skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? There's a "third way" to pay for content... reputation. This, in fact, is how the original article was paid for, I think. The author felt the value added to his reputation was greater than the value of the time spent writing.

This is also how most technical books are paid for. Most technical book authors make a small fraction of what they could make as contractors from writing technical books; yet the books still get written... why? Reputation. Nothing improves your reputation quite like being a widely read.
Your machine zaps you and pulls you into the machine, where you are forced to play death match Yahtzee against other profiles.

Click here for the shocking truth: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e04-you-hav...
iPad 1 Price Depreciation - Which iPad 2 to Buy?
If only you had bought a lottery ticket with today's winning numbers yesterday! You would be a multi-millionaire.

I completely agree, its a silly thing to dwell on what you didn't do but if you had you would really have benefited from it.
Ask HN: Does Y Combinator accept sole founders? 
I'm launching http://housefed.com (AirBnB for home-cooked meals) soon, and would like to apply as an individual founder. From past stories on HN, it seems like a very, long shot.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Framed typekit love
I really like being able to browse around the most popular projects. I discovered a few I didn't know about.
Wozz.me find out what's hidding behind the blocks
Wozz.me is a social game for those who want to get acquainted with new people. Players are presented with a block made up of several squares, and a person to talk with is hidden behind these blocks. The aim of the game is to figure out who that person is.
Those fonts are ridiculously ugly in the screenshots. Maybe it is the monitor type the machine used for testing used with a combination of font preferences, but they are still hard on the eyes... and I having been using Linux since Red Hat 6.1 and am posting from Fedora 14.
Freakonomics takes on Twitter
Disclosure: I'm a management consultant with one of the big firms.

Management consulting business is built around providing knowledge to clients. There are several ways to get it:

1. Face a new client problem and think long and hard how to solve it.

2. Ask colleagues who have experienced similar problems before for general guidelines - "frameworks" or "best practices" in consultant-speak.

3. Share some proprietary knowledge in a disguised form, e.g. percent ranges instead of absolute numbers, or get client's data and tell them where they are versus the industry[1].

4. Directly share proprietary knowledge.

(Have I missed anything?)

In my experience: (1) is usually ~80% of work, (2) is ~19%, (3) is ~1% - happens very rarely and only with explicit client's consent, and (4) is strictly prohibited - people may violate it, as people my violate any law, but any management consulting firm is very strict about such violations.

To me, (1) has no moral problem whatsoever, and (2) is probably not very different from how any professional is getting experience - in McKinsey/other consultant's cases the speed of sharing the new codified knowledge is obviously much higher than in other industries, but that's part of their business.

My personal opinion - grey area in consulting industry is certainly not darker than in many other professions. Author of the article probably underestimates percentages for (1) and (2) above.

[1] Example: there are databases that management consulting companies keep on e.g. operational performance indicators. You can get access to some aggregate statistics from that databases in exchange for providing your own data. The individual data points are never shared.
>> What do you think of our new team page?

> Weird how many negative comments you're getting.

That in itself is a feedback too.
I don't think it's fair to call this "an unequivocal damnation of pure algorithmic search." The search is still purely algorithmic. This just allows individual users to choose which results are interesting to them in particular. A particular human's (or group of humans') curation would not be a perfect fit for everyone either.

Similarly, I don't see the ability to choose whether you're doing an image search or a news search as a condemnation of algorithmic search either.
it is a good concept, but you don't always have the luxury of enough space for a curved foyer.
Thanks for this post. Really useful.

Too bad it didn't get more upvotes (I found out about it in the other thread).
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We are specifically interested in collaborating with start-ups and investors in industries such as manufacturing, trade, finanical services, communications, energy, mobility, health care
Oh, there are lots and lots of people faster than me! My use of the term is more in line with how they were used rather than anything having to do with the core of their being.
Google May Face Antitrust Hearings In Senate
Where "init" comes from...
If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products
I like yours!

Here's something polar opposite: http://carbonmade.com/about
Very happy to see that Phoenix, AZ made the list.
They'll probably be offended. If they ask, just answer, because the kind of people who ask that question are generally not in the mood for mind games. Direct questions deserve direct answers. If you're looking for a salary jump, just say that, and be prepared to justify it. If you can't back it up, you were just bluffing anyway. Don't base your negotiating strategy on a bluff.
I don't follow ... which one of us is Alec Baldwin?

I drive a Honda Element
Just in case the page isn't loading. The docs are written in Substance, a novel but yet unstable web-based document-publishing platform.

Here's at least the link to the github project (http://github.com/michael/data) and the annotated source (http://quasipartikel.at/data-js).

-- Michael
Not to change the conversation but that's the same way you do it in PyMongo[1], I agree it looks bit un-pythonic.

[1] http://api.mongodb.org/python/1.9%2B/examples/map_reduce.htm...
Charlie Miller wins Pwn2Own again with iPhone 4 exploit
The tagging feature is very impressive.
Was she a physics graduate? I've heard the big corps like to fast-track people like that through the interview process and just assume they'll be smart enough to learn what they need (after all, they studied quantum mechanics). In fact I understand those sorts of degrees just require students to learn a bit of programming in their final year to get their assignments done, with no extra help thrown in.

Maybe companies want 'normal, intelligent and proven hard worker' rather than 'uber nerd who can complete all the work while spending most of the day playing Unreal Tournament and despising management.' who knows.
Thanks, we like yours too!
I'm an iOS developer that has no idea what CouchDB is other than another database system. I'm a little confused as to what CouchDB Mobile is. Is it at another database engine I can use to locally persist my data on the device (like an improved SQLite), or is it some kinda of API system that can be used to communicate directly with a CouchDB hosted on a server without the need for a REST API to be created to manage the interaction?
At the very least, we can provide bounds. What you and Chromium report is an upperbound. We could provide a lowerbound defined as:

def thread_low(t): return resident_set(t) - shared_set(t)

lowerbound = sum(map(thread_low, all_threads)) + min(map(shared_set, all_threads))

(Forgive the Python notation, it would actually be easier to express this using actual summations if I could draw freehand, but given that I can't, I figure code would be clearer.)

For all threads in the process, we know that it must be solely responsible for its resident set minus its shared set. This already is a lower bound, but it ignores what is shared. We can increase (improve) this lowerbound a bit by figuring out what the smallest shared set among all of the threads is. If my thinking is correct, then we can be sure the total memory used won't be lower than this.
The difference in the breakdown of fees is almost hilarious in its complexity on the Verifone side vs. that on the Square side.
Love the visualization, but feel it would be useful to also show the cycles utilized for each algorithm using each of the settings.
Now I'd only wish people to be able to share lists with friends, just like you download blocking lists from adblock :)

But in the meanwhile good riddance Mahalo, eHow, Yahoo Answers and ExpertSExchange, etc
Cool, works better than other services like this I've found. I tried it on Ars Technica's review of the Xoom tablet and it found all 10 pages. It didn't find the embedded video though. Also, all the formatting is stripped which makes it hard to differentiate section headers from content paragraphs, and all the images are in one list to the side, removed from their original context.

What I'd really love to see is a combination of the RSS API and the article API to produce full article RSS feeds for any site.
I think that can come in handy in a business-to-business situation. For example, if you have two engineers you can either call them each a "Software Developer" or you can have a "VP of Engineering" and a "CTO".

Now when your customer, Huge-Corp(TM), who is going to pay the bills for the next 3 months calls, would you rather tell them "let me put one of our developers on the phone" or "let me put our vice president of engineering on the phone"?
Videos are now required? Were any video-less applications accepted last cycle?
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Is the code on GH? If so, the people (myself included) who want to run this for their city could.
April 7th can't come soon enough!
Two insanely hot chicks at the same time < FTFY
This video is so good that even though I hadn't previously thought I needed a form on my web site, I realized that I will in the near future and immediately signed up for Wufoo.
Right, it's a stab at the contents of and motivation behind the blog, not the guy who created and maintains it.

Come on.
Los Angeles seems like a glaring omission.
I covered some aspects of it in an old article of mine: http://programmingzen.com/2009/07/27/why-technical-marketing...
It would be nice for this site to give more detailed advice on studying Haskell. Learning a language should be a side effect of studying its canon of programs. Is there a book that relates to Haskell as TAoCP does to machine code, SICP to Scheme, K&R to C, and the dragon book to Lex and Yacc?
ARM Disrupting Intel with its Business Model
I think of the match percentage as the equivalent of having HR look at tech resumes before forwarding them on to me; it's not perfect, but it saves me from reading through completely irrelevant profiles.
You have Houston but not Dallas? Actually, it would be better if it were by metro if you're not going to let the users choose their suburbs and what not.
always love your facebook slide :)
I don't have time or space in a comment to explain why this is so much better.

Better in practice, or better in theory? In practice, I personally haven't found that it makes a difference, and that the majority of cost in merging is in keeping abreast of functional differences, not in line-by-line conflict resolution.

YMMV, but I don't think it's as clear cut as you make it out to be.
I've always had the impression that's because the IE team is kind of paralyzed by a fear of breaking the Web.
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It would be so barren and lonely. Good ole Apple tax.

MOOOOOAAAR!!!
Shortly after submitting our application, my co-founder (technical half) informed me he could no longer devote the time necessary to the startup for various personal reasons. This caught me completely off guard and I was pretty bummed. Determined not to let this phase me, I called another friend the next day who had been really interested in the idea and asked him if he would want to be my co-founder. He agreed and now he's on board.

I have since removed my original co-founder from the application and I plan to update the application with my new co-founders information. I wanted to know if there was a particular way I should handle such an update to the application? I guess I am also curious to know how this might affect our application, and whether this has occurred before? Thanks for any help in advance.
I'm using Ubuntu Maverick. The debs page (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=haskell-platform) has 2010.1.0.0.1.

How do I get 2011.2 for Maverick?
Respectfully, the letter spacing of your main font is so wide and the word spacing so comparatively narrow it's making for slow and difficult reading for me. I can see how you may be going for a kind of spacious theme for the look of the site, but there is probably a way to do it without impeding the visual flow of the text...

None the less, I'm quite eager to get through this very interesting article, I'd just rather do it without using Readability.

(MBP/10.5.8/Safari)
Right now, the API just returns back the raw text for simplicity's sake, but it would be possible to make an option for returning a bit of HTML structure, which would address the problem of sections, inline images, tables, etc.

The combination of the two APIs is a great idea.
Its another database engine that you can use to locally persist data, the main upside is that the data you locally persist can be synced online with CouchDB's replication.

http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/replication.html
In unusual cases they do. Around the end of the dot-com boom (2000+) the company I was working for for offered a bunch of us bonuses of 20-25%, paid each paycheck, as a "retention benefit." IIRC, they did it for about 3 years.

There was no written or verbal agreement to stay, they just made it very clear that they realized that our job options had increased considerably and wanted to give us more incentive to stay. Some people probably negotiated higher amounts, but since I was already being paid more than I knew what to do with and the job was really a lot of fun, I just happily pocketed the money.
This is fantastic! How resource-intense is it to run? Machine Learning, depending on the implementation, can be pretty costly from what I understand.
It's a long shot, but you should apply.

Have you thought about finding a secondary founder?
"My advice would be to find a better way to capture that spirit than "winning! excellence! to infinity and beyond!", which to me at least, just sounds corny."

Not sure how much of Sebastian's work you've read, but none of it really comes across as corny.

It's hard to describe the "point" of his blog. His writings really are all over the place, but almost every single one is legitimately interesting and contains some unique or novel insight.

I think because the topics are so diverse, when you end up simplifying it to "pro-winning" it sounds a little "eh." But if you actually read it, you start to understand what he means.
Hopefully this will get combined with Google Alerts, so I have a one-click way to tell google that people are creating spam on topics I care about.
Totally, that would be cool.
How can that intent of purpose be conveyed to the user when they are blacklisting whole sites?

They aren't using these blacklisting as a signal for influencing the google algo, YET... but it seems inevitable.

I'm just trying to say it seems a little too much like an axe instead of a scalpel.

Personally I can't wait to start rage blocking domains that have pop over modals for surveys / advertising, or have sound enabled by default.
Currently no, yes, that's a great idea.
Thanks for the reference, like "How to start a startup" it's always good to have more information!

If one of the founders is under aged, is there any kind of additional step to take?
On Being an Early Startup Employee, and a Farewell
I may have been a little harsh, but I'm not sure how I could take anyone's advice seriously if I knew ultimately they just wanted me to pay attention long enough to sell me something.

If this guy helps people, then awesome. However, the practice of bookblogmarketing still sucks.
Ask HN: Does anyone use Azure?
Does anyone use windows Azure for their startups? What are your impressions?
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I'll probably follow this strategy. I'll wait for the entire package structure to be revved in the next ubuntu release hopefully.

I'll run ghc7/cabal-dev from a portion of the home directory not in my path
Apache CouchDB is an open-source database that stores JSON and runs in resource constrained environments. It's killer feature is that the data it holds can be shared across multiple users and devices in near realtime. Did I mention that CouchDB is also a web server?

Mobile Couchbase is a package of Apache CouchDB designed for iOS. It is pre-Beta right now, but we are taking the wraps off the source because we've had an application that uses it approved by Apple for sale in the App Store. We are soliciting open source contributions and feedback from users.
"New York, NY" is not. I have the data, but in that case, I can't tell if you are actually in the city. You can always append NYC to your current location :) I'm open to other possible suggestions.
You'll need to wait for your distro maintainer to update the package set. Alternatively, you can build from source, using a generic Linux ghc, like so:

http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/haskell-platform.xhtml
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Less Reddit on HackerNews please.
Well, I wasn't there, so I don't really know. But here is the previous thread, where I joined in dismissing the premise: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2078210.

See the two responses for details.
Haha. Maybe my wife just loves me. Notice she went through my last book and found out how each stock performed. I'm grateful she did that since I never asked her to do it. I was afraid to look at how the stocks had done.

Check out my blog: jamesaltucher.com. then you can see how shady I am
FYI Dance does not work in Chrome 10.0.648.127 on Win7-x64
It took considerable willpower to not downvote you (though it appears that somebody else already has) -- but really? Making fun of somebody's facial hair?

For the record, they all look a little bit unkempt (except Brendan, who I'm guessing is single ;-)). To most people, that's a job perk -- not having to put on a suit and tie and be perfectly prepared every single day.
I'm guessing edw519's post was a riff on "what got you here won't get you there", namely that a highly developed ability to reason logically and to debug is less valuable to a manager than to a developer. Managers are going to also need plenty of empathy and charisma.
Skype founder and Others Invest $42 Million in Angry Birds developer Rovio
Disagree. The outfit I work for uses recruiters as part of a multi-pronged approach to hiring that includes referrals, job fairs, online boards (I've recommended jobs.joelonsoftware.com), etc. We hire far too many people to just rely on friends of friends. I know of exactly two people in my dept that have been referred by current employees. The reality is that most of us just don't know any engineers out of work, or looking.
Its not impossible and they don't necessarily reject you because you are a single founder but they view being a single founder as a disadvantage compared to multiple founders because it makes it tougher to survive startup life and getting through the difficulties and up and down cycles.

Don't let that stop you from applying though. Maybe you will break the mold.
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Okay, I checked out your site and you guys have me at "CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests."

To put it mildly, this sounds fucking awesome. I have no idea why I haven't checked this out sooner.
I have - but, as that would be a big decision, I would rather wait and find a great fit, rather than rush it to send in an application.
You seem to have reframed the discussion from "horribly inefficient" as defined by extraneous operations, to one of raw speed. I'm certain I've never claimed that a tail-recursive implementation couldn't produce faster times. My statement from the beginning has been that recursion is a low-level operation. I stand by that statement. My combinator post provided 3 useful functions that could prove useful in the future. Your `recle4` implementation does one thing only. If any one of the functions in my combination gains speed, then my implementation will likewise gain speed. This leaves room for optimization without having to dive right into creating a convoluted recursive implementation. I'm pretty sure the words "avoided if at all possible" subsumes the need to optimize if every ounce of speed is required. Raw execution speed is not the only unit of speed that we should consider. We shouldn't sacrifice the speed of the developer or the speed of comprehension just to placate our lizard brains.
Yep! Our company IActionable.com is running on Windows Azure platform. In fact, I'm writing this comment from the Microsoft campus in Redmond. We are attending a Windows Azure Deep Dive hosted this week.

My CoFounder and I were both .Net developers in the past and love C# and SQL Server. We are happy with the Azure platform so far. We're using a little bit of everything too. Worker and Web Roles, Queues, Table Storage and SQL Azure. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.
close the blinds only to turn on artificial lighting on. Why???!

Generally, I don't do this, I like natural lighting when appropriate, but I will do exactly that if the sun is creating glare on the screen I am working with, or if I am facing straight into the sun. Similarly, I would do it if I am dealing with sensitive data.
This sounds really cool.

I'd like to see indepth articles about how it achieves this, state of product, etc, etc. Comparisons with other languages on various benchmarks would be nice too. Maybe the Shootout.
I think you need to prepare for your DMCA take-down notice.
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The web backend needs to use CouchDB, right?
Definitely a good idea. A bad decision or rushing in with the wrong cofounder is definitely worse than no cofounder.
Hi pg, thanks for the answer. The problem is that the time frame from 7th April to 23 rd April is quite little for outside US residence. The ones that need a visa to get to the US could not make it on time not because of them but because of the process to get the visa for US.
thanks
"there was no sense of ownership on the expensive items"

I have never had much money, but had the same experience 10 years ago when I downloaded lots of games for "free". I never had any patience with the games and most of them were uninstalled the same evening. Games simply didn't interest me much.

Now I only play games that I have bought and have a much better experience with them because I can focus on a few games at a time. If I was wealthy and the price of games meant less I would probably end up in the same situation as I was 10 years ago