skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. You're also slightly wrong.

Yes, labor is not exactly comparable in market terms to other products--more sticky prices, more difficulty in estimating value, etc.--but the principle and its consequences remain.

We DON'T HAVE to run PSAs to encourage people to become investment bankers precisely because there are high salaries. The salaries are the advertizement and they're incredibly effective.

As far as teachers, we don't have a shortage. We don't need more teachers, we need better teachers. How to attract those better teachers is unclear--a strictly higher salary would attract more of all caliber of teachers which would not help. I suppose commercials are thought to be one way and I think it's likely better compensation will have to be a part of it as well.
Been a few years since Latin class, but I believe it would be more like:

JOURNAL PAYWALLS DELENDAE SUNT
Why do you want it to be personal, when your money comes from B2B? Why not refocus towards reaching more bulk marketing clients?
The course is on sale at AppSumo: http://www.appsumo.com/learn-python-promo/?act=dealtwt (referral code comes from the original source -- does not belong to me)

The course includes video lectures and a Q&A feature. I have not taken the course, but I really liked the first edition book.
I always liked: "Explaining Benfords Law" (http://www.dspguide.com/CH34.PDF).
What information could he possibly have taken into account that negates the fact that the poll option to bring comment scores back had more than twice the votes than the option to leave them.

What would pg's advice to a startup be in this case? Ignore your user's feedback and push the removal of feature (or push to leave the new feature, based on your stance), or listen to your users? I think he'd say to follow what your users want-- so why is he preaching one thing and practicing the other?
I have no problem using GitHub and I agree with you it's just a tool.

I am just saying that to many it IS coding.
Why not a giant tarp suspended above all the tents in the group to absorb/reflect radiant heat and keep all the tents in the shade?

That should reduce the amount of energy required to cool the tents.
Frustrating Unix pitfall of the day: esoteric cron rules

This isn't a Unix pitfall, it's a Debian pitfall. Further, it's not inherent to cron, but to the /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} concept as implemented by Debian.

Scripts in these directories are run via /usr/bin/run-parts, which is invoked via /etc/crontab. It is Debian's run-parts that imposes the naming restriction. Red Hat's run-parts doesn't have this restriction (go take a look, it's a shell script).
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/Uq9Fs

I'm just hoping I'm not color-blind :-P
It links here for the website with a pretty slick demo: http://rpgjs.com/
There's an associated FAQ which addresses some of the questions you may have about the technical veracity of the story.

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
Damn missed this, will further meetups be announced on the skillsmatter website?
Most people who run cheap ($1-3/month) services don't bill monthly. They usually bill in 6 or 12 month increments for exactly this reason.
Simple Python Gmail Password Change Dialog
What a vapid comment. GP is perfectly within his rights to gripe about people performing a stressful job admirably while receiving less money than they deserve. Saying "start your own airline" hardly advances the conversation. As a counterpoint, you could have linked to median wages for all flight attendants and pointed out a systemic issue.
Along with patent reform, I'm hoping there's some sort of domain squatting reform down the line. There are way too many squatters doing absolutely nothing with way too many good domains. The domain system right now seems to be working against creating value for the public and more towards creating value for the squatters. There should be some guidelines put in place to ensure domains are being purchased for the benefit of online service creation. This, however, would require a dramatic overhaul of the current domain registering process. Hopefully, this whole issue becomes less relevant as domain names become more obsolete due to web app marketplaces such as the chrome web store, but that may take some time to come to fruition.
Google "minisplit".
How a hacker got hired by Facebook
On one of the issues, the developer links to them but they aren't linked anywhere else that I can see. It seems as if the demo is pretty broken, judging by other issues.

Documentation: http://rpgjs.com/doc/
Demo: http://rpgjs.com/examples/demo.php
Ummm... I don't think the 'fail fast' notion is at all related to the "persevere at all costs" meme I've seen popping up the past couple weeks. The whole point is that the PAAC supporters got the point of failure (or perceived failure) multiple times, but did not fail. Often there's no mention of a major pivot, just that they "kept going".
Yes, it's not a bug in Vixie Cron (which I think BSD cron may use) but in the Linux distros (who are responsible for adding run-parts).

.py, .pl, .sh and (as people realize they'are actually writing bash scripts) .bash are standards people actually use. Having them break in what amounts to an include dir is bad mojo.
I would be fairly sure that the canal business (eg in the UK, not later ones like Panama) was generally unprofitable as a general transport business, being mostly replaced by railways before paying back its build costs.

The railways are less clear, the build costs were huge, and written off many times by bankruptcy, but the impression you get from say http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1947/dec/30/transport.uk was that in the first half of the 20th century in the UK they were competing well against road transport, efficient and profitable ("they were conveying more passengers than the whole of the United States railroads put together"). Other countries may vary though.

The car business does not have a very good long term profitability record, I am sure if you lump in the cost of road construction you will probably end up at a loss, although that is not exactly fair as that is not the way the market was structured.
I was looking for the zone file during last week. Gladly, it is a fax away.
UK new build "best practice building" say about 140 kWh per square meter per year total energy use (including HVAC). 8 square meters per person is packed in desks like a call centre. £0.1 per kWh. 140 * 8 * 0.1 ~ £100 per year per person = $160. Cheaper power costs in US. More extreme temperature differences. Less strict energy conservation codes. All could skew this figure considerably.
Always Kabhi Kabhi proves to be a disaster
Personally, I think the 15 minute time period is completely ridiculous and harmful to publishers. I think a 7-day trial period would be a little long, but a reasonable choice. Better yet would be to let the publisher of the app choose from a small list of options (15 min, 24 hrs, 7 days, 1 year, Forever).

BUT, I also realize that the app stores can't create separate policies for every jurisdiction on the planet -- there are too many and it is too difficult. So Google's "solution" is probably the best way to deal with a bad situation.
Their tool is quite nice on android, all accounts will be shown in one screen, very convenient. I have all my gmail accounts (even spam ones) registered to ensure people don't get spam from my accounts (which were compromised). I also changed the spam accounts' passwords to a generated 32 char password to be on the safe side (I only use them for once in a while access).
Well, back in the day... :-)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=hel...

But "if all you ever want to do with programming is write little boring scripts" it might help to understand that 9 hundredths of a second delay is below the threshold that someone using the boring little script will notice.

And "if all you ever want to do with programming is write little boring scripts" simply using Java as an interpreter with -Xint might be faster.

For example, that old benchmarks game n=200 "hello world"

Java 6 -Xint 15.429s
Java 6 -client 16.929s
Java 6 -server 17.073s
Java 1.4 -server 35.738s
I believe point 2) has not been emphasized enough.
They're made out of dirt. How can that possibly be "expensive" compared to flying equipment half way around the world?
Interesting anecdote and discussion a previous time this came up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652
Call for a 'black Zuckerberg' triggers racist responses
A common myth-let is that you start an open source project and people just come streaming out of the woodwork to work on it. The reality is that you are in stiff competition with thousands of projects for relatively rare resources. The global outcome is good, the local outcome is generally developer starvation. A developer with little more than mockups and no code to speak of is not going to win this competition, even with a truly stellar mockup.
This pretty much solidifies games as a protected art form. I couldn't be happier with this decision. There's some choice bits in there as well, slapping down California.

This is good for everyone, now games can avoid becoming comic books all over again.
Ancient desert interior climate control:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchal
It's a choice made at the PHY level and it's a tradeoff that's a little more complex than speed vs. reliability -- mobile operation introduces special challenges, as well as operation with weak signals (satellite), as well as operation in urban areas. There's a reason why Europe has 3 distinctly different digital television standards.
With Lisp :)
Assuming "paywalls" translates to some form of "walls", it would be delendi sunt or delenda sunt. Murus for wall is masculine, and moenia for walls of a city is neuter.

Damn, that Latin degree pays for itself more and more every day.
Stop reading my marketing plan! ;) I'm hoping for a rocking campaign in the run up to Thanksgiving to get all of our young geeky users to teach their parents so they'll spend less time searching for flights/hotels and more time for pie!
You need a constant supply of water and no humidity.
Re-targeting indeed.
Designers like to come up with one piece of design, not working on different little design changes wanted by an entire community of open source developers.

Designers like to design one product and expect developers to follow suit, not the other way around. This doesn't happen in the open source world.
ah yes, the answer to all problems. i for one welcome our new lisp overlords.
I'll be visting Hyderabad the week of July 25th and would love to attend a meetup while I'm there.
It is kind of amazing how much this explains.

I thought I was doing well when I finally learned to remember the "no cron files that don't include an empty newline" rule.
That website makes my CPU sweat.
Pfff, Appsterdam - I say Apperlin http://twitter.com/#!/fractality/status/85371377254809600

Join the movement to make Berlin the new Sillicon Valley.
I'll tell you what doesn't work. Overbuilding the place. Staten Island is a tragic example of this. In Manhattan, it's like they're repaving the streets with park.

You need a certain amount of density. But the overriding purpose of the density is to be able to cram more stuff-you-want-to-do near your house.

Also, keep in mind that the "stuff" in stuff-you-want-to-do can be replaced with "people".
Thanks for doing that. You deserve a special thank you for the word-of-mouth hustle - email me? Alexis at hipmunk (same goes for any of you who do our chipmunk solids in that department!)
Seems like we should do a local HN meetup, because all of a sudden lots of Dutch hackers are coming out of the woodworks, with you and Skrebbel from Eindhoven and me in Tilburg (~25 minutes by train). Anyway, the environment for startups in Eindhoven is great. There is the Technical University, Philips and a number of technical spinoffs from these two places, including a lot of startups. Although I'm highly skeptical of this ranking, the fact that the region around Eindhoven is ranked as the "smartest region in the world" is a good indicator[1].

[1] See http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/index.php?src=news&r... and http://www.brainportdevelopment.nl/en/news/brainport-eindhov..., although I tend to take this "studies" and competitions with a healthy grain of salt.
That is pretty dick.
useless on android
In Mountain View, 2 Contrasting Economic Worlds Intersect
Mozilla working on Web Media Processing: Capturing Webcam & P2P streaming
What is "Miss PR"? Your idea is needed.
Hello my friends! I am a student studying media & communication. I am currently doing a questionnaire about "Miss PR". Could you please spend a few minutes to help my survey? I will be extremely grateful for your help. Thank you sooooo much!

The link is: http://www.diaochapai.com/survey544016
This is interesting (from Wikipedia article on Benford's Law):

In the United States, evidence based on Benford's law is legally admissible in criminal cases at the federal, state, and local levels.
If you want to buy some bitcoins, I recommend http://www.TradeHill.com, which has lower fees and than MtGox, and seems more professional to me. I have a code that will get you 10% off your fees there if anybody wants to buy or sell bitcoins on TradeHill.com: TH-R1168
I'm reading In the Plex right now. It is worth reading, however it doesn't have the same spark has Steven Levy's classic book Hackers.

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Heroes-Computer-Revolution-Ann...
Why be efficient when you can get all the money you want anyway?
I believe ICANN is looking to reform zone file access as part of the new gTLD system it's initiating.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2010...
Seen it many times, but it's such a great story... who can complain about it being reposted?
Online Dating: Sex, Love, and Loneliness
If only people would stop automatically assuming .com is the only way to go, we wouldn't have a domain shortage problem.
Isn't there a point where the service isn't worth the monthly cost though?

For example, I was looking for a service to do something very specific. It was something I could probably code in a weekend or so, but I figured there was some free or cheap site out there that could do it better. I did find a site that did exactly what I wanted, but it charged $5/month, or $50/year. Now for me, the service was at best a novelty, but I wouldn't have minded $10/year. I figured other people must be like me as well, and figured if I launched a website I could get some passive income and capitalize on that $10/year no-brainer type of thing.

Now, I never expected that I'd be making thousands of dollars each month, but wouldn't it make sense that I could capture a good portion of the market with a low cost point?
Female PR practitioners are known as "Miss PR" in China. They are considered as sexual worker by most Chinese. After I came to the UK, I found no one regard women PR practitioners as "sexual worker".

It is interesting to explore the different perception between China & Eastern countries.
It's actually linked to right at the top of the main github page.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/program.php?test=hello...
Pilot rest time is regulated by the FAA in the U.S., regardless of salary. The regulations specify minimum rest-opportunity time prior to flight duty, as well as maximum hours of flight duty per day, per week and per month.

Does the U.K. have similar rules?
Native Applications are Dead, Long Live Native Applications
If you don't want to fill the questionnaire, it is OK! You can just leave some words here. Your idea will be extremely important for my study. Thank you!
I wrote a longer response, but I'll summarize it to "this blows".
Benford's law only seems strange until you realise natural phenomena tend to express logarithmic functions while our commonly used system of counting counting and measuring is not.

It's still a bit of a brain f--- when you first encounter it. I found it easier to get using plotting tools, as opposed to aggregating lists of numbers and measurements.
Reading the git log for the site with some of the book mixed in isn't the greatest way for a student to figure out what's changed...

Zed, I think many people would really appreciate a changelog of some sorts between the two versions.

edit: also see this comment by Zed which basically goes over what's changed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2700557
What does this mean for the sale or showing of movies to minors?
Ask PG: Has YC failed, being successful?
So YC's goal is(was?) to gather data about "keys of success" for startups.

YC is actually way more than an incubator for startups, it provides a big bunch of benefits like:

- Seed fund

- Partners experience

- Legal advices

- Office hours

- Alumni meetings

- YC Network

- Start Fund !

- Access to Top investors Network

- Improved coverage benefits

- and I guess much much more I'm not aware of

Don't you think that the "gathering phase" is over?
Of course you still need to deserve your success but in my hopinion your data about "what works" is now completely compromised.

Is YC going to pivot? Has YC already pivoted?

Is YC going to be risky in the future or just bigger?
By risky I mean by funding more foreign/single/non technical founders and such.
A study of neutrinos may explain why things are made of matter, not antimatter
I agree, the fastest way to gain traction may be to market more to the bulk marketing client list (who clearly see value in it). As the word spreads among them, you may gain critical mass and see your service spread to more general clients.
That was never illegal to begin with, in the US.
i think we're on the same page. i can imagine that "GitHub for Mac" etc, might end up helping those designers that feel git is an unfathomable entity...
Ok, but that's for everything. Seems the HVAC is one of those things that really benefits from economics of scale.
:) No. I was playing a kind of zero-acknowledgement game, as a friend called it.
You should accept [anything-at-all]@[first name][last name].com and direct it to your email. The remaining question is what to put on your business cards (and everywhere else you pass out your email address).

If [first name][last name] is SHORT, you might try [first name][last name]@[first name][last name].com. I use a variant of that [my handle]@[my handle].com, and I have found that people understand it quite well. If [first name][last name] is LONG then you should avoid making people type too much -- something like me@[first name][last name].com or [nickname]@[first name][last name].com (eg; "tim@TimothyBordergum.com") might be nice.

-- Michael Chermside (mcherm@mcherm.com)
Us too - our original business name got squatted because we searched for it in the wrong engine. There are always other reasonable options, though.
This is great information. Do you care to talk about your subscription and renewal processes and how much you think they factored in to your conversion rate? Aside from the pricing model you chose, I wonder how important the level of convenience was to your users.
Does that apply to activity recorded in a public area?
The mascot, probably.
You're right. Upstart does this too (if you rename to .disabled in /etc/init the job will not be run).
Hacking the PIC 18F1320
I think the new version has an updated section for the rails 3.1 assets engine...

...Oops, I thought this was Learn Ruby the Easy Way with an introduction by DHH and Ryan Bigg. Sorry.
Still sounds like a negligible amount of biofuels.
I was actually puzzled as to why pornography doesn't fall under First Amendment rights. After googling it, I found an interesting piece on the wiki article talking about the guidelines used to discern an exception from the rule:

Instead, the Roth test for obscenity was "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest"

I find it disgusting that after all this time, we're still using a moral-ethics based approach to determine whether a broad ranging law can apply to a specific form of media. It is not that I particular agree or disagree with whether minors should have access to this - but I do disagree on how this decision has been made.

I'm hoping that with this decision, we'll be forced to reconsider how expressions are perceived.
> Anyway, weather really comes down to personal preferences.

Exactly. I'm glad there are people like you that enjoy the winters(my family in Boston does too--to a degree). Otherwise everyone would move to places like California and it'd be pretty hard to live!
Ask HN: how do you keep track of your (professional) networking?
I've understood that if you want to 'network' effectively, you need to keep track of the people you network with - what they do, what they used to do, when you've met them etc etc.

How do you keep track of this information? Anything more sophisticated than spreadsheets etc?
"startup time on these orders is generally irrelevant for any nontrivial" [or trivial] "application" ;-)
As a founder I disagree. The decision for or against a VC is not made by employees and if anything a16z protected the interests of major shareholders over job hopping opportunists and non-performing executives. I would expect savvy employees to negotiate their compensation related agreements more carefully when these firms are involved in the future, however.
Who has the fastest mobile network where you live?
Shhh! Don't make administrators' jobs easier! How else will we justify our insane salary and benefits?

Look at the bright side: this is a few days of debugging and difficult to explain to the people signing your check. Aren't you glad it's there now?
What is the advantage of using this app as opposed to using the built-in Voice Memos app and then turning off the phone's screen? Both approaches record audio fine, don't show any immediate indication that recording is happening, and at least with Voice Memos, I don't have an app called "Cop Recorder" running if the police decide to get curious.
I find electronic communication fine for most work tasks - but definitely not enough for tourism. Also not for seeing loved ones like my best friends and family.
PHP is a tool. It's neither dead nor alive. Only your startup can be dead or alive. Stop worrying and start writing with whatever tools you like.
I posted a link a bit ago about a solar-powered icemaker using no moving parts.

It is based on the use of ammonia gas in a sealed environment.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6599651/How-to-Build-a-Solar-Icema...

I am a bit of an HVAC engineering enthusiast/hobbyist.

Perhaps something like that could be used as a mini-chiller with a heat exchanger.

You can use a solar panel/battery for the fans, circulating pump, and condensate removal pumps. These devices would require minimal current.

Perhaps servo controlled tarps to cycle the ammonia refrigeration cycle and an Arduino to glue all the logical pieces together?

Also, you can make it zoned, with solenoid valves and seperate thermostats, to keep each room at a specific temperature.

Not useful for the US military, but maybe remote homes in hot areas.
Do the opposite
This is a great idea, and I agree NaCl is the most exciting thing I've seen in a while. However, the modern JS engines already have JIT compilers for JS. As these improve more, JS effectively becomes your "bytecode". That's also an entirely reasonable direction that maintains backward compatibility.