skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for one it's free.

And storing it in a database lets you make your own reports and interact with the data any way you want, not just the way hoptoad lets you.
No it's not. This is only really useful if you want to use a computer's built-in speakers to play music that's located on your iPod.
I'm going to answer my own question: Finding a job isn't a problem for smart, technical people. Negotiating might be, but not finding work. In fact, they know they can find another job or even start a company if they have to, so the blogger's sentiments are irrelevant to the HN crowd.
An admittedly cursory comparison shows that Hoptoad isn't free. That could be reason enough right there.

(edit: beat to it!)
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Generalize much?

Get over yourself. Seriously, the entire concept of a generation is false. Generations are a sliding window.

I don't think the things she's talking about are specific to her 'generation'. Environmental consciousness? The US EPA started operation in 1970. I was actively pushing in the UK for things like recycling in the 1980s. Corporate responsibility? How about student boycotts of companies involved in South Africa under apartheid? And the list goes on.

So you think your generation is special. My father's generation grew up with the challenge of rebuilding Europe after the Second World War and seeing Britain's world influence decline, his father's generation fought a war against their own neighbors, his father's generation did the same thing.

Oh, so you've got all this caring about others consciousness and are sad because corporate America can guarantee you a gold watch at 55? My heart bleeds for you.

"But, there’s one really great thing about coming of age in America in an era when things are generally thought to be pretty bad: It forces an early decision about what’s important in life"

Wow, you think you're the first generation to ask themselves what's important in life at a 'young' age. Excuse my while I go John McEnroe (you'll have to Google him youngster): "You cannot be serious"
The angst expressed in this article is real. These are not just the emo writings of a depressed kid. This is the backlash of the children of the baby boomers against their parents, who grew up during the 60s, espoused free love, peace, and other hippy pop culture platitudes, and yet, became the worst generation, squandering all of the greatest generation's (grandparents) hard won treasure and resources, outsourcing their kids futures to Asia so they could have cheaper electronics. Squandering their national treasure and good standing in the world, that the grandparents fought so hard to win in WW2, so they could fight pointless wars and get enough cheap energy to drive unsustainable land yachts to their unsustainable McMansions in the burbclaves.

There are a lot of reasons that the current generation has to be angry with their parents. They've destroyed the economy, the jobs market, and are well on their way to destroying the planet. They'll retire in the next decade supported by a ponzi scheme (social security) on the backs of their children. The world is less safe, less secure, and more violent because of them.

I can't help but look at Japan in the 90s and think that we are in for a repeat of that. An aging workforce, being constantly downsized and outsourced. No new jobs for college graduates, so they must live with their parents until their 30s or 40s. Property deflation over decades because their parents refused to acknowledge the losses on their overpriced houses. The parallels between Japan in the 90s and US in the 2010s are eerily similar. Study their culture to see what is next.

I don't know what the answer is, but I can tell you that if the younger generations don't get involved in politics, the world will be destroyed by the older generations before we get a chance to truly participate.
Language acquisition is scrappy. Immersion, cinema, osmosis, books, tapes, Wikipedia, supermarkets, recipes on soup cans, ATM interfaces, ingredient lists, the street - whatever works.

This extension probably works best for those with some degree of acquaintance with the target language, if only for the errors you spot.
Any chance to take a look at it?
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Great advice, although it could just as easily have been titled "Staying Healthy and Sane Under Emotional Stress".
I suspect they're thinking that apps are just apps and that games for the phone are good for the telly.

But without details, we just don't know. I'd rather see segmentation and cross-over of apps by device. A twitter TV app as I've described is silly on the phone, and a real time navigation app doesn't make the greatest sense on the TV (unless someone wants to do a fly-by of a potential holiday destination using street view).
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The problem with doing this, which I have seen before on other app stores, is that making something free and then charging for it makes your app look much more valuable than it actually is.

For example, if you release a free iPhone application, and it gets downloaded a million times, with 50000 reviews, and then you make it cost $0.99, won't people think the app is some amazing app that millions of people have bought, so then you're more likely to buy it? There's no true indication that the app was free initially, so you don't really know.
Indeed. For all the fucking geniuses at Google they sure do phone it in a lot. I don't often agree with MG Seigler, but he's right that Android is succeeding in spite of Google.

Christ, Google, an entire ecosystem of web sites exist that serve solely to provide a web interface and searching for your own marketplace. Bizarre.
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You joined the military and had a much lower chance of being injured or killed than the person of your parent's generation who was forced to join the military whether they wanted to or not?

I have no idea what you're talking about here. 25-35 years ago there were virtually no wars, there was a near zero chance of getting killed in the military.
Whereas now, there are very reasonable chances for soldiers to get shipped to fight "terror" and get injured.
I can heartily recommend the book The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0136106811/

It's pretty expensive as far as books go, but very much worth it. It not only explains how to set a price, but also how to set different prices across segments, how to calculate/estimate value your product is worth to your customers, how to price differently over time (honoring the changing business cycle) and how to react to competition (a very short summary: add value, target more segments, don't go into a price war and instead force the others out of it by restructuring your offer or by adding "threats" ("we'll match the best price" etc.)).
There's a lot more to it than that in a secure, locked down govt department.
Did your blood test have high cholesterol or something?

I had full health work-up last year and everything came back better than ideal. And I get sick very, very rarely. I eat well; I just don't move around much.
Exactly the takeaway I got from that entry. It seemed like a really cheap, vacuous way of trying to get the last word while pretending not to get the last word.
Vietnam ring a bell?
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True enough, but it's not rocket science to use separate counter/review tables for each mode. If the app is free, show the free download counter and reviews; and so on.

While we're requesting Android enhancements - how about we let the developer select the return policy. 24 hour return works great for utilities and day-to-day apps, but is really hurting the cheap game market.
To be fair:

If he were capable of leading one giant tech company, he is a candidate to run another.

HP stock went up something like 130% the first couple years he was there, and tracked better than the nasdaq for the rest of his time there.

If Oracle feels like he has learned his lesson or if someone there (Larry) thinks he can make it clear that certain things can't be brought along to the new job (excessive spending, harassment), then he could be an excellent candidate, completely separate from any trade secrets.

I'm not saying what he might know doesn't play a role in the hire, but your post seems to indicate there is no way it could be considered a merit-based only, and I'm not sure that is the case.
So... no Components Off The Shelf for them.

Does anyone use COTS anymore, or are the a Failed Dream? Fred Brooks favoured them...

Although, I have seen Service Components [Architecture] (SCA) - where you assemble an app by integrating web-services in the cloud. eg. IBM acquired Cast Iron Systems 4 months ago. And with everything having an API, mashups, and tools like Yahoo pipes, maybe the 10's version of COTS is already here?
FYI for folks developing in both Rails 2 & 3
It seems that http://guides.rubyonrails.com still has the Rails guides for Rails 2 while http://guides.rubyonrails.org has the guides for Rails 3
I predict few responses to this particular peasant.
I was responding specifically to the parent's assertion that "most people are at least somewhat dehydrated a large majority of the time."

I consider that statement equivalent to asserting "widespread dehydration" of the nation's populace. So I stand by the material I quoted.

> People do get dehydrated.

Of course they do, just like they get hungry when they don't eat. But we're discussing drinking water in excess of thirst. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by your last paragraph. The discussion here is about health primarily in the first world, not about the hydration problems in many developing countries.
Larry Ellison is an amazingly unprofessional titan of industry. He seems to have no bounds or restraints on how he uses his shareholder's company for his own personal missions.

Really, threatening the entire HP relationship because you want to hire a friend against all logical advice?

Absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented.
And who is looking for "power" in a tablet? The current hardware and software is entirely powerful enough to serve any mainstream use case and Apple has pretty much established that what people want is a satisfying and seamless experience over power and features.
This is just my opinion, but I don't see a price difference between $4 and $8. The biggest challenge is getting me to pay. If it is worth paying for then whether I am going to pay $4, $8 or $10 a month is pretty irrelevant to me. Making me put my hand in my pocket is the hard part. I always think $9.95 sounds like a good price for something on a monthly basis ($100 if you pay upfront for a year also sounds OK).

I'd start high and lower the price (A/B price testing?) as needed.
A close friend of mine recently graduated from college. She was quickly offered a couple of programming jobs, but turned them down. After a while, she altogether stopped applying for any programming jobs. Finally, after one year of searching, she found a (non-programming) consulting job that she jumped onto. When I asked her why she avoided programming so much, she said that spending 8+ hours a day interacting with just a computer was close to her personal idea of hell. She likes to interact with people, meet new people etc.

Now granted this is just one data point. But, for me at least, it opens the door to a different hypothesis:

1. Women have a significantly different nature of the work / salary trade-off from men.
2. Reduced interaction with people is a put-off for women.
3. Thus, only half of society is really willing to do the geekiest tech-sector jobs, which puts a premium on the salaries for those jobs.
However, a simple search can pick up the metadata and find the bands you want. Still not as eay as MTP.
I would comment but this guy appears to tick all the boxes in my new checklist I just found on the web: (1) Ignorant, (2) Tribal, (3) Has no power, (4) has a strong opinion, and (5) refuses to consider alternative opinions or change their mind, which means there's no point in bothering.
My only comment on that is partially based on personal experience, and anecdotal evidence from end-users of some products I've developed for my own clients.

Many, many, many years ago now I wrote one of the very early GUI HTML editors while still a junior in high school. This predates Frontpage, Homesite, and most commercial offerings from the major players so it was relatively successful in terms of market share. It was shareware though, and fully functional apart from the occasional annoying popup. A payment of $5 would remove the popups. Over the course of a year I increased the price from $5 to $10, and then to $15 dollars.

I can't remember the exact numbers, the the downloads per month were still in the thousands but the number of people that had paid for the product since I released it I could still count on one hand. That didn't bother me too much as I built it for myself primarily, anything else I deemed a bonus.

Then one day I decided to up the price to $99, I figured zero people at $99 was just as profitable as zero people at $15. The next day I woke to find I'd had at least 10 orders overnight, and the trend continued for quite a few months until the product started to noticeably lag the new offerings from Microsoft and Co.

It was a very early and valuable lesson, the price you put on a product signals to your potential customer how valuable you think it is.

One of my most recent client sells a SaaS product that allows people to do market research. It's not the cheapest in the market, but by no means expensive. A large part of their customer base are consultant types who use the tool for when doing work for their own clients. Many of them lament the fact that there wasn't an "Enterprise" edition of the tool. No requirements for additional features, it already meets their requirements, they just don't want their clients thinking they can have access to the same tools for $100/month.

For slightly different reasons, it was price guiding the perceived value of the offering.

Just something worth considering. Obviously without knowing the product it's hard to say what value I'd prescribe to it on a monthly basis.
Accessing it from my iPhone and I don't see a link to register. Is that just for the mobile version of the site?
Not sure what you mean here; the autoconf analogy came from the grandparent.

If you are under the impression that an intermediate expanded file is produced, then you misunderstand how Lisp macros work.
I only have anecdotal data, but in my experience most women getting a math degree are doing so with the goal of being a math teacher. Also, if you break physical sciences down by field, just under half of women in physical science are in biology (vs one quarter of men).

Here is a possibility: women got into CS in the 80's and 90's for the money. Now that CS is not a path to quick dotcom riches, the women (and men) who were chasing the money have gone back to business.

As for astronomy, there were 276 astronomy majors nationwide. I think if you pick one of the smallest fields and draw conclusions from it, you should at least admit you are cherrypicking.
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Maybe, but there was the ongoing Cold War - which got very close to going very hot indeed in '83:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
> In the DAG-based systems, branching is done at the level of a repository. You cannot branch and merge subdirectories of a repository independently: you cannot create a commit that only partially merges two parent commits.

Please inform me, how can you ever possibly create a commit that is a "partial merge" from two parent commits? At some point, you had to explicitly choose what you wanted to merge or not merge, and you can do exactly that in Git, and I would certainly assume that you could do that in Mercurial and Bazaar too. Or am I missing something?
Yes, for now you need to go to the desktop version to register and add goals. Once you've done it, you may continue use it on your iPhone.
He should add "Improve English" to his list of challenges.
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Let's see how long will it take for major AV to provide protection.
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I disagree. What companies consider smart and technical is up for debate.
Booze, nope - checking my code in the morning makes me want to cry because it's so bad.

Weed, yep - checking my code in the morning makes me want to weep with joy, because there's so much of it and it's so cleverly done compared to my usual fare. The only problem with it is that I never comment or use descriptive variable names... so it can be a bit tricky to get my head around at first. It's basically done by a much better programmer than me, but one who doesn't realise the importance of clarity of intent.
One thing I've noticed with Agile projects at $work is that the processes better suit a "contractor" mindset, than a "fulltime employee" one. NOTE: I'm a fulltime employee, so view things from that mindset.

As a contractor (in theory), you're bought in to do a specific job, and then you leave - get done, get paid, get gone. This works well with Agile, where you can devote your entire attention to the project, and not get caught up in other things.

However, fulltime developers will find it more difficult to devote all their time to a project, as they're likely to still be maintaining some of their previous projects as well. In smaller organisations, you often end up being the go-to person for part of the system, and the rest of the business may struggle with these people being out of reach for weeks or months.

Another factor is that contractors have less reason to care about existing code and its design principles when designing and implementing a new project, and well as less reason to care about the maintainability of it. This leads to the software platform having a melange of different styles, further complicating the lives of those who have to support it later on.

To me, Agile just seems like contractor culture converted to religion.
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> Absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented.

Hardly surprising coming from Ellison. He has always been one of the most entertaining CEOs in this industry. I liked Scott McNeally better, but, sadly, his company became part of Oracle... Ballmer is entertaining too, but only in an embarrassing way.

When Oracle acquired Sun they became direct competitors with IBM and HP. Bot IBM and HP's Unix offerings seem targeted towards legacy customers that are looking into alternatives to migrate to, even if it's Solaris on SPARC. It makes sense to hire Hurd and it makes less sense not to hire him in order to preserve your relationship with your competitor. What's HP going to do? Help Oracle on HP/UX users move to MySQL? To Windows and SQL Server? IBM, at least, can help Oracle users migrate to DB2, but HP is completely toothless.
Not knowing what the product is, you should charge 19.99$/m.

6$/m is too low for almost all products, you won't be able to effectively acquire customers with that. Remember, once someone gets to the point where they pull out their credit card, the difference between 6$ and 9.99 or even 19.99/m is almost negligable (although there is a difference between 9.99 and 19.99, although2 mostly you'll do better with 19.99).

Charge 19.99/month. It will give you breathing room to put Google ads, to pay referral fees (what's the word?), to experiment with temporary lower prices etc. If you charge 6$/m, you're stuck with a too low price and no breathing room whatsoever to acquire customers. Many startuppers underestimate the cost of acquiring customers - you don't just get them for free, most of the time.

ps: in most cases (unless you sell hosting or something, and even then) the price of the service has NO relation to the cost of the infrastructure and the expected number of customers. It is instead related mostly to the cost of acquiring new customers, which is likely going to be somewhere between 20 and 80$ per customer.

If it costs you, say, 40$ to acquire a paying customer, and they stay an average of 3 months, you need to charge X/month to be making money.

At the same time, there are psychological limits on what people are willing to pay. 9.99, 19.99, 39.99, 79.99 etc. Charge 8.99, for example, and you might as well charge 9.99, since you'll get exactly the same amount of customers (probably).

Seriously. Charge 19.99$/m.

Once you experiment (later) with lower prices, you'll likely see it makes no difference in conversion.

Charge 19.99$/m.
It worked before, the only change is that now you don't have to set the iPod to Manual Sync. It's not a huge deal but it is much more convenient because after enabling manual sync on one computer the iPod would default to manual sync on all computers and you would have to individually reset it to sync music, movies, tv shows, podcasts, and pictures. It can get to be a pain, especially if it's somthing your doing every day.
While not a solution to the insecurity of the site you refer, you really should check out Password Gorilla (http://wiki.github.com/zdia/gorilla/). Using it you don't need to remember different site passwords, and you never have to use the same password twice.
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The example "peasant comment" is an informal definition of when a person should consider themselves a socialist, made in response to the blog author's comment about the definition of "Socialism" (in context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653525). If you actually read it, he's simply saying "if you have this reaction to this tshirt, you're probably a socialist of some sort", which is probably true.

There is nothing in the comment that should inspire such a mean-spirited ad hominem attack.
I've never seen the whole quote; that does make a lot more sense than the fragment we usually see.