skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider it a waste of my time to pop a disc in only to be told the drive needs to be upgraded. Plug it into the network (because I learned that if I leave it plugged in the discs spend 30-45 minutes downloading crap over the network that I have no interest in watching) …anyway, plug it in, click upgrade, and 15-30 minutes goes by while it downloads and then does the upgrade. In theory.

If it was a once in a year thing, then maybe fine, but each of the last three BD's I tried playing required an upgrade. I went through the process twice, but it sort of kills the interest in watching the movie if I have to upgrade each time. Perhaps it was incredibly bad luck, but I really have better things to do with my time then upgrade a consumer device every time I want to use it.

I'm not the one treating the machine as obsolete, it's the media industry which has decided that the best way to combat piracy is to make its customers go through this stupid upgrade process (which may or may not work, and may or may not brick the player). And yes, I would prefer to use inferior technology if I can use it, play it, reuse it as I find necessary. I can burn DVDs once to mp4 format and play to my heart's content on a variety of devices.
The problem with this idea is visuals. You can only have so much footage of people sitting at computers before viewers would get bored.
The document attached to the article shows the age distribution for both companies.
The "simplifications" in the program that can be achieved by a supercompiler

Redundant code elimination.
Performing operations on data that are known at the time of supercompilation.
Removing intermediate data structures.
Transforming multi-pass algorithms to one-pass algorithms.

http://sites.google.com/site/keldyshscp/Home/supercompilerco...
But a Mac's interface is not an iOS interface. There are different constraints and different best practices, and sometimes completely different widgets. To make a decent UI, you have to understand the native platform.
Help test a new file management app for Amazon S3
This is a first cut of a Java Web Start file management app for existing Amazon S3 accounts called FileZoomer. This first "MVP" type release is to test the basic functionality, with new features to be adding going forward. The app is intended to be an easy-to-use way of managing files in an S3 account for those who may be intimidated by the more technical nature of S3. Because it's a Java Web Start app it will run on either Windows or OS X.

In addition to the ability to move files to and from your S3 account this first beta release provides support for searching file names within the current bucket and moving files between folders or buckets. It also takes advantage of the S3 file sharing infrastructure for permanent or timed file sharing links.

If you want to be an "official" beta tester you can sign up here:

www.filezoomer.com

If you just want to download and hack around with it you can skip giving an email address and download FileZoomer here:

http://filezoomer.com/download-filezoomer/
Isn't it Samuel L. Jackson?
Thanx for replies, wittjeff understood our concept correctly. We are going to develop software extensions and sell them later. Anyone can request if they need something and can be lucky to get it for free if we consider it could be sold later to others.
The problem is with our page design, "Development" is the heading of a very tiny column and is too long word.
My partner does not like expression "Tell us and get it for free", but we have no idea how to change it correctly :$
I just don't want our page to appear like "what Flintstone made it?"
My thoughts on the Tech Scene in current times – Part1- Search
I always presumed HN was SFW ...
If someone like me has somehow managed to cope with living in the US until middle age without being able to drive a car, going without a cell phone is a cake walk by comparison.
And I'll buy a ticket today.
It is indeed very interesting the article you wrote differentiating real courses from whatever else. It is sad that anything from a blog post to a youtube video is considered an actual course. I too learned a few things by watching videos or reading a tutorial, but it is far from a real class...and it is insulting to associate those attempts with the word "university". A class is a 2 way street -unlike videos and documents that are unilateral-, where students and teachers can interact..otherwise a lot can be left pending on the student's side..and without a teacher no one can certify that the students were indeed able to grasp the new concepts taught and that they are ready to put them into practice.
That's a tough situation to be in. It's probably going to ruin your friendship. Do you have a contract?

I have friends that are great coders, but I know they probably wouldn't be a good co-founder. I also have some friends that would make great co-founders.

It sounds to me like your friend would be a better employee. Founders of a company should be sacrificing and busting-ass every waking moment.

Could you ask him to fly/temporarily move to your country?
What a stick in the mud. As I get older I find that I really love this stuff: the useful abstractions, abstract concepts, hard computer science, cutting-edge math, and philosophy behind it all. It's just really enjoyable to learn and explore. It is the part that keeps me coming back after the workday drains me with the CRUD requirements and tedious bug fixes. And this guy wants to take that part away?
Or uncross them--i.e. moving your eyes out also works.
I sorely miss BluRay support on Macs, because of this my media center computer is PC and on top of that I can't play movies I own and rent on family trips because our laptops are MacBook Pro and MacBook. It's just lame, I would pay $150 for an option to have BluRay in my MacBook Pro, why not just give it to me?

When companies have too many interests integrated, they start to hurt customers, in this case Apple with it's interest in iTunes hurts it's own customers that need BluRay.
"Hacker culture" isn't just limited to a bunch of neckbeards being arrogant in a lab. Neckbeards will be neckbeards. Hacker culture is about being passionate and unorthodox and subversive.
I'm on to you. You didn't SKIP them, you simply can't tell us on the CHE side what your UP side is.

Nice try, Zed. <3
I understand. I'm referencing a game dev project & wishing "innovation" could be loosely parsed into definable stages with cost-estimates.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken
Not sure about the email part, checkout http://yourversion.com
Chernobyl survivor's message for Japan: Run
Awesome, thanks! I haven't read enough Schneier to have picked up on that (really just Secrets and Lies).
I'd rather have seen features, screenshots, and examples on why this blogging platform is better than the rest. Who cares that you're Indian? What's your angle there? Link bait titles and sensationalist headlines might get you mad props on HN, but they aren't going to get you any respect for your platform.

As far as I'm concerned, you haven't actually done anything yet.
Nearix, there is no conspiracy here. By the way I don't have any connection to YC whatsoever. HN is not your normal tech news site. You and I, although not related to HN, have the chance to address an issue. There is no "editor".

However as already mentioned by other users, it is normal for people that are closer to YC, to cause a viral effect for people they know.

I suppose that what we have to consider(as general users of this site), is if we get valuable information from this site. I have been reading HN for about 2 years and I believe, it has been a good source of information. As all sources of information you have to consider the articles that are more relevant to you. Being "top" ranked in HN will not make your startup/application better if it doesn't benefit the user.
CrowdFlower Raises $7M, Launches E-Commerce Tool For Data Categorization
hey, nice idea. Can we talk more on this? Are you interested in working on such a project?
Chameleon - UIKit for OS X
You got it jtauber. email me at kevin @ bostinnovation.com so we can talk about this further. thanks for reading
This is so ridiculous I have to rebut this point by point.

Her points:

1) Convenience: The closing line of this statement says it all: "... or borrow someone else’s cell to make the call. Now that’s convenience."

There's a distinction between "life without a cell phone" and "life without owning a cell phone."

2) Paraphrasing: "I can never lose my phone numbers because I remember them and put them in a Rolodex and an addressbook."

There is nothing about owning a cell phone that prevents her from doing this.

3) Paraphrasing: "I will never be distracted by my phone while I'm with others."

There is nothing inherent about owning a cell phone that forces people to do this. If the author feels so vehemently that this is a bad thing, then surely it couldn't be too hard for her to bring a cell phone around and ignore it in social situations.

4) Paraphrasing: "I have a landline that gets perfect reception, which is much better than an unreliable cell phone." There is nothing preventing one from owning both a cell phone and a land line.

5) Paraphrasing: "Cell phones cause cancer."
Maybe, but there has not been strong evidence supporting this claim, IMO. See the other links shared so far.

6) Paraphrasing: "No one device can interrupt my life."
Two words: Silent Mode.
Cuz we XPers are too busy Programming, Motherfucker!
as pointed out on twitter, the response to this post is another post from hacker news today:

http://programming-motherfucker.com/
I wish I'd read that before I forsook Common Lisp for Java to make myself marketable when I wasn't even looking for a job.
Then you get in loads of trouble with federal authorities.
It amazing how quickly the company seems to have developed into something with a recognition beyond the development community. I first cam across it a few years ago while working in England, and that could not have been too long after its launch. What struck me about it at the time, and this has been said more succinctly elsewhere, is how simple and elegant it was to work with - this was confirmed when even the thickest of non-techies in the office could work it out in less than a couple of minutes. Reading the comments here seems to verify my initial thoughts.

I have heard it said before that some of the best ideas are those that take complicated things and make them simple or easily understandable, and their success goes a long way to proving that point.
I find this kind of shallow but maybe it's just me.

In contrast I thought the Cluetrain Manifesto was better developed:
http://www.cluetrain.com/
Funniest part? I KNEW it had to have picture of Samuel L. Jackson on the page.

Bingo!

Damn I love satire. I've always said we can say more through satire in ten words than we can with reasoned argument in a thousand. As long as it's not overdone.

To Thomas' point, yes, the author of this piece socially-engineered the hell out of it. But that's okay. I can deal with one of these made-for-hn pieces every week or so.

Not more than that.

There's an important point here that outsiders consistently forget: it's tough to be a programmer. It's tough, and the people who are trying to help us many times are just huge pains in the ass. They say one thing and mean something else entirely.

One of my favorite things as somebody who tries to help teams is when I tell management what's needed: more team control, less micromanagement, more freedom to experiment with various things to see what works (and not only the things in the book). Most times they look at me and say "We absolutely want to get better! Just don't change anything"

Their idea of "agile" is 1) doing the same old thing but sticking a new label on it, or 2) following some recipe from a book or a seminar and not giving a crap about what the actual developers are saying.

We need to make these jokes. We need to keep bringing this up. I don't think folks are listening. But the page is also pandering, so it's a close call.
Aren’t you way too cynical?
O. Ok sorry about that. The duopoly comment is referring to the US cell phone market as a whole. Andrew was saying that because of the merger he believes Sprint and Verizon will be forced to merge, leaving only Verizon and at&t.
Yes, but it's harder for most people.
Is this really #1? Like, is it really the most important thing I can read today?

Having read it: no, no it's not.

I agree with the ideology: it would be better if programmers instead of managers made decisions, but I don't think this piece expresses that very well. It also seems that the only reason this submission is at the top is that it uses "shocking" profanity associated with incest. I'm unimpressed.
Nothing happens overnight - Tiny Wings took 7 months of work
Sometimes perfect is the enemy of the good.

The ability of a stopgap measure such as this is a good way to let established iOS players test the Mac waters without a huge investment.
The triumph of coal marketing
Nope you need to use console. Switch on dev tool bar on Safari or CTRL + Shift + C in Chrome and then console, paste, run.
I don't know; to me it sounds like he got himself into the wrong profession. He's not the least bit passionate about his work.
People can do without a mobile phone only because everyone else around them has one.
You can arbitrarily inject javascript on any page after launch.

Here's how to do it in Safari http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34D7IR7lNHc

Chrome: View > Developer > Javascript Console

Firefox: Install the firebug extension, which does autocompletion and makes developing much more fun. Not sure if this still works in Firefox 4
Aren't you concerned that prolonged looking at the movie screen in the moving (and thus vibrating) vehicle will be bad for the kid's eyesight?

I personally feel eye strain if I try to watch or read something on my iPhone for too long in a moving car (not so bad on a bus).
Or they're trying to work to make the future possible.

I'm sure lots of things are inevitable too, doesn't mean you don't laud the person who actually brings it about.
Yeah. If inflation gets out of control, you have to make up new ones. "That vishal meeting was a meepish waste of time!"
Apart from the picture of Sam Jackson and some but not all of the words "motherfucker" on this page, which part of this post do you not believe?

Note: we're just nerding out. I'm reacting to your attempt to imply that that this is entirely or even mostly a joke. I don't really care. And, like I said, to the extent that it's not a joke, I agree with it.
This is what I was trying to say, but it's much more concise. Thank you :)
You're a champion! Canadian of the year! Hold your head up high.
Would be good if I could see the advance of sunrise overlaid on the map.

Nice work!
> Would you regard the use of a non-mainstream language to be, in of itself, technical debt?

It depends. If the code adequately serves the business purpose its was designed for and does not need modifications, then no. Otherwise, yes.

But the answer to the question can change over time. What is not technical debt today could be tomorrow.
There is huge value in "throwaway" applications.

The decision to spend considerable time to even test the Mac market is a huge barrier to entry. This would be a good stepping stone to prove that there is an audience there.
Agreed. Furthermore, I would say that's true of most things requiring a lot of experience

The people who come up with the methodologies initially are probably the people who have needed them the most / longest. They had experience that informed the development of the methodologies not methodologies that substituted for experience. Therefore, these methodologies are more successful given people who could figure out a similar methodology independently and could conceivably be worse than nothing for people who couldn't.
My situation is the opposite of his. I'd love to be surrounded by people that are passionate about programming. But I work at a company where software is not the primary focus, so quite some of my colleagues are like him.
Yeah, I saw the opportunity to add .001% to my karma and just couldn't resist.
You can change FF's behavior to match Chrome: setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to true in about:config will enable inline autocomplete in the awesomebar, instead of having to arrow down or tab down.

The solution I use is bookmarking sites and aliasing keywords to the bookmark - right click on a bookmark, go to properties, and add a keyword. For example, I have "hn" as the keyword for the Hacker News homepage, so if I type "hn" and hit enter, it expands to the full URL and goes to the page.
How do you calculate the overhead of an employee in a consulting firm?
So basically, complicated optimizations that will often be opaque to a human (not trying to be adversarial, just understand it)?
Firefox 4 is officially released today
I was repeating it as explained to me by someone whose opinion I trust, however it seems likely now that I misunderstood or perhaps it was being simplified for me. I should know better than to comment on issues like that that I don't fully understand. Thanks for correcting me.
Zed is the ultimate troll whether it's intentional or not. He must spend a lot of time laughing at all the time & attention he gets for doing and saying silly things, things that people end up taking far too seriously.

The fact that I'm here commenting on this story saddens me.
1. Yes, but it is a chicken and the egg, he is not willing to move unless we can raise funding, but... Most investors will not invest unless we have the whole team together.

2. Yes, we are still going full steam ahead, but I just have this nagging feeling that it will not end well.

3. He is very private about his personal life, there is a girlfriend in the picture which factors into his reluctance to move.

4. Yes, formally started.

5. 70/30, I have 70

6. No revenue yet, it's a consumer based startup, so free product at this stage.
If Facebook is a common carrier, than that is true. However, it is not, and if you read through the TOS you'll find that they're able to censor whatever they want.
check. That works, thanks!
did you mean design patterns?
FirstMark Capital is spamming our companies with this email
So what the hell is this guy's problem? Why doesn't he just quit and do something he likes instead of whine about it like a petulant child?

The post author never said he didn't like programming, but rather that he only does it during work hours. To respond that he should just quit and call him a petulant child for expressing discontent with negative personalities is the part that seems to prove his point.
So are you looking for help on extending it?
If someone wants their own, realtime version of this have a look at Maptail, written in nodejs:

https://github.com/stagas/maptail

It's pretty gosh darned awesome.
sounds interesting, but that's not what i want. I want news of my interested topic only from the sources (RSS feeds) which i have provided. And send me list of those news with brief details over email at customizable time (i.e. every day evening 6 PM)
You don't need the console.
I have been watching documentaries recently of the Chernobyl cleanup - it is stunning. The bravery of the soldiers(or ignorance) is amazing.

The fact that they were called "Liquidators" and "BioRobots" is very interesting.

It is also interesting that they say they evacuated 100K residents then used 800K liquidators is crazy.

If you haven't seen footage of the accident - check it out. When they first drilled into the reactor, they were stunned to find that it was empty. The rods had melted entirely and poured through the bottom of the reactor and fused with sand to make a massive graphite-fuel-rod-glass blob that was extremely radioactive.

They got close enough to it to film it.
then upvote, tweet, and refer, and save some bandwidth when your project gets boring. This stuff is growing all the time down here.
Works, but kind of sluggish by comparison. (Odd that I'd find myself saying that about Chrome and Firefox!)
I agree with slow disk I/O, but how do you think Netflix is doing so well with EC2? Adding more machines than they need to?
no contract, we talked about shareholder agreements but nothing put in writing.

I have asked him to move temporarily, after months of "nagging him", he has agreed to come for a month at a time.

But I feel like it's kinda self-defeating, I should not have to nag him to get him to do this.
Rails for Zombies was very well done, but not too long into it I found myself going straight to the end, looking at what I needed to do and then clicking through the video to find to the parts where he actually got to the guts of what it was about and how to do it.

Overall it's a neat idea and the guys at EnvyLabs are great but I couldn't see myself paying for more.
Or, to quote Cory Doctorow, "All complex ecosystems have parasites"
Given the rude, my-opinion-matters-more-than-yours, troll and flamebait culture that you see on any Internet forum, I can't upvote this story enough to underscore the importance of basic courtesy, kindness, and persistence to get what you want instead of sheer noise.

Way to go, Yu-kai. I wish there were a lot more people like you in the world.
I will readily take a business-minded, action-oriented cofounder who gets shit done. I have absolutely no interest in a hustler.

In my mind, that is the absolute definition of a hustler, someone who will get shit done. Predicating that hustlers are sleazy, or have questionable ethics, or don't value technical skill sets is the same as assuming that "hackers" are people who break into computers.

Sure there are probably a lot of sleazy "hustlers", just as their are malicious "hackers", but in my mind the definition of a hustler is someone who comes at the same problem as a good hacker would - with the same tenacity and willingness to try new things and the inability to quit in solving a problem.

In which case I absolutely want a hustler on my team, just not a shitty one.

Admittedly, I've done Micah some disservice by referencing his article. The Hustlers he describes aren't the sleezeballs I keep encountering, but unfortunately they share the same space and a more literal interpretation of the term includes them.

So it sounds like the summary is that good hustlers are hard to come by, just as good hackers are, not that they aren't good to have. The title seems to suggest otherwise.
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This is how I read it. The author clearly doesn't find anything enjoyable or redeeming about the career path he has chosen. Instead of switching careers to something more amenable to his personality, he chooses instead to bitch about those of us who enjoy what we do.
I'm just trying to brighten the day of my fellow work-slaves.
[Commented on his blog but not sure if he'll approve, so I'm reposting it here]:

It just seems like you're associating passion with unpleasantness. Does it make you uncomfortable to be around people that enjoy what they are doing passionately?

In my experience, I encounter very little douchebaggery in my community interactions. I don't want to be a dick, but it may have to do with your own view of your work (just a job, as opposed to a passion) that gets you around more douchebags.

There are lots of alphas out there that do condescend and patronize, but that's a characteristic (or character flaw) of that person, and not everyone. It's just far more obvious and annoying when you're not that type of person.

Why don't you find something that you're actually interested in doing for work?
... your friend seems to have sorted it out, but at least you're not being derivative.

(contrived, I know...)
It's the word "marketplace" that sounds off to my ear - too buzzwordy, and not descriptive of what's on offer. "Environment" might sound better?

The words "interactive" and "online" are fair descriptions of the service, but essentially made redundant by the phrase "directly in the browser".