skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's largely to do with the fact that there seems to be such amazingly varied environments within a days travel of San Francisco, not to mention lots of exciting activities that come from such a massive bay area and coastline.

I'm sure London and by extension the rest of England are nice to visit, but I want proper mountains and national parks, not the wussy ones we have here. I want proper beaches, and I want to be able to take advantage of my very strong English accent :)
Yeah this is pretty standard procedure for the game industry.
Ask HN: Is a junior software engineer looked down upon for starting a business?
Hi HN, I am a graduating software engineer that will be launching my own startup soon. What started out as a side project has turned into something I believe other people would use. I have now decided to make it into a business!

As a software engineer I want to work for a startup but I am worried that my ambition may be a turn off for companies. Is a junior software engineer that has started a company unattractive to employers or is it a plus? This question can be abstracted to include all engineers/professions.

P.S. I wouldn't mind advice on company organization types (LLC, S Corp, C Corp) or anything else relating to starting your own business.
What China Lacks: Creative & Critical Thinking that leads to Innovation
Not only is Scheme Lisp, but On Lisp is absolutely not a beginner's book.
That's not his defense. His defense is that the GPL is legally unenforceable in his particular case.

What you call his defense is really his justification for fighting so hard. And his justification is more than "it just rubs me the wrong way." His sense of ownership is being violated.

As for Matt Mullenweg's graciousness, see this comment where he snipes Pearson's work:

"We've never incorporated anyone's code without their full participation and there's no code in Thesis I would want anywhere near core anyway. Thesis is a triumph of marketing, not technical competence. (In fact it relies on people not being able to question its incredulous claims about structure and SEO.) The few cool ideas it has were done in other themes first anyway. On a tech level, WooThemes is doing far more interesting work. (And they have been involved in core development.)"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517073
I've suspected that they've been rolling their own kernels for quite some time, it's rad that they're making these publicly available!
Why China Won't Rule Tech
I believe what gmurphy is referring to is the dev machine, not server.

Yes, I know of many web devs (myself included) who use windows on my personal machine, with a lamp/RoR stack, and then host on linux boxes.
"... but it's not a Lisp ..."

It is.

"... pure Lisp ..."

There is no such a thing as "pure Lisp". Lisp is not a programming language, it's a family of programming languages that share some common properties.

To put it more clearly, we could represent Lisp and its members hierarchically:

Lisp
Common Lisp
CLISP
SBCL
...
Scheme
Racket
Gambit
Chicken
...
Clojure
...
Yikes Millions of home routers are hackable
Full Trailer For Facebook Movie ‘The Social Network’ Hits The Web
Very true, but still not a great place to be. Whether the boogeymen are robots or chinese workers, not having a market for manufacturing labor is a bad position for an economy.
I submitted this because there seems to be a lot of interest in PG essays here, but I didn't really like this one... am curious what others will think.

Parts of it didn't ring true: I wouldn't regret spending the whole day in front of the TV because I was having fun (as opposed to doing work), but because it _isn't_ much fun, it's just wasting time.

And while it has been many years since I trained in anthropology, my memory is that hunter-gatherers _don't_ work particularly long hours -- something like 20-30 hours a week. So I doubt that we have any biological imperative against self-indulgence. The direct imperatives of averting hunger, cold, etc. are probably sufficient.

I do suspect that all 9-5 jobs teach us to tolerate doing work of dubious merit. It's hard to avoid, because you are being paid to take orders more than get things done.
I had no idea USV invested in Stack Overflow. I thought Joel was strictly against VC capital, and his arguments were dead on (dramatic difference in risk aversion). Besides, I was under impression that SO never really needed external cash...

I wonder if they asked him "Why did you change your mind, Joel?" after they were done with their PP deck. That must have been awkward. :P
Ask HN: Most important tech information sources?
What are the most important tech information sources for you (apart from HN)?
> Did anyone else who read this title think "finger" was referring to the unix command line tool?

Finger predates unix.
Agreed. Superior depends on what metric you're measuring by, and the public chose the one most important to them. It is over-simplified about Atkins, however. I'm not going to argue that Atkins is necessarily the best way to eat, but it was ahead of its time in pointing out the problems of refined carbohydrates.
I'm curious. Why is there such a furious hate for Java?
SOX is a pain in the ass but it's hardly relevant. If you're planing a multi-100-million dollar IPO, having to do more accounting work isn't your primary or secondary driver.
What's water management?
I've been wondering when he would get to clojure, given how much he has covered lisp and emacs, even going so far as to promote emacs because as "the last stronghold for lisp programmers". Given his involvement with foo camp, and his coverage of other dynamic languages, I thought at times his absence was partly explained just by finally finding something that seemed like such a close fit.
Ask HN: Country specific browsers, what do you think?
I find it odd when I hear people saying they are sick of hearing about apple, and then proceed to talk about apple even more... its a cycle.
That's not a bug, it's a feature
Well one thing is clear. If you put DRM onto your product then I, for one, will not buy it.
I feel like someone should tell his son about http://gamefaqs.com
Pretty damning.

I've generally agreed with theme authors that just interoperating with GPL software via its API is not enough to require your work to also be GPL'd, but when your theme or plugin contains whole sections of modified GPL code you've pretty much lost the argument.
I find Stack Overflow's new gaming site to be quite underwhelming.
Joel's thinking re taking VC for SO: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html
I don't think gaming will work for Stack Overflow...too general...all those gaming forums he mentions tend to revolve around a single game or a series.

And Stack Exchange just doesn't subcategorize well...yes they have tags...but if you have a question about a specific game, you are more likely to go to thatspecificgameforum.com rather than posting on a general site hoping someone there actually played the game in question
> Do any VCs accept dividends instead of a buyout?

VCs aren't the issue - the investors, the folks/companies who put money into their funds are.

VC funds are partnerships which divvy up the stuff bought with the money. The investors value liquidity.
Joel on Software, "Raising money for StackOverflow:"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html
Yeah, somewhat a really good teacher helps students to like what they need to learn.. that make a huge difference. When you want to learn it because you like that, everything become easy.
"The company also said that a software error, dating to the June 2007 release of the first iPhone, has resulted in overstated signal strength, leading users to believe they had better reception than they did. Apple said on July 2 that a software fix will be released “within a few weeks.”"

Bug or feature?
Why don't you use C then? It would let you freely shoot yourself on the foot.
The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering
my point is actually the opposite of what you assume.

my point is that facebook does not supersede google. as you assume saying cocacola vs pepsi.

google search superseded yahoo search and altavista search.

coca cola also does not replace DWP mainly because as much as people drink soda instead of water, they will ever hardly cook and bath in it.

so, the article talks about two ways to lure users. but they aren't exclusively.
Nice rebound Bootup, great to hear. Also good news for Vancouver tech and Canadian cloud hosting (which is in its infancy to say the least).
It's going to be extremely hard to argue with that diff. The Thesis version is basically the same code with only some minor reformatting and additional comments.
I searched for hours with the exact same requirements. I simply wanted to post a screencast of my product on my website.

I am using recordmydesktop/ubuntu and was able to find all the info needed in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHrFY7vli5k
I would use the site if I could say: I want to only view things related to starcraft, or warcraft, or whatever.. now, there are too much random question about things I don't like/don't know.
Remind me - does the NYT have the sort of oversight that it thinks that Google should have?
The ITIL framework separates the duties of finding an immediate workaround and diagnosing the root cause of one or more incidents. I can see some value in not letting those two tasks flow into each other without thinking about it.
This is good news. In my experiments with a bootable encrypted EBS volume I've wanted to use xts-aes on the volume, but none of the AKI kernels were new enough to support it. Now I can run a bleeding edge kernel, nice!
Might be true of the rationale page, but http://clojure.org/state is far more insightful than anything you will find in your average HN thread.
The Man Who Would Fall To Earth
I am kind of feeling the same way about this. I find myself asking...If I dove head first into this what would be my ROI??
Most valuable article on HN in recent times, and it got only two upvotes. How sad.
Is there a bash.org-style site for programmer horror stories? They pop up once in a while on HN, but it would be nice to have a single-service site for these kinds of stories.
short answer: dont do it unless you consult with your lawyer or 1000% trust that person.
Its COMPLICATED.
no matter what kind of corp you end up incorporating, what kind of shares/options you get, you can very easily end up with nothing if this guys is more experienced than you.
You can also do this using standard Bellman-Ford or Floyd-Warshall if you set edge weights to be -log(exchange rate).
"In other words, he figured out pretty quickly that this is not an algorithm game or speed game - it, like many things on Wall Street - is a 'who you know' game. No matter how smart, how fast, how sophisticated you are as an outsider, the likelihood is that someone on the inside has a similar trade idea and can do it faster and cheaper than you."

For every wall st question posted to HN this is the answer. It's a lot of money in somebody else's backyard. The game's played in that backyard are always rigged against the outsider.
Your Question Couldn't Be That Stupid
im guessing this is back pay for the funds crowley put in after his angel round. Because there was no way you go from zero to 25 employees on $1m.
A gigabyte of source code!? That's the entire depot not just one tag, right?
http://thedailywtf.com/Default.aspx
true. no matter how advanced is your device, it must be connected.

google realized that a while ago. Anyone remember all the fuss with free wifi and darknet?

my bet is that it's now trying a more subtle approach. Andoid thetering via open wifi hotstop by default, anyone?

Btw, as my personal "fuck you" to AT&T i make my android became a open hotspot over 3G every time it's charging.
Boston Dynamics Bigdog Robot
Coders guide to good coffee
> - environment variables changing the behavior of the program

But have you seen them abused as "additional" parameters to a function? putenv() by the caller, getenv() by the callee, rejoice!
Has anyone ever had the need to utilize more than one payment processor? I.e. Authorize.net and PayPal + others? If so, what were the challenges with integrating with multiple providers?
Can Kevin Costner's Machines Really Help the Gulf Cleanup?
Tim OReily: books that shaped how I think
With the API key, my understanding is you can use the API to access all the email addresses and customer names on that accounts mailing list(s), which for some companies is one of their most prized assets.
Quite the contrary. Having an education and relevant technical experience are all good, but what separates the merely good candidates from the excellent is that the latter have proven that they can get stuff done by their own initiative, that they've actually used their skills for something real.

Contributing to an open source project? Excellent. Writing your own research papers and contributing to a standards organization? Wonderful. Running your own business? Perfect.
> As long as consumers buy locked subsidized phones under the illusion they are paying less, we will see market distortion like this.

This. I was really excited about the way that the N1 was sold; unfortunately it seems they aren't going to continue sidestepping the carriers.
I'm looking forward to Land of Lisp being released to help me learn. Noticed it when that No Starch 50% off e-books offer was mentioned on HN the other day. Looks like a good started guide, plus making games always helps with motivation.

Link: http://nostarch.com/lisp.htm
Wow, it even has the Winklevoss rower guys who sued Zuck in it.
The 'big agency creatives' does not even mention orkut anymore in brazil. it's all facebook there too.

as soon as the die hard are gone, no one will even remember it.

right now it has the same public that 'photolog' had a while ago (i.e. poor teens)
>> Back to the drawing board with my money making schemes!

Is anyone surprised with that result? Nice reading though, i appreciate his time and willing to share the result. I would be to lazy to prove that myself. ))
It's a shame there isn't a way to place blinking tags around this comment, arrows pointing at it. Until this efuse problem has been proven 'in the wild' it's nothing more than a possibility, and from the BGR article (I searched this thread first to see if someone had already posted it) it seems this efuse has been in place in previous Droid models but has never been used.
The NYT editorial doesn't reference this, but recently the French government declared that Google was a monopoly and went on to prohibit Google from banning a French company based on Google's sense of what was moral and what was immoral.

See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/02norris.html

Having determined Google has a monopoly, the agency ordered the company to resume offering its services to a French company called Navx, which sells a database to let drivers know where the French police are likely to have radar traps in operation.

Google found Navx’s business distasteful - it is arguable that Navx’s customers use the product to help them act illegally with impunity - so last November, Google stopped doing business with Navx. As a result, those using search terms like "radar trap" in French could no longer learn of the company’s product and, a few clicks later, buy it.

Navx complained to the French government, saying its sales had plunged and that as a result it was facing problems raising capital. On Wednesday, the authority ordered Google to resume selling ads to Navx and to produce clear policies on when advertisers would be turned down.

"Discriminatory practices may harm competition," the authority said, "when customers of a company holding a dominant position find themselves disadvantaged in the competition on their own market."
There is some sort of rent control, but at the same time I have the impression that rents are going up fairly quickly.

Offering to pay more rent than advertised is a good idea, I might try that.
> Another would be to give some government commission the power to look at those tweaks.

This is probably a good move. Why don't we give government regulators oversight of google, because as we've seen with the SEC and the Minerals Management Service, government regulation usually prevents fraudulent or dangerous business action.

The government has done good things - i'm lookin' at you, seatbelts and civil rights - but those were typically grass-roots movements and not blue-ribbon commissions.

I would way rather have google blindly manipulate their own search data for personal profit than have to deal with the likely outcome of governmental meddling in said data.
I know some people, who haven't died, yet.
Value of Cheap Envelopes
There is no doubt about that value of cheap envelopes has been dramatically increased these days. That is why online printing ompany offers cheap envelope printing to its valued customers worldwide.
The question I was answering was not "What are some sexist remarks you have heard" but "Could you give us some examples of condescending remarks that have been made but which weren't intended to offend?" It's great if these kinds of comments don't bother you (I'm not a woman developer), but I know it would annoy me if every hacker meetup I went to, people had a greater tendency to dismiss things that I was saying partly because I was a woman, even if they didn't realize they were doing it.
Honesty and openness is sometimes very nice not just as an ideal, but because it gives you the chance to be the first to shape perspectives like that. And that, asmithmd1, is some very nice spinning of the issue you did there.

Outright denial of something which is shown in several seemingly honest online videos was a bad move all around. It was socially equivalent to publicly calling some of their early adopting customers liars. Of course the public reacted badly to it and didn't let the matter drop.
Reality Check: Modding the Droid X may not lead to a bricked phone
A prescient footnote
please don't assume everyone is as imprudent, lavish and wasteful as some stereotype you seem to have.

i replace devices when they are no longer of use to me, or if something significantly more useful comes along. actually useful not hype.

i got my current phone in 2005: i only have one phone, and this phone works well. i've repaired this phone: a year ago it fell in water and stopped working so i stripped it down, cleaned it up, checked for obviously blown circuits, replaced bits until it worked again.
> The more you interact with women, the more you get to know women.

s/women/people/

However, a little instruction about body language and psychology can go a long way if you need it. It's useful to know where you stand. Incidentally, I've started playing poker most nights for the past week, and together with some reading about tells, I feel as though my ability to read people to some degree has improved.
This does settle the case as far as Thesis is concerned.

But, this still doesn't make it OK for Automattic to force all theme developers to move to GPL.
As that guy rightly points out, by the same logic you should sue all closed source software on Linux that makes use of system calls.
I set up @macrefurb on twitter to do the same thing a while back. Not as sophisticated, but it kinda works.
WTF's wrong with stupid adult media?! What's next? Food as drug to get high? Sex as drug to get high? Seem these people really hate other people having fun. Or is it just another way to FUD more money into law enforcement?

I tell you what digital drug is. Digital drug is the sensational news media that got the vast people hooked on their news addiction. They surely should be banned.
Great tech recalls of the 20th Century
That is an odd argument; the purpose of either technological measure is to keep you out, and most users are just going to download somebody else's "worthy" crack anyway.
hey have been available as experimental options for quite a wile ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_SE_6_... ), and at least for G1 they seem to still be.

I have the impression, reading the release notes, that compressed oops and escape analysis may be enabled by default now, but I'd be happy if someone could shed some light
Also a very large aspect of discussing gaming is subjective. More general gaming sites involve people talking about their favorite games, best game in <genre>, etc. Stack Exchange sites are really anti-subjectivity, which reduces a lot of the potential discussion for gaming. Take this question for example: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/2168/relaxing-game...
And as I think about it, the reason for that might actually be that portfolio turnover mitigates concentration risk if it is not excessive.
As a Tamilian, I feel obligated to be offended by your suggestion. How about http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/bf9/index.htm instead ? :)

The problem is that your suggestion would be interpreted as Hindi-favoritism, when India actually has many languages and scripts.
Take this with a grain of salt. He in an investor in Stack Overflow after all:

http://www.unionsquareventures.com/investments/index.php
Great article, but for someone reason when I saw the headline I thought it was going to be able Al Gore.
Ask HN: How to do code reviews between remote teams
Hello,

We just started to work with a remote dev team. Due to time difference we find hard to have frequent phone calls or video conferences.

So far, we write emails with all the suggestions. We have no good way to track the suggestion and often writing those long emails is very cumbersome and leaves lot of room for ambiguity.

I would like to know if there are any good tools or ways to do code reviews with a distributed team. How do you do code reviews in your team?
I know many people are put off by what they see as the paternalistic nature of Java. Trying to protect the programmer from themselves by reducing the power and expressiveness that is available in many other languages.

Why that would rise to the level of 'furious hate', I don't know. I find it hard to grasp how anyone could hate a language. Hating a job where you have to use a language that frustrates you, that I can understand- but that has an easy solution. Find another job.
The solution seems quite simple: If you don't like the GPL, don't develop themes for WordPress.
Fundraising Is Like A Pit Stop
You can stand and work around. You do not have to stand in the same position all the time.
I'm a little confused.

...this guy has an _uncanny_ ability to build buzz and successful (profitable) products.

If he is that good, why would he offer you 10% of his new product just to shave a little bit off the initial development cost?
FYI

"
Lean Startup Machine is a 54-hour startup weekend that conforms to Lean Startup principles, a method of using customer feedback to rapidly iterate your product to reach product/market fit. As well as being a crash course in LS principles, it provides the networking, resources, and incentives for projects to go from idea to launch. On Friday evening, the event commences with networking and pitches. Participants then select ideas and form teams to work on their project over the weekend. On Sunday, teams pitch the Minimum Viable Product they've created to a panel of well-known entrepreneurs for funding and mentorship.
"
Rlwrap - The Readline Wrapper
If Chris were to release another version of Thesis that didn't use any GPL'ed code, would Thesis still have to be GPL'ed? What I'm asking is if Thesis is tainted forever by this copy-paste-refactor, or if he could "fix" the issue.
I just found this and I'm so excited about it that I'm telling everyone in the office. Here is my sqlplus script:

#!/bin/sh
BREAKCHARS="()@\"\";''\\"
exec rlwrap --remember -c -b "${BREAKCHARS}" -f ~/.sqlplus_completion sqlplus $*