skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the hell is it disrespectful? The guy has done all this work and put all of this content on the web for anyone to view FOR FREE!

I can watch it or if I don't like it, I can not watch it and it I have not lost a single thing other than a moment of my time.

In terms of quality I mean, what do you want? While watching and listening I can clearly understand what he has written and said and that's all that matters.

It seems many disagree with you and for that I'm glad, since it shows me that there at least some people on this planet that will value the substance of the message over how appealing it is presented.
Agree - along with Primer, which granted lacked any real special effects but is non-the-less an incredible film considering its (Primers) roughly 6k budget.

I quite enjoyed this flick, it has a sort of District-9 feel to it and the story was interesting and not entirely what I expected.
I've been using them for almost two months now & strongly recommend them. It is worth asking for someone with a technical background and then giving him/her some breathing space to get to know you.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ is worth a look!
MVP -- maybe, if that's what he wants. But I don't care if everybody disagrees with me. It's pedagogically broken.

This is a new instructional medium, with new rules and huge opportunities. My point: We can do a lot better.

I'm gonna stand over here and wait for some of the fanboy nonsense to die down. Sal's been around for a while and a LOT of people are new to him.

Let him do what he does best, and leave TED out of it.
By posting, upvoting and commenting on self-referential rhetorical questions on HN, apparently :-).
Yes, I'm working on a blog post describing how this works.

It won't go into a lot of detail, but it should be a good overview. The truth is that I still have lots of ideas on how to make it better, but it is also the case that for every 8 things tried maybe 1 works. It comes back to your point that part of the appeal of working on this class of problems is that it is somewhat hard. In general, I would prefer to work on things that have technical barriers to entry, rather than network effects.
I'm a PHP Dev, but to non-tech's i say Web Developer, they often come back with "Oh so you design websites?", to which i say no, since i cant design for shit.

I always explain it as, theres a pretty part of the website that everyone sees and the clever bit of the website that no one sees, i do the clever bit. Which usually satisfies their curiosity, since they then probably think its very boring, which i suppose it is to them.

Without fail though, pretty much everyone assumes i can fix their printer etc...
New users really have no idea that is the typical protocol on HN; I know it took me a week or two to notice things like that and then dig up the posting guidelines.

Might be worth having a quick FAQ show up when a user creates a new account to cover the basics like this.
While we're waiting, throw us a bone. Name any libs you're using.
I think it is implicit by the item not having an attached URL.
It's an undergrad text so it can't assume a great deal of mathematical maturity, hence everything takes longer.
the Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. We all create alter-egos that cover for our worst sins.
I took a Metaphors class with him. One of my more influential professors.
You could try selling it using something like this site:
http://flippa.com/
yes, that is sound logic. The data structure model is very important to me. I would like to create a framework that I can reuse, where data is modeled semantically. I can't believe there isn't such framework out there already.
I'm thinking TopicMaps. Java might be the top choice if going this way. Thanks for the idea.
I laud the initiative, but there is hardly any fluff in CLRS.
I went in 2008 and 2009, and I would say they were the two greatest events I've ever attended. The energy in the room is something you'll never encounter anywhere else on the planet.
Beautiful Twitpics from Space
Those are the most spectacular twitpics I’ve seen.
I understand this. I just smile when they make the comparison, after all at least they are caring enough to ask and listen.

- On a similar note, the word 'Hacker' on this forum, generally refers to someone who lives and breathes code. However, outside of this community many refer to the term 'Hacker' as being a malicious person.

Therefore, whenever I have mentioned the 'Hacker News' community to anyone in my profession they usually look at me as if I've just admitted to partaking in criminal activities. Perhaps it's just a British thing?
If anyone is in the Bay Area a day or two before Startup School, maybe we can do a pre Startup School meetup in San Francisco? That way the more introverted hackers will come to the event and see people they know.
Just be weary of massive checkins around North Beach and you'll be okay
I sit in a a beige cubicle at a computer, and I type. Mostly I write computer code. In the afternoon I drink a lot of coffee to keep me from nodding off. Sometimes I talk on the phone or answer e-mails, other times I train people to use the software that we make.

When I am asked at a party, I put more emphasis on what the software that I work on does than what I do at work.

Programmers are literally minded, we often assume that we must actually answer the questions that people ask us. This is not correct. When someone engages you in smalltalk, they are asking you to tell a story. It doesn't even have to be a true story... (although outright lying is probably ill advised.)

Giving a job title or generic description is painfully dull.
I can't agree on the web side(asp.net, sharepoint, web parts, etc) but on the desktop (.net, c#, wpf, silverlight, parallel programming) I can't found something similar and when somebody speaks about HTML5 replacing the desktop I can't find any sense (I can hold my bet for the next 4 years.) There are few people with strong experience in many technologies to have a good argument in favor of the WEB with RIA. I simple example: there are not strong graph libraries (like Tom Sawyer, Jung) in html/JavaScript except prefuse in Flash.
The bit that cracked me up:

> I finished the decoder and it can produce wav file output from an mp3. The good news is that is works, the bad news is that its 34 times to slow to play the audio runtime.

I think it's great to try learning something in a language that makes experimentation easy. Looking forward to see how he goes with the optimisation.
I'm going to need to revert to Mahalo as an example of content mills because it's easy for me illustrate. Demand is largely the same, just bigger and better then Mahalo.

Jason Calacanis (Mahalo's CEO) describes the site as a "trifecta of search" that includes: SERP's, answers and community. He's really on to something with this. While Mahalo has taken the low road to amass low quality SERP's and recently killed the community it built, the answers building block is truly the most important part of the content mill puzzle.

"We might want big, meaty content written with clever words and insightful conclusions, but the mass of the market wants little snackable boneless pieces that they don't have to work too hard to digest."

No one want's big, meaty content. Everyone wants to know the answer to the question they're looking for. Sometimes, that answer can be uncovered or explained with big meaty content, but the best content will answer the question that the user is searching for with as little "meat" as possible.

It's going to take content mills a while to get there, and a drastic user interface change will occur, but eventually I think that small pieces of information will exist. Similar to what happens when you type, "What time is it in Toronto" into Google, the search engine will simply return the exact answer that you're looking for. The answer might exist on Demand, it might exist on a small personal blog, however, the SE will have identified the answer to your question regardless of if you type in "How To Shave" or "Shaving Tips" or "Shaving 101".
>The conversation will turn immediately to other topics.

Maybe among other programmers who aren't much interested in lisp, but most people are more likely to ask "What's Lisp?"
How much money could you hope for from 6000 users through ads?
Crossword puzzles.
Congress Has Plans for an Internet Blacklist
The very fact that the words "dipshit $40m companies" were ever uttered with a straight face suggests to me that we all completely lost our fucking minds.

A $40m company is an amazing achievement for anyone and I can't imagine the level of neurosis and inferiority that would make you consider that a "dipshit" accomplishment. Building a billion-dollar company is a once in a generation thing in any industry, none of us should forget that.

People talk about "riding a wave" as if it's about being in the right place at the right time. Ask a surfer and you'll get the truth - riding a big wave is about getting up really early and paddling like a motherfucker all day into wave after wave, until eventually you get a big one. If you just sit there waiting for a big wave to come, you're just going to get drowned by it.

The whole economy has been a great big childish bubble for the last decade or more. It has burst, which is great. Credit is cheap, rents are cheap, labour is cheap, the incumbents are panicked and markets are restructuring. Pick a wave and paddle for it - by the time you can see that it's a big one, you'll have missed it.
Trefethen and Bau is a good numerical linear algebra text, a fair bit of statistics can be understood in the linear algebra setting and this book helps teach how to think about linear algebra in a very useful way. I don't have a great reference, but stochastic PDEs is definitely a hot topic and promises to remain as such for a long time.
Google honour robots.txt.
You can seamlessly integrate Valgrind into Eclipse. I've been doing it for the last few years.
Perhaps localize the name to "Boffin News"?
wonder how long it'll be before he gets sued into oblivion, he should have made it a Facebook app, then he might have had a chance
And I'll create a service for users of Wheretheladies.at that shows them both where the ladies currently are and where CreeperAvoider is sending the ladies so that they can try to stay ahead of the curve and get places right as the ladies are migrating there :)
Github. Momentum is key here. If you don't pick a project you are interested in and keep at it, coding for fun won't actually be fun; it will feel overwhelming and boring. But on a Sunday evening it's a great feeling to just hammer out an incremental change to a library you own and push it to the world. :)
That's just it, you could define it however you want, but as soon as you do, the whole conversation falls apart. If you define all panics as asset bubbles, then pretty soon you need a new term to mean what "asset bubble" used to mean. I think a lot of these conversations fall apart over semantics. So I tried to use the phrase asset bubble in something like the sense that the article above seems to.
At Mandalorian (http://www.mandalorian.com/) we have a bunch of positions open at the moment. We're based in Reading, UK but some of the roles are home based with occasional office days. Expect to go through some form of government clearance regardless of the role, and sadly the pen test and anti-malware roles are available to UK nationals only for security reasons:

1. We need a Sales Executive to work with our growing team selling information assurance consultancy services and helping to launch a brand new service in the advanced antimalware space.

2. We need a penetration tester with CHECK, Tigerscheme or CREST certification equivalent to CTL to join our pentest team, with opportunity to cross over into...

3. Anti-malware analyst and investigator. Using advanced network and memory forensics tools and techniques, you'll be reverse engineering malicious and non-malicious code and tracking and eliminating threats from the conventional to potentially state sponsored targeted attacks.

4. Python/Django developer to work on some internal projects relating to security testing and malware.
Sir, can you help me with this?
I thought most hackers spend their free time hacking ;-)

I'm watching baseball today however Go Giants!
When many database systems or language implementations rely on os cache, scheduling, threading and eventing implementations among other things then yes, the os matters.
Bracelets Can Go Viral Too
I used Visual Studio for a very long time, and I think you're overrating it. The developer tools on Linux are just as powerful but they are different from what you'd use in a Windows environment. Sometimes people confuse difference for inferiority.
Believe it or not, but I lived without phone and TV for a few years now, it's great :) I'm giving Google AppEngine a serious try. Otherwise I'll have to look for a Java Web framework, the problem is that there are too many out there.
thanks for the advice!
I think we are in agreement that government has the power to stop bubbles with regulation, if it wants to.

As I wrote above: "Of course, one might argue that we want bubbles, that such freedom of investment has positive consequences, or that heavy-handed government, while creating some benefits, also imposes large costs that outweigh whatever benefits are being offered. But that would be a separate issue."
Going outside. Reading a book. After reading for a while, I either have the desire to do something, like hang out with friends, or I have an idea, and I go research it and iterate on it.
I just realized it's weekend already
Distros and Test Suites
I agree with the substantive thrust of this comment, but disagree with elitism being a necessary prerequisite for it being true.

For one thing, you may be under the impression that you -- the broad "you", HN users in general -- read on the Internet. You don't. You are a paragraph-skimming button-clicking satisficing ADHD squirrel like everyone else is. Your behavior is trivially influenced by A/B tests, and you lack sufficient insight to notice it. You click on shiny buttons. You do what calls to action tell you to do, and are exquisitely sensitive to their wording. You respond to advertising. You probably don't eat chicken McNuggets, because you think only poor people eat chicken McNuggets, and you don't even remember why you think that.
This medium now allows for both: excellent production and clear presentation. If it's presented well the first time, it will always be presented well.

The problem with production in the 80's and 90's was time and cost. High cost and long production time guaranteed the problems you point out.

But the cost of high-quality production today is so low as to be non-existent. Production time is still a factor -- as it is in software development.

Sal chose quantity over visual quality and hit the long ball. But c'mon, a Blue Snowball USB microphone is only $99 and produces crystal-clear audio.
Well, the problem here is that there are two types of people you'll make smalltalk with—those who you will eventually form a working relationship with (1%), and those you won't—and the two groups have separate "best solutions," but are hard to differentiate beforehand.

You can outright lie to the 99%, if you think that will help—but whatever you tell the 1%, they'll go on believing when you work with them.
I build jobs to pull stuff out of databases, transform it, then dump it in others. Also I deal with a kinda slow, proprietary GUI tool with a little bit of immediate power, followed by a deeper lack of ability to make changes to the 'visual code' in batch, amongst other complaints. I'd rather be in vim...

Short answer: "I'm in IT"
The author was making some sense until he held Tesla up as an example of not giving up. Using the government to raise further capital from others against their will is hardly a good example.
What do you do when you meet someone who preempts you with the same approach?
Max, when I strike it rich I will offer a scholarship in your name: Max Klein Endowment for Pedestrian Research.

That idea is just perfect. You can use histories of people and events to deliver great insight. That's why "comparative biography" type articles are popular in management: "What Napoleon and Lady Gaga have in common", etc. It's because these articles attempt to teach fairly abstract notions about organizations, change, movement and relationships to a fairly non-critical audience that only thinks in the concrete, and lives in the now.
Innocuous News!

(see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575815)
So basically:

1. Redis in memory data structures have poor locality, which hurts a lot when a "cache miss" means going to disk.

2. Redis in memory data structures take up to 10x as much space as the on disk structures, so writing them to disk verbatim wastes a lot of bandwidth.

So apparently using memory mapped files wouldn't work for Redis. But what if you used data structures that do have good locality and are optimized for space usage? Has this been tried? I think it is an interesting approach and has the potential to outperform Redis' approach, especially for bigger databases. If your data structures use say 2x as much space as Redis' on disk structures, then you would still be able to fit much more data in memory than Redis because you don't lose half your memory as described in the OP, plus the data structures are more compact.
This is good advice, however most prices on flippa are a multiple of existing profit ~ 12-24x monthly profit.

I would suggest potentially growing the market for the product. I've made a similar thing before when the youtube api first came out, but not quite as polished. I like the concept, but you could take it further.

You only have to look at youtube doubler to see how popular some of these sites can get.
I wonder why this was down voted?

Does someone think the socialization of risk was a factor in the tulip mania that gripped Holland in the 1630s?

Or that asset bubbles are rare unless the government gets involved?

What, exactly did someone disagree with?
Programming isn't about knowing syntax, it's about understanding abstraction. Some people can solve FizzBuzz, some people can't. If you can't abstract then you can't program, regardless of the tools. That's the problem we need to solve, not simplifying the interface.

I've seen secretaries build beautifully elegant systems with Excel Macros and I've seen CS graduates from good schools fail to build even the simplest of programs. I expect most people here have seen similar extremes. A large proportion of CS majors never learn to program. Until we figure out why, and how to change that, 'programmerless programming' is doomed.
I get that too. I ask what the idea is, and then find some innocent-sounding reason to point out why I wouldn't be a good person to make it, rather than saying I'm not interested or I don't have the time. If the app exists, I'll tell them about it.

Either way, people are happy that they had the chance to talk about their idea and I'm not stuck doing something that I don't want to do.
Well you can start a corporation in singapore, panama, labuan or others. All foreign income not repatriated to singapore (i.e, it goes in a bank account in HK instead of singapore) is tax free. Panama corporations do have any tax in all income not derived from Panama. Labuan (in Malaysia) has an other low tax structure.

To avoid UK (and Canadian) residents doing a run around on their tax system with these corporations, any corporation who's 'top management' is majority run by residents in the UK (or in the UK) is taxed as if it is a UK corporation. Since your going to be away from the UK, you can remove your UK resident status (you have to do this properly, they can get you with things like still being registered to the NHS or having a residence in the UK still that isn't purely investment property, etc, etc). Once you loose your UK residence (you still stay as a UK citizen forever, your just not resident) your corporation will not have that tax status in the UK, and you do not have to pay taxes to the UK for your worldwide personal income. I don't know how it works when you move around in the EU, it can be different.

You can then travel the world as a resident of nowhere and be mostly tax free, with the majority of your income staying in your corporation, and drawing a living expenses income from the corporation. How you want to structure that income (being a corporate expense or personal income), and report it to the country your currently in depends on you and what your doing. It being an online business of you and your laptop, practically you'll not get any problems from working online on whatever tourist visa your using, since it's virtually undetectable and you don't really have to interact with their economy locally. Especially if it is only for one or two visa stays and a developing country. How you deal with that is up to you.

If you are going to plan which countries your going to, getting a tourist visa before you leave at an embassy in the UK will be useful, since you can get extra long visa stays vs the stamps you get arriving in the airport. For example you could get a triple entry tourist visa from thailand for free which would get you 3x2month stays in thailand. Your not going to get that from a embassy anywhere near thailand, but somewhere far like the UK would be a lot more likely.

For health insurance you can try to get an annual international travel insurance policy if you want to be covered.

I am not a lawyer and you should do your own research, but I hope this helps.
That's a very good insight. Mentally translating the question into "What problem are you currently trying to solve and why should I care?" can make for much more interesting conversation.
True, but head to digg.com and see the number of comments on the stories. Then compare to reddit their "smaller*" competitor.
Hacking.

My wife likes to tell people that I program to decompress, which is true. It's probably a bit like a mechanic coming home from working on other people's cars to put loving hours into rebuilding a 1965 mustang.
I've started reading more. This is probably a good start: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752139
Tunisia (My country) may be a good place for you. When re-searching on how to start my own company, I found out that non-residents can easily form a company over the Internet and submit all papers (even without being here). Taxes are 10% but if you sign before 2011, you'll pay no taxes for 10 years.

Here's the website in question: http://www.tunisianindustry.nat.tn/en/home.asp
It's in English and has lot of useful information. There is a section for online services and they'll answer your email within 24/48 hours. The cost is $100 or so, to form the company.

Life in Tunisia is good but not that cheap. You'll also miss your reliable Internet connection (though Water/Electricity are a lot reliable). The weather and food are good. Public services sucks, so you'll need your own car (for example), private medical care, ...
Frisbee Golf followed by chatting with fellow hackers on a patio somewhere enjoying the weather.
jQuery sells.
If you didn't build it to make money and you're making 1500-6000 people a day happy, then perhaps that's the end of the conversation. Why not just keep it as a fun side project that doesn't demand much of your time?

Not everything you do has to have a revenue model. I know that for me, that's what I miss about the early days of the web.
"Like everyone else, I hunch over a laptop and send emails all day :-) We're slaves to the machine, my friend, and I have done my part to enable them."

Really, I don't do anything in particular, I just project my inner paradoxical mix of shame and pride in my short, eventful but otherwise checkered career as a jack of all trades.