skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perks that are pleasing in and of themselves are nice. Stuff that is designed to promote this sort of 'vibe':

> Working at Airbnb "is like a really fun school where you get paid," says Joe Gebbia, the 29-year-old co-founder of the company, whose offices have a two-story indoor tree house and a section of a retired Pan Am plane. "Or maybe it's more like camp."

Feels a bit fake to me. It's a job. They pay you to be there, and they are not your friends. Friends are people who you hang out with after you've both changed jobs several times.

Also: work parties in SV suck, if you're a straight guy, because there are not very many girls.

Food isn't a bad perk, although fizzy drinks are not very healthy. The best perk I ever had at a job was a massage. It made me feel great, didn't take too long, and since most everyone got one, it wasn't like you stuck out for taking advantage of it.
I got so far as trying to "claim my shortmail address" but split when your servers / twitter's servers bored me to death where I just wanted to hang myself slowly rather than watch the circular doohickey in the tab spin some more.

All that said, I couldn't tell from your homepage how it might be different than DM through a twit longer.

IS THIS ACTUALLY A NEW SERVICE? A NEW PROTOCOL? A NEW ANYTHING?

Or is it just longer tweets and some syntactic sugar wrapped in pop3?
> If you've downloaded it already you're depriving them of the right to control their own data.

If you don't forget them between meetings you're trampling their right to a fresh impression.

If you remember that tune you're infringing on the RIAA's right to sell you another impression.

But that's not how information works.

If we pander to this mindset we're only letting them down when their illusion of control is shattered by the cold, hard, reality of cut-and-paste.
They can't do that on every other duplicate story. Rather there should be sm kind of internal search or hash matching before being posted and that checks it against possible matches and then asks the poster whether they want to continue with the post.
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This is not a desktop app. The versioning requirements are different.

Many server systems use this convention as a way of embedding an extra bit of info (stable/unstable) for sys admins.

Many people are using Node to push boundaries in various ways, so they are using the unstable versions. I did this with 0.3, but 0.4 is good enough for the moment.
I don't know what the Victorians tried, but I used the word "dormitory" specifically to reference the living situation faced by most present day college students.

Do you have an objection to what I actually proposed, rather than some straw man from 150 years ago?
JavaScript Garden is the best collection of JavaScript best practices I have seen so far: http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
The comment you cite (which is new since my comment above) confirms my point that it might be what he thinks, but not what he says. The comment continues:

"I probably wasn't very clear on my feelings though."
That's just not fair at all.
As far as manufacturing is concerned, print-on-demand is a good example of one sector that has gone into the production-on-demand direction. Springer has almost entirely to print-on-demand, for example.

But yeah, I'm with you that the extent of future changes is almost always either over- or underestimated.
I think this is typical U.S. spoilt brat mentality. We need a new internet :).
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FWIW, from Bloch's "Effective Java" (2nd Edition):

"Finalizers are unpredictable, often dangerous, and generally unnecessary.
Their use can cause erratic behavior, poor performance, and portability
problems. Finalizers have a few valid uses, which we'll cover later in this
item, but as a rule of thumb, you should avoid finalizers...

One of the shortcomings of finalizers is that there is no guarantee they'll
be executed promptly. It can take an arbitrarily long time between
the time that an object becomes unreachable and the time that its finalizer
is executed. This means that you should never do anything time-critical in a
finalizers. For example, it is a grave error to depend on a finalizer to
close files, because open file descriptors are a limited resource...

Not only does the language specification provide no guarantee that finalizers
will get executed promptly; it provides no guarantee that they'll get
executed at all. It is entirely possible, even likely, that a program
terminates without executing finalizers on some objects that are no longers
reachable. As a consequence, you should never depend on a finalizer to update
critical persistent state...

Oh, and one more thing: there is a severe performance penalty for using
finalizers."

Why would anyone ever consider using a finalizer?
Help - I have too many customers
I recently had something explode (in a good way) on me, and I have 1000 people who want to be my paid customer. Since each one requires about 3 hours of work to get going with (no way to streamline this), I obviously can't do this myself.

Anybody have good insights in how to handle this sort of thing?

Think something equivalent to wordpress customizations. Sorry I can't be more specific, there's a stealth-mode component to this (not actual stealth mode as I mention in the thread, just can't mention exact details here).
At least on Firefox 5 on Ubuntu 11.04, the initial Pines page displays an Ubuntu-style notification at the top right of the page which becomes mostly transparent when hovered. This notification does not display an X, with or without hovering. Perhaps Pines changes notification style based on the detected operating system?
I was randomly flicking through titles, just to see the scope of what you had in your database, and one flicked past that looked interesting - but by this time I had already hit "show another".

You may want to consider having a "previous" button there, but I completely understand that may take away from your design. Great job though!
The truth is that most young people do get more out of an office with that kind of perks than a few thousand extra.

Heck free food, a place to sleep, shower and dry-cleaning? You could basically live there and would save much more than the 20k in expenses...

Not to mention that it would be a lot more fun than going home and doings things I don't particulary like, rather than staying and doing things I love.

But that may just be me.
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I got an invite 6 days ago. Still no go!
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Then we have two brains.
I would love it if they started adding support for JS1.7 / JS1.8 :(
As you noted, even is the stable/production version and odd is unstable/development version. The goal is to get a number of changes in at once so that you can have a stable branch that's around for a decent amount of time. If you are making multiple changes before releasing a stable branch, how would you describe them? If they get libuv working properly, is that then from alpha to beta since it is now more stable? What if they then rewrite http.request and experiment with different APIs; is it still beta even though it is probably more unstable than the last release? Why not simply version the dev branch with every release, note the changes, and avoid the semantics?
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Is that not exactly what he wrote?
> work parties in SV suck, if you're a straight guy, because there are not very many girls.

These same parties can be fun if you accept that you're not going to meet a romantic partner at a work party. There are a thousand other great social circumstances which are more balanced and "productive" in this area.
Exciting.

Let me unashamedly open the traditional Google+ invite begging thread.

paul.bridger, gmail. Much obliged!
Play framework 1.2.2 released
Not bad, insufficient.
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They mention something about ad hoc distribution and my Google fu returns nothing.

The quesiton on app exclusivity still stands.
Germany is not affected, interesting. Maybe the fact that there is no minimum wage, and the labor market liberalizations of ~2000 help.
Can you say what you'd be doing for most of those three hours?
While I can't speak to the legal or political implications of the product or supporting infrastructure, I'm thrilled with the idea of a mobile application that provides for the exchange of "currency" in an autonomous manner.

The exchange of value outside of the established models (Gov't issued currency / PayPal / Google Checkout / next iteration thereof) has the potential to provide a huge opportunity for those of us involved in the space of online media and web applications.

Mobile implementations to bring the utility of the Bitcoin project into the palm of the hand bridge an intimidating virtual-to-real gap for many potential users.

In my opinion, the development of this mobile application, as well as similar projects, is a first step towards the more widespread adoption of the Bitcoin currency, in whatever (hopefully at least semi-legal, and legitimate) form it may finally take.

I'll observe with great interest.
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It's a really nice trick. I keep that in mind. But beside that, is anything wrong as a person who often reads a lot of articles to ask for articles beein shown in a way that is more easily readable?
"BitCoinJ implements the "simplified payment verification" mode of Satoshis paper. It does not store a full copy of the block chain, rather, it stores what it needs in order to verify transactions with the aid of an untrusted peer node."

one click * HN user base = global time saving :)
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Unemployment is much higher among the degreeless, AFAIK.
And as long as mathematicans will refuse to stop asserting that their holy science is the one and only correct answer to all problems on this earth, I'll have a hard time being interested in mathematics.

This goes both ways, you see?
Two half brains. Everything has two halves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
I agree if the were similar content wise. I wanted to know if both articles were conveying similar opinions or was it the case of merely similar headlines with whole lot different content and opinions.
kerala.. anyone remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala
They must wait for v8 to support it.
I did not enjoy school or camp, with the exception of ACE Computer Camp.
Perhaps explain politely to them that you are a small business and you cannot scale to meet the demand. Thank them for their interest and let them know that much as you would love to help them out, you are far too busy.
There was a competition for university students in the UK a few months ago from some investment company, trying to raise interest for post-grad careers with them, basically a several-stage speed test, top five speeds at the end of the time period would get to choose a prize, iPhone, cash, few other things.

A friend of mine (a student) asked me if it was possible to create macros in a browser to help go faster, and since I was bored and lack morals in this area... just took a look through the JS, and fifteen minutes later and an injection for him to paste into the URL bar and skip through each stage, making the game think he had completed it, as fast or slow as he wanted. So he got a free iPhone.
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Consulting and Graphic Design mostly. My personal network is oversubscribed, so I obviously need to outsource a lot for this.

But since there are more people than I can even follow up with, here comes trouble.
Where "more balanced" means that an actual girl shows up?:-)

Statistically, that area is just bad from that point of view.

In any event, "party" and "work" are two different circles in my book, to use a recently highly visible metaphor.
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A revenue chart no doubt tells its own story but to get an insight into the true potential of your website, a careful study of the website statistics is a must.
I think, the link is indeed correct. It says that one should take a look at the call to action buttons etc. on the Mint blog (as linked), as they are probably quite successful.
I would argue that it was industrialisation, not transport, that led to home/workplace segregation. Large mills, running on water or steam power, could not exist on a small scale or too near to residences.
Don't think I can let myself do this :).
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In my opinion taglines are a bit overrated. It seems like something you "have" to be like the big boys and brand yourself properly. The problem is that taglines tend say very little, "Love what you do" is a great motto to live by but does it tell me anything about your company, no. At worst you get enterprisy taglines like "pursuing synergestic excellence". I think companies, like people, should show who they are through their actions rather than telling others who they are. Also, when you create a tagline you kinda limit yourself to "being" that, while if you actually do excellent things your brand will contain a host of different positive aspects. The only proper uses of taglines I can think of is products where the tagline is descriptive in a way that the customer "gets" what they're about
This guy's HTML5 tutorials are freaking amazing, honestly can't express how grateful I am to people who's willing to put in the extra effort to help others learn. The servers are being hammered, though.
Google dumps all 11+ million .co.cc sites from its results
Never stop innovating
My understanding is the use of Open was used before this by Symbolics and possibly other lisp machine manufactuers. I'd argue too that their systems were more open, where the user could read the system software and patch it in while it was running.

The foundations of the open source movement too stem from these communities (the GPL) not from NeXt. It would appear to me, like other Unix manufacturers, NeXt claimed openness when mostly it was marketing-speak for "based on Unix".
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Hire some employees, that's the most logical thing to do.
Nice idea. +1 for crowd-sourcing for other topics and ranking/rating multiple books for a topic.
It seems to include the author name in the search index which seems like a bad idea.
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Employers are probably unconvinced that younger applicants will be able to make them more profits. This is caused in part by the uselessness (for businesses) of the work students do in high-school and college--this is a group of people whose life has primarily consisted in consuming profits. Employers are also probably more risk-averse because the recession means that profit margins are tighter (if existent at all).
You are arguing against a straw man. I proposed replacing our current system of paying people not to work by an alternate system in which the government gives people a guaranteed job that provides the bare minimum essentials to live.

Under my proposal, there are no starving children. At most, their parents have a lower social status because they live in government issued dormitories and wear government issue grey sweatsuits. This gives the parents a social incentive to get a job with no deprivation.

As for my comparison to India, adjusted for purchasing power, the top 5% of India are poorer than the bottom 5% in the US. This accords very well with my anecdotal observations. I have far more sympathy for the Indian professional working 8-10 hours/day + 2-3 hours commute (who still can't afford AC or a car, unlike the poor American) than I do for a poor American sitting on the couch watching Jerry Springer.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t...
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Rojadirecta Sues US Government Over Domain Seizure
Highrise is great.
Up the prices until there's enough left to handle?
It won't, it will show that there are no normative questions. (exaggerated on purpose, of course, but it's The Final Frontier - once we know how the brain works, we will have a real insight into the nature of morality and we will have 'proof' for the objective nature thereof - all this IMNSHO of course ;) )
If you take the work but cannot service the demand then you will have killed your standing with those customers.
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I'm making a general point about why people don't always like to use products from startups and how this particular case reinforces their views. I wasn't suggesting that backtype had paying customers.

Also, a lack of press coverage does not mean there aren't unhappy users out there.
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>I think the entire DNS system needs to be out of the hands of government bodies of any type, preferably relying on a cooperative, distributed solution, like the internet itself (theoretically) does/can.

There was a small project a while back at the start of the domain seizures where a few people tried to develop a .p2p domain that relied on, you guessed it, peer to peer distribution of DNS records, effectively making it impossible to seize domains. I don't really know where it went, but considering I've never heard of them again I'd say the project's dead.
Only if they already own a Mac, an iPod, an iPhone and an iPad. Those things are expensive, you know...
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Funny thing is that today, despite the fact that everybody has a broadband connection, Minitel is still used by some people. Specifically for the 2 usages that made its success in the first place : yellow pages and adult chat.

A few companies still make significant profit from this platform in 2011. And it's still profitable for France Telecom as well.

Low tech works :)
Alternative title: Why I read Startup/Popular Blogstar news even though I care for very little of it.

Anyone else who has noticed how radically the news content on HN has changed since just last year? HN is dead, long live the new HN.
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So I'm working on a post about the psychology of owning a business versus the psychology of being an employee today, and this has been weighing on my mind. Here's my thinking:

There is a particular, exact dollar value which gets you the perk Do Not Worry About Laundry Ever Again. Google (presumably) doesn't have Google-branded dry cleaners on the premises, so this can be bought. What $TECH_EMPLOYER is taking advantage of is that young twenty-somethings think the entire solution space is "Do it yourself at the laundromat" and that "We'll do it for you" is thus a magical, irreplaceable unicorn of a perk from a company who really understands their inability to handle domestic chores.

You can buy that perk. In a high cost area like, I don't know, San Francisco, I think that it is highly likely that it costs less than $800. Let me check my guesstimate with the Googles: yep, you can literally have someone come to your door every two weeks for the year, grab your bag o' stuff, and bring it right back to you when it is done, for less than that.

You might think "But I have to actually arrange that." No, admin help is also a perk which can be purchased, and admin help is incredibly cheap because there is virtually nothing that a secretary can do in San Francisco that cannot also be done by a virtual assistant in the Philippines for ~$10 an hour. (If for some reason that makes you uncomfortable, bump it up to $20 and now Nancy is a homemaker in Kansas.)

You could, after having a VA, send her an email saying "Hey Nancy, price out options for laundry service and catering where I live. I want to never worry about these things ever again after you handle them, except to pay. By the way, I like salmon and iced cocoa." and Nancy would come back in a day later with the number it would take to drown you in salmon and iced cocoa. And it would cost far, far less than $20k.
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That's a very subjective view. A year ago, Hacker News really was HACKER News. Today it's not. It's Startup News, and Popular Blogstar Gives His Lofty Opinion On Something News. I'm glad that it benefits and entertains someone, but I'm also a bit sad that it stopped doing the same for me and everyone else who used to visit this site for HACKER News.
That's a nice idea, I considered doing something similar a few years back. Instead of going to businesses had you considered going to the county councils directly and expanding your service in partnership with them. Many councils provide this data already, albeit in a less accessible form, this could be where your service comes in.

Your 'Search for a School' feature doesn't currently work however 'List nearby schools' seems fine. Maybe add a directory listing as an alternative to just searching.

If you're planning on pushing this into production, wordpress may not be the best backend to build upon.

I'd also recommend you check out Mark Pilgrim's 'Dive into Accessibility', it's a fantastic resource that I'm sure you'll find useful. http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
Links to real-world corporate branding manuals
(thinking more about web pages than apps here)

are there any frameworks that let you re-use the same verification code on both client and server? i'm imagining some way to decouple the validation from the presentation and then run the validation part on both sides - i don't see why this wouldn't be possible with something like Node.js.

related, i guess that some frameworks (particularly ajax) support duplicating validation on client and server by automatically generating (different) client (javascript) and server-side code (python/ruby/java/...) from simple specifications (eg regexps). does anyone have good experiences with any of these?
Can't read the page because the twitter shoutbox gives an error...
Some broken links, but otherwise hopefully useful to those of us putting branding docs together to see some examples as reference.
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You keep making these irrelevant personal remarks, without providing anything to back them up.

>I've come out publicly against companies with bad business practices and pointed out flaws in the system. (For example http://kevinohashi.com/15/04/2011/domain-registrar-and-custo...;

Although I commend you for bringing these issues up, it's sort of hypocritical to criticize them about locking up and bumping up domain prices when domainers do the same thing to others.

>This should have been over long ago.<

Look about 12 comments up. I agreed to disagree with you, but you didn't even want to agree to that! O.o

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I would class myself as an advanced user, not a developer but someone with interest and enthusiasm for technology. The main reason that I visit HN is that for me, the level of debate is higher. Far less fanboyism and trolling than most tech sites and IMHO - up there with slashdot. That's high praise for me \. is my favourite site