skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs164/sp11/lectures/lecture2....

start at page 4.
Yes, I think a "Cartesian" quine would be pretty tough to create, because you're going from a symbolic representation to an inefficient visual representation. Could a more efficient visual representation solve it? One approach might be to output a bitmap that looks like this:

gunzip(########)

where ######## is a bitmap representation of the raw input to gunzip.
August 6th
http://www.meetup.com/south-florida-hack-and-tell/

http://agustinaprigoshin.com/oec

http://miamitechevents.com/
As someone born and raised in Michigan and whose partner was also born and raised in Michigan, my advice is that other than visiting grandparents and hiking and touring breweries, you will find your opportunities tremendously expanded by as quickly as possible getting the fuck out of Michigan.
Any frameworks/engines used?
What if Fidel Castro steals it?
They do when it matters. Many countries at various times have used the dollar as a non official but widespread currency, eg much of south america, and Russia.
I really appreciate the advice/comments. Spending 12 hrs a day when you hit the "wall" at hour 4 probably doesn't make a ton of sense the more I think of it...
One thing for sure, I'm only going to look for help on issues that come up as a last resort- as many have pointed out, what you learn taking the time and effort to find the solution is usually much more valuable than the solution itself!
An easier contacts organizer.

Not for tech savvy but for regular people. A relative of mine has recently switched to an android phone and finds a real hassle to complete all contacts and categorize them (as in circles).

A well done contact manager could be of great value.

Also, twitter and posterous publishing to g+ would be great
interested in the answer to this question as well.. also did you design it in 5 days as well or you have a designer to work on that?
How long until 3D printer appear in each house and we stop buying most of the furniture/ appliances that we have in our homes?

How long until we print our homes?

It seems that we will only trade energy and raw materials.
I agree completely that Jacques is putting her on trial. His claims he is not are about as disingenuous and manipulative as if someone said "Nobody here is claiming that Jacques is a 'cat rapist', but when you go public with a story there will always be questions." That is absolutely not just a casual well intentioned statement. It is a carefully constructed propaganda attempt designed to attack the target while superficially maintaining plausible deniability.
> Ah yes, it's so easy to move when you can't afford $100 to start a company. Great advice.

My biggest pet peeve about HN? The automatic assumption that if you're not looking to start your own company, you're a worthless idiot.

As bretthoerner pointed out, many companies will pay for you to move. And even if they don't, putting $5k on a credit card to move to someplace where you would actually be employed is still a better plan than starving to death next to your bed.
Its just another blip in the entertaining dysfunction of your politics.
I just downloaded the app and it seems that you can upgrade the app for 0.99 for different kind of timing modes (30 second 3 minute, etc)
Yes, for testing! I like the easy way I can turn javascript on and off (F12)
From “To Do” to “Will Do”: Using the Case Method to Defeat Procrastination
Du Gotten Liebe?
There is nothing wrong with reading sites like Hacker News. Just do it when you need a break. i.e after you've done a whole lot of work. I'm on the couch writing this on my iPad after coming off a 10 hour coding session. Code first, hacker news second.
I actually want that... but don't do extra work because I ask nicely -- I will gladly pay for an (e)book on this topic, if it was written at a "smart layman"'s level. I think its fascinating, but not career fascinating, if you know what I mean. I just want to read about these things and maybe be able to impress strangers with random facts that were well researched by some person who knows what he's talking about.
I second this. Also consider Python-related meetups and user groups, like Django.
the biggest problem with his assumption is that people will curate the best answers, in this way the site can easily be gamed. He states machines and human curation only monitor grammar but not content. Lets say a large active right wing group organize so now the site has a clear bias, and are the answers this group is voting up concerning politics really the best answers anymore ? Especially when a lot of the questions are unverifiable or matters of opinion at this point your are largely relying on the community to be an educated of the topic and unbiased enough to vote on the real answer. In the end quora is nothing different than another content farm.
I browsed Quora briefly before, but I never got addicted to it.

A Q&A site like stack overflow is nice, because I end up there by searching Google for programming questions. I'd probably only end up on Quora if it was the result of a Google search.
Just discovered this The Hard Way, but if you run Boot Camp; make sure you get the Boot Camp 4.0 update on the Windows side before you turn on FileVault. If not; Windows will try to mount your Mac volume (which is now encrypted gibberish), fail miserably, and BSoD every time within 30s of logging in. If it's too late, booting into safe mode and renaming the HFS drivers (AppleMount.sys and AppleHFS.sys IIRC) in C:\Windows\System32\drivers will get your system out of limbo.
According to his most recent update http://goo.gl/TBLbf Michael e-mailed the company first, and then called. Further he claims to have read the comment back to Christopher Lukezic before hanging up. This to me seems to be a perfectly reasonable length to go to for information.

Is your contention that this is not what happened? If this is what happened, then I think you owe Michael an apology. He has done an excellent job of updating his article with more information from airbnb's side of things as he got it, and I think that if you misspoke or were misinformed you need to say as much.
Ah, I wasn't, so that combined with pilif's comments regarding the file being locked for writes would make a lot of sense as to why things were slowing down.

Thanks for the info.
Related (and interesting):

A peculiarity perhaps unique to a handful of languages, English included, is that the nouns for meats are commonly different from, and unrelated to, those for the animals from which they are produced, the animal commonly having a Germanic name and the meat having a French-derived one.

Examples include: deer and venison; cow and beef; swine/pig and pork; and sheep/lamb and mutton. This is assumed to be a result of the aftermath of the Norman conquest of England, where an Anglo-Norman-speaking elite were the consumers of the meat, produced by lower classes, which happened to be largely Anglo-Saxon[citation needed], though this same duality can also be seen in other languages like French, which did not undergo such linguistic upheaval (e.g. boeuf "beef" vs. vache "cow").

With the exception of beef and pork, the distinction today is gradually becoming less and less pronounced (venison is commonly referred to simply as deer meat, mutton is lamb, and chicken is both the animal and the meat over the more traditional term poultry. (Use of the term mutton, however, remains, especially when referring to the meat of an older sheep, distinct from lamb; and poultry remains when referring to the meat of birds and fowls in general. Use of the term swineflesh for pork, is also widespread, especially in religious contexts)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
My biggest pet peeve about HN? The automatic assumption that if you're not looking to start your own company, you're a worthless idiot.

Woah, didn't mean to imply that at all. I just used the "to start a company" bit because he had said that in his post. I notice that attitude around HN and i hate it too.

As bretthoerner pointed out, many companies will pay for you to move. And even if they don't, putting $5k on a credit card to move to someplace where you would actually be employed is still a better plan than starving to death next to your bed.

You are probably absolutely right. I felt that if he can't put $100 on a credit card for some reason he probably can't put $5k on one, but i don't know what kind of relocation assistance companies provide nowadays.
I don't think the validity of the policeman example should taint the "factual veracity" of the entire article. The sociolinguistic ramifications of the Norman invasion are well established and there are a great many examples of synonymous words with class-based connotations.

As for the specific policeman example, you are probably right to say that "individual" is used because it is a useful non-offensive abstraction for the various sub-classes of human, but policeman-speak is still well-known for being unnecessarily verbose (from our biased anti-latin perspective as English speakers). Perhaps a better example would be choosing to use verbs like "locate" rather than "find".
He's not a drama queen. The people saying so are the VCs upset after he posted about their secret conspiracy meetings, which they denied, and it all was true. The VC community has it in for him since then and will do anything to attack the guy, who is one of the only credible writers left in this field full of vipers and narcissists.
> I want an answer for you, what are your financial and professional relationships with YCombinator.

None and None. That's two answers.

Whether you'll believe me or not is another point of course.
A similar concept, though using MongoDB with a capped collection is http://graylog2.org.
But it's extremely hard for anyone so far to evaluate how much genuine concern Airbnb has expressed, or failed to express, especially with the press repeatedly focusing on airbnb's attempts to "censor" her.

I find it hard to believe Airbnb wouldn't have expressed genuine concern. However their request for her to take down her blog or alter it due to their funding round was probably in bad taste.

I think the missteps by Airbnb are overblown mostly by an emotionally distressed woman.
Hello!

I like the hypothesis, I'm sure there must be some research on this.

There is a writing style guide written by a well-known English author, Victorian era, that suggests using saxon over romance words for clarity. I feel this is valid (also more concise, more punchy (more consonants)). I thought it was Kipling but perhaps not... somebody help me out?
He worried about performance. Grails runs on JVM, but AFAIK, it is not as fast as Java/Scala/Clojure.
>Similarly "smart" (allegedly dumb German word) is derived via German smerzan, Latin mordere, Greek smerdnos (according to my dictionary).

What exactly do you mean when you say "derived via German smerzan"? Smerzan and smart have the same origin in common West Germanic, whereas the other two have their origin in common PIE (along with Slavic 'Sm(e)rt' meaning 'death').

If what you meant to say is that the word is derived from Greek smerdnos (via Latin and German), then you're reading your dictionary wrong because those are simply etymologically related words.
The fascinating thing is that while using the words "intelligent" und "smart" you will be well understood by anyone German you will have a very hard time finding anyone who knows what "smerzan" is supposed to mean.
Quick suggestion: you may want to make the screenshots of the app transition a bit more quickly; it takes like 10 seconds for the first image to move (for me, at least).
When the Normans came, they brought French. They enslaved the old German speakers of Britain, and the language of the people who bathed more often was, for centuries to come, Romance.

The overarching story is good but to respectfully nitpick, in terms of linguistics, Germanic and German don't mean the same thing. At least, only a little more than Java and JavaScript do.

The English were not speaking German prior to 1066 but Old English or Anglo Saxon, a mish-mash of ancient Britannic languages, Latin, Old Norse, and some West Germanic languages.

Also, it wasn't "French" that was brought over to England. At least, not in any codified, official sense of the term that we now accept. The Duchy of Normandy was still separate from the Kingdom of France (although Norman was one of the oïl languages) until the 13th century and Norman, as a language, had more Norse influence than other oïl languages due to prior invasions.
TeXmaker 3.1 released today
I just got back from the bay area.

Look for some hacker space near you. If you're in mountain view, that would be "Hacker Dojo".
Well done, sir. Your kung fu is strong.
very interesting talk.
I was surprised that there was no mention of using a lower level language i.e. c or c++ in order to maximize cpu/ram utilization. while JVM is a clear winner over ROR it does add some overhead.
I guess it is a sweet spot between performance and code manageability.
Ask HN: How to visit GooglePlex?
Hi everyone, I am a newbie of this forum, but I have found a lot of interesting topics that I'll read and comment. I am writing to ask you if anyone have visited the GooglePlex in Mountain View and can give me an help me to access in it. I've found this previous topic about it (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1222642) but I haven't friends inside Google. I'll be in San Francisco in August and hope you'll help me to visit it.
You're right. I actually said "German" because the word is simpler and it makes for a more sonorous title. But I've also met super-important linguists who in conversation call old Englishes "German" and the Norman language "French".
Looks great.

Does Hasbro (owner of Scrabble) have any IP protection on the wooden letter tiles with a number in the corner? Seems like a small thing, but it wouldn't shock me. And could be an issue if this gets big.
Since I'm getting downvoted anyway, may I request that we change the name of the site to Airbnb News, and does anybody know what EJ had for breakfast today? That might be interesting to post.
This reminds me of Gerrard Winstanley, a Digger, who said, quite eloquently, speaking of the Norman yoke:

"Oh, thou City, thou hypocritical City ! Thou blindfold, drowsy England, that sleeps and snorts in the bed of covetousness, awake, awake ! The enemy is upon thy back, he is ready to scale the walls and enter possession, and wilt thou not look out?

By, then, of course, it was too late.
The thing that you're describing as "the right thing" is the function of an insurance company.
Was it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barnes ?

"For example, the word "photograph" (from Greek light+writing) would become "sun-print" (from Saxon). Other terms include "wortlore" (botany), "welkinfire" (meteor) and "nipperlings" (forceps)."

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_linguistic_purism
Agreed with Ben. I'm an Aussie transplant and know the pain that comes with moving but have to say it was the best decisions of my life.

I help the portfolio of Charles River Ventures (early investor in Twitter, Yammer) find exceptional hackers to help change the world. Happy to look over people's resumes and give feedback. If you're not from Silicon Valley, I'll set you up with a half dozen interviews and can help you overcome visa issues -- I'm passionate about seeing the world's smartest people working in startups (either as founders or early stage employees).

Email: elias @ crv.com
Insulation takes space, though. I'm not sure those walls will be thick enough, and the space inside the house still comfortable and livable.
I would imagine that there would be an exception for government officials.
This leak was the result of a phishing expedition.
Good point! Dropbox has had the same kind of problem dealing with unfavorable coverage.
Definitely, relocation costs vs recruiter fees? Easy, easy choice for a good hacker.
A few ideas

1. Consider where it is going wrong. Are you getting interviews for things you are suitable for? Are you getting knocked back at the interview stage? i.e. it it you CV that needs sorting out, or the interview? Or is it that there is nothing that matches your skills? Regardless of anything I would get someone else to give you feedback on your CV.

2. Find companies using the technologies you use and ring them up to see if they have any work available, rather than waiting for adverts.

3. Consider being a tester. It is rare to find a good tech skilled tester / QA and they are valuable.

4. Get the skills for the jobs that are available. Frankly if you are desperate then put 5 years of C# on your CV and work night and day building something in C#.
Sure, some degree of global warming is probably happening. The bigger point here is that the "end-of-the-world" global warming is never going to happen. That is, the effect size of anthropogenic global warming is apparently small and does not match the original predictions put forth in the late 1980s. You can see the data (and complete lack of a rebuttal) here:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction-basic...

Note that the observed global temperature anomaly, in black, tracks Scenario C, a scenario that "assumed a rapid decline in greenhouse gas emissions around the year 2000." However, during the same period, atmospheric carbon dioxide increased by approximately 40 parts per million. [1]

So, where does that leave us? It leaves us with a climate sensitivity of 3°C for a DOUBLING of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Of course, this assumes the existence of positive feedbacks in the climate system. One such positive feedback might be a decrease in snowfall, something talked about in the early 2000s:

"According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become 'a very rare and exciting event'." [2]

Recently, though, the claims are now that "snow outside is what global warming looks like." [3]

Without positive feedbacks, the climate sensitivity is more like 1.2°C for a DOUBLING of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

[1] http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/#mlo_full
[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-j...
[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/20/uk-snow-...
Thanks for sharing. Very useful.
On iOS it is quite easy using the excellent TestFlight service: http://testflightapp.com/
And if you don't have savings you can be completely screwed basically.

I really, really don't understand people who don't have savings. I would adjust my lifestyle down until I could save money, no matter how far down I had to go. I'd share a two bedroom apartment with three other people, get rid of my mobile, forgo cable, heat, new clothes... whatever I had to do.

Shit happens. You need to have some cash to deal with it.
I wish there was a merge option for posts...

Discussion of that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041
As an amusing side note, the word "hell" in German means "light" (as in the electromagnetic spectrum variety, as opposed to a lack of weight).
I saw this posted on Reddit a few days ago. I briefly considered submitting it here, but thought 'This kind of thing belongs on Reddit, not HN.' But what do you know, here it is with 182 points. Oh well.
This is actually a special case of a general concept: specifying how much you trust particular addresses. Instawallet has just coined 'green address' as a nickname for an address that you will accept payments from instantly (0 confirmation), but what do you call an address for which you would prefer to see 1 or 2 confirmations (~10 or 20 minutes, respectively)?

If Bitcoin UIs allowed you to specify how much you trusted particular sending addresses (in terms of confirmation numbers), things like green addresses would fall out naturally. Also, providing these trust numbers is a great usecase for a web-of-trust system.
There are a number of open source Python projects that have vendors associated with them (or large corporate users). OpenStack is one such example, but there's also various scientific libraries, e.g., NumPy/scipy that may better suited to your background. Typically open source-heavy companies are more open to remote/distributed work: I am not saying working remotely full-time, but something along the lines of working on site for the first six months (to prove yourself) and then working remotely most of the time/flying in on site for one week a month.

Consider this: identify several such projects along with the companies that are heavily involved in these projects open source communities, i.e., ones that are actually contributing and/or heavily modifying them.

First, send a patch, do something to "get your feet wet". Then pick a substantial sub-project (not something trivial), start contributing to it and at the mean time contact the engineer/managers working at associated companies (as not to be trapped in the HR resume black-hole). In the interview, at least mention the work you're doing.

Chances are they will be willing to fly you out to interview and help relocate. Be honest with them and say that (due to family reason) you'll need to at the very least travel.

In the worst case, you could do the reverse of working remotely/visiting the office frequently: rent a room in the remote area, work in the office most of the time, travel to Michigan for weekends/a week at a time: this will be difficult, but at the very least you'll be able to establish more "formal" experience and industry connections that you could translate into a more sustainable arrangement later (don't, however, start a position knowing that you won't be able to stick for at least a year and a half to two years: that would not very ethical, especially since you're looking for a company that will invest in your career). Of course, some family situations, e.g., elder care won't allow for that. In that case, still the advice applies: you're far more likely to find a remote-work scenario in an open-source related company than elsewhere.
You might be thinking of George Orwell, "politics and the english language" (a bit after the victorian era)

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

Rule 5 states: Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
I'd echo what SeoxyS has to say, in that companies want you in their doors, and that means heading to where they are. The market for remote workers is think to say the least, especially for folks that are not close to company headquarters (speaking from over seven months and counting of looking for exactly that).

However I'd be pessimistic about marketing your skills to shops that dont' use the tech that you have experience in. I've found with my own quest that employers are for the most part, not convinced that it's the programming knowledge, not the syntax that matters. This may be less of an issue in the hotspots though.

And yes anything manufacturing....well it's the 1930's all over again.
The return is surely already negative if you take into account inflation.
rather than the single biggest threat to their protection racket?

That's not true at all. VP8 is a web codec for free web streaming and that's free with H.264. MPEG-LA makes their money from volume sales like Blu-Ray Discs or Set-top-Boxes which aren't going to move to VP8 any time soon.
Do you need to move, though? If programmers really are that scarce, is a plane ticket + hotel enough disincentive to interview a good candidate?
I've always been weary on actual usage numbers on mobile applications. The HN crowd are probably more on the higher end of usage, but I find in general users only use a few of the well known web apps - mobile versions of their applications consistently. Approximately 30% of registrations usage of once a month is not that good. USV's portfolio companies are also some of the biggest mobile apps available now.