skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt bad living with my in-laws. I moved to Canada from the UK to live with my wife, had to wait for the government to let me work legally (took way too long and went through way too much BS that the government gives a free pass to like the Tamil's who just landed who have been given immigration lawyers at the governments expense, but I was expected to have to pay hundreds of dollars for any chance to get a lawyer and had to do all the paperwork myself) for a job I already had lined up.

We recently moved out and I feel so much better. There was so much pressure that wasn't even being processed by my consciousness. I didn't make phone calls because I didn't want to be tying up the phone line (my in-laws also have a lot of far-flung relatives that stay in frequent contact) for an hour or more talking to my parents. We didn't want to have friends over too often because it wasn't our house.

Me and my wife are covering food/rent/utils/services by ourselves, putting a decent amount into savings and have the freedom to do what we want. We're 22/21 and we're responsibly using credit cards, financing and still saving money; yet my brother who easily earns twice as much as me and is older still manages to go overdrawn because he was never motivated to move out.
Facebook missing the fun with new check-in feature
Please tell me this is not real and website feels like spammy ebook sale websites, especially the colour scheme, use a theme from or CSS template to fix it quickly.
discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1615524
The most important factor is what stage the company is at. Since the company is doing very badly and will likely fail you deserve very little credit if it doesn't. You do deserve something though. I'd say around 5% would be fair. That assumes you will act in good faith to hand over any IP assignments necessary, etc.
If it takes longer to achieve security and stability in your life everything else has to wait.
The main thing with GitHub that makes it a great example of freemium is that they have two separate audiences for free and paid accounts. The free accounts are for open source projects and random hackers who write code for fun. By doing this, they attract talent and popularity to their service that convinces a different audience (businesses) to pay.

GitHub probably still has many more free than paid users, but the upfront cost was probably well worth it in the end.
"Give your product a personality. 37signals may not sell the best project management software in the world, but it has personality. The 37signals team stands for something: uncompromising simplicity. Want an extra feature? Tough. If you want features, buy something else."
There won't be any issues from the name conflict with the other Hipmunk[0], will there?

0: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Hipmunk
I watched for about 20 seconds before getting weirded out. The interviewing 'journalist's' last name was Zuckerberg, which seemed like an odd choice.
There were other PC DOS, but MS had something up their sleeve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#Competition_from_Microso... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Great, another way for creepy Facebook to know more about me!

I think Facebook has jumped the shark. I have a couple of hundred contacts on FB, and the activity levels are way low compared to what they used to be.
Quality in Software – Can you have too much?
Yup. It took me a long time to realize and accept this. I love Boyds quote on this (w.r.t working in the Airforce burecracy) "You have to make a choice - you can be somebody or you can do something."

By the way the same thing happened to me. I wasnt trying to fire him though, just tried to make him get better. He was really bad. He ended up getting a raise from my boss. Funny!
seems like other HNers are saying the same thing as me. You could try an A/B test, see if you get more signups if you show tour or signup first.

Or you could make the tour much shorter, 600px high, then have the signup form right below that.
I think of LinkedIn as useful for maintaining networks, but yeah, I can see it being useful for checking out a candidate. I just wouldn't bother since people will only put positive things there and that should already be on the resume or they should bring it up in the interview.
I've flagged the original submission as the sort of fluff best pushed elsewhere, but to answer your earnestly-offered question:

Ad language of the past is very odd for modern hearers/listeners -- moreso, I think, than normal conversation would be, because advertising communication is trying so hard to be fashionable, be convincing, and stay ahead of audience rhetoric-resistance. Those weird appeals worked once, then burnt out from overuse. Our own era's commercial puffery will seem even more odd, decades from now.

If you want to see real dated ad copy, James Lileks' 'Lint' Tumblog is great:

http://lileks.tumblr.com/

(These Facebook/Skype/YouTube mockups don't quite get the voice, typography, or design right -- despite a valiant effort, they veer a little more in the direction of broken chinglish than 60s product touting.)
This isn't political, they are just making sure that the terrorists don't FOIA bureaucratic minutae.

If the terrorists can read bid proposals from competing vendors after DHS buys 50 million paperclips, they win.
the front page comes across as very busy .. auto played video is a big NO! at first, didn't realize that there was more content below the video on that page ... maybe because I was distracted by that video.

Join the mailing list fieldset/container is overflowing from the left column area. I'm on Mac Os X / Chrome 6 beta.

Wonder how SGAE was to deal with. saw the logo in the left column there.
Any further explanation? I think for most people with websites, postscript would be an absolutely terrible choice: the barrier to entry is simply too high.

(Note: I think PostScript, and stack-based languages generally, can be great fun, but really not for the average “guy making a site about his dog” sort of user)
"You're awesome, and you could be even more awesome if you switch your long-distance carrier to ..."
I hope it really works and becomes widely available. That would be huge.
FounderConference; Dave McClure "90% of you will fail" + tips
If the people close enough to you to answer your phone are not awesome, then we will be forced to conclude that neither are you.
Do we really know that engineers left (or wanted to leave) the company because of him?
Ask HN: Share your tips for mastering API's
How do you uncover, learn, understand, and remember all the functions/methods available to you across multiple programming languages?

I have a hard time remembering the exact methods/functions I'd need to use to accomplish something. My process is basically live in the google search bar:

search: ruby api iterate through hash
search: mysql create new user
search: parse yaml file
search: ubuntu remove directory recursively

Because I understand the concepts involved, I get the answers right away, it's just a matter of proper syntax. But this is pretty inefficient in my eyes.
Lest I remember every API I work with, I will continue to require google to remind me.

Do you guys have this problem and if so what is your solution?

I've never used an IDE but I understand it has auto-completion.
Doesn't that still require you to memorize the functions specific to a language.
For example say I want to "strip string from end of string" in ruby. For the IDE to help me, I'd still need to start typing str.chomp. However a google search turns up the ruby string docs where I'll be reminded of my friend "chomp". Does an IDE do something else I am not aware of?

Thanks!
It's all about the environment. Offices work great, as long as you have good hallways that force people to walk around. Hallway conversations give you the value of the cube farm without the need to learn about the medical history, marital problems and other minutae that the cube farm's false privacy offers.

That said, I think ops people work better in open plan offices.
"Nowadays, everyone uses a nat to connect to the Internet" haha. Argghhhhh NAT != device.
Or just take the limit as time->infinity and simplify it to price=pollution.

If you want this taken to the logical extreme, see http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf where it is argued that "using dollars = spending gasoline". As oil is the cheapest available energy source, everything eventually becomes oil burnt.
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Ask HN: What are good examples and features of a Professional Website?
I am looking to finally replace my "under construction" page on my domain with a professional page reflecting my work/interests/achievements. So i was looking for input and examples of professional web pages.
I would be hard pressed to find a site that required serious development effort and did not collect and sell your information.

In this case though, they're mainly collecting your interests, subjects you follow, answers on subjects, how others rated those answers, and your questions. Not exactly private stuff unless you're interested in crazy subjects.

They also have an anonymous option, where you can answer anonymously. I'm not sure how that will be sold, Quora still knows who you are, answered as anonymous vs not would be useful information.
Does anyone else have 500 million users and who knows how many developers in their ecosystem?

Google, Microsoft, Apple . . they all do live events don't they?
I'm curious about what Imgur costs to run. I've read that he is paying for 100mb unmetered. He is burning up a ton of bandwidth, thats for sure.

Also, I wonder what is in the stackexechange deal for imgur? All images will be displayed inline, with no ads.
I don't think you'll find that UI programming in Clojure is all that difficult. Here's the beginning of a relatively involved RTS game in Clojure: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/....
Of course not. If a company's execs fired someone based on anonymous comments that could easily have all been made by a single person with a vendetta, it would be one of the most ludicrous things I've ever heard. What is far more likely to have happened is that they were blindsided by the backlash and it made them scrutinize him & his actions much more than they normally would to see if the comments were legitimate or not. Apparently it was decided that they were.
I have a similar policy, and a saying that 'as goes my Inbox so too goes my mind'. Using it, as I do, as a de facto 'to do' list isn't best practice, but it works for me. When I have <30 messages, I know I'm on top of things.

Currently have 92. Must. Leave. HN.
EDIT: Now I see. Draw up your cap table forecast and you'll see why this won't work.
Why not just call them up yourself?
Ah, but it certainly means I would!

(You know. In the absence of a hammer)
http://minim.co/buttons/

I've been working on a button generator and have the buttons designed but stuck on the code for the generator. If this is the kind of thing you're looking for, let me know what color(s) you want and I'll do them up and apply hover effects. Should be just fine for multi-line too.
Can you explain the economics?

I understand that it is advertising supported, but Imgur seems to allow their images to be embedded in other sites some of which serve non-trivial amounts of traffic (eg, reddit and now StackOverflow).

Is the advertising on the photo pages really enough to make "a fair amount of money"?

I'd love to see the math - even estimates would be great.
I don't think that's irony :(
PHP is not a framework? Not sure what you are asking (or rather why you cite PHP when talking about webapp frameworks).

In any case, if by "major" you mean HUGE like godaddy or dreamhost? or some other unknown "big" player I have no knowledge of, it's because the majority of people do in fact use php for their applications. Ruby is popular only in the superCool underground world of github and company.

Point is the answer is in your question. Less people use node.js and rails, and django, so less providers are going to support it. Wide support = wide usage (im assuming)
If you were Chase Bank, how would you deal with or comment on this?
Ask HN: device for Android development
So suppose I don't want a cell phone but that I want an Android to develop on. What should I get? Any experiences?

(Qualification: For my specific application, the device needs a camera, but it would be interesting to know what to get without that constraint as well.)
That's what many people would call a compiler, actually. Compiling is all about translating from one language to another.
You're both right.

Where I live, I probably wouldn't buy. The town is dependent on exactly three businesses for jobs. There are 30,000 jobs from those 3 businesses, but that is it. One company moving out (already threatened this year) or one canceled government contract (already threatened this year) and boom the housuing market is dead. I wouldn't tie myself in a house here for any reason, so I get there are reasons why renting is preferable.

But renting also feels like such an incredible waste of money.

Unfortunately, a lot of people who are anti-buying jump all over threads that even mention the conventional wisdom that buying is preferable to renting. Like everything in the real world, the answer is always "it depends".

That said, I feel like there is a negative stigma attached to living at home after college for everyone except those in the 22-27 crowd. I know when I was 17 I thought, I wouldn't be caught dead living at home after college. Now that I'm staring the bills down, I totally get it. I'm sure a lot of older adults are saying "how can these kids still live at home, they're 24!", but the economics of it make a lot of sense, and if your parents aren't a hassle why not?
What I want to see is a drop-in JavaScript library that makes many of the new HTML5 elements, attributes, etc. backwards-compatible with all common browsers starting with IE6.

E.g., I want to say <input type="text" placeholder="What is your username?" /> and have a script that detects if the browser supports the placeholder attributes, and if not, simulates it transparently.

I'd happily understand/accept if this script was limited, so long as it had good clean documentation of what it supported (like placeholder).
"... Very true. Just moving everybody into their own offices can destroy interaction. Its as bad as communicating solely by email. ..."

An office with a door, no interaction and communicating by email is a hacker dream.
The link (in the comments) states that Imgur offered it free to StackOverflow. My guess is that the images will automatically be linked to Imgur where he'll show ads.

If quantcast is anywhere near right, he's showing 20mm-30mm pageviews a month. At $5EPM (that's probably high) for 20mm (low according to quantcast) that's $100k a month. Remember that the "awesome images from other sites" is also an ad. He also fires pixels to ad networks, like scorecardresearch.com and crowdscience.com to add a little extra "ad-less" earnings to the bottom line.

On his stats page he says bandwidth used in the past month was 165TB, which on S3 would cost $16,500 plus more for storage used, however I bet he's getting a good deal from Voxel.

Update: those may not be ad networks after all -- I'm not sure. If anyone knows more about those companies, I'd love to learn more.
I agree, but it's a real bummer - my wife and I have used Buxfer for a couple years now, and now I'm wondering whether I should be scrambling to find another service because I don't want to lose two years worth of data should they decide to stop paying for their servers tomorrow.

Somewhat tangentially, as I get older, I find myself getting a little more cynical about paying for services from startup companies for fear of exactly this scenario - the fabulous hackers who start it find a shinier coin. How did you overcome this when you were selling Viaweb to your first few customers? Or were you dealing with mom and pop shops that were small enough not to care?

(BTW, my comments aren't directed at the Buxfer guys - as you mentioned, this would be a wildly unfair description of two guys who have kept alive a pretty damn usable zombie service.)
Did you do any testing on this - as in, having a person use the service for 2-3 months? My feeling is that it might take off as a novelty, only to wear off quickly.
I don't think the fact that you are Indian justifies your self-admitted bias against Indian managers.
Wouldn't explaining the reasons for not moving while using the money instead for generous employee bonuses solve that problem?
If the people don't want to be taxed to pay for state services, then shouldn't the state fire people, stop services, and downsize, just like a business?

No startup can point a gun at its customers to force them to give it money. Some startups genuinely do provide a valuable service that people can't or won't pay for. Oftentimes the difference between a viable and nonviable startup is the culture of the people you're selling to (academics are notoriously hard to monetize, while myspacers click on lots of ads).

So if Greeks don't want to pay taxes like Brits then the Greek state should be a lot smaller than the British state. Replace as much as possible with user fees and just scale it down. Do you disagree?
Minor correction, but you said 'efficient' not 'effective' tax collection in your original post, there's a big difference in the solution to either problem, but I still understand your point.
I just did for the other response. :-) Direct link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616360
Human Universals
If you evaluate your expression on two different threads, the value of c is non-deterministic. On the other hand, if you call

(swap! c (partial * 2))

on two separate threads, c will always end up 4x the original value.

These limitations exist for a reason.
With the API, developers will be able to build gameplay around the checkins:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#places
Hmmm. The best citation you can come up with for your claim on your about page that "Getting positive social feedback, via a daily reminder call, is instrumental to progress." is a book on personal development by Steve Pavlina?

My understanding is unwarranted ego-boosting can actually be harmful. But that does not mean people won't use the service.
The next step is to personalize this (e.g., using Facebook, a blog, etc.).
Intuit IPP Developer Platform - Thoughts?
Does anyone have any thoughts related to developing on this platform? Also, has anyone tried selling an app on IPP? Intuit is putting a lot of resources into this area but I don't see many apps in their appstore.

Ps. Per video below, the CEO really "gets it" when it comes to user generated solutions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=graJpc-Bea0
I'd pay for that just to see how creative they can get.

No, seriously, I would pay for that!
Don't do it as a service. Instead have it as a onetime thing. If I get the same call everyday the effect will ware off.
Why not create a mail with a 250 character limit. Or forget the limits, something like the facebook stream, but a lot more private just like email. Not sure if such a service exists today..something like a Short Message Service implemented with email protocols.
"These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that are trained; (d) suckling pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous ones; (g) stray dogs; (h) those that are included in this classification; (i) those that tremble as if they were mad; (j) innumerable ones; (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's-hair brush; (l) etcetera; (m) those that have just broken the flower vase; (n) those that at a distance resemble flies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolen...
My thoughts: How to get users to use your product
any comments are welcomed. Please validate my thinking
well, the nexus one is still being sold online as a dev phone.

You can get it for about $500 or so.

If you want a dev phone, but cheaper, the dev phones 1 and 2 are still available online.
Ceramic Hacker
Here's a simple fair way, if you can get everyone to agree.

Forget about the sole proprietorship. Pretend you all vested your stock over a traditional 4/1 vesting schedule. Go back and figure out what you've already vested - keep that and move on. (so if you've put in 2 years, you get 12.5% of the common).

The company should pay for this legal work, because it's something that should have been done a long time ago. Getting this right is in the company's interest as much, if not more than, your own.
Doesn't show up for me. Not on touch site and not on the iphone app either. Anyone else having this issue?

I'm thinking it's because until recently I had my account set to a different language (I've been late to receive updates because of this before), but I am acatually in the US.
The video is worth watching
Just including multiple-choice questions doesn't make a test scientific. It's easy to fail all of those tasks if you simply see no point in them and keep wishing you were outside, climbing a tree instead.
Heh - this article should've been titled 'If You Threaten To Sue Us, You Will Not Get What You Want'. You'd think people would know that already.
Perhaps the becoming 'totally public' of a place is contingent on the non-intersection of the sociality of some x number of checkins. I.e., if you have a party at you place but everyone who checks in is within 1-2 degrees of your social graph, then Facebook recognizes it's a well known place within a very local user subset. And doesn't make it public.

Also — time could be a simple indicator. If a place (i.e., your house) suddenly has 100 checkins over one day only to have no serious checkin traffic again for weeks, then that wouldn't be a completely public location either.
I am in almost the same situation, but I'm partially supporting parents instead of a wife. Good luck to us both. :)
Swank Clojure is a server that connects SLIME and Clojure projects. Its github page has instructions on installation and usage, hopefully that will serve as a good starting point:

http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure