skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, don't imagine anyone's too terribly surprised by this.

Time to start boning back up of Postgres, I guess.
Ask HN: I'm working on an ad product and need feedback from 10 people.
I have been working on a new kind of ad tech that i believe both compels people to pay attention to it and is also interesting.

So far its all been in stealth but i believe that hearing different opinions will help gain some clarity as to whether or not the idea is actually any good.

Email me at tapha[AT]live.co.uk and i will send the link. And some more information.

Look forward to discussing it!

Cheers,

:)

Tapha.
The linked video takes place before the fall of the Soviet Union.
HTML5 syntax guidelines
The editor of the cooking magazine has allegedly been scraping other material, as well:

At present, people seem to have found matches between Cooks Source articles and the Martha Stewart website; The Food Network; NPR; the website of Boots (the chemist); Alternet; Weight Watchers; and a website owned by Disney.

http://howpublishingreallyworks.com/?p=3450
IANAL, but I believe this also allows the cops to set up random DUI roadblocks (ie, untargeted, no warrant, no individual suspicion, public good, etc).
Are the latest versions of Skype, VMWare, and others listed there at risk of software-update hijacking, with no cryptographic verification of update payloads?
If you really want to stop drinking as much, get on a calorie-limited weight loss plan and be strict about the limit (i.e. bad choices == no food later in the day). When you start seeing your calorie limit being totally blown by 50% or more on the days you drink, or not being able to eat dinner because you had a few beers earlier in the day, you definitely start thinking twice about drinking so much.
HireHive (YC S10) shutting down
Firefox 4 Beta 2 for Android and Maemo: Smaller, faster, new UI design
I believe that Facebook subscribe to this methodology because MySQL makes this easy and other methods of finding issues very difficult.

When all you have is a hammer...
Las Vegas tunnel people: How 1,000 people live under shimmering strip
!important in CSS is what 'goto' is for programming languages. It is a dirty hack. 99.9% of the time not needed in projects where you have control over all the code.
‘No, no. The process has always been the same, at every airport.’

INGSOC! We should have known, 1984 is long due.
dude, you are an alcohol addict. don't lie to yourself. my advice: go to AA meetings, that's the only hope for your problem. I'm also an addict to alcohol. I know what I'm telling you.
I'm not sure what this adds onto the original, and why it deserves a separate HN post on the front page, but oh well.
Maybe I missed it, but your 'pro' article doesn't link to the study that is referenced. I would like to see what kind of work the people were doing who were tossed. For example, in my experience most companies have way too many middle management. In that scenario it makes sense to cut no matter what so go ahead and use some performance metric (and definitely don't wait a year to do it).

Then you have rank and file employees are are actually doing the work. Even in a relatively low skill position the company might have to put in 1-2 months of training to have an employee functioning. Unless the employee is completely horrible (in which case they should be fired anyway, and if this keeps happening hiring practices should be analyzed), from a cost standpoint it makes more sense to coach them to do better rather than remove them.

In higher skill positions it makes even less sense to just cut the bottom unless the bottom is doing very poorly. In that case they should have been cut prior to ranking. Where I work now we don't expect someone to get fully up to speed until they have been in our codebase for 3-6 months. If we constantly ranked, fired, and hired again we would only have a few good people at the top end doing all of the work and simply churning money on the bottom end. We might find a superstar who displaces the top, but does that mean you want to fire your previous tops? They were doing fine, and presumably still are, until the superstar showed up.

Again, I have no problem with ranking people or with firing people for poor performance. The problem is picking an arbitrary line and firing people who fall below it even if their raw performance is acceptable.
I'd like a link to my HN username, or Twitter username. No money needed.

I think we all frequently write for "free" on websites that earn money from user-generated content/ presence. I don't feel cheated by this.

It's a good investment to write for free (I think of it more like interacting or participating) because I learn stuff from smart people, get relationships with nice people, attention for stuff I work on, and am able to pass on attention to stuff I am a fan of.

I'm not opposed to writers getting compensated with money, but in this case i'm not sure it's the currency that would help either party out the most.
Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Operating_System_Solutio...

From the article: "the most meaningful product to come out of the Indian software industry"
What possible downsides would there be to Microsoft pushing Indie games more, perhaps through a dedicated channel on the dashboard? Is that kind of exposure likely to cannibalize retail game sales to any extent? It just seems to me that there is so much potential being wasted here, and for what reason? Just look at the iOS App Store, any Indie developer can release a game and it's thriving.
Nothing IMO. Or discounts on subscriptions.
another one: a screen would be fairly bright. it doesn't look to me like the light generated by the table is actually reflecting off their arms. can anyone see more clearly than me?
Everyone is using MySQL. But I attended a talk by one of their DBAs where he said that they large OLTP server, the one that processes the payments is Oracle. Single-instance, because Oracle RAC can't give them the low latency they needed.

They switch the the biggest machine IBM can give them every few month.
It wouldn't be hindsight for Dragon magazine. They were publishing "Best of" volumes throughout their run. It isn't like we are talking ancient history, the CD-ROM and collections of magazines were well within the time era of most of their issues.
One runtime to unite them all.
Actually this is one of the types of case, that is one person is clearly and obviously in the wrong but absolutely refuses to admit it, where having a lawyer is particularly helpful.
This is too bad. I really enjoyed the YCommonApp, and hope something fills its place.
In that case, you need a counter of the people who opt out -- not a counter of the people who tweet about your site.
Up voted the story just so more people read your comment. This kind of "marketing-speak" focused on technical details is well too widespread. The project may be technical by nature but there's got to be a higher level way of describing it.
everything this bot links to is a fucking Youtube! video. They seem to think all the skeptics are from illiterate ADD iGeneration. I don't have time to sit through a bunch of blipverts.
I fly out of Boston, which has the machines, so opting out has become part of travel process for me. TSA agents were more aggressive with my last trip out (Sunday, October 31), not only with loudly announcing several times that they had an opt-out, but also in the pat down, which included pulling the clothes from my body and looking between the cloth and underthings. ("I have to clear your waistband," is how the TSA agent explained it.)

So, it's humiliating. But I'm not going to stop opting out. The difference between the pat down and the machine for me is this -- the pat down happens in the moment, between two people. There's no record. It exists only in the time it takes. It can't be stored, it can't be transmitted, it can't be tied to a flight record or anything else at some future date. It forces TSA to confront what they're doing, and it's one small way I can say at the airport, I am human, I'm not an abstraction. I have rights, respect them.
This is probably related to a really old HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677125
I would rather see the price drop to $0 if not, drop the price by the amount you would be paying the authors. Alternatively, you can look into swag like free subscriptions for contributors.

Though I wonder what kind of change in dynamics on the site would we see once the mturk people find out that you can get paid for posting articles and comments at HN.
It's linked to in the original, and it explains that the "cleanup" of the article was to "correct" archaic spellings, which were used intentionally.
It'd be interesting to know some info on the hardware back end, such as number of servers, storage system, etc. Also, how many servers does a typical query touch?
The same tendency is in me too, and too often, the same habit.

It _is_ addiction, to a small or large degree. I, substitute ample exercise, and also make note of the actual difference in my function and output and mood, sober vs. buzzed/hungover. That's a motivator, though/because my weakness is likely lifelong.

Some folks can have one or two drinks, once or twice a week. I've found (through ample experience) that I really can't; that level will always start creeping up, in good times or bad. I believe I'm just wired this way, and will always have to remain aware of it.

Whether it's nature or nurture, the result is the same, so I've learned to "hack" the situation to produce the desired outcome, to adapt as required.
I don't understand moves like this.

Why do companies seem to put developers in such poor positions? In platforms like this, it seems that your customers are in a large part, the developers. But instead of trying to lure them in, it's viewed more as a privilege to get on their platform than an attempt to gather the best software. I understand the desire to get on a large platform like Xbox, but isn't it at least somewhat of a concern that if Sony releases a developers eden for the platform that they'll lose business?

I suppose the problem is a lack of competition on any of the platforms, to my knowledge. If you're a developer you would want a game available on as many platforms as possible, regardless of any rules imposed on you. If you want your game on Xbox the only way to get it on is through microsoft, correct?

If not, it seems that someone should make a developer-centric distribution platform.
Abandoned gems is one of the biggest problems I have with Ruby. Rubygems is starting to look like CPAN, which makes my sysadmin life hell.
Take another glance...

This could probably be argued under contract law as the defendant having exceeded the use they contracted.
Links to projects, websites, a writers profile. Promotion can be useful, it doesn't have to be money.
"hard to find something in between complete n00b and full master" - My theory is that the best technical books or books for learning are the "intermediate" ones.

There are usually a ton of acceptable beginner's books and then very specialized and complex books but very few good "intermediate" books like the favorites:

- TCP/IP ilustrated
- Perl Camel book
- R&K C book
- Silman's groundbreaking chess books
- Harrington's groundbreaking poker books
Nokia CTO: "It's all about the applications"
As presently, nothing. Just full and proper credit. (Though I believe you recently said a year's subscription comes as part of it, which is great!) Why? Because we don't produce blog posts, etc, in order to merely get into Hacker Monthly - it's just republishing work that's already been produced.
looks like it lets you take a large, continuously updating stream of data and distribute the processing of it across multiple nodes. kinda like mapreduce.
It sounds like a slightly more structured and distributed Unix shell pipeline; but from looking at the twitter example, a lot more awkward to use, owing to being structured around Java.

I imagine a composition language (DSL) wrapped around it could improve its usability - especially ad-hoc experimentation - greatly; at least one better than Spring IoC xml.
It's frustrating, isn't it? S4 sounds like it does something cool and useful, and I'd like to know what this is, just for reference at least. But I don't have time to go and figure it out on my own; I'm too busy trying to stay productive.
Yes, I did make the UI. Uhh, as for graphics, I use Silk icons. Besides that, I don't think I use any graphics. I'm very big on thinking about design, but I do not for the life of me know how to draw.

I consider my work as the epitome of the "Design is not just the look" ethos. I spend what little free time I do have thinking about the flow for all the little parts of NewsBlur.
I blinked when I got to this remark: "...my prior seven figure personal net worth had been reduced to $30,000, which I had stocked away in cash in a safety deposit box."

To me the idea of having $3k in cash is unthinkable (retail businesses and other circumstances where there is an operational need for cash excepted, of course), never mind $30k in cash. It brings to mind drug dealers and money laundering.

Is having such large amounts of cash more commonplace in the US, or were other readers similarly startled?
My guess is they're going to get shellacked.

The first thing you have to understand here is that the constitutionality of airport searches isn't in question. SCOTUS has upheld a doctrine of "administrative searches", taken in order to advance public safety rather than criminal investigations, which are explicitly intended to apply universally, without a warrant, and without individualized suspicion.

The second bit of background you should have is 49 USC 44925, which mandates that the TSA research and deploy advanced screening technology, specifically to detect nonmetallic objects. I'm no lawyer, but I do enjoy reading SCOTUS civil liberties opinions, and by and large the court seems to give deference to the legislature when no clear constitutional issue is at stake. In sum: the court has an "out" here, which is "the intent to search passengers is already constitutional, so if this variant of the search is so bad, pass a law".

The Supreme Court has not outlawed strip searches (obviously they can't, as virtually everyone who gets arrested and booked is strip searched, guilty or not). If you read the Savana Redding opinion (8-1 "it's unconstitutional to strip search an 8th grade girl for ibuprofen"), you'll see things like "Its indignity does not outlaw the search, but it does implicate the rule that "the search [be] ‘reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place.’". That is, unfortunately, not a hard case for TSA to make. The fact that the Savana search was for "nondangerous contraband" also factored into the opinion.

(If you want to throw up in your mouth a little bit, track down Clarence Thomas' dissent which argued that it is indeed constitutional to strip search a 13 year old girl in school to track down Advil.)

Finally, the arguments EPIC makes here do not seem awesome. Part of their argument turns on administrative rulemaking procedures at TSA, which TSA seems to dismantle efficiently in their response. Other parts drag in things like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which is (a) a longshot argument for petitioners who can claim no personal religions infringed on and (b) is neatly sidestepped by the TSA "opt-out" rule. Speaking of opt-out: EPIC claims that there is no effective opt-out procedure, which is also a hard argument to defend without an example of someone refused an opt-out. And on this janky scaffold of arguments, EPIC wants an emergency injunction against the scanners?

Don't get me wrong, I'm obviously in their corner on this. I'm thrilled if they win. And they've got some painful evidence, such as FOIA docs showing TSA required machines with store/transmit capabilities (oops!). But my guess is that if we want to get rid of the strip search machines, we're going to have to do it by voting out the people who approved them.
Do you know of any research supporting that? It sounds plausible to me but a quick search turned up nothing.
So... this is basically scribe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(log_server)
"At Yahoo! Labs we design algorithms that are primarily driven by large scale applications for data mining and machine learning in a production environment. We show that the S4 design is surprisingly flexible and lends itself to run in large clusters built with commodity hardware."

Via http://labs.yahoo.com/event/99

I could've sworn there was a blurb there about where they are using and I recall using "real time map-reduce jobs" for things live bidding on ADs and such; another use case would be with stock market data.

You're right that it's marketing speak, this project has gotten too much attention on HN in the last few days even when all the git repo had was initial commit. It's too bad they don't have proper explanation, maybe it's because they weren't probably expecting all this attention yet.
Well, depending on how good the article was and how long they retained the rights, it might make it difficult to publish one of their "Best Of" collections. I would imagine (haven't see a contract lately) that everyone is reserving all "electronic" means.
You'll fix source code quality problems the day that research grants can contemplate the money to pay for scientific programming, meaning people who know their shit on modeling and running simulations on distributed systems.

Do bear in mind that those people are not cheap, so it's doubtful that anyone would want to incur the expense.
Good stuff.

Anybody know any other tips/resources for meeting fellow hackers or potential co-founders in your area?

I'm currently in Toronto and hoping to meet people.

Edit: Added last sentence mentioning my location.
Why only 10 people, and if only 10 people, then why aren't you just talking to people you know rather than broadcasting it on HN? I think people can see through the fact that you are trying to gain interest by making it harder to access.
I'd be careful about how you promote this job offering. As other said, you may either appear discriminatory or actually be in violation of state laws (some states do not allow you to discriminate based on sexuality). If it's clear you'll only hire a LGBT programmer, you're in violation of those laws.

In addition, try to be careful of providing ammunition to people who will shout "reverse discrimination" at you. They seem to think that one instance of discrimination that favors disadvantaged groups is justification to ignore widespread discrimination.

I think what you're doing is an excellent project. But it'll be a very difficult one, due to the social constructs you're dealing with. You'll need to be extra careful to mind your p's and q's with everything else, so you can more effectively get your message across.

Best wishes and best of luck.
As I mentioned here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856101):

We give our authors a print copy plus 1 year digital subscription. The comment contributors get the digital copy plus 1 year digital subscription.

Edit: And of course, full and proper credit (Thanks, Peter). The author also gets to link to his/her websites/twitter account in the his/her biography.
Government-Sponsored Pesticide Propaganda
Correct, and correct. My apologies.
The government made a smart and forward-thinking decision? Do not believe!
Nitpick - the highlighted/emphasized text is essentially indistinguishable from hyperlinks.
could just be we're not the audience yet, they see this as something they want to break out within businesses, so they have to communicate it to business types that want to know practically and conceptually how this new thing is better than what they have, but don't care about the actual code.
The problem is that they add them without breaking any backwards compatability, so you end up with unpleasantries like the \ namespace separator.
Those roadblocks clearly haven't been ruled unconstitutional (they happen in Illinois all the time), but it's worth noting that they're set up expressly in the service of criminal investigations, which is exactly what admin searches aren't supposed to be about.

For slightly more context, note that there is a scheme of "primary" and "secondary" moving violations, which is why technically you're not supposed to be able to get pulled over for not having your seatbelt on.

Mostly what they're doing at those checkpoints is racking up compliance tickets, which is obviously a load of BS.

Fortunately, this is a problem easily addressed by technology.
Firesheep is firesheep because it's easy enough for random college freshmen to use. This is a commandline tool so it is no Firesheep.
Are you guys sticking with the Recruitment industry or is this a completely new thing?
>They switch the the biggest machine IBM can give them every few month.

Yea, almost all this "web scale" scalability can achieve those numbers because they can partition, relax transactional requirements, and scale out. For system-wide true transactions, scaling up is still the only option, it seems.

Although, H-Store/VoltDB claims some impressive numbers if your OLTP app fits the requirements.
The model is very similar to the one argued for in this paper:

http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2007/papers/cidr07p15.pdf

That paper was a big inspiration when we were redesigning the betting exchange at smarkets. It's a very well reasoned exposition of why this is the only sensible architecture for large scale distributed systems.
This is the best premium account upsell ever. I raise my hat, and giggle.
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/303349b79ded3049b733
I always thought it would very interesting to try an build a language that had an Actor focus but used simple objects for basic stuff (a pure model seems a little odd - I guess C++ for actors). It just seems like a natural way to organize a big system. We talk about certain objects as doing things to other objects and it would provide a simpler concurrency.

Actors, linda, tuples..... hum....
They complain about sewers at 2:30 AM and 1PM
Probably it's just that a street light problem is one that people add to their mental inventory. It's non-urgent.

Whereas anyone with noise issues wants the noise to stop now.
Paying people per word is just silly. Can we please not carry over this hackish way of valuing a writer's contribution?

If we wanted a metric of the value of the post, I would think up-votes would be a better metric. But personally, I agree with the others here saying that monetary compensation is not a good idea. Or, if you feel the desire to give back to the community financially for financial success you are having,perhaps a donation to PG or YC for maintaining this site.

(Yes, I know he doesn't need it, and I know he gets value from the site. Saying thank you is still a good idea, both because he does good things with money, and because it [the gesture, more than the money] will keep him interested and involved, even as his success and demands for his time continue to grow.)
We'll be working on a Ruby library for Open311 at RubyConf:

http://sunlightlabs.com/rubyconf/
I would like to say nothing but I know some authors won't want to be included without the magazine being free in some form. I'm afraid this will jeopardize the quality of the articles and reduce overall readership. How about making the electronic (only) version free (again) and giving author credit/promotion.
VMWare is in the compatibility list, so that's a yes there.
Or use the event MPM.
As I understand it the processing model is similar to Yahoo pipes or good old unix pipes, except with easy support for parallel processing, distribution and fault tolerance.
Just looked a little at the documentation. It seems like its an engine for stream processing. Think of it of data mining up front. You figure out what information you want and collect it as the data comes in instead of storing all the data and mining for what you want from the accumulated pile.