skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so dangerous. The problem is you end up with cultures like Australia and Great Britain where corporate failure becomes a crime.

In Australia, when you say the word entrepreneur, people think of corporate crooks (Bond, Skase, Adler).

Legitimate entrepreneurs who failed, like Jodee Rich with One.Tel, get labelled as crooks.

So failure gets stigmatized. So startups become the insanity option. And the entire country gets held back and relies on digging dirt out of the ground and flogging it to China with no added value. Because only big established industries with government sponsored franchises and monopolies are "respectable".

Disaster. Don't let a few minority cases pervert America's strength. You don't want to take on a risk averse, "entrepreneurs and company directors are scam artists" culture.
Yeah, unemployment and zero services. That's the way to make the world a better place.

Mz, who owns no stocks at all because nothing is good enough for my picky ethical standards. Has nothing to do with lack of funds. I swear! It's solely because of my Lawful Awful alignment 1 orientation.

(oops, I have nearly $50 in a retirement account invested in stocks -- need to divest myself of that)
+1 for determination.

I've been involved in the early stages of a number of non-profits, time-and-time again it's clearly been determination above all else that drives success.

I recently read "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas" (It's sort of like Founders at Work but about non-profits), and again reading all the founders stories, it's clear the single factor that unites them is their determination about their cause.
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But if he mentions his product then maybe people will just think he's trying to promote it and not take him as seriously in terms of giving advice.
Well, it was a lot easier to be self-taught in Newton's day... there wasn't that much to learn! You could read Euclid and you're be mostly done. Newton alone probably made learning mathematics at least three times harder during his career.

Anyway, if you're trying to make me regret choosing mathematics as one of my examples, y'all have won. I see no molecular biologists have popped up to advocate for self-taught molecular biology.
I disagree. Just because I leave my shades open doesn't give you the right to stand in the street and take pictures of my family through the window. After all, I'm allowing the broadcast images of myself through electromagnetic radiation (visible light.)
Consider as a counterpoint Aristotle's Politics, Vii.2: "It is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily."
think of it as an ascii serialization of a (virtual) bytecode language
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pg: would you show an example of an impressive answer to the question about hacking a system to one's advantage?
Has it, though? Or was it a brief fad which lasted until everybody got bored of Wii tennis?
> It's hard to imagine an hour spent managing the logistics of a coworking space in Boston that isn't better spent on one of the large number of startups YC is advising already.

I was thinking more along the lines of diversifying income while keeping what is a great piece of real estate. If there is enough demand, it could even warrant hiring a part time real estate manager, so that precious time is not diverted.

> That's in addition to the fact that YC was never really a coworking program itself;

Exactly. Again, diversification in to a new area.

> Also: who gives away equity for office space? Don't do that.

I would personally never do it, but I was just throwing it out there as another option.
The Return of Corporate Optimism
Well done man. Well done. I've actually used fridge with my friends a few times and we've appreciated the exclusivity that it provides as opposed to facebook.

PS ~ blue overload == great.
The problem many people have here is that college is heavily subsidized, and those subsidies pretty much require us to get something for our money. I would be very surprised if the government's policy was "we will lend up to $200K to people with no assets and no prospects, which they can use to purchase art." And yet when those people borrow similar sums of money to purchase, say, a BA and MA in art history, it's fine.

That's a bad policy. If the university system didn't exist, and you tried to pitch the current version to Congress, you'd be ridiculed.
Search needs tweaking:

http://www.hackernewsjobs.com/search/?q=raleigh

None of those pages include the query.
I understand combing through this material and releasing information about illegal or highly suspect activities. But a carte blanche release of all this classified material is going to get even more innocent people killed.
Why should the 3/4 Americans without a college degree be forced to subsidize the private enjoyment of an individual? Should the government also subsidize my private enjoyment of video games, pornography or martial arts?

OK, I think maybe it's worthwhile to distinguish between the issues of (a) whether higher education has a value and function beyond job training and placement and (b) whether higher education is worthy of receiving public funds. My response above was in response to a position I perceived you to be making with respect to (a), and not so much because of my opinions with respect to (b). I think there's a coherent position that could say that higher education has value beyond job placement, but which still held that it didn't deserve public subsidies. That said, I think the $40k of public funding for a neglectful English student turned waiter is an unfair characterization. It's not like we're throwing 40k scholarships after any high school graduate that moves, and most educations are not subsidized to nearly that degree.

If that is the case, would you favor denying the vote to people unable to make correct judgements, deal with political rhetoric or form opinions about highly technical issues? It seems that filtering the noise is far cheaper than increasing the signal, in this case.

That seems messed up, mainly because (a) evaluating people's sophistication with respect to those abilities is tricky and doing it in a politically neutral way is even trickier and (b) I would expect that people who weren't disenfranchised by such a policy wouldn't represent the interests of the people who were disenfranchised.

However, I do think we need more high quality, wide availability of events and materials arranged by non-partisan organizations with the intent of providing the necessary background to follow the issues.
So, i had the opportunity to use gspeak for the better part of a year at risd and what's probably not explicit from looking at demo videos is that you actually don't need to move around that much. The system is remarkably good at tracking motion and (more importantly) projecting your finger/gestures onto a much larger surface.

Stop and think about that last point. If you're five or ten feet from a wall in your office and say you place a vector that runs perpendicular to your palm. It takes a surprisingly small amount of hand movement to get that vector to hit any portion of the wall.

By the time i had gotten used to the system, i could use it usually by performing completely minimal gestures so much so that people didn't even realize i was engaging it explicitly. This is similar to how you can see people playing wii tennis on their couch without standing up. [1]

If you read that sculley interview[2] you hear him talk about commoditizing the performance to create consumer products that react the way you expect them to. For me, gspeak convinced me that this was basically the case with a gestural interface, the hard part was figuring out something to do with it. I suspect this is a hard issue for many people because the majority of the complaints i see are basically "so what, i can't see myself using it" and fair enough, answering that question is really hard. But the underlying problem of how to provide that interface isn't your problem anymore, just like you don't have to figure out how to track touches or mouse movement anymore, you just build on top of that as a given. that seems like a net win to me.

A large part of gspeak for end users and designers ends up being the development of a descriptive and non-conflicting gestural language for the task at hand. The folks at usc have a good example of what i mean [3].

Say what you will about wild gesticulating or how lame it seems, the system (as any other) is only as cool as what you do with it.

[1]: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/13/
[2]: http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full...
[3]: http://www.vimeo.com/8083372
To the extent that Apple depends on (say) Ruby, then they own the system ruby and have a responsibility to keep it up to date. So, for instance, when someone finds an Apache flaw, Apple has to bundle a security update for it, and may even have to alter ship dates to account for it.

To the extent that Apple can decide that it does not depend on, say, Flash, then it makes sense for them to not to ship it. If they ship it, they own it, they have to fix it. If they don't ship it, they don't own it, and the vendor has to fix it. Which, in Adobe's case, makes perfect sense; Adobe's security flaws should not be Apple's problem if they don't have to be.
It's guaranteed they are using some sort of variable valve timing, however I wouldn't dismiss a non-timed 14:1 motor. If they toss in some forged internals and keep the displacement small, they don't even need any sort of VVT to lower the dynamic compression ratio. My R6 has something like a 13.1:1 compression ratio with no VVT. Granted, the cam probably has some overlap.
You wonder how Texas would even know what amount to bill. That works out to $4.3 billion dollars in sales at a 6.25% tax rate.
Battery usage is dependent on both cpu and gpu power draw. It's more complicated to determine what the overall difference is between html5 and flash power drain.
False. Erlang is compiled natively via HIPE (the "High Performance Erlang" compiler, nice acronym!) on many platforms, and compiled to BEAM bytecode on the rest.

Running Erlang has some overhead, sure, but that's because it's designed for distributed systems where you can pull a plug out of the wall without interrupting service. I wouldn't use Erlang for number crunching, but using it as a glue language for a networked system hits all its strong points.
Same story from a few weeks ago with much discussion already:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748979
You got the letters right, try reordering them. :)
Since history only includes what's recorded, I'd say the original statement is still true then.
With radio transmitting, you are actually, purposely broadcasting information. With unencrypted WIFI, it is just a technical consequence of using internet, but there is absolutely no intent of giving this information away.

I'm sorry, but that's blatantly incorrect. Using unencrypted wireless isn't a consequence of using the internet, considering you also have the options of either using a wired signal or setting up even basic encryption for wireless ones.

The fact that you didn't intend to broadcast this information is irrelevant. Consider this contrived scenario: a pair of criminals are in a house with the windows open, and they're discussing the details of a recent crime. Unbeknownst to them, there are a pair of cops walking by who overhear all the details. By your logic, these cops couldn't arrest these criminals because the criminals "didn't intend" to give this information away.

I definitely think that there need to be better defaults for people who don't know what they're getting into when they get a wireless router, or at least a warning on the box, but if they broadcast their data unencrypted, the fault is their own if someone intercepts it.
That was kind of the point. :)

But I'll bite: it's a new app that should make sharing stuff way easier.
There is No New Media: It's All New Consumption
So, spamming. Gotcha.
I am kind of not in love with this idea. HN job posts right now attract people who actually read HN. This job site attracts everyone, including recruiters. How do I keep my postings from landing on sites like this?
I agree with your sentiment, there is no way that the general population of taxpayers should be subsidizing education for people with the sole rational being "they're happier" or "they have a deeper understanding of the world". That's great for them, but don't spend my money on it.

However this data doesn't really mean much. The table shows how many poeple have thsoe jobs RIGHT NOW. Will they have those jobs forever? Likely not. If you have a phD and spend a year in a crap job looking for something better, I view that as better than just doing nothing.

In fact those numbers are just people with more than a bachelors degree. Some number of them are currently graduate students, I know plenty of graduate students who are bar tenders at the same time. This data doesn't differentiate.

It also doesn't tell you anything about how school was paid for. If you have a phD that someone paid for from a private school, and do nothing for with your life, that doesn't matter to me at all. Only when people start getting subsidized by the taxpayers does it matter.

And hey, if we're going to bitch about the cost of education to the taxpayer, I'd extend it even to phDs with jobs that are paid for by the government (professors doing research at both public and private universities funded by taxpayer grants). A lot of research is freaking useless, and it costs a whole heck of a lot more than the subsidy on loans for students.
You probably ought to google "rich internet apps" to achieve a slightly greater level of understanding before commenting.
Send me an email at hajrice@gmail.com. I might have something for ya.
Yes, you can reach a queue via a web browser using the proper api access you provide.

If you have 100 users, each one waiting for a message in their queue, then you can "broadcast" a single message to all of the queues (or a group) with one command. All the users waiting for a message in their queue will get a copy.

Another approach which is hack-ish imo, is to use something like jabberd to broadcast messages.
Good work. Just one issue I noticed is that when I searched for "the fridge" in Google only one of your pages turned up and it was a broken link that served a default Apache 404 page (www.frid.ge/php/login.php). There was nothing else in the results that clearly stood out as the right page.
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Can we change / modify an answer to one of the questions on our submitted application after the deadline?
I couldn't disagree more. I think netbeans is the worst Java IDE out there and has a LONG way to go.

It depends on ant for everything. The build files are very difficult to read, so it's like a black box. They are also cruel enough to name the root file "build.xml" so it interferes with you trying to make a convenient IDE agnostic build script. It depends on netbeans specific libraries for copying files (WHY?!). It's very difficult to get it to build from the command line. If you check out the hudson tutorial on how to get a netbeans project building in their CI server, you have to run a headless version of netbeans on the box to do it.

Not only that, the build scripts do some really crazy black magic. You can edit parts of them and your changes get ignored. It's like netbeans generates them every time you try to run. This allows you to do things like put echo statements in the build scripts that don't get printed out even though the target runs. It's really confusing.

It is not very organized. If you go into the "Options", it has 5 big buttons at the top. Most things are in the "Miscellaneous" section.

The debugger and profiler are really slow. When I remote debug, I have to click "step over" two times for one line of code. Expanding objects in the variables tab takes an annoying amount of time. My app is apparently too big to even start with the profiler. I've waited over 25 minutes before giving up. In intellij, the jprofiler plugin lets me start the same project without any noticeable slowdown.

Many many UI problems. You can't work with multiple "run" configurations like you can in the other IDEs. EG: If you want to run a certain unit test, you have to find it, go into it, and then run it. In the other IDEs, you could save that unit test as something to run and run it while you're looking at another file.

Speaking of unit tests, there's no way to run an individual unit test. The finest granularity is the entire file.

It crashes all the time. You're going to have to accept my anecdotal evidence here, but everyone else in the office complains about this, too.

The list goes on and on. I'm extremely skeptical of anyone that claims netbeans is good. I suspect you're using it as a glorified text editor instead of an IDE.

It's not 100% terrible though. One thing that netbeans is good at is generating code. I haven't tried in Eclipse, but netbeans' webservice generation support is better than intellij's. It also has a good Swing WYSIWYG.
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Ask HN: Frustrated economics student from eastern europe needs advice
Dear HN community, i would really appreciate any help on the topic.

I would like to start with a few words about myself: i am in the beginning of my twentieth, living and studying economics in some eastern european country and having a passion for everything about tech ventures. I am able to do some coding (php was my language of choice when i was 15), which, i thought, would give me a perfect opportunity to combine some tech knowledge with confidence in administrational and financial aspects to become actually someone in the tech startup and VCs world.

I will (hopefully) get my bachelors degree in economics this year and now i'm getting more and more frustrated, because i don't see any options for myself with the goals i have defined for myself — there is no such startup scene in eastern europe as in the US or the rest of the world and i am not a programming talent, who could have it far more easily to find his dream job. I am not ready to screw everything a just get a job at a some general business consulting firm because everything i could think about last years were startups, product building, bootstrapping, angels, VCs, valuations and so on.

I am feeling like loosing the perfect timing opportunity, because if i don't start to get myself involved in either one of the sides of the table (startups vs VCs) right now (with the current market bubbles, trends and the fact that i am still young), i wouldn't have the chance to catch the last bus to the fantasy world called startups.

Now, i would like to ask you, my dear HN community, for advice: while being an eastern europe citizen and a non-technician, how to start a career in the startup world?

Thank you for every help.
I think any real entrepreneurs familiar with web development already know what startups are like, and won't change much.

But those who don't know what startups are about may give it a try, which is great.
On the other hand, I did some research assistant work for my prof one summer, and he put my name on the paper the came out of it (as second author). But I didn't even understand half of what the paper said! I was a first year undergrad, and he was presumably hoping to help me "build a resume" and "get my name out there". It's an awesome gesture, and I think it happens a lot.

Furthermore, "Einstein and Noname grad student's method for solving X" sounds a lot better than "Noname's method for X". People will read it more and it will disseminate faster. The student will ultimately be better off.
Regarding your first point: since you already stated you're sometimes in favor of publicly subsidizing things like vaccinations and criminal incarcerations, your opposition to publicly funded education must result from this distinction you draw between public good and "private enjoyment". But I think rather than just assuming a position on college degrees a priori there is a rich and valuable debate to be had about whether higher education should be considered a public good and not merely a private enjoyment.

And your second: this seems to be both a distraction (I don't see how arguing that an educated citizenry is a necessary ingredient of democracy implies that one should necessarily agree with denying participation to those deemed incapable) and somewhat misguided (seeing as we already do deny the right to vote to a certain class of people unable to make correct judgments--we call them felons).
I echo the sentiment of many folks on here- you pay for quality. As a development consultant and programmer, I've heard one too many horror stories from non-technical folks who just hired the cheapest freelancer they could find. That being said, freelancers range from $30/hr (for asian low cost providers) to $150+/hr (experienced guys in the USA).

If you're looking to build fairly robust web app that you plan on scaling, I suggest either:

1) Recruiting a technical co-founder and letting him choose a freelancer he's closely screened, and then micro-manage the hell out of the project;
2) Hiring a reputable firm to do it.

Either way, pay no less that $100/hr for good work.
As a recent CMU Alum, I can say that in this case you needn't be suspect.
No, you can't ethically invest in an unethical company. However, you still need to answer the question: what is ethical? Next, if you have an answer, how do you know it? Don't forget to follow Mrs. Rand's immortal adage: check your premises.
What might be important which I've observed is that no one of importance seems to read signature disclaimers. Or at least they didn't in my case.

As a grunt programmer while working for one large defense contractor some years ago, I put something similar to the following, embedded in a paragraph of mind-numbing boilerplate and no one up the food chain seemed to notice.

If you are not the intended recipient, you need not do anything. Men in black will come to erase your memory. Have a good day.
It makes me unhappy to be paying into a fund to enable this sort of behavior.

I'm confused by this. Why are you happier to fund someone's education if their goals are better job placement and personal salary than if their goals are to be better, happier people? In either case, you'd be subsidizing someone else's attempt at bettering their own life -- but why is improving their income tax bracket more valuable to you than improving their wellbeing by any other metric that person might choose?

In a hypothetical scenario where you were given the choice of funding Alice's education with the certain knowledge that her degree would get her a high paying job where she'd be miserable, funding Bob's education with the knowledge that his life and relationships would be enriched but he would never earn much, would you really be happier funding Alice's education?
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Well, I was responding to this part: "Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?"
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Hadn't heard of Fridge before this article and I'm going to try it out. Everything seems to be working but it won't stop popping up the "Check your email to verify" alert (I already clicked/pasted the link a few times). That's going to get annoying :)
Ok - just to be clear, I was talking about GA in its standard bit-twiddling setting, rather than as an overall approach.

Also, I'm not really saying GP (again, the original Koza-style tree manipulation type) is a magic cure-all : I just like the way it's more 'meta' than bit-twiddling GA.

Are introns bad? An outside observer might think so, but something about the overall algorithm must like them...

As to being confused : I'm surprised that anyone would think that this whole representation problem has any kind of cut-and-dried answer yet. There's still a lot of room for innovation here - and which directions to explore are pretty much a question of taste.
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