skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want cheap and healthy food?
Eat organic (cost more) but cook yourself and grow your on condiments.

Cooking yourself it's a no-brainer, and you know exactly what you are eating. Also I have on my patio all the herbs and few vegetables (I live in a urban area in Miami, don't think I have fields behind my condo). When you go to the store you pay $3 for a couple of springs of sage, when you could buy a sage plant for $3 and keep using it all year long. And the money you save you can reinvest it in more healthy (and more expensive) food.
I interviewed with a company that had the same standard of conduct: no dev work outside the company, no matter what. I did not take the job and I am so very glad.

In my opinion, the work that most companies offer are challenges, but not very interesting ones and the no-outside-work clause would prevent me from taking on a spur-of-the-moment challenge outside my particular development area that might actually lead to some self-improvement.
Actually, that link says it only applies for work done on company time, not outside of it.
I wish I could, but actually I don't know. In the next months I will surely investigate all the viable options.
Using the apps nets you stuff like notifications, file uploading and chat.
After using JAVACC for a couple of years I switched to ANTLR. I found it slightly harder to learn but easier to use than JAVACC.
you'll get better results with beer ;-)
It may be largely unenforceable, but there's nothing preventing them from hauling you into court over it to keep their legal counsel entertained and to drain you of your savings. I can say from experience that this is a less-than-desirable outcome.

You've wisely chosen to not ruffle any more feathers there. Just behave and get out when you can.
That was a good (if old) presentation. I worked for a few years in the entertainment industry (Nintendo U64 and PC games, virtual reality projects for Disney and SAIC) and it is an experience that I can recommend to any computer scientist because there are so many interesting problems to solve. Anyway, if you can take a few years off from whatever career path you are on, you will enjoy the experience.
Emotional Interface Design
I'm seeing grayed out tracks on songs by Freddie Wadling, Eva Cassidy, Dione Taylor, Lee Hazlewood, Tupac Shakur, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, U96, Land Shark and Moby to name a few.

But you're right: all in all they're growing which is great.
Of these, I have read, at least a significant portion of:

- C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- The Mythical Man-Month
- Programming Pearls

The last two were due to one undergraduate CS professor assigning them.

If you feel you've almost gotten OO, but not quite, then Refactoring is a great book. That one lit up the "ah ha" lightbulb for me.
Some good signs in a job description:

Send us your resume in raw text format. Word resumes will be discarded.
Experience with an OO language (Java, C++, etc) is required.
In your cover letter, tell us about a non-mainstream technology you love.
There are a lot of rules and regulations, and you can't just fire somebody in Germany. So some kind of rules are needed so employers can defer to when they want to get rid of an employee.

In many cases when an employer wants to get rid of an employee for a reason that isn't covered by the employment contract he has to request permission from a local judge (small claims court equivalent)... and even then the judge can determine an outrageous "termination fee".

So although the rules like these look draconian, they're sort of needed to keep the power between employer and employee in balance.
Just wondering, if vegetables were cheaper than corn, would McDonalds invent a vegetable bun with a small token pancake slipped in with the meat?
Emotion homophily in social network site messages
I don't understand why Mantis isn't better known in the programming/CS world. Then again, I'm also a former Cincomer.
With no Mac at hand, I'd like a native app for Linux, instead of wine stuff.
Craigslist Adult Services Listings to Generate $36 Million in 2010 (Estimate)
Sure, I believe that no person should be conceived with the deliberate intention of one or both of his/her genetic parents* playing a fully meaningful parenting role in his/her life.

*or gestational mother in the case of a non-traditional surrogate
"Do examples in the book use ANTLR?"

Yes. The book is "saturated" with ANTLR. I wouldn't buy it if you don't like ANTLR. Also, (purely imho) it spends too much time on the front end (lexing/parsing) and not enough on the rest. I have yet to see good books (other than DCPL or L.I.S.P) which uses a simple concrete syntax (s-expressions say) and focuses on the rest of compiler building.
Well I slept less than 5 hour per day and got a result totally reversed from what they said, thanks to my high metabolism
Food is tied to a nations security. If you haven't read Omnivore's Dilemma (http://www.worldcat.org/title/omnivores-dilemma-a-natural-hi...) I highly recommend it. Michael Pollan, the author makes a much better and convincing argument.

Imagine having no Farm Policy and we end up having food shortages, there would be a revolution.

Personally, I try to buy/eat as much local organic food as I can and experiment by growing food indoors.
I'm sure my local fish&chip shop needs the same treatment as Apple and a Formula 1 team.

Oh wait.
If you can't walk a mile wearing it, it isn't a jetpack.
Actually I assured them that this will never be the case. I've done this before and never took time from other companies. I don't even check my startup email while I am at work.

Given the kind of apps I develop (as of now) it nearly impossible that someone will need urgent support.
No. It's the same as on the HN frontpage: article title, link to the article, and link to the comments. This is what a feed item looks like in Google Reader (GR): http://i.imgur.com/Imyw9.png

GR's search functionality is pretty useful. I sometimes mark articles I upvote here on HN in GR, too, so I can search through them in the future, if I need to. I don't know for how long GR saves fetched articles of a specific feed, but if you mark them, they'll stay there forever. At least I hope so.
I don't think that's true at all, if anything they claim rights to all your ip -- and thus have a process to relinquish it. steve wozniak goes to hp and say i invented this computer do you want it, or can I start a company with it. In general it's better to have them sign away their rights to your ip before you start working on it.
These are interesting numbers. This posted teaser says:

Worldwide shipments for 2010 will reach 11.40 million units, up from 3.82 million in 2009

If you click through the ad for the paid report (goes here: http://www.digitimes.com/Reports/Report.asp?datepublish=2010... ), it has a neat index, prefaced by:

Digitimes Research estimates that in 2008 worldwide e-book reader shipments were only 700,000 units, with Amazon and Sony being the major vendors.

(so, Y/Y 2009 = 5.4, 2010 = 3)
You can write one yourself using the libspotify:
http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/
Serial prankster admits to Kate's party hoax
It is totally ridiculous - they cannot bar you from coding in your spare time. Instead of having a "startup" have a "hobby". Don't say a thing to anyone you work with about this, find someone else to be the public face of your "hobby" if you get to the point you need someone to do that, and by no means use your employer's time or equipment to work on your "hobby". Also IANAL, and you should talk to one, stat.
Cassandra NoSQL Database Gets Commercial Support
I wonder how hard it would be to port the WebOS userland to run on QNX. That could turn out to be a pretty awesome platform for RIM to build on.
Inside the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and Bold 9650
Two comments: I think that the OmniGraffle and TexShop applications justify keeping an old Mac around. Excellent. Also, Macbooks run Ubuntu very well, especially models that are not brand new. I strongly recommend a dual boot OS X/Ubuntu setup: covers all the bases. That said, the Macbook could be a cheap used one, and spend your budget on a very fast i5 or i7 Windows/Ubuntu laptop.
underflow error
We're looking forward to Lucid
Yeah, but I prefer the beautiful UI, not just functionalities, or the wine stuff will do the work.
Gizmodo identified the owner of the phone. The finder knew some items, but not enough.

By the time the owner contacted the finder, it was in Gizmodo's hands (which I believe was a few days after the finder contacted apple).
Title is a bit misleading since the "how" doesn't come until the middle of Steve's letter. Here it is:

<quote>

First, the bill would redefine who would be qualified to be an angel investor. Currently individuals with either $1 million in investable assets or $250,000 in income qualify as accredited investors. The new bill would change this to individuals with $2.3 million in assets or $450,000 in income. According to the Kauffman Foundation, this would eliminate 77% of accredited investors. This single handedly would reduce the amount of capital available to early stage businesses and stunt our much needed job creation.

In addition, the new bill would require any company attempting to raise angel investment to seek SEC approval, which would take up to 4 months. As an active angel investor myself, I can say with certain that companies in this stage can rarely wait four months for funding. They will simply be forced to close up shop.

</quote>
1. Interesting. So what was the purpose of the raid?

2. Agreed. There may be a remote chance the police just read the internet and really, really care about apple. But I doubt it.
Is the iPad a game changer for software design and prototyping?
> It’s clear that a single investment would have a terrible expectation and huge variance, but how about five deals?

The author uses expectation in a different way than I usually do, I consider this the definition of the expectation:

PAYOFFS = [ 0, 1, 3, 10, 20]
PROBS = [0.50, 0.20, 0.15, 0.13, 0.02]
PAYOFFS.zip(PROBS).inject(0.0){|s, i| i[0] * i[1] + s} => 2.35

So you're expected to double your money (and then some) for each investment.

Given that you have to be an accredited investor ($200k+ income or $1m+ net worth, iirc) to do an angel investment in the first place the investment shouldn't negatively affect your quality of life if it doesn't work out. So unless you can get a higher return than 2.35x somewhere else, the angel investment seems like a really good deal to me.
Things you must know to not be stupid
> Eat organic (cost more)

For the most part there is no real extra benefit for Organic food - assuming you are not opposed to the idea of pesticides and other treatments (which are mostly benign anyway).

Personally all I require from my food is that it has been farmed ethically and preferably produced on smaller scales (i.e. no Bernard Matthews Turkey)

That can save you a lot.

(seconded on the cook for yourself part - it doesn't have to take long and it's a great way to unwind :D)
Definitely have to agree with those saying "get out" - obviously we don't know all the circumstantial details and it may not be practical to leave immediately, but if you're somebody who enjoys working on side projects and keeping yourself occupied and excited outside your 9-5, you'll probably never be happy working for this company. Better to get out before you commit any further.

I've recently started a company out of a hobby project while working for my day-to-day employer and they've never raised an eyebrow about any of it - it's one of the things I value most about my current job. DeusExMachina, your story is a real reminder of how important this has become to me - thanks for sharing.
Auditorium, a musical game about the process of discovery and play
We evolved to like MSG, it's no more of a trick than adding salt.
Using grep
Why Is Apple's iPhone Prototype Entitled To More Justice?
Yeh, especially as it is, chemically speaking, pushing exactly the same sort of buttons.
Yes then I know who you're talking about. I also found out from previous postings where you're from.

I was intrigued by the legal issues and after doing some research I am not so convinced any more as I was in my previous answer. You didn't provide the full text of your non-compete clause but most 'standard' ones are quite elaborate and do include broad exclusions on what is considered being in competition. Considering that your company can afford professional council I would expect your employment contract to be quite elaborate and tight. The case law also points to a fairly broad interpretation of non-compete clauses - i.e. the competition can be only slightly overlapping and that would still be covered by many non-compete clauses.

On top of that, now that I know who your employer is, I would argue that you are (with at least one of your products) in direct competition with them and/or several of their strategic partners. It still sucks for you that they promised you could continue work on it and now they won't let you but that does not have any legal standing any more.

Anyway good luck. One hint as to an option would be that your Ltd can have a trust for a director, and that the beneficiaries of UK trusts can be anonymous...
As a VC, I am frustrated that Powerpoint has become the standard format for presenting a business plan. If there is ever a time not to be "hypnotizing chickens," it's when you're presenting your company for funding. Here's an anecdote to illustrate how ingrained it as become. The other day, a CEO came in to meet with me. He dutifully plugged his laptop into the projector and opened up Powerpoint to page 1 with the company name and date. Then we started talking. Half an hour later, the presentation was still open to the title page. I asked him if he was going to go through the slides. He answered, "Only if you want to, I hate powerpoint." With that, we turned off the projector and had a lively conversation. I mention that story, because it was enlightening (and disappointing) to me that someone who was a great presenter without powerpoint felt compelled to bring a PPT presentation and put it on the projector.
PPT is doubly insidious because it makes for poor presentations first, and then second, the content-poor PPT becomes a leave-behind document that tries to stand on its own without the accompanying narration. It's bad enough when it is being spoken to, it's much much worse as a format for a standalone document to be read in isolation.
Let me make this suggestion to startups looking for funding and meeting with VCs. The best deliverable is a 4-5 page PDF text document (with accompanying or embedded charts or diagrams where they are critical to illustrating a point). Text forces you to complete your thoughts in way that powerpoint does not. And a text document stands alone much better than a powerpoint and conveys a lot more content in the same volume of print. When you do present, use charts or diagrams to illustrate key points, not as the substance of the presentation.
I don't mean to say never use PPT, that's as absurd as saying always use PPT. I recognize that for some people, powerpoint serves as an important guide as they present (a publicly visible form of notes). If you present better with PPT, by all means use it, but don't feel compelled to if you don't want to. And for those that like PPT, I would encourage you to go through the exercise of thinking through how you would present _without_ powerpoint. I think you will find that your presentation improves. You start thinking in whole concepts instead of trying to convey your ideas in bullet points.
They're Called Black Boxes not Invisible Boxes
Oh I see, thanks. I didn't realize this kind of jurisprudence was linked to the child porn issues. Obviously that's a commendable reason to add exceptions to the 5th amendment.
Yeah, I knew it was a quip, and with this half-truth biz (cf. Karl Kraus), there's a lot to it.

Even with perfect fits, companies manage to screw up. They are hopping around one-legged, figure that a left leg would go nicely with their right one. Buy left leg, insist on it wearing right-handed shoes (lots in stock). Shoot left foot off to make it fit.

(snapping sound, strained analogy's back breaking ;-)
Dave Winer is a Microsoft shill? That's a good one.

You know just because he made a little joke about Safari doesn't mean you need to go into DESTROY mode. The guy thinks netbooks are a good deal, what is so bad about that? You "Apple Guys" freak me the hell out.
Still looks terrible. And after the N97 debacle (where an ex-Nokia employee demod half the promo video as being faked) I'm a little skeptical of Nokia products.

Sad, as in 2007 they had 3G and webkit on a pure-screen device.
Really? I tried, and I still got 0.3.23 (Windows).
A fond farewell to the floppy disk
No, this is not true. The link you post itself indicates otherwise. It is also in contrast with the Auteurswet.

What is true is that an employer becomes copyright holder of any work done for that employer, as part of the employment contract. No further contractual agreement is necessary.
While stylish, there are so many issues with that infographic I don't know where to begin…
If artists get 4.5million streams a month they earn minimum wage. Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
Are there good free chess ebooks available (or online tutorials)? Every now and then I ponder learning it. First I'll try to get some basic proficiency in Poker. I figure in case of an apocalypse, Poker might be more useful (to gamble for help from other people). Chess has a tradition in novels (ie deciding disputes over a chess game), but I am not sure how common it really is.
I also know someone from college who had some sort of thyroid condition, and she slept very little and was very skinny. She was also awake and hyper so much, she sewed all of her own clothes. (Yes, that's just like the girl in Real Genius!)

However, I also lost 10 pounds recently by doing just two things: sleeping 7 hours a night instead of 4 or 5 and cooking my own meals instead of eating out.
What do you find in this book that (1) you are unlikely to find elsewhere, and (2) which are critically important to be a decent software engineer?

I see two important benefits from Patterns:

1. As a (partial) replacement for experience. I've been doing this for 20+ years, and I'd encountered most of it at some point before reading the book, so it's not essential in this respect. But someone just starting out could assimilate directly a chunk of what I had to figure out on my own. And even for someone with more experience, it standardizes the details of the pattern, leading to greater consistency in the software.

2. To provide a common vocabulary amongst developers. When discussing a design with someone who's read the book, I can say "I think we can solve that by using the strategy pattern", and they'll know what I mean. Without this common vocabulary we'd spend a lot more time explaining, and at greater risk of being misunderstood.

is there a difference between "programmer" and "software engineer?

This is just my philosophy, but I think that computer programming in itself is a simple activity, you could teach 'most anybody to write a program -- and that's the reason that so much software sucks. When done correctly it's an engineering discipline, including analysis, modeling, planning, documenting, and a certain degree of programming. But the actual implementation of code is a minority of the job.

The way I see it, we don't even need to know OO to be a good programmer. ... my current opinion about OO is that it mostly sucks

Given my definition above, I'd have to agree that you don't need to know or do OO in order to be a programmer. But if you aspire to the fuller job of software engineering, it would be foolish to exclude such an important tool from your repertoire.

Regardless of its actual merits, it's objectively true that a huge portion (I'd think even a majority) of development tools (including platforms, languages, IDEs, frameworks, libraries, etc.) are geared toward OO development. Eschewing those means that you're forgoing much of the foundational stuff that our predecessors have built for us (standing on the shoulders of giants and all).

I'll grant that the industry in the '90s may have been a bit manic about OO. Since then we've learned that the paradigm has weaknesses and indeed flaws. But we do generally know what those are, and have found ways to work around them. We understand now that C++ is (insanely) complex and rigid, and modern OO manages to retain most of the benefits while shedding those problems. The contemporary dynamic languages build on a foundation of OO development while avoiding many of its pitfalls (at the low level at least). And what I think of as the cutting edge, the dynamic languages, seem to have found a way to deliver their benefit while generally coexisting with the OO paradigm. Which, of course, ties back to what I said earlier about keeping your toolbox full for whatever can best solve a problem.
Ancient building came with DIY instructions
Presentation Hacks: It's a performance
Canonical announces strong ISV and OSS ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
How does the Disks feature, using Amazon S3 as storage, compare to DropBox? It seems like it would do something similar, with the added complexity of setting up an Amazon S3 account.
Great work :)

One minor point though - can we have more wizzbang explosions when you complete it rather than the basic "well done" message? I wanted a bit more recognition ;)
If unhealthy food is cheaper than healthy food on a per calorie basis and we eat too many calories, than why don't we just eat fewer calories in total, comprised of healthy food for the same amount of money?
Please, RIM is in severe need of a major OS update. Blackberry OS was kinda okay 7 years ago, but the devices I see now are more or less the same ones I was using in 2003.
Most of the attention to detail at Apple is about functionality, and taking out non-functional things, though. It's not "peacock" design, or at least, not too much.
Because often unhealthy food tastes better.
Publish Press Releases for Effective Business Promotion
Optimized press release is an easy way to get noticed by our audience.The best part is that:it is completely free!
I agree with maybe half the things the author is saying, but I hate the way he tries to group them all together into some larger narrative of "the way we live has become synthetic and corrupted and we need to go back to a more natural way of life" Appealing to this story is only going to convince people who already believe it. If he has specific improvements in mind, he should describe them and make his case for how they will help.

Also, he opens up referring to 1 billion people going hungry, but never returns to this point. If we embrace techniques that produce less food, what happens to these people?
So what kind of work goes into corporate identities?
A physician friend of mine explained to me once that humans are hardwired to like fat and sugar. Fat has a high number of calories per gram and is necessary for brain development. ("Healthy fats" are necessary anyway.) Sugar stimulates our most primitive taste preference - sweet. Out of the womb humans prefer sweet but learn to like the other 4 flavors.

Cheap food typically gravitates towards a combination of these 2 ingredients.

Cheap food tastes great until you try it next to food made from high quality ingredients and prepared the way you want it. For example, I used to like white bread. Since getting used to the different flavors in multigrain bread, white bread is too boring. (By multigrain, I don't mean the refined stuff being labeled as multigrain. I mean the kind in which you bite into a chewy grain with a nutty flavor.)
Micro Workouts (2 min of exercise, repeated throughout the day)
Techcrunch: Great for your ego, but irrelevant to the success of your start-up
http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco...

Got to learn the talks by heart.