skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the off-topic stuff. It's groupthink. The needle on that has been buried for months now.

I'll give you a telling example: the insane series of threads where, in essence, an angry mob chased a comp-sci grad student around for nominating Wikipedia articles for deletion. "Here's the main offender!" "You're a drain on Wikipedia, a negative source of knowledge!" "You're an idiot!". An Internet-famous guy chimes in with a comment calling him "a gigantic Nazi asshole" (fun fact: this is after the guy took the time to sign up to talk to HN commenters).

Then HN dutifully mods up a blog post by the same guy that calls the guy out by name for "deciding he's the sole decider of the notability of programming languages". Nice.

Then a triumphal thread on a post about how the guy has stopped nominating articles for deletion on Wikipedia. The system works!

Why do I like this example? No politics. Still bad.

You can see the groupthink everywhere on the site, from the comment on any Amazon post that gets reflexively modded up for pointing out that Amazon removed Wikipedia content, or how Sony once installed a rootkit, or how IP laws are bad for America (I especially liked watching people downmod 'grellas trying to provide context and upmodding someone who, presumably, was not a startup lawyer).
Goodbye to academic research
>Real businesses take time to build.

Word. But, time/money constraints can be a great motivator.
You're trying to get a green card? Do you realize that once you get it you're going to be responsible for filing tax returns as long as you have it, no matter where you actually live and work?
Why GIMP 2.8 is not released yet
I have been using XML Starlet (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/) for many years in combination with Unix Shell. It is a very nice command line tool allowing to extract data from XML documents (using XPath expressions), to edit XML documents and even to convert XML to PYX format. The only problem it has so far is with big XML files as it loads them in the memory. But there is work going on to allow extract data without loading whole XML file in RAM.
I have a theory that “welfare” and “charity” for the poor, at least as practiced in the US, is frequently an exchange: impoverished people abase themselves in front of a representative of the government or some charitable organization, and they get benefits in exchange for portraying themselves as suitable members of The Deserving Poor. A program that merely gave money to people who don’t have any money, even if it was more efficient (because of lower overhead), would be politically unsustainable.

A local paper here just ran an article¹ about how a state rep was indignant because, out of about $50 million the state gave out in welfare-benefit debit cards last year, about $200,000 was spent on “non-essentials” (principally, at liquor stores²). $827 at Victoria’s Secret outlets! $664 at pet supply stores! For shame!

¹ http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=...

² I don’t know if these guardians of the public purse confirmed that this money was spent on liquor and not on, say, chips and peanuts.
Does the tech world live in an isolated bubbled insulated from the rest of society?
I find this semi-humorous and quite expected for him to say this. I've dealt with their support on a few occasions; it's like pulling teeth to get them to respond.
Reddit also has a discussion going: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fnorp/against_t...
then they'll reap what they sow as the big startups leave for palo alto
On several occasions I've had expensive gear disappear from my carry-on during security checks and last year a TSA agent dropped my Canon 1D Mk3, smashing both the lens and the camera body. No apology, but more importantly: I was never compensated.

That can’t be, can it? Property damage is property damage. Shouldn’t the TSA have insurance anyway? Is he stretching the truth?
also down here
Thanks to this article, I now know that it is a gigantic pain to travel internationally with the US, that TSA agents are not good at their jobs, and that people get harassed for taking pictures sometimes. That's good because by trying very hard to express my frustration about these topics eloquently I am solving those problems. The Internet changes everything! Just ask Egypt.
If a configuration language is Turing-incomplete, configuration files written in it can be validated “offline”, ie. without executing the program it configures

This is exactly what I've been advocating recently. Less power is good, if it means you can validate your config files without first solving the halting problem.
Response from Sennheiser about the 555 mod
"Dear St3fan,

The HD 595 is a high-end, open, dynamic stereo headphone with outstanding sound characteristics and excellent wearing comfort. It features Sennheisers innovative E.A.R technology creating a new kind of acoustic experience. Also included is a nifty headphone holder with leatherette nesting bow - the perfect home for your HD 595. If you are seeking a new level of audiophile listening, prepare to be totally amazed by the HD 595 , The HD 555 are using the same driver them HD 595 but headband housing is not the same quality the plastic material will not last the same them HD 595,in conclusion the HD 595 made specifics high end use , who want a better sound quality and a better material quality ."
A new spot market makes cloud computing a commodity
Yes why should tech people be deprived of my cat pictures? My cat is delicious!
This is where it gets confusing in Canada, and people get bitten.
It DOES work this way in Canada, - when you exercise an employee stock option and convert it to stock, you have an immediate tax obligation based on the difference between your option value and the current market value (specified somehow, I forget). That is considered income, and you are liable for it. If it's going to be considered income, then the employer SHOULD pay the witholding tax just as with regular income, because we're taxed as if it's regular income. I wish employers had done this - mine chose not to (they weren't required to) - and the burden was on me to know that it would be considered income nad I had to pay it. (So yes, that means when I exercised it I sold it all at the same moment, put half away in savings for tax time, and did whatever with the rest.)
Libertarians always seem to assume that if people didn't have to fear starving to death, naked on the street, they wouldn't go to work any more; and that curtailing to any degree the ability of the wealthiest to add to their wealth will stop the most productive members of society from wanting to contribute.

Yet today, countries with better social safety nets have stronger economies, and Warren Buffett has consistently argued for higher effective taxes on the ultra-rich.
In my limited experience, painless. I'm Canadian, and I've been to Switzerland twice: first as a tourist, then on a work visa. Both times I entered the Schengen area via Charles de Gaulle, then flew to Geneva or Zurich respectively.

Both times my passport was checked in Paris... just a "what's the purpose of your visit", a look at the passport and visa, and a wave through. In Geneva, there was no border control (just a "go this way if you have anything to declare" or "go this way to the street" fork). In Zurich, there was another border guard; same deal as in Paris.
Americans weren't singled out either. Brazil's policy is the same for all countries: the same hurdles Brazilians have to go through in a given country, citizens of that country will have to go through in Brazil.

EDIT: Would Florida prefer that half a million Brazilians hadn't visited in 2010? It works both ways, you see.
There should be some sort of state law that preempts municipalities from pulling this bullshit

Article 13c of the California state constitution.
No, y'all managed to kill me server >_< I'll try to bring it back from the dead.

EDIT: it's back (or at least, looks like it). The traffic is being drained to a static copy of the page, so don't be surprised if comments you post on that page don't appear.

I'll be back with an actual (cache-based) solution soon, hopefully.
If that's the thinking, I've seen enough of his resume.
Scheme employs tail-recursion optimizations. An unoptimized recursive algorithm would indeed run faster in Scheme.

But I'd be interested in how the port to C actually happened. That is, if he translated the functional aspects of the algorithm, or if he just copied intermediary C code that a Scheme compiler can generate.
Same here. Tried it on IE6 (stop hating me, my company forces it....I use Chrome otherwise)......doesn't seem to be using Flash.
Using Firewall Builder To Configure Cisco ASA & PIX
The conclusion is the most inspiring part of this:

> Real efficiency comes from elegant solutions, not optimized programs. Optimization is always just a few correctness-preserving transformations away
Is my imagination running wild, or did you just say you bought a fake passport in Mexico?
Facebook is not the black box many people think it is. Maybe $60B valuation isn't all that crazy, when you compare it to Google. Facebook has a huge share of internet (7%), about the same as Google. And even though Facebook ads are a colossal failure, most people believe there is revenue there somewhere and we can look to Google for an indication of revenue potential from commanding that many eyeballs.

Google had revenue of $29B in 2010 and market cap $201B.
Big startups don't move to Palo Alto as there is not enough office space. They might move to Brisbane, though.
Nokia giving developers free E7 and Nokia WP7 handsets
Only if you come from one of these countries:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#...

or a few miscellaneous others (Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, etc).
Frankly, I have no idea what it means. Care to elaborate or give me some links? (Thanks!)
That works for insightful oneliners too - just blurt them out and everything will be fine.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/expensive_came...

The article referenced, which I read, had this:

"Then someone has the brilliant suggestion of putting a firearm in your camera-equipment case"

Matt Brandon (the blogger referenced) had the genius move of using a starter pistol rather than a handgun.

However, it is still sad and slightly scary to me that the solution to protecting your property during a flight is to pack it with a weapon or something that looks like weapon.
When did HN jump the shark?
And this will be one big reason why I wont move any of my sites there. I prefer non-www to www.
If a tablet with nothing but a good 10" screen, a web browser and a pdf viewer was be cheap enough, say sub-$100, I'd definitely consider buying it.
I don't want to do that here, but it may come up again. Keep your eyes peeled.
PyCon 2011: Interview with Zed Shaw
A single individual accomplishing these things and utilizing these tools and tactics is not realistic. A movement of many individuals all using the same "brand" could work.
Use Greplin to search all your stuff at Google, Dropbox, Evernote and more
I realise this, I am suggesting they will eventually have to change.

At some point, the weight of millions of edits to itself will have to outweigh a link to another single source.
That - in a nutshell - is the difference between 'finding' and 'growing' staff, and I'm of the opinion that we should be shooting for growing unless there's a damned good reason to take the shortcut of just finding.

It's an easy productivity tweak for your whole operation to just switch how you look at things from the other opinions posted here to this way, IMHO.
I was going to post this as a reply, but several people made the comment that them duplicating what Flash could do, even if done in HTML and JS, wasn't the right path? I can understand the hatred of Flash itself, but why the dislike for these types of sites in general? Not everything needs to be plain text, easily scanable, SEO compatible, clean, simple, etc.

This site is as much about marketing and generating appeal as it is about information. I don't see anything wrong with how it was done. Someone enlighten me please.

Edit: And somewhat off-topic - is it a requirement that production electrics cars have to hideous? Tesla and Chevy (Volt) seem to be the only ones that have made them actually nice to look at.
Have you ever been to Qatar? I'd have to disagree with you there.
I couldn't resist asking: is the article hosted by an OCaml application? ;-)
Wow are "intellectually gratifying" and "sparking a large discussion" ever not always the same thing.
"In places like Brazil your entire trip is at the hands of chance: Most times you get a nice officer, but sometimes not."

In my experience, this exactly sums up travelling to the US.
Band together (e.g. private mailing list) with like-minded people and upvote each other's submissions until the culture has changed.

EDIT: Hey, that's the only reasonable answer to the parent's question so far, as far as I can see. I don't like the idea either, but it's a reasonable idea, downvotes be damned!
I think the basic premis of his article is sound- Having a schedule for releases lets you better plan the elements of the release (migration? config changes?) and makes the release an occasion (everybody knows that day is "release day", that afternoon is QA, you can make sure they know what is included in the release).

For bugs, I can't agree they should always wait a week. Keeping a production branch where the code is in sync with your deployments lets devs quickly patch and roll out bugfixes, comfortable in the knowledge they aren't deploying somebody else's code at the same time. I've make some customers darn happy by fixing a bug that same afternoon, and I couldn't kick that habit.

But for larger feature rollouts or refactorings, I'm a fan of having everybody on the larger team (devs and non-devs) in sync- and that's easiest when there is a regular, predictable schedule.

I'd also argue that having a regular schedule for deploys makes you more likely to ship, you need to ship something Thursday! :-)
A HNer is working on this, actually: http://radiapp.com/
Don't come to America.
USA debt is $200 trillion.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=10626
If the value you have is too high to enable "founders" to buy in, you probably have to issue them options instead. These contracts and accounting get more complicated. Best dig through a couple of the free startup legal kits that have been published on HN from time to time.

Here's one: http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/...

You can search searchyc.com to find others.
> contrary to what was always believed

This is the statement that always comes back to bite biologists. If it's "theoretically possible", biology is probably already doing it somewhere.
Anyone know how they created the scrollbar in the popup dialog boxes? It works in IE6 as well, though doesn't look as pretty as in Chrome/FF.
The columns and rows didn't turn out in the post... I'm not sure how to format those properly. I'll try again here:

A B C

1 1 1

($3 total in this economy)

Now, let's say B buys the music from A:

A B C

2 0 1

($3 total in this economy)

And finally, C buys the music from B:

A B C

3 1 0

($4 total in this economy)

-----

The following economy starts with $9 and ends with $45:

A B C D E F G H I J

0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

3 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1

4 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1

5 4 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 1

6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 1 1

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 1

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

($45 total in this economy)

On the other hand, if everyone goes directly to the source (A) then there is no net increase in the economy, only an increase for A:

The following economy starts with $9 and ends with $9:

A B C D E F G H I J

0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

3 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1

4 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1

5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

($9 total in this economy)

And finally, there is the case of something in between which is most likely the case in a natural sharing setting. Here, the distribution happens in parallel because transactions are made simultaneously between those who do not yet have the digital good, and those who do:

A B C D E F G H I J

0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

3 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0

7 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1

9 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 2

($17 total in this economy)
Ah, thanks. I am embarrassingly un-travelled.
I doubt that text is a difficult problem for the GPU. Aside from the software stack and font format problem, you should be able to render text as vectors and put some antialiasing on it.
I travel alot around the world. America is the only country where I am treated like shit when I go through the airport.

This time they took everything out of my bag. Spent ten minutes reading my diary! I mean what the fuck! Were aggressive, rude.

The system is an utter disgrace to foreigners. I wont be coming back.
Interesting question :P, but no: it's a vanilla 3.0.x Wordpress on a RPS server. The performance issue appears to be the server swapping like mad.
Critical Mass
Sounds good in theory, but the devil is in the details: what's essential, what's aggression, is in the eyes of the beholder. The reality of politics will bring it all back to about what it is now.
Steve Jobs has six weeks to live
Out of a class of about 15 students, only one
person beat me (and only barely), and he wrote significant portions of
his program directly in Assembly Language. The next fastest after me
took nearly twice as long to do the same work.

...A runtime profile of my program revealed
that the majority of time was spent in the C routines "malloc" and
"free."

For all of the beginning programmers and most of the student programmers out there: Yes often a fast JIT VM might actually beat your C or get pretty close! If you ever become a good programmer, then you can do much better than the JIT in key situations.

EDIT: There's a self evaluation method here for aspiring C programmers. Start benchmarking your code against the same thing in LuaJIT. You're not "good" until you know how to routinely beat it by a factor approaching 2. And that's necessary, but not sufficient.
From a monetary perspective, it seems very profitable and whatever makes them happy.

But if I were in their place i'd rather go out and build something and get known for it than be remembered as someone who kept suing a person just because that guy stole an idea of mine , especially when the guy's already paid me 65 mil.
and traffic = mindshare = $$$

My point was that "Github has won against sf" is a rather naive comment.

And as you rightly point out, github and sourceforge aren't really in competing markets anyway - making the original comment even more nonsensical.
"Why I abandoned the free and open Android rebellion" -- a traitor's UX review
Its still just as annoying even though its not done in flash...
Anthony DeRosa: The economics of internships
Only if it's backed up by data, but traffic is increasing to sourceforge, not decreasing.
Spay Day 2011 Online Pet Photo Contest
As cloud grows, IT hiring flatlines
I think since you are a well-known hacker and that a cat and the joy it provides you make your life richer, it would indubitably make our own lives that much better to gaze upon the adorable feline ourselves, not to mention be very much on topic (you're a hacker) and probably intellectually gratifying as well, if you contemplate how the cat as a species has 'hacked' people to care for them!
Rackspace Hosting New Partner Program Revealed
I thought this was going to be another one of those benchmarking articles, but it was really a great exercise in how lateral thinking can produce clean solutions.

The more I hear about the Lisp family of languages, the more I want to give them a try sometime...
… says tabloid.

EDIT:

"An Open Letter to the Apple News Community on Steve Jobs’ Health, Professional Boundaries and Not Being Douchebags"

-- http://forkbombr.net/apple-news-open-letter/
Cheap Content Is King: Why LinkedIn’s IPO Trumps Pandora’s
> Where would Youtube be without Flash?

http://www.youtube.com/html5

> To disregard Flash's place in that history doesn't make any sense.

Nobody is saying that Flash wasn't worthwhile, ever. It's just nice that something that used to be a large part of the web can be taken out of the hands of a company, and returned to us all.

> But these claims that Flash is somehow the bane of the internet is to deny some of the very foundations of how successful the internet has become.

Ehhhh I'd disagree. I certainly agree that until very recently (and not quite yet for everyone), Flash is no longer needed, and that that's a good thing. Flash is a threat to the Internet: it's in the hands of Adobe. The web should be open, and for everyone. But that's precisely _because_ the internet has become so successful. It's far too important to be left under corporate control.
update: I figured i'd see wikipedia for the answer:

A résumé (pronounced /ˈrɛzʊmeɪ/ REZ-oo-may or /rɛzʊˈmeɪ/; French: [ʁezyme]; sometimes spelled resumé or resume)

The IPA guide has a soft e in the first syllable, but still suggests an accented first e. How odd.
There's also Padrino if you want something straddling the middle ground.

http://padrinorb.com/
It can be considered a form of regulation, but Mechanism Design studies the creation of systems that incentivize transparent information sharing.
Right next to the phrase is a "grandfather Gandhi said". Arun is quoting his grandfather.
Someone wrote a flash -> Raphael library a while ago.

Or maybe it was just regular SVG manipulation, I can't find the exact project unfortunately.
Are mobile devices counterproductive?
That manager must have spotted that there's a vocal minority on the interwebs, who will be blown away by one of the versions and drum up interest to their page at a marginal cost of 0 dollars.

I wouldn't have visited Nissan's web page today, or any time soon. But I did, Nissan owes that guy a nice bonus.
I like that example, too. Well stated. My observation was that the whole episode reeked of something you'd expect to play out on reddit, but not the old-school HN.
Yeah, just popped up on google news, not more than a rumor, but I thought to post it nevertheless.

EDIT: And this is a duplicate (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234776)

Any chance of getting a search function into HN?
Wow! An ad...
Well, you can see it but you can't really use it. It's brutally unresponsive and you can't scroll the text popups. Kind of a waste to dodge Flash and ignore the biggest reason to do so.
Software Usability in the Trading Industry
Because you are a stupid nerd. Does this qualify for a valid answer in your book?
> Descarte's insight that geometry could be described by algebra using a coordinate system...

This was a new model which made a large class of insights more tractable to human minds. A theorem-finding computer probably wouldn't come up with the same kind of model(unless we specifically programmed it to), it would come up with models which made further insights more tractable to theorem-finding computers. Already, today, a huge part of the problem with creative computers is interpreting their results for humans.
Tsunami heading to campus
Oh. And the site does not work. Next time you choose a stupid non-web technology to power your WEB site, do it in a way that makes it work. That is kinda important.
Java's Not Dying, It's Mutating
Did anyone else notice how repetitive this was. He basically took an entire page to say, I can blow stuff up, build bridges, am a capable artist/architect. I guess even Da Vinci needed to add some fluff.
The Media’s Role in the Range Fuels Fiasco
Position Essay Writing
A position essay is commonly known as an argumentative essay. This requires the writer to take a position on an issue and write the essay. This also requires the writer to write persuasively in order to make the reader change his mind to the writer’s position.