skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right when you say that programming sounds like a fraction of the big picture, but there are good and bad programmers.

Also, I don't know how things are in other countries, but in Romania when you hire someone, the contract must specify an occupation from a national list. Most labor contracts that I know of, use "programmer", not "developer" or "engineer".

By the way, there were some problems a couple of years ago with a few jobs imported from Western countries. If I remember correctly, two of them were "credit officer" and "key account manager".
If someone uses your service to republish a few dozen News Corp pages, then sends them the link I reckon you'll be in court before sunset.

Edit: I think it's a great idea though to save bookmarked content, just not to republish it without permission.
Going out.
Wow, congrats on the coverage. Unfortunately Facebook is almost certainly going to come down hard on trademark infringement like this, not to mention revoking API access.
Yeah, exactly. When I had my RTW ticket you were buying a certain number of miles, a certain number of stops, and 12 months to get back to where you started. You had to book an itinerary when you started, but were free to change it as you went along...

It's waaaay cheaper than buying a series of one way tickets, assuming you make it around half way in to your itinerary (and there's nothing to say you have to use the last leg to take you home - abandon the ticket if going home somehow means your traveling will finish forever).
I tell them I'm a nerd.
Only once did I see emacs malloc all of my ram, but it did it on the server and crashed it. No clue what happened, but I barely got top open to see it happen before the kernel panicked.

A once-in-a-lifetime experience though, I start the emacs server on boot so I can start clients much faster, which means it's always running as long as my computer is on, and it's never had any issues other than that one time.
Well, I hacked Instant Search this morning! Hehe Google, its what's for breakfast. http://YTLatest.com
> The http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jennings-http-srv-00 which proposed it […] - now got pushed into something that would never be possible to use by the browsers.

That would really suck. Could you elaborate, or send me a link, please ?
This might seem a little cavalier, and perhaps I am young and naive, but why doesn't someone just scan it and put it online anyway?

It reminds me of the RIAA. There are oppurtunities out there, just embrace it. The author is fighting the fact that more nerds want to access his text? Why? Is it really money?
On the other hand, what if running this site is costing him something? I'd certainly want a little return if other people's use of the site is costing me (bandwidth charges perhaps)
I could have sworn he already did a TED Talk - I remember first learning of Khan Academy from TED - but now there seems to be no trace of him on the TED site.

Am I crazy, or did he do a talk that was subsequently removed?
You make a deal with the a really nice internet cafe with a good connection. All the kids speaking in a foreign language going crazy over video games might be distracting (especially when school comes out o_O), but it's like a rentable AC office with a good connection and cheap drinks and snacks.

Or can rent a apartment that comes with it's own landline internet connection. The landlords can set it up in their name for you and it would be part of your rent.
Playing QuakeLive, kayaking or going to some other city... But sometimes just being lazy (== reading books sometimes) or writing even more code.
I typically read up on EsotericSubject X. I tend to use the oddball stuff to keep me interested in as many subjects as possible, in part because the basics have been re-hashed so many times they're boring until you see a use. X gets me interested, so I can go through the basics with a goal in mind, and know a couple questions to ask to get help as needed.
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directly from JS! (and flash)
Ask HN: Working part time for equity?
A friend of mine who is founding a company has asked me to work part time on his startup with him. He's currently working on it part-time as well.

I'm wondering how much equity I should be asking for in exchange for ~10 hours a week? Does anyone have any experience on not being a co-founder, but being the first person to assist in exchange for equity?
Yes, but large parts of the world are explicitly trying to avoid becoming dependent on MS software. While Windows is still growing in other countries, quite a few are subsidizing or requiring the use of other OSes (usually linux), trying to avoid too much lock-in. [Added: OK, I see what you are getting at, I had read the original paper to mean that Windows on PCs was at a plateau; it is pretty common to use PC to mean a PC with Windows. And with iPads, netbooks, smart phones and the like, the PC form factor might actually be at a plateau itself, or approaching one.]
So what's the situation if you spend 3 months in 4 different countries each?
There's an absolute ton of info to be had by trawling through the wiki and forums of British Expats:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33

Last I checked it was taking around 9 months if you could make your skillset fit in to one of their priority job classes where Canada is experiencing skill shortages. It's much quicker to get a temporary work permit if you can find an employer to sponsor you, and then apply for residency once you're here (which is what i'm doing).
I'm currently in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) doing this and it's working out extremely well. Extended visas are easy to get (note: pay the extra $5 on entry and get a business visa if you want to extend). Love the people and the place.
As much as I dislike scaremongering about attacks on aircraft this sort of thing does lower the barrier of entry so to speak especially for solo nutbags. Given that the information is freely available however the issue is with the ADS-B system rather than the iPhone app.
The main issue with this is the people that are complaining about the up coming generation of computer scientist are doing nothing to improve the situation.

Why isn't there a site dedicated to computer science like the khan academy?

Why aren't you creating resources for students that can help us understand why the fundamental concepts of computer science matter?

We obviously need help.
Ask HN: Co-founder equity question: Always even split?
Assume "Joe" founds a startup, works on it for several months, writes the code, and gets the website up and running.

Then, Joe finds a biz-dev cofounder. They are deciding the equity split.

Should Joe and the cofounder split the company evenly, or does the fact that Joe founded it and worked on it for several months mean that Joe gets more?

What's the etiquette/precedent for this?
Don't feel like you can't take more air tickets for short haul trips! What is a better use of your time, a 10 hour bus ride for $25 or a 1 hour flight for $50?
Sorry if I gave that impression. The apartment building is a single graph which I labeled G. The three separate diagrams symbolize each floor. As I said:

I have built the graph for the apartment below. Each vertex in the graph represents a room, while each edge represents a path the fairy can travel. The graph is split into three separate floors for easy visualization, but simply imagine that each vertex is connected to the nodes above and below them.
The basic idea is from Xerox (bought a paid by Apple stock), but the refinements done by the Mac team are really not given enough credit. I wish Parc had been able to release their stuff, but one should really go search for how their windowing system actually worked. The Mac team did some serious refinements (not to mention an amazing job of getting it to run on such a resource starved system).

Truthfully though, the current Apple is really more of an NeXT takeover of Apple and *Step is a direct legacy.
The place I work recently encountered someone who couldn't solve FizzBuzz, for the first time. I think a little bit of them died that day - they were looking around with a shocked expression for quite a while.
Nearly everyone does use the "Ask HN" prefix. Based on http://news.ycombinator.com/ask, 87% of all self-posts start with "Ask HN" or something similar. And the prefix's use is trending upward over time.

More to the point, why does it matter?
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All sorts of problems can crop up if you don't resolve the equity situation up front. Its good you're trying to resolve it as soon as possible.

Depending on how much thought leadership he's provided and how much direction he's given you, it should range from 50/50 in the very best case for you to 80/20 in the worst case (assuming you if you're the #2). That split also depends on whether he is paying you or not to do the work, and whether you really want to loop in with him long-term on the startup.

Are you guys incorporated? Regardless, make sure that the terms are in paper.

When making equity decisions with my co-founder, I found these posts pretty valuable:
http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/how-to-split-the-star...
http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/keep-your-startup-co...

Hope that helps.
Maybe some would say I lack ambition, but I wouldn't even need millions. If my start-up was acquired for enough to pay off the mortgage and toss a bit of funding into the next venture, I'd be happy, but I'm looking at it from someone in the perspective of being in a very low cost of income area, who's building up a business from $0 in outside funding.

Do I think our product has potential for more? Yeah, sure (though it's still in development at the moment), but I'd rather have the security of having "enough" than the risk of waiting for a top-dollar offer and ending up with nothing if it never happened.

Which maybe means the start-up scene isn't the best fit for me in the first place, but I love what I do.
Ask YC: Idea for making web app developing a no-brainer?
Right now if a programmer wants to create an application, he has to decide if it is going to be a desktop application or a web application (oversimplified, I know). Now web applications are becoming extremely popular, but they are still held back. If I wanted to make open source graphing software, I would be an idiot to design it as a web application. Nobody wants to pay to run a public server and users don't like typing in 127.0.0.1:8000 if it is run locally.

I think that web browsers could address this issue by creating a button to list local web apps (they would be more than extensions). These apps could simply register themselves in a text file (and the browser would ask the user to authorize these 'installs'). Think of all the great open source software that would go from depending on different platform APIs to simply writing javascript/html/css and letting the browser become the potential crux we know it can be.

I am a bit of a lurker here (this is a temp account), and I know this idea is probably phrased horribly, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. Hopefully someone can figure out what I mean.
Certainly. But that does not imply at all that the PC industry is at a plateau, simply that MS may be.
Is it really 2 years? You can't speed it up in any way?
beer on the deck, play with cats, go for a walk outside if it's nice (it's just getting to be fall weather around here which is great), really, anything but the computer

played some diablo 2 the other night with some friends though, fun times
That would be an interesting comparison to look at (Swedes vs. US). Do you have any more information on the reasons for the high level of Sweden?
right, so why are some of the vertices black and why are some of them red?
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Although I'm not in love with the tone, I'm happy to answer the question.

The coding is all done in python. I'm using nltk, although the approach is more statistical inference than linguistics. That's really the only library. I'm very much a bottoms-up guy, and am happy to re-invent the wheel because it sometimes gives me a better understanding of the texture of the problem I'm up against. For example, where I'm doing some linear algebra / graph traversal math I'm using functions I've written rather than numpy, or scipy, or a graphdb, etc.
we're working on setting up a hackers and founders meetup the day before startup school. stay tuned.
In some specific areas (like mine: graphics and vision), there are compiled lists of recent papers from the best conferences, along with links to the papers, project pages, etc.:

http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2010.html

http://www.cvpapers.com/cvpr2010.html

http://www.cvpapers.com/eccv2010.html

http://www.cvpapers.com/iccv2009.html
An isomorphism requires a metric, which metric do you mean?

I'm talking group homomorphic, though they're also topologically isomorphic, a.k.a. homeomorphic.
One of the reasons TI calculators are so popular in schools is because TI works a lot with textbook producers. I worked for a company developing math books for a large publisher and we had a lot of contact with TI. they gave us tons of calculators, gave us pre-releases of new calculators and various other accessories. Thus we wrote our textbook targeting the TI calculators. This is why many textbooks come with TI specific instructions and come with software that only works with TI calculators.

This is probably the reason that many schools mandate these calculators, they're written into the curriculum by default. so it only natural to require them.
Trick question. Hackers are never bored.
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I have been a member of ACM for the last 2 years, but just let my membership lapse. Their site is nearly useless for anyone who is not already at least an advanced undergraduate in CS or IT. The parent post is looking for resources for learning CS, not advanced study (or so I understood it).
It could also be that the user thought, since there was no content but the ad, that the app had switched to one of those "click the ad before seeing the story" type things and clicked the only thing available to get the working data.

Also, what kind of programmer doesn't have checks in data acquisition code to make sure it is valid and immediately alert someone when it is not?!?
Pretty sure Joe gets more equity here. Joe had the idea, wrote the initial code, and has stuff up and running. I'd guess the split here should be 75/25 if Joe worked on it full time.

If I were the biz-dev cofounder, if Joe gave me 50%, I would ask "why the charity?". In fact, I'd flat out be suspicious.

http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/how-to-split-the-star...
On the one hand:

Demand Media seek to produce huge amounts of content that is just good enough to be the most relevant content for any given long-tail search term.

On the other hand:

If you know how to form a search query then you can find better content most of the time...

Which is it, is Demand Media the most relevant content, or is there better content? If there's better content, then Google is failing users.

I'm pretty sure that there is better content corresponding to every single piece of information that a Demand writer has ever posted online.
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt is one of those perfect little books that can greatly expand your world view in one night. I highly recommend it. (http://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understa...)

Also, I second Walden by Thoreau and suggest you read the Fountainhead. The Fountainhead isn't quite as blunt as Atlas Shrugged, but I find it a lot more life affirming and positive.
London (parody): A cheap mobile phone application that can track the precise location of passenger buses on the road can be a serious terrorist threat, security experts have claimed and called for its immediate ban.

The Bus Finder AR application, developed by a British firm for the Apple iPhone and Google's Android, allows users to point their phone at the road and see the direction, speed, and likely destination of passing buses.

It also shows the bus line, route number, departure point, destination and even the likely course-the features which could be used to target a bus with a rocket-propelled grenade, or to plot suicide bombings, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

The programme, sold for just 1.79 pounds in the online Apple store, has now been labelled an 'aid to terrorists' by security experts and the US Department of Homeland Security is also examining how to protect airliners.

[...]

After the September 11 attacks in America in 2001, a senior Federal Aviation Administration official warned that published bus schedules could be used by terrorists.

He wrote: "Revealing the identity and location of buses... would open the door for a terrorist to attack a specific bus or coach line."

[...]

Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, former chairman of the Parliamentary Counter Terrorism sub-committee, said: "Anything that makes it easier for our enemies to find targets is madness. The Government must look at outlawing the marketing
of such equipment."

[...]

The firm claims more than 2,000 people have downloaded Bus Finder AR from iTunes since its launch last month.

(Also posted to my Tumblelog: http://aggregated.alanhogan.com/post/1238682952/a-phone-appl...)
Playing with my son, DIY on the house and of course hacking: http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/projects/
I like to:

-read

-code

-sleep

-long-distance run (6-15 miles, for me)

-hang out with friends

-clean the apartment

-watch netflix
My first attempt to write a decoder was done on a "Cyrix" 586 processor at 90 Mhz. (The kind that fit in a 486 motherboard and let you pretend you had a pentium.) I wrote it in pascal. It did just a little better than 1.5 weeks per minute of audio. I was thrilled to no end that I'd made it work at all.

My hats off to him.
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I'm not sure I'd be suspicious. Many programmers aren't particularly savvy at business negotiation (hence the need for a biz-dev co-founder).
So.. you're working on a lisp?
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Thank you for the links, they're brilliant. Especially the first one, really gives you an insight into the man who's getting me (and thousands more around the world) through college. :)
I agree with you to an extent - we certainly fall for most of the same psychological tricks.

We are also clearly exceptional as a demographic. We are dramatically better educated and more literate than the mean. We're mostly male, whereas the internet is now a female majority population[1]. There is evidence to show that we behave very differently when presented with long-form content[2].

While I'm perfectly prepared to accept that our actual preferences are far more homogenous than our expressed preferences, I think the predominant error made by "our kind" is forgetting just how strange we are as a group and as individuals, at least in terms of our abilities and our expressed preferences.

As regards 'elitism', I've seen an awful lot of startups fail because they overestimated their users, but never once seen one that underestimates them. Amongst the HN community, people's first reaction to Bingo Card Creator seemed to be "who the hell pays money for that?". If it takes a bit of arrogance and disdain for us to grok the level of the average user, then so be it - no offence to HNers, but we're not exactly overflowing with humility are we?

[1] http://www.emarketer.com/Report.aspx?code=emarketer_2000574

[2] http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/27/chewie-stats/
My favorite quote: "The ones that win are the ones that ship."

Word.
It's great for learning and playing with algorithms, particularly since you would save so much time which would otherwise be consumed with low-level details that you'd have a much better understanding of the overall program function when the time came to optimize. There's a real forest-for-the-trees problem optimizing something like C first.
"... and with the right kind of eyes, you an almost see the high water mark. That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." -- Hunter S. Thompson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI_me2X2hA
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Yep, it's incorporated. It's his idea, and he's driving everything, so I have no qualms with him having the lion's share of stock. I have plenty of my own useful experience I'm bringing to the table of course, and will be working in a mainly product, slightly technical role.

This isn't his first company (hence why I'm happy to follow along and learn from his experience), but the amount of equity offered seems very low. 0.013% of all outstanding shares vesting per month.

Thanks for the links.
Very cool. Though I can't imagine the gender ratio there will promote a huge social aspect...
Hackers gonna hack.
this is very good insightful experience.. I am also thinking to work from one remote village where basic needs like electricity and internet available..

Enjoy the lively weather, nice friendly community surrounded by. As you raised, health insurance that is one very important thing to consider. In some part of world, the health facility are not upto the mark. So in case of need, there may be some issue. Except that it is wonderful to work where ever you wish to.
So why, oh god why, do the Windows Driver Framework examples in their latest kit include no integration with Visual Studio? You need a command line build to build drivers.
All things being equal I wouldn't expect 50/50, but there are a lot of variables to consider beyond a simple time measurement:

Does the cofounder have amazing skills or other benefits to the company so that he's worth more than might be expected?

Has Joe been kind of slacking this entire time, not having done much work or taken much risk, while the cofounder expects to put in hundred-hour weeks and is quitting a high-paying job to take the offer?
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Alternately, if Microsoft had consulted with designers and users, and been less hostile to the concept of standards those features would actually have been used. At the time, however, they were in full strangulation mode and things like directly porting truly horrid Windows APIs (all DirectX features, drag and drop, rich text editing, etc.) was considered a feature because it made it much harder for anyone else to implement those for a competing browser or platform.

The Web basically lost a decade thanks to browser vendors, particularly Microsoft, trying lock-in games. The OSS browsers are the only thing which saved it since none of the old corporate players valued quality or performance as much as market-share (and, consequently, OS licenses or advertising).
My bias is exactly the opposite; I assume that anyone calling themselves a "software developer" or a "software engineer" is probably more interested in implementing a design pattern than writing good code, and probably knows about as much about computer science as he read on Coding Horror.

I think both of our biases are dumb.