skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165751 got me thinking, so I started a little experiment
We'd be more than happy to host a SHDH. Shoot me an email at dr@fb.com.
Zero acceleration only happens after an object has been falling for a long time (more then a few seconds) and the friction is in balance with gravity. Zero acceleration also happens when the laptop is just sitting on a table. Probably wouldn't be a good measure to stop the drive.

Initially, an object falling will accelerate with g=9.81m/s^2, after it reaches the ground it will de-accelerate to a speed of 0m/s in a couple of ms. You are confusing weightlessness/zero-g with no acceleration.
You don't have to switch completely away from ".net" do you?

I guess i'm not so sure of the maturity of the open source tools, but why not move in that direction?

I must admit to not being that involved in that community, but can't you rely on tools like IronRuby if you want to try new things while still being in a familiarish setting?
Exactly. This unintended acceleration was complete media hype from the beginning, which snow-balled out of control after a report of I think 2 times where condensation caused the gas pedal to stick open for a short period of time. Whether this was a hidden or subconscious effort to discredit a non-US car company probably can't ever be proven but the damage is done.

But that's ok. American's historically have the worst memory of anyone on this planet. In a year no-one is even going to remember this fiasco, much less care.
Awesome give us a shot!
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I'm sure he cackled into his pocket protector at the recent PHP/Java/gcc floating point parsing fiasco.
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This question is incorrect, C is a language, SBCL is a CL compiler. Kindly amend that.
If you call your tool a "search engine" and have proper DMCA policies in place then you are protected by various Google Image Search precedents.
So...when the government pays people to do things, that's socialism?

Of course, but the statement itself is a bit meaningless and appeared to me to be flippant, at that.

When the government pays people not to do things, that's a more extreme form of socialism.

To me, the question is one of subsidy. UI[1] is a 100% subsidy. A WPA type of deal could potentially be no subsidy at all, at least to the individuals. It would merely be directing tax money at a particular kind of boondoggle.

[1] Notwithstanding that the I stands for "insurance," since it's structured as a tax, at least here in the US.
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http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Compared-to-Cassandra.html
There is always a big debate surrounding what language to learn, and I don't think you'll get a solid answer from us. You'll have people arguing about which language is better. PHP, Python, and Ruby frameworks seem to be most popular here on HN. If you're new, my advice would be to experiment with different languages/frameworks but eventually have a "go to" one. Choosing a framework that you enjoy is a discovery process. Along the way you'll learn about language design.

By the way, GET requests are part of the HTTP protocol. Every web-based framework should support them, not just PHP-based ones. HN is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp created by Paul Graham.

I personally use Python/Django :)
I think there might be an argument for firing all the happy people - something along the lines of they can only get unhappy and ruin your stats whilst at least the unhappy ones might get happier, especially after escaping from being fired.

No, probably not.
Isn't 'not having to download anything' becoming a bit meaningless now? Rich web apps do download plenty, and signing up on a web form isn't any simpler than a couple of clicks to download from an app store. The fact that Google thinks the Chrome app store is worthwhile only emphasizes this.

I think that in this case, ease of use arguments are pretty arbitrary - the key question is who manages the data and who has access to it, and to me that seems to depend on the particular application. I see absolutely no reason other than the increased control given to Google that we shouldn't have both types of application so we can make these choices for ourselves.
It strictly depends upon the relationship established. However, based upon the existing IP and personal investments made, I'd feel comfortable raising anywhere up to $3 million.
Does anyone know if the numbering is only for Kindle-purchased books or also extends to .mobi or other DRM-free formats the Kindle supports?
Google streamlining it's hiring process
IANAE, but while reading over the riak docs for an upcoming project, the concept of links is one that stood out.
http://blog.basho.com/2010/03/25/schema-design-in-riak---rel...
You still need power, though.
No, I targeted professors at the absolute best schools possible, because I was considering a career in academia at the time and you can't get a tenure-track job with a second-tier Ph.D.

I got accepted at every school I applied to, but my application itself was pretty strong, so it's hard to say if the outreach 'worked' vs. another aspect of the application.
Provocative idea. Agree (and upvoted swombat) that 100% is inaccurate. Here's the thing: how many applications do you use today that if they used the model upstartly.com is providing YOU would have invested in. I spend a huge amount of time in Clicky (web analytics) today and am a paying customer, but I wouldn't have given them $5 to build it. I needed to see it working—and try it—before I made that commitment.
See below, posted 20 minutes before you wrote this.
Did you understand the grandparent?

This had nothing to do with relevance, busywork, hazing, saving money, or evaluating talent.

It had a single purpose: to determine willingness to do an undesirable job. That's it. Which, interestingly, is just as important in a software start-up as it was in my father's business so many years ago.
Move out of the city. In the more rural areas that isn't as true. It's definitely trending in that direction, but there are still a lot of kids who grow up with parents in skilled trades who pick up a lot of those skills growing up. Combine that with high schools that have legitimate trades programs, and there's at least a much better opportunity.
Thanks guys for pointing this
I agree, but I think instead of saying "How to do XYZ" it should be "How I did XYZ". Just because it worked for one person doesn't mean it will work for all.

My only problem with a lot of these "How to" blog lists is when they fail to provide context. (not saying this one particularly, just a general observation)
Mining yields depend primarily on the quantity and accessibility of reserves, neither of which can be enhanced by capital investments. The discovery of new mines has caused significant fluctuations in prices, see for example

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/611/what-happened-t...
"That figure is just 7% in the U.S."

Should set off some bullshit flags on their methodology for classification.
so good to see him healthy.
the most important skills you can have, imo, is the ability to learn new things as soon as possible, to be come competent quickly.

taking the time to learn rails isn't just about learning rails, it is also about keeping your ability to learn sharp.
We update our fans through multiple mediums. Our community posts about us to their walls and news stream, but we hardly contact our players through facebook directly. We communicate with them through our FB fan page, provide coupons, competitions, and other marketing strategies.
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Interesting. I've worked with a lot of 3rd-party APIs and I liked Netflix's the best by far. They stuck to the REST concept the best of the ones I've seen and it made it very easy to start using it and to write a simple wrapper around it. I actually still use it as a reference when I'm building APIs. I hope they don't lose that.
Well, it's a good thing that Ciccio Bong, Wholly Subversive, and Guy Fawkes used their real names, then.
a local mine going dry might incentivize exploration, which might in turn lead to even faster economic growth.

This might be true in a modern commercial banking driven economy. But in the old days, the mines running dry usually resulted in a reduction in the local economy.

Now on a very large scale you could argue that it caused empires like Rome to push and push farther, all the way to the tin mines of the British isles.

Isn't this precisely what we do have now?

You could argue, modern day West (and then unified) Germany had it, and with its dominance of the ECB the EU might have it... for now.

But many other central banks are well beyond slow and steady, Zimbabwe comes to mind, but in a way also the BOJ.
Are you suggesting that Facebook is going to become isolated and slip into irrelevance, or stating that Sun did?
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nice post. really. I bet if the UI of the sites were refreshed for something more intuitive, easier on the eyes, and a better layout (rsstalker) - i bet you would see an increase in signups.

http://planbookedu.com/ - seems to have a better design than the others. The UI of a site really is important to me, and how I perceive the company or outfit, not sure if that is a good thing, but its important. You will attract the more web-savy peeps - IMO
You were called out for it in the previous thread, and yet you're still including children in your full-time labor force participation rate.

Yes, Michaelchiasri raised this objection. He didn't bother to do the math, which showed that it has little effect. I addressed his concerns in the reply to that comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130441

It's very strange - you read his comment, but not my reply to it. Let me repeat one more time, since apparently you are using a browser in which links only work sporadically: Poor adults have a full time labor force participation rate of 15% (vs 73% for the nation as a whole), rather than 10% for all poor people (and 65% for all Americans). The low labor force participation rate of the poor is not caused by demographic differences.

Labor force participation rates usually include everyone. If you object to this practice, take it up with the BLS.

And as near as I can tell you've conjured your "80% of the poor don't work at all." figure out of thin air.

That's because you didn't bother reading the first paragraph of the BLS report I linked to. I'll give you a hint: 7.5 million is about 20% of 37.3 million. Before you object that I'm including children (just like the BLS does), the figure rises to 31% if you exclude children (and to 85% for the USA as a whole).
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In one sense, sure, the difference is obvious, but it seems to me that the negative consequences of deflation do not depend on how the deflation was caused. An excessive incentive to save will tend to curtail spending and investment no matter what, I'd think.
I'm much more willing to do an undesirable job related to my position than cleaning.

If you make it clear during interviewing that it's a small company and the employee will be expected to help with cleaning, then there's no problem.

(For the sake of argument; I actually don't mind cleaning all that much but nevertheless it's not high on my list of things to do at work. I'd prefer fixing hairy old VBScript code.)
>Also, users tend to like sites with less ads as opposed to more. Its better to build up your userbase before monetizing it.

I think this is one of the keys to success, thank you Jsarokin.
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I'm not sure where you are applying too, but whenever there is an economic downturn one of the first cost cutters is through the IT departments. As for startups, its a tight crowd and hard to jump onto a team or put together one with enough resources and time to pull it through.

What type of job were you looking for? Send over a PM if you'd like, we are currently looking for a CTO.
Better software, perhaps. But show me where I could've bought a Macbook with a Core i7 and Nvidia 360M graphics last year when I bought my Asus laptop for $1300.
Ask HN: Review my startup, FleshEatingZipper
Hey some friends and I started a new site for games, entertainment and tech news. We also have podcasts for the above every week.

We started out as just a podcast and have jumped from one site to another and wanted a permanent home.

We thought instead of just a podcast we have lots of opinions that we want to share so why not write also?

Maybe the market is already saturated with news sites but we've been seeing traffic (not a lot) for being around for 9 days.

Our biggest issue we face is we are so small and unknown that we don't know where to get the news like the bigger guys get. We also don't know where to start trying to get game publishers or anyone else in the industry we cover to see if people want to talk on our podcast.

Let me know what you think. The site was designed and built in WordPress in 3 days by me.

http://www.flesheatingzipper.com
Another big one that isn't getting attention: the tax hell that you find yourself in when you exercise your options.

It's absolutely insane that people must endure a tax bill based on paper gains that in many cases will not materialize.

It devalues options and therefore increases the cost of starting a company.
Some of the stuff on that page is no longer current and some of it is pretty underwhelming. I guess the re-balancing story and vector clocks sound nice?
Sounds to me like the point is to actually test for "Pitching in when it needs to be cleaned?" rather than taking a brand new employee at their word.
There's another, in my opinion more obvious, problem with his statement.

The rise of native apps and the app store model for mobile devices is new since four or five years ago. It reverses the trend of more and more client software moving the the Web. And native apps in practice deliver richer experiences for touch-based mobile devices than most HTML5 Web Apps.

It seems weird to me to completely ignore one of the biggest changes in client-side software development over the past 4 or 5 years.
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I put my startup on the service. One thing I have a problem with is that it exposes my personal email by default. I think you should make it private by default.
Yes, but the infographics (term used loosely) add nothing to the article. The article doesn't mention them, or give them any context. At best they are large semi-related graphics re-purposed from other sites whose only purpose is to separate large chunks of text.

This type of visual noise is actually more distracting than not providing an images at all. In my opinion, you would be better to provide images that provide visual context, and illustrate or support his answers.

For instance, in the "Opinion on Landing Pages" section you could provide a screencap of a well designed Full Sail or Webtrends landing page (perhaps with a caption or pull quote of what makes them well designed).
Indeed - Sun stopped caring in the early 2000s. They were a great company once, and had great hardware, a great Unix, and great ideas about networked computing. But by the time they died, they had an ancient userspace with a nifty filesystem and kernel debugging tool, slow hardware, and didn't have the cash or skills to execute their big concept ideas.
Okay, you're right. I shortened what I was trying to say too much. UTF-16 evolved from UCS-2, so its roots are in a 16-bit, fixed-width encoding.
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile doesn't count as competition? (Granted, the iPhone is only officially available on two of them.)
Not a minor difference; debates happen in civil threads on this site. Arguments involve situations like blowhards yelling at cops giving them parking tickets.

TFA confuses the two to some extent.
More likely this will deter Congress from taking action, out of spite.
Lousy farmers...
can't the OS's handle the change automatically?
My cousin recently visited home from China, and brought his designer purse along with him. I was kind of amused.
Like Macaulay said, "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."
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Seriously? Have you lived in the US for the last 10 years or seen a Republican recently? rst, if anything, understated how Republicans would attack such a program.
Winter time is the standard time (i.e. based on solar noon).

It's summer time that is moved.

Maybe that's only in the US and Russia has the reverse?
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Easy way to track a package... Simplify everything :)
This is like sampling. You think than a few people paying implies a lot of people are going to pay for your application. So this is a statistical problem about inference, perhaps some model of customer is required to get better estimates for the confidence interval of success.
I would probably do a few things - build a go-kart (why not?), learn a new computer skill, go for rides on my motorcycle, random red-eye flight for a weekend, act on one of the ten startup ideas continually floating around in my head :D
Combine the two and work at your local Barnes and Noble - they often have a coffee shop and areas for you to spread out and read/work/etc
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Tax money that goes to unproductive areas of the economy presumably must first be taken from productive areas of the economy (when I say productive areas I mean areas like manufacturing, high tech, agriculture etc. - they create wealth from scratch.) So redistributing tax from a productive area to an unproductive area acts like 'drag' on a car or airplane. The less 'drag' (less tax), the easier the 'vehicle' (the transport kind or the wealth creating kind) can reach peak performance.

It's not really wealth destruction as you've noted, but it does hamper the countries business environment that could otherwise potentially lead to even more productive jobs as companies can afford to hire more productive people.
One of the best ways I have maintained focus is to surround yourself with people that keep you sharp. A peer with similar skills but slightly more advanced than myself always keeps me working hard to elevate my skill level - then it becomes less of looking at old boring code and more of a personal achievement.

Also, I am very goal oriented, I like to set small milestones along the way and think that if I don't reach them Armageddon will occur.
In other news: yes, that is an accented 'ć' in the URL.
So, you do realize that once you can fit something like this in your ear you have a bona-fide Star Trek universal translator.
I wish they would do that here. As a parent of two small kids I dread the clock changes, it takes forever for them to adjust.
The argument isn't meant to be objective - it's a marketing position intended to support a future where Google has the strongest foothold. Generally that means playing down or ignoring the areas where competitors have made advances.
The latest version of perl is revision 5 version 12.

The 12 is the major version number.

There is also a separate language called perl6 that we steal ideas from. But while the perl and perl6 communities share a fair few members, they aren't really the same community.

If you find this confusing, I suggest you do what myself - and a number of the Rakudo Perl6 developers - are finding ourselves doing, and referring to the perl6 spec as "Camelia" instead to reduce the number of people confusing it with perl.
> It solidly loses on almost everything else.

Do you have any data on that? Most CPU bound programs should have pretty good instruction locality, negating the effects of smaller code. But without some numbers this is pointless guesswork.
Yes, you can't say it any more... It actually fell out of favor long ago, but originally it wasn't considered all that bad of a term IIRC (I was pretty young).
Surprised no one has mentioned MonaOS. It's a small, Scheme-based, x86 OS. It's got a lot of parts written in C and assembly and is occasionally buggy, but is fun. It is largely a one-man show, but it's already fairly functional. There are images at http://monaos.org/ and the github repo is at https://github.com/higepon/mona .
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How many times have you built something cool/had a cool idea that you show your friends? Everytime.

I still think this is a good product, I'm just pointing out the importance of WHO/HOW to get meaningful people to pay.

This + adwords targeted at your target demo will be a smart way to test
IMO, the best world would be to allow the ISPs to charge Netflix properly for the total cost of providing it, which would build in to Netflix's subscription price

This effectively introduces M*N billing relationships (every ISP to every content provider), which would have significant transaction costs.
A ⇒ B does not imply ¬A ⇒ ¬B.
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Yes, agreed that a screencap of Full Sail or Webtrends landing page could have added a lot of value. Great point.

Also agree that infographics aren't directly relevant to the interview but they definitely are contextually relevant.
If the author even knows a six from a ten. I'm continually surprised how often bosses fall for con-artist employees. I don't mean ones that are just clicking along and doing the minimum; I mean employees that are actively destroying your business.

The salesman that games the incentive system or overpromises to make sales. The developer that "makes it work", but writes code so labrythine and undocumented as to make it impossible for any other developer to succeed. Or the middle manager that will sabotage other projects inside the company in order to look good in comparison.

The easy question to answer is "should you hire good employees?". The hard question to answer is "how do you determine good vs bad?" Maybe those sixes aren't trying because they're worried that any exceptional performance will be seen as a threat to a paranoid senior staff member.

For every one true 10/10 employee there are five con-artists. I'd argue the con-artists are a bigger threat than someone who's just there to punch a clock.
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I think you mean - she didn't have a career path, but she had two things:

- a job that made a difference at the company

- $10,000,000
> You mean some sort of administration that would give people money to work on projects? Like a Work Projects Administration?

Those sorts of projects/spending got killed in 08 because womens' groups objected to money going to "burly men" projects.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00...

Of course, govt spending is always political. At one time, one could both pay off supporters and build up the country. When we have to choose, the former always wins.
As Andrew Mason has regularly spoken of how The Point was a place for people to join in the support of causes, I find it doubtful that the idea was 'get someone to give me a bunch of money'.

My understanding that he was working on bringing people together to solve societal (I guess we can't use the world social anymore) problems.

This 'napkin' is pretty much the opposite of that from what I see.
they used to be like that, but these days they seem to be morphing more into tech business news. Topics are generally acquisitions, funding, the occasional plucky newcomer and long-time sweethearts like twitter.