skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thoughtful response. A lot of people don't seem to like to look to other countries as examples of how individuals, societies, and governments can interact. Either as examples or as counter-examples.

NPR's excellent Planet Money podcast did a few shows on Denmark, which is like an economic bizarro-world. Employment law is such that it's really easy to fire people, but they have a very strong social safety net (2 years unemployment, or something like that) so the workforce is very fluid. Employers aren't as afraid to hire people (as they are in countries with strong labor laws like France) because they don't have the same fear of legal or interpersonal repercussions. Firing in Denmark is no big deal.

Taxes are progressive, crazy high, support fully subsidized health care, and the people there are the happiest in the world.

Note: I'm not trying to say every country should be just like Denmark, but just that the way we've always done things isn't the only way that can work.

On the other hand, you see people who complain about how "government can't do anything right" and "all regulation is bad" yet they don't realize the only reason that their houses survive earthquakes without killing them is that their houses comply with government designed and enforced building codes. There's a reason the Haitian earthquake killed more people than stronger earthquakes in other places. Haiti has had "limited government" for decades.

It's easy to paint limited government as a moral ideal, and it's easy to find prominent examples of government failures. I personally hate bureaucracy as much as anyone else. The fact remains that a lot of people (often quietly) get meaningful help from our overall society via democratically elected governments.
There's another pg essay out there that talks about "premature optimization," which is what I generally think of apprenticeships.
Giving teenagers a chance to see what really goes into a particular career is a great idea, but I wouldn't put much stock into it being more than a complement to traditional schooling, in which case it reduces to another form of internship or co-op, which, again, are great for giving students a taste of professional life, but are in no way a good replacement for the breadth of a good education.
SeedJS: A Flexible Package Manager for JavaScript
The craze to bring in outside CEOs reached its peak in Silicon Valley in the bubble era when the "goal" of many of the dot-com startups became one of packaging themselves for a quick IPO exit - in such an environment, bringing on a "big name" CEO who had taken one or more previous companies public became indispensable to the packaging process - so much so that startups were routinely willing to give as much as 7% of their stock immediately prior to the IPO to such persons just to get their name value added to the offering.

That trend (at least in its reflexive and frenzied form of "let's automatically dump the founder CEO once we get to the stage where we need a real CEO") died with the IPO craze that accompanied it and this wonderful piece explains why it met a well-deserved end - you need to build real value for something lasting to come of it and those who have the vision to found companies and build innovative products are very often best positioned to build such value and to guide that process.
Sorry about that. ElusiveHippo originally started as a python deployment system for higut.com. I ended up needing to create a demo/portfolio site to show prospective employers how I could pick up new technology. So I very quickly wrote a node version, released it into the wild, and waited to see how far it would go on its own. Then, I disappeared to San Francisco for a week without checking back on it.

None of the details on the site are standard or set in stone - all the pricing numbers were completely made up. Not only that, but there's actually no indication that the system works at all, is there? :) There are about 20 working alpha accounts in various hands, but it doesn't really matter if it worked or not - there's clearly been some effects ^_^.

Again, sorry for any confusion. I could write a blog post about the details, the implementation, and the aftermath if people were interested. Then, people could fairly easily implement their own. I've converted many ex-PHP, ex-Rails, ex-Django coders to nodejs using this demo site!
The Pre isn't as fast as the top of the line Android phones, but it's no slouch either. It holds its own in most side by side comparisons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7FJj5-7vQI
WebOS apps are mostly written using web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) so I don't see this as a negative fragmentation. Of course, competing with the App Store is still going to be difficult, but the theoretical barrier of writing an app for webOS (learn web technology) is lower than that for iPhone (learn Obj-C/Cocoa).
Groggle does sound like Google. And "Google could force him to pour two years of work and tens of thousands of dollars down the drain." is a bit of a stretch. All he has to do is change the name.
I dunno. I think this idea occurs to everyone who understands unit testing and then encounters REPLs; it certainly occurred to me under those circumstances and I got excited about it for a while too. Over time, though, it has struck me as less and less obviously good. Though you're right about where the two approaches to programming overlap, and I agree with you that REPL > tests in those areas, there's also considerable territory where they don't overlap. I suspect that xor represents an impedance mismatch that makes "test capture" not as feasible as it seems at first.

I don't mean to pour cold water on the idea, though; if someone figures out a way of doing it that's useful I'd happily change my mind.
a.l.a. Facebook
A temporary victory for common sense (which, let's be honest, ain't that common).
I notice variety of cosmetic changes and much faster loading and navigation, but agree an article would have been better.

The small horse is also worthy though, if not the loud country music. It's amazing what miniaturization can achieve nowadays.
Good point, but I still believe that most uses of eval are completely unnecessary and are a result of not knowing the 'power' of the used language.

To quote Crockford: “eval is Evil: The eval function is the most misused feature of JavaScript. Avoid it”

To avoid something does not mean to never use it at all.

The reason I commented this article was perhaps a bit.. hmm.. lets say I was in a bad mood. I felt the author just took a prominent name, a quote, and then he stated the obvious.

Crockford is talking about misusing. I probably do not know enough about javascript to know for sure, but I would guess that his use of eval is not a 'misuse'.
Wonderful article. Made me think, anyway.
The market shares involved with this dynamic is irrelevant.

What mattered was the implicit guarantee provide by the government through Fannie & Freddy's involvement.

You might have notice that became explicit guarantee at the end.
This could be very helpful, so long as academics maintain their profiles. I currently use an ad-hoc system of Google Reader's "check if webpage changed" functionality to check for new papers in my fields of interest. For economics, these are listed on pages like:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?code=M13

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?code=G24

which gives an ugly summary of updates to non-RSS friendly websites. Academia.edu appears to require that

1. Authors sign up

2. Authors also update their profiles with their new research

My experience suggests this will be difficult for econ: I repeated the Google readers process for the active authors in my field. Google tracks their "Working Papers" pages for updates and lets me know when they add a paper (or change a font!) For the two dozen authors I track, only one has updated their page in the last two months.
Chargify Makes Recurring Billing Simple
Steve Jobs to appear at All Things Digital 8
Thanks for the shout-out in the slides about the Redis client for Node.js.

http://github.com/fictorial/redis-node-client
My gut-feeling is similar, and I've been trying to fight against it lately. I don't intend to measure my entire life, but I do want to know I'm progressing.
Same here I am also trying Ubuntu 10.04 on virtual box.. though hard time fixing the resolution :) still playing around RoR it's nice!!! I am a java programmer... playing around a bit with PHP, CakePHP stuff... but again and again considering RoR... RoR screencast and community is gr8.. so does the PHP manual... but CakePHP I don't like much... very confusing naming convention and it's not working as expected... Still not able to make up my mind to go for CakePHP vs RoR (each time thinking in terms of Facebook vs Twitter :) )...I know facebook not using CakePHP but still they r using PHP..
Microsoft Says Google’s Android May Infringe Patents
As PG says, "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years."[1] The time scales that people use to define "Job Hoppers" is wrong. At most big companies you cannot learn or accomplish much in a short time-frame because things move slower. However, in a startup 6 months is a long time to do something concrete.

[1] - http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I've been giggling at how the official World Championship site has been griping that Chessbase has been broadcasting the live moves of the game. You get streaming video from the official site, but how did they really expect the moves to not be relayed across the world? It definitely isn't just Chessbase that is doing it. It's like expecting a sports site not to tell you the inning-by-inning score of a baseball game.
That's not simple at all. You'd need to be analyzing your energy levels constantly to figure out things like that. Sounds like the life of a diabetic, testing his blood sugar every half hour. That's usually considered a downside.
I did do a bit of search term research before I got started. There is not insignificant amount of traffic for terms like (banner ads, banner ad templates, custom banner ads, etc.)

The idea for the site came about from a personal need. I had recently published an ebook, and had set up an affiliate program for people to promote the book on their sites. I didn't want to give them really crappy banners to use, and hiring a designer (which is what I ended up doing) seemed like a big expense for an ebook which only makes a few hundred dollars a month. Based on my experiences I thought there would be a market for people in the same situation as myself.

Thanks for the feedback!
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

-George Bernard Shaw
The big question is if Heroku will suddenly support a fairly large number of long-lived connections to a Node.js hosted app, and how pricing would work. Developing real-time apps and custom servers are how Node.js really shines. A WebSockets module took only a few hours to develop for instance.
Lame bait article is lame.
Classic HP move...first to follow last.
Why would I use this instead of craigslist?

If you don't have an answer for this I don't think you have a business. If you do, it needs to be more apparent on the site.
The WSJ is mainly concerned with Wall Street. Most of Wallstreet makes out very well with their current culture. She is right, short term gains are rewarded, as they are in most industries. The difference if you can make millions on WS in a very small amount of time. And, if given the chance, most people would as well.

You seem to want to blame WS, but as an engineer, should I be overly concerned if the fashion industry fails, or the building industry? Sure, I hate seeing people lose their jobs, but am I going to change how I live? People on WS are no different.

Damn, I mean we hear all this talk of environmental problems, but the majority in the US still drive to work, a large number of those in huge trucks.

The People on WS are going to do what everybody else is going to do. It is just they have an opportunity to make so much more than most poeple.
For years I've loved HP's printers but found the drivers to be a complete mess. I've been left with the sense that they have a incredibly solid hardware/firmware group, but the rest of their software was incredibly poorly designed: that they really didn't understand software at all.

Is there a compelling reason to believe that HP won't make a mess of the software in WebOS?
the last thing I need switching from gmail to pine :)
Some jurisdictions have proposed a 'right of reply'. Online, this could mean potentially compelling online writers (such as bloggers) or aggregators (like search engines) to include prominent links to, or the text of, official responses from disputants.

See for example:

http://yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal-pocket-part/i...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_reply
Flash Player "Gala" brings hardware decoding support to Mac OS X
Animal Studies in Medical Research are Horrible and Terrible
There are a couple of companies that already do this for the banks. They get all the information on longs and short trades throughout the day, from all the big investment firms, and produce a market snaphshot. One of these companies is called Dataexplorers.

You can pay money to get this data now.

I am not sure how this would stop anything?
Poll: Your income bracket in 2009?
How much did you earn in 2009?
More than $50,000
More than $100,000
More than $250,000
More than $500,000
More than $1M
reminds me of glenn marshall's recent stuff: http://vimeo.com/10959289
An ad-supported calendar company with $946 wants to take over The Pirate Bay
What about people under $50k?
I Want a New Data Store (for Craigslist)
less than $50,000
Legally this is covered by "trade secret" law, not theft. (IANAL)
Thanks, thought it looked familiar. I downloaded the thesis at the time, and forgot to read it.
Water is not the only substance that expands when frozen.

The following elements expand when frozen:
Gallium, Germanium and Plutonium.

There is also a wide range of molecules that expand when frozen. What's really less well known about water is it expands right before it freezes (4C - 0C) which significantly inhibits lakes from freezing in the winter by creating a large boundary layer.
This sounds like a way to get free labor. Maybe its just the fact that I've never heard about Kaggle and so it has no weight in my mind.
I would like my airplanes designed by nothing less than certified professional wizards.
Got to keep in mind that a lot of short sellers will be covering, which could account for some of the premium.
Sure, but look at their financials. They're selling 'nearly as many' phones, but making massively less money.
This incident is symptomatic of some of the special problems of online communication:

decontextualization: it is easier than ever to remove excerpts from their original context, thus creating a more controversial interpretation, which is then rewarded with attention.

differential propagation: salacious distortions travel faster than balanced understanding, because they're more interesting and compact. (They also resurrect spontaneously, the moment a distortion that's not paired with its antidote is rediscovered by a new forwarding-happy audience or new traffic-over-ethics aggregator.)

Canonical reference and debunker sites (like Wikipedia and Snopes) help, but still can't outrace outrage-as-entertainment and the bonanza of profitable traffic it brings.
I suspect we'll see people building better abstractions on top of the raw callback APIs Node provides. "Promises" (similar to deferreds/futures), um, promise to help with this.
Facebook & The Like Button: Capturing Human Intent
Facebook's Big Security Flaw
You Don't Need To Maintain Your Software
Microsoft doesn't even test Bing in Internet Explorer. Lord help us.
May I suggest:

Groghoo

Boozinga (to get both Bing and Zynga angry!)

(Both .com's are available!)
One minor detail I forgot: European bank exposure to the PIIGS is very substantial. So giving them a haircut on Greek sovereign debt would be ... suboptimal (no doubt this is why Germany is playing ball for now after first saying no). Problem is, there are no good options left at this point.
How do you define quality? What you look for in a date might be different from what I look for or what someone else looks for. In fact, it probably is.

The more people on the site who live near to a user, the more likely that user is to find someone compatible with them.

Having said that, "quality" might be important if it's a way of making it likely that users are more compatible with other users, e.g. religious-minded people who want to marry within their religion.
I think Promises were removed recently.
I'd modify it so that you have upper bounds in order to avoid scenarios such as a person making $200k and validly choosing "More than $50k" AND "More than $100k". In other words, force one response only.
Far be it from me to question anything about your life, and that is truly not my intent, but your comment does make me wonder a little what it is you think would be depressing about having that information?

If it's just that the act of collecting the data seems like a waste of time, I can readily accept that. (That's why I don't do any of it; it seems interesting, but most of the systems seem like they're not transparent enough to the user. Yet.)

But if it's that the data itself would be depressing ... The data to me would just be a mirror. If you don't like what you see, and you have the capability of doing something about it, that strikes me as a better solution, in the long run, than just avoiding the mirror.

To each their own though. The article does mention someone who decided after doing a lot of personal metrics for a while to stop doing it, and some of the reasons they had for that decision. It's clearly not for everyone.
You just described the entire government contracting industry.
A VPS could be easily shared if you have couple friends interested...
TechCrunch Hacker Identified: You Decide If We Press Charges
Wow I did not know there were actually different types of ice. There is even an ice IX which is unfortunately (well, actually, fortunately) not nearly as cool and destructive as the ice-9 imagined by Kurt Vonnegut.
McAfee is calm, collected … and doomed
Nitpick: as the text itself says, but the title doesn't, the name is "The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer".
I'm thinking of building something similar but instead of connecting the heating elements directly install a normal wall outlet and use a longer cable for the temp probe.

This way it would be possible to use a rice cooker as some have used in different projects or you can always plug in the same heating elements you used in your setup.

Do you think this would be feasible?
I have a friend who has diabetes and uses a glucometer. He doesn't test every half hour (more like a few times a day, maybe every 4-5 hrs?). The data is actually fairly interesting.

I wouldn't want to have to poke myself in the fingers a few times a day to get it, but if there were a non-invasive way to do it, it'd be pretty interesting. You can learn a lot about how what you eat affects your body just by watching that number change over time.
Not for long ;)
I saw a slide with the mention of node.js on it. I really want to find out more about that.
Even if we assume the specific crime being investigated is theft - which I personally doubt - who would you say authorized the exchange of cash for prototype?
The majority of them are Linux-based, and all of them make heavy use of the same web technologies for the primary part of the user experience. The exception is WinMo, but I can't believe that they're going to last long at all with IE7 as their browser of choice. They're going to need to either light a fire under the IE9 team and somehow get feature parity with mobile Webkit, or just throw in the towel and allow one of the other browsers on WinMo.

And as for the suggestion that Apple is going to take over... RIM still has the largest market share in the US. Apple is a niche player, and they always will be because of the premium they charge on their hardware (now further compounded by the restrictions imposed on their hardware.)
http://prgmr.com/ doesn't have space available right now, but they have VPS plans starting at $5/month and I've heard good things about them from people on HN.
The difference between the types of ice is similar to the difference between graphite and diamond: same atoms, different arrangement and different crystal structures that are thermodynamically favored at different pressures.

Tangentially related: I've heard that if you want to freeze someone with cryogenics, you need to drop the temperature very quickly to far below normal freezing, so that you get a different type of ice crystal. I'm not entirely sure what the difference is (I'm not even sure this is 100% true), but I suspect whatever harm you're avoiding is related to why frozen food doesn't taste as good. If a chemist, biologist, or cryogenist could correct me, I'd love to hear the details.
You just have to ask the question in a surprising way to get surprising honesty.

"Tell me why the last three people to leave your team left?" "How long ago was this?" Then at a different point in time, "How big is your team?"

You are likely to get accurate answers. You can do the math. And the way they talk about the departed will tell you volumes about their environment.
These days there are multiple levels of hiring committee, plus comp, plus Page. Sure some parts are "automatic" but they add useless weeks onto a slow bureaucracy meanwhile goog loses great candidates to companies which move faster. Sure there's a luxury of being the "best place to work" but the cream of the crop are the least willing to wait.
I sympathize with this position, I really do. But in some cases, I can really justify the protectionism.

Are you prepared to call for removal of requirement for medical doctors to be certified and licensed next?
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/beat-the-press/krugman-nails-t...

Dean Baker has been suggesting that either the exchange or the SEC take over selection of the rating agency for over a year now.
Thank you, barrkel. I have been thinking hard at your response, and I don't think I can offer a complete comment on it. I think these market mechanisms solve part of the problem, and at least do better than the current policies of USDA. However, your proposal is far from perfect and has it's own set of problems. For one, your average granny on social security is unlikely to buy any futures; and the people who does is likely to come and profiteer on her. Still, that is better than starving to death.

I have read Pollan's Omnivore Dilemma, and found his description of New Deal agriculture policies very interesting. I encourage you to have a look and compare those with the ones in effect today.
> You're ignoring the fact that almost all Americans ARE "PR majors" -- lots of other names for shitty degrees, of course -- but the hard sciences are dominated by indians and asians.

sod off, racist
Behind the Scenes with Template Monster’s CEO David Braun in 2010
I think this is better. HTC is vetted in hardware, I'm not sure they would care for WebOS as HP hopefully will.
This earlier article it linked to is interesting as well: http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/14/notes-on-leadership-be-like-...
Alton Brown's explanation on Good Eats of how to get good frozen strawberries effectively said that if you freeze them slowly, you get jagged ice crystals which slice membranes and cause them to turn to mush when you defrost. If you do it quickly it creates smaller, smoother crystals that leave the structure intact.
Thanks, that's exactly the kind of thing I had in mind.
The irony being, a motivator hacker could very likely hack this poll.