skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the "long-term memory for coders" tag line--it gets the idea across well.

I've been working on a project--Labradoc--that approaches a similar idea from a different direction: http://www.labradoc.com/

My goal is to encourage developers to take notes as they go to both help them and help other people looking for the information later. From my own experience I've found a "lab notebook" style of site has been valuable both for me and other people. And it tends to be pretty low overhead.

A longer term feature I was considering was making individual entries browsable as "tips" for particular technologies but that's still on the TODO list for me.

I think there's some interesting areas to explore in the spaces between services like GitHub gists, Stack Overflow and Instructables.
I'm afraid that in the same situation, I would have been petty enough to delay informing the police that I had received my money until the check had cleared.

I don't like it about myself, but I sure get angry when corporations throw their weight around, and revenge is really sweet.
It's worth noting that the author's non-transparent heavy-handedness towards "niceness" in meta has driven away at least one of the self-governing, power-to-the-people moderators he advocates.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473029

I'm disturbed by the idea that concealment is considered an appropriate response to social problems you don't know how to solve (I'm aware pg does it also).
Yes, it's a joke. (I didn't write it.) I thought having Adrian Lamo's name all over it would tip people off.
Look, giving away open source software might have been a big deal back then. It isn't now. Lots of companies release open source software, up to and including open sourcing their entire product.

That's not what I'm grateful to SourceForge for. I'm grateful for the terabytes of transfer they've provided my projects over the years. They've also effectively hosted mailing lists and websites that receive tremendous traffic. I have my doubts that github could handle all of those aspects of that kind of service, even now that they've grown up. I suspect they'd have a lot of the same growing pains SourceForge experienced.

The reality of the matter is that SourceForge is a dinosaur that needs to die.

Really? You have no concern at all for the thousands of projects that still rely on SourceForge infrastructure?

I don't think I'm ever going to be able to see eye to eye with you on this one.

Not to mention that it's our right to say whatever we want on our twitter stream, regardless of if we've paid for or tried to help the object of our complaints.

Yes, it's your right to say anything you want. But, bitching without doing anything positive makes you a drain on the community, rather than a help. Bitch all you want about problems; but unless you're helping solve them, I reserve the right to view you (very) negatively because of it.
I asked myself the same question the other day and found a document presented at the General Population Conference in 2001. It's titled "Why Borders Can Not Be Open".

I don't want to introduce any bias giving my thoughts about it, but I recommend you to read it your self: http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/papers/Colemanm...
Good point! I was thinking, I could probably make the Play available and if they're not logged in it could automatically create an account for them called something like anonymous1281
It's going to be hard to get a good answer on that because anyone who knows significant numbers of foreign people who work as "consultants" in the US on the sly and could provide a data point aren't silly enough to spill the beans (hopefully!)
I've been confused by the term "junior developer" I always took it to mean entry level but when I look at the requirements majority of jobs want years of experience and expert knowledge.

So what is a person just out of college and has moderate working knowledge in certain scripting and programming to do?
bear with me. The site is in alpha stage and the idea with the questions is that it's crowd sourced. Anybody can review accepted questions but I also want to make it possible to review questions you've just played.
Let's Not Completely Give Up on College
This probably won't win, but it would be great if someone could write a tiny app that converts search results sorted by date into RSS feeds. I might hack something up myself after I'm done with exams, if no one else does.
People who always work late makes the people who don’t feel inadequate for merely working reasonable hours. That’ll lead to guilt, misery, and poor morale. Worse, it’ll lead to ass-in-seat mentality where people will “stay late” out of obligation, but not really be productive.

I don't have this problem (assuming a reasonable management team). In fact, I can usually outdo the workaholics in less time. They always forget that not working is oftentimes the most productive thing you can do. I can't count the number of times I've spun my wheels on a problem for hours, went home and rested, and came back to realize just how stupidly easy the problem is.
It isn't really my life if I'm a participant in a system which supports others who either a) actively do not work and exist only to be supported -or- b) exploit others only for personal gain.

It would be my life if I actively improved the human condition and directly provided for my family.

I'd be happy with (and I will eventually have!) a few hectares of acres of land to be honest as I could do the above with that.

Then I can get back to solving problems rather than filling timesheets which is after all the best way of helping people.
How Rackspace Beats the Behemoths
Just one sentence: In their dreams _|_
What are reasonable rates for querying the API?
Objective-C's blocks would be a million times more interesting to me if they allowed for runtime type inspection: given that they are already fully fledged Objective-C objects, the fact that they don't have some kind of "methodSignature" selector that returns the type code is simply confusing. If they had this feature, then they would be fully usable from dynamic languages (such as my Cycript, but also things like PyObjC, Nu, etc.) without having to manually specify the types everywhere (which is error prone and annoying, especially if all of the rest of your code is working just fine with no types specified at all). Without this feature, they seem to just be a really limited version of C++0x lambdas tied to Objective-C's reference counting semantics.
I enjoy creating as much as the next guy, but I think the "point of programming" is to solve problems. And if banks use Java to solve problems, then that's what you use. If you get the "joy of creating" as you go along, great, but your employer doesn't require it.
Well I didn't say it's easy (at least to me, I have zero education in machine translation) but some people spend their entire lives working on it(using our tax money) and just don't feel the need to make something public facing out of their projects except dumping the zipped source code on sourceforge.

P.S. And by the way I tried not to use the google api (well before the announcement) and wrote a basic word by word translation which obviously gives dismal results (https://github.com/aparij/bl)
>Soon they didn't wait for me to ask an embarassing questions they'd just make me go to the library during religious-courses.

You assume it was embarrassment. It was probably [also] simply disruptive. Teachers do not generally (depending on where you are of course) have free rein, they have a curriculum to wade through with proscriptions on the manner of it's transmission.

I was disruptive in science classes at 16-17 by being a smart-ass.
Wall Street is running a much more complex game with many more shells under which the peanut could be. They also have many old companies run by people who've been focused on refining their game/system for decades if not centuries, if you take into account the transmission of knowledge through books and mentorship. And as Zed mentioned they are tightly integrated with government leaders.
Because the activities of Wall Street and financial industry operate in a "gray area". They game the system "by the rules" (or at least by the "exceptions").

When Goldman Sachs creates a fund of stocks at the direction of a private investors who intends to short these stocks, determining the illegality is a more difficult problem (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...).

The crime of this guy seems to be taking a larger cut of the money going through his hands than he claimed. If he was enough of a "rain maker", he might conceivably have openly demanded the money that he was skimming and then there would be no crime. But he either wasn't a big enough "fish" or simply a sociopath who couldn't help lying and stealing even when he was making bank.

I think a number of folks argue that the most successful businesspeople "surf the edge" between normalcy and sociopathy. I would add that when the business environment is closer to "bubble-dom", the true sociopaths can rise but when the "tide goes out", these characters go to jail - we saw that in the last two crashes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

And, yes, "because Wall Streets runs the country" is fine simplification of the situation too...
I realised that, as Pascal might put it Cyclone is a C like language designed to ensure that programs are correct. I saw it as a related form of safety others might be interested in.

I already posted on Clight & CompCert which is much more salient in terms of ensuring compiler correctness and a safe subset that falls within the scope of the verified compiler's correctness.
How many more posts do we need expressing our displeasure that searchyc has gone AWOL?

Wake me up when there's an official status update.
As someone who travels to the United States from Canada on a very regular basis, this does not surprise me at all. The first mistake he made was to say that he was "self-employed". That one little phrase, from my experience, sets off a very large red flag and almost always ends with being secondary'ed and very likely a complete entry denial.

Generally, every question that the CBP agent will ask revolves around money: who pays your salary, in what currency, are you attempting to get in to the USA to find a job, will someone be giving you money for whatever reason (e.g. honorarium for giving a talk at a conference), etc. Additionally, trying to explain the concept of telecommuting to an agent is usually a lost cause.

Canadians do have a slightly easier time getting in & out of the United States, but only marginally.
I hold an Indian passport and I recently got thrown out of a plane to Spain via Heathrow right before it took off.
They said, I didn't have a transit visa. I was changing planes in the same terminal and the total time I was to spend in Heathrow was 2 hours.

I have a Schengen visa. No, that doesn't work for London.
I begged and pleaded for hours at the gate. Nothing. The worst part is, I did the same route for years with no problem. Apparently rules changed recently.

Trust me, It really is awful being that person who gets discriminated based on where you are born.
Search for Hacker News sister site, Arc Forum
The UK has a visa waiver for transit passengers

Last time I checked, the waiver only applied if you were coming to/from a whitelist of countries, which included the US. In the past, I've had to explicitly avoid Heathrow because of its visa requirements (and I was just on transit)...

I think they also have a blacklist of countries for which you need a visa regardless of where you're coming/going from/to. The list includes Colombia, for example.
I'm sort of solved the Backspace problem. I made it so a confirmation box appears if you try to exit the page (unless you click a link)

The time is now 10 seconds instead of 15.
The thing's called DAFT? :) Love it!
I've marked business on my visa waiver customs form and the border officer has written WT (Waiver Tourist) on my passport around 50% of the time.

Sometimes I've been asked a barrage of questions (company i'm working for, goods in my possession, amount of money in cash, amount of credit available to me, etc.), other times, not a single question. The whole process can seem very hit and miss depending on the customs officer you are getting and the mood they are in.

As much as I love the US, it does feel these days as though they are segregating themselves from the rest of the business world. I had to queue at O'Hare (Chicago) for over 2.5hrs after a 8.5hr flight to get to the customs desk on my recent visit - how is this acceptable in any first world country?
Rackspace is the best.
Thanks Jack! The site suffers a little bit of a chicken-and-egg problem in that it'll be more fun when more people are online and when there's more questions. Working on promoting it :)

The problem with opponents disappearing is unfortunate. A lot of times it happened because people accidentally went back one page when they hit the Backspace key. It's getting better.

I too have spotted some bugs with the game play "announcements". They're in my TODO.txt :)
I gave up before I even found any ChaiScript code. Ok, so I see its easy to embed, but whats the language like!?

Didn't do much to convince me. I'll stick with Javascript (QtScript really; which is insanely easy to integrate into a C++ Qt project) and Lua (with the excellent LuaJIT) for my embeddable language needs.
No outrage intended sorry if it came across that way.

I was commenting on the abrupt departure of searchyc not on the new search. Haven't seen the new search yet since it's not working on my blackberry for some reason. And I don't have my laptop with me.
SearchYC also provided excellent search for pg's Arc Forum, which is now gone: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297
Ah, I had JavaScript disabled. Once enabled, I got good search results!
I've written a lot of code in F# and I have to agree that writing business software in a functional language has a little bit of a learning curve but once you figure out how it's done it's much easier.
It's due to people writing, pardon my french; shit questions. Ideally this is solved by crowd sourcing good reviews that prevent long bad questions like that from getting in. At the moment over-eagerly publishing peoples questions to get the numbers up. Working on.
Tubalr - YouTube simplified - You can now create custom playlists
What do you think? Is this this simple enough, what do you think about the UX. Keep in mind this is early beta.

www.tubalr.com

ex playlist: http://www.tubalr.com/?playlist=3
Unfortunately so. It'll get better once people start contributing more questions.
One particularly acute problem we had at Octopart was search across a frequently changing schema. We have 15M parts in our database so it was a real pain to change the schema.

Solr can be run without a schema quite easily, or use the very common trope of the dynamicField typed schema (string_, text_, int_* or whatever)

Lucene/Solr is great for search but it's useless without a fast datastore.

This is true at real scale (EN has 500m docs in our bigger solrs and we have to back it w/ TT) but for 15m docs, no way. Stored data in lucene/solr is certainly fast enough at that level. Think <50ms including data even on AWS.

Additionally, you can't expose it to the open internet so you need to build a REST API wrapper around the DB/index.

This I don't get. Surely you have a web app layer that talks to your services? That is, you don't have a text field in HTML hitting solr on port 8983, you call your web app's search which then hits solr's HTTP API?
I was going to make a longer reply, but then I noticed this, and my reply reduces to:

* Getting to actually see your kid: priceless.

If you're out of the house 7am - 7pm, all you're going to see of your kid are asleep (cute but boring) or awake (go back to sleep!). If that's what you've got to do, that's what you've got to do, but if there's an alternative that's pretty cool.

Whereas if you're only gone 9 'til 5, you've got a couple of little windows there where you actually get to have fun with them. Plus lunch.

The downside is that it is pretty easy to get distracted. You'll need to set up some kind of office environment, and work out how to make it work for you.

Good luck!
I never said all, I said most. Lucene, Hadoop and Cassandra are in the minority.
Fair point. Note taken. I'm hoping once they're more questions and more players online there'll be an option to play with only alternatives or only typed ones. Especially since on an iphone for example it's hard to type as fast as you can on a desktop computer.
Watch x-men first class online
watch x-men first class online
torn ragged rift opened between the perpetual war that began in the Brotherhood's Magneto and Professor XXMenIn conclusionis in the formative years of Xavier and Magneto and how the school was formed and where exactly their relationship took a wrong turn
I want to encourage more questions where thinking is better than googling.
Check out this page for tips: http://kwissle.com/help/a-good-question
MyEdu.com - Austin, TX - Fulltime - PHP / JavaScript Developers

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MyEdu is an education based company that helps college students plan and manage their college career online using our innovative suite of web applications. Our team is comprised of some of the best developers in Austin and we are seeking a few more to join the group. You must be creative, talented and a high performer who thrives working on projects that will change people’s lives.

We are seeking an experienced PHP / JavaScript Developer that has extensive experience in MVC frameworks, Object Oriented Development, agile practices and works well both individually and with a team.

Tons of experience the the following would be a major plus:
- JQuery
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- Solr
- XML/XSLT
- NoSql
- Document Databases
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Email: keith.chilek@myedu.com with your resume and any other relevant material you have.
The UK isn't part of Schengen, that's a continental Europe thing rather than covering all EU members:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
>[1] "The bible says so" is simply not a good enough answer - ever.

Axioms are fine in logic, mathematics, physics, ... so why not elsewhere?

It's certainly an unsatisfying answer.

If however you assume for a moment that it portrays the will of the Creator then The Bible saying so is no worse (or better) than the fine-structure constant not having a logical derivation as to it's value.

People trying to give a reason for a Biblical injunction have, I suspect, often not discovered the reason the Creator made things one way or another but are really just speculating. Like one might speculate why a universe might have a fixed light speed in vacuo.
I'd guess that Nordmark taking over the CEO role from Veith was (1) prob a condition or recommendation of the newest round of investors (because Nordmark is more experienced and has the success of eBags under his belt), and (2) the event that enabled Nordmark to gain much more power and transparency over the books, which in turn was the final straw leading to the charges against Veith. This is just speculation based on the publically reported info we've seen, however, and I obviously could be wrong. Since Nordmark is clean and has succesful track record and UM got all the extra cash in April, that all seems to be a net positive for the company. I think the fundamental service delivered by UM is a good one, and unlocking the value in otherwise unused frequent flyer miles is especially helpful to travellers in a recession. Veith is also innocent until and unless courts find otherwise. And I think the TechStars folks are good at picking talent combined with promising venture ideas.
Some of us "slack ass clock punchers" have lives outside of work. I have friends and family and hobbies that do not involve sitting in front of a computer screen for every waking moment of the day.

Working to live, vs. living to work.
Exactly what I've been seeing. I assumed as a Jr. Developer, I could take less money for the opportunity to hone my skills and eventually become a better member of the team.

I've yet to find these opportunities.
It's all here: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/infs/inf20transit.

Tl;dr: there is a whitelist for transit visa waivers, so citizens of some countries need to apply for a transit visa in advance. However, you can apply from a waiver if you normally need a transit visa but you are going to/from the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. You can also get a waiver if you are resident in the US, Canada or EU/EEA, irrespective of your citizenship.
I actually had the opposite experience. I have both the electronic version and the paper version of a very large book. While it is fun in a nostalgic way to read it from the book, it's really awkward to read it anywhere other than a table with something to tilt it. The kindle I can take anywhere and be quite comfortable with it. For example, reading it while lying sideways in bed is a piece of cake.
Not everything that isn't explained in crystalline detail is a conspiracy or even evidence of significant drama.
Renewable Energy Systems, telemetric
Renewable Energy Systems, telemetric. Inverter and UPS.
The easiest way is to create a document in Google Docs and export it as a PDF
A Scorched Data Policy Is Bad for Web, Bad for History
No, cargo-culting is a bad idea if you don't know why you would pick a piece of technology. I'm okay with technology being a crutch, and helping to carry you over terrain you do not yet understand. But that is different from using technology you do not understand for reasons you do not understand.

Just using a NoSQL store, because it's a NoSQL store is a bad idea, and can lead to all sorts of dangerous consequences.
Photovoltaic in Donetsk
Photovoltaic, solar water heaters, ups in Donetsk
Donetsk in Ukraine
Why at the bottom? I'm sure it's supposed to be more important than the footer.
You could use SmashingMagazine resources when it comes to UX and design. It looks like you made almost all the frequent mistakes:

Placing the search box at the bottom of the page, or hiding it in the navigation menu.
Making the input field too short; users are forced to use short, imprecise queries, because longer queries would be hard and inconvenient to read.
Making the submit button too small, so that users have to point the mouse very precisely.
Making the search box hard to find.

Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/04/designing-the-hol...
A concise history of recent Sony hacks
I support hellbanning.

The reason you use hellbanning is not because you don't want to deal with complaints, but to prevent people from simply making new accounts and coming back to troll more.

Does it completely prevent this? No, a very determined griefer can easily run a second account on a second IP and check to see if/when they've been hellbanned, or just make new accounts all the time on principle.

There's certainly collateral damage, and I can see the argument that cost/benefit is off. But it's not like the policy is set out of laziness.
I like it but the accuracy of the search results can be improved. I tried with "Creed" and the first video was the official one, but not the second one, how about using the word "Official" in the query behind the scene?
HAML and SASS are nice to have, but nowhere near necessary to get a job - you can learn them pretty quickly on the spot. I would recommend that you start learning Javascript and jQuery. They're both enjoyable and will seriously boost your front-end development skills, while getting you familiar with programming.

In the meantime, if you find a job that looks just slightly out of your reach, try applying anyway, and mention during your interview that you're learning Javascript in your spare time and really want the opportunity to develop your skills. If you have the code you're working/learning on available somewhere (either a zip file, GitHub, or SourceForge), you'll still be ahead of many candidates who say they have more experience.