skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the catch, I write code, I do models and controllers, and services, and figuring out methods and interfaces etc. Handholding a designer that doesn't know anything about layout to me sounds like a developer needing a secretary to actually do their typing / run their IDE etc, worse yet not even a secretary because at least it's actually their role to act as an assistant. Say a systems administrator instead, they have knowledge of how to use keyboards and software and things, such details are unnecessary for the formulation of good software engineering, surely this can simply be skipped .

That's utterly crazy on the face of it, so why is it ok for designers to waste the time of developers?

For literally hours on end it is several million permutations of "move it 2px to the left, no, right, no, up, no down, I mean right align, I mean center, I mean split it, I mean add that element, I mean do this, do that" and worst of all "What do you think of x" like I have any opinion on the aesthetics / presentation of any given site. I simply couldn't care less, aesthetics and design do not appeal to me in any way shape or form; that's why I'm a developer and not a designer.

Isn't this one of the primary reasons we even have frameworks that have a seperation of concerns between presentation and logic? So that the artsy but code illiterate types can mess around at the surface layer without messing up the code? Is it really so much to ask that the designer just mess around in the view layer till their heart's content? It's in version control, it's not like they're going to permanently break anything. Yet I find it a sisyphean task to convince these people that they need to know this stuff and not to bother me with it.

Meanwhile, I get no code written because a designer can't figure out the simple semantics of html/css, basic version control and mess with firebug for themselves.

So no, I don't think it's ok.
I think Andrew is getting better and better at asking the hard question and persisting til an answer comes. Keep it up!
Apple isn't the only one suing. This is just one more lawsuit, see also http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/an-explosion-of-mob...
You discount the power of being lazy.
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Hint to others: Nab the good usernames while they're still around.

I'll put up a profile and see what happens, as I'm not having much luck searching for people with my taste in books. I see great potential.

I'm debating putting my profile name into my HN profile. . . .
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Fuzzy logic can be useful when combined with a frequentist distribution for doing natural language processing (e.g. how many people would refer to someone at height X as "tall"?).

It's really just a special case of Bayesian inference: p(A calls B "tall" | B is a 6'1 man) is a combination of what you know about who is called tall in general and what you know specifically about who A thinks is tall. Unfortunately, for some reason many linguists don't like thinking in these terms, so it is easier to communicate with them using fuzzy logic vocabulary than Bayesian inference.
Yes but what happens when you have 10,000 amateurs taking sunrise landscape photos for every professional doing it?

You still might not pick an amateur photo for a calendar, but you'd probably pick it for a background in an ad.
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change
really? I mean I suppose it depends on the person. Personally, I find being on the receiving end of obvious flattery to be distinctly uncomfortable, and I'm beginning to get a fair amount of that myself. Personally, (and I think this might be true of most people who are primarily technical) if a less experienced person wants my help, the best way to get it is to ask an interesting question in a way that shows you have made experience-appropriate progress solving the problem yourself. (That, or offer to work for me for cheap.)
I would love adding something like Scheme.

The reality is that 95% of the programmers are not ready to such a choice :)
Does your site intend to be US-only?

It wants me to enter 5-digit Zip code, insists on that even.
Back in the ATLAS days it was a drinking from the fire hose system.
It couldn't handle all the data so it sampled what you hoped was a random sample of it. So if you looked at 1% of the output and found N particles you could assume that there were 100N produced.

There was some cool hardware being built back then, transputer arrays and a lot of hopefully experiments with FPGAs. One difficulty was that you needed to get the computers close enough to the detector to keep the interconnects short, but not so close that the chips got fried.
You're glossing over the complexity of configuring email solutions. Though I'm not entirely certain if you're only advocating web hosting on a VPS with mail through something like Google Apps for Domains.

Things like Exim and Postfix are non-trivial to setup correctly and very easy to screw up the configs, at least in my experience; though most of the time that I've tried to configure them I was trying to get them to do non-standard things (like redirect all outgoing emails to non-whitelisted -- through a pattern/regex -- email addresses to a specific mailbox).
The single best message from the interview:

Simple things done well.
It's extremely clear that you have not developed in Flash. Flash isn't an extension of the CSI interface, so no, it doesn't do anything "for you". Please, don't wax your "knowledge" as fact. You know exactly what I mean.

I do agree that Flash is used when it is not necessary.

However, on the flip of the same token there are those who would have you believe that you should use JS when Flash is a clearly better choice.
For a while I've been trying to think of other fields where this will happen. iStockPhoto has already expanded into stock video, stock illustrations and stock audio (environmental and music). It's also clearly happening with written articles and perhaps even entire books.

What's next? Software? 3D models?
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Elan's multitouch product, the Smart Pad:

http://www.emc.com.tw/eng/tpn_sp_fun.asp
Seventeen arcs in that graphic and five of them are wrong per the March 5th correction.
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Perfect ... a patent clusterfuck :)
It's about time we had some of these.
In the long term I do want to own my own business. Don't care about making millions: as long as I can pay the mortgage and afford good food, upkeep the house, keep the kids fed & clothed, I'll be happy.

In the short term I focus on making the most of what I have right now. Like you said, it's easy to get suckered into "I'll make a ton of money right now so I can relax later" but later never comes! Much like it's easier to fix your own faults instead of blaming others, I find it's easier to make the most of the present instead of pipedreaming the future. You can still plan for the future: just remember that live turns on a dime.

As far as your comments about the Maker movement: I have always loved to make things and I was really perplexed that it's now a "movement." I've been reading magazines about crafts, boatbuilding, metalworking etc. and been surrounded by people making things for so many years that I guess I just assumed there were Makers all around us :-) I wonder if the "movement" is really just among knowledge workers who weren't aware just how many of us still actually create with our hands?
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Facebook doesn't have paying customers. Also, most Facebook users access it for personal use. A lot of people access/use Dreamhost for business purposes. I'm sure there are a lot of PHBs that have access to Dreamhost accounts because they feel compelled to micromanage everything (or just PHBs that make the 'requirement' that the password is recoverable).
It's happening in London. There are pigeons who ride the London underground for years now ( http://london-underground.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_london-und... ), and here's a recent photo of a fox on a London Underground Escalator. http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/805065-tube-fox-tries-to-take-a...
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To start, we are US-only. We are running as fast as we can to go international. Mostly has to do with legal stuff.
Ok, nice to know that you are aware that 5-digit Zip code doesn't cover all possible locations.
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> just stating that you are getting discount hosting and to offer that, this company needs to keep expenses low.

Maybe I missed something in that thread, but IIRC the original poster said that his Dreamhost account was only for domain registration. How does that translate into 'discount hosting?' Back when domain registration cost $75/year from Network Solutions, they were still known for horrible customer service, IIRC. Paying more money for something doesn't necessarily mean you get better service.
We experiment with adwords from time to time, but most of the ads you'll see are run by affiliates.

In general Adwords has never paid off for us.
And this is sad. I realize that there's a reluctance of programmers to learn scheme, but someone needs to step forward and help people see the light!

What about defining a simple LL(1) grammar on top of tinyscheme and allowing both scheme and the Algol like language. Semantics would be scheme, syntax then is the choice of the programmer.
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This probably sounds like obvious advice, but if you run a social app that sees some success, you're going to meet a lot of people. Some of those people might be attractive members of the opposite sex. There may be mutual interest on both ends, but you must think twice before pursuing. Odds are, it won't work out, and now you just lost someone who was passionate about your app. Nice job.
You should try their IDE on a medium sized project (a Facebook.com/Odnoklassniki.ru game will do). It's no picnic.

Flash IDE has the bullet points, but TextMate/Vim/whatever can actually edit code. That is, there exist specialized workflows to solve problems Flash IDE is trying to solve, and they work better.

Adobe documentation is integrated into the IDE, but HTML5 documentation is far and wide abundant (and in my experience actually accurate and intelligible most of the time).

It's easy to whip up a quick project with Flash. But most of the life of software projects is spent in debugging and support. Good luck with that.
At the same time, browser tech will enjoy Firebug/Inspector/SpeedTracer, and specialized asset creation workflows, in many cases leading to a more professional looking (and working) result.

And yes, Adobe would do themselves good by getting on with browser tech tools, while they still have the chance.
It helps a lot to up the limit of open files in the smallest instance. I've not been able to produce enough load to max out the smallest instance running lighttpd and serving small files from ramdisk. 10.000 simultaneous requests and the server is still pretty happy. For application server though the medium is much better but for serving static files, el-cheapo is enough.
Patience Diff Advantages
Because in an interview late last year (no link handy, sorry), Sony reiterated its commitment to Linux on PS3. Why would they pull a 180 within months of making that announcement?
Why use lisp when you can use ASM?

Fuzzy logic is not about creating actual intelegence just a quick and dirty aproach that happens to be useful. When selling bread makers you are vary limited in your development budget and the HW you send to people. So yea it's overly simple add hock solution but it's also cheap.
I would be very interested in any register that supported at least SMS for multi-factor authentcation, hell I wouldn't even mind having a real token.

The Apache Software Foundation has had some issues in the past with guys trying to hijack apcahe.org -- same thing, password resets on our registors site, etc, but luckly we noticed within a minute, and were able to talk to a human being on the phone quickly.

But I still really really want multifactor authentication for registers :|
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Sounds potentially pretty cool.

From a developer's standpoint, though, I'm hoping there's a way to swap in the appropriate debug player. What would be even cooler would be if the new plugin API makes it easy to write an extension to allow swapping of plugin versions (a la Flash Switcher for FireFox).

If nothing else, it looks like they're making it easy to disable, so one could install the debug player manually, and switch between them by toggling the inbuilt-plugin enable in Chrome.
Thanks.

The feedback on HN and in private email has helped.
Attenborough and crows in the crosswalk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
You already see that with software both GNU and non-GNU. The internet means that any good that can be reduced to bits on the wire will become widely available at low or no cost. And it's not just piracy, but competition between substitutes that cost almost nothing to reproduce. Automated fabrication means that this is beginning to happen to physical goods as well.

What you see happening is producers competing against all other producers in their field, past and present.

Uniqueness, originality and authenticity become the premium values for any creative work.
> he feels there is a high chance of "something happening"

Where did he state that he feels there is a 'high chance?' If I encrypt my hard drive, does that mean I feel there is a 'high chance' of law enforcement coming after me and that I must be doing something 'bad?'

> The fact he is running sites that want to be anonymized

WHOIS records are only 'supposed' to be used to contact the site admin, etc. That said, when my WHOIS records were public I used to get a ton of junk snail mail. Especially from other domain registrars or 'protection services' wanting me to jump on board with them. The fact that he doesn't want his phone number and address connected to a domain doesn't mean that he wants the domain 'anonymized.' He just doesn't want someone to be able to Google his name and get a phone number and address.

> Don't put up home in the ghetto.

So the fact that a person wants a site to be 'anonymous' means that it's by definition a sleazy site? What about a forum for abused women? Should the site admin be forced to be contacted/harassed by possessive (and potentially violent) men that are trying to find where their girlfriend/wife that ran away is?
I'll edit and post this tomorrow (Wed, March 31).

He's a great interviewee. What I'm finding is that entrepreneurs who write frequently make the best guests because they know what they believe and they know how to express it.
At $500 dollars, you might be paying for the framing, printing, and matting, plus the fact that the artist might be well known in the community and has people buying his work. Or they are just unreasonable.

But I would hope there are local artists with more reasonably priced artwork.
Maybe they just have pre-defined talking points they can regurgitate so they don't need to spend much time thinking on camera?
Well, I guess your passenger/apache is not configured right to deliver the generated static files without using ruby or passenger besides your MaxInstances/PoolSize options.

I remember some issues with passengers and page caching (on nginx e.g.) which needed some tweaks.
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Great idea! I'm also considering a survey engine for Mechanical Turk tasks. If you have more input, feel free to contact me. (too bad HN doesnt have private messages)
I use a VPS too, but even $19/mo is significantly more than DH -- I pay $119.00 or so for yearly renewal, which evens out to almost $10/mo. A VPS is $100 more per year, and if you're not using the host for anything more than having a web host around for storage, etc., as I do, it's not worth the extra $100 or the extra time spent in proper configuration.

Dreamhost is fine for what it offers. People hopefully don't think they can really run something big and serious on $9/mo, but it's a good easy out for people who just want some web space.
Uhmm? There's furniture there, one of the lines from the article actually commented on them having just bought a conference table, and the pictures in the article show desks.

Am I missing the point here or something?
Given that MO is a customer via their 'stack-exchange' program (http://stackexchange.com/) I don't see that as becoming a problem.
What's funny is that the phrase itself is something of a tautology -- fitness in that context is basically having whatever attributes contribute to survival, so the phrase ends up meaning "survival of that which survives best" or even simpler, "survival of the survivors". Survival is the only measurable quality of fitness.

The other thing that can be confusing is that the timeframe of the statement is infinite. It's not saying "that which is still alive today is the fittest", but rather "that which is still alive infinitely far into the future is the fittest".
It's not strictly necessary, tail recursion is enabled in Pharen (http://github.com/scriptor/pharen) by compiling it into a while loop.

By the way, the docs on that page are way out of date so if anyone is interested feel free to contact me.

EDIT: I'm an idiot, for tail calls of course it's a bit more complicated than just using a loop.
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I can vouch for dotBen's recommendation. I recently signed up with a VPS for the first time a year ago for a site I'm still in the progress of building. There are a ton of step-by-step guides and how-to resources that make getting up and running relatively easy and painless. You'll be overwhelmed by the options you'll have access to, but there's really only a handful of decisions you need to make to get started. Go for a Managed VPS and you don't even have to worry about keeping up with system upgrades and such.

There's of course, the added reward of having learned and accomplished something new.
This seems to be a good list for anyone using Python in their research, not just social scientists.

I used numpy for all my numerical analysis homework. The professor always lauded me for having the most concise code in the class.
That isn't the only problem addressed.

Misinterpretation and/or abuse of statistics is prevalent in scientific literature more often then you would think. Repeatability, consensus and peer review are good ways of minimizing this problem but it is still true that any random paper you open on say arXiv or even a standard journal is probably going to contain some form of abuse intentional or not.

Is this a serious problem? Mostly in those fields plagued by low confidence results and heavy approximations being made but it exists in all levels.

The article is rather alarmist though for my taste.
I don't mean to be rude but I agree with nickpp's comment. I don't know what the research says about this but I have observed that people say they feel "happy" when they experience any kind of big change in their life. One goes from being a materialistic junkie to a greenpeace activist; another goes from being a treehugger to a money-crazy serial entrepreneur. Both feel released from their old identities.

People crave change at some basic biochemical level and that's what makes them "happy".
One thing to note is that there's a ton of selection bias: noteworthy findings get published, non noteworthy ones do not. Therefore scientists will submit papers containing noteworthy findings.

If you do 1,000 experiments in your lab, and
(a) absolutely nothing interesting happens;
(b) you get a naturally noisy dataset on each, and
(c) you write up only those phenomena which would occur randomly only 5% of the time

... you will submit 50 articles, each of them claiming something noteworthy, and all of them false.

Perhaps there are a few actually noteworthy things that were discovered in your lab. ...in which case in addition to the 50 BS papers, you'll also submit 1 or 2 that describe some real effect.
I love the way we take monopolies away in one hand and give them out in the other.

I'm glad Apple have so much spare cash that they can afford not to have their arms twisted on this, and can afford to fight it, or negotiate it, or pay any fines or settlements.
Smart! The are other sites with book info too. We should look at their APIs.
$168k for a CEO of a 1-20 person company seems like a lot to me. Maybe I'm just naive.
I think that this takes the "nuclear bombs" metaphor for patents to the extreme: once one party begins using them, everybody begins tossing them around.

But I think that the more these lawsuits show up, the clearer becomes that patents are really against innovation, so in the end it could be a good thing for those hoping in a patent laws reform.
15 years ago, when I worked for one of the first ecommerce startups ( OpenMarket.com ), one of our founders was quoted in Fortune that the reason we didn't have any chairs in the conference rooms was that it "kept meetings short".

In fact, the chairs just hadn't been delivered yet, and the journalist missed the joke.
One thing that Tcl, Perl, Python, Ruby, et al have going for them is that they are "promiscuous" in that they tend to play well with C, and other systems. Lisp and Smalltalk are capable of doing that, of course, but there seems to be much more of a culture of "turtles, all the way down", where that sort of happy-go-lucky interaction with the rest of the world is not always looked upon positively.
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All of this suing goes to show how patents harm, rather than help innovation. Let the engineers decide which technology is best, not the lawyers.
There was a company called Sprowtt at 2009's TC 50 that wants to do this.

They don't seem to be up and running though: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2009/sprowtt-marketplace/
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Agreed, which I find somewhat of a paradox. Questions w/easy finite answers are generally easy to solve via a Google search (for example, the most points I've earned are from answering 'how do you copy a python list'), and the more complex questions that should have answers along the lines of "well it depends, you could do 1, 2, or 3" have one accepted answer that isn't the best solution for the context I'm working in.
I would agree with you that to a certain extent people crave roles that can give them an identity, like that of treehugger or entrepreneur. But I also think there are people who genuinely happy with either one: like many of the people posting comments here, I think genuinely want to start companies because they enjoy the thrill of starting something, not just to be an entrepreneur or company president.

The same goes for those who choose to embrace a more simplified lifestyle or whatever related to sustainability.
Government spending Pie chart in the article is a oft repeated lie. They don't include "trust fund" payments like Social Security and Medicare in it. Why? It's $1.89 trillion. But that doesn't count for some reason.

Anyways, better source is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budg...