skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PCalc is absolutely wonderful, both the Lite version and the paid version, and the Lite version has no banners, only an option in the settings to upgrade.

It's the second free calculator in my search results when I search for "calculator".

Discoverability is not great but there are plenty of awesome apps on the App Store, some free but you have to be willing to pay if you want quality.
Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon CEO, talks with USA Today
All that, and yet you refer to the people you work with as "cow-orkers". At least in that one narrow respect you could stand to be more clever, if not more polite.
Interview with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Whiner vs Winner
I agree. I think the apprenticeship model would work far better for programming than the lecture/assignment/exam model. Solving real world problems and learning on the job under the eye of a mentor would be invaluable.

The person/company offering the apprenticeship would get cheap labour for a few years in return for helping the young apprentice learn everything they need.
Not the issue. Its different to give a book away, versus copying and giving an unlimited copy to someone. You retain the right to own the original, regardless of whether you burn it, lose it, put it in your library. This is not rocket science.
Good tip. I found the Asus U31F which looks like a good machine, or Asus U36Jc with Nvidia graphics. From my local vendors, the U31F has a better battery, and the way things are going with linux graphics drivers, the Intel "embedded" graphics on U31F might be a smarter choice (not from pure performance, but support of chipset features, like "good enough performance" and "powersave modes" etc). YMMV.
Thanks, Henrik
Is it just me or is it funny/ironic that FastestFox is number 8?
Good advice not just for CEOs but for anyone engaged in doing something difficult.
"Upvote should have nothing to do with who said it or how many points it has already received"

Not necessarily. While I'll agree with that the current score of the comment should have little to do with your vote, who said it is necessary for context. Consider this hypothetical comment:

"The backend code behind the current search functionality at google is absolutely horrible. The search ranking algorithm is pathetic to say the least."

Had this been said by an SEO guy or an employee of yahoo/bing, I'd have downvoted the comment. However, if it were a comment by Matt Cutts (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Matt_Cutts), it presents itself in a whole different context. It's no longer a flamewar comment, but rather an admittance of areas where someone/something needs to improve.
I'd have stuck with less.

"10 lines or less" is vernacular for sure, but sounds far better to my ear. Fewer comes over a bit highfalutin.
I Fucking Hate It When People Write Headlines Like That, Especially When They Have Lots Of Short Words.
Thanks for the detailed comment. I just want to know how did you got the loan? The question is open for anyone too. I'm a third-world citizen looking to study in the USA and while can make my living, I don't think I can pay the expensive tuition fees.
If you're already implementing messages like that another fun thing to do when the person goes way past the threshold is start making the site slow/buggy. Add in random sleeps, redirect to a random valid or error page, etc. Basically make the site increasingly buggy. The added benefit is that is breaks any automated scripts people might be scamming with.

That's what I did when we marked an account as obvious spam. Usually that was when an account was created and the same or next day sent 1000+ messages to random other users. Basically the person using the account would think the messages got sent but really they usually hit either a keyword/bayes moderation or a similarity throttle and the messages were put into a moderation queue rather than delivered immediately. Once the moderator picks "obvious spam", for that account the site gets buggier and buggier for 30 days until the account gets completely shut down and the person can't log in with it anymore. I did that for 30 days because I didn't want to warn them their account had been flagged and just have them create a new one.

Basically it's a spammer tarpit.
School is awesome in that it helps show you things you should know about, but otherwise wouldn't be aware of. So far as ignorance of a subject's existence prevents you from self-teaching, there are subjects that cannot be self taught.
A Lame Argument - Here's Why Google Is Right To Seize Control Over Android
For anyone listening to the oral arguments, I was really impressed by Paul Clement and really unimpressed by the EFF. The law student (Harrow) was fairly convincing as well, although it seemed like he needed a bit more practice.
You can read the city economist's analysis of the proposals here, from the city's incredibly modern website: http://co.sfgov.org/webreports/details.aspx?id=1255

I'm watching the SF supervisor's meeting so you don't have to - I'll post the outcome of the vote. They just begun discussing it right now (2:15pm). I anticipate it will pass 8-3 or so.

EDIT: passed, 8-3 as predicted. A lot of talk during the meeting about suspending or scrapping the share option tax, and maybe even the payroll tax.
It leaves out that you have to unsubscribe of any additional services such as domainsbyproxy in order to transfer.
And articles written in a stilted style peppered with sentences that begin with And and But.
And Richard Garriot aka Lord British -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott
> No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first

Quite. I list a few obvious reasons why a candidate wont want to take a job in a thread above - but this is not to mention the Service Agreement / Employment Contract which could be pages and pages of detailed legalese and, particularily with startups, could have lots of contentious stuff with stock options and so on.

Having your USP as "the candidate promises to accept your job offer" is unreasonable, unrealistic, impractical and most likely unlawful.
As far as I know Winamp for Android can only synchronize with a Windows machine, so I don't have a convincing reason to use it. Personally, I find the ³ player[1] extremely pleasing, mostly because of its innovative UI (no, it doesn't do the sync).

[1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.abrantix.rockon.ro...
Beautiful Macau is my Dream city wallpapers, photos, images 
Macau is divided into four regions named Macau Peninsula, Taipa, Cotai and Coloane. The best buys are in jewellery, clothing, toys, antiques and reproduction furniture and electronic goods. Macau is a former Portuguese colony so there are many beautiful buildings, churches, cobblestone streets, and yummy Portuguese food. The post on Macau is incomplete unless a mention about Venetian.
How I Saved the World from Mutually Assured Destruction, and other confessions
According to the article payment is handled via credit cards in the backend so you could have $0 on hand. Your broader point definitely still stands.
How Hacker News punished me within 30mins. :)
I spent a couple of weeks working on doing market research on flight search and strated writing a series of posts on flight search. http://www.thoughtsonconsumerweb.com/flight-search/
I was excited to post it as I spent a lot of effort on it. So out of fear that it would get lost in the stream, I asked my brother & a couple of friends to vote me up. They were not hacker news members and signed up to vote me up. All I got was 4 votes before Hacker News took my post down.

I guess it serves me right and shows Hacker News works. :)
as a business traveler, would you consider it a nuisance or a value-add?

I see Branson absorbing significant value from the idea-flow
what you are saying is true. But one does needs to standup to one's beliefs. I did bachelors education in India, Masters in Compu Sc in US. returned to India, founder of a startup which was eventually sold to a US listed company. So it is possible to do it. Just needs relentless determination as PG says
If memcached, what do you do to make sure sessions aren't lost. On their FAQ (http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/HowToSessions) it sounds like it is not intended to be used for sessions. Thoughts?
I had a professor once who had did something vaguely similar, but actually helpful: if you did badly on a paper, he wouldn't mark the grade on it. Instead he would write "Please see me after class."

After class, the (usually slightly terrified) student would go and talk to him -- and this guy, bless his heart, would do his best to figure out what the problem was, and how to get that student back on track. It worked, too. For a lot of students who get demoralized and let their studies slip, it's enough just to know that someone in charge cares about them, personally.

Ever since then, I've always thought that was how it should be. Grade adjustment is a pretty sad substitute.
I sometimes count my music library in terms of money saved (in the insane world that a pirated album is a lost sale), it's currently something like £8k because I really have no idea of how many albums I have.

Should I start counting by how much I'd get sued? It's over a third of a trillion going by this court.
If you partially melt a pack of 12 crayons congealing them together to some extent and then break off 38.2% into my pencil box. Do I have "less crayons" than you or fewer?
As much as I hate buzzwords, I'll play along for the analogy:

You can't 'pivot' if you don't have any feet on the ground. If you have no real direction or dedication, moving to something new isn't 'pivoting', it's defining what you're doing in the first place.
Is Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS)responsible for the Epsilon Breach?
I use Rails' standard cookie sessions. There's never much data in the session, and it's encrypted so there aren't really security concerns. Not having to bother with flushing expired sessions or having to wipe out all my users' sessions because memcached needed a restart is nice.
Teaching developers UX: Use Fitts’ law to build a polished landing page
IPad 2 shortages spread to the afterlife
Startup Founder Lessons: Aaron Franklin On Getting To Beta
It is an in-joke for Dilbert readers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert#Language
Isn't that what an index fund is? "Undeclared" stock - you'll get whatever the average of the market is buying.

Just because they're an undeclared major doesn't mean they're not learning anything. You still take courses for those first two years - you just don't know what they're leading up to. It's not all that unlike founding a startup knowing that you'll have to pivot to get to a viable product.

(I was a de facto physics major for my first 3 semesters, switched back to being actually undeclared for my 4th (flirting with philosophy and sociology majors in the process), actually declared as a physics major in my 5th, and then switched to a CS major in my 8th and last. Just because you think you know what you're doing doesn't mean you actually do.)
Not really. It's major brands, by definition, that spend a lot of time investing in and developing their new media presence.
I'd say that the danger in picking up a random stranger as a passenger isn't really about the danger that they're going to try to kill you. There's any number of other ways it can go wrong. They can smell bad. They can talk loudly or offensively. They can start going off with their theory about how the Jews run the country through the freemasons. They can be drunk and throw up. They can wind down the window and scream obscenities at nearby women. They can... well, ask any taxi driver for stories about what the worst things random strangers can do to your car.

If I were going to pick up random strangers to disrupt my otherwise-peaceful me-time alone in my car, it'd have to have a big incentive, and being able to split the money I pay for gas just ain't it. Being a taxi driver is a sucky job, and I don't wanna do it in my spare time for cents per mile.
According to a comment made in USA Today by OnAnIsland
"...Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS) as the company responsible for the data loss. Epsilon SYSTEMS is the marketing branch of ADS which sells the information ADS collects from banks and merchants and is not a stable corporate idenity and could disappear tomorrow and reappear the day after as another shell in the ADS structure."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-04-epsilon-hacking...
The only thing I'm seeing that Ctrl-L is otherwise used for is to focus the address bar in a web browser:

http://lifehacker.com/#!5302587/get-firefoxs-ctrl%252Bl-shor...

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

Assuming one didn't care about clobbering that (you also get F6 there), I wonder if something could be done with a scancode map (see http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/).
Group Messaging: The Present And The Future
Twitter in Talks to Buy Stealth Personalization Startup Bottlenose
Yeah, I disagree with this post a lot. Unless you're typing out Java factories by hand with no IDE support, any speed approaching touch-typing is going to do you fine. 70 words per minute is not necessary.
Thinkpad Dock-Picking
Moving a Production MySQL Database to Amazon RDS with Minimal Downtime
To be fair, the life of a PhD student is pretty well documented.

I don't think the first hand experience has much value except to the individual experiencing it.

As to the value of a PhD; it's a social construct afaik. It's value is in the reputation you build which is vetted by other PhDs and organizations, your dissertations and debates, by the body of work you publish, and so on. Take all of that away and you're left with just the knowledge which is pretty much available to anyone with half a brain and a spark of curiosity.

It's ludicrous to think that I should invest years of my life and more money than most people make in a year in order to learn how to develop an operating system. That knowledge is freely available and easily accessible. Computer vision? Check. Machine learning? Check. Statistics? Check. You don't go to university for a CS degree in order to learn how to program operating systems or figure out data structures. That would be an incredible waste of time and money.

Someone who is self-taught is simply self-taught. They may have decided that they don't need the rigors of a formal education. Perhaps they don't care about publishing papers and defending them against critics. However, there's no way to say quantatively that a self-taught programmer is better or worse than a formally educated one. It's purely a value statement and one I find is loaded with a lot of FUD.
I think this the the point -- that in general someone who is not in a PhD program generally won't spend such a huge amount of time focused purely on a very narrow but deep problem.

There are obviously exceptions to every rule, but I think this is a good point. Most folks who are NOT in an academic program don't take out loans and stop work on all practical projects for 3-5 years to focus like this.

I'm not very familiar with the CS PhD world -- I'm very much in the self-taught category, personally -- but I'm married to an author who got a (fully-funded) MFA in creative writing. It was great -- not because the profs were teaching anyone how to write (if you didn't already know, you didn't get into the program), but because it gave her a couple of years out of the real world, focused entirely on her writing, surrounded by very supportive & similarly focused people.
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"But I won't buy it."

I got that. I'm trying to understand why.

It seems to be that, past a certain price, value for money requires a physical object.
That is a pretty strange analogy, but I suppose if the world economy depended on you trampling my imaginary vegetables, I suppose I would be pretty happy with 5-nines.
Some people don't have the skills or expertise required for the success of 'build it yourself'. They must pitch their idea to others in an effort to partner with one or more individuals with the skills to make it a success, or pitch it to people with the capital necessary (if the founder doesn't have the money to fund it themselves) to hire those with the skills.

If you have the right project and pitch, with determination you can attract developers to work for equity (initially) AND successfully find the capital investment (as needed).
Now this is design!
Funny to see the "return" of pdf for Windows, after the failed experiment that was .xps.
Less crayon and fewer crayons.
Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS) owns Epsilon http://www.alliancedata.com/pages/about/companyfacts.aspx
Black Holes as a cooling system for advanced civilisations?
Alright, sixth and Market is about as inoffensive as the Tenderloin gets (with the possible exception of having a reservation at the Bourbon and Branch). Proximity to Westfield and Bluebottle would be a major plus (and, y'know, it's actually only the same price as Starbucks... though I should refrain from recommending Bluebottle to anyone since it's quite crowded enough already).
he brings up about givign people what they want and not what you ask for. that is so hard to do. how many times have you built what you envisioned and then went, "This is what i asked for, but it doesn't feel right." The key is conversation, the more back and forth you have with customers, the more you will get a feel for what they really want.
It's not in the article, but the case is being heard by the First Circuit.
What we see depends on where we stand
Great details, got a chuckle out of the address for questions. sales@spacex.com "Uh, it says here prices range from $80M to $125M. Would you consider going down to $75M?"
Twitter Bug
I don't know what i did but in my timeline in seeing tweets from people i dont follow... every time i refresh i get differents tweets... seems like twitter is having some bugs
Thank you for making Glowform even more EXTREME!!!!
That reminds me of an anecdote a friend of mine told me... she was studying computer science and this one guy in her class, when confronted with a new concept, would always ask "...but how would you do that in Visual Basic?"

For him, Visual Basic was programming. Everything else had to be translated to VB for him to understand it.

This is one of the pitfalls of being self-taught, at least if you only learn scripting languages. You don't see the forest for the trees.

(This might be different for people who are self-taught with C, because it's so close to the machine, they instead might be asking the question "but how does the compiler translate that into a machine representation", which is a MUCH better question to ask.)
If Apple and Google can be located in the dull stretches of suburban mediocrity known as Cupertino and Mountain View, there's no reason Twitter should be too concerned about Brisbane.
There's a difference between a flake, and moving between things that obviously aren't going to work.

Nothing ever gets shipped from him, nothing failed quickly to begin with. ( I don't just mean Alky, either. )

Stop parroting community tropes.

Examples:

Alky

http://daeken.com/daeken-discount-program

https://github.com/daeken/RenrakuOS - 2010

https://github.com/daeken/EveInject - 2009

Quote from his blog:

"""

What have you built and what are you building?

Product-wise, I haven't built much; the biggest thing I've built was Alky, which allowed the conversion of Win32 binaries to run natively on OS X and Linux. It was a marginal success, although it ended up failing later for business reasons.

These days, I'm working on a few things:

Renraku: http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os This will eventually be combined with OpenBAMF/IREctive: Reverse-engineering platform and module store (My primary for-profit project right now)

Books

The Emulator's Handbook: A book on building an emulator from start to finish. There's simply nothing there yet, which is a damn shame -- we need to get people involved here.

So far unnamed: A book on reverse-engineering game protocols and emulating them.

In the future, I'd like to be developing and selling Eyetaps and other hardware around Renraku.

"""

This isn't fail-fast, it's ship-nothing. It only bothers me because he keeps attention-whoring for every little idea he gets and ends up disappointing anybody who thought it was cool.
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This is excellent. Isn't 53 tonnes to LEO also somewhere around 12 tonnes to the surface of Mars?
I'm pretty sure it was the arguably-wrong nitpick combined with crappy grammar that sunk it.

I try not to down-vote just for differing opinions from my own, although my emotions do get the better of me occasionally. However, if I see bad grammar it's just automatic.
Agreed.

There's a lot of room for disruption in recruiting as many agencies/recruiters have poor/unethical practices. Unfortunately this misses the mark for me as an employer and would scare me away if I were looking for work as an unreasonable requirement.
The 1099 thing was thinking that with a better paper trail, more tax revenue would've been generated.
A minimal overview of standpoint theory. I guess it would be good for some who haven't thought about it much.
I had a couple of Indian grad students in my office last Fall who were seriously distraught that they were getting an A- in one of my courses. They thought this would prevent them from getting a job. I tried to disabuse them.
The 1099 provision passed as a revenue-generating part of Obamacare. So there's now a financing shortfall.
Microsoft researchers: NoSQL needs standardization
Which of the ideas do you already have potential paying customers?

Ask around, pitch both of the ideas and find out which one people are more inclined to hand their credit card details over.
The ACM ICPC suggests that Asian universities do quite well at programming:

http://cm.baylor.edu/ICPCFinalResults2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_Pr...
Ask HN: Do VCs or Angels invest in blogs?
I've started a blog (http://thestartupcafe.com) and I really want to focus my time fully into building it up into a quality destination and community for entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts. However, between my full-time gig and other projects, I'm finding it difficult to put 100% into it. As I'm sure this is a problem many people have, I've started to wonder if angels and VCs invest into blogs like they invest into apps and such. I'd like to raise some seed money to allow me to invest my time fully into this. What would you suggest I do? Is this possible or should I keep this as a side-project/hobby?
Am I the only one who mistook the domain name for theonion.com? :)
But this won't solve the problem, does it? This will actually make it worse and lead to unhappy/tired generations. I'll actually sensibles people and push them to make a revolution.