skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to know from where you are purchasing the goods (if they are not self-made).

Do you get them directly from the manufacturer or do some of you have experience with importing stuff from China/etc.?
WiMax coming to NYC in November, LA and SF in December
Yep. There also is dxargs which looks very useful
http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/distributed-xargs.h...
If you can find a penpal, that would help I think in spelling and grammar.
Yes, but when I read that article, I thought, “That .sig is nothing." Some of the stuff I’ve seen and heard about during my USENET days could bring you to tears. (Like the “Kibo Warlord” .sig mentioned here, for example.)
Baselines are a very nice touch, but always use judgement and don't be afraid to step out of those guidelines (or adjust the design) when you need to.

The Baseline homepage is generally aesthetically pleasing, but goes a bit overboard: the top-right introductory text sticks out sorely with its font size : line height ratio.
Just recently a story was published in Germany where they evaded their responsibilities as a bank by clever shifting of responsibilties between eBay, PayPal and the credit-card issuer. So in case of a TV shipped to a identity thief chargebacks were no longer possible (I cannot find the article right now).

Another story where PayPal doesn't provide chargebacks to the customer after paying a non-shipping company:

http://www.heise.de/ct-tv/artikel/Video-Vorsicht-Kunde-80133...

(Update: I had the description and the video mixed up...)
Curious what would be the advantage in having a VPS in Romania?

That is, unless you are developing something for Romanian market or have it setup as a convenience for Romanian developers you hired?
Its on the list of things to do in our next release. We cant push any new features up for 5 days because of the competition were in.
You can find the gems we used here: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/kiskonians-dancing-in-lab-c...
I'll argue to the contrary.

Lots of sites use Facebook Connect because it actually drives signups.

Where are you basing your argument that people do not actually want to give their twitter username and password?

In my experience, a lot of casual users do not actually care. We had an email inviter that was used frequently where people actually have to give out their Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail credentials.

You may be comfortable with user/pass but do not make the assumption that the rest of the world are. You may think you're mainstream but you're probably not.
This was very helpful, thanks a lot!
Please don't. This would just be another temporary solution allowing us to get even more invested in a flawed technology. We need to do the move as soon as possible so I really hope no "hero" comes in and buys us 5 more years on this.
I can assure you (from my own experience) that these horror stories also apply to EU accounts. In fact, the article was written about a Dutch PayPal account.
You don't assign equity based on work that isn't done. That's asking for trouble, unless the person has a huge track record of doing the type of work you have them doing.

Vesting is key here. I'm not the first to say it, but setting up key milestones and vesting based on their successful (and be sure to define "success") completion is the only way to go.
As a young 20-something (20, actually, to be exact), I'd say that the best programmers I know still use the command line to a significant degree. Though we are small in number compared to the number of people who live in some IDE.
The MacPorts version worked for me.

Perhaps the Portfile will have the patches you need to manually compile on OS X:

http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/paral...
I've been trying to look at this for a week now, it is always down. Maybe it's blocked outside the US?
I see what you guys mean. Hopefully when we can add features agin we'll able to implement these things. We had FB connect, but took it out because we didnt have time to test it enough. We also took out username/password auth because we felt it would complicate things - perhaps not?
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

I really like the idea of the "soften your accent" course.
I've just resigned to do a search for /EXAMPLES as soon as I need any.
I have no data so I'll give an anecdote instead. :)

When I finished the first year of my return to University in 2001 I decided to buy myself a domain name as a reward. (Positive reinforcement and all that...)

Due to all the single word domains being long-gone I looked at two word combinations that were still available and--exactly how is lost to the mists of time--ended up with: rancidbacon.com

I decided that it would serve my purposes in the short term but figured eventually I'd have to get a more "professional" domain for supporting my freelance contracting career.

One thing lead to another, I got some contracting gigs from various places and then got involved in Google Maps hacking which lead to the first amusing domain reference.

I got invited to the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference and got referenced in telephone press conference for the event:

"He runs the rancidbacon web site, where all of this was first documented,"
<http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/39/transcript.html&#...;

On meeting fellow map hackers on the trip to the conference the first question I got asked after introducing myself was "Hey, what's the story behind your domain name?".

As a result of that hacking I got more contract development work (and an email from Google but that's a story for another time) and I started to think "Hmmm, maybe I won't have to move to a 'more professional' domain name after all..."

In the end I kept the name because in the circles I moved in, it had good "brand recognition" and I figured the name itself acted as a filter for people who could work with my more laid back style (although I must admit I hadn't considered the cultural issue before now...).

The second amusing story happened a few years later when I ended up being interviewed on a nationwide publicly funded radio show because I was the user of a local startup. Before I went on air the producer said "Hey, look we'd prefer if you didn't mention your domain name on air because some of our listeners might not appreciate it."

Then as soon as I got on air the host introduced me as being from "rancidbacon" and once she was wrapping up the interview finished with "So, what does rancidbacon mean?". In response, I got to spend a minute of nationwide radio telling the story behind the domain. And a recording of the host saying "You're the Rancid Bacon guy!" on air. :) (Although she also said she hoped the name wouldn't come back to haunt me if I ever turned vegan.)

Plus, it gives random people on the internet something to do if time machines ever get invented: "If they ever invent a time machine, I'm going to go back to 1995 and say that sentence to somebody: 'In this case, the enabler is ... Python libraries made available by rancid bacon.'" http://hello.typepad.com/hello/2005/06/the_future_of_o.html

/end anecdote
SPECTREfest 2011 is Feb 7-10 at the bottom of the South China Sea.

This is basically the reason for the existence of signatures..
Crowd-Sourceable Map of World's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Of course he does, but he won't admit it because it dents his argument and won't get him any upvotes.
It's very similar to 960, but this one incorporates a vertical grid.
Kibo would scoff at such an upstart. The ’Net god is truly an Ancient One; he was posting to USENET long before Eternal September began.
Sorry, those were features of parallel, not make (unless I'm mistaken).
You forget the "if it's working, let's not fix it" thinking.
It's completely the wrong question, anyway, for two reasons.

1. If some flights have security procedures and some don't, obviously all malefactors will be attacking the ones that don't. So they'll be more dangerous than if no flights had security procedures.

2. No one is really suggesting having no security procedures at all, so far as I know. The question is how much security overhead we're prepared to put up with, and how much benefit in safety we're actually getting.

I might be reluctant to get on flight A. But if the great majority of flights had simpler quicker security procedures only -- say, 1/4 of the way from flight A to flight B -- then I bet I'd be about as safe on them as I am now with all flights being like flight B.

Back of envelope calculation. Suppose I value my life at $10M, and my time at $50/hour. Then I should be prepared to put up with an hour's timewasting if it saves a 1/200,000 chance of death. The actual rate of violent death for aeroplane passengers over the last half-century or so has never been higher than about 1/5,000,000 per flight (in the 1940s and 1960s; it's been much lower since then even counting 2001-09-11; even if you include non-passengers, who of course made up most of the 9-11 deaths, the figure is still lower for the 2000s than for the 1940s and 1960s), meaning that I should be willing to put up with about 2 minutes of security overhead per flight. In practice, reducing the amount of security checking would probably increase the danger somewhat, so the correct figure is probably more than 2 minutes. I doubt it's more than 15.
I think I'd rather have a Pixar Image Computer.
'I of course started rambling about how nice it is for concurrent applications, that you can make a map statement run in multiple threads by simply changing “map” to “pmap”.'[sic apparent typos]

While this is sort of true, that is not true concurrency, it is parallelism. It seems that a lot of production Clojure code will end up relying on Java code at a low level. (That was at least my experience in getting things performant).

When you do this, it seems to me that you lose some of the safe parallelism guarantees. Immutable data structures with 'pmap' are great, as long as you didn't use a mutable Java array somewhere... (This is reasonable, you have enough rope to hang yourself). The takeaway is not 'instant concurrency', it simply isn't true. The takeaway 'great built in support for certain types of concurrency' would be better.

I think the 'fourth' point, Lisp is great at syntax abstraction, has always been true, and is a great point to make in favor of any lisp. If you know what you are doing, it is possible to write some extremely pretty, declarative code. (But again, there's no accounting for taste, and you have enough rope to hang yourself).

Lisp: enough rope to hang yourself, or write awesome code. Or (more likely) do both.
When writing your code simply assign the "sg-" class to
your box elements.

That's why I don't like CSS frameworks: they throw
the very idea of separation of content from presentation out of the window :(
While Google may understand a 5-year old's conversation, it certainly couldn't participate it in and reply back to the kid

I would argue that it sort of does. Only instead of a normal kid, it's a mute kid that can only reply to you by passing you back documents it thinks you're asking for.
To be honest to me it seems like you practically giving away a big chunk of your company for free. Person B doesn't seem important at all at this moment, and seems like the relationship is partly based on friendship. Was this a friend you let into your business just because you think you need a cofounder? Person C seems of utmost importance in comparison to Person B, but still seems like she's not required at the moment. I made the same mistake once when I was younger, but luckily everything got thrashed and I started again by myself involving other people only when it was really necessary.

tl;dr: Only add cofounders when you're sure your really need them, and only then assess the risk and their involvement as a measure for equity.
I have been hearing about these arm netbooks... but they have been 'coming soon' for several years now. I think I've seen one or two things that could maybe be called arm netbooks that I could actually buy during that time (none of which had usable keyboards.)

edit:

Example: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Lenovo-s-ARM-Based-Linux-Skyl...

Did the Ipad kill it? damn you, jobs, and your devices that lack keyboards!

Really, I want something in the sony viao P series form factor (e.g something small and built around a keyboard with a trackpoint rather than a touchpad) Hell, if you gave me arm-level battery life and good Linux support, I'd even pay sony prices for the thing.
I never understood what these CSS "frameworks" are supposed to do for me. Define the width of the two columns on my page? I just don't get it. This is a serious question, I'm not mocking/trolling, so I'd appreciate somebody enlightens me.

edit: thanks for the answers guys. I still don't get it though, it's just a couple of lines of CSS in this "frameworks". Oh well, I guess I just don't get it ...
How come nobody sues them? How come there hasn't been enough of an uproar to get congress involved in regulating PayPal?

Reading HN, these horror stories seem to be fairly common, or maybe I'm just hearing the same stories over and over again.
True. I mean, on the startup I'm working on (http://www.votereports.org), I threw away baselines on the instructional area largely because I wanted to make the page seem more dynamic and very different from rigid designs I've seen other people do.

Baselines traditionally make a lot more sense in print design (especially books). But it's nice to have this option on the web.
Because then we're still loving NAT and IPv4 in 2050.
I've never heard the term "baseline". Would you mind explaining what that means?
Yeah, it's really a jumble of ideas. I'm a postdoc doing research on syntactic parsing, and I'm very sure that Google doesn't currently use a syntactic parser. Parsers are currently either too inefficient or too inaccurate to use at web scale --- even for Google.

The problem is that natural languages are at least context-free, and no algorithm exists (can exist?) to parse context-free languages in less than polynomial time, with respect to the length of the sentence. You can approximate by parsing with probabilistic finite-state machines, but they get led down blind alleys and can't backtrack, so they're inaccurate. Let me know if you'd like me to elaborate on this with examples (or you can Wiki "garden path sentence" and probably imagine the problem).

I'm also sure they're not doing supervised word sense disambiguation. That's in a poor state too, and imho isn't even a good idea. The whole concept of having someone list out the "senses" of a word is misguided, because it's totally unclear how fine-grained you should be. And then you need at least a couple of hundred labelled examples for every word...

Most of the examples they give are best explained by dimensionality reduction techniques, which have been popular in information retrieval for some time. Google have undoubtedly invented some secret sauce, but they've also just got orders of magnitude more data and processing power.
I can confirm that they are sitting on 2000 GBP of mine and not responding to anything.
How about doing something with imagemagick or mencoder? I think video encoding/decoding gives a nice balance between disk and cpu usage.
We have a fix in the pipeline that does :D But we can't push it up just yet...
Maybe the author just loves text.
Here's one nasty detail that should be taken into account: some fraction of parents will just confiscate the payments from their children.
And so again, we have really sharp engineers producing great work, but it's just not "sexy" enough for web 2.0 startups on its own.
Ergo, the big axe.
Understanding "randomness"
Programming languages to learn
1. Write down a list of tasks that must be performed to move the company forward.

2. Decide together how many shares each task is worth.

3. When the task is finished, split the shares betweens the founders in a joint session.
The World According to San Francisco.
New tool fingerprints phone route
via Schneier on Security.

The tool is called PinDr0p, and works by analysing the various characteristic noise artifacts left in audio by the different types of voice network - cellular, VoIP etc. For instance, packet loss leaves tiny gaps in audio signals, too brief for the human ear to detect, but quite perceptible to the PinDr0p algorithms.
> Some piracy is welfare-maximizing for society

This is a point that I've often pondered with respect to piracy. From society's point of view, the net gain from everyone having access to a digital good (given virtually zero duplication cost) could outweigh the benefit to society from the income being redistributed to the company that charges for duplication of said good?
HN-Books
Found one that looks interesting - maybe it helps other HN users as well:

http://www.londonspeechworkshop.com/our-courses/dates-and-pr...

Do you have any other recommendations maybe?
> Surely, a two-year old understands negation just fine, while Google does not

Nope. As I read the article, I thought "Cool! it has trouble with negation, just like my 2 year old." A few months ago, it was obvious that if I said "Don't do X", she'd just match on "X", and do the thing. E.g. "Don't poke your eyes" => pokes eyes.

She's starting to get the hang of it now, but I can see how confusing it is for her.

EDIT>

Also, babies can understand a lot before they're able to compose language. E.g. "bring me your shoes" ... brings shoes. "Give that to Mommy." ... gives thing to Mom.

It's all about the FedEx quests, initially.
I type this from a chair, next to crystal clear water, in the Florida Keys. I and my family make a point of traveling to different places every few months. I find that it makes me more productive to provide myself with a change of environments every now and then.

I do believe that time away will provide you with inspiration and the needed relaxation to get back to normal. We started doing what we do now. Because I suffered a very bad case of burn out. I was in an executive role and the company was a mess. The incompetent had become entrenched in the company I was working for and the more you tried to fix the more they resented you and tried to discredit you behind your back.

It got to the point where I would tell people, "look I will fix your department and you can take all the credit for it, just get out of my way so I can improve things for my group". They where so jaded and entrenched into protecting their incompetence that they figured I had to have an agenda beyond what I was telling them.

The politics where so bad that I became increasingly combative to the extent that I was becoming hostile. Here was a guy that worked his way from the bottom to the top, next in line for the vacant CTO spot and I had literally been driven mad due to the lack of any passion in most departments and the fact that the incompetent had become like a unorganized union, formed to protect the incompetent. Finally, I spoke with the CIO and we agreed that is was probably best if we parted ways. They where setting up the paperwork to terminate me and I just told them dont bother with the formalities, I am not going to sue, just give me the exit package and send me on my way.

Anyway, I am rambling the point is, burn out can beat you down to the point that you don't care what happens. When that happens you, it is tough to even muster the fortitude to change things.

Getting out was the best thing that I could have done, I started freelancing where the projects change faster and hold your interest. Generally you have more freedom and less involvement in the politics. This can really help to avoid burn out. My wife an I agreed that we will go somewhere for a week every 2 months to avoid that ever happening to me again. The worst part about it is that burn-out takes motivation to fight and unfortunately motivation is one of the hardest things to muster when you are burnt out. I feel for you and if you ever need to talk or need someone to listen you can email me (in my profile). I have been there and it sucks.
Germany had no collapse in the nineties (although it had to deal with the reunification), still the same number for Germany is 29%, still very far from the US.

The same numbers for the 1984-2009 period are: Japan 61.7%, Germany 59.7%, United States 108.8%. A very large difference.
I'm a web developer, but not a designer, and not hugely proficient in CSS. I understand the basics, but it often takes me a while to get things to look the way I want them.

For me, grid frameworks were a revelation - they let me, for the first time, quickly lay out the site with very little pain. Using a framework, I sketch how I'd like the site laid out, and then it's a simple matter of writing a bit of html and adding a few classes to get the layout I want. Working from zero is much harder for me.
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From my perspective as a designer (I make this disclaimer since I could be talking out of my ass), these CSS frameworks seem like an easier way to implement a grid system in a web page. I don't have to define the width of the grid or gutters, I just specify how many columns per row I want. This makes the act of laying out content for me faster than having to code this from scratch.
Google starts new "think/do tank"
> Simply put, system guys have a lot of downtime, where they do stuff that they enjoy, rather than work.

Assuming you mean 'free time'.

It seems you think System Administration is mainly fire fighting and waiting around to fire fight. Most of the basic stuff got offshored in the early 2000s, and the stuff that hits third level will actually require serious investigation.

But most system administration these days isn't fixing broken stuff: it's design, automation, audits, monitoring, and an ongoing list of continual pre-emptive and proactive improvement.

The shit SAs who can't program and are still employed are living under a sword of Damocles. Their jobs have already gone to Bangalore, they're just don't know it yet.
Most of those excuses mentioned really come down to one of two things: arrogance (I know best so you don't need to know) or laziness (why bother because see former), both of which are hardly unique to programmers.
LESS='+/EXAMPLE' man parallel
I'm all for adding game mechanics to enhance user participation or to build in a 'hook,' but it seems like making an RSS feed something interactive that beggars caretaking would be contrary to the whole point of an RSS feed in the first place.
It's awfully hard to crash a train into a building :-)
VCore Demo on This Week In Cloud Computing
Ask HN: despite the Oracle/JVM saga, do you still start projects on the JVM?
Really curious here: do you still start projects on the JVM these days ? Are you concerned about having to pay fees later on, or any other issue ?

A client of mine is considering such a project (desktop app), but we're really wondering if we should be concerned.
the real purpose of this, and blueprint, and 960.gs is to give you a pre-defined set of layout elements to help in rapid prototyping. The idea being that these frameworks ahve been tested across all browsers.

so in theory (or practice) you can rapidly whip up multi-column layouts without worrying too much about it.

note that these frameworks are often overkill, and come w/a lot of unnecessary weight/code for lots of people.
They are trying to hide from failure rather than using it to learn. You can't learn from a failure you can't afford to admit making.
No stack traces in ghc yet (perhaps ever?), though.
Where's the best place to find freelancers?
Where's the best place to find freelancers for coding projects? I know they all have their pros and cons, and how you use the services determines your success. But, what are the top 3?
Sincere question from someone who is working on his first projects now: why did you publish without infrastructure enough to support even the relatively meager "HN effect" (see also: Digg effect, Reddit effect)? Not criticizing you for your decision whatsoever, just trying to see the thought process from someone who is further along than me.
For entering Iran.
Stay where human rights have meaning, and if you don't, don't complain if you get the wrong side of the stick.