skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PLEASE don't use security as a price discriminator. The web is already too full of shitty security. "Enhanced" security should be baked in to the app for EVERYONE.
incorrect. insert mode is still 'i'. and search is still '/'. They are at different places on the keyboard but nothing changes except for the one single thing: hjkl that could be used to move the cursor are not as neatly together now. You can talk to a qwerty vim user w/o any problem. just don't tell him to press the "third key from the left" or smth ;).
Boston, MA (Somerville specifically) - sorry, no telecommuters.

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We do lots of work for large non-profits — if you listen to NPR, you've heard our clients sponsoring your favorite shows.

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Thanks so much for mentioning Instapaper--I had an account but forgot about it. Just finished queuing up some reads I've been meaning to get to!
There are people who would ask the same thing about any programming field. I personally believe that with the tools and community available to you, it isn't necessary to have a PhD. But then again, I don't have one, and I'm just getting into learning NLP. I've done some data mining in the past, though it is what a PhD might consider trivial, it suited the purpose and solved the problem.

With respect to the link you posted. If those guys were really so brilliant at NLP, they wouldn't need you to type your query so specifically in 3 different search boxes.
NLP should be able to figure that out for you.

I guess it depends on what you are looking to do. With my current project, I'm trying to extract meaning from tweets. I'm hoping to be able to get it to the point where I can put most tweets into four or five buckets of general category (self-promotion, making plans, sharing links, congratulatory). Once I have that proof of concept, then I'll look at either continuing myself, or getting help from somebody with more experience.

If I were you, I'd take the first few steps yourself and then see how you feel about it. That way you'll also be more knowledgeable if you decide to look for somebody with more experience.
You may have a planes-that-crash bias there. You don't notice all the times you benefit from a well encapsulated service because it just works the right way. The rare handful of times when something that would be useful is marked private is what sticks out in your mind.

I know that I would prefer to work with an interface with 10 public classes with 50 public methods than an interface with 100 public classes with 5000 public methods.

The conceptual weight of wading through all of that stuff has a cost. There is often value in not knowing or caring about implementation details.

Although I do agree that final/sealed is generally just mean-spirited and pointless.
There are pubs in Scotland that, instead of flies on the urinals, feature names of landlords guilty of forcing tenants from their land in the Clearances of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
I get that and I can send those out to, but I was looking for a solution to keep those within my HN ecosystem
The New Science of Morality
I need a job in San Francisco or Oakland/Emeryville CA.

http://stephenlauck.com
As someone essentially in charge of petabytes of storage; one of these will not safely, securely or successfully do the job alone.

I used to use this method with normal 4U server chassis and 20 x 1.5TB hard drives. Multiple issues and availability problems have meant now we use multiple 2U chassis with 4 x 2TB drives to serve the same job.

It works out cheaper in the long run :)

(It works for Backblaze because they essentially have the same thing but scaled up massively)
I do a lot of my reading on the bus or waiting for a bus, which tends to involve sunlight on a semi-regular basis.
- Ask a question. Define the nouns.

- Sleep 2 hours extra.

- Find a purpose that means something to you (not success/cool/clever).
I love the idea, have thought about doing something similar in the past.

It looks like all the stores are hosted as subdomains of vittyo.com. It would nice to run a vittyo store on my own domain.
Well put. To use an example that's well-known here, this is like pretending that Bill Gates only became Bill Gates because he had rich parents and got access to a computer at 14 years old in the late 1960s, and that his great intelligence and willingness to work harder than most people have even considered working at developing his ability were irrelevant or incidental.

The implication that if you're white, male, middle-class or up, etc., then you're only where you are because of unfair advantage and should be considered an "oppressor" is everywhere in this sort of so-called discourse. Look to the Soviet Union or Khmer Cambodia for what this ideology, empowered and taken to an extreme with some slightly different axioms, can lead to.

By the way, thanks for teaching me a word -- "subaltern." I was disappointed to see that it's mostly an identity-politics buzzword, but I'm sure I'll find a use for it.
From the FAQ, "Our transaction fee is $0.99 + 9% of each payment."
I am in SF and aggressively looking!!
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Also, the two main smartphone platforms (iPhone and Android) have their default search engine set as Google.
This is precisely why I got a Sony Reader instead.
I agree. This paragraph is hard! Maybe PvZ will help?

(Seriously - I just deleted We Rule. Is there anything fun to that game?)
Because if you've been coding since you were eight then you should probably know by now the difference between anecdotes and data.

And if you've been coding since eight, you should also know that it takes only one counterexample to disprove a claim that X always implies Y.
Found the http://pgfoundry.org/ site and will add the system to it.
Wow. I'm not sure whether that's brilliant or insane but I wish you the best and will watch with interest.
I will be soon. Mountain View, CA. Plain old web development, python preferred.
It boils down to 'cynicism is not science'.

It seldom occurs to us to pick apart the things we already know are true, so our logical and rational strengths become torches with which to defend our held beliefs rather than lights to shine upon them.
The Future of Foursquare
Thanks! I thought of that too, but I want to give him some incentive to let me cut free of (and hire out) my other day to day responsibilities that keep me from turning the internal app into something self sustaining. Maybe I'll just start off by asking if he'd consider equity at all. He said absolutely not for the other business, but hasn't indicated on the software side.
Unless you're writing Java.
Someone also mentioned Gmaps Pedometer: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

It has most of the things I want in a route planner. I'll also check Daily Mile out, thanks for the link!
Also, Canvas Networks (moot from 4chan's startup) is hiring in NYC. http://canv.as/jobs
Great list--I'd argue that one of the most important ones on there is the one-handed bowline. It could save your life!

http://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/cr_bowline-methods.html#one...
Good point, we'll add some example links to the site. In the meantime:

http://www.gazehawk.com/img/techcrunch-heatmap.png

http://www.gazehawk.com/img/wakemate-heatmap.png

We pay $2 for trying right now, $4 for actually completing, and $5 if you give us some incredibly insightful feedback or bug report. We may decrease this in the future, but we need to figure out our supply/demand curve first.
I'm reading JavaScript: The Good Parts. Pretty good.

I also really like Make: Electronics. It's extremely well done, outstanding layout and graphics, excellent content, if you want to get started hacking hardware.

BTW, apparently this sale is only for e-books, not paper.
I'm going to be that guy, but I disagree with that as well.
I lived in a very poor area in Southeast Texas and built my first computer (literally) from junk parts I found in ditches. I had a little help but it was pretty easy to figure out since everything had notches to make sure everything goes in the right place.

I was 8, coincidence here.

With a pirated Windows 98se from my mom's boyfriend at the time, it worked out alright. I tied up my mom's phone line with netzero, and that's when I started my adventure into the web.

Edit: For clarification, I had built a 233mhz machine with 32mB of ram. I put 98se on it because I hadn't learned of linux yet, and it probably would have been too much for me at that time anyway. Ubuntu didn't exist.

Around age 10 we finally got DSL, and by that time I had gathered up enough money to build a "real" machine, with an Athlon XP. Again, with all pirated software.

Software piracy enables more to younger poor people than your parents being wealthy in my opinion. Not saying it's right, but it sure allowed me to do things I otherwise wouldn't have been able to do.

That article is more relevant for people that grew up in the 80s, when hardware was less available than it is today.
I started my adventure in the 2000s.

I'm 18 now, work for a startup, and I have quite a little nestegg from social marketing apps I've built in the last few years. Nothing my family did really had any effect on my interest in computers.
Thanks, it's in the works :)
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That explains why Bloomberg terminals have that strange color scheme.
I agree that "recognize it for what it is and be grateful for it" is the right reaction to having had an opportunity that a lot of people didn't have, but it's much different from the attitude of this and similar articles.

Good luck with that project -- if you find even one kid like that or anywhere close, you'll have done a lot of good.
Is Tesla the next DeLorean?
Yes, but afaik no airline will give you meals and hotels when flights are cancelled due to weather.
Interesting that the post is from future as of now... (21:04 July 29th, CEST).
Can someone explain the java/clojure code in the article? I'm assuming the jvm is able to make some sort of optimization because o was set to null which it wouldn't have been able to do otherwise?
You've got a typo on your places page.

Below are a few of the sites I visit daily for news, entertainment and to education.
Wow, I was thinking about this just this morning. I assumed it stood for "GNU regular expression parser" or something like that, even though that doesn't really make sense.
Two things:

First find a lawyer whom you trust; have her read drafts of contracts and advise you about the possible consequences of each clause.

Second, find out if there is a SCORE (Senior Core of Retired Executives) chapter in your town, or if there is a small business advisory council or something like that, they can be a good source for finding advisors. You don't need someone who has a deep understanding of your business, but you do need someone who understands how businesses are structured and how to keep them on track. Finding an advisor is a tricky thing, you need someone who can tell you when you are sabotaging your own success in such a way that you will listen to them.

shorter: find trustworthy advisors and listen to them.
Any more info about the actual test users? Are they using their own computers, or do they come to a test lab?
Wow, nine percent sounds like a lot of money to be creaming off a charitable donation. I might have some ethical issues with this.

edit: Especially since now I look at the site, it appears from the user's point of view that they could go through the entire donation process without ever knowing that mydunktank is taking nine percent. I had to click through to the "terms and conditions" and read term 1(b)(iii) to find any reference to the fees at all.

It even tells me "I understand that my money will be donated to (say) The Spina Bifida Resource Network even if this dare doesn't win.", when it should say "I understand that 91% of my money will be donated to The Spina Bifida Resource Network..."
SIGGRAPH Keynote speaker addresses education instead of talking tech
A couple years ago I made a site to stay organized when looking for a job, http://www.happyjobsearch.com/ . I made it after I got laid off for the second time in 3 months. I needed an efficient, systematic approach to looking at job listings and keeping track of what I needed to do for each opportunity. It's like GTD but just for job hunting.

It's free and it's quick to sign up. So I hope no one minds my posting it here. I know how much it sucks to be jobless and looking for work, so this site is my little helping hand to anyone in that position.
Aren't these the same skits from Trigger Happy TV?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHqdz-g8tQk
I don't think Postgres' "default config" is really the "recommended config." In particular, the default size of Postgres' buffer cache is small, to reduce footprint on non-dedicated servers, and to fit within most systems' default SysV IPC limits. (God I wish they'd just use mmap()).

Postgres does expect that in addition to its explicitly-managed cache (the shared_buffers setting), the OS will be caching a bunch of stuff as well, and its query optimizer takes this into account (the effective_cache_size setting). Reasonable conservative settings are 25% and 50% of system RAM, respectively.

There's no One True Source on this AFAICT, but http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serve... and http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config... are handy.
The Kindle is great. But I'll wait. I like the product, but, it doesn't quite fully solve the problem I have. Here's what will really tip the things over for me:

1. I love to read, but I don't want any dead trees around me anymore. What I need is a way to convert all my past Amazon book purchases into e-books without cost. Or better yet, all book purchases I have.

2. Have a better way to input text, notes etc. That awkward keyboard coupled with the holding position doesn't help.

3. Have a way to share things. May be share a quote, a passage or a page with others.
Ask HN: Who Needs a Job in Seattle?
It's easier if those of us who are hiring know you live near us. ;)
Make it easy for employers by indicating where you're located, whether you'd be willing to move, if you'd prefer to telecommute, etc.
Looks pretty cool, congrats!

My main concern is how do you plan to compete with YouTube? They offer a rentals marketplace which may still be in beta. Also, they have serious money behind their technology for large scale streaming, and currently have a majority of the traffic in that space.
Scribd is hiring interns, both for the summer and for during the school year. We have two interns now and it's working out great.

http://www.scribd.com/jobs
I guess that kind of marketing approach is something Jeff should consider as an indy dev, but a possible benefit to him from exposure doesn't seem to have much to do with whether handing out free CD Keys to every email with a SOB story is practical or effective at actually helping the people he would like to help.
I think he answered that question here:

http://bettermeans.org/front/?page_id=19

with more of an introduction here:

http://bettermeans.org/front/?page_id=306
Mockingbird Doesn’t Want Casual Users
I wish this had been the first advice I'd received when I started dieting. After flailing around for years, I started calorie counting, and then made lifestyle changes once every few weeks. Smaller portions, whole wheat instead of white, simple things like that. Doing them one at a time made all the difference, and I finally got back down to my college weight.
This has saved me so much pain.
Where @ in Seattle?
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I don't think if it is better, but is a bit more suited to Python-programmers.
This is totally awesome.

It draws a real contrast between programmers and the article's author(s). Academic style discourse never attempts to propose any solutions or valorize any sort of action whatsoever. Instead, the point is mainly to grandstand and to call out everyone. Those of higher socio-economic standing are always at fault, those of lower are always blameless/helpless/or otherwise without agency.
If anti-authoritarianism isn't in your blood I'd say you aren't the target market.
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Bloomberg LP has a number of positions all over the world. We're hiring for our news, multimedia, and (most importantly) R&D departments. Good company to work for, great benefits: http://www.bloomberg.com/about/careers/
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We spend a lot of time one-on-one with each fundraiser to help them promote it and raise significantly more money than they would otherwise.
See http://colabv6.dan.co.jp/lleval.html which includes perl6 among many other languages. Also its already been updated to Rakudo Star!
My son and I are doing the exact same thing, on a smaller scale out of our basement in conjunction with the public school.
I don't make it clear enough, so I definitely need to address that, but you can register and once you've done that you have the ability to save and view your own list of routes.
You can send private messages to the bot and it will reply to you with the result ... so no problem there.

The one liner limitation still apply, but they can be very loooong one liners ;-)
All 3 are pretty good. I have thought about ways to streamline small claims. Pay $X, write your claim and the app sends it to the courts. A month or two later you get your decision.

The second one is good too. It would be hard for me to image what elderly people would find easy and what they would find hard. However, I bet the New York Times and a ton of other media outlets would write stories about it just for the tech meets elderly hook.

Also, thanks for not suggesting a project management tool.
They use their own computers and webcams, providing a much more natural environment for testing. That's one of the reasons we can offer such a low-cost service.

If anyone is interested in being one of our users, sign up at https://www.gazehawk.com/tester/signup/
My suggestion: spend some quality time knowing yourself, so that you may better lead an authentic and fulfilling life.

What does happiness mean to you? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What do you value most? What are your goals? What should they be? How would you define success?

Cultivate your mind so that you may do the above better.
Are they all allergic to snakes (or reptiles in general)?
Seriously. My parent were broke, too, and they went to some spiel on a timeshare to get a blisterkey timex mini computer thing (this by the way is how we got our family toaster, as well). But it spoke basic. And I started there. With a free POS computer that was more like a calculator.

Arguments about privilege and CS degrees are apologetic and sound an awful lot like excuse-making.

Access means a lot, but it's irresponsible to alienate entire classes with broad-stroke generalizations. This is the same sort of crap that makes the Left look so lame. And I can't quite get the intent behind the post. If it's simply to increase access, then that's a noble cause. But it sure seemed more like whining.
The real story: http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jul2010/pi20100...

The blog adds nothing.
I like the simplicity of the interface, but second an option to have km's. I always prefer running in km's the numbers are better!

What would be really cool is the ability to set a start point and ask for a circular route of N kms (miles) and have the site create one. No idea if that is even remotely possible with the google map API though ...
I think e-reader prices have gone low enough for most people.

Now it's time for ebook prices to drop. Also more older books converted to ebook format.
Agreed. Just changed that. Thanks for the feedback.
I don't need a job, but if someone knows of a job where I can work from outside of Melbourne, Australia 3 months of the year, and the rest of the year in the USA, please post your hints here...
Nice! Other comments:

-As someone else posted on the site, attempts to create a new workstream meet with a 403/not authorized despite being logged in.

-It may just be a placeholder, but the "Browse all enterprises" and "Browse all workstreams" seems to be an unwieldly way to discover new enterprises/workstreams, since after the launch is well underway, that list will explode in volume. The search box is nice to find enterprises you already know about, but really what's needed to make it easier to find new enterprises (IMO) is some way to hierarchically categorize or tag your organization. And also those "Browse all..." type pages should definitely be paginated; they're way too long already.
I don't know if I'll just come off as an ass but have you tried Safari Books (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/) yet? Monthly subscription fee is about 25 bucks and it gives you unlimited access to most books from o'reilly and some from Apress as well. I think it's a much better alternative to the deal at hand.
it would be extra useful if you could see the order in which people look at things
I think in a couple years time, these large, 9 inch readers and tablets are going to look the way those old, chalk board eraser-sized cell phones, or the original ipod looks today. They just seem unwieldy and awkward. I think we'll see a market open up for devices that are larger than a cell phone, smaller than a tablet, like the Dell Streak.

Personally, I have a Sony Pocket Edition and it's the perfect size-about 6'1/4 by 4 1/4', with a 5 inch screen- about as big as paper back. True to it's name, I can put it in my jacket or back pocket and carry it anywhere with ease.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/breakdown

http://www.christopherchantrill.com/

http://www.deathandtaxesposter.com/

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=711
I find it supremely ironic the following statement, "It almost doesn’t make any cost sense to outsource your storage to the cloud with those cost savings. It really can be cheaper to bring it in house" being linked to a company whose purpose is to outsource your storage (in this base, backups) to the cloud.

Yes - I know that most of us backing up our 400 Gigabyte hard drives to backblaze aren't really in the same space as those people who really have petabytes of storage, but, Ironic nonetheless.
Sorry, but hardly fascism. It's appalling how few people actually know what fascist means.
I believe most (all?) BlackBerries default to Google also.
I agree that the project is awesome, but without those who criticize and analyze, no thought gets put into how to make the world better.

Note: there is no "fault." There are built-in injustices in society that are not due to some inherent evil lurking in the hearts of wealthy white men. By the same token, people who are poor or lack certain privileges are not stupid, bad, or inherently lesser humans because they do not possess the same knowledge and skill set as someone who has/had more advantages growing up.
Lost me at #4 since it contradicts #1.
We do have a reverse ssh tunnel thing for that (aka "Sauce Tunnel"). I'd like to think that using it does not require having a strong intestine...

But yanking this thread back to being about mogotest... Congrats on the launch, guys!
Yes please. Do you speak rails?
he's saying this reads like the Onion without the funny.
You wrote: "casual users." Did you mean: "free hangers-on?"

This blog post sounds like the perfect example for why services need to charge up-front. The author acts like they deserve a greater level of service than "none," when the high cost of this type of user (vocal, complaining, sense of entitlement, unlikely to pay or they would have bought Balsamiq in the first place) is exactly the reason that Mockingbird is shutting down all the beta-created projects in the first place.
The tone can be off-putting, but it comes from being treated like dirt by snotty kids who think that their good fortune == inherent superiority.