skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excel and Google Docs are both non-heirarchical...

I'm pleased to see that 80% of your Excel use could be done with publish to web - I would like to set up a call with you to understand that comment better if that's OK.

If will look in the error logs to see if I can find out what happend with file upload.

We do have a csv file importer - I am kinda thinking of having it auto-upload from a dropbox folder so that you can easy-publish data - but we are also totally REST based so (with the right permissions) you can post to cells or appending rows.

Anyway get in touch and we can have a longer discussion.
how about receiv.es
You just blew my mind :-)
I am wondering what this does beyond twitter.com/username?
Well, I'm not much concerned about the technical difficulties, as they're few. I'm also not envisioning any time in the future when I quit using GitHub. It's a fantastic piece of software written by people I respect. However, I've learned to be skeptical and cautious when there's one thing that everyone is using (Google, Facebook). I LOVE YOU GITHUB DON'T PUNISH ME!!! :-)
"I like electricity, and I think it's the best way to transmit energy across long distances yet, but it's foolish to claim to know what would happen without it."
Yes it matters, but not for success. When you're the minority in a field, it feels good when you discover there are others from the same background who have chosen the same path as you and have been successful.
Not to mention the purchase was allegedly laden with government kickbacks and various forms of corruption.
Why are apps allowed to be silently installed and executed by just inserting an SD card?

I don't agree with the "Bad idea" label in the title. If it can be done, it will be done. Maybe black hats are already doing it? Bringing the knowledge to the public isn't a bad idea.

Edit: fix typo
> we just need an automated way to extract that information

Figure out that one and the world will beat a path to your door ....

BTW, timing is everything, I guess - this was posted by justinweiss a couple of weeks ago as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733702 (thank you Better HN extension for Google Chrome at http://goo.gl/PcMz).
Did I say overlords? I meant protectors.
We just launched what you're talking about: http://qwerly.com.

The API documentation is here: http://qwerly.com/about_us/api

Let me know how you get on (email is in my HN profile) or @maxniederhofer on Twitter.
Well yes and no. I just wanted to know if there were people that look like me doing the same things. Similar to a Developer who seeks out devs that code in the same language. No Offense. Sorry it irked you so much
'needmoney' runs a bakery - even thanked us after HN helped him get his 'startup- stable.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772205
My co-founder is black.
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Sorry for the nitpick, but I noticed that you misspelled "dimethylamylamine" on your product label.

What made you go into this market? It seems that this is a highly competitive product category.
I wrote about it a while ago

http://oonwoye.com/2010/04/05/black-founders/
Is there a statically typed version of Python? Not a 'language inspired by Python', but a true interpreter derivative that does type enforcement and inferencing?

I ask this because the type() function is awesome.
That is what the "fav" feature is for.
I have also seen similar queries in HN (Women,Single,Gay). FYI
PyCharm is out (Django/python IDE from the makers of IntelliJ IDEA)
See e.g. http://qwerly.com/twitter/parislemon, http://qwerly.com/twitter/scobleizer, http://qwerly.com/twitter/paulg
they also do a lot of commercialization of stuff for which the early-stage R&D was done in academia, at government research labs, etc.

So they turn it from something of theoretical value to something that actually improves people's lives--to the point that they're willing to part with money to have it? That seems to add a lot more utility on the margin. Of course, it wouldn't mean anything if there weren't inventions to subsidize.
i'm a little confused about how this trade stuff works.

How are high speed trading systems not manipulating the market by making faster than human trades/micro-transactions?

how is it market manipulation if someone automates a patterned behaviour of trading and someone else exploits that behaviour to their advantage at the expense of 1 and only 1 party, the one overseeing the automated transactions.

if only the one HFT machine is affected, or exploited, how is it that exploiting a patterned behaviour isn't considered to be a mistake, or a bad decision, on the part of the HFT algorithm but instead considered a manipulation of stock?

if the exploit was subtle enough that no human trader could distinguish it happening, or if a human trader would never fall for the exploit (as a matter of common sense)then could the exploit be attributed to a bad algorithm and by extension a mistake by the trader who owns the HFT machine?
4 ways to automate software testing when schedule=“You GOTTA Be Kidding”
Well from what I've seen, Indians do make great programmers!
AK-47 is not one weapon. There are many different types of construction and even more derivatives. Stamped (cheap) or milled (expensive, more accurate, does withstand abuse like sitting on the gun) parts, it does make a difference. Open sights and wood stock also indicate cheap construction. Quality of ammunition also plays a big part in accuracy, but I'm not going there.

Even the AK-47 derivatives have several generations. For example Finnish Rk 62 (current Finnish standard issue service rifle) was licensed to form a baseline for what was to become IMI Galil. http://www.dnmsport.com/GALIL/historygalil.htm

(Disassembly + assembly of Rk 62 takes about 40 seconds, it has five parts)

No modern army uses AK-47. So it shouldn't be compared to SA80.

The bottom line: AK-47 is simple and good enough to be effectively used by even the most inexperienced soldiers. It also requires the least amount of maintenance. Precision tools require more experience and always have drawbacks (like gain accuracy - lose the ability to shoot effectively through walls). Multi-purpose tools are compromises, of which AK-47 is the most battle proven.
Jigsaws are perfectly capable of doing straight lines. I remember helping my dad and uncle build a picnic table back in the 80s with little more than a heavy duty jigsaw, a sturdy work bench, and lots of 2x4s. Its a matter of making sure that whatever you're cutting is secured.
Thats cool....I grew up in that neighborhood and never knew. I'll start checking it out and see if I can meet them. You seem cool as well, hit me up on twitter we can hang as well...

Equal opportunity for friends over here
I'd love to know what happened to the engineers that created Sputnik.
I've used slimv a bit to play with Common Lisp. It's very handy for sending sexps from vim to repl. Not sure about advanced emacs' slime/swank features. I think it's difficult to find a person which used both editors for Lisp coding to make a meaningful comparison.
I think about this in regards to Mr. Gates.

He amassed such a huge fortune by building walls around his software, limiting people's potential in a way.

Was it necessary? Did proprietary software need to happen to spur innovation? What about his uncompetitive practices?

I end up wondering what the balance of 'good' would be in the world if instead of taking everything he could, he had allowed others to grow and shared his source more. We wouldn't have the Gates foundation's fight against malaria, but we might have a more innovative and open global computing culture, and who knows what that would have meant.
Why, the hackernews one, of course.
He's the richest man in the world. He has enough liquid assets to aggressively pursue charitable giving if he wants to.
It sounds to me like a recipe for a successful project, if your definition of success is extracting money from the government. The technical aspect, of course, sounds pretty dodgy.
I'm not a big fan of creative domain spelling, but aside from that it sounds like a site where the users would be giving?
yes, and there is not a direct connection between the US and Russia, the internet will take the shortest traced route. So, if one site traces well through china. Then an IP that is nearby, might actually start the connection using that route. It's hard for me to believe that Russia has opted not to allow any traffic what so ever to route through China.
I totally agree. Sometimes when we put the "Black" in front of what we do, it kind of limits it. Ideas are colorless
Ask HN: Can you post your naked email address and keep |Spam| bounded?
I have lately come across several blogs and sites of HNers publishing their naked email addresses, without any kind of obfuscation. I admit that while I don't do this, I no longer check my (Gmail) spam folder for false positives. So, from my point of view it no longer matters whether I have tens, hundreds or millions of spam messages.

However, Gmail may care at some point! For those of you brave enough to do this, what is log10(|Spam|)? More importantly, do you feel it significantly impacts your storage quota?

Any further comments, as always, will be welcome. Cheers.
It's quite dated now, but someone in 1994 did a survey of the founding dates of the Fortune 500 companies as of that year, and found that new companies were quite uncommon: 39% were over 100 years old, and about 50% were founded between the 1880s and the 1920s, in the "second industrial revolution". Only 16% of F500 companies (as of 1994) were founded after 1950.

The authors speculate that the 1880s-1920s period dominates because it gave birth to the first large-scale corporations that could enter new markets, acquire new businesses, etc., through a mix of industrial and financial prowess. So while the Second Industrial Revolution gave rise to a bunch of F500 companies, the post-war Third Industrial Revolution based on chemicals, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, electronics, etc., hasn't given birth to as many new firms, because the older firms have been able to enter the market themselves, or buy up newcomers who do.

The exceptions they note: "companies such as Apple (1976), Compaq (1982) and McDonald's (1948), built new industries focusing especially on integrated-circuit technology and on franchising in the food and retailing sectors. Tellingly, the youngest member among the Fortune 500 is Office Depot (1986), one of the new breed of 'category killers' that have appeared in certain retail sectors. These category killers depend on sophisticated information technology for quick reporting of turnover figures and detailed data about their customers."

The article's here, but paywalled: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3117220
>I’ve managed almost 150 people across dev/test/PM.

i stopped reading at this phrase. I was reading until it as i was genuinely curious how an engineer could write such BS.
Are you boycotting PayPal? You don't need a PayPal account to complete a purchase. If you have one, you can use it, but it's not required.
I'd be interested in the study data. The data I've seen suggest that great managers put most of their time into manageable employees, the ones I called swing performers above. It could be that some stars swing between good and great, while some median employees swing between poor and good. If there are stars who have a 10% swing based on management investment, then yes there's a better ROI working with them.

I agree with the idea that it's a poor idea to spend most of your time with your worst performers. The problem with the worst employees is that many of them are irredeemable, so you can't get 10% improvement out of them, except possibly by micromanaging them to the point where you're doing their work)--and that doesn't scale. They're unmanageable in a negative sense, and thus you need proportionally more investment to get poorer returns.

One strong exception to a dictum against spending time with worst performers: Spending time identifying unmanageable poor performers does generate very high returns IF YOU FIRE THEM. In software, poor performers can actually have negative productivity: Their presence slows the rest of the team down.
The wiki pages are just another Git repo; you can just clone it and get a full copy. Pages simply turn into files containing Markdown markup (teehee).

Not sure about the issues or other things, though.
In-App Purchases Yield More Revenue Than Mobile Ads
I don't place a lot of value on Carlos Slim's advice. His vast fortune has basically been a result of his ability to practice regulatory arbitrage and own a monopoly (and stifle competition) in Mexico, a country with a highly inefficient governance system.

If the political system over there ever became really functional, his empire would be broken apart and much of his wealth would contract.
“Purchase” is a pretty rich description, too. Slim paid an obscenely low price for Telmex – it was making $1.1 billion yearly profit, and Slim’s company paid less than $900 million for a 10% stake, which money came from loans Slim got on letters of credit (i.e. it wasn’t even his own money). Telmex was and is a near monopoly, with the kinds of monopolistic pricing that goes along with that.

Basically, Slim’s fortune is made on a corrupt business deal with the corrupt president of the time (Salinas) who he was buddy-buddy with, followed by gouging the Mexican citizenry on phone bills for the last 2 decades. (Salinas’s PRI party made out well too, as Slim gave lots of money back to them over the subsequent years.)

I really don’t think he’s in any position to talk about charity.
What's the reasoning? Like, tattoos in general, or tattoos of people? Muslims don't seem to have a problem with wearing insignia in general.
Hank Williams (http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/) founded ClickRadio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickradio) in 1999, and is now doing http://kloudshare.com/

I did some contracting for Kloudshare. Hank is a pretty impressive guy.
...the aforementioned diversity actually helps strengthen teams in my opinion by providing those different cultural or ethnic perspectives.

I don't really agree with this. My company (currently 3 people) was ethnically homogeneous before I came onboard. Diversity of thought did not increase much when I was hired, even though I am ethnically different. (I studied computational science in college instead of computer science, talk about diversity). We may hire a 4'th person - a business guy who would bring a LOT of new ideas and skills to us. Ethnically he is the same as everyone else here.

Diversity of ethnicity != diversity of thought. It's a fallacy to equate the two.
Unfortunately the article does not mention the standard deviation of the distribution of mathematical ability after controlling for other factors. As mentioned here: http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm, Larry Summers got in a lot of trouble at Harvard for making this assertion:

"It does appear that on many, many different human attributes-height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability-there is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means-which can be debated-there is a difference in the standard deviation, and variability of a male and a female population. And that is true with respect to attributes that are and are not plausibly, culturally determined."

Is that assertion backed up by evidence? And, if true, is making this distinction useful in informing public policy and shaping our culture? In a fight between naturalistic and moral fallacies, which wins?
Just tried with my account. It's awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a ton :)
This seems to rely on whois records. For those opting to avoid public whois info, this doesn't seem to have much value.
Yeah, I'm not arguing that commercialization isn't useful; it's the main way theoretically valuable ideas get actually produced. But I think it can be very helpful to innovative industries to have this big stock of theoretically-valuable ideas waiting to be mined for commercialization. Otherwise you either only get incremental advances, or you need big firms with their own R&D groups (like Microsoft Research). You can also have startups based on blue-skies research in some areas (especially pharma), but investors in most areas are pretty wary of funding a startup that has too much basic research in their critical path, due to the high risk.
Individuals are the sole cause of anything that’s ever happened.

Exactly!
I'd like to apologize for making that statement. It was a gut reaction -- hastily typed -- toward the actions of the Indian government. I, as an American who doesn't agree with most of what our government does, should understand that the people and the government are not the same. Sorry for that.

I'll just say that I think the belief that closed == secure is a stupid notion given the history we all know, no matter who holds the belief.
Seems to me that charitable investment in education does every bit as much good as building job-creating business.
2 Years In Prison - A Man's Story
The Crowd Performs at the 95th Percentile
India has already done the former, with BOSS Linux. It's essentially Debian with some different default language packs. Their web site also boasts "unique features" like the ability to serve web pages from their server edition (wow!), so I'm not sure how much they've actually added and how much is just hype.

http://bosslinux.in/
True, it's over HTTP and that's pretty much it. No abstraction layer (with software) that duplicates many features that HTTP already provides.
Email sent. Google here, confirming this is an issue with the Users API on App Engine. On-call team is working on the fix now.

Edit: As of 12:30PM PST, we are now rolling out the fix. This should be relatively instantaneous.
Damn! The one time I actually wanted to read about the drama!
Massive Attack Targets EFTPS.Gov Users
I doubt many people would question that he has significant liquid assets, I was just pointing out the relevance of the question. For a business owner on his scale, I'd imagine that the vast majority of his wealth would be tied up in business ventures.
Worlds collide! I bought some Magpul magazines from you a year or so ago. Your outfit was great to deal with; highly recommend it to anyone else on here.

And in case you are tracking your marketing effectiveness, I first heard about you on the SA forums.
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That list comes up a little short IMO. These are the tools I've had to buy since owning a house:

table saw,
jigsaw,
reciprocating saw,
circular saw,
cordless 18v drill/driver,
cordless 18v impact driver,
corded hammer drill,
compound miter saw,
dremel,
air compressor,
nail guns,
wet/dry vac,
clamps,
levels,
squares,
plumb bob,
pry bars,
hammers,
drill/driver bits,
screwdrivers,
chisels,
torque wrench,
pipe cutter,
drywall saw,
drywall sander,
tape measures,
stud finder,
hack saw,
coping saw,
post hole digger,
pliers (many kinds),
wrenches (many kinds),
drywall pan and drywall knives,
putty knife,
voltage tester,
GFCI tester,
caulking gun,
respirator,
work lights,
tin snips,
12v battery charger,
20 ton bottle jacks.
Micropreneur Academy Founder Rob Walling speaking in LA-Wed,10/20 
Micropreneur academy founder, entrepreneurship blogger, author and speaker Rob Walling be speaking to San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers group on Wed, 20th Oct. This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.<p>Oct 20th – Turning Your Idea Into a Software Product w/ Rob Walling<p>Abstract: Rob Walling takes a detailed look at the nuts and bolts of launching a software product while working full-time. Topics include: our beloved startup myths, what you didn’t know about taking outside investment, the reason most products never launch, the most likely reason your product fail, how to evaluate a product idea without spending money, and the 3 best approaches to marketing your product (hint: none of them are social media).<p>About the Presenter:
Rob Walling is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET and a ten-year veteran of software entrepreneurship. Rob owns several revenue-generating products including ASP.NET invoicing software DotNetInvoice and runs the first online membership community for developer entrepreneurs and microISVs, called the Micropreneur Academy. Rob blogs to about 10,000 monthly readers at Software by Rob and is the author of numerous technical articles for asp.netPRO magazine, asp101.com, dotnetbips.com and others.<p>Meeting Agenda:
* 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
* 6:30p Presentation Starts
* 7:30p Break
* 7:45p Presentation Resumes
* 8:45p Raffle<p>Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016 . Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the pie chart in the article, but isn't it possible to have a RESTful API implemented in JavaScript?
That, and stopping widespread debilitating diseases.
Like TY said it was standard practice. It is 21 or 22 seconds total to take apart and build it back to get a "pass" grade.
Very interesting and worth taking a look at, but as a male programmer who doesn't go to conferences (where it seems the most striking instances of sexism occasionally occur), how am I privileged? End users don't care what gender I am, and the end users will ultimately determine how my work is valued.
Any particular reason you left Fuchsia out of that list?
Very nice. I write children's books as a hobby and was wondering how you select books for your service.
I used to deal with products like this quite a bit. There's a huge segment of the industry that is involved in rebill scams and are almost impossible to cancel. Is your product like that as well? It looks exactly like the type of landing page that does scammy rebills for "free" trial offers.
An answer to the question of how you may be privileged is provided:

http://lafalafu.com/krc/privilege.html
Link at the bottom provides a decent list:
http://lafalafu.com/krc/privilege.html
"Practice articulating positions you disagree with faithfully and persuasively. Unless you can do this, you’re implicitly assuming that people who disagree with you are idiots. Smart people understand why smart people disagree."

WTB more of this everywhere.
Interesting. Does this mean group think isn't as bad as we thought?
My dad is trying to set up woodworking business selling hand-sculpted rocking chairs. He's great at the woodworking, but doesn't have the slightest clue how to start, run, or market a business. I'm leaving my job at the end of the month so I'll be able to help him organize finances and set up a proper website, but it's really out of my expertise as well. All I've had a chance to do so far is set up a wordpress blog for him to play around with: http://morrellwoodworks.com/

The chairs he builds are really nice though. He does everything by hand. Ex: http://morrellwoodworks.com/wp-content/gallery/double-rocker...
Rhodesian War?
There's a lot of gender insensitivity and macho attitudes in software in general.

Ruby attracts flamboyant, outspoken and bombastic personalities.

These two things collide to make rubyists look more sexist as a group than other developers.

For the record, I'm a rubyist, and think Aimonetti's presentation was titled offensively. Dr. Nic's tweet was also pretty fucked up.

Hanson's comment wasn't so bad, the man respectfully said he liked breasts on his private twitter account. I think that has to be the least controversial statement ever, unless you're an overly PC whack job. That would be offensive if he said it during a presentation at rails conf, but on a private twitter account talking about your personal opinions is completely fine.

So, we have 2 rubyists out of god knows how many acting like jackasses. That's really no reason to slander the whole community.