skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I have no idea of the original authors intents.. I think your wrong.

Society's don't crumble around large problems, but rather millions of little ones. As more and more folks actively check-out of society the more the productive elements of society have to cope with that. Those little things really do add up, and they're nearly impossible to handle. Ask any parent of a petulant child.

So ya.. when one person doesn't pay their electric bill.. no big deal. What happens when a million people don't? Ten million?

Those big things don't worry me. We'll deal with the environmental issues (we've already made tremendous headway over the years), we'll deal with wealth distribution and everything else. Those are known problems. Be wary of the millions of little things that go unnoticed everyday. That's when things become dangerous.
When you sell a product via direct sales, your initial price point has to be high enough that after factoring in your close rate, you are making money for each AM/SE account team in the field. You can't sell a specialized $5000 product direct, because the AM alone runs you $150-200 fully loaded, and would need to solo-close a deal a week just to break even.
That is one product I would buy.
Building a world class engineering team - Retain the best
This is certainly true, which is why the libertarian bent of some developers who disavow any notion of social responsibility is so disturbing.
An iPhone App to Save Threatened Species?
Yeah that's sort of where I'm leaning too. I thought maybe YouTube might be another way to go but I didn't see a way to make the videos private but still available via a custom Ui (mobile/web).
Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere
Most of the pundits think it's a hardware issue that may result in Apple's first major recall.
Related reads-
"Israel Nation" on how Israel built something similar to the valley
http://www.startupnationbook.com/

PGs essay-
http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
The Programming Women’s Dress Code
99% of everything is crap. Including startup ideas. Its hard to get statistics from personal experience.
I don't think that's what the author is suggesting tho. You said it yourself "I date women who are as successful as I am, so I'm never supporting them."

That implies that your out actually DOING something. That you choose not to adhere to social norms is no problem at all (I'm the same way). You've still embraced the trappings of maturity. Your pulling your own weight. That's great! I salute you sir.

It's when you decide that even pulling your own weight is a bit to much to handle that things get dicey.
This is new. Is it me, or does Django seem to be picking up steam (vs Rails et al)? Don't remember seeing calls for Django developers before.
I haven't had any songs skip on my playlist, but yeah, that would have annoyed the crap out of me. And I was also disappointed at the lack of an Android app.

For what it's worth, the monthly cost is only $4.99 if you're not using the mobile app.

I think it has potential but I liked Lala better.
Disagree with Miami. Spent half year there in 2001. Miami is fucked up. Would live in regular Schaumburg before I lived in Miami again. Ok wait... maybe not. Miami is kind of cool because it is fucked up. But I was glad to get out of there. Also, I thought this was in the context of raising kids? Miami seems like the textbook example of the wrong place to raise kids...

I don't know if it's right to compare all of silicon valley suburbia to schaumburg, either. I think San Mateo is much different than Palo Alto, and both are much better than say... Fremont. The urban density in San Mateo is higher than Minneapolis, for example. I would love to talk about this all day, but need to cut myself off at this post...
It's a really interesting question isn't it. Hard work has never been questioned as the cornerstone of a successful life. I've always wondered if that's a faulty assumption... can we build and imagine great things while still focusing on the enjoyment of living?

Hell if I know:)
IOS 4.0 Feature Quicklook: File Management
For the longest time I publicly criticized Apple’s amazing mobile OS for not allowing users to manage files. Apparently, Apple has decided to add a feature in iOS 4.0 that does that, to a point.
Glad Russell wrote this up, he has been doing some cool things with Pig, Voldemort, & Ruby lately.
I hate that everyone is clowning on my generation. That is so shady dog.

All I got to say is America has the best incentive system in the world, meaning hard work will be rewarded.

Though there will be those losers in my gerneration you described there will still be people out there who will make up for the losers short fall because they want to get that chedda.
The main reason for redundancy is because NASA can't send someone out to fix the probe/satellite, so the hardware has to be designed to work flawlessly for decades. Astronauts use consumer laptops just fine on the shuttle and ISS, and I doubt most of those even have ECC RAM.

Airplane avionics aren't radiation-hardened, but they work fine at altitude where the incidence of cosmic rays is about 1/4th that in space. Planes aren't dropping out of the sky from bit flips. People don't get tons of parity or ECC errors on their laptops while flying. Based on all this, I think the threat of cosmic rays is vastly overstated.
Bing executive: 'We have caught up' to Google in search quality
Part of the point is that we pre-screen developers (and employers) to ensure that people are high quality -- and that they have actually used Django before. We are requiring open source code to be shown (or having a good reason for not having any). Along with doing basic interview-style questions to prove that you actually understand Django on a non-trivial level.
Do you know the Techzing podcast? One of the hosts has a freemium Twitter/social media tool that's generating $1k/month after one year of effort, between coding and marketing. You could listen to previous episodes to hear how it evolved.
"I honestly don't know if the border patrol even checks all of this stuff."

In my experience they do. I'm a Canuck who was working in Dubai, got a job in Vegas, applied for and received a TN Visa from the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi (which was a cool document bonded onto one of my passport pages). I transitted through the Vancouver airport on my way to LV. There, US Customs took one look at my TN-1, drew a line through it, noted "Cancelled without Prejudice" and denied me entry to the US to work. When I asked why the response I received was, and I quote, "Abu Dhabi don't know shit".
Business Opportunity. Selecting for guppies with specific people's names in their spots.
Yeah it's still a double standard because you're discounting people's experience for a 'category' whether that category is 'lawyer' or 'MBA' or 'state school grad'. For example:

"Not sure why I'm meant to be influenced by how an MBA stumbles through hiring tech people, though."

What if this MBA has 20 years of experience hiring tech people, both for small and large companies, and who is also an active programmer in their spare time. Don't you think their hiring advice might be important to consider? And yet your statement jumbles him in with all those other pointy-haired 'MBA types'. That is the same problem with only looking at an applicants alma mater is it not?

Edit: And grellas' comments are awesome not just because he is a lawyer, but because of his rich experience working with startups and tech companies.
Along with the BBC changing the iplayer to use DRM, effectively locking out open source players, I hope this isn't becoming a trend.
silly
Ideas are a dime a dozen
I got my phone today and i tried reproducing the network problem in various ways but luckily, the network holds up for me.

I suspect a bad batch of phones which were manufactured with defects ..
I think it could make a difference.

As a long time hacker (and BS/MS of CS degree holder), I think there are tremendous academic/"real world" disconnects between understanding the paradigms of programming languages, choosing appropriate implementation languages for projects, and the fact that programming language is often chosen for you (because of platform reasons or "popularity" in the SW engineering labor pool, e.g. Java, C#, or others because of management perceptions of skillset availability in the programmer market). Heck, I struggle getting my group to allow us to write new software instead of using unsatisfactory existing frameworks and solutions. Forget about pushing the envelop by saying something crazy, like maybe Ruby/Sinatra would be a good choice for this CRUD app . . .

I suspect, but cannot prove, that a proper programming languages class would improve a hacker's ability to know and choose the right tool to attack a problem. My own experience with, of all things, SQL, has led me to be much more productive/effective in producing software that works when measured against lines of code written. But frankly, I think that it is going to be hard to get the kind of deep exposure you need in a different programming paradigm in a one semester course as an undergrad to make much difference here - it was only after spending months of time in the deeper pool of db programming, that I wrapped my head around actually thinking differently about problems.

The simpler truth is that there seem to be a number of bright programmers who can write the vast majority of standard corporate software with a less than optimal language/platform choice. Sure, maybe it would have been faster or more expressive to have used J to solve a particular problem, but if somebody hacked the solution out in C#, the end-users of the software don't care at all.

I think you are correct that most of the academic world vastly overestimates how much choice is available at most software shops to chose the "right tool for the problem."

I do like the CTM book by Peter Van Roy mentioned in the article very much - it is not a book that I used as an undergrad or grad student, but I have been skimming it and like very much how it is laid out and has a single language/env where it implements different programming paradigms.

What I wish I was personally better at would be having a small set of languages, easily available and justifiable to non-technical decision makers that I knew would make my team more productive. Sort of a "problem patterns" knowledge that you would automatically think "aha, language X is often used for this type of problem space" that was taught. But you'd need someone in a programming languages course with a deeper exposure to industry computing to pull it off as an instructor . . .

But I think the key benefit might simply be breaking the hacker's mind from thinking OO and procedural only . . . if people don't learn functional and declarative programming, how can they begin to fathom the situations where it's exactly the right way to conceptualize a solution?
Could you please elaborate why it is a better choice? I don't see how django-beanstalkd could take much less memory than celeryd. If it's about the broker (beanstalk), you could have implemented a beanstalk backend for celery as well, then you would have had a tested implementation of the worker part.

Btw, If you would be interested in writing a beanstalkd backend for celery I would be happy to help you out!
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using a messaging framework like Celery vs. handling asynchronous tasks in threads?
Well that sorta reinforces my point. They don't check it if you are denied or approved... They just deny or approve you.
Timr is right.. I've always struggled to meet women, and I'm now dating a psychologist.. and she tells me psychologists have the same complaint but opposite! (not enough single men!!!) Not sure if the same situation happens in San Francisco but..

Funnily, looking for the exact ratio I found this

http://www.physorg.com/news147587458.html

look for female art students !!!
Longest tennis match ever: about 11 hours
I find this not to be true, and to state generalizations about SF/SV dating scene or lack thereof, is also far off from the truth.

Have you ever heard of Okcupid? I'm a tech guy, in the tech scene, working for a tech startup, and have found that if you want to find/date women, you need to be proactive about it (kind of like the old days). The city, and the surrounding bay area are full of available women, who do want to meet "you"... just need to look

If you're not social, then you wont meet anyone in this city, especially if you moved here for a job, and have little friends, or time to meet people, hence why dating sites like Okcupid are essential. If you grew up here, then it might be easier as you have a larger network of friends, acquaintances - that generally leads to more social events, etc..

Also - last time i checked, we have about an equal ratio of men to women (does not include sexual orientation)
Hi there, I am the developer behind Good Noows and I'd like to respond to a few posts here. I currently work on Good Noows in my spare time and I earn my living as a Product Manager at a mobile network operator. I started Good Noows because I simply couldnt find a news reader out there that serves my needs. I assume thats because it's very hard to get funding for it. Google Reader is top when it comes to functionality but I dont agree with their UI. Good Noows tries to address two segments of users and I hope that both are served ok-ish (feedback is actually quite good): 1) RSS reader users sharing my customer pain for a better browsing experience, and 2) the average consumer who doesnt even know what RSS is and just wants to set up a personal news stream (the twitter-like terminology with "stream" and "follow" is intended). Simple and quick.

- No we dont get paid for listing feeds. I'd love that because it would be a great business model.

- Sorry if the predefined sources in the catalog are not what you are looking for. Since I am German I do not have a complete overview of i.e. US-American politics blogs. I definitely was not biased when choosing them. I just used Technorati's top lists and looked for properly formatted feeds.

- The layout is not yet optimized for touch devices at all. Apologies. I hope I'll find the time to work on it soon...

- I decided to use Meebo because their sharing function does a good job. If you dont like the bar at the bottom, feel free to hide it (arrow icon at the right).

- You have to sign on before using it because I (and my legal counsels) see copyright issues when they look at my product vision and feature roadmap. If you re logged in it's private consumption. I won't display third party content publicly.

- Logging in with your social network account just simplifies registration. We dont get any personal data or anything from these auth services, just an ID (which is in some cases an email address).

Feel free to post any suggestions for feeds or features, other ideas, or just criticism here http://support.goodnoows.com
I really try to do this very agile and user-focused...

Cheers
This is actually not bad advice at all. There are loads of single japanese chicks at the art schools in SF.

The reason the women in SF claim there are not enough single men is that no woman really wants to date a build release engineer or an underemployed bartender, which are the two main classes of straight men in SF. Pro-tip: they usually pick the bartender.
WOM, Broadcast and the Classical Marketing Contract
You claimed that he had "complete misunderstanding of recursion until someone mailed him a copy of SICP". To prove that, you refer to an implementation technique?

Here's the thing: Your first post was unfounded and uninformed personal attack on someone you don't know. That's reddit style trolling, and says a lot more about what kind of person you are than it says about the person you're attacking. Hacker news would be better place without that.
Celery workers can run on any networked computer - it can be scaled infinitely!
PathScale hackers reverse-engineer Nvidia GPUs to write a better compiler
Really cool! Also... reference:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2408316
This is like a more realistic Halfbakery.

http://halfbakery.com
One thing I want to do is to interleave video from 2 cameras to do something like this:

http://www.well.com/~jimg/stereo/stereo_list.html

for a movie instead of a single picture.

So, something that I can use to slice and interleave 2 movie clips would be useful.
Ask HN - Review my startup: singlePAGERS
http://singlepagers.com

Marketing buzzwords aside, a singlePAGER is an organized personal directory of your online social involvements. A digital vCard, basically.

It's certainly been done (magntize.com, dooid.com, card.ly, etc) but I always feel like the "pro" themes are a bit, how shall I put this, un-sexy. (I'm a Graphic Designer).

I built it for WordPress because I figured a lot of people know and are comfortable it.

I'd love some feedback/ thoughts?

thanks,
Symbian is such a difficult platform for which to develop, i just don't see it lasting over the long term.
Well I've been making calls all day while "holding it in my hand." And I can even make calls all day while holding it my hand very tightly in that one spot that makes it drop to 1 bar. It's a complete non-issue for me, and I'm sure for many others. And it looks like installing any sort of case would eliminate the problem completely.

If I had known about this issue beforehand, I still would have bought the phone. It doesn't impede my usage in any way, and this is easily the best phone that I've owned, taking into considerations its positives and negatives. It's definitely worth it to me.

Of course you have the right to disagree, and if you already bought the phone and are dissatisfied, then I hope that you'll get a refund. But I think that you are exaggerating somewhat; you have to look at the overall package and function of a phone to determine if it's worth buying, and I don't think this issue is as severe as you're making it out to be.
Only one paragraph ties reviews to revenue, and I'm still looking for the evidence in here:

"As we’ve watched Amazon customers make purchases on the site, we can clearly see that promoting the most helpful reviews has increased sales in these categories by 20%.(One out of every five customers decides to complete the purchase because of the strength of the reviews.) From this, we can project it has contributed to Amazon's top line by $2.7 billion."

Maybe I'm just missing something... Is there a metric for how many users base their decision to buy on the helpfulness of the review?

Even at that, we have no idea how many of those who bought an item because of the reviews would have bought it without.

I agree with the article that reviews are useful, and I definitely appreciate the community-upvote functionality. It's pretty neat. But I think the case is greatly overstated, and their estimates are pretty dodgy.
Moving the close paren to enclose each app's upstream app arguments would ease this lisper's eyes. It seems like it might get difficult to debug arity count errors if you accidentally indented wrong somewhere in a larger app.
For geography you should add Austin, Seattle and Vancouver.
This one is big: Twitter just let you auto-follow your Facebook friends.
Good point. I forgot how much of a slime bag that guy was.
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happens to me as well.. I heard buying the bumper fixes the problem. Another $30 to apple from me I guess :|
Some amazing additions, the hardware acceleration is nice... but I find it funny that IE still doesn't support text-shadow even though most other browsers have been able to do so for a while.

Now that canvas is going to be supported by all the big names, my biggest nightmare is that it becoming a total flash replacement and all the kids using it to make really inappropriate design decisions. It's also really ripe for abuse in so many ways as you can practically design anything within its domain... a certain Stan Lee quote comes to mind :)
Here you go:

http://blog.scottolsen.net/?page_id=2

Do you think he's had 20 years experience hiring tech people? It's possible he has. And you're right. I know lots of smart MBA's --- though most of them also have engineering degrees, unlike Olsen.
They do, but I think they still keep the individual teams close to one another. I know that the team here in Pittsburgh works on only certain products, at least.
Finally. I've long believed that Nokia's biggest problem lies with their software - I have an E63, which has a 400mhz processor, and it either lags like mad or dies randomly (thankfully rare, but it does happen).

PS: On an unrelated note, I found the line:

<^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Graphic on Nokia N-series losing to iPhone: here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>

incredibly funny.
Hey guys,

I helped build this feature and just wanted to say we're as concerned about privacy and security as you are. A couple specifics that might help:

* No feature is for everyone -- this is opt-in in the strictest sense. (And, since you pick the files/directories, as fine-grained as you want.)

* You can disable a link anytime: from the the sharing tab (https://www.dropbox.com/share), click "Linked Items" to see all your links and disable anything.

* 3 means of sharing (shared folders, a public dir, and sharing links) gives you more control over privacy, not less.

* Similar to etherpad links, the shortened db.tt links are public but unfeasible to guess. We've heard a few concerns about the 6-digit hashes -- well, as more links are shared, don't assume the hash will stay at 6 digits :) can't get into details but we do a few more things to make link fishing near-impossible.
Yay, the instapaper future is full of ads.
Ah yes, OKCupid.

Here is my take on OKCupid. In SF, the real life singles scene is dominated by men. If you go to an event or a bar, there is a lopsided ratio of men to women. The women who are out, are typically insane. The cool women you want to meet are actually on OKCupid because they are tired of being surrounded by dirtbags and nerds (and insane women). So OkCupid works well for a man dating in SF, because that's where the normal, interesting, good-looking women are.

In NYC the scene is the opposite. The bars and events are overrun with attractive women. The weird trolls are the ones hanging out on OKC. Thus, if you move across country to NYC and update your OKC location, you'll start getting tons of messages from tattooed roller-derby girls who have pet snakes. The type you were tired of meeting at the bars in SF.

YMMV, I'll grant that maybe YC has inspired a generation of debonair hackers to move to SF and clean up with all the amazing local women.
FWIW, looking at those graphs, it does appear that a lot of the extraneous action was happening right on the edge of the inside bid/ask.

Additionally, your broker starts getting annoyed at you when your fill rate drops below 0.5% or so. If you DOSed the market, you wouldn't even be in that ballpark.

That's definitely true, and I'm sure it would be a serious problem with doing anything of this nature.

Is there always a middleman that cares about what quotes you're pushing through, though, or do some people have closer connections that wouldn't be watched very closely?
Old story is old. The guy's name is Joe and gave his name to news reporters as 'Gray Powell'. Flagged.