skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's what happens when you have code that's been maintained for decades by dozens of programmers, most of whom have since moved on to pastures new. Not all of the code has someone on the team who has full insight into it. Sometimes that code breaks because of changes elsewhere. Yes, it would be nice to fully understand the code before fixing the problem; but that's not always a luxury you have.
LinqBridge allows support for Linq to run on .NET 2.0. The description of how it works might provide some insight:

http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/linqbridge.aspx
Because higher education is so very strongly tied to government funding, much more so than housing, I think the end of the higher education bubble (the existence of which I do recognize) will look very different from the end of the housing bubble. We're not talking about a salable asset, here: I can't sell you my degree, after all.

So we can generally agree that the higher ed bubble will burst, but I don't see exactly how, or what repercussions that will have.
yes! better yet - as a developer you can write your own indexers for greplin! (little known fact: we were going to launch with a hn module but we hit the site too hard and paul banned greplin)
I specifically said "lower-middle-class jobs", and you're pretending I just said "jobs". Of course I meant that you were replacing fewer higher paying jobs with more lower paying ones.

I see nothing in your previous numbers showing how you do or don't keep the benefit to the consumer after throwing in a congestion tax, which is what I said we needed to do the math for.

Fun fact: there are about 250 million cars in the US, and about 250 thousand taxis. But I'm sure all congestion problems are caused by the taxis - thank god for limited numbers of medallions.

How many of those 250m cars are in NYC, and how many of those 250k taxis are? And at what point did I suggest that all congestion problems were caused by taxis? I even explicitly said I would support a congestion tax for other kinds of traffic as an orthogonal solution.
> a 100% certainty of harassing ~10K innocent folks, which gets them stripsearched, put on no-fly lists and demeaned in other ways.

Actually you don't have to do anything demeaning or persistent to someone who trips the filter.
Considering the scale, considering the requirements, considering the difficulties related to the global nature of the network and considering the utter incompetence of any government official that ever had anything to do with IT.

That's a bargain.

Imagine if Google had to provide whole infrastructure plus support - with their legendary customer support. They wouldn't last a day.

When Government tries to do it itself- It will cost 20 Billion.
Much of GitHub already is.
This are called Tracer Bullets in the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas. They advocate:

Users get to see something early on.

Developers build a structure to work in.

You have an integration platform.

You have something to demonstrate.

You have a better feel for progress.

As a solo founder I need working code, that I can put out of mind, while I produce more.
The Threat of Graphical User Interfaces
If you're lucky, you find a few books over the course of your life that completely change the way you look at the world. For me, The Fatal Conceit was one of those books.

Hayek does a great job of showing how society, including its markets, evolve just like nature does. Victors impose their culture on the vanquished, but themselves aren't immune from influences of those they're occupying, etc. The product of this is something of tremendous complexity. That it works is evident, but just like a natural evolved organism (or a genetically-derived algorithm, for that matter), the way that it works is completely opaque.

Today we can't even imagine actually engineering a better human being -- or even a frog for that matter. If we're lucky we can manipulate a few very basic traits. Deeper meddling than that is pretty much assured to produce stillborn offspring.

Why, then, do we persist in the belief that we can fundamentally change the structure of how our markets work, or even completely engineer new ones from whole cloth?
Looks really awesome, can't wait till my life is fully indexed. Congrats Daniel and Robby
Great simple advice. Nike sums it up even shorter with "Just do it." And if you read between the lines, it says "Don't think." I'm not saying don't think at all of course, but one of the biggest things that keeps someone from getting started is overthinking. Overthinking what's needed, how much, how hard, what will happen if this, or that, when's the right time, what if it's a waste of time, and on and on.

Their second piece of advice that they infer in the article is the best way to learn is by doing. Because that's another big obstacle to starting, believing one is not prepared to get something done, and that the person just needs to learn a bit of knowledge before he or she gets started. Just start and learn along the way. How else did we learn how to walk when we were babies?
The quote is not so dubiously attributed, here's how it appears in his "Ideas and Opinions" 1954, Crown Publishers:

"ON CLASSIC LITERATURE Written for the Jungkaufmann, a monthly publication of the Schweizerischer Kaufmaennischer Verein, Jugendbund, February 29, 1952.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

There are only a few enlightened people with a lucid mind and style and with good taste within a century. What has been preserved of their work belongs among the most precious possessions of mankind. We owe it to a few writers of antiquity that the people in the Middle Ages could slowly extricate themselves from the superstitions and ignorance that had darkened life for more than half a millennium. Nothing is more needed to overcome the modernist's snobbishness."
Hostgator.. unlimited and plenty of everything. Seriously. Get a 'baby croc' account for $9/mth. No 3mth deposits, no setup fees, no billing bullsh@t.

VPS is like $20/mth US if/when you start to scale. They use the latest cpanel on CentOs. Yes, they got rails.

Real *nix hackers work there, so your not spending an hour on hold if you ever, ever, ever need to call. Support ticket system is also intact.

Been with them since 2006, I found them after realizing that I was dead set on not being dick'd around or babysitting my own custom machines.
Lots of "little known facts" in this thread!

Have you talked to the guys who run http://searchyc.com about working with their data?
My first thought was, "Doesn't Backupify already offer this?"

Backupify already backs up all your cloud data, so I figured it would be easy for them to index it and provide search. Digging through the Backupify website, it seems they have a strong privacy policy. From their FAQ:

"We don't do anything with your data once it is backed up. We don't look at it, we don't sell it, we don't analyze it, we don't modify it."

I guess it's too late for Backupify to change their privacy policy so they can offer search. Or maybe not. Facebook changed theirs...
I fully agree that the cost of higher education is a little out of control, but it seems to me that you have to look at its historical value as well as its current value in order to determine whether there is a bubble. It seems to me that university educations were highly under-valued in the past, and so part of the price pressure is just coming from the realization that a university education is much more valuable than what it used to cost (and K-12 is even more valuable than that, but thankfully it's publicly supported).

There is also little reason to think that higher education should be bound to CPI in any linear way - there are lots of other quasi-economic influences that are perfectly valid, although greed does seem to play its part.
Looks very polished, nicely done. The real problem with new social apps (for me at least) is that I can never get my friends to join anything. Take Rdio for example, another nicely designed app -- I just can't get my friends to use it with me.
I'm still using AutoLisp and I don't think our version of AutoCAD is that old?
It wasn't clear from the article but it may have been that the original 5 year deal required a bid and then each subsequent deal had to be no-bid for the various reasons stated in the article.
35 Life Hacks You Should Know
Also, if you don't feel that $35k/year (higher household earnings than 37% of the US) is a living wage, then what is?

Come on, 35k in NYC is barely a living wage and you know it.
So odd. Even when I found the permalink to that comment ( http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Ref... ) it still didn't take me (in Chrome dev build, at least) directly to the comment.
No it is not the only way to succeed. I launched a site 1 year ago for a medical publisher. They received 1st page ranking for about 800 of 3500 pages. Got about 3000 visits a month. It is not a huge number - but in this niche it was very good. And we did it only with SEO. No SEM.
Great work, but I don't personally see much value in this. Gmail already has great search, and Facebook and Twitter have good-enough search.

I'm also a little leery of handing out credentials to a third party. I would imagine that adding in support for web-services to desktop search engines (Google or Windows) would provide better value.
Introducing Disqus Analytics: Testers wanted
That requires the .NET 3.0 compiler to work, which was my point: LINQ is largely a compile-time feature.
A "99% accurate" paedophilia test would quite possibly falsely accuse as many innocents as catch positive people (given that only a tiny fraction of people are paedophiles) and being wrongly accused of being a paedophile has a pretty substantial negative impact on your welfare.

I'm not sure the airport scanner argument is really connected: it causes mild embarrassment to 100% of people asked to use it. The real question is whether having the mild embarrassment of being subject to certain security procedures (voluntarily; you bought the ticket) is worth a reduced chance of a fiery death in mid-air. Personally I'd say yes even though the chances of the latter occurring are vanishingly small.
If anything the "99% rule" is the defending the opposite argument: >99% of the time it reveals nothing or throws up false positives, same with passport control and with the delay-inducing regular maintenance checks on the aircraft and the costly OEM approvals required for each and every component fitted on the aircraft and the extra hours spent by the pilot getting type-rated on the newer variant and the slight adjustments to the flight path to take into account the remote possibility of bad weather and extra airspace assigned to that particular aircraft because of mildly reduced visibility and the minute corrections of altitude shortly before and the possibility of deploying the autopilot.... and actually, I quite like the way having all these seemingly easily-dispensed-with checks ensures that an aluminium tube travelling at several hundred mph thousands of feet above the ground is the safest mode of transport.
5 Aviation iPad Apps that Will Have you Flying Like a Pro
Any plans for a desktop app like Spotlight? Or a browser plugin that added another search box into the browser for my cloud data searching?
This is why many famous creatives are or were heavy alcohol or drug users (it's almost a running joke about journalists). These vices help shut out the critical voices for some people, for a while at least.
The crisis in customer service
For most people, DRM doesn't bother them at all until stuff stops working.

So far, DVDs pretty much play in every DVD player. (If less PC makers would ship Windows without third party DVD software, more people would care.)

Music was closest to having real DRM problems, but almost every non-hacker I know is perfectly fine with Apple's DRM because they only listen to music in iTunes or on an iPod. If other devices ever really became popular, non-DRM music might finally become essential to the average person.

So as long as the average person only uses the Kindle (or Nook or Sony) and never tries to port their DRMed ebooks to a new, incompatible device, they won't feel the pain of DRM. But first we need average people to start using ereaders for a while, which I think is close to happening.
That's kind of the way mathematics expands its knowledge base. Not always, of course. But it's a fine approach. It's an application of the KISS principle.
The amount of "men vs. women in tech" stories on HN is starting to be a bit ridiculous. If there were no such thing as social construction, and all people had the freedom to do whatever they want to do, how many people actually believe there would be an equal number of male and female computer engineers or helicopter mechanics?

In America today, I submit to you that women are at least as free to pursue their dreams as any other civilization in history. The article says CMU "began (a) campaign to enroll more women", so one could even argue that women have an advantage here in terms of recruitment.

I'm no sociologist, but isn't it even remotely possible that fewer women want to be computer engineers or helicopter mechanics?
Would be slick to integrate Disqus, Backtype,and the other commenting systems as well.
I recommend people also check out Cycript (what we use on jailbroken devices to introspect into running applications these days; I know that the wax guy has actually been learning a lot from the Cycript project).

http://www.cycript.org/
I actually do not see SEO as the be-all and end-all to success. I actually had thought about this same problem myself, though I am not nearly as invested as you are.

It looks like everyone agrees that in order for people to visit, they need to know what to expect. Like when people visit a physical store, the store itself might not be particularly interesting, but the goods it carry is of interest to the visitor at a particular moment. However, people visit more than stores. We visit our friend's homes too, for instance. What do we get out of that?

Why of course it's a relationship. It doesn't really matter what you do together at home. Maybe you do not even offer water to them when they come (bad). They come because they have an interest in you as a person in one way or another.

Blogs are the same. If you depend on search engine traffic then yes, you need to be an authority on some subjects. Do remember, however, that everyone is an authority about him/herself. Does Google Bot care? Maybe not (yet). Do people care? Yes! Why fight with a robot when your goal is to be read by people?

For this reason I think it is not helpful to rely on SEO if you are running a personal blog. Find where people are, like online communities, social networks, and engage with real people. I'm sure you can find a circle that can be your starting point. From there, you may even get feedback that help you gauge just how popular or interesting you truly are, and build your character up so eventually, even Google Bot will love you.
Navy holds gun to own head, demands immediate release. News at 11.
Summary quote:

It’s only once you’ve actually become a customer that companies put efficiency ahead of attention, with the result that a company’s current customers are often the ones who experience its worst service. Economically, this makes little sense; it’s more expensive to acquire a new customer than to hold on to an old one, and, these days, annoyed customers are quick to take their business elsewhere. But, because most companies are set up to focus on the first sale rather than on all the ones that might follow, they end up devoting all their energies to courting us, promising wonderful products and excellent service. Then, once they’ve got us, their attention wanders

Not only can customers take their business elsewhere, they can also trash your reputation on the Internet - so that makes even less sense to me.
Lisp Cabinet
Just to speak to the one point of security measures, government computers do perform data at rest encryption and network access control. Threat heuristics are done off-the-shelf with something like McAfee/Norton on the workstation end, and with commodity IDS software running at the edge, which I think sounds about right.

For most government machines, they're required to be connected via VPN, and all traffic funneled through the respective agencies in order to be on the internet at all, so at least the cloud data they do access has the opportunity to be logged, scrubbed and sanitized by the agency in question.

I can't speak specifically for Navy, but with most agencies I've dealt with (including DOD,) this is how things are.

So, long story short, if they aren't required to perform any security measures like the above-mentioned, then they should really get kudos for going above and beyond. That said, at least where I am, those are requirements, so I'm guessing the reporter either misspoke or was uninformed.
I really like GitHub and I know Fogbugz/Kiln is more expensive but the code review features and bug tracking stuff in FogBugz/Kiln is just so well done.

The UI and interaction is so much more polished than anything else out there. Certainly more so than GitHub, Bitbucket and JIRA. If you are a business I think it's well worth the extra money. I even use it for my personal stuff.
I signed up and it indexed my data but now I only see:

"Thanks for registering for Greplin. We're in beta. We'll email you once the system's ready for you."

Bummer.
While the site isn't open-source, they have open-sourced a ton of code. Just to name a few:

http://github.com/github

http://github.com/defunkt/resque

http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

http://github.com/mojombo/god

http://github.com/mojombo/bert

http://github.com/mojombo/grit
> I can't sell you my degree, after all.

There is an interesting option. The degree should come with some option to force the university to buy it back at a discount. Say a person couldn't find that promised job after they got their degree, so they can force the university to buy back his diploma for 80% of the price he go it for.

All that student's course credits would be expunged. If they claim they have a degree from that university from then on, they would be charged with fraud.

I wonder how many people would sell back the diploma in return for the money back.
one little criticism - frontpage looks a bit too similar to Evernote:

http://www.greplin.com/
http://www.evernote.com/

Maybe it would also make sense to emphasize data security since in essence you give the service access to every private bit of information you have online. It's not mentioned anywhere in frontpage and I'm hesitating to signup without some reassurance that data will be safe.

Other than that, good stuff.
I've always heard "tracer bullet" as a request to a production system that selectively gets much more detailed logging or diagnostic output than usual.
Very cool product, if it indexed google apps and integrated with spotlight it would be part of my daily routine. Great work Daniel, your future looks bright!
I'm not sure how that would work for a lot of development jobs. I know my first job looked at my degree but after that most places don't care. They want to see experience and will test you on your dev skills during the interview process.

So what I'm getting at is that after 3 jobs I could sell my degree back and say "don't need this anymore, thanks!". Now you'll probably say that you can't ask for a refund after your first job. But that sounds like a lot of verification work. And can you prove that the degree GOT me the job?
How bathroom posture affects your health.
Ah I see, yes this is also part of the 'BIM grand vision'. It's in the final stages of implementing an industry-wide system though. This would be hard to do without a solid toolchain in the beginning of the process, with a client to visualize how those parts look/work together. I don't see this as a replacement for 'traditional' tools, more like an add-on.

Big manufacturers already provide construction blocks, in standardized formats, for importing into design tools. From ICF forms to wallpapers. The 'marketplace' part is missing though, that's true. I don't even think it's a matter of technology, it's just that the industry isn't ready for it IMO. Construction is a very conservative industry.
CTRL+SHIFT+J (JS console) and type:

Array.prototype.forEach.apply(document.getElementsByClassName('see'), [function(el){el.style.display = 'none'}])
I don't know much about node.js but have always heard about it in a server-side context - does anyone know what role node is going to play in the webOS ecosystem?
Hackers posting on stolen Craigslist accounts.
I think there's a fallacy here. The housing market is not a monopoly, but higher education largely is. Universities do compete with one another for top talent, but as a group they also have a firm grip on the number of degrees granted. Technically this may actually be an oligopoly.

Until there is a viable alternative with the same reputation, how can students win the debate over prices?
It's weird, because all the cops I hear about are bad cops (the only exception being some during 9-11).

But all the cops I've met offline have been decent and professional, even when they were giving me a ticket or warning. Granted, it probably helps that I've never been in serious trouble, nor have I been suspected of anything bad.
might want to put an age limit on that. I can see some situations where that would be a non-problem to do (e.g. retirement).
sorry! we're scaling out as quickly as we can!
Why should I trust these guys with my data? It's bad enough that Google knows so much about me... but at least they have some checks and balances built in. What sort of safety does "greplin" have to offer adopters?
Controlling Your Inbox -- Efficient Email Management with Mutt
Little inside nods is what makes names like this particularly fun. For everyone else, it's just a catchy name.
I don't know if this is so specific to India.

In a lot of the US (maybe even most of it?) you get called a traitor or unAmerican or whatever for not agreeing with the government or the Republicans or whoever is in power and control of the media at the moment.

Even in more liberal places in the US, there are often unstated limits to what you can talk about ("saying X is maybe ok, but Y is just ridiculous/crazy/anti-blah").

Outside the US, I certainly see this kind of nationalism in many other countries, such as Israel and China to name a couple.
One of my concerns about Backupify is that they didn't use APIs (at least when I tried it) so I couldn't revoke access later. I'm pleased Greplin does.
There are about 13,000 yellow cabs in all of NYC. The GWB and Lincoln tunnels have traffic of 320,000 and 120,000 vehicles (respectively). I'm too lazy to look up the number of people driving from non-NJ locales.

Also, I didn't realize that the 37'th percentile of income (36'th percentile in NY [1]) did not count as lower middle class (or just plain middle class). My mistake.

If the congestion tax costs less than $24,000/year/cab, consumers still pay less for a taxi.

[1] http://www.city-data.com/income/income-New-York-New-York.htm...
Yes of course, but in the context of a DSL, you're not really defining a new syntax. You've still got an AST at the end of the day.

And of course, this isn't an attack on lisp. If it works for you, cool. But I just don't see how that distinguishes itself from a ruby DSL like say rspec.

I think the nicest feature of lisp DSLs is that lisp doesn't have the concept of an operator, and most langaguages make if difficult to define a function called or <- or something like that. But you can do that in Haskell or or ML, it's not really exclusive to S-exps.