skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a new yorker and I have to day that I think it's a great idea that was done horribly. Bronx is a great borough but the majority of people I've met that had an interest in startups and etc have been in manhattan and Brooklyn where they live. It would've made more sense for them to either set up the office space in a location in manhattan even if it's a crappier part of the island because it's manhattan. Upper Upper east side above 103rd street is really startin to become gentrified an would be the perfect example of an awesome place for the "incubator" or office space because it's easy for everyone to get too and makes sense.

Btw I pt 500 dollars rent with utilities and I have my own room. The apt has two bathrooms full kitchen and a balcony vig enough for a BBQ. I say this as an example of how cheap the area could be and how it would make sense.

Lastly, if NYC wants to really help the incubator then they need to not only give office space but they need to make real connections and partnerships with NYC vcs and angels who provide the funding.

I have my masters from Baruch and I don't think that their "partnership with the school" is anything to jump up and down about.

Ita definitely a step in the tight direction but they should've gone about it a bit smarter
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on their unlikely mentor, Mike Ovitz.
This is a bug. When I get to the older posts, around 200 or so, high-ranking posts are displayed twice, one after the other.
Here is a saved hacker news page illustrating this bug, with two examples in it:

http://pastie.org/pastes/1270964/download

It has already been reported in:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1630931
News Corp’s Carey: MySpace’s Ongoing Losses ‘Not Acceptable Or Sustainable’
Feynman wouldn't have said that particular line, was my own reaction.
I did CS because I wanted to learn CS more than math or physics. Of course, there's a decent amount of all three in my CS curriculum. This wasn't necessarily a money-based choice (and I have trouble believing that math or physics graduates make more than CS graduates anyway), it was a choice based on what I enjoyed and wanted to learn more about.
I can relate, I am in a similar situation.

It all depends on the niche. For some industries hiring a sales guy with good connections could make the revenue jump n-folds, for others hiring someone to set up an affiliate program would be a better option, for thirds - adding a specific technical feature can spur a viral growth.

But all in all, I would go with a short-term contracts and the cushion. If you want to borrow money, a bank should be the absolute last resort. Should you fail, they will want them back, and some other investors - will not. A marketing agency sounds like an overkill, but, again, depends on the nature of your products.
unfortunately, there is some practical truth in this Navy evaluation - Lawrence would definitely failed (ie. wouldn't complete them on-time and according to SOP) most of the assignments in the Navy or military in general.
If you want to compile on a Mac and you use Homebrew:

brew install binutils
cd /usr/bin/local; ln -s gobjdump objdump
brew install icu4c
brew link icu4c
./configure
make
It looks like ccing messages to Google Groups would work.

Example:

http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news/browse_t...

I also checked a closed group that I belong to and verified that you can use a link there as well but it requires that you log in with an account that has access before you can read it.
As a manager, I agree with this statement.

However, I will add a small note to say that many employees often blame their managers for decisions which the manager has no control or influence. Which is okay, managers are the 'face' of the company to employees, but I just wanted to point out that whilst the statement 'People don't leave companies, they leave managers.' is true, the possible interpretation that managers are at fault for causing people to leave a company is not necessarily always true.
RMongo: Accessing MongoDB in R
agreed. Why Bronx? Is it because anywhere else is too expensive in NYC for share workspace?
I lived in that area for five years, definitely not a place you want to be in.
An insight gleaned from Donna Meadows is that profit is not the purpose of a company's existence. Profit is merely survival, it's what facilitates the company staying "in the game".

Her view is that the purpose of companies is to grow.
Good idea.

But what is the button for? It does not seem to do anything.

Also, it would be useful to be able to restrict the search to finding the definition of the given term.
I guess you ignored the part where I said except mobile obv.

My biggest issue with webkit is that there was a perfectly fine rendering engine to begin with that both Safari and Chrome could've simply built a new UI around. Instead they gave us yet another OS to support.

Web developers complain all the time about supporting multiple browsers, yet support web kit?

And for the record, steam is a great example of what I'm talking about: completely mediocre rendering performance for really simple tasks (essentially a web browser). It's shocking how bad web content looks in steam, I'm kind of surprised you even brought it up.

Yes - Webkit long term will be good, it can't not (even IE9 is looking alright at this point). Right now though (ruling out IE6), > 50% of my web dev cross browser issues are dealing with web kit, not IE7+, and for a much less significant audience (ie: expensive).

So you're right, it's not a "fail," but I think how great the response is to it is really disproportional. I REALLY want to love chrome etc but I just can't - it's not ready yet.
Need a marketing person to take 30% stake - Advice
I am a developer and built a ad network but not good at marketing the product. How do i get a marketing person to take a stake in the profits and get customers. HN members advice pls
Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense
Here what I feel. Posterous v WP blog ( hosted on a custom domain and not *.wordpress.com)

Posterous : Pros
1. Very easy to set up.
2. Easy to put up photo albums (no need for plugins etc)
3. No need for upgrading etc. Posterous does that for you.

Cons:
1. Limited customization (themes, widgets etc)
2. Cannot put up ads
Consider having the searchbar revealed even when you are on a show/movie page.

Btw, great design. I love how clean it is.
I chose the logging because, log objects generally do not need to keep a lot of state, and mentioned OO being "An idiom in which you capture behavior along with state" but perhaps I could have expanded on it further.

If you don't like blessing refs yourself, use a module to hide the boring repetitive parts like you would with any other problem...

I'm pretty sure perl5's OO falls into the simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work category, and obeys the "Rule of Separation: Separate policy from mechanism"
Travel Sites are Usability Centric or Dead
Oops, sorry I never follow this up.

What libraries like Backbone all have in common at the core is that they use setter methods to trigger custom bound listeners/events . When these custom events are fired, they update the multiple variables/objects that are bound directly to them. For someone who is learning JavaScript OOP for the first time on my current project, this makes a lot of sense and seems pretty exciting.
This! Exactly! I'm currently in my first year and bored out of my skull with the material we're covering. Last week we spent going over the Data Protection Act in comp sci... the DPA is part of the standard grade course and I learnt it inside out in S3.
I came to uni expecting a challenge - a new level of learning, but I'm so far left wanting.
I don't know, I feel that I got as much out of first year as the other years, sure you could say it wasn't as focused on the central theme of the course but I didn't go to uni just to focus on one thing and get it done asap.

Some of the maths was repeated but really helped me get a better grasp on it. The physics class was the only physics I got exposed to in uni and was hard but rewarding, same with the circuits stuff for electronics. As opposed to some of my recent 4th year classes, which have actually been a waste of time.
Well, it was nice knowing ya Groupon.
Even if it does write to a database, assuming that you can programmatically access it, you could build something that works with apache (or runs its own webserver) to translate URLs into doing database lookups.

If you were to actually go about doing this (regardless of whether it is text files or a database), you'd also want to automatically include the URLs within the emails themselves, which I would think many mail servers would let you do.
Just in case it isn't clear, the color picker is a standard OSX dialog box.
But clearly not well
Yikes. I know the South Bronx has very slowly been gentrifying, but Hunts Point is still not the nicest of neighborhoods. They couldn't stick this in Riverdale?
Currently attending engineering at u of waterloo in Canada. In my own experience, most of first year was a waste of time. Due to my luck in highschool as well as my own personal interests, I found 80% of first year to be review, or ridiculously slow. The most important part of first year for me was a relatively low stress environment to make friends with (particularly important in my program).

But I saw with many (not all) of my classmates just how important that first year was. Unfortunately, the differences between people's high school educations were just so much (there were some people who were having problems with limits... I was breezing all the way up to multi variable calculus and linear algebra) that as useless as individual courses may be for individual students, taken as a whole (as a class), all those 'review' classes were definitely necessary to prevent massive massive 2nd year fail rates.

Unfortunately this is not a problem that can only be solved by universities. They have their role to play, but so does our (by this I mean our province's) high school curriculum. In Toronto (where I grew up), we had integration (and almost derivatives) ripped out of standard grade 12 calculus (as well as a series of similar neuterings in other subjects). To get that stuff at all, your school had to offer honors, AP, or IB calculus or w/e. I lucked out with AP being available (which despite all the taunting I directed at the College Board did actually set me up for my first year university courses). But many bright smart kids just aren't lucky enough to attend to a school with such programs. Or even just average or slightly above average kids weren't pushed by the challenge, or dragged along by their smarter classmates.

In the end, (at least in Canada), I cannot see first year becoming any harder (or useful) until universities know that enough of their enrollees will be knowledgeable enough. Because ultimately, they are run as businesses on some level, and have to keep a float. Which is the biggest shame.
Why Does Disaster Strike At The Worst Possible Time?
Easy karma fraud.
Y Combinator Is A Stupid Idea - OnMedea
4.1 made it better but definitely does not completely fix the problem. My 3G iPhone is still significantly slower than it was pre iOS4.
Liar's Poker (Michael Lewis) Rereading. Initially in preparation fro his latest, but in reality, it's just a great, fun read. Laugh out loud funny in places. It's like Alice in Wonderland in that it gets better with age and experience.

Accelerando (Charles Stross -- our HN buddy) Mainly to remind myself how fucking awesome British sci-fi can be. It is.

The Consolations of Philosophy (Alain de Botton) I'm a mathematician who should have studied philosophy. Alain writes superbly insightful, unpretentious, and accessible books on philosophy.

Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur (Dermot Berkery) In case my bootstrapping fails. It's as dry as you'd expect and USian, but good background.

A Guide to the Good Life (William Irvine) An overview of Stoic philosophy and how to apply it as a philosophy of life. William writes beautifully, which makes this a very pleasant journey.
Totally. Shoes uses native widgets on every platform.
Two people can learn to cooperate intuitively, larger groups need to communicate
I must be unlucky then, out of three dotcoms all but one had full rights to any IP I came up with whilst an employee.
There are a lot of technical limitations for something like this.

Flash is controlled by the browser, and most media embeds are flash; an extension would need to prevent the browser from killing the flash element on page away, which I am not entirely certain if it's technically possible in Chrome or Firefox without extensive modifications to the browser itself. If you're referring to embedded media using HTML5 tags, then I'm pretty sure you could write a simple Firefox Jetpack script to return null inside the page, and play it in the status bar instead. But that wouldn't work everywhere (as few websites use the audio tag).

Another alternative, which I doubt will gain adoption, is using a custom protocol like media:[url], which when you hit play, instead of playing it as a page element, it tells the browser to play it (like Windows Media Player or VLC). The only problem would be, of course, getting the browsers and web developers to adopt this scheme.
Wipe-out
This has been part of the challenge, for sure. I've written about it here before, [1] but it's difficult. One of the reasons I'm seeking what he sought is that I think what he was doing was valuable. So it's hard not to follow in his footsteps a little, while also trying to make it my own.

Shoes is actually going through these kinds of growing pains at the moment. Shoes 4 is going to be some pretty big changes, and possibly a totally-near re-write. It's hard to do, but sometimes, a break with the past is good for you...

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617918
Virtual Boy 2: more red than ever!

Quite cool, I must admit. Though when do we get color? I'd imagine that'd require a fairly different display/print surface.
the article is pretty bad.. http://www.slate.com/id/2271265/

it paraphrases his views as saying.. "giving women the vote wrecked the country"
During the live broadcast, a Facebook employee asked Mark how Facebook planned to handle people from fake check-ins and fake people tags, and his answer was that you have to show the retailer your phone in order to redeem the reward.

He also laughed at the question while answering it. Classy.
Reputation and Global Threat Intelligence
Maintaining a decent blog often involves more work than expected.

If I was starting over, I'd probably just go with something like Posterous for the random occasion when I want to write something and be done with it. Tumblr is also a possibility as well.
I don't think this is the right direction for Facebook to take. In my opinion, eventually they'll take on 'the America Online of social networks' stigma. This certainly doesn't help. After a certain point I think there will be a real opportunity for a competitor.
Heat presses
This seems like a relatively common way most 800lb Gorilla businesses work. Google does the same (Gmail and others).

Facebook is a business which has leverage and they are going to use it. Business is competitive thats the nature of the game. I can't get too pissed at Facebook, because Groupon and Foursquare will do try to squash smaller competitors as well - its the nature of swimming with sharks.
You are only as fast as your slowest bottleneck
Yes, Southwest pilots love their airline. Southwest convinced its pilots to help pick up trash between flights. Also, all Southwest employees I've ever spoken to absolutely love their company. They practically gush! There's something up with SWA's corporate culture. So much so, Herb Kelleher cited it as a competitive advantage!
I had a Commodore PET and when my friends got tired of playing the games that came with it, on tape, I bought this book and the second one.

I heavily modified Super Star Trek and shortly after wrote my first game for sale, Galactic Conquest. Which was a clone of the same game on the Apple II by Broderbund.

Cut to the chase, this coming May I celebrate 30 years of making video games professionally.

Without these books, and nagging friends, I'm not sure what I would have done for a living.
If they needed time to fix those problems, then this would delay release of iOS4 and iPhone 4.
An amusing read, but there's been 15 years between this essay and the Social Network, and the stereotype of hackers as socially maladjusted, unshowered nerds hasn't changed much in 15 years (except maybe we're considered maladjusted, unshowered, rich nerds).

Will we ever get to the point where mass media realizes there we are capable of doing things like dating an attractive woman... without even needing to shower her with money we've scored big in our IPO?
I feel like _why is out there watching us, to see how well we learned all the stuff he tried to teach us. Like Jesus.
A primer for using bitwise operations in PHP
A Little Bit Irrational
Why the Mac App Store is a Win for Democratic Tech
The announcement of the Mac App Store has been greeted with some mixed feelings.

Because of the closed nature of the App Store for iOS devices, there has been some worry about whether the Mac App Store will continue that legacy of tight control – with Apple dictating which apps can appear based on seemingly arbitrary criteria, or whether or not they compete with Apple’s own business model.
Holographic Telecommuting May Soon Be Possible (with video)
From what I remember -- the city is trying to create "incubators" around the city.
I believe your comment is essentially accurate.

I can't take credit for the comment. It was posted by HN user korch. I only wanted to know if it was correct.
> Safari has too small of a % to be relevant (except mobile obv)

And IE has too small a % to be relevant, except on Windows.
This is factually incorrect.

Google has replaced the "Web Search API" with the "Google Custom Search API" (Custom Search Engine = CSE): http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/dev_guide.html

When you initially setup CSE you need to specify at least once site to search, but afterwards you can remove this restriction.

The API is limited to 100 calls per day by default, but you can ask for more. The old API would cut you off if you used it excessively from outside a web browser. The older SOAP API had a hard limit (I think 1000 calls?)
Is it too cynical of me to be thinking that this is really more about real estate than it is about tech? Seems that the city is trying to clean up one of its crappier neighborhoods by luring in companies (however misguided that lure might or might not be).
I stopped reading at the criticism of git log. It only takes a --oneline argument to make it much less verbose.
Common errors contain information by their being common, and in this case I think it's pretty cool information. Africa is rendered grossly smaller than life in our minds due to a confluence of two bugs: 1) the usual 2D mapping techniques distort scale (e.g., see google maps), and 2) our internal representation of geo-size seems to implement a spatial compression on places we have less information about.
I switched to a Northgate Omnikey a couple years ago which is a fairly elderly but sturdy steel-frame keyboard that uses Alps mechanical switches. The tactile feedback is significantly improved over any other keyboard I've used, save possibly for the Model M. Switching to the Omnikey from the membrane keyboards I had been using put a stop to the wrist pain I was experiencing daily at work and that alone has made the premium they've commanded more than worth it.

The biggest downside that I've found (well, that others around me have found) is that it makes a fair bit more noise than the average keyboard.
Optimizely (YC W10): Increasing Clicks with A/B Testing
Two Men and a Cloud - Start Packing
Visualization is a key part of the data, highly recommend all Edward Tufte books on information visualization.
Good for Andy. Burnout happens but acknowledging it is half the battle. Going "back to zero" is necessary when you run fast all day, every day. As a matter of fact, companies should do this too sometimes...

Even Robert Redford says it (not exactly a computer hacker ;-):
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=12440
"It was about: I was tired. I was 40 years old. I had a decade of hard work that took me very often away from my family, who mean a great deal to me. And I thought, "If you're not wise —“ It, it’s important sometimes to stop at the height of things and to re-, re-stock. Go back to zero. Take yourself back to zero. Sometimes you have to do that yourself and constantly — to be able to rejuvenate and keep going, you have to sometimes start all over again. And I felt it was the time for that. I'd been very rewarded in the business, done a lot of films, had just directed my first film, had had a tremendous reaction. I said, "You know, this is probably a good time to stop and step away for a while and, and reevaluate my life.”
Expecting to be paid what you bring in - or even remotely close (like enough to cover overhead) - is a frequent misconception of how capitalism works. Good companies have revenue of $1M/year per employee. Great companies have _profits_ of $1M/year per employee. Do you think you contributed $1M to your company's bottom line last year?

Remember that the goal of all for-profit companies is to generate profit, and that profit is either returned to its shareholders (known as dividends) or re-invested in the company with the hopes of raising the value of the company (and hence the share price). You can get a piece of that pie by taking your hard-earned money and investing in the company you work for. Some companies even let you do this at a reduced price (stock options) or, if you're lucky, include a stock award as part of your compensation. If you're not a shareholder, you shouldn't expect to see any part of the profit: you haven't taken on the risk of investing in the company. (Yes, some companies do have profit sharing as part of their compensation, but that's typically a different way of saying "you get a bonus if we can afford it.")

Granted, many of these concepts are non-existant when you're working for a start-up (where generating revenue, let alone profit, is stalled for months or even years), but the end goal is the same.
Wake me up when you finish writing a payroll system in awk...
Fed Will Buy $600 Billion in Debt, Hoping to Spur Growth
Ask HN: SVYC vs. BostonYC?
Now that some time has passed, is it fair to benchmark and compare companies that went through the Boston YC process vs. the SV YC process?

I am a bit curious, and i am sure others are.
A bunch of research papers related to compiling Prolog / logic programming idioms, pattern-matching hueristics, implementing constraint systems, etc. via CiteSeerX (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/). Also, APL-related stuff.

Nisan and Schocken's _The Elements of Computing Systems_ (http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/), which is about how the whole modern computing stack works, from NAND gates on up.

Jon Bentley's _More Programming Pearls_. Again.
Informifi (http://informifi.com/)
San Francisco, CA (16th and Harrison)
Junior and mid/senior level web hacks and systems people. Looking for devs with a sense of humor wanting to work at a place with a fun start-up feel. Be a part of a team where your voice matters and your talent can be known.

Keywords: Foosball, Wii, Snacks, Beer, Code (Python, PHP, Etc).

Send your resume to dan at informifi dot com
(Remote is not applicable right now, sorry)
Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm
The One Thing You Have to Understand if You Don't Want Your Business to Tank
UK Government plans to create a "Silicon Valley" in London
He metaphorically died for our apathy towards creativity. :o
I'd be ineterested in hearing how people go about creating a 'workplace culture' that doesn't let that happen.

Something must have become askew.