skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downside for me is that I'm a person that is of an addictive nature
and I can't do things half...

Me too.

I have always struggled with how to allocate my limited time. Every time I have wanted to do something in the past few years, the first question that came to me was, "How much time will this take away from my work?" At first, if the answer was nonzero, I didn't do it. But I have slowly learned that nonzero answers were OK, and in many cases, quite welcome.

About a year ago I vowed that I'd quit HN on the day that I'd pass 50,000 karma...

Funny, some time ago, I vowed that I'd never quit HN, no matter how high (or low) my ROI. I was one of the first ones here and plan to be here to help turn out the lights (perish the thought).

Jacques, please understand that you are part of my addiction to HN. Your contributions have been priceless. I suspect you have reached the point in your life where you have a responsibility to "pass on" the gifts you have received. You probably have many other ways to do this, but none, I imagine, as effective as Hacker News.

Your contributions here have changed lives. I hope you haven't pulled a Matt Maroon and obfuscated your password. I urge you to reconsider. It is possible for an addictive overachiever to get most of his work done and still be part of HN. I am living proof.

Part of being a successful achiever is not giving up. I hope I'm not alone in not giving up on you. There must be a workable solution to your problem. Consider us resources to find it.

What do we have to do to help you continue to be part of this community without sacrificing too much else?
Recipe for the DC startup revolution
It was just about a typo - but I mentioned it in my sign-up.
The original site was in ASP, then he migrated it to ASP.net. I doubt that he paid any attention to the 'framework' part of things. He just did a VB syntax migration.
I suggest you stop asking people to work for you for free.

http://www.no-spec.com/
The electric generation system is actually a remarkably apt comparison because in most districts the cost of consumables is marginal. The real cost is in the capital expenditure needed for the system to supply a given load. Many of the same principals apply (e.g. "why do they charge me per kWh when they're overgenerating and they have all these nuclear power plants sitting around....")
I think the author provides good advice (JFDI), but I think he's missing the point of the TechCrunch article.

Sometimes people don't do self-inspection.

Sometimes people shoot first, ask questions later.

And sometimes people look within, but they don't know what to ask themselves.

If it were really as simple as JFDI / do what you want, people would turn off their brains and go. But lots of people have doubts simply because they don't even know what's fully involved or what to ask themselves. I think the TechCrunch article, while prehaps not made for this crowd, would be useful for someone who hasn't truly imagined all of the alternatives, or even thought about what the end goal would look like. If you take that article as a way to ask yourself the right questions, instead of advice, I think many people could benefit from the article by getting themselves to examine the right questions before they dive in guns a-blazin' (or the exact opposite).
I was going to make the same comment. Even very profitable companies are usually price sensitive so +1 for open source.
The Miseducation of the Doodle
Did not know that! :P

I guess browser-require will still be useful, since you can import the same files in node and in the browser
Think is hiring iPhone, Android and BlackBerry developers to help improve the existing suite of FaceCash (http://www.facecash.com) mobile wallet apps.

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html is the best way to apply.
I think his argument can be fairly summarized as -

(1) The tablet platform war is like the smartphone platform war.

(2) In the smartphone platform war, Google has more marketshare than Apple because their operating system is on a greater variety of devices.

Both premises are invalid in that they naively omit the central role that carriers and subsidies play. In the phone world, Apple is playing a complex game where they squeeze as much money as possible from carriers. The iPhone isn't even available to millions of customers on dozens of large global carriers and is almost always (sometimes hidden by subsidies) much more expensive than a comparable Android device.

The tablet market may be much more like the mp3 market, where Apple was more sensitive to competitive pricing (they lowered pricing year after year), enabling them to maintain an overwhelming lead in market share which they leveraged to corner the market on many critical components.
Sorry for downvoting, I literally fat fingered the arrows on my phone.
Nice post, I've used Maxima for symbolic calculations since 2000 and I can say it was a great help during my student life :).

Since Maxima is based on Common Lisp, I think it will be an interesting application to translate directly, using a Lisp macro for example, the Fortran output generated by Maxima to a Matlab compatible expression. Not sure how easy it will be to implement this functionality, but sure it will be a nice addition to Maxima.
Isn't the TL;DR here "I was basically being a Karma whore"? It sounds like he was mostly trying to get upvotes rather than answer the questions...
Ruby is difficult to learn compared to learning ASP.net if you went from VB6 to ASP to ASP.net. I'm familiar with those languages.

The OP posted that he learned ASP.net as if it proved that he's really good at programming.
Passenger cleared after TSA checkpoint stare-down
Arm doesn't manufacture anything. They dont't even ship products that other people manufacture. All they do is produce designs for other people to license.
Amsterdam - The Netherlands
http://shuffler.fm

We are looking for a full time dev. That wants to code ruby, python, javascript. We are a small music startup.

email: marcel at tone dot fm
To be honest, it's not easy without existing contacts. You can build yourself a website, advertise and cold-call companies, but you're not likely to get a good response from that alone.

Basically, your first goal is to gain contacts and a good reputation. A few ideas for doing this:

* Find another consulting company in your target industry and subcontract to them to start out with (or even go on staff for a year or three).

* Although this is less relevant for enterprise work, see what you can find on freelancing sites and build up a good reputation.

* Attend technology user groups in relevant domains and network extensively.

* Become an expert in some niche technology. Maybe write a book (easier said then done, but still, probably less difficult than you'd expect).
It's tricky though, because they have built out, and have to maintain, quite a large infrastructure to cope with voice alone. It extends from billing, through to terminating calls on other networks, running voice mail systems, etc.

There's arguably a lot of room for MVNOs only offering data. (In Australia DoDo offered such for the lowest price per GB).
Wow, I don't know whom to believe. But it's 1a drama. And I love drama :)
So a guy who is an expert in Clustrix (and knows how to setup, tune, etc) compares it against some other technology that he does not know (and does not know how to setup, tune, etc) and comes to the surprising realization that his technology is better?

Where have I seen this before? Oh right.. every time I see "Technology A vs Technology B" comparisons.

Naturally his results are in his favor, otherwise he would not have posted them.
http://bugs.jquery.com/milestone/1.5
Benchmark - NYC Financial Analytics

Looking for excellent developers of all shapes & sizes; we work in Ruby, JS, Scala, C, Java, Matlab primarily but have a vast landscape of software projects in the works. Drop me a line at andrew.stein@benchmarksolutions.com
Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse
Netgear CEO rails on Apple's Steve Jobs, praises Android
:D Yup, I read it wrong... 226 000, not 226 million. Which means that India has a looooong way to go before getting to number one!
Ask HN: Should I Limit Users to 140 chars?
When building a new communication platform, should I limit users to only 140 chars. Twitter has shown that sharing bite sized information limited to 140 chars is a viable way to communicate. However, when looking toward the future, is this a good thing or bad thing for users? Should I limit them, or should I let them be open ended or some other desired amount?

I understand that these can be circumstantial, but what are these circumstances and how do I apply them?
A blog post by the founder, without posting the benchmarks themselves? How can anyone expect to take this seriously?
Dialogue - Why personal reputation matters
Color Wheels
Yes, I was. I left the company in early December after a year of creating / maintaining the web infrastructure and e-commerce and analytics products. I accepted a co-founder title in mid-2010 but decided it wasn't a good fit shortly after and began transitioning out in late 2010.

Probably more than you wanted to know (and barely a sliver of the story), but there it is!
VideoLAN warns of MKV vulnerability in VLC 1.1.6
Denmark is the worst country in Europe. Do not even think of going there, you will regret it. Beside taxation is the highest in Europe (up to 60%) so you must be stupid to want to go and work in Denmark.
You will occasionally get an email like this regardless of your business model: "Does it make bingo cards? I haven't installed the free trial because I'm not a computer person. I need you to call me at XXX YYY ZZZZ and explain how to install the free trial. I don't read email that frequently, so you have to call. Oh it is my cellphone and I don't pick up usually because I am a teacher and am busy, so just keep trying until you get me."

Paraphrased from an email this morning. (I also got five emails today from the best customer ever. In addition to paying for AR every month has given a stunningly good testimonial and feels it is his mission in life to act as my unpaid QA department -- and he writes better bug reports than any paid QA department I've ever seen. Charge more and you will get more of him than the other kind of "customer.")
Alcohol is heavily taxed and the LCBO also enforces a price floor to discourage heavy drinking.

http://www.lcbotrade.com/selling_pricing.htm
Microsoft Releases Azure Throughput Analyzer
You have helped me both indirectly through your contributions on HN and personally one on one via #startups on freenode, and for that, I thank you.
Can you use the OpenGL bindings from Processing in your application ? This would be an interesting application for doing some OpenGL graphics on JVM.

I didn't used Clojure, how difficult will be for a Scheme/Common Lisp guy to start hacking in Clojure ?
What game am I building? A MMOTDBG
I would do the following: for mobile users Yes, for PC's no. And here is why because when they send more then 140 chars on mobile it becomes 2 messages or more (more carrier fees).
I'm hiring a mid to senior Level Ruby on Rails developers.

We're a bootstrapped company in the finance/investing sector. It's a leading information platform for a niche area (no algo-trading or real-time stuff).

Duties:
- Move to Rails 3.
- Refactoring
- End-user facing features and internal Admin features

3-5 days a week.

Write me a mail to el0w0uy@tempalias.com for more details.
> There are lots of programmers out there who do a fine job, they are just clueless about security.

Yeah, there are lots of mechanics out there who do a fine job. They are just clueless about breaks ;)

Stupid analogy aside: If you as a programmer who develops stuff for production are not aware of rules like "NEVER EVER FUCKING TRUST ANY USER INPUT" then you're just wrong for the job.
RTZ: Clueless
I chose Mongo because it gets a lot more attention on HN than any other database. I don't remember the last time I saw a post on Cassandra on here...
Ft. Lauderdale, FL -- non-remote (worth the relocation!)

MCNA Dental Plans -- Looking for heads down engineers with Lisp experience or exposure.

Health care probably doesn't sound too interesting but this industrial-strength business application is being re-written from scratch in Common Lisp. The system being built includes a hybrid relational and graph database on Postgres, quasi-natural-language driven production rule systems, rich internet application (using Lisp to wrap/drive qooxdoo), and great graphics!

Did I mention working with 6 other awesome Lispers?

Original job post: http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/lisp-developer-mcna...

Email me (look in profile) if you have any questions or you want a softer intro to the hiring manager.
No idea, really. It sounds as if Russo denies having any data, in which case I struggle coming up with a good reason for POF to issue the warning. But ultimately, I really only know what is written in the two articles. I guess time will tell.
Intel Identifies Chipset Design Error, cost of repair and replace will be $700M
Alexander Limi: Complex CSS layout made easy
As former Sysop, I agree!

Remember: a Fax/Modem is a must. Not just to send/receive faxes, but in case you have to dial out because your router is down.

Floppy disk drives? Not needed.
OK. Fair enough. I'll post the benchmarks.
Happy trails, Jacques... enjoyed your commentary and perspective.
Chris may publish people's private details with his own name attached. It would be stupid but my expectations are low.

If, in a short period:

* Chris' personal account was used to crack the site

* Chris asked for money and was rejected

* Chris potentially threatened to leak the data

* The data was subsequently leaked anonymously

I'd say that there is also a good chance Chris was directly responsible.
If your in a secondary market, digital theaters look much better than the film versions. A lot of people like vinyl over digital, but vinyl doesn't last, much like film.
If true, it would seem that this simple misdescription has been blown out of proportion.
Oh, thanks; fixed!
White House: "Startup America" (Live now)
Would you care to elaborate? Seriously, do you have any pointers or benchmarks for a Mongo vs Cassandra vs X comparison that isn't purely anecdotal, and which takes the relative strengths of each into account in a robust way? A lot of blog posts with performance numbers seem anecdotal or loaded towards one option over the other.

I'm excited by some of the underlying technology in Mongo and its ilk (gossiping protocols, etc.), but there's no doubt that they require different programming techniques than traditional RDBMS. Bit like apples and oranges, isn't it?

EDIT: I noticed you changed RDBMS to "big data". I'm still curious if you have any pointers to fair benchmarks though.
On mobile you are refereeing to text messages, correct?
The 25 States Most Likely to Go Bankrupt
I was just wondering if there is a MATLAB compatible library for Control Toolkit in octave so I can use the code I write at school for learning at home.
Trolling with event loops in python
I really have no idea how this will go, and could see it being a flop, or working out well. The one thing I am happy about is that either way, the site will trade hands after a month, leaving me to concentrate on other things, rather than sitting around causing me to wonder if there's something I could do with it...
To avoid the slide-show:

1. Rhode Island

2. Connecticut

3. Massachusetts

4. Illinois

5. Hawaii

6. New Jersey

7. New Hampshire

8. Indiana

9. Louisiana

10. Oklahoma

11. Montana

12. West Virginia

13. South Carolina

14. Maine

15. Kansas

16. Vermont

17. Mississippi

18. Alaska

19. Maryland

20. Kentucky

21. Missouri

22. New Mexico

23. New York

24. South Dakota

25. California
Confirmed. Retracted.
Long shot, but anything in Central/Eastern Europe?
Ah sorry, I was only checking same domain XHRs, which doesn't seem to send the Origin header. That combined with the fact that Origin isn't sent for <script> tags seems like it can't be used to prevent CSRFs.
MacTelnet is an alternative terminal to iTerm 2 that supports the features you like (256 colors and full screen), and has a lot of other useful things. But I also developed MacTelnet, so I'm biased. :)
Los Angeles, CA and Silicon Valley, CA -- Factual

Working remotely is a possibility for exceptional engineers, but in-person is highly preferred.

Factual aims to be the place where people meet to share, improve, and mash-up data. We have an awesome team that is still fairly small, and an incredible CEO (he was the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which was sold to Google and became AdSense). We recently raised a Series A from Andreessen-Horowitz, and our customers include Facebook (we provide some of their Places data) and Newsweek. We have lots of challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, etc. If you love data, Factual is great place to be.

We're looking for awesome Java generalists. Bonus points for experience with MapReduce, developing NoSQL datastores and/or machine learning.

http://www.factual.com/jobs

You can also email me personally at leo -at- factual.com
The one person who most strongly encouraged me to come back after I initially had decided to bow out of HN participation was none other than jacquesm (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779116). I am glad I came back but now, sadly, there can't help be but be some material diminution in quality and sociableness with the departure of one so intelligent, encouraging, and stimulating. Jacques, I can only say what you said to me: "You'll be missed . . . I learned from [you] . . . I hope to see you back here some day!" I wish you well.
>Is there a way to expand macros only and not do the compile-to-php step?

So that it would just generate the Pharen code resulting from the expansion? Unfortunately, not yet. As soon as a macro is done executing it returns the node tree itself, which is then compiled. There might be a way to hack macro-expand in though.

Let me know how trying to work it into your project goes! I'll be glad to help with any problems that come up.
Sage uses Maxima among others open source packages [1]. You can think of it as a unified layer and language (Python) that enables you to use many open source mathematical programs behind the scenes.

[1] http://sagemath.org/links-components.html
MassChallenge, TechStars join with Obama's Startup America Partnership
Launch of “Startup America” (live stream)
BeTrains is a GPL software, and the iOS version is in the App Store.

In my opinion GPL software is incompatible with the App Store in general, for paid applications it's even more explicit, the GPL gives you the right to distribute the compiled software as you wish, a paid app cannot be distributed for more than 5 devices as far as I understand.

Of course there's exceptions, if every copyright holders do agree, they can give GPL exceptions for distributors, such as Apple, another situation like that exists if the software contain copyrighted artwork that's not under the GPL, then you can distribute the code freely but not the artwork (and as such any binary that contains this artwork), there's various complications, I think a lawyer can give more explanation about this situation.

EDIT: I'm not sure but I think the GPL contain terms that regulates non-source forms, there are also terms that complicates distributors from limiting user's freedoms, as the GPL define freedoms, although I believe the last case is void if the copyright holders give exceptions to the distributor.

EDIT2: Correction for BeTrains.
The official website says that there have already been several feature films shot with their cameras.
http://www.red.com/experience

It also says that "The Hobbit" is being filmed with a Red camera.
IP-over-carrier-pigeon.

Of course that can be easily thwarted by government agents with shotguns, so maybe multiply redundant routes?
I don't agree because I work in the industry.

Some are programmers who manage the User Database. They deal with all user accounts data. But they aren't the same guys who are responsible for server security.

I'm talking Enterprise Apps that support tens of thousands of users.
Overtakes in quarterly sales, Symbian's install base is still much larger than Android's.
New York City, NY - IAC Mobile (http://www.iac.com)

We're hiring a few iOS and backend software engineers to work on new mobile ventures in a very startup-y environment.

Email me for more info: azeem.ansar@iac.com
White House initiative to encourage entrepreneurship
Cambridge, MA (sorry, no remote)

Blueleaf.com -- looking for interns:

Marketing Engineer Intern: ideal for someone who wants to be a founder someday; lots of A/B testing implementation, making APIs do things they weren't designed to do, implementing crazy ideas from Dir of Mktg (me) and CEO

Director of Content: you will write a lot about investments/investing, find others who will write for us about said topics, link to yet others who write on said topic, and generally start putting us out there (consistent with our corporate voice, which we know but isn't public yet)

Marketing Intern: your standard social media douchebaggery, AdWords/landing page testing, and other "flood the funnel" activities

No job posting to link to, but I'm at sachin@blueleaf.com
You can encrypt a password in the database and still keep it retrievable (for things like this). Storing it in plain text, however, is inexcusable.
As former frontline support for a small B2B ISV, I know exactly that type. What's your response to these types of questions? You probably have the luxury to just ignore them? I was always directed to call and make the sale if possible, since the price of that B2B software was about equal to my daily salary.
I upvoted you, because it's an interesting, if misguided, point.

Nobody gets paid for posting on HN or having a high karma. We sure as hell don't have a responsibility to keep donating our time to post interesting stuff... any more than an avid networker has a responsibility to turn up at all the networking events!
Palo Alto, CA - Think Computer Corporation

We run the FaceCash (http://www.facecash.com) mobile payment system, which is being deployed nationwide. We have apps on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry, and we're always looking for top people to help out. Merchants love us because we're cheaper (and we give them a free POS system), and consumers love the integrated coupons. Apply on our corporate site at:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html

or e-mail me at aarong at thinkcomputer.com.
I heard stubhub was good, but I'm not sure if they are exactly the same.
'Precommitment' devices as a safeguard against failure
Baltimore, MD

We're global ad agency working on some cool digital projects. We could use another solid front-end developer. Drop me an email at matthew.forr -at- eurorscg.com
Intel cuts profit margin outlook on chip error
Unfortunately on the web it is hard to establish the chronological order of things.

I.e. that data could have already been available to you if you paid the right price since 2 months ago.

Correlation is not causation, and we of all people should realize that.

I'm not defending Chris, it's just that Mark sounded like a jerk in that blog post and gave a more complicated explanation of the events than Chris; which means there's a good chance Mark got really defensive and blamed the person trying to help.
Actually, I saw True Grit in theaters just yesterday, and I noticed a flicker I'm pretty sure was caused by the framerate when there were scenes that contrasted something very bright and very dark.

Unlike the other person, though, I actually prefer the lower frame rate because I associate it with film. If it's a higher frame rate, it just doesn't look like a movie to me.
Exit Hudson, enter Jenkins