skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once in a blue moon I go back and find hanging replies to my comments, so I'm pretty sure these things stay alive for weeks, which is as long as we'd need them to.
I'm interested in participating.
Why Tech 'Treps are Up in Arms over the Protect IP Act
PG stays in his wonderland where Microsoft is no longer relevant. He said that a few years ago already. Microsoft still made billions of dollars selling windows in those years.

Same is the case with the surveys above. Everybody wanted to buy an iphone until android came along...
Google is strongly guided by the agents that shepherd it.
Miuccia Prada gets from her office to car via a giant slide
I can see the value in something like this, especially for more novice web developers who may not know the terms to search for in Google or StackOverflow to find what they need.

I understand it's rough, but here are something of the things I was expecting to see while I was browsing around:

- Some "category" pages, like dbm, are missing definitions. It would be great if definitions were present on every category page.

- I really like that some category pages include a curated list of articles that compare the different options within this class of products. This is exactly what I search for when researching new technologies.

- It'd be nice to have links to the Stackoverflow "tag" page on individual technology pages. For example, the MySQL page could link to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mysql

I could also see this information being shown in a more visual way. It'd be pretty interesting to allow companies to create an account and build a profile of what their web stack looks like. Maybe something similar to how GuitarGeek.com shows the rigs of famous guitarists? I'd be willing to bet that most web stacks would look more like Eddie Van Halen's setup (http://guitargeek.com/rigview/258/) rather than Angus Young's (http://guitargeek.com/rigview/312/) :)
it really is annoying though.
I just went back and looked at the code overhead of using actors over what it might look like with 2.9's parallel collections and the difference would be about 25-30 lines so I don't think that counts as a potentially "large code reduction". Wrapping three bits of code in actors doesn't add much ceremony (which is in fact a great example of how concise Scala can be when adding concurrency!).

(And parallel collections came in 2.9, not 2.8 - we'd already migrated, painfully, from 2.7 to 2.8)
I'm game. Where do we sign up ?
Which textbook are we talking about? Timing isn't perfect for me, but I'm willing to at least try until everything catches up with me.
The poor do not have free healthcare here. They have assisted/supplemented medical care in some states under certain conditions, less or none in others (like Illinois, where I live).

I know, as I have opened my home to someone who has been unemployed for some 18+ months, and though housing and food are taken care of, she struggles on the medical front. She previously had Medicaid in NY, which helped a lot, especially with covered prescriptions, but at the age of 30, she is ineligible for that same support here in Illinois.
Convore wouldn't be a bad idea for coordination and meeting. How about it ?
Valuation caps on convertible notes explained by graphs
Just submitted Play for Java. Great idea.
Thanks for that tip! i've been looking for a service like that, but I never saw that link on hipmunk.

Thanks for a great service.
>pie charts beyond about three wedges are utterly useless to the colorblind

The problem lies in using a color-coded legend, not in using pie charts per se. The slices of a pie chart can be labelled directly (instead of indirectly via a legend), e.g.,
http://www.fedstats.gov/kids/mapstats/graphics/pie.gif
Google launches Chinese deal aggregation
The development tools are free. Visual Studio Express is free. They are all you need for most any development scenario.

If for some reason, you need another edition of the development, you can get them free if you're a student (DreamSpark), a startup (BizSpark), or cheaper than $700 (MSDN sub).

I'd be interested to know why Express doesn't work for you?
Filesharing service sues Warner Bros. for copyright fraud
I actually prefer taht. It gives me a choice to pay for whatever I need to use as opposed to Apple where no matter whether I need it or not, I have to pay.
I was wondering about that banner!
Minimizing downtime on Amazon AWS
Think of the Golden Rule:

Should one treat others as one would like others to treat oneself? (the positive form)

Should one not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated? (the negative form)

I consider the maxim “Don't be evil” to be more actionable, useful, and meaningful than “Be good.”
yep. I just commented on exact wiki words.
Intel Claims Next Chip Will Run Your Laptop For 24 Hours On One Battery Charge
Thats why windows 8 stories are somewhere on the middle of the front apge whereas the top story is about some tweak google did to their flight search. This is HN!
exactly. there are superhuman freaks of nature: albert pujols and michael phelps come to mind. in addition, this study necessarily discounts the contribution of those that have actually changed entire industries. a single person might have one hour of production that creates a huge amount of wealth, maybe the ten years of research that culminates in a solution that, to get hyperbolic, changes everything. i think the key take away here is to not force people to work more than that want and need to.
Twitter recently released the bootstrap package. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
can run the copy of Home Landscape Architect 3D Pro Plus 2007

I'll be impressed if they can pull that off and still make it so I can carry it around like an iPad.

What I fear, however, is that they'll make this a hybrid that fails in both scenarios: not powerful enough to handle "3D PRo Plus 2007", yet too power hungry to let my wife watch 5 episodes of Desperate Housewives back to back.

Until I see production hardware, I'm on the fence.
Let me paraphrase that.

I can also see the approximate route the flight will take, with layovers and other planned stops.
Using devise for authentication in Rails 3 (for dummies)
Sure. No surprises. All decades old stuff.
Already mentioned, but if you really like using a textbook I can't recommend Strang's book enough. Its awesome, and go really well with his lectures.
It gives me an inaccurate rate and just sends me to ehealthinsurance.com where they ask for just a tiny bit more info (ages of all enrollees) and gives me a different, more accurate rate. So why do I go to pickhealthinsurance.com again? All it does is give a wrong answer and refer me to a competitor (at least I am perceiving you as trying to compete with the likes of ehealthinsurance.com) who gives me a correct answer.
I cannot replicate that. I have a lot of bookshelves, and they are all full.
Someone mentioned the Mass. HealthConnecter. Here is another established tool the developer should know about: https://calpers2011.chooser2.pbgh.org/Default.aspx

PickHealthInsurance looks nice and clean. Good job!
Yesterday I pushed a tiny javascript algebra on github. I'll just leave the link here:
https://github.com/plainas/ualgebra.js

It might be useful for you guys to check solutions and such.
As does any decent media player.
Algorithmic Trading is Not High Frequency Trading
I was going to leave a smartass comment about the deliciousness of pie when I scrolled down and realized that I left a similar smartass comment on the post last time I saw it years ago.
I'd expect someone supremely happy with their standard salaried job wouldn't be first out of the office every night, but I'd be alarmed if they were expected to dedicate their evenings and weekends to making their employers richer.
> If you have a life, I don't want you.

Seriously, there is a lot of judgement in that sentence.

"Having a life", having a family is a matter of choice. I can choose not to have a family and work on my pet projects. I choose how I spend my time. If I sacrifice relationships in favor of pet projects, does that make me a lesser person? could it possibly make me a better software developer?

Is it really unreasonable to imagine that there are many talented software developers in the "lifeless" set of people with pet projects? Perhaps the author is of the opinion that the set of people with pet projects have higher ratio of talent compared to the full set. That is not to say that there are not passionate talented people without pet projects.
yeah. although the main issue here is that the set of possible stacks ends up being a graph, so that's harder to represent. so it is difficult.

i bet the vast majority of stacks are still LAMP... but i agree with everything else.
Ask HN: What happens to the other browsers in the tile-based Windows 8?
From what I understand, the whole tile-based interface will be based on IE10. Will you still be able to use other browsers inside that UI paradigm? Or will you be forced to use the regular OS UI, if you want to use another browser?
thank you. i'll process submissions at some point.
Solyndra could be the biggest VC loss in history
I agree that not having side projects shouldn't be a disqualification, but I disagree that it shouldn't be a factor at all. Depending on the project it can show enthusiasm, a desire to learn technologies other than what your job uses, and the ability to carry through from an initial idea to a shipping product.
definitely on the todo list.
WebOS is still a native platform, you happen to build native apps using html and js. I mean native apps themselves are going to largely be phased out in the coming years. Samaung should be building something more like Google's ChromeOS.
If I have to scroll to see more than 20 headlines, I won't use it. So I'd say compact the space so that I see the headlines that I want to see in those first 20.

Example of a social news site that I don't like: http://www.newsvine.com/

There are three problems for me:

1) It doesn't fit 100% of my screen

2) This results in too few headlines so I have to scroll, scroll, scroll

3) There are no categories so I can't self-select

I like the MSNBC page about midway down where it lists the category, lets me select how many stories I want in a category, and crams a lot of headlines into a small area.

My $0.02 since you asked!
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No they want us to use their services because they make more money that way. And sure you have the choice of using competitors but let's be honest, Google has the option of always showing their own services in the #1 position in search results(i.e. search for any mortgage term).

And they also dominate any local keywords. Instead of going to the actual business's website, the first 10 results tend to be Google places.

Google wants to control all information. By being the defacto middle man between all businesses and their customers they are able to carve a large chunk of advertising dollars.
I'd also like to know which book. I just bought Strang's Introduction to Linear Algebra to study along with his video lectures.

If it's based on this book I'd love to join.
Target website crashes due to huge demand for Missoni products
Interesting idea. Suggestion: sort the categories at the top by how likely a project is to need/use them. Without getting into religious arguments, I think a fair example would be "language" and "webserver" should sort higher than "graph-store" and "mapreduce".

Also might be a good idea to define the categories for newbies. Most of the categories will need explanation for newbies.

Cool idea, though. I used to use jakarta.apache.org for a similar purpose.
I would be curious to do this and am in Chicago. Hopefully I wouldn't hold back the group!
> If your startup is involved with search aimed at the consumer market, watch out...Google is coming.

Possibly... However sites like hipmunk will be used as a comparison in so many press articles and blog posts when google starts pushing this.

Many start ups have won against google. Google Notepad & Evernote, Google Wave & Twitter, Google Ride Finder & Uber etc...

.. but I still wouldn't want to be in this space right now.
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Clickable links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0abA1fksE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovUMS3f-QLw
That's 85% market share of the legacy platform.
Ah - that explains the voluminous library. I missed the references to octopart in some of the library parameters - IMO, that should be called out as feature.

It'd be cool to go from the end of a search via octopart ui to a new symbol in upvert without cutting and mis-pasting part numbers.
The Interview Question You Should Always Ask
Right, in fact, I'm suggesting that he not ignore a notice of a suit, and instead remove the app from the store. There may be a case for stopping him from continuing to sell the app, and by removing it, he eliminates that case. The case for "damages" done by selling the app up until the date of the lawsuit is a different case, and I believe a more difficult case to make than the "he's using our trademarks" case.

Since anyone can get these same broadcasts via the internet, that he is letting people get, via the internet, it is kinda hard to say he's damaged CBC's ability to distribute the broadcasts, via the internet, which they distribute for free. He can't have cut into any of their sales... so the claim that he's damaged them in some way becomes kinda tenuous.
Cool idea! Definitely makes research a lot easier! Any reason why CSS isn`t on the list of languages? My web stack in the past has included CSS pre-processers, like LESS and Sass.
I don't get scribd. It's annoying to get a link to their site with various limitations and cludges screwed on top of otherwise perfectly readable document.

Since this is YC company, don't you happen to now if there is some not-trivially-googleable place where I can read about their agenda or fundraising pitch?
Travel 50-100% for current job. Having a kid with special needs. Having multiple children. Owning a home. Aging parents with disabilities. Outdoors/Travel nut (you or spouse). Civic/political/community involvement.

Any of these personal situations can eat into your "personal" time considerably. Add up 2 or more, and your remaining personal time is what you carve out of your sleep hours.

I'm lucky that I don't have to work two jobs like of the less fortunate, and I don't fall into all (or even most) of the categories above, but I don't watch TV and I don't have a github page.
What I would be more interested is interconnectivity between these elements of the stack, which rdbms have an API for the language I have selected for example.
Love it. Someone please write a Node.js library for generating these.
> While these changes feel like an answer to the rise of Google+, the search giant’s social network, Ross says that’s not the case. “We’ve been iterating on this in the last four years,” he said.

Then this is going to be a revolutionary feature, because four years is a damn lot of time to spend of friends list management.

Just for once I'd love to see a company say "yeah, our competitor released something that really made us get off our asses." It would be something refreshingly close to honesty, and at least in this case the turnaround time on the response isn't really embarrassing.
Profit is a large motivation, for sure. There are some folks at Google (I'm guessing particularly on the business side), who probably have that as their primary motivation.

I think the core of Google is Larry, Sergey, Urs, Craig, and the other dozens of engineers I've read about (never met), and from their actions and words over a course of a decade, I think they've proved that a huge motivator for them all is to simple make the world better.

They've all got lots of money. I think the long term evidence shows that they care about doing good. I think their motivation for earning money is to expand their own ability to do good.

If someone disagrees, instead of responding with more argument I'd ask you to make a table and list everything Google done has done in one column and whether or not it seems "good" or "evil" in another. Then we could debate further.
I think it's at least somewhat likely that this was staged to get even more publicity for the product.

The reason I say this is static web content is easy to scale; there should be no reason for all of target.com to go down.
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http://kayak.com/buzz has had this forever.
The license being discussed in the Wikipedia article linked is for end users of the devices, not the manufacturers.
See also "I don't program in my spare time. Does that make me a bad developer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664243

My thoughts on spare-time projects in relation to other professions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664358
They already have some of this in Win7, the ability to link an ID, etc.
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Awesome! I would love to see a "this is my stack" tool: let people choose parts (maybe in an easy click and drag way) to show their complete stack. With a few stack data points, you could have templates, which users can start with and tweak to show their exact stack.
Just see the keynote again. It actually uses less resources even today as compared to Windows 7 SP1.
Looking for engineer (full-stack) AND employee #1 AND rider of unicorns
Looking for employee #1. We're a pre-launch startup in the social, mobile, consumer area. Yes, all the buzz words. Bzzzzzzzz. Founders are in their 20's. CEO is an ivy league drop-out and has already sold a company. This go-around he's thinking much, much bigger. We like hop hop and we like sports. We're Nerd 2.0.

tldr:
- iOS, python, django, redis, js
- Ability to work up and down the stack
- Scale to millions of users
- Driven by outcomes, not hours
- Excellent coding ability in presence of flying nerf darts

Beyond your amazing hacking skills, this is who we wanna work with:

People Who Want To Win
We wanna work with people who push to be the best. They're motivated and hungry. They hate to lose and love to win.

People Who Get What They Want
We wanna work with people who are used to getting what they want in life -- whether in work, school, dating or other. We're looking for people who refuse to lose.

People Who We Can Trust
We strive for a culture of openness, honesty and transparency. No secrets. No politics. No drama. We don't care who gets the credit, as long as the team wins.

People Who Aren't A-holes
It's a "No Douchebag" zone. Life is simply too short to be working with jerks. We're looking for people who are fun to be around.

People Who Are Curious
We wanna work with people who are constantly learning and growing. They like to challenge themselves. They explore and discover. They are not afraid to fail.

People Who Work Hard
We're looking for people who get an insane amount of stuff done in a short amount of time. It's not about hours or time. It's about being smart, organized, and disciplined.

People Who Are Passionate
We want people who are passionate about what they do. You can feel their fire. It's contagious. They're bouncing off walls. They love life and they love challenges.

People With Imagination
We wanna work with people who dream big. They imagine themselves doing great things and building amazing products. It's normal to be a little bit delusional. We embrace it.

Oh and this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
Our CEO does that but while riding unicorns.

Email if you're interested: throwaway94103@gmail.com
It's odd that the limits are just in the data it seems, not in actual limit checks. So when you hit a limit, it's indistinguishable from there being no available flights... which seems very bad for UX.
What desktop PC? Running what? I do have a desktop PC and I do do business with Word documents. But on my latest machine I have yet to install Office (though I have two legal copies) because Google Docs works just fine.
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ohloh.net has a "stacks" feature that crowd-sources this kind of information. It would be neat to tie these together.
I agree. I'm superstitious about origins. When something spontaneously happens at location X it's good to let it continue to evolve there. I say we stay where the party started. We can post occasionally and nobody who's uninterested need look at it. I also confess to tasting sweet irony in the idea of turning HN to more productive use. I feel like I've finally got my enemy in a corner. (The internet has never stopped me from working, but man has it stopped me from learning. But I digress.)

As for what book: "Linear Algebra and its Applications" by Strang does sound like a good fit for hackers. I was convinced by this review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R289C7K1TN2RO2/ref=cm_cr_pr_per.... Some cheaper copies are available on Abebooks.

There's a case to be made for the other Strang, but again - origins are magic, so unless there's a compelling negative I say we stick with tptacek's original inspiration.
I try to get a flight from Frankfurt - the 9th busiest airport in the world. - and I get "Unavailable".

Post this again when I can actually use it.
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How far is the TSA willing to go?
Exactly. This would intimidate my aunt; Hipmunk would amaze her.
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I saw a documentary about advertising agencies. They interviewed someone working at the marketing division of nike. She said her job was to get people to play sports. That of course is not true. Her job is to get people to buy shoes. I think your comment is misguided as well. Google really just wants people to click on ads.
Composing financial contracts in Haskell
And if that causes you not to want someone, then I don't want you!
This is one of those late nights at Hipmunk.

Good luck guys!
Capacitors (well, RC systems) are exponential in time, but their relationship between voltage and current is purely linear. So if you want to use capacitors to do exponentials, and your machine inputs are in voltage or current, you need a way to convert a voltage or current to a time delay.

More typically, I think electronic analog computers used the exponential region of a semiconductor diode to do logarithms and exponents, and thus multiplication and division, in nanoseconds, using 1950s technology. You can use capacitors and inductors to integrate and differentiate time-varying functions.
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I wonder if you could apply to ycombinator to build a better hackernews...
Ah, I forgot that every person out there is like you.

Sarcasm aside, a lot of people still use Office. Far more than use Google Docs. Even businesses that are using Google Apps for e-mail still use Office for their documents. Being able to edit documents with 100% reliability on a tablet could be a big deal when it comes to corporate tablet purchases, for a start.
I can understand non-commercial piracy, but these download sites are evil parasites. It's a clever business model, though.
Mind-blowing :) Anything online showing this?
I would suggest making it clear to users that the chats run through an external server.
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That was the same question I had. It seems that CrimeSpotting measures police reports, which are skewed toward whatever crime the police are cracking down on.
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For one who works with HFT systems, an extremely refreshing clarification.

Though I do get a chuckle out of the extremely bombastic stories ("MAN OBSOLETE? COMPUTERS TAKING OVER!!!"), it's nice to see the record set straight. Sadly this will get 1/10000th of the page views of the garbage articles it dissects.
Thanks. Incidentally, this is the kind of stuff that I should still remember from university.
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