skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider the social value of this to be about equivalent to 'DHH stocks his vacation home with $1m in cocaine'.

He could say, go race a stock car, have about as much fun, and fund 20 startups as an angel investor. Instead, he's blowing his money on expensive thrills.
The official twitter of hacker news is http://twitter.com/hackernews.
The hacker news Twitter automatically tweets out top stories.
That guy must have assumed the 'Tumblr sucks' tweet to be a official Y Combinator tweet without even clicking on the link.
isn't it just some kind of black hat spam site that's written by Markov chains?
"Just imagine what if it would be like if everyone could get hard drugs and it was out in the open."

Lower prices, better quality control, less drug-trafficking violence. Maybe even less social stigma surrounding drug use, so more people who needed help could get better help.

Or did you think the 18th Amendment was a good idea?
You're right - if we gave up 80% of the company, it would be an awful raise. However, it's a pretty fair assumption that we didn't do that. We chose to take in $1M instead of $300K (which is all we needed). Why would we take in more capital if the valuation wasn't fair?
You can safely add the Balkans and Romania to that group. Although many things work well without a bribe in Romania, most important things, I'm told, do not. The first thing my parents do when they have to deal with the government is ask themselves who do we know that works in that department ? As teachers, that works great for them. TBH, they do that when dealing with private businesses too, maybe even more so, but then I realize that's just how business works.
" Women seem to like paying for instant sex too if the social conditions are right."

Indeed, it's said that you don't pay the [man|woman] for the sex; you pay them to leave.
> nice boutique hotels out of those historic monasteries

Are you kidding ? That's incredibly rude. How would you feel is someone proposed commercializing in the same way that you hold most dear ? I think this is just ignorance and you in no way realize the cultural, historical, and yes, mystical significance of those places.
Robot smashes through doors, flips the bird and cares for wounded soldiers
The author mentions users leaving because Digg has become "publisher dominated". I haven't dived in yet, but based on the descriptions, it sounds much less publisher dominated to me, especially if you consider MrBabyMan & Co. to be publishers where Digg is their outlet. I'm really looking forward to finding Digg friends that are more like the people here on HN so that they might have more influence on which stories I see. I'd like to see Digg become an effective source of interesting links again instead of the incrediby base thing it has become.
Perhaps, though I think my sour grapes specifically about digg are somewhat dead. What really makes me angry is the joke that is the VC industry, which is really the root cause of this. In April I talked to an associate at Andreesen-Horowitz (where Kevin Rose is the mayor on foursquare), who said that digg, after many difficulties, was on the right track. From their perspective, engineers are cogs in the machine and the only thing that matters are executives. I worked closely with the executives at digg, and they spent the vast majority of the time feathering their nests, and the digg v4 rollout is just the logical conclusion of them draining value for five years.

Also I said this was a "rough guess." Comments on TC from people I know who worked there (there's been a mass exodus for the last two years) suggest I'm mostly correct.

Finally, I think "sour grapes" is a poor rejoinder. Especially since it's the standard PR line at digg.
I'm aware of that problem. However it turns out that if the pieces you get are small enough, then they will individually burn up in the atmosphere without causing damage.

Moving most of a 50m rock out of the way and creating a bunch of small debris in the process is probably OK because the debris pieces are unlikely to be big enough to get through the atmosphere. (Satellites in orbit would be put at increased risk.)

Attempting the same on a 500m rock would be a different story.
This entire article is about how, at the scale of entire repositories, we are seeing issues that are analogous to the issues CVS saw on individual files. I would even go so far as to say this entire article is about submodules, how git's architecture causes there to be more of them, and how changesets aren't effectively managed between them, given that you have to make separate commits between repositories and then attempt to knit the changes back together at a higher level of scale where they have become mostly unrelated.
It feels less busy after you've used it for a little while, and your brain has had the chance to adjust to having most of the page change whenever you type something.
And a reminder/suggestion for people: If you're open to being contacted, put contact info in the 'about' section of your profile so people can see it.
Two points:

1. their UI was worse. If you don't do something like this right, it can be worse than doing nothing at all.

2. this depends largely on the correctness of the predictions. I assume Yahoo's predictions weren't half as good either.

But still cool, yes.
A goto with no arguments can be read as an recursive but optimized tail call, in some mythic Scheme-to-BASIC compiler.
Written by my lead PM from Delicious.
He's ignorant? Finish reading the paragraph!
http://tomrancich.com/resources/articles.php?obj=article&...
1) Being conscientious, actually caring about the work I put out. Spending that extra hour or two or four after I am 'done' with a feature, cleaning up the layout, making sure the field level validation all works, testing alternate paths, adding a few bells and whistles.

2) Learning how to communicate effectively. Keeping interested parties in the loop at all times. Not hiding mistakes or difficulties, or waiting until the last minute to let a PM know that a task is going to be late.

3) Not falling into the 'stupid user' trap. Your users aren't stupid. They know their business better than you do. You need to understand and accomodate their workflow, not the other way around.
Funny because that's one of the things that I've learned - when to let something go as 'that's weird' and just solving the problem without spending days digging into root causes. Sometimes it's worth it, but usually it's taking time from getting other priorities accomplished.
Code review. Oddly enough, it wasn't so much the issues that were raised by the reviewers that made me a better programmer (though they certainly helped), but the knowledge that every aspect of my code could be inspected, and I'd be expected to fix it, that forced me to double- and triple-check my work before sending it off. Since that time, even when I'm working on personal projects, I find myself coding defensively, and will often write sections of code a couple times until I'm satisfied that it is unambiguous, correct, and clear.

This has helped immensely when I've gone back months later and tried to figure out what I was thinking; now, it actually makes sense!
Second that - there's a definite point of diminishing returns and it's worth knowing when you're reaching that point because after that you're just wasting time, burning out, and throwing off future efforts.
I think it's more "think about what you wish to accomplish with the piece of code that you're about to write". Are you trying to write something that will satisfy users' desires? Then you darn well better think about every aspect of those desires, and make sure that the code you write satisfies them. Or are you trying to learn what users' desires are, or how the technology you have available will help you satisfy them? In that case, you may be better off just diving in and coding, but you should think about the question you want answered before you code.
Google's Data Liberation Front
I can't agree with this enough, though I've found that the sweet spot for me is a 20-minute power nap. Any longer than that and I feel groggy rather than refreshed when I wake up and start coding again.
Participating in programming competitions like IOI, ACM, Topcoder, GCJ, etc
beware the law of unintended consequences. This warning will not be repeated
And it's pretty ironic to have a writer criticize a rushed release by saying, Digg v4 was also suffering from a surprisingly amount of down time. Kettle, meet pot.
If your content really is that good, having a single social person start reading it is more than enough attention to get the word out. Not a single one of the blogs I subscribe to have ever promoted themselves beyond selling merchandise or showing up at conventions - and these are entirely the result of demand, not any initiative on the part of the author.

The only thing promotion does is skew search results in favor of your blog, at the expense of other blogs which address the same problem. If your writing really is better, this is completely unnecessary.

It seems like you crave attention more than anything, which is certainly a nobler goal than blogging strictly for money, but in the long run, you're only going to attract readers who also crave attention. Once you're no longer capable of giving them that attention, they will go somewhere else.

There is a "wall" between blogs like yours and the ones that really take off, and it's entirely based on the author's motivations.
SF voted on legalizing prostitution in 2008. It was called Prop K and got 41% of the vote. http://www.yesonpropk.org/

Measure Q in Berkeley in 2004 pulled 36%.

In the Bay Area a considerable number of people support decriminalization. Craigslist is hardly completely out of whack in terms of public opinion of the population in their region of the world.
Ask HN: How should I go about getting a terms & privacy policy? 
what should I expect to pay in attorney fees?
If they are going to be good citizens, then Greeks must not only pay their taxes, they must also take responsibility for fixing their government, reducing waste, and stamping out their culture of corruption.
Django has plenty of not-so-alternative projects breathing down its neck and they're well aware they have to keep up. Personally I think it helps the rest of us to some degree for Django to be out at the front accommodating all the crushing masses of new users while smaller projects, not as quickly discovered (but discovered enough) enjoy moderate but well-tempered userbases.
I've always thought "Ask HN" was akin to asking a group of strangers (mostly) to spend their time helping you. Wouldn't you get better suggestions from the HN community by telling everyone what your site is vs. this riddle of a description? Give us the "2 sentences to say what we do".
Between this and Oracle, Java has a very interesting year ahead of it. What it has going for it: the major alternative is Microsoft (at least for enterprise); fragmentation in the language space (there's no dominant language, just a growing number of very good options); a large user base that isn't going anywhere too quickly (because of it's heavy enterprise orientation).
I think you're both right. Some people do like the grandparent suggests and map their strategies out in advance. I personally do better with Brooks's "build one to throw away" approach. I like this better because I can't work with a plan like others do. I need to have implemented something before I can understand it. Others work better with a different approach. To each their own.
1) is very important for me too. Many people will say 'oh don't take your code so personally' but that just doesn't work for me. When I write something I want to be proud of it and I'm going to feel bad if it doesn't work even if it wasn't my fault or responsibility.

Also agree on 3) If a user asks for something 'stupid' you can't just shoo them away. There's a reason they asked and your job is to find out what that reason was - and to come up with a solution for your client that fits the rest of the system. The client may not know what they want but they do know that there's a problem that needs to be addressed somehow.
Some of it may also be the more introverted characters attracted to python.

Interesting observation. Ruby and Python do seem to attract somewhat different personality types. Functionally they're actually very similar.
after a short twitter conversation, he knows the difference but thinks that there is a conspiracy because hacker news has many pro-posterous articles.
What do you see as the major issues?
You can tunnel other protocols over SSH.
App-store rankings are based on downloads from the past three days

If you go from free to paid (or vice versa), your ranking is reset. They're different charts.
haha, me too. Every time. Probably also very true, someone should blog about this.
I'm not sure which part of my comment you disagree with. But the monetization issue is (in my opinion) due to Kevin and Jay taking money off the table, and spending much of their time drawing digg salaries while building other businesses (revision3, pownce, wefollow, fflick). If they'd devoted 100% of their time to digg there wouldn't be a monetization issue.
Hit me up in Boston :D
19 dancers. 35 women evaluate. Can we introduce the dance professors to an intro statistics in social science course? This dataset is not statistically significant.
Yes,

In any controversial topic or whenever a page doesn't seem to make sense, I go to the edits.

One cool app would be an editor with the ability to let you select a phrase in on MediaWiki page and then jump to the first edit in which that phrase appeared.
It seems like the article is mostly bashing Tumblr as a professional blogging platform, which I agree it's not. Tumblr is supposed to be a micro-blogging platform for networking and sharing small bits of posts, photos, music, videos, etc...

Either way haters gonna hate
That article title seems like link-bait.

The title declares "phone numbers are dead".
The article says "my grandkids will never dial a phone number".
Even if that were true, then the value of clicks would decrease, prices would drop, and a new balance would be achieved.
> The people looking to break into any machine are either targeting Windows clientsides, or weeks-to-months-old web vulnerabilities.

Actually the people looking to break into your machine are targeting windows clientsides and weeks-to-months-old web vulnerabilities.

There's a cost involved in developing 0day, droppers, remote access trojans, maintaining breach and exfil teams etc. If these guys can get into the developer laptops with an email, a wink and a PDF then why waste the 0day? If you're putting all your effort into a custom SSH daemon without expending equivalent effort on your connection sources (especially when connecting to the Internet) then you're doing it wrong.
Christchurch Recovery May Buoy N.Z. Economy Over Next Year, English Says
Unless you're doing something truly outrageous, there are boilerplates for these available online.
OpenVPN supports certificate based auth but key-based SSH auth is considerably easier to do (and depending on your experience may be easier to manage).

You can also restrict the commands that can be run so you can use things like Git or tunnel MySQL loopback connections without handing over the box.
"...now you have the burden of building a valuable circle so you can read valuable content and aren’t stuck reading garbage all day."

Exactly it. As soon as I logged into Digg v4 and found out I had chores to do, I closed the window and moved on.

You have to be on drugs to think you can pull the rug out from under your users that way and actually keep them.

Evolving product is hard. Yes, sometimes you're going to have to cut features, re-imagine functionality or reconfigure the user experience. This creates a little grumpiness at first. If you stay true to the original mission of your product, users will deal with it because it's in the furtherance of getting to something great.

But: You've only got so much elasticity to work with in terms of your users being good sports in these transitions. You can't make a name for yourself selling turkey sandwiches and then "upgrade" to exclusively serving roast pork. There may be a union between the turkey people and the pork guys but a decent chunk are going to drop you and find the next-best turkey sandwich cart.
Ask HN: Setting up a developer field trip?
I've been training our dev team for the past year or so on solid software development practices and have had some success. I've introduced them to version control, bug tracking, unit testing, etc. Some of these practices have taken hold (version control) and others have not (unit testing, CI). While the general response to the training has been good, I feel that the other developers would benefit by seeing how solid development practices are being applied by other dev teams.

To this end, I've floated the idea of having a "developer field trip" day where we could take our team and visit another software dev shop that already follows good practices to learn from their experiences.

If anyone thinks this could be a good idea, I'm looking for a company to host us that meets the following criteria:

* located in central Minnesota, preferably north of St. Cloud
* develops custom web applications (IIS/.Net)
* multiple clients/multiple simultaneous projects
* runs at 11 or 12 on the Joel Test

Suggestions? Feedback?
Interesting. We ran ejabberd over SSL for years without needing a VPN. Most DVCS' support SSH in some form or another. You might find SSH key management a bit easier.
So I do a lot of stuff that's not programming (dealing with managers mostly). But I've begun to practice a simple routine - make tea, close my door, and do nothing but write code from 2 to 4 (or 1 to 3, or 1:30-3:30). Every day.
with you
Great Depression Essay Writing 
Great Depression Essay Writing

Writing a great depression essay will not only educate students on one of the most important happenings of the 20th century, but will also educate them on the global economy and its effects. A good topic will enable students to write the essay in the most informative manner possible.
ojbyrne,

No doubt about it I don't know the details of the technical impls of Twitter in the early days -- I only became aware of it when it's usage started exploding and the "fail whale" became such a common occurrence.

No knock to the Twitter team, if that was just hardware scaling issues from the get-go, not much they can do about that. The reference to the comment was more for the cute anecdote more than anything.
I took "off the table" to imply that they had decreased the companies value with Digg V4 in the order of 7 figures. I misunderstood.
What Is Intelligence?
I've used emacs for 9 years.

Last week, on a whim, I went cold turkey to vim.

The result: I'm probably staying with a (heavily modded) vim.

I added the standard bash/emacs/OS X input keybindings to insertion mode.

It feels like the best of both worlds.

The moral: it's good to branch out and try new things every now and then. You might get surprised.
blurry,

I'm not clear on what what ironic -- that the release was rushed, so down time should be excused or something else. Could you clarify?
Controlling iPhone using your brain waves
Oracle "Leaning Heavily" Towards JDK 7/JDK 8 Feature Split
Actually by taking a nap you are doing something really cool.

Let me explain:

You are actually inviting your right hemisphere(the creative side of your brain) to come out and play. The right hemisphere cannot be forced into thinking that much so by taking a nap you are actually letting the unconscious work for you.

As a really interesting side note, Thomas Edison used to take a nap whenever faced a difficult problem. He used to nap with ball-bearings in his hand and when he would fall into a deep sleep dropping the ball-bearings would wake him up, and he would wake up and tackle the problem. :)
I've also found that Levi's have become so bad in this regard that I had to change to Lee's which seem much better. I think Levi's quality control went away about when they started selling to Walmart.
Don't tell me your tv supports Twitter (part 2)
Wakemate: Nearly Final Update
That's fair enough I'd say if it's hard to get decent Whisky in the states. It's difficult to get decent Bourbon in the UK unless you're willing to go for Jack Daniels or worse.
zbanks,

Interesting point, and that might explain why sites like HN and reddit (primarily technical and occasionally quirky) are still maintaining relatively high quality content.

I suppose it's the jack of all, master of none curse.

I would agree with the assessment of the previous poster that the quality of Digg did seem to be effected to the site opening it's categories up to the world, and not just to the tech community... that did seem like a milestone in me noticing I wasn't quite as happy with what I was reading.

Also see reddit in the situation where with 6 people, it is barely scraping by... sort of a crappy rock-and-a-hard-place aspect of social news.

Then there is the Facebook or Twitter approach which is the polar opposite end of something like HN, you have ALL content from everyone's brain, and the real money is in figuring out algorithms to surface it accordingly.

I don't know that I'm holding my breath for that algorithm though.
This isn't a great solution, but prepend words that aren't showing up with a + sign to enforce that they appear on the document.
Ask HN: more money now or more percentage later?
I have recently been offered two equity options, of which have different advantages and disadvantages. One option offers more equity but a smaller salary (by 10k) and the other is a half percent more but higher salary. From past experiences and empirical research, which option is more appealing?
With so many species out there on planet earth, what's not to say that at least a few of them will go extinct?

Life on earth doesn't stay still. Some will evolve, and some will go out extinct, and there will be a few mass extinction event there and there.
Well, I'm glad they're making progress. In the meantime, for those of us who intended for these to be holiday gifts last year, does anyone recommend any alternatives?
It's interesting to me just what a hot-button topic DDT continues to be. It seems that the moment it comes up in any discussion of something like bedbug proliferation, there's an outbreak of collective guilt about bald eagles and expressing anything outside this guilt quickly turns one into Tony Hayward.

Not that I want to endanger bald eagles either, but I'd be interested to see a less politically-charged, more pragmatic debate on the potential advantages and disadvantages of reinstating its use in limited capacities.
We recently bought a 5.1 Samsung sound system for the home after the original TV speakers died. There's all kinds of weird Internet enabled junk on it, including Twitter. The Interface is slow and clunky (and appears to be based on Java if the logos are to be believed). I'd struggle to see why anyone would use Twitter on something like this, especially without a keyboard.

Then again I'm writing this comment from my couch on my TV via a Mac Mini... Maybe there is a space for a decent implementation?
try clothes in store, buy online

I'm sure you must mean buy online from an internet cafe with free WiFi without buying anything from the cafe.
Google Instant Search now available on Android
That's absurd. The OP claims that TR was accused of coercing models into sleeping with him. TR was without question accused... the accusations are published everywhere.

As for the merit of the accusations... There is a litany of models who say that they felt coerced by him. If they felt coerced, then they were coerced. End of story. Maybe you feel they shouldn't have let themselves be coerced, but that doesn't change the fact that they were.
Bald eagles aren't pathogens, or vectors for disease. They generally stay out of our way.
yes, but the section isn't "prostitution". there are legit adult services in those sections as well.