skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These prices... must be a joke right?
Yes: minus a former roommate, a girl who quit facebook herself, and somebody I worked with.

People at work are suspicious when they find out I'm not on facebook, and try to cajole me into joining.
Pedantic post: wouldn't that be PoF : OkCupid :: MySpace :Facebook?
I guess it really IS "Put Out or Get Out".
Viralheat. (http://www.viralheat.com) We are making some very cool social solutions for marketers. Our latest efforts in identifying human intent is getting good response from the market. http://on.mash.to/fCL2hc
Free music can pay as well as paid music, YouTube says
What good shall I do this day?
Does culture matter for a startup? Interview w/ Russ Somers of Invodo
How about "smart pipe" (in contrast to a dumb pipe)?
Yes the only way to be 100% safe is to not use FB. All I'm asking for is a little effort.
A good designer wouldn't participate.
[...] I won't judge since I don't know any of the ins and outs of what their team has to deal with.
Great comment, sometimes people forget this when reading/editing other people's code.
I think you have to think logically and be able to make cognitive jumps.

For example realising that process A must be rolled back if midway though - therefore it is essentially an atomic transaction with all that entails. Or that the user opening a bunch of spreadsheets for a specific piece of data to fill in another form, is really just a key-value pair lookup on a relatively static dataset.

Bad business analysts I've encountered fail to understand the core process they are designing around, or take the user's explanation as gospel, even when there are gaping holes in the logic. They often define processes which to a developer are a simple problem that has been solved in many situations, in a completely odd way, where they have failed to make a conceptual leap from the problem they are solving, to one solved in other parts of the same system.
"Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement."

What I hear you saying is that we should respect these businesses for providing designers with an opportunity to exercise bad judgement. Someone's gotta teach the hard lessons, right?
If anyone would like to participate in the private beta please e-mail me your HN username and the diet you want to try and your location.

edit: im need location because some I dont have enough meal info to generate the recommendations in some places. For example the hacker diet is only available in NY and SF because if you live in Arkansas I probably dont have any cooks in my db in that area or any restaurants that have register meals for specific diets.

--thx, dex
A good friend of mine is doing her second postdoc in physics. She does cosmology, and spends much of her time programming. For that reason, she has expressed a regret that she did not get much CS background in undergrad.

I find the attitude you expressed strange. They still insisted you take math courses, correct? Or did they say, "Well, we think you should just learn differential equations"?
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"pizza guy", "all girls catholic school", "server repair man"... sounds pretty male-centric... you sure a woman couldn't do the job?
Brave. Heart.

Indeed. Indeed.

If you are a troll you are the best.

http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/Henry_V/20.html
Where's the "new method of commerce" in "send us stuff for free and we'll pay one of you?"
In what was supposed to be its greatest strength a long, long time ago. I don't know that anyone considers SQL to be anything other than a technical detail any more; certainly not to the extent of expecting normals to be able to get what they need out of a database by writing raw queries.
The Quor-gasm shakes the social web
Almost as funny as "if airlines were operating systems".
I guess it's fine to put a lot of blame on people who bought houses they ended up not being able to afford. However, there were fraudulant practices by mortgage companies.

Banks have more responsibility for the mess because they are the experts (allegedly) at assessing risk. They are the ones that got ratings agencies to give high scores to the mortgage backed securities. They are the ones in a position to wreck the economy by collective failure. They are the ones who got a bailout and clamored for one.

An individual homeowner who makes a bad bet doesn't ruin the economy. Too big to fail banks who make millions of bad bets do ruin the economy. They socialized their losses and continue their extremely high pay and bonuses.

The anger should mostly be aimed at the banks. Especially in light of their dubious foreclosure practices. People are mostly financially illiterate. People don't understand percentages and compound interest. People are not rational (most of the time). A regulatory apparatus that isn't beholden to the banks is what is needed.
The CRTC's Faulty UBB Foundation: Why There is Reason to Doubt the Review
The funny thing is porn stars DO get paid very well ($2000-3000 for an hour or so of work). Well, the female ones anyway. The male porn stars get something like $600.
It's not about competitive pricing - it's about working for free.

Spec work involves doing a unit of bespoke work for a company, for the chance of payment. It's not fair - and there aren't many industries which operate this way. I totally abhor the concept.
Looks like someone's been taking some of Gabriel Weinberg's advice... (http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/if-i-were-starti...)
To back up my somewhat inflammatory comment, I'd like to add that a quick perusal of sites like http://www.freepsd.com/ or http://www.elegantthemes.com/ will back up the contention that it looks like a template you could get anywhere much more cheaply.

I'd bet that the crowdspring designer either based their work on a template from a site like this, or developed templates of their own that they reuse on project after project. It's the most efficient way to do spec work. It's what the business model rewards. Anyone doing time consuming original or creative work burns out quickly after investing hours in work they were never paid for.

Browsing websites like 99designs or crowdSPRING, it seems like all you see are three column layouts with slideshow. The most standout aspect of this one is that it's not blue. But since most of the clients on crowdsourcing websites seem to want the same design as everyone else, this model seems to work for all parties involved.

The only losers are the clients, who are overpaying for templates they could procure more cheaply elsewhere.
If you download the app, let me know what you think.
Motorola Xoom commercial reminiscent of Apple's infamous jab at IBM
That would be a single point of failure for your entire online life, it would seem. I've actually got no idea how one would assess where that sat on the trade-off spectrum.
The Type of Blog Post I Really Want: One With Some Substance
Glif guys, Manufacturing
Please elaborate on what the correct flags would be, for those of use who wouldn't know.
St Cloud, MN (An hour west of Minneapolis)
No remote, unfortunately.

eBureau (http://www.ebureau.com, http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/ebureau/)

We're looking for a (junior) programmer. Must be comfortable on a unix-like OS (we use OS X and FreeBSD), and able to take on projects involving C, C++, Objective-C, PHP and SQL. You'd be part of a small group of developers, and have a lot of independence. We use git and SVN.

Email me (seanbillig@ the URL above) links to code you've written in any language if available, eg. github, bitbucket, personal website, etc, and we'll have an informal chat. Attach a resume and cover letter for HR.

We're also looking for a mid-level account manager/sales support person. Brief HR description: Account Manager - Finance is a mid-level position. It requires a B.S. in finance or accounting, strong analytical skills, and work experience in a similar role. Send resumes to jobs at ebureau.com
He's not claiming they have the right: he's claiming they feel the need. That feeling of need has been created and fostered by the filmstudio's, who spend tons on advertising to make people feel they need to see movies. Just watch your average trailer: it is hardly about the movie and much more about why you need to see it anyway. Some consider that quite an achievement in market experience; others consider it exploitation of the human psychology bordering on criminal behavior.
uhhh those prices have to be a joke? I'm running several 16 GIG redis instances, I'd be in the poor house. haha

100 mb for $25??? ha
Twimbow is very interesting!
HOW TO: Design & Program a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business
Traits Low-Stress, Happy Work Cultures Have In Common
I am 80% sure that data is false, from my memory of porn industry Ask Tells on something awful and AMAs on Reddit. Males get paid very little.
Reference: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#page-13

But note that the RFC assumes there will never be a numeric TLD. Furthermore, it suggests checking the string syntactically to determine if it's in dotted decimal form, remaining somewhat ambiguous about what to do if the hostname looks like IPv4, but the connection fails (it seems unwise to do a DNS lookup for every IPv4 address that's offline). Since IPv4 is relatively easy to validate, it would have made a lot more sense for a numeric TLD to select a number outside the range of 0-255, such as 4200. Then it's obvious that 1.2.3.4200 is a hostname (or harmless typo), and not an IP address.
The part that's so frustrating is that thomvest (and lots of other companies) is in the business of creating relationships and yet they don't understand how having a relationship with a designer/agency will benefit them.
After 30 years, no wonder I feel dirty.
We can't judge because we don't know the inputs. We don't know what the site looked like before and we don't know what the requirements were, what the company asked for. You can't extrapolate from a finished product.
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The number on take away from this story was the link to the great git magic resource at the very bottom.
I would appreciate a splashscreen or other method of letting me know what the app does before I let it have access to my Facebook account. I want to see what I'll get out of it first.
I'd love to get a table at LAUNCH. We are doing PR as a service to help startups be able to do pr effectively so that they can focus on building their core product. The site is http://socmetrics.com
I have failed over and over and over in my life.
I like this approach. The attitude here is "Let's invest our time in making the optimiser good, instead of spending time implementing ways for users to walk around it."
Thanks, we'll review the copy based on your suggestions.
Sony NGP Is A Game Developer's "Dream"
My data is based on my memory of working at a porn company. Maybe we overpaid.
Beautiful Wall Paintings
Beautiful Wall Paintings
I'll definitely agree that attempting to run OLTP and analytics queries on a single PostgreSQL server is not going to turn out well. I'm not sure if there's a way around it though, even in theory (e.g. MapReduce isn't very good for OLTP).
In terms of raw bytes it's probably more data than every book

You're referring to the aggregate, so far as I know copyright law works on specific instances. Let's say the Kindle had a button that allowed you to isolate a couple of sentences and broadcast them to your friends on Facebook, or wherever. The small portion of the text being shared would fall under fair usage and not be a copyright infringement violation, even though the aggregate of all Kindle users might be large.

What is the important difference here?

I think the biggest difference between the two sides debating this issue is that one side thinks the amount of effort Google put into creating search results is a relevant concern, while my side thinks that once those results are shared with users Google's legal/moral claims to any ownership of that data evaporate.

The streetview point highlights the problem. If Google and I both take pictures of the Church of Mxyzptlk at 14th and Main, we both own copyright to our respective pictures. The fact that I created my picture after "piggybacking" off of a Google search for Mxyzptlk is irrelevant to copyright. So far as know (IANAL) the combination of a link with search terms is a utilitarian set of data rather than a creative expression and hence not copyrightable.
News Corp.'s The Daily is a bit disappointing
Close Look at a Flu Outbreak Upends Some Common Wisdom
Good stuff. I would have liked to read a bit more about how you present an unfinished prototype to clients. I find that it can be hard to get people to focus on functionality rather than presentation in prototypes. Did you have a designer involved from the start?

Also would be nice to see some screen shots of "the product".
I don't have a startup myself, but I nominate Dustin Curtis' LifePath (http://lifepath.me). It's not launched, but it looks cool.
> It was designed to be a declarative language that normals could use.

We may be getting off the query hint topic, but normals can use SQL Server as you've described. They can write queries and get data out, they just can't expect those queries to perform optimally without expertise.

In normal language, you and I have the freedom to convey our thoughts a billion different ways. But only one guy wrote The Sun Also Rises (for example.) Hemingway found the right way to write it.
Parking4Less expands to Gatwick
Why book Airport Parking with Parking4less?

1. You'll save money on the published turn up rate.
2. You can compare car parking prices and products online.
3. We guarantee you won't find cheaper.
4. Your space or hotel room with car parking guaranteed.
5. No need to queue up & pay at a machine on your return.
6. Quick, easy and secure booking process.
Rich Karlgaard on Dumping Sarbanes Oxley
Sheesh, that much I know. I used the "Braveheart" label for aesthetic reasons; I choose the film because it's at once virile, chivalrous and patriotic, while also being synthetic, a cheesy Mel Gibson experience that reminds more of his drunken antics today than anything else (though the "Primae Noctis" scene stuck with me.)

Ditto with Woodstock, it's the largest gathering of insignificant nobodies in recent history (when judged by the values of their society and era.) But it turned into an epoch of its own, and everyone there became significant to history just by virtue of their presence. Just like Tahreer square today.

Hacker News, you're not keeping up.
Ah, then you know more than me, ignore my interruption.
Two words: "View Source"
I'm employee at a post-startup
SVG IPv4 /8 allocation map using Hilbert curve
Programming for Manchester Airport Hotels
Why book Airport Parking with Parking4less?

1. You'll save money on the published turn up rate.
2. You can compare car parking prices and products online.
3. We guarantee you won't find cheaper.
4. Your space or hotel room with car parking guaranteed.
5. No need to queue up & pay at a machine on your return.
6. Quick, easy and secure booking process.
As a designer trying to pick up development for fun (it's Cocoa, lemme 'lone) the biggest issue isn't in basic actions, or classes, or anything else. It was in getting from basic programming concepts to actually making a program do something. It's not inherently clear in a lot of programming books, as they assume a programmer's mindset. How do I get from an idea of what it should do, to something that does it? (It's hard to remember what my frustrations were, since I'm learning the language it's hard to remember what it was like before I knew how to think.)

This type of issue is extremely hard to convey to a programmer, because they know how to take these little bits of logic and build something functional. A lot of programming books are either completely step-by-step or abstract, and it's rare to find one that describes how to use these little legos to build something that works.

With design, I can throw stuff on a board, and mush it around until it looks decent, and go from there. I can do the same with programming, but I never learned how to walk like that so it's hard to prototype classes. (Yeah, I now know to just return a dummy object or whatever.)
Come on, some credit is due.. XMPP protocol is in production all over the place.
I read this as "quit my employment at facebook", thoroughly upsetting to determine he meant stop using the service.
No joke. They've been Heroku add-on for a long time too.
A lot of parsers do support numbers outside 0-255, though, and treat them as "packed" addresses. For instance, 127.0.1, 32512.1 and 2130706433 are all sometimes treated as alternate representations of 127.0.0.1.
I can't put my finger on what exactly turned me on about such a job listing, but it did (no pun intended). Any places for amateur fetishist porn stars (Perl)?
Hey guys,

Waiting on hold sucks. You call, navigate the prompts to the right department and then wait on hold, listening to terrible music and reminders of your importance.

We want to spin that around.

Instead, you tell us who you want to talk to at Verizon (eg someone in the billing dept) and we'll have them call you.

http://www.fastcustomer.com

In making it, we've tried to be guided by YC's "make something useful" reminder, along with the importance of solving a real pain.

Created with Paul Singh (hn:paulsingh). We'd love your feedback, and please take it for a spin!

PS: We're adding companies as quickly as possible, but if we're missing one that you use, please let us know and we'll bump it up the list.

Edited to improve elevator pitch win quotient.
I already do: "I would dislike this if I could".
Hence the "healthy" part (I agree with the general tone of the comments that this instance seems a little less than healthy).

In general (like an average 99designs user) a long term process where you win 10% of the bids can be entirely fine. Especially if the trade off is towards spending more time designing and less time in meetings.

(Worth noting too, many designers submit slight variations of the same design to multiple contests)
GuideMe (http://guideme.com/) would love to help people ask for, share, and organize great personal dining recommendations while at the Launch conference.

GuideMe users create a structured question for their specific dining situation and ask their social networks as well as the GuideMe community who then all give suggestions back on GuideMe making it easy to aggregate, organize and see information about the places suggested. Your friends often give the best personal recommendations along with great tips and stories to go with it.

For people not from San Francisco, it can always be tough to find out where to go to get an outstanding meal.
Delivering email with Amazon SES in a Rails 3 app
Poll: What's your favorite tech site?
What's your favorite tech website or blog? I know there are hundreds of them out there, but I'm listing several of the most popular I can think of. Choose from one of them, or post your favorite in the comments. It will be interesting to see if we uncover some cool sites.
Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
TechCrunch.com
Engadget.com
Mashable.com
Reddit.com
MacRumors.com
DaringFireball.net
Gizmodo.com
Avc.com
Well, this really depends on the startup and what stage they're at. At the early stages, where it's just the founders, it's probably for the best if the founders are generalists and can handle almost anything. Once someone lands the funding/revenues to actually hire, then of course it makes more sense to get specialists at some point.

But even then, making your first couple employees generalists doesn't sound like a bad idea to me at all. Of course, this is all speculation: I've never hired anyone, hence everyone should ignore whatever I say here. But it's definitely easier to work with people who can pick up new stuff quickly, and a generalist is usually that type of person in my experience.
Except professional EE's don't solder and professional ME's dont weld. CS majors overwhelmingly become programmers.
Best way I've ever found to switch to early rising is to go to Europe for a couple of months, then stay as jetlagged as possible upon returning. I did that last summer and I'm still mostly getting up at 7.
But that's just a landing page, not a product. We(at least, I) don't even have an idea what it is
I'm guessing many of the designers on those sites are from developing countries, where even the chance of landing a $3000 contract would mean a great deal to themselves and their families. So yes, it is competition: somebody is willing to do the same work for less.

I can see how this rankles the establishment, to which I say, Welcome to the 21st century. You don't get a free pass any more simply because you live in the first world.
Peers.me is a messaging application for groups, a take on Google Wave
Hi Jason, et al,

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I just want to add another voice to this. Really, reading this, you sound very much like my parents. I'm a 21-year-old home school and now college alumnus and I've been thinking some of these same things.

It's not that my parents gave completely free reign, it just that rather than actively directing everything, they backed off somewhat and left a lot of direction up to me. It's not that there weren't rules, it's just that the rules were reasonable and reasonably explained. Of course there were disagreements and children being childish, but there was also respect of their authority, which I think is something horribly lacking in kids today.
Well I guess its time that I start a blog and write a post about how I never started a FB account and how I never bought a TV either.

Damn, my life is completely filled with all the relationship I can muster. I get to get my work done and surf teh web a bit. I also get to exercise some.

In any case the days are still too short for me - why the hell would I want to join the worlds biggest privacy fraud?

Yes I have been smart enough to foresee all the negative sides of it 4 years ago. Ain't I cool?
I quit FB, but would never quit LinkedIn. It's key to my day to day business relationships.
agreed... i initially figured lots of text below the fold is acceptable because the call to action is clear and average screen sizes suggested people will only see the top half and if they want more information then scroll down. However, it needs to be shorter snappier points not an essay!