skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of it a little differently. Live in the now. You are currently witnessing a time that some of those before you wished they could live to see. How exciting! :)
Just a guess: maybe they have a contract to supply software to one or more governments, and either a term is that they have to do it, or they don't want to upset the government and lose the contract.
Kudos for the color palette, I absolutely love it!

I noticed you need some help with the typography though, so let this be my first hackerbuddy contribution:
http://f.cl.ly/items/0A3o083L2v1O402t1z1x/hacker-buddy-2.png

Sorry for png instead of CSS, I hacked it quickly in inspector, but should be easy to reproduce.
For sure, I'm hacking away on some utilities ArgyleSocial.com, while the wife watches a Masterpiece Theatre movie.

The Super...what is on tonight? :)
Could have to do with the presentation. I'm interested in better understanding the complexity of the game, but all the hype and advertising can be a turn-off.
Motorola Superbowl Commercial, parody of Apple's 1984
Pair programming is not the best way to learn from a pet project
Absolutely. Hudson is great (I would even say invaluable), and Kohsuke, the founder, is an inspirational programmer.
Jersey Shore Season 3 Episode 7
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I can answer a bit on the tax situation (IANAA). The whole deal would be taxable at your marginal tax rate, minus whatever your basis would be. Your basis would be any money that you put into the business. Since it would be additional income that would be taxed at a personal rate, you would be well to sack everything you can away on a tax deferred basis (IRA, 401ks, 529 plans for kids) to avoid a beating on taxes.
Metro Florida (Orlando, Tampa, Miami) is $60 - $75 for agency contract. My rate is above that, but I mainly do Mobile Java, Objective-C and a whole lot of Javascript now.

I would venture to guess that $40 hr for NYC is obscenely low given the fact that it is in FL. Especially with all the financial work up there. I hear people theorizing that NYC's start-up scene is hindered by the financial money poured into development there, so I would have to assume that, if true, the money has to be pretty good to keep the start-up scene depressed like that.

My gut tells me you are getting low balled, if you have been in Java from the beginning. I have been doing it since the .9 beta release so we probably have similar tenure.
Building a query cache for the distributed proxying layer in http://www.hybrid-sites.com/tech/ - much better than this "football" of which you speak ;-)
Webstream PR | online public relations company | web site promotion services
Unless they tag you in a post (in which case, you'd get a notification), I really don't know how many people respond to EVERY SINGLE post of EVERY SINGLE friend on facebook.
Yeah. My brother just finished his apprenticeship in cabinet making and is already on more than me, a programmer. Unions don't have anything to do with it, either - I don't think he's even in one - it's just that the demand for tradesmen is so high over here. Hence the rise in cashed up bogans.
Starting a project for my cs class...due tomorrow.
I hoping it won't be. I'm in a basement, and currently typing on a device that is not even getting edge. I am in the traveling phase of life, and weather kept me from traveling this weekend.
Well, okay. but for a CEO the business comes first, developer comfort second. If it can't meet business objectives (which oracle certainly can) it doesn't matter how much developers love it.
Be Nobody Special
I would agree with the author. Pair programming just isn't practical. You've got two developers working on the same problem, but at a much slower pace than either of them would be if they were working on there own. It's much better for one developer to work on a piece of code and then have the other review it after a day or two of work.
Really? Interesting. All these years, I've been wondering "what in the hell do hearing people HEAR?" Good to know that perhaps my hearing is not as drastically different from others as I feared.
Times have really changed when the knock-offs cost more than the real thing...

Someone just needs to figure out how to install Android or Chrome OS on an iPad, and it will be the tablet without any compromises.
Hmmm, I'm not watching the Superbowl, and I'm Catholic.
Ask HN: Getting over the web design wall?
I'm an accomplished coder and techie. I have developed large, intricate systems that I consider beautiful when gazed upon from afar. I've developed successful software, both on the desktop and on the interwebs. I have kept many companies afloat with my aptitude, skill and energy. I have held positions that run the gamut, from lowly "Client/Server Programmer" to CIO of a company of over 4000. I've Rails it. I've Djangoed it. I PHP'd it in the PHP3 days when it wasn't really cool. I Perl'd it before that, and C'd it even further back. Heck, I've even developed complex web apps in TCL. How many of you can say that? ;-)

These days, I'm doing a lot of my own projects, on the web, trying to gain some traction. However, with each new project, I hit a wall that I can't seem to get around...I can't for the life of me design a webpage that looks decent. It's completely frustrating and debilitating...and I have to surpass it.

I'm confident other HN'ers have had this sort of block and made there way over it or around it. Would you mind sharing your insights? What books, tutorials, or templates made the difference? When you start a new web project, what do you start with in terms of UI infrastructure?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Thanks for the correction (but I guess the correction still stand even if English were my first language).
When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
New ones are, but I got my Tektronix 2430A for free (with all opts) because someone was getting rid of it. Usually you can grab one for around 300. More importantly, it can still be calibrated, traced to NIST, it has a higher bandwidth, and I know that my probes are all going to be up to spec without capacitance problems. On the other hand, it's a lot bigger than this device, but I'd say it's probably just as reliable (and probably still more serviceable). No Math/FFT stuff though.

tl;dr: I'd get this for convenience or as a second device, but I wouldn't really trust it.
Agree. GoDaddy is horrible, especially when they try to up-sell you. No one should have to pay extra for "domain privacy". It shouldn't be too much to ask to just buy a domain without having to say no to a hundred different offers.
One point of correction: It is definitely possible to see current, instant results in Google Analytics. Just click the drop down menu in the upper right and change the time period to include the present day. By default it shows the last month, not including the present day, but you can adjust the time period to show just results from today, for example.

So many people do not realize this and then say that you have to wait a day before seeing any stats in Google Analytics. On the contrary you definitely can see instant results, the interface just doesn't make this as easy as it should be.
Ask HN: Soft launch new startup in a week no matter what...good/bad?
I have been working on a new project non-stop since New Years. My goal was to launch as soon as possible and then quickly iterate based on customer feedback.

That sounded great when I first started. Now I'm five weeks in, and every day I think of new features/refinements that I want to implement before launch.

Any advice on setting a hard deadline for launch? Thanks!
Our peers in the web industry who just happen to be women regularly face difficulties and indignities for no other reason than that they happen to be women. In terms of treating men and women as equals, we're decades behind most of the rest of the professional world.

Maybe it's just blind-luck, or some other bias, but I just don't see it. I've worked in IT, and more specifically in the software industry, for 15 years or so now, and I haven't seen this gender based discrimination (in the workplace anyway). Having worked for little small companies that nobody has ever heard of, to IBM and Red Hat, I've worked with a large number of really talented female software developers, and I don't see them routinely complaining that they're being discriminated against.

I'm not saying it never happens, mind you, but I do question the veracity of this assertion: "In terms of treating men and women as equals, we're decades behind most of the rest of the professional world."

In any case, I'm all for equality, but I'm also all for acknowledging human nature. Men like hot women, women like men with money and power. So be it...
"Perhaps in a hundred years, the cognitive gap will be so large that there will be little meaningful interaction between the two groups."

The Morlock and Eloi scenario? Certainly a venerable idea.
Ask HN: Groupon's Tibet Ad, Bad Taste
Is it just me, or did it seem like Goupon was making fun of Tibet in their Super Bowl ad?
Yes, there you'll be incurring the huge performance penalty of one additional instruction per element in the array.

As I said, not really significant unless your loop is so tight that memory latency is the big limiter anyway.
There is an awful lot of "free software" that is free because of the crap/malicious code bundled in.

At least if I'm paying someone money -- they have an incentive not to screw me over. Or if it is open-source then I can hope that someone might have seen the cdoe... But Free/Closed-Source often means something dodgy.

// Please don't think I'm implying anything about you... EasyBCD looks quite interesting and I'll be checking it out on the next system I build.. But I've helped enough relatives with their computers to know that "free" software often means trouble.
We use it at my $DAYJOB, and I'm planning to set up a Jenkins server for some of my open-source projects soon. So yeah, I guess I can say that someone uses it.
> Really, I would just walk away from anyone trying to deal with me on this basis.

Agreed, with one exception -- to expose the other side to the public. I think Oracle is showing its face (again) and I think it is in the community's interest to _let_ it keep showing its face.
Well if all that's left are the child porn pics... I think we can pass on them. Thanks for looking for the thread though.
Specifications and reliability. Industrial vs. commercial spec parts, wire wound resistors, temperature compensation devices, 5ppm oscillators, lots of reasons.

Some of the old tektronix wiring really is a thing of beauty. The tektronix 360 modules are so lovely.
I find there's a 20 min refresh.
I am in a Python class getting to take a quiz.
Visiting my girlfriend's dad at the cancer center. He is a lifelong Steelers fan. I am a lifelong coder. The game is on, but I am sitting here working on a Django app.
I think they were making fun of advertising actually. I didn't find it in poor taste... they were highlighting their culture and that you can great deals on dinner @groupon. cool stuff.
I really don't understand this at all. According to iSuppli[1], Apple pays $229.35 in parts and labor to make the low-end iPad. They develop their own operating system, buy incredible amounts of ads, and yet they still have massive profit margins selling iPads for $500.

Meanwhile, Motorola and Samsung and other manufacturers get a free operating system and get cellphone carriers to give them a bunch of money to sell the device with a data plan. Yet their devices are $600-$1000, they often have smaller screens, and are (probably) loaded up with crapware. I fail to see why anyone would ever buy something like this, and I fail to see why anyone thinks someone will buy one.

Even if no company has a supply chain as good as Apple's (which I have trouble believing, considering how many components are manufactured by Toshiba and Samsung, for instance) and they need to pay an additional 20% for parts, they could still make the same device, sell it for slightly less and still make plenty of money.

[1] http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Mid-RangeiPadtoG...
I am! I'm working on a modular synthesizer. But I've taken a couple breaks to get food and catch up with friends partying downstairs...
I don't watch sports, but a good half of my team at work does.
Yes, you can change the date range to include the current day, however it won't show the correct amount of traffic.

Officially they say that data won't appear until after 24 hours [1], but generally some of it will, but usually not all.

If you know the Analytics patterns of a site reasonably well (as I do my company's sites) then you can often look at the day's traffic and estimate how it's doing, but never expect it to be the final number.

(In some cases, I've actually seen traffic for the day go down after twenty four hours, once Analytics has finished working it out. I'm not sure why..)

[1] http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-...
Yeah, actual (acceptable) bandwidth is probably close to 1/4 the sampling rate. They're fudging terms around here. It's probably somewhere close to 20mhz analog bandwidth.
1. The quality on Google is really low. People use open microphones, no lighting and there is no real focus on content, curriculum or the credentials of the person speaking. That's what we bring to the table I hope: a great teacher, with a great lesson plan and high-end production (hd, audio, etc).

2. SEO lifts from Video include time spent on page, inbound links and overall value.
The removal was done by a Sonatype employee; company which could be potentially more vulnerable to this tactics as their products are subject to be chosen by developers. I would think twice before buying them a product after this.
Edit: Thought you were serious :-/

Bullshit. Conformity is when you like something because other people like it. Not liking something because other people like it is conformity, just conformity with a group you think you should be a part of.
Not the case, stats for the current day generally won't be properly up to date. See my other comment on this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2187209)
hold for two more weeks... and launch the LAUNCH Conference. :-)
Loading Path Gotchas in Rails 3
This is the practical downside of being too cozy with carriers. A cheaper wifi-only model would be great for consumers but cuts the carriers out of the loop entirely. Probably the same reason there's no 'iPod Touch killer' out there yet. All these companies are in the business of selling equipment to carriers. What the consumer wants is a secondary consideration at best.
"I PHP'd it in the PHP3 days when it wasn't really cool."

Are you saying PHP is cool today?? ;)

This is a tough issue to get around. I could list some ways to get better a web design but it's probably a waste of your time to try it. Like with programming, a good eye for design comes with a lot of practice.

There was a post the other day about how someone used crowd sourcing sites to create a decent design, perhaps you could look into something like that.

Otherwise, on a very low budget you might just use freely available templates. Once the site starts paying it's own rent, then you could start looking into hiring someone to create a more unique / branded design.
My bowl is business casual, wearing glasses, raised in Kansas.
The build up was really great.... the payoff, however, sucked.
Introducing Eclipse RAP
Fantastic excerpt from it

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The Hudson lead, Winston Prakash from Oracle, is highly skilled, very thoughtful, and he cares about the community. He is also the first person to create detailed, comprehensive architectural documentation.

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So now the main accomplishment of the current project lead is writing detailed documentation. Those that can - code, those that can't - write very detailed documentation. Yeah, I think I'll stick with Jenkins...
I plotted the week's hourly average Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) as reported by ERCOT, looking into the "rolling blackouts" in Texas.

http://bit.ly/f1lXqk
Eh, looks like the goal is to deal with components that could be common to Droids, Nutch, etc.

http://code.google.com/p/crawler-commons/wiki/ApacheCon2009M...
The way I see it is that Oracle is continuing to develop the project under the Hudson name. The bulk of the community has decided to move the project elsewhere and continue development under a new name, Jenkins. Fair enough, they are parting ways.

At this point arguing over who forked who seems (to this outsider) like the old Reese's commercials arguing whether "you got chocolate on my peanut butter" or whether "you got peanut butter on my chocolate".
And low volume.
Thanks for the feedback. Still trying to figure out the one-liner. The current meta description tag has the latest tagline: Overshare Anything.

I've been inspired most by Reddit (thanks again jedberg), but Yak is more playful, flirty, and local.
The super bowl is today? I'm hacking Spork!
Burberry: llavero que también es Gloss
Yeah needs C# or VB as options, ASP is there, but is it ASP.NET, or just classic ASP?
Unearned income is not lost money. I stopped reading right there.
Drug Thieves Go After Pharmacies
Yep ... The situation in Tibet is a bit too serious to be trivialized by a good deal on dinner.
Yes, it is a bit melodramatic.

I think the key message of this article is to realize how much power big internet companies have gained over our lives. And how they don't find dealing with problems efficient, so just rely on automated systems that can greatly fail people.
Don't forget the Farecast technology at Bing Travel which predicts whether you should buy or wait for your airline ticket which has a fairly high accuracy rate.
agreed, it is a brilliant piece.
WTF kind of question is this? And the answers?!

"2. They know lots of things other than what they’re specialised in. Theirs is the gift of a broad mind, constantly fed with the stimulant of being interested in what everyone else is doing."

COMPLETE SHIT. People like that obsess over a small number of subjects and become exceptional at them. Plus they're they're generally socially inept.

"5. Even when things go very badly wrong, they’ll be smiling. Smart people never get ruffled because their smart brains present them with alternatives faster than the bad stuff can happen."

They'll more than likely over-think to the point of no return... bah!

"6. They know they are usually the smartest person in the room, but they don’t spend their time dwelling on that. Instead, they take it as a personal challenge to see if they can make everyone else the smartest person in the room too."

lol
Hah...yeah, sorry. It wasn't really cool in the PHP3 days. PHP4 came along and suddenly, it was very cool. Then Rails came along and suddenly PHP as Brian from the Breakfast Club ;)

Regarding templates, I'd love suggestions for decent ones that lend themselves to customization. The free ones out there seem to be chock full of images in a way that makes styling them to any thing else difficult.

And, templates aside, I simply must get across this design chasm. I've crossed so many technical hurdles at this point. Thanks for your suggestion though.
Show HN: Simple/fun site made specifically for Super Bowl
Let's hope the US changes it's ways before the Chinese "start buying some of our stuff". When that happens it will mean China has finally developed its own consumer class. At that point, China wont be so dependent on US consumers to buy their goods and there wont be much incentive to hold on to our continuously growing debt.
Ah, I was referring to their public hosting. durin42 seems to have better information on their internal stuff.
At least there's this: http://savethemoney.groupon.com/

Would've been great if the commercial had highlighted it.
Just get it signed, twitter's verified accounts are kind of like this but without any key exchanging involved. Verification is easy compared to getting people to use PKI stuff.
I've been using Joe Maller's write-up[1] as a guide for a while.

I see this strategy removes the need for a second repo on the server. Other than removing a layer which would save space and lower the likelihood of errors in general are their significant pros/cons to either method.

[1] http://joemaller.com/990/a-web-focused-git-workflow/
Perhaps I came across too negatively. But, man, it takes some digging to find out how cool node.js is.
The articles don't seem to give a specific answer (aside from a time and day of the week,) but sounds like the consensus is 3 p.m. EST on Tuesday, your best bet being 8 weeks before traveling.

From personal experience, once you hit the 3 week mark, you're pretty much SOL until the last few days, since most seats have been sold at that point. If there are still plenty of seats (orbitz sometimes shows you the seating chart,) you'll have better results than on fuller flights.
I don't know if I agree with the article.

I am not a fan of the whole Jenkins - Hudson situations. But at the end of the day Kohsuke was paid to work on Hudson. Oracle clearly owns the Hudson trademark and the project.

The fact that many in the community felt that Oracle was a bad leader of the project and therefore wanted to fork it is really besides the point.

Saying that the project was never Oracle's will only make companies want to support fewer open source projects.
nice well done!
"Meanwhile, the police are quietly experimenting with new tools. In Lewiston, Me., last fall, a Rite Aid pharmacist handed a robber who threatened to shoot her five bottles of OxyContin, including one that contained a tracking device."

I wouldn't mind getting shot by five bottles of OxyContin... erm, where's the proof reading? :-)
I think the products that compete with iphones and ipads point to a fundamental shift in how Apple do things these days: Apple now compete on price.

I'm not saying they've given up on their high margins on everything policy. Like other commenters have said, they probably use purchasing power to make up the difference, but they are using price nonetheless.

We're so used to Apple being the premium option that we keep on being surprised that they aren't being beaten on price and then assume it's temporary. Well, it's several years into iphone and they aren't the macbooks off mobile phones yet. You actually need to pay for a non Apple alternative.

They still feel like the premium option though so it seems just silly to pay a $100 premium for the non-apple alternative, like paying a premium for an ipod knock-off.

It's quite a strategy. Build a company around products need to command a premium. Then remove the constraint. It's like having a runner run with stones in his pocket all his life then suddenly remove them.
This is BETA. Just remember that when buy it.

They also have their DSO Nano, which is an older model. It's also half the price if you just need something basic.

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/dso-nano-v2-p-681.html?cPat...
"That’s why we need to make the storage of encrypted passwords illegal."

Mint.com seems to require storage of plaintext passwords in order to access the financial accounts of its users. How could they get around this?
Take it a step further. Design software that can accept lots of data for free, and encourage users to adopt said system. Then charge whatever you want because you're in control of something that's vital to them.
What are they going to do, sell it? Gosh, this will push the interest rates slightly higher! That would be so scary.