skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see a way for people to flag commits as interesting, so that I could look only at the interesting commits for the projects I follow...
But do you see how Google buying up significant percentages of web content and only allowing their own search engine to index it properly would make it impossible for other search engines to compete?
Yeah.. it's a hard question to pose! I was the one that suggested a poll, but stopped short of putting one up cause I wasn't able to come up with the right list of choices, and title that honor the spirit of the original curiosity....

... that and, I got work to do!
ActiveCollab is similar and started out as a basecamp alternative. It's a single purchase + yearly upgrade/support fee license for your entire team.

http://www.activecollab.com
The idea of not working for "the man" is merely an illusion. If you are freelance or a business owner, "the man" is your clients/customers and the government. Let's say your enterprise involves the illegal distribution of contraband, then "the man" is your supplier. Or let's say you're just a laborer working for a small building contractor, the boss is "the man".
No, that's just "the man" in your own mind. You still actually work for "the man".
this one was unintentional
Yeah. I forgot to mention in the post that the GH API does make it possible to pull all of these out. But having to write your own service, while fun, is time consuming. I would prefer to have you build in the feature and then pay you for it. Looking forward to where you take the stats :)
I don't think anyone posting about how easy it is to circumvent the paywall understands the point: it's not targeted at you. The NYT knows that if they create a completely restrictive paywall they will die, so they're trying to let just enough people in and annoy them just enough to get people to pay for their service. Whether or not somebody with basic technical knowledge can bypass it is not the point. After all, they don't even ask you to register an account and yet they expect to stop you from reading x numbers of articles per month -- why would anyone expect this to be secure?
Never using GoDaddy again. I'm not a vegetarian or a leftist, but glorifying the murder of an endangered species is sickening.
One thing that frustrates me is the new 'mobile developer' role that seems to have emerged. Rather than having two separate people - an iOS specialist and an Android specialist, companies will hire a 'mobile developer' as if Android and iOS have a lot in common with each other. They would never hire someone who had only Objective-C experience to code a Java app, but they will happily throw an iOS developer at an Android app.

What it means is you typically get someone who knows very little about
Android putting out utter crap. I think this is one of the reasons why the Android Market has suffered from such low quality, even in apps from major companies.
I'm not trying to be complete or comprehensive, I was just trying to understand. Do what you like, but understand that some people may object more strongly than I.
Perhaps I did not express myself clearly. My definition is explicitly aimed at doing mathematics at a high level, i.e. professional mathematics. (I dropped out of professional mathematics, but since I'm now working in Functional Programming I did not stray too far.)

What I want to say is, that the process of doing mathematics is solving and understanding problems. And since we are rarely interested in concrete solutions to concrete problems, we build up theories and algorithms to solve whole classes of problems. Building up those theories is a highly creative process, but ultimately, a problem can only be seen as `solved' if we find a mechanical process for eliminating the need for creativity.

Let me give you an example: There are lots of interesting questions you can ask about linear recurrence sequences (e.g. the Fibonacci sequence), like what happens if we add to sequences? Or when we interleave them? Or when we only pick every n-th element. Or when we want to find out the i-th, without having to calculate every element that comes before.

Solving those kinds of problems requires lots of thinking.

But if you apply even more thinking, you can come up with generating functions. They are a tool that will enable you to solve all those problems really easily. (And enable you to spare your creativity for much harder problems. That's progress!)
VineMe launches, offering photo 'Timeline for the World'
6 Super Granny Powers You Didn’t Know About
Everybody has seen the video of the super granny beating a few bad guys with her powerful purse.

This made me wonder what other super powers super granny might have ...
read about the other super powers at areyoupop.com/blog
I like gandi quite a lot, it's simple and reliable.
Please don't put 150KB of linebreaks in your HTML
I'd like to ask to anyone who has worked as both, for himself and for the man, which one is more stressful? To the degree that this question can be answered, I realize it would depend a lot on the exact job and that it's not black and white.
I disagree.. I mean, yes.. working for yourself is a bit of illusion.. everyone has customers. But the spirit of the question in this case is a bit different. I think 'the man' we're all talking about is a short-sighted middle-manager type who's at the moment working with IT to install web-censoring software, and putting together a dashboard of LOC produced, per engineer, per day.
There are literally hundreds of brilliant articles in HNs history. Learn to mine them for yourself and there's treasure to be found.

Don't rely on other people to do your work, in this case learning for yourself is very useful. After all:

"Give a man a match and he's warm for a moment,
set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of
his life."
I managed to paste the link incorrectly and am unable to edit it, my apologies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
Two suggestions:

- Get this on GitHub

- Get a native english speaker/writer to fix up the copy
> There's a difference between satire and making false claims about a product with the intention of tarnishing it and the company that produces it.

You need to be careful about the wording here. I believe that there is a difference under UK libel law between making false claims and making false claims with an intention to tarnish the company. The second attributes malice which removes certain possible defences.

I don't think there is any suggest here that the TG were intending to tarnish the product. I think they were making a (validish) point about electric cars and maybe getting a cheap laugh - legally that may be a different thing.
I work for someone else too (a Dutch university). Although I am interested in freelancing or starting my own company in the future, what brought me to Hacker News was the good signal/noise ratio. Both in terms of upvoted items and in insightful comments.

The focus on startups may filter for people who are generally interested in new technology and business methods. You have to be able to tolerate some entrepreneurial posts every day ;).
Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 now here
No it's real. They don't have AF in China.
@SlipperySlope, I'd say the execs are somewhere in between the first and second.
It looks like our approaches are very different. Stratocaster stores lists of integer IDs, which Redis optimizes for pretty heavily. We're taking the list of IDs and doing a multi-get from either memcache or mysql.

It looks like this lib uses Sets of the actual event data. It won't be able to take advantage of the same optimizations.
> Why is there apprehension about making money in startup land?

Because then there would be real reference points for calculating valuation, which is counterproductive in an industry that relies on bubble economics.
Boy, there are certainly much easier ways around it than this. The thing is, I'd really like to not have to use them. I'd love to give the Times $5 a month for access to something more than 20 articles but less than infinity. Sadly that's not an option.
That's the end of caring about Tesla for me. Resorting to a lawsuit over a comedy program means your company's ethics are out of touch with reality, and it's time for you to die. It's the adult equivalent of bringing your guns to school and killing everyone because some kids made fun of you at lunch. Yeah, they shouldn't have done that, but your solution was worse than the problem.

Why must Tesla murder schoolchildren?
In fairness, the thicket of citations and explanations are more a reflection of the way the plaintiff set up all sorts of procedural fallbacks and strategic maneuvers. Near the end the judge complains that the case could have been resolved quickly at the outset if the plaintiff hadn't bent over backwards to conceal his 'copyrighted' email as if it were something of enormous importance.

I suspect that as soon as he realized the email had been copied, it dawned on him that he would now have a reputation for casually disparaging people in public which would severely undermine his legal career both by word of mouth and in more formal ways. Deciding that the best defense was a good offense, he launched this absurd suit against the person who brought his loose talk to light. I feel like he'd have been reporting it to his local bar, and asking the accounting company he disparaged if they would settle or accept arbitration.

I wonder if he will face disciplinary sanctions on top of his courtroom humiliation? His reputation is already shot, perhaps his whole career. Note to self: reread this next time you feel cocky.

(IANAL)
Ever dealt with the IRS? Or even a city business licensing authority?
100% agree on that. I had a DSL contract with them in Germany and moved to another town where i had internet via cable included. They insisted that i have to keep paying for another 18 months with no way to cancel the contract early.

I paid and will avoid 1and1 for the rest of my life.
I work for "The Woman". I used to freelance on the side, but I signed a pretty tight non-compete. I prefer the security of a salary job over freelance projects anyway, as I'm in the lovely demographic of broke 20 something post-grads ;)
How awesome. No option to comment on their website. They could have turned it into an awesome opportunity to talk with the customers.

Lets see how far this lawsuit gets. Interested in the development of it.
I'm sure there's a sizable percentage that are in school / grad school (myself included) who are not represented by this poll.
I do understand. As you understand that some people (not me) disagreee with the whole dup-police thing. I like the way you do your thing -- I wish you liked mine -- to each his own.
"The usual way theoretical physics was done since the time of Newton was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the equations"

I cannot believe that Freeman Dyson would claim such false notion that Newton worked with "equations." I checked the quote and http://books.google.com/books?id=RHzoMeU2bxsC&printsec=f... it is true, the quote is in the book.

I would think that Dyson would know that Newton did not write one single equation ever. He worked with proportions.
Trisquel 4.5 "Slaine" released
Ordinary folk (non-programmer's) already have this
http://myprogressbar.com/
Reddit is enough of a problem that I keep blocking it in the router. But HN is not light enough to be a proper procrastination tool.
I have no problems with killing and eating animals. There are 1.5 billion cattle on this planet. Elephants, however, have been hunted from a population of 5-10 million a century ago to around 600,000 today and are now a threatened species. Do you really not see the difference between one and the other?
UK's libel laws are infamously plaintiff friendly. Tesla may well prevail in court even the review was truthful.

Not sure it'll help their public image any, though.
That's a very good point.

Speaking of which, thank you for the link to the old one. The comments there were very informative.
I think the best about this is interview is that DHH really sells and believes what he says. He's just not replaying the party line, but a core belief of his.
ZOMG!!!
I needed to purchase a name today.

BTW, I found this...

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Well there you go. Close thread.
What if my employees are freelancers? :)
Well, in fairness I live in Europe so I've never used Netflix, however I've heard a lot of good things about this service, not the least on HN.

My point was that if you have a free (albeit illegal) concurrence, if you want to keep your market share you have to give some added value. For services like Spotify, the added value is that you have access to a big catalog of tracks that you can listen to instantly without having to double check for quality and authenticity. You can listen and share those tracks across computers and devices transparently. It's more convenient than bittorent and it's legal.
Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm”
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/916/how-to-tra...
Great story! And I remember another one as told by the Great Master Craig Larman - quote from memory.

When you start working as a programmer, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.

Then you start learning new things, tips and tricks, so mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers.

And a few will reach such a level when mountains are again mountains and rivers are again rivers.
I think there is probably a middle ground? I mean, I curse a lot but I try not to drop f-bombs in design docs.
If you're going to inflame language wars why hide behind throwaway accounts?
Notes from the field: Moving from evangelizing to doing
I made no argument at all. I merely asked a question.
YouTube is the only game in town for user created videos on the web. What percentage of user created videos do you think YouTube streams? I wouldn't be surprised its in the 80%s or higher.

Which in itself is just fine. But now they're using their monopoly position here to bolster another unrelated product. Once you start doing that you're doing an IE/Windows abuse.
Wildfire simulation sandbox (literally)
This satirical response only applies if you value human lives and elephant lives equally.
Side note: I once met a former Apple employee who dismissed my sugar coated illusions my telling me that at the end of the day working for for even an amazing large tech company is "working for the man"
Reading the script in the complaint (http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/tesla_-_claim...) it looks like Top Gear staged pushing the car into the hanger as part of a fictional story about running out of charge after 55 miles of driving. That fictional story is based on their calculation that on the track it would have run out after 50 miles.

Top Gear's show seems to be saying this: if you actually tried to drove this car for 55 miles at high speed on our track, it would run out of power and you would need to push it into the hanger to recharge. Because you would have intentionally driven it until it ran out of charge. They do NOT make the claim that it suddenly and surprisingly ran out of charge. But I can see how it might appear that way to the viewer.

I don't know if this counts as libel. The actual lie here is that Top Gear didn't go through the exercise of actually running the battery down.

Not sure what to make of the claim that the brakes didn't die. That seems more like a he-said-she-said deal at this point.
If you want to toss this site's repo up on Github (or email me directly if you wish to keep it private), I'll design it. No obligation to use my design but I'm going under the assumption that this is a non-commercial project & the design would be attributed to me if used.
The new version of NX supports Windows and Mac servers, which don't rely on X11 http://www.nomachine.com/desktop-access.php
I consider myself to be "the man," although in a different context. So in a sense, yes.
GameStop Acquires Spawn Labs & Impulse
Nothing Much Has Changed On Wall Street
Unrelated, but it bothers me that their hover overs (a:focus) on the menu bar double up the border pixel widths next to the current (li.current) page.
@locopati You are right. The difference is in where people draw the lines.

@travisp I've heard this logic before. Your girlfriend perhaps eats beef. Ask her to take a chainsaw and chop a cow for her next meal. She'll tell you how the two things are different.
Your quick iterations and releases are great. Just yesterday I ran into a bug that had been introduced into 1.5.1 (http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8456) so I reverted to using 1.5.0 and then, bam! - today's new release has the bug fixed!
YouTube/Create
How to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Once again Google is the subject of the Arrington April fools' post, always controversial.
Perhaps we are in violent agreement.

I don't want to say that doing math is not creative. Far from it. But mathematicians strive to make themselves unemployed. They prove theorems once and for all, so you don't have to for each right triangle why it has this curious properties about the sum of squares.

Eliminating the need for creativity takes a lot of creativity.
Roundtable Recap: March 31 – Microsoft’s $100k India Startup Challenge Grant
- Roll your own unbuffered input using raw system calls.

A small toy project I wrote last year was a modification of GNU grep that did the opposite -- it aggressively prefetched ahead of the file it was currently reading. This helped performance dramatically on fragmented data (e.g. tons of small files).

For most typical greps (at least of files as opposed to standard input), "grep" is likely disk-bound, not CPU-bound.

(Note: I mean literal prefetch, not actually reading the file from disk. This is important because file input is a blocking operation in UNIX -- the thread blocks when read() is called and can only be resumed when the read is complete, unlike the case of output. This prevents the filesystem from reordering or merging multiple reads unless they come simultaneously from different threads. This is why reads are often slower than writes on typical data.)
Maybe not technically, but the African Bush Elephant going down from 300,000 in 1970 to 10,000 today is a very significant drop.
Umm the Chrome extension states it can access: "All data on your computer and the websites you visit".

Say what?
Why the founder is the first and most important salesperson of every startup
We use them at work - not a fan but haven't had any issues. Personally I use Gandi and love them.

Another one to avoid like the plague imho is dotster - lost a domain via dotster, even though my payment was accepted and then returned a week later. Domain briefly showed up with whois information of the CEO, and then it changed.
Imagine a bent tube in a 'u' shape with a fan in the middle. Both openings of the tube point toward the front of the plane.

That's basically what a propeller engine with a thrust reverser is. And I think you can visualize how it will do nothing if you turn on the fan. The force from the air exiting and entering the tube will cancel out.
Haven't felt the need to comment till now. Language wars help pass the time when you need a distraction :).
And the HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627367
This is discussed best in the opening chapter of O'Reilly's Beautiful Code: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046. Google Books has a readable snippet of the section at http://bit.ly/g34QRh, but I highly recommend buying the book because it is a great read.
One way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost:<ssh tunnel port>:

http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne...

This is a decent example. I've seen others that have more options and presumably more functionality.

A few notes from past experiences. Your IT department will completely freak out. Hopefully they'll also be impressed. HR will freak out worse because they won't understand. A good IT employee will come see what the heck is up with your ssh throughput to a weird vps or home box - befriend this person if you haven't already. Average code-monkeys will be impressed, especially if you don't do web development. Finally, it's almost certainly a violation of that 20 page agreement you signed on the first day of work.
Could be worse... "The last license to hunt Bushmen was reportedly issued in Namibia by the South African government in 1936. " - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0102/feature6/
Quick tips – 5 best steps to protect Android device.
How Facebook Built One Mobile Site to Serve Thousands of Phones
The Holy Trinity of Computation: logic, languages, categories
Gandi.net seems to have a good reputation here on HN, and I like them myself.
Am I getting a good deal?
I recently started working for a tech startup in SF. I'm a smart engineer who chose not to work for google and facebook. Also i went to an ivy-league school (though this shouldn't make a difference) and graduated last year. The startup has been around for about 2 months and has raised some decent money, + has a ton of frothy investor interest. There are 5 employees - 3 are founders making me employee #2. I've built about 40% of the existing alpha product. There are 2 other engineers.

I'm getting 75k and half a point of equity. There's a 4 year vesting scheme. Am I getting a good deal?
Agreed. We don't consider Android and iOS programmers interchangable (except in so far as we consider all programmers at JTV to largely be generalists who can work on whatever they put their minds to). Android and iPhone are different platforms with their own gotchas that just happen to share some form factors and styles of interface elements. When we do product design we design for each separately.
Thanks, my team is going to try out project turf for its 2 week trial, and then re-evaluate. so far so good (all I did was add tasks, but basecamp failed that test...)