skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, sort of.

urxvt:

$ time ls /usr/bin
0.036 real 0.013 user 0.020 sys 93.76 cpu

emacs ansi-term:

4.265 real 0.023 user 0.023 sys 1.09 cpu
I wonder how many of those new subscriptions came from the AppSumo deal that they were a part of last month - I bet a significant number, which means they aren't full paying customers, because of the reduced rates on the deal.
Yeah, Apple is so losing money with iPhone…
Is it time for Free software to move on?
Cell-Phone Science - Bill Gates
First COBOL of the 21st century. Am sure there will be lot more.
Fly larvae "see" light with their bodies to avoid being eaten
Google should also point out that if Facebook lets you export your friends' emails then your friends can do the same to your email. And that if that happens one bad or compromised friend can give yours and everyone else's emails to spammers.

Same thing can happen with Google Contacts, but the difference is that on Contacts you give out your email. On Facebook you signup with an email and then you "friend" someone.
A portion of the number comes from contributors, students* and AppSumo bundle.

*We've been offering students free digital subscription, but not yet publicly announcing it (still figuring out the best way to implement it).
Maybe this can inspire the replacement for Face book.
Google maps gets data/map improvements in southern hemisphere.
I received 50 cards from Moo this week. I love the shape and the paper quality and cutting are very good. They also upgraded my shipping for free, which was nice of them. However, the print quality is pretty poor--the text is visibly grainy. Might be my fault as I had to upload the whole card as a 600dpi image, but I'd expect that to be sufficient. I used the recycled paper option. I'd go with Moo in the future if I could be confident the print quality would be fixed.
Learn new stuff is given as the most constant is change itself.

Solve problems with what you are most effective with.

Have fun, use the lang/os/lib/whutnut make you smile while doing it. :-)

Apply above 3 points and hack! (Repeat as needed.)
Wow! That is awesome that you get a coach. I get coaching every once in a while.. but definitely not at work :)

Where do you work? If you're in the bay area, i'd love to drop by sometime for a game.
Interesting that the guy was apparently not a good coder:

"He is not a gifted programmer — according to Watt and Toey, in fact, he can barely write simple code — but by all accounts he can understand systems and fillet them with singular grace."
I'm there, solar powered cabin, wood stove. Works great, my concentration is much better here.

I couldn't hold to a strict time-based rule though. I prefer not to interrupt flow when I'm in flow. Anytime I get stuck I go chop wood or haul water, or at night, look at the stars.
Under Water
These amazing photos were taken under water and they look too good to be true.
Well, yes Adwords may be dying, but they are also throttling up Rich Media Display ads, which are going to supplement the lack of revenue from adwords.
It was a brilliant idea, but waiting five years just to prove pundits wrong depletes my strategic reserves of spite.
Money is actually a pretty good motivation for a lot of people who contribute to FOSS. It's not all about artist mentality.

75% of Linux is now written by paid developers. (http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm) Many other large FOSS projects also have a varying number of paid developers. Since a lot of companies who employ such developers (e.g. Red Hat, Novell, Google) rely on FOSS for their business-critical applications, they have a good motivation to make sure that the software they use perform well. Of course there's also hobbyists, volunteers, and people like RMS who believe they have a profound obligation to promote FOSS.
> Facebook is play a greedy game theory strategy by not allowing for a user to download their social graph.

You CAN download your graph data. You can get friends lists with UIDs, and that is theoretically AND practically enough to reconstruct the graph on a third party site. The only difference between getting UIDs and emails is the third party site won't be able to spam all your friends or connect you with your friends unless you've also opted to use Facebook graph data.
1. No more time-limited sessions. Baristas always issue you another session when you ask.
2. More explicit directions on how to get "up and running". Every vendor is different. Disclose the business rules of the hotspot on the landing page. Defer most marketing material to after authentication. If I'm on the landing page there's a good chance I already have a coffee in hand. My priority is the internet, not more coffee.
Jvm languages after Oracle
Looks great, there isn't much detail on the site. Is this interactive, live or simply recorded messages?

Sounds interesting and you have a great lineup!
Game Boy emulator being developed in JavaScript by a very smart person
Way less than that (the print proportion), partly due to the high international shipping fee ($10/issue). Most readers are just happy to get the digital edition and print it out.
"Apparently these people are sufficiently powerful that taking down a few useless sites can get the FBI to put together probably a multi-million dollar investigation."

You, nor 4chan, decide what is useful or useless.

While I might empathize with the anger and outrage over certain things (like the absurd judgments meted out to copyright violators), lawlessness is not cool. All 4chan and friends are doing is guaranteeing stricter, even more draconian internet controls.

And at the end of this a couple of dumb teenagers or young adults -- caught up in the group sense of invulnerability -- are going to get sent to prison. Which is just stupid all around, but it's the result of dumb actions like this. Worse still, as with many many actions like this (see also: War) it's a couple of people who put themselves at no risk that encouraged others to carry out the venture.
This is true of many(most?) open-source library/framework/engine/API projects. They suck and don't do more than demos because they were written with insufficient perspective for anything beyond that. So do anything more, and they suddenly collapse.
On why Captchas are fundamentally wrong
I wonder how much this was prompted by the fairly recent border issue between Nicaragua and Costa Rica (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...)
Top Five Mistakes CIOs Often Make
Can you explain how the birthday paradox applies here?

Just looking at it simply, if you can solve 15.8 of 180, that means that for any given test you should have an 8.77% chance of solving it (6 tests for > 50%). What am I doing wrong?

Also, it looks like some of the other questions are easy to automate. Like "how many letters are in the word 'whatever'".
Could you verify the same way facebook used to, via active .edu email address confirmation?
Worrying about the development language you use is like worrying about using a Stanley hammer versus a Craftsman hammer when building a house. The brand doesn't matter as long as the house gets built.

I've worked in the .NET stack for about 5 years now. It is a real pleasure to work with. When I need to get something done, I know I can do it easily, and without problems. And seeing the recent developments of Java with Oracle, I feel my decision was that much better.
This is a kind of, uh, basic point, but who writes a web site to promote a new programming language and doesn't include any example code on the site? (Never mind a language tutorial or reference manual.)

I get that there's a forum, but the code examples there are posted without any way to tell which are correct or good examples, never mind explanations of the basics...
Optimizely (YC W10) helps raise $1.02 million for Haiti Relief with A/B testing
great work man
I'd really encourage anyone interested in this discussion to read this comment: http://bit.ly/adXv1l

I believe it gets a little closer to the heart of what I was working to convey--particularly as the discussion seemed to later spiral into a primarily financial one.
I prefer online to avoid interacting with some high schooler that has no clue about color management. My experience with retail is that it's typically excruciating. People get distracted, fail to accurately record details, are often doing retail and a filler and would rather get back to finishing their chemistry homework the minute I walk out the door. I have more faith in well respected online business' that pay attention to detail, like amazon.
If you want to ruin perfectly good edibles, there are faster ways than turning them into beer.
Welcome to the fire&motion effect[1]. You now have three problems.

First, by chasing what some other people think is sexy technology, as opposed to going with what allows you do Get The Job Done, and quick.

Second, your misunderstanding on what the markets care (which is, well, marketing for the most part), and don't care about (eg your technological stack). None of these the things outlined in your post will make any difference whatsoever on your ability to chase lucrative market opportunities.

Third. Despite what some people here might write, "Hacking" -fiddling with technologies, and gaining a deep insight into them- is completely technological agnostics. You can be a hacker, even in VB.NET; it just happens, that some of these technologies has a better "average community member insight" factor, than others.

Thus, your question really boils down to something more fundamental: are you into "hacking" for the tech, or for the people? In the former case, it doesn't really matter whether you'll use MS, or Python, or what the state of the current MS devtools are -just that you gain a deep understanding of them.

In the later case, you should put your investment into people -the ones you'd want to connect with, anyway- and let the appropriate tech emerge from it naturally.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
Ask HN: How to create a digital magazine like Hacker Monthly?
Hi,

What tools and techniques should I use/learn to create a digital magazine like Hacker News monthly.

Are there any other good magazine designs you like?

By design I mean, Typography, Color selection, etc.
I think it is difficult to get these movements going among individuals. I think it is easier to establish this as a cultural norm among those businesses that make money from open source. If the goal is to raise more money for open source projects, then the fundraising will work best if it is some dedicated amount of a company's profits. I think the consumers of open source technologies would appreciate knowing that some tiny percentage of their funds go back to the projects that make it all possible. For instance, if every ISP (using open source software) was committed to sending .01% of their profits to the Apache Foundation, it would offer Apache a degree of independence from those who currently pay its bills, and I, for one, would be pleased to know that some of my money was going to the software that makes my sites possible.

The donations need to be automated as much as possible. At wpquestions.com we send out some small amount of money every month to the people who have created plugins for WordPress, whenever a question is posted about that plugin. The whole process is automated, no one needs to think about it. I think establishing this as a cultural norm throughout the open source community would help make the open source eco-system more vibrant. And lots of small payments from many small businesses probably allows greater freedom of maneuver (for the open source projects) than having a few big projects paid for by a few big corporations - simply looking at Oracle's handling of Java convinces me of the dangers of having all funding come from just a few sources.
Site seems to be down.

Text-only Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4aHzn49...
In addition to 'flag' add 'meta' on comments. There is no need for a 1/3 of each thread to be complaints about the title, whether it is HN worthy, etc.
The bigger mobile phone market: dumbphone
Ugh, super link baited title.
Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA
In this case, you're probably right.

I'm usually discussing this more fully, as in "RESTful API vs. SOAP" or the actual nitty-gritty of POST vs PUT requests and such. "clean" works much better in this context, though, thanks. I'll file that one away...

I'm one of those puritans who cries a bit inside myself.
Thanks, I just joined... waiting to be approved.
My "kissing up" tips include working smart, genuinely enjoying my work, sharing my ideas, and listening more than speaking.
What does Facebook's motives have to do with anything? The question under discussion is whether a random stranger who can convince one of my friends to sign up for a virtual pet should suddenly be able to spam me.

That is, indeed, the question under discussion.

But the question that should be under discussion is whether I should have the ability to toggle an "e-mail" field alongside the 18 other fields of information that Facebook allows me to expose to apps when a friend decides to sign up for a virtual pet. Facebook encourages me to share my pictures, my status updates, my location, my birthday, etc., with apps that my friends use, yet doesn't even allow me to choose whether to share my e-mail address.

For my protection, my ass. If that ability didn't go against their business interests, you can bet there'd be an option to allow that.
If you want to go directly to the results page without voting, here is the link: http://whichtestwon.com/haiti-fund-nonprofit-test?pollid=86
Ask HN: Where can I buy/download a recipe database?
For my next project I need a recipe database with pictures of the food.

I did come across http://www.odditysoftware.com/page-datasales226.htm but that doesn't include photos.

Also, I know there is http://www.opensourcefood.com/ which I think I can safely "scrape" since all the recipes have Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License as long as I attribute the original author.

I was wondering if anyone on HN knows of a better recipe database out there which I can buy.

Thanks!
Personally I think resume's are loads of crap and I do my best to avoid giving them out. I find it a much better strategy to talk about what problems a manager is facing and how my joining the team will help resolve those problems.

To answer your question though...

Try to quantify what kind of impact your work had to either the top or bottom line and avoid talking down the team or technology used.

Barring that, talk about what kinds of problems the project solved and what it helped the team/group/company accomplish.

If you can't even do that, then I would just mention the workplace and job title and talk up other parts of your history and/or skill set
I'm having a hard time buying that they're incompetent. I mean, we just had all those stories about one of their biggest partners leaking data to advertisers, then they go on to ban the practice and remove other (far less profitable) programs made by different companies from their systems and pretend that we won't notice....

Now, it could be that they hired away the 10% of Google that's the least competent, but I don't really buy that. And somebody ought to have noticed all the news stories about selling Facebook data to advertisers.

So if they're "incompetent" it's because they're sticking their heads in the sand.
That would probably be the best way. The downside is that some people would continue using .edu email address even after they long graduated (any solution for that?).
Agreed. I know several young finance guys that would all like to get into VC one day, but they know that without a founder background they need to cut their teeth in banking/dealmaking before moving over. But there is definitely a desire.
Is the wording completely correct?
Having ordered business cards from Vistaprint and Overnight Prints, let me make a couple of observations:

* Vistaprint had decent print quality, but IMO their paper quality left something to be desired. The biggest issue with VP (again IMO) is that their business cards are standard-sized, they are slightly smaller. It makes the card stand out a bit, but you have to decide if it stands out in a good way or a bad way

* I've used Overnight Prints for the vast majority of business cards. I've only used the "Value Cards" products (basically printed on a laser printer" as opposed to the offset press printing of the Premium cards. They use a very thick stock, and I often get positive comments on the "feel" of the card stock. At first glance the print quality looks pretty good, but upon a closer look you can see that the cards were printed on a laser printer (I presume that the offset-printed cards look better).

* The biggest 'gotcha' with Overnight Prints (at least the Value cards) is the color consistency - that is to say, there is none. They don't pay attention to embedded color profiles, and every order I've made the colors come out different. I don't mind too much because I know that my clients aren't comparing colors and I figure most of my cards either get scanned/transcribed into electronic address books and then put away, or get tossed out. But if you're someone who obsesses over the color consistency of your printed material, definitely stay away from the Value Cards (again I don't know if things are better with the Premium Cards).
I played around with the demo page and used WolframAlpha to answer the questions for me.... With a little massaging, WolframAlpha would get you pretty far in hacking it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891375
Ask HN: Where can I get a decal to cover a 1u server?
Anyone ever custom printed decals to cover a whole 1u server? Can you recommend a place? Thanks!
I'm not well versed in stock/securities laws, but I would imagine it would have to do with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading

The CEO couldn't possibly take personal calls from every investor after going public. I don't feel particularly bad that someone can't get privileged information from the company that wouldn't be available to other investors. These regulations are for fairness.
FAQ, Testimonials, and Sign Up links at the bottom don't seem to anchor anywhere. Actually, it looks like signup anchors to the pricing section, which is kind of confusing. Similarly, I feel like those links a the bottom should actually bring you to different pages rather than anchoring. It's a little awkward clicking the pricing link with the pricing already in view and having nothing happen. When I click that link I feel like it should bring me more information about pricing then whats already displayed. As a more general rule, I think anchored links are only useful in excessively long pages to ease navigation, such as with a table of contents. I think this page is far too short to necessitate having these type of links.

Edit: Also, I might avoid using email address as the login. It seems that in a business case like this you'll have multiple people accessing the same account, and it might not make sense if a hiring manager quits to continue to have to use her email address to login after the fact.
This strikes me as a good thing. For those who want the wild west, go to a private exchange. For those who want well-regulated companies, go to a public exchange.
I believe the Met. are using that much less now, since the whole fiasco with the G20 protests in 2009.
I would love to see (or not see) how the predictor wins this bet,long bet making a decision and awards the stake.

“Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth.”

http://www.longbets.org/382
Strange, I haven't done a lot with Python but I've built a pretty big system in Lua and its FFI is incredibly nice, the nicest I've ever used, in fact.
Benefits management for a startup
I'm curious how people are setting up/managing benefits (if you are at all) with a small startup (less than 5-10 people) in the US. In particular, I'm curious how you're handling healthcare and other benefits. Any thoughts appreciated!
Fast Bit Counting
The point is FB can sell your data to other companies like Yahoo and Microsoft and this is not a privacy issue. When you attempt to download your own data, it becomes one...ROFL..right..FB really thinks this is a privacy issue. It's just a PR stunt so they can keep all their data within their ecosystem.
Right. This is more comparable to the lock-in you get by hiring than to the lock-in you get with proprietary software vendors.
A quick google says that Netflix is profitable. I don't know if Netflix Instant would be if analyzed separately, though.
My love for programming is such that I enjoy doing it while at home, I enjoy working on it on the weekends, I think about what I want to do next all of the time.

If someone asks me my answers would be the complete opposite of yours. I am really happy with my job, I work with great people on new software, and new challenges that challenge me to think in different terms, provide new thoughts to the table and find ways to solve new and interesting problems that didn't exist yesterday.

That in and of itself is the reason I am a programmer. You are very different from me in that you are a 9 - 5 programmer whereas I am a 24/7 programmer.

The difference is that I write a whole lot of code outside of company time that is my own, and there is nothing better in the world than to be able to release code out into the wild to have someone find it, and use it to further their project, to be the cornerstone on which they build the next big thing that I can't imagine yet. Get improvements back, advice, comments, bug reports, and new ideas on where to take this new free software. I've already paid the bills, I've saved some money, I'm developing my skill set, why not release some of my knowledge out into the world for future generations to build upon?
its an interesting idea, but I see a lot of technical overhead (and failure points), not to mention employee training.
So if I understand this correctly, once the prisoners start opening boxes, there is no communication allowed between them, right?
Posted a comment on Forbes calling out that the article incorrectly credits Norman Nie as the "creator" of R.
For those who use Merlin Mann's (10+2)*5 ratio (http://www.43folders.com/2005/10/11/procrastination-hack-102...) and have an iPhone, check out my timer app for it:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/10-2-x5-procrastination-hack/id3...
Most of the article is only worth skimming through, but don't skim so fast that you miss the kernel at the end ;)

> Sometimes, people who don't understand any better confuse the mundane with the divine, mistake hard work for lightning bolts. They couldn't pull off that same stunt, and so they convince themselves that nobody else could, either. Her brain can't possibly work that way, that fast. There's no way she solved that puzzle on her own. The game must be rigged.

> Or Burke has a gift, and she improved it with study. She practiced. She found the little edges and secrets that make large-size success possible; she did every last bit of the math. She earned her way to her place behind the wheel, and then, on that fateful day, in that particular pattern of rectangles and lights, she saw all that she needed to beat it.
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