordinate system.

I'll try to explain. At 0:12, the game world has 3 axis, aligned with the sides of the blocks. By convention, let's say the vertical axis is the Z-axis, that the one going up and to the right (on the screen) is the X-axis, and the one going up and to the left is the Y axis. There's also a "hidden" axis, which I'll call the W-axis, which can't be displayed (for obvious reasons).

At 0:13, the player switches out the Y-axis for the W-axis. We can no longer see the extent of objects in the Y direction. However, we can now see the extent of objects in the W-axis direction. For example, in the XY-plane, the ground was all green, but in the XW-plane it looks stripped with green and brown. This means there are a series of XY-planes sitting "next to" each other in W-space, alternating in colors. The character was originally sitting on one of the green ones. Now that the Y-axis was switched for the X-axis, we see X-axis "slices" of these XY-planes, arranged along the W-axis.

Note that the big rock structure is located on the W-axis only in the XYZ 3-D "slice" that the character originally occupied. The character then proceeds to move the wooden ring along the W-axis to a different XZ-slice, where the rock structure isn't in the way.

At 0:18, he switches axes back to the XYZ plane, although this isn't strictly necessary. You'll notice he's now on an XYZ slice that, in W-space, has brown ground. The rock structure isn't in the way because it's on a different location on W-axis than everything on-screen (it's displayed as transparent, for reference). He moves the structure along the X-axis, past the rock obstruction. He then switches back to XWZ-space, moves the wooden thing back along the W-axis again, and switches back to the original coordinate system.
Not that these don't need to be discussed, but personally, I'll rather keep such topics out of HN.

Slashdot and perhaps Digg etc. are more appropriate forums for discussing such topics.

Just IMHO...
The list of characteristics you are pulling out is different than the list the OP listed. Which are competitiveness, aggression, focus on the game, and fair play. (I score 1/4, I have a strong sense of fair play.) And my opinion about the OP is based on comparing the characteristics that mattered to him versus my professional knowledge of what matters in software development.

As for your opinions of me, you're projecting from rather limited data. Let me give you some more data points. 3 of my last 5 jobs were at small to medium startups. (I was only at the 4th for a few months before getting an offer from Google, which is the 5th.) Of those one sold for about $80 million, one sold for over $400 million, and one is getting by reasonably well. (Admittedly it won't sell for anything like the valuations of the others.) Now it is impossible to say what the contribution of any one person is to a gelled team, so there is no reasonable way of quantifying my individual contribution. But the two that sold sold for around $4 million/employee, and the founders of all three would be happy to write me a glowing recommendation any time I asked saying that they thought I was a key part of their teams.

Furthermore if I was unwilling to participate in something new, then I wouldn't have jumped at a job at Google, working with a whole mess of technologies that I've never worked with before.

I submit that a process for hiring developers that won't even consider people like me is somewhat flawed.
The title is correct, the Obama administration did not wiretap these lawyers, the Bush one did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes#Google_TiSP

It's not quite April 1st again, is it?

:p
Apple Just Refunded the $12.00 iPad Expedited Shipping. PIC
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

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New Zealand Politicians Want To Explicitly Outlaw Software Patents
I would guess "pigs", as in "adding cores makes pigz fly" ;)
I don't have experience with the Berkeley XML DB. I have used the BerkeleyDB 'Java Edition' (a different codebase and on-disk format) for multi-GB spill-to-disk queues and maps/sets.

The BerkeleyDB license is roughly: free to include in open-source projects, pay if you want to redistribute as part of a closed-source product. So like with the GPL, using strictly inside your company might not be considered 'distribution'. But also, if you are selling software licenses their bundling rates might not be bad compared to your unit price. Of course, do your own license analysis before business use.
There were (and still are) two things kept me from being at all interested in the JooJoo.

The first is that the hardware design is ugly - the back of the device isn't very well thought-out, and looks like a cheap plasticky thing made by second or third-rate industrial designers.

The second is that the software seems like just some warmed-over thing based on X-Windows (a technical nightmare) and Linux, and that there's very little original stuff there, unlike the iPhone OS. No app store? Not interested.

It doesn't make sense to pay $500 just to browse the web via a Linux-based tablet, when the iPad does so much more.
Happy users carry me through the day of work.

I'm so not missing my corporate job.

BTW, I have forums over at http://geetasks.com, stop by to say "hi"!
Thanks for correcting me and pointing me to that. It was a newbie, when it comes to "flag", mistake.
In case you're curious, the Table of Contents are listed below:

Copyright

About the Author

Preface

Part I: Models of Designing

Chapter 1. The Design Question

Chapter 2. How Engineers Think of Design -- The Rational Model

Chapter 3. What's Wrong with This Model?

Chapter 4. Requirements, Sin, and Contracts

Chapter 5. What Are Better Design Process Models?

Part II: Collaboration and Telecollaboration

Chapter 6. Collaboration in Design

Chapter 7. Telecollaboration

Part III: Design Perspectives

Chapter 8. Rationalism versus Empiricism in Design

Chapter 9. User Models -- Better Wrong than Vague

Chapter 10. Inches, Ounces, Bits, Dollars -- The Budgeted Resource

Chapter 11. Constraints Are Friends

Chapter 12. Esthetics and Style in Technical Design

Chapter 13. Exemplars in Design

Chapter 14. How Expert Designers Go Wrong

Chapter 15. The Divorce of Design

Chapter 16. Representing Designs' Trajectories and Rationales: In collaboration with Sharif Razzaque

Part IV: A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses

Chapter 17. A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses -- Mind to Machine

Chapter 18. A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses -- Machine to Mind

Part V: Great Designers

Chapter 19. Great Designs Come from Great Designers: Not from Great Design Processes

Chapter 20. Where Do Great Designers Come From?

Part VI: Trips through Design Spaces: Case Studies

Chapter 21. Case Study: Beach House "View/360"

Chapter 22. Case Study: House Wing Addition

Chapter 23. Case Study: Kitchen Remodeling

Chapter 24. Case Study: System/360 Architecture

Chapter 25. Case Study: IBM Operating System/360

Chapter 26. Case Study: Book Design of Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution

Chapter 27. Case Study: A Joint Computer Center Organization: Triangle Universities Computation Center

Chapter 28. Recommended Reading

Acknowledgments

Bibliography
I clicked the link and tried applying a discount coupon (even though it was free...) and it just sat there.

Interesting. It just sat there after I filled out my info and clicked 'purchase' too. I'm in chrome.
Then don't turn the volume up that high?
But given a sufficiently complex code, you can execute from unexpected places. Sometimes even without any bugs involved:

http://blog.didierstevens.com/2010/03/29/escape-from-pdf/
In Gmail? Zero, because you can undelete.
Sivers.org hasn't loaded for me in a few weeks now :( Anyone else?
Be sure to let me know what you think of GeeTasks, as can be seen at my forum http://geetasks.com I always answer all inquiries.
Notice how the Mediterranean appears to have become a mountain range. If it is propaganda, it's not very smart, as sea levels are supposed to rise over a few centuries; after millions of years, anything could have happened.
The TouchBook looks like it might be a worthier contender: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

Cheaper, at least, and can be used as an actual laptop as well. Its biggest weakness is that most of the interface is still clearly designed to be mouse-centric with touch as an afterthought. As much as I hate to buy into a walled garden, I don't think anything will catch up to iPad's UI/UX for several years at least.
It depends on your goals, I suppose. If you want something that clearly converts well you should use what people found to work as a good starting point. But if you want to please some guy named Matt then you should clearly strive to be original.