skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring (For Freelance/Part Time Remote Work) February 2011.
I figure this would be useful for those of us who work 9-5s for BigCo, Incs, but would like to be involved with startups/other more interesting work in our off-hours.
Story & Challenges of Tangible Product Startups
I disagree, politely, that most HN readers find no issues with writing style. I base this on a subsample of one and extrapolate. wink wink

Seriously though, HN isn't Reddit or Digg. I feel a little class and care can reasonably be expected from the informed commentator.
Maybe next time Anon should simply shout "When did Tom Cruise stop beating his wife?"

More seriously, you raise a good point: there's no response that's good for them. Not responding is probably the best, but even it's not a great option.
The curation is mostly done by users voting on others' contributions, not by a user interface that is too hard for dumb people to understand.
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I fail to see anything dramatic in this particular story. He an his wife are happy. They don't reproach or regret. They feel honest about themselves.
As a fan and user(!) of Factor, I agree that it fails the notability test on Wikipedia. I can't find any mention of the language, beyond that by the author, which might convince a 3rd person that it is more notable than my own pet PL projects. But this might be true of many implementations of well-defined languages like Smalltalk, Scheme, or C. Take a look at the big list of Scheme implementations[1]. How many of them are "notable"? Is Ikarus or Chicken notable? Many PL papers describe some minor tweak in a homegrown toy language. Are all those languages notable?

I think Factor deserves to have a Wikipedia page (it still does), but I don't know by what general criteria I'm including it. It has a complete, robust implementation and is still actively developed, which is more than could be said of 90% of PLs out there. But how do we codify that into a notability test?

[1] http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq-standards#implem...
It seems to me that this argument boils down to whether a comment on HN is more akin to conversation (ie. somewhat less formal), or information.

My personal opinion is that with the rise of globalisation and non-native English's prevalence on the internet, any use of language that is understandable and unambiguous is good enough for discourse.
Did You Know That (in Ruby) #2: Exception Handling
They could have joined in. Made a fake announcement that they were basing the highest level of Scientology on anonymous or wearing masks or Rick Astly or something. Thats what I would have done if it were my cult.

Tom Cruise seems to have a sense of humor at least. Tropic Thunder made me chuckle.
The Monday one is especially true... I knew I should have stayed home today.
Let's just call Zope 2 the Common Lisp of Python frameworks... I guess it survives mostly because Plone needs it.

Zope 3 and Grok are pretty cool.
GAE is not distributed through PyPI. I think the list is generated from that.
yeah, but the parser is messed up because it is whitespace sensitive. This would fail: compose (x)-> f(x) (y)-> g(y).
OK. I'll cheer up. Here's my Valentine's Day appropriate story.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/02/hacking-toshiba-t4800ct-love-sto...
SimplyNoted (Simplenote naming trick)
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> I regret that I am unable to reply to each comment individually, HN's software stops me from making too many posts.

At least you're getting voted up, which should help. It's an anti-spam measure... also, try clicking on the 'link' of something you want to reply to. If there's too much back and forth in a thread, it'll hide the 'reply' button in an attempt to slow down conversation, but obviously this is a bit of a special case.
Why You Need Document Freedom
Unless the protestor dumps their phone, they can be traced on an ongoing basis for reprisals at the dicator's leisure.

Dumping your phone is not a bad price for taking part in a movement freeing your country. Here's an idea: a Kickstarter project that acquires a bunch of prepaid phones and DHLs them someplace they can be smuggled into the country?
The article says, "...Millennium Exchange was processing messages at a round trip latency of only 126 microseconds..."

Is this right, or did the author mean milliseconds?
And how many of those "paid millionaires" were engineers? I bet most worked in finance.
An Intro To The Semantic Web: Why You Need To Know About It Sooner Than Later
And beaker too.
Most projects i've clicked through only offer some source tarball or easy_install instructions but no mentioning of supported Python versions..

I am wondering how the list would really look...
He's not "just another Wikipedian", he's the particular Wikipedian that made this mess. So he has a particular responsibility to clean it up.
more here :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1512928
You insulted people by saying that something they have invested time in is not "notable"

I'm very sorry, but this is what they call "Taking things too personally." You can say that "Faux," my JS framework, is not notable. How is this an insult to me? You can say that I'm not notable. Again, how is this an insult to me?

"Notable" is not a synonym for "worthwhile," it's related to the word "popular." Saying that a language doesn't meet Wikipedia's guidelines is not a statement about the language's fans, users, or authors. It's a statement about a particular test you apply by searching the world's existing information storehouse for mentions of the subject.
Check it out for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_programming_...

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Yes. On the other hand, 'procedural' can be seen as opposed to OO: the notion that the organization of programs is as a collection of procedures (and (incidentally?) data structures), as in C, as opposed to a collection of object types.
shows how clever it is to be a content producer and hardware manufacturer at the same time..
Quora To Oddly-Named Users: Papers Please
Valentine's Day Hacker Stories
Here's a little post I wrote about hacking and machine and love.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/02/hacking-toshiba-t4800ct-love-story_9458.html

Anyone else have any other things they did with computers for love stories?
I'm a bit confused about what it does. Will it spam my friends on twitter?

Due to this uncertainty, I'm not about to enter my twitter credentials. Just seems too risky.

"In the next page you will be able to share it with your friends on Twitter, Facebook etc"

What is "it"? What is being shared?
Hey, have some faith - it's not like it's going to be on Fox.
Exactly. You have no way of knowing what all the code along the way between the mail-sending application and your inbox does, that was my whole point.
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Sometimes even saying "just do it" in 30 different ways might be good to motivate someone.
Optimize for a few hundred spam obsessed power users, or, prevent a major cause of the #2 most common CS complaint at many businesses. This does not take much pondering.

P.S. Trivially A/B testator at high volumes if your CS infrastructure is capturing sufficient data.
microseconds.

internal messaging latency is measured in microseconds

order acknowledgement/cancel/fulfillment is measured in microseconds to low milliseconds.
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.

--Christopher Thompson

A friend of mine running an XP project got empirical numbers indicating that some large fraction of the project's bugs were associated with check-ins after 4pm. So he made a rule: no check-ins after 4pm. Result: a whopping decrease in the rate of new bugs.

YMMV.
I totally get what you mean. Not being web designers, it's pretty hard for us to feel out what works and what doesn't -- we kind of just subscribe to the trial-and-error method.

If you think of anything we can do to make it look more "fun" we're completely open!
Neither of those sources contains a claim that Western states directly funded Iraq's military, so they don't represent a citation for the claim that you made.

As I mentioned before, the fact that Western countries and the Soviet bloc happily sold Iraq weapons and dual-use items during the 1980s is not in question. We know that happened, it has been public knowledge for quite some time.

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but I feel that accuracy matters. There is a vast and important difference between directly funding a country's military and merely selling it weaponry.

Besides, if we're referring solely to the issue of arming Iraq, then the statement that Western countries were solely responsible for that is incorrect too. As I said before, most of the Iraqi army's equipment was purchased from the Soviets.
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Working around other motivated, hard-working, intelligent, fun people is about a lot more than having warm bodies around so as not to be "bleak."

The amount of serendipity & opportunity that comes out of coworking - when the coworking community is run properly - is incredible.

I moved to Philadelphia from Vienna, Austria for the community at a coworking location (http://indyhall.org). It's not because I lacked for bodies.
What place is still running php4? The 4-series has been abandoned even for critical security patches some time ago, the move to 5 solidified a long time ago.

Maybe you're confusing PHP 5 and PHP 6; PHP 6 has been "just around the corner" now for a few years.
Thanks, prices appear to be falling steadily.
Art Term Papers about Egon Schiele
For students who are assigned the writing of an art term paper about Egon Schiele, will require thorough knowledge about the artist and his works. Only with this knowledge will they be able to write a successful art term paper which will receive good marks.
Telling people that their work is not notable is not an insult. If someone said that to me, I'd probably give a wry grin, shrug my shoulders and say "Yeah, kinda sucks, huh?" Most work is not notable. It's not defensible to attack someone because they made a factual claim that your work has had negligible impact.
That's not the issue at hand - the grandparent comment advocates that you shouldn't even expect a service to accept RFC-Compliant addresses.

Validating against the RFC is more, not less permissive than the position held by the grandparent comment.
Totally agree -- we're learning and under no pretenses about being skilled at design.

We'd love some concrete ideas or general suggestions about the design, if you have any off the top of your head?
That's not true. If one used OOP in PHP4, running that code in PHP5 will produce lots of bugs related to the new object model.
Do You Know What an Exabyte Is?
Ask HN: Zendesk vs Assistly
Hi. Found some posts on this that are pushing a year old and am looking for a fresh opinion.

I'm moving from FogBugz. Currently trying out Assistly and love their UI. Zendesk's own support page looks a little better than Assistly's, but it could be integration with GetSatisfaction or something that makes it so, which is extra cash to lay out.

Which is the better choice and why?

Thank you Hacker News!
it wont spam... it creates a page for your friends to add their recommendations.

it just posts a link to the list page you have just created saying.. "I am looking for tweeters to follow for the topic X. please contribute" along with a link to the page.

it posts into your twitter timeline and not to anyone else directly.

if you want to word it yourself, you can post it by unchecking the option to post automatically. I guess this communication is not clear. I will work on it. Thanks for bringing this to light. Please do try it. You can even try it without logging in.
Google only supports 2.5 for anything python related. Take a look at the python protobuf client:

http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=66&q=...

Don't expect google to upgrade anytime soon.
I have seen the future and I am opposed
No, they are keeping those - just introducing more sizes as well (now that they have the capacity to produce them)
Which part of this is the #2 complaint - users making a mistake entering in their email address? Isn't this why you ask them to confirm it by sending them an activation email?
Windows Phone 7 to get IE9, Multi-tasking and Twitter integration in 2011
I got that. I was aiming for a little poetry by pointing that specific one out.
One cellular phone company in Japan used to allow people to register e-mail addresses with two periods in a row before the @ character. I have seen some addresses like this in the wild, but the decision to mark these as valid or not for an app depends on the domain you're working in. At my old job making web apps for Japanese companies, programmers would usually allow these types of addresses if we were making a mobile site.
Any YC food startups? Hmmm ... there is http://foodoro.com/
The majority installed base plus a strong developer following will make Samsung’s fork the de facto choice...I don’t know if Samsung is capable of such a coup (their software up ‘til now has been garbage)

This is precisely the reason no one should be scared. If Samsung attempts this, they would be going up against Google on the field of software.

In contrast, I like Apple's plan better -- win on UX, customer service, marketing, and design. Those are all areas where Google is weak.
We're looking to hire a freelance (remote) designer (UI in form of PSD, Wireframes or HTML) to create a stunning design for our product. The product is a way for NHS patients to interact with their doctors and support groups, we are well funded and already have trials in place with the NHS - looking to launch Q3 this year. This product will be used by millions of people.

I need someone to help me craft the entire look and feel of our product, we'd love for you to involved in all aspects of design: from branding, to user experience, to designing the individual user interface elements on each part of our website. Our dream person is someone insanely passionate about web design, and wants to make software that is tradditionally terrible, awesome (medical software is usually worse than enterprise software).

This is our fourth hire, and our first non-developer role.

P.S. thank you pclark for writing/proof reading the above :)
I see two problems here: one, Carolyn is calling this a gender issue and not doing a good job of explaining why it is; and two, any time 'gender' is mentioned on Hacker News, twenty people defensively write comments dismissing the gender issue.

This might be more of a gender issue than we realize. CS is just plain unwelcoming, no matter who you are, but there are fewer women in CS. We are turning women away somehow, and it's probably in ways more subtle than we realize.

Any time someone complains about CS being unpleasant, we should take a hard look and wonder if it's more unpleasant to women for that reason. There's no point in trying to end or simplify the gender conversation, even if we were brought into it sloppily.
Android 2.2 is ok for a tablet (as the Samsung Tab shows). It's true it isn't optimized for it, but does a perfectly adequate job.
It is not an insult to say a work is non-notable.

And, well, ball-peen hammers are quite notable. They probably have quite a few more practicing users than many of the languages this guy nominated. The problem with someone saying, "ball peen hammers aren't notable," is not that the creator of ball peen hammers might feel insulted. The problem is that the statement is incorrect.
I would like to suggest that a good software development methodology is one that clearly defines the conditions when it should not be used, sorta like Popper's concept of falsifiability. This based on my experience that there simply is no methodology that works for all development projects regardless of complexity, team size, resources available, etc.
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Well, just go ahead and try signing up at facebook with {^|~!}@gmail.com then.
We're hiring contract web engineers at Squidoo. http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-web-engineer.
I registered with Quora using my legal name as documented on credit cards, my library card, my utilities bills and my drivers license. My account was blocked, and I was asked to register with my "proper" name. So far my replies have been ignored.

So I've left.
I am not claiming otherwise, I'm just pointing out how people will react if you take such an action, since the grandparent seems rather surprised by it.

The presence of an ad hominem does not make the rest of a comment worthless.
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Let's hope everyone knows to dump that phone.
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Ask HN: What would you pay to discover & support startups?
A lot of us are building startups. A lot of us are interested in new products as they hit the market. Would you pay $$$ to be part of a startup community focused on discovering new startup products? If so, how much would you pay? Would it change your mind if the revenues went directly to startups being discovered? Would you pay for anything surrounding this concept? See betacandy.com for reference.value.
Yup, agreed. And of course RFC compliance only specifies syntax. It would pass blah@blah.hlah.
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I know from experience the difficulties an unusual name can bring, but Quora hasn't called me out just yet. I value their desire to build an authentic community, but other sites have grown without resorting to this sort of tactic. Fakes eventually are known based on their posts.

Speaking of fakes, Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake has had all kinds of problems due to her (real) last name:
http://caterina.net/archive/001011.html At worst, I've been asked if I was "one of them foreigners" by a landlord years back.
Why is Quora given so much attention?
Assuming the tolerances for the cheap 3D printers will improve, isn't this a classic case of disruption we are seeing here?

Sure they aren't great enough for everything yet, but there has to be things you can create even with the cheap bots that are good enough to be useful.
But how can I be considered to be "asking for it" if I put a dot, hyphen or number in my email address, when millions of email addresses have them; the standard permits them; and many institutional policies create emails with them by default?

Which characters can I have in my email address, that won't cause you to tell me it's my own fault when they get rejected?

I agree that you have no way of knowing what all the code along the way does, but you can at least hope that it behaves in something resembling a standards-compliant fashion. Otherwise, what's the point of email addresses at all?
Objects in the analytics dashboard may appear closer than they are
On the fact that the Atlantic Ocean has two sides
Kinect enters the Android world
I'm totally the wrong person to ask (that doesn't prevent me from bitching about it though), however, I would consider a simplification of the color scheme. Maybe choose a prime color and stick with it. Don't change too much, I believe the foundation is solid.
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Ah, that makes sense. However, it sounds very good for the price.
From the linked post - "What made the PC industry a commodity industry was that none of the big PC manufacturers at any point controlled the important components or shipped those components en masse."

The author never gives proof that Samsung "controls" any of the important components of a smartphone. Don't they merely license their chip designs from ARM, Qualcomm, etc? Is their screen technology based on in-house IP or are they basically commodity manufacturers of new technology? In the absence of these arguments, this article felt like fluff from someone that's seen the word "Samsung" on the BOM for a few phones.

Also, a company's manufacturing and distribution prowess has almost nothing to do with their ability to create a popular consumer software platform. See: Nokia. The only reason Samsung can be mentioned is that they've rapidly adopted Google's operating system. Surmising that they could fork Android is as absurd as imagining that Dell or Asus could alone create a Linux distro that could compete with Windows.
A loosely related anecdote:

I was registering a general purpose domain name a couple of years back and asked a friend if he had any input on a good short name. He replied "nope", and being a Swede I registered nope.se.

There was a time I still forwarded all nope [at] nope [dot] se emails to my primary email, but as it turned out (not that unexpected), this was an address frequently used by Swedes to register "anonymously".

Anyway, it was an interesting/alternative way of keeping track of popularity of new communities etc. Clearly not all users expected that they had to verify their email addresses.
You probably got me wrong. In a perfect world, it would work just as specified in the RFC, everywhere and I am all for that. But obviously that's not the case.

And I am not encouraging people to be lazy and sloppy, I am just saying considering the 'real world', you are better off with an email-address that does not contain any too unusual characters (e.g. - _ . should be fine, as those are commonly used).
So because Facebook don't know what counts as a valid eMail address, everyone else has to adapt to them?
Sorry about that. That was my 3 year old.
American and Soviet policies supported the Iraqi prosecution of the war while funds to Iran were frozen and embargoes were placed.

I believe you're being overly specific in your definition of what constitutes something more than mere partisanship. I think it's a reasonably safe statement that the war would likely not have happened without American blessings.

It is, of course, more complex because of the involvement of the Soviets, but I think in this case both the Soviets and the West wanted to contain Iran and both politically and materially encouraged Iraq to wage war.
I've been hearing this for five years. Any real examples yet?
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IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight
APD will no longer hinder citizens who videotape cops
It's more a lie of omission. The 555 headphone produces the frequencies desired, but the company withholds them from the customer with a piece of foam.

If there's something you're not telling someone, which would really piss off that someone, you may be guilty of a lie of omission.
Ok, it's working now. I like the idea and the sound is pretty good. Most free synthetic keyboards you can get (as in Vst plugins) sound worse. Good job!

Unfortunately, I seem to have terrible latency problems in Chrome and Firefox. I also do not really understand how the keys are mapped to the notes as there seem to be strange gaps. I would have expected a setup as you can find it in most trackers.

Well, great experiment. I would not yet use it for live performance, though.
These guys are going to win, I highly recommend applying if you care about design, and especially if you care about this market.
The list is horribly wrong and misleading. The author and others are working to rectify it. There's a lot of packages on there that simply don't belong there.
Unilaterally? Anyone can !vote on an AFD.
I had already used up my daily quota of humour. I don't want my German citizenship revoked.
as any other government America doesn't have friends or enemies, only interests