skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hosted?

I understand they acknowledge this, but I'd be as unlikely to use a product like this as I'd be to use a remote memory profiler. Which is pretty unlikely.

I can't quite tell from the launch page what level of detail is conveyed, but if you can tell what gems, method names and data sources are used that could be a competitive advantage. There are plenty of profiling and targeting applications/services that people are unlikely to want to reveal that they're using. I'd also be concerned about the increased visibility an attacker might be able to gain into a public application.

I saw that a "firewall" edition is in the works, and I understand the appeal of ongoing fees with SAAS, but I'm still surprised people are willing to remote out code insight to this level. At least, I haven't seen offers of hosted debuggers, profilers, compilers etc. Has gmail and basecamp really softened up the market that much?
Does your company do “HackDays”? It should…
I understand the definition of it. What I don't understand is the use of the word 'theft'. "Misappropriation of resources which exceeds our standard of what is reasonable," perhaps, but not theft.
Here's my effort: http://rob.rho.org.uk/2010/06/life.html (GitHub project: https://github.com/robhague/CanvasLife)
That's why I like HN. I can make a factually correct statement with conclusions that are politically incorrect and not be accused of harboring racial bias or animosity towards people of other races.

However, in the interest of honesty, I will admit to racism in one arena completely unrelated to the discussion here - I prefer dating dark skinned women to light skinned ones.
> Don't just do something because everyone else is
> doing it – do something because it makes sense.

I can't speak for the particulars of gradients or drop-shadows, but if two-sentence landing pages with an obvious call to action get signups, then it makes sense to do things that way.

I guess the inverse of the advice is "Don't refuse to do something just because it's trendy -- base your choice on whether or not it makes sense."
"That’s all we know." but is it 'useful' ?
With regards to "identifying the true power structure in a corporation" I've found this post from Rands on the "Culture Chart" to be helpful:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/10/12/the_culture...

The linked post is recycled as a chapter in his book Being Geek which I also find fabulously useful.
Or Adele Goldberg. Why is Frances Allen in place 13?
i think the curtness of his statement makes it easy to interpret as racist. however, it's possible to interpret his statements in a more neutral way. he isn't making any claims as to the origins of the achievement gap. e.g., it would be racist to claim that certain racial groups achieve lower because they're inherently lazy and stupid and destined to fail. but it would not be racist to claim that the causes of the achievement gaps have little to do with individuals but rather are caused by sociological and historical factors
Worth a read: The Experience Economy

http://www.amazon.com/Experience-Economy-Theater-Every-Busin...

Read online:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5hs-tyRrS...

Skip the last few chapters. The author's personal (religious) beliefs start to show, and his line of thought weakens (experience economy leads to "transformation" economy, in which people seek to be "transformed.") The majority of the book is an excellent read, though.
Could anyone list some practical uses ?
Of course. I was being sarcastic.
Because APL is almost completely unreadable?
Convore's (YC W11) Apple Announcement Topic/Chat
I’ve been always wondering, with all this variety, can the Game of Life model such a simple process as a circular wave? I can’t find anything about that.
Pretty sure he was on record against Ada. From his point of view, I don't think Pascal and Modula(-2) had much to recommend them over Algol-60.
A few points:

HN is not amero-centric

"The American Dream BS" is not correctly stated in the original piece, thus cannot be the "BS" cannot be what HN folks want to follow

* Anyone can make it if they choose to. Not everyone succeeds on the first try, but the odds are with the person who chooses to learn from mistakes and try better the next time.

* Success is ill-defined when one makes money and prestige the only inputs. As an example of what one small subset of the world thinks, view the third quotation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._McKay#Quotations
http://shapea.com (I am the founder) is trying to do this. We are currently in beta (though you can sign in publicly). The main goal of Shapea is to help validate your startup ideas and one of the thing we do is allow you to share your ideas and get feedback from the community. Would love to hear what you think about it.
"It's the most fair and allows pretty much anyone to be successful."

These are highly debatable points.
I really like the idea of looking for someone to apprentice with. It's awesome that he found someone to take him in. "look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master."

I started coding HTML/CSS/Javascript when I was 15. When I was 18 I was working on a $14M project doing HTML & jQuery. 19 and 20 rolled around and I thought I was hot shit and could get away without knowing much about object oriented programming and database design. Boy, did experience beat me with a heavy stick.

After blowing through a lot of money paying other people, and not being able to evaluate what they were doing, I started learning to program myself a little over a year ago (December 2009). It has been, by far, the best investment I've ever made.

You HAVE to have mentors, though, bookwork and experience alone don't cut it. Some of my mentors, didn't do anything but talk to me - and ingrain in me the importance of fundamentals - and some basic vocabulary. Some stuff that didn't make sense when I heard it, but produced those "Aha" moments later. Other stuff, like the importance of pre-planning, prototyping, code readability, and NEVER using code you don't fully understand, I was told from the beginning were very important.

Plus, mentors can be different types of people in different types of situations. One of my mentors was an experienced programmer who I lived with for a few months. Others were dudes on stackexchange and serverfault (Yes, that counts), and others were those I read.

The bottom line is, you need to see yourself as an apprentice, always looking for a master to learn from.
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How about something for Hackruiter? Using your API? Plot all companies on a map? Contact form to sign up to meet you guys? Some type of programming-challenge checker?
The Day the Movies Died (or, why Hollywood can't make good films anymore)
The thing that always strikes me when I read Dijkstra's writings on languages is that in the context of present-day discourse, he comes across as a massive troll. He rarely gives any in-place justification for his outrageous use of insulting and attacking language.

I realise some of this is explained by the fact that a lot of this stuff was written for consumption by people who were already aware of him and his ideas, other people at various institutions with him. However this begs the question, if your target audience is already so aware of your unusual ideas that you do not feel the need to provide any kind of context or justification, why moan so loudly at all? I'd love to see some of his colleagues reactions of the time to some of these tracts.

I guess when you're that far into the right-hand crevice of the intelligence bellcurve, you're going to fall into the outer quartiles for quite a lot of other psychometrics as well.
okay, this is AWESOME!
not really: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/02/us-dollar...
3. Where should I post the job or ask for referrals? Dice? StartupHire.com? Others?

Startuply.com is good for this type of role.
It's not directly related to the event, but related to a recent code push.

We're putting status here: http://status.disqus.com
I'm not judging Python. I'll definitely come back to it, but I'm just focused on Ruby and PHP for now. Ultimately, languages can always be picked up here and there, but what's most important are your problem solving skills and what you've built, I think.
some sort of poll?

for iPhone:

1) thats what she said app(or some other phrase to play on command, and record audio)

2) location-based scavenger hunt
I think that especially the early iPods are quite timeless. I have an iPod mini and it still looks great.

The technology is quite outdated but (contrary to 70s malls) the aesthetics are not.

(Some Apple designs do age. The early plastic iMacs but not the eMac or the lampshade iMac or the Cube. I also think that the fat iPod nano and pretty much every other iPod nano won’t age well. I think that the early iMacs were never intended to be timeless. They were designed to be flashy, to show that Apple is still alive.)
Just a minor nitpick, although I agree with everything else.

dual analog sticks in the proper position for 3D gaming

Wasn't this done back with the early PS2/late PS1 controllers with analog sticks? I don't see how they're all that different from the first XBOX controller in terms of placement. I tend to prefer the PS controllers, so there may be some bias.
+1 for Game of Life. But that's coming from two guys who just made Game of Life simulators. Good to play with canvas, as well.
alright this is probably the most unscientific statement, but from my personal perspective, Ada Lovelace is a really cool name, just putting it out there
Of note is that Foursquare is also the most high profile Scala/Lift site.
Heh, the very first JavaScript app I wrote was Conway's Game of Life... in HTML <div> tags.
Discounts & Software-as-a-Service
What percentage of your earnings would you not consider theft?
It is in-browser web sockets. It falls back to a flash implementation of websockets if the browser doesn't support it natively.

It's also completely over SSL, so the transparent proxy security bug does not apply.
Have you heard of newrelic.com or scoutapp.com? Basically the same thing.
I feel like this should be titled "I don't understand the new economics". The economics of a material world are different than the economics of an information world.

Rob Gingell used to point out to me that people living during the revolutionary war didn't have a good feel for what the final rules were going to be either.

So I buy the insight that it takes fewer people to create Facebook today then it did to produce Chevy Malibu's in the 70's, however Facebook is creating opportunities for people like Zynga so you really have to ask yourself what is the set of all the people working on Facebook, or applications for Facebook, or applications that let you visit Facebook, or derive demographic data from the information pool of Facebook?

This is what will distinguish the information economy from the material economy. In the material economy the product (our example is the Chevy Malibu) is a dead end, it gets created, used, and discarded. In the information economy people build products which turn out to be pre-cursor materials to other products, or combined into still other products. Information products, even those that are nominally not 'tools', by their nature can be composited into new products, just like a DJ might create a techno trance mix of three or four of her favorite tunes.

Google, employs 24,000 people (approximately), and how many people have careers that exist only because Google (or I guess more properly search engines) exist?

So I read articles like this one and I feel like the author (in this case the meta author because the NYT is talking about Cowen's book) are struggling to understand something their brain wasn't prepared to understand, which is that information, like a Chevy, can have intrinsic value. Further its value persists as its "re-manufactured" into new information by people skilled in the art of doing so. So without the tools to understand the economics of information they see money like Google's billions but can't see the mechanism that creates it.
" there's nothing wrong with paying people what they're willing to work for"

This is where people miss something important, in my opinion. On the surface there's nothing wrong with paying people what they're willing to work for. But when you dig a little deeper, "what they're willing to work for" is really just a proxy for market forces and labor supply and demand. Just because someone accepts working for a certain price doesn't mean it's what they wanted. If they enjoy putting food on the table, they have surprisingly little choice.
For what it's worth, older iPods with Firewire have a particular value to motorcycle tourers. Firewire has a very wide voltage spec, so you can hardwire your iPod straight to the bike.
Always good to see new dutch software products/startups!
How is this an answer? A nice library would mean that all those symbols would be sitting somewhere other than in your code.
Unfortunately, we live in a material world. So we have to regard the material as important as well.

Hence the problems.
In "Coders at Work", there was an interesting exchange between Seibel and Knuth, where Seibel asks Knuth about Dijkstra's ideas on how computer science should be taught, and Knuth pointed out that Dijkstra, like the rest of us, learned about computers by tinkering with them, not by spending several years working out formal proofs without access to hardware.
The one beautiful thing that cardpool can do that cash cant do is get you a discount without having to bargain. All you need is a little bit of foresight.

When I was going to buy my Droid X, I knew BestBuy was going to be selling it so I went on cardpool and bought two 100$ cards and got 6% off of 200 from the phone. Its a great service if you know your going to spend the money and want to reward yourself for planning ahead.
Then and Now Portrait Photography by Irina Werning
Irina Werning is a photographer who loves to look at other peoples’ old photographs. Instead of just admiring the photos, she wonders how people would feel and look if they were to reenact the same photos today. This project, titled ‘Back To The Future‘ features a collection of her photographs of individuals and groups of people reenacting a photograph that was taken in the past (usually many years ago).
aview solves a different problem
This was the first thought that popped into my head too. Gift cards exist because they mitigate the risk of an unwanted gift while also mostly avoiding the paradox of choice and the taboo of giving cash as a gift. A universal gift card would force the recipient to go through the hassle of getting a gift card first, albeit at a discount. Gift cards already display some laziness on the part of the gift-giver. A gift card for gift cards sorta takes that to a whole new level. Instead of saying "I don't know what you want to buy at this store that you shop at a lot", it says "I don't know where you shop at all...here's some bastardized version of a prepaid debit card...knock yourself out"
Steve Jobs is giving the iPad keynote :)
I love it. Don't know why I didn't think of this. nicholasbs started riffing off of this idea and I have some good ideas.

I still think a more general list is probably worth it, but I'm going to start by building this :)
I had kind of thought so ;-)

Happy to help, whichever way I can.
Nope I hadn't, thanks. Seems like collectively those companies have a lot of high profile clients, so I guess the answer is I'm the odd ball.
How Facebook will be committing “commercide” on July 1st
Information =/= experience. Two different things. The author is referring to the experiential aspects of Facebook, i.e. keeping in touch with friends, etc. Not the actual information on the site. That's why he brings up college dorms being nicer - since it's difficult for universities to provide a better education, they focus on providing a better experience.
They could use The Google 404 search widget thingie.

<script type="text/javascript">
var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = 'http://www.google.com'
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js>
</script>
Publicly-available web analytics benchmark index
iPad 2 Keynote Live Coverage
Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - StatusData
I don't use Facebook, but couldn't they search for your name used as a tag in photos? Yes, this would mean that they'd need to be friends with your friends, but if your friends are working in the same industry, know some recruiters and are less privacy-conscious...
Exactly. Most of the respondents to this thread don't seem to realize that we occupy a very unusual and richly privileged period of history - or for that matter, a very privileged position by dint of being fortunate enough to work in an industry that does allow it's workers a very high degree of autonomy if they choose that for themselves. Even then, it's still very hard and risky work.
O, ok haha
It was tough to start a " 2D GameSprites" website
Read only if you're up for a good laugh: ahem... Bubble Sort!! ;-)
ShowHN: Mobile Website Directory - nibzy.com
Its just a list of direct links to sites with nice mobile websites, like Yahoo of the 90's. I've created it because I find it easier to click on the links open a new window and then go back to the next site, rather than switching apps. The mobile sites are nicer to use on a tablet as well. Please let me know if theres any other useful mobile sites I can add. Thanks

In your mobile browser go to http://nibzy.com
or
if you want just the fast plain text version go to http://home.nibzy.com/plain

Built using Jquery Mobile and on Google app engine/Python.
Everything is unreadable to an illiterate person.
So US growth started stagnating in 1974 (allegedly). There's something familiar about that number. Something to do with the gold standard? Coincidence?
>Is Groupon's revenue sustainable? I thought companies were complaining that they lost money by participating, which would indicate to me that it's not sustainable business.

Someone wrote a bad article with worse graphs showing that 40% of people did not make more money while the promotion was going on. It had horrible methodology, and didn't even point out the food service business loses money on MOST things it does, and this is actually a very small rate of loss for "things you can do to boost sales".

[Not associated with nor have I ever used groupon]
The ROI of Facebook and Twitter marketing. Is social media worth the time?
This argument's been made since Bretton Woods was ended by Nixon in 1971.

A few years ago, I was convinced that the euro would take over reserve currency status from the dollar eventually, but cracks are showing in the euro now - there's competing interests in the European governments for what to do with the currency. The euro will look strong during booms, but look shakier during busts.

As for China - maybe in 15-20 years. They're liberalizing and trending upwards at a fantastic rate, but nobody trusts the Chinese government to do right by the currency instead of their own interests.

This doesn't mean it's a good idea to hold a bunch of liquid dollars right now. But barring something really crazy, I think USD holds reserve currency standard for at least the next decade or two.
Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
Intensely interesting. This is the most poignant section in the article:

"For example, imagine a man we’ll call Sam, who was born in 1900 and died in 1974. Sam entered a world of iceboxes, horse-drawn buggies and, commonly, outhouses. He died in a world of air-conditioning, Chevy Camaros and Moon landings. His life was defined by dramatic material changes, and Sam worked feverishly hard to build a company that sold brake systems. Sam wasn’t the most refined person, but he understood that if he wanted to create a secure life for his family he had to create wealth."

I would add to this that between 1950, when Sam was an adult member of the working class, though nearing retirement, the world's population was 2 billion, and today, the world's population is 8 billion. That in itself is going to manifest incredible levels of change.

I think the trend we're going to see over the NEXT century is going to be a return to production, away from SOLELY consumption of goods, simply because, as the article stated, there are fewer low hanging fruits. Couple that with many more mouths to feed, and you have a recipe for a very different world in 100 years.

I believe just for the human race to survive, people will need to start growing food, en masse, at a local level. Even people in cities. Energy consumption continues to rise, but the means to produce it become more and more expensive. We will need to produce alternative methods of energy gathering - which are renewable. So what does the future hold, in my opinion?

1. Rapid population decline after continued population growth because of lack of ability to support growth (ie Malthusian theory)
2. A "return to the farm" - a resurgence in small farms. Energy costs WILL bring down big agrabusiness - just wait.
3. People using more LOCALIZED means to generate energy. In the Philippines, for example (I was there in July 2009), there were a lot of geothermal plants being built near volcanos. Hawaii has been investing a lot in harnessing wave power (and generating a lot of controversy from the surfer community). I attended a "Blue Planet" presentation in Honoulu in May 2009 and talked to many of the leaders of this initiative. Germany is the world's LEADER in solar energy now. People will take what they can get, where they can get it, to meet their power needs. Even in rural Kentucky, people are starting to put solar panels on their houses.
4. Thank god, less of an obsession with money and stuff. Basic survival will once again trump all other needs until we can again reach a level of production where people can go through another lazy cycle.
Sure, that's true, but if the market doesn't pay you what you feel you are worth, then you have the option to build something that does pay you what you are worth. It's not up to me, as a boss, to take care of someone.
clickable links - if you're browsing on your mobile/tablet otherwise you'll have to type it in.

http://nibzy.com

plain text version

http://home.nibzy.com/plain
Or this is how they chose to learn to work with canvas a bit more and wanted to share their accomplishments?
Hey - anybody want to chat about iPad2 over here? the conversation is temporary (1hr), so let loose!... and help stress test the product out:

http://beta.shh.sh/p7402b63305ad33a44633c31205792618
500 server error right now at Twit. Boo.
for web development, i feel like creating twitter is a nice small beginner project. anything that has a one to one, one to many, and many to many relationship would do the trick.
Nice. Looking forward to seeing the prototype next time we meet up :)
Clearly this is going on, but the article seems a little sensationalist. I highly doubt my ex wife or my pet is being used as a measure of recruitability.
"figure that they need the salary or the stability or the medical coverage too much to risk it...it's a choice nonetheless."

You don't see the contradiction here? What if someone is ill and really needs the medical coverage? What if they have dependents?

Just because you are fortunate enough to be healthy and relatively responsibility free (if you are), doesn't mean that everyone else is in the same boat, and that people who make a different decision do so because they have infinite choice.

This is a big problem with most of the just-world arguments I see about these issues - they never acknowledge that not everything in life is a choice, no matter how much we want to make it so.