skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing that came to mind here is that they'll license the protocol/implementation from MS itself. I'm not sure they'd be open to that, but who knows...
Here's a question. Why isn't every resume a website? This is the era of about.me, flavors.me, and filing your resume online.

The www allows for image, audio, code, and video, as well as text. Why are resumes still pretending to be paper (pdf / doc)?
When I looked at the link I thought he was trying to show that Detroit's been in decline for a long time. I guess it's like a Rorschach ink blot.
Both definitions are correct. Your definition is the one used by people who run lifestyle businesses (as well as most normal, sane people).

The tinfoil hat definition is used primarily by VC's and founders of VC funded startups, almost always condescendingly. (I've been on the receiving end a few times)
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We can discuss the semantics of 'real time' all day. Today I noticed an updated frequency of available data—Data that was on demand with a simple page refresh or through the API with no noticeable processing delay.
I love it, but pretty much just use it as a searchable repository for paper bills/letters. Scanner scans to a directory that's monitored by Evernote, then the bill gets shredded.
"Being misquoted" usually implies that the semantic meaning of what was written is different from what was said. It does not usually mean articles and transitive words were added.
I wasn't implying anything. I was linking to data that I found interesting. Black populations have been increasing (though have recently plateaued). It's the whites that have been decreasing since ~1950.
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In the past I have been able to select the current day... but the reporting for the day always remained at zero. Only until the following day were stats from the previous day available.
So all Open Source developers are misogynistic assholes? Seems very unlikely to me.
Icelanders don't have family names
I don't know the intimate details of Mozilla's server configuration, but the way I understand it, these geographically disperse load balancers don't know specifics about the requester locations -- just IPs.
Crime (including theft of expensive equipment) should be prosecuted. It does more harm to society and the perpetrator if you let it go. If people start to think their are no consequences for stealing laptops, there will be more stolen, then more serious crime can follow.

One thing this guy has going for him is that he did return the laptop to you. I think he deserves a little credit for that.
>> Also visual studio has a free edition these days.

>Unfortunately running Windows takes away many nice things for developers.

This. Having essentially one choice in monolithic IDE which doesn't really provide anything novel you can't get elsewhere, without a nicely integrated POSIX shell and all the useful stuff that comes with it is a net lose IMO.
My reaction to this was to buy the app.
> Reading this thread, the historical demographic trends were very interesting. Do you think they are irrelevant? If so, please explain why.

I'll bite. I don't find skin color particularly interesting, nor am I interested in it as a demographic distinction. I think skin color is used as a proxy indicator for things like culture, class, and income. I believe this is generally for expediency's sake (i.e. it is easy to measure and observe).

Ignoring the expediency benefits, I think the focus on skin color and comments such as yours perpetuate the distinction's hold on our global psyche, to our global detriment.
Ask HN: Job or startup?
First some background: I've been in sales for years and frankly, I'm sick and tired of convincing people that my services are of value to them. I have the chance to get in with a small web design business here as an intern, but they're looking for people who are willing to make a career with them. For years I've wanted to start a business of my own. The issue I have is that is I have encountered exactly 0 success in my efforts. And I'm not sure that I'm totally committed to the chase anymore. I've been broke for years and frankly I'm sick of ramen and hotdogs. I love HN and I respect the opinions here. So should I go the career route and have a reliable income, or continue to work toward having my own business when all precedent I have indicates I won't be successful? Thanks for any help.
Here’s an image of the actual lens, from the same angle: http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/0602/panasonic/leica14-50mm-0...

If you look at the copy, the label text is set around a much wider circle than it should be. Also, the characters are relatively larger, a lot wider, with smaller letter spacing, than the original.
(Oxford philosophy prof.) Gerald Cohen on Rescuing Conservatism
...only one way to find out.
She doesn't actually present any examples of special treatment that is denied to women, though. Or did I miss that?

Being a man in the industry, I don't feel treated very special at all. For example it seems normal that every coder thinks other people's code is crap.
No arguments whatsoever. I think you are reformulating my "Option D" - there is a small expectation of a few big hits that will make up for the many losses, and the investors go in realizing that not every startup with a $10 Million valuation, has a high chance of being $10 Million or more.

Another way of saying this, is that these types of investments are clearly _not_ for the conservative investor who can only afford to invest in one company.
Currently you're in a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, where new visitors probably need to see more fresh content to get interested, but your content only comes from having lots of visitors. If you can bootstrap the content, you may find that user acquisition gets easier.

It seems a little bit like you're trying to create a more structured version of what people are already doing on Twitter with many of the trending hashtags. (e.g. today's #failedmcdonaldsproducts[1] or #100factsaboutme[2]) Rather than fight the momentum Twitter already has there, perhaps you could take advantage of the Twitter API to automatically pull these trending topics in as Thingist Lists. When a new list is auto-created from a trending topic, you can automatically tweet out a link to the Thingist list with the same hashtag, which will get you exposure among people following that term.

The hard part then is making sure Thingist provides a more compelling experience than Twitter for browsing these sets of things. I'm not sure if you're there yet, but there is definitely an opportunity to do something better than search-by-hashtag. If you do pull this off, you'll have plenty of fresh content to keep new users engaged until they start creating lists right on Thingist.

[1] http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23failedmcdonaldsproducts

[2] http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23100factsaboutme
It has always been "believed" that nation states are using MITM attacks based on "legit" certificates and a single pipeline. This however provides stronger evidence that that belief is well founded. (versus just being paranoid).

Combined with the Ars article [1] on those certificates that come bundled with the browser and the circumstantial evidence begins to pile up.

Presumably one can delete various CA's they don't trust from their cache, but that just makes the browser complain that mail.google.com is using a certificate that isn't trusted, it doesn't let you connect to a server from Google that is using a certificate you trust.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/03/govts-certifica...
She never went back to IRC. There are other ways to find knowledge.
Depend s- is your app commercially viable if you have to re-implement all the GPL stuff I wrote for you yourself?

If you are using my GPL contributions for free then you can't turn around and stop your customers using those contributions.
7 Habits of Highly Committed Entrepreneurs
Wil Shipley (longtime NeXT and Mac OS X programmer) posted a few thoughts on Serlet and his replacement Federighi. Well worth a read, he clearly has enormous respect for both of them.

http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/03/celebrating-betrand-serle...
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No, because IRC wasn't the only place to seek knowledge. I continued to peruse other parts of the internet that didn't allow such blatant racism to slide. Beyond my C++ classes, I was also on a FIRST Robotics team. I was seen as a person there, and even if some people thought I shouldn't be there, it's harder to call someone the n-word to their face.
Ask HN: What's fair equity for early employees?
Dear HN,

I'm in a position of negotiating compensation with a startup, and I'm curious what kinds of formulas people use to figure this stuff out, both from a founder's and employee's point of view. I feel ill-equipped to even judge the fairness of a given offer without more information about how such things are done elsewhere.

I've looked at ackwire.com, and that is helpful, but I'd still be interested in commentary directly on method. Under what circumstances is someone offered 0.1%? What about 1%? 2%? 5%?

As I see it, an offer of equity in the form of options vesting over time is essentially going to be some function of the following inputs:

- Salary: How much less than market rate has this person agreed to be paid?

- Benefits: Are there any? If not, is there a timeline in place for when there will be?

- Hire date: What was the value of the business at time of hire?

How much do you weight each of them? What kinds of scale factors apply to each? Are there other factors I'm not considering here?

Thanks very much!
I like the design of their signup page; I just implemented signon with Google, Yahoo, and Facebook yesterday for a web app: fairly easy to do.
I use Evernote a ridiculous amount, with equally preposterous amounts of information in it.

I like the idea of notes, with file attachments synced everywhere and as a premium subscriber, I have 'offline notebooks' to ensure that my iPhone always has the latest copy of all of my files. I switched across from DevonThink for Mac, since that only supported WiFi sync and essentially nothing between computers.

My biggest qualms with the service are that its notes are in HTML (which is open, but clunky and horrible should I ever have to leave Evernote) and that your notes aren't encrypted server-side (which is pretty hard to achieve, given the way their platform works).

I use Evernote on my home desktop (Mac Pro), laptop (MacBook Pro), iPhone, iPad and Linux (both NeverNote and Wine).

I suspect it'll suit you most if you like search and tags over folders (note: I use Pinboard (and love it) too) and if you need data portability...

If you're just on the one computer and sure of it, there are, ultimately, better apps...
When they were a luxury food the baby carrots were actually 'young' carrots.

Now they are popular they are just sections of whole carrots put through a press to cut and shape them. They are basically carrot 'french fries' thats why the end up slimy
"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success." -Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter)

http://www.bizstone.com/2010/09/timing-lessons.html
A Comparison of Places APIs
A side-by-side comparison of the main features provided by the major Places API providers.
This has been shown to not necessarily always be the best option for performance. See http://blog.getify.com/2009/11/labjs-why-not-just-concat/, and http://yepnopejs.com/

The best and brightest in the JS performance area now mostly advocate using some form of loader to load the JavaScripts, bearing in mind that the overall page speed and perceived performance can be affected by more factors than simply the number of script files that need to be requested. Hence the recent proliferation of things like yepnope.js, require.js, lab.js etc.

The fastest and best approach for your particular site will be specific to your site and there is no generic solution guaranteed to be optimal.
You may want to take a look at Pinax to get a HUGE head start on a django-based web app. (http://pinaxproject.com )

And since installing Pinax auto-installs django 1.2 (currently), you may want to stick with that.

But if you aren't using Pinax, move forward to 1.3 if you are new.

I'm using Pinax, and I'll use the version that they auto-install with their product (which was 1.2 when I installed on a new machine yesterday). I can't wait until Pinax ships 1.3! looks cool!
Not to sound cheesy, but our best prophets are our customers.

This happens only because they are quite informed, intelligent, conceptual in identifying needs and have a sharp edge when either the hacker of hustler gets the best of us. They bellweather any bumps and give us "that entrepreneurial shiver" when they're totally floored by something we've built to exceed...
So chocolate covered carrots would be just as good for you?
I know you're trying to be positive here, but this is one of my biggest sticking points when talking about Detroit.

The collapse of detroit is a catastrophic failure in what is supposed to be a well-run country. There's no real consensus on what went wrong and how to fix it, and worse, most people don't really seem to care.

In some neighborhoods, house values have dropped to $300. "Enough empty space that some other large cities could fit inside it". With that kind of exodus and drop in value, you'd think there was a Chernobyl there, but there wasn't. Just a completely unexplained failure of management.

So yeah, parks and greenways are great, but don't overlook the massive failure that allowed that. Chernobyl is now an amazing wildlife preserve.
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My remark was sarcastic in the extreme. Apparently a </sarcasm> would have been a better hint than the winking smiley.
That's probably a good rough estimate. I did some of my own back of the envelope calculations along those lines and figured out a site like Daring Fireball is probably making around $5,700/month from the Deck, which is less than I would have thought. I'd love to get some first-hand info though.
I don't see how anybody could read the GPL FAQ (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html) and not come away confused. It's awkward as hell. And then there's this part:

> I'd like to incorporate GPL-covered software in my proprietary system. Can I do this?

> You cannot incorporate GPL-covered software in a proprietary system.

...followed by a series of ifs-and-buts that include completely vague terms like "at arms length".

MacOS X is a proprietary system. It includes support for Windows file sharing. Assuming that Samba was used for this, does this mean that MacOS was not incorporating Samba? Or does it mean that Apple was in violation? Or does it mean that somehow Apple was meeting one of the vague requirements for separation between Samba and MacOS?

(I'm not raising this as a question of differences between GPL v2 and GPL v3.)

Given the case histories involving the GPL so far, I could see Apple's legal team advising Apple to put as much distance between them and the GPL as possible. Non-compliance due to one gray area or another could force Apple to release tons of proprietary source code.

I think that shrugging this situation off with "well, that's their decision" is completely disingenuous. Yes, it's their decision to make, but they will most certainly decide in a particular way as a direct result of the situation they're looking at.
Is it RESTful?
I can't believe it... not one comment telling the django guys to quit celebrating and get back to work on a version that supports Python 3? :-)

Seriously, Adrian, Jacob, and the django team, I love your product. I actually just bought a SECOND copy of your book (available free on the web). What's wrong with this picture?
Understanding by symbol pushing is not real understanding. This is all that is wrong with how mathematics in college is taught. They start and end with symbol pushing, and the real insight remains locked in the professor's head. The professor projects his insight into symbols, and the students only learn the projection.

What should be done is start with the intuition and visualization, and then show how the ideas can be made precise. If you would have been taught only the epsilon-delta form from the start, it would have been easy precisely because you would not yet have obtained the real understanding.

Even in high dimensional spaces visualization is very important. This often happens by analogy with lower dimensional spaces. For example if you start with a region in Hamiltonian phase space, then the region's volume is constant as time evolves. This is a highly intuitive and visual statement. Saying the same in symbols wouldn't be nearly as clear.
I had thought of the change in growing technique as being the cause, but you may be correct. I assumed it had something to do with the processing, shipping and storage times, preservatives, etc.
Like most study tips, these do not suit me.

From what I know of Cal Newport, I expected data -- evidence that these techniques work better than X. I thought Dr. Newport might even say X works better for group A and Y works better for group B.
Oh and incidentally, the ability to e-mail in notes is pretty damn epic. As much as their HTML notes are annoying, e-mailing in a HTML e-mail and finding it flawless and intact is lovely. (and the print PDF to Evernote helper, too)
Your potential enterprise will not be successful unless you believe in it and are committed to it. Unless you have an idea that you believe will be successful, I see no reason not to take a respectable job.

There's nothing stopping you from doing projects on the side.
No it's not. Even if "most of the IPs involved in the attack came from Iran" constituted proof that the attacker was Iranian, it would not be proof that (1) the attacker was the Iranian government, or that (2) they intended to use the stolen SSL keys to spy on the citizenry of Iran.

It is, at best, evidence, not proof. Reasonably strong evidence, mind you.
How'd you get from someone without it to someone with it?
I have yet to give Evernote a full test drive but personally ever since Google implemented two-factor authentication Google Docs seems to have a profound aura of safety that makes notes feel super-private and nigh-unloseable. It’s hard to complete with that. If Evernote were to implement OpenID I would likely be much more interested.
Regarding carrot quality, both Bolthouse and Grimway Farms have been growing a different type of carrot specifically for the baby carrot products.

A family friend is an exec at one of the above companies and he mentioned that the taste of the baby carrots are indeed more bland than the 'regular' carrots. I just conducted a highly scientific experiment and tasted one of each at lunch - my conclusion: he is correct :)
This interesting to me. I'm a high school senior, and when applying to colleges many admissions departments told me that since I have been home schooled my entire life I don't have a good chance of getting. One college even told me point blank that I shouldn't even attempt to apply.

I was baffled as to why. I have good grades, above average SAT scores, a solid academic foundation(I believe). On top of that I've been working at a software company for the past year, founded multiple robotics teams in my area, and I'm now working on starting my own company.

Enough with the rant. The way I see it, if the college told me they weren't interested in me since I've been home schooled they're probably not worth my time to even apply.
I would love to give it another chance then. My biggest regret about how things went down is that I missed a lot of the cool, web-based stuff that was going on all these years (I was 15 back in 2000/2001). I was interested in the web, but I was learning more generalized C++, Java, and working with computer animation tools.
Pardon the n00b question, but: what's the general vibe? any agenda? RSVP'd and excited to check it out Friday. :)
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I'm also dropping her a note Bill. Game on. :)
"HN can be gamed quite easily" is precisely what Zed proved yesterday with programming mofo.
That's an interesting example, but it's not from a startup. Ignoring that, it could still hardly be considered an idea Ford wouldn't know if it would work at all, because they already had success with similar ideas.
The reason I don't like it is that the interface on the OS X is extremely slow, and it's like a ported version of a non-native application.
That is exactly the reason why studying technical subjects is such a joy! Once you grasp a concept, you don't need to learn anything by heart (which I suck tremenduously at.)
It's a component for your compiler, not something that would likely exist in a standalone form except for demonstration & research.

(For the purposes of above comment, JIT interpreters absolutely count as compilers.)

And yes, it's 'just' an optimizer. It so happens to be a fairly interesting approach.
I've got the same thing myself: allergic to uncooked carrots and most fruits (e.g. pears, cantaloupes). Started when I was a teenager-- actually figured out what was going on for the first time eating a bag of baby carrots. I've tried organic pears and didn't notice any of the usual burning/itching. Still afraid to start eating them on a regular basis, though...
"Think of them like credit unions: they're on your side, they're trying to be nice to you, but they don't change everything."

Yeah, but what if they weren't there at all. For example. I have Roadrunner here in NC. That's our _only_ choice for cable broadband. And this is in RDU, one of the tech-heaviest areas in the country. I currently pay $59/mo for 6mbps down, 365kbps up. Muni competition doesn't change everything, but those concerns of a one-horse race (lock-in, lack of relaxation about crazy rate hikes, big faceless corporation who cares almost nothing about one lowly customer) _are_ the main pressure points causing pain.
It's like free speech in a sense. You can focus on the freedoms of the user, or you can focus on the freedoms of the developer, and the two aren't 100% congruent.

I agree with you, for what it's worth. I much prefer the BSDL exactly for reasons like this.
She doesn't mention any specifically in this article, but she does mention the "boys worshiping tech toys" style of tech blogging. I can think of the usual complaining about steak and strippers, booth babes etc. But her point is pretty broad, so I don't think citing specific examples would really fit with the scope of the article.

edit: typo
Good point! In your link:

> "[Samba] is a portable, user space application, and is actively supported on Solaris. [on the other hand] The Solaris CIFS service is a native kernel implementation; a first-class citizen of the Solaris operating system"