skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't say it, show it. After years of presentations, I've found the following to be key.

1. Practice Early, Practice Often. Practice Everything. -- if you need to plug the system in, and start it up. Do it all, step by step. There's nothing worse than someone struggling with the overhead projector into the start time of a presentation.

2. Don't read it. Say it. Words on screens can be read in an instant, being read to can feel patronizing.

3. Review your images in thumbnail only. If you can't read it at 8 to a page, then the back can't read it too.

4. Bring some drama. Have reveals, or One more things hidden in the presentation.

5. Create visual uniformity. Same color palette, same fonts, some photo tenor.

6. Predict questions and concerns and prepare for those. Think of all the problems and concerns that might come up, and if you still don't have an idea as to how to address the problem, at least you can say "We've thought about that carefully, and we are working on the problem as we speak."

7. Slow down. Take your time. Older people and younger people share information at different rates, find a middle ground for your speed.

8. Answer the questions "Why am I wasting your time" and "What I would really like you to do" in clear direct ways.

9. No rhetorical questions, people's answers in their heads might not be the ones you want. Just tell them your story.

10. If you allow questions, take your time and answer each question sincerely. Everyone is watching not just to see what you say, but how you answer it.

11. Have a partner on hand in case something goes wrong. Practice having then switch in and out at the last minute. Think of it like theater with an understudy.

12. Be hydrated, -- public talking drains your mouth of water.

13 Use the restroom right before, to check yourself in the mirror, check your dander, check your nose, check your tie.

14. And have an espresso 1/2 hour before you go on. That touch of energy that your bring to your presentation can be contagious to your audience.

I'm sure there's more, but those are just some suggestions from my humble experience, that come off the top of my head.
Not the snappiest title, probably wouldn't make it to top of HN.

But definitely more realistic.

C'est la vie.
Wait a sec, weren't you the same guys that told me you started to go stir crazy working in an office with no natural light? :)

It's a really cool place. I love a dark room to work in but I worry about the long term effect of working in a basement (bunker).
Your one-page resume link doesn't link to a one-page resume, it just links back to the site I'm already on.

(Or perhaps you've removed it because you're showing the site to HN.)
Y Combinator: The Harvard Of Silicon Valley
I really don't think so. If in at least your own mind it is not a great idea then you shouldn't do it to begin with.
But that's kind of the main reason why you start a business, you know, to make a lot of money.

Otherwise you're talking about charities.
We (UserVoice) are also hiring and looking at setting up an office in the area (I'm originally from Raleigh/NCSU). Ping me rich AT uservoice
And the only "classic" mentioned was "War and Peace". I haven't read that one but I've read Anna Karenina, also by Tolstoy, and a few of Dostoevsky's books. Yeah they're long, but they're long like concept albums are long. They're classics 'cause they're awesome, not 'cause some imaginary egghead wants to bore you with them!
I sure as hell didn't think limiting people to 140 characters was going to make sense.
I totally agree. The first couple were novel but now we're seeing these on HN every week or so. The novelty has worn out.
Is this more readable?

def size[T : Union[Int, String]#Value](t : T) = t match {
case i : Int => i
case s : String => s.length
}
One great way to ensure your DR site is tested is not to have a it be a special disaster site at all, but rather to have multiple active sites that each regularly serve production traffic. You still need to provision the capacity to handle your traffic even when an entire site is down.
The plaintiffs trying to invalidate the patents have always had to climb a steep hill. My point is that this case doesn't change that. If you look at the statute and precedent, the plaintiffs always had to establish invalidity by clear and convincing evidence. (The appropiateness of that is a question for Congress, not the Court because the statute is clear on this point.)

So, this case just makes things equal between the plaintiffs and defendants. Once the plaintiffs do overcome the admittedly-high obstacle of proving invalidity, the defendant can't just put up a weak defense and get away with it. That's good!

Your problem with the patent system is completely valid, but the Supreme Court can't change law (or is not supposed to). Congress is the one who is responsible for this quagmire, not the Court.

The whole patent system is broken, and this case improves things by a nanogram (is that a word?)./
Review sites are hard.

Yelp was wonderful when it first started because the people on it all loved restaurants enough to actually want to sign up to some random site and review them. The community was small and I was easily able to pick out people I trusted and people I didn't.

As it grew, more of the general public started reviewing things and things started to go downhill. No longer can I remember who has similar taste as I do or who to trust. There are so many reviews that it has become rather useless. Every business seems to be 3-4 stars from Michelin two star restaurants to the taco cart on the corner.

Worse, ratings change over time. Restaurants I rated as 5 stars years ago no longer qualify as 5 stars today, so even when I see someone I know, I have to look at the date of their review and discount appropriately.

Compounding things, there are all sorts of reasons why people give negative ratings from food delivery being late (which has nothing to do with your experience going to a restaurant) to having bad service because the restaurant opened the day before to not feeling like you got enough subjective value out of it.

Now, if Yelp had a collaborative filtering engine ala Netflix or only showed reviews from people who shared similar taste as I do, it might regain some of its usefulness. Maybe if they did something ala Hacker News and required constant up votes to keep the rating from falling over time? Or an OKCupid-style personality matching matrix to tell if someone is just cheaper than I am or demands a higher level of service.
Seriously, since when is Accenture considered Prestigious? It's not even a top consulting shop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company#Competitor...
I agree in my case that the substitution (i.e. S -> $) didn't add anything to the post. But I don't think it detracted much either. I'm surprised it is such a big deal to folks. It wasn't really the point and it was really just to heighten the contrast between FOSS enthusiasts and Microsofties.
A Need to Restore Sportsmanship
I wouldn't call Xiamen a "town" or a "village." My cousin lives there with his wife and two children. It has a population of over 2.5 million people, and was voted (by whom, IDK) one of the "most livable cities in China." He worked for EDS for years and wanted to be transfered to China because of how much he loved it. When they wouldn't transfer him, he FOUND a way to move there. He ended up building a factory there to manufacture leather goods. Get the best leather he can from N&S America, and manufactures it there. He now has hundreds of employees, many with some form of disability, and is incredibly happy.

So I wouldn't call Xiamen itself a village, but you may be referring to a small village nearby.
So first, you're telling me to slow down. Take my time, and be sincere. Thenyourecommendanespressorightbeforegoingonstage?!!11 :)
The documentation website and inline testing of this api looks great, but here's hoping they keep the old api (as documented at apidocs.posterous.com) alive.

They were kind enough to re-add location data to posts coming through the api on request as our just-launched project (http://innertubemap.com/) is dependent on it.
Perhaps some people take an issue with mandatory police inspections.

Someone who's salary I pay, using equipment I bought, forcibly stopping me on a street that I paid to build, and asking me what business I have being there.

Edit: What is the criminal penalty for having a .08 while performing law enforcement duties?
Airbnb Freaks Out Over Samwer Clones
Is including all that data in the object code really necessary?
How to Play The Beatles on the Les Paul Google Doodle
The disappointing thing is that the only person on that list with any real activity was you and many of the others only have activity related to their startup. Which RTP startup people are active HNers besides you and javery?

What about interface and ux design talent in the area? Anyone notable?

When is the next decent event between now and the 21st? I'll be in Raleigh until then before I fly back to São Paulo and then move to SF in August. I'd like to get an idea of what is going on here before I go.
"I believe the same Senators are trying to go after Tor as well ... Remember when Congress tried to get encryption banned (or hobbled) too, once they realized that people other than the government could use it?"

The difference is that encryption is critically important for much of the internet's infrastructure, while Tor isn't.

So they couldn't eliminate the use of encryption without crippling the internet, while getting rid of Tor wouldn't have much of an effect on the internet at all.
I don't disagree. And after reading the SCOTUS opinions, I think their reasoning was sound. Still disappointing in some sense, but it does read like the right decision.

Time to petition congress. It does feel like we're near an inflection point.
Apple’s change of heart and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of blogging
You called them gobbledegook, same difference.

> I am simply pointing out that they are meaningless without knowing the methodology behind them.

Only if you assume incompetence or malice on the part of Optimizely, neither of which you have any valid reason to do. It's perfectly reasonable to assume they aren't stupid and the results are valid.

> It's up to you to back up your claim, not up to the rest of us to figure out whether your argument has any merit.

Um, my claim is don't assume they're idiots; that doesn't require me to back anything up.

The poster I replied to wasn't attacking them, he was attacking statistic in general, which is what I was replying to.

Your response was to imply that Optimizely doesn't know what they're doing and therefore their results are invalid until you see how they're crunching the data; that's simply absurd.
Diego - I admit the title was a bit inflammatory. The theme, as you note, is that business people don't need a technical person to get proof of life. Also, don't treat technical people like shite.
-Will
I have read a couple of hundred of them and thats the most useless ideas I have ever seen.

Most of them seem to be a solution to really mundane everyday consumer quirks. None of them attempts to use basic human needs such as need for communication and approval. Its just "somebody could do my laundry" and "somebody could write something on a website".
really cool, this. Smooth work guys!
Yep, pretty soon you'll have to have a resume app in the app store. ;)

That's a joke, but I guarantee we'll see one soon. It's probably already happened and hasn't been well publicized. I also recall reading a story about someone who targeted a resume promoting Facebook ad at a single person (their desired employer's creative director) in New York if I'm not mistaken.

It's an amazing time to be in publishing.
Examples would be nice.
It seems to me that (and my knowledge of YC is limited) the success of YC boils down to pg, similar to how Apple's success is driven by Jobs. Of course, the team is important, but the vision, driving force, quotes, etc. comes from a single person.

I was also musing if the YC as Harvard analogy is well-chosen: Both are prestigious, but from an outsiders POV, they seem to be the opposites, Harvard the epitome of buttoned-up-ness, where future McKinsey'ers and presidents get educated versus YC, which, to me- represents the quintessential anti-tradition, "if it works do it", fly by the seat of your pants, revenge of the nerds. It's like saying Apple is the Google of Silicon Valley, because they're both big, where in fact the cultures are completely different (visit their campuses for 15 minutes and you can easily see this BTW, without talking to anyone).
Template monster? Where is the call out? Is there a template like this somewhere? The design is 100% original, although very simple so a similarity to a template (or several) would not entirely surprise me. As for colors, it was a ColourLovers palette and a nod to their pallete creation interface.

Thanks for the feedback, though. Will definitely take into account.
I've switched away from instapaper to just using readability's send-to-kindle button, but there still isn't a great instapaper client for Android. I understand it's more difficult now because the full api requires the client to be a subscriber or something, but I think it's a real gap.
Its too bad this divide between technical and business folks exists. That's mainly what bugged me about the process and why I wrote about it. In the end I think it comes down to the personality or more importantly how personable the business or technical person are.
-Will
You should never use manure that hasn't been properly composted. I don't think anyone who grows chickens and their own crops would not know this.
.net is still probably far more familiar to most people. Trendy domains are just that. Neat, but may not stand the test of time. However, are domains really even that relevant anymore considering how many will get to your site via a search engine even though they know the URL?
Enyo docs are scant because Enyo is still a beta and the docs are under NDA, but they do exist and aren't that bad. There is still plenty of room for HP to improve their docs and more code samples though.
Elon Musk buys 1,416,000 Shares of TESLA Motors
Your submission's title is linkbait. Please do not do that. You could have mentioned the topic of what is linked in the text.
Bills Gates never actually said 640k should be enough for anyone. Also, some of the quotes ("I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers") make more sense in context.
The code I wrote wasn't going to production without some serious review, I know my limitations. But it did help in the search and also get things started for the business. -Will
The resume site was built on WordPress (somewhat unnecessarily in the projects final iteration it turns out - hindsight) because Clourlovers was hiring for WP devs. A few things that were in at the start that would've actually taken advantage of the platform were dropped. There is other work in my folio that does take full advantage of the platform and really pushes it to its limits. (Although it seems that around HN WP's name is mud more often than not.)

As for the template monster thing and the PKDcure.org design, that design is 100% original and was part of a 9 month roll out for a huge corporate client with usability testing and extensive UX planning etc, etc... Any similarity is coincidence. The design in question was worked on by a team of designers for months so it's ironic/depressing that there's apparently a template out there for it that can be had for a few bucks (I'm assuming). Although there's literally no way it's exactly the same, PKDcure.org is a 400 page site with 10-15 unique page layouts.

Can I get a link to the template of which you speak?
Did you do this before or after the events?
It’s 1989. Matt Groening is drawing for Apple Computer.
Matt Groening for Apple
This is a big move, very smart for Google.

Also, anyone else notice that the hackernews community seems to either a) not understand or b) not care as much about the ad tech world?
Best Practices for Google XML Video Sitemaps (Video SEO)
I love this post simply because I am from the south, in the midst of a startup, and have had similar thoughts from time to time. But there are a couple of things to remember. The free market forces are determined by the demands of the people. We need reality but we also need entertainment and escape every once in a while. That's what the twitters, facebooks, etc. of the world are for. They provide an outlet to socialize and connect and are beneficial in those ways. And while many of these startups probably won't benefit a couple in Tupelo, MS specifically, I guarantee you they are okay with that. The man in the article had a law degree and was doing what he loved and the woman teaching, which she presumably chose out of passion, not the desire for money. This couple could be as happy as any. It is not our job to focus our creations on benefitting them, because they are perfectly happy with their lifestyle. If they weren't, they would change it. Creations of new enterprises, no matter the focus, creates jobs and tax money for those less fortunate. That is enough in my opinion.
> he feature they requested? Four simple web forms, the code to validate their input, and a report generator to dump back out what was put into the form.
After we finalized the spec for this I turned in my two weeks and went straight back to academia, where four web forms and a report is something you write, wrap automated tests around, and deploy before lunchtime.

I think this is a very uneven comparison. Comparing what a decent coder can do as to what is spec'd, negotiated and sold is wildly different.

At the heart of the problem is that consulting agencies and ISVs like Accenture benefit from more "work" being done, so they sell more "work". The product delivered is a consequence.
Eh, I'm technical and didn't need a business cofounder, I learnt to run the business myself and do all the things a business person would do. That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to have a very good business cofounder. They'd be better at it than I am and they'd make me happier because I wouldn't have to do the things I don't like as much.
Which mug? Tossing a full cup of coffee across a room sounds fun.
creativity, curiosity and passion..
"I don't need papa jobs looking out for me."

I hope you apply similar logic to all of the businesses you use. No onion rings at McDonalds? One more reason why I'm a Burger King customer. I don't need papa Ronald looking out for me.
Interview with Hal Abelson on Code Quarterly
Nothing AirBNB did was illegal or immoral. The most you can say about what they did was that it was mildly annoying.
I second what everyone's saying about the the underground. My company scoped out an office down there, but we opted for the Snow Building on Main Street. I think not having natural light would have bothered me, but the trade off is having good companies very near by. Either way, there's lots of affordable office space in Durham and the business community (particularly the start-up community) is strong and getting stronger.
Thanks for the detailed feedback! I'll take this stuff into account for the code on this I end up re-purposing.
Big 3 of consulting: McKinsey, BCG, Bain - These are all strategy only.

Accenture was the consulting arm of Arther Anderson which was one of the Big 5 of accounting (Enron brought them down.)

Accenture is known for implementation/technology/strategy. Along with Deliotte, CapGemini, Booz, etc. These firms differentiate themselves with implementation from the Big 3 that are strategy only.
Sigh. I know...

I just think that Congress needs to be reeducated about the different needs of today's technology industry versus the old-days of steel mills. It won't be easy, but I'm confident it will happen someday.

The question is whether I'll be alive then (heh).
How are they doing visas?
I can't stomach the fact that Go does not have exceptions. Error checking EVERY BLOODY STATEMENT in a group is an unwelcome trip back to the past.

Also, the article author leaves out Scala from his language comparison, which does most of the good things Go does but much better.

I also note that the only advantage of Go over Java that the author raises is that Java isn't new any more and some complex projects have been written with it. That's hardly a valid technical concern (to be fair - he also mentions memory consumption which is an issue in some contexts, like printer drivers, but if memory usage was REALLY that big an issue on desktops, no-one would use Firefox)
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Royal Family's Bank Accounts Cracked
I think it's an interesting sector. The reason HN probably doesn't care is because a lot of us fall under the category of "tech hipsters." Many tech hipsters hate advertising and by extension anything that enables publishers to show them ads (e.g., "I use noscript so I don't have to see any of those ads." and "I use adblock every1 uses adblock stopid").

Targeted advertising tech seems to be the big winner when it comes to being acquired. There have been several extremely high payouts in recent years for companies similar to this one. I'm surprised there aren't more people working to that end. (Maybe there are and you just don't hear about the swathes of companies that don't get acquired.)
IDirect is hiring software engineers - C++/Linux
This IS Milhouse, right?

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/files/2011/06/5lam2.jpg
What AirBNB did was directly illegal and immoral.

It was illegal because it violated the CAN-SPAM act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003#The_mechan... .... CAN-SPAM defines a "commercial electronic mail message" as "any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service, including content on an Internet website operated for a commercial purpose."

(The fact that they weren't punished for their crimes illustrates the hypocrisy of our legal system, but does not change the fact that they violated the law for personal gain.)

It was immoral because it violated Craigslist TOS, and because they portrayed themselves as females in order to make other females feel safe using their service.
Updated Again: disclaimer -- shooting from the hip here. I know how it sucks to have people pissed at you for IT related issues!! I have zero knowledge of this company and have only read about them today.

Basically, this just boils down to a time issue. No data was lost it just took time for things be to rosy again. Restoring from backups or switching to a DR site takes time too. If you have never fully tested the DR site it might take a long time.

It it easy to be Cpt. Obvious; "Well, there's you problem right there" in cases like these but it just sounds like they need better documentation about what to do in the event something like this happens.

Forgetting about the DR site for a minute. Why is the NetApp a single point of failure?? Given they are extremely stable and running multiple heads further reduces this but if a single issue with one array causes massive downtime then you might want to think about a snap mirror to a second filer. Switching to a different storage vendor doesn't sound like it will fix the underlining issue here!!
Rasmus was born on Greenland which is a Danish possession, so he is a Danish citizen by birth. Which makes him a Dane, as I said. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf for verification.

Furthermore I didn't make any claims about a "capitalist paradise", either explicitly or implicitly. In fact another of the three is Bjarne Stroustrup, a professor in academia. He may live in the USA, but he's an academic, and academia is generally not filled with rabid capitalists.
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Java is an Algol based general purpose language. In what way is it not C-like? I say this as someone who has done more programming in C/C++ over the last 20 years than in any other language.
I concur. I liked Loren's site. That's what actually inspired me to take a crack at this.
What is apple getting that they wanted?