skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear, you expected to be able to use a beta system right away after providing your email, and not having access to that made you feel unsatisfied/uninterested? The signup button does say "request an invite", is that not enough?
Who exactly upvoted this? The fact that this is on the front page of Hacker News is really disappointing.
And 1 point is actually zero. Now I'm down to 4, so 15 minus "5" plus 2 = 4 in hackernews math?

For the record, I don't care about karma points, I care about whether or not the system works correctly.
The other thing a lead often does in seed rounds is to work with the entrepreneur to set the price and other terms; the subsequent investors then reassure themselves that somebody who knows what they are doing thinks this is a good deal.
My uncle, who was like a second father to me, died from a class IV Glioblastoma multiforme a few months ago. I spent about a week in the hospital with him and the family (we spent xmas in the hospital, actually). He was 60, played hockey every week, super healthy, super smart, loved life.

Within two months of being diagnosed he was dead. He first had a seizure playing hockey and evrybody thought it was a stroke or an aneurysm. A month later he lost control over half of his body, then went in and out of coma for the final week... I had a chance to talk to him and hold his hand, tell him how important he was for me and all that stuff that we never tell each other. He could understand what we said, but had a hard time communicating... And then he was gone.

Terrible disease.

I'm getting married in 4 days, and we've decided to give money to charities working on cancer in the name of the wedding guests. We figured it was better than spending the money on chocolates or whatever (though we also have some of those).
So what? If you're not happy with the quality of the jobs, disable having them show up on your dashboard.

What situation do you see arising where they worsen the site that they love and that has been making them good money just to "cater to" people who want to post jobs?
Of course this is not new. I would have to assume that every value representation under the sun has already been invented and probably during the 60s.

61-bit integers would either require long long integer arithmetic on x86 or require more dynamic branching for arithmetic ops either of which would slow down very hot paths.
Meh, Windows 7 and OS X provide nearly equally usable user interfaces. The new taskbar works fantastically, and looks just as nice as the OS X dockbar. Windows 7 is easy enough to use for the most part, I find nothing harder to configure than it's OS X counter part. I personally like the Apple hardware a lot though.

Now if only Linux had a sane DE. I can't stand GNOME or KDE. Gnome is so inconsistent and hard to configure properly. KDE's defaults for everything and standard widgets (Esp like in preference dialogs in applications) is just atrocious.
Depending on your definition of "total crap", you might find LaTeX2rtf gives you acceptable output with minimal manual tweaking. It works for me, though I'm far from a type snob.
If you have a job in NYC, by default everything you create belongs to your employer.

Only work you've done in the course of your employment is owned by your employer, by default. This can be modified by contract, however.

CA does not enforce some contracts while NY does, but the default is that you own all your after-hours work.
SparkleShare - Free (as in speach) Dropbox alternative
Testing a e1/t1 card before shipping to haiti
Hi friendly HN peoples,

We're shipping a server to Haiti, ideally Friday for an MIT project (konbit.media.mit.edu). It is a voice-based service that interfaces with the public via ordinary telephones. The goal is to make it easier to employ Haitian nationals rather than bringing in foreign contractors (the norm). It is 100% free & open source.

It will be hosed by Digicel, the main telcom down there. We have a Digium telephony card that connects to them via E1 channels. The card can do T1 and J1.

Does anyone have any equipment/T1 lines we can use to test the actual card before shipping it? Once we ship it is will be very difficult and expensive to try to deal with any broken cards.

<obvious>We're in Boston/Cambridge, so you should be too.</obvious>

We're reachable at konbit at-sign media.mit.edu

Thanks,
Aaron & Greg
Months ago -8 was the limit. Really, what's the point in limiting the display to -4 if it's really minus n? Why not just show minus n?
So the writing in this is atrocious. There's no clear line of thought. I got 5 paragraphs in and could not figure out just what the hell the author was trying to tell me. LEARN TO WRITE.
On the plus side, it's easy to get an intro to those investors because ingeneral other entrepreneurs and hackers will gladly open their rolodex for you if you are building something they think is interesting.
Yes Android outsells the iPhone but are you really surprised?
Yesterday news of Android outselling the iPhone was all over the tech blogosphere including here, the news did not surprise me at all what did was the amount of attention it was receiving. It’s really not fair to compare the iPhone which is only available on one carrier At&t, while there’s over 20 plus Android phones on every major Carrier in the US, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, At&t.
The beginnings of a new Haskell web framework, inspired by Ruby's Sinatra
Realizing that starting an email newsletter company is costless and doesn't have to distribute only news is actually a big idea. There's a ton of businesses to be made around distributing curating publicly available content, and being able to serve members of a community you really love is a rare, awesome opportunity.
But not all dead! Mostly dead means slightly alive. All dead... well, there's only one thing you can do: go through their pockets and look for loose change.
Why not simply link the logo to the homepage? That's an affordance that every other web app in existence makes, and it was pretty surprising that you don't even have your logo linked to anything.
Open Source Form Builder
Can anyone recommend an open source form builder? Needs to be able to output an intermediate format other than html.
You're right. Mentally I (incorrectly) lump them in with South Brooklyn. Or, more to the point, "yipster" Brooklyn.

Honest question: How many people actually live near their work in DUMBO or Downtown?
Excellent essay (and, I assume, talk). This jumped out at me:

So it seems that there is the reverse problem on the real world developer side: we are solving problems, comparing and contrasting approaches and implementations, but we are either too lazy or too busy to sit down and write a proper paper about it

That would be invaluable, but I understand that they don't do it for the very same reason that OS researchers don't submit patches to the LKML: it's not what they're evaluated on.

If you've ever been frustrated by the disconnect between research and industry in the area of computing, read this essay.
Is there any other programming language that inspires the same sense of humor as Perl? (And please... no fair responding with "is there any other programming language that NEEDS a sense of humor like Perl inspires.")

Self-deprecating humor is an implicit statement of confidence; unfortunately, people not in the know may take it at face value.
This is the point where talking about it does nothing. Go measure it like I have. In fact, I'll give you your hypothesis to test:

"There are no servers that have an ATR of > 80%."

That's easy to test, and I'm damn positive you could find some that disprove your assertion.

More importantly though, you have this assertion:

"Using both poll and epoll has no advantage in performance."

Again, who knows, that's why I'm testing and trying out. That's the science part, since I've got no idea, but I'll give it a shot. And now that I've done an analysis that tells me what really matters, I'll be able to do very good tests for the different kinds of loads.

Incidentally, when people run performance tests against web servers to see how fast they serve files they're testing the server with an ATR at around 100%. Food for thought.
Linux: Coming soon!

Mac OSX: Coming soon!

Windows: Coming soon!

My interest: Coming soon!

Edit: Evidently there is now an alpha release available (which is what this link probably should've gone to). What is up with that font though?

http://www.bomahy.nl/hylke/blog/sparkleshare-02-alpha-1-for-...
That was my thought, too. No matter how I feel about rejecting the insurance job, I can't deny that he's showing sufficient dedication to job hunting. The trouble is he doesn't seem to be showing any dedication to anything else. Why is he not tutoring or coaching little league? Why is he not learning something or building something?
You don't know crap until you jailbreak your iPhone and browse through most of the wares in Cydia.
I'm no node.js expert, but from what I've gathered in my travels Express is currently the most popular.

http://expressjs.com/
Let's clean up the Ruby example a bit, shall we?

collection = Braintree::Transaction.search do
order_id.begins_with? "a2d"
customer_website.ends_with? ".com"
billing_first_name == "John"
status.in? Status::Authorized, Status::Settled
amount.between? "10.00", "20.00"
end

collection.each do |transaction|
puts transaction.id
end
Who cares about the percentage of shit in the app store? It's not like you have to sift through all the apps manually. Think about all the web pages on the internet. Does the web have a better batting average than the app store? Does it matter?

The only pragmatic argument against Apple's app store policies (IMO), is that companies cannot be confident enough to invest heavily in an application that has yet to be approved by Apple. But I don't know for sure that this is a big problem. I'm watching the Android marketplace closely, and I'm not convinced that Apple should change course yet.
Deliverability is seperate from just sending out the emails. Deliverability is the business of making sure your email was actually sent and recieved to your subscribers.

Deliverability itself is a big industry and return path is the leader in the field. Mailchimp resells Return Path as it's "inbox checker" product which we use to analyze our emails to make sure we aren't tripping off spam filters.
Public work in the US cannot be a good comparison. Workers in communist Russia must have other motivations to be efficient - patriotism and pride in their work for some, but more likely, fear of the state and lack of alternatives.
Either way, my point was not that they had an efficient or scalable model, but that the government can throw in any resource they have at making more weapons - even at the expense of starving millions.
A predatory business culture is "conservative"? I don't follow.
Calling All Engineers (Twilio is Hiring)
What It Takes to Live Your Dream
my dad is a mod of a rc board, i think the big thing (in the US) is for flying your own drone, it has to have an observer. plus full first person video requires a lot of bandwidth, and the power you're allowed to use negates hardly any range, even if you can use FPV at all... a lot of the devices over the last few years that had FPV turned out to be over the legal limits of power
Would be cooler if you had a job board where consultants could outsource bits of their work to other GitHubbers. It would require a Github subscription. That way it drives more subscribers and keeps the job board free from recruiters and spammers. It would also create a special Github community, where people could trade out work. You could probably also have some kind of integration into Github, like giving someone Git access to a certain directory only, or similar.
I'm not getting a particularly Apple-y vibe from the press release. What similarities do you see to iPhone ads?
This seems to be a fairly popular application right now. I feel like there has been quite a few calendar/appointment apps recently. Lots of competition.

A few quick notes:
1) The team page is broken when you click on one of the images.
2) I have not watched the video yet, but I'd like to have screen shots and text descriptions of what the benefits of the app is. I can read faster then it would take me to watch the video. There is not enough details yet to make me want to watch the video.
3) I would call out that 'Appointment' where a user can actually use it (as a customer) and see what their customers would see. It is non obvious that you should click on it.
4) There is no email address on the contact page
5) The refer a business text is a long run on blob of text. It needs better formatting.

It seems like one way you are trying to stand out from the crowd is the CRM aspect but I don't see where you drill down on this.
DSTM: A Haskell framework for using STM within distributed systems
Erlang Cluster and Google AppEngine
Right. The author is saying he should become an entrepreneur, and that his family should be advising him to do so.
How is this different from Mint?
The HackerNews digest (I think that's what the HN newsletter is called) is a great example of this. Curated and sent to my inbox to keep me up to date on all of the HN discussions, I love recieving it.
Do you have any references for this? (speaking as a NYC-based employee with various side projects)
They are real movements with websites and books about them. "buy local", "food not lawns", "locavore" are sample phrases to google for.
One of the big reasons to build the DSL in the first place is to let the host language's syntax help you spot problems in your query. Syntax errors can be spotted from editor-provided syntax highlighting directly or slightly later when the code is read by the interpreter -- much sooner than when your runtime library finally decides to look at it (at search time).
Actually, there are plenty of competent administrators who would probably work for ~ $150K plus benefits (no free house).

Having administration who are paid like landed gentry while professors and grad students are paid peanuts and students have to engage huge amounts of debt relative to their expected future earnings IS THE PROBLEM.
Well, MIT & Harvard don't hurt...
You again? Man you got some beef.

Anyway, we do have something working. You can deploy Mongrel2 right now, and I do all the time. You can actually measure how fast it is, although that's going to be slow since we haven't done much tuning so kind of pointless.

So, again you're wrong. We are at a point in the design where this measurement and analysis matters, and we have something that actually works to put it in. You should probably maybe go do some actual reading instead of posting here like you know what you're talking about.
Unrelated: Has anyone actually tried using 37signals' Draft iPad app? Would rank pretty high on my "Worst $10 I've ever spent" list, if I maintained such a list.
Thank you for saying this. I wanted to post the exact same thing but you said it all. Let's be honest, the Valley has been important in one aspect (tech) for about the last 30 years. New York has been a global focal point in all aspects for 200 years. Let's all just get along and use our collective diversity to make something better, not trash each other's cities to get readers.
Or Jersey City (the non-yuppie parts) for $1000.
I have not read the book the article references. However, in reference to what Mr. Hacker and Ms. Dreifus call the "immorality" of using adjunct professors, the article's author does not address the fact that there are potentially very good reasons why the use of adjuncts is increasing.

In engineering, for example, adjunct professors may come from industry and provide students with perspective and experience full-time professors may not provide.

Adjunct professors may choose to teach as adjuncts because they have a passion and a talent for teaching they want to pursue without the pressures of publication. Many full-time professors may readily admit that the pressures of producing academic work causes the quality of their teaching to decrease. Perhaps this is one reason Yale offers its professors time so that both the quality of teaching and research remains high.

Some departments opt to hire adjunct professors because its set of full-time professors does not have the expertise to offer a course in a particular area of the field. While this may seem more applicable to technical fields, any department that opts to do this can provide students with more diversity and variety in course offerings over an academic year and over a student's academic career.
I guess it depends on how you define conservative. I define it partly as "hierarchical, aristocratic, exploitative" while liberal is "self-made, innovative, meritocratic."

Those are not the pop definitions though, especially in America. They're closer to the classical definitions.

Predatory is the right word. It feels like everyone in London is an "independent consultant" trying to schmooze their way into things to play some mysterious sleazy angle.

The independent consultant thing is a bit of a joke in London. Even London's ex-mayors become independent global consultants:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7585330.stm

Heh.
Oliver Heaviside -- Self Learner Who changed the face of Electrical Engineering
Report: Amazon's cloud business to reach $500 million in 2010
FWIW, Word's text layout engine is as sophisticated as LaTeX. IMO, there's just a large layer of other "stuff" that ends up on top of it that usually results in your typical looking Word document.

It's better in Word 2007/2010, but still doesn't seem to be all the way there.
It doesn't really buy you anything. Everything you described is already possible with UTF-8, even the first bit about misinterpreting UTF-8 as an 8-bit ASCII. You've still described a single mapping of characters to numbers, you've just created a much more inconvenient encoding.
We just launched NewsBasis. What do you think?
Python is named after Monty Python, and you see occasional Monty Python jokes, but I think people that use Perl have a sense of humor about it because they aren't religious about Perl, they know its fugly and awkward, but at the same time they know it helps them get the job done.
I'm rather bothered by all the people knocking liberal arts degrees, in this and other threads. I did go to a school with a reputation for having a hard liberal arts core education, and it turned out to be a great decision. (In retrospect, I now wish I had gone to a different school, but the one I chose wasn't bad at all.)

It's hard to explain why it's good to be able to think about these things, but it's hard to explain why it's valuable to be able to think about math and programming (especially to a math class full of skeptical kids). Essentially, a good liberal arts education transforms your world-view of those subjects the same way a good engineering education does. Just like you shouldn't condemn yourself to reinventing Quicksort when you can be capable of more advanced algorithms, nor should you find yourself reinventing Locke when thinking about politics. It is much better to build on the history of thought instead of being doomed to repeat it (and you'll only repeat it satisfactorily if you're a genius anyway).

OK, there are worthless liberal arts educations. But there are also worthless computer science educations, as anyone who's worked with other programmers has discovered.
There were three days in between the two nukes. The Japanese govt. had observers report back at the end of the first day. People forget that the US had already destroyed ~85% of the top 60 cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were exempted so they could serve as undamaged test cases.

The Japanese strategy, once it became clear they were losing the war, was to increase the cost in order to force concessions from the Allies. The atomic bomb, by changing the equation to one plane, one bomb, one city destroyed that hope.

The Japanese high command didn't surrender because they lost two more cities, they surrendered because the US demonstrated that it could annihilate cities without giving any opportunity to strike back.

For better or worse, wars aren't won by killing people, they're won by killing hope.
Hey, glad to hear the scene has changed. I'm sure my info is quite dated in a fast-moving city like NYC.

I've often joked that SF would be the perfect city if all the hippies left and you repopulated it with New Yorkers instead.

Maybe the solution is to repopulated NYC with people with a more SF attitude. I'm there, if that's where NYC is at right now.
I think it would be very difficult. Arguably, by controlling access to their network, Google is putting access control and restriction on all of the works in their web cache. Similarly, requiring a login on a server restricts access to the Oracle instance running on it.
Summary: All of our country's (US) problems (obesity, Deep Horizon, bank bailout) stem from the fact that Congress serves businesses making donations, rather than the people.
There's no conflict of interest here. We're focused on making GitHub the best place to collaborate on code. Part of collaboration is having others to work with.

If anything, we have more of an incentive to keep quality jobs. We don't need to sell job listings to keep the doors open — so we can focus on making the best job board possible.
He does it because he is biased towards something he has already spent years on his PhD candidacy and many hours on writing libraries already. If he completes his PhD, it is likely that he will try to get a Haskell job. Just because he wrote a thousand Haskell packages doesn't mean he is as suitable in another language. Sure he could probably be a C programmer, but his pay grade won't be as high as if he landed a Haskell job to take advantage of his experience and degree.

That you cannot see this is because you also have the same bias as Dons.
DHH has exhausted the antagonist role.
You're doing better than 90 percent of everybody else just by expressing this as a bandit problem rather than an AB testing problem.
GENTLEMEN: we are the ones with the weird brains. Testosterone, even in the womb, rewires us for dominance, hierarchy, focus (obsession), spacial acuity, etc., so we dominate in executives, generals, Nobel prize winners, and hackers. On the other end of the spectrum we pretty much own the social failure space: homelessness, severe mental illness, prison occupancy, murder, drug dealing, financial malfeasance, war, corruption, and on and on.

Take a look at "The Red Queen"; it's a good read.
As someone who works in finance, even a lower grunt than the quants, I basically do programming to build/maintain a high frequency trading platform, I was more interested in your other post on why you didn't like the Wall Street culture and decided to quit.

http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-z...

Is it the perceived lower status accorded to the geeks as opposed to the traders/sales-guys? Also likewise for compensation? Or is it the monotonous and/or political nature of the work?

What do you hope to gain by moving to the startup scene? To hopefully make it big and make more money than your former position at GS? Or is it simply to move to an environment where geeks are respected by peers and women?

Plenty of guys in bulge-bracket firms decide to quit their hectic lifestyle but choose the "middle-way." That is, take a job at a 2nd-tier prop shop for less (relative) pay but more reasonable hours and stress. Or some software-dev's go work for a startup for awhile and then transition back and forth to consulting/finance when things don't work out. What made you decide on a "all-or-nothing" kind of move?

These questions aren't meant to be personal interrogations, but rather reflects my feelings about working in finance; and I'm just curious to hear your takes on these issues as well.