skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure he doesn't know the difference? He may have banged out the post in a hurry. English may not be his first language. He may know the concepts very well but be unclear on the terms.

If I were interviewing someone and they seemed to get the terms wrong, I would simply ask them "Do you mean number instead of digit?" If they sheepishly say, "Oh yeah!" I would carry on and forget about it. No big deal.

You may have a different view, of course. But for me, getting this wrong is like getting the terms "pass by reference" and "pass reference by value" mixed up. It's worth clarifying, but hardly a sign someone is irredeemable :-)
MassChallenge picked for Obama startup initiative
I would consider it someone unusual, and a red flag for your employers. In my experience the better the company is, the more likely it is to require people they are interviewing for a programming job to demonstrate some proficiency for programming.

As an extreme example, you aren't going to get a job at Google without spending several hours coding at the whiteboard.

Why is this? Well first of all, most candidates can't actually program. Asking them to weeds out a lot of the chaff. Of course there are people who obviously won't have trouble with the simple questions. But if, on general knowledge and someone's say-so, it is obvious that they meet your bar, then the odds are good that they are better than what your company expects. If you're happy to always be better than those around you, this is fine. But if you want to land in a more demanding environment, it won't be obvious to anyone, including you, that you meet the standard. And so they will need you to demonstrate somehow that you do.

If they don't, that is a red flag. It either means that they are not selective enough to guarantee decent co-workers, or you're so clearly above the bar that you're not going to have co-workers in your league.
Hell Hath no Fury like a Cheerleader Scorned
Look at the entire tax infrastructure - H&R Block and all those accountants basically doing a make work job, that could be eliminated by simplifying the tax structure.
Particularly ridiculous when you notice that he uses "ſ" for the S in both "software" and "design." Wouldn't a reformed spelling use different symbols for the two sounds?
Depends on the product - this pitch is aimed at 'cool new web framework' type opensource projects.

If I'm looking for a heavy duty technical library, say 3D mesh generation or image processing I want someone serious behind - preferably with a full time academic job in the field and some papers, more than a twitter account and a cool logo.
I am a CL guy, I find the Java stuff in Clojure quite frustrating. This is not because of any deficiencies in Clojure (it is much better than writing straight Java code).

The problem is that it is (comparatively) so hard to do anything in Java, and a lot of the object hierarchies and interfaces in the Java libraries are overly complex. But you can write macros and end up with a pretty nice DSL out of even an ugly Java library.

You also have to know all of the basic Java stuff, knowing about how to configure the classpath and how classes basically work in Java are key. It is good to know the various Java build tools as well.
OK, I'll give you a great use of Dropbox for hackers: Let's say you use Mercurial instead of Subversion. If you have your Mercurial project in Dropbox, you have at your disposal the full source control functionality provided by Mercurial and automatic backups of your mercurial repository. Get it now?
Canadian indie ISPs raising rates to satisfy big cable
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/startup-america
I came here to say this exactly (and modded both of yous up).

Health insurance is the THE number 1 worry people have. I know a few really smart people who would be out there creating companies and jobs, _except_ for the fact that they are married, with little kids (and spouses that don't work).

This lack of health insurance is probably stifling entrepreneurship more than anything else. People mention the tax code, the 'red tape', etc., but let me tell you; the USA is way ahead of other countries in making it easy to start companies. Where it lacks is in the health insurance area.

I highly recommend Hernando DeSoto's "The Mystery of Capital" http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-Ev... to get a glimpse of how hard it is to start a business in some other countries.
Just curious, do you work in the same place as the people who produced the Dead Space series?
The hardest part about landing a startup job right now is choosing which one to go with =)

Seriously, there are so many interesting startups popping up lately but, if the uptick in cold calls and emails are an indicator, apparently not so much of the necessary talent.

There are currently a lot of developers on the market in NYC but from the interviewing I have been assisting with, it seems to consist mostly of "lifers" (the 9-5 devs that are happy to just plod away on some big project, adding features or fixing bugs). I do not mean that in a condescending way; there is definite value in their work but it is simply not what a startup needs.
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These threads are one of our top 2 most effective hiring vectors; we've hired many people off HN, and the candidates we get from HN are the best candidates we get from any source.

The caliber of people we've been able to hire from HN is one of the primary reasons I spend time here.
You are conflating "hosting in multiple locations" with "claiming to be a canonical URL". If I choose to host my repository at git.saurik.com, but want to be able to use GitHub's repository browsing features, social timelines, etc., I may choose to /also/ host a copy at GitHub.

However, people are now going to copy/paste the GitHub repository URL and use that to clone my repository, and that URL is going to end up as a large number of peoples' origins. Even worse, that URL may end up in third party projects as a submodule (which is much more difficult to retroactively change).

Again: the problem here is not that GitHub is somehow encouraging people to keep things at GitHub "centrally": it isn't, and the goal is not to have your data in multiple places.

In fact, that's what you need to /avoid/: there should be a single URL for "this is the git repository that we consider to be the official, canonical source for our (distributed) contributions to this project".

That URL should be one that you feel comfortable you can maintain for a long time, as that URL can end up baked into a lot of things. Some of them are theoretically easy to change (the million users who are pulling from that URL, assuming they know how to do that without just re-cloning), and some of them aren't (usages of your project as submodules in other peoples' projects).

To quickly put this in another, maybe simpler manner: the problem isn't that people aren't choosing to /also/ put their code in places other than GitHub, it is that putting you code /also/ in GitHub undermines your git repository URL.
Samsung says Galaxy Tab sales to consumers actually 'quite small'
The fuss about Quality
Thanks, needed that. Autodiscovery didn't seem to work on his blog.
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IF government will shutdown even Internet, will it keep land-line phones online?

You can start from linmodem project: http://bellard.org/linmodem.html , it may allow to create 9600 connection on 1GHz processor.

Of course, phones have built-in DSP processor, but each phone model has it own DSP. Some OpenGL chips are able to do FFT using vDSP (e.g. iPhone4), so it can be used to accelerate soft modem.
Yes, but the color scheme and the icon is similar like android user interface.
So one of the superstars of HN is leaving?

Jacques, it was wonderful to know you and read your thoughts here on HN. HN will miss you dearly. While I respect your decision to leave, I'd urge you to reconsider the decision to leave completely. And if you decide to come back, we will be as welcoming as we always were...

Till then, so long my friend.
Might be 100 feet of snow fall, that has compressed under its own weight.
Well, that's unexpected!

The Utah footage is at least consistent with human aircraft behavior. Could be a high-altitude drone (if it's silent, it probably isn't a helicopter) or perhaps an airship.

The Israel footage... well. You could definitely fake that with an hour in an editor. On the other hand, a flash like that should have attracted a shitload of eyewitnesses... so, there ought to be tons of corroborating reports.
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That's a really good question. The main case I can see is if someone is already familiar with PHP and its deployment and doesn't want to learn another language/platform. It might also be useable for basic scripting tasks (the compiler has an --executable flag that adds a PHP hashbang to the top of a script).

Other than that Pharen is still pretty new and nowhere near the same level as mature lisps. Making debugging and interop with 3rd party libraries easier are the main long-term goals, so maybe after that it'll be at least a little viable.
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How to Hack Your Brain
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Darkshell: A DDoS bot targetting vendors of industrial food-processing equipment
Not to put your article down, but I'm sure YC startups have at least this advice, and probably much more (more detailed, more sophisticated and contextually aware of the specifics of the startup and its market) from YC (PG, Jessica, Harj, Garry Tan, Paul Buchheit, etc) themselves... so I'm not sure who this article is targeted at.
Corporate stereotypes, and why Microsoft could kill your startup career
Here's another typical Siegler headline, "Is Android Surging Only Because Apple Is Letting It?"

Not surprisingly, no article about how Android blew past Nokia and Apple in Q4 2010 (already past Apple before that, but YoY).

It's like watching a basketball game where the announcer only calls baskets made by one team. And then goes on and on about how team Apple just BARELY lost. But actually if you look at timeouts, team Apple used fewer timeouts, so if the game was to minimize timeout usage, Team Apple actually won!!!
Government isn't contributing any money here. Government is serving as a catalyst, organizer, and a validator.

See: http://www.startupamericapartnership.org/faqs

In fact, the TechStars network is a membership based network of independently owned incubators. So you can look at Government as having this dialogue with TechStars:

Gov: Hey, Techstars, we want to create more jobs. We think what you've done is interesting. We'd love for you do do something with our new project StartUpAmerica. We got a bunch of people involved. You in?

TechStars: Sure, sounds interesting, what can we do?

Gov: What do you think you should do-- how could you be the most impactful here?

TechStars: Well, we could create a network to help create more techstars like organizations, and have them working together.

Gov: Sounds good. We'll put you on the website.

TechStars: k cool.
I agree that the timing of meals probably doesn't affect weight much. I do not hope to gain or lose weight by making this change; I've modified my behavior (not my diet) in order to improve my lifestyle (not my health).
relational folks can denormalize when they want to
Very good idea. I won't worry too much about idea harvesting ... idea alone won't succeed, it has to be coupled with excellent execution.
However, even when I typed in your suggestion "sell stuff online", no results were given. Perhaps you might want to check into that.
What do you do in Norway? How did you come to live there?
Am I the only one who thinks Steve Case is about the worst person they could have gotten to be a cheerleader for entrepreneurism?
Personally I look forward to the day when there is a bubble because then and only then will the bubble speculation stop, if only for a brief while.
Does anyone care about that installed base though? Most of those devices aren't going to be ones that people particularly want to develop for. The number of "modern" Symbian devices is going to be much smaller, and might even already be lower than that of "modern" Android devices.

And anyway given the growth of the market as a whole, the new devices sold next year are going to totally overwhelm whatever pre-existing base there is.
Time to update the blog Simon :) http://simonwillison.net/
"Think employees don't do drugs."

What does that mean?

- Recurring drug tests?

- While working or in their spare time?

- No Alkohol, no nicotine, no sugar?
No one looking for designers?
That’s not what Siegler wrote at all. You are twisting his words.

I’m making no claims about other articles by Siegler and don’t want to defend them. He tends to say incredibly stupid or one-sided things about Apple very often. It’s just that I cannot find any fault with this particular article.
Hmm, maybe. How relatively important is his direct and indirect mentoring that took place here?

His life, his priorities, and I salute him. But if we're talking about impact, what happens here is significant.
The top 9 websites that were blacklisted in 2010
I know Wynn and his sense of humor, and I can see how easy it might be to totally miss his comedic tone with the loaded title and seemingly "preechy" top 10 list. When/if you meet him, you will know what I mean after a few minutes into a good chat with him.

I will say though, that Wynn does contribute to Open Source - we all do at The Changelog. He also did apologize in the opening sentence of the first paragraph for the "loaded headline" as a hat tip to Mashable for an article they posted two years ago titled, "FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter". It's Wynn's character to reference and relate, but I can see how that could be missed. It's hard to "hear" someone's tone in plain text, especially when you are quickly scanning a top 10 list.

This post was more about concrete ways to build community around your code and things you can do to promote your open source projects.
Chase bank requires me to authenticate via a texted or emailed code if I log in to my bank via a browser I haven't used before. Not exactly the same, but a helpful additional precaution.
We could (and kinda expected that somebody _would_) but I don't quite see the existing tools working. I'd love to be proven wrong, though. I suppose it could be done with some remapping front-end, but I think that front-end would also need to maintain maps between as-git-computed blobrefs and Camli blobrefs.
I can't believe how amazing a small piece of js can be. It seems like every one on the internet uses jQuery.
Thank you Mr. Resig.
Android tablet sales are nowhere near what has been claimed. The 22% figure is derived from Galaxy Tab sales to retail. Even Samsung is admitting now that far fewer have been sold through to consumers:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/31/samsung.admits...
When I want to get work done, I just set my hosts file to block all of the time-wasting sites.

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1	news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1	www.reddit.com

Etc,

Then if I want to check those sites I have to go through the hassle of opening the hosts file and commenting the lines.

This definitely of keeps me from checking 'reflexively' throughout the day.

Its a solution that even works on Windows and Mac!
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Sounds like it could cause slowdown and eventual inability to communicate with the drive, but would not damage the drive or cause data loss.

http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=9689
Looking at your first SELECT, there's very few RDBMSs on the market that won't evaluate that WHERE clause prior to the JOIN.

(disclaimer: I work for Clustrix)
Mixtent: Where do you stand in your industry?
Interesting, as there should be a lot of those kinds of people looking for a job I'd think, especially from local newspapers.
They have over 600k people ranked already.
I don't use quora either, I just saw his example post where the photo seems to be an airport whereas the post is about some other issue. There's a difference between being minimally helpful to maximise karma gain and being helpful and getting karma as a side-effect. The things he posted weren't about getting the highest quality posts possible, they were about getting the highest amount of upvotes.

The fact that he posted low quality answers to gain karma while he refined them is a prime example of that, in my opinion. If you just care about helping you don't do that.

Karma is a reward for helpful users, it's not the goal (that's why you can't redeem it for anything). When users act in this way it stops being an indicator of helpfulness and turns into an indicator of who's the best at raking in karma.
An iOS device running a third-party download does not constitute a User Product. Otherwise, I don't understand what you're getting at. Yes, there are DRM exceptions in the GPL (mostly to allow use in things like medical devices).

Even if we assume an App by itself constitutes a User Product, then when you purchase an App Store app, you're allowed to install it on your phone (possession) and run it (use)? But that's a big stretch. I'm just trying to understand your point.
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Hey, I was doing this with clj-processing in summer '09... except my "eval button" was C-M-x :)
Well, there are quite a few commercial database vendors that offer parallel and clustered RDBMS products, and many of them appear to be quite good.

Unfortunately, they've got a terrible marketing problem.

Before 1998 or so, a relational database was an expensive product that you got from a vendor like Oracle. Since then, a generation of people have grown up that think about using a commercial RDBMS the same way most of us think about putting our hands in a toilet.

@va_coder hits the nail right on the head, it's not just the cost of the product, it's the cost of the buying process.

If I want to trial a product that is open source or has an OS or free edition (that could be mysql, mongodb, postgres or even Virtoso OpenLink or SQL Server Express) I can download it, read the docs and play around with it and learn a lot in a few hours. I might learn that the product is not for me, or I might get a positive impression and feel ready to commit coding time to it.

If I want to trial Oracle or Clustrix, well, I'm going to have to start a contact with a sales organization and then they need to pre-qualify me, and then they need to qualify me and then I'll spend a few hours on the phone talking to people (which might take a few weeks in wall-clock time.)

Even if they give me a 30 day free trial, I could easily spend $500+ of my time just getting the trial... And once I've gotten to the point where I'm negotiating with one vendor I'm going to feel a lot of pressure (internally or from my superiors) to talk with some competitive vendors too to make sure I'm making the right decision.

It's a shame because, certainly, a company like Clustrix could use the revenue they get from product sales to support an awesome development team and really deliver a better product. On the other hand, they have marketing channels that are aimed at large organizations that can afford an expensive buying experience... and it's an expensive selling process for them when they've got to do "complex sales" that require approvals from a large number of stakeholders. They've got to pass those costs onto you.

The trouble with this model is that tomorrow's large organizations are today's small organizations. Today, Facebook could afford just about any commercial software that's out there. However, they made critical technology decisions (that are difficult to reverse) back when they were a little company that could only afford MySQL.
I think it's a bit unfair to use this as the title when you're linking to an official Jenkins post.

The actual title doesn't make a swipe at Hudson.
Are Oil and Ethanol Fueling Middle East Revolutions?
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i always thought github.com was 'social' enough.
The real question now is: When will Google APIs have this hosted on their CDN for developers to use?
Here's one I made a while ago for a lean startup machine event - http://crowdmarkup.com/
Well, Coding Horror's the CNN/USA Today of blogs (and TechCrunch is the National Enquirer).
Samsung was the fastest growing major smartphone vendor
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no web apps found matching your idea. Maybe you have been really original but just in case try to perform another search describing your creation with different words.
AsyncHttpClient 1.5.0 Released
Tie this with github (by associating winning bids with with commits) and you'll have something really cool.
but what about the dreaded double-dip bubble?!
Social sign in buttons with CSS
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