skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sucks is that Hackage has been down all day (and is down not infrequently) and I've needed it desperately. Also, Don Stewart's (evangelized by OP) 'Download' package won't build on OS X, with a different cryptic error message than it gave me last week. Yes, these are piddly little whines of personal anecdote, and objectively it's absurd to suggest should be flawlessly and continuously taken care of by the Haskell establishment at this stage in its development, but Haskell is pretty quickly becoming my language now:

I love it, I think in it, it is a daily struggle to fight the urge to evangelize like a douchebag. With the problems I've just mentioned, I'm writing what I need to in Python, hideously functional Python that would make Guido cry, but prototyping everything in Haskell. If this stuff is pissing me off, a momentarily curious Ruby bro sticking his neck out and cautiously circling the >>= in the stone is going to get bit, fuck off and not look back.

Please build the cathedral soon.
Thank god. I thought this was going to be a link to the "SarcMark"
http://02d9656.netsoljsp.com/SarcMark/modules/user/commonfil...

That movement was just really poorly thought out. Yeah, let's choose some bizarre symbol and charge people to use it on their computers... but only people who have also paid for the software can also see it. Yeah, real smart there⸮

I do, however, approve of the irony mark. I mapped pidgin to autoreplace ?/ with it in IMs. That way everyone gets to see my snobbery.
Actually, I find this pretty creepy.

See the following including a link to see what is available via email address lookup.

http://jeffreykishner.com/2010/03/what-anyone-can-know-just-...
http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2009/12/what-can...
http://web.mailana.com/labs/findbyemail/
When I first saw Divvyshot (YC09?) I thought that it was more of a feature than a startup. And I guess I was kind of right because Facebook eventually bought the company - the incredibly talented company led by Sam Odio.

I'm sure that if Facebook hadn't bought Divvyshot but had instead tried to replicate the feature set on their own that the company would still be in existence though maybe working on a different product.

The investment would still have been worthwhile in terms of YC - perhaps even more so because the founders had shown the ability to identify an opportunity and actually built it.
agreed, well it's because academics have to be good salespeople (i'm not saying that to be demeaning, it's actually a useful skill). professors need to 'sell' their research proposals and visions to funding agencies in order to get multi-million dollar grants. similarly, they need to 'sell' the high-level pitches of their papers to reviewers in ultra-competitive publication venues
10 % and only 10%. God says so.

God says...
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The fundamental for me is to adequately track hours worked for my remote workers. The screenshot feature is a tool to verify that the hours logged were for actual work.

I want to be able to track time without relying on the user to submit it manually. I want a tool that submits automatically with me controlling the idle time and if I want screenshots or not.

After a while when you develop a trust relationship with your remote workers you don't necessarily want to take screenshots all the time and/or for all projects. Screenshots are not always necessary and can, if used all the time, wear down morale.

If you work with a new remote workers on a quick project, sure why not. But when these remote workers becomes part of your company and are working 40+ hours a week for several months, it's overkill.

Also for sensitive projects - I don't necessarily want screenshots published on a 3rd party site and/or be submitted over an unencrypted connection.
Is this the beginning of pony-moneygate? or has it been going on for a long time?
If your numbers are large enough, no. As long as the selection isn't biased, it doesn't matter.

Another commenter on this topic has a good post about convincing management of the validity of sampled metrics, I'd read it then tip your chair back and stare at the ceiling for a while.
I'm not doubting that it should be that way, I was more curious as to the reasoning. Downvoters are quick on the trigger, aren't they...
Just a reminder that the changes in Beta 2 broke most of the extensions for me. (and no, the compat extension does not fix this).

Also, copy and paste was broken in B2, anyone know if this is fixed in B3?
> package won't build on OS X

There is a binary installer. We're discussing how to work with MacPorts, but at the moment it only has 3rd party support status.
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For example, Heello just "stared" well, not really started... they just uploaded their logo on their website and the have been featured even in the NY Times... Ok, I know it's twitpic's founder... but.. if Heello was yours and you wasn't the twitpic's founder.. what would you do?
from leaf patterns to stock market fluctuations to the frequency of earthquakes — suggests some sort of common underlying laws, but these remain speculative.

Thats misleading, just because same type of fractal exists does not mean that there is an underlying "universal" law which is followed by stock market as well as atoms in a semiconductor.

The sentence gives an idea as if stock market can be predicted [horror] or follows similar law, which is clearly not the case.

E.g. Benford's law is observed in many diverse domains, but this does not means that knowledge learnt in one domain can be used for learning in another domains.
i.e. just because voter counts in Iranian election and first digit of the prices of products at Walmart have same distribution does not implies that one can be used to predict other quantity.

The interesting point of that paper is that, it goes against our understanding of fluids, we assume the spatial distribution of the oxygen atoms should be random due to Brownian motion, yet there appears some kind of fractal pattern in it and that it is related to the temperature of loss of superconductivity.

edit:
I have access to the paper from Cornell university library, I read it, nothing is mentioned about stock markets, its pure speculation by the journalist, just to end the article on some philosophical note.

edit 2:
I am sure variation in Stock Market is NOT a fractal! The variation in stock market is Scale Free, [which isn't exactly same as being a fractal]. The journalist seems to be confused between the two terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance
Why the imperative examples for algorithms?
Here's what I came up with. It compiles and executes but the result is a random symbol on the console. Definitely missing something.

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
#include<cstring>

using namespace std;
void condense_by_removing(char *x, char y);

int main()
{
char *string;
string = new char[50];
cout << "ENter your name: ";
cin >> string;
cout << endl << "Enter the character to remove: ";
char ch;
cin >> ch;
condense_by_removing(string, ch);
cout << endl << "new string is: " << *string;

char dit;
cin >> dit;

return 0;
}

void condense_by_removing(char *z_terminated, char char_to_remove)
{
char *chPtr = new char;
char *trailPtr = new char;

for(int i = 0; i <= strlen(z_terminated); ++i)
{
chPtr = z_terminated;
if(z_terminated[i] == char_to_remove)
{
trailPtr = chPtr;
delete chPtr;
}
}
}
My argument (which you may not believe in) is that charities, like governments, are very inefficient at spending the money donated to them effectively.
Speaking as someone who is currently a contractor dealing with arcane legacy code without documentation (as is usually the case in my experience), institutional knowledge matters.
I didn't mean to imply it was insidious, just natural. Just as those of your friends who have the same interests as you, you generally see more often than those who do not.
This looks amazing! Any idea when it'll be releasing in Australia?

There are some crazy origami experts in Japan. I hope that at least one of them make an appearance in this documentary.
There are always some ways around things:

Ads: Atomic Web on the App Store includes and ad blocker though I do like the idea of taking care of it at the router level.

XVID/DIVX: The free app ServeToMe does real time transcoding. You install the server app and the client just streams H264. Works surprisingly well.

Hacking: Jailbreaking is about the same as rooting an "open" device. I'd bet those guys would have a bunch of emulators and other forbidden apps out within a week or two of its release.
To you or to management?
Twitter succeeded because of the words people use on twitter the focus is like a laser when it comes to particulars. People choose to stay part of twitter and not just pull away from it what strikes them as meaningful as well. It shows that we all share a sense a communal culture that is not so selfish as to use the information and leave but it draws us to share how it affects us openly and efficiently.
Interesting idea, I was concerned you were singling out one profession, when you are actually talking about all higher professions then, such as law, etc...
Client campaign sites: sub-site, mini-site or social network driven?
There have been times where my longer term contractings jobs were normal jobs, except I had to pay for my own benefits. I think the government now frowns upon this practice though.
No, profitable ramen.
Both. First, Your job is harder if you have to turn over every rock in a company looking for an answer, only to find the only people who had the answer left last year.

Second, management's job is harder because no one ever has the answer. They are constantly stuck training every employee on the most basic historical project knowledge. I would wager that most projects are enhancement projects - moving from one version of something to another and not replacement projects. In enhancement projects historical knowledge is vital, in replacement projects it isn't.

There are more than these two reasons - bottom line, it's important all around.
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http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/archive-of-my-newstilt-stories.h...
This is looking like a similar option for us, I'm doing pretty hefty hours between startup & fulltime employment at the moment (although we are profitable). So just need to get the timing right, but definitely looking forward to more flexibility with schedules.
Sorry to stay a bit off-topic, but if you haven't watched Penn and Teller's Bullshit show - they bust these type of "predictions" all the time. And usually, it's pretty funny.

Although they probably don't think of each other as "hackers," they very much are in my opinion.

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do

edit: I suppose a NSFW warning would be in order.
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The current Apple TV certainly is too slow. But the A4 in the iPhone 4 isn't slow at all driving media on its retina display...
Thanks! I really enjoyed those. I particularly liked The Letter.
He got paid more and he has more expenses. No health coverage - he'll be lucky to find a group policy with an organization or professional association. No matching 401K, no tuition reimbursement, and on and on. It's not a valid comparison. Line up the employee's benefits and income against the contractor's expenses and income and then see where you come out.

Then realize you've only looked at one piece of the equation and you can start weighing the pros and cons of continued employment, opportunities for career advancement, etc.
Wow, I'm old enough to know better but I'm still amazed at the willingness of "principled people" to throw those principles overboard so easily. Next thing you know Cory Doctorow will be pushing DRM.
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If this indeed proves P!=NP then i would think it would make a bit more top lists than just Top Science Stories 2010.
Good question. I think it's important for the kids and their well being to take care of the relationship with the other parent of the kids, first and foremost.
The paper does not talks anything about Stock Market and Leaf Patterns, thats bad journalism which is what you are reading in the last two paragraphs.

And stock market is scale free, which means if i showed you a randomly selected part of the graph [without range of values] of stock of say Apple or Google you wont be able to tell whether the variation is for a single day or a minute or a year or a decade. Thats what is implied by the scale free nature.

Fractals are Scale invariant but not all Scale invariant things are fractals.
Trivia, "thou" was actually the informal pronoun.

On the other hand in Mexican Spanish, "usted" is fading away. It's curious how different cultures get rid of different options.
There is no single Yahoo (part of the identity problem Yahoo has) and therefore you cannot generalize a culture across Yahoo.

Each division within Yahoo really had its own culture. The search group culture was entirely different from the media (news, sports, etc.) group which was entirely different from the listings (real-estate, etc.) business.

A group like Yahoo Search (prior to its sale) was an entirely tech centric organization. Many of the top engineers from Yahoo Search Yahoo! are now co-founders within top Silicon Valley startups.
Dude, the spouse was above computers. What more do you want? :-)

If both me and my kid needed a kidney you think I'd let my husband give his kidney to me? Second priority != neglect
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You lost me at inDinero
What I hated about contracting was not working with other people. I wasn't afforded opportunities to learnbfrom senior people like some of my peers were. When I did decide to get a "9-5" I was a bit behind everyone else,
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What would be really nice is when Sony develops its own OS with XBOX-WP7-Windows or iPhone-iPad-iTV like integration.
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I also don't see how they got so much media coverage. I think it was 'cause the idea was so blatantly stupid that people thought it was a joke. It was on local news here in the Metro detroit area and it got newspaper articles written up. That's all precious media coverage that could go to my web app instead. Their website is also horrible.
Some years ago, I was mowing completely the lawn with a petrol-based lawnmower but I found the following negative points to do so:

- Lawnmowers (petrol or even electronic) are very noisy (by so reducing your "metaphysics"/brain activities while mowing)
- Cutting the grass too regularly is not helping the biodiversity and killing the wildlife (a very short grass is not attractive especially you are missing the wild flowers)
- The petrol-based lawnmower needs to be properly operated and take sometime of setup/maintenance

Usually, why are we completely cutting the grass? Because it's a social activity and a social perception that is nice to have very short grass in a garden.

So I gave up and only cut some paths in my garden using a simple cylinder mower (not noisy, clean and slow enough to not kill all the wild life). The rest is kept as high grass. What a difference... you can see the wild life, the flowers and the wind nicely moving the flowers and the grass. The large section are cut manually once a year (usually end of August) with a scythe.

What I learn and benefit for doing so? I'm now able to enjoy a mixed grass with small paths, wild flowers and next to my kitchen garden bringing biodiversity and helping my vegetables to grow with auxiliaries animals.

The best part is the social interaction I got by doing so. Usually a lot of visitors, at a first look, ask me why my grass is not cut and I have large islands with high grass and just small paths. But after a walk in the garden? They like it and are wondering why they are completely cutting their grass.

For the metaphysics of cutting grass, it's even better. You can enjoy even more your garden and meditate in front of the wild life activities or the wind blowing the flowers.
Apropriate to mention Apple again: ~50% of Apple revenue comes from products which did not exist three years ago.
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I just had one last week and it's been really interesting.
I keep a mobile, I just don't give anyone my number unless I am prepared to have them interrupt me at any time, this list currently includes two people. I have a decoy number that routes straight to voicemail that I can give people if it would be otherwise strange not to give it to them.
The thing to remember about contractors is they're not fellow employees, they're another company providing services to your company. There's a strong case IMHO that contractors shouldn't even be paid during the period they're "getting up to speed" - what is the service that they're providing during that period? Certainly many I've worked with should have been paying us for teaching them basic IT skills!
Sarcasm is most interesting when you don't "wink, change the tone of your voice or just start grinning". Good sarcasm is detectable as such even without any change in inflection, which is why there is no need to mark it in writing.

I also disagree that smileys are widely used to mark sarcasm; they mark any sort of situation where you might smile. Most of the time, this is just some sort of happy statement, like "now go get some sleep ;)" when someone emails you at 3 in the morning.
Chrome has the ability to resize textareas by click-dragging the lower-right corner: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/chrome_textareas.png
This subsidized education is available for anyone, though, just like the $70,000 a quarter educations are.
Your premise seems to be that deflation will affect labor cost less than other prices, thus bringing them into "line".

It's pretty obvious that average income has decreased at a greater clip that CPI (see all those people have their income set to 0?) so I don't see how this is a valid premise.
What made you quit your comfortable six-figure job and start a company?
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If you are insinuating that the Mac lineup will be moving to iOS, I think you might be more than a bit off.
It's realistic enough that it's perfectly doable on Pirate Bay. Apple could have been innovative here and offered a (legal) BitTorrent network for downloading HD content.

I _think_ that a lot of non-technical people (even Apple fans) will have a hard time buying accessories for their shiny new "Full HD" flatscreen TV, and then buying an Apple TV that doesn't support it. Unless they reduce the price to the point where it's a no-brainer.

Fortunately, I'm still able to buy an Apple TV that supports 1080p without problems, called a Mac Mini :)
What is the notable quality difference between 8Mbps 1080p and 8Mbps 720p scaled to 1080p?
I'd like to point out that Go also started as a personal project (a 20% time project at Google) that later got picked up by the company, so your statement that the same is the case for Rust isn't really a distinction, but a similarity.
"... Australians (well, at least inner-city Melburnians) have embraced coffee with abandon in recent years. ..."

Try 60 years.
I accidentally down-voted you, and can't find a way to undo it :\
The sandboxing and codsigning stuff exists in Mac OS X as well. `man sandbox-exec` and `man codesign`. The latter is being pushed for use in Mac OS X by Apple as well; to provide easier keychain authentication for applications, for example.

As for multitasking? Spawning proesses is handled by launchd/Darwin/that part of the OS. Thats shared between Mac OS X and iOS. Just a different UI, similar(ish) to command tab, though.
To pick a nit, Lyx is WYSIWYM (the M being "mean") -- they point that out a whole bunch of times in the doco.
The golden age of open source?
Exactly why I visited, clicked around, and then bolted. -1 user
I once tried to deposit enough money in my bank account to cause a buffer overflow. I could never get the shell code to exec though.
With stack overflow, blogs, irc, message boards, etc I think the idea of a live expert is face to face is overrated. Rather than going to the guru and eating his words as gospel, I can go on the internet and get 10 different opinions on a problem I am having. Then I can critically evaluate those different viewpoints and pick the one that is right for the way I work.
Here are a few examples:

http://trafficserver.apache.org/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
http://github.com/yahoo
http://yuilibrary.com
http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/guide/caja-support.html
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/
Isn't dog cão? (My Portuguese is barely good enough to talk and influenced by both European and Brazilian Portuguese.)
Surely that's so they can release the iTV 2.0 w/ 1080p in a few months for a few hundred more bucks?
C++ has better tools for manual memory management (value types, smart pointers, RAII).
I'm seeing quite a lot of discussion like this. What is the probability that Google notices the trend and changes their behavior?
This comment wreaks of jealousy.
The government frowns on it (ala big Microsoft lawsuit a few years ago) but it is still very common.

I've worked for alot of companies that have been able to quickly and easily ramp up a big project by bringing in
contractors and treating them similar to employees. 9 to 5-ish type hours, though with much more flexibility
to set schedules, work at home, take random days off, etc. But in a way its a win-win, because the freelance
contractor gets 40-60+ hours of work at a 2x+ hourly rate, and the company can let them go when the project ultimately
is finished or gets cancelled.

If the cash keeps flowing, these captive contractors often stay around for multiple projects, so the company doesn't
even lose the IP.
Microsoft defines irony; recommends Chrome to fix Hotmail issues.
That makes perfect sense. And I would agree with that. But, a different UI paradigm doesn't necessarily mean rewriting the entire OS. But, I suppose that I'm nitpicking here.
Indeed. I was a contractor for the last year or so. Now I am an associate at the same company. I sit at the same desk and do the same work. Except now my salary is higher, I get a month of vacation, I get 401(k) matching, I get vision/medical/dental insurance, and so on. And I still don't wake up for the "rah rah" meetings :)

I worked with people exactly like the contractor in the article. This kind of person cares only about one thing; money. The project? Secondary. Coming to work regularly? Secondary. Finding every last tax deduction? Critical.

(I take it as a compliment that someone I work with told me, "wow, you're a contractor? I had no idea".)
I’m not sure you are disagreeing with me. ‘Good’ (using scare quotes here because I think the fake kind is also a valuable tool) sarcasm is fucking hard to pull off! That’s why you hardly ever see it. That’s why writers didn’t need a typographic sign.

And sure, the winking smiley is also used for other things but do you really want to claim that it’s not widely used for marking irony? If it were easier to search for ‘;-)’ I would probably be able to quote a few dozen examples here on HN alone in no time.
Would be interesting seeing a StackExchange HackerSpawn Q&A site.
I am fascinated by this notion of 'meat market' volunteering groups. Can you provide me links to some? I don't live in Seattle, but I am very curious from a satirist's perspective.
Thank you for not titling this "Hacks for Raising Kids."
I wouldn't say Android is fluff.
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Working around the garbage collector and using any C++ memory management techniques are both ugly hacks. (http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/exceptions.html#fqa-17.4)

Fortunately, there has been plenty of research on GCs that are fast enough for games. So the solution is to use one of those for Android, now that people are actually interested in writing games.