skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle doesn't do marketing like that.

Oracle doesn't care what you do, unless you are in their target market: enterprise software.

If you are, then no amount of talking to management will trump the potential of their talk with management: "Sorry, you are using an unsupported configuration. Your 500K support contract is now void, you will no longer receive critical updates and your licence will expire at the end of the month. Good luck getting your data out before then. Oh, BTW, if you keep your database running after the licence is expired then we'll sue you"

You'll never win taking Oracle on head on like that.

OTOH, they are very vulnerable to new applications that just happen to be written in Cava on a JVM-derived virtual machine.
I use pinboard for my "read it later" functionality, but I'd switch to Instapaper if it could deliver to my Kindle account (I don't use a Kindle, but do use the software on my iPad). I'm assuming it's an Amazon limitation that means auto-delivery only works on the Kindle hardware, no?
Which might also be an effective recruiting tool. I used to sit next to someone who used to hit the restroom at 1pm every day, like clockwork, and come out reeking of whiskey. Also kept a bottle of Wild Turkey on his desk that slowly diminished. He wasn't fired, so I assume he was good and got his stuff done.
The important thing here is the US military is big enough to create a market. They've got lots of money and they don't care if the solution is more expensive than fossil fuels.
Kinda ironic, since that's right next to the city dump.
Inflation is preferable to deflation. And the goal of no inflation is unrealistic from both practical and theoretical perspectives. There are a number of inherent incentives for a minimal inflation policy: to hedge against deflation, to reduce the real value of debt, to induce spending, etc.
Diwali Shubh Muhurat 2010:Diwali Muhurat Trading 2010 Timings
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The quality and relevance of the books on this list seem mixed at best.

Maybe I'm cynical but the original page looks like linkbait for the guys affiliate code to Amazon. I'm saddened that HN has found this so 'useful'. I think we could do a better job crowdsourcing the very best and relevant books together on a "Ask HN" thread.
HacktheSlack
It comes down to culture. HN for example, generally frowns upon humor unless it really is providing some kind of insight into the discussion -- I've called this place the least funny site on the Web and I still mean it.
ALERT: PLEASE realize that this is $1.99/month subscription service.
Today is 4th birthday of SlideShare
Money isn't tight in the US. It may not be flowing as much as it once did, but it's still loose and cheap.
Hot cakes on the griddle
A response: http://xkcd.com/794/

Take a look at any play, novel, poem, song, painting, etc. etc., and you’ll find that they’re all filled with in-jokes and references to some shared canon or to recent events. The idea that once you hit the internet this becomes some uniquely exclusionary practice seems pretty historically revisionist.
Rather than "he earned the right," it might be more accurate to say "he's proved he's not a sexist pig, the movie is probably fairly accurate in regards to the gender of the protagonists."

But you could probably object to the fact that that explanation is even needed.
What I didn't learn from the Facebook movie
In 1941 there were two very nasty dictatorships in the world. How fortunate for everyone else that they fought each other, one was destroyed and the other badly weakened!
I don't think this is some sort of game where you can gain some credit doing one thing which lets you do the opposite and have others turn a blind eye. People might still give you respect despite a misogynistic movie, a flop company, or embarrassing outburst, but that doesn't give you a "right" to do it and not be roasted for it.

We need to keep questioning things and be ever vigilant to make sure we don't loose the liberties that we have gained, particularly for minorities. The healthy way to do that is to have an open and honest discussion about the subject when is relevant.

You always have the right to free speech and to spend your money on whatever you want (within reason, no hit-men). You never earn the right to be above criticism.
The problem is that if you try to maintain no inflation, you run the risk of succeeding too well and getting deflation. Deflation is known to lead to persistent recessions, and is very, very difficult to fix once it sets in. (Just ask Japan how deflation has been for them. Or the USA how we liked the Great Depression.)

Therefore it isn't as simple as inflation bad, no inflation good. Rather it is too much inflation bad, any deflation bad, and you need to be in the middle. Which means that you want to maintain a small amount of persistent inflation - just enough to avoid the risk of miscalculating and going into deflation, but no more.

A big worry for the USA at the moment is that the current credit issues could lead to deflation.
Last I heard, they're slated for a release right about the time 10.7 is coming out. I got a twitters saying something along the lines of "we're moving slowly, but moving and doing it right."
Netflix spends $600m every year on postage
I was just glad that they made a movie about a successful startup. All the boring dramatic crap was lost on me after he said Emacs. :)
Notice that thread has no comments, and comments cannot be left. I am assuming this is a HN tool - wakemate threads tend to devolve into criticism and bad feelings.
uh, ok without this thread devolving into 4chan ... i doubt that you (or most men) would want to be demeaned and treated like a sex object by a bunch of women whom you find utterly repulsive. maybe a better way to think about this is: replace 'women' with 'massive prisoners', and 'gym' with 'prison'. how many men do you know would appreciate that?
TC has never delivered anywhere close to 80k uniques for any of the projects I have been involved with.

3-4 years ago (first time I had a project covered by TC) it delivered ~3x more traffic compared to what I see nowadays (probably because the volume of daily posts has skyrocketed over those years).

I'm sure controversial topics (Angelgate, etc) still drive traffic, but if HN is creating 10k uniques for top stories then the "HN effect" is greater than what average TC coverage provides.

Plus, I've seen a lot of early adopters and tastemakers have moved to HN for finding things more on the cutting edge.

As much as I hate to say it, planning an effective HN marketing campaign may end up being more useful than trying to pitch the bloggers...
Seems to crash safari on the iPad too.
It isn't specific to wakemate, none of the YC job postings allow comments (unless it's just submitted as a regular story of course)

http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
They failed miserably as I recall. It was a glorified screen saver.
Chronicle of Higher Education: What Are You Going to Do With That?
Really a killer idea. Love it. We have a few more we'll be covering later, as I said. I'm really impressed with what I've been sent tonight. Nice job, HN folks.
Instead of using canvas, for webkit at least it makes more sense to use http://webkit.org/blog/181/css-masks/ Canvas is a good fall-back for other browsers.
What addictive technology or websites do you avoid?
In "The Acceleration of Addictiveness," Paul Graham posits why things are becoming more addictive, and that if you want to be productive, you need to learn how to deal with or avoid addictive technologies (like TV, for example).

What technology or websites do you avoid?

How do you deal with addictive technology?
Robinttucker
What are you looking for in customer service?
If you got bored reading this, it may be because you've read this same article a dozen times before. The only difference was the name of the movie.

Whether it's The Social Network or, say, any Judd Apatow film of the last few years, there's been no shortage of oblivious feminista blogger-types dying to tell you how offended they were by...(what are actually) figments of their own imagination/ the selection errors of their own narrow perception.

The Social Network is an exposé on Mark Zuckerberg. It is NOT a commentary on the state of gender relations in the social areas of either college or the tech community at large. As an exposé on Mark Zuckerberg, its main focus will be, you guessed it, Mark Zuckerberg. If you, Jezebel columnist Irin Carmon, happen to place your focus anywhere other than Zuckerberg, you are bound to find inconsistencies with the real world (movies, as portrayals of the real world, are inherently fake and inconsistent). Women never have ideas. Also, a disproportionate number of the lampshades are forest green; in FY 2004 forest green accounted for a mere 3.3% of lampshade sales in the United States, whereas in the movie, no fewer than 4 of 9 lampshades is forest green-- WHAT THE FUCK.

Maybe the roles women fill in the movie isn't some sort of perverse commentary on everyone with two X chromosomes. Maybe those roles are just the only ones available for women to fill in a movie about a Harvard computer hacker, his Harvard computer hacker buddies, and the tech company they founded together. Or does Sorkin need to manufacture a prominent female character who's smart, comes up with lots of fantastic ideas, actually happens to be the best computer hacker on campus, would never stoop to wearing slutty clothing to attract men, sometimes wears slutty clothing but lambasts every man who compliments her attire by asking why you don't compliment Joey on his rugby shirt because you're a sexist that's why, would never have an abortion because of her earth-shattering instinct for motherhood no matter what society says about the appropriate time and place to have a family, would definitely have an abortion if she wanted to because it's her choice anyway not that dumb jock's and who cares what her dad says anyway he's just a cog in the Patriarchy.
Now that is one very clever hack. It worked fine for me on ff 3.5.6.
Neat hack, the lesson most of us should draw from this though is avoid designs that use big images with alpha transparency as they are many kbs! If you have to you maybe able to use this someday . . . for some of your users.
Fiat currency is used by the State to demand an equity stake in your money, and they define the terms. Any entrepreneur should know this is a bad deal, and it will always result in inflation. Imagine if VC's used a "living document" to govern your deal terms, their share will always get BIGGER, and your share will eventually dwindle to nothing.
Another Excellent article on this:
http://baglady.dreamhosters.com/2007/11/16/california-dreami...

Preferred Share Liquidation Preference is another landmine.

I know at least one (world class valley player) early epinions employee who walked away with almost nothing - The common shareholders got screwed when epinions merged with dealtime to form shopping.com - but he had already left the company for another gig, so there was really zero benefit to taking care of him.

At Oblix, anybody who was an ex-employee ended up with zero on equity when they sold to Oracle for $85 Million - preferred shareholders ended up with everything. Existing employee who made it through the transition landed a retention bonus, and the founders (some of who were no longer at Oblix) picked up a "consulting" bonus to make sure the deal went through and they didn't block it.

A few lessons learned from all these experiences:

o At the end of the Day, you really are at the mercy of the Majority Shareholders, regardless of what equity you think you may have - unless you are prepared to go to war in court.

o Always be aware of how much leverage you have with Founders Stock. When a final sale is going through, you may not have enough voting stock to defeat the deal, but you may have a large enough block to mount a legal challenge - it might be easier, and cheaper, and certainly less risky to simply buy you off. Protect your position.

o Stay close and friendly to the CEO, VCs, and Board Members driving the financial structure (typically the ones selected by the VCs) They will be the ones who can re-up you when the dilutive rounds hit the company, or hand out "retention" bonuses after a sale - and they are the only ones who really have a clue as to what machinations are taking place.

o Probably most importantly - bring unique value to the table that the company requires to succeed, and continue to succeed after a sale. I remember walking out of "The Social Network" wondering how on earth Eduardo manage to walk away with 7%. The way I watched the movie, Facebook succeeded despite his efforts to slam it with Ads too early, and his inability to pull in Angels like Thiel. And how he wasn't sitting right beside Mark night and day, is beyond me. And seriously, how could he claim to be the "CFO" and not be intimately familiar with each and every clause of the stock events that were taking place. It was liked he'd totally checked out and was just showing up now and then to see what was happening at the company. The movie was very unsympathetic to him. Now I have go read "The Facebook Effect" and "The accidental Billionaires"just to see if they portrayed Eduardo in a more sympathetic light.

The movie portrayed Sean Parker as playing a much, much larger role in Facebook's success than Eduardo - yet they ended up with similar amounts of equity, which befuddles me.
Smart Hack.
Demanding single sex accommodations for your gender while being strongly opposed to single sex accommodations for the opposite gender is, bluntly, horseshit. If women have a problem with they way they're treated in gyms, they're free to start gyms where such behavior is against the rules. They're just shouldn't be free to ban you for being male.
I like it. I spent a few minutes looking at some headlines and was satisfied with it.

I think it's more important to group stories by category (if it's possible), than it is by source.

Where are you getting the "shared" data from? Ah, I see it says "facebook" on the bottom. What's the specific API call to get this data?

I dislike the menu thing that pops up when I hover over a link. It is distracting. There's no need for it to be that easily accessible, because most of the time I won't use the feature, and it doesn't need to be shown before I even click through to the link. Perhaps show a little + icon to the left (or right) of the link, and have it open up this menu when I click it.

One last thing, I really dislike the font.

All-in-all, a very nice production. I've bookmarked it and will probably check it once a day. Good work.
This was just pointed out to me - I feel like an idiot now :)
More accurately, some of the New Deal (deposit insurance, fiscal & monetary expansion, leaving the gold standard) worked, but some of it hurt. The fact that many countries suffered for just as long and worse, if not longer, without analogous policies makes me wary of the authors' modeling.

> Recovery came only after the Department of Justice dramatically stepped enforcement of antitrust cases nearly four-fold and organized labor suffered a string of setbacks, the economists found.

That wouldn't have been around 1939-45 or so, would it?
I think I could block all those in the title no problem except for Google. Google is too handy for searching for docs, methods and the like.
This is the second criticism/rant I've seen along these lines since the movie came out. But each time they fail to point out, or emphasize, that 3 of the females with the most on-screen time in the movie (2 lawyers, and Mark's early GF) are portrayed as decent and/or intelligent and professional people with brains. Yes there were several "gold diggers" and party girls, groupies, at least one psycho-girl, etc. And you know what? Those exist in real life too. But it's incorrect to say that the movie portrays all women with a bad brush. As in real life, some are good, some are bad, and many are shades of grey.
Yeah, CSS masks make a lot of sense.

Internet Explorer also has some weird filter properties that almost -- but not quite -- do what we need. If someone can figure it out, it would be significantly better than using FlashCanvas.
Garbage collection was added in 2.0, boilerplate properties code can be removed with the latest LLVM/CLang, and it's message passing rather than method calling. Add namespaces and remove the .h/.m split and I'd argue it was a better language than C# or Java.

And the spec is less than 135 pages long. The Java spec is 650 pages. The C# spec is 530 pages.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/...
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/download/langspec-3.0.pdf
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...

To be fair the Java and C# specs are written in a terse but exhaustive manner because standards bodies are the main audience. But it still says something about the conciseness of the languages.
Personally I like the reverse, up and over at either Kings or Old La Honda down 84 -- then Pescadaro to Alpine and down Page.
What part of the New Deal is 'oddly' happening again? $300 billion of the $862 billion dollar stimulus were either tax cuts or credits.

Here is a link seemingly debunking that guise of an academic study: http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10644 Fair warning it might cause cognitive dissonance.
It will be prevalent long into the future, don't kid yourself. Opposing view points on all subjects will always exist and these arguments will always happen. Instead, you should be shocked when violence or vulgar language is still being used to exert opinion dominance.
Yup. Crashes on iPad.
And the world portrayed in the movie is, as in real life, one in which the vast majority of new inventions, technology breakthroughs, and tech businesses, are started and led by men.
I agree more or less with everything you say, but don't think it's really relevant to what I said. Perhaps it was not clear, but I don't think the movie is misogynist, although it is in some obvious respects about misogyny. The terrain of sexual politics is difficult to negotiate, and it is possible to criticize intellectually-challenged unsympathetic writers even for trying to aestheticize in film the negotiation of that terrain. The fact that Sorkin has established his authority to write sensitively and intelligently about complicated subjects about which everyone seems to have intensely entrenched opinions means for me that we should avoid the knee-jerk response to the appearance in his writing of unimpressive female characters and misogyny towards them and at least consider that something more meaningful is going on than the banal intrusion into the film of the author's own supposed sexism.
Hacker News for iPad
Reddit, Hacker News.

That said, the best way I've found to get into it is a cross between anchors and distraction removal.

The following steps assume you actually enjoy your projects. Your milage may vary.

Step 1: Anchor a song to doing something active, something that gets your adrenaline pumping. My method of choice in this regard is loud DnB music while driving at night on a freeway. Windows down, bass turned up...

Step 2: Never, ever use this song (or those songs) in a work playlist. I explicitly used Immersion by Pendulum for this, and never had it on any coding-related playlist that would come up while I was working.

Step 3: Remove distractions. Coders, don't forget your 15-minute rule-- if you're expecting to get a call, have someone come to your door, whatever, then you may want to wait. Make sure you've got an uninterrupted window of potential productivity. For me personally, if I'm having a hard time of it, I'll drop the screen session with IRC open, close out Gtalk, close out my email, turn off my phone, turn off my second monitor and fullscreen Vim. No distractions.

Step 4: Trigger your anchor. Put the anchored song on, feel the adrenaline start to flow, and get to work.

The more you trigger the anchor, the less effective it's going to be, so you'll want to make sure to keep your triggers up to date, either by continuing to use that song in your active-activities, or by rotating other, newer songs into it.
(Warning, shameless self promotion.)

I co-run a thing called the Build Guild. We are web people that gather at a local bar once per month to talk about anything that seems interesting: web stuff, venting about clients, things completely unrelated to the web, etc. You know when you go to meet ups and after the event you go to the bar? That bar part is our entire meet up.

What seems like arbitrary drinking actually results in a really close network of friends that you can trust, and the conversations always continue on into the spaces between drinking events. Oh, we also have a thing for mustaches.

If you're near any of the cities we're in, I'd recommend stopping by, having a drink and high-fiving someone. You never know who you'll meet. :)

Check it: http://buildguild.org

(Full disclosure: even if I didn't co-run it, I'd still recommend it to you. I didn't start the Build Guild, but was so into the idea that I eventually moved my way into running a chapter.)
API Battle: Netflix vs. Hulu vs. YouTube
You could enter your search, the middle click on the "Go" links for Bing, Yahoo, Google, and whatever else. This will open new tabs in your browser, containing the results for those search engines.

I really can't say I see much value in comparing 3 different search engine results at the same time. I'd rather just look at Google, then Bing, then Yahoo.
As a citizen of the internet, I do want to point out that the perception of humour varies in what he ironically refers to as meatspace. To some people, "that's what she said" really does sum up their entire sense of humour. The internet, like the world, has a lot of different types of humour. If you don't like it, eat an onion*

*As the author of this blog post does not explain how to stop these comedic citizens.
Or, any Android phone running 2.2 on a carrier other than AT&T. Instant wifi hotspot.
Spending time in among adults and performing real work would have a great positive effect on kids.

It seems obvious why teenage culture is petty, cruel, and obsessed with fashion and status; the inmates, trapped in an artificial world and forced to do fake-work, turn on each other.
Agreed. Though to your comment about what startups are like in real life, I'd say that based on my experience, in the real world, startups can be exactly how it was portrayed in the movie. Yes the movie was optimized to be more dramatic and "perfect". But in broader strokes, and in terms of the kinds of incidents and patterns and relationships that happen, I've found startups to be a lot like how early Facebook was portrayed. Been there, done that, even have the t-shirt. Just don't have the billion dollar valuation... yet. ;)
I just posted my project earlier tonight, and got essentially nothing. I'm fairly certain my site is relevant for hackers, so I'm assuming it just got overlooked.

The sites on the list have a pretty low chance of your site getting "overlooked" as easily as it happens on HN on a fairly frequent basis. There are just so many stories submitted here that they can't all possibly be upvoted. The sites listed are blog-like and guarantee your site gets visibility for some amount of time.
This is a nice demonstration that C is actually (moderately) strongly typed - it's just that the keyword that introduces a new type is "struct", not "typedef".