skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah most people do think of South Florida when they think of FL. It funny how similar we are to CA with south and north FL being so totally different like it is in CA. Up until the 50's all of Florida was culturally similar to a mix of Georgia and Louisiana. After the 50's it all changed, I grew up in a town called Vero and it was on the dividing line between south and north. It was a cool place to be, like living on the border of two totally different cultures. That being said the gulf coast is still rich in old Florida culture. The coolest part about Florida is we have a deep pirate history, being a pirate buff as a child it was an awesome place to grow up.
I recently read some blog posts by HN frequenters about the work they have their unpaid interns doing. I don't believe it's legal to have them doing that work without pay; if you treat an intern like an employee, you have to pay them, or you're violating both federal and state labor laws.

Just a reminder.

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2010/04/15/can-a-califor...
Do you think 60Hz is the right rate? Just seems like such a huge jump over 30. Does 48 make more sense?
Yeah, or I could use a framework that includes this. I don't want to have to deploy multiple stacks just because of something like this. I was deterred from using Java at all figuring if a payment lib isn't available, it's not the only thing that's going to be missing.

Btw, I was a java developer for 6 years. I was looking forward to type checking, but the closed community was too much to handle after experiencing the ruby world.
Ask HN: What you believe in like the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise?
What principle , habit etc anything that you can believe and rely on like the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise ?
This is one area where I've long admired Firefox... and it's benefitted them for mainstream market-share penetration.

When they release something to even beta, it looks very interesting and exciting.
Business Law is flawed for those under age of majority...

I've had numerous start ups and successful ventures since the age of 12, and to date (I'm currently 17), it's always a burden to know I'm held back from incorporating etc.. as nothing I sign is legally viable.. therefore making it hard for me to play by the rulebook.
The Only Two Business Metrics That Matter
Reflections on porting an iOS app to Android
What are the normal steps to keep repo safe after hiring freelancer programmers?
I'm looking to tryout a few freelancers and see if they can come through and if so then hire them for more work. What's the normal way to go about working with another programmer and still keep my app safe?

Would I just add him as a contributor on github? And then be able to revert anything damaging that he commits?? Or would he fork my private repo and then push commits to me? I've only used github to just push commits and then push to heroku so I'm confused as to how to keep this all safe while still working together.

Also does a freelancer programmer push to my heroku site or does he create his own?

Thanks!
The Ars article way over-states the significance. It should really say something like "Chomsky was wrong, languages are not only head-first or complement-first, and they only appear that way because of cultural inheritance, not universal rules" But that's not very exciting, is it?
From TFA:

I dropped out of liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas because I’m behind a social movement called UnCollege which supports Mark Twain’s mantra: “I have never let school interfere with my education.

First, I think it's really silly basing life decisions on witty quotations by dead people. Second, I can't wait till these kids re-discover FFTs or randomized algorithms, or Bloom filters, or suffix arrays, or linear algebra, or the SVD, or Bayesian networks, or countless other things that are effective solutions to real-world problems.

Hope they know that they're part of a high-risk, no-better-than-average reward experiment.
I was going to suggest going to a car lot and offering a price of -%15 of asking price provided the vehicle is between $30,000 - $50,000.

However, an offer although verbal, is legally binding, and should the sales person accept the offer... trouble can arise.
Show HN: Review my startup (SmartJill)
You could simply do GPLv2 "or later" and get the best of both worlds.
You can't control the actual refresh rate of the monitor or TV. The display refreshes at 60hz, you can draw every frame, or every other frame and have twice the time.

And yet, like he says, Rage looks better than most 30hz games.
Ask HN: Tips for participating in Startup Weekend
I'm attending my first Startup Weekend Event in San Jose this weekend. Any HN folks going? Anyone go to a prior event and could clue me in on what to expect? Much obliged.
I use Stripe for Gumroad and it's amazing. Unfortunately, it's still private for now.
The value in you giving an answer resides with you, you should pay me the $10 and give us the answer. You win in karma and self-discovery.

Don't waste time thinking about it, you don't have much time in which to maximise your karma. Step on it!

The opposite sex will find you more attractive and you'll be healthier and more fulfilled if you give me the money ....
It puts a spin on jobs for interns replacing stacks of resume/cs with videos/apps.

Those are not interns at HyperIsland. Those are students. It is described in the press release.

http://internstore.com/press/press.php

There is no gap, HyperIsland well specifically the students of HyperIsland are touting that they are good enough such that agencies should come to them instead of the other way around and it is as easy as getting an app.

I was not able to see any hidden meaning of cheap / low value in there.
http://sanjose.startupweekend.org/ clickable link
Priceline founder files 15 patent suits against Google, Apple, and others
Can anyone review our weekend fun project?
Me and my partner run this site, Myinsanestories.com where people can post their insane stories or any insane events that happened to them.
fair enough. thanks for circling back!

Where can we see your talk/slides/etc on WordPress Security (sadly London is no longer home)
Get a kid. Seriously.
Indeed, using "National Security Issue" seems more like a smokescreen in this case. RIM has bent over and opened their backdoor to various governments, and this CEO is trying hard to evade going on record about the issue.
Yeah this is true.

I'd like to use this space to say don't become an intern at some sleaze bag's company. Make sure they pay you more than they do at Taco Bell.
Microsoft's 'open' cloud addition doesn't mean what you think
That study was about the presence of a neural template (and perhaps a linguistic one). Before the study people thought it might be possible for any singing bird to sing any other bird's songs.

An abstracted view of the point of the study is perhaps there is some hardwiring in our communication. Kernels of hardwiring that can't be nurtured away. In humans it would be analogous to the universal laws of linguistics.

It was just something to think about. Next time I'll just link the study.
Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide
You actually gain weight immediately, due to the conservation of mass. Eat an ounce of sugar (or anything else) and you gain an ounce, until you poop it out. You just don't feel it because the amounts involved at any given meal is small. But if you ate 10 lb of sugar at one meal... you'd definitely feel the consequences.
Go to a flea market and haggle. It's fun.
To prevent this surely Google could just make the terms under which a 3rd party can distribute the closed-source bundled Android apps (Maps, Market, GMail and so on) more restrictive. By doing that they could essentially prevent anyone from shipping a fully functional build of Android commercially without their permission while keeping the source for Honeycomb open and not impacting on hobbyists..
Radix trees are O(k), where k is the length of the query string.

Anyway, for prefix matching, you want to take careful note of the size and shape of your data, because it matters for which algorithm is fastest. If your data all fits in RAM (or better yet, all fits in L2 cache), then I've had very good results with binary search (O(log N)) to find the first matching result, and then linear scan to find all possible suffixes. This is a lot more cache-friendly than radix trees, which have better theoretical performance but often touch memory that's all over the place.
But I don't think a suggestion that there's such a thing as 'universal grammar' is the same as a suggestion that syntactic grammar is going to be shared between all languages.

As I understand it, the unifying element of UG could be simplistic or complex - which might make the concept hard to discredit.

I'm pretty certain that syntactic grammar would be the result of cultural and genetic evolution. If both factors are available to influence a language's evolution, I'd imagine that both would be likely to influence the way that language evolves to some degree.

I think the most interesting part of this mystery is how the brain's capacity for language might be innate - and in this respect, looking at the resultant artefacts produced by this processing might be a bit like looking at the remnants scattered around the room after a party the night before.

Perhaps the concept of a shared UG is more relevant to the process than the resulting syntactic structure?
Particularly in blogging, hot air makes the world go around...
Signing up for a mediation course through your local legal system would offer you both hands on experience and a chance to build a lucrative side business as a mediator. It would take some time and effort but with the overburdened dockets most judges are dealing with the push for pre trial mediation is growing as is the need for mediators.
If you want something simple without writing much code, go with PayPal. You'd expect some "horror stories" from a payment processor with 232 million accounts. Virtually all of them involve someone doing something that'd raise flags at any merchant account provider or bank, it's just that people think PayPal isn't a bank so they should be able to get away with anything. 10,000 horror stories still leaves 99.99% of users happy.

If you want to accept credit cards on your own site, you need to learn about PCIDSS compliance, you need to apply for a merchant account, and you need to a payment gateway that works with that merchant account.

It's well within reach of a lean startup. The application is usually a page or two long, you'll get approval from the underwriting bank within a week or so, and most MAPs also resell the payment gateway accounts so they set that up for you and you get everything at once. The fixed costs will be a statement fee and a gateway fee, $20-30 a month total.

It's terribly difficult to understand the fees you'll be paying with a merchant account. They're far more complex than whatever you get quoted will lead you to expect, and it's absolutely common for providers to change the fees on a monthly basis such that after a year you have no idea what you're paying. There can be dozens of classes of credit cards each with different rates when you charge them. My only advice for dealing with that is to try not to tie your code to your processor so that, when you grow enough for the fees to matter, you can shop around for a better deal.

You don't get to take shortcuts with the PCI stuff. The fine for a credit card being compromised from your server because you weren't PCIDSS compliant start at $500,000 per incident (paid to Visa/MC) plus legal fees and costs to provide credit monitoring to the victims.

If you accept credit cards directly on your site, you'll be required to fill out a self-assessment questionnaire and have a compliance scan against your server run on some basis. For most ecommerce setups, it'll be quarterly. What that costs depends on your merchant account provider; some contract with and pay a compliance company for you, others you have to pay some or all of the costs yourself, which can be a couple hundred dollars a year. SecurityMetrics seems to be the most popular service for the scans.

The technical part is easy. An Authorize.net integration will take you a couple hours at most. There are libraries for the popular payment gateways in every programming language known to man, and prebuilt shopping carts will have plugins/modules/whatever written by people already.

It's just like any other API. You POST some data to some server to make a charge/authorization/refund/etc and get a response to parse. If your app integrates with Twitter, you've already done much harder work than integrating a form with a payment gateway.
DEC's PC Challenge Documentary from 1982
Compare with Sergey Brin of Google, BTW.
I think this is an important demonstration of the need to research your negotiating partner. Not only do I have more karma than I know how to use (or a way to use it); more importantly, I'm already married so it's important for me to avoid publicly increasing my attractiveness. Which is, of course, already overwhelming.
I'm admittedly having a bit of trouble parsing the first sentence of your last paragraph.

When you say "if head-first and complement-first were robust, universal features of languages", do you mean "head-first and complement-first cover the whole set of possibilities for the property 'word order'", or "all languages (within a family?) are one or the other", or something more like "a given language cannot contain both head-first and complement-first structures", or something different?

Also, with "appearances of word orders demonstrating these features are dependent on each other across language families", in what sense do you mean that the appearances would be dependent on each other?
I have no idea why you think going to college is a requirement for understanding those things. I don't have a degree, and have used all those things in production (except FFTs - which I have used for fun)

- I was a defense contractor with Top Secret clearance working on ML for the airforce, which included research-level work with bayesian networks (I built tractable heuristics for solving partially observable markov decision processes).

- I built a scheduling heuristic for an international law firm (an NP-hard problem) using randomized algorithms.

- I built a recommendation engine for my a multimillion dollar startup I founded using SVDs.

- Today I open sourced a bloom filter implementation I wrote (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443675) that uses recent research to be several times faster than a traditional implemention

- I implemented very efficient Reed Solomon coding using numerical methods and linear algebra for secret sharing

And I'm by no means unique. I know other dropouts who are doing world class work in distributed systems research and NLP. There's absolutely no reason you need to go to college to learn if you're motivated.
huh? which specific features or use cases are you referring to where WP7 has leapfrogged iPhone or Android?
I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Carmack recently (here's the photo proof: http://jacoblear.com/carmack.jpg ) and was able to listen to him talk casually, as opposed to in an interview or speaking event. He doesn't turn his brilliance on and off, it's there all the time.

When I was a kid, I wanted to do 2 things, make video games and go to space. Here we have a man who is a legend in the games industry, and also started a company sending rockets into space. He's awesome.
What was your burn rate at this point?
Ask HN: Are there any good landing page services?
I'm working up a landing page for a project I'm starting, and I was wondering if there were any good services HN could thing of to make it easier to collect email addresses, until I get it together a bit more.

I can code, but would prefer to spend the time on something other than this task.
Repo access is essentially copying your source tree to a USB stick and giving it to someone.

If your code is that sensitive, split it into modules that communicate over a well-defined API, and keep the sensitive parts to yourself.

Otherwise, a little trust goes a long way, especially when there's really nothing effective you can do about it.
I've been using list/listchars for a few years and have come to really like it:

set listchars=tab:»·,trail:·
set list

That will show tabs with a little double arrow and trailing dots, and show whitespace past the end of the line with dots.

Regardless, with coffee being default in Rails 3.1, I'm sure editor support will show up quickly. For the time being though, I just stumbled onto this: https://github.com/kchmck/vim-coffee-script (have not tried it myself).
Right. It would be nice to have a 'just let me see the results' link
DynDNS
> Radix trees are O(k)

Yes, thank you.
Best French Onion Soup Recipe
http://launchrock.com/ if that's not too meta for you.
You're so vain… PyPI package download stats
Announcing YUI 2.9.0
Looks like they are also planning allowing developers to get early access to both the emulator and the OS image.

https://twitter.com/BrandonWatson/statuses/58238479439630336
I didn't say it was a requirement. I meant to say that most students will benefit from a structured curriculum, especially the parts that may initially appear boring or useless.

Your accomplishments are very impressive, but you clearly are not the norm, which is why Thiel's advice can be damaging.
>> which takes like a day to get approved

Which bank did you use? My experience has been that if you're doing ANYTHING other than e-commerce, it's a long uphill struggle. I've tried Chase, B of A, and Wachovia.
CEO Pincus Has Amazon-Size Ambitions for Zynga
Part of the hiring process, whether a freelancer or a full-time-employee, involves an implicit degree of trust. Access to SCM is one way to demonstrate that trust. Without SCM, your freelancer isn't going to be able to see what he needs to work with (read) or integrate work with your codebase (write). If you don't trust a person with that level of access, you probably shouldn't be hiring them.

One thing I've found particularly helpful as a freelancer is the ability to work on isolated projects as opposed to ongoing development. Companies hire me because they have some functionality or enhancement in mind that they'd like to have, but all their regular developers are tied up with other activities. At a certain pain point, those enhancements are worth bringing a freelancer onboard but not quite worth hiring another employee.

What, if you don't mind me asking, do you need done? If you're looking to try out freelancers and don't have anyone in mind, I'd like to talk.
Ok, maybe this is why UG always sounds so wrongheaded to me when explained in layman's terms:

Our knowledge of English is not purely derived from the sentences we've heard.

If you were to take the sentences in isolation, devoid of meaning and context, I suppose you might end up being circular. But new sentences are being thrown at you all the time (the training data is ~unlimited). Even a computer can recognize common patterns unsupervised, then apply those patterns to learning other patterns on subsequent data, and finally classify examples has never seen before -- this seems weak.

And doubly so if you consider that it isn't just a sentence we've heard, but a sentence about a real noun and a real verb that exists in space (at least initially). If I pick up a ball and say "ball" consistently, bam, you now have some kind of tagged input to work with.

We must have had some model of a language in common
when we started, and we fit the parameters to what we
heard as children.

Even taken the first sentence as given, why does that imply a UG? Perhaps the model is built from observed reality first, then language is built using that model? Or, maybe, to argue Chomsky's side, the "UG" is an extremely simple bias...

Now, Chomsky has probably addressed these things, but to a layman, the typical justifications seem a little weak.
I've been working remotely for a few years now, and I can say that I don't have a HIGHLY impressive track record, but that has not stopped me from being interviewed to see if my skills were worth something.

I suggest if you have a little time and don't need the money badly, cook up a project of your own. Managing even a small project that you aren't getting paid for and progressing in that is a good mark of dedication.

Other than that, spread around your resume, and post that you're looking for work. Never know what will come of it. Heck, I got a job interview and offer from another HN user here, because I asked if anyone wanted my skills.
I too would be very interested in seeing your Django app!
The great thing about weekend projects is that they make it much much easier to get a freelancing gig, two, three ...
DOJ gets court permission to attack botnet
+1 for Stripe.

I've coded with both Authorize.net's and First Data's APIs, and Stripe is much, much better in comparison.
Maybe it's just a sign that Twitter is reaching a broader, less technical market. Compare Facebook to Facebook API on Google Trends and the latter barely registers.
I didn't get it. The home page has little to do with flash sales.
That is a bit meta :D Also, it'd be nice if they were actually live right now.
I have been considering FastSpring (http://www.fastspring.com), which has recently added subscription payments as a feature. I'm interested to hear about anyones experiences with them.
This is why Carmack keeps shipping incredible products:

"I am more excited about what I’m doing and what I’m working on than ever before."

Great advice to those of us building companies, along the lines of the "do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life" quote banging around here recently
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I personally know one of the finalists, and he's probably more impressive than I am (and certainly more impressive than I was at that age).

Thiel is simply arguing that we need to make sure kids know about other options available to them besides college.

Of course, if you want to be a medical doctor you need to go to formal school. But, if you have the right kind of personality and the right goals, college may not be the most efficient way to achieve your dreams.

And I don't think many people but Thiel are preaching that message.
i am not a great fan of them, so i am both biassed and inexperienced, but it seems to me that they win out over SQL in cases where you would be doing recursive queries. this is typically the case when you don't have much structure in your database (everything is related to everything else in one big table) and/or when you need to jump across an uncertain number of joins (to answer questions like "how many steps does it need to get from here to there?").

compared to KV they place more logic in the database (much like SQL v KV).
How about if you can set a time and date at which point everything will be released? The site could show that to all visitors, so it would be obvious that you should get in before that.
> TL;DR

But then you'd miss this:

"Non-paid blogger system"? Please. We may be whores, but we are not sluts.

Genius.
Sounds like languages aren't manufactured by consent ;-)

Sorry - I couldn't resist ;-)
Review HN: Sopro, FOSS web-app for problem-solving in your org
sopro.heroku.com

I humbly ask the sharp HN community to review Sopro, a FOSS web application for anonymously sharing problems and solutions in your organization. Consider an environment (e.g., $BIGCORP) where you want to solve problems but either people won't act, don't care, or could impose punitive measures on those speaking out. This app would be an aid to get around some of those barriers. It would be hosted on the organization's intranet. For those who want to play around, here are some test accounts in format "email, password":

bill.lumbergh@initech.com, MY PRSCHE

michael.bolton@initech.com, pc load letter

bob.slydell@initech.com, boblikeaboss

peter.gibbons@initech.com, partylike1999

Suggestions and questions welcome!

github.com/vermasque/sopro