skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not pretending to know what happened there, but keep in mind people will make themselves cry and scream at completely inanimate objects.
Not sure if this is due to the sudden traffic spike, but discussion pages keep on reloading. It is near impossible to post comments before the page refreshes.
Also was fuck searched as a word on its own? Because if you include compound words with fuck you are going to catch a long tail of interesting profanity, especially amongst programmers.

You'd want to whitelist against the Scunthorpe Problem though.
I love it when I have an idea and find out that someone else already did it - it lets me cross it off my list! I produce FAR more ideas than I can execute, and it makes me feel bad to let them fester. I would love to find people who need help with the ideas and can do much of the execution (and in fact I work this way with some people, to good effect.)
Complete lack of comments?
Argh, again, the formatting on these interviews is really hard to read. Why can't they just do a straight interview style, like:

TNW: blah blah?

Naval: blah blah.
Not by a mile. Windows 7 literally beats Vista to death -- it's a lot snappier and (to me, anyway) a lot more stable.

Let's not forget that it actually runs in 512 MB of RAM, and I can attest to this. I'm an OS X guy by trade and employment, but Windows 7 I can actually tolerate (which blows my mind, really).
Also check out pinyadda. They may give you some ideas for posting.
Interesting discussion here. I've also been working on a remote jobs website: http://WheresTheRemote.com/. I've had the idea for years, but it "opened for business" last year. I've considered many of the issues raised here.

It's definitely a chicken and egg problem. Allowing free ads might help get the ball rolling, but I've resisted that since I'm concerned it will lead to low quality, which is one of the problems I have with other job sites. I don't want to hurt the site's reputation right out of the gate.

Moderation is one way to address that, but one of the core ideas of my site, which I think sets it apart from a lot of other job sites, is to require advertisers to include rate of compensation in their ads, and encourage accuracy by basing the fee for posting the ad on the advertised rate.

Trying to charge for something like this right off the bat without a lot of traffic is a difficult proposition, in my experience. But people seem to be willing to use mediocre web services and job sites, so allowing free ads to begin with, even if it results in low quality ads, might be a more realistic way to get something like this started.

So far I haven't compromised any of the original ideas for my site, but it hasn't gotten any traction either. I hoped that offering a money back guarantee would encourage a few advertisers to give it a shot and get the ball rolling, but so far that hasn't been enough. It's also difficult to figure out where / how to advertise something like this to even reach the right audience and make potential advertisers aware of it, at least without spending a ton.

If I'd known that all it takes to get people to start advertising jobs is to post the site on Hacker News, I would have done that months ago! I suspect that the activity on remote-jobs.com also has to do with the coupon offer though.

I'm considering making some changes to my site to get the ball rolling and then start charging or return to the original ideas for the site if and when there's enough traffic, as some have suggested. I don't think there's anything greedy about charging for such a service. If people are willing to pay it right off the bat, great, if not, that's another story. It might be more realistic to not charge or charge a small fee at first, and I agree that even charging a small fee would help to weed out the worst kind of posters who have free reign on some other sites.

I have problems with all of the job sites I've seen and the goal of my site is also to provide a better venue for finding remote jobs, and to try to level the playing field for job seekers, e.g. by requiring rate information in ads, backing that up with the fee structure, limiting the time ads are displayed moreso than most sites to reduce the opportunity for lazy or busy advertisers to waste job seekers' time with stale ads, etc.
There are dozens of Stanford seminars that anyone can attend. Some, like ee380.stanford.edu , are online, but you miss out on a lot that way.

If you do a bit of research, you might even take advantage of office hours.

The same is true of UC Berkeley, but it isn't in the valley.
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The flickr people were pretty good at this. I was less so.

One thing that always bugged me - when I ran Delicious, I had people submit a weekly status update (just a list of bullet points) to the entire company. That way everyone knew what was going on.

We got to Yahoo, and my boss decided to kill that.

When I got to Google, globally visible weekly status in bullet point form are part of the culture. I take this as validation.
Nothing wrong with predictable, humans have been telling the same basic stories plot-wise for thousands of years. It's about how well you tell the story, not whether the story is original or not; originality is great, but it's too rare to be a requirement.

You'd be crazy to make a movie, and not try and pull on the well known well loved plot lines. It'd be like trying to make music with chords no one has ever heard; it'd be terrible. People want something familiar.
I think most acquisitions are to get the app's users, not to get the programmers or the code. Sure, there is the typical "you don't get your $250 million until you work here for a year", but that is just to help move your code to their servers. Then you leave and do Idea 2.0 and fund it yourself so that you don't need to be acquired.

As for timesheets, all that stuff sucks, which is why you need to think of work as "making money" first and "being fun" second. If some company wants to pay me a million dollars to fill out timesheets, that's their loss, not mine. I have plenty of fun writing code at home. If I get to do a bit at work too, excellent.

(Sometimes I feel like my current job is like this. I seem to spend half my time in meetings and half my time coding. This is a massive, egregious, insane waste of money. But it's not mine, so it's not really my problem. If I didn't go to the meetings, people wouldn't think I was doing any work, and that would be my problem.)
These are awesome recommendations. Get recommendations from anyone you've worked with, on LinkedIn.
No problem, jasohen.
Or me: Here's my house: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

I have the bottom floor. 3 bedrooms. 3 roommates. $1200/month rent, so I'm paying $300/month. (my girlfriend and I share a room.) I live in one of the more affluent neighborhoods in town. Yep. It's that cheap.

20 minutes walk from CMU, 30 from Pitt. Buses come either one block or 4 blocks away. CMU shuttle goes _past my house_. One block away: 4 bars. A restaurant. Two coffee shops. A bunch of other junk. A Japanese grocery store two blocks away, regular groceries about 5, a Whole Foods about 8. My two neighbors on either side are families.

Pittsburgh is sweeeeet.
More stable = a service pack.

UAC, WPF, etc - all the new stuff - was added in Vista.
My mother does not have any social network accounts or email. If she lived in New Zealand, how can I make sure she's okay assuming I cannot reach her by phone? I would want every possible method of checking on her available to me.
If I recall correctly, CC companies do not allow businesses to charge an extra fee to take card, but businesses are not forbidden from raising the base price and offering a cash discount. During my time in the US, I saw many gas stations showing a "CASH PRICE" next to the regular price.
I do believe the toliet paper market is "oversaturated", so to speak ;).

The major brands of toilet paper are made by corporate juggernauts like Proctor & Gamble, Kimberly Clark & Georgia Pacific. It would be very hard to break into the TP market.
They could be swearing in joy.

# This new PHP library is fucking awesome!
I used to work for Cisco at Linksys and this is far from truth. Although Linksys operated pretty much as their own division, Cisco EOLed a lot of successful Linksys products in the SMB market since they might compete with Cisco's. Also, Linksys had and still has a stronger brand presence among consumers which Cisco resented a bit. This led to a rather long brand transition that made things pretty difficult at Linksys' end. Lastly when Linksys needed the deep pockets of Cisco for breaking into new consumer product markets, Cisco was always hesitant despite successful market research and product development on Linksys' end.

Relatively, it's been better than most acquisitions but things are definitely not that rosy.
Why do they want me to download the release notes?

Can't they just show them to me? In their own page, or, if they somehow need to be Word docs, using the Office web tools?
Recruiters raise signal to noise ratio? All I ever hear is how they horribly fudge resumes and job posts in order to make applicant and company interested in each other and get their fee.
Pittsburgh, seriously? Between the small, crowded, pothole-filled roads and buses which are never on time, it's impossible for me to get anywhere around here. The Steelers football fanaticism drives me insane and the weather is terrible. I absolutely cannot wait to move away from here next year; the city's only redeeming quality in my eyes is the plethora of universities.
My thoughts on threads boil down to: they're a tool for library authors. Using them in applications is ... misguided. Use an event loop instead.
I love this app!! It's easy, simple and connects me with close to a million other entrepreneurs around the world, allowing me to track news and my network as well as get intro'd to new people I should get to know!
Using it now, and yes, many animations run at a very low frame rate. More of the UI is built upon hardware acceleration, and it shows.

I haven't used an iPad, but there are some pretty novel HCI concepts implemented here.
Absolutely not.

1. PDFs are much easier to read on a vertical-format screen unless said screen is very large (would need to twist modern wide-screen laptops sideways). Also, I prefer that my reading device is not heavy and that it is small enough to read while on standing on public transportation -- this way I can get heads up on things before arriving to work.

2. The ability to annotate documents directly using finger input is amazing (I am not talking about handwriting -- I am talking about yellow-highlighting passages and keywords without using the classic trackpad and cursor combo which requires a stable platform for it to be usable).

3. The ability to just take the PDF/document/notes/whatever and bring it over to my boss next door is irreplaceable. Laptop is too heavy and cumbersome to hold with one hand, and email/file-sharing is cumbersome as well -- bosses are generally unwilling to listen to their subordinates tell them to open this or that file while they are in the middle of something on their screen. This is why most offices have stuck with paper for so long -- it is great to be able to carry something in your hand and just show it to somebody across the floor. Likewise, it is easier for my boss (who also has an iPad) to just show me some document without having to print it or email it to me or walk me over across the lab to his computer.
That can't be the main reason in jurisdictions with sales tax.
The changes in Windows Server 2008 SP2 (which is concurrent with Win 7 SP1) to support virtualization are a Big Deal for organizations that are using virtualization... there's some very substantial stuff in there, but for the rest of us, it's a snoozer.
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Okay, that makes sense. I was just curious because the more time you have up front, the easier it's going to be to get the time off without unnecessary friction. Hypothetically, if I were a manager and one of my reports told me "hey, I'm having a baby next Tuesday - can I have two weeks off?" I'd be pretty teed off. I left my last job partly due to a lack of understanding over what my wife's pregnancy meant for my ability to work the same hours as the rest of the team (I was the only one with a kid and nobody understood why it's important for me to go to OB/GYN appointments). Don't put yourself in that situation.

Tell your boss early and remind him/her often that there is a baby on the way and you're going to need this time off. The only way you can screw this up is by springing a huge surprise on your boss like the hypothetical above.

Good luck and congratulations on the baby!
Suggestion: Ask your actual customers. There's a good chance HN users in general are so far out of your demographic that feedback from here doesn't help you at all.

It's not like all women share this secret stash of female knowledge ;)
February 1, 2010

Sure you are thinking of the right 1st feb?
Trying to fight the bureaucracy from within is generally Sisyphean. You may hold out temporarily, but you make enemies in the process. Unless you can execute indefinitely without mistakes, eventually something will provide an opening for the thin end of the wedge.
That's very true. A project I'm working on at the moment has some of the worst code I've seen. Copy and paste crap everywhere. No understanding of good programming practices or web design. A mountain of technical debt.

Yet, the company is doing well, making money, hiring people and expanding quickly.

Had they waited until their skills were good enough, or spent a fortune on experienced developers, they would not be where they are today - with a heap of technical issues sure, but also with the money to throw at these issues.
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I don't like the weather. It's too rainy and spring and fall are far too short (some of my friends call fall/spring "poorly dithered winter and summer", since it tends to just jump back and forth between cold and hot for a week or two).
More likely they just hit a limit for hotfixes, and do a rollup because they'll do a reprint of the DVDs as well, so that new systems come without needing 200 hotfixes.
What do you want to know about the Big Bang?

And why in the world do you think you can not produce particles using just energy? It happens all the time.
I can explain:
A) give credit where credit is due. Even when its too your employer. Exploitation doesn't have to be negative. It can be positive also. This is a positive exploitation because one you do this it gives you more free rein within your employer's domain to get your own agenda met (in most cases).
B) Sending out your resume. You are doing it on your employer's time and dime. So its exploitative, but again, positive (since ultimately better for your employer for you to know your true value so you never turn into a bitter unhappy employee).
Google is probably doing the same thing with AdWords.

Google has every bit of information about Groupon and LivingSocial AdWords spending (millions of dollars per month). When Google launches their competitor, Google Offers, they'll know exactly which ads get people to buy deals. Incidentally, Google Offers will work by running offers across Google ad networks.
Your kids expect to see the overpriced 3D version though. That'll be $20 per ticket, please.
I can't speak to the examples from 2005 or 2007 (or any others really), but I was part of the Associated Content acquisition process and am an engineer with Yahoo now.

For our group it has been a good thing and we are happy where we are. Our group's culture is the same, we are engaged in the larger company strategy, and are excited about the upcoming year. We have had a couple integration points take longer than expected but that's what happens when you go from 50 people to a company of thousands.

YMMV I guess.
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Can someone explain how you do mysql replication via DRBD?
For a companies that sells big iron servers the Dell, IBM and HP websites don't inspire confidence.
I am able to do the things I listed above on a single device (except software development). The reason I carry around a MacBook is only because I compile code at work for Linux platform and I like to have a second non-Linux but UNIX computer to check code portability, which I wouldn't be able to do with Windows anyway (don't get me started on Cygwin).
Interesting to hear from an insider. Cisco is very good at getting the media to write about how skilled they are with acquisitions. Do you think it's more marketing than reality?
There are some real weirdos out there (like me) who do things like this for no reason: https://github.com/cretz/gwt-node
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The article missed a pretty significant counterpoint, which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned here so far: Viaweb. As Yahoo Stores, it went to become a de-facto leader in online stores, which it's still is to this day.
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Good point. Good question.

Honestly, and I don't meant to stereotype here, but I think it's because the quality of PHP developer proportionate to the number of PHP developers on github is higher than in other languages. Granted, their are fewer total. But the reason for this is pretty simple. PHP is not the popular language, so most new developers taking up programming in the past 2-3 years see a different landscape then a decade ago. Github is SourceForge and Ruby is PHP. Poor PHP developers aren't flocking to github. They are still on SourceForge (not suggesting that all SF users are bad).

Basically, the PHP developer's on github are probably the more experience developers that have been doing this for a while. On the flip side, most Ruby developer's are still comparatively new to the language.

This is a lot of assuming, and I don't mean to disparage anyone.

That all being said, while I equated the quality of the programmer with the amount of swearing being done, I fully realize it's not a fair comparison. Granted, this entire thing is based on numbers that, I feel, are fairly meaningless.

Finally, what I find more interesting is how HN's quality takes a nose dive when the population is allowed to bash a particular population: in this case, people who enjoy using PHP.

Still, good follow up. =)
If you tell them you're doing it, it's not secret.
I feel the same way so, you're not alone. I was super excited to try out Hipmunk but I find it to be cluttered, confusing and not informative. I don't know if its a left brain/right brain thing - maybe I'm just not a visual person, but I much prefer a grid style listing like the travelocity example you showed. I can't really tell what's going on with hipmunk.

Additionally - time is very rarely an important sorting criteria for me. I take the same half dozen flights regularly and I know what times they depart and arrive - I don't need to see that laid out. What I need to see is the price to book it.
The problem with taking a snapshot is that it quickly becomes out of date, and as you mention can be different with different content. We use some fuzzy selection methods to select the underlying DOM node that is causing you a problem.

When a user goes to look at that bug, they're taken to the actual page and location where the problem occurred. This means that even as the page changes our bug tagging still points to the right place.

We also keep tabs on all sorts of user/browser information to ensure a bug can be replicated. We have some more tricks up our sleeve for replicating page state and user data (not yet released).
FWIW I like your name better :)
The hard part about being a solo founder -- you take body-blows like this and you can get hung up on the competition. You need to guard against trying to match Convore feature-for-feature-- definitely stay the course and execute on your core vision. Good luck!
Hmm, that's not very comprehensive for this purpose.

Years ago at a former employer, we discovered just after shipping a large quantity of quite sensitive demo materials that an outside contractor had managed to slip a hidden profanity into it. Oh, the joy that caused....

The immediate reaction though was that a few of the less polite and proper members of the organisation were tasked with producing as close to an exhaustive profanity list as they could so we could do a relatively thorough sweep. From memory that list was pushing 40 terms - I think I might still have a copy somewhere but the last thing this discussion needs is more swearing!
How do you update? Is the binary format compatible?
Yes - we thought about it pretty extensively, and in the end decided to stay away. There are literally dozens of startups trying to help people navigate the SXSW party scene, including big, well resourced teams like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook. We figured we could have the most impact by focusing on sessions, speakers and coverage - all things that are baked in to Lanyrd's DNA - rather than trying to become yet another networking tool in a crowd of networking tools.
- Clarify the IP issues.

- Agree on a fixed amount for a fixed amount of time, and agree a (much higher) hourly rate for any time beyond that, ie. charge 100 - 150$/h (or 800 - 1000$/day, -ish) for the fixed amount of time, and 200 - 250$/hour for time beyond that.

- Agree that they can't just tell you "we need you tomorrow".

Sounds like an awesome deal, congrats. Make sure to get the IP and compete issues cleared out though. What if your product starts to compete with theirs?
Meh. Wires. While others are struggling to squeeze in an HDMI connector, Apple has already moved on to wireless HD video with its AppleTV. Plug 2 cables into the $99 box, tap AirPlay -> AppleTV, and it's on.

You'll be interested in tablets when also-rans catch up to obsolete tech. Apple's move pushes video interfacing toward the middle of the 21st century, not the latter 20th.
These will be the first we've sent! We've been planning a single follow-up email a week or so after any event you attend highlighting coverage for a while now, so we're using SXSW as an excuse to build the feature.
Exactly. It's trivial to write a prettied-up interface to those Python functions that would make as much sense (?) as PROC MEANS. Good luck trying extend SAS to do anything the designers didn't implement as a procedure, though. Having had to navigate through a complex SAS macro or two in my day, I can assure you that it the single worst experience I have ever had in 20 years of programming.
The original post wasn't insightful at all. That arrogant, know-it-all attitude is not how DropBox got their interface right. They got their interface right through careful attention to their users, by being humble enough to trust the user data and throw away features they had thought would be useful.

EDIT: Downvoted, great. This must be the ultimate triumph of snark: we are now perpetuating the myth that common sense and a sassy attitude is how DropBox created a breakthrough product, instead of careful beta testing and analysis of usage data.
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I found his comments on the Start Fund to be the most interesting. Despite all the heat generated when the fund was first announced, I didn't see anyone else describe it as an "unbundling" of advice from money, which is the way Ravikant puts it. It's an interesting way of looking at things.
Why not just do the time-sheets?
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