skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry...

"If I were charging money you wouldn't say this, but since I'm not you seem to believe you're entitled to even more than I'm willing to give for free."

I know a lot of paid, closed source software has had little nasties in it over the years (and that's why I only use open source software). And if someone isn't getting an income from their software, the incentive to include everything from nag-screens to spyware only increases.
If this was just an honest mistake, the response should have been worded differently.

At this point, perhaps the account problem could be fixed immediately, and then a separate discussion started to address the hudson-labs issue. To do otherwise seems unnecessarily infantile.
Wow, I haven't been working on projects of such scale, but I supposed that existing infrastructure (make, gcc etc.) is good for large projects.

Does it mean that there's something wrong with the current state of affairs that you have to rebuild your infrastructure for a large project? Or does it mean that Google is so unbelievably great that everything is not good enough for them so if it's important they have to redo it from scratch?
I've been following a bit the Hudson debacle and I'm not surprised things are tense there, especially after the new fork.

But I do not think it's as simple as it seems and blaming everything on Oracle's "native evilness" is a bit naive. Quite the contrary, I'm starting to get the feeling that the 'community' might have been played a bit and all the Oracle bashing used as a trampoline for the fork.

Take this message for example: why did Kohsuke feel the need to post this publicly? He left Sun/Oracle, just had closed negotiations between Oracle and his new employer Cloudbees regarding Hudson (done while working at Sun) and recently got "the community" to vote on a fork. He certainly has enough detail contacts to resolve this privately if needed, so why would he choose to post this publicly?

But yeah, the reply in itself couldn't have been more insinuating.
Is Y Combinator growing too quickly and, if so, why?
...assuming there really is any 'issue' on either side here, that is.
I guess I'm one of the Tiobe doubters, but I trust the Stack Overflow tag trends more:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23554/tag-trends-by-...
Google Analytics might indeed be the old man in the room, but it's free. Real time analytics do matter when things get viral, but that kind of service comes at a cost. AFAIK there is no free product (as in online service) that provides such functionality with no price tag.
I noticed that as well. They seemed quite defensive, but rightfully so since they probably have no idea why the plane is monitoring their village so it might seem as a threat to them.
So how much cold hard Adsense cash did I get yesterday? I must have cleaned up for that giant traffic spike! Alas, 4 clicks out of 30,000 page views for a total of $2.76 :) So don't expect a goldmine from Hacker News traffic.

I wish information like this was more forthcoming in other blogs like this.
> If you're hard-wired to be impulsive and have a knack for viewing things in a negative light, it is in fact incredibly hard to get rid of such behavioral tendencies simply by "getting off your butt, man."

The “fatalistic” view – in that there might be very little to be called “free will” – would assume that nearly all of a person's behaviour is dictated by genes shaped by life experience (response to which also depends on the same). For procrastination, one could coarsely define some archetypes:

* Those who don't procrastinate
* Those who procrastinate but can overcome the tendency easily or with difficulty
* Those who procrastinate and can't overcome it despite trying
* Those who procrastinate and won't try to overcome it (either because they don't want to or don't think they'll succeed)
Just returned from QEDcon (search for the hashtag on twitter) and it's interesting to see Google getting on on the act, questioning the efficacy of homeopathy.

http://www.qedcon.org
It really would, but last I heard they'd decided on (and implemented) hg as their DVCS on the serverside. Fortunately, "clientside" git integrates with more serverside VCSes than any other system I'm aware of :)
Why doesn’t this exist yet: Syntax-aware merge
*prod*

(I hate the "markdown" used on HN, btw. Took me three iterations to figure out that I can't just write (asterisk)prod(asterisk) without prepending space.)
As James is participating on this thread, I will simply ask this question rather than speculate: How many good things have come as a result of the credibility being a "published author" has given you?
I think it's worth mentioning another alternative build system I came across recently, redo:

https://github.com/apenwarr/redo#readme

Rather than yet another custom syntax, build-scripts are ordinary shell-scripts (or at your option, scripts written in any other language that can be called from a hashbang line). And yet, redo makes it much, much easier than make to record dependencies and track changes, and hence rebuild the exact minimum number of files necessary.

(previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2104803)
When I hit HN I got almost $40 from 10,000 hits, but that was mostly because I accidentally had the link back to the homepage right above an ad unit.
A short course in thinking about thinking (Daniel Kahneman)
You can hit the same level by procrastinating on HN all day long.
Is that really true? I meet very few people, even fresh out of good schools, who have any practical knowledge of the Actor model. Many have heard of it, but most don't know that about even basic concepts surrounding it like Needham's Duality.
If the geniuses have a lot of competition, then they're not geniuses anymore now are they?

And besides that, who says there aren't already highly-paid repetitive jobs requiring mild intelligence? Accountants and lawyers come to mind (people from both of these fields tell me they really don't require a whole lot of intelligence and are pretty repetitive (although the accountants are quick to point out that it's not as repetitive as you probably think)).
I think the numbers are the best part of the article, refreshingly candid. When a startup posts its revenue/traffic numbers it is lauded for honesty. The same should apply to this post.

It seems that books are like startups- unless you hit a huge home run, you really shouldn't be doing it for the money.
Oracle forks Jenkins
Similar discussion from eight months ago here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505365

Extremely interesting subject, extremely interesting discussion, with many great insights.
Never Work for a Stanford Student Again
http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrestricted/col... seems relevant.
Handy 4-channel digital oscilloscope for $159
I use Gmail for all my mail and in general it works great. If you use Thunderbird or other mail client you can always have a copy of all your emails on your computer.

A more interesting approach will be to use a USB drive for storing your emails, you can simply plug the stick in your Windows, Mac or Linux computer and use your email. This is completely OS agnostic because Thunderbird uses text files for configuration.
Solitude & Leadership
Some kind of filter, e.g. based on tags would be great (serif, sans-serif, geometric, humanist, script etc.)
Lessons from giant-scale services
To be fair, this is one article in a series on inequality. They come done much harsher on other sources of inequality, such as the American financial system and the Chinese rural to urban migration quotas.
...and reading through things, I guess there is. Awful.
I used this a lot while writing a 16bit math system for the NES. A similar trick to this is Egyptian Division (http://everything2.com/title/Egyptian+division)
But Ozzie was the Founder of Iris Associates -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Associates -- who actually created Notes.
Great question. There's definitely been some good thats come of it. Let me think for a bit and respond. Probably in a blog post.
I was a #1 story on HN this week too. I wrote up a postmortem here - http://natgordon.posterous.com/hackernews-post-mortem
I find that reading huge numbers doesn't get the true scale across. It helps to bring the relative scale down to human terms. There are 63,360 inches in a mile. There are about 63,240 AUs in a light-year. So if the Earth was one inch from the Sun, Alpha Centauri would be 4 miles away. In this miniature model, the speed of light is around 7 inches per hour, or 1 mile per year, and our fastest probes take 100 days to move an inch.

The galaxy sounds big at first, but only because our lives are so short. If we built Von Neumann probes we could take over the galaxy in a mere million years. That's nothing on a geologic time scale. The fact that the solar system has sat around for 4 billion years without being eaten by Von Neumann machines makes me pretty certain that we're alone.
And now he is, once again, on the front page of Hacker News.
The résumé you posted earlier was indeed good-looking yet very good at conveying the important information.
I don't get it. He was spending $40,000/month on his living expenses while being afraid that he wouldn't be able to afford diapers and food for his baby? How was this guy running his life so wrong? Did it somehow cost him that much to maintain his unsellable house in the financial district of New York? Are we supposed to feel sympathy for him?
A few scattered thoughts:

o I would divide into specific positions, and for each position mention responsibilities and accomplishments

o Omit any irrelevant unless you have extra space on the single page (Cashier, etc.).

o "Advisor: my advisor" seems off-guess that's part of the template.

o Why not do everything in latex, it looks more professional and you'll have more control?

o I'm not surprised you are an extrovert. Hackers come in all personality types, stereotypes otherwise.

o It's irrelevant that the person you tutored was on the swimming team.

o While it's true you may be fun to be around, better judged by interaction than by a statement on a resume.
Especially since copyright law has exemptions specifically for teacher's reading copyrighted works to their class.
Yeah -- that moment and the moment at the very end where he found his happy ending were the only two moments in the whole thing where I felt any sympathy for the author at all.

The rest of the time, where he wrote crappy books he knew were crappy, alienated editors, and contemplated insurance fraud plus suicide in one swell foop, all whilst capitalizing on others' credulity to sell them financial advice when his own finances have run like a yo-yo, he came off like a complete ass.

Congratulations to Altucher for writing in such an engaging, and hypnotically, brutally honest style that I felt compelled to read all the way through, despite the fact he induced me to distantly hate him through about 98% of the tale.
When to buy airline tickets: Getting the cheapest flights
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> Your threads/actors still block waiting for messages. I've seen an example of someone using this to write a mutex in Erlang.

This statement suggests to me that you've got some fundamental misunderstandings about the nature of actor based programming. Your actor may block on its message queue (and an infinite computation would mean you'd never consult the queue again), but during a message wait it doesn't necessarily block a thread. That's sort of the point of a good Actor model implementation.

If you write a series of symmetric calls that create a dependency, then yes, you will deadlock; the Actor model can't work its magic when you explicitly model blocking calls.

Perhaps you don't know this, but every lock&block system has an equivalently performant Actor-based system, and vice-versa. (See: http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/duality78.pdf) What this means, for programmers, is that whichever model fits our current problem best is the one to use. We can make either one performant.

P.S., Just because you haven't heard of these languages doesn't mean they are not widely used. What does your personal experience have to do with the viability of a technique?
Not sure I agree with you. Simply 'trying to be happy' doesn't work, sure, but I have noticed I feel a lot better & happier when I'm exercising. When I don't feel good, I really don't want to exercise, but I know that I just have to get up and do it, and I'll start to feel better in a week or so.

At least for me, it's a self-perpetuating cycle, and there is no secret trick to breaking it, other than doing it
No, the FDIC has paid out many millions from the federal deposit insurance fund. Every time a bank fails, this find takes a multi-million dollar hit.
You do have to remember that you are dealing with a very specific subset of the population here on this forum. I have lots of free but not open source software on my system (along side the paid and open source stuff).

I will say that technical users, such as myself and people here, are wary of installing random software on their computers. Most of the time, I'm not worried about malware or nagware but about wasting my time on product that doesn't work. But I've seen low quality paid software, low quality open source software, and low quality free software in equal measure.
Putting aside the obvious issues with comparing a $100 device with something that costs maybe as much as $5, would anyone really use something like this?

It seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem with a couple of nice features but I'm not sure if they're enough to make me change my habits.

Besides, I can always just take a picture of my notes with my iphone and put them in Evernote.
If you don't end up posting the links, please send them to me in an email. I'd like to see that code and the explanation behind it.
See rst's comment. $ORCL doesn't sell "technology". It sell's a "Business Solution".

// Which in itself is generally a good strategy for most startups to emulate.
hudson river/ what?
That could very well be the case. Perhaps its position was artificially high as well. The transition from static to dynamic web pages forced a glut of developers to learn it, and hence a lot of searches for answers. Maybe this is just a sign than we're all getting more seasoned in the language on average.
This approach is not portable: it'll only work on Unixy os.
That looks like the standard resume that I see on my desk every day. Nothing spectacular, but probably nothing really wrong with it either.

I guess I should say that I'd also never read the whole thing. A little less wordy might give me a better chance of reading the whole thing.
What's interesting is whether or not Google's just picking up on trends, or whether the search has been deliberately set up to return this type of result.
Oracle doesn't sell technology. They sell solutions to {accounting, erp, mrp, etc} problems. Technology is just how they do it, the people buying it (and me, if I were buying oracle) don't care in the least about the technology.

Do you care about the fuel injectors in your car? What about the magnetron in your microwave?
Overall, too breezy and conversational. Objective should be more like "To become a Python or C software developer in [field of interest or company]." There's a lot of "I'm personable and a hard worker" fluff. They'll tell if you're a social fit from the interview, not the resume, and work ethic should be demonstrated by your experience and education. (If a person says they're smart, they're immediately doubted. They should show it.)

Experience section could include much more detail and should tie-in with Expertise. Take the first entry. "Performed major system upgrade," doing what? Setup 30 servers, migrated from Windows to Linux, something else? "Developed software tools," which did..? What languages did the projects use (should support Expertise)? “large sets of data” how large? What kind of data? Mentoring a new hire should also be much more prominent. Bullet points should start with the most impressive bits first. Receiving a fellowship should be a part of Education, not Work Experience.

Tightening is possible throughout: “Worked part-time through college to maintain financial independence.”

Those are my random critiques. Hope they help.
The post answer your question: he did this because existing solutions were too slow.
Not only that, relative ranking is deceptive as a statistic even if it is measured accurately.

C++ moved "up a notch" but the chart's absolute levels would lead one to deduce that this mostly through Python splitting some of PHP's thunder and actual C++ usage continued it's predictable but slow decline.

And given that relative ranking is a dubious statistic, change in relative ranking brings us down to sports-announcer levels... (statistically meaningless but emotionally compelling)
EDIT: I've deleted my comment and my other replies to this discussion. As irrational as it is, my silly e-psyche recognizes it's easy to hit the delete button rather than watch my opinion down-arrowed.
Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?
I'm curious to poll the HN community to see who is working instead of watching the Super Bowl?
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Writing a book (my O'Reilly book) was the hardest thing I've ever done. It took me a year and I can't count the number of days I just sat in front of a blank screen just willing myself to write something (and usually failing).

All that was worth it when I first got to walk into a bookstore and see my book on the bookshelves. :)
Cognition is enhanced the more it's used, well I believe even repetitive jobs have room for innovation...
This is effective in the short term, yes. But "businessmen" do not create the future, they sell (or buy) the present. And the people creating the future are almost entirely aligned against the Oracle ecosystem.
if i'm doing both, does that count?
Title is misleading. This is not a 4-channel oscilloscope in the classical sense. Should be called a 2-channel oscilloscope + 2-channel logic analyzer.

Nonetheless, it's perfect for small hobby projects and the price is right.
That's what I'm talking about. I'm sure that the super bowl is awesome, but now that I have my weekend project (http://goo.gl/JdBqR) out of the way, I am working on the backend.
What do you think about printing names in all caps? Why wouldn't it be better to use upper and lower case?
If you're losing money on your books you're doing it wrong. With self-publishing companies like lulu.com and the negligible costs of selling e-books on the Nook there's no reason to have negative costs

... unless you're so caught up in image that you're willing pay money for the fake "prestige" of having a "real" publisher.
With Google anayltics, you can see the current day's traffic. You just need to manually adjust the date range to include it.
Contemplating suicide plus insurance fraud in a single act without talking about the background for why he would have thought this was a good idea is not well-calculated to induce sympathy.

Foisting books he thought sucked onto editors while scamming them for ever-larger advances by bushwhacking them with out-of-nowhere agents is not well-calculated to induce sympathy.

Talking about how he lies to people about his career -- especially when casting the reader directly in the hypothetical role of wronged target of these lies -- is not well-calculated to induce sympathy.

Writing a book about how to claw your way to riches as a means to make money off credulous readers to forestall your own bankruptcy (and/or suicide) is not well-calculated to induce sympathy.

Acts of desperation redolent of co-dependent personal issues, such as writing strident appeals to the most vulnerable people on the insides of one's books in the hopes of essentially tricking people into buying them, is not well-calculated to induce sympathy.

He paints himself as an asshole and a fuck-up who lucked out despite his best efforts to make a lot of money (off and on) and uses that to get people to listen to him. It's certainly not the most sympathetic picture he could have painted of himself.

Also . . . whether the previous person meant "sympathetic" or "worthy of sympathy", it is entirely reasonable -- and in the context of literary criticism (formal or otherwise), quite common -- to refer to a "sympathetic character", which is exactly what Altucher is not by his own presentation other than once probably by accident, and another time at the end quite surprisingly. This is because "sympathy" is not the same thing as "empathy", though many think it is.

From the American Heritage Dictionary, third definition of "sympathetic":

> Agreeably suited to one's disposition or mood; congenial: sympathetic surroundings.

Other definitions hint at the idea as well. That idea is, simply put, that there is a sense of connection and sameness between subject and object. Even those who are not much different from Altucher in all the myriad ways he presents himself poorly are likely to feel his is an unsympathetic character, if only because they would not want to admit to themselves the same depths two which they have descended. If it were not for the engaging style with which he beats the crap out of his own image, I suspect almost nobody would read all the way through such a painful litany of character flaws as he presents.

It helps that he ended it when he did. If it went on for another half-dozen paragraphs, I might have gotten sick of it, engaging style or otherwise.
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I don't think that's true. Other galaxies don't appear as thin or as flat as paper. (Examples: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031008.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020703.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060612.html) Typically they're about 100x wider than they are thick.
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I like this site. I think the idea is good. One of the main ways I get good recommendations is by asking friends about their top 3 apps. I've submitted my applist. Here are the suggestions I would make:

* Use geolocation to guess at whether to show German or English.
* Bring out the App Store selection from the preferences to the main window
in the OS X program. Link this in to the in-website selection of German
and English language (it's a good guess about which App Store they use).
This way you don't need to do the next bullet point.
* Don't rely on people seeing your .txt and .jpg in your zip file; I didn't.
Distribute your program as a .dmg disk image so that you can have an
image on the background of your window to tell people to change the
preferences.
* Might be good to have a Deutsch/English link on the applist web page.
* Consider using the App icons in the selection list on OS X. The name
shown on the iPhone is not always the same name as the official App
name so identification can be difficult in the list.

Expanded scope:

* Consider a small set of categories - just 3 perhaps - along the lines
of 'useful' 'essential' and 'fun'.
* Although the core idea is good and I enjoy it, the website for me is
not very useful. I could stop writing at this point but thought I'd
say that in an ideal world I'd like to you to 'allow me to see applists
of people who would be my friend if only I knew them'.

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the site.
As a throw-away statement, he referred to the fact that losing money on his books factors in the time he spent (and, presumably, the money he could have made doing other things). I'm not sure I buy that means of estimation, given the way he also informed his readers of his tendency to get himself into crushing debt and nigh-homelessness even when he wasn't writing, but if you accept his premise that his time could have been more (directly) lucratively spent, he does in fact kinda-sorta "lose" money through the writing process itself, regardless of what it costs to publish.
I'm working on my startup. I figured if I can be watching the game I can be working just as well. Work won. :)