skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turn it around: if you only know how to code, stop right now. Take 6 months and learn how to market/deal/plan.
To their credit, the "25 cent" price tag would really only make sense in a prepaid environment. I kinda figured nobody would charge less than credit card processing fees.
My VC Year - Joel Spolsky @ Business of Software
Linux user counter - We are more than 1% campaign
I wish people would mention this when they submit. The text makes much more sense now!
Use pdb2mdb to convert your symbols from the .net to mono format. Place the .mdb's alongside your dll/exe. Then you will get files and line numbers.
Depending on the application, using a document store with the ability to add indexes and/or perform ad-hoc queries can simplify things (something like MongoDB/CoucnDB rather than Cassandra). And sometimes just the convenience of being able to not need to define a schema using SQL or whatever ORM you are using makes using a NoSQL backend worth the pain of learning a new technology.

But there are a lot of existing tools for working with SQL technologies (PGAdmin on the Postgres side, MySQL Administrator in MySQL, etc.) that make the long-term use and administration of a SQL system much more manageable in the long term than some NoSQL options.
Seconded. Been with them for couple years for some domains. Been great.
Seems to me that clicking on the column should open a new window/tab to that particular reddit.
Facebook Innovations Jumpstart 'Privacy-Plus 2.0'
Monotonous work can be soul-destroying, but it just depends on your level of interest and excitement. Doing monotonous busy-work that you hate day-in and day-out is soul-destroying.
The most sited example is ActiveRecord where finders can be auto-generated. For example `find_by_name_and_address` will be defined on the fly the first time it is used in code. Another common usage is a wrapper class that provides a unified interface to a set of underlying objects. If many of these objects have almost the same interface `def method_missing(method,args); @object.send(method, args);end` can save a lot of redundant definitions.
Whatever you do, make sure you vest each person's share in the company (including your own)! See http://www.vcreadylaw.com/blog/2009/09/14/founders-agreement...
Code the right way... and your start-up will probably fail
Chris Dixon wrote an insightful post on this last year: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/23/dividing-equity-between-founder...
Lawyer Jailed by Judge for Failing to Recite Pledge of Allegiance
We use easyDNS. They're not cheap, but they're very good.
What's the skill set? Bringing on a co-founder for a specific skill set at an early stage is generally a bad idea because everyone will (and should) be doing everything for the first few months. If you're pre-product and pre-revenue you should be looking for partners...that is, people who have complementary skill sets and are willing to do everything possible to ensure that the company succeeds. At this stage companies should be split equally among the founders. If you're at a later stage then the percentage should be decided in a brief (emphasis on brief) negotiation process that accounts for existing product value created. In this case, a good rule of thumb is probably 1/n^2 where n=employee number.
Looks like he is heavily trying to bank in on his new found celebrity http://www.adamguerbuez.com/index.php. After all, assuming his net worth is below a few millions, I guess he is better off with a $873M judgment which gives him tons of press coverage and a Guinness world record than a smaller fine which who would bankrupt him anyway.
Reddit has a pretty decent API, you can add ".json" or ".xml" to pretty much every URL (e.g. http://www.reddit.com/.xml).
The definition I had heard for autopsy was "examination of a cadaver to attempt to determine the cause of it's death". I guess you're saying that's wrong. What's the proper definition? I'm guessing it does have something to do with examining cadavers but there are restrictions. Is the restriction that the cadaver be human? Or that both the examiner and cadaver be human? Or possibly that both cadaver and examiner be intelligent creatures of the same kind in some sense (that's what "auto" sort of sounds like to me)?
Maybe you were thinking of this:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414084627.ht...
Maybe it's because I don't use a sherry glass, or maybe I'm just not used to picking out the aromas of whiskey, but this has never worked for me.

I don't sniff--that sounds harsh and uninviting--but just gently breathe. With the right amount of water and few moments of airing, it's perfect.
Using external templates with jQuery Templates
Sorry -- I'd thought of including it in the link title, but I'd had the realization that this was an old article about midway through, and for some reason it increased my satisfaction in reading it. The clues are all there - the prices are what gave it away for me.
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Arms and Armor — Common Misconceptions (MMoA)
Others missed but useful for beginners:

BlueJ (Java), Arachnophilia (HTML/C/Java)
Okay guys, I've got to come out with something here. I'm kind of a lurker on HN so I don't really say much...but I need to say something before I continue with my comment here: I really love Microsoft products.

The (fledgling) start up I'm working on is built on .NET. I'm a BizSpark member and my 9 to 5s have all been in .NET shops. My senior project in college was written on .NET which led me to contracting at Microsoft for a while while I finished my degree. And while I was there I was continually impressed by the quality of the people I interacted with and how dedicated and passionate they were to and about their technologies.

I can talk all day about what I like and what I don't like about specific technologies they put out but my comment today isn't on the quality of their products. It is on Steve Ballmer's atrocious presentation skills.

The way this man talks is like a marketeer in that doesn't really "get" technology and dances around the technical aspects with marketing speak and hand waving. He cannot afford to continue to deny that his competitors are beating the shit out of them in a number of markets that they oh-so-badly want to participate in but just cannot execute in for one reason or another. And beyond that, in 2010, when your CEO competition is Zuckerberg, Jobs, and Schmidt, you really really can't afford to not really get technology.

Microsoft if you're out there, if you're listening to me, please for the love of the gigantic, rich, strong community that surrounds your company and technologies, please PLEASE eject Steve Ballmer. He's been slowly sinking the ship for 10 years (yes, it is mostly his doing) and you can't keep this up.
I was really curious to know the amounts of money the author was talking about in 2010 terms.

His annual income was $1980 + $168.75 = $2148.75, which was 6% of "what I earned in my prime..."

So, 100 / 6 * 2148.75 = $35,812.5 annual income

The article was written in either 1977 or 1969 (see comment by sorbus), so let's guess his highest salary was earned in either 1965 or 1975.

Using the US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation calculator (http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm), income during his prime in 2010 dollars was somewhere between $145,321.53 (1975) and $248,199.95 (1965)

Depending on when he wrote this article, his retirement income was somewhere between $7,740.89 (1977) and $12,781.96 (1969)

Long story short, the author took a 95% hit to his income in "retirement" (~$200k -> ~$10k in 2010 dollars)
would you say that as a newbie it is hard to find your way around from class to class or to learn where all the 'scattered' administrative offices are?

also, were the building and classroom # coded normally or arbitrarily? that can be frustrating, i know from my university, they labeled the building with random letters - who knows how the freshman understand it!
There might be all sorts of reasons - if you're being busted for fraud or tax evasion and all of your hard drives are mysteriously blank, or there are empty filing cabinets and a big pile of ash then I would imagine that would go down fairly badly in court.

The modern equivalent is a whole bunch of destroyed media - thumb drives, flash cards or hard drives.
I recalled from my history class that the Georgia colony was originally founded for the "worthy" poor. So they made distinction between the kind of poor. There are some poor who deserve their lot in life and those who don't.

However, I think being poor is not alway as simple as people like to make it. Sometime, growing up poor meant adopting ideas and values that make it much harder to rise out of poverty. I recalled a book that for example said that middle class women read much more to their children and emphasize effort over "rightness", ask questions to their children about what they read. The poor were more likely to be authoritarian in character, less likely to do the kind of educational reading that a middle class woman did, and so on. The effect is so large, that it even persists over generations.

If you have poor parents that did everything in their power to educate you as an autodidact, than you and your family would rise out of poverty quick. However, it is probable that all our families face bottleneck. We aren't exactly optimized to make our children the most ambitious, smartest, and autodidact as we can.

I myself have parents that didn't exactly encourage the kind of ambitious and curiosity that I have right now. It was my own innate and the computer that I used. During the time when I still used AOL, I would look up encyclopedia article and educate myself about the various topics that interests me. Eventually I would learn programming and a fair amount about certain obscure subjects, IP and innovation theory being one of them.

Oddly enough, I recalled my past IQ to be around 90, below average. I tested myself at a few IQ site several weeks ago and it returns somewhat above average. I supposed I am not so smart as much as I am innately curious. Apart from the real and likely accurate probability that human memory are easily corrupted, my curiosity probably drive my IQ above average.
It's just a flesh wound! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
Nicholas Negroponte at GigaOM Mobilize Conference
As with many Islam/Muslim nations (not racism. a fact. i lived there).
Yes, I want to create an A/B testing (and other types of market research testing) on a level up based on consumers preferences. Say they like to read, so direct the authors tests to them and not to alliterates.

what do you mean "tightly coupled with the app itself"?
Yes, but shredding your books instead of donating them just to spite a reseller seems like sour grapes regardless of the justification.

I agree that there is a temptation to wonder 'what if' about some young starry-eyed dreamer who may stumble upon a book who has instead had that chance snatched from him and will now turn to a life of crime but the reality is the book is far more likely headed for the trash heap than to a loving home. That being the case, it is far preferable to have the book go to a reseller and on to someone who wants it.
Google Urchin 7 64-bit released
Compatible with Google Analytics now
I beg any facebook employees that read this to please implement a Confirm All button. I've pressed confirm over 1,800 times today. It's like being on LOST.
MIT female learning to code
I'm currently a junior taking intro to computer science and programming. After working on my first startup and realizing how slow my programmers were, I decided I'd be better off learning to program.

Class is good right now but I want to learn more.

My question: What is the best literature for beginners that I can get my hands on? Beneficial websites? I've only played with python so far...what else do you recommend?

Thank You
I'm not a Rubyist, but 37signals' (clickable: http://37signals.com/) new design is really great to me. It's clean and extremely functional.
That explains why everything seemed so cheap. Adjusting for inflation, $2,000 in the early 70's is around $10,000 today.
They've also got to overcome some resistance to online advertising, I suspect.
> I don't think it's fair to say it costs you more than $1500 to host one blog when in fact it's a series of sites.

I agree. That was poor wording on my part.

> and about $100/mo for hosting

Who do you host with?
Thanks Jason. I'll forward your suggestion to the groups PM.

Disclamer: this might be by design. The proudct was intended for small groups of people that actually know each other (families, soccer clubs, close friends, etc).
Sorry for the snarky remark. I think Xmarks is an excellent service and I've been a happy user for 6 months+. But when you send out an email saying you're done, and I move my bookmarks over to another service...well.....

For the record, Xmarks today is better than Chrome sync. If things work out for them, I'll move back.
A reseller or partner with enom.com ... at $10 a domain without having the need to configure anything to Google Apps. It is pretty decent. Domain alone purchases alone without coupons/discounts are starting to cost more than $12 these days.
I've been using them for well over a decade. No nonsense, low prices, interface miles better than GoDaddy.
I would like to think of a clever follow up, but 'ditto'. I keep my 1TB hard drive as a long-term storage solution but otherwise all productivity has been moved to the SSD and boot times are in seconds.
Everybody need to specialize or find themselves a niche within the economy and get good at what they do so they don't get out-competed. ... The issue of "governing" should take care of itself much like every other profession take care to solve other people's problem instead of expecting entire people to be wise in governing. ... Forget the concept of citizenship duty and rework the system according to the real strength and limitation of the people.

I think this is an incredibly dangerous attitude. Society works when human beings recognize what they have in common; a society in which all social and political organization is based on specialization and individual differences is a society in which people are divided and susceptible to tyranny. I will gladly trade some economic productivity for a citizenship which recognizes its common interests, actively pursues them, and knows how to defend its members against exploitation.
OH: “If it’s not tested, it probably doesn’t work”. It’s not the coding that matters, it’s what you are testing against. If your testing aligns with what your users are doing, it doesn’t matter if you are coding the “right way”. I’ve see sh coding that just “works” for users and they still love it!
"Talking shit" is part of being in competition with a company.
> they (Microsoft) don't realize that they're no longer the ones defining where technology goes

Actually, this is a really good point. In 1985 Microsoft was Facebook and Microsoft continued to be Facebook-y 'till, what, 2002?
Google Apps (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html) is a eNom reseller, and provides you with all the Google goodness (mail/docs/cal).

1 year = $10 (privacy included).
I'm surprised they didn't think of this before. Reddit did pretty much the same thing recently with 'Reddit Gold' which so far has been very successful for them.
My bad, I've seen the bugs (had to do with consolidate by day's dealing with dates). It's been fixed in the update I'll submit to Apple in the coming days.
Always take advice on the internet with a grain of salt - mine included - but I'll say the following:

You sound like you've had a tough time. You are being very hard on yourself in your post.

You say your doctor came to the conclusion you were depressed before he died. Go talk to another doctor about it. You might have to talk to more than one to find someone good; but find someone good that listens to what you say.

Maybe get them to refer you to someone that will do talking sessions with you so you can talk out the issues you wrote about, and start to process them.

Talking this stuff out, with someone who is good at this process, is something that helped several techies I know get where they want.
Insanity to combine the two! I like to actually know the people in my facebook stream, tyvm.
Notice how, more than once, the man refuses a well paying job because it is difficult to do, but also does so with the understanding that enduring that hardship would lift him out of poverty.

Notice how, instead of honorable thriftiness and hard work, the man relies on taking advantage of the system and other peoples' hard work.

It's not romantic to acknowledge this, but it is the truth. I'm hard pressed to find some thing which I can learn from this man.
Every time I read what comes out of Steve Ballmer's mouth I wonder if that guy has ever touched a computer. Microsoft's employees need to acquire some parrots and eye patches. It's mutiny time.
If the copy was acquired through some private, contracted method the first-sale doctrine might not apply. For example, if you're given a private review copy of a book under a no-sale contract that you agree to, that's enforceable, at least in theory, and the first-sale doctrine doesn't apply. However it's pretty hard to police, and almost all the policing effort that anybody does expend is pre-release, to try to track down people trying to sell review copies on eBay before the street date; nobody spends much effort tracking down people who then sold those review copies 5 years later.
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I thought non-conformity was supposed to be valued? Why should you have to conform just so you don't get punched?
Ask HN: How do Companies use Twitter?
Is Twitter the most widely use Social Media?
The "Suppose there was a" conversations get kind of annoying when they start to talk about things that are not likely to exist anytime in the near future, like a perfect virtual simulation of the world.
So, this was voted down because it was a reddit-style joke answer, but there's a kernel of truth in there.

A user interface is different from the user experience because of the interaction (abbreviated Ix; interaction design is IxD).

User experience is the entire experience of the user, and you can broaden it to include the documentation, the packaging, the APIs, the phone menus (I do), or you can narrow it to include just the purview of the application itself.

The user interface is just that: the interface, the actual buttons you click on and command prompts you type text into. The interface is controls laid out by developers and front-end engineers plus a visual treatment defined by graphic designers and visual artists, but the user experience designers told them what visual and contextual priority some controls have over others, provided a recommended information architecture for menus, a expertly defined placement for widgets, suggested reaction times for responses and copy for dialogs.

The study of how the users will interact with the application is the difference between throwing a bunch of controls in a window, and designing the experience they will have.
I'm sure in the US this is probably legally possible, but can you clarify why/how one can patent an API?

An API in and of itself is nothing, it seems ridiculous to me that it can be afforded any legal protections.

I don't see how an API is different from a protocol in a legal sense, and we have reverse engineered protocols all over the place (e.g. Samba).

And from an API point of view: Wine, ReactOS.

I just don't understand what Google is doing wrong, other than succeeding where Sun never did.
"Mac users were always defending the boutique, specialist, quality over quantity arguments on the desktop and then suddenly it was all a numbers game for a while there.".

The truth is, that the kind of people who say things like that are the kind of people who look for opportunities to argue about that kind of stuff and your statement reads like you have a clear bias. That's not a very objective perspective to my mind.

-sent from my iPad
For hands-on practice, try this: http://projecteuler.net/
An HN-er recommended this in an article last night.

Also, as ugly and difficult as it will seem at first, invest the time to learn how to use an efficient text editor. I prefer vim.
I9+++??
i9+++????you know:
Hmm, I'm not sure about that logic.

'Suppose we are currently in such a simulation' - does your objection still hold?
this seems like a pretty big milestone

It is! I yesterday compiled latest llvm/clang myself (surprisingly easy, by the way) to test how it would help our build times. We use a lot of C++ templates and gcc compilation times are a big pain point. I just ran syntax check with clang and it already found a bunch of pretty serious bugs, so it's not only faster but better at finding errors too.

they also mention now supporting objective-c++. that's got to be one strange beast to code in.

We do it daily. It's just a mixture of C++ and Objective-C code. I think quite many game studios are using Obj-C++ as their own libraries are in C++, but many times you need some interface elements from UIKit.

Nothing magical in Obj-C++, but there are a few dangerous ways to shoot your in the foot that you don't really learn by reading but by shooting.
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i fully believe in quiet confidence as the best mentality. in fact, if you always under-promise & over-deliver, you can't go wrong ;)
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This bit might have something to do with that:

> using a new software system developed by the military for analyzing proteins

and in the paper:

> with data processing and statistical analysis by the US Army Night Vision Laboratory

So while not strictly speaking necessary (because knowledge can be transferred) the mass-spectrometers are not the whole story here.
It seems information could potentially travel faster than light through quantum entanglement: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/13/entangl...
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The DLR is fully functional in Mono by virtue of Microsoft having open sourced the entire DLR under the MS-PL and Apache2 licenses, so this release contains the same DLR that you get in .NET 4.0
I've found that the only good time to use method_missing is when I'm wrapping an object and need to send all but a couple methods through to it untouched. I've really never used it for anything else.
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I'm going through the author's book right now (Metaprogramming Ruby). It's great.
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Well, your girlfriend is obviously an adult! Case closed! ;-)

More seriously, she does seem to be rather, er, focused on the topic of sex... Which is great, but I can see why they would object, if sex-related things are banned in Lybia.
> even if someone is foolish enough to buy them out.

Well, wait a bit longer and the price just might become right.