skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, at places like Goldman (in stark contrast to the Cloudera blog post the other week), coming in through a recruiter actually increases your chance of getting the job and a high salary. The recruiter can be the door-banger who pushes your paperwork through the organization and demands a high salary, while you get to be mild-mannered, not desperate for employment, and not a prima donna about money.
You're speaking nonsense. "Power to the people" is a completely empty PR phrase at Digg.
Upvoted because I'd never even thought about the word goodbye ("Of course, it means 'may this bye be good'!"). Fortunately wiktionary had the answer: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye

Pretty interesting. (And obviously, bye is just a shortened form of goodbye.)
it is definitely not like that here in Israel. And this is the reason we are buying laptops from US. The local hebrew compatible keyboard is just horrible. with a very small Enter key, displaced "~" etc.
Ask HN: Browser FileStorage API
I watched Drew Houston's talk at Startup Lessons Learned (http://www.justin.tv/c/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510) this morning and read through his original "Ask HN" submission for Dropbox (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863).

Just for kicks, I was thinking through what it would take to do the same thing (offline file access, large files, background delta replication, asynchronous file access) using a browser based client. I don't think it can be done properly using Webkit's SQLDatabase or Firefox's upcoming IndexedDB. And LocalStorage is probably going to be limited to 5-20mb.

But, maybe it would be seriously possible if Webkit (or Mozilla) could throw another HTML 5 API into the mix (along with FileReader which is starting to come through nicely), namely: FileStorage. An application can ask the user's permission and then have access to a File IO sandbox limited by the same-domain policy.

What do you think?
http://themeforest.net?ref=motlive Try This Website - Now it will completely circumvent the need for you to learn CSS, however if this is a one off website you are doing it would be much easier and save your a lot of hassle. The templates can be as little as $8 so wont break the bank either.
Love the idea. Too bad that I'm not in the UK.

If you'd made a (very similar) Android app as well, you could have tested if the use of a certain mobile OS makes a significant difference in happiness ;)
If he has to rewrite the algorithm in Java, instead of a better JVM language, it's because somebody in management has dreams of doing all subsequent work with cheap interchangeable Java programmers, probably contractors. Odds are the algorithm won't work anymore the first time they touch it. But that's a separate issue.

I studied math before getting into programming seriously. When you have the solution to a problem in your head and go to write out a proof, sometimes it goes smoothly, and sometimes you discover complications that you hadn't taken into account. It's either easy or educational. Lisp seems to be the same way. When a Lisp program turns out to be harder than I expected, it's because I didn't completely understand the problem.

Java programs always turn out to be much more complicated than the solution in my head. Even if I nailed it. And Java programmers assume I'm just inexperienced and woefully naive to think that programming could be so simple.
There's also a version of this up on the Debian website: http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806

One very interesting thing about this release is the introduction of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. I've been running it in a VirtualBox, and while it has some bugs it's also a wonderful addition to Debian. They've just recently got the userspace ZFS tools working on a FreeBSD 8.1 kernel running a GNU userland and a GNU C library.

We're heading for a brave new world where the kernel is just another package, not some immutable part of the whole system.
I'm glad to see that they are experimenting with mixing Debian userland and the FreeBSD kernel... 6.0 looks like a very promising release.
the games.
Clickies:

Startup Lessons Learned: http://www.justin.tv/c/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510

Original Dropbox submission to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
This is going to sound extremely cynical, but I believe that there's another reason why people enjoy coming up with ideas while in the shower or driving or taking a walk or...etc.

When you're doing one of those things, you can't actually do any work towards implementing the idea--but you can imagine all of the things that you're going to do as soon as you're able to (which, of course, you won't do).

In the shower there is no pressure to actually do something. You don't come up with ideas at your computer because you'd be confronted with the fact that if you really wanted to, you could begin implementing one of those ideas immediately.
I wouldn't give up on a page like that. That stuff works, though there's a lot of ground you're not covering.

One element to test: a subhead near the end that says "Yes, There's a Catch..." (where the 'catch' is that you have to fill out the form now in order to sign up before the cost goes up).

There are a couple other improvements you could make. Email's in the profile, if you'd like to discuss.
I am saddened that I can only give this comment one upvote.

In fact, in most US cities, it is illegal to build high density development like the kind that already exists in those cities.
You could even write that more starkly: worry about supporting your customers because customer support is the only thing that you can't scale easily, everything else will eventually work out. Are there lists of start-ups that failed because of scaling issues? Are there comparable lists of start-ups that failed because of marketing, sales, product, vision, support and a 100 other pitfalls that a start-up can easily fall in to?

I could not name a single company that folded because they could not handle the luxury problem of scaling. Because really, when scaling is your problem, you have no problem, you've figured out a way to beat the odds on all that other stuff so scaling will be solved as well, one way or another.
Damaged heart could be coaxed into mending itself
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Your strong stand made me feel better about going solo.

I mean, almost everybody agreed about 'you need a co-founder' until last week, and I was convinced about it. Your reactionary post made it look like the argument had weakness and needed to be defended.

I think that in my case, it's just a matter of 'it should happen in a natural way': let's work, if I need a co-founder, it should appear on the way, if I don't, it will not appear.
Seriously not HN.

Also? Pretty terrible. A lot of them are just large heads on small bodies.
Most likely because they cannot afford to risk that someone will steal the intellectual property of their slow and bug-ridden language implementation.
Right, that's the content they're getting rid of. But that says nothing about the content they're posting. If it's freep threads, that's unfortunate; if it's links to GNXP.com or Paul Romer, or touting Angelo Codevilla's new essay (http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-cla... -- read it!), that's something completely different.

To someone who disagrees with all of it, Codevilla is just Glenn Beck at greater length. Which is why the author should have asked a conservative if the content that crew posted was high-quality or not.
The US doesn't have the population density of Japan or Europe because of our zoning laws. The barriers to even try these kinds of developments in the US are massive. The barriers to build yet-another cul-de-sac subdivision of mcmansions that are proven to increase congestion, travel-time, stress, infrastructure cost, individual waste and municipal waste are non-existent.

Zoning laws dictate density. We have sprawl because our laws engineered it and we were lucky enough to have the wealth and space to allow such frivolous waste to continue for so long.
I would buy an Xtracycle or other cargo bicycle if it didn't cost more than the cars some of my friends drive :(. Perhaps they're cheaper in Europe.
We're heading for a brave new world where the kernel is just another package, not some immutable part of the whole system.

While I can agree with this on the grounds that diversity of choice is a Good Thing and will introduce innovation and cross pollination between the two camps (hence my comment about being happy that they are experimenting with it); I disagree with it because the solidity and strength of FreeBSD primarily comes from it being developed and offered as a cohesive whole (Kernel and userland). Lack of cohesion is one of my major gripes with the GNU/Linux "distribution" model; although, I will say that Debian seems to be making up for this with excellent progress!
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...I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. Please tell me people are not this stupid?
I don't think this argument works. For starters, parts of the US are very high density: density in NYC or Boston or SFO exceeds that of many European cities. And yet we don't have super fast broadband for super low prices in those places in general, even though though the density is high enough to support it. It seems a little ridiculous that people in extremely high density environments in the US have much worse broadband options that people living in rural Sweden.
Interestingly, this submission was perfectly timed for me. I slept 4 hours each on Sunday and Monday night, then I stayed up all night Tuesday night. Wednesday I slept 13 hours, and then last night I got tired around 10 pm and slept 10 more hours. Before seeing this submission, I thought it was a little weird to sleep so much two nights in a row.

Now I'm feeling truly refreshed, and I'm ready for another late-night weekend :)
Oh, go jump in a lake in an island in a lake in an island in ...
"I am currently working in Java to re-implement an algorithm I
prototyped in lisp."

Maybe this is the problem. If I develop in Java, I think in Java. I don't prototype in other languages. I don't use 'factory objects' and 'visitors' and all such things. The syntax of JAva is a bit verbose, but I just cannot imagine that if you write something in 20 lines in any language I cannot write that in 40 lines in Java. Maybe a concrete example would be nice.
Otherwise for me performnce is very important. One of the reasons that I use Java is that it is very fast (and I know how to write fast code in it.)
I was a kickstarter backer for Diaspora and I haven't heard a peep from them since they asked for shipping info for the backer rewards, and even their twitter feed was last updated on the 18th.

Also, joindiaspora.com doesn't seem to be up at the moment. I really hope that they're just incredibly busy.
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Can we predict a financial crisis? Does it matter?
Not if the singularity comes first ... I guess we won't have cars in that case?

Isn't 2025 a conservative estimate for the singularity?
There's a long history of using alternative in-house languages at Wall St. firms (and new ones are being developed at a few large firms I know).
The claim that "This is the first time a Linux distribution
has been extended to also allow use of a non-Linux kernel" is a little odd, given that Gentoo/FreeBSD has been around for several years: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/fbsd/

Admittedly, Gentoo's port uses the FreeBSD libc whereas Debian ported glibc, and the Gentoo port is not exactly ready for prime time, but claiming Debian did it first is a bit of a stretch.
It's easy to get tossed on any bike with an aggressive geometry if you are going fast and slam the front brake. Personally, I do not think the most popular bike styles in the USA have the right geometry for commuting in the city. The default accident for stopping abruptly should not be flying over the handlebars, which is what happens on road/track frames and MTB frames. My bikes are set up more like dutch bikes or beach cruisers, which have a very upright geometry with my bodyweight over the back wheel.
Yes, I'd like to have done that, it's just a question of the time it would take to learn a new development language/framework (and the money it would take to buy an appropriate testing device).
I don't get your point. The pattern of dropped packets in a network will not "evolve" through some process of natural selection.
367mph bus
an application that is large, redundant, complex, and build to do lots of different things; costs a lot of money/resources; and is subsequently configured and customized down to fit the needs of the customer.
Nice quote (from the 7th paragraph)

"Recognize that, as an application developer or interface designer, you have a greater wealth of knowledge and a more intricate understanding of your application than your customers are likely to have. Although you should use that knowledge to choose the best default settings or decide the best presentation of information, remember that you are not designing the program for yourself. It is not your needs or your usage patterns that you are designing for, but those of your (potential) customers."
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Sure, I mean that comment in the context of Debian. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD isn't going to be a replacement for FreeBSD any time soon for the people that prefer it.

But it's an excellent alternative for Debian users who'd like to use ZFS and other FreeBSD features without throwing the rest of Debian out with the bathwater.

This'll also be wonderful for the BSD's in terms of increasing the portability of packages in Debian that they might want to pick up.
What does "about 1 million things of code" mean? Typo? If it's a million programs/libraries/packages/other actual artifacts, then that's almost crazily large.
I could not name a single company that folded because they could not handle the luxury problem of scaling

Friendster is an obvious example that comes to mind:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/business/yourmoney/15frien...

As Friendster became more popular, its overwhelmed Web site became slower. Things would become so bad that a Friendster Web page took as long as 40 seconds to download. Yet, from where Mr. Lindstrom sat, technical difficulties proved too pedestrian for a board of this pedigree. The performance problems would come up, but the board devoted most of its time to talking about potential competitors and new features, such as the possibility of adding Internet phone services, or so-called voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, to the site.
If he wins the suit he won't have to.
Well, there's one big advantage to the whole Slang system and that is that it's integrated throughout the company and the system can be used for relatively quick "what if?" and "where do we stand?" queries. Instead of the data being embedded in a zillion (often incorrect) spreadsheets and small databases or whatever that have to be manually scraped, reported and consolidated, it all happens automatically. It may not be "fast" but it's a lot faster than manual methods.

ADDED: see this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581604
Yes we spoke to the kids and the parents. Can I ask how many 12 year-old kids you've asked about this?

I try to spend several hours a week on the phone doing exactly that - talking to all the users of the service.

We agree that they're just as big a stakeholder as the parents.
In what way is any of this novel or innovative in ways that normal practitioners in the field couldn't think of ?

My Everytrail.com account does plenty of this, ok it doesn't have a cadence sensor but that's only a bluetooth device away.
Morgan Stanley and others were big users of APL, back in the day. Now that's a wacky language!
How is this at all relevant to GS porting their code to a standard programming language?
No it doesn't, it redirects you to another page or part of a page. Never made sense to me either.
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I don't think that makes sense. Maybe "If you don't work you get to eat anyway" is what those who sat on their fat asses all day want everyone to believe to justify sitting on their asses all day.
They didn't fold though, did they? They got bought by some asian consortium iirc. Also, the way you describe that it strikes me as a management problem more than a technical one. Once they had scaling issues they decided to not address them. They could have, but they didn't.

Of course that's stupid.
Debian has also had Debian GNU/Hurd in unstable state for years. That Gentoo/FreeBSD page mentions that the port is "experimental" and "incomplete". So presumably they're talking about a non-Linux kernel as a first-class component in a stable release.
I hate to tell you this but mainstream media covers everything badly.
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It's considered sport first, because transportation by bike is usually impractical in the US. (Outside of maybe a half-dozen cities and some one-off "I work a mile from home" anecdotes, it's almost entirely impractical)

The average commute (one-way) is about 25km. There will be no bike lanes. The drivers on the road will generally have no clue how they should deal with you, if they even notice you. The sidewalks (where US bikers sometimes find refuge, as no-one walks in America either) are sporadic, at best. Your destination probably won't have so much as a simple bike rack, let alone a shower.

Because of this, when adults in America think of biking, they (generally) think of putting their bikes on the car and driving to a place that was designed to have decent/sane space for biking. (usually parks)

Children can effectively bike around subdivisions, mostly because they have nowhere to go aside from their friends houses and the corner store.

So biking is seen by adults as either being sport, or --frankly-- a whimsical sort of transport. Because to bike in most the US you have to be, in some sense, not serious about trying to get anywhere.
I like Steve Jobs' definition: With enterprise software, the people who are making the purchase decision / order (whether it's in-house or externally developed) are typically not the people who're going to use the software. There are exceptions, of course.
they don't invest cash

they get paid a salary and get options on the upside
It always seemed logical to me; I never heard anyone actually "say" it (or write it) but it seemed logical that "ref" stood for "reference" and "h" stood for hypertext - since links point to URI's and back then the only linkable resources were hypertext documents instead of server side scripts/CGI.
i agree

1x is right and fair
Machinarium is amazing. I purchased it last December when they had a sale going. I would've gladly paid the full price for it.
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I once knew a guy who trolled a high quality policy discussion forum. His beef was that his wife made him go to a church that had a bunch of liberals, who would regularly say stuff that would enrage him, but which he couldn't respond to. The only thing that made him feel better was to piss on liberals online.

So one possible explanation is that some of these people feel frustrated and angry because for whatever reason, they're not able to voice their own political opinions in real life, so they get a rush from the power of denying random people on the internet that same freedom.
manitou island. wow. that takes me back. went there when I was a boy and had the best time. i stood on that lake shore (on the island) and cursed the rain that came down for hours.
From "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming (discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=229067) :

Most great scientists know many important problems.
They have something between 10 and 20 important
problems for which they are looking for an attack.
And when they see a new idea come up, one hears them
say "Well that bears on this problem." They drop all
the other things and get after it.

...

The great scientists, when an opportunity opens up,
get after it and they pursue it. They drop all other
things. They get rid of other things and they get
after an idea because they had already thought the
thing through. Their minds are prepared; they see
the opportunity and they go after it. Now of course
lots of times it doesn't work out, but you don't have
to hit many of them to do some great science. It's
kind of easy. One of the chief tricks is to live a
long time!
Interesting, but it is very different in my case. Sometimes I think days on a complicated algorithm, if it is a really hard problem. Once I know the algorithm in my head, is is totally trivial to code it in Java (or any other language I know). For me 'hardness' is not on the language level, so it almost does not matter in which language I code in provided that I know the language and preferebly it is higher level than Assembly and preferably has garbage collection.
This is the version of the software with one or two additional features, and one or two additional zeros on the license cost.
"1) Blogs are not inherently "news". Ergo, they should not always be put into a news feed."

Here is something I just found on the google news feed: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20012891-10391698.html

This isn't news either, yet it's still there

"The blogs in question were removed because of objectionable content. Which, after reading a couple of articles on one of the sites mentioned, seems totally reasonable. The reason it's OK to remove these from the Google News feed is because it's not news. It's a few paranoid people talking about how dangerous RADICAL ISLAM is."

I find this article filled with just as much propaganda as an article about radical Islam, yet Google news still displays it (it's interesting how left-leaning opinion pieces are fine):

http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2010/08/05/opinion/doc4c5...

With everything that has happened in the world, I don't see how you can pass off "the dangers of radical islam" as something small in the minds of paranoid people.

"This is not a "liberal bias". This is an attempt to have a news feed that contains news. Not libel. Not hate speech."

What you call "hate speech" and "libel" are just opinions. I find that word thrown around with ease by the left to vilify and silence opposing opinions.

If the info in the above articles are all lies, why does it matter if people read them? Won't they eventually find out?
For the record, so does FaceCash (http://www.facecash.com) on Android, and we don't charge fees for person-to-person transfers!
Yeah, especially since debian freezes come so often that the resulting deluge of announcements has a very spammy feeling to it.
Is the point not valid? If you want to avoid mentioning... "it", you could simply say that without imposing some rules/order, random internet discussion of politics degrades fairly rapidly.
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Ask HN:  Any good .NET books?
I'm looking for resources to learn C# & the .NET platform. I've got a lot of experience with Java, Ruby & Clojure. I'm interested in anything from "C# in 21 days" to works about how to write a CLR language compiler. What books and other stuff can HN recommend?
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Happens in real-life. Look at how many news stories you see about some speaker coming to a college and being shouted down (or food being thrown at them) so they can't speak.