skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"all datastructures would have to be thread-safe is pretty common argument used against usage of native threads (as opposed to green threads) or removal of global locks in various VMs. While it's true that they don't have to be thread-safe from user's point of view, they should be thread-safe in the sense that they cannot get corrupted by race condition in user code in a way that could crash (or deadlock) the VM.
AT&T Accidentally Reveals That It Doesn't Need T-Mobile At All
That's because most if not all food from friends and family is purchased from regulated food suppliers at the grocery store.
'Scryptic' Review – Scrabble Wars
A total aside: I could definitely spend $600 at starbucks in a week.
"Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!"

—Edsger Dijkstra
Those types of job postings are like kryptonite to parents, aka, more experienced engineers.
Nice job! I'm interested in the tech details-- what is the site built with? How long did it take? Thanks!
Cars didn't have airbags and safety belts for a long time, too.
YC-backed digital publisher looking for an early backend engineer
Hi, we're Hyperink and we're building a new kind of book publisher.

We're a team of 5, and are looking for a backend engineer to join us.

[Who are we?]

We’re a team of 5 with diverse backgrounds (shopkick, Google, McKinsey, Microsoft, Simon & Schuster) and we’ve published our own ebooks in the past (one is making more than $100K/year). Our office is in SoMa, near South Park.

We were in the Winter 2011 batch. We're backed by some incredible VCs and angels.

[What are we looking for in a backend engineer?]

We’re looking for someone who has a team-first, “get-shit-done” attitude. Someone who is comfortable wearing multiple hats, and who enjoys learning new stuff.

We currently use Wordpress on LAMP and Ruby. We take advantage of the latest HTML5 features and publish to web, iOS, Kindle, and Android.

Here are some problems we’re working on:

>Solving the content farm problem

>Becoming the biggest ebook publisher across multiple channels (ranging from web to Kindle to iOS)

>Turning book publishing upside down by making it demand driven – predicting what people will want to buy and then publishing on those topics

>Identifying, harvesting, and monetizing the best content across the web

>Making everything really fast!

[Why should you work with us?]

Besides solving tough problems in an industry badly in need of change, you get all the early startup benefits (lots of stock, a decent salary, and health insurance).

This is an important hire for us. If you’re interested, please email kevin[at]hyperinkpress.com and we’ll respond in 24 hours. We like to move fast.

Thanks!

-The Hyperink Team
I'll be strictly practical. As somebody who taught himself CSS first and HTML second, at a later age, with a master plan, I advise you to learn javascript to the hilt, and have a complete tooling shop. You could also use to learn about other structured document types besides HTML. Keep an eye on the avante garde. Set some goals. Javascript enabled, choose your next adventure: the way of canvas, webGL, svg, and the great growing mass of libraries for browser graphics and interactivities; or the way of software architecture, and crack Node.js and familiarize your self with all its modules; learn networks and databasing. You can maybe do both, eventually. Either one will allow you significantly to experiment and invent, and/or become involved in IRL collaborations. You have nothing but lots of time to become a craftsman, to build a people network, interact with the growing base of young adults gearing up to inherit a galore of industry overdue for innovations. Maintain a simple life. An occupational cycle of learning and practice is as good as it gets. Read everything. Become an apprentice and glean some hard-won knowledge ahead of time itself. Consider it good fortune if anybody besides you takes yourself seriously until about 1755046732, in dollars or milliseconds.
That's one of the worst headlines I've seen recently. It says absolutely nothing about the content of the article, as well as raising many questions - how else would you sign into a website, if not through your browser?

That said, BrowserID is, in theory, a cool project, and I wish it well.
Congrats from Houdini as well; MobileWorks looks great! We'd definitely be interested exploring this option further.
Still, makes me wonder how many explosives companies at in YC.

:)
Dual wielding
I wasn't making an analogy at all. The fact is, facebook has lured developers to work for free in their "open" platform and now prevents them from expanding to other platforms. Reasonable but unethical, a little courtesy towards developers wouldn't hurt. SN is not such a saturated market that they can afford to impose a monopoly. Maybe they'll remember that when they are losing developers.
Bravo, this looks like a really savvy way to handle these kinds of tasks.
Having worked in emergency services as well as lived in countries without such services, services like 9-1-1 have absolutely increased the safety and security in developed countries. Just because people dealt with things in a less-than-optimal way before is no justification to return to those times.
News.com still exists?

It's amazing to me how my primary read for years and years has been totally and utterly eaten alive by tech blogs.
Umm, Mexico's border city stability has such more more to do with our illegal immigration policies than our war on drugs. Sure these thugs are funded by our addictions, but should we legalize drugs tomorrow, they'll just find a new revenue stream.
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I mis-read this as "We're an exciting young exploitative company". The things my mind does some days. Thankfully, that's not at all what it said.
Preferably my Google Apps account, for which I have two factor auth enabled. Or perhaps my SmartCard enabled work email. Or even my SMS 2-factor Facebook email.
"I was doing an experiment to find out what would happen if I had a leave a dollar take a dollar jar in an alley, but then some jerk took all the money and ruined the experiment."

1. If the experiment initiator here didn't see something like this coming (someone taking advantage of a free pot of money), he is naive beyond belief.

2. An experiment not turning out how you DESIRE it to does not mean it's "ruined;" to the contrary, it's how learning happens. "Oh, I didn't know that would happen!" takes notes <- Science
What's funny is it took me a moment to figure out if you were being sarcastic, or just reposting a real job :)
Most "competing" projects are not friendly: marketing materials put out deride the alternative as "slow", "buggy", or what-have-you (some of the stuff put out about my project simply makes me want to quit it is so nasty).

Interesting, then, that, for whatever reason, I do /not/ see this kind of behavior with the various Ruby implementations: most people I deal with in that community actually seem to enjoy the various versions existing and work together. In this case, I wouldn't even call it "competition": I'd call it "cooperative experimentation".

But this argument breaks down when you look at the nginx vs. Apache example: proponents of nginx tend to just pummel Apache with pain, even when many of the claims aren't even true (which is extra stupid as I don't even think it is correct to believe that nginx and Apache are trying to solve the same problem).
What is the point of this?

I'd think the data analyst is to blame here, since he is the person which sole purpose is to know right data from wrong data.
The pie gets larger, but the use cases do get fragmented: if someone is really excited about some new feature or implementation mechanism, it is usually not the case that whatever "stalwart" project that is out there is unwilling to include it, and yet people assume this constantly and start a new project from scratch, or (a greater insult) fork the other project, to include that feature. Users and developer alike now have to choose, and that really does suck.
You blame the architect, who didn't adequately cook in automated test cases to catch data integrity bugs.
The similarities between Facebook and the old AOL should be alarming to anyone working for Facebook. Or maybe just anyone in general.
But the book is only an 'introduction'

"Introduction" is the first word in the title. Its intentions should be quite clear.
I don't have a position on this, but I don't agree with comparing it to a coffee shop. BART is a governmental entity paid for by taxpayer dollars, shutting off a service that was provided by said mandatory tax dollars is different than turning off an additional service at a private business.
One of the things posted in this article is a comment on GitHub's popularization of the concept of "fork": to me this was a mistake made by those developers, and they should have used the actual term from git, "clone" (which, in fact, Google Code does in their implementation of this same concept).

The thing that makes git great is not that it is easier to /fork/ other people's work: we don't think of all the different versions of Linux out there maintained by different people in the hierarchy (Andrew Morton, Alan Cox, etc.) as "forks", and no one considers them "competing".

But now, GitHub is teaching this new breed of open source developer that there is no difference between using a distributed version control system to collaborate on a project and forking someone else's efforts to compete with them: that really does suck. :(
I'd like to know the point of this but I blame everyone. The front-end for making the error, the back-end dev for not following-up after identifying the problem, and for not having tests in place that would have avoided the problem, and of course the data analyst for forgetting to look at the problem.
What happens if you need to be on a plane when you're already on a different plane?
Since up votes are hidden now, just want to make it clear that I +1 this.
Code changes feels like the best count, unless you believe Adobe's letting crashers slip past this release.
Sign into websites from my browser!? That sounds awesome!

Hilariously bad title aside, BrowserID and this extension look quite cool and i'm interested to see how they turn out.
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Didn't you hear? Amendment 28, which establishes cell phone service as a basic human right.
Communism, Nazism and any other 'isms are all considered social experiments. I am not comparing your actions to those, but you cannot hide behind a statement like that.
This seems to really be an exercise in futility because at any real job, they would all be "blamed" for screwing up. If I had to pick one person to fire though, it would be the front-end developer I guess because he caused the issue to begin with.
Ask Grooveshark CTO Josh Greenberg anything about your startup
What's funny about all this is that cutting off communication stops people from calling in emergency, thus preventing life saving services from arriving at the scene in a timely manner. "shutdown the cellphone service for the safety of everyone". Sounds reminiscent of President Hosni Mubarak's plan of stopping the protest by shutting down cellphone and internet.

We need to hurry up and give our government the ability to have an Internet off switch, you know, for the safety of everyone.

If I buy a cellphone jammer and run it on my property near a government building because there is a protest going on... for the safety of everyone. I would be immediately arrested upon discovery of what I was doing.
By the time your startup reaches 50 employees, you will not be doing a bit of everything, but you'll be reading status reports that talk about a bit of everything. Been there, done that.

But yes, staying in touch with customers is one of the best actions a CEO can do.
They're state funded/run given that their officials are voted into office.
Making Contract Labor Work in Your Favor
Great, then I'll get it! Thanks!
Pjscrape: A web-scraping framework written in JS using PhantomJS and jQuery
Reading the Economist
in this case, legally it is a tricky issue and BART is probably and unfortunately in the clear on this.

BART cut power to the wireless sites in these/tunnels tations - they didn't ask the wireless providers to terminate their services. I suspect that since the wireless sites lease space and consume power from BART operated facilities, BART is well within their rights to terminate power and other services based on existing contractual agreements.

However, that doesn't make what BART did "right." It is downright disgusting and I hope that the wireless providers mount up and put some serious pressure on BART in response. Certainly the providers are paying serious money to BART to lease space to provide service to riders, and the optics of the loss of that will hurt BART far more than it will hurt the wireless providers. At the end of the day, loss of wireless lease would really be a punch in the gut to BART, not to mention the public safety issues.
The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics
Once I heard on the NPR radio that children metabolizes stimulus based drug (for ADD) differently than adults. Adults experience euphoria feeling.
I'm not sure why the difference is necessary in this case.

I think making someones day a brighter place can have a tremendous knock-on effect. If an anon gave me a cup of coffee, I might be more willing to donate to charity for anons benefit. To "pay it forward"( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward)

I don't find it convincing the suggestion that it would have been more effective to donate that coffee as charity, as opposed to promoting a society more amiable to giving.
It's an interesting idea but ultimately weakly supported with very few numbers. Just another ideologically driven fact-less polemic.
What happens if the change by the frontend developer enormously benefitted the users? Everyone was happier, except for the people collecting data...
There's a random, spammy-looking URL in the description, about call tracking metrics. Were you aware of that?
> while growth in US bureaucracy comes during a time in continued GROWTH in productivity, not decline.

A growth which has massively slowed. That it hasn't actually been outright negative is cold comfort.

Look at total factor productivity in the US: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-stagnat... (Notice all the supporting citations to other productivity measures in the comments.)
This Sam Odio guy sounds like an absolute douche.
I can already sign into a website from my browser
love an invite if possible. timesuck.guid@gmail.com
After Cairo, Twitter Still Sucks
At this point you can use the pay as you go option to send prints with flexibility. We are going to add a slick one-off printing and sharing interface over the next month. We are looking to experiment with ideas around the holiday season.
This is a great concept. I've been bidding on time here for the last couple of days and the stability of the site has improved a lot from when I was first using it.
This is fake or a scam!

There are same interesting quotes in the original article: http://wardsauto.com/ar/thorium_power_car_110811/

First, this is not a nuclear reactor: (at the end of the article)

This means no nuclear reaction occurs within the thorium.
It remains in the same state and is not turned into uranium 233,
which happens only if thorium is sufficiently super-heated
to generate a fission reaction.

It says that thorium has a lot of energy, not that they can extract it: (in the middle of the article)

Because thorium is so dense, similar to uranium, it stores
considerable potential energy: 1 gm of thorium equals the energy
of 7,500 gallons (28,391 L) of gasoline Stevens says.

And the explanation of how it works doesn't make any sense: (at the beginning of the article)

The key to the system developed by inventor Charles Stevens,
CEO and chairman of Connecticut-based Laser Power Systems,
is that when silvery metal thorium is heated by an external
source, it becomes so dense its molecules give off considerable heat.

The entire story sounds very similar to the presentations of the perpetual moving machines, or the cold fusion: a promise of a lot of cheap energy, but not a working prototype that produce more energy that it consumes.
Thank you for saying this more bluntly then I did:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659445

I was trying to be a bit more diplomatic but my feeling was the same. It serves no purpose to be so discrete all the time.
Five women's opinions about Hacker News collected from HelpaGuyOut.com
Re: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2872655

I paid for five women's first impressions about Hacker News from HelpaGuyOut.com and I thought I'd share. No affiliation with the site or anything.

#1: "Based on the URL, I went to the site with a preconceived notion of a new site. It seems to be a link sharing site, primary geared towards tech-oriented folks. It appears that every item is contributed by a user. There is some sort of voting/points system that probably helps determine which items the community deems important.

Upon further digging in, I discoverd that the 'new' section includes recently submitted links to various blogs and sites. Therefore, the main page (which had submissions with comparatively higher points), must list articles that have risen higer in ranking.

I was not able to relate to a lot of "Titles" of the submissions (for e.g. What is Django??).

Anyways, looks like a clean, neat, garbage-free site geared towards a particular niche. Easy to navigate, clutter free, and overall simplistically well designed."

#2: "First impression: It looks like a bare bones message board, or just a meta collection of hacker and/or programming message board threads and articles.

After clicking around: It's really just a blog filled with links to articles of relevance to those in the programming world (and slightly beyond), but allows the user to comment on the articles within the site, rather than on the external link sites. It's like facebook article commenting though it appears as though you can register and comment somewhat anonymously? It is somewhere in between a blog and a messageboard in that way."

#3: "I like it. Would be great if the search is in the main header"

#4: "It is way too wordy and overwhelming. I don't like reading emails that are so chock full of info that you feel you have to reserve another time to read it. There didn't seem to be many articles that I would be interested in reading either. It takes me a very long time to get through emails every day, so this is not something that I would consider checking out on a frequent basis."

#5: "I have spent some time on internet forums in my teenage years though most of them were not as niche as this one. The orange colour is a bit off putting. Based on the stories on the front page right now it seems the site is for programmers and people in the computer industry or in startups. Oh well.
However the page has a couple of interesting stories: one from slate about writing fast caught my eye. The interface seems a lot like reddit. Signing up is easy (thank god for no email verification or captcha).

Digging around a bit just confirms my initial hunch that the site is basically for programmers and startups. Not something I might spend a lot of time on. Maybe if there is a section specifically for general interest stories i would.

Overall the site looks simple and easy to use. But not my cup of tea.

On a side note, I had an ex boyfriend who spent a lot of time on the site.(He still does!!). First thing every morning, he would check out the site.That was a bummer."
So in effect the main problem with the Soviet system was that the wrong managers were in charge? What if they were selected meritocratically, e.g. if the Soviets had put the best scientists in charge of central-planned science/tech companies, instead of party stalwarts? You might argue that that's hard to do, but is that really the only problem with the Soviet system, that they didn't do a good job picking the right technocrats to put in charge of a command economy? Most critiques argue that command economies are inherently inefficient. But if it's really just a matter of doing a better job picking the technocrats to head a command economy, maybe communism can work after all, if it just develops a better assessment method for picking technocrats...
I agree with you. I don't think just because one's trait isn't optimal to the modern environment it should be as a mental disorder and try fixing by medication.
Curation is still a chore (we are looking into ways where we can fix that). Where we come in is the automation when you send us the photos. Each month we will group these photos you send us and send it to your recipients (grand parents or other family) in a nice package. It is not a fun experience to upload your photos and get them printed through most other services.
Show HN: Redis backed unsticky session manager for Tomcat
Apple Statistics and Lawsuits: Welcome to Moronica
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My iPad app got a bunch of good reviews, was featured in stores all over the world, and pulled close to 100 sales a day for the first week. It's looking like lifetime revenue is still going to be in four figures though. When I consider how much time it took to write, I could have easily made 10x the money consulting.

I know there are indie devs out there doing well on the app store but statistically speaking I'm not sure it's a smart investment of time compared to other options. Prices are too low and there's just too much competition.
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Additionally, market discipline means that even if you do get into a situation of Stalin managing Apple (or more realistically, Fiorina managing HP), it doesn't hurt me.

If HP makes crappy computers (or simply too few), I'll buy Lenovo. In contrast, if Stalin makes too little food, I'm hungry.

The entire purpose of corporations in a capitalist society is to get the benefits of central planning (technocratic experts engaging in central planning to achieve results better than free markets) without the harms (nowhere else to turn if the technocratic experts screw up). So far, they seem to be doing a great job of this.
Ask HN: 0 - 6 months of programming, what milestones should I be accomplishing?
I am looking to start LPTHW and would like to set tiny milestones from month 0 to 6, to keep me motivated...something similar to http://www.whitakerblackall.com/blog/first-six-months/ I'm really new to programming so I don't know the different branches, or what the possibilities are, I assume they are endless :P!
That's only really true if you also support antitrust laws, though (i.e. don't support laissez-faire capitalism). If you end up in a situation with entrenched whole-sector monopolies and high barriers to entry, it becomes much harder to buy an alternative, so the owns-all-computer-manufacturing HP could get away with shitty management for years or decades, and buy up or drive out of business (e.g. through temporary dumping) any nascent competitors.
I never said that stealing was O.K. Read my post again.

Both of your examples of ignore that there is an "appropriate" level security for those contexts. The tip jar is in the plain view of other diners and staff; the store has staff and video surveillance. I'll leave it to others to decide whether an unsecured cash account accessible to millions of anonymous users has appropriate security in place.
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Marissa Mayer is kicking our asses at Bejeweled with 409,950 points.
It's called The New Industrial State and JK Galbraith wrote about in 1967. It's also why companies hoard cash, so their managers can stay in control.

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