skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct. VC firms are structured as partnerships, rather than regular corporations with employees, specifically so that general partners can be compensated using "carried interest" which receives this favorable tax treatment.

This change would not have any effect on the decision of investors to invest their money into VCs, as far as I can tell. This would simply remove a tax subsidy on money managers, both in the VC industry and in other activities like hedge fund management. I wish all these people well, but don't see any policy reason they should pay a lower tax rate than the rest of us.
To me, TDD (when I use it, more and more rarely) is less about making up for coding prowess and more about removing fear and frustration.
Posting a bunch of code by esteemed coders that I normally wouldn't stumble across myself would be cool. For example, some cool Peter Norvig's code snippets, pieces of Quake II, etc. I would normally have to hunt these down but your site can provide a consolidated home for interesting code.
> If I can get a way with a simple regexp I will use it. If it starts getting complicated I would use something else.(e.g. top down parser or a combination)

Isn't that what I said?
One of my friends suggested the same thing actually. The issue is mainly that because the votes are anonymous the both the up and downvotes are counte, unlike reddit where a user can have either but not both.

I'll have a play around with it and see what comes out...
Terrific Visualization of the US Electric Grid
That's exactly what I plan to do... Anything that is open-source and allows distribution like that will be posted. Unfortunately I can't do it all myself hint :-p

If you think of anything else that should be up there then let me know!
put the source of readmycode up so we can see more examples :P
The problem is that UX requires business knowledge, psychology, design, and code all working in concert with each other. The education system does not treat people to think holistically. It's why designers, coders and biz dev all hate each other. The problem is that all innovation happens at the nexus of these disciplines. Entrepreneurs often drop out out of school because of this.

So the answer: They don't exist in mass because they are all self-trained. You will find them in pockets working in various industries and obviously in startups but it's all quite haphazard.

My recommendation:

1) Learn as much as you can yourself. Wireframe some stuff in plain HTML/JS and show people the clickable design and refine from there. Iterate, iterate. Make yourself care.

2) Read Amy Hoy. Most of what she writes is "aha!" inducing.
There was a long post on the topic of 'regex-vs-parser' for email on reddit a while back. I hope I'm pointing to the correct person, but he wrote a parser in Haskell that validates against RFC5322: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/email-validate
Yet, this is really only because every other government is doing the exact same thing. An arms race naturally has a self-defense component.
I consider CS the most important part of this project and the real open problem. I thought about doing this project in LISP, because dealing with custom-made devices will require code generation and lots of AI. I'll have to translate lots of surgical experience and rules of thumb into the code, so Python doesn't seem to be enough (or maybe I'm just unexperienced). Besides that, I really control all the environment so deployment is a non-issue. Does my rationalization makes sense?
All the html, images, css, and js files are saved locally using HTML5's cache.manifest so everything should load while offline. It is for me at least. What browser version are you using?

Yes, making it pretty is on the todo list.

Thanks for the feedback.
It's funny, when I come to a page with a bunch of links and up/down arrows, I think 'oh god, here comes another site full of crap links and the arrows mean "we're not even going to attempt to sort this out for you"' I encourage you to consider innovating here rather than copying.

PS: I don't think I get that effect on HN because the buttons are so small and I don't have a down button yet. :)
An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian
I cant. Luckily I can work form home because its hard to leave home.
Luv it, I don't hate a lot of things but I absolutely HATE Tow Truck companies, in my area if your car gets towed on street cleaning day the fee is $230 + $90/Day! Their parking lot is about 1/2 mile from my street! And you still have to pay the parking ticket. Such a rip off.
Damn, I really, really agree with this:

I know that while it’s important to write quality software,
it’s equally important to just fucking finish it.
I saw this and wondered if my nutty conspiracy theory might be true.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1345430

But reading the interview I don't get that kind of vibe. Which is really too bad because I thought he had real super-villain potential.
I think the correct title would have been - "Why I won't work at Microsoft, again.".

I don't think it's a valid argument against Google without having any data-points. I've seen many Startups also don't finish their features/products and throw away when they realize this is not the right thing to do.

Overall, don't generalize too much. Experiences are different for different people at different places.
I hate to drag this point up again, but the most advanced HTML5/Javascript demos are a poor imitation of what could be done on the desktop 10 years ago.

My personal view is that the web is good at things which are inherently communication centric. Nothing else justifies the restrictions that working within the web browser brings. Flash might be the whipping boy of internet technologies, but at least its reasonably write once.

I think the thin client architecture is a paradigm that will constantly cycle in and out of fashion but never quite deliver on its promise.
I'm waiting for the part where she explains why she doesn't work at Google.
I just put up the fast inverse square root algorithm from quake II! That one is fun!
The problem with going any other route is you either end up with very bad automatically sorted results, or I have to do a lot of work.

When it comes down to it it's quite likely that what I think is good code won't match up with what everyone else thinks... Hence letting the wisdom of the crowd sort it all out.
I think that may be true of executives (I've never hired an executive, so I can't say) (1), but I don't know a single big name tech company (including high growth start-ups) that doesn't fly talent out from all over the country and relocate them.

That being said, the bar is always higher (even if unconsciously) for candidates that require visas or relocation. If you're good, however, that's not a worry.

(1) OTOH, Wernel Vogels had certainly been relocated from Cornell to work at Amazon. I'd definitely say he has "the" job. One anecdote doesn't make a counter example, but this example shows that if you're great, you can find a job anywhere.
Understood. My real point was that until there is an economic disincentive, celebrities will continue to encourage other people to do stupid things. For doctors/lawyers, that disincentive is a malpractice suit. You are perfectly correct that there are no grounds for suing a celebrity, particularly since there is no contract. Unfortunately, mass media give celebrities a much better platform for disseminating stupidity than your neighbor.

In the real world, it seems like there are only two solutions: better education so that more people can distinguish bunk, and some kind of public humiliation for fatuous celebrities with stupid ideas (the Jenny McCarthy Body Count, noted elsewhere on HN, might be a step in the right direction).
I just wanted to clarify that it's very misleading to say that this film cost $7000. It cost $7000 and several years of Shane's life, as well as a torrent of favours from his friends, family and others.

Why is this an important distinction? Because you can't calculate or quote business investment and return while discarding the cost of people working for several years on a project for free.

Saying that Primer cost Shane Carruth $7000 to make is like saying that The Harry Potter Book Series cost J K Rowling 19 ink cartridges.

It's important to appreciate what Shane achieved with such few resources though, and it's interesting to note also that he was a software engineer before making his way into filmmaking.
First 4G Android Phone Feels Like the Future
practically speaking, most respectable email services will have an MX record. i tested it on about 30,000 emails & a simple MX lookup caught about 40 gmial's and only 1 false positive.
> I moved away from my hometown a few years back, but last time I went up and visited it, I just went walking. I've driven through it/around it/in it thousands of times, but this time, I slowed things down and just explored, looking at random houses and feeling trees and grass. It was the most pleasant thing I've done in a long time.

I think this is a beautiful idea. It doesn't need to be limited to vacations, either; since about 5 years ago, I've been working on transitioning to an appreciation of this sort of thing. I now walk wherever I can (rough guideline: If it's within 4 miles, and I don't have anything heavy to carry, I'll walk there regularly; if it's within 10 miles, I'll walk there occasionally), and I try to take the train when I travel rather than flying. They're both great ways to get in touch with the terrain, as you mention; I had a colleague in Vancouver tell me that I knew my way around better after a few days than he did after staying there for weeks.
Converting Flash to HTML5 (StrongBad Demo)
Not that you asked, but Bill Bryson, one of my favourite travel writers, wrote about his experiences on the trail: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/disp....
The Japanese have a fairly large and technically advanced military, they just call it a "self-defense force". They can and do carry out military research.
Since you have elected to die rather than use a colostomy bag, have you considered infecting yourself with hookworm?

http://gut.bmj.com/content/55/1/136.extract
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/16/3408/66053
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971
Unlike Google's Pacman game, these guys aren't using Flash for sound. It's all HTML5.

Their site is here: http://smokescreen.us/
Well, in that initial map scroll-in, you can clearly see that the video is set somewhere in Oslo. (Or at least gives the impression.)
Google Balks at Turning Over Private Internet Data to Regulators
I read it sometime in the past as "shipping is a feature".
I like the attitude, but it is not so simple. Take a look at the other replies, from people with more experience on the engineering side (rather than CS), and you'll quickly realize that self-study/hacking can only get you so far. It wouldn't be different for, let's say, surgery...

The matter here is trying to get to expert level while minimizing stupid mistakes, and for practical subjects, demo and feedback seems to be necessary. Making all possible mistakes is very time-consuming.
Have you considered Fogcreek? "Smart and gets things done" seems to be a strong theme throughout the company.
Can't you ask questions about the team during the interview, to gauge whether they get things done or not?
I agree with your example. But I think a good boss realizes that, along with the power bosses have to think about major strategic goals, there comes a risk of getting stuck in the stratosphere, and spending all your time contemplating long-term goals while losing touch with your team's needs.

A good boss needs to be able to context switch between putting out fires and thinking about long-term goals pretty frequently, and for me this has always been difficult. Perhaps it is easier for others, but anyone who thinks they should spend most of their time zoomed out (or in) is probably a bad boss.
http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1787331560
can it be confirmed that KR isn't making the calls anymore at digg?
The Great Zendesk Price Debacle of 2010
Do you really expect GMail to provide personal customer service to its ~176m [1] non-paying users?

No, that would be very difficult. They have only about 20 000 employees. That's 9000 users per employee.

The problem is, the vast majority of those 176 million people have chosen to be in a position where they depend on a service that is run by people who don't care about them personally — who can't care about them, because there are just too many of them. This inevitably means that some of those people, maybe many of them, will get caught in the machine and mangled.

The solution is to provide services like email in a distributed way, instead of with a centralized company. Then, when you have a problem like this, you have access to someone who could plausibly fix it.

The difficulty is that our facilities for providing big centralized servers are leaps and bounds ahead of our facilities for building decentralized applications.
I thought about this for a while a couple of months ago and wrote down my thoughts on war, robots & culture here:

http://linusthiel.posterous.com/about-war
Double checked, looks like I wasn't serving the cache.manifest file correctly. Should be fixed now. Try again. Nice catch.
Do we really need to have another debate around development methodologies? I mean... it's getting to the point where I'd rather write COBOL to access SOAP webservices using DOS on a 386 than read another article talking about how smart people don't need methodologies (especially if TDD is mentioned).
Let me only confirm that I'm entirely speculating.
Right, but look at google's recent history: more and more people, and in some way, less and less signal generated.

This is some truly unavoidable thing I guess, unless you do some radical stuff like splitting apart your company in different pieces, like anti trust itself would do?

Also for me is truly disturbing the idea of being able to select people that will do great stuff just using an interview. You can just check if they understand big O, can design things, and are actually able to code. This is already a result, but I bet this also creates a monoculture as this way you create a filter that is not just cool, but also bad in some way (IMHO this is why Google fails when trying to design stuff that are designed for the masses).

disclaimer: I got a request for interview from google two times and refused it, so I'm not frustrated about that or alike.
Well, thanks for the tip and please keep us posted. ;-)
As long as you don't mind working on boring software. (I mean, I know Joel is everyone's nerd idol and everything, but really: bug tracking software? Version control? That's all you got?)
Worth watching to see the retention chart. Great idea.
Good point. Maybe you can see by the <p> tags that HN removed the formatting I attempted. I agree it would look better if they had retained my intended presentation.
https://www.mailfinch.com/api
"Perfect email regex finally found"

Based on the HN title I thought it was going to be an article describing a post-it found on Fermat's dressing table mirror.

Instead it's a list of mostly correct regexes. As Miracle Max might have observed, mostly correct is partly imperfect, and partly imperfect is Not Perfect.
I hate to market myself like this, but this seems like a good thread.

My startup is building something to super-simplify how you go from initial idea to final product, especially if you are not a programmer and still want to do it on your own. Drop me a note at harsh[at]zopte.com and I will send you an invite.
Thank you for your kind words. Yes! That sounds fun. You'll get an email from me soon. btw, I am happy to talk about anything I am currently working on, with one single exception (because it is the first worldwide). Competition is a good thing, and we learn from each other. I'm a very agile developer and am not the slightest bit concerned about talking about what I'm doing. If I do it might bring new customers. And in the final analysis, there is very little we can do that is ground-breaking in concept. It is the execution that distinguishes companies. For example, honesty and prompt payment appear to be in short supply. So even if we're in a highly competitive market we can always rise above the middle of the bell curve.
I believe because the publicly available reports of their interview process don't seem to emphasize "getting stuff done" as much as she prefers, but instead emphasize other attributes. She believes that if it's not emphasized in the interview process, it's likely to be underemphasized in the organization as a whole. Since she believes that attribute to be more important than its proportion of apparent emphasis, the probability of being dissatisfied with her work environment is too high for her tastes. That's how I read it anyway.
This "death of desktop" talk has been around a long time, and we'll rinse-repeat until we're blue in the face, but this just isn't the case at all.

HTML5 will be the death of Flash and Silverlight as we know these products today. That doesn't mean the product by name won't exist (think jQuery-esque like platforms for HTML5), it will just change forms.

That's my guess anyways.
or, he was just talking about RAID0
Digg's front page hasn't been controlled by the users in a long time. The new changes hand control over from an anonymous group of moderators to your friends and people you follow, which seems like an improvement.
This is such obvious linkbait that it even admits "this title is linkbait" at the bottom. He means give the power back to Kevin Rose, which is exactly what appears to have happened recently. So... non-story.
I could only relate to that last sentence: "That's about as appealing as another winter in Redmond."
The emphasis here is on "the jihad extending". As in while there are ecosystem level management issues with its use, these have nothing to do with vector control inside the home. Which was prevented anyway in the general hysteria, which also extends to trying to stamp out all production of DDT; from what I've read, in the free world one plant in India makes it and there are fierce efforts to shut that one down.

It's very nice, I'm sure, that the WHO and company admitted their mistake ... 3 decades later and how many 10s of millions needlessly dead in what is easily one of the 20th century's biggest genocides?

Color me unimpressed. This is not an example of the paradigm you introduced in your top level posting, unless you also meant "very slowly and cautiously" fixing one's mistakes.

ADDED: And good luck getting anyone in the First World to donate money for its use. As I read this section in Wikipedia, that's just not happened outside of one unit of the US government starting in 2006/7 ... and does anyone want to make a bet that that's still happening?
I'm going to toot my own horn, here. Almost three years ago to the day I wrote an article outlining what Digg should do in light of the launch of the Facebook Platform:

1. Digg should become the default way people like and share things on the web and, in particular, Facebook.

2. Digg should reflect shared content through the social graph, vs. showing me an aggregate view of all activity in the world. The former is social, the latter is not.

3. Digg should have a concerted Facebook strategy to accelerate their growth, focusing particularly on the Facebook feed (which was less than a year old at the time).

Three years later Digg is just getting around to this, but Facebook has already gotten to (1) and (2) with their "like" button and their new connect implementation.

Ho hum. To little too late? Sites like http://likebutton.me/ are in many ways more compelling than digg, which is still dominated by stories that appeal to a very narrow demographic.

http://20bits.com/articles/5-ways-to-improve-the-digg-app/

Also, FWIW, Eli White from Digg responded to my article noting the technical difficulty in implementing some of my suggestions -- difficulties which were shortly eliminated by changes to the Facebook platform. So I know at least someone at Digg read it.
My favourite part of that experiment was that they believed there to be a non-zero chance that it would trigger an uncontrollable reaction that would ignite the atmosphere and end the whole world but did it anyway.
I love the sound it makes when the rotors speed up to catch the copter after a maneuver.
Serioously and i thought that it was just me. I'm so glad to have found GMail Users Not-so-anonymous!
I don't have a general answer, but in my case it really does come from life experience. Let me give you an example, using one of my current projects. I met two friends (about a month ago) for a brewski. Turns out they are golfers. We went to Harding driving range and Lincoln golf course. When we were on the 2nd hole at Lincoln it occurred to me that there are people who would probably like a photo survey of the local golf courses. We have roughly 15,000,000 visitors a year here. So now I'm building an iPhone app that will help tourists plan their golfing forays.

I see opportunities everywhere I look. And so far, I have not had a failure. Not all ideas are reachable, but there are always many that require no investment other than my time and energy. (and always remember: Time is non-renewable. Budget your time very carefully so it is profitable)

I think the most valuable lesson I've learned is that being successful in business is not based on how much money you have. It is much more based on how you allocate your resources. Time is the most important one, because it is non-renewable.

I wish you great success in the future!
For people involved with recruiting be aware that a lot of the questions he describes as using may well be illegal depending on your jurisdiction.

In most of Europe asking questions about where someone grew up or family connections to the locality can be considered as discriminatory (against married people, against people who grew up in the "wrong" neighbourhoodm etc.)
For better or for worse, they have free speech too. The laws necessary to undo that would do more harm than good.
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...Both of which RoundCube does quite nicely. The threading in RoundCube isn't quite as good as Gmail, but it's plenty good enough for me.
I do agree that these features are 'inspired' by other apps. Had they launched these in 2006 it'd be a copycat move. At this point, these are features that I think many users expect in something like digg. Facebook features have also been 'inspired' by other apps (i.e. twitter) and you can't argue with their growth. Digg has looked more like a forum and less like a startup for a long time, and this may be a catching up on lost ground, and a prelude to hopefully more innovative days.
Google's strategy for most of it's projects for the last few years has been to subtly improve them without anyone noticing. Typically a half-dozen changes a week to search alone: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03googl...
this doesn't answer your question at all, but it's just food for thought: imagine we traveled back in time to the 1960's ... i suppose that people would ask "Serious question, is there anything driving reliable robust nationwide packet-switched data network research besides the defense dept? it always bummed me out that anytime you see something amazing it's inevitably funded by military which can't wait to use it to plan and coordinate military strikes against the soviets and to plan for some ridiculous doomsday nuclear holocaust that might never come" ... without huge amounts of DARPA funding throughout the 60's and 70's for the Internet, we'd all still be pen pals sending snail mail to one another ;)
Digg has already shopped itself around to all the big buyers and they passed (explicitly or not). This move is an attempt by Digg to position themselves as a potential rival to Twitter and/or Facebook. Now all they need is one big dumb company that buys into that illusion.