skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something good to know about usecases where node.js is not a good fit:

The truth is that while we are starting to see good frameworks for node.js, there is nothing as powerful as Rails, CakePHP or Django on the scene yet. If most of your app is simply rendering HTML based on some database, using node.js will not provide many tangible business benefits yet.
Well maybe because programming is logical so it develop left brain hemisphere and music is one of activity that develop right brain hemisphere...so combining that to makes a balance.
You should come by sometime! I'm here pretty much 24/7 writing Node code :-)
Do we have any NetBSD folk who could shed some light? Is it purely an economic decision?
Your code only needs to be threadsafe if you wish to enable the concurrent flag, otherwise your code will happily run as it had before.

I just thought it's important to note that they're not forcing you to push a code update unless you want to handle concurrent requests with a single instance.
It's always baffled me how there are all these mobile apps that get away with basically scraping content off of other websites (and stripping out the ads). I guess the answer is sometimes they don't.
Scale More with Same Hardware
Maybe we just need a semantic distinction between editorials (opinion pieces) and articles (investigative/fact-laden pieces)? Perhaps make editorials count for less, in the same way self-posts currently do?
As explained elsewhere, you give the vaccine and a placebo to an at-risk. Than you follow up X years later to check infection rates. Everything's double blind, so there's nothing statistically different about the two populations other than the vaccine vs. placebo.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389732
so basically like the karma system on HN :)
We will backtrace you.
Haskell's an odd case; experienced Haskell users are likely to be thinking of the comma as less of a "separator" than a "combinator" constructing a tuple, and preceding-combinator-on-newline is an idiomatic style. Which doesn't disprove your point, I'm just saying it's an edge case. This is after all the language community that interprets a semicolon (as used in most languages) as a combinator too.
Yet another Search Engine Optimization technique?
Might be just you and your group of friends. I know a lot of developers and none are musicians. That isn't to say there isn't a correlation or that there is one but most people tend to have friends with similar interest. That could be why you're sending a trend amongst your friends that happen to exhibit these two traits.

For example, among my friends, it seems common that most of the really good hackers tend to code and be avid runners. I'm sure there's no real correlation on that.
Based on the CEO's comments about "reader" mode versus "web" mode, I would guess that they were using Readbility style scraping to display just the content of an article within the app.
They say it's 0.6-60 Gy. If my calculation is correct, to get a 10Gy dose over ~2.5 years due to the 5.15Mev alphas from Pu239, that would mean they contained 6.7e-8 kg Pu239 / kg body mass, i.e. .06mg/kg body mass. So it's fair to say that it's pretty bad. Unless I dropped a factor N_A or something... ;-)
Don't know much about drugs and trials so I am speaking out of my ass but I'd assume if the numbers were large enough, you don't actually infect the patients.

I would expect you could compare the natural rate of infection in the target group vs the control group after many years taking into account the historical/expected rate of infection in a random sampling of the population involved.
Someone like add this may create one. There are already plenty of ways you can turn a like into a share on facebook, twitter, Tumblr etc instapaper's new social options is one
For all intents and purposes, anyone can downvote. A few hous worth of groupthink comments will get you the ability.

Really this is all silly, if you upvote for agreement, why not the opposite?
Because linear is O(n) and binary is O(log(n))?
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons hunting Problem Elephants [video]
Millions of Spiders in Pakistan Encase Entire Trees in Webs
I've played around with a few, and imho most of the common ones easily available on public torrent trackers have the ability to take screenshots on mouseclicks, with a nice little animation pointing out where the mouse pointer was when the click event happened too.

'Keystroke' logs include text, pictures and even videos in these toolkits.

Basically if you've been taken over by keystroke logging malware, it'd be safest to assume that everything on the machine's been compromised.
Highly Profitable Mac/iOS Startup Hiring ($300 to $500/day)
We are one of the leading developers on the iOS and Mac platforms with dozens of successful apps, adding around one million new users per month and doubling our revenues every quarter.

What we want:

1. Remote Javascript/HTML/CSS developer

2. Remote iOS/Mac developer

You need to be:

1. Passionate

2. Dedicated

3. Awesome at what you do

If you have strong experience and a portfolio to back yourself up, then please email us at: throwawayappdev@gmail.com

Immediate start available.
$3 million dollar Heritage Health Prize starts on April 4
That's nice.Me too, i have an idea for a multiplayer web game and i want develop it using Rails,Do you recommend any framework,library that you have used?
Not really. In a programming language, for example, there is a feature called 'introspection' where the program can examine an object in memory as it runs and determine its type. It doesn't mean the program is self aware. I can think about how I experienced something - but it's just a neural computation 'about' another neural computation. No magic.
What should I do with http://snort.co.ke?
I'll do anything you suggest, within reason, at http://snort.co.ke Anyone?
Today, I had to print out, sign and send a work agreement. It took an hour, 12 miles of city driving at $3.75/gal, and it cost $10.85. I'm VERY interested in this company. Self employed people need to watch every penny they spend so a way to save over 80% is great. Next time I need to send a contract back, I'll be using this service. Thanks to YC for shedding light on a great idea.
> but I don't need the entrepreneurial sense

Horrible statement. You want your cofounder to be very entrepreneurial regardless of whether he's the business cofounder or the technical cofounder. Otherwise what you're really looking for is a coding monkey disguised as a cofounder to avoid having to pay because you don't have the means to.

> I need someone with a greater or equal knowledge of programming and (more importantly) a drive to actually use that knowledge.

Having a drive is important. Either you or your cofounder needs to be good enough on the technical side. But it sounds like you're discrediting someone who knows his business and marketing chops. Its definitely hard to find someone that knows it in high school but I would be careful about disregarding this in favor of technical talent if you are already a developer. A lot of startups fail not because they aren't able to build their product, it's because they're unable to get it out to the market.

> I know a few people in startups and plenty of people who work in some part of Silicon Valley, but most of those people are considerably older than me (40+) and/or not someone who I would want to work with.

Age shouldn't be a determining factor albeit I can see where you're coming from. However there are plenty of people in their 20s in the valley and the startup scene.

> You might be wondering how being in high school is related to finding a co-founder, or if not a co-founder someone to work on a particular project with, and it's because based on what I've read/heard, people find co-founders in college/university. I don't have that advantage of being grouped with people of similar interest.

No, we're not wondering that. College just is the norm. You need to get a better idea of what you actually need in a cofounder rather than just what you assume you need. And you can find ways to network and meet people of similar interest, even in the East Bay.

Hope that helps.
Back in the 90s the company I was at wanted to have a crack at some early ASP programming (predating ASP.Net). But because they were a Microsoft shop they had decided that they were going to have all the client side events in VBScript (don't ask why, down that path lies madness).

So faced with the choice of an ASP page with a mix of client side VBScript and server side VBScript it was pretty hard, so I switched the server side to Javascript (or ECMAScript or JScript or whatever Micorsoft's implementation was called that week).

That made the demarcation between client and server (in the same source file) enormously much more clear. Consequently productivity went way up when we did that.

I still think that was the wrong way round (Javascript on the client, VBScript on the server would have been better in every single way), but having the two languages was definitely the way to go. Yes, you need to context switch, but when you switch from client to server you need to context switch anyway.
Blockyard - Virtual Legos with Motors
Build a catapult, car, pinball machine, ferris wheel, etc. using simple blocks, axles, and motors.
Sounds like a "ringing" endorsement :-)
I have a b.s. in finance and I still do not understand how to invest and years ago I was ripped off by a penny stock. I wanted to clean up the otc market by applying the broken window theory bc I believe it does not have to be as wild, and at the same time teach basic investing. I do not know it my desire to teach investing in realistic however. Anyway, if I were to do it, I would want to do it by emphasizing a qualitative factor, specifically the companies strategy for growth and then ratios that support this strategy.
Reid Hoffman: “Good Internet Companies Never Ambush Their Users”
the reason I dont like paper trading systems is one bc without real money transacted, I cant make money and two bc I think having some skin in the game changes everything. But I realize after talking to you that this may be an unrealistic dream.
My interpretations are probably wrong more than they are right so take it with a grain of salt. It just seemed to me to infer that. I think there is a bubble as well, but this one is going to last a long time. The fact of the mater is we have inflated everything else and popped it so now the only thing we can do is re-inflate tech which has to stay inflated for some years to come until the real estate and stock bubbles are forgotten then we can again shift into them.
Introduction to Java - Great tutorial
It's just a convention for writing jQuery chains. The code is easier to debug because each method is kept on a separate line.

Of course this is trivial if there's only one method in the chain...
Well, WebOS was one of the things I was really looking forward to but the Pre hardware was not very usable for me.

I really hope WebOS gets a decent second chance. When will the tablets be out?
Thank you! I didn't actually know this and would have completely missed that bug.
If it's not already, and you start doing it successfully, it will either become against their TOS, or have a 30% tax applied to any benefit you derive from it.
I've find this correlation is even higher for designers.
Thougth the same here. It would be wonderful to use such speed once before i die.
I guess I'll be posting this again on Friday, but:

LyricFind, Toronto. Looking for a strong Java / MySQL developer:

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/sof/2284072232.html
Coffee Joulies: Kickstarter project keeps your coffee at the right temperature
"A film where humans and clouds are at war. The clouds float down, picking up children and dropping them to their deaths."

Sounds like "Billy's Balloon" by Don Hertzfeld.
Thank you very much for this guide. I was going to learn Node.js later this month and this will make it much easier.
Actually, if someone promises you a million dollars verbally, then in common law you can rely on that promise (subject to many caveats and details, IANAL etc). In fact you might be able to rely on it in several ways -- contract law, estoppel law etc.

To avoid he-said/she-said, many business contracts include a written "no-verbals clause", saying in essence that the contract can't be amended except in writing.

This is necessary because contractual relationships do not need to be written. The elements which the law pattern matches to say "this is a contract" do not require "must be written down somewhere" (though again, there are exceptions - for example many jurisdictions have legislation requiring property contracts to be in writing). For example, when you buy a stick of gum, you have negotiated, agreed to and executed a contract with an agent of the seller (the clerk). Contracts are largely invisible in every day life, but they exist. The decision to write them down is a risk-management exercise, where contract parties realise that the cost of settling disputes about verbal disputes is higher than the cost of signing a written contract.

In this case the common sense has been to rule that an IM message was "writing", thus it was not treated by the no-verbals clause, thus it successfully amended the original contract.

Now currently these modification clauses are blacklisting based. You name what you won't count as modifying the contract. If it hasn't happened already, a smart lawyer will look for a whitelisting approach, where you list what will count in future. So instead of "no verbal, no IM, no twitter, no currently-unforeseen-service-X", you'll get "on paper only".

Again, I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice etc etc.
AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
Hey, how much does it cost thougth? 200$ 300$
If you're sure it's not medical related force yourself to go out and talk to someone. Anyone. About anything. I'm a college student too, so if you want to talk, email me at yadavh@umich.edu and we can set some time to just shoot the shit. Yeah you don't know me, but maybe you've still got a little spontaneity in you.
This is one of those posts that is made, and upvoted, based on what everyone wants to be true, instead of what is true.

The simple, unassailable truth is that having strong contributions to open-source projects is a massive advantage in any resume-scanning and hiring situation. And as a hiring manager, seeing extensive open-source work is better than seeing a resume. That means the advice is ALWAYS good advice. There is never a situation under which the proper career advice is to not do good visible work.

This doesn't mean it's a requirement, or should be a requirement, but it IS a reality. If you choose not to participate, that's fine, but it comes with an inarguable cost. You can try to convince us all that it shouldn't, but it does, and it probably always will.
2 problems with Cucumber
It's the only way they can get girlfriends! /s

btw article of interest: http://www.infoworld.com/t/education-and-skills/why-are-so-m...
Requested access about an hour ago. Excited.
Popoyunlar
I'm the head tech guy at Zite. You are essentially correct — we display webpages in an optimized reading mode which is clean and loads much faster than the native web page.
What are your thoughts on the Pre3?
I love this! Tip: the swap button for me, in Chrome/Mac, is hard to use (seems to be a small clickable area). Awesome execution of a simple idea. (:
> If you are teaching specific execution mechanics (market making, rebate capture) then it makes no sense to run the system from a proprietary infrastructure

What you are mentioning above, seems too complex. If this concept were to grow more, I would focus on elements from Discounted Cash Flow.
Congrats on your success! It's an incredible rush. Be careful, the feeling is addictive ;)
Should have used a functional language.
Why do ryah et al do it?
Not to take anything away from your comment, but he was well past having just HIV, and full bore into AIDS, and he was also not even remotely wealthy. Having graduated from living in his car full time to a 180 square foot apartment just before his uninsured car was stolen.
Sit around and wait for The Coca-Cola Company to take co.ke away from you.
You could also short our two big mining companies, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
AIDS is not a virus, it's a set of conditions. HIV is what you'd vaccinate against.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_defining_clinical_conditio...
There is a deep underlying relationship between mathematics and music:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_mathematics

Computer programming is the practical application of a subset of mathematics, so it stands to reason that programmers will tend to be interested in music. (And, specifically, people who like writing code will also tend to like making music.)
Start a company called "Snort" in Kenya.
I'm developing an app(real-time) using socket.io, mongoose,express and more. Is that enough? I bet that there's some hackers here way ahead of me. >:(

I would go even unpaid to get more experience.
"> but I don't need the entrepreneurial sense
Horrible statement. You want your cofounder to be very entrepreneurial regardless of whether he's the business cofounder or the technical cofounder. Otherwise what you're really looking for is a coding monkey disguised as a cofounder to avoid having to pay because you don't have the means to."

I meant that I don't need the business sense as much as I need the technology sense.

"> I need someone with a greater or equal knowledge of programming and (more importantly) a drive to actually use that knowledge.
Having a drive is important. Either you or your cofounder needs to be good enough on the technical side. But it sounds like you're discrediting someone who knows his business and marketing chops. Its definitely hard to find someone that knows it in high school but I would be careful about disregarding this in favor of technical talent if you are already a developer. A lot of startups fail not because they aren't able to build their product, it's because they're unable to get it out to the market."

My primary reason for not getting anything I'm working on out to market is because I'm thinking a lot more about the idea than actually spending time coding it. I start coding and soon after I realize a better way to approach it, and then I start working on that better way and the process repeats itself. I think this process will fix itself if I were to have a co-founder. In addition, having a specifically technical co-founder would speed up development time tremendously.

"> I know a few people in startups and plenty of people who work in some part of Silicon Valley, but most of those people are considerably older than me (40+) and/or not someone who I would want to work with.
Age shouldn't be a determining factor albeit I can see where you're coming from. However there are plenty of people in their 20s in the valley and the startup scene."

Age isn't a determining factor. It's the individual's personality, and more importantly, whether I think I can work with them and if they think they can work with me. I haven't come across people wherein both of those conditions were met.
Modern antiretrovirals are very effective. Combined with a healthy immune system, it's entirely possible for HIV to be present, but knocked into submission. Both health risks and chances of propagation are significantly reduced. That doesn't, however, mean the virus has been eliminated.
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (April 2011)
Similar to the "Who is Hiring" thread but, please remote positions only.
The problem with the 6 months 1 programmer vs 1 month 6 programmers is that the minute you have more than one programmer they have to have an architecture that works together plus take time to communicate with each other — and then add to that the concept of a "critical path" i.e. that one programmer may not be able to start something until another programmer is done.

Although in my professional experience the idea of adding more programmers is always suggested by the client about a week before the project is due!!!

PS If you had to live through about ten of these clients you'd have the same religious feelings that I do for the Mythical Man Month.
While we're asking, my question: Is Buzz going to make it?

I've thought of starting/transferring some activity to it, but -- especially after the demise of Wave, as well as some other Google products with lower adoption -- I've hesitated out of concern it may well soon be whacked.

As I've said before, I was unhappy with the initial deployment, but I'd prefer not to see Google leave the "social communication" space altogether. And the bit of Buzz I've seen seems to have fostered more interesting and informative conversations than FB, Twitter, etc. (Partly probably the early/informed adopter thing. Partly reasonable message length in combination with lack of noise and distractions.)
Bachelor's degree required?
If more people link to the better recipes, then yes. If not, recommendations might help but again, why is my aunt's choice more accurate than a stranger's?
Understand though that, while your points are valid, it it's certainly more valuable to an employer to be able to see your skills in action than not.

At the same time, seeing how you handle version control, how you deal with contributors and bug reports, all that matters. Being able to see that is much better than taking one's word for it.

So yes, as someone who previously worked on a shop where no code would get out, I can relate to the feeling. But the above is still true. A few things you can do about it:

- open not the products you have entirely, but modular parts of it.
- should the previous suggestion not be an option, get the company to run a blog, and have you/your workmates share solutions at a discussion level.
- get the company to allow developers to work 10%, or 20% of their time, on open source. It'll help keeping you guys sharp, at the same time it helps you putting a name out there.
Hey thiagofm, if you're interested, I also have an opportunity for you. Email me @ eric/nowjs.com
Don't Jump to Conclusions About Nuclear Reactors: Look at the Facts and Say No
But it is. Anyone can participate. It's a choice, just like the choice to sign the employment contract.
My bad, so many people are going onto other sites and just posting garbage..

I got a site with a pic of the guy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371604/FBI-asks-cod...
Three Mile Island was 32 years ago.
I think pad locks only go up to 35?
Popular Science Sells 10,000 iPad Subscriptions in First 5 Weeks
The xbox is a good example of Microsoft doing consumer hardware well — if they created a tablet with this mindset instead of making something to run Office 2012 they could go after the iPad and win converts. The xbox is also a good example of Microsoft letting go of their legacy and trying something really new (including being in the hardware biz).