skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know people who work in retail, and suck people exist. There are not a massive proportion of society buy even a bit of a percent is a lot of people overall. You would might that people out for a nice relaxing meal, or shopping in the middle of a holiday, would be pleasant to deal with: but you'd be wrong. I know a number of people in retail and I can tell you (through indirect experience) that the general public can be unrealistically demanding and completely unpleasant if their demands are not met, repeatedly, yesterday.

By way of an anecdotal example: I know someone whose father thinks there is nothing wrong with clicking his finders and yelling "BOY!" at a waiter to get their attention. Except in Italian places - there it would be "Luigi" rather "boy". I bet he consumes a lot of spit when he goes out for a meal...

For many reasons many people out there are dicks. I might well be one of them if I'm honest with myself, though not one of the worst by a long shot. And if you work in retail or catering you are likely to meet far more than your fair share of them. Remember: most workers in a shops or restaurants deal closely with far more members of the public in a day than most of us encounter closely enough to notice in a year.
While the basic perspective of this post is interesting, I find the authors rhetoric entirely off-putting.

Example:

"There are ill-defined languages, and there are well-defined languages. Well-defined languages are statically typed, and languages with rich static type systems subsume dynamic languages as a corner case of narrow, but significant, interest."

I would like to see justification for the claim that there does not exist a single well defined language with runtime type enforcement.

This tone runs through the entire article, which is mostly begging the question rather than supporting the premise. I'd love to see the author's point illustrated by contrasting Haskell/ML and Python/Scheme/Ruby code listings or something similar.

Instead the article merely restates its premise in an attempt to make an impression, rather than to inform. Disappointing.
Whoa there. Church-Turing tells us that everything that is computable is computable by a universal Turing machine. It also tells us that a universal Turing machine and the lambda calculus are computationally equivalent. The lambda calculus is untyped. (There are typed lambda calculi, but they are not computationally more powerful than the lambda calculus. Some of them are less so.)
I have loved T-Mobile for the 5-odd years I've been on them, after terrible experiences with Sprint and AT&T. I'll be moving to Verizon, but I've heard plenty of horror stories about them, too, and I won't be able to take my GSM Nexus One with me, which is a crying shame.
Ask HN: Can it become a startup or be sold?
I work for a digital agency that build sites and online campaigns. The main product there is a CMS, it is done in Flex and PHP. This app works but has some problems and they really want to move forward and leave Flex behind.
Thinking about that and how it is done actually, i build a new app using standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript) at home and free hours. The content and layout of the pages is edited in place, i really like the results and have some cool ideas for it.
Now i'v been thinking what should i do, i thought about 1) Try to sell then this app; 2) Make a startup from it; 3) Give it to then for some kind of better promotion because they offered one last friday if i become maintainer of the current app.
So what is the right or best thing to do? Some advices?
"The notion of cancer risk is only meaningful in relation to something else."

I thought it would be obvious from the context in this thread that the relation is to "not being exposed to radiation".

"as if the alternative was "simply not using nuclear power"."

I never said anything about what I imagine the alternative to be. I don't think I even said nuclear power should be abandoned (although I would like to see it go, true). Just signs for me that you use me as "the imaginary enemy" and don't even look at what I say.

"First, the fossil fuel sources which are the only scalable alternative"

Now you start to make very broad claims. Obviously a lot would have to change, but I heard that humans actually survived for millenia without any electricity at all (no idea how, but still). Not saying we should abandon electricity, but a lot of things could be changed. For example I would not miss cars - I think abandoning the majority of cars would actually enhance our quality of life, not reduce it. Just one example - but I don't claim to have "the" or even "a" solution. One aspect, though: I think fossile fuels and nuclear power are both limited resources (or is nuclear power a perpeteum mobile?). Even if we take it as a "free gift of capital from earth", perhaps we should use that energy to prepare for a time when it is not available anymore, rather than blow it on entertainment. That is, use it to build infrastructure that is less power hungry.

As for the malaria, sorry, but that is bullshit. I know it used to be a problem in areas where it is not now, but I don't think every area without electricity gets a malaria problem. Is there malaria at the north pole??

Isn't malaria far more likely to be caused by politics (and/or population growth), namely groups of people being left in poverty and forced to move into unhealthy regions (swamps) because of that?
This is fantastic. You just delivered another selling point I hadn't even considered yet for our app (I'd say more about it, but I'd like it to be a little more done for a 'Show HN').

Much thanks!
Noted, and fixed. I was using HTML5 placeholder. I'll just put it in the value instead.
Do you want a job or do you want to create jobs?

Answer that question and you have the answer to yours.
Because standing 50km away from someone who lights up a cigarette produces no measurable elevation in cancer risk.

Next question?
"This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will...

My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit...

My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will ever guard it against the ravages of weather and damage as I will ever guard my legs, my arms, my eyes and my heart against damage. I will keep my rifle clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...

Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifleman%27s_Creed

YC is great, but reading this should make it clear that nothing in startup land is remotely comparable.
Maybe the bar should only appear when one conducts a search - so it could have some relevance to what is being searched - rather than right on the main screen.
Radioactivity is not harmless. You would for a variety of reasons prefer that the primary containment at the reactor not be broken.
Thank you. I was on a train at that time and sadly didn't bother to check all links using my constantly failing EDGE connection.
I don't want to keep piling on but it seems like you still don't get it. One of the reasons your post got such a negative response is because you are comparing yourself to people who put themselves in harms way for your benefit.

There is a difference between having your startup fail and actually being shot in the f'ing face by a high powered rifle. And you even ripped on the Marines that may have joined as a way to pay for college, as if they are beneath you and your peers.

Do not compare yourself to real soldiers (or sailors), there is no comparison. Just accept it and move on.
Media trying to cause a panic, news at 11.
There is no harm in knowledge.

Even if you start with Java.
The article cites Jake Adelstein and his book "Tokyo Vice", which is a good review of the Yakuza from a western perspective. He also contributes regularly at http://www.japansubculture.com/, which also features a lot of insight.
Prisoner's dilemma. Easily solved by cooperation.
padmapper.com helps relieve a lot of the pain, but not all of it.
It is now 7:44pm in Mpls and the page is gone. ??????

I was almost done and ready to submit the app..

what is up...?

The PST time is ONLY 5:44pm..?

The deadline was 8pm 2 more hours..
Expanding on that, you can tell a lot about a society by the way it treats its least valuable members.
I've heard good things about "Tokyo Vice" by Jake Adelstein: http://amzn.com/0307475298
Would the data actually be private, or would they roll over to blanket requests from the RIAA and MPAA?
Possibly it's a random local experience, possibly the bad attitude towards people delivering pizza is caused by bad service, or possibly visa versa, but: in my experience, pizza delivery people suck.

Nearly all waiters/waitresses I've ever come across in restaurants have been fine or better, and the people in my local Chinese and Indian takeaways are really, really friendly.

But Dominos and Pizza Hut drivers? Eugh, they're all (and by "all" I mean "all who work in the two shops near where I live) really grumpy and sometimes even rude. If I order a pizza, there's a 50% chance I'll have to actually concentrate on not yelling at them. I've twice felt the need to complain to the Dominos franchise owner about a driver, something I've never done in any other industry, not because I wanted to get back at the driver, but because the service was genuinely so poor that I felt they deserved to hear from me. For example, if someone orders a Pizza for delivery, the driver should try and deliver it, not just decide that ringing the bell is too much hassle and that it would be easier to leave the pizza outside the door getting cold.

Probably just a coincidence, but an interesting one.
So what's the point of not using H.264?
For a while now I've thought it would make sense to create 'relevant trends' for users - take the people you follow and the people they follow, and generate 10 trending topics From those people's tweets. Trending topics would become so much more useful.
Because all else being equal if you can avoid an exposure of 10's of msv, you do, just like if you are getting over a bad cold you avoid driving if you can because you might get lightheaded and run off the road, but you almost certainly won't. And because in the very epicenter of a crisis, you can't predict exactly what's going to happen next and so you act conservatively.

The funny thing about your logic is, it's how the people in charge of Chernobyl thought too. They couldn't simply work out the likely exposures and take action accordingly --- at least, not at first. So they spent zillions of dollars on cleanup and mitigation but didn't tell farmers not to pass unchecked milk on to children, who subsequently contracted thyroid cancer because of the uptake of radioactive iodine. You are illustrating the point. "If they evacuate", you think, "there must be some gigantic risk they aren't telling us about".
Here's the thing. If it were anything other than a major endeavor to replace twitter it would have been done by now.

It is a big problem and not just from an engineering standpoint. The same for facebook.

On the plus side, for competition at least, as hardware technology advances it'll become easier and cheaper to match twitter's capabilities with less effort.
While he may have been wrong to start with, that doesn't excuse the recruiter's behaviour in any way. If I applied on the basis of an offer that did not actually exist I would be most annoyed. I would direct my annoyance to the recruiter (who now has my details through nefarious means and will probably lie about me to hundreds of employers even if I ask them not to, potentially making me look bad in a similar way), where it should go, but many would blame the employer.

The recruiter is not helping the situation in any way what so ever, aside from very slightly increasing their own chances of getting a finder's fee.
Check out logstash as well! Uses mongodb and elasticsearch.
Tichy, I've been here for a long time and you've been here for a long time, and I never figured you for a troll. Is this just one of your issues?
This kind of behavior will last until somebody has an accident on the drive home. Once the company is sued for "providing alcohol", it will be too risky to continue. Folks outside the US might be sensible, but inside... No.
This. I don't think people realize that (I hope) most of Twitter's users are interested in specific people, not the generic Twittersphere.
The Twitter information is also available via Topsy's public Otter API. See trackback_total:

http://otter.topsy.com/urlinfo.json?url=http://news.ycombina...

http://otter.topsy.com
4x AA can't fix 640p resolution on a 1080p display.
Surely "mouth-breathing buffoons" is short-hand for 'not my niche/circle of interest apes'.

We're all primates with our own monkey-sphere, and our inner circle of orangutans will be most important to us.

Some of us choose to read Daring Fireball (http://bit.ly/60LKTH) and follow John on twitter. But twitter is telling us in the most prominent position they have that we should be interested in this: http://bit.ly/1F5sWF.
One is circular, one proposes a social mechanism whereby looting will lead to negative consequences for the looter. I'm having a hard time seeing what you think is not different about those two things.
Simple: almost all listings are from agents / agencies. Their incentive is to rent as many apartments as possible, as often as possible, at as low a risk as possible.

This is why I only rent directly from private owners who have 1-3 units total. Then the negotiation can proceed among equals, and there's a far higher likelihood of getting treated like a human being.

Of course, finding apartments becomes much more difficult under these constraints, but it's been worth it to me.
Ask HN: What will Y Combinator look like in 3 years?
I am curious to know what people think Ycombinator will look like in the next 3 to 5 years. I think its interesting since Ycombinator is in a number of ways pioneering new ways to scale startups.
Ah ha. I understand how it could have been used in that context, just failed to understand that it was. Thanks for clarifying.
In a theoretical sense: yes. But for practical reasons, I do not have one test per compilation unit, but multiple. Thats why I chose XUnit as an example: classes are groups of tests, while the actual tests are written in methods. So it makes sense to defer (or at least to be able to defer) "broken parts" to have a better understanding of how much is exactly broken. And "just have to use" is sometimes not that easy if for example your task is ripping out a whole subsystem and fitting a new one. You would really like to see progress there instead of "tiny feature Y is not provable by your compiler, so I won't tell you whether feature X,Z and B work". So I am interested in whether only a part of the compilation unit makes sense. Ruby does that: I can tell my test suite that I fully expect this test to be broken at the moment and that I want that reported. In Java, I'm lost until I satisfied the complainer - ehm - compiler.

Thats actually the reason why I know more then one Java and C shop that use Ruby/Python/similar for their test suite.
We just realized we've been creating software for the iPad2 and didn't know it.
There is a free forever account. We've got about 500 active users and I'm not hearing from them the volumes you are throwing out here. From our experiences at Splunk we know volumes vary widely though, and we'll probably need a custom quote widget for high volume, low retention peeps.

Appliances are expensive to market and sell. We know this space pretty well, and I'm sure we are on the right track staying focused on saasing it.
This happened during the dot com era. Beer busts, Friday afternoons initially, but expanding into other time slots, were the norm. Then HR and legal started looking at liability issues and the frequency of such events dropped off. We'd go out to local bars instead, and there the workday ended.

Companies do a lot to keep employees at, or near, their desks to get additional work out of them. Some of these benefits appear to work well, but I have doubts about providing alcohol. Productivity drops, inhibitions drop, liability rises. Better to say "Ok, time to go home, or at least elsewhere."
Great question...

My guess is that each micro-demographic thinks of the other micro-demographics as 'buffoons' or perhaps 'horn-rimmed nerds'. If someone wanted to find out what the masses were enjoying, they'd be watching network TV instead.
Not to keep piling it on, but when someone says "this is the Cadillac of sandwiches," do you say "Cadillac was founded in 1902 and employs tens of thousands of hard working Americans. How dare you?!"

People call YC a school for startups. I used a metaphor that implied it's far harder than school, and that the people in it are among the best you can hope to be working alongside. It's a metaphor and meant to be both a compliment to YC, and to the Marines. It doesn't make me comparable to a Marine, just like it doesn't make tuna on rye a car.
Warning: do not buy VVVVVV if you haven't yet finished your taxes. You will not get anything done.
We're ex-Splunk, and can tell you it's a pretty expensive solution if you end up buying it. The free version of Splunk is nice, but you still have to provision a server to run it on.

We are planning providing filtering to Loggly with Jordan's Logstash project: http://code.google.com/p/logstash/ If anyone is interested in helping we'd love to have you.
Thanks. They've renewed it for another two years, and I've already failed to grab it through a backordering service once (despite it being expired for what seems much longer than the reasonable renewal time, several months), is there something different about NameJet/SnapNames? I don't really want to wait another two years. The "join" page for Sedo doesn't work either, but do you any idea what kind of money we'd be looking at?
Most new cars hackable over wireless
Classic pitch.
Glad we went with the G rated non-rap version of our YC pitch.
Clearly their censorship efforts have failed:

http://graph.facebook.com/http://lamebook.com
I wonder how many people returning lost goods actually claim the 5-20% they're entitled to. I lost my bag once (with my wallet in it). I went to the police box closest to the area where I'd lost it, and of course they had it. Someone had picked it up and turned it in. The officer I talked to explained to me that the finder was entitled to a percentage, but had checked a box on the form waiving the finder's fee.

And to be honest, I don't think I'd claim anything either if I turned in someone's wallet.
The site's not loading for me for some reason. Could someone please upload the image to imgur.com or some other site? I read the text via Google cache, just can't see the chart.
He is but you are right, he also says he would owe me 7 digits.
More Reasons Why Homeland Security Seizing Domain Names Is Unconstitutional
I tried using sedo to obtain a domain that has been parked for eight years. The initial asking price was $15,000. I countered with $150. A response came back within five minutes for $14,900. I countered with $250. The other side cancelled the negotiation.

I don't trust any of the negotiation services. Call me cynical, but I suspect domain lookup service to be in bed with domain negotiation services and domain parking services.
The woodpecker plan supports HTTPS, just not TLS. We need to clarify that. See my quote above regarding pricing. We definitely need to figure out some other pricing knobs.
Batteries charge quickly and retain capacity, thanks to new structure
> (The low educational and cultural level of the US is embarassing....)

doesn't really contribute anything.
People Don't Use "The Internet"
Hi Lester - good to see you on HN. I'll drop you a line sometime... I still have your card someplace.
Software Architect at Mertado
These stories have the odor of propaganda to them.

I'd argue that there's no looting because refugees are penned up in shelters inland, and the coastal towns are pretty much gone.

In Katrina and Haiti, people were stuck in the immediate area of destruction, and didn't have anywhere to go. Remember the guy blogging from the datacenter in New Orleans during the Hurricane? The whole city broke down, there was nowhere to go. In Haiti, the whole place was barely functioning before the earthquake.
Lead Web Developer at Mertado
If I was having a type theory argument there are few people in the world I'd rather have on my side. Few people understand the bridge between type theory and language design so well. His joint paper on type classes should be required reading in PL courses: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/Papers...
I'm not sure why you'd be downvoted for this observation. My week in Japan showed me that fast food employees had a higher level of competence and professionalism than at least a third of the people who I've encountered in my career.

(To say nothing of their US foodservice counterparts. I had an easier time special-ordering a cheeseburger in Kyoto than I would down the street from my home. And wtf, their standards for food are ridiculous. McDonald's, which I loathe, was fucking delicious there.)
How did you get a visa for the US? This is still a big issue for EU based founders that want to move to the valley.
Yeah we had a similar experience recently as well, but we didn't really need that domain so we just shrugged it off. And yeah plenty of registrars etc. are definitely in bed with speculators.
The most reasonable roaming plan I've found is with Japanese carrier Softbank. Last summer they released a ¥1,500/day (~$20) unlimited data plan. While roaming if you use any data, they charge you $20 but you can use as much of it as you want for a 24 hour period.
It shouldn't matter.

In 2011, people interested in NCAA basketball should see sports stuff. People interested in Ruby on Rails or Amazon EC2 should see IT stuff. It should be pretty easy to spot people's interests on Twitter.

Amazon.com doesn't recommend women's clothing to me. Netflix doesn't show me Spanish language movies.
Whether Japan is the ideal or not, society needs to reward productive, mutually beneficial action and discourage parasitic behavior. We couldn't even plant crops if other people could easily reap the results.

The US has been failing at that quite a bit in some areas of the economy. We encourage unwise risk taking, while shifting the consequences to those who produce. That is unscalable and unsustainable.
Let me expand: The fact that we find it surprising that the Japanese don't loot says a good deal more about our own low standards for what to expect from an average citizen, given our wealth and power, than it does about the Japanese. And it doesn't put us in a good light either.
The problem is this depends on the person/situation. I had the opposite problem. Tmobile coverage in my area was terrible and the customer service was absolutely horrible! Also, the at&t coverage in my area is great and I almost never get a dropped call though they can be on the pricey side when it comes to plans.

But I am currently in a wireless communications class and am still blown away by how much goes on behind the scenes of cell phone towers. People get upset about a dropped call now and then but the tech is pretty amazing. Then again I feel ALL Telco comPanies have dropped the ball on their infrastructure.