skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will say that I find the "rejection therapy" crap nauseating. How on earth does making strangers feel uncomfortable and/or obligated to give you something or interact with you self improvement? It's not like it actually develops any of the skills required for rejection heavy jobs like cold calling -- the point of cold calling is not to get rejected a lot, it's to get rejected less than average for that particular call.

If you want to work on those types of skills, volunteer for a phone drive or something. You can get plenty of rejection while actually contributing something to some worthy cause.
Perseverance. I you hold to your vision long enough you may have some nice surprises along the way, like competitors giving up or pivoting.

It happened to me recently when wetpaint decided to pivot out of the market for simple wikis (under the "pressure" of impatient VCs maybe...).
Next time they do a test they should include "git". Let's see what happens.
No Objective-C love for the iPhone/iPad crowd?
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Assuming that by "HFT", you actually mean all sorts of algorithmic trading, we are worse off because we have humans doing the work of a computer. If all computerized trading were slowed down by a constant factor of 1000, the world would never notice and HFTs wouldn't care.

I agree with you on wasting talent winning a race rather than creating new value: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093334

But I don't agree with you that the majority of the finance industry falls into that category. Most trading is not a race. HFT is not representative of the financial sector. The entire HFT sector is only about $20B, which is a little more than double Goldman's profits last year.
Remember farscape man?
That show rocked, even after it was brought back from the dead.
No 500-800$ tablet will replace a 3000$ laptop
> an hacker

Urge to kill... rising...
You shouldn't play with food but this is a great gift for a 6 year old and really shows how far you can go in DIY.
If you dig enough in the medicare automated billing system documentation, you can find prices for particular codes. At least what medicare is willing to pay.

I hope I never have to use this information, but it's out there.
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RTFA.

"We looked at how polarizing each movie is by measuring the standard deviation of the ratings for each movie."

That's pretty clear, even if it's still a bad measure. There are plenty of valid criticisms of this survey; you don't need to make stuff up based on skimming it before you post your predetermined conclusions.
That's a difficult question. To solve it I "crowd sourced it", i.e. I have a UserVoice feedback buttons with 2 ideas: 1/Stay in Alpha 2/Go Beta. So far... I need to stay in Alpha... :(
This is a badass game-changer.
FeeFighters launched an updated calculator with Square's new pricing...
Check it out to see what makes sense at different price points http://feefighters.com/square-calculator
This may be a dumb question, as I'm not very familiar with how these things work. Why do they charge less when the transaction is a physical swipe 2.75% vs 3.5% + 15¢ if you enter numbers manually? Does it actually cost Square less when you swipe? If not, what is the idea behind this encouragement of physical swipe?
Does it actually cost Square less when you swipe?

Yes. Credit card processors charge a lower fee if you can say that you got the number from swiping a card, rather than manually entering it in.
Proportionate risk.

If you have the card physically in hand then there is less risk that the transaction is fraudulent (for a start, the card holder is presumably present)
Huge Moki.TV fan (http://moki.tv/2481). But also a huge movie fan. I entirely disagree.

Think about this years movies:

The Social Network

The Kings Speech

Inception

Black Swan

True Grit

Will all almost certainly become classics.
I thought I wasn't the only one who used this.

I actually wrote the facebook hacker's cup entirely with jsfiddle -- until I got fed-up with the content being so poorly run.
If you look at a variety of fields, you see that people within certain age groups tend to do better. Most productive ages for: Gymnasts: teens, Mathematicians: teens to late-20s, Physicists: early 20s-early 30s, Biologists: late 30s-40s, Literary authors: 40s to 60s.

I prefer a binary distillation:

"Physical" - best from 18 to 40, peaking around 30 (with some exceptions)

"Mental" - best from 13 to 90, peaking almost anytime.

Almost every field is a combination, but I consider programming and business more "mental" than "physical". So as long as you take care of yourself, there's no reason why anyone's best work can't be ahead of them.

I'd be very surprised to find the best basketball player peaking at 40, but not surprised at all to find a programmer who did the same thing.
When I spent more time writing songs, I would go through a similar emotional and mental strain but in smaller iterations. There would be periods in which no matter what chord progression or melody I came up with, it always seemed to sound like a song that someone else had already written. When this happened I would discard the song in frustration, even if it had great potential.

In time I figured out that some of my favorite songs had the same chord progressions, structure and melody as each other but they still did not sound the same. Why not?

Every artist has a vision and a song written by someone else should have no impact on that vision. My problem was that I was too worried on being original instead of being focused on having a vision.

Just as music has been passed from generation to generation so are ideas. Many ideas seem to owe to some other idea. Don't worry about being the first. Worry about being the best.
I'm inclined to think the 70s was the golden age of American cinema (Scorcese, Copolla, Cassavetes, etc).
Very interesting! What's the status of this project? how does it compare with what the OP posted here? Can you attach a persistent video as well to guide users?
Yes, I'm aware of that. I've been using mod_wsgi since modpython was the recommended way for deploying with Django. The problem is that when you're running a high number of Django instances (via a large number of daemons) you can get all sorts of problems with Apache itself. Some of these issues have been due to mod_wsgi, and Graham has, in my past experiences, been very responsive about fixes. Other issues are simply due to Apache, and when you're running multiple instances in a memory-restricted environment you're left with a tough configuration job. I've even had a case where thread contention in a low-memory setup caused a complete Apache lock-up.

So, as you can see, for the normal case the recommended setup is fine, but for extreme cases you should use the combination with caution.

YMMV, of course, but if you're pushing your setup to the limit and don't have any options for extra servers, I would heartily recommend uwsgi+nginx or fcgi+lighttpd instead.
Yes it does cost them a lot less. The biggest expense Square faces is the interchange rate that it must pay to Visa/MC and they are much lower for swiped transactions.
Then it's wrong in a very unfortunate Founding Fathers way also. Because the Declaration of Independence states that we DO have inalienable rights and they ARE natural laws (i.e., endowed by our creator, which is a religious way of saying natural law).
Interchange (set by Visa/Mastercard) is different if swiped. The reason is simple - much lower chance of fraud if swiped (much easier to steal numbers without someone knowing than stealing the physical card)
You could say that. You could also say that their IM client is for their convenience, not yours.
http://gizmodo.com/#!5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns

In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.

also

Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland are among the 12 states in which all parties must consent for a recording to be legal unless, as with TV news crews, it is obvious to all that recording is underway.

Edit: to my knowledge, these are based on outdated wiretapping laws intended for telephone conversations.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2251613
Personally, I wouldn't hire an engineer who wasn't preaching about products. I've seen too many companies tank (or nearly tank) as a result of technology-focused engineers. You aren't taking up my head-count for the sake of learning about new technologies and cool ways to code. You are on my team because you share the vision of making users' lives better, and that is done through the product offering.
Simon, would love to hear more about replicated solr. Did you roll this yourself?
While it's fun to mock PHP for the uninitiated, it's actually probably something a bit more mundane.

Those working on pubic GitHub projects are probably doing so willingly. After all, if you hate PHP and are forced to use it at your day job, do you really want to go home and commit to PHP projects? Probably not.

So, what you're seeing are people not merely resigned, but who enjoy working in PHP, for all it's warts. They aren't just resigned.
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Politics is generally very much more important than "hacker news" material. I mean, invading Iraq vs some fancy new Emacs extension? Health care vs how to market something to geeks? There's not even a contest. Which is precisely why politics will tend to dominate other subjects if it's allowed to fester on a site like this, and why it should be given the 'root and branch' treatment by the moderators.
Hey Matt! I'm the guy behind HackerBooks - I certainly can relate, because I felt the same way more than once (for hackerbooks, earlier on for learnivore, and for other sites as well).

But here's the trick: there's really room for more than one app on each topic.

Take the "time tracking" topic for instance: search how many profitable business work around that topic. You'll be amazed!

I can only encourage you to release your app, which I will definitely use!
Honestly, the best thing to do is own a US based VPS (esp a lowendbox - google it) and proxy your connection when abroad.

It's worth proxying your connection securely via SSH/OpenVPN when you are on open wifi anyway.

A cheap $5/month VPS is something every hacker should have in their toolkit.
We are not limiting ourselves to a specific semantic meaning of support. In a sense you are supporting your friend or he you.
If you take a risk and co-found your own startup with 0 years of experience, then even if you tank 2 years later, you are likely to wind up close to the 5 years of experience point of the hockey stick when applying for a job.

That's probably closer to the conventional wisdom around HN, but it is a far cry from conventional wisdom amongst the masses. The wisdom amongst the masses is that if you co-found or join a startup, you are playing roulette with your financial security.

But the article's point -- which I agree with -- is that even if you accelerate this process of getting to that 5 year threshold, you are doing yourself a disservice fiscally by settling in at the plateau unless you have a good reason forcing you into settling.

You're likely still learning more, and becoming more valuable, but it becomes much more difficult to extract that value through salary. So, it becomes beneficial to join companies where that only makes up a part of the total compensation package.
I really like the idea of Square, but...

One of the blockers to launching my side-startup is the financial investment required to form the business and setup a merchant account. Money is tight for me, and I'd like to keep my costs to a minimum until there is some positive cashflow.

If Square offered an API, I could launch and start accepting money now, holding off on the business formation beyond sole-proprietorship until paying customers have validated my idea. Hell, they can keep the extra $0.15 for that.

So what's stopping Square from doing that? Could they build that out, or are they blocked by, e.g., regulations? (I know nothing about operating a payment gateway)
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One inconvenience that often occurs with ambitious employees is that your skills grow faster than your employer's needs.

And if that employer isn't huge, there's not necessarily an open slot that demands your new skill level.
The author said he ripped the same number of commits from each language, so it's naturally normalized.

The number of different projects ripped, on the other hand, could help skew the results of the unpopular languages.
Numbers of committers sampled per language might be helpful in identifying potential bias.
By better I meant a retina display level resolution ideally behind gorilla glass. As I'd said, the iPad display is great, but the market expects more now.
Here's the output/visualization of the tutorial: http://smooth-ice-321.heroku.com/

(better performance in chrome/safari/webkit)
How a typical person thinks: "Lots of people are already doing that. I give up. They've taken all the money there is and ever will be for this product/service!"

How a typical business person thinks: "If I can take 1% of each of my 5 competitors' market share, I can make $x millions. Better head over to EDGAR and read some 10-K reports."

How uber-startups like Google and Facebook think: "If I can take the majority of all of my competitors market share through superior marketing and technology, and increase the size of the market at the same time, then we're worth $XX billions."

Notice how you don't have to invent anything completely new, just innovate on existing stuff that's proven to make money.
Not grandparent, but will try to answer anyway. I do mostly scientific software development and analytics for a bioinformatics lab. Being able to carry around all the academic papers I need with me at all time, together with supplementary material and online manuals in PDF form, is tremendous for me. What's even better, I can highlight and make notes right in those PDFs with GoodReader. Unlike most other eReaders, iPad has a color screen, and in my field (computational biology and genetics) this is crucial as nearly every paper published in the big three (Nature/Science/Cell) has complex color diagrams in it.

I have been using Penultimate (notebook-like app where you can scribble with a stylus) to lay out nearly all of my ideas. Because I develop algorithms as well, only being able to type (as on a laptop) is not good enough for me. I need to be able to jolt down diagrams/drawings with a pen/stylus all the time. I can immediately email any of my notes/diagrams (or the entire notebook) as a PDF file to collaborators that I have in my Contacts list in the Mail app. I don't have to carry around several unwieldy notebooks in my bag anymore. The only things I carry in my messenger bag now are: MacBook, iPad, vacuum flask with hot coffee (if the workstations at work were Macs, I wouldn't even have to carry the MacBook). No more paper!

The iPad has VPN and an SSH app, so away from work I can login and view how my clusters are doing.
Or maybe they don't curse as much?
I got out of a speeding ticket in 2004 because the officer had allowed his radar certification training to lapse in 1982. The guy before me in court also got his case dropped when the judge found out the officer hadn't been radar certified.

This guy's GPS data was a novelty. No more a deciding factor in the judgment than his choice to wear business attire.
Off topic:

I've always thought that the top talent in India either:

a) left to a G8 type country

or

b) worked at an Indian start-up, that will in times to come, be better placed to understand hyper-scaling than those working soley in the US market.

So why not b? :-P
Ah.. okay now it makes sense. I knew it was kind of a dumb question. Thanks all.
You have just provided me something super valuable. Thank you. I knew I needed a landing page, but I was thinking about just finishing things up and not doing a landing page. Based on the feedback I've received here, I think I will do the following:

1. Create a landing page that highlights the main features - including the killer feature - and see what happens with feedback. This will allow me to really focus on my message as well; and make sure it's clear and concise.

2. Will reach out to a small group of people here on HN and get it in their hands for some feedback - w/o the main feature, but enough functionality that they can gauge interest and start providing feedback and/or features.

The splash page should definitely validate the feature -- and it totally makes sense to get that validation before I implement it. I'm pretty confident, but it's based on my own observations and needs - and something that's been biting at me for a while. I'm very excited!!!
> What about tuples, lambda functions, generator objects?” No, shut up. People don’t use that crap.

I use those every day.
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Seems like they did pretty well, especially when you consider that they only released with one carrier and there are large barriers to users jumping carriers that are totally unrelated to the quality of the iPhone.

With iPad, there's no such issue. Essentially nobody is trapped in a long-term contract they'd have to break if they buy an iPad.
Does anyone have a link to actual release notes from SP1? I followed about 10 links, downloaded a *.doc that the microsoft site led me to believe had release notes, which actually only contained links back to the page I downloaded the doc from.

Helpful site design.
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this court may not have any lower courts, in which case you'd be right - albeit for the wrong reason.

Actually, that was precisely what I was saying. It's obvious to me that a local traffic court has no lower courts below it.

In addition, to be a precedent, the decision needs to be published (as I understand it, but IANAL). When you think about it, this must be true: no court can follow a precedent that cannot be discovered.
Totally agree, I love my iPad, yes the first version didn't have a camera and would've been cool with the retina display but come on, there isn't one Android tablet out there that does as good a job for the price.

It's fundamentally changed the way I do things too, I no longer buy a daily paper, i just grab my Times subscription every morning, read books on it and stream shows/films via Air Video Server and a host of other fun stuff.

Find me an Android tablet that can compare and I'll consider that.
So I don't see what you're adding. You guarantee that people I know can get through, which I already do with whitelists, and you require content based filtering on the rest, which I already do.

So I don't really understand how what you're proposing makes a difference.
HackerBooks will definitely be my last "scratch your own itch" project for a long time.

New projects will be products targeting businesses.
Compare Square's New Pricing to a Merchant Account
My favorite:

- fuck it. let's release
Don't you feel this might be kind of a cognitive bias? Like when people poll for the best album of all time and it's always something that was released within the last 3 years of whenever the poll was.

The social network is of it's time and will date really badly, to the point where no one will watch or mention it ever again.

True Grit is a remake so specifically cannot be included as it had to be good enough to have been remade.

Inception isn't ever going to be a classic a la The Matrix.

The Kings Speech will definitely have longevity; Black Swan I'm not convinced will float above just being another film you can pick up for £3 in HMV in a couple of months but then think "well, will I ever watch it?"
Hi Thibaut, thanks for the kind words and the email. Hopefully some friendly competition can help us both improve :)
Thanks for the clarification. So the video files are directly hosted by the CDNs? OK, in that case, Amazon can't get insight into Netflix by gathering network statistics.
Google? The Page Rank algorithm is basically Linear Algebra.

ButI think you're asking the wrong question. You're doing the equivalent of a 14-year-old saying "When am I ever going to need this?" Sometimes the benefits are much more nebulous and intangible - they affect the way you think, and the way you approach problems.

Most programming doesn't use advanced math, but advanced math helps you do the programming.

(Note - all the above personal opinion, and I don't have specific studies and citations to back it up)
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That's rendered irrelevant by the author using a sample with the same number of commits in each language.

Although I think it's fair to say the proportion of beginners and casual projects using source control and Github is probably lower for PHP than, say, Ruby.
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> Yeah it's oddly disturbing. My thoughts are that they just don't care that much about life anymore to swear in their commits?

Or maybe we're all just mature enough to realise swearing in comments is stupid, and trying to read anything from it is equally stupid?
Required related reading: http://kalv.in/how-borderline-douchebaggery-helps-you-land-a...
Hmm, what's the % of PHP code on github?
I just did the same and somehow ended up back at the page linked to in this submission...

edit: okay, just got to the same document you did. Apparently microsoft considers 'release notes' to be 'notes about the process of releasing' which that document will have when there are any, rather than notes about the release itself, aka the Service Pack. There is another file on that link called 'Notable Changes in Windows 7 SP1' or something similar, which basically boils down the changes to: HDMI audio improvements, fix to XPS documents, and a change in the way 'restore previous folders at logon' works...
[Note: I personally prefer round prices but...]

There's nothing confusing or deceptive about this practice. The price is right there. Why would someone interpret something clearly advertised as $0.99 instead as costing $0.90? The reason merchants do this is because of different emotional reactions and buying behavior.

Whether or not it's effective for what you're selling or the type of people you're selling to is another question but it's a legitimate practice as far as I'm concerned.
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What's New in SP1: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickmac/archive/2011/02/11/what-s-ne...

See "Changes specific to Windows 7" section in "Notable Changes in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.doc": http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...
You can go to 'about' or 'status' and it will read out the firmware versions... something like 'Windows CE 3.5132'
Of course this happens when I buy my parents an iPad for Christmas.
If you had a Windows tablet PC you could do all of that on a single device. :-)
"24fps has less frames and invites your brain to be a more active participant in the presenting of persistence of motion. 30fps requires less participation. It feels a little more like real life and less artful. "

"So, the drama and emotion of a film or film speed scene with this 120hz smoothing is diminished. Our brains are less active and less participating. Aesthetically, we’re looking at a new process for making FILM look much more like VIDEO now. It really changes the emotion of experience… and it does it so loudly…"

Smooth motion rendering diminishes the drama and emotion of a film? Really?
I've never heard of perpendicular mass, I tried googling for that and nothing came up.

Rest mass is invariant, but the real mass, i.e. the one that makes it harder to accelerate, and that gives inertia, is not.
5 clicks after hitting the 'release notes portal' you can find:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...
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