skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some more questions:

1. How do you ensure that ideas are listened to?

2. How do you find technical, business and recruiting talent?

3. What are the 1 - 3 central tenets to your business? What do you do if people stray from these ideas?

4. Are people expected to work 12 hours a day, or is there a work-life balance?

5. Will the company make a reasonable effort to accommodate the requirements of techies, such as a quiet office, or are you expected to sit in a bullpen next to salespeople or tech support?

6. Do I get my own printer / second monitor / fast pc / team morale budget / software budget / 20% time etc.?
This does not solve the GIL problem - it reduces it just a little.

ZEO and ZODB are nice, but using them also does not solve the problem - there is still one serialization for every update and one de-serialization for every independent client/dirty-read. I love Zope and Plone and use them for a lot of situations (I won't think twice when someone wants a CMS for their intranet), but I sure would like to be able to set "zserver-threads" to 64, buy a Sun Niagara-based server and just live happy with it watching how all thread units get their fair share of usage.
HN doesn't have to be news about hackers, just any testy brain food that hackers like. If it's been voted up and it's not link bait then it's what the userbase wants
While I don't believe in free will, by any sane definition of the term, all this would prove (even if their prediction algorithm were perfect) is that there is a time lag between thought and action. A delay does not equal lack of free will.
Isn't that the point of the up arrow? I'm not sure the site is meant to keep growing.
I believe that this is one of those situations where there is no "other side". Robert Mugabe has destroyed his country's economy and stolen an election, all for the sake of his own personal power. This is pretty much par for the course in most of Africa.
Please would you justify and/or provide some evidence for your claims that this is and economic war being waged. It seems to me, a briton with Zimbabwean friends whose tales back up those expressed in the article, that you are being misinformed.
What are the implications of this? Any pointers to more substantive conversation on the topic? ("enterprisey check list" doesn't say much...)
Good luck! I can only imagine the excitement and anxiousness that you're feeling now.
I agree. An HTTPS connection with an untrusted certificate has exactly the same security as a plain HTTP connection. So don't use HTTPS without trusted certificates. It's confusing to end-users and, by instilling the click-through reflex, is damaging the security of the Internet.

It is vanishingly unlikely that Mozilla is ever going to include cacert.org among their trusted CAs, because hundreds of thousands of people use Firefox to access their banks, and there are plenty of smart security people that work at and with Mozilla.
Why is this #1?
Exactly. This is not really a threat to compatibalist free will at all.
The only reason that the neuroscientists got this research published was because they challenged the idea that there was no free will. It's a topic that gets good press.

It was probably a great choice for their careers.
This same foolish title confused Digg users a few months ago when this came out. It should really be "Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Know You've Made Them"
Ah, that's right. People I spoke to were early 20s. Nevertheless, it still seems like the "pre-packaged fun" idea holds, as in, when they talked about "fun" it meant "something pleasurable that involves minimal effort"... unless you are actually playing softball in the city. My feeling is that location makes little difference, as long as it's passive consumption.

If it's about kids, then, I would assume that the parents are actively thinking about what activities are beneficial, and to a great extent, encouraging the kids to participate actively themselves.
But you don't get benefits like addressability and caching.

REST advocates have been repeatedly been accused of being religious, but I'm citing reasons you are just saying "and often RPC is the right way to approach an API (better than pure REST)". Which gives meaning to rightness at all.

The "religion" in this debate has nothing to do with any style of architecture, it's simply the rigour people choose to put in to their arguments.

I won't support a bad argument for REST any more than I'll support a bad one for anything else.
A Ridiculously Advanced Proof of a Simple Theorem
I think it's fair to point out it's nothing to do with Hacking. I also think it's cool it's on the frontpage. There doesn't have to be a disconnect.

I think that comments are a great way to add meta-data to a story. People often read the comments before investing time into a link, in that scenario this simple note is fine.
Pshaw. It's the slowest two weeks of the year.
Netflix can do collaborative filtering successfully because they have years of data. Amazon can also make recommendations because they know everyone's buying habits. Sounds like Redux is trying to abstract this to social media? It reeks of "technology in search of a problem".
Should this article be flagged? It's pretty trollish.
"Because if you want to do a startup, you should have some reason to believe that you are several times more productive than the average programmer, an order of magnitude even."

Uhh... what? Who said that?
Vanity Fair, Matt? That's what you want to see on this site? Look, I enjoy your blog but if HN starts with the NYT, VF, US News, et al posts all day long, this won't be a place you or I want to visit. And that's the problem everyone one of us (myself included) who post as the off-topic police are trying to prevent. We have a fun group and this is not where we come to get news; this is where we come to talk to other really smart people about hacker/startup-related topics.
Yes, we're in a bubble. More precisely, what's going on is that the majority of startups, numerically, do not need a lot of money; that is, most of the good ideas out there are best pursued with a small company with few employees, since there is little benefit they could gain from loads of extra cash. That, of course, is the idea behind YC.

But the VCs have loads of money, and they want to be able to use it. And when you have this situation where there are tons of small startups that need a little cash, they get overexcited, and throw too much money at them.

And you get stupidity like this.
Do you hang out together outside work?
TicketsNow Circa 1999
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117003816/http://www.ticketsnow.com/

---

As many of you know, tickets now was acquired Ticketmaster for $265 million in Feb of this year.

What many of you may not know that it was started with only $1000. What started as a one-man operation in a one-bedroom apartment has grown into a multimillion dollar business with approximately 300 full-time employees.

Look at how fucking ugly that first release was, back in 1999. Only persistence and dedication to a vision would have made that company successful, and that's exactly what happened.

To all fellow entrepreneurs out there, just release. Perfection may follow speed, but speed never follows perfection.

Just a dose of inspiration for y'all :).
That sounds like a square on a Scrabble board.
The worst kind of feature creep is the kind mandated by your own customers.

And not "we want a menu here" but "we need a transcoding mode that allows us to specify the stream PIDs directly, and if we don't get it, we're not buying".

And when a million dollars is on the line, even if nobody else will use that feature, you can't really refuse.
I like the end. "Finish it or cancel it".
Unpredictability of what is the consquence of FW?
I find this article interesting in that part of what's necessary for successful start-up industry is freedom of which Zimbabwe has none. As a person of African descent and a Latin American living in the U.S. I am constantly struck by leaders who do not understand the world economy or simply dont care. A country like Zimbabwe, if they were to invest in their youth in say OLPC for instance or sending x number of students to study Computer Science or Engineering abroad; they would see an untold benefit societally in 15 to 25 years. Unfortunately we cant account for human greed and corruption which drives the Mugabes of the the world.
I like articles like this, but what I'm really worried about is the fact that they attract non-hacker types who just want to talk politics. Next stop: reddit. First come articles like this, then more, good, interesting in-depth articles about Obama, then just plain old Obama articles, then McCain is a big old dufus articles, and so on down the drain. See, for instance, maxklein's comment below. That's exactly what I fear happening when these types of articles turn up.

Perhaps we could create a HN-offtopic on some site that implements social news, by invite only, for HN users, and use that for politics/economics/whatever. Any other ideas for a constructive solution to this problem(+) that don't involve lots of PG's time?

(+) With "the problem" being defined as: "we are interested in off topic articles, but are afraid of what they'll do to the site in the long term".
I hardly think FW needs an existence/non-existence proof because without it you can't have knowledge, concepts, language, morality, math, science nor HN discussions!
I don't mind, and am often quite fond of the 'tasty brain food' articles when they completely avoid politics/economics/other controversial stuff that generates more heat than light.
Or maybe the goodness of their website wasn't an important facet of their business a decade ago...
lol. In 1999 I am sure not many websites looked any good, the "goodness" you speak of is relative. Take a good look around. In 2019 none of the websites you visit today will look any good either.
Yeah. Read The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman for more on that sort of law.
> Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them

Cold readers can too. OMFG!
If it were true, Guido at least would be happy (how much more "blub" can you get than "programming for everyone"?)

Unfortunately, it isn't true at all. As it stands, no one but hardcore web app enthousiasts use Google Apps. That hardly makes it mainstream, I should think.
I didn't understand if the article is ironic or not.
What a ridiculous argument. There are so many industries that have the potential to affect health and safety with no regulation. All common sense must now be regulated, for you own safety. Those without enough common sense will be excluded from anything.
Seth might have only had 205 words worth of stuff to say, but then again he only used 205 words to say it. There might have been a more insightful paragraph written somewhere else on the Internet today, no doubt buried in the middle of some four page article. But pound for pound it's hard to come away from Seth's blog feeling like you haven't gotten your money's worth. That's what makes him the best in the world at what he does, and that's what makes it worth voting up.
On the App Store
State of internet advertising (it's good)
Once again, I take issue with your definition of off-topic, since the guidelines seem to suggest that anything intelligent is on-topic. This a good, interesting, in-depth article about Obama would be on-topic, whereas anything below that in your progression would be off.

I don't think PG will allow it to progress to "McCain is a big old dufus articles". He has stated that he would not, and that he has constructive solutions to that problem that he will implement if he feels it necessary.
I think (today's) Lisp could be blub, but only if Lisps were to become the standard category of programming languages. Then some other more advanced meta-lisp that is a few layers of abstraction up, and applying some yet-undiscovered principles of computer science in its high-level semantics would be at the cutting edge, and the vanilla lisps would be mundane and practical-seeming.
Most consistently 10-8 ish. If there's a big design or feature being worked on, ill probably get reeeled back in from 12-3. Very easy to get lost in photoshop.
Constraints and Rules
The Cartoon Guide to Löb's Theorem
More movement in TwitterLand
The GET side of REST is usually reasonable and non-controversial. It's the other verbs where things get crazy, with people arguing that you should PUT comments to a document instead of doing a POST to /addcomment (because add comment is a verb). I gave some examples on the other thread showing how the supposed caching benefits are largely imaginary (beyond simple GET caching), and simple RPC is easier to deal with (because you aren't limiting yourself to 5 verbs).
Dare left something out (and it's important)
Exactly. It is extremely easy to toss a low blow at many companies that are kicking some serious ass on the revenue side of things.

If what they are doing is simple and you better deserve that 8 million to pursue the idea - go after it.
username: zacharye

I've enjoyed the site a lot, definitely willing to check out the mobile version.
Hit-run defendant's fall from tech elite
Ask HN: Online routines and distractions?
I seem to spend so much of my day by getting distracted with cool articles when I'm working at home, its not like its time going down the sink, IMO reading is a very good way to spend time (and I bet you all agree – being here) – but sometimes its time I don’t have, or at least time I would prefer to spend on things more productive.

And its not because what I’m doing is boring (most of the time), but that everything else is equally interesting – just because I’m not working on a project, it doesn’t make it even 1% less interesting to me.

My distractions come from several places - HN, Google Reader (75 feeds), Digg a few forums, and most of all - from researching; search A, find A+B, search B, find B+C, ...

So my question to you guys, is how do you deal with online distractions, and overall you’re routine to remain productive when working?
> with people arguing that you should PUT comments to a document instead of doing a POST to /addcomment (because add comment is a verb).

If people are arguing that, then they don't grok REST (or HTTP verbs, for that matter).

But tell me, why would it be better to POST to /addcomment than to POST to /comments ?

Edit: Or is your point just that some people misapply REST? There's nothing surprising about that.
sorry for the delay.

enabled - navigate to streetread.com/m/login on your mobile device

thanks!
Not every site has to be youtube to be successful. Lots of small sites pay for themselves, make their owners money, and handle all their traffic. This isn't bad.

As an example, I've heard my former employer mog.com managed to get a pretty darn sweet deal and continued funding out of the Sony-Gracenote-acquisition. We definitely had a slow ramp-up, and several setbacks during development (before I got there) that made the total dev time for the site startlingly long.
This is prime evidence for the need of separation of state and education ( or state and credentialing). Any profession can lobby the state to increase the barriers of entry to that profession. Buying the service becomes more expensive and young people must spend far more time in school. A small gain to the current practitioners of the profession ends up being a huge cost to society as a whole.
An irony of this kind of business is that if someone isn't going to buy, it's still to the benefit of the vendor if she has it. The only issue is that it's almost impossible to distinguish between a give-away that cannibalises a sale & one that does not.

Presumably, terrestrial radio is not seen as a potential replacement for CDs while internet/satellite is. It's all rubbish of course.

In a way, 'stars' might be a lot worse off without piracy. Consumers might be drawn to free music given away by weird artists (Radiohead, NIN). Presumably a lot of those would be artists with 0 sales & nothing to cannibalise.

Take, software as an analogy. How many users of pirated MS Office would otherwise use Open Office? In the south, these might have become the standard if not for piracy.
The Post Katrina Classroom: How New Orleans is using the free market to reform schools
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192654
N.b. This article is sort of a sequel to Paul Tough's November 2006 article about KIPP, so unless you've read that one already the second half of this article might not make much sense:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/magazine/26tough.html
I'm a hacker and I read reddit quite regularly. I browse the politics, business, programming and world news sections.

I quite enjoy it. I find those articles interesting, though the debate is usually less so. Yet I'm a hacker. Does that mean that reddit is publishing hacker news?

Of course not.

Just because it's interesting to "some hackers" doesn't make it hacker news. Similarly, if an article about fluffy toys is interesting to some people in the medical profession, should it be published in the British Medical Journal, as a medical article? No.
> why would it be better to POST to /addcomment than to POST to /comments ?

Er, paul actually said PUT to the document (with no particular URI given). POSTing to /comments vs. /addcomment is pretty much a moot point, but I think I agree that "PUT to the document" to add a comment is the wrong thing to do. PUT implies overwriting and should be idempotent. It seems to make sense for _editing_ comments, but the only way I could think of to create a comment that way is to have the client PUT the comment with a GUID. Which seems rather icky: do you want GUIDs messing up your pretty URI space with strings of junk?
news.ycombinator.com ;)
I agree, which is why I said that people advocating PUT for commenting don't grok HTTP verbs. (I've never seen anybody advocate that.)
Also nothing can possibly see a decision before it's made because it doesn't yet exist, by definition.
Pretty much. It's certainly more fun than DOM for simple transformations.
Paul, you've obviously built some great services. I'm absolutely not going to try and argue that you don't know how to build an API.

However, I don't agree with you on this point, and I'm happy to leave it there. Luckily, I get to work with people like Mark Nottingham, and I'm confident in my points regarding caching.

Doing it RESTfully doesn't loose you anything regarding caching and suddenly you are able to address everything. Personally, I think that's pretty cool.
The nicest thing that I can say about XML-RPC is that I almost forgot I was using it on one of my projects. That never happens with soap or rest - with the former, you're always running into compatibility issues, and with the latter, you're always thinking about how to do things restfully.
/addcomment v.s. /comment is all about the relationship to the parent. /addcomment IMHO should be a PUT since you're telling me your updating the parent, whereas /comments makes sense as a POST.

Just my two cents, but I'm not a fan of a POST with /add. POST already says create. PUT says update. /add is wasteful and confusing when you already grok HTTP verbs.

If you don't really think in terms of HTTP verbs though, then /add reduces confusion. The more uptake REST gets, the more natural it'll seem.
Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
The exact guidelines as to what belongs on this site, as written in the current edition, are as follows:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "

This is pretty vague, and there seems to be a lot of crossover, as it's entirely possible for an article about politics to be intellectually stimulating. For instance what is going on in Zimbabwe is sometimes covered on TV news, but usually never with the sort of depth found in the link that inspired the thread that inspired this poll.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278342

So my question is, would you like to see the site's guidelines narrowed such that only CS/startup related links are considered on-topic? This is for no purpose other than to satisfy my own curiosity about what the general consensus here is.
yes, cs/hacker stuff only
no, anything intellectually stimulating
ambivalent
Comments in this case would be a resource which is a container (of all comments)

Posting to the container therefore makes sense as it's equivalent to a factory method to make a child of the container.
Some stuff is just flash in the pan.

Not especially interesting things sometimes make it to the frontpage for a little while because a couple of people voted for a new item together, but they quickly drop again if more people don't vote or comment.
The whole US economy was in a bubble. Because of profitable investments in the housing market, made on faulty assumptions, and cash the mortgage owners had, there was a huge amount of cash circulating. It was profitable to invest in startups because investors knew that consumers were spending a sizable chunk of their cash on frivolities; the startup had a higher likelihood of income. Moreover, an increase in domestic demand means a buoyancy in the stock market; investors knew they could in future sell on these shares at a profit. Simply, investing in startups was a great idea.

Now banks issue fewer mortgages, after their faulty reasoning came back to haunt them, and current mortgage owners can't pay back their mortgages. Not only this, but, because banks have had to write off large swathes of their bad debts, they're less willing to lend money full stop. This hits domestic demand badly. Relates to startups, the profitability of startups has taken a hit at their prima facie and stock market value: a decrease in domestic demand means customers purchase fewer frivolities, and a decrease in demand always badly hits the stock market.

Not only are startups less profitable, but VC have less cash. VCs that invested heavily in the stock market, and particularly the housing market, now have much less cash than they had 4 months ago. Perhaps whoever's bought redux has seen some über filtering mechanism that will change the internet. But my point is that whoever's bought them has very likely far less cash to splash out on potentially rewarding, but less so because of a decrease in domestic demand, filtering mechanisms.

This all indicates that we are either at the bubble's apex or we are seeing its deflation. So, will investment dry up? I'd say not completely, but VC are going to be a hell of a lot more discerning in future, especially if they've invested heavily in the housing market, or stock market in general; they have less money to spend, ergo risk on startups.
FWIW, I kinda like the way the site is now, so I voted no, but I promise to still love you if you disagree.
> Is www.google.com/search a "resource" or a "method"?

You can look at it either way, but it's a perfectly fine resource.
Why are the next two weeks the slowest of the year? Please explain so that I can pass the memo to my employer, as they are not aware of this fact.
"What's missing in REST, btw, is a standard method of serializing structs, lists and scalar types."

What benefit would this provide? I assume he's talking about this:

"We're all writing code, again and again, every time we support a new interface that could be written once and then baked into the kernels of our languages, and then our operating systems."

But I've never had to write new code just to parse the data from a REST API. You can usually request JSON, and there are plenty of libraries out there for that already. No new code required.
"This doesn't mean that I'm going to start programming exclusively in Lisp from now on—the libraries just aren't there."

What libraries does he need that "just aren't there"?