skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of engineers who are going to make serious life choices based on current trends, and in a year or two, when this blows up, they will find themselves unemployed and without savings.

I was with him until the last paragraph. I think a lot of really bright engineers who accept the premise are banking a large percentage of their salary, no?
Chicago had a similar problem when they started requiring that taxi's accept credit cards at no extra charge. When someone tried to pay their fare with a credit card a cab driver who didn't want to pay the service fee would either say that the machine was broken or "accidentally" overcharge riders. They are moving towards screens in the back seat now though.
Tell HN: I am a biologist. Today starts my 6 week programming journey (de novo).
I am a 22 year old biologist who currently has a full time job. I am beginning this journey because I hate reading/hearing/observing computer scientists being taken advantage of as if they are some useless drone. I believe that what you guys do is INSANELY difficult, and anything difficult is probably worth trying (at least once).

Most recently inspired by 7bks.com and the MANY MANY posts that I have read on HN that detail how the resources are available to become adept at programming (provided you put the hard work into it); I have decided to give it a try. I am going to give myself 6 weeks to execute on an idea that I have. I realize that this may be a stretch, but I sure as hell wont give up! I will set up a blog at TheBiv.com; once I teach myself how to do it!! :)

I would sincerely like to thank anyone and everyone from the internets who have taken time out of their day/staked their reputation to make this information freely (and fairly easily) available.
Changing the behavior of bullies is the responsibility of adults, not the child being bullied. Of course we should be trying to change his behavior, but throwing that demand on your kid as he's being bullied is irresponsible.
Computer science enrollment was quite crappy (still is?) after the dot com bubble burst. I started college in 2005, right when a brand new CS building was completed... which was pretty underutilized during my time there. Enrollment in CS at my school had dropped by over 1/3 from its peak, which was just a few years earlier.
I'll second the suggestion about losing the "Hey I'm Stu". By all means introduce yourself on a secondary page about the company (it was via your Twitter account I saw you'd put together some other pretty neat looking webapps which might be worth drawing attention to) but the home page should be all about answering the "why would I want a Kroud?" question.
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What struck me is that he was under no obligation to do so at that point, having already refunded his users, but did it anyway.

Thanks for helping out the indies, sivers.
Submissions can never be down-voted, they can only be flagged as inappropriate. Comments can be down-voted (or upvoted) with a single click. They can also be flagged, but that means clicking through, then clicking "flag."

The difference is that down-voting costs the commenter karma, but the comment stays visible (albeit more grey as the votes go down.) Items or comments that get enough flags go dead and are removed entirely, unless you have "show dead" in your profile.

It's not entirely clear to me the difference between flagging and voting on comments. Spam should be flagged, no question. Comments that are on topic should not be flagged, but if they are information free (such as a witty one-liner with no insight) are usually voted down.

I only flag comments if they are deeply inappropriate, or spam. My position on flagging submissions is as stated above. Most things in which I personally ahve no interest I pass over, but if I think they are not in some way specific to hackers or start-ups, then I'll consider flagging because I think that makes them off-topic.

Not everyone agrees with me, but that's OK.
Yes, like I said, that last paragraph didn't work for me either.
anyone with 130k hands would've caught that :)

but seriously, he means if the board is like: 2c 3c 7c Tc 4h, (not that he'd get much value from the guy with the lone Jc, though)

think of how easy squeezing is with two colluding bots.
gotta love the url
http://code.google.com/p/anic/
You don't have to promote people to show them they are doing a great job. Now, I'm sure Harj wanted the promotion, it's a big win for him, but promotions aren't the answer all the time.

There are lots of people who do NOT want a promotion, and you shouldn't feel you have to give them one. Often you can give them something more meaningful to them in the form of more compensation, bonuses, internal/external recognition, equity, etc.

When it comes to engineers, many prefer to keep writing code, not managing people, and simply want more recognition, equity or comp.
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The tech industry has still not entirely recovered from the first DOT-com bubble burst. Broadcast.com selling for 5.9 Billion in 1999 was a bubble. Startups gets bought for millions is not a bubble.
I saw a nice example that covered the classic "bank account transfer" case. The answer was that you POST something that's like a deposit slip.

Some systems, like the Kuali accounting system, use a document-centric approach to business software. You can have a workflow that's much like a traditional paper-based system, so this can make a lot of sense. You can overlay this on top of REST to solve many of the problems that REST has, but then you end up with much of REST being just a fifth wheel.

As for ranges, lately I've been sketching up a hypertext system that has some inspiration from Ted Nelson's Xanadu system. In particular, hyperlinks can be made to and from arbitrary ranges in documents, without touching the documents directly.

You can certainly encode ranges in a URL, so something like

/conference_room_3/time_slot_7,time_slot_12

might be POSTable to
Hell, many operating system's thread schedulers are written in C..
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At first this looked like a waste, but then I realized that each of those descriptions in parenthesis are things that a motivating leader might embed in a quip to the worker that accomplished each milestone, rather than just something one might think on his/her own.
My kids when I have them will be in the dojo quite early in life... by the time they're in school they'll be well-trained both with the skills to defend themselves, and the ethics: self-defense is the right thing to do and bullying is never acceptable.
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The problem was that I changed the example after typing everything up. The first contrived example I came up with used a hand that Bot 1 wouldn't have realistically thrown away. My fault for not proof-reading :D
Sorry, I missed it at the time. BTW I wanted to avoid a double submit and I have been looking for some "search" box without success, it is probably obvious once you know where it is, where is it?
Yup - you got it. =)
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None of it is illegal. It's just a violation of the merchant account agreement. The worst that can happen if you complain is that they will lose the ability to accept credit cards at all.
i dont think its a supply driven bubble since good engineers are still rare.
also compared to the financial industry these "valuations" are not really spectacular while i think that the complexity of these fields are comparable.

so either the demand is really high or we start to feel the recent influx of new money (speak: inflation)
...whereas it's practically impossible to pig out on steak or chicken.

Speak for yourself. I've witnessed my ex-roommate eat in excess of 3000 calories of rotisserie chicken in a single sitting. Ditto for steak. And yes, like most big meat-eaters, he was obese.
This is absolutely ridiculous.

Cab drivers are free to pursue any other career path if they so choose and are made aware of the rules before they get behind the wheel.

They are implicitly agreeing to the laws governing Yellow Cabs by driving one.

What you're suggesting would be like if I told my boss I wasn't programming today and if he wanted any work out of me that he better come up with something else.
Start informally meeting investors without pitching them. Go to conferences and events and try to build relationships.

If you live in the US there should be meetups and/or conferences within driving distance.

Take the time to start building those relationships as soon as possible.
I use Instapaper and have it configured to send me a digest of my active Instapaper pages. All I have to do is click once the 'I' icon provided by the Instapaper Chrome extension. Then they send my active items to my Kindle email each day (if I have new items).
Very Nice!!
Yeah, it makes sense, but the same thing goes with bit.ly, goog.gl, and all link shorteners!!
I have been experimenting with using the 30/30 technique posted earlier this week,and I have found to provides an interesting dynamic of carrot/stick. After having rested/played for 30 minutes, I feel guilty about not working so it helps to overcome procrastination. While working, I know I will have a break shortly, plus I want to make use of the time I have.

I have issues with procrastinating and staying focused on work, so I will often wait until the last minute to get something done, and use the pressure of the deadline to help motivate me and keep me working. This seems to help break that cycle.
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I assume this was a serious comment - HN is merely a small part of YCombinator.

See: http://ycombinator.com/
Words cannot describe how disheartening this is to me.
also an interesting approach and i see more similarities to the financial industry where exactely this happens all the time. it is also the political justification of their salaries.
I lived in Central Square, and in my partial opinion, it was perfect. The Square itself has tons of shops, bars and restaurants, and is right on the red line and more importantly major bus lines. It's in the middle of MIT and Harvard, tons of startup activity here. Parking was always easy to find and neighbors were all young people. Whole Foods, Shaws and a Whole Foods knock off I can't remember. Trader Joes in neighboring Cambridgeport. It was a 2 mile walk to Fenway, a walk I made many times. For 1.5K you might be able to find a one bedroom, definitely find one that is not directly in the square.

I also have to make an argument against South Boston. It's like a whole different city, you seriously need to get on a highway to actually get into the city if you aren't taking public transportation. Plus parking is terrible and rents are inflated.
Going further, it would be trivial to randomize delays and user input, but the more difficult thing would be to make it random in a human way. Human input is obviously not random but fits into detectable patterns with certain levels of variance. I'm sure the people running the sites could use all sorts of stats in their bot detection algorithm such as when the time gets past midnight in the local time zone human users starts to get sleepy and the avg response time goes down by 50ms or whatever...
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Brief summary at http://glinden.blogspot.com/2010/11/update-on-googles-infras...

Longer summary at http://doubleclix.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/google-a-study-in...
This ignores all research already done on the brain and nutrition, and also common sense. Its pretty well understood that the brain runs on glucose. Now of course if you eat too much or eat shitty food, you're going to have an insulin spike and sugar crash, and if you're eating too much you probably have other health problems that aren't helping.

Healthy eating, good body weight, and regular exercise sharpens the brain.

Edit: The number of people jumping on board with this "theory" in his blog comments makes me despair for the state of nutrition and health education.

Learn you a physiology:
http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/carbs.html
Look at the links in the page footer (Lists, RSS, Search, ...).
I had many friends who lived in Davis, it really only made sense if you went to Tufts or worked north of the city. Besides that rents were inflated because of Tufts and you are pretty far removed from Boston proper.
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Ask HN: Advice about possible extortion?
I am posting this on behalf of another HN member with less karma.

Someone close to me operates a medical practice in a fairly densely populated area of a very large city. Over the last few months, very negative reviews started appearing on review sites (like Yelp and Yahoo reviews) from users with no review history. The negative reviews are interspersed with others, which are a mixed bag (but tend towards the very positive) and probably valid. Normally I'd assume she's just getting negative reviews and move on, but she's received a fax from someone saying they're aware of the problem and can help her fix it, with a return phone number and an address that's geographically on the other side of the country. I'm assuming as soon as she contacts them they'll ask for money (or worse) to take them down. In my opinion, this is a terrible precedent to set.

I remember hearing about Yelp doing this themselves, but never a third party. Googling for the problem also lead to few similar situations. Given that the practice has very few reviews as it is, it is tarnishing her image quite a bit and she has noticed a downturn in the number of patients she's been seeing.

So far, we've been advising, under no circumstances, to reach out to this person.

Does anyone have any experience with situations like this or can offer advice?
Hey, I'm the creator of 7books :)

Embeddable lists are definitely on my roadmap. Drop me an email (tom@) and let me know exactly what you want and I'll see if I can build it for you!
I have NO ONE who prefers facebook to email. Then again I'm not a very social person online. I use the Internet primarily for research (self-education, it's like a huge free library on my desk) ... and for business, and business users certainly do not rely on facebook for online communication. I doubt they ever will.
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Awesome man, good luck!
In case you're not trolling...

There is more to YCombinator than Hacker News. HN is just the social news website intended to serve the YCombinator crowd. Your best bet to learn more is to go to the YCombinator website; you know, the one without the "news" in the url: http://ycombinator.com/

Reactions like this (when genuine) bring more attention to the fact that HN has grown waaay beyond the YC participants.
Usually in a VC firm each "raise" from limited partners is structured as a separate LLC. One VC might have a dozen different LLC's, each one associated with a different fundraising period.
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Here is a previous discussion about Yelp's practices:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148458
Geeat article! It's inspiring how the author combines different awesome JS-technologies.
Discussed previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385932

There are some links to an ePub version if anyone's interested (I enjoyed it).

It also looks like the author regularly appends new content. I'm going to need to re-read this!
Sorry, I had a feeling the sarcasm in my initial post wouldn't fully come through :)

I probably should have gone with the steampunk-themed comment I was originally planning.
Do you find you discriminate against those that have the oddly-sized cards, or do you pay them more attention? Think those that got the mini-cards were going for the latter effect.
Highly recommended to anyone who hasn't been reading it. I'm impatiently awaiting new chapters...there are quite a few interesting directions it can go in after the last sequence.
$10.50

But practicing science with simple, practically trivial, experiments can make it easier to do real science on more difficult examples in the future.
What Cliff said. Paul didn't stay at Facebook very long, but it was more than a couple months.
_The Little MLer_, first and foremost - it seems to be the best intro to the ML-style type system.

My ML experience has mostly been OCaml-flavored. The best OCaml book I've seen is _Developing Applications with Objective Caml_ (In French, but a free English translation is online at http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html). It covers a slightly older version of the language, but that mostly impacts libraries.

Andrew Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_ and _Compiling with Continuations_ are both great compiler books, which happen to use SML for the code.

Joshua Smith's _Practical OCaml_ is bad. Really bad. I was shocked. Avoid.

Chris Okasaki's _Purely Functional Data Structures_ is a great data structure / algorithm book, and uses SML (but has an appendix with Haskell versions). Also quite good.

Finally, experience with Lisp, Prolog, and Haskell carry over to ML somewhat, if you've used those.
What about Berkshire Hathaway? Though, it's a pretty focused portfolio.

Perhaps YC will acquire companies in the future?
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I don't know if this is a creativity trait, maybe more to do with addictive personalities. The addiction I feel and the lack of food I experience when I'm in a marathon coding session feels exactly the same as when I was trying to tackle some epic dungeon in World of Warcraft. Hunger would end up fueling the addictive focus I was feeling in both cases.
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Err, no. It would be like XYZ random client coming to your boss and saying, "I want a website that does FOO. I'm paying your standard fee, and if you don't build it, I'm filing a complaint with the government."

Also, FOO might just be something that statistically increases the chance of your boss getting robbed/murdered.
That is not an equal comparison. Your boss either owns the company you work for or was hired by the person/group that owns the company to tell you what to do. New York City does not own the taxi cab/service.

A better example would be your local government creating a system that requires you to pay $100,000+ for a medallion just for the right to create code in your city and then forcing you to accommodate any potential client's request for software.
I'll probably be voted down for this, but Scott Adams is constantly making unfounded and usually wrong statements on his blog. He tries to push out big ideas on his blog and usually overreaches. But he has a big following.
familiar with html and css?

you could design the page to be completely fluid and use up to 100% of the screen width.

then use the meta viewport tag and/or media queries to size the page for mobiles.
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/09/combining_me...

used the technique here, only difference is i set max-width http://concertsto.com
Four reasons to consider Royalty-based financing for SaaS companies
1. Cut a hole in the box.
2. Put your wave in that box.
3. Make her download the box.

And that's the way you do it.
plenty of it, f-spot and banshee being 2 of the most popular. Most of them use Qt# or Gtk#
Amazing how a company with 500K tracks wasn't assigned a rep inside Apple. Has this changed?
Looks ulgy and hacky. But OTOH is mind bogglingly fast on multicore processors (i.e anything bigger than an iPhone). I think its just become the basis of my next project.
Also compare the recent run-up in salaries to a graph of baseball players salaries over years:

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2010/11/mlb_salaries_ov...

When you look at the linear graph it looks less like a bubble and more like settling in at a new level.
I'd suggest that you respond with polite and well reasoned arguments, trying to parallel the specifics of this situation with other issues of interest to this community. The post I'm answering here is a reasonable example of this.

I would suggest that you either adjust to the norms of this site by writing fewer higher quality responses into which you put greater thought. This page is currently dominated by short posts that you seem to have made in rapid succession.

I think you'd get a better response if you followed the punctuation and capitalization standards that the established users if this site employ. You may note that yours are the only nonstandard posts on this page. An all lowercase post would have to be quite extraordinary before I would upvote it.
Actually this question has large implications for pay-to-pitch, investment, incorporation fees, legal fees, and consulting services. No startup cost is zero. If there were a very large non-monetary utility gained from starting a startup from nothing, it would be interesting to see how the market has come around to charging for it.
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It's my understanding that it's not a violation to charge different prices for cash/credit. It's a violation to have a standard price and have a surcharge for credit.

So they can have separate "cash" and "credit" prices but they can't have a single price and say "5c more for credit". The obvious reason being that the credit card companies want their piece of the pie but it also protects consumers from hidden signs. I know of one station that has a single price with a "5c more for credit sign" that isn't illuminated and can't be seen at night without looking closely.
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I have a favor to ask. I happen to share the same name as a well known UFC fighter named…well, Rob McCullough. While I have no chance of beating Razer Rob in any physical bout. I want to beat him on Google! I decided to try and make my name show up above Razor Rob’s when googling “Rob McCullough.” Help my by putting a link, to my blog, on your site that says “Rob McCullough.” I will return the favor, just let me know your name and your home URL.
Receiving a promotion does not always require a significant shift in roles. Good tech companies allow engineers to climb the ladder while maintaining their propensity for writing code.
Human brain, being a very recent, and thus highly un-tuned, product of evolutionary development, is very energy inefficient machine. It consumes disproportionally significant amount of resources when it really works. Thus highly creative brain activity quickly burns through glucose and may quickly
make you feel hungry (please don't mistake with a pure psychological trick of switching to snack in situations when your brain is forced to work intensely, and it tries every escape route to avoid/delay the task )
Paul is a very smart guy. He is a tech visionary, and is extremely practical financially. He will be a huge boon for YC even more than he already has been, and a loss for Facebook. He previously stated he was not involved in any e-mail platform for Facebook, but the timing is interesting indeed. Great news.
After being hired, HR does not advertise that they are there to protect the company from its employees, and not the other way around. The message is often that HR is an advocate for your concerns, willing to help mediate in interpersonal problems, etc.
it looks beautiful, wish I could try it out.

There seems to be some slight differences between leftronic and geckoboard though. Geckoboard collects data on your behalf, not sure if leftronic does it