skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still a little intimidated by the weight of their crushing intellect whenever I go to the dojo, but the friendly people make it bearable ;)
Someone asking for money in exchange for a good or service? How horrifying.
The point is not that it's $4, or $10,000 or $0.25. The point is that now that money has to come from somewhere. This throws up a sizeable obstacle for anyone looking to do development on the platform and will especially hurt FOSS.

If you can't see this, I don't really know what to say. Apple literally makes billions of dollars on software, you'd think they'd throw the developers that literally helped build their ecosystem a freaking bone. I suppose that's too much to ask from Apple.

Cue the "vote with your wallet", "no one is forcing you to use it" rabble...
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On a semi-related question, I'm seriously considering moving back to Silicon Valley to enable me to really focus on my startup. I can probably find couch space with friends, but that gets old pretty quickly.

Any suggestions for finding good, simple accommodations around Mountain View? I need a secure space with a bed, shower, and a simple kitchen, preferably not shared.

Yep, I can do Craigslist etc, just wondering if I'm missing anything untraditional.
Yeah, for a while now I have used firefox in kind of I need a quick environment free of cache and cookies to test if what I'm seeing is right.
FF4 is fast and feature rich. Try out Chrome and FF4 on this site:

https://demos.mozilla.org/en-US/

There doesn't have to be only one browser, right? We want a few great implementations of the open standards.
I cope with this with #3, I guess - not programming as a career.

I can then do crazy prototypes and hackathons in my spare time and work on the general big-picture, product vision stuff that I really enjoy in my actual job as a product manager. My workplace isn't reliant on my shipping great code (and we'd all be worse off if it were!).
I did not know that. I respect and understand operating costs too much to beg for exemption so it's nice to hear there's a codified way to go about it.
> When it gets more expensive we should ask why.

They just plowed thousands of engineering man-hours into significantly overhauling both the infrastructure (huge amount of work around LLVM) and interface of Xcode for the Xcode 4 release, addressing a substantive number of long-standing complaints along the way. This release is by far the biggest overhaul of the product in the last decade. All of those engineers cost a lot of money. They aren't working on this out of charity. That's why.

I simply do not understand why people are hung up on an IDE that is the product of thousands of engineering man-hours costing as much as a single foot long sandwich slapped together by a bored teenager in 60 seconds.
Whatever that bar is, it's not Mozilla official. Some other software on your computer put it there.
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I think it sounds little sharp here BUT I have to admit I paid several bucks to save me from headaches at work. I bought software which made me a lot more productive and it sometimes cost me more than 60 bucks AND I'm really using those software at work not at home cause I don't need them at home.
That very well may be, but my point was basically that it's not something I have to worry about in Chrome either.
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45, Both, MacOSX and Linux.
Why being first doesn't matter.
I have been working on my startup since August, and released our app (Gruburg) in November. The day after it got released, Google HotPot was announced. Since what I made was basically the same as Google's new product, my spirits were destroyed.

Fast forward to today. At this point I am on the third version of the app, with social features and other things. I am even giving people money to use the app! Nothing, stuck with just organic(read: slow) growth. Foursquare releases their update today and its 1:1 with my app features. Why would anyone download another geolocation app, if they already have one that friends use?

Spirits destroyed, I am thinking of killing Gruburg. Being first (or having grand ideas) means nothing to me now, regardless of execution.
Your overview isn't, but we've built this into our library of tools that we use for history management, and maybe we will build something like our provider portal that would be.
If doing iOS work isn't worth five dollars to you, than how much you can be said to "want" to do it is up for debate.
If there are any younger hackers out who don't have any other way of purchasing this and can't (or don't want to) ask their parents, email me at sqs at cs dot stanford dot edu with your HN username and a link to something you're working on, and I'll gift it to you.

It sounds like you might have to first verify your Mac App Store account, though, and if you have no CC, that requires you to email Apple (I just Googled around, and that's what some sites said). So, you'll have to do that first. Just search for "mac app store gift card no credit card" and you'll see what's up.
I was tempted to say "Spoken like a true Chris", but then I realized that no true Chris would really say something like that. Here's what I think you didn't get from the OP's story: there's a hell of a lot of creativity in what Chris does. Steve and Chris work on different levels, that's all.

Yes, Steve's job is flashier, it makes spectators go "whoa" and "ooh" and "aah". But all the fine touches and important details that make the final solution so great are Chris's work. And if you think there's no creativity involved in finding those solutions, you've got another think coming...
They get their timing data from the Google Toolbar, so yes.
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You forget, some people (not usually I) find a lot of pleasure in finding order in code. simplifying, refactoring, reducing, straightening out -- whatever you want to call it, it's not a chore for all, and can be very satisfying.

I've met plenty of programmers, however, who really dread the 'empty file' problem and struggle to know how to solve the meta problem -- but when tasked to fine tune perform a code path or refactor methods in a class, they are able to excel and do awesome work.
If he still owns those 40K shares, that would be $23,670,800 today.
Not bad for a chef, though!

Thanks for the link :)
Here's how I found accommodation in Mountain View.. Hope this helps -> http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/moving/house-hopping-f...

Oh and Hacker Dojo rocks! It's like a home away from home!
32, "Both", Win XP and Linux
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I definitely notice that even for simple things. When I was pretty young, probably 8 or something, I was in a class where we had some time to play around with Logo when we finished other things. So I'd write up some stuff I wanted to try out on paper when I wasn't at the computer, and typed it in when I got to use the computer, and it worked pretty frequently. In theory I'm a much better programmer now than I was when I was 8, but I seem less good at writing chunks of error-free code that works on the first try, because there's this strong temptation to just instantly hit compile/run and see what happens, rather than writing it slowly and reading over it repeatedly.
Wouldn't it have to? You can't take out a loan for a VC venture for less than 5% considering the extreme risk involved in a poorly run fund. I'd imagine debt financing would be cost prohibitive even if you found a bank crazy enough to loan you the money.
While it's not really useful for regular building, it seems like Joe Damato has made some progress on getting some of the binutils code working.

http://twitter.com/joedamato/status/41235981722066944
I'll tell you what NOT to do. Don't think of him as the first one on the hiring list!

I had my pair programming soulmate as early as age 15, back in the very early PC days (mid-to-late 70's). We ended up working together at a small software company, and having a blast.

We went to different schools. I graduated before he did. I got a great job at a fast-growing silicon valley computer company. The next year, I helped him get hired. He even reported to me for a while, at what is today one of the largest computer companies.

We always talked about starting our own business. Finally, after lengthy successful corporate careers, we got a 3rd partner who was willing to quit to launch a business, provided that "Chris and Steve" (me and my programming soulmate) would join him, the other guy first, me second.

Unfortunately, wives and families got involved, complicating things. The other guy never wanted to quit his safe and secure job at the large computer company, and so he balked at his earlier agreement to be the first of us to quit. So the 3rd partner turned to me in desperation, even though I was not his first choice, and it wasn't what we had previously signed as an agreement.

I quit the cushy corporate job (I had the better of the two jobs), and helped to launch the small business. We were making good money. Then the other guy FINALLY joined us. Unfortunately, we never made any profits while he was employed fulltime. There was too much stress and too many family issues. Finally, the soulmate quit, taking one of our largest customers with him, and tried to stiff the bank on the business loan, on the way out the door. He didn't honor many of the signed papers, including shareholder buyback agreements, loan documents, etc. Instead, through his lawyer, he said "I hope the bank sues us", because he had falsified his asset statement to the bank, claiming that he had no assets. He figured he was safe, and they'd come after me.

The loan holder ended up suing him, and winning by default. Funny thing, when you sign those loan documents, you sign away your rights to fight in court, and you agree that the loan holder can sue and win without you even knowing it. The loan holder aimed directly at him, not at me or the 3rd partner. He got sued and lost.

Naturally, this pissed him off, but it was his own bad legal advice that got him into the mess. He was unwilling to come to the table to negotiate a fair settlement, and wanted to hold onto company ownership, but was not willing to live up to company debt. Sorry, pal, it doesn't work that way.

So, I move on. The company never had a profitable year with him as a fulltime employee, and never had a loss with him out. The business is doing fairly well after 15 years. We don't speak to this day. Best friends from childhood and programming soulmates, but it's NOT a way to start a business.

So forget about the idea that he's the first person that you'll hire. Bad idea.
JetBrains is working on an IDE for Cocoa developer and guess what it wont cost 5 bucks thats for sure.

http://www.jetbrains.com/cidr/
The caption says that pg "discovered [a] spam filtering algorithm." I find it interesting that while this is probably the result of a staff member's ignorance with technology jargon, the word "discovers" actually expresses my interpretation (call it "philosophy" if you want) of the interaction between algorithms and "intellectual property."
I guess my problem with this whole debate is that I'm struggling to think of a single site I visit at all regularly that offers this hypothetical content I wouldn't want to lose, yet which couldn't/doesn't have alternatives available other than pseudo-spyware advertising.

Most of the good small-scale sites I visit are related to some particular topic, perhaps a hobby or a particular technical subject. That means they already have a ready-targeted audience without any tracking whatsoever, so if there are any related products to advertise at all, they are pretty much a marketer's ideal channel. I don't know the operators of most of the sites I use personally, of course, but a few of those I do know get guaranteed rates from specialist advertisers based on real contracts that would make the average CPM-based ad-networked blogger cry.

Larger-scale sites tend to have more options open to them anyway once their user base has reached critical mass. You get to the scale of corporate sponsorship, serious donation volumes, and eventually the kind of mainstream advertising campaigns you see with mass media, major sports events, etc.

Obviously there are lots of other kinds of sites, but mostly run by people or organisations for their own reasons that don't necessarily involve profit.

What's left? Small-scale sites that need to make a significant amount of money yet have no particular speciality nor offer any particularly original and valuable content that others aren't contributing for free?

By the way, I don't accept your analogy between this situation and taxes at all, but I have no interest in getting into a superficial political debate that I don't think is particularly relevant.

Also by the way, I don't have much problem with prohibiting this kind of tracking outright either. Privacy laws are, IMNSHO, not nearly strong enough in most jurisdictions today. Far too many people wind up suffering significant harm in one form or another as a result, and if the trend for tracking everyone all the time continues along its current path, things will surely become much worse. If a few minor web sites have to be lost for preventing massive, organised surveillance of everyone's private lives, then I'm sorry but I consider that a small price to pay.
IIRC, you can download earlier versions of Xcode for earlier releases of OSX.
A bunch more blends from a similar program I wrote a few years ago:
http://wry.me/blog/2011/03/09/words-words-words.html

I guess I should've posted it! Unlike the OP (AFAIK) it ranks the results by interestingness, where 'more interesting' means more-common words and greater overlap.
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28 / neither / everything (though only Windows professionally at the moment)

Outside of the occasional burst, my programming style is typically cautious and incremental, but not perfectionist.
I heard from an employee that used to work at my Uncle's company (real estate) around Feb-Mar, in 2000.
Used it a couple of times and I was hooked.

These days I find myself jumping between DuckDuckGo and Google though.
Hacker dojo may have been the tipping point for me. I've applied to YC and a couple of others, but may not need that level of support. Hacker dojo may be just right.

I started my first company in Mountain View almost 15 years ago. Seems an auspicious place to start this one.
"Bullying used to be considered a part of growing up..."

This sentence really bothers me.
Enabling anyone with a smartphone - whether an individual in New York, or a village in Nigeria, to earn revenue based on geo-location.
There's a lot to be excited about. Chrome is a respected contender, but it is far from perfect, not everyone uses it, and I'm not sure why Chrome users think it's some divine creation. It's good to have more than one awesome browser.

In addition to all kinds of new HTML5 support, there's hardware acceleration, awesome SVG support, robust Audio API, and Panorama (press cmd+shift+e).
What Caltech/MIT are encouraging is repetition with continued study. Repetition cements short term memory into long term, ref "Brain Rules" book. In order for this process to work efficiently, good sleep is required. Hence how the 2 are related.

What we humans fail to see is that running out of hours in a day to study (work et al) should not equal to cutting back on sleep. Cutting back on sleep is a quick & dirty approach but has its negatives which the article pointed out. If only we could see our consequences of these actions using some monitoring tool/data I'm certain many folks would be in a better position to balance/optimize their study and sleep patterns.

So, both the article and these schools can be right ;-)
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Probably the requirement of trying pirate a 50MB app is a 4.2GB crack.
I made a real-time chat app at a hackathon using this stack - minus backbone:

http://www.hubabl.com
31, Steve, OS X
How long after the release candidates do they usually releases the final product? Does anyone know the history of their release periods?
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Cutting out the middleman means returning things like writing to a craft rather than of an afterthought that is part of an industrial process of creating books.

I don't know anything about publishing except for computer manuals and science fiction. Computer manuals are being slowly revolutionized, I think, by the Pragmatic Programmers (and their ~50% cut for authors, IIRC) and to a lesser extent O'Reilly.

In science fiction, the "middlemen" are perhaps slightly less exploitive than you suggest. The typical SF editor works in Manhattan for considerably less money than most of us make. The SF publishing houses, again, are not giant profit centers, and all but a few books generate modest profits. From where I'm standing, it's got "lifestyle business" written all over it.

Some authors, such as John Scalzi, are extremely happy to focus on writing, and not on contract negotiation, international sales, cover design, marketing, and so on. In economic terms, they're putting all of their working hours to the most profitable use, and farming everything else out to specialists. Or to put it in technology terms, they're like talented coders who dislike sales, marketing and management, and who just want to write code. Not everybody is an entrepreneur, including some people as business- and PR-savvy as Scalzi.

Plus, there are customers like me, who appreciate strong and talented editing. Karl Schroeder's novel Ventus had about 90,000 words cut from the second half at the recommendation of an editor, who said, roughly, The first half of the book is a lovely travelogue across a fascinating world; the second half is a mad race. You need to cut the travelogue stuff from the second half or you'll drive the reader nuts. By Schroeder's own admission, this advice improved the pace of the book tremendously.

Now, absolutely none of this is meant as a knock on people churning out penny-dreadful ebooks on the Kindle and making a killing. They're serving a real market need, and plenty of readers really want significant volume at an affordable price. In the military SF world, this need is mostly met by Baen's DRM-free webscriptions, which combine significant volume, low prices, and the occasional startlingly good novel.
Great post, must agree, but generalizations are prevalent in every part of society its how we humans process and categorise. The wise man however has more granular filters....
The South Korean car industry has improved by leaps and bounds over the past fifteen years. The difference between a Kia or Hyundai in '96 and today is massive. It's really worth taking another look at Kia's products, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Good article. Relevant is Brook's Surgical Team: http://www.dfpug.de/loseblattsammlung/online/workshop/design...

Here, Steve is the Surgeon. The one that works his butt off in a prolonged surgery session, assisted by others who have prepared the way, then he goes and rests before the next surgery.

It makes sense to clear the way for the Steves. With Steve and Chris there is one person that is clearing the way himself, but it makes even more sense to build in support structurally. I find it amazing when I hear about a company that has the engineers washing dishes, emptying their trash baskets, answering phones, and other such tasks to "save money" when all it does is kill time that the surgeon could have spent in the operating room.

What happens to the successful Steves nowadays when they can't find productive environments is they eventually leave, form their own company and hire people to complement their strengths.
Makes sense. Perhaps that's why OSX is the only modern Unix (sorry AIX, HP-UX) that has no package management system... ;-)

I am quite sure the number of Mac users who download Xcode is negligible compared to the number of Mac users who download movies from that very same CDN. And the size of Xcode is comparable to HD movies.
30, Steve, OS X on the desktop, Linux on the servers.
I'd used Chrome exclusively for almost two years before the Fx4 beta cycle, and now I'm back on Fx full-time. I don't have time to get into the details, but Fx 4 is really a large improvement over 3.6.x.
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Great writeup. I'm just starting to get up to speed on using EC2 and work with Rails too. Did you save that AMI in a way where it's reusable for others?

It sounds like you were manually spinning up new instances. Have you had a look at CloudWatch? Could that automate the process?
The "tune" on soundcloud.com is mspaint.exe as 8bit signed PCM, but modified - try importing it in f.e. Audacity and you will notice that quite some editing (fade ins/outs, time stretching etc.) has been applied to the soundcloud.com version.
Define 'beat'. Right now there's nothing on the market that can match both the iPad's features and experience and its price. The Nook Color is intriguing as a cheap Android tablet, but it's not at all in the same league as the iPad or Xoom.
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20, Chris, OSX
Some other software on your computer put it there.

Why does Firefox allow this?
I was agreeing with your point not going against it.
Guys.

This is going to be included on the Lion disc, and we're only paying for it separately this spring due to an accounting rule.

I'll bet $4.99 of my own money on it.
An extremely important video. Should be home-page by now.
Not quite true. If you look at audio in HTML only through the lens of the <audio> tag, you're right. Some of the work-in-progress JS audio API stuff that doesn't depend on the audio tag rocks, even right now, in the dev builds. The future looks brighter than ever without Flash imo.

http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/index...

edit: The in-progress spec - http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/speci...
I'm with you.

The first phase is really fast-paced uber-productive (as you assemble all the bits from past experiences), and the second phase really slows down as you deal with the nitty gritty of implementation and attention to detail. Just doing the first phase is the equivalent of being an ideas guy. I.e. useless without the implementation.
This is the kind of inspiration I come to Hacker News to find. Fantastic work!
Can you somehow get to the note from the message (as opposed to get to the message from the task)?
The typesetting/layout itself also seems like it could be improved, especially given modern computing hardware. Better control over it would be nice anyway. As it is, trying to get figure placement, line-breaking, and page layout to look nice is a crazy trial-and-error-and-magic-constants exercise, and the results in a lot of cases still end up suboptimal.

I'm not too sure why, but there hasn't been a lot of experimentation with it really. I think the figure-placement algorithm is still the same sort-of-works-but-not-really one that Knuth had a student working on improving circa 1980; the student's dissertation proved that optimal pagination was NP-complete instead of improving the algorithm. :P ConTeXt is an interesting experiment that seems to be making some improvements, though.
Aaaaaactually...
http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/

It's not quite as startup/software oriented, but everyone I knew in Pittsburgh who went tells me they're good people.

There's also Dorkbot Pittsburgh, if you're into the trippy electronic art scene:
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotpgh/

Go Steelers.
It's not a question of Firefox allowing this -- if you run any program on your computer it'll have access to your data (and hence to your Firefox profile), and one of the principles behind Firefox is extensibility.