skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

I've been to Sigishoara, which was really nice. I really look forward to seeing more.

The first week here, I had this conversation...

My work friends said: "That is worth checking out, there is a nice lake over there." I yawned and told them that I've seen lakes before, but "the mountains around the city looks really cool". They looked confused and said "Uh, do you mean the hills?"

But frankly, I'm not that curious about Bucharest. :-)

I do wish there were more gypsy music bands around Cluj.

It is a bit embarrassing to like "muzika popular", which seems to be the most uncool thing around? (-: Otoh, it might help make me popular with the girlfriend's 70 year old mother... :-)
> there were already free -nixes out there

Not true, the various "Free" BSDs came much later. As far as I know, BSD existed but wasn't Free. If it was already free, then RMS would probably not have launched the GNU project.
Saw your performance on the show tonight as well. Great stuff, easily best of the night. Can't wait to see what you have in store for the next round!
Thanks for submitting this -- "Dancing Hackers" is apt. :)
"Ideas don't matter, execution matters."
"It's not the product it's the team."
"The best companies are the ones that know how to 'hustle.'"
"College is an outdated mode of knowledge transfer, start a company instead."
"Build a company around a small, easily implemented idea with quick turnaround to iterate towards market success."

HN has its own self-replicating thought structures just like any other community :)
And if you're thinking "this is amateur" let me tell you that at least 2 Very Big E-Commerce Companies I know of run their (trad) dbs in the same mode.
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Some female academics in the STEM fields have started wildly successful blogs that talk about gender issues in an academic environment. A few I recommend to academics/grad students/postdocs of both genders are Female Science Professor, Academic Jungle and Female Computer Scientist.

My impression is that these and other blogs have been tremendously successful in letting young female scientists learn about extremely successful female role models in academia. They've also been extremely illuminating personally to me (a male engineer) because they call out instances where folks are "innocuously" sexist, and helped me understand how even certain cases of well-intentioned male behavior is actually discouraging from a female PoV.

All I can say to the OP is:

(1) she should keep writing so that young women entering CS know that successful female s/w engineers exist.

(2) encourage other successful female s/w engineers to start blogging.

(3) don't ever hesitate to blog about instances of sexism - well-intentioned or otherwise - because at the very least this can help clueless male engineers learn how to behave.

(4) Don't ever hesitate to confront people for sexist speech or actions. The problem is only going to away if we create a culture where sexism would be career suicide and the first step to this is confronting the sexists.
Just wanted to come back and gloat a little bit. Downvoters, guess you were wrong.
Pretty much everything that is in Ubuntu is also in Debian. What Ubuntu "main" means is those packages are actually built by Ubuntu with their own patches and quality control. Wheres "universe" has everything that is not in main and is repackaged from debian to Ubuntu by the community without official support.

The assumption is that the "main" archive is a fairer representation of the important stuff in the distribution than including "universe" as well. You actually have to manually enable universe on an Ubuntu install to be able to use it.

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu for more details
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I loved this article, truly inspirational, specially the last one, and there is only one possible explanation for all these(and all the other hard working people in the world):

Passion.

If there is something that you love, whatever it is, from your work to your family, you would do almost anything.
Thanks for sharing.
Darn, a video.
How does anyone in the Ruby "community" have the time to get any actual work done?

No other language community in the world behaves like this.
You're thinking of Debian. Ubuntu doesn't have non-free or contrib.
Thanks a lot for posting this wonderful article. Very very inspiring.
I'd argue that it worked perfectly, actually.

What were the poster's true motivations? Not what they stated, but what they truly meant.
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From the left:

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Google Torrent search

Google Reader

Hotmail (requires me to log in every 30 days to keep forwarding to gmail)

Facebook

Canucks Forum

UVic website

Popurls

StumbleUpon

Reddit

Hacker News

Slashdot

H-Online/Security

Intern0t

Stack Overflow

programmers.stackexchange

Cracked

College Humor (never visit, since removed)

xkcd

Cyanide & Happiness

Penny Arcade

Dilbert

SMBC

ZDNet

Ars

Wired

Engadget

TechCrunch

Al Jazeera English

The Onion

CBC

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wikipedia watchlist

Wolfram Alpha

Grooveshark

Pitchfork

SurfTheChannel

Sidereel

Youtube

TPB

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I have a bunch of individual pages favorited in a number of areas, but those are the ones I visit frequently.

Edit: It's times like these I wish HN used Markdown, so I could compact this into a table. Sorry for taking up so much room.
Agreed, it's really heartwarming when you see someone so public owning up to what some might view as a flaw in their project.
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It might not be medicine, but it's not snake-oil either.
One of the biggest surprises for me when I went to work for a big corp was that people didn't actually work harder in startups than in large corporations. Perhaps there's a bit of sample bias; people at Google tend to work harder than at other big companies, at least according to my Noogler classmates who used to work at Adobe and Intuit. But I know people at Yahoo and IBM that work even harder than I do at Google, and I work about as hard at Google as when I was working with a YC startup. And yet they at IBM accomplish far less than we do at Google, and we at Google (on a person-for-person basis) accomplish far less than the average successful YC startup.

I've been trying to put my finger on why that is, and I think it all comes down to misallocation of resources. Over time, work becomes focused inwards at a large corporation, dedicated to supporting the inner world of the corporation instead of the outer world of the market. Without market discipline, decisions get made that seem logical to the decision-maker but are actually very pessimal from an efficiency standpoint. Some team might create an API that's a continual tax on its users, but without the ability to bypass it and use or write an alternative, there's no way around it. Or some VP may make a decision that seems sensible at a time, but mortgages future development, and without the ability for that initial project to fail and get completely reverted, you'll never arrive at the optimal solution.

Working hard is generally a necessary but not sufficient condition for success, and it's nowhere near a straight-line correlation. Far more important is to pay attention to what you're working on, and make sure that it's actually important. You can't succeed with zero hard work, but you can get much farther with a little smarts and little hard work than with a lot of hard work.
Even FreeBSD comes with some GNU software (gcc, gdb and emacs at the very least).
cuz pg doesn't need to work on it, when lots of us do.
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Her opening statement closely resembles what I felt seeing another jeanhsu article about gender. I also thought it was woefully ironic when she mentioned that she has tried to avoid the topic of gender, when in actuality, that's the only correlation I have to her at this point.

Jean -- if you don't want to be known as the person who only talks about gender issues, at the very least, try to intersperse some technical discussions into your gender articles. Or, better yet, write articles about tech instead of the fact that you're female.
Wild animals don't know what they're doing, the people behind corporations do. Corporations are abstract constructs, but they're run by people. And in this case the people are amoral assholes, extortionists leeching off of the work of others.
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There's a line there somewhere. Clearly udev is very tightly linked to the kernel and it was built to replace devfs which was inside the kernel. On the other extreme maybe the filesystem programs (e.g., reiserfsprogs or xfsprogs) aren't as tight a coupling and would make sense outside. I put the split into the footnote to make that clearer.
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I'm apparently the first Windows user to respond so I'll say OneNote. Love it - can't imagine a better tool. I've tried several trials/freebies for others and nothing beats OneNote. The only improvement I could make with it is online sync across multiple computers.
Well yes. Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc are the names of the OS distributions.

When I'm generalizing based on the stack people expect, I usually say Linux when I mean the common Glibc, GCC (maybe CLang), and GNU utils with a Linux kernel setup people expect to find normally (and I'm usually excluding Android saying that), or I say that it's UNIX variant when I want to include Mac and BSD or any other generic POSIX complaint OS.

It's like Pop vs Soda vs Coke. I prefer to call everything Coke. http://www.popvssoda.com/
Thanks for the comment. If you check out my blog you will see that I do write about other topics, but it seems like the ones that are most popular on HN (or in general?) are the ones about gender.
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But you don't have to tell that you first customer doesn't pay you ;).
My point was: if we already live with such conditions we may have lost the fight to live in a decent society. And a society which is not decent is not a society, it's only an amalgam of people.
Comcast decided to drop hosting. http://searchyc.com/post/6027748746/why-is-searchyc-down

Also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605959
Theres a difference between discussing the concept of "internet drama" and actually creating "internet drama". Mycroftiv is doing the former whereas you do the latter.
Ask HN: How to develop an idea to a startup
Hi ,
I have an idea about a product. But not sure , how big the potential use base. What is the normal steps people follow to develop an idea to a startup ?

Thanks
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they have pissed off more customers than ever. now, new customers will be more scared of vodafone..
nice story and congratulations!
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You do realize that discussing internet drama is what spurs people to create internet drama, right?
You sure do enjoy referring to yourself as a queen, don't you? Hrm.
LinesOfCode to determine how much "GNU" there is is like counting number of screws in a car to determine how much "car" it is.

Without GCC to compile the kernel and all the other tools, there would be no kernel. A free open source compiler which has existed for decades now, and its competition, Clang, is it even stable yet?
If she [the author] cares so much about the social aspects of being in IT industry then I don't know why she cannot accept the way it is.

All I see is "Look how cool and special I am! I'm a girl and I can navigate in the men's world!". She tries to bring up a problem but I cannot quiet see a real problem there.

"Already at a disadvantage, they are playing a seemingly impossible game of catchup with very little positive feedback or support. The culture, the standards, and the norms are all male-centric, and the book talks about women in computing being guests in a male-hosted world."

It's a big problem if you want to become an average programmer that has to rely on that feedback and support. Guess what? Most truly skilled people learned almost everything by themselves.
Generally speaking most intelligent people learn by themselves (if there are means to do it) and find themselves a little alienated from the general culture.

My point is simply if you want to achieve exceptional results you will most likely be an exceptional person too. And being a woman, being ugly being whatever will not have much influence. In some situations it will help, in some it might do the opposite, it's random.

If you want to be average then yea, as a woman it will be harder in IT, but if you want to be average why not pick a job average woman does?
I often use it to tell whether an Ask HN uses a throwaway account or not.
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Y Combinator/HN Forum?
What do you guys think of a YCombinator/HN forum? I can use my current vBulletin lease, would any other people be interested in taking part in this project?

I plan on having a real-time chat IRC for HN, and a YCombinator FAQ Forum, where hackers/entrepreneurs can enjoy their time at, etc.

Would any designers/developers be interested in this side project?
First thing is ask yourself is this idea what users need? Is this idea a want or a need? Do you have any competitors that are doing the same?
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I would like to add something that everyone seems to have forgotten. A great programmer has a significant life outside the field.

Additionally, and I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but the best programmers I know are fluent at least in one musical instrument.
I think the article makes good points and it's true that the current dongle is a brilliant acquisition tool that will likely give way to better mechanisms in the future. Square needs to stick with the dongle for now so as not to give the perception that it is inferior. It's a bit like Apple's release strategy: the features are always a bit behind but the overall user experience is exceptional and creates demand for future releases.

New payment systems face a nearly insurmountable chicken-and-egg problem. By taking advantage of an existing infrastructure, one side of the equation is addressed neatly. The FaceCash thing is more reminiscent of PayByTouch (minus the fraud, I suppose) where you've got zero merchants, zero account holders and you're trying to push an unfamiliar and even awkward user experience.
One of the benefits of going to an elite school in an area you don't directly live in is that you are forced to make friends with the people around you. I'm confident that after I graduate I made some serious friends (and connections) here not only because I had the experience of being forced to socialize with a new group of people, but also that I know everyone else was in the same position.

I'd almost say that the network itself is worth the price I paid for college. Just looking at the people I know, I can probably connect myself to someone in any of the top 20 US schools in one or two degrees of separation. I assume this is how things like banking and executive networks are built, although that's not my field.
If you think this is bad then wait till the new IT regulations proposed by the government are enforced! In short anything you say will be scrutinized and you will have to ( or the website may have to) take down any content anyone feels is offensive. Internet freedom is about to be curtailed by a large extent in India ( or its cyberspace at least)!
Yes they are, I quite agree. And it's still pointless to get mad at them.
Hobbes draws an anthropology before stating his theory of the state. But we should take care here, a few points:

firstly the anthropology is terribly negative and the conclusion are that without government we would leave in a violent state of nature. It's not that clear that without government the situation would be so violent and moreover, from scientific point of view, it's also not that clear that there was such a state of nature: homo sapiens could well have been really civilized when he became home sapiens.

Secondly Hobbes never concludes that we should be armed or anything like that. No. He concludes that we need a powerful state and that to build this state we need to give up some of our rights. We give some rights and the state acquire the obligation to protect us. If you think about it it goes totally against the American vision: Hobbes would probably agree that the citizen should give up their rights to be armed, to throw out the state of nature, and in return the state would protect them. This seems really hobbesian, not the reverse.
Out of curiosity, how long have you known each other (perhaps defined by when you first received an email from him via your HN submission and when you considered him a co-founder)?
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Isn't this MongoDB's approach to persistence?
Could you elaborate?

Are also all communities based on mutual fear? And how much the concept of community is part of the concept of society?
I suspect the best course of action is to build it so that folks can better evaluate how compelling it is. I also doubt a Vbulletin-based solution is going to fly with this audience.
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Bad title... What about people working in African mines where they work long hours performing heavy physical labor under dangerous conditions. Even risking their health. Just to survive and give food to their families.

There are dozens of these answers where this kind of 'slave' labor is still going on.

So stop tooting the horn of those hard working entrepreneurs (I'm one of them). And please try not to offend other people with these kinds of titles and articles.
Second this. I lived in frisco for a year and while it's never as bad as they make it sound, it was pretty bad looking back. There were shootings at the intersection our office was located at. Car breakins were not a big deal and just accepted. I'd see fresh pieces of glass window on my walk to work each morning. And I wasn't even living in the worst part of town aka the tenderlon.

I've only moved to NYC few months ago and never felt remotely as threatened as some of my late night walks in SF. Still I keep hearing NYC has its own share of bad hoods but my guess is in proportion to its overall size, they comprise a significantly small % of area than sf.
Citation needed. This doesn't look self-evident at all to me.
vBulletin is very open-based, I have a license that I paid a while back of $200.

I'm looking for others who are interested to take part in this new community board.
Outside of programming, many companies won't take people without the completed degree. Many people just don't work during college, and many who do, don't work in a field at all related to what they want to do. I was able to get jobs and internships that helped me gain valuable experience and lead to more job opportunities, but few students are willing to look for and hustle into opportunities outside a few job listings. The best, most valuable experiences I gained were simply by asking for a job that wasn't there yet.

Also, I was mandated to do an internship that related to my major (paid or unpaid) for at least one semester, so I presume some other people are in the same boat.
I may be wrong about this, but I thought I heard PG say that a YC company was working on a solution.
Work smarter not harder.
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Most people could get by on minimum wage for a little while. Law school debt usually doesn't have to be paid back immediately.
Why manage servers manually? I mean I get it, you want control, but for simple web apps?
A smaller, concentrated area would be better for any adoption.

If 1 in 1000 people in a given square mile have access to Wallet, and 1 in 1000 retail outlets support it, what are the chances anyone will actually use it and give you the data you need to improve it? A far better approach would be to give it to every google employee and as many residents around Google HQ as possible, and convince as many local businesses as you can to use it, covering their costs. Then you start to get an idea of what its real-life usage cases are, and where you aren't delivering. Giving it to a smattering of technorati and having a few businesses support it isn't likely to lead to much use.
I think he still would have, because what he set out to create is a 100% copylefted system. It's in the manifesto:

> Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution. That is to say, proprietary modifications will not be allowed. I want to make sure that all versions of GNU remain free.
>The GPL has ultimately done more harm than good for open source.

This claim seems to defy the simplest explanation given the historical success of linux, so I think you need to be a bit more rigorous in substantiating your argument.

I'll agree that strictly enforcing 'giving back' is an unnecessary imposition and cost for adopters when a) there are many similar substitutable goods b) open source has momentum: evidence exists that giving back can be positive and in the adopters' interest.

However, neither of those were the case in the era when the GPL was born. The GPL should at least be given credit for helping bootstrap the present state of open source.
Comparing the size of Ubuntu 'main' isn't interesting.

A more thoughtful assessment would have examined what packages were installed & used rather than which ones existed. That data is really easy to find: http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
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