skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little bit of backstory in case anyone's interested. This endeavor started out as a constitutional congress, members having been elected in a low turnout election in late 2010. For some legal-technical reason the election was illegal and therefore the powers that be decided to appoint the congress elects to a committee instead. All this was done as an appeasement response to public anger following the economic downturn in 2008. A clever, if expensive, political ploy as it made the government look like it was making an effort. The reality is that it makes no difference whether or not this committee makes any changes, anything they decide will be non-binding and advisory only. Most people in this country think the whole thing is monumentally pointless, being as there aren't many contentious issues in the current constitution to begin with.
Being a good manager in the startup field is an extraordinary difficult thing to do.

Here's an awesome TED talk that you can watch which is a good introduction in the field - http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html - it shows that performance in creative fields can decrease when the payout is greater.

Salary is just one factor in job satisfaction, there are lots of other ways, most of them cheaper from a costs perspective, which can improve the "mood". Here's a list:

- equity
- 20% time (autonomy to work on self-driven projects)
- a perceived notion of fairness (i.e. no bozos as managers,
promotions done right on merit and payout/hierarchy that
correlates with the actual job performance, not politics)
- free drinks/food/catering (or at least joint cafeteria area
for lunch bonding/discussions)
- awesome hardware
- high employee/manager ratio to avoid micro-management
- a tech ladder allowing growth without becoming a manager
Founders: failure comes with the territory
I use the Time Out app to remind me to take breaks every X minutes.

http://www.dejal.com/timeout/ (osx)

http://www.workrave.org/ (win, linux)
Could one solve this problem with URLs of this form?

http://199.27.135.101/ajax/libs/prototype/1.7.0.0/prototype....

CloudFlare doesn't seem to support direct access based on IP, but there's no reason it couldn't, right? Do browsers support this?
This is not a criticism, just a curious enquiry. How does Apple manage to get so much support and discussion that seems very organic and grassroots in nature about its product releases, but somehow Microsoft and Windows get the short end of the stick? It is in no sense a scientific observation, but I did not notice so much interest when Windows 7 was released, even on Hacker News.
Ya know, most people would agree for you until you ask them to pay for the stuff they call a "social good."

I went with my fiance last Christmas to donate food and money to a local food bank. She got teary when she saw were so many people waiting to get a basket of food.

I saw a bunch of people playing games on smartphones.
well done, I like the design
Asynchronous script loaders like LAB.js (http://labjs.com/) also help alleviate the latency cost of having multiple resource requests by loading them asynchronously.
I was thinking along similar lines— hiking gear for comfort, photo gear for adjustability.
Microsoft Natural Ergo 4000. My wrists would be dead without it.
Yes. I did that too. Extra advantage: you can use the mouse and write something down on paper with your right hand at the same time.
My keyboard (Logitech DiNovo edge, I find keyboards with no tilt and short travel vastly preferential for speed and carpal tunnel) doesn't have a numpad, for those rare occasions I need one I have a dedicated number pad plugged in - it's a USB keyboard, just only the numpad part.
Great tool. Two questions. Any way to edit or save in private?
Indeed, and requires : seperators when - is common too.

Hint, on a Windows machine "arp -a" will print the MAC addresses of the machines on the local subnet.
Someone on HN suggested I make a video of my app, so here it is. Previously I had just screenshots and text, and I can see how that would be discouraging. You can learn more about sonaur here:

http://www.sonaur.com
and the second one would be, any way to resize the objects?
Being from a third world country myself it is really difficult. Its even worse if your society is really corrupt. First its difficult to trade equity coz everyone is out to make an easy buck and its really hard to believe anyone however genuine they look or sound. Second, most third world countries are cash driven economies no credit cards and shit. But there is hope if you (or to) find someone who really believes in your idea. Its basicaly a hard sale. Best option is to build a very good reputation at Uni/college or your first workplace. Guaranteed, even if your idea is wack, your rep will get you the best employees/co-founders at minimal cost.
Google+ Circles - a skeptic's view
It's not the key that's one byte, it's the plaintext. But it makes no difference. The author/attacker doesn't have the key. He can encrypt all the letters he likes, but getting identical ciphertexts doesn't mean anything unless he used the same key.
I was hoping that wouldn't come off as elitist in this crowd— it's really just an observation on the difference between technical and non-technical people.

Which I guess highlights why I kept my mouth shut in school. When your job involves doing something that strikes you as straightforward and intuitive, but is bizarrely valued at several times, or tens of times, the labor of your peers, it's pretty hard to talk about without sounding just a little elitist.

Edit: I think I get why you took it the wrong way, though, and I'll clarify. I don't mean to say that non-coders will never be able to figure programming out. Of course any reasonably intelligent person could have it explained, pick it apart, figure out how it works. What they will never understand is how we get it so intuitively— not unless they put in the decades we did to get there.
This is slightly OT, but can anyone recommend a good book for understanding the modern finance industry (IB, quant, trading) and its impact on the economy? Finance in general is just a giant black box to me.
That section is a perk YC only offers to their portfolio and alumni. There should be a "who's hiring" thread tomorrow, though (and the first of every month).
Thanks cj. Spot on about IP matching. Took a little while to figure out how to get the client IP on Heroku, write up here: http://catapulty.tumblr.com/post/8303749793/heroku-and-node-...

About browser <--> iPhone, it'll work if your phone has the same IP as your browser, this might happen if your phone is using your home WiFi. Getting the bookmarklets into your phone might be a bit trickier and require some manual editing of bookmarks. Would be good to come up with a nice way of getting the bookmarklets onto phones.

To avoid the requirement of same IPs, I guess that'd require a way to create and identify an account on Catapulty. If that looks like it'd be useful I'll add that in.
I've gotten a sufficiently large number of upvotes from this comment that I feel compelled to follow up after having gotten a (half) night's sleep: you are asking the pollee multiple /different/ questions, and if there are correpations between the answers (which the poller suspected to bd the case in this article) you actually can deduce information about each individual sith increasingly high probability ". If this what the person I responded to meant by "true signal", then he is correct.
Unfortunately, none of your image links work.

The S3 images return "Request has expired", and Twitpic is blank (and doesn't seem to be referer-checking)
The end of easy growth in Smartphones
$10,000 buys 5000 tickets, but I'd be interested in seeing how the positive expected value is easily shown.
You, as the person/computer performing the computation, do not get to write your own functions to run "inside the encryption".
To install Ruby 1.9.3 alongside an existing Ruby, you can use RVM: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

Then: rvm install 1.9.3
IPhone 5 Release Date Ignored as Manufacturers Already Start Selling Cases
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It took about two weeks for my lower back to adjust to standing all day. I too have been standing for about a year. One of the best decisions I ever made.
This is why I'm skeptical of the claim that they're providing liquidity. If they can open and close a position in a matter of seconds, it sounds like they're mostly claiming credit for liquidity that was already present.
And that's why keys of one byte are a bad idea. Bad in symmetric, bad in asymmetric, just plain bad. This same attack is true for any block-level encryption - it doesn't make them insecure. And homomorphic encryption needs, if I remember right, enormous relatively-prime numbers. Like, gigabytes worth. We're not talking small keys here.

This is incorrect. The key size has nothing to do with extracting one byte. As mentioned later in the thread, if the encryption is not randomized (and Craig's scheme is, like all "semantically-secure" encryption schemes) then the ciphertext leaks no information about the plaintext even if it were only one bit. However, if the encryption is not randomized then trivially, your encryption is only as secure as your plaintext space.

Secondly, you say homomorphic encryption needs enormous relatively-prime numbers. This is not correct. Craig's sceme uses lattice-based cryptography. The keys are long because we don't have efficient reductions to hard problems and the best algorithms to solve lattice problems currently known are better than brute force (so we need to increase parameters to make the best algorithms known today take at least 2^80 time, if not more).
Are motorized height-adjustable desks really so hard to come by in the states? I ask because they are the norm here in Denmark and most office workers use them to stand up for part of their workday.

I'm always surprised to see guys set up improvised standing desks on filing cabinets and stuff like that. From several years of experience: You need to be able to sit OR stand at your desk. In a very short time, you will automatically alternate between these positions whenever you feel tired in the back (from sitting) or feet (from standing).

I would never work somewhere that didn't provide a motorized desk. I have gotten so used to it that I even have one in my home office (http://imgur.com/A1eS2), set me back about a thousand bucks, an amount most of us would spend on gadgets without blinking.
Thanks. Any chance you could show a before/after of your resume?
Google Chrome becomes UK's second most popular web browser
I converted my home office to a standing desk about a year ago and now I won't turn back. @ work, I still have a sit down desk at my office, but I'm in and out of meetings more of late, so I'm not fixed to by desk for more than a couple of hours at a time. it ends giving me a good 60 / 40 (sit / stand) solution

The Desk
I'm using is a slightly older Ikea office desk that allows me to set it to any particular height. Sadly, it looks like they don't carry it anymore and the closest option that I see currently is the Frederick.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60111123
thank you. Yes, I noticed that on the July link.

We were too late to submit on the YC program for this summer, and we can't wait until YC Winter program to get this started, So we are going to start it now and then apply for the program with a demo (hopefully).

Thanks.
Microsoft to Google: Float like a butterfly sting like a ... Bing?
This site should be renamed Apple Fanboy News, that's why. I'm tired of these worthless submissions. There are lots of things I like about my OS, but I'm not insecure enough to need to justify any love I might have by telling everybody on Hacker News about it.
This argument is valid... the flaw in the author's logic is rather the assumption that encryption is a function, i.e. that it is deterministic. In fact decryption is deterministic, but encryption is not, and that's what prevents this kind of attack. Yes, you can obtain an encryption of any given ASCII character using a constant-valued function "inside the encryption", but the important point is that it's just an encryption, not the encryption, of that character. The decryption function, which you do not have access to, will send all possible encrypted representations back to the same plaintext.
Universe.py - A Buddhist Poem In Python
Weather Based Fashion Suggestions
I've been using the Macally BTKey[1] for a while now. Nice solid feel to it, besides being the only decent full-size Bluetooth keyboard I could find.

PSA: OS X lets you remap Caps Lock in the keyboard prefs to something more useful.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Macally-BTKey-Wireless-Bluetooth-Keybo...
Useful Mac OS X Lion Features for Web Developers and Web Designers
I don't think it's possible. CDN by its very nature is to send content in low latency manner to users in different geographical locations by having multiple servers also spread in different geographical locations. Users from different parts of the world might get identical CloudFlare URLs resolved to different IP addresses based on where they live, to make sure they get their content from the nearest CloudFlare's CDN server.
Show HN: Curenote, a health community for solving health problems
I created Curenote, a social way for people to get help with their health problems.

Others who may have experienced the same health problem can offer their knowledge and advice on what they did to cure their ailment or illness.

People can offer their advice and support on topics such as cancer/diabetes, sexual health, drugs & alcohol, violence, diet & fitness and many more.

Please let me know what you think. Your honest feedback is much appreciated. Thanks!
Bicycle Of The Future Shifts Gears Via Brain Waves
Don't let overspecialization discourage you from grad school!

Grad school is all about what you can do for yourself, not following other people's vision. You set your priorities, determine which classes you take (you could combine a history of Shakespearian tragedy and quantum mechanics with a CS degree, for example).

Here's some reading that might encourage you to rethink grad school. The memoir of James Watson (Watson and Crick, discoverers of DNA double helix) Avoid Boring People. Also, Hamming's speech "You and Your Research." (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html) Both talk about why overspecialization is bad, and what you can do as a young researcher to broaden your understanding.
You can't successfully gauge it when you don't know the real numbers to begin with in order to validate if your method is working.
Meh, in San Francisco the starving creative types just live in squalor in the scummier parts of San Francisco.
Congrats on the release - Love the design, looks very easy and fun to use!
Your belief this method is scientific, valid, validated cross-culturally and for different forms of questioning shows that it is you who are the "layman", assuming by "layman" you mean person ignorant of science, gullible, and clueless.
It's actually a very good submission. I didn't know Leopard had all these neat features. Now I want to upgrade.

I also have a Windows box, and I wouldn't mind a similar SE about Win7 niceties, and of course Win7 having such niceties...
The GP didn't put it very eloquently but he has a point. Most days I start with booting my computer, start one application and the browser and do all my work in those.

When that happens I really don't care about the amount of polish the window manager has.
I don't know, to cultivate a culture of absolutely not sharing sounds like bad business, to me. Sure it's good for each individual, but aren't you severely limiting the organization's product (let's call HFT software a product for lack of a better word) quality and competitiveness?

I'm not talking about whether or not I'd mind working in such a culture. I'm talking about how ridiculously stupid it is to encourage such a culture.

Isn't there some team of highly motivated, cooperative good engineers who are beating all the solo pilots, right now, somewhere?
What do non-trading engineers do?
I can sell my BitCoins immediately for about $250 (what I originally put in). How can you sit and say it has "no value"?
Excellent. Please state the sample size, population size, and citation of studies that have experimentally validated this method cross-culturally and for the specific unique cultural group of ranchers in north-eastern South Africa, who have their own distinct culture curiously quite different from college students.
More than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories.
Your Data is Never the Right Shape
The code looks clean, it's easy to use, and most importantly it really works.

And it works really well on my MacBook Pro 17" with Safari in full screen down to my iPhone.

Looks like I'm gonna try it on my next blog.
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I think it's a fair thing to look for in an employee. Who you hire is up to you.
Oh great, a responsive CSS framework...

Could elaborate on why you created yet another one instead of going with MQ, Less, AnonAnon, Cabin, Gravity, 1140grid, Sass/Susy, Inuit or Skeleton?
Great talk!

On a completely different note, maybe different race perceives age differently. But Marc seriously look 43 to me instead of 23 in the video.
In my experience, on large distributed projects the person integrating changes into master is rarely the same person who authored the change.

For example, when Linux branches are pulled upstream, if your code creates a conflict your branch will just be rejected and you'll be told to fix.

Rebase forces the author to solve more of these problems before submitting their change for integration.

I don't think rebase is an end-all solution for the reasons you've described. It's perfect for medium sized changes you can easily verify afterwards. My day-to-day work usually falls into this category.

In the case of larger sets of all-or-none changes, such as a site redesign, it makes perfect sense to maintain a parallel line of development. Cleanup probably isn't worth it, and the separate branch serves as documentation. You should consciously create a new public branch.

In this case, I can understand wanting a "no-ff" merge for documentation. I think you should first consider tags, but sometimes it makes sense to set a stake in the ground with a placebo commit.

The problem is that if you use "no-ff" all the time on trivial changes, then these branches lose meaning.

This post wasn't supposed to be an embargo on "no-ff." My case is that people default to "no-ff" to pave over deeper issues.
User CSS extension for Safari 5.1 released
You do not have to move your volumes: while the instance is in a "stopped" state you can change it's instance type and then restart it. EBS-root let's you change hardware as fast as you can reboot with just three commands.
Better Programming through Functional Programming
You just need to press either shift key.
A separate USB number pad with a good mouse and a compact keyboard?

Or maybe an excellent trackpad and no mouse?
Honest question. What is wrong with something like that? I could see it justified by saving the overhead of a complex Date class.
Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”
It depends on what you mean by "creatives." There's a difference between web designers, sculptors and painters. By and large, artists working with physical media have been moving to LA in droves for the past decade. Large studio spaces simply don't exist in the Bay Area at any price - suitable buildings are turned into condos or office space. The situation is similar for NYC artists. Even Jeff Dietch moved to LA, sort of a bellwether for art trends in the country.

For the creatives who stay in SF, the other comment by hugh3 is correct. Most live where you'd expect: the mission, the tenderloin, 6th and Market, etc. Oakland is also popular but not as much as the people who choose to live there make it seem. Artists in SF aren't necessarily living in squalor (or at least any worse squalor than hipster web programmers). My neighbor made a good living painting cartoon robot monsters.
Windows 7 did get a lot of press but it followed Vista, an OS by my understanding that was hated by many. Thus the improvements were perceived as fixes rather than revolutionary.
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Front-running is a loaded term (I'm sure you know that), and isn't what is going on in HFT - since front-running is illegal, and these programmers are paid to be on exactly the right side of the law.
What about layouts - has anyone tried to work with alternatives to the typical QWERTY-based?
I make it a habit to visit the following sites everyday: Reddit, DaringFireball, Techmeme, Engadget, Ars, Scriptingnews, thenextweb and ofcourse HackerNews.
In my experience, you can grow and retain quality people with compensation, practices, and other incentives, but you won't make them passionate about their job this way.

There's passion about what you do (passionate about their field, tools), and passion about what you are doing (healthcare, education, making money). These are high energy, all-in types who live their jobs. They are also few in numbers.

You can hire and fire based on displayed passion, but I'm not sure it can be taught. They either have it or they don't.

Also, don't confuse passion with work ethic, which is (probably) equally valuable, but more of a character trait that can be applied to many different things.
Congrats on the launch.
Great tool, thank you!
You can specifically disallow such people from viewing your website, without being evil.
I'd be willing to say it right now, since I agree with it.
The problem I've found with Safari 5.1 is that it no longer shares the same localStorage between global.html and manage.html, so the CSS files no longer get loaded properly. The behavior of this appears to be very random (some user report CSS are loaded, but they're not shown up in manager or vise versa) but since this release change to use localStorage only from global.html, the problem should be fixed.
That would only, even theoretically, be a possible approach to explore if you had questions that you knew this group of people were exactly as likely to lie about as killing protected leopards. How could one know which questions these would be. They wouldn't. Despite this problem, I would still like to see such calibration questions added to each round such as "Does astrology work for you?" and "Have you even been taken by aliens?" The results to these questions would give some useful data for comparison.
This looks great!

I would be worried to use that name though.
Is that...Windows XP?
1. Works 12 hours a day on average
2. Works 100 hour weeks

Stopped reading there.
5 Brazilian startups that will get a boost in 2011
People could then read the summary and skim through the rest. The summary is there just to help you remember.

If people don't internalize the reasoning, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
Do you stand in your meetings, or...?
I had the same question. I had these thoughts:

It looks like python, so the semi-colons are unnecessary.

If you want to rid yourself of datetime for whatever reason, implement it as a list, returning name_of_day[x], so that you can start the week on a Sunday(=0) easily if you want to.

Beyond that, I'm stuck too :-(
Of the fluid frameworks, I've only used 1140grid. My quick reading of columnal suggests that it has a similar concept (".col_1" instead of "onecol") but has the extra functionality of prefix and suffix styles from 960
http://www.columnal.com/#markupcode
I'm struggling to believe how much of a cock-up this is becoming. What should be a simple reality: "sometimes things will go wrong" is turning into something that even seems to be infectious. I give it two days before Y Combinator is explicitly associated with airbnb in a newspaper.