skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a good answer either. You've got no backup, so often it's even less flexible and easier to suddenly devote huge amounts of time to make it work and keep your family fed. Fear is a big motivator.

"It depends" is the best answer unfortunately, neither is panacea. Corporate culture, the success (or not) of your own business, where you are, what your SO does, healthcare, etc..
Ask HN: Do you think a Global Transparent Banking system would be feasible?
I'm talking about the "idealized" global banking system in which everyone can see every account's history.

It would definitely be trouble for companies hiding their (lack of) revenues, money launderers, tax evaders etc. but I wonder if it would cause any trouble for "legit" companies. (First thing comes to my mind is employees of the same company could see each others' salaries, so that may be a problem)

Would you be comfortable using a transparent banking system? Would you oppose it, why?
Huh?? Don't they have big-iron machines as their database servers?

Who's replacing RAID controllers on those beasts?
I really doubt anybody would accept that. The solution in many cases are simply to reboot the servers every night.

Sure, we would all love to fix the bugs, but if there are no easy clues and a regular reboot fixes it - who really cares when there are features to build?
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Yes, it's called Open Radar: http://openradar.appspot.com.
Hi,
Thank you very much for your feedback.
1. Your are right, Weezic doesn't mean anything specific to classical music. But we have really good feedback on this name for the moment and we are planning on keeping it.
The name is simply based on We Play Music shortened and written in a way everybody could read it the same way, spell it easily and remember it.
Thanks for the reference to Weezer and Weezy. Nobody had mentionned it before but it could possibly become an issue for us, at least in certain regions/countries.
2. Thanks also for the design advice, this is a tricky part but we will try to look at simpler ways of showing things.
3. And for the intro line, I agree we could/should do better. "Classical sheetmusic at your fingertips" sounds good start but we will have to include more (mp3 accompaniments, interpretations, etc)
Because it means more profit, and because the market will bear it.
Thanks for the great explanation, too, btw.
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>the unmolested NT kernel is rock solid.

which, if memory serves me right, directly translates to
"OS/2 kernel is rock solid"
Sorry, English is not my native language. I was referring to the stackoverflow answer where it said gwt is a toolkit, cappucino is a framework. Sproutcore is a framework, so it seems someone would choose between cappucino or sproutcore if what they were looking for is a framework.
Refactoring is one place where the notion of "iteration" and "fail fast" is tremendously beneficial.

When you get down a deep rabbit hole, you lose focus and passion. We had great things happening, but couldn’t show them to anyone since they weren’t done.

If you're going "down a deep rabbit hole" then you're doing it wrong. Refactor in small chunks. Be prepared to throw out a chunk. It's an experiment.

If your language doesn't support rapid refactoring -- this is something to think about.
The way I understand the message is that you don't need startup news. By reading startup news, you feel productive and informed, but that doesn't contribute to actual time building your product.

Who cares how much Quora, Groupon, Fb, etc are valued. Who cares what new feature Gmail has or what new tablet Apple is coming out with. Most startup news is filled with these headlines that don't impact your startup.

By not surfing HN, Reddit, etc., the author was able to focus on building his product.
Actually, you can get a free JRebel license for Scala development:
http://sales.zeroturnaround.com/
My dreams were crushed exactly like this with MySpace. That's why I don't touch the stuff anymore.
Another voice for a machine made to beg for mercy. Cool tech demo but my browser and system pretty much went to sleep running it. Nifty preview about 2-3 years too soon though this can be said for a lot of the HTML5 / Canvas demos coming out right now.

This will date me but it's a familiar cycle. Back in the 80's there were crews coming up with graphics demos and pushing the tech to its limits. Your 286/386 would melt down but it was cool to 'fly' through a pseudo 3D 256 colour tunnel. It's deja vu for me... different time, different tech, same desire to push it faster than it's developing. Not a bad thing though, just not practical... yet.
Great post. The discrepancy between the title and the URL made me smirk, even though it was probably not relevant.
Similar project: Capt - https://github.com/bnolan/capt by Ben Nolan ( Anyone remembers behaviors.js for Prototype way way before jQuery ? )

Also see: Faux - https://github.com/unspace/faux
0 to 15,000 visits in 24 hours: How I did it and what I learned
Still, for a site that's been up since the Dark Ages ('99), and relies almost entirely on its users to keep it relevant, it's been remarkably successful.
Many people complained about flash poor performance and acclaimed HTML5 as a technology that will make the web better.
Well, in some ways it has, but unfortunately it will replace Flash for such effects and possibly make it worse. Everyone can write javascript as it's free. Writing Flash effects like that required and additional step: getting the software, which is expensive. This will allow for many more 'funky effects' that will may make the web an awful experience.

Note: The author created this as an experiment, which I strongly encourage. However the sentence "You could use it for nice cheesy banner effects or just to impress your site visitors" announces a misuse of the experiment.

EDIT: Any explanation why this comment was downvoted?
"Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do."
Great, this will be a great reference to evaluate changes in the community given enough time.
Didn't get mine done, but both of my parents had theirs done. My dad's was pretty much as expected, as far as ancestry (my grandmother is an avid genealogist). On my mom's side there is a lost of uncertainty about our ancestry. Of course, because you only see the mitochondrial DNA result for a female, its not as informative for someone who is probably a mix (like my mom). I think an admixture test will be the one that's really useful.

My dad downloaded his raw data and is enlisting me to use some of the 3rd party tools out there to do some other comparisons, but I haven't really dug into it yet. Home bioinformatics...
Does "POE" stand for something? POSIX Operating Environment, maybe? A quick Googling and a look at the Mach Wikipedia page doesn't reveal the answer.
1. How do you make money if I don't "like" any names you suggest, even if I do? Do you register and hold the .com domain as collateral?

2. It would be more convincing, especially at a $100 service charge, to see some examples of your work. Right now, it comes off as promising a lot without any evidence of your effectiveness.
I never understood why anyone would want a hybrid of OO and functional programming.

I see OO as basically: Encapsulation, Inheritance and Polymorphism.

Functional programming provides better facilities for encapsulation and polymorphism. Interface inheritance is pretty much a subset of implicit traits or type-classes. I don't think implementation inheritance is ever the right thing.

So if you have the full power of FP (including existential types and type-classes), what is it in OO that you would yearn for?
Thanks to Apple, four of the five major publishing houses imposed so-called agency pricing on their ebook titles (the give away on Amazon is the phrase this price was set by the publisher). Under agency pricing, the publisher sets the final price to consumers and Amazon cannot discount it at all. Amazon receives 30% of the price on each sale, 70% goes to the publishers, who are setting ebook prices higher than Amazon used to.
But print books (and ebooks from random House) are still sold under the old wholesale model. Amazon pays about half the cover price and can set the retail price at whatever it likes, generally at a big discount.
Note that in BOTH cases, the publisher has total control over the amount of money it collects on each sale. But under agency pricing, publishers also control the final price to consumers while under wholesale pricing, the retailer gets to set that price.
Cappuccino keeps getting better. I'm looking forward to giving an afternoon session on Cappuccino for Cocoa developers at NSConference UK: http://ideveloper.tv/schedule/details?event_id=3
I have to disagree. For its length and scope it summed up the current problem nicely and clearly pointed out that the thinking that got us into this mess won't get us out of it, to paraphrase Einstein.

I don't think the intent of the article was to answer the question of what to do, but rather to point out its currently intractable nature. Furthermore, he points out that he's even "done something about it," wrote a catch-all library, but that it hasn't had the anticipated or desired effect.

Clearly, something else is afoot here. Where next?
YC Applicants : The application teaches you to communicate well.
We build web infrastructure from idea to text editor to user interaction.

There is so much involved in getting from one end to the other that our minds begin to select answers for the ambiguities from day one.

The problem with this, is that when communicating our idea we often skip over those ambiguities because our mind now takes them for granted.

On, "What is your company going to make" I caught myself describing my implementation rather than my idea. It was similar to: "A web app that teaches robots to speak in idioms. It provides a typing interface and a keyword-sorting interface". The problem here is that everyone who reads this comes up with a visual to "interface" and makes an assumption.

The word "interface" was a variable in my mind for the visual representation of what I'm doing - and when reading it I was visualizing my exact interface. If you saw the demo, we would be on the same page. Without the demo, you are left to your own devices.

Be careful with leaving YC to their own assumptions due to the way you write. I recommend that you describe what the product does for the users rather than describe what how its implemented :

"A web app that teaches robot children how to speak in idioms. It provides a web UI which allows users to type out sentences and then apply keywords in order of highest to lowest relevance. The UI then hits the robot with a bolt of lightning from the cloud."

There. Now, the visual doesn't matter. They know what it does.

When you try to describe what you are going to build - especially if you have started to build it - all of the steps from text editor to user interaction must be dug up out of your brain and communicated unambiguously. Digging them out is painful, time consuming, and incredibly valuable.

I feel much better having only a small chance of getting into YC now that the application has been a catalyst for me to learn how to communicate my product. I would like you guys to also gain value from it.

Cheers,
What you're seeing here is leverage. Basing your business on Facebook gives you very high potential market exposure vs a total dependence on Facebook.

It's analogical to buying shares with borrowed money. You've increased the potential upside, but now the downside is that much more catastrophic.
Caption Etiquette
What to Remember: Facts vs Ideas
"Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Which is why I remarked about HN. =)

I'm not suggesting RoR has a lot of jobs compared to the Java or C#, but rather, it's not exactly devoid of job offers either. Especially within the context of HN.

So, apologies for not being clear about the context.
Ask HN: What are some good developers conferences?
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good, general purpose development conference? I went to WWDC and Google IO last year and both are (unsurprisingly) very platform specific. So, I'm hoping to find something more general; although a good language oriented conference would be fine too.
Some interesting nuggets in here, I had watched the Nova specials on Watson etc. I would have liked to have had a question about the team, their work stress etc., but otherwise a fun read. I especially enjoyed the step by step parsing and examination of a question in the process of how Watson would work through it.
1. I'm more concerned about not getting any customers than I am about dishonest ones. I'd rather give people the benefit of the doubt. So, to answer your question, I don't register the names.

2. You can see a few of my other projects in the footer links, but obviously I'm just getting started, and gaining trust is the hard part. Hence the risk-free guarantee.
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Neither would I. And they'd be within their rights to do it: a good idea is a good idea, regardless of whence it came.
Nah, the elisp intro is quite conversational and starts with "this is a list". The "Elisp" info page is a bit of a reference manual, but it is all well-organized and readable cover-to-cover. I learned Emacs Lisp this way and have a couple of the more popular Elisp projects on github, so the manual must have done something right :)
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The difference is that he's not failing to enforce federal law; he's failing to contest the judiciary's finding that DOMA is unconstitutional. If the court is right, then it's not a law, and he has no obligation to enforce it.
There are many similar frameworks to choose from. Such as: (in no particular order)

GWT (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/)

SmartClient (http://www.smartclient.com)

NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com)

DHTMLX (http://www.dhtmlx.com)

QooXdoo (http://qooxdoo.org/)

Vaadin (http://www.vaadin.com)

Echo (http://echo.nextapp.com/site/echo2)

Servoy (http://www.servoy.com/)

Sproutcore (http://www.sprotcore.com)

Sencha (http://www.sencha.com)

Each of the above has their strengths and weaknesses, and there are many more frameworks than I can list at the moment, but even with the select list above we can see there are many more contenders in this space than just Cappuccino, Sproutcore, and GWT.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH

[edited for clarity]
You should leave the salary fields blank. There's usually no need to fill those in, unless it's explicitly stated.

Most large companies have set scales on internship salaries based on your seniority in college (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior). There's usually not too much wiggle room, if any. You shouldn't really discuss salary with HR until you get a formal offer in writing. Get the job first, then worry about how much you're going to get paid.

High range for software dev internship salaries this year is probably around $34/hr in the bay area. It depends on what you'll be doing though.
The same politicians and ideas that motivated funding for those missions were directly responsible for horrific wars in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and many other countries during that period. I'd gladly trade our man on the moon to erase those wars and the philosophy that led to them from our history.

In sum: fuck nationalism.
Also closely related to "VAX kernel is rock solid"
No, a court already called BS, and Obama gave up on arguing the point.
Nicely modular functionality. Would be even better if the events were implemented as actual jQuery events.
Hi,

Thank you for the feedback.

About the name: the "we" is key, exactly. That's what differentiates us from a simple content site with free sheet music. We are definitely planning on going much further in terms of functionalities.

About the content volume: we want to build our first user base on our content, because this is how people will get to know about the site: musicians are looking for data (sheet music, mp3s, other interpretations) around a musical work they play, they find this data on Weezic.
But in the end, what we really want to show to musicians who come to Weeizc, is that it is possible to go much further than just sheet music, or even play-along mp3s.

I hope this ambition of bringing a new dimension to classical music practice is clearly visible. Because that is what we would like visitors to understand.
Also Amazon affiliate links.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising...
Right, but the employee is not on equal ground with the two CEOs.
I've always been honestly curious... why Objective-J ? Is it simply so that mac developers can start using cappucino and feel comfortable?
Sites like The Deck aren't really ad networks, they're more like vanity projects for hipster web designers. AdSense would not work well either with no text content.

However CPM banners like Doubleclick combined with affiliate links to dating sites could do very well indeed.
Sometimes, when facing an sudden, arbitrary decision with no appeals process, high ceremony seems like a good thing.
I also feel that they sort of jogged around the buzzing in question. Obviously Watson has to calculate and decide his answer, but there is no denying that he was very fast on the buzzer in the game.
> the unmolested NT kernel is rock solid

Too bad it resents running programs on it so much...
Incidentally, I really want to use the shared memory logger from varnish in my own app, but it seems to be quite embedded in Varnish. (It is not tightly-coupled code-wise, but it is build-wise.) Anyway, although it's commonly needed, it's not a library... and Varnish is the author of this article's project! :)

(I'm not complaining, I'm going to try and library-ize this code very soon. But it's odd that someone that feels the need to write about how people should do this hasn't done it in his own project yet.)
A hair more informative than a list of technologies and some slogans: https://github.com/brunch/brunch/blob/master/readme.md

Really, that's the only thing that comes dangerously close to a concise explanation of what this project actually is - and it makes it sound like a couple of programs that generate a fairly typical MVC website folder structure and auto-compile a few types of files whenever they're changed.

If Brunch is more than that, it might be worthwhile to at least have a gloss of what else it does around, even if the rest of the documentation is in progress. Otherwise, the understanding of any awesomeness is going to be limited to people who're going to plumb the code or went to that Vienna user group presentation. :)
That was about a version of Mach nearly 20 years ago...

That "costly housekeeping" that they avoided then (for performance reasons) should have not been a problem for over a decade now --and the intentional leaking must have been fixed a long time ago too.

Trouble is, without investigation into the CURRENT status, that anecdote is worthless...
You don't necessarily have a "backup" at a corporate job either. Anyone could lose their job at any time at a corporate job. One might actually be better off by having experience with being self-reliant.
http://codeconf.com/ should be awesome
Maybe the best quote I ever read. Never heard/read it before but I will probably quote it over and over again for the rest of my life. If it's from another language I'll probably get a pretentious tattoo of it.

I finally live according to that dictum now, but it took me 37 years to get to that place.

Facebook itself is brilliant testament to that. They entered an insanely crowded marketplace, with many leaders way way ahead of them. The were as late as late could be to create a "Social Network". It would be like showing up to a potluck at 2AM with a tray full of appetizers.

And then they mowed everybody down.
> Just asking, but how do you keep so many Chrome tabs open without things getting sluggish? My MBP (2008 pre-unibody/Leopard) seems to get bogged down with just a couple score of Chrome tabs.

Avoid Flash. Install something like ClickToFlash, FlashBlock etc.

I have tens of tabs open no problem. (Then again, I'm on a Quat iMac)
Even with a full DNA scan, SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms - one letter mutations) are mostly still what they'll be looking at. The difference is that instead of probing the genome for a million or so specifically predetermined SNPs (most of which are hardly well-understood), now you'll have every single base identified, which means that when some new important SNP is discovered, you (probably) won't have to get retested - you just pull out the old data.
Oh boy...

That's what you get when you assign the management of Solaris servers to MCSAs...
I wouldn't say that's why it was shut down but facebook data gurus must be intimately aware of stalking as a huge traffic driver and this app tapped directly into that vein. I think other people have already mentioned this application siphoning traffic from their main user landing pages and that's probably why it was shut down.
It's a lot more than just tax issues involved. Marriages are contracts that two people enter into and a number of benefits and responsibilities are determined by that contract.
What 20 man shop that isn't completely technical has big iron?
This is what I'm finding weird. At the very end of the article, it does mention just this:

> Non-compete contracts have previously been upheld in Washington state courts. In California, where Salesforce.com is based, non-compete contracts have repeatedly been found invalid.

So is the guy choosing to stay in Washington, or is this some cross-state non-compete magic?
Watson was written in mostly Java but also significant chunks of code are written C++ and Prolog, all components are deployed and integrated using UIMA.

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/02/ibm-watson-research-team-answ...
Hmm, your model doesn't consider that some companies might not be able to benefit from any programmers what-so-ever because of their own incompetence (some companies are -1 to begin with).

Anyway, job search is certainly not entirely adversarial. But any negotiating process has to involve a sequence of honest signals from both sides. If one side can completely control the signaling process, that side can get the most benefit for the least cost (and the other side would choose a different frame if they could - and especially the most valuable players would make this choice).

Thus even though I eventually do want to reveal everything and commit fully to a potential employer, I expect the process of commitment and revealing will only happen as the employer also reveals information AND makes commitments to me. It's a dance. Things that allow the employer to merely get commitment and information from me without anything in return result in an undesirable negotiating process.
I find it interesting that if someones sends an SMS and it is rejected, the sender is not necessarily notified.

Most of the time I have SMS disabled on my phone (except for Google Voice). If someone on T-mobile (my carrier) sends me an SMS, they will get an error message, but people on other networks have no way of knowing that the SMS failed. Fortunately, most of my friends know that I prefer IM and the incorrigible texters have my GV number, but on occasion someone will try to SMS my actual phone number.
thx for all the upvotes - this was my 1st post on ycomb
I'm sorry, but that's b.s. I've spent today working with active directory, re imaging pc's and programming php in a customized cms. The average person has no idea what I am doing. That statement is as false now as it was in 1974
Generally speaking, the politicians most in favor of nationalistic wars are those who are most opposed to domestic infrastructure speaking. Just saying.
IANAL, but I have signed non-competes before. I am sure that the contract he signed states that disputes must be litigated in WA.