skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good place to start is to write an article on: 1) something you are not personally closely connected to; and 2) have information on, from decent third-party sources that you can cite.

Nobody I know who's done that has had a problem, though I obviously don't know thousands of people. People don't generally go around randomly deleting well-cited articles that don't appear to be self-promotion. I certainly write about all sorts of random stuff and don't really run into problems. But it's all stuff I have no connection to, and I go to the library to find sources for the articles.

The people I know who have had problems were mostly on Wikipedia to promote themselves, their project, or a project/thing they were closely connected to. A bunch of academics, for example, seem to think that a great place to start editing Wikipedia is to write an article about themselves, cited to their own webpage. Either that, or about one of their research projects, or a theorem they just proved, or a close colleague. All not very good places to start.
The last one I was at my team built an interesting HTML 5 game with impactjs in under 24 hours (we sponsored the hackathon). There were a lot of cool projects built in the same time period. However, the biggest problem was non-workers who just wanted to chat with people who were actually working. It was very distracting and I bet many of the projects would have gotten further without the distractions.
Could you link to where you've seen Apple say that? It's not in the article I linked.
I was at the same FourSquare hackathon today, and you're right -- there was a lot of socializing going on, and there were people who seemed to be trying to figure out how to present their previously-existing project or startup.

On the other hand, the New York hacker scene is anemic enough that we can use any chance to socialize and network that we get -- and there were people there actually coding things from scratch today, myself included.

I had to leave before the presentations, and haven't see most of the apps people have been working on, so I can't comment on the "overly polished" aspect of this... But in an ideal world, I would hope that people would be able to enjoy whichever aspects of the event were relevant to them, and not get sidetracked by the people who were on a different track.
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Ohh, it is in the Netherlands. That would make it easier for me to visit it. :-)
YMMV, but I switched from Head JS to LABjs and reduced data transfer by ~ 30%
Prompted by the recent posting of "On Script Loaders", I decided to see what would happen if I replaced head.js with lab.js.
In Chrome, using LABjs caused 442KB to be spent on scripts.<p>Using Head JS causes 596KB of data to be transfered for scripts.<p>I'm not sure, but I think the cause is related to how Head JS double requests each script. See the original posting / article for more depth:<p>http://blog.getify.com/2010/12/on-script-loaders/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239371<p>LABjs homepage: http://labjs.com/ Head JS homepage: http://headjs.com/
I was picturing an apple guitar when I first read the headline.
"It gives them an incentive to slack, and while that may work in the lower tiers of the school system, they're going to hit a brick wall at some point, and for many, it will be too late for them to do anything to catch up."

Agreed. I hit the wall in the final year at University. Worst time ever.
see link for full story
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fbi.internal.documents/...
CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape

By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011

Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 5 p.m. ET.

Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.

A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."

And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.

These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.
The real reason is simple: employees are (by definition) replacable, when they get hired, founders (by definition) not, when they found the company.
As I understand it, there was some vague talk about being selective, in case they maxed out the capacity of the space, but in the end I believe they sent out tickets to everyone who signed up, and nobody was turned away.
> There are clearly negative externalities associated with CO2 emissions that aren't taken into account in the price today.

I'd be more sympathetic to your externalities argument if there was some evidence that you weren't just using it as an excuse to do what you want to do for other reasons.

For example, you're ignoring the negative externalities of your proposal.

And then there's the small matter that the predicted cost of the externalities is significantly lower than cost of the "solution". Money has positive time value.

What? You don't like numerical arguments? Or, is it that you didn't know that the numbers existed?

> Wouldn't an artificially high price of carbon emissions be quite a bit better than an artificially low one?

No. Or rather, it depends on the magnitudes of "high" and "low".

Most folks who complain about subidized energy miscount. Feel free to demonstrate that you'r an exception.
If I give away my code I do not demand that others let me poke at what they make with it, and I don't demand that they let their users poke at it. I still have my own code. This is fine with me. Nothing, absolutely nothing that Apple does with my code diminishes what I or anyone else can do with my code. When I share my code, I really share it for whatever purpose and to anyone. This is giving the fullest amount of freedom to any and every recipient of my code. Any possible restrictions I would place on them could only make it less free.

I understand that it's not fine with RMS and the FSF. And that's ok, because that's their point of view and plenty of other people feel the same way, and there should be a license for such people to use.

I understand that my views are not in line with the founding concerns of the FSF. But I never claimed they were. This is the very problem. The FSF has confused a generation of hackers into thinking that Freedom is the FSF and that the FSF is Freedom. They're not different kinds of freedom. The FSF promotes guaranteeing certain rights of anyone using software, where BSD is about freedom. You can believe in what the FSF is trying to do, and you can use the GPL to help get there! That's ok. It just bugs me about the "free" thing because it's not so true as the FSF would like you to think.
On a related note, there is National Cryptologic Museum at the NSA:
http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum/
When even VCs bat .200 and the best ones .300, how is Joe Public going to pick startups? This is contrary to my own free market views to some extent, but just because we allow Joe Public to dabble in other financial products that maybe deleterious to him doesn't mean we should allow him to invest in the next startup. For every good startup idea and team out there, there are plenty of bad which are more the rule than the exception.
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Looks like UTF-8 interpreted as Windows-1252 then converted to UTF-8. And looks like it is happening in quotations of blog comments.
How about login information to your email account(s)? Do you think they should be able to ask for that and refuse to hire if you refuse to capitulate? After all, your correspondence will give them lots of useful character information about you that would be useful for an employer.

How about your online banking login information?

Where do you draw the line? Is there any aspect of your private life that they should not be able to ask about and refuse to hire if you do not provide access?
Email. A posterous account to plan/log the journey (at least for now -- not sure if I will move it later). Hacker News of course. In other words: My expectation is that I will use a lot of the same stuff I use currently. But then I hadn't given a lot of thought to apps/socializing online. I am more focused on other questions, like how to support myself financially and how to address logistics (especially given special dietary and medical needs).

It's a shame there aren't more replies to this. I'm sort of weirded out to see the question, given my recent decision to do just that. :-/
The developer license agreement states this very clearly. Apple does not publish this agreement, but you can get yourself a copy easily.

Versions of it have been published on the web from time to time, e.g. By the EFF:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-progr...

The text in question is: Apple may change the Program Requirements or the terms of this Agreement at any time. New or modified Program Requirements will not retroactively apply to Applications already in distribution. In order to continue using the Apple Software or any services, You must accept and agree to the new Program Requirements and/or new terms of this Agreement. If You do not agree to new Program Requirements or new terms, Your use of the Apple Software and any services will be suspended or terminated by Apple. You agree that Your acceptance of such new Agreement terms or Program Requirements may be signified electronically, including without limitation, by Your checking a box or clicking on an "agree" or similar button. Nothing in this Section shall affect Apple's rights under Section 8 below.
He is perhaps trying to avoid aggressive recruiters.
I never really got this line of thought. "I want my users to have all these freedoms, and then the freedom to deny all these freedoms to their users of this same base." It always sounded like "I want these people to have the power of voting, and then have the power to restrict others from voting."

Anyway, I went from GPL to BSD/MIT back to GPL (for "large" projects; small projects are public domain or MIT). I'd rather chain people with freedom while we have the copyright laws to do it than hope people will respect the freedoms I want others to have.
Clickable: http://www.sparkmuse.com/invitation/Hacker-News
The notion that company failures are "mourned" by founders is what prompts head-explodey threads about what "fair" is for founder equity comp.

Interesting. I believe I have observed this very correlation.

(And, considering that I went away for a few hours and returned to find this thread haunted by the ghosts of metaphorical dead children, perhaps I should not have used the word "mourning". Obviously the overtones are too grim. Perhaps "brooding"?)

I agree that such brooding is not rational, and that it is not a good idea; perhaps I could even be persuaded that it's pathological. I'm not yet quite convinced that it's fictional, though. Maybe it really is. I've never been a founder myself, nor especially close friends with one, and all you can really know of other people is what you see from the outside.
Hey isqster,

I'm Jorge and I work as a software engineer at Foursquare. I'm sorry to hear that you're frustrated at our hackathon. Certainly some people are chatting and socializing, but that's only natural when you put a lot of people in the same room. From what I can tell though, the vast majority of people are actually building something today.

Some people have brought projects that they started before today, but I think that's not necessarily a bad thing. The hackathon wasn't meant as a sprint to see who can churn out the most code in a day, but rather a gathering of developers who are excited about the Foursquare API and what can be built on it. We want people to share ideas about what they're building and what's possible to build on top of our API, and yes, also to encourage people to build new stuff. (That said, not everyone has brought prior work to the hackathon! I know at least one team that has built several apps on top of our API in the past, and they've started a genuinely new project from scratch for the hackathon.)

If you feel the main room is too noisy, there's lots of side rooms at General Assembly which are a little quieter. You'll see teams in the side rooms making generous use of the white boards to design their app and plan out the necessary work for building it.

Again, I'm sorry you're feeling frustrated. If you have any suggestions on how we can make future hackathons more conducive to coding, feel free to ping me in meatspace. (I'm sitting against the big white wall by the water cooler. My name tag says "Jorge".)
Right. That's what Schmidt is referring to when he says Google wants to do "search for you".

Assuming Google makes privacy controls more visible and there's someone to keep them in check, I frankly believe that this is a better model than what we currently have today. Many of the ad companies are way more evil (think spyware) and way more ineffective. In their mind, they can't be transparent. But that's because they want to take shortcuts and track your every click surreptitiously without really wanting to add any value to you directly (that is they don't have as big a stake in getting it right), the user, and only to turn around and sell this data to others and make a quick profit. That model is broken from the beginning and I'd rather not continue down this path.

So if Google, Facebook or anyone can give me more controls, more transparency, then that to me is a more compelling model and I'll gladly share more relevant information with them because I know that they'll turn around and offer me better search results, better ads, better book recommendations... whatever. If they don't someone else will, but at least with Chrome OS, you have the option--don't buy a machine with it.
Send a message to my github account when we do the next foursquare hackathon and I'll do my best to get you in (https://github.com/tjulien). We maxed out the number of attendees based on how many people the space could hold. There was no criteria of having used our api before.
Nope, I signed up and didn't receive one.
I notice this happening a lot in our area as well. When we host hackathons we try to have a topic to focus on as well as project ideas and open source projects ready to work on.

I think opening a public git hub repo with what you want to work on then having people pull that down can start some great coding sessions.
I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp
Will do. It was more packed than last week?
Ask HN: Where can I find hungry developers who will get in bed with a startup?
I'm 24, have a business background, and a software-intensive business (that requires enterprise selling -> my role).

Where can I find young, passionate, developers who are willing to trust me as a non-technical person? I understand software architecture, produce wireframing and workflows, but all of the people that I know / have met in Minnesota either:

1. Want to moonlight 20 hrs a week (not available during the day, not committed long term, in it for the money) or

2. Suggest that I contract with a software development firm ($, lack long-term relationship).

How/Where can I find developers who want to get in bed with me?

(personally, we've received seed funding but I don't want a partner to work just for money).
I work 10 to 6 in an office, and i do the same, wandering on Hacker News, /r/programming or /r/gamedev, arstechnica, Twitter, to too much but just enough. I find that trying to hard to concentrate just leads to bad stuff, so whenever i can't concentrate or get a grasp on a problem, i just go "meh whatever, what's new on Hacker News?", read one article or two, get back to whatever i was doing.

I'm a problem solver, i'm recognized to be one, and i don't know much people who have a problem with me wandering on the internet here and there. And if it's not internet, i take a quick smoke break, helps most of the time, specially in the winter when it's -20 outside (Montreal, gotta love it :p ), slap you right in the face.
Probably - but I think that was itself symptomatic of the fact that they Didn't Get the Internet.

I wanted to affiliate with them, back when - I always preferred them to B&N and Amazon was still nearly unknown - but couldn't. I didn't expect it to bring down their bricks and mortar stores, but I'm not surprised.
The story of how consciousness’ magic fades away
Are strong hallucinations possible? Not quite, but what does this have to do with understanding consciousness? The fact that there has been a small number of reported strong hypnogogic hallucinations should tell us a lot about the difficulty the brain should encounter in order to achieve this fiendish act
As of Office 2010 the Ribbon has improved a lot more. It's still annoying, but it has really grown on me over the past few years. Another nice feature of 2010 is the addition of formatting options to the context menu, so you can easily change basic text and image formatting by right-clicking them instead of flipping through the Ribbon.
I stand by the reality of my statement.

Here is data on production: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GDP http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO

Here is employment: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/PAYEMS

See the disconnect?

Lets focus specifically on Durable Goods, since we have a decent measure of their demand (not just their production). The recovery here is incomplete, but it's we are about halfway from trough to peak.

Durable goods demand: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DGORDER

Durable goods production: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IPDCONGD

Durable goods employment: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DMANEMP

It doesn't surprise me that what I'm saying conflicts with your model of the world. It conflicts with my old model, and nukes my favorite possible solution (tax cuts) as well. But the data is the data, and all we can do is try to build new models which fit it.

The economy has changed, and our old models don't work very well anymore. We need new models.
Hey, I actually took a train from long island to the city this morning expecting to take a tour of 'general assembly', (where this hackathon was hosted)..But I didnt get past the elevator because of the hackathon! I wish I had known because I would have love to have been there coding with u iqster! Anyway, I plan on becoming a communal member there next month after they review the thousands of applications they have recieved.. iqster, did you get a chance to talk to any of the founders of general assembly there or anyone that is a member?? I talked to Matt Brimer for 5 mins next to the elevator, he couldn't sit down and talk with me because of the hackathon! I was planning on taking a tour and joining today but BLEHH! Do you have aim or skype iqster?
If you simply enjoy having a large organization fix a lot of your design choices ahead of time, that's perfectly fine. You've got a lot of company. But don't pretend that everyone else lives in an ideal world because they are willing to take on more of the developer and design responsibilities than you are comfortable with.
I'm glad you guys weren't disqualified, but I'm lol'ing at the irony of PayPal judges presuming guilt and asking you to prove your innocence. Good to know that they carry that policy everywhere.
The code sprints and hackathons we have in the Drupal community in Los Angeles are highly focused on a specific task or event with an actual deadline, so everyone is expected to participate. There's always something for non-developers to do, from user testing and content editing to being in charge of food or music.
I consider killing pigs and cows for food, when there are good alternative sources of food available that require no cruelty, immoral. But, I do not seek to impose my morality on others by force of law.

He has, to my knowledge, never suggested there should be a law against producing non-free software. I have certainly never made such a suggestion in this thread.
Hi, I'm a sledgehammer. Your head looks attractive.
Perhaps you've already seen this:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/can-you-really-build-a-grea...

I am currently investigating two cities away from my home in San Francisco.
I guess it depends on your definition of "doom". You can start a company anywhere. The "tech hubs" are just places where it has better odds of going big (very, very big).

Why are you considering moving? What are you looking for, either personally or professionally, in a new location? You might get better feedback if folks had a little more to go on.
Production has recovered, as have profits. Goods are being produced, services being performed, and consumers are buying.

See my response to davidmathers for links to specific timeseries.
Prediction is hard.
Even more so if it is about the future.
Anybody who's into Clojure and missed this Hack Night, really missed out. We had a contingent of guys from Relevance show up, featuring one of the Clojure Core committers and the author of one of the popular Clojure books. It kinda turned into "Clojure Hack Night" but that's fine... It was a good time and definitely a great chance to learn from some really sharp dudes.
Stay as close as you can... the hampton inn is good. AirB&B or Home Away could also be good. Unless it's raining the weather will be nice so be prepared to hoof it to save a few dollars :)

Bring an iPhone charger!
{
"name":"Product",
"properties":{
"id":{
"type":"number",
"description":"Product identifier",
"required":true
},
...

Though the json representation of json-schema is nicer than XML, I think this approach to a schema language is just as bad as XML Schema. It even looks like they're trying to replicate the features of XS. Which might make sense from an adoption point of view, but ...

There isn't that much difference between hierarchical data formats.
Even here, some people favour s-exps or YAML over JSON. So once one gets established it's difficult to dislodge due to standardization, network effects, tools, user familiarity etc. However, it can change when there is a new platform, which starts fresh with a different format.

JSON already owns browser communication (though note the pesky X in AJAX...), since browsers already use JavaScript, but it seems unlikely to usurp XML much further (exception: JS becomes prevalent on the server-side).
Were you at the NYTimes Open Hackday? My teammate and I flew in from Michigan (to be fair, I'm originally from the Tri-State area) to participate, and we damn well weren't just there for networking. That having been said, the networking is incredible. I participated in a Yahoo! Hack U event up here in the great white north, and landed a job this summer out of it (and an offer from Yahoo, which I wound up turning down); the offers that a little bit of networking at the NYTimes one turned up were incredible as well.

Honestly, it's all about balance. My teammate and I spent 99% of the time at these two events coding. We walked in with absolutely no code pre-written, and emerged from both events with a fully-functional application, the synthesis of which we plan to put into full production in the near future. However, the one or two hours of networking that we engaged in, be it during "hacking time" or not, were extremely valuable (and, arguably, helped shape part of our final applications).

Just my two cents.
I actually feel like your event (NYTimes Hackday in December) was pretty good along those lines; I didn't get the feeling that any of the applications had a significant amount of pre-writing code-wise.
Did you ever attend an OpenBSD hackathon? I'm just curious.