skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR; 70 pages of repeating the same thing that has been repeated 100 times in the previous 400 pages. That book could have been pamphlet.

After all of that Ayn Rand grows up and gets on Medicare and Social Security.

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_agai...
Torrentfreak is a blog.
I think it’s a vicious cycle.

Most of the people who apply for the jobs are mediocre because the pay sucks, and the pay sucks because the school districts don’t consider their mediocre teachers to be worth more.

(There is also, of course, a minority who teach despite the sucky pay because they actually love doing it. My understanding is that those people would rather have more autonomy in the classroom than more money.)
True enough, I'm not sure why I forget KDevelop. Possibly (and yes, my insides ache when I'm being this superficial, but I can't help it) because it looks ghastly.
If the research was anything like the psychology studies I participated in as a college student, it is a far reach from college students paid to pretend to "interview a job applicant", to conclusions about a professional interviewer.

With nothing else on the line (your reputation, income, self-image), its easy for the warm coffee or comfy chair to dominate your attitude.
Very nice idea! It seems to me, editing and launching code without having to install anything locally can be very handy in some cases.

One question about security: Does it support HTTPS?
Yes you should. The biggest reason being the job market and pay-rate - c# guys are paid more than vb.net guys and have a larger pool of jobs available.

I've been a .net developer for a little over 10 years now, and in my experience VB.net just isn't as prevalent as it use to be. When I search for jobs I typically see one vb.net job for every 4-5 c# jobs. This gap seems to be increasing too.

There is also Mono, which is a nice way to take your c# skills and use them on other platforms.

I think when you really consider everything, C# is a much better language to bet on longterm.
Expanding iPhone’s Market Share
Hey, I like the Mighty Boosh!
HackNY Doubles Enrollment
Former Apple Exec Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, Other Charges
Sold my dipshit company for $5m, where to invest?
Hey, I recently sold my dipshit company for $5m cash and I have spent some money buying real estate only about $400k (an office for myself, for 200 and commercial unit (not rented out yet)) and invested another 500k in stocks/bonds (with my inv broker). I am having a hard time finding good RE brokers who can find other properties for me (they all send me the same MLS listings, no private deals) and my investment broker is only able to provide me with 4-5% return, my own portfolio of 300k is doing better then his and I am new at this. So I am wondering, what practical advice anyone can give me so I can safely invest this money to beat inflation and live off of this for the rest of my life. Should I invest more of it into stocks? Should I buy a strip mall? or a strip club? :P I need practical advice investing, most stocks I have looked into for blue chip companies yield around 3%? and I would not want to put all of my money into stocks to make $150k a year off of $5m, with 1% being inflation and being taxed on that. Any sites/books/ideas let me know, I am thinking of doing a real estate course myself just so I can look at my own listings and invest properly into real estate.

edit: I am hoping the investments can be somewhat passive so I can focus on a new startup. I am in Ontario, Canada.

edit: I am 23, not married, no children :)
Brave new world: Asking hard questions about security, user rights, and trust
39 Euro/month?! As an individual developer I get Rubymine for $69 and can use it as much as I want.
What's up with the per day pricing? Who wants to pay his IDE + workspace on a n per day basis? This is about the strangest pricing I've ever seen.
Draw and fold over
Just jailbreak.. or get an Android. DIY! Don't desperately hope that Apple will do something for you, they are purposely dumbing down their products for the sake of "User Experience".
I've posted a follow up to the original article.

http://blog.riverofnewsapp.com/2011/03/update-how-much-money...
A blog can be a tabloid. The word tabloid might have its origins in the paper size used in the first ones, but the term doesn't have to stay there.
What kind of use cases would make C# far and away the better language choice? When I was doing an internship at a place that was predominantly VB over C# I seemed to be able to convert most things? Does C# make it easier to do anything at a lower level? I remember getting into a bit of trouble with VB when I wanted to do something that would need something like pointers or dynamically named variables.
Hamster (http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/about/).
>..when I want to dress up or wear a mini-skirt or whatever, I feel like I'm standing out a bit too much..

This is my experience too. Whenever I think about wearing something a bit fancy (that would be totally acceptable in another field) I feel a bit self conscious.
It's funny how good female bosses are often described as "tomboyish". I'm starting to think "tomboy" is just a synonym for "assertive but likeable woman"
You misunderstand "joy". Least resistance <> joyful.

A buggy codebase, or one that is difficult to work in, is inherently non-joyful. Thus, removing bugs, cleaning up architectural mis-steps, improving the code for the next iteration, etc., are joyful activities.

This applies in life beyond software development, too...
It's pretty good website.
I think there's a difference between making a living and making a life. I bet, if I was passionate enough about eating pancakes, I could find some way to make a living. That living might be substandard and only provide cheap room and board plus bad nutritional intake from consuming nothing but pancakes. However, I bet I could do it. I could not make a life, e.g. one where I could provide for my family, buy a new car, travel to France, learn to scuba dive, etc, etc.

If you're truly passionate enough about something, you can make a living at it. It just may not be a very good one.
Tell HN: Readability bookmarklet now redirects to readability.com (here's a fix)
I'm a huge fan of the Readability bookmarklet. Unfortunately yesterday it seems they updated it to advertise their new web service, which causes NoScript to complain, and appears to require cookies to save settings, both of which upset my habits.

So I've set up http://old-readability.appspot.com/ with the old site (from http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/ ). This URL isn't going away any time soon.

If you substitute "lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/" with "old-readability.appspot.com" in your bookmarklet URL, things should go back to working as they did.
I use pen and paper for that. One reason is that having to stop and make a written note raises the costs of changing activities, which can help keep me on track. Naturally, this won't help much if you can't remember (or be bothered) to actually do that, but it is an alternative; actually, I found the notebook lying off to the side of my desk to be a decent reminder in itself to make notes.
Bump Founder Talks Rapid Growth, Push Notifications
For me, it's convenience. My phone is laying on the desk, I can just stretch my hand, press the home button and instantly see the overview of situation. Easily distinguishable lines (courtesy of jailbreak and LockInfo) for missed calls, SMSes, emails, calendar events. What's more, unlike the default notifications, I get a little bit more information, allowing me to see that all the mails are from Facebook and can be ignored at the moment.

I don't cary my phone with me everywhere, especially when at home, so checking up on the situation is a common task for me.
I'll share my two cents, being a VB.net developer primarily, and a C# developer. I do .net consulting work in either vb.net or c#, makes no difference. Learning curve from vb.net to c# was nonexistent.

Working with C# is like working with a special needs child. I know that some things can happen automatically but they just don't, and I have to do them manually. This is not a language issue, but Visual Studio issue. And this is a reason for ReSharper and other addins that make my life with C# bearable. With VB.net I don't need any addins other than Visual Studio itself.

When switching to vb.net after doing c# for even couple of weeks, my code just flows from my fingers and I feel much much more efficient while writing code.
I strongly recommend "Unconventional Success" by David Swensen (http://www.amazon.com/Unconventional-Success-Fundamental-App...).
The book reads a lot like a text book, but everything he sais just seems to make sense. The man is CIO at Yale university. SO he should know what he is talking about.
How do you do a poll?
I'd be more interested in:

X% of HN finds piracy acceptable
Did she pay into Medicare and SS? If so, she was only getting her money back. I don't understand why this is so hard for people to understand?

I'm staunchly opposed to medicare and SS but will I take them when I retire if they're still around? Hell yes, because I should at least get SOME of my money back.
Palabra Viva: Fernando Prats
Buy Facebook shares on SecondMarket.com.
How the heck do you hold your phone? I have to stretch to hit the top of the screen with my thumb. I'm with Apple's HIG that the commonly used controls should be at the bottom.
Programmer's File Format Collection
I suggest having a Redis command for it: redis man. Similar in a way to Python's import this
Thanks for covering that.

When people abuse statistics it makes my head hurt. Would it really have been that hard for them to spell it out, as the original article did, in three distinct categories? It speaks to the fact that the answers to the question rest on a continuum.

I'd be curious to see what the results of this study would be if it were conducted in the US.
E-book Readers that actually works for Book Reading
Alike all hackers, I want to break free from 10-14hourse staring into the computer monitor. I want to the passive act of reading away from the computer screen. To fulfill the purpose, I googled ebook readers. There are many of them, it a booming market. But not any which fulfills my demand.
I am kind of guy who voracious reads old novels, journals and papers from google book, archive.org, guttenberg and couple of other sites. Some of them are OCR'ed text nicely formatted for book reader. But most of them are pdf files with images mostly over 80 MB in size and is not smooth even in modern laptop on acroread. All these imaged pdf are displayed as cross or wrongly displayed in these all ebook readers in the market. So what do they do, whey then can't even read a pdf file ?
Any device that I missed out or should check out ?
just by reading the contents, i wish i had this book 20 or so years ago. back then, i had to find these subject piece by piece in books and white papers. work of a genius. thanks.
This is the exact opposite to me. I spend my full day working, hit (or better) all deadlines, come in about 2 hours early and I still get grief from the big boss for leaving on-time!
I'd be very happy with a watch that displayed what Growl displays on my laptop.
I can't I have tried. Only for big time investors. (Even asked my inv broker at Waterhouse to look into it)
Brand Ambassadors: An open letter to Appliance Manufacturers...
Point 1, by this logic, I would be more likely to buy a new DVD release of a movie if the video rental store was currently out of stock of said movie to rent.

Point 2, please review http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112207

The real issue is whether we see them as "content producers" or artists, or maybe a bit of the two.
This page -->
http://c9.io/signin.html
doesn't load for me (except for the banner) in:
Google Chrome
9.0.597.98,
WinXP

Works on Firefox.
I think in this day and age, that's just splitting hairs though. Most people would love to have something that makes them spring out of bed in the morning and keeps them so engaged that they can't sleep at night. Well, they'd love it until they hate it. And of course there are some people who are wired in such a way that they could never feel that way about anything and to them, the grass is always greener on the other side. That's ok. In the immortal words of Ted Knight, "The world needs ditch diggers too."
Worth noting: the word "amateur" means "lover of" or "love doing".

Someone who is "professional", on the other hand, is a person who gets consistently the same result from doing the same work. This is generally what people pay for.

Now would you rather want to be someone who loves what they're doing or someone who's basically a working machine?

Going from passionate amateur to passionate professional is extremely difficult.
"trying to flog this guys wares (books)"

Actually, he gives away the book described in the paper: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/
They're both Qt apps, i.e. they pick up their looks from your active Qt style engine and settings (aside from the fact that Qt Creator foregoes full system integration in favor of using hardcoded backgrounds on some widgets, which tends to be a frequently cited criticism against it actually).
Top Cities to Find a Nerd (based on match.com data)
One's expectations of any particular blog should be no more than that of a tabloid (at best), without sufficient prior evidence to the contrary.
Yes he was there promoting an album.
Yar!
SecondSearch announces a new search engine to circumvent content farms.
My pay comes from people who bought a service with after tax income. Why should you pay a lower percentage than me?
The food. I ordered pasta primavera and its aroma filled the room.
API of the Week: SlideShare
Canister lets you add water (or bodily fluids) to recharge batteries
Are you saying the main motivation to create
art is profit and/or recognition?

No, stop twisting my words.

BTW, that article about the Titanic is in total favor of what I said.
To break even, the Titanic needed ~ $400 million dollars.

I would totally love to see someone sharing that for free, for art's sake ;-)

You argue people will stop creating because there will
be no profit for them to do so

I'm not talking about profits; I'm talking about revenu. I'm talking about a book author that works on a book for an entire year, during which he has to put food on the table, pay the rent, pay for his son's tuition and live in a decent environment. In my country, the best poet we've had, a pure genius, lived in inhuman conditions and died at 39 years old because of syphilis.

Are you by any chance suggesting that they are paid too much?
Code Converter[1] is a free and simple VB to C# and C# to VB code converter. While not perfect it provides a free .NET converter on the web.

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[1]: http://converter.telerik.com/Default.aspx
I also love the phrasing of "we optimize for joy" and totally agree about the relation between enjoying a code base and getting into The Zone.

One caveat though: whose joy is getting optimized for? The phrasing here makes it seem like it's only the developers' of Redis. I'd love this a lot more if they're also trying to optimize the joy of people using it as well.
I searched google for anagram the other day and it asked if I meant "nag a ram". Clearly Google is capable of and, I agree, should, handle scheduling leap year birthdays.
It's nice to see this surface again. Personally I think it's interesting, and useful. If you want to read previous discussions about it from here on HN, here are some references:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048304 <- 9 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3934 <- 4 comments

The original "Why Function Programming Matters" has, of course, also been submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983401

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1482797

There was less commentary on that.
When you are on your own computer, you clone from github to edit your project. See cloud9 as your own computer, but then in the cloud, accessible from anywhere. It should say 'clone' instead of 'fork' though. We'll change that.

- Themes: There is a converter script already in the open source project of Cloud9 on github. We'll add a way to upload your own themes soon.

- Font: Good suggestion. I'll add this to the feature todo list.

- Git: There is full git command line support. We're working on a Git UI, that's coming soon.

Thanks for the feedback, we know it's still early, but we're adding features very quickly.
Which start-up space is the smartest
Matching influence with location.
Going to http://cloud9ide.com/contact.html gives the google maps api key warning, you should fix that.

By the way, beautiful design in both page and product. Really really awesome.
Show HN: QuickSend
Spend less time writing emails and more time doing what you really want.
I can't tell whether this is a general philosophical statement or a response to my comment. I don't mind either, but I'd need more on the latter for it to make sense as a response.
When the phone is locked do you really want it to expose information? My personal preference is no.
Also appears to be available online:
http://www.bookshelf.jp/texi/onlisp/onlisp_15.html#SEC99
I'll go along with bad_user's example of Avatar.

From Wiki:
"Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million.[3] Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for promotion."

So, I'd have to agree. At those costs, I don't think any amount of creativity or motivation could get that creator over the hump if all they had to look forward to was a bunch of people torrenting their creation.

I view the choice as simple. If you don't want to pay, in some regard, then don't watch the movie. Everyone has a choice. And nowadays the choice is easy... wait a few months and pay a $1 from Redbox if that's all its worth. Or get it through Netflix. At least the team gets SOMETHING for it.
I believe he is. There's a chance he has a clause in his contract that gives him him a payout in the event that he gets let go without cause (and firing him for being an annoying reporter probably isn't just cause). Remember, this is the same guy who moved to Seattle right before being acquired (Seattle being a state where he can avoid state taxation on his income).

In any even, it's in Ms. Huffington's hands now.
Works over here on Chrome 10 but thanks for reporting, we will try to reproduce your environment and fix it!
Not to sound cheap, but the first thing I note is the pricing. It's a little confusing. Does 33 cents per day mean that I'm only charged on days that I use it? So, if I use it Monday - Friday, I'll typically pay 7 Euros per month rather than 10 Euros? Or is it merely saying that it's only 33 cents per day? I'm also unsure what you mean by a workspace. In the UI photos, there's the concept of a "project", but I'm unsure if I would need multiple workspaces.

Then there's the cost itself. If 33 cents per day translates into $166.73 per year (after the conversion to USD), that seems a little expensive. The reason I say that isn't to say that software must be gratis, but that RubyMine's commercial license is only $149 and includes all upgrades for a year and you can upgrade your subscription after that point for just $99 per year. Personal licenses cost even less.

I'm not saying you don't have a great product - it looks absolutely gorgeous. I'm merely asking what the value is here. Is it that I don't have to install my IDE on multiple computers I might use? Is it that it will support multiple languages at the one low price (while JetBrains has different products for different languages)? Is it planned that it will support, say, running and debugging my Rails project without me having to configure environments on different machines?

I'm seriously asking because I do work on multiple machines (of different OSs), but I need to be able to run and debug (in my case Rails) projects and things like Eclipse, TextMate and a terminal, or even gedit with its terminal plugin will allow me to browse my file hierarchy, get an edit space with syntax highlighting, and run my application. Plus, while it can be annoying to set up another box, that doesn't happen very often and it means that things like relying on gems works.

It looks wonderful and I hope you keep improving it!
Stop Worrying About The Next Big Thing
Peter Thiel Reboots
Is the Cloud a Commodity?  I Think Not
Can Code Polymorphism Limit Information Leakage?
No, I really think that Kurzweil's claims of a technological singularity within our lifetime are extraordinary enough that he should be held to very strict standards of timing and prediction. Good grief, the man eats strange nutritional supplements by the handful in hope of living an extra 10 or 15 years and thus, by his theories, living forever.
True, but Angry Birds is a physics game, not a floating-point arithmetic game.

I can see both sides, including yours.
Read Barcode from Specific Area of Img & Create Fixed Size Barcode 
The new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 2.5.1 has been released. It includes a remarkable feature for Reading Barcode from a Specified Area of an Image. Users can now specify the area inside an image for reading barcodes. This feature is very useful for improving the performance in those cases where the image size is very large and the location of barcode is known in advance. The barcode reader will only scan the specified part instead of scanning the whole image. It also includes other new features for generating the fixed size barcode image.
Classes Are Not Objects
The point is that a new business can't dig up everyones backyard if they think the current phone companies are doing a bad job, even if there is demand. I don't see how the libertarian model can work in this case.
It doesn't yet, but it will be supported very soon, we are working on it!
Should be a must-read for hiring managers at software / web shops.
Agreed. Also, viewing this as a manifesto, you might want move this out of the list and reframe this as a definition, instead of making it point #1. It's crucial, but at least to me doesn't have the same punch as the others.

Just to be clear this is intended only a minor wording suggestion, not a criticism -- great piece, really gave me a feel for what you're doing with Redis and why so many people are into it.
It would be a good idea for all voters to specify which platform brings them money, and if the money comes from ads or from selling apps. For me, it's Android, ad-based applications.
The "number of people in favor of legalizing marijuana" is a fundamentallly different group than the "people who don't honestly think it's a bit deal if you smoke marijuana".

There may be some overlap, but there are also people who support decriminalization, not legalization, and some who support neither.
Anatomy of long sales letter
Google Recipe View
Thanks for the heads up, we are fixing it right now!
LSE Public Lecture: The End of Remembering
Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
"4 - Code is like a poem..."

This item makes me want to read the Redis source.

(All the items do, actually.)
iOS, actual app sales
This sort of summarization (read manipulation) of scientific results by news organizations to influence viewership is extremely bothersome. Most people who read that article take it at face value, don't check the sources, and go on with life having been misinformed. I know I would have. Irritating.
iOS, actual app sales.

My ad-supported app has been going through review for two months! Ouch.
Beautiful landing page. I think it's worth clarifying up front whether you support gmail or if this is just a facade for Mail.app.

It's not quite clear who the target market for this is.

Otherwise - looks amazing.