skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This topic seems to come up quite often. I personally don't know whether an investment banker contributes more to society than a motor engineer. However the expected income for the i-banker seems to be higher. I.e. this is an incentive problem. People can talk all they want about the intrinsic satisfaction in producing actual goods, but at the end of the day we all need to pay rent, eat, pay back student loans, and spring for the occasional round of drinks.
This is really cool. It comes at the right time as I'm researching some NFL tickets.

One thing I really, really wish I could do is sort or filter by row # like I can with stubhub. When I go to something expensive like an NFL game, I really don't mind getting an ok or even bad deal if I know I'm getting a great view. It's going to be expensive anyway.

Otherwise, good work. Have you guys seen sites like www.seatdata.com that show photos from sections? Seatdata is rough to use, but sort of indispensable if you are traveling somewhere you've never been to see your team. Is it even legal to use photos like that?
My girlfriend does freelance 3D maps, illustrations, and graphics for a number of technical journals and magazines. She targets the glossy higher end, but sometimes does research papers.

http://cooperhawk.com/

I obviously have a vested interested, but at the least she'd be able to answer your questions on pricing and process. Her contact information is at the bottom of the linked page.
Wow. Great work guys. I am impressed with the data collection, but even more impressed with the attention to detail given to the interface. I love how big circles represent better deals.
Sokal submitted a paper to a journal that practiced no review. That's on par with me submitting a nonsense comment to news.yc and then bragging to my friends how stupid the startup community is.
More or less, although literary sampling is hardly verbatim when it happens. When we get a search engine for music, I'm sure a lot of artists will get what's coming to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPdVVOmbz4.

Sometimes they secure the rights, sometimes they don't.
I, for one, will be sorry to see it go. I thought their beta version (which has been in beta for years, natch) was quite nice.

Anyone have any ideas for replacements (other than Google Reader, which leaves me unimpressed?)
I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly
This is incredibly smart, concise, and funny. Good work.
I'm not sure about the OP, but I use Fever:

http://feedafever.com/

You have to host it yourself, but after using it for five minutes it proved to me that it is was more than worth the $30.
Guess What, You Don’t Own That Software You Bought
Surprise, surprise. The courts are making silly decisions yet again. Expect movies, music, etc, to come with licenses granting you the right to listen, instead of ownership of a copy. Yay?
Very nice. Congrats Feross on your success and serious offer?
I personally know of two people from one company that were fired for contributing a patch to a popular open sourced IDE that the company used for development, of which the bug hampered the development for the company. It was a strongarmed political move for management to retain control over the personal actions of their employees.

This is all anecdotal anyways. I doubt it happens all the time, but these two were forced to sign an NDA on their way out. It makes me wonder how many times it does happen where no one is allowed to talk about it.
I suspect he'd be happier with Cryptlib. It's a much saner toolkit, and already has most of a CA built in.
Broken URL, and a duplicate anyway:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679906
Most of the paypal horror stories always relate to paypal users not providing or not willing to provide valid information to identify their accounts.

In Luxembourg (and paypal is a registred and regulated bank in Luxembourg), the government requires the bank to know it's customers identities, otherwise the bank is not allowed to do business with their customers. And an email will not be enough. You have to provide passports/identity cards.

And I guess that's what happens here. After a certain transaction amount, paypal requires more information than just an email address.
This? Works so well, though not necessarily as written.

I built and launched Bill On Site about a year ago (http://www.billonsite.com/), and it's leading the top of my resume. I've gotten every job I've applied for largely based on the strength of having done that.

The fact that you can start AND finish a large project on your own speaks volumes over other guys who are basically unproven quantities without similar references.
Was this a serious offer?
Here's what I want:

I just started using Instapaper recently - if there was an RSS reader integrated, I can easily add stuff into my to-read list. (OR, bloglines can integrate Instapaper into their reader - and that would also be hot.)
New Hampshire shouldn't have posted on Facebook that it was out partying with Maine and Delaware at Vermont's place.
And maybe NCAA?
If only... the year of the Linux Desktop was also supposed to be the year of the open operating system. I have nothing but nice things to say about the android that google makes, but the custom versions of android that manufacturers ship tend to be just awful. There are exceptions, of course, but I can't see the proliferation of android on cheap devices reversing this trend. The spirit of openness is truly being perverted by the uninstallable crapware being put on those phones. The year of linux everywhere finally arrives, but the only way it managed to get here was by becoming most of what the open software movement was against.
The problem, as this article sees it, isn't that we eat meat; it's that we feed animals people food, which puts us into competition with livestock while reducing the efficiency of farms. Feed pigs scraps, feed cows grass, save the corn for people.

Also, many of the stats cited by eco-vegans turn out not to be valid. Water requirements for livestock are based off worst-case scenarios (California cows fed from irrigated crops) and are off by 3 orders of magnitude in the common case; greenhouse gas estimates for livestock conflate logging and land speculation with faring.
Then here's something different for you from the LAT: a guy with an MBA, a law degree, has Wall St experience, six figures in debt and hasn't found a job in years.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-america-...
A friend started a consultancy this year:

http://datarealization.com/
who decided adding a captcha to the login process was a good idea?
They can block by referer, of which your domain is. Though I doubt they would.
I think the parent meant that the U.S. Government has borrowed more and more. It seems to me that you're talking about citizens being richer while parent is talking about the government being poorer.
I assume he meant that if <whoever>'s house was robbed, that could be problematic. Could my insurance company penalize me if you broadcast my whereabouts?
You're interested in gaming software tie ratios. Here's a reference, but basically: Wii had a strong tie ratio for the first year or so, then was overtaken by the PS3. 360 dominates both, if I recall correctly (can't see the article at work).

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/22/ps3s-tie-ratio-creeps-abov...
the idea is, you can't effectively stop what other people post about you. Sure, you can elect to not post anything showing your location, but other people can also elect to post stuff showing their location, as well as information indicating that you are with them.
Not to derail this too much, but I still pay most all of my bills by check and snail-mail envelope. Until some companies stop charging a "convenience fee" that is more than the cost of a stamp and 1 minute of my time per month, of which I'm probably severely underestimating its worth, I'll continue to do so.
http://globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/214/44197....

Build a graph from that data and you'll be very surprised, I guess.

1980 -- $1.3 trillion

2006 -- $12.8 trillion

[edit]: Oh, there's a graph actually: http://globalpolicy.org/images/charts/SocialEconomicPolicy/t...
Ditto on NCAA. There's many more stadiums, and college ticket trading is huge business. I guess concert venues could work as well. Pretty much anything with seats and tickets.
Very cool, very usable.

Where you could improve: seems rather slow to load on Safari/Mac. Also bothers me that the mouse-over for sections near 333 is off-screen at 1280x960. Could you have it show up on the other side of the pin, just like it does when I click?
Do you know if, in this case, they worked on the patch on company time, or on their own time?
similar issues are discussed regularly on the Free Range Kids blog: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/
This is great. One small suggestion: when you have data for where seats are and the user clicks to zoom into the section, show empty circles for seats that are already purchased. Showing a couple random colored circles inside the zoom lens is pretty confusing. How far away from the end of the row is the seat? Or if you don't know where the end of the row is, just to be able to count how many seats are to either side of me would be helpful.
People are still trying. Feedingo http://feedingo.com/ recently launched. I think it's a 1 or 2 person startup.

I think the long-term future of RSS feeds is integrated with my other social streams somehow that allows me to see all of them. Twitter could probably eliminate the need for a reader for a lot of people if they let you follow RSS feeds like you follow people.
How Kris Peterson Created A Daily Deals Company From His Kitchen Counter
Words have meanings and carry implications. By your logic, we might as well use the term "banana" instead. The point is that the concept doesn't reflect reality, and thus your point has no merit.
I've been working on a new style of RSS reader in my spare time for a month or so now. Current RSS readers treat RSS like email, which pressures the user to at least glance at every item. I have 177 subscriptions in Google Reader, so you can imagine how much of a time-suck it's become.

Some ideas to solve this: (1) eliminate unread-item counts from the UI, and (2) introduce Usenet-style scoring and some sort of smart (Bayesian?) filtering.

The goal is to allow the user to decide how much time to spend reading blogs: if she only has time to read 5 things before getting back to work, she simply sorts today's unread items by score and opens the first 5.

Unfortunately, I'm not actually a good programmer, so I haven't gotten far. If someone skilled would like to implement this, I'd be grateful.
That is absolutely stunning work! I looked through the entire portfolio just for enjoyment.

If you don't mind my idle curiousity, how much does it cost to produce a map of such high quality?
Seconded. If I could get a cheap, smallish (32 GB is enough), durable, and fast PATA SSD for my six-year-old laptop, I'd have everything I need.

As it is, I have nearly everything :)
No suggestions on finding a developer for equity, but I suggest surveying more people first. This may be helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668588
So sweet. Thanks!! Working well in 5.0.342 on Ubuntu 32.
Yeah, I wasn't sure 'til the end of the article.

Went in hoping it was Model View Presenter.
It seems odd that in U.S. you have to make such a choice, in the U.K., University is in easy reach of most (provided they did well enough at school).
How does this contradict my point? The US has gotten richer, and it has also borrowed more. The two are not mutually exclusive.
You ask the very reasonable question:

> Considering you are talking about evidence,
> where is yours?

As I say in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679203

> No, sorry, I can't cite the research off-hand,
> it's been shown to me by others and I don't
> have the references

We're not really arguing different points here - we're both saying it's bloody difficult to do "proper" research in this area, and even harder to come up with anything that's guaranteed to work.

I've seen a lot of papers written and witnessed a lot of different techniques. I've seen first hand several fads, and most things work for some children with the right teachers. But I am concerned with the way the whole thing is approached, in part because I have a PhD in math and I know that "research" when in an area that involves people is really, really hard.

Especially with children.

I know that things have to be done differently in education research, and people who do the work are doing their best. I observe that the situation is still appalling - there's more that needs to be done.

I have my personal opinions about what might work, but they are unsupported by anything like scientific evidence, and I'm working closely with both teachers and education researchers to see if my ideas can be tested, and if so, whether they can be made to work. But I won't air them here.

ADDED IN EDIT: Wow - a down-vote. Wonder what I said that made someone feel that this comment is of negative value. Interesting.
Agreed. The clip of the HDR'ed person looks almost fake, since there's this halo that surrounds him.
Generally responding to the comments so far.

I am a developer from Mumbai, India. I used to be a game programmer and I have worked on a published game. I still do some hobby game development here and there.

I have taken a liking to web development as well. I currently work full time at a web startup. This is something I want to do on the side for now. Although I have played around with PHP and Ruby, C# is currently the language of my choice and for web development I like working on the ASP.NET MVC framework.

I am interested in web projects. I have not really narrowed in on idea for the first project yet. I have a few ideas buzzing around my head. The one that I am currently prototyping is based on helping users find people to collaborate with (somewhat like some of the sites already mentioned in this thread). The other one revolves around meeting new people. More info available on request. I would perhaps prefer brainstorming an idea together. That way we both connect with the idea.

I have already looked at ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com and builditwith.me to find the kind of a guy I am looking for but haven't had success. Some suitable people that I found on there never responded back.
Not if you pay with Paypal through it connecting directly to your bank account.
The environment at a large shop is more constraining, and the people are more specialized. You'd go from being a small cog in a very large machine to being the entire machine yourself. At a large shop it's like being in bootcamp, everything is systematized. Transitioning from that to a green field can be a shock when you have become too reliant on the rest of the machine.

Conversely someone coming from a startup wont understand working in a large team where progress is more methodical (slower). They will seek to circumvent processes they see as slow or useless. Perhaps they will try to 're-engineer' towards things they are more familiar with. In the process they may cause a net loss for the entire team.

In general I'd say its easier to go up than down. If you're used to the functions of a large organization it would be difficult to scale that back (network engineers that can't work without Cisco gear for instance). Someone coming from a startup is likely to be adaptive, and I'd rather have a generalist in a large organization, than a specialist in a small one.

Although I'm from an IT background not Dev so YMMV. The limit of my programming is single page perl/python scripts.
I work in quantitative finance, and I think that Brooks is working with slightly out-of-date statistics. The financial crisis has been very rough on the headcount and morale of most financial institutions, and has impacted quant funds particularly roughly.

It was fairly easy to view finance as a safe and socially acceptable career in 2007, and that was reflected in the recruiting numbers at the time. The past 3 years have disabused many of us of that impression, and the effects are being seen right now in the career decisions top students and people already in finance are making.

20% of the people in my little corner of quant finance have left for tech jobs or startups in the last 4 months, and I'm hoping to follow them as soon as I get enough traction on my side project. I hope for their sake that current students have also figured out that the game has changed and are directing their ambitions toward tech.
I've seen the rule of thumb of 10 minutes of homework per grade in school. So, 1st graders would have 10 minutes of homework per night and 3rd graders would have 30m of homework per night.
That's silly. The vast majority of technological innovations still come out of the US. So whatever it is you're doing poorly, the rest of the world is clearly doing that much worse.
I can't agree with this enough. I'm kind of an old-timer web developer and have built about one new web concept every 3 or 4 years. While none of these ventures have made me a millionaire, each one did teach me new skills and lead directly to my next job.

Most recently it was a very fluffy "video sharing" rails app, built in 2007. It helped me get a good gig that buffered me through the first half of the great recession.

Now I'm back to doing what I like doing best... investing time in learning and build-cool-thinging. I really can't lose.

And, as a last note, building something is a very good cover for being, er, "in between jobs"... and a lot cheaper than grad school :)
'Onshoring' Gives U.S. Companies an Alternative to Offshore Outsourcing
U.S. companies are trying "onshoring," an emerging alternative to offshore outsourcing wherein IT functions are performed by companies in the rural United States.
What might it cost to buy off the data to a reliable datastore? Could the format of the data be opened to let outsiders write the processing tools?
That's a product insurance system though isn't it, it's not clearing or failing to pay.
How to Avoid Exchange-Based Relationships
Ben Fry (of processing fame) has a group that does this:

http://fathom.info/

Can you give more details about the project and the data set?
The OP stated that homework makes success more strongly correlated with socioeconomic status. I would guess that this is because households with better socioeconomic status tend to give their children more attention and expose them to the correct ideas, sort of how the word-exposure studies showed that exposure to a large vocabulary in infancy swamps socio-economic status in terms of literacy, but it happens to be strongly correlated with socioeconomic status.

From this I would guess that if you want your child to really do well, you need to make sure they practice the right things. So make your 3rd grader to the homework and help them so that you know they're practicing the right thing. The studies cited by the grand-parent comment never say that practice of the right thing is bad.
Don't let your build scripts get crusty and old
Yes, quite so. My point wasn't that you should coddle your children, but rather that it's important to understand what the real dangers are and empower your children to deal with them. Being overprotective of your kids from real dangers is a problem too, but being overprotective based on imaginary dangers is just plain dangerous.
Yes, you cannot be fired for legally protected reasons. Well, the company that fired you also knows that. So they come up with a reason that is not protected( "Does not fit well with the company culture"). The burden of proof is upon the ex-employee to show that they were let go for a protected reason(It is a very high burden).
Holy crap! Brilliant video edit.
I hope not - I had private RSS feed from things I don't want to share with the world, and I can't be the only one.
This is precisely the approach they take. Section 3.4 ("The Model") begins, "The heart of the model is to treat incoming events as a Poisson process..."
Though now that I look back, I generally don't appreciate being told that my scholarships were attributed to luck. Especially considering how hard I worked for them in HS and how hard I continue to work to keep them.
SeatGeek pulls from the same ticket sources as Fansnap so we have the same priced tickets. Try sorting by low price :)
My friend Mike does them - http://mikepculhane.blogspot.com/
Today Bob borrowed $100 from Alice and earned $5 on his daily basis.
Bob thinks he became $105 richer while Alice doubts that.
Offshoring is not magically cheaper. Why do you think manufacturing in the US might be more expensive? One quite possible reason is "some weird pretentiousness of the American workers".
I understand and agree with much of what you say. However I am -- increasingly as I get older -- a fan of Getting Things Done, so I prefer tools that let me do that better. This is the role where ObjC is inferior to alternatives like Python, among others.

I was doing assembly programming in the mid/late 80's, then was a C programmer for about 5 years, then C++ for about 2, then Java for many years after that before switching to Python as my default goto language. Leaving out experience with several other languages. I am a language geek, not super hardcore as some, but far above average. So I'm quite confident in saying ObjC is a needlessly archaic, verbose and complex language compared to alternatives. Is it totally without merits? Of course not. Was it designed to fit a niche and context? Yes, and perhaps it achieved those goals well, and some would argue better than C++. But all of this is irrelevant when it exists as part of a larger set of choices available to a modern programmer who wants to Get Something Done and has sufficient freedom to choose his tech mix. Given the right permutation of constraints any tech can become the Perfect Choice for those constraints, so saying that alone about ObjC is not a compliment.
I graduated in 2003.
http://www.parapluesch.com//catalog/product_info.php?product...

Looks like they have been around a while. Kroko was added in 2004!
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Yes it has - look at what kind of computer you could buy in 1980 and look at what you can buy now.

Heck most smart phones have more computational power than a 1980 computer.

So yes, the US has grown richer (money != wealth).
No, it's a private company, and part of the ownership contract will prevent you from selling your shares to people outside the company. You might even be precluded from selling them period. That's why most people don't buy until the company's exit.

See my mainline comment for more details
what does this have to do with the post, really? smells like spam
Bloglines already has that logic. It would be built into any archival tool as well. If the feed url scheme is https or if it's using http auth, it's private.
Need legal advice and/or sample for agreement
I am helping a new startup with strategic marketing and pr, creating the branding and logo, website and copy writing and bus strategy. these are 2 new bus owners, they do not want me to come on as partner. But, i have figured out a creative way to do profit sharing. I would like to get a Fee for each "widget" sold. widgets are already selling, due to initial efforts. I have startup experience so i am advising on many levels as well. i can not afford an attorney so creating an agreement myself. any ideas or a sample that could help with this? i have researched equity agreements and independent contractor agreements but neither works for me to cut and paste something together. this is an initial agreement. i do have a small business legal adviser to look over the final before signing, but that is all i can do. so sample agreement of this type anyone? advice?...thank you
You are assuming that "better fraud detection" means "fraud detection that isn't triggered". Credit card companies aren't as concerned about as fraud because they don't lose money, the merchant loses money. It costs them little to be lax.

Paypal loses their own money when they don't detect fraud. They can't afford to be lax.