skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback Patrick.

I had not thought about the day/* pass option, so far I have been looking at hourly rates. Users will deposit funds to their account, and when the server is started the cost will be deducted from their balance. I definitely do not want to get in to utility billing, it seems like a headache I don't want!

Wrt the name - I came up with it on the spur of the moment and did not really think about it much after that. Cloud is indeed irrelevant to a lot of the target market, so MultiplayerOnDemand might be a better option.
It might help if you explain what you're actually complaning about, rather than ... forgive me, babbling incoherently. As far as I can tell, you're angry because the Next button isn't working and because people have preferences?
I must have mis-understood you. The method you have outlined - as I understand it - definitely will not find all solutions, and I don't see how you can think it would.

Perhaps you should explain it again. It seems like you find a squiggly line, rotate it 4 times by 90 degrees, say that's a solution, do it in all possible ways, and claim that's everything.

Have I misunderstood?
Scala's support for implicit parameters lets you do most everything you can with type classes. Plus, implicits have scope in Scala, so can choose which you wish to apply in a given context. With type classes the scope is global, so you're stuck with one implementation per type per project.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a specific paper on this, but I've seen a talk by Bruno Oliveira on the relationship between implicits and type classes.
I don't think so, but you're given me an idea ;)
"Impotence" is correlated with "nec multisync"

That does it, I'm definitely getting a new monitor.
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It's hard to see an author so defensive about their work. There will always be naysayers. Ender's game has persisted for so long in a way that so many of it's peers hasn't.

We have to remember that negative experiences effect our users more, and complaints will in general outnumber the praise, even if the the number of users who are unhappy are outnumbered by happy users by orders of magnitude.

Alternatively, haters gonna hate.
Oh yeah, the "email" field isn't public, it's just for HN admins. If you want your email to be public, put it in your "about" box.
I tried to play Monster Crossing, but after I picked the game type (addition word problems) the screen flashed between two screens. I couldn't get to the play button because it would move positions too fast. This is in IE9.
Heroku does this - they have a nice console interface for pulling down the logs from your deployed app. Granted, it is not quite the same as Gmail, but it's always a start.

Maybe it's a business idea: email for geeks. I'd use it. :)
pg comes off as a great guy during interviews and is clearly intelligent based on his success (YC + others) as well as his essays, but I always kind of wondered if he's just gotten really lucky spotting startup talent, or if he's just firing shots in a barrel hoping to hit something.

2 minutes into his first "office hour" and all of my doubts are out the window. pg really does know what he's doing. He asks questions that seem blatantly obvious, yet nobody else seems to be asking them. He doesn't let something go if he wants to know more - he keeps nagging. He understands how markets work and where people spend money, but also has the technological know-how. I am thoroughly impressed, and can't wait to gather his insight for the next 42 minutes of this video.
Unfortunately does nothing to change my view that authors should probably keep away from their own reviews. If he'd had some brilliant new insight that would be one thing, but instead he just comes off as slightly more defensive than anyone who has sold tens of millions of books should.

I guess it was 1999 when this was written, though, so the norms for online reviews had not yet been established.
Yeah, exactly what I mean. Rows in the inbox = links to a type of content.

This is in my opinion why Google Wave failed. No one wants another inbox to check. But, instead of an email, having the option to send a "super email" with advanced features? And right from your same email inbox? Yes please.
I'll just point out that the thing I didn't like about enders game was that the book felt too monotone. It has a great twist at the end, but everything leading up to it is linear, predictable, and while initially exciting, quickly becomes uninteresting.
Just found that after posting. Not free, which is what I'm after.
Forth: The Other White Meat
"and what is/was the response to the 'sabbatical year' on your résumé?"

I'm not sure. I don't actively mail around my résumé, since I'm employed at the moment and not looking for work. Sometimes recruiters email me, but they have never mentioned the sabbatical. Probably people just ignore it. I haven't updated the details on my résumé since 2004, shame on me ;-)
Regarding comments, I really liked a technique Martin Fowler talked about in Refactoring.

Whenever he feels the need to comment, he extracts the commented block into a new method and gives it a name that explains the purpose - instead of the comments.

The result is code cut into small self-explaining blocks that reads pretty much like a sentence.

I tried to follow it these last weeks and IMO it works great.

Instead of a comment - use a function name.
Startup Quote: Sean Rad, founder, Ad.ly
AshleyMadison.com for airports
Brad Smith at Startup Lessons Learned | The Intuit Network
guys I am being blocked again

I have created yet another account

if I dont comment for a while it means I have been clocked again

it kinda proves my point abut HN
Ask HN: Inhouse collaborative app
My team of 10 have a need to make daily updates to the same spreadsheet. Ideal way of doing this would be to use Google Spreadsheets where multiple users can make changes to the same spreadsheet...but our company doesn't allow us to put data on Google Docs. Is there any alternative software that I can use for my team by hosting it within the company firewall? Thank you very much in advance.
Will FDA Regulation Kill the Medical Tricorder?
Hollywood Beefs Up Injunction Against Pirate Bay Founders
well.. just the way you are approaching it
As someone who has been looking at resumes all week, I don't have a problem with this. This just means there are more excellent candidates for me to choose from.

I tend to prefer candidates that are currently unemployed, because I feel they have something to prove and will work hard to make a good impression. I'm dubious about folks who are already employed, I don't now if they're for real, or if they're just using me to get a raise at their current job.
The compromise of two visions don’t make a right.

- Sean Rad (@seanrad)

http://startupquote.com/post/5844215757
Here's a calculator to convert your MHash/s rating to bitcoin/day: http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php

But keep in mind that the reward for a block is currently 50BTC, so if the calculator shows 0.1 BTC/day it will take 500 days on average to get anything. Considering that the difficulty will increase rapidly, that actually means you will most likely never see any BTC from this.

edit: tried it, looks like this is actually group mining. The author is collecting all the BTC, and promises to give you your fair share each day. He should disclose how much he is pocketing for himself.
I love Ender's Game and all of OSC's other books, but it seems like he might be a terrible guy... more on that in this very interesting interview: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/02/03/card
so follow the fucking Prophet

you found him!

whatare you doing in a thread you dont even understand

here is the keyword mate: read

sometimes it helps
on those grounds..

you must have been a real sissy when you first came in

Bravo!
The primary beef this seemed to have with Thiel was that he was "withdrawing consent" from democracy, believing it to be incompatible with liberty.

Not good for the writer of the article that Thiel is technically correct. Divine right of the mob is no better than the divine right of kings, oligarchs or whatever else.

Anyone can look around and see that democratic government is just as capable of genocide and police-statery as the next.

They go on to criticize him for committing heresy against public education and our university system. I'd think the users of HN would realize by now that a degree doesn't necessarily imply someone is smart or has skills needed to do some job.

They finish off with the usual "libertarians are all selfish" argument. They then hold up other members of the elite as an example of not being selfish >snicker<. Nobody's perfect, and you can always make anybody rich look like Satan.

This is clearly just a hit piece to make people holding a particular worldview feel good and find a new enemy to attack. There's no concrete criticisms here, nor is the interview here in depth enough for you to understand his context or worldview.
I was starting to think the same thing ;) there's surprisingly nothing — at least to be easily found anyway.
Agreed. I find Lucida Grande a good programming font too.

Would love to see a list of top 10 proportional programming fonts.
Does it seem naive to anyone else to allow site owners to update the index and stop spidering. a) lots of people for various reasons (ignorance, security through obscurity) would just not update it and stuff would fall out of search.
Second, this seems incredibly ripe for abuse. Like we don't have enough search spam result problems already, letting spammers have more direct access to the content going into their rankings seems like a truly bad idea.
Interview with Ian Siegel of ZipRecruiter
I thought there were some GC optimizations needed to make it work efficiently on android. I was under the impression it worked ok for Android 1.2 phones and up.
I don't find it challenging or difficult or upsetting at all to see an artist vigorously defend his work. What I find "hard" is someone poo-pooing another person's passionate defense of something they care about.
Where can I buy Android games? (I mean buy all the source code/IP.)
I am looking to some simple Android casual games. Is there anything resembling an exchange for developers to monetize their IP in this way? Thanks in advance for any tips!
That's just the loud minority. There are also many libertarianism fans on HN ;)
OK, here's how it goes, as I understand it.

Step one: You have some poorly-defined complaints about HN. Apparently the "Next" button doesn't always work. In itself that seems like a legit complaint.

Step two: Instead of submitting with a headline like "Tell HN: next button not working" or emailing pg directly about it, you declare HN "unusable", the users "scared", and apparently we're all too afraid to speak up in case we want YC funding at some point in the future. Your submission on this subject is misspelled, confusing and unreadable.

Step three: said submission winds up dead for being misspelled, confusing and unreadable. Now, things really start getting weird.
you missed the point, again

its difficult to explain the context when your thread says [dead]

i am not angry. I just want to start a discussion and I got blocked

I am talking about free speech!
You can get at some of that information for gmail. See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&a... for details.
I've read through Ender's Game more times than I can count, and have worn through two paperback copies. It is a powerful book with plenty of great object lessons. Quality is, of course, in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, which is the opposite of the proposal to have the teaching at home and the homework in class. But I think any distinctions are not helpful to the students.

In a good class there is no distinction between learning from the teacher and the teacher's assigned material because each is required to excel in critically debating and responding to the other.
What about when people are employed to work on a project?

Then they are employed. Working on a project without an employer is not employment. Working on contract for an employer is generally referred to as "self-employment" although, technically, if you're operating under your own business, you're an employee of your own business. I really don't understand why HN is so upset by this distinction. Everyone here is perfectly happy to distinguish between "project" and "start-up" but not, apparently, "project" and "employment".
What Experts-Exchange thinks of Stack Overflow
FreedomBox Foundation Introduces Technical Advisory Committee
Do you actually have an app? If so, can you talk about it at all or send demos? I, and I imagine many others on HN, could directly fund the project directly if the idea and execution are good.

If you are just asking the rhetorical question, it depends on whether or not the app requires a critical mass of users (ie social networking) In either case, your best bet is to publish and start discussing on a forum (HN is a great start).
Everything? You make it sound like he's a child rapist or something.

Has he ever tried to violently force his worldview on anyone? No. Is he a criminal? No.

Is he trying to advance his own agenda, like anybody else? Yes. This is the same kind of demagoguery used against rock and roll music; they're afraid his evil ideas will corrupt our poor citizenry!

It treats the reader as a mindless lump unable to think for himself. That might work on TV, but not on the internet.
By this logic, muting TV commercials is also piracy.

circumvented the trust I placed in the OS (to make the internet available for ad delivery whenever feasible)

That's not something you can or should be able to "trust" the OS to do. It's not your hardware. If you don't want "pirates" running your app, then have it refuse to run unless it can download ads. Don't pretend you have any right to dictate whether the user is allowed to disable Internet access.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but one takeaway I had from this fascinating segment is:

For investors, your pitch should include the problem you're trying to solve, the people who have this problem, and your solution.

For pg's office hours, you should strip away all that marketing talk and just say what it is in it's most barest technical essentials.
Ask HN: How much work do you get done in a day?
I was just wondering how much do people 'do' in a regular working day.

If you're a web designer then how far would you get with a concept mockup?

If you're coding a custom cms in php then how many features would you get through?

The reason I ask is that I'm always trying to push myself to do more but, not having worked with similar people in my field, I find it difficult to know whether I'm trying to achieve too much or not doing enough.

I know it's a bit of a 'how long is a piece of string' question but would appreciate any insight you can give.
> you don’t need as many semicolons

What is up with the hate on semicolons?

Luckily I know scala but if I didn't and someone would try to sell it starting with that argument I'd get very suspicious.
Maybe each site should be able to designate who indexes it and robots can get that index from that indexer. Let the indexers compete. Let each site decide how frequently it can index. Allow the indexer that gets the business use the index immediately, with others getting access just once a day. Perhaps a standardized raw sharable index format could be created, with each search company processing it further for their own needs after pulling it.

And let the site notify the indexer when things change, so all the bandwidth isn't used looking for what's changed. Actual changes could make it in to the index more quickly if the site could draw attention to it immediately rather than an army of robots having to invade as frequently as inhumanly possible. The selected indexer could still visit once a day or week to make sure nothing gets missed.
Thanks smartass

let me have liberty to own my headline

you missed the point, again

its difficult to explain the context when your thread says [dead]

I just want to start a discussion and I got blocked.

hint: I am NOT talking about the next button. I am talking about free speech!
'Spooks' trying to turn cultural metaphors into "intent"  data
Years ago, Googlebot would send If-Modified-Since headers, and Apache would honor them.

I ran into this by chance when writing a wrapper to obfuscate e-mail addresses in mailing list archives. I didn't change the URL but had it served by a script instead of being a flat file. When it first went online, all of the robots kept crawling the files over and over. I finally made it supply the right mtime to Apache, which then did the right thing with the incoming IMS header, generating a 304 and not sending out new content.

It's possible this has regressed, but I would hope it hasn't.
It has been submitted at least three times already, and you can find more comments there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615088

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058946

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613371
It's not just a technical interview. It's also a "should we hire this person", and in that case, the answer is no.
You just described site maps: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
I believe it's called the back-tick.
It's not clear what happens to the moderated photo. Is a placeholder returned? Is it blurred, etc etc.
"I, for one, would love to know where those hundreds of millions to produce Avatar went, for instance."

Not what I mean. I mean things like exactly when and why they started doing it.

"I sincerely doubt that the change will come from within. "

Yea, but someone else could do the debugging and maybe fix the root cause.
I'm always curious about what people who are members of the 'long term unemployed' are doing while unemployed.

There are big chunks of people who are unemployed with two strikes against them, they are under-educated and they are single parents.

This double whammy kills you because if you aren't working you can't pay for day care, if you can't pay for day care then a big chunk of your time is taken up in providing day care (depending on the age of your children).

So if you pick out the 'edge' case where you have:

two work capable parents

both with college degrees

fewer than four children (all over the age of 5)

There is an "easy" answer, upgrade your skills and/or education, get a job. I know a couple in Texas who did exactly that, the husband, went to community college, transferred to the state university system, and they are now 3 years unemployed and 1 year away from being a newly minted EE with a paid summer internship under their belt. They have recruiters talking to them at school but on my and others advice they are going to finish the degree before actually taking anyone up on those offers.

I've talked with people for whom 'job hunting' wasn't an issue, until it was, and they only realized a year later that their previous experience really wasn't all that applicable to anything really.
To shared hosts: "Will you be supporting Ruby on Rails 3.1?”
Ask HN: Ideas for projects with $2-4k/mo profit.
Let's forget about million/billion dollars ideas, business plans and VCs for a moment.

Say, we're given a simple puzzle to create a project that will generate $2-4k per month. How'd you solve it?

Additional data: you are a developer that can do both backend and frontend web-development and possibly mobile development through tools like phonegap or rhodes framework (although mobile development will take more time).

Ideas?
Local prostitutes will be all over that.
Sure, it's also possible that they store the encrypted passwords in a handwritten ledger and decode them when you log in. I was talking about what Newegg is most likely doing in real life.
Hrmm, maybe I should set something like that up for my next project.
Upload DVDs To Flixster? That's Time Warner's 'Very Big Idea,' Exec Says
Setting Up the OpenStack Cloud API Environment
I believe my question still remains. If not all projects are employment, when does working on a project become employment? What criteria need to be met?

I believe I answered that very clearly in my last response. One likely works on projects as part of employment. One may work on projects outside of employment. 'Project' does not imply 'employment' though typically 'employment' does imply 'project'.

If you start a business, you legally become employed by that business. If you work on a project without a business, you have not constituted employment. As for interviewing, even if you start a business and work on a project, with no completed product or sales to speak of, I think you'll still have a difficult time claiming legitimacy.
Is he actually a terrible person, or merely one who happens to have unpopular opinions?
I can usually implement 1-2 features in code per day (more when programming in Ruby). In most cases I can only get like 25% of a site mocked up in a day (I'm really slow when it comes to design).
26 x 26 x 2 - #!/bin/bashing Your Way to a Good Domain
The problem with Scott Card is that he substitutes proper character development with "let's make all the characters naive children who eventually realize all the adults are manipulative". Its a total copout, and he doesn't just do it wth the ender books.

Oh yeah, that and his crazy is often showing...
Show HN: A side project possibly worth showing - Wordaholic on the android
Just to get experienced with the android platform, my friend and I came up with a game called Wordaholic. Our aim was simple - create a game that would help us learn the platform, that would pay off our initial investment of $25 for the android market, that would help us see how we can market the app (that's not going too well), and create a rewarding side project separate from the day job. A major reason we did get motivated to do this is after reading all the posts in HN telling us to get off our butts and do something - anything (sorry, long time lurker, first time poster here).

I am happy to say that after almost a month on the market most of the goals were met! I post this today as we cross the $25 revenue generated via ads. I still don't have a sense of marketing, but we do have approximately 1900 active users of the game, and is growing daily! Any marketing ideas are greatly appreciated.

Some shameless self promotion - our game is on the android market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smallsteps . We also have a write up on my website: http://www.achinbatra.com/firstapp . Any suggestions, comments are welcome. Thanks!
adevv, you're frustrated right now, which is totally understandable. Downvoting, counter-comments and flags in forums can be brutal. When faced with behavior that seems senseless and makes you angry a good strategy is to employ some exponential backoff algorithm (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/NRL/backoff.html), i.e. increase your reply time and empathy by 2x before taking action. Otherwise, things start to go the way of pointless "Oh yeah, take this" exchanges.

How about gathering some data (scrape all the flagged submissions over a period and see if any patterns emerge) and present it to the community? I would very much would like to see such an analysis (e.g. there were some allegations in the past that submissions get quickly flagged that are negative about YC companies).
"When a Google recruiter talked to me, he seemed really impressed, and not put off in the least."

Did they hire you?