skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless plug: I built a site to let people borrow and lend Kindle (and soon Nook) books. You can make wishlists of books you want to try out, and hopefully some kind person who owns that book will loan it to you.

http://booklends.com

Ebook pricing is unfortunate, and a lot of that has more to do with the publishers than with the authors or with Amazon/B&N.

The Fifth Witness, mentioned in the CNET article, currently has an average rating of 1.7 out of 5:

http://booklends.com/books/4d959054461b264b37025bd3

It is not lendable, unfortunately. Again, blame Little, Brown, & Co for that. I think it would be in their best interests to allow their books to be lent to others. While I have no data (yet) to back this up, I believe that people who borrow a book that they enjoy are likely to buy more books from the same author.
I was very interested in it for a couple of weeks, but then I stopped playing much. Once in a while, I get in a mood to add onto my subterranean underworld and fire it up again. Still need to finish my underground biodome and Nether castle.

I wish the engine wasn't so inefficient. Disassembly shows some cringe-worthy code. This kind of game should run on netbooks, yet areas are choppy even on high-end machines. The pixel art also starts hurting my eyes after a while. Interpolation would help a lot. While higher-resolution texture packs help, they also risk breaking after updates.
مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي 
مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي مانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي
It's true, it got a lot better with firefox 3.5.

Not sure if it was firefox or firebug that improved things (or both).
You need 100K to build a game
It depends on the type of startup, your own skills and stress tolerance level.I would support going at it alone ,if its possible to do so and circumstances permit. Whats the point of trying to get people on board as cofounders is you the only one who has the vision.Those people will not be motivated as you are and wont be so passionate.
In many companies the managerial titles are invented incentives, not necessarily they "manage" people. They exist as part of the incentive package, and certain companies attract certain personalities who would be happy with titles. Management position gives one probably a different satisfaction, "doing better than the other guy", and assumed better pay above the managed is all that is needed. It's a kind of a distraction. It is not bad unless it kills nurturing leadership environment. The best case is that laders become chosen managers by their peers. The worst case is that those who can not manage become assigned leaders (managers) by "the management".
Yup, that downvote was predictable too :)
This book like no other just makes me smile. I read this right after I graduated and started my "real" learning in programming and math. The intermission page list books on logic and set theory.

FYI: it is the first book in a "trilogy" -- but your next book could be either of the other two (their only prereq is The Little Schemer). Listed below:

Reasoned Schemer: http://www.amazon.com/Reasoned-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/...
Seasoned Schemer: http://www.amazon.com/Seasoned-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/...
What a bad move! A company of a dying type buys an already dead company. Nothing new or original to come out of this.
Just to clarify, it's not entirely down. It's just investments. I use this bank for checking and credit card and they're both fine.
Some thoughts in no particular order:

Share on LinkedIn, meh. Embedded Profile, VERY cool and could make Facebook a little nauseous. Company Insider, meh. Company Profile, pretty cool. Recommend with LinkedIn and Sign In with LinkedIn, both kind of meh.

My knee-jerk reaction was "LinkedIn -- ASSIMILATE!" but there are areas where LinkedIn can still provide value. I like the concept of Facebook being your online profile so perhaps LinkedIn can be your professional online profile?

That Recommend button, one of the things about LinkedIn recommendations is that they're rather exclusive -- if you get something recommended or receive a recommendation on LinkedIn, that's kind of a big deal it seems! But if you lower the barrier to entry by just allowing the users to...click a button...then doesn't that take away some of the exclusivity?
http://resume.github.com
We're aiming for the Rails (and PHP!) crowd you mention with Akshell (http://www.akshell.com). Our custom made server uses an Apache MPM like setup with synchronous I/O. Synchronous code is much easier to write and maintain and most real world webapps should be optimized for developer efficiency and ease of maintenance, rather than raw performance.

That being said, we are using V8 just as Node and do support JS only NodeJS (and other CommonJS) packages. We are also looking to integrate Node into the platform for doing real time web socket type of operations.
Not enough answers on the homepage or questions i care about to entice me to register to see more. i am not a student. i feel uneasy when all the information is behind locked doors and will not bother if i think the reward will not be worth the effort. your community is appears small. maybe hide the standings listings till theres more users. just my 2 cents, good luck.
6 Reasons Why Our Start Up Company Uses ColdFusion 
Running a start up is about being efficient with resources. Those folks that would spend $20,000 in labor costs or opportunity costs to get out of paying $1,200 for a production license of ColdFusion probably don't have much business sense anyways.
Mancx: a paid-for Quora for the LinkedIn community
The Airship: an aesthetic appreciation
Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

- Andrew Mason (@andrewmason)

http://startupquote.com/post/4392395093
You could just have a linked list of memory allocations that get freed at the end of the request.
Faster start-ups are fine, and all, but I'm much more interested in what happens after the start-up. For example, I'd be more interested in knowing what is causing Firefox to consume 500-600 MB of memory, once a few hours have passed.
Google, Bing, and SERP Copying: Additional Evidence?
If you're in school till you're 40, when will you make money?
One reason lots of technical books have duplication is because the author knows that a lot of people do not read them cover to cover. Instead they pick and choose the sections that seem relevant/interesting to them and having a recap of some of the key background material needed by that section right there is very useful.
Yes, but it physically can flap to fly, and it physically can glide. Making it do so alternately is just a matter of software.

Not that I'm underestimating the difficulty of bird-control software (especially in wind), but I think the most difficult part of this invention is the physical mechanism and getting it to fly at all.
I call strawman. You are trying to make this about video, while I'm talking about slideshows. For video, Animated GIF is no good, we're in complete agreement there.
Is it normal? No. Ask yourself this: Is managing a single developer a full time job?

Talking to one manager about why the process needs to change isn't going to get you that far because you have too many damn managers. At least start bringing it up in your daily meetings, you'll have 5x as much management to hear it, and 5x as many developers supporting that the problem is a problem.

If you haven't yet, get prepared to leave or lose that job. If they can't run a software development shop better than that, I wouldn't bank on its continued survival and you probably don't want to be there anyway.
Request parsing is no big deal, I've already written a json parser/generator for this project (though it's in a separate project atm).
But even if you’re coming up with new questions all the time, a child who has experience solving this kind of problem will be at an advantage over a child who has never tried it.
If a single person builds the 1st version of the application and gets the first 20 or so paying customers, is the 2nd person to work with the 1st person considered a founder?

I guess I'm just not sure where the line is drawn between a founder and the 1st employee
I'm using it with the 64-bit version of Outlook 2010 currently.
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Victoria's Secret no longer, Epsilon breach sees to that
Yeah, I know that's the fix, I'm just too lazy to do it. When I belted it out I forgot to think about that and then I didn't notice the nulls until someone pointed them out. Oops.
This list totally lacks True Names by Vernor Vinge (1981).

It is considered by many the seminal work on cyberspace, years before the term 'cyberspace' was coined.

And IMHO, it is a very good read, even more relevant today than when it was written.
Some of the posted samples were interesting. The one from Rebecca Baxter (http://www.behance.net/gallery/Infographic-CV-Resume/1175821) was the most interesting for me, since it offered ideas I might actually use. She seemed interested in discovering new ways of presenting her information usefully. Most of the rest seem like they were just motivated by a desire to be different.

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Note for miller_f:

On my 13" MacBook, your website's design is confusing.

The Info section on the left contains the title of the blog post, but it's pushed down partly below the fold. It took me "forever" to figure out that it's the post's title.

Then the Post section in the middle begins with a 280px-square ad, which pushes almost everything but the first header of your post below the fold. And since that header isn't the post title, it doesn't instantly register that the post is even there.

Finally, I think it's a symptom of poor design that you need text which literally points to the "Post" section.
Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language?
Why it Failed: Part 1
A great quote in response to a question about Minecraft's continuous release schedule: "Developing in the dark is scary and probably wrong."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gjrf4/iama_indie_game_...
Cinema tickets are fixed due to price fixing by the big movie studios. Studios don't want some movies to be priced lower than other movies as that would send the signal that the cheaper movies are worse than the more expensive movies.

A few years ago Stelios of EasyJet fame tried to start a cinema chain which offered dynamic pricing, Warner Bros, Disney, and 20th Century Fox all refused to licence any of their movies to him which more or less killed his business.
Yes, there's definitely some inefficient code - but voxel-type games like this are also legitimately computationally difficult. Just because it looks like pixels doesn't mean it's simple to run.

There are occasional engine improvements, but Notch thinks (as he says in that reddit thread and elsewhere) that players don't appreciate changes that aren't new features.

Also, my machine is mid-range at best, and I never have any problems. In Windows of course - Mac and Linux are quite a different story. Then again, you could say the fact that it runs in other OSes at all is impressive.
I know that you're now probably 22, that you were struggling a few years ago because you had to drop out of school and you had very little experience and were seeking some advice. HNers gave you some good advice at the time too, I believe. Did you go back to school?

But, now you're on HN calling a guy out on his projects like some project nazi because you probably think of yourself as really smart, but your more young than smart.

So, it is ok if this guy starts shit and for whatever reason they dont get completed. Keep plugging.

You're statements calling him out defacto call attention to yourself and what you're doing - so I would recommend getting back to work for that startup rather than posting on HN in the middle of the day.
One in five pilots 'suffer cockpit fatigue'
11 Truths About Entrepreneurship From Mark Suster
True, but it's impossible to operate with any form of competence or integrity if the sole basis of your decision making is fear of litigation.
ElasticSearch: The full-text search k/v store you should be using
LinkedIn launches developer platform, social plugins
Toms.com sends you your password after you signup, which is retarded since YOU JUST entered it into their system.
Didn't Amazon shut down Lendle for offering such a service?
Too much is of course a subjective term. The problem with ebooks is that once the book is written they lack scarcity which makes them fairly different from most consumer products. A market clearing price is sort of weird in this instance since we know that the supply can expand to meet infinite consumer demand.

If the parent poster is correct then we'll see a price correction towards a lower price. We'll also see a more active black market appear as has happened in the world of music if the price doesn't drop.

The 9.99 price is likely low enough to discourage most market participants from piracy but if it goes much higher then who knows. To suggest that the state of the market as we see it now is the optimal one isn't correct since the free market should always be fluctuating as things change in the world.

That said if the price was really too high then no one would buy ebooks and everyone would have fixed that by now or decided to abandon the idea for the time being.
Sure, but the point continues to stand. Why not continue to provide the current site until the new one is complete and then do a switch. Unless, as melvinram mentioned, somehow there is some costly exploit that cannot be fixed unless everything is redone and its dangerous to keep the site up until its rewritten.
The Art of Bubbles: How Sothebys Predicts the World Economy
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I can only speak to what I have seen so this is anecdotal, but I have not had a problem getting a job with a degree in mathematics (bachelor's not PHD). Now, it is true that those jobs tended to be in related areas (data analysis, programming) rather than directly in mathematics, but the degree has still served me well. I have also been turned down for jobs looking directly for mathematicians because I currently only hold a bachelor's and they required at least a masters.

The same goes for physics. I have friends with master's in physics that have never had problems finding a job, though the jobs were rarely directly in physics. Rather they got jobs working with engineers or in programming (or in one case, pure management), but the degree still served them well.
I <3 Branson!
There's a saying in team sports along the lines of, "Players play the game; Coaches coach."

Employees play the game (ie do the work), but I think a good manager/leader can make a big difference.

Sure, Michael Jordan was a great basketball player who had good teammates, but Phil Jackson must be doing something right in order to extract the talent out of his players in just the right way to win year in and year out. And that is hard.

Perhaps there's just not very many good coaches or managers, which is why there's such distaste for "management."

But every good team, organization, or company has a great "manager" or "managers".

In the case of 37signals, it seems that person is Jason Fried (he is the CEO).
We are wary of the issue of dependency as well. As you point out, there are ways of mitigating the risk, and we are making it a top priority:

1. Stability and security will be maintained by a gradual roll-out and a user-driven testing phase. We're still working out the details on this.

2. A standard documentation format is a key requirement for each documented API call; no call will be released for general usage until it has all included information (parameters, possible success and error results, example response).

3. Pricing / service contracts. We are looking at providing guarantees on pricing stability and uptime, and we're thinking of not charging in advance, but after service has been rendered.

4. Source release pledge. It's too early to know how to proceed with open sourcing, but we do expect that at a minimum our client libraries will be open source. And we will pledge to release all code if there were to be an impending service shutdown, with three months minimum for transition.

I think that's all we can do when starting out to show that we aim to be a reliable component. The real evidence probably can't come until we earn a reputation over the coming months.
Why would it? GNU's not Unix, after all.
More than 2x.
I am also thinking Captain Nemo from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, or his updated compatriot Hagbard Celine from the Illuminatus! trilogy.

Somewhat more seriously, this is an interesting turn in events when compared to space policy too. We have conquered the land of Earth. The remaining frontiers are the sea, and space. In both cases our governments appear to have spent themselves, but private investment in space is becoming a serious force to be reckoned with, and now we get this article about a serious foray into the ocean by a private company. It makes me seriously wonder if a new Age of Exploration isn't about to open up again.
I'd say bad cofounder, because you can find someone as a solo founder, but you have to first get rid of a bad cofounder (or put up with it).

I'd break it down into 3 things to look for in a cofounder: proof that they're hard-working, that they have complementary skills, and that you really gel with each other. Kinda gotta feel the last one out, but the others should show up in their past work and their work ethic.
Although they will have had the experience of being a manager (albeit for 1/4 of the time), and having been in both the manager and employee role during the same time period, they probably end up learning more about being a good manager than most people who have the title "Manager". With 4-5 people, I think it makes a lot of sense.
The 10 behind-the-scenes crankers who built the world's greatest startups
Funny response by Fast Company about what to do with it:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1745065/blockbuster-bought-by-dis...
My company handles this by giving you whatever title you want. When I started, my boss sent me an email: "Give me your full name and title, as you want it to appear on your business cards."
Appears there are two types of people,

The 37Signal employees:
* Like their field and want to be 'hands-on'
* Don't mind staying in the same company for 10X years.

The supposed norm:
* Prefer to advance to other positions vertically
* Like moving between companies (for challenge/change).

Makes me wonder what is the difference between the two types of personalities and how those affect the organization.

For example, is there more or less innovation in 37Signals ? Are people more ready to step up and fix/report problems outside their immediate responsibilities ?
180,000 picks in 24 hours — Pick A Number launch postmortem
It was shut down for a few days, but it's back up again.
Get a meeting with BV Capital
No need for a program - you can just do it. Even go outside the US (some countries have a work/holiday visa program, eg Australia). It's a great learning experience.
I don't think there's really a difference in employees. Everyone reacts to incentives, and it sounds like 37signals has removed titles with pay. Which honestly, I'd much prefer. In many ways titles are a substitute for flat pay.

I'd rather have a flat org (and no titles) with wildly different pay (and extreme bonuses, profit sharing, equity grants) -- rather than relatively flat pay and lots of titles (which tends to be the norm in industry).
Another point:

You need game developers to work full time on your project and preferably be local.
It's the same in every discipline. You have to know the rules before you can break them.
Woods Hole has made autonomous ocean gliders that power themselves using the temperature differential of surface and deep water.

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=370...
> I wonder why Denmark and the US, in particular, do not use this obvious sort of point-based system.

They don't because the obvious supporters of such a system have joined forces with the open borders folk and/or the "let in low-income/skills" folk.
Rate my startup: Zwapp, a unique social view of the App Store
Nimbula Director (by the creators of EC2) Released Today
Clearly I'm engaged in hand-waving. But proving something is getting others to agree with you, and I think what I said is very agreeable, without me delving into more formality.
Or check out my creative resume, which was designed to be sent as plain text. It was originally a response to a job site that required me to fit my experience into boring little boxes... http://www.scribd.com/full/39705569?access_key=key-cwlk7b9tf...
There's no need for a new protocol; lots of websites manage to never store passwords today. I guess your protocol does provide some assurance that the other end isn't going to store anything but the hash. Unfortunately, anyone competent enough to implement it is already probably doing the right thing, and the people doing the wrong thing frequently have business reasons for doing it wrong.
Having now been exposed to both...

If you ever want to use it as a caching system ... solr is the way to go.

I personally think very highly of Sphinx, yet be aware that Sphinx will return ids not "content".

When handlesocket was announced [1], for me the gem other than the obvious was this nugget of information.

"No duplicate cache When you use memcached to cache MySQL/InnoDB records, records are cached in both memcached and InnoDB buffer pool. They are duplicate so less efficient (Memory is still expensive!). Since HandlerSocket plugin accesses to InnoDB storage engine, records are cached inside InnoDB buffer pool, which can be reused by other SQL statements."

Knowing that with the latest version of sphinx your can make use of their Query format via code or via the mysql console... it has me more sold on Sphinx than solr.

We use solr where I work, it is nice to use and coming features will make it better...

The most annoying aspect of solr for me is, you cant index elsewhere and easily merge it...

Either are miles better than fulltext search.

Perhaps list a few of your needs and requirements then we might be able to see if one stands out ahead of the other.

[1]http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-a...
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I was thinking of reviews along the lines of "I'm sure this will be great. 5*" I'm not sure if I've seen any like that on Amazon though, now that I think about it.
I am assuming he lives in a Western nation, in which case a decision to forgo contraception, and a decision to not abort, is planning to have a child.
TCP/IP Illustrated volume 2 is also quite nice. It is basically a commentary on the IP stack of 4.4BSD-Lite. Lots of source snippets followed by why they did it that way.
I wish the tags page actually included frequency counts. And coud be sorted by frequency.
Motorola Xoom sold 100k so far
I was thinking the same thing, but it should be more like "Buy now with instant delivery $more" and "Buy now, delivery in 12 months $less". Buyer buys and then ebook is automatically synced to their device at the scheduled time. It would certainly go a long way to silence their critics.

The only problem I see for publishers is they currently enjoy flexibility in their hardcover-to-paperback window. If a book is a blockbuster, I'm sure they extend the window. I suppose they could alter the delivery window on the cheap price, for customers that had not yet locked in the original delivery window and price.

As far as the author's cut, it is time for authors to negotiate different contracts. In 5 years, perhaps less, their hardback bonus is going to be meaningless.
http://mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch/

Not lisp specific, but he does have dedicated paren keys.