skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers are a dime-a-dozen. If you want to be treated less than human, go into development!
Ah, sorry poor wording. What I mean is that a developer's skill increases non-linearly with experience. That is, there is a sharp spike after only a few years of working in industry. I won't argue that skill doesn't continue to increase with experience, but I think the difference between my skill in 9 years may be proportionally lower than the skill difference now and in, say, 2 years. However, employers generally seem to work on linear experience models, so if I start at $80k now, in 2 years I may get a simple cost of living + (hand-wavy) 10% salary increase, whereas if your assertion is correct I should probably be getting paid closer to the controlling market salary of >$120k. Do you think the proper way to handle this is for new developers to quit after 2 years?
I will bet you $500 USD that Groupon does not IPO in 2011.
Thing is there is no reason to change lightbulb technology the old bulbs worked perfectly.

So when new bulbs are put on the market it isn't unrealistic to expect them to work as least aswell as the ones they are supposed to replace. When they fail to do that, why should we risk even more money just because thay are supposed to be less bad now.
I think the present tense recommendation comes from the expectation that each commit works as a stand-alone patch. Thus the commit message does not describe what changes you did to the repository, but what the patch does to it.

Git provides a wealth of tools to craft perfect commits, and if you use them, it's not difficult to end up with a nice history of "add this, remove that, modify something else" changesets that (usually) would make sense even when separated from the surrounding history.
I'd also like to see the correlation between prior sexual abuse and selling sex at college. I would assume that those who were abused may be more likely to do so, but by how much? Is the group of students that do this 99% abused (1% not) or is it closer to something like 60/40?
That other "TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over As We Know It" may have been quite prescient... seems like they are down entirely for me right now. Will have to wait to read this article.

I am quite curious about the future of WebOS having just experienced it recently on one of the blowout HP Touchpads. I'm rather impressed by it though it runs like crap on the Touchpad. (until you overclock it to 1.7Ghz...then it runs like a charm) The whole 'cards' concept is winning me over. Sad to say I think it's going to become an 'also ran'. I am a Palm fan from way back to my Sony Clie days... here's hoping someone makes good use of a promising system.
You should be hungry to learn software development regardless of whether or not you are working as one professionally.
Looks like someone was right...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190453740457655...
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For years the cat was bored with the mouse so it just kept it caged up and starving. But the mouse got fat and juicy anyway. Now the cat is licking its lips.
Just out of interest, why would you make that assumption?
What are the best resources for a complete beginner to learn Scala from?
This is an interesting bit all by itself, you could be ordering the exact same medication from Canada at a lower price and it would still be illegal, but it actually shouldn't be.

The free market is great as long as it doesn't cost Uncle Sam or big companies their taxes or margins.
I was amazed to see how clear the chart is even having that much information in it. You guys really managed to turn data into stories. I definitely recomend it.
Octopress is basically a thin layer over Jekyll with some default themes and example sites included.
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Sticker printing is considered a very creative and artistic method to promote your business. Almost all businesses launch some sort of this marketing technique since it arrests the attention of the potential customers and motivates them to buy your products. Sticker printing is very effective and efficient way to promote small businesses. This is versatile and can be used in a number of ways to gain long term business goals.
Yeah, I'm convinced. The passive-voice metaphor alone is difficult to resist.
If he wanted to troll 4Chan he wouldn't have raised $3.6m for it?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/canvas-networks
I think that this is too broad of a generalisation. I personally, and many of my friends as well much prefer whiter light. When I go to the store I buy the bright white CFL's [1] that make the dark go away ... ;-)

I know of many other people, including most of my family that prefer that type of light over the yellow light that incandescence provide. I grew up on CFL's though, my grandpa used to work at Phillips and used to get massive discounts on all of their products.

[1]: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100686993/h_d2/Produ...
The page loaded completely empty for me, even after enabling every prompted script domain via NoScript. Curious, I checked the source, and it looks like the page essentially consists of script elements within an unclosed head tag:

http://pastebin.com/JkVyL9tb

sigh...
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"Git provides a wealth of tools to craft perfect commits"

Pointers please?
I'm not trying to be negative, but the puerile nature of these type of sites nauseate me. I used to love Ebaums and Compfused a few years back, but now these meme sites seem trite. I guess it's just me getting older.
It's the law of cycles. Techcrunch has had a good run, but in the internet era, a fast paced blog can't last forever. See the downhill progress of Engadget and Gizmodo. Time to make room for a new king of the hill.
Wow. This is an astonishingly hypocritical screed coming from a college that costs $55,000 a year.
They could be funded by Crunchfund
True, but the best engineers are the ones that can adapt to new skillsets quickly.

For example, I'm willing to bet that 99% of the most successful iOS developers had not written a line of Objective-C until 3 years ago. Apple simply provided an opportunity and they embraced it, learning the skills they need to adapt.
Because politicians want power and there is no power in letting people decide for themselves what they want to do.

It isn't going to save me money though, because i am going for the halogen bulbs which save only 30% and then buying those that are a bit more powerful than the bulbs they will replace (ie 40 gets reålaced by a sixty).

Fuck politicians.
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I've previously suggested that MG and some of the crew should go join the upcoming Verge
The interface seems pretty substantially better (read: easier to navigate and interact with) than any other “swap image ‘meme’” sites. The content and discussion seems about on par with YouTube. I think that’s just what you get when you build a community consisting of generic 10–20 year-olds. There’s no reason that I can see for the snide tone of your comment.
CakePHP Website Returning HTTP Error 502
Is anyone else having problems accessing the site?
I agree, the new commits use a different motif than the old ones and it definitely looks odd (especially on the code tree pages). Maybe this is the sign of a coming design refresh?
One thing that works well for that is using shared folders on the VM. I have a folder 'projects' on my windows drive that is a shared folder on all my VMs. It's mounted with fstab on boot, and works like a charm mostly. I say mostly because the last few Linux kernels/VirtualBox extensions/VirtualBox releases haven't been playing nice, where the VM filesystem is "out of sync" with the host filesystem, especially when creating and deleting files (updating is fine).

Haven't played with vagrant, but it sounds great.
Pretty boring until you see the comments or "remixes": http://canv.as/p/u5ts
"To test this proposition, make college free. If college girls were no longer desperately in need of money... When a young woman is in desperate need of money and a wealthy man comes along and uses that vulnerability to get sex, that’s the definition of exploitation."

I would say that the poor blamed site is less responsible for the exploitation happening, and the mre responsible is higher education being paid and pretty expensive in USA.

The site in question is a mere adaptation against a problem.
And the problem have a lot more grave consequences than some victimless prostitution. Like having no future.
Again.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3547566/Pal...

/fixed-story
Time to learn a new framework! Down for me also
Oren Jacob, former CTO of Pixar, explains why he left to do a startup
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That's what happened with the old kuro5hin ads also, which also had comment threads by default. Non-annoying ads that seemed like they had some idea of what community they were targeting typically got good responses; annoying ads that looked like they had no idea where they were advertising didn't. Of course, some advertisers mixed the two, and deliberately antagonized the audience to get attention (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/12/5/1923/79187).
Looks really nice.

Super small feedback on the video on the front page: There's a strange peeping noise every time the mic is activated and the lady talks. Kind of confused me and had to listen to her a second time.

Is it real time?
And yet you don't have contact details in this submission, nor in your profile, and your HN username is un-googleable.

Are you sure you want more business?
I find memory hogging server processes running a different OS than my server to have too many inconveniences.
Numbers in commit messages don't really make any sense. I don't understand what value they might have. The narrative of your codebase is hard to follow when large number of your commits don't have any message explaining what you've done.

I like to commit (quite) frequently when working on something, but later I feel that work-in-progress commits are just hindrance. When looking at project history after two year, I'll be glad if there is a single, larger commit "implemented feature x". Rebase is your friend.
That process of drinking the soup and learning what to swallow and what to spit out is an incredible learning experience. That is a skill and comes from trial and error, reading everything, and trying things. And you are training yourself in that process and mindset of learning on your own.

Agree though that learning best practices is difficult without some guidance and working with others.
Because others did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution#Consent

Studies also show that most women in prostitution, including those working for escort services, have been sexually abused as children.[link]
Think bundler = pip, virtualenv = rbenv
Interestingly, locally to me most software development jobs want Oracle, Java, and Microsoft to be on your resume. There's an odd posting here and there for embedded developers (bare metal, Linux, RTOS, etc), but by and large, if you can't do Oracle, Java, and Microsoft (.NET, etc), you're going to have way less jobs to apply for. Ruby, Python, Haskell, and other things discussed on HN don't seem to be in demand based on my limited searching around.

I'd postulate that working in startups will net you skills that are valuable to other startups. Working in established companies using "enterprise" software systems will net you value to other "enterprise" software companies.

On a slightly sad but related note, there's not much on indeed.com for mechanical engineers. They all seem to be leaving upstate NY even faster than the software people.

Personally, I'd like to see more local jobs posted for up-and-coming tech. I think OpenCL / CUDA has quite a future solving some rather hard problems quite a bit faster.
That would likely be PHP throwing a fatal error and bailing out.
It's not Chrome's fault, it's Windows'. Font rendering sucks on Windows compared to on OS X.
Coincidently, the retail price of the Apple I was $666.66.
200 million cheap?

You're kidding right? If not, what multiple of profits would you think is reasonable for an established business?

What amazes me is that reddit as it is today would be valued at more than several 10's of millions.
I've found it's pretty seamless. You're editing files on your local dev machine, which vagrant auto-mounts in the guest OS. Ports are automatically forwarded to your host dev machine, so my workflow is literally exactly the same as if I developed directly in OS X. The only difference is first having to run "vagrant ssh" to run commands in the dev environment, but for having a repeatable, share-able, isolated environment with all dependent libraries automatically installed, it's well worth typing "vagrant ssh".
Agree with most of it except its not that thats the wrong question its just that the answer is to try.

Get started and build something. Stumbling and not knowing already but figuring it out are part of the process and are valuable skills.

Also the whole buy a mac thing. It never ceases to amaze me how many people completely fail to realize how much privilege it takes to have the money to purchase a mac. Or the time it can take to save the money. When someone can get started on things that are a fraction of the cost.

You can get a cheap office depot or walmart laptop and an entire year of linode or whatever vps you like for the cost of a used mac
"The sub-reddit system could theoretically segment the audience in interesting ways, but other than r/gaming, there aren't many natural industry fits amongst popular sub-reddits." In my opinion this is only true for a few (admittedly most popular) subreddits like r/funny and r/wtf and everything nsfw . Nearly every subreddit that I read has an industry that fits, r/photography -> photo gear, r/parenting -> baby stuff, r/science -> journals and books, r/somethingimade -> etsy, etc. I'm also sure that reddit knows a lot more about my interests than google and facebook together. But maybe that's just me...
Of course, Steve Mann's telepointer helped define the field of AR!

If you (a user) do think that screen size is too small, it is possible to take the approach of having large, opaque screens that show the entire scene, so none of the real light makes it through.

For example, imagine a helmet that has two screens inside, which are showing a heavily augmented version of the video streams from a pair of plenoptic cameras (lytro.com) that are mounted on the front of the helmet.
Does anybody have a working link? I keep getting redirected to some onswipe spam page which won't let me scroll down and which appear to have been installed as some sort of hack on his blog (similar to to those hackers which serve up million of spam links to google from some blog, but hijacking my browser instead)
That's just how you perceived my comment. I wasn't being snide at all. Perhaps you were already on the defensive side when you read it. The images really are unfunny and uninteresting (not their fault), the interface is bubbly[1] (which isn't a negative thing), and the idea isn't novel. I did go out of my way to reassure them that there wasn't anything wrong with the site itself.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bubbly (so that we're clear about what I meant)
Fair point on the Mac. It's a luxury no one should take for granted.
Gee, what a sensationalist title. Luckily, only the title, but still.
There's also the danger of being ahead of the market (at least your local market): in '98, I wanted to take this great language (Java) I'd spent a year working with but none of the companies in Ireland had adopted it yet. Now I'm itching to ditch Java for Rails which I've been using in my spare time. Now all the local companies only want Java :(

Matching your skills to market isn't just about learning the latest tech. And, incidentally, most of these companies still discount any experience that isn't "commercial"
Vagrant should auto-mount the directory containing the Vagrantfile as /vagrant in your guest OS. I normally add my Vagrantfile directly to my git repository, checkout the git repository on my OS X machine, and edit the files directly on the OS X filesystem (and use Github's OS X client). The files will still be available in your vagrant machine, and if you really want to you can automate a symlink from /vagrant to /home/vagrant, or wherever you want.
I've been using it for a number of weeks. Great so far. Lets me correlate my Google Analytics and Twitter Campaign data for my web site www.contractjob.net.
git rebase

http://progit.org/book/ch6-4.html
git amend
git rebate -i ...
If they keep Reddit as part of the mothership they can't sell it whole or in part. This is the first step in a process of divestment. The valuation that they are tossing around should be seen as the asking price if and when they do. It would highly surprise me if that asking price was met or even approached by an outside party.

Note that a deal at that valuation did not go through, and that likely that valuation was an important reason why it didn't.
Gaming isn't even an especially lucrative market in terms of ads.

Now, if they had a /r/PharmaExecutives...
Some thoughts on MIT's SMT Solvers Summerschool 2011
What If Women Ruled the World?
Show HN: 3D network graph of bands on Wikipedia
I think the ratio of quality/to quantity has slid in the direction that popularity will always push it in.

What's interesting about reddit, is that's a way to preserve the quality. Reddit is like a hipster dog chasing its own tail. As the popularity grows the quality keeps moving to ever newer sub-reddits.
Whoops, I thought my email address was visible. My mistake. I updated my profile.
I'm interested in seeing how this is going to become truly profitable, attract more investors, etc.

With images of obese kids with text like "OBJECTION" and "Don't you dare eat it!" and pictures of cats with text "YOU GONNA GET RAPED" and Katy Perry being green slimed with "HULK CAME" all on the front page, I'm failing to really understand where this site goes beyond 4chan with regard to money-making and becoming a truly public, widespread site. If I recall correctly, at TED Moot said that he, for obvious reasons due to the content of 4chan, was having trouble making the site really profitable.

Does prohibition of gore and porn images make Canvas suddenly more profitable than 4chan?

I can just see X company getting really upset when their ad is placed right next to some incredibly racist image/text that slipped through.

Time will tell, I guess.
> Compared to the US, life expectancy is 2.4 years longer

Yes, but if Canada is like almost every other country, Canadian-Americans live longer than their countrymen who didn't leave.

> government regulators are less corrupt.

Yup, they're just like Minnesota and the other demographically similar states.

Moving on....

> Ordering drugs from Canada is not unsafe.

Does Canada care what happens to not-Canadians who buy drugs by mail order? (Honest question - I don't know.)

FWIW, I thought that legit drug companies had solved this "problem" by limiting their sales to Canada so that the supply matched the local demand. If so, would Canada forgo drugs for its residents so outsiders can get a bargain?
6 companies doing big data in the cloud
;) Thx Ben!
Show HN: What rapper are you? (my first NLP project in Python/Bottle)
Can Gamification Help Solve the Online Anonymity Problem?
I don't think the two actions (raising money and trolling 4Channers) are mutually exclusive. I don't think he deliberately went out of his way to troll anyone, but that is most likely how it will be seen by some users. For their Commander in Chief to create a site like this it's actually funny. There's no way in the world he doesn't know that 4Chan users hate sites like these. Maybe he doesn't want them to migrate over? He does want to make some money, after all.
Just finished this website a few days ago and looking for some feedback.

The program has analysed 300 east and 300 west coast lyrics and looked at the words used in those to train a Naive Bayesian Classifier using the Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Python. It then lets you put in a twitter name and loads its latest 174 tweets and classifies that bag of words to the classifier to let you know if you tweet like west coast or east coast rappers rapped in the nineties.

I finally got NLTK to work online after trying different hosting companies. Decided to learn Bottle to build the web version of the program and it was a breeze, which was awesome as I am really a beginner in programming.

Loved to getting my first real project done and working without quitting before it was finished. Extended my knowledge in jQuery and css a bit and overall had a lot of fun.

I wanted to ask you guys what you think of it and if you have any suggestions both content and design wise.

I found that after getting it to work I was kinda lost in the design. It's funny: when the code works it works, but designing seems to be a never ending job of improving and not being satisfied.
Would you pay for a Super Bowl commercial out of your own pocket? Steve Jobs did
"during the winter time" being the operative word. Deep cold in winter is about 3 month, and few more months of lesser heat.

But the light bulbs are used the entire year. Plus the light bulb is positioned suboptimally for heating - usually in the ceiling, or even worse in cans.

And people use A/C in the summer, so add about 1/3 to the energy waste.
Report: Groupon May Delay IPO
And the reddit enhancement suite will let you block imgur posts.
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xrandr doesn't give any useful information. There is a "monitor connected" value, but it always reports Yes.

The photodetector idea is interesting. Do you think the ambient room light would cause any problems?
I think the assumption here is that if someone asks you, “I want to learn to code, what should I do?” they know you already, since if they were asking the anonymous internet hordes, they're already basically doing what this post suggests.

If you ask someone you know for advice, you aren't going to get the same thing you get if you ask Google, and you aren't even necessarily looking for the same thing. I was in exactly this situation earlier in the summer, when my brother asked me, after taking MIT's intro to programming class using Python, "What language should I learn next?". When he asked me that, he wasn't looking for the best possible answer from the best engineers who are posting to Stack Overflow, he was asking his brother, who might be able to help him when he stumbles, since I would likely recommend languages I know. I also know that he's not a CS student, he's studying urban planning, so I could reply with that understanding, and say that he might not need to learn another language at all, but instead could branch out with Python to hack on stuff he didn't get to work on in his CS and GIS classes, like web programming or games.

So no, don't just point them at Google. Tell them YOUR story about how you learned to program, and tell them what YOU would do differently. Tell them to learn a language that you know, so you can help them. Or a language you want to learn, so you can learn with them. I know that teaching yourself via Google can be extremely gratifying, and I think it works great for some people, myself included. However it doesn't work for everyone, and sometimes it's nice to have a personal connection like this: "I learned to program when X helped me to do Y."

edit

as I was writing this I was itching to reach for something I'd read before, and I remembered now that it was probably Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years". There he suggests a way to choose a language: "Use your friends."