skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
replying on hn since this may interest some other folks too.

If you are interested in building something of worth and like the idea of open social networks and producing opensource software, there's always small modules that need building to make buddycloud feature complete. Pick a part of the architecture that looks interesting to you (http://m.buddycloud.com/tmp/proofs/buddycloud%20architecture...) and chat to the rest of the team in our chatroom. More dev details on http://open.buddycloud.com

We also have some cash coming in... not a huge amount but enough to provide some support if you turn out to be good.
Impressive answer: What is the largest city in California?
http://www.thehansonso.com/search.php?q=what+is+the+largest+...

Confusing answer: http://www.thehansonso.com/search.php?q=What+is+the+second+l...

Terrible answer: http://www.thehansonso.com/search.php?q=What+is+the+largest+... (Don't tell me to try ;-)

On the whole, it seems like a cool project. You have a few improvements to be making, though...
Privacy a Key Concern (and Opportunity) for VC Firms
Hint: Don't install software you think is crap. If it annoys you, uninstall it immediately, maybe drop the author a note why you did so. That includes Windows. Return that modem to Sprint, let them know their software sucks.You don't really have to use it.

I don't seem to have the problems that you're encountering, because I pick and choose software. No Quicktime, iTunes, RealPlayer or other annoying BS. Blaming Windows for your troubles is folly, those automatic updates you get keep your PC and others around secure and prevent them from becoming spambots, which will affect you even if you use Linux.

>..Vendor/programmer-induced interruptive bullshit.

The minute Microsoft even contemplates that, there will be long posts on here about how MS is screwing with developers and controlling users freedom with their monopoly.

And what's GC got to do with your point?
Intel Plans Sub-10-Watt Atom Server Chip in 2012
Double-sided Unity launcher patch demoed [video]
Alt + space then hit m, then use arrow keys. Try it now on a non maximized window.
Interesting, however Apple's intake level implementation must be solely pegged to the input box from Apogee. The standalone app works great for sketching, playing and people making background noise for videos, but any type of advanced use requires hardwired inputs. It's definitely a different idea for a "pro" upgrade, compared to the typical digital unlock.

I wonder if we'll see the mythical "Asteroid" project rise again.

On a side note, this will be great for my AV nerd descendants, I used to run a media lab and we always wanted to move the people on GarageBand elsewhere to keep the place quiet.
Classification Essay Topics
Writing a classification essay on any topic will be an easy task if students knew how to analyze information and categorize it into various categories. Many topics can be considered for writing and students will be able to write a good essay if they knew how to write the essay.
You really don't know bad programming until you have spent some time in a 50000 line cobol program. I'd post some crap I work on every day but I don't want to make anyone cry. Nevermind. Here's some random code I'm working on.

MOVE SPACES TO LISTBAT-NAME.
STRING WORK-FILES "LIST.BAT" DELIMITED BY " "
INTO LISTBAT-NAME.
OPEN OUTPUT LISTBAT.
MOVE SPACES TO SCR-S.
STRING "DIR /B " DATA-PREFIX " > "
WORK-FILES "TMPLIST" DELIMITED BY " "
INTO SCR-S.
MOVE SCR-S TO LISTBAT-REC.
WRITE LISTBAT-REC.
CLOSE LISTBAT.
CALL "C$system" USING LISTBAT-NAME, 96
GIVING STATUS-VAL.
MOVE SPACES TO TMPLIST-NAME.
STRING WORK-FILES "TMPLIST" DELIMITED BY " "
INTO TMPLIST-NAME.
OPEN INPUT TMPLIST.
MOVE LOW-VALUE TO LIST-NAME.
PERFORM UNTIL 1 = 2
READ TMPLIST
INTO SCR-S
AT END EXIT PERFORM
END-READ
ADD 1 TO PROGRESS-REC-CT
INSPECT SCR-S CONVERTING LOWER-CASE-ALPHA TO
UPPER-CASE-ALPHA
PERFORM VARYING SCR-X FROM 50 BY -1 UNTIL
SCR-X = 1
IF SCR-S(SCR-X:1) = "."
MOVE SPACES TO SCR-S(SCR-X:)
EXIT PERFORM
END-IF
END-PERFORM
CALL "CC/STRINGER" USING SCR-S, STRING-INFO
MOVE SCR-S(1:STRING-INFO-LENGTH) TO TMP-RID
PERFORM LOAD-RPT-FILE THRU END-LOAD-RPT-FILE
END-PERFORM.
CLOSE TMPLIST.

The newline on some of those lines is off because HN makes it wrap but you get the idea
Or you can select the window with alt-tab, press alt-space to open the window menu, press 'm' to select 'move' and then use the arrow keys.

I use this all the time when windows go completely off screen and you can't grab them with the mouse. That can happen in all sorts of surprising ways.
Most Startups Get No Professional Investor Cash
Vladimir, you should find the open source projects that interest you and work on those, or build plugins for them. Why not volunteer for Rails or Sinatra? Or write Emacs plugins/extensions? Write about your experiences with these systems...blogging and contributing to open source will absolutely get you the contacts you are looking for, without having to resort to working in enterprise for free. While I would personally love the free help, I don't think any ethical entrepreneur here on HN would take free work, and we'd all encourage you to at least charge for what you're doing if it's going to be with a for-profit company.
Clone High!
analytics
- ok, i could measure what topics are searched most
but first i need enough volume...
Isn't working in Google Chrome Dev channel.
This reads like a parody of armchair-CEO articles. "Microsoft should finally let go all those Windows coders"? WTF?
On that note, Python's style guide, PEP 8, contains this:

"Python coders from non-English speaking countries: please write your comments in English, unless you are 120% sure that the code will never be read by people who don't speak your language."

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Not with DirectShow and the VMR filter.
You pointed out something similar yes. My article was specifically about Android, and provided details of exactly what data was being sent unsecured.
Review My Startup: Daily Mobile App Deals
It wasn't all that technically challenging, but we've just soft-launched our mobile app deal platform at AppDiem.com.

The premise is simple enough -- it's basically Groupon (or maybe Woot) for mobile apps. There are a ton of warts at the moment, and I'm working on them, but I'd love any feedback from you guys.

The platform is Django, with a tiny little bit of celery+rabbit to move some of the slower tasks into the background.
clickable: http://appdiem.com/
Give him bugs to fix. Make them small enough that you don't have to give him an excessive amount of supervision, but large enough that he gets exposure to a few parts of the application.
There is really something wrong in the job market when I work two years to get a good hire for my small development company (at a good hourly rate, telecommuting, etc.) and people like Vladimir have to give away their services...
Congrats! I'm anticipating my first sales early next month.
Is cheating always bad?
My idea is to do exactly what you say.
I don't think the grandparent poster was aware of the fallacies in his argument; more importantly, it throws the reliability of the original information supplied into question.

For example, the 'not worried' writer explains that 'the nuclear fuel is uranium oxide.' But that is not true of the whole plant: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/challenge/csr/nuclear/cycle-e.html

Plutonium complicates things rather significantly. Accuracy should not be sacrificed to fearmongering, but nor should it be sacrificed for mere reassurance.

Edit: downvoted for supplying more accurate information with a citation? Classy.
Thounds Android app
Simpler phones have resulted in previously incomprehensible quantities of innovation. Remember phones 5 years ago? You had to know about IMEI numbers to get your internet working. What kind of innovation did that spawn in its users? None. Simpler phones have shown people that some tasks can be programmed pretty easily. They've shown people tech can be fun.

No, I think simpler operating systems will dramatically increase the productivity of the people using it day-to-day (think of all the millions or billions of man hours wasted fixing Windows rather than innovating Windows) and leave much more time open for people to just sit and think about how things could be better.
Google Acquires Green Parrot Pictures
American Who Worked for C.I.A. Freed in Pakistan
Makes sense on paper but its a bad move, trust me, I've been there ... people simply don't appreciate free labor the way they would if they paid something for it.

Smarter move is to say "Hey, I bill out at $80/hr but to work at your startup I'll only bill $20/hr for 2 months", then make sure to send an invoice every 2 weeks with the bill at $80/hr with a line item showing the discount ... that way they are reminded of how lucky they are to have you.

PS: All this is moot if you aren't actually awesome at coding.
Tino Breddin on the Erlang community vs Ruby and Python communities
I use Safari 5 in private mode plus ClickToFlash, to cut out Flash and I've not seen the registration request...
I remember that one of the sample robots that shipped with the game CROBOTS had all of its variables named variations on ll1l11l1, which is actually even worse in a VGA font than it looks here.
"You have no legal right to drive an automobile "

Actually, under Common Law you have a legal right to _travel_ (I'm not saying driving) in a car if you're a Sovereign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jUxupkD57g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWRO_jQxDjY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfbfpz4iYDU
It will cost him $12 he just earned! But Moleskine is great, not loosing the shape for many years and it is great to have it many years after :)
Out of curiousity, why did you reply to me?
I am so sorry that you've wasted a minute of your time.

Will this one be more clear to you about the platform? http://ex.gs/4n7YXa

Basically the homepage is for experts, and this little url is for experts to get their clients.

Back to your question:
Yes, tutoring is an important part of our service, if you type "english tutor" into that search box, you will pretty much get the idea.

At this moment, english tutor is our main focus and almost every visitor come to the site is to find tutor or is a tutor. So the search form is quite useful to them.

But we don't want to offer categorization or tagging now is because that there is not so much to be categorized or tagged. I personally don't like a 3 level of categories without any real content. And we don't want to tag our site to be a tutoring platform with those categories. So we tend not to show them at the moment.

Apart from that, everything you said is true. With the exception of we are not an online tutoring intermediary.
Just think of all the function-call overhead he saved!
Thanks for naming the idea. For those wondering what the Seinfeld technique is but who are too lazy to Google at the moment: http://www.nevblog.com/motivations-the-seinfeld-calendar/.
On OS X + homebrew[1] to install Gambit-C Scheme you just have to do:

brew install gambit-scheme

[1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
eh... we cannot characterize this stuff as civilized or uncivilized. It's just different from our(US) way of doing things. Have you used their public bathrooms or restrooms? It feels very very awkward. I don't like it but I wouldn't call it uncivilized. The way we live together here without marriage and stuff is viewed as uncivilized by most of the world.
I have to say this is so true as well.
Show HN: Hack a chat server written in 12 lines of code (now.js)
Most of you will remember a post from a few days ago about how awesome NowJS is, and that you could create a chat server in 12 Lines of Code using it. This post is just to point out that there is no encoding/sanitization of harmful inputs going on in that code example - which means that it's a really bad idea to have it deployed live anywhere. Anyone could post something like <script> alert('this could have been malicious')</script>, and all clients would suddenly get that code pushed to them by the server.

I'm not trying to be a naysayer or anything - I love node.js. But I'm pretty sure I read about a college that was using the 12 line chat server to talk to newly admitted students. That's dangerous, and I wanted to point that out.
Working on open-source has the same benefits, and while a good profitable gig coming from that would probably take longer than 1 or 2 months, the benefits of being a known open-source author will last for much longer and fare much better going forward.

I swear, every time someone (with a known/useful open-source contribution) came to an interview for any company I worked for, everybody was drooling uncontrollably and thinking "how the hell could we please this guy to stay, after all, he's Google material".
Not denying it, both projects have slightly different goals. But since some people reading this discussion might consider switching from MySQL to Drizzle it doesn't hurt to present them other options, which in some cases might suit them better (depending on what are your exact needs).
What's your budget? Smart and experienced developers can pick up these things very quickly.

I have ran into the same issue before when I opted for the $20/hr on an overseas developer thinking he should be experienced. He knew how to program and can write textbook perfect code, but I spent over a week hand-holding before I gave up on him and made no progress.

Round two, I spent over $60/hr for an overseas developer. I never looked back, hands free.
SO might be the rest of the Religious right..and your point is?
I have only tested it on IE7, IE8, FF3.6, Chrome 10.0. If you let me know the problem you are experiencing, I shall look into it.
If you want a "less math" machine learning book, I like these two:

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition

Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Manag...

Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective

Stephen Marsland

http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
HN: Searching hackers playing StarCraft
I'm presently hacking a website named gosuway (which basically means "the progamers' way") I'm still in a really early alpha stage but I would like to open it to friends of mine and HN hackers playing starcraft.

You can see gosuway as a specialized social network for gamers.. which is basically a way to share epic games and news with fellow gamers. We've got a lot more surprise coming in the following weeks, but I'd really appreciate your feedback/criticism/awesomeness.

Contact me at dom@gosuway.com or register on gosuway.com, just write HN in your nickname.

See you soon
yes it is.. especially the financial instability. The best part is, it was because of her encouragement that I initially decided to pursue this so I know I have her support
I find it funny that they requested my password (via http) before allowing me to change to SSL-by-default.
I started reading the article, but midway through I got to working on my startup site.
fun and a great replacement for writing on the go, but I think porting something like Ableton Live to the iPad is more suited to the form factor.
The ability to think clearly about problems and solve them in a coherent, sensible fashion. If a programmer can't do this, and so many can't, it doesn't matter what buzzword tech proficiency is being claimed.
I wonder if he read the Manga guide to databases:

http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Databases-Mana-Takahashi/d...
You just... don't get it, do you Scott?

(There is no way to win this game by giving the best solution to it. The better you get, the worse you get.

In other words: the only way to win is not to play the game.)
That sort of thing is a lot easier to understand if you have the secret decoder key: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

But it's probably a defensible idea, in context. The idea is to supplement the type system of a low-level language with a manually-checked type system that helps you find semantic errors.
Vladimir, open source contributions tend to suck unless you're scratching an itch for yourself. You don't contribute for the sake of contributing, that's not going to work.

That's why you shouldn't work on Sinatra and other open source tools meant for developers.

Instead, build an app for a much wider audience. Do what an entrepreneur trying to sell his app would do, but with open-source - i.e. the end goal being to have real users that appreciate your work.

Here's the perfect example: https://github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm
I like that. One thing I'd change is the positioning of the OS. I was looking for it in the text and as I was clicking away happened to catch it above the screensnap. Too low in contrast and not where I'd look.
Unfortunately, more often than not, this mentality is taken advantage of. To the pressured manager, Vlad provides an easy-out. It also sets a bad tone for the relationship between employer and employee.

It's also a negotiation uphill battle to go from $0 to $50,000/year. Any looming economic crisis multiplies the battle, and in turn, valuable enthusiasm for the industry.

His work is probably better than most, but his self-esteem regarding his abilities is apparent - especially to an employer.
Are you serious?

According to [1] roughly 15k people died in plane accidents over the past decade.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that Chernobyl killed many more than that.

Furthermore a nuke meltdown renders a large area uninhabitable and leaves an economic footprint "slightly" bigger than a few planes coming down every year.

Quote from [2] (page 33):

Coping with the impact of the disaster has placed a huge burden on national
budgets. In Ukraine, 5–7 percent of government spending each year is still
devoted to Chernobyl-related benefits and programmes. In Belarus,
government spending on Chernobyl amounted to 22.3 percent of the
national budget in 1991, declining gradually to 6.1 percent in 2002.
Total spending by Belarus on Chernobyl between 1991 and 2003 is estimated
at more than US $13 billion.

Other Quote (same page):

Belarus, for instance, has estimated the losses over 30 years at US $235
billion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incident...

[2] http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernoby...
Because generally, the person who makes the clickable link is the person affiliated with the project, would be my guess.

I generally don't pay much attention to usernames around here (or anywhere) -- and it'd be easy to see how one might jump to the conclusion that the 'clickable' provider was the same person who posted the OP.
I find the Command Line Kung Fu Blog (http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/) really informative for demonstrating the utility of Powershell.

Basically, every entry is a problem someone has submitted, and they post a solution using the Unix Shell, the Windows Command Prompt, and Powershell (Powershell entries have been given for about the past year or so).
The thing about languages that require GOTOs is that there is often no inherent meaning in the label, such as in a control structure that we'd take for granted these days, and back in the day you were often limited by token size (in one assembler I used it was 5 characters) so people sometimes used schemes like "A0001", "A0002", etc. or sometimes "DOG", "PIG", "CAT", etc. though the former was preferable as it wasn't distracting.
Yeah -- I'm not the greatest designer. I got hooked on that 'design element' and then beat my head against the wall trying to find the perfect place for it, but I'm not really sold on it being where it is either.

I'm working on the concept of an 'info-grid' in the body of the post, so I'll push that up on the todo list.

Thanks!
My impression of GarageBand on the iPad 1 is that it's pretty laggy. But I might have a more demanding test environment.

* pull up a drum kit.
* give iPad to 18mo old
* he bangs on iPad like a chimpanzee. That ain't working.
* take away iPad
* drum kit keeps playing for 20 seconds or more with no input.
* he yells for a minute or more to get it back

But overall, its totally worth the $5.
I believe the corporate death penalty has been a long time coming - there are several 'too big to fail' corps that should face this penalty
On the about page, they also state that its linked and that they registered a new domain because they wanted to host on wordpress.com instead of dealing with large traffic themselves and apparently wordpress.com won't work on a sub-domain (or something along those lines).
It's a protest against required logins. Even making a throwaway account tells them that what they are doing is okay. Whereas I do not count towards their "registered account" statistics, but I do count towards "unique user who isn't and doesn't register."
It has nothing to do with those companies deserving anything. The problem that is being solved is that if Twitter or Zynga leaves San Francisco and continues to grow and hire people in their new location, that will be used against the current politicians in upcoming elections. Challengers could point to the new jobs being created in another Bay Area city and say, "San Francisco could have had those jobs, but Politician X let them leave. I will make sure we keep the new jobs in San Francisco." On the other hand, if the current politicians give Twitter or Zynga too big of a tax break, they'll get challengers claiming that they gave away the store to these rich companies, along the lins of what some politicians are already saying about any proposed deal. Hence, the negotiations.
MSE is a much better solution than Norton, barely any dialogs except when malicious code is detected.

GC might slow down the computer a notch, but memory leaks are way too common in frameworks that don't use GC.

This is not to say that systems with GC would have zero memory leaks, but it definitely helps.

>I don't think of this as a freedom/monopoly thing. This is a display/gui/responsiveness architectural issues. There are simply things you can do now on Windows that you can't do on the web, and windows needs to give the user more control and restrict the types of interactions developers can have with the user if it wants to solve this problem. Web developers have been living with these guidelines for a long time. It's nothing new or onerous. After all, if we're not in this for the users, what the heck are we doing?

For example, how would your proposed method restrict iTunes(which installs a whole bunch of services, startup items, etc. and tries to trick the user into installing Safari). How will this affect legacy apps? The only real solution is to move to a restrictive approval process like the App store.
Great documents come from great discussions
If you open NY Times links in an incognito window, the website won't prompt you to log in. It's easy to do, just right click on the link and select open in incognito window from the menu that comes up. Still annoying, but less annoying than other options.
Well, Fukushima daiichi unit 3 uses MOX fuel, a mix of uranium and plutonium, which TEPCO has been experimenting with for a few months now. But neither MOX nor plutonium get any mention in this article. This is not a trivial oversight.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/challenge/csr/nuclear/cycle-e.html
I want to be able to stop a podcast, listen to something else and resume the podcast at the point I stopped it. How do I do this on an iPod?
But - a corporation is held to be a person. If your left finger pulls the trigger, the whole body is guilty.
Their content is exceptional, no doubt about it. Indeed, I would be more apt to pay for the content than I would be to sign up for an account even though free. If it's free, make it free.
Vladimir, I'm not sure if what is your visa situation, but getting a work visa in the US is very hard and takes a lot of time and effort.
I would start researching it right away and collecting your documents (degrees, awards, letters of reference, etc...). If you just want to come visit, you won't be able to work here with a tourist visa so start looking into it.
Good luck.
Erlang/OTP R14B02 has been released.