skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I would say that trade and enforcement of contracts are what make our society civilized.

That's a businessman's perspective; there are a lot of other players and concerns in society. What about caring for the environment, enforcing better safety regulations, enforcing better work conditions, etc?
Testing is a skill like any other. When you started programming, I'm sure you were quite slow at it, as well. As you level up your testing skill, the time it takes to write tests drops down. At first, it's really slow going, though, I agree.

I also have the pleasure of writing 90% of my code in Ruby, which has top notch testing support basically everywhere.
> Actually children could probably be provided for to a large extent with charity.

I wish I wasn't a cynic and could believe that.
Many times. A few of my favorites:

- We upgraded our hardware and our forecasting software vendor wanted a one time $600,000 charge. I convinced my boss to replace them with in-house written software. Took 6 weeks to write.

- Our 400 worker factory was $30,000 under-absorbed per month. I wrote both standard costing and data collection software. Supervisors compared the standards to the actuals to discover where they were losing money. We were over-absorbed by $30,000 per month 6 months later.

- We budgeted over $1 million for a new ERP system to "solve all of our problems". I helped others solve most of their problems by identifying them and coming up with solutions from the existing software. We never did buy new software.

- (My favorite). Our HCFA feed from the U.S. Government was broken and no one knew why. I dug in and changed 1 byte of code (1 byte, not 1 line). The next day, our bank account had $6.5 million more in it. I never had the heart to tell them how easy it was to fix.
I did that once too. Took 2 minutes looking at the account to realise they were spending £3k / month driving traffic to a URL which didn't exist anymore. They'd been driving traffic to that page for 18 months without noticing...!
This is a SWPL problem. Just take some of the weblogs inc money and hire a nanny.
I met my wife through OkCupid. :)
Other: joined OkCupid for the silly quizzes they had way back when they first started, kept it around as a social networking thing before facebook. All the time I've been with someone I didn't meet online (same person), but without the internet we would never have gotten together ;).

As a woman, I get a very large number of messages & woots or winks or w/e they're called these days, all I can say is that the ones I bother to read are the ones that aren't just "hey baby" or weird soppy poetry. Though I'm not looking, so that could skew my opinion ;P
Requires Silverlight...

Why would someone trying to promote something prevent access by demanding a plugin install?
Excellent idea! I used to use Firefox Home for exactly this reason (just leave the tab open on your desktop PC), but after moving to Chrome this doesn't work anymore.

Will give yours a try!
My question is if zepto.js is only 2k then why is jQuery 26k? What features are left out of Zepto? What are the drawbacks? Or is it just that jQuery isn't written as efficiently as it should be?
There seems to be a lot of disagreement about lower bounds here. The best case lower bound is trivially 0 since you could start with a terminating permutation. The article is talking about a worst case lower bound, which is what one would use to assign the problem to a complexity class.
Maybe I'm nuts but Slicehost for me still has the best stability of the various VM providers I use.
the numbers work out pretty well when you disregard the reality . Only in fantasy land the sun is always at peak, technology that claims to be 10% efficient is actually 10%, DC-AC conversion and storage is 100% efficient, and if you disregard the government subsidies and the energy needed to manufacture.
Someone beat them to the business plan!
Walt Mossberg: MacBook Air Has the Feel Of an iPad In a Laptop
Android is costlier to produce because:

The API's have more gotchas and simple bugs than the Apple ones.

The 1.6 API in particular has some hairy bugs.

The debug cycle takes considerably longer (almost 3x as long as the iPhone debug cycle for a non-media app).

The debugger doesn't work as well.

The lack of a GUI UI layout tool (there are some, they don't work well yet).

The project setup is considerably more time intensive (barring signing issues, which experienced iPhone shops don't have issues with really).

Now it's not all against android: The lax approval criteria and ease of market publications are awesome. I'm just saying it costs MORE to do android, I'm not saying don't do it.

And yes, you're right, custom widgets are harder in android than in iOS. If it makes you feel better, I find the amount people change iOS custom widgets silly too.
So you get an update pushed from Google with in-browser indicators that it's ready instead of having to know to go to Adobe's site, download, and install a new version of a plugin?
British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests
Never.

If the project was a success, I did it for the project.

If it wasn't, I did it to learn and grow.

Either way, nothing to be embarrassed about.

(Am I embarrassed by the code I wrote 3 years ago? Now that's another story.)
Liquid thorium reactors.
I brought up the recycling program because it's an important part of the life-cycle of the technology and it wasn't really discussed in the article. As I implied in my comment, I'm fully in favor if something can be done about the loads of plastic that this process will produce. As was mentioned, even 100% recyclable doesn't mean anywhere close to 100% will be recycled unless it is prioritized by the producers and consumers of the product.

I recently finished "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman, and his discussion about the long-term impacts of our reliance on plastics struck me as a very under-appreciated burden on the environment - a huge amount ends up in the ocean, where it breaks apart but doesn't actually go away - it just becomes bite-size for smaller and smaller organisms, with predictable effects along the food chain.

I am wary of a "race to the bottom" in terms of cost/watt because it undervalues other aspects of energy production, where the "good enough" mentality hasn't turned out very well in the past (nuclear and coal in particular). This particular technology seems aimed more at being financially-sensible, and I am concerned that the long-term environmental impacts are not being weighed heavily. It's important to factor in the cost, convenience, and logistics of the whole life-cycle of a technology, not just the cost/watt for a limited time frame.
Wow, had no idea the article would become so popular.

I wrote the article and would just like to make a few points.

I am NOT a hacker. I don't claim to be. I'm just a geek that's curious about network security. They called it "A hacker story" because this is what hacking is to the general populace.

I understand that REAL hacking is completely different.

The point of the article is this:

It's REALLY easy for even a non-hacker to get all this information. I'm not saying to stop using open netqworks, just be careful what you do on them. That's all.

Thanks everyone for reading it.
Brandon, the founder at ChallengePost (I work there. @jason is an investor in us) has 3 young kids... yes, 3! I honestly don't know how he does it, but it works.
I think you're both doing it wrong.

Women tend to approach men less than the reverse, I presume that if you approached more then you'd end up with higher values in the qualities you care about.

It's also only important to note you are not just "competing" with the other guys she saw this week, but the whole online/offline pool of available males attractive females invariably have. It's about leveraging the speed of the internet to find another human being that is ACTUALLY a good match, so one would expect to beat out other people to get to a 1 in 100 match.

> SF women are generally easier and put out on the first date, but are also much crazier...

wow at this whole set of sentences... I rarely care but this kind of misogynistic, antiquated nonsense is mildly offensive even to me. I personally try not to treat other human beings like disposable hump dolls and look for some kind of a real connection, but maybe I'm just some kind of crazy hippie. To avoid the apparent but incorrect inference, I am not into monogamy now either.
This is very good and interesting advice that I actually haven't seen before. It particularly hit home for me because I'm young, single, and my career's started to really hit its stride. That said, I'm at a point where I feel like I need to choose from the more chill jobs or the more aggressive gigs such as equity jobs at startups, or even doing my own things.

As much as I'd like to do a startup at this time in my life, I get a feeling I'd really enjoy having a family as I'm a bit of a softie.

Something for me to digest.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
That's pretty nice of them!
Yet another reason is because this piece is from 2004.
very loose definition of 'new' article is from june 2008
To you, maybe not. But to the general population it is.

Remember the huge fuss that came about when people found out Google was getting the same data with their streetview cars... Tis why I started the article with that.
Oh, you're based in Vienna, cool. I passed on a link to Garmz to a friend the other day. :) She has a site that's a marketplace for handmade goods. And I have an interest in customisable manufacturing, designer to customer connections and the like.
Offer HN: Unix file manipulation
Do you have a set of (possibly large) files that needs reformatted, pulled apart, put together, parsed, renamed, reorganized, or otherwise munged? I'll do the job for you, along the way creating Bash/Python scripts that you can use in the future to perform the same task in seconds (of man time. Computation time is obviously based on the size of the data). Here's a few examples of things I can do:

- Restructure a hierarchy of files

- Return the set of files in a hierarchy such that each file matches arbitrary criteria

- Run various commands on a hierarchy of input files (based on the file's properties) and create a hierarchy of output files

- Turn any reasonably-structured file (e.g., a log file) into a more usable CSV (comma-separated value, which can be imported into a spreadsheet) file

- Pull specific lines and fields out of a CSV matching arbitrary criteria

- Create simple (plaintext) reports based on the data in a set of files

Just send me an email with the description of the task. I'll take on any reasonable task. I can receive the files via SCP, FTP, email (depending on file size), or HTTP. If the data set is huge and you'd like me to do so, I can even log in and work on the files directly.

I work in Forensic Computing, and I've often worked on massive data sets. I've turned gigabytes of tcpdump files into useful reports. I've turned hundred-gigabyte IIS log files into a small list of unauthorized requests. I've extracted the emails from an mbox file, the attachments from each email, and created a browse-able view of the emails. I created a simple system to convert all of my personal FLAC files into much-smaller MP3s, and randomly pulled out a set of those MP3s (based on my rating of each song) to be put onto my cell phone's microSD card.

One of the parts I enjoy most about my current job is turning massive unwieldy data into something useful. I truly love using and creating simple command line utilities that accomplish great things when they are put together. Let me know if I can help you.
Solar worked fine on my pocket calculator.
Game designers:  Do you avoid making gameplay changes after release?
This seems like a hard thing to do, since you always want to improve the gameplay.

Yet making any gameplay changes is likely to upset your users, as their previous scores would not be comparable to those with the new gameplay.
Well, no police have shown up yet. I'm hoping for the best.

Also, the FCC isn't charging Google for what they did. So I assume I'm fine.
I agree that it's better when women send first messages. This dating site startup is trying to take advantage of that by not allowing men to send initial messages: http://www.herway.com
Yes. I am really embarrassed about them. I started about 4-8 side projects. I have 0% success rate. My embarrassment comes in two forms: i) disappointing other people who are "part" of the team ii) self-disappointment that I cannot finish the full project myself. i) typically results in avoiding them for life. Don't get me wrong. In my corporate world, I am more successful.
why does apple require quicktime to view their stream? why does adobe require flash to view the stream? because silverlight is a fast, simple install and it's made by microsoft.
I hadn't done web programming for about 8 years when we founded Directed Edge, and the last time I had Perl was still riding high. So the old stuff, and a lot of the maintenance scripts are in Perl. Ruby has, however, begun eating into the Perl usage.

I still find Perl a little better suited for straight text-processing tasks, not to mention that it's a lot faster than Ruby for such. It's tempting to say, "It doesn't matter." but when you're running tasks that process several gigs of text, the difference between waiting 5 minutes for a job to finish vs. 20 can impact overall productivity.
Mikhail Prokhorov, the Playboy and His Power Games
I can't for the life of me remember what I put out on geocities but it was probably something to do with Star Wars. I think my username back then was Fett82. Good times...
Actually you can enter a building. If they tell you to leave and you don't THAT is when you can be charged.

Door to Door salesmen "trespass' every single day.
And in the years since this was written in 2004, he has another hit show, Big Bang Theory, either the 2nd or 3rd most popular sitcom.
I co-founded http://www.myticklespot.com - we use Magento and have a ton of cart abandonment... our conversion rate is 1.34% and won't budge. Where do you see room for improvement?

Thank you so much for this offer!
Warning: link immediately launches Silverlight which may make your browser unresponsive as it did mine.

Flagged (since would have been polite to mention this in the topic).
The gist of Carmack's statement is that government delivers poor ROI, expands into inappropriate roles and obfuscates how much consumers spend on it. I didn't read "without taxes" or "reduction in taxes" anywhere; I read that Carmack thinks things are trending in the wrong direction.

I wonder if demallien realizes that not reducing the number of carrier strike groups (currently _eleven_) could very well destroy the future of the next demallien coming up through grade school in a modest neighborhood right now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_battle_group#The_U.S._N...
I wasn't the one looking for the "disposable hump doll." I've never even initiated a contact. The women who contacted me were just looking for sex. This happened far more often in SF. In NYC some are looking for that, but more seem to be actually looking for a husband, or a long term boyfriend. I put the crazy and antibiotics lines in there because I really did get the clap, and really did have to change my phone number.
I/o Venture
In general. At least in the terms most people define Universal Healthcare. The problem with Universal Healthcare is you're taking a limited resource (doctors, medicines, equipment, etc...) and trying to treat it like an unlimited resource. I mean, In the U.S. there isn't a big problem with doctors being unemployed or an overflow of surplus meds right now yet universal healthcare is unquestionably going to add a lot of new customers to the existing health system.

If that's the case in the U.S. imagine countries like China or poor African countries with even fewer resources.

I'm not happy with that reality from a humanitarian perspective but I don't see how it isn't the case. Being a doctor is hard and there are only so many raw materials out there so I don't see a way around it.

(But the important point here is that it is debatable and that's where the problem comes in)
> What about caring for the environment...

I'm familiar with the "tragedy of the commons" issue but there just isn't any clear evidence that:

More government spending -> better environment

What do you think all this government money is going towards? A lot of it is used to run cars and do other things that hurt the environment. Do you think this whole "government stimulus" stuff made the environment better off?

> ...enforcing better safety regulations...

I won't argue with you that the government does a fantastic job creating more regulations of all kinds :)

> ...enforcing better work conditions, etc?

Again, the benefit of government here is tenuous. Sure, some things they do might help, but these benefits need to be weighed against the "opportunity costs" of what else could have been done with that tax money.
These guys are advertising at my university. Anyone ever heard of them?
Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”
> At one point there was no state in history in which women could vote. At one point there was no state in history in which slavery was abolished. Sometime you need to buck history to progress.

There however were places without central government or tax collectors. Like Somalia, or Afghanistan.
You like the job but not the guys breathing down your neck. So why not ask if you can work from home every other day to transition into a full time stay-at-home employee? Sounds like you get a lot done for them, if they can't accept that then you really do need to find someone who can. This could give you time to peruse Craigslist or other online sources for freelance work. There is a lot of demand in other places for web developers, if you can tap into that source you could do quite while.
I think that only works if your looks are above average. I once used a photo of an actor on my profile just to see the effect. That raised quite some responses without me doing anything. Then I replaced my photo with a real one (my best one back then) and the number of responses instantly dropped tenfold.
I once worked in an outsourced tech support call center for a top 3 US ISP.

One day we started receiving a massive flood of calls all about the same problem: the default ISP homepage wouldn't load, and people thought their internet was broken. The call queue was growing exponentially, and no one could figure out what was wrong. This went on for a few hours, with no solution in sight.

Long story short, while troubleshooting with one of these customers, I found the source of the problem (a new firewall setting in the ISP's free av/fw package), reported it to my supervisor, and a fix was quickly implemented.

Given the volume of calls and the size of their subscriber base, I probably saved the ISP at least 5 digits in phone fees, and got a lot of angry customers off their back.

For my efforts, I was rewarded with a company branded pen.
Makes sense.

I feel the same way about text processing. I have yet to see anything else that rips through text like perl does. Over the summer, I rewrote a powershell script in perl and got three orders of magnitude improvement (reliably), all in the constant factor. Powershell is probably the worst language for text processing (it encapsulates every line in an object before passing it between processes in the stream), but I still found this impressive.
Jeff Vogel's been building computer games for 16 years, and his kids are younger than that. He runs his own company, but it's probably different than the companies people around here imagine themselves making. Anyways, http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/ . He has a bunch of baby stories (which are quite hilarious) http://www.ironycentral.com/babymain.html .
Wpsnipp - wordpress code snippets
Website that has large growing collection of wordpress code snippets.
How to make the right decision every time (3 minute story)
Please tell me you made them make the url live with important content.
The Magic Number
Rand-ists at every vantage point
Maybe it's time for the country's smartest engineers and scientists to bind together and form a Technocracy party.
One of the major characteristic that an entrepreneur should have is 'total disregard for others' opinion of you as a person'. It frees you from doing things that would otherwise make you compromise your vision.

"I am homeless....people are looking down on me and my daughter...guess I should stop writing this wizard school book"

"I'm a stay at home dad who's failed at tons of iterations as an inventor. Guess I should stop messing with vacuum cleaners"
An educated white man thinks government services are unimportant. Stop the presses.
If you don't have Silverlight installed or have no desire to install it, I hate to say it, but: this keynote probably isn't in your wheelhouse.

That not withstanding, the quality of Silverlight streaming video is actually quite good.
Mother kills baby after he interrupts her on 'Farmville'
Maybe they they can create a "scientific" socialism. That would fix everything.
Hmm, how did you migrate? I have so many sites and old cruft that anything short of a clone of the VM will fail horribly...
Hipmunk Video: What is Hipmunk?
Now, that would be interesting.

I would actually vote for that kind of candidate. If Facebook and Google got behind it, and they used their marketing might, then it might just work.
Smart engineers and scientists have a tendency to think they can fix things. This is exactly what he was talking about.
Ask HN: I made $1.01 yesterday. What next?
On Monday night I couldn't sleep. I had a domain name that I'd bought (http://fstr.net) that wasn't getting approved by the parking provider.

It was just sitting there, doing nothing and I couldn't stand it. So I thought why not put some web games on it?

So I coded... and coded ... and coded ... and by 3AM I had a page, with a database that linked up a bunch of games that were declared "embeddable" by their owner (addictinggames.com).

Tuesday, it made $0.50 on Adsense. Yesterday $1.01.

Now if only I were able to scale that up by about 80 times (using only part time labor) and I'd be able to 'take the pay cut' so I could switch into scaling it up by about 200 times for a great big raise!

Reading HN has really opened my eyes to the fact that the internet is made by people. It doesn't have to be created by corporations - but it's something that anyone can do. Holy Crap! Even me.

I just checked my profile and I've been a Hacker News reader for 94 days. With the income I've earned from this project, that's an income of over a penny a day so far... Let's see if I can ramp that up?

I want to put some time into improving the technology. Initially I was loading a random list of about 1000 games - but I've changed that to show the games sorted by order or user rank.

I've also got game tag and category data - so I can add navigation, maybe a fun, self updating 'active search' type of thing (I'm already loading the games via ajax)

I'd like to pull from other games sources - many of the big games sites allow you to host their games (since they get the linkback on the flash load screen)

Some even have revenue sharing on the ads inside the game as well.

The page desperately needs to be optimized in terms of adsense placement. I'm getting a 1.5% CTR and I've got friends who have shown me placements that they earn 30% off of. He tells me he's got optimizations that earn him 70% CTR.

I'd also like to redesign (again) so it looks a little more polished and professional. So far it's really just a ~8 hour hack job and ugly.

But earning a dollar on the first day? That's a bit encouraging. I'd love to make a real, sustainable 'gig' out of running a games site (or any site for that matter) ...

I really think HackerNews might be the type of place that has the advice I need (and might be able to warn me off of some of the pitfalls I might run into).

Anything you can tell me would be greatly appreciated (a hell of a lot cheaper than an MBA program ;).