skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with plinkplonk, but if you'd like examples:

1) I mentioned multidimensional scaling elsewhere. In the book there is implementation and it doesn't even say what the goal is (in terms of objective function) and/or how well it performs. There are many different goals of multidimensional scaling. If one understand even the objective function they are minimizing then the algorithm to do so will make more sense.

2) The book grazes over SVM's and makes a few blanket statements that I haven't heard from serious researchers. E.g., "[t]he one that is usually recommended ... is called the radial-basis function. The radial-basis function is like the dot-product in that it takes two vectors and returns a value. Unlike the dot-product, it is not linear and can thus map more complex spaces." Most of the kernel/svm folks I know would never be so confident in saying such a blanket statement as it entirely relies on the data/situation.
Screw it, I quit
PS. Read Paul Graham's essay - Cities & Ambition

http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
Thanks - I know that we would need more money, but would you do it the same way even if I am putting 90% of the money which would allow us to run the company for an entire year...
Regards
Perhaps asking them to create with crayons a picture that looks like it was painted. Asking someone to, say, draw out a quick flow chart on paper would be fine, but to get running code I'd want to be able to run it as I go.
The concept of a "web OS" makes only slightly more sense than that of an "email OS."
You're missing the point.

The point being that people make tradition-based voodoo over numbers-backed science all over the place. This is a hugely disruptive opportunity. For example a software company that hires people differently can propel itself to the very top in a span of just a few short years.
If you're at a "large avionics company" using ClearCase, you're probably not using Macs with "10.4.9 and higher". (Because IBM says "At this time there is no plan to support ClearCase on Macintosh OS X, and it has not been tested for use on X11".)

It may be a good rule to support the median VCS if you're going after the median consumer, but a program for developers on recent versions of Mac OS X is not aiming at median consumers.
"You're missing the point."

Not really, I've been posting about this same idea on news.yc and reddit for years:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157380

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50581
Clinton to End Bid and Endorse Obama.
I'm not going to repeat my whole comment here, but the thing that still bothers me about OpenID is the incentive/adoption interplay. I don't think OpenID will take off until big players with large user bases make it the preferred authentication method. The problem is that the big players have an incentive to be providers but not be consumers. Therefore, the average internet user has more OpenID providers than sites on which they can actually use OpenID each day (in many cases, this is 1 provider, 0 sites, which still illustrates the point).

I don't think grass roots is going to solve this and I think the incentive needs to be inverted, somehow, for this to get past the trough of disillusionment, or whatever.
SVN is what many 'ugly majority' corporations are starting to move to. Now that is stable and big enough and has enough mindshare to become "the default".
i love it. ;)
Press the plus sign bottom left and add a "local copy" bookmark. You have to do it one at a time although >.<. They should add a mass add.
Short and to the point.

How did others quit? Please share.
Looks like this is a bookmark site with a search feature.
I'm not 100% sure its scalable. Human related models unless regulated, will be prone to error, and a lot of junk. A model like wikipedia would work because its moderated.
It also won't work for search because it will lack Freshness, and relevance.
If you're using HTTP Basic auth, your browser will happily cache the credentials and re-submit them every time when asked for the same server/realm combination. You'll need to restart your browser to clear the cached auth data.
Actually, the solution is not to ever use phpMyAdmin on a public web server. Just like Webmin, and every other tool that has god-like power over critical system resources, it should be on a private IP, accessible only from trusted systems via an encrypted, strongly-authenticated channel.
I'm willing to say that jQuery has changed the face of the JS environment in general.
Been there, done that. :-) And for those about to downmod me, it was digg in Feb. 2005 and Paris Hilton's cell phone got hacked, and we were the no.1 and no. 3 results on yahoo search for "Paris Hilton Cell Phone" out of the blue.

It sounds like they did a better job than I did.
I can't believe your comment got downmodded. I'm biased though, because I read your story.
Thanks for looking out, lol.
Touché, few Macs here, though I was just meaning to offer a datapoint for not-everyone-moving-to-Git-yet... Slightly useless in this context, I guess. :-)
I want to respond to my own comment. After reading all of the responses I have to change my mind and agree with the precept of what the writer is saying. Hearing from the perspective of people who do interviews and hiring, they are right. It is a good filter of who is and is not an actual programmer.

It makes me also ask the question, are people who use interpreted languages really programmers? The code I write is conceptually programming, but I don't think in terms of how its compiled, but rather how efficiently its interpreted and ran by the web server.
Intrade's markets on the election are ripe for arbitrage: 4.2 the price for the Clinton nomination, and 6.0 for her winning the general. What's that, a 43% profit with very very low risk[buy the nomination, sell the general: can't win the general without the nomination]?
A lot of these companies seem to be already funded.
The problem is that the Intrade market is small, requires a wire transfer + personal docs to deposit money, and is almost certainly illegal in the US. I've wanted to play there many times, but I've never wanted to go through the process of getting my money to Ireland.
Is your experience shared in text form somewhere? If yes, please post; better yet submit it. If no, please post, and better yet, submit it :)
Try this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/caged/releases/GitNub_0.8.5.zip
By judging how defensive he's been and how much faster MagLev appears to be, JRuby team should be worried.
Ask HN: Spinoff different features to a new site?
I have a site and I want to implement some features that sort of play into the theme of the site, but are not directly related to the core of the site.

I'm seeking some advice on if I should spin this off into a different site.
Are those silly riddles about candles and ropes and bridges and shit that they ask you in Microsoft interviews our profession's version of The NHL Combine?
Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation
More discussion here...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208052

This is a major issue.
It doesn't go as deep as I wish it did. However, it still gives an excellent introduction to a lot of techniques I've never heard of before and can now look up in more detail when I need to.
I hope I can say it too .... not now. I still have excuses.
You've inspired me for some reason to defend the site (I'll admit to bias, check my profile). Digg is very highly trafficked site, and the content might not be to the liking of the people here, but it started just like most of the companies that inspire everyone here that I've interacted with. Along the way it's done some cool stuff, created jobs for coders and inspired a raft of imitators.

Don't know why you inspired me to speak up.

And concerning the current problem, avoiding XSS and CSRF holes demand vigilance, especially with the many, many demands put on programmers at startups. Perhaps only with php, but I think programmers are often clever enough to work around almost any constraints, and sometimes they see security as a constraint. Digg always attracted users interested in proving their mettle by finding security holes, and as a result the developers are pretty vigilant about fixing holes.

Concerning the content of digg, well, it's an adventure ;-). As it's grown, it's left lots of room in its wake for other (maybe better) communities to develop.
Well, thanks for your excitement! I actually have friends in LA but maybe I've been corrupted by the TV portrayal...I kinda saw it as traffic-mired and vacuous and not really worth navigating. You may have changed my mind my friend.
Thanks man, a pretty common theme has been sacremento--, vancouver++
Hey, I have thought about a truck camper (seems like ~$5000) but I've never really been in an RV park so I didn't know what to make of it. (Showers? Toilets?) Big Sur has been mentioned to me a few times.
Funny reading this. I just resigned today. No kidding.

If I had seen this post before resigning, perhaps I would have sent it instead of the one I sent.
I fundamentally don't understand this kind of thing. I've seen it at http://nicovideo.jp, where most every video is COVERED with text. Doesn't seem all that useful. Maybe it's a cultural thing?

But then, there are many things I don't understand that make lots of money.
Cool, I have been to the Grand Canyon, but it's been, oh, 15 years. VRBO.com looks nice but kinda pricey. Where are you in SC?
Awesome man, thanks for the long post. I really appreciate any info I can get from someone who's been-there-done-that. This really helped me out because I am definitely interested in exploring some of nature's great exhibits that abound in this area.
Ask HN: Whats a Good Karma Score?
How do you know when you have good Hacker News Karma? 5,000? 1,000? 100?
Facebook Is Blocking Ads From MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut and 3Jam?
damn that site is pretty. i want the app just cuz of the site.
Damn that sucks. I was expecting to read a Donner party-like situation but this was 2006!
Staying in the country = alpha version of Sam traveling. Spain / Thailand / Australia = beta version :)
I might do that, thanks!
S3's performance is significantly worse than real CDNs: http://davidcancel.com/2008/05/29/using-amazon-s3-as-a-cdn/
Cool, a lot of people have mentioned trying to see the smaller towns. What makes you not like San Diego? I think the weather would be much better than SF.
It doesn't really matter. Post when you have something useful to say and don't worry about the karma.
Thanks man, I've heard a lot of great things about Vancouver here. Hope to look you up.
I want to start a company!
yeah... it's really just a measure of activity on this site. If I could give you some I would.

At 250 you get to change the color on the top navbar! that's pretty cool.
Awesome post dude, thanks for all the details. That's exactly what I'm looking for. No McDonald's for me, I want to see what's out there...
"low-level utility code that helped apps run on particular pieces of hardware."

s/low-level utility code/APIs/

s/particular pieces of hardware/individual websites/
This really scares me, because I have a site with the exact same beginning architecture on the exact same hosting provider..

I guess I had best get to work.
Command Line Tools in Python
First, I realized that there are two types of happiness relevant to a job. There is happiness through satisfaction in what you have, and happiness through greater achievement. I suspect these are actually personality traits. Some people are good at being happy with what they've got. I'm not.

Then I realized I would never have happiness through satisfaction in my current job. Even if I succeeded wildly and became a VP or CEO one day. At a very deep level, I hate the feeling of disdain from entrepreneurs. Larry and Sergey won't respect you in the morning, indeed.

Then I convinced myself that my full-time employment was not on a trajectory that would bring me full happiness ever. And life is short.

Thus, the logical conclusion. Change is necessary.

I don't have cofounders, so I'll strike out on my own for a while and see what I can build. I'll go to grad school and find cofounders.

Now, details. I talked my way into a good school long after application deadlines. This satisfies important stakeholders such as my parents.

I gave myself enough unemployed time before school to be able to hack something and test out how I work when I am my boss.

I saved a year's living expenses while employed. I moved to 50% less expensive housing and cut other expenses.

I was diplomatic at work about my departure. I didn't burn bridges. I resisted the temptation to vent about everything I thought was wrong about the company and the job. If everything fails, I have a safety net that is only slightly worse than if I didn't take the plunge. I gave my manager notice. I told him my end date was flexible so he had a chance to deal with staffing issues and I could wrap up work. It ended up being a month's notice. Not so long that I waste a lot of time checked out, but long enough that it is a happy parting.

My last day is Friday.
Let us help you eliminate the excuses.
SWAT Team Looks to Cut China’s Addiction to Dirty Coal
Ties in with:
http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2007/05/cell_phone_...
Cell phone users secretly tracked in study
In-game advertising will ruin the video game industry
BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn’s Latest Letter to Yahoo
Oooooh - I need to hit 250 =)
Smaller towns can be great.

But food in San Diego's downtown is incredibly expensive given the (bad) quality. The whole place is a giant tourist trap, but this is especially true for the "gaslamp district". If you go anyway, don't say I didn't warn you!

And I'm really serious about Saburo's - the place is amazing. For $20 you can get more sushi than you can possibly eat in an evening. Every piece of fish they give you is about 4x larger than you'd find anywhere else.
Which one is a year ? :)
Relax: In-game Advertising Will NOT Kill The Video Game Industry
The other, better, argument as to why it will NOT kill video games: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209607
The comment I was responding to was solely about the Internet. Barack Obama has done much more in the way of the traditional $2000 dinner events, while probably 90% of Ron Paul's funds came over the Internet.
longer battery life almost necessarily means bigger battery

more storage capacity by using an extra slot do make the device harder to use (have to figure out which panel to press, how to reorient the card, and there's a moving part -- the hinge ... allowing things to go wrong)
Is the domain name the most important thing in SEO?
Oh Scribd, why must you ignore my scroll wheel?

Original PDF:

http://code.noahgift.com/pycon2008/pycon2008_cli_noahgift.pd...
How the Web Was Won - An Oral History of the Internet
Data In, Garbage Out
I wonder if it would be smart to build a small product on top of Basecamp or other 37Signals products and collect small revenue from their affiliate program.

Anyone got any ideas?
How does gemstone get around the garbage collection issue?
The world of work undergoing huge changes
columbia, but i went to clemson.

vbro is a little pricey, but like i said, it will put you in contact directly with the owners of the properties, with whom you can negotiate directly. find one you like and is available and contact the person and ask to see if you can get a discount for occupying for an extended length.
It was difficult because I loved the people I was working with, but disliked the actual work (and had been promised more interesting work but got tired of waiting for it. I kept in touch with my ex-coworkers and I know the more interesting work would've materialized in another few months had I stayed). I also had other job offers at the time, and knew no one who had gone down this path. None of this made it easy.

So I "eased" my way in. I switched to working part-time (again, I had the fortune to work with great people at the time - they were sorry to see me go, but very supportive of my decision). It eventually became obvious that even part-time work was too big a distraction, so I quit entirely after about a month.

Not the most spectacular story, but I haven't regretted the decision.
State of Fear is a very interesting read.

Certainly, Crichton is not always fair in his use of statistics or analogies, but an argument for or against global warming is not the point.

He does make some incredibly important points in the process.
did you look at the sample question? make a list, store stuff in it, then spit it back out in alphabetical order.

a potential hire better be able to show me an approximation with a bowl of cheerios it's such a simple task.
Facebook quietly launches advertising feedback
I had a few major events in my life that woke me up to these same concepts.

" full-time employment was not on a trajectory that would bring me full happiness ever. And life is short." - exactly.

Change is also very important to keep me going - and being pigeonholed in a small role at work always frustrated me too. Glad to see it isn't just me!
If not now, when? That was the question I asked myself over and over again. I submitted my 3 month notice, and I'm going to following my dreams of creating a solution to a business problem. Why 3 months? I was actually going to quit sooner, but I just wanted to be nice and give my boss plenty of time to find a replacement. However, don't get me wrong, I'm itching to leave and startup! Life isn't about money folks! It's about following your passion!
> SVN is what many 'ugly majority' corporations are starting to move to.

Not a big deal. Of course mediocre developers are going to choose mediocre tools. That doesn't mean good developers should blindly follow their lead, though.
at the $200 price point you can build one htat is 3 times as fast.

spend an extra $50 on a video card with VIVO and you have a home media server/mythTV box for recording and streaming.
I've found that it is actually cheaper to buy a prebuilt on sale strip out the crappy parts and sell them to pay for upgrades.
It definitely indicates a design deficiency when one (myself included) prefers PDF over the default service provided via Scribd.
This doesn't help. If you use the same web browser for using phpMyAdmin that you use for visiting the attacker's site, you're hacked.
I wasn't arguing against charging money.

My point is, if you are going to charge, don't charge too little, as it will probably be counterproductive.
"I have two backup plans (in case the first doesn't work), and I have no fewer than three exit-strategies (how to get back into boring corporate land)."

Just be careful that those don't screw you. Nothing is more motivating than the "oh my god I need to pay my rent and buy dinner but I have no money!" feeling. Having backup plans and exit strategies can sabotage that.

But, as a fellow recent quitter myself, I have to admit that I also have my own backup plan for when the money runs out... grad school. ;)

Congrats to all those that have quit recently, and to all those considering it, just walk in and do it. I guarantee you'll be singing and skipping on the way out.

I simply saved up six months expenses and gave my notice at a convenient time in the project schedule at work (end of one project, before being put on another one). No bridges to burn (I didn't have a lot of complaints about the job, and the coworkers were great) so I have a standing offer for employment in January (when the money runs out) should I need it. I just knew I'd never be happy doing maintenance and rewrites in cubicle land.
Both my current handset (BlackBerry Curve on T-Mobile) and my previous one (Sanyo MM-7500 on Sprint) supported "over the air" installation of 3rd-party J2ME apps.

Many of the applications the poster described as not working (Google Maps, Opera Mini, etc.) worked just fine out of the box on both handsets.

Sorry, but this was more whiny than informative.
in other news NBC disallows ads of upcoming Fox, ABC, and CBS shows and vice versa
> Of course they are doing this to "protect the user", and their "network", which is total b.s.

I'm no more a fan of the vetting process that mobile apps have to go through than anyone else, but this particular piece of FUD actually bothers me quite a lot.

Imagine if J2ME-equipped handsets were subject to the same sort of malware ecosystem that, say, Windows boxes are. Now, add to that the fact that an 0wned mobile device is an automatic money-maker for the black hats, (think 1-900 numbers) and I think there's a very good reason for carriers to be nervous.
Data Retention Effectively Changes the Behavior of Citizens in Germany
I am also a relatively long-time linux user, started with slackware in 2003.

Currently I switch between OS X on my desktop, and Ubuntu on my laptop.

While the only program that I use on OSX that I don't have on Ubuntu is Photoshop, there are many programs which I think are much, much stronger on OSX. These include:

1. Transmit. Gnome just doesn't have a well-designed, reliable GUI FTP client. Transmit is amazing and it makes my job so much easier.

2. Adium. As great as Pidgin is I vastly prefer Adium, it has a greater feature set and I love being able to customize it's appearance.

3. Skitch. Skitch makes it so easy to screencap, edit, and upload pictures straight to my own personal servers (via FTP), I stop myself from taking screenshots while on Linux just because it's a pain in the ass compared to skitch.

4. NetNewsWire. Especially now that it's free, there is no RSS client for Linux that even comes close to NNW.

5. Transmission. Let's face it, although it shares much of the same underlying codebase, the OSX GUI is just so much more of a pleasure to use, not to mention the GTK version is missing some key interface features.

6. Quicksilver. I always find myself pressing contrl-space while on Ubuntu expecting Quicksilver to pop up, but only being disappointed when it doesn't. GNOME Do (http://do.davebsd.com/) is a project aiming to reproduce Quicksilver functionality on Linux, but it's a long ways away.

7. Textmate. Great text editor, Gedit is OK, although I find myself wishing I was editing in Textmate instead. You can hack around with Gedit to get many of Textmate's features, but they feel shoddy compared to the real thing.
That's not true for all Coke. Mexican Coke still uses cane sugar; as does Coke in a lot of countries that have primarily kosher / halal consumers.
Maybe you have a different definition of "branches or tags", but in the new SVN repository we have separate "head", "stable/7", "stable/6", "releng/7.0",
"release/7.0.0", etc. trees -- so whether SVN calls them "branches" or not, we have the same functionality with respect to stable and release branches as we had with CVS.
This is exactly what always bothered me about Google's white board testing (and testing like it at other big firms). It lets them know that you can do pointers and O notation but it completely misses the specific kind of tenacity that seems to make great programmers great.
Check out http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/

I am in Portland, OR, You can kick it at my place if you need a place for sometime.
Nope. Another miss.

Good cooks can imagine flavors and guess at timing and ingredients for food they've never tasted (much less prepared) just as good painters can visualize a work in their head before ever putting brush to paper.

Programmers should be able to work the same way.
If one of them is the best brain surgeon in the world, it might explain his reluctance.

"If someone else gets a tumor, they can always come to the best brain surgeon in the world! But if it happens to me, I'm stuck with the second best brain surgeon in the world, and he's a quack!"
The headline got the emphasis wrong; the article focuses on the fact that Facebook blocks 3Jam, which apparently is "a multi-person sms startup which allows users to text message multiple contacts at once." 3Jam also has a Facebook App.
my bad - that is interesting
In addition to this, I suspect the interviewer would not object to minor errors in syntax, function names and the like if the code was fundamentally sane. The sort of problems he said he asked to have solved were trivial.