skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean a self-prepared meal for $5? If you want to go out, $5 will buy you a Döner or Currywurst.
You're welcome :)

There is one downside with RentACoder though, and that's that you won't win any jobs without having first complete a couple successfully. It's not the end of the world - find quick and easy tasks, explain that you're looking to build up your rating, and offer to do them for $3. It does mean that you'll lose a day or two of income though. Once you have a couple of ratings though, the only way is up! :)
Are you focusing on some niche or just a broad advertising network? If you are just niche-ing, just google and browse similar content as the one you found, then check its stats. It can be slow, but it will be a sure fire way to pick the best.

Cheers,

Ruben
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How about you? :)
You asked How else would you construct an objective test? And my answer is, just make sure you're being fair in measuring the same thing the encoders are optimising for.
Looks nice, but it's still in Chicago - no thanks :-)
Congratulations to Jason Fried & David Hansson for new good looking office.
In the UK we borrowed money against our property (as house prices had inflated) in order to set up our business. We had no money of our own (£300 or so), just overdrafts to live on and were refused unemployment benefit. It was 2 months or so before we were going to be able to open our studio (building works, planning permissions, etc.) and neither of us was employed by the company into which the money had been vested (as director's loan).

Hard times!

90% of UK businesses fold in the first year, I can see why.

Basically the message was, sit and do nothing and we'll give you a house and pay you unemployment (until your payed in years of NIC have run out at least). Start a business on credit and we'll let you starve.
I think the "loose and flexible" aspect is why so many people think it's a joke. For the longest time, the only Javascript I learned was from online tutorials, and 90% of those were complete and utter crud, showing different ways of doing the same thing that were still acceptable because of how accommodating Javascript is with syntax errors. Because of the fact that no two tutorials were the same, I never wanted to touch Javascript.

Later I picked up an O'Reilly book about "the good bits" of Javascript and enjoyed it immensely, but the amount of parseable cruft out there doesn't help up-and-coming JS coders in the slightest.
If the book contains no ideas next month I hardly can remember about what it was.

If author of the book actually bothered to put some ideas in then I remember those ideas and usually the book in which I encountered them for many years. vide Iain M. Banks "Use of weapons", Orson Scott Cars "Ender's Game", Vernor Vinge "Fire upon the deep" or Henry Kuttner novels, Terry Pratchett "Nation"

If you don't remember the books you've read then change the books you are reading to some that have actual content not just crafty words.
I only used Wesabe because I'm from Australia and Mint doesn't support my bank, the Firefox uploader was great (a bit more control over access to your bank account, sort of) but the actual website wasn't useful enough for me to keep using it. Would love to see what Mint is like.
Worrying about your market is how you know what to code.

You're absolutely right, Ryan, in theory all the time and in practice most of the time. But there are exceptions...

OP is an exception. When it came to understanding his market and satisfying their needs he did so many things right and still got his ass kicked. By someone who "dumbed it down".

I can't tell you how many times I've beaten enterprisey competitors with teams of marketing and domain experts because the customer understood my simple offering over their complex one.

I really hate that old Henry Ford quote, "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'faster horses,'" but there's a grain of truth in it. At some point, you just gotta stop asking everyone what they think, say "fuck it", build what you think is right, get it out there, and find out for real. I believe I'm at that point, that's all. Whether others think they're also at that point is for them to decide for themselves.
We still have lots of the original XenSource team at Citrix.
Page not coming up for me, but over at http://lwn.net/Articles/407884/#Comments there was a link to another less-than-thrilled appreciation: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=541
(by Jason Garrett-Glaser, aka Dark Shikari, x264 Developer)
That was in response to the complaint that the post looked at images of the same size and compared their quality, rather than looking at images of the same quality and comparing their size. If you know of a practical way to objectively do the latter, please share.
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The "money quote" from Hedlund's post (which, imo, answers your question):

A domain name doesn't win you a market; launching second or fifth or tenth doesn't lose you a market. You can't blame your competitors or your board or the lack of or excess of investment. Focus on what really matters: making users happy with your product as quickly as you can, and helping them as much as you can after that. If you do those better than anyone else out there you'll win.
Yeah but I think its a mistake to try to distinguish between aesthetics and user experience when its being done as a single discipline.
You wouldn't happen to know the name of the thread or have a link would you?
Looks amazing, just watch out for the "curse of a new building".

http://steveblank.com/2009/05/15/supermac-war-story-11-the-c...
(This is Marc, the author of the linked post.)

You're right, I both credited and dismissed a very large category with the word "design." In my view some people believe that it was just the visual appeal of Mint's site that did us in. In my view that helped them but not enough to kill us. I do think that we spent our usability effort (as I say in the post) in the wrong place, making editing, for instance, easy, instead of making editing totally optional.
You're conflating design with UI and UX.

I think the point was that being prettier alone wouldn't have won Mint the war, but being way more usable totally did. If you stripped the pretty colors, backgrounds and images from both products, the user experience for Mint is still miles better than Wesabe's was, and that is the difference.
> Your point of view: social ways to deal with incompatibility are superior to to technical ways to deal with incompatibility because the latter encourages developers to be lazy about compatibility guarantees.

Not quite. Social ways to deal with incompatibility are superior to the specific technical way that rubygems encourages.

> Although it doesn't happen often, an app can break due to reliance on library bugs or unformalized/undocumented behavior/internals. Sometimes a newer version of a library has a regression that isn't found until it's released.

> Yes we all know things like these ideally shouldn't happen, but they do. Is it a good idea to ignore the reality that things like this happen from time to time?

I'm not ignoring that reality at all. I'm specifically encouraging point releases with backported bug-fixes. These happen all the time in dpkg-land.

> According to the logic that supports your point of view, we should abolish protected memory as well.

Extrapolation to extremes will destroy any rational argument, so I'll ignore this.

> 2. It assumes that DPKG/RPM don't make life hellish for sysadmin and end users.
> For the most part, DPKG/RPM works fine. For Ruby stuff, not so much.

That would be the point. I'd also point out that it's not just a question of dpkg vs rubygems here. From a sysadmin's point of view, it's dpkg vs (rubygems + CPAN + PEAR + cabal + virtualenv/pip + maven + ...).

> Suppose there's an app called frobnicator, and it works on foobar 1.0.x but not on foobar 1.2.x. Thanks to the fact that DPKG/RPM only supports installation of single versions, your distro can only package foobar 1.2.x but not 1.0.x. Now the user cannot use frobnicator at all because you insist on DPKG/RPM.

That specific case isn't a problem, because you'd just package foobar 1.0.x and ignore 1.2.x completely. The problem comes when something else comes along that depends on 1.2.x but won't work on 1.0.x at all. That would be a case of either foobar's author not following version numbering convention, or a bug which can/should be patched.

> How exactly is this better for the end user?

If it's not, foobar's author is responsible. However, for the distro to be able to turn around and say "We value stability over all else, and we cannot provide this combination of packages while supporting a stable system, so we're not going to" is actually fairly awesome.
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Incredible! This is a perfect example of the power of collaboration. Thanks for the post.
I talked about both of these needs in a post in 2006, when I was wrestling with exactly these issues:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial-pr...
You could play it on tvtropes, too.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1546650
"The right to make limited use of the work" is different from publishing rights. This technology wasn't in common use when I went to school, but it seems really easy for the school to slip in something granting them the right to upload this to TurnMeIn into one agreement you sign or another.

For that matter, it's not entirely clear to me what the copyright issues are around work you do for your university. I mean you're already handing it over to the Professor with the exception that he'll do some things with it. Can he hand it out to future classes as an example of the kind of thing he's looking for? (This seems common.) Can he bundle it with other papers and use it as a textbook in future classes? (This seems uncommon.) I do think it is
common for schools to at least co-own the publishing rights to a Doctoral thesis. (And in fairness, if your advisers are doing a good job, they may have a legitimate claim to that.)

It certainly seems like in the sciences graduate students are frequently complaining about professors taking undue credit for the student's research. Is a paper different than that? How much of your work for a university falls under some sort limited "work-for-hire" style agreement?
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Though you could just bundle your program up with the interpreter and all the libraries to make this work. No translation to binary necessary.
Agreed, but I think the best evidence of large sponsorship is in that factory system recognition and parameter modification code. We don't really understand the sophistication until it actually chooses to execute, but access to those kind of specifications would require some fairly extensive research resources, someone that an individual or small team would have trouble getting alone.
I sense a bitterness in the force.

I've internally rolled my eyes are the enthusiasm of an entrepreneur's pitch for their product before--- but who the heck am I to shoot them down? I salute that they are doing something they're passionate about.
It's like informercial spam but for getting engagement, people love to do surveys don't they ...

The site "videojug pages" appears to be across between a wiki and a maker site like Instructables or makezine or what have you.
Ok, Spolsky.
Couldn't you construct such a license?
I agree with you that the concept of Facebook had boundless potential, but the author has a point in that what it amounts to right now is an echo chamber of inanity. Sadly, I don't think Facebook itself can recover from this.

Most world-changing information technologies go through a very long life cycle. Somewhere in the middle during mass usage, commercialization takes over and the technology is slowly strangulated by advertising until it's eclipsed by the "next big thing". It's slowly happening to radio, TV, newspapers, books, newsgroups, etc.

Unfortunately, somehow massive social networks have skipped years of usefulness and have jumped straight to the end where they're 80% advertising and dreck. This is how I feel about Facebook. Every time I use it, it's a chore to mentally filter out all the noise about who likes what or what fucking digital gewgaw someone is trying to ply me with. Sadly, I can't see Facebook recovering from this pathetic state of chirping triviality. I yearn the day some real competitors get in there and can apply the social networking concept to my life in a productive way.
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It's not just businesses though - at the end of the day, it reverts back to a game theory type question.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I wonder how Yelp feels right now. Google/Yahoo are probably out now - who does that leave for a potential big exit? Microsoft? Amazon? Facebook?

Yelp is an interesting business, but not a "change the world" type business - at least not on its own, with its current revenue model. What if nothing else pans out, the founder's stakes get further and further diluted, and they end up with nothing? Are they going to end up kicking themselves? Even Friendster had an offer from Google to be acquired...

Yahoo has a notorious track record of poor acquisitions, to be sure: Flikr, Delicious, etc. I'm sure that's what Yelp was worried about - but Google hasn't done that much better either. A lot of Google's acquisitions have languished after being acquired. I wonder if there is still turmoil within Yelp management after this whole episode.
I'd say the same thing about New York. Places matter a lot to me, and I couldn't handle living and working somewhere that far from the mountains, and with that kind of climate, no matter how nice the office is.
No, another way of saying 'lacking gusto or spirit'.

This guy might be the bee's knees, but his marketing sucks. The title of the page is "Pay the Bills" FFS! I'm not interested in paying his bills or his fancy pricing scheme. I'm not interested in finding out his talents, if explains he "lives near some parks and trees" before listing any real accomplishments. It practically comes over as arrogant, and I'm amazed he's got any work through this at all.
Most registrars give you a $50 facebook coupon when you buy a domain name.
"RubyForge Could Not Connect to Database:"

Too ambitious, perhaps?
Corrected Title:

(HowTo (In (Write LispInterpreter) Python))

[if the title actually was LISP syntax, everybody would be programming in LISP today]
Seen latest developments - nice job.
Agreed. I read that story when it was on Reddit and it was probably the best thing I've read this month, along with this one.
"I think it might partly be the advantage of having an easy to parse language with well defined semantics."

Either that or the combination of a popular language and poor performance
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I never understood this mentality. Why do all the "Cool" companies have to live on the coast? It bothers me that I have to live 2000 miles away from my family if I want a great job. The Midwest has many appealing features.
Okay, I'm just going to go ahead and say it then...

“Perjury” , “Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”, “Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine”. Anyone else notice how ponderously "literary" these books are? Is that how the author's choices run?

Because frankly, they all sound really, really boring. Perhaps it's a case of the author picking things to read because they think they "should" be reading them, instead of reading what they actually want or would enjoy reading. I know, I know, YMMV, but it seems to me like a lot of this is rationalizing the author's choice of "weighty" material.

I notice all the comments on here by people who are baffled by the idea of forgetting what one reads cite books that are more mainstream, less "important" and "literary", and more accessible - and probably enjoyable.

tl;dr the author may be forgetting what he reads because he picks boring reading material
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seems like their mistake was ignoring yodlee and trying to make their own stuff...which lost them a lot of traction.

had they launched with yodlee, Mint would have been nothing more but a "better designed wesabe"

seems to me like they should have spent the cash to subscribe to yodlee, and then spent their effort building their own version like they ended up doing.
Great textures going on. Like the space a lot.
I think it would be a little more impressive if the time was correct when viewed. Otherwise, nice job.
I understand it perfectly well, yes. I also understand that people like to buy ranges of IP addresses. This much space makes it not only easy, they can sell large ranges nearly indefinitely. Sell + indefinitely = yes, from their viewpoint.
There are some very strict requirements, but yes, it can be a reason for termination. The requirements are things like future prognosis of the employee's health, and undoubted negative impact on the economic situaion of the employer because of the illness.
If you can "prototype" an app in HTML/CSS for an iPad it makes me wonder why one would rewrite it in Objective-C in the first place.
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I'm not really buying this. You're making a lot of assumptions. That Iran is the target, that the number is a date, that the date refers to that particular event, etc.

The link between the word "Myrtus" and the Old Testament seems really strained. It's the name of a plant. It features prominently in Greek mythology -- maybe the Greeks did it?
Sorry, but if that site is anything to go by I don't think I would be asking you to help design a web site.
I've seen this link of inventionland offices today: http://www.officesnapshots.com/2010/09/29/inventionland-offi... - looks even better than pixar's animators booths.
> "He was an atheist and I'm a very profound practicing Catholic, and I'd never met an atheist," Belle says. "And that just blew my mind that somebody could not believe in the Lord."

I guess she doesn't believe in the existence of, say, India or China or Japan either?
OK. But isn't there a clause, that when you already knew when you hired the guy, that you can't fire him? (Or was it the other way around, and you were barred from knowing when hiring? It's all complicated.)
Its true, the nooglers I know went to several interviews over the course of several weeks. However don't forget about that guy who caused a cascade of google instant ripoffs when he created youtube instant, then subsequently offered a job by the you tube CEO.
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I live over 9000km from my family because I wound up somewhere I liked. It's not on the coast and it has nothing to do with companies. Everyone has different priorities, I'm just expressing mine.

BTW, in the US, Boulder seems to have some 'cool' companies, and is pretty far from the coast itself.
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Does anyone know of a good iPad mockup toolkit for fireworks? I have used the (excellent) toolkit for iPhone built by Metaspark extensively but can't seem to find an equivalent for iPad.
Because they only sold the securities after the guarantee agreement was over:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100930/bs_nm/us_usa_citigroup_t...

> In a statement, the Treasury said it sold all of the trust preferred securities that it received in exchange for guaranteeing a pool of about $301 billion in Citigroup assets. The Treasury never made any payouts on the guarantee, which has been canceled.
Someone should do a webgl game that doesn't crash the experimental builds that support it.
Why wouldn't you just use Cython? it has good numpy integration as well as being quite good for everything else?
My dream office would be a Swiss chalet at the foot of a mountain. Multiple giant roaring fireplaces going 24/7. Ski in ski out. Girls in Bavarian outfits serving Oktoberfest beer and food. Backbone Internet speeds. 27" iMacs all around with matte screens and SSD's. Treadmill desks. Weightroom, sauna, soaking tub, raquetball, basketball court, full time Swedish masseuse. Banksy tags outside. Old masters and some crazy art from some tag artist friends inside. A Newfoundland that hangs out. No conference rooms. Giant whiteboards that slide up and down like they had in college. Sound proof meditation room. Those Red leather chairs they use on stage at allthingsD. Aston Martin fleet. Ridiculous gun room. Huge bbq, smoker on the rooftop. Taco truck outside. Automated laundry service. Machine shop with 5 axis CNC machines and 3d printers.

I don't know where that came from... seams prudent.
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GCC has a runtime exception for exactly this reason.
As someone outside of the US, could you quickly explain to me this "Delaware thing"?
And they have real-world experiences and the volumes of data and the programming skills that are necessary to look for purchase patterns indicating fraud, too.
I wake up and now I have to look at server logs because of this. Way to go jjcm =(
I like my own design for my sites. But here are some other samples of client sites.

http://youthrunningseries.ca
http://ginettejewellerydesign.com
http://duncanhadleytriathlon.ca
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No, it shouldn't be. I never read any of the books that were required in school.
I guess I'm in the minority but that office doesn't look attractive to me at all.

It left a dark, cold and sterile impression on me...
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Maybe I'm just ignorant but I never even heard of Wesabe until this HN post. I've been an unhappy Mint user for years though (I still argue Mint is nowhere near as good as Microsoft Money was).

So if I'm representative of "average people", then lack of marketing may have been a folly too.
Better? How could you stay sane in that environment?
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The java JDK lockless queue is also compare and swap. I don't know the reasoning behind it though.
$75 + hopes & dreams.
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So it's basically a tool to apply some kind of GTD-like productivity system to your procrastination??
I looked at both Wesabe and Mint when trying to decide on a aggregation service. I ended up choosing Mint.

- Mint was easy to remember, and easy to spell. Wesabe was neither. I often typoed the name as "wasabi"

- Mint didn't make me do any real work. Wesabe made me do all the work.

- Mint felt private. Wesabe wanted me to work with "the crowd" of other users

- Mint was simple and beautiful. Wesabe looked rough around the edges

So I went with Mint.
We'd be better off without JavaScript embedded into Websites and PDF files. Granted, it adds functionality, but if you've ever tried to keep hundreds of Microsoft Windows PCs from being infected with malware, you'd understand. Things are simpler without it.
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Ask HN: Books on symbolism in real life?
We all know how authors use symbolism in books to say something about life in general. As someone learning marketing, I started thinking about how we interact with symbols in real life (meaning things that represent an idea). Obviously there are many - your country's flag, the Statue of Liberty, the Nike Swoosh. Does anyone know of further reading I can do on the subject?
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