skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting bit from the linked comments via "egoodman85":

Hey, just want to clarify something as an Etsy employee. It's not your purchases that are public - it's your feedback on those purchases. I know it's a small distinction, but it's not like we have some sort of desire to publicize our members' purchases. Feedback is public by default just like it is on eBay - to increase accountability and transparency. It's also worth noting that feedback has been public since the site's launch (in fact, the option to make it private was only added recently). The new People Search feature does not change this at all.
I don't know, when I went from OpenBSD to FreeBSD I actually took my fvwm configuration with me as I loved that look :)
Out of curiousity, what does it mean for the recs to be optimized for a mainstream audience instead of a sophisticated one? Different audiences will like different types of apps, sure, but why wouldn't the same basic recommendation algorithm work for everyone? Unless of course the assumption is simply that "mainstream" users are less discriminating, and the recommendations don't have to be as individually targeted.
Touché!

Hmm.. the two (climbing and holding on tighter) aren't mutually exclusive are they? When he holds on to something, is when to hold on tighter.
Thanks. Could you shed some more light on the tech aspects? Job market, access to VCs, startup community, events, meetups, hacker culture, etc.
Sure, lots of men ('cause programmers are male, right?) get positive female attention by publicly insulting people who know less about programming and computers.

Meanness is always unattractive. Always.
Just to clarify, those aren't my goals, I'll be writing those down soon. They're just randoms.

EDIT: and what you say about clear goals is very true.
It's kind of wacky that he sites selling servers to most of the cloud hosts today as an indicator that it's a market HP ought to be in. Not paying resale margins on servers is an advantage, but not a reason. A reason may be.. say, you're Google or Amazon and you've had to build out the ability to quickly and deploy apps on the internet anyways. Is that something HP has any real mindshare or experience in?
Having read through this:
http://book.git-scm.com/3_basic_branching_and_merging.html

I don't see how branching or merging is any easier than I recall from Subversion or cvs.
And let's not confuse real condescension with blunt truth that's interpreted as condescension but is not inherently malicious. I think a lot of people may seem condescending because they are more direct than most people are accustomed to.
I look to see how other people do things. For example, if I think I am an "imposter designer," I look at reputable designers to see what they are doing, and how much of that I can also do. I also look at designers who seem equal to me, to see if they are good.

I also try to learn the flaws of people I admire because that helps me realize that when I am different than someone, it does not mean I am necessarily worse.

Also, Imposter Syndrome is a symptom in the "fear of rejection" category of pride. Reluctance to ship is in that category too. This is a little like Rejection Therapy, but you can beat both those symptoms and hopefully hack at the root if you resolve to put work out there until somebody with authority makes you stop. Most likely they won't, and you'll get the feedback you need to know that you are adequately capable to do what you do.
Alternative - Developer Color Picker (plugin for the standard OS X color picker) http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/
Thank you. The app is hosted on http://no.de Its a Solaris server with just 128RAM and 5GB HD
Nerds, we need to have a talk
Will we be still reproducing with the standard method in "a few more decades"? I highly doubt it.
Small scale: get out of bed earlier. It might sound as a weird goal, but it really does make me feel good when I get out of bed at 6 instead of 7 (I leave for work at 8.) Taking time for breakfast/slow start of the day is amazing.

Big scale: build discipline. I feel like all my problems would be solved if I only had some more discipline.
Everyone you've met is that judgmental?
You should ask them if they have a programmer named Michael Bolton.
Maybe this one? http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
I get the general feeling that most people dislike iTunes. Many of the same people like the Zune software.

In this case I think people just didn't try it. They already owned iPods when they were superior devices and never switched even when Zune passed them in quality.
I didn't downvote, but the article really isn't that long, and contains pictures.
I tried a couple wikipedia pages and it seemed to work ok. Can you email me an example?
That entire thing just looks woeful to me. The fonts, the soulless icons, the striking horizontal lines everywhere, the way the File Browser is swimming in empty space yet the icons and search field at the top of the screen are jammed in and scraping the edges.

"What on earth are you talking about? That looks fine" is a valid reply to my finickiness, and I'm a bit jealous of that, because being like this pretty much limits me to OS X and Apple's whims.
When I see the picture of a suit-and-tie type next to something about joining the latest tech gravy train, I can't help but smell the burning platform.
The dragon wants to become a firefighter =).
It's an Italian cartoon and it was also popular in Germany.

It seems that there is no English wikipedia page for this one.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisu,_der_kleine_Drache
Damn straight, all intolerant people should be taken out and shot.
Premature Optimisation is bad, but Last-Ditch Optimisation is worse
Your answer made sense. Tim Harford did a piece on why people who refuse to be team players (e.g. take on some extra work that's "beneath" them) end up making more money. I assume you mean a signalling scenario like that.
There had to be at least one person at Etsy that thought this was a bad idea. As far as most people are concerned, a purchase is a private transaction between two parities that is not to be disclosed (unless explicitly agreed upon by both parties). Whoever made this 'feature' a reality really ought to get fired.
When you say you don't need different apps for different phones ("Controllers are built using just HTML, CSS, and Javascript."), you do need some "native" code at the other end (what is being controlled).

Do you have a protocol worked out? Or is there one ready to use?

Cheers,

Stephan
That's a good one actually, wrapped in another layer it works perfectly.

As there are code smells, so there are propaganda smells, but not everyone has a nose for either of them.
Thank you!

I learnt Node.js mostly by looking at projects on github, reading Node.js API http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.2/api/ and following these two great resources http://howtonode.org/ and http://blog.nodejitsu.com
Thanks for the feedback.

I'll work on adding more registrars, this is planned.

The site is slower than normal right now due to increased load, but should return to normal after the HN spike. If not I'll more workers.

My goal is that you should never have to wait for results. By the time you click "Load more results", they should already be available.
When the next closest usable timing device costs ~$500, I can see how $25 would be a great deal.
Akshell 0.3 has Git
That's seriously the only thing stopping you from using Ubuntu? All the other differences doesn't matter, the four finger swipe is the make or break?
I wonder what time Barack Obama, Nicola Sarcozy, Vladimir Putin and other presidents/prime ministers go to bed at. And how much sleep they get.

Thinking about it, a study on how and why "sleeping" has changed over the years would be really interesting.
I skimmed and skipped to the end to see if you were a) buying Twitter or b) being bought by Twitter ;)

But it's great to see people doing more lengthy writeup for those willing to wok their way through them.
Looking for more suggestions. Thanks!
Actually it looks like the market may become a very segmented marketplace with a lot of competitors. This is usually a good thing and its a good place to be for a startup.
And its obviously a very big pain that needs to be solved with lots of customers available.

http://www.ericsink.com/Choose_Your_Competition.html

A worse situation is a winner-take-all market with only a few large companies taking 80% of the market: PC-market (Lenovo,Dell), Social Networking (Facebook,Twitter) etc. Here its much harder to gain a foothold but there are companies that do it eg: AlienWare in the highend PC-Gamer market.
One Per Cent: Happier people tweet together
No commute to and fro work!?
Coding for the Web: A Proposal for Better Inline Syntax Highlighting
> a sophisticated smartphone platform adopted wholesale by the world's leading phone manufacturer.

"Wholesale adoption" must mean something different than what I was taught, since Nokia was paid a cool billion to take WP7.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-will-pay-nokia-1-bi...
My notes: SXSWi: Scalability: covering your rear with a good backend
Scalability! Covering your rear with a good backend
Full duplex cache
Lld concatenated ssd forgot data
Hbase over mysql (mysql for modeling)
mint runs mysql with sharding loves it.
Design relational databases to scale horizontally
Product first over architecture. If people aren't using your product what does the architecture matter.
Want to write a book on scaling web services cookbook

Hybridized approach
dedicated database hardware
Asynchronous processes
Amazon Cloud front. Test images sent to asia
Snmp management is still important to automate processes for integrity
Qps ganglia cactus

Always load test with real world data
Simulate test data on small cluster

When small build in cloud, but always design with scaling your data horizontally in mind, because you will grow out of it.

hire diligent people (hard workers that will pick up skills quickly)

Mint is heavily threaded architecture, all java based

Have fun with what you do, but at the end of the day, does the product make sense?
Imageshack nginx on 8 core, fast cgi, fast php

Sidenote Nvidia datacenter - imageshack gets 2billion hits - hadoop and hive of petabytes of data, cuda cores
Grep for cuda. 438 cores. Map text into 3d framework and launch eternal map reduce job - bloom filter

Never build for limitless scale from start, iterate often but plan for 12 months of configuration

No one right architecture

Time is the most important capital a startup has to manage

Dev ops - integrating development and operations - mint is a fan
Shop kick - likes it
Keep talent engaged
YouTube - hire good systems engineers after series a

Cloud is not a substitute for hiring good engineers, depends on what infrastructure needs

Netflix moved to the cloud because akamai said they would foot the bill

- favorite tools - Hbase, nginx, memcached, haproxy replaced load balancer at yfrog
- mint - good software engineer
- shop kick - hers hadoop, scribes, zookeeper, thrift
How can Skype be "insanely great" if its latest client is "horrendous"?
i knew his reputation, i knew i'd like this guy when i read "o'reilly in a nutshell" but this is the first time i've actually seen him. very nice interview!

content-wise, though, i'm not sure i would discount the many me-too startups merely because they are "derivative". sure, you've seen this Y before in X, but i feel the trickle-down force of technology is, if anything, becoming stronger by the day, i.e. the breadth of "real life" to which you can bring even existing technology or old hat ideas and still make a profound difference is huge.

i walk around and see about a thousand things where i say "couldn't someone bring at least a bit of X into this Y?"

second, it's ironic that one of the two things that are virtually guaranteed to become ever more valuable in a world in which everything else eventually becomes "commoditized" are commodities.

another hard limit is the future. anything that can push the boundary in forecasting will become extremely valuable in a time when everything becomes so interdependent.
This makes me wonder if they risk a copyright infringement lawsuit...
The one good thing about Microsoft is that they always eat their own dog food — it's made them build better products over the long run. And I say this as an Apple fanboy...
Yeah, because we're all panting to be poked and groped like cattle by perverts at US airports.
Pretty much the only standard way to do this involves something like "void (fp)(void arg)" or "void (*fp)(va_list ap)" and generous casting.

That said, this is not that likely to be a problem in practice on Unix machines (Windows has more than one calling convention - I have no idea how much of a problem that is.)
Can We Ever Have Too Many Startups?
Many companies outsource their IT to HP; if HP doesn't have a cloud it could lose those customers when they decide to "go cloud".
Android, ChromeOS, and Google's internal Linux variants are all unremarkable, fairly conservative updates to Linux.

The article is talking about things that are not simply evolutions of existing technologies, but outright reinventions that show promise.
Math + Design – The 892 unique ways to partition a 3 x 4 grid
You may be interested in reading the many comments from when this was submitted earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765113
Three Simple Steps To Focus Your Startup Sales Efforts
Panel : scoble, emigh, levin, michaels
How old was Paul Graham when he started ViaWeb? I don't think it was mid-twenties -- maybe 30 or 31?
This is absolutely brilliant. The interface is very intuitive. Was node.js instrumental in making this work, or did you just want an excuse to learn it? (ie. rather than use a different server language)
So someone wrote feedback for the aforementioned dildo?

How's that for satisfied customers.

What confuses me is that the privacy setting says:

PURCHASES
Who can see your purchases?

*

EDIT: I'll try to think out loud here and update as I wrap my head around this.

One of the examples states that he found a woman's results by her favourites. Those have always been an (opt-in) part of the privacy settings as I know.

The question is a) how he tied her favourites to her person on Google, and b) how the former example tied the purchase (or favourite, or buyer feedback) to the person. In (b), I haven't found anything that explicitly says that the woman was identified - just that some woman's dildo-related purchase was somehow visible.

Did they know the person by their user name and identify the person, or were the full names somehow visible, which created the - justified - outrage?

I hope this is a misunderstanding, but there are still some unanswered questions. Etsy deserves the benefit of the doubt, of course.

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UPDATE: Using this link:

http://www.etsy.com/people/<user_name>/feedback?type=for_others

replacing <user_name> with your own (wait for it) user name, your feedback history will show up.

I have not found any way to disable this.

This is, ipso facto, not contingent on the new privacy settings. It's a problem, but nothing points to it being a new one. I can't form a causal relationship like Ars Technica does based on this.

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Hopefully last update:

This all seems to be supported by Etsy's CEO: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/etsy-users-irked-aft....

I don't know how display of purchases (not buyer feedback) was handled before, but I'll leave that head-ache for someone else to figure out.

Let's hope that Ars Technica own up to this correction and rectifies it.

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Addendum:

Seller feedback is also public like Buyer feedback. Caveat emptor indeed.

cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2325006
No, everyone I've met puts peoples into categories and types. It's how human brains are wired (I've read, anyway). It's What We Do.
Top Things That Women Invented
Ask/Suggest HN: Social coding with game mechanics
After spending some time on Stack Overflow, and seeing the extremely fast error->fix->commit cycles on PyPy development, I wondered, wouldn't it be great if there was a place where fixes, tests, merges, and documentation of a collaborative open source project was peer reviewed and awarded with Karma? With Stack Overflow using their points in their Careers section, there is even more incentive for people to contribute. I can imagine extremely fast development of complex software with this. Some details like who maintains the head branch etc., have to be worked out, but what do people think? Does something like this exist? Will someone try it out?
I've actually read a good bit about it. E.g.:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/03.pdf

I know it's not voodoo and obviously the laws of physics are well understood, but it also seems like there hasn't been enough experience with actual meltdowns that these things are entirely predictable.

I understand that the Chernobyl design contained a large quantity of graphite and little containment beyond the vessel itself.

But I still have questions:

* If the engineering is well-understood, then why did the buildings blow up due to accumulated hydrogen?

* Do these reactor designs (GE Mk I and II) include a "core catcher"? Some analysts act like it's obvious that they do, but I find no mention of it in the NRC docs. Mainly it's counted as a feature of more advanced designs.

* What does it mean for the suppression pool to be damaged? Was that optional equipment? It's being described as the "last line of defense" by a smart-looking fellow from Tokyo U.

* Can the control rods fall out? They don't drop in from above, they're pushed up from the bottom hydraulically.

* Do the materials of the fuel and the control rods melt at different rates? It seems like this could result in the materials separating as they melt and a partial core re-igniting as a lump at the bottom of the vessel. Or was this possibility considered and designed against in this '60s-era reactor?

* What is the real implication of the plutonium in the MOX fuel in Fukushima Daiichi reactor No.2? They were mostly exposed for 2+ hours.

And so on...press conference on NHK world right now (available on ustream.tv nhk-world-tv).
This explains why it's so overcast in Palo Alto today.
$25 is not that much; the secret is in making customers believe it's worth it, i.e. good marketing.

People pay a minimum of 1000 USD for an Apple laptop. I work on a 500 USD laptop from Asus, which I believe is just as good. But it's not as cool and people don't envy me :)
Apple, Rivals Wait Each Other Out in Mobile Payments
Just because something is popular (e.g. MySpace) doesn't mean something else can't come along and replace it (e.g. Facebook)

Everyone I know who uses Skype complains (eventually) about the quality.

Additionally, Skype is effectively a closed (in the sense of opaque) system controlled by corporate interests. Now, I'm not against someone making a fair return on a fair service, but I do worry about who has control over my information. Who is Skype accountable to?
None of which garnered anywhere near as much acclaim as Pulp Fiction did. Unless you consider Jungle Fever a cinematic masterpiece
This is a strange requirement, which would make Mac OS (for example) even less of a "real OS" than Android since it runs on even fewer devices.
FreeBSD has a new default installer
Never saw this before today, but it hardly seems funny. That's how people smuggle contraband in prison.

The sad truth is that either you have wealth with which to get what you want from other people, or you swallow your pride and smuggle stuff in via your rectum. It's not funny; it's a sad commentary on the demeaning prison life.
I did keep the money that I was paying on my mortgage - until I lost my job and was going through a divorce.

My circumstances were farked in multiple ways... The amount I was making on my income was less than required for all my bills - as we had joint income of around ~250K.

After we split, and then later I lost my job - I had to make decisions on what to pay: utilities/food/gas etc.. which took away from what I had saved for the mortgage - when I was finally contacted, via the foreclosure notice - which was the first and only communication from the new lender - I didn't have the total amount and was farked.
This happened in 2008
I know one guy who used to actually reply saying, 'read what you just wrote, and feel bad about yourself.' One of the main problems though is that half the people on these forums are 10-18 year olds. I mean even Hacker News has a median age of only 25 (according to a recent poll), and it seems super-grown-up.
Here is a good resource for you:

http://startupindex.ca/
Based on your other comments on this site, I assume that was sarcasm, but I know that a lot of other people would think you were being completely serious.
What would happen if a Japan-like earthquake hits Silicon Valley?
I thought about this some years ago and the recent earthquake in Japan brought it up again.

What would happen if such an earthquake would hit Silicon Valley? Many data centers seem to be out of the Valley for this reason, but what about all the offices of tech companies and the homes of their employees?

How hard would this hit the tech industry?
Chile to give 300 startups $40,000
Every company I have ever worked for uses XP, Microsoft is making a big mistake working on this "vista thing"
You're also leaving out what the household might be doing with its Internet besides Netflix, and you are conveniently ignoring the 150GB cap on DSL service.

Why are you defending AT&T for lowering its level of service by an order of magnitude and imposing gigantic overage fees?

I did some quick math. I could go over this cap on my DSL line simply by using my connection at full speed for LESS than a tenth of a month; i.e., less than 2.4 hrs per day. Sorry, that's not acceptable on an "unlimited" link.
I've added your two OSS solutions.

Re: G.A. Yeah, free will carry them for quite a while.
For some ideas, I just found an old Twitter conversation about using pull-requests: @KentBeck:What would happen if github applied game mechanics more explicitly? i realized i collect un-applied pull requests as a kind of currency. (http://twitoaster.com/kentbeck/what-would-happen-if-github-a...)
I can vouch for Waterloo. Talking to friends in Toronto, the tech scene seems to be tighter and more helpful.

Vancouver is amazing for the lifestyle.
Looks like I'm a little late to this... but one silly heuristic to questions like this I've stumbled upon is, if the negative answer makes you feel crappy and the speaker seem like an ass, then the answer is likely actually a positive.

In other words, "If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful in the rest of my life?" "No, just give up on being successful now".

... of course, I'm not at the mid 20s now, and can only imagine the feeling... same when I reach mid 30s.... or 40s... or 50s.

...I'm scared of growing old.
I followed your links and read this stuff in the first post. On the Ryan thing, he never claimed to have any inside knowledge, he just read Ryan's statement.

"JCT, however, does not have the capability at this time to provide longer-term revenue estimates (i.e. beyond 10 years). Given these functional constraints for an official analysis, staff relied on its original work with the Treasury Department and other tax experts to formulate a reasonable expected path for long-term revenues given the tax policies in the Roadmap combined with the economic growth projections available at the time."

How I read this (and how Krugman read it):

Our staff relied on its original work because of the functional constraint of JCT not having the capability at this time to provide longer-term revenue estimates (i.e. beyond 10 years).

A pretty reasonable read, if you ask me. Or McArdle, as you have pointed out: "To be honest, I too found that passage ambiguous."

I'm not sure if that screams deceptive liar who assassinates people's characters in order to protect himself from the "smart and honest," and if it's the most "torrid" claim, you're pretty easily aroused.