skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can say a lot of things about the guy, but I don't think you can call him incompetent without at least a little justification.

I think the Dunning–Kruger effect/paper is one the most abusively reposted things on HN and Reddit.
how does this compare to leiningen, which i believe does a lot of similar things ?
he should sue her for damages.

I'm just speculating, but given the author's description, I doubt there was much money to be sued for.
What a person says reveals aspects of who they are.

Indeed
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We could always create HNOL (HackerNews On-Line) complete with our own walled-garden. A gated community.
Based on a conversation I had with Jason Fried, I'd say neither.

They publish this stuff primarily just for the sake of writing it. It's an outlet for a company that purposefully avoids adding features to their products if at all possible. It's a deliberate practice to keep themselves creative — the megalomaniacal marketing is just added ego-gravy.
Yes it's low educational attainment and not the natural deleveraging of an over leveraged system combined with the govt spreading the risk to parties who did not participate in that risk, that is slowing the recovery.

The Dow is not going to hit 14,000 for a while unless we re-leverage to the same insane levels. There is no recovery, this is economic reality.

It's going to take a lot of hard work for the economy to actually reach the pre-2008 levels.

I'd suggest we use the great minds in finance to produce value instead of hocus pocus. The levels from which we are basing the recovery were not real. It is the result of producing money out of thin air, hence when everyone wants it back it is not there to give back. That has nothing to do with educational attainment and everything to do with fraud. Why there are no jobs is because the gov't borrowed our money and gave it to the people who ripped us off.
For this movie they should have made PG the dad and his son decides to use Java instead of Lisp.
Continue contracting. Sell the BMW and buy a 2000 Camry.

Take 60% of the 100k and invest in Apple, the rest in a selection of index funds. Reevaluate Apple in four years. Invest 15% of your ongoing contracting gross income the same way.

Pick some 'just for fun' iOS apps and write them in your spare time. Brainstorm for app ideas weekly, and other low-capital ideas. If one shows promise, partner with some other developers and put more time into it. Only invest cash you can afford as long as it doesn't get in the way of continuing the 15% long term investing.
Why has a publisher/distributor model not evolved for startups?
Startups are often great at developing innovative technology and ideas but fall down when it comes to marketing and sales.

Why has a publisher model not evolved, in which "publishers" who are good at branding, digital marketing and sales take to market the innovations coming of of technically excellent but marketing weak startups?

A bit like the way games publishers take the games of independent developers to market.

Surely a revenue split of some form would work to the advantage of all involved.

Perhaps a new generation of marketing savvy startups should be born, startups that have marketing and sales talent but no product, with the objective only of taking to market and making money on the great technology of other startups. "Bring your high tech startup product to us, we'll take it market and pay you a royalty".
Hyperbole.

But OTOH, you need only look at the spiralling U.S. govt deficit to see that just because they spend more doesn't mean that they'll raise taxes to cover it. Source on that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...

Since about 1960, the top tax bracket has almost uniformly gone downwards, as has the bottom tax bracket, except for a slight blip around 1989. We know what that did to Bush Sr's reelection campaign.
Was it Joel that said "obsolete hardware goes in the trash heap; obsolete software goes into production tomorrow"? I can't find the quote right now...
Ubuntu still looks like it belongs next to Windows 95 and Mac OS 7.
ha ha. good one
Choosing cloud servers - it's down to Linode versus Rackspace - comments?
I want a 64 bit cloud server to run a MongoDB based web application on Linux.

I want to spend as little as possible in case the product makes no money. So it's come down to Linode versus Rackspace Cloud and I'm considering machines with 1 or 2 gig RAM.

I'd be interested in comments from current Linode users and current Rackspace cloud users. Are you happy with your cloud hosting provider? Any tips or gotchas?
I apologize for being a dick. Your question was about the internet, which did work with Windows 95, and so did the web, in fact, the whole dotcom era was powered by Windows 95 more than any other OS.

Windows 95 had a native implementation of sockets, Winsock2, it also had telnet, and a serial communication utility. I ran Opera, IE and Netscape Navigator Gold on it. Eudora for Email, and Agent for a newsreader. Windows 98 shipped with Internet Explorer and had Active Desktop, the precursor to all the gadgets that you see today. The Windows SDK included even more controls, including MS HTML control that allowed you to embed web views (i.e. html frames) inside your apps. All MS help was converted HTML format as well, and the help compiler could convert HTML documents to CHM. It was, only, 10 years ago :-)

I still use the email account I opened using Windows 95 :-)
Ask PG: Vim shortcuts for navigating HN?
Any chance we could get keyboard shortcuts integrated into HN?

Nothing fancy, just something simple akin to: http://www.google.com/experimental/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market_roads

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Do you hear of lots of robberies in malls?
in this sentence "engineer" is interchangeable with about a million other skilled professions.

we prefer things done our way. whodathunkit! this is not limited to engineers.
No history with Rackspace but I've had a Linode system up for about 6 months without issue. On the other hand, I've heard of 2 instances of Rackspace having outages in that time.

To be honest with you though, I don't trust either.... I do most of my hosting with dedicated servers at Softlayer and feel that is the best route.

I mainly use my Linode as off-network storage/testing location.
I think human beings, and animals for that matter, are naturally entrepreneurial. In the wild, those that aren't would die a quick death. Its only when there was work that could be done by non-entrepreneurs that they began to thrive. Well, subsist anyway.
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Become an investment banker and work 100 hour weeks for 10 years. Total investment: your teens, your twenties, half of your thirties, and your self-respect. Probably 5-10 years off the other end of your life as well...
That's the easy method, easy due to our government pumping the financial industry full of cheap money via low interest rates, but I digress...

Then there's option two:
Become a brain surgeon and work 100 hour weeks for 20 years. Pray your future pay isn't cut in half by future government regulations or nationalizations of your profession. Total investment: your teens, twenties, thirties, maybe your early forties if you didn't fast track. After your third wife you may wonder if it was all worth it...

Option three, become a startup founder and work 100 hour weeks for 5 years.... and hope you get lucky. If you don't, try again.

Or become a software engineer and work 40 hour weeks. After 3-4 years, make over $100k and realize even that's far more than you need... pity the people who strive for $500k, because life is too short. Admire and salute their noble sacrifices. :)
1) Problems introduced by Bush administration was not about deregulation. The problems were about overspending (because Republicans controlled all branches of government for too long).
Obama administration together with Congress controlled by Democrats made situation even worse (due to government spending).
2) Bailout is NOT pro-business. It's very much pro-government and anti-business.
What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?
> - The web experience has been really bad on the BB b/c of the slow processor. The video suggests this may be changing.

The old browser was a custom one written in Java. There is work underway to replace it with a WebKit one.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/16/rim-demos-new-webkit-base...
For the most part I've actually gotten over this problem. Now I actually get stuff done!
Anyone know of innovative startups that allow users to create websites?
I'm currently plodding through Wordpress but I can't help wondering if some startups have recently made some really exciting and innovative tools to allow an end user to put together a great looking website.

Does anyone know of any startups that have recently put together innovative and exciting tools for end user site building?

I'm building a fairly simple site which describes a software product. Maybe six to eight pages in total.
I also find it amusing when people call inheritance tax a double-tax and yet they don't call income tax a double-tax.

Essentially, all money is taxed multiple times as it flows through the economy. If inheritance tax is a double-tax then by the same standards all taxes are like an infinity-tax.

One way of looking at it is like this:

Government siphons off taxes at multiple points within the lifecycle of any given unit of money (a dollar, a penny, whatever). Businesses also siphon off money in the form of profits (ideally) and costs (unavoidably, unless outright theft was used to procure input resources, etc.). Basically, money gets fractionally siphoned off and redirected into other streams. If the money is siphoned off by a business under the label of profit, the Republican Party (a US thing) treats it as a good thing. Instead, if the money is siphoned off by a government under the label of taxes, Repubs tend to call it a bad thing. Unless the government hands it over to the military-industrial complex, or to oil companies, or to the rich, then it's no longer a bad thing, from what I can tell, looking at their track record.
The sooner an engineer gets over this he will get alot more done.
It seems odd that GMail's interface is so horrible to use when Google Reader's is awesome. I actually like the mobile version of Reader better than the desktop version, currently. I wonder if they're made by the same team...
very cool. now to encode, decode :P
Does anyone know what kind of durability Membase offers?
One of my ongoing concerns with MongoDB is the lack of single-server durability.
I'm working on a startup/iPhone app that is tangentially related to meditation. I've been meditating off and on for fifteen years now and as part of the app development I took it up again, as a kind of dogfooding approach. I've successfully used meditation in challenging sport situations (mountaineering, skydiving, swimming) but I've also had moments where everything in my life was going wrong except the meditation. Meditation can help you stay healthy, focussed and relaxed but anyone claiming it will fix your life is a charlatan.
While I would weigh pg's personal startup idea experience higher than the average person's, it is possible that, because YC deals with some of the "best of the best" in startups, his experience might suggest there are more good ideas than there really are (and the not-so-good ideas just don't apply to YC).
There clearly is lots of innovation going on, but 54 Mbps wireless hardware was introduced over 11 years ago!

Furthermore, AT&T's DSL speed has only exhibited a .15 Mbps CAGR over the past 5 years to its current peak of 6 Mbps. Comcast's average cable internet speeds were 6 Mbps from 2005 to 2007, until they jumped to 12 Mbps in 2008.

Can't wait for the future...

Sources:
"IEEE 802.11a-1999." <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11a-1999>.\n
"AT&T Residential Broadband Internet." <http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431>.\n
"Evolution of Broadband speed and prices over time." <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/31/41551958.xls>.
Do something you are good at. For instance programming. If you're a decent programmer, practice and experiment with that until you're really good at that. Read about Flow. To become a better programmer, I try to take some absurd idea I have floating around, like an automated Growl notification every time HN puts up a new tweet, and make it. I use languages like Ruby to get it done fast and to remove any stupid obstacles like linking errors and missing includes and yada-yada-yada.

In essence: get better at what you love to do.
Yep. It's also interesting that some transactions are taxed, and some are not. Some types are taxed at higher rates than others, etc. And despite living in a world (at least speaking of the US) where the IRS has all these explicit rules about how to tax various transactions, and they get all kinds of reports sent to them by all those financial institutions in order to double-check that everything is reported correctly, we still have a world where people can engage in cash transactions, and there is really no effective way to track and enforce taxes on cash transactions. Not in the general case.
That's not what nofollow is for anyway. Just update your robots.txt file.
Rubinius, MacRuby and JRuby are all 1.8 implementations now with 1.9 still on the roadmap.
At the end of the day -- nothing that bad happened to the guy. He's still alive (and healthy) to blog about it. But like he said -- others might not have been.

While you're point about it not flying is perhaps valid (one of the lovely things about compulsory voting here in Aus is that the AARP equivalent doesn't weild that much power) -- at the minimum there could be some progress towards a better outcome. (ie -- if you are >80 and have a traffic incident you need to restest for your license, retests at 90, 95, 100, etc)

I respect him because he has no interest in looking after himself -- he is attempting to look after others.
The phones capable of running Symbian, but not so capable of running heavier systems like Android, will get cheaper, and thus be able to reach a broader market, or new niches.
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I posted this question to HN a few weeks back - also related to meditation in a way. Some useful information posted by HNers... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398844
Putting it in robots.txt is like advertising to bad bots exactly where to go.

On some sites what I do is make a fake virtual directory and just ban the directory in robots.txt while prefixing the links with the fake directory path.

Oh and I swear google sometimes follows stuff in robots.txt, it just doesn't index it. Then there's the "alternate" user agents they use like pretending to be IE (from a real Google IP).
I don't know anyone inside Tapulous personally, so this is pure hearsay. Take it as you will.

What I've heard is Mike thought Tap Tap was too low brow and that by focusing on that app to the exclusion of their other apps at the time (Twitterific and FriendBook) they were betraying his vision for the company.

After he expressed his opinion about this he was asked to leave.
The solution is to password-protect the parts of your site that you don't want bots to see. Javascript obfuscation is silly. Robots.txt is advisory. Passwords are simple and failsafe.
> Murdoch is wily and buys talent.

Eh, Myspace was an eyeballs acquisition, not a talent acquisition. Myspace's lack of a proper engineering culture contributed to its fall from grace; Facebook's faster load times, quicker feature additions, and app platform play all stem from a better engineering culture, and helped it overtake Myspace.

That's actually one of Myspace's biggest problems: they have a history of shoddy engineering and architecture, so they can't attract top talent.
Entrepreneur: one who starts a new business. often several in sequence, regardless of whether the earlier ones succeed or fail. often with a new product, technology, market or competitive advantage. could start small then grow to very large, or, in some cases, start large at creation (think spinoffs or multi-corporate-backed partnerships.) May take VC. May become a billionaire. Often seeks an exit in the form of an IPO or buyout, and often early enough in their career that they can move on to the next startup, or, to retire young.

Small business owner: you own a small business. you may not have started it. you might have bought it. it might be a franchise. it often is not innovative. typically a commodity product or service (apples, hair cuts, lawn mowing, etc.). it often will not scale up well. it is often a family thing and may already be on the 2nd generation. if it fails the owner/founder is more likely to go back to having a traditional job. May take angels, but almost never VC. May become a millionaire. Often seeks to maintain it as a lifestyle business, at most offloading operational duties to hired management in order to gain a passive income stream, but typically closer to traditional retirement age.

in practice? the line blurs, esp when people use the terms without making a consistent distinction.

Steve Jobs: entrepreneur

Uncle Bob and his lawn moving service: small business owner, NOT an entrepreneur

(my two cents)
Vacuous and self satisfied appeals to intelligent and nuanced analysis of this kind is something I wish I'd see less of in these discussions. Few libertarians are anarcho-capitalists; they want a state and thus have to accept some taxes. They just want them to be very low and, usually, to be able to enjoy other things that are perfectly reasonable to want to enjoy (pot/cheap foreign labour/excellent foreign labour/raw milk cheeses FDA does not permit/exotic medical treatments). Imagine a thousand square kilometres of California with a laissez faire system akin to that of Dubai. Hackers who want more money (or access to foreign talent, cheap foreign labour etc.) would move there. They would make it apparent that most of the taxes they used to pay, while perhaps used for good in a general utilitarian sense (a point I only concede for the sake of brevity), was not used for their good. Does wanting to move to such a place show a lack of nuance or intelligence on their part?
Is the 3G hardware just not able to handle iOS4?
To be fair, while the halting problem could come into play here, it really shouldn't in practice. When Google is running the code there shouldn't really be a functional difference between a script which takes 20 seconds to run and one which takes forever -- kill the process either way.
cool idea, but no reason to wait for PG to do it. it shouldn't be hard to hack up a greasemonkey script or a chrome plugin to add that functionality for yourself. then once you've proven its usefulness, i'm sure PG would be happy to consider adding the script to the site for everyone.
Oh, man, here I was thinking, "who are these new artists? I'm so behind!"
Except that's not really how it works. If you reinvest your $500,000 income into stocks and they make a profit, you're getting taxed on the extra profit, since you're actually earning in excess of the original $500,000.
But... HN has nuanced discussions pretty frequently. Right now the top comments in this thread primarily serve to point out the blinkered view taken by the article. HNers love proving people wrong like nothing else, and until that stops being true I don't think this site will really succumb to groupthink. (I admit that groupthink seems like it's become much more common recently -- and, like you? I've particularly noticed it regarding IP/DRM -- but I still generally see the "minority opinion" surfacing when it's actually reasonable.)

All that said, I do think that HNers are way too quick to upvote comments that happen to support their previously-held beliefs even when those comments are extraordinarily lacking in nuance (see: the score on your post). But I don't think that's ever gonna change.
I went through your solutions and I must disagree. Your solutions did not generate the correct output for the questions.

For example, I'll take the following question :

'Given the string variable 's' and the integer 'n', return a new string consisting of n repetitions of s.

For example, if s = "abc" and n = 3, you should return "abcabcabc".'

The code you have written is as follows :

String duplicate(String s, int n)
{

String result = s;
// First assignment already done

while (n > 0) {
result += s;
n--;
}

return result;

}

If we analyze the following code (assuming that s = "abc" and n = 3), initially, the variable 'result' is assigned the value "abc".

The loop then runs 3 times - when n = 3, when n = 2 and when n = 1. Which effectively means that "abc" is concatenated 3 more times giving the string "abcabcabcabc", which is incorrect.

I do agree that the solution is almost right. Note that you are allowed to compile your code and run it against our testdata (and even your own test cases) in order to establish it's correctness - which means that you did have the opportunity to find out that there was a bug in your code and fix it.

But in computing, how often is it acceptable to get things 'almost' right ? Would you be happy if Google returned search results which were almost right ?

I know that if a human conducted the interview, he would have helped guide you through the test - in fact, we are almost done adding the capability for recruiters to monitor test sessions in real time and converse with candidates.

I can also provide a case by case analysis of your other solutions if you wish.
I imagine filtering out all the irrelevant lines from the changes log would be an issue if you went that route.
Hypernumbers http://hypernumbers.com/ has an interesting way of building web pages.
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Linux is mostly that easy, in my experience. It may be easier, since there are probably already drivers for most of your chips. At any rate, once you have a skeleton kernel mode driver, it's just a matter of tweaking it for other purposes.
There's this Firefox add-on, Badges on Favicon, that never got far off the ground: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8121
Ok we're done.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/iphone-4-retina-display-v...
Some of them probably were curses-based, running on a central server feeding a dozen Wyse terminals around the building.
DOS would be less surprising to me th an Windows 3.1 or 95, because DOS is still remotely useful in comparison to the latest MS software. It provides simple, direct access to the hardware with no scheduler in the way, so it's probably great for hackjob embedded systems.
i'm a vim lover, but this request is just plain nuts
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You can use any IDE you want (I use IntelliJ IDEA), and you do not have to use Java either. You can develop in Scala, or via the NDK in about any language you want. Then you can do a lot without using the SDK. But AFAIK you need a small GUI-wrapper around you native code to interact with the user.
But do you end up with just 13% of that half mill tho? I doubt it.
Why is it nuts? Gmail does this.
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When you have to regularly deploy maintain an nginx instance that hosts a large number of small sites you will understand :)
You're right, the multiplier effect doesn't apply if you simply park your money. It will affect you indirectly, however, if you assume that it lowers your expected rate of return (fewer transactions in the free market = fewer opportunities for profit).

It also increases the profit you must make to simply break even over inflation. For example, if inflation halves the value of $500,000 over twenty years, the IRS will still consider your $500,001th dollar "profit," even though you aren't making any real profit until your $1,000,001th dollar.
Every input field supports "select all", cut, copy & paste at least since 1.5.
What part do you deem unethical? I am conflicted about the ethics of driving high speed sports cars myself :-)