skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with this thread. It's quite unfair to push Max Klein that he will reveal his business niches. His specific business details are unrelated to the quality of his business, which are (still) valuable even without knowing the specifics. Would you like to share your specific niches with the HN-Crowd, full of highly productive programmers?? I cannot ignore the feeling that the purpose of questioning the authenticity of Max Klein and his blog posts is to expose his niches.
I wasn't saying that it was "odd" as in unique.
Yes, it could certainly do without the "what she said" part. That's not the main content on the page, though.
You were unlucky, I went the other way. I did start on basic on my Z80 machine, but since you could only really write adventure games with basic, I moved onto Z80 assembly language. Then, I moved onto x86 assembly language.

Every from that point has been easier, in most ways.

I was lucky, everyone of my friends had a C64, and they were swapping games. We couldn't afford a C64 at AU$399 at the time, so they got me the VZ300 for $99. I had to write my own games. This is how I got into development.

I was one of the few that could program, before I went to Uni. It was around the time that CS was becoming very popular, but hadn't start to differentiate between different sorts of IT, so they offered everything. The classes I found best were hardware, OS, and the half year class were we had to write the same program in 4 different languages.
What is the Use of Vinyl Wall Stickers?
The use of vinyl wall stickers is beneficial in the outdoor and indoor usage. They are good decorative and advertisement products.
Naw, that's TabToolkit :(
All the time.
"IT professionals in the U.S. who are not citizens actually earned more than their American colleagues from 2000-2005 and therefore did not depress the salaries of American citizens"

I disagree with the logic in this statement, because I don't think that you can conclude that non-citizens don't depress wages simply because they earn more on average than citizens. By the way, this point of logic doesn't necessarily refute the conclusion, I'm just disagreeing with the reasoning.

Suppose that IT Professionals fall neatly into two groups. 90% are software installers, and 10% are ultra programmers. Software installers are poorly paid and have no programming ability. Ultra Programmers are intensely educated, well paid, high IQ people who study constantly.

Software installers earn 50K/year, and Ultra Programmers earn 150K/yr.

Now, suppose you double the number of ultra programmers through a visa program that results in a 25k salary drop for ultra programmers.

Well, the average salary for the non-citizen programmers would still be well above the average pay, and it would have increased the average pay, but it would have decreased the "ultra programmer" pay, right? And it would have done this in a way that led to a decrease in average pay for the citizens.

out of 10

(9 * 50 + 1 * 150) / 10 = 60 (old average for all IT pros)

(9 * 50 + 2 * 125) / 10 = 70 (new average for all IT pros with twice as many ultras at lightly lower pay, one citizen, one non-citizen)

(9 * 50 + 1 * 125) / 10 = 57.5 (new average for citizens)
Why can't you make IE9 run on XP when it seems quite easy for every other browser to manage that?
Why don't you release a version of IE6 for those businesses with internal apps and way behind website, and release a new browser that has new branding and be as compliant as you can be? This all-things-to-all-people approach seems a waste.
Databases: relational vs object vs graph vs document
I've been anxiously awaiting the release of this app. I'm buying day one.
Same on Safari (4.0.5, Mac)
Ahh. Well yours looks nice. The Store in particular is more attractive than Apple's.
The Facebook API Craziness
Why Raven DB?
When you make such a bold claim as your title, you need to back it up with the first sentence.

This article fails to do so, and is presented in a tiny font with big blocks of text. Because of this, I (and probably 95% of people arriving there) can't be bothered to make the effort to extract the meaning out of this article.

Presentation matters, folks.
but I frequently forget to create a rule to label them automatically.
They aren't using instructions to users to block SQL Injection. They're using a web application firewall to block SQL Injection, and they have it configured to take a shotgun approach to filtering form fields.

You could do the same thing with any application, secure or not, by applying a naive mod_security configuration to your Apache server.

That's not a great practice, but it doesn't tell you anything about how susceptible they are to SQLI.
That's the first thing I thought. An intern or junior PR person taking initiative and then getting slammed by their boss. Now they (junior PR) have to backpedal to avoid getting shit from their old-school boss and, as a result, all of Fortune look like idiots.
Infants are at a completely different stage of language acquisition than 3-6 year olds, so there's no reason to think that there's a single best "essentially the same" way of speaking regardless of age.
I want to be able to write an e-mail and then schedule it to be sent at a later time of my choosing (e.g. 9am the next day, if I don't want to admit I'm up in the middle of the night).
Nor have they spent all the time they do watch television watching Shakespeare or learning physics.
I agree with the feeling. The posts are interesting reads, but early on there was discussion of social engineering that didn't smell right... There are a number of interesting domains registered to a maximus klein with the following contact:

Maximus Klein (maxim19055@yahoo.com)
81 City Road
London
United Kingdom,EC1Y 1BL
GB
Tel. +44.8452802710

close to the cubeofm registration .. a domain name with a "vitch" in the ending as well...
Our Max says this isn't him though...
5 years ago I used to think I had the coding thing down pretty pat

I'm not nearly as arrogant as to think that I know everything in my particular domain(s) of interest. I can look at whatever language(s) I consider myself proficient in and name half a dozen things in half as many seconds that I know nothing about.

I simply disagree with the "You have to have coded for years before going to college for coding to be a good coder" line of thought. You have to have the time, yes. But, imho, it doesn't have to come from college and it doesn't matter when you start.
Even if Google could do something like Diaspora at near zero cost, they wouldn't. Their goals are opposite.

Diaspora is meant to be a mean of decentralization, just like Wordpress. Google is a mean of centralization, just like Facebook. Diaspora founders would love to see the ubiquity of Sheeva plugs (or whatever cheap home server we could get). Google would hate it: that would mean the death of most of their online services. Only the fundamentally centralized ones, like search, would be left. Gmail, Blogger, YouTube… would mostly die. (I'm aware of the asymmetric bandwidth issue. But if Sheeva plugs are ubiquitous, bandwidth will be symmetric anyway.)
The fact is fB wants everyone to share everything: that's tons more open attention data they can mine for spam. This is why they NeVeR offer fine grained controls on sharing: its a business play.

They saw what twitter did with open friends lists and open posts and decided their privacy stuff was only holding them back, and heck why not ditch it? But just like Buzz they double crossed their users (what you thought was not shared is shared etc.).

This is the era of double crossing your users!

That Diaspora hailmary is a crock, wait for some talented ex-googlers or some such phenoms to really come up with an open social graph / plan / project. It will come ...
Why Kickstarter's design kicks ass (take note Diaspora)
In a way it shows they may not even understand their branding, b/c twitter is a totally different beast than fB, fB should strive to be personal and trustworthy not jacking your shxt.
I'd caution against it. If you have planned to wait until August, you should do so. Don't let yourself be goaded in to doing something you otherwise would not unless you perceive a clear benefit from it.

I'm as curious as everybody else here but I won't be mailing you because I think you should call the shots on this one.
Looks great! The only thing that bugged me was the position indicator, as it didn't have a very predictable motion. Sometimes it goes very fast, other times it just stops. I understand that it's impossible to make the speed constant, but at the moment it really doesn't look natural.
You'd be surprised how much Java there is.
Why You Should Pay Attention to Node.Js
Except for the fact that the entire blog post with the excerpts has no content except the excerpts. There's no value to be derived from it except reading the excerpts. There's no trimming them down, they are the only content.
No guy-in-a-bar iPhone story in Vietnam
posting a strangers contact details really isn't cool, especially in the context of this thread.
Succumbing to peer pressure?
Searching Facebook drives home the privacy degradation problem
Completely unrelated but just found this and you might want to know, if you go to a style like http://etudeapp.com/music/style/9/ballad and then click Home in the breadcrumbs, you go to /home which lands you on a 404 page.

Also, do you have any plans to expand the music library?
"Are you prevented from building your own java with closure support and distributing it?"

I really hate this smug answer. At best it's naive.

Practically speaking I am prevented from doing that. I have two small children and a full time job. This leaves very little time for productive coding. Also, my expertise is not in VM implementation and design. I'm sure I could learn that stuff if I put my mind to it, if only I had a lot of free time which I don't.

Having said that, a real open source project is built around a community. Typically the community wants to have some visibility into the decision making process, and that simply isn't happening with the jvm imo. I don't think it's too much to ask of them to be open about an issue like closures rather than swinging from one side to the other seemingly at the whim of a few people without any explanation.
It goes at the speed of the music, depending on how long notes are held. I've been experimenting with that animation...it does seem kinda uncanny valley somehow
Inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341236 (Why in the world does Facebook let me do this?)
Show HN: maskedmail: craigslist style email anonymizer web service
Did TabToolkit come out after your app? The interfaces look very similar. Would you ever consider incorporating other instruments into etude?
Are You Human? CAPTCHA’s Many Ways of Asking the Same Question
Yeah, we get it, Apple is god, Apple is the greatest, Apple can't fail, Apple is soooo great and fantastic. Apple is simply the best ever, there is nothing like it. Everything Apple does is absolutely perfect and magnificient. They'll never fail because they rule so much.
I meant equivalence, not equality.
More specifically, I would point to college-age geeks who influence their peers, who in turn exert the influence of seniority on their younger siblings, and of youth on their superiors as they enter the workforce.
Staying in Control of Your Facebook Logins
Why All Americans Should Carry ID Papers
$80bn research/emerging tech funding bill founders over porn
Large companies can get in trouble if they seem to have a demographic pattern different from their industry, though. If you're the only Fortune 500 company in your industry that somehow has almost no black employees, someone will probably notice/sue, arguing that it's implausible you could have a demographic skew so much different from your competitors without a discriminatory policy (i.e. can't be explained just by the demographics of qualified people). Then they'll hope that during discovery they find some smoking-gun emails about it. But yeah, if you have 50 employees, nothing much will happen.
Occasionally I'll use an unusual word without even thinking about it, and then later realize that I've never uttered that word aloud before. Ever. It's a pretty weird feeling.
Couch Computing with Apple's iPad
I don't get it - so is the old FQL query still valid but in a different format?
I can't believe there is not more documentation about that.
Good job.
How to Meet and Woo a Nerdy Girl
i'm not a Geek by HN standards and I care. Then again, i never opened an account in the first place because i didn't want someone else having all that info about me. The reactions among my friends and coworkers are varied, but generally i'm surprised by how much most people don't care. It's funny because many of them, as far as i know them, do actually "care" about this type of stuff. If (gasp) The Government was doing this, they'd be sharpening pitchforks.

A lot of people haven't thought about it enough to be bothered, or it doesn't seem like the kind of transgression people have learned to abhor. the consequences might be too new to be appreciated.
This sounds really great. Are you solely looking for long-term guests, or could a group stay for...say...a week?
This feature is simply not implemented.
I think I'm considerably younger than you. The only reason I ever needed assembly was to patch executables without source in my GUI OS; the days of insane resource constraints were already gone.
There's a very good reason why Americans don't carry federal identification at all times, even though other nationals often do. Constitutionally, states must honor with "full faith and credit" other states' "public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings" (Article IV), so for the most part, a state government-issued identification card has the same authority as a federal-issued one, since each state is obligated to give it the same credence they would their own. (America's extreme form of federalism is to thank.) Although there are obviously instances where this isn't necessarily true, carrying a passport around along with a state ID would be redundant in most cases within the US -- even the TSA, for example, puts a state ID on the same level as a passport.

I know this wasn't REALLY the point of this article, but it did make me wonder about the constitutional/legal issues involved.
Facebook to hold staff meeting on privacy
Yeah I thought about this a lot as well.. I wonder how much demand there is for something like this? I've definitely had a use for it myself on occasion.
IPad delayed again in UK (until June 7th) due to strong US demand
I read this as 'don't hate the playa hate the game'
If somebody wants to use their iPad to play Farmville, great for them. They can and still will find something just as pointless or stupid to do without the iPad or without Facebook. Just because it lets you do some pointless crap doesn't make it a bad tool, and it certainly doesn't mean that everyone who uses the tool is using it for that pointless crap.
Arg. It's not division by zero, it's zero work divided by a finite number of workers. Nor is it an undefined supply of jobs-- should you need the quantity "workers per unit work", then, finally, you'd have an undefined quantity.
Recent technologies have allowed us to do almost everything using a screen. Unfortunately, all that extra screen time often takes a heavy toll in ways people are loathe to admit.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10446874-71.html
http://www.healthfinder.gov/News/newsstory.aspx?docid=636475
Looking for honest feedback if this is useful to anyone or not.
Do people really use that? That's the first thing I disable in a fresh Firefox install :)
Readin' 'Ritin 'Rithmetic
That would be the point, yes.
No, Seriously, Why is the Sky Blue?
Ask HN: What’s the best book/way to learn Scala?
I intend to start hacking with Scala sometime in the near future.

Any pointers regarding how to best learn it? Any books you recommend I get and/or shy away from?

(Also note I have done almost no functional programming, so books that really teach how to think that way are also appreciated.)
> Nothing is really private on Facebook anyway.

I'm so tired of hearing this. It was private once. Not everything on the internet is public. My bank information is on the internet via my bank's website and that's not public. There's a space for private social networks where I can just communicate with my sisters and wife and dad and not have to worry about what we are sharing with each other being publicly broadcasted.
I think it's unfair to expect people to respect his desire to not have anyone probe into his business when he's braying DHH style about the money he's making on his business model and the trips he makes to Bangkok so that he can spend a month in a 5-star hotel, something myself and no one else I know personally has even done yet in their entire lives thus far.

So yeah, if he keeps poking his head out the hole like this, the axe is going to come down. At this point I'd be willing to bet there's at least a handful of people here who'd like to eat his lunch just for being so arrogant.

If you want secrecy, shut up.
Beautiful app and very well put together presentation. As soon as you hit the page the video starts and demonstrates its functionality. Even the best writers fail to fully convey the feel of use, so why not cut to the chase? Congrats, I look forward to using it.
If a comedian worried about offending people, s/he wouldn't be funny. If Apple worried about alienating large swaths of the marketplace, it wouldn't have a rabid following.

If there weren't a "positive" effect of alienation, people wouldn't consciously cause it. Maybe it's a side-effect of good marketing. Or maybe it props up the sort of us vs. them mentality associated with cult followings. Or maybe I'm getting too philosophical, and everything I'm saying is bullshit.
Daniel Lyons is rotting our brains.
It's not clever - it's puerile, and has no place in a professional organisation. It's equivalent to giggling inanely when someone says "homo sapiens."
I just wish they'd use native controls instead of their custom replacements. It is not good design to make an application look and feel different merely because it was built with a different programming language.
That's one are where 'old media' tends to get it right -- even the worst of tabloids have better text layout than the average blog.
I suppose it is cool for cubeofm domain registration to give the address for the Dog & Partridge Pubs then ehhh? As so many seem to be saying... it's suspicious smelling. Could be completely legit, but also could be like the KimKins lowcarbfriends thing and could use some investigation.. The items posted were straight from DNS registration public info...
I've read about this program in the context of the State Department not using it WRT Iran. It looks like a gun was held to their head WRT the PRC to get even this small award to who it was intended.
Something I feel that is significant and only touched on tangentially is that there are a _ton_ of javascript programmers out there. If Node.js or a project like it becomes successful it could provide a very easy mechanism for all the javascript programmers to do server side software as well. It's something that could significantly alter the web programming ecosystem.
Point taken, but what's with the collateral damage? Search for something that's not going to ruin people's lives. FB has a problem. You outing these people on the web isn't helping anything.

If you wanted to be classy, you'd leave out the names and/or put rectangles over their eyes. As it is now, you're at least as much an asshole as Zuckerberg.
This guy is insane. Why would you solve a problem with
more legislation, when it can be solved with legislation already in place or by removing existing legislation.

First, we could actually deport Illegals that are already picked up by local police. We don't actually do that now.

We could also modify the Constitution and get rid of the anchor baby clause.

Why does everyone jump at giving our government more power over us to solve problems like this?
Senior in high school at 16?
From Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society:

"We are constrained to be 'engaged,' as the existentialists say, with Technique."
How Steven Chu Used Gamma Rays to Diagnose the BP Oil Spill
This is the single dumbest thing I can recall reading on Hacker News.
It seems like knowing the syntax of whatever language you're doing server programming is not the most important aspect of server side development. It's a really different skill set than what javascript has been used for up to now.
There's no real secret to legalese. It's just an attempt to say as little as possible in as many ways as possible in order to avoid any interpretation being applied.

The problem isn't the language, it's that the human brain doesn't function that way.
You can also have strangers do similar critiques for you, for free: http://fivesecondtest.com/
I totally agree. It won't work in big companies, but small companies staffed by small-minded (or, sometimes, simply "realistic") people make up a large chunk of the economy. Some discrimination laws even preclude companies under a certain size, because when you only have a handful of people, it can be both practical and necessary to hire to spec.

I guess a legal alternative is to headhunt rather than advertise positions. In the tech industry, I suspect this is a lot easier (thanks to open source, blogs, etc) than elsewhere. Surely there aren't laws against a company hunting down people they want to hire, rather than hanging out their shingle and waiting for people to submit résumés.
Sometimes you just can't get a break!
The problem with this idea is that it while the author proposes that "Those who fail to comply should be liable to detention until the cops who picked them up figure out if they're really true red, white, and blue Americans, no matter whether they are black, brown, white or shades in between." the reality is that black and brown people would be singled out for 'paper checks' far more than white people.
Let me put it another way: we all have a problem right now that we're trying to solve, which is that FB is screwing people. Your clever idea is screwing them worse, with no foreseeable gain for ethics either now or long-term that another demonstration couldn't provide.

If you really care about the problem, deactivate your project and come up with something more clever that also takes the moral high ground.
“A Modest Proposal” — the author's title is the strongest indication this is a parody, and not everyone will get the reference.
Learning what not to do is pretty valuable in itself.
My suggestion would be not allowing them to "dispute the punishment", but encouraging them to logically follow the path of their actions to the conclusion that the punishment is designed to avoid.

You're not interested in teaching them to justify poor judgement, you're trying to teach them the judgement skills directly.

Of course, situations vary.
This is a brilliant idea: start out your new customers with a subset of your features and then add the rest over time.
It's just that your "Remember Orkut?" remark made it sound like it wasn't even around anymore.
Actually, what you say touches on one of the reasons why Node is exciting for js coders.

Working with Node's callbacks for I/O feels a lot like working with jQuery's XHR/animation callbacks. It's a consistent flow that will feel familiar for a lot of js coders immediately. Speaking from personal experience, it really does help the brain keep moving.

Many javascript programmers are more than familiar with server-side development, they just haven't necessarily had a super productive environment within which to flex their skills, but that may be changing.
I recently stumbled upon what looks like an obvious interpretation of the 14th Amendment that would not require a Constitutional change to solve the anchor baby problem. I can probably dig it up if you care.