skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this myself and see it in others at work (large fortune 500 company)

The 3 paths that I've identified for myself are as follows:

1. Suck it up, stick with the job/career you've got. It pays well, there is "relative" job security and an upwards path. Enjoy your free time with your family, hobbies, etc.
2. Same as #1, except some part of your free time to bootstrap something that will give you financial freedom.
3. Throw caution to the wind and join a startup.

Per #1, it appears that some are able to partition their lives- e.g., they drag themselves through work to enable them and their families to live a certain lifestyle- I'm not sure this is sustainable longer term, but can be done if one adopts a certain mental attitude towards work. #3 isn't a good fit for me because I'm not ready to force my family to change their lifestyle to accommodate my wishes. So that leaves #2 for me.

Ideally, if I could sustain myself and my family at our current lifestyle or better through a side boot-strapped project, that'd be great. However, I wonder if I would be happier trading in my 1 boss for tens?, hundreds?, of customers of whatever it is that I would be selling or making, assuming that I could even get to that point. Even if my bootstrapped project is successful for a year or two, it is unlikely to succeed for a much longer term (10-20 years), whereas I could see myself easily employed in my current role over that longer time-frame.
As more of us rely on our mobile devices to browse the net, and as this trend picks up, wouldn't this mean that Amazon has a unique vantage point to see what people are searching for, in terms of content, products etc?

With each product iteration or rollout, it seems like we are increasingly giving up more than our dollars at the point of sale, like privacy - allowing companies to have complete access to our browsing/spending preferences.
Just tried to order the new non-touch Kindle (which ships today):
Kindle, Wi-Fi, 6" E Ink Display cannot be shipped to the selected address. A non-US address was selected for this US-only Kindle.

BEZOS!!!
$199 Kindle Fire Tablet Pre-order Launched
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3 Stupidly Simple Ways To Automate Your Business
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Is RSpec, Cucumber, et al Making Testing Too Risky?
Are the complexities of our testing frameworks going to make the long term viability of our test suites too risky?
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I always find "50% F&A" to be misleading. You add 50% to the grant budget to figure out how much money to ask for. Therefore, the actual amount of the grant that goes to overhead is more like 33%.
For me, more than visual cruft (although I would argue there is more of that than before) - it's interaction cruft.

Big annoyances for me:

1. Auto suggesting and searching for words I didn't mean - common with technical phrases

2. Ignoring "quoted terms" and searching for them as an AND instead

3. Auto refreshing the results page as I modify my terms - it makes the experience slower, and I don't need to see results for half-typed words

There's probably more I can't bring to mind right now.
There is nothing textbook about Scrum without flexibility.
Another Microsoft botnet takedown (Kelihos)
Amazon.com Updated: Kindle Fire
A Genetic Algorithm Framework in Clojure
I love this form factor and price, but is anyone else concerned about the whole cloud proxy (remote EC2 / S3 cache)? This puts all of your browsing history on their servers so forget privacy. It would even enable them to do things like substitute their own ads in place of the originals etc.

On the one hand the predictive thing seems really cool and the techy in me is excited about the idea. On the other hand I'm really not a fan of a remote cache from a privacy perspective.
> F# besides having all features of OCaml.

Some important features, such as modules, are missing in F#. I suppose the intention is to replace them by interfaces and classes, but modules in particular are an important omission that makes me prefer OCaml (though I like both ;)).
This is great. I have no doubt that there is life elsewhere in the Universe. It just makes sense. Any thoughts? Am I overstating the probability of life?
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Interesting. Found some more details here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2#silk
Microsoft neutralizes Kelihos botnet
I'll definitely implement a cache model to show cache behavior. I'm not sure branch prediction is realistic, though; I'm not actually parsing the code myself, so finding the branch points would be a lot of extra work. I'm considering a scheme where you have to call an extra function inside each branching statement to get useful branch prediction results. Something along the lines of:

for x in foreach([1...VA.length], "for1")
y = 0
while branch(VA.gt(x, y), "while1")
y++
if branch(y == x, "if1")
break
VA.insert(x, y)

Where the `branch`, `foreach` functions are identities over their first argument, and they use the second argument to to track branching for a given branch point (i.e. you must uniquely name each branch, foreach line). A foreach would be a branch run arg0.length + 1 times, with arg0.length true branches followed by a single false branch. Sound at all reasonable?
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This won't work for anything but the most basic puzzles. Brute force just constitutes basic gameplay. To solve a moderately advanced Sudoku puzzle you need to compare potential candidates in groups. Then it gets even more advanced with a handful of trial and error techniques.
Ask HN: Manage Technical Debt in a Lean Start-Up?
How does one balance rapid iteration with management of technical debt during early product development? (By debt I am specifically referring to test coverage, design problems associated with new features added at top speed, growth of code base with features that may not serve eventual core customer profile, etc.) If a product's GA is an important milestone, is the importance of managing debt the same both before and after. Are techniques for managing debt the same before and after? What has worked and not worked for you? What guidelines have you used or ignored and with what result?
What other institutions do this?
Google does not ignore quoted terms.

I for one love instant and suggestions.
In the two years that I've owned my Kindle, I don't think that I've ever used the keyboard (at least not intentionally).
He or she is saying that some people who were not looking for the advanced features bought the iPad because it was the only tablet available beyond some minimum.
> using whatever definition of "undistorted" you like

My definition includes the absence of violence, threats of violence, or dishonesty.

If the only reason people aren't using BitTorrent downloads is threats of violence (which is what threats of internet disconnection are, albeit at several levels removed), then it isn't a free/undistorted market.
Here's hoping Amazon give you the option to turn it off.
This is more than just a quirk. Lets go through the bogons here:

1. Signal system confuses notifications with commands

2. API ties windows to threads

3. System allows you to send WM_DESTROY from one thread to another even though it provides undefined behavior

4. DestroyWindow() can only be called from a particular thread (related to item #2)

5. The API doesn't detect that the window has been destroyed as far as the application is concerned (whatever happens in ForgetWorkerThread() or PostQuitMessage(), the window actually goes away) without a DestroyWindow() call.

In short, WTF.

[edit: format]
Microsoft Will Get Royalties on Every Android Device Samsung Sells
its true, once you throw in windows stuff (especially wm6), this sounds terrible.

but the counter is that debian is really cool, but the ubuntu branch is a home run. so in conclusion… I dont know. but new is better than stagnate.
Thanks for the link, looks good. The price "with special offers" is U.S. only, but most everybody else can also buy from amazon.com at 109 USD.

Seems that E.U. Europeans get to pay VAT: "Your international shipment is subject to VAT. This is the same VAT rate you pay when you buy products in your country. There are NO customs duties or any other fees."
I'm in London. Where's my nearest B&N so I can go and pick one up?
Great extension for firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...
Boston Dynamics' Bigger BigDog Robot Is Alive (WITH VIDEOS)
Around the 3:00 mark, they start talking about interesting things, like reducing the number of network requests.
Not to mention some textbooks which are $50 less in Kindle format. That brings the total cost of the Kindle hardware to $29 for a college student with one required book.

If more than one textbook is available for Kindle, it could actually be a net bonus.
Wouldn't the amazon silk team post on an Amazon blog?
You can do some pretty amazing stuff to get much better pictures with multiple cameras. The stuff they did with the Nokia phone with 1 camera is pretty impressive, but having multiple can really do wonders. The other advantage to multiple cameras is the ability to have less dense sensors allowing more light.

I am not a big fan of 3D currently. I just don't see it as good for small devices and it is hard on the eyes. I really think that the other uses for computational photography would make for a killer feature on a main stream phone.
The Quiet Triumph of Open Standards
students at almost every major university can get all the journal articles they want for free at their library.

Some of us have finished school and left the academy, but would still like to read an journal article from time to time.
Amazon's new kindles are live on amazon.com
F# Web Services on any platform in and out of a web server
The main thing the journals produce is prestige.
I'm guessing they show it in smaller hands so that the device appears larger.
> Ocaml also has the potential to be faster. At least in the single core case.

F# can only go as fast as .NET.
Compiled OCaml though is very fast - I completely agree with you.
I understand PDFs aren't a great format for books, but there are some cases in which it'd be fantastic to have them on an e-reader.

For graphical content, such as technical drawings/illustrations, wireframes or just B&W document proofs, the resolution and fidelity of an E-Ink Pearl screen combined with the true WYSIWYG nature of the PDF format across digital/print would be a dream come true for me...
Amazon Silk Web Browser
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I have a serious question. Will I be able to use/read instapaper on this device? This is a big deal to me.
You are right. But, I have an extensive library of PDF files that I'd like to read. I expect many people do too. Most are technical documents with equations, graphs and other images. I would love to have an e-ink based reader that will render such documents correctly.

But, Amazon are probably more interested in selling their content, so I understand the lack of PDF support.
Yes. I've seen a lot of folks that confuse profit and revenue, and most of them are living in a bubble of some form or another.

To the author's credit, my guess is that he's living in the bubble of sales&marketing. Their assignments are usually something like "Go out and sell as much as you can!" with little regard to product cost, production limits, or even cost-of-sales.

I'm guessing that is why he makes such an elementary blunder.
B&N doesn't have the operational chops that Amazon does. Its going to take more than Brick & Mortar to make a dent in the tablet market. B&N will fight with Dell for table scraps while Amazon and Apple each capture sizeable, material share. I wrote a bit about why I think Amazon is going to kill this on my blog earlier today - http://www.byte.org/2011/09/28/amazon-coming-into-its-own/ - tl;dr: Amazon is one of the few tech companies with the ops and distribution chops in the same league as Apple.
I'm a fairly heavy user of the keyboard to highlight and annotate lines/paragraphs/sections of books. Some of the keys have completely faded :(
Isn't Google incredibly famous for their dedication to A/B testing?
Someone else from outside the US thinking about pre-ordering it?

On one hand it's just 127 pounds or 147 euros, but on the other I don't know what kind of experience those using it outside of the US will have: no Cloud Drive, no movies/tv shows, etc etc.
Amazon Silk: Cloud assisted tablet web browser
Training for strength has a number of components, but the two ones that matter are, in order:

1. Central nervous system adaptation; developing the ability to recruit the largest muscle fibres, to recruit them more completely and to recruit them faster.

2. Myofibrillar hypertrophy; causing the myofibrils, the structures that generate force, to grow larger. (It's possible to provoke sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, which causes fluid build up in muscles -- it grows larger but not stronger).

I am unfamiliar with the physiology of exactly how the CNS produces its adaptations, but I would be surprised if there wasn't measurable effects on the brain, if only the parts related to motor function.

Bodybuilding-style training -- high reps, isolation movements -- is generally easier on the CNS, but has only limited strength development potential.

(For an enlightening read, get a copy of Zatsiorsky & Kramer's Science and Practice of Strength Training 2nd ed).
Great, now we can buy the cheaper version, jailbreak it, and remove ads. Brilliant!
Jison: Your friendly JavaScript parser generator
I dont think there was any indication of javascript changes. At least all they mentioned was image and dns optimization, as well as prefetching and caching.
Which is terrible. I use Bing as a backup for Google when Google fails me (not often), and I just don't like all of Bing's noise, the background graphics, the sidebar stuff, the slow load time, the Facebook Like button (FFS, WHY??), the "Check out our other services!" topbar that keeps the search field from loading until it's finished, ugh.

It seems like Google is becoming more Bing-like with each passing day. This is not a good thing.

What is great and always has been great about Google (and why, I believe, it's a staple for many of us after over a decade!) is its great results paired with simplicity and fast load time (please don't get me started on Instant Search, it's not a pretty rant).

Google Search, be yourself, the self that's kept you as the autocompleted "g" in my URL bar for well over a decade now. Don't go chasing waterfalls. They take forever to load.
I think that the iPad comparisons are due to the content available (movies, tv, music) and especially the App Store. If you want to do anything with the Nook Color that's not included in the tin you need to root it. The kindle browser sounds nice too. I can see a lot of people who balk at the iPad's price tag snapping these up.
I don't think so. Amazon has a habit of using third party services for their blogs. This particular team may just have opted for WordPress.com, instead of TypePad, like they usually do (see http://aws.typepad.com).
Expect Google to match or beat Amazon pricing for tablets RSN--especially given their acquisition of Motorola. There really is no money in Android, especially for OEMs without a content or advertising play.
Seeing as how the discussion seems to be here, I'll post my comment from the other post here...

Yaron really does know his stuff when it comes to OCaml.
http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61

people interested in some great OCaml libraries should check out what Jane street has released to the public:

http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/13
Eric Ries on “The Lean Startup” - Hour Long Video
> although even then many public libraries have subscriptions to the largest journals.

Maybe public libraries in the largest of cities but I've never seen this in libraries in medium-sized (100,000-250,000 people) Massachusetts cities.
What a crappy and hypocritical move by the Wall Street Journal
They're sure getting their jabs at Apple in everywhere they can:

"There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp."

"System Requirements: None, because it's wireless and doesn't require a computer."
Do you really need to ?
The price tags are awesome, but I'm worried that most of the content will be exclusive to U.S. residents.
Isn't that what Opera does on their mobile platform?
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"Pirating" music and DL'ing an app that you can listen to copywritten music is the same thing. Major differentiating factor is that on spotify, you now have the option to be a paid member. Love spotify nonetheless, but is just pushing %'s around to make the article sound like "Its working"
Good point. There are actually four variables - one of them is usually money though, so we don't think about it that much. The four are

buyer price (= contracted price + opportunity cost to buyer)
buyer value (what the product is worth to her)
seller cost (cost to create product + opportunity cost to seller)
seller value (value of what he will be receiving in return, usually face value of money)
I find the keyboard invaluable for the search functionality on a given text. Simple examples: searching the Economist for all references to the ECB (i.e. looking for euro crisis related news); searching A Game of Thrones for Kinslayer to figure out which character was introduced with that nickname.
If it can web browse with Flash then (modulo the dead end hp touchpad) it's the cheapest tablet web browser that can play games on facebook. My wife is a long time Apple fan since she was a Graphic Designer, but she turned her nose up at the iPad due to lack of Flash and some specific games she wants to play on Facebook.
Basic Java 7 Fork/Join Benchmark
I love Ocaml. My only gripe is that the language has a ton of ways to do something.. ie there is a syntactical shortcut for almost everything. So I can see how Python guys might scoff at the language.

It would be pretty cool if someone made a node.js (event lib) like web server for Ocaml.
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2892085
In my line of duty, most of the time spent in reading code, not writing code.

Even when we were building version 1.0 of the software, there aren't too many text editing as opposed to navigating the code tree.

Isn't dynamic/scripting languages like Ruby and Python produced way less code than Java? (Hence, less typing again).

So this is why I don't quite get the group of people that swear by vim.
Conceptually its almost identical to Opera Mini. Amazon, however, gets to take advantage of their massive infrastructure.
A Wordpress blog running a theme from WooThemes. I guess we know we're dealing directly with the developers (but at least they listened to patio11's advice ;-).
I called this graph ridiculously dumb and got downvoted for it.

The idea was ridiculous, but the thought experiment was fun. Still, hardware costs are not trivial. There's no way Amazon gives something away for free (with 10 ebook purchases) just yet.
It wasn't an accident. It was a straight news "scoop". The news headline came across the wire at 9:31am:

*AMAZON TO UNVEIL KINDLE FIRE TODAY, SELL TABLET AT $199 BN 9:31

Just to be sure, I checked with the news team. :)
Did you select the one with special offers? I believe that one's US only. Perhaps the other one will work?
Being motivated helps learning - a lot more than you'd think
It's a shame to see that text-to-speech is absent from the light $79 model (it's present in the touch). At 6 ounces, that would be exactly the model I'd want to have TTS, which has been a killer feature for me. I actually prefer the robotic voice to most audiobook narrators for a lot of material - the affectless delivery must be how my internal voice reads a lot of books. Here's hoping Amazon puts TTS functionality into their Android/iPhone apps sooner than later - I'd gladly pay a $20 in-app purchase...
I'd say closer to Opera Mini, which pretty much runs everything through their proxy service. And I have to admit, it makes for a very compelling browsing experience on a phone - faster than any other mobile browser out there, with limited loss of functionality (ajax becomes a normal page turn instead of a local dom switch).
Set up Instapaper to deliver to your Kindle automatically on a schedule [1], and you're golden.

[1] http://www.instapaper.com/user/kindle
This is not correct. If a Sudoku puzzle has one and only one solution, brute force can always find it. It is trial-and-error for every single cell and every possible value, which is guaranteed to succeed eventually. Sounds crazy for a human, but a 3 GHz computer microprocessor can rip through that in a second or two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku_algorithms#Solving_Sudok...
Ah, right. That at least looks Amazon-y.

They could of put some effort into the logo and blog template into the new blog. It looks very blog spammy at first.
We don't have much information on Amazon Silk. It be interesting to know how it works in depth and how web apps will be affected.
This sounds like the tips & tricks you see in Pagespeed/Yslow, moving it to a proxy, coupling it with something like SPDY, and mixing in some server side caching. Which is neat, and no doubt will achieve some speedups. But I don't know if it is as revolutionary as Amazon is trying to make it sound.

There are also some serious privacy implications here. I don't really know if I want Amazon to cache & potentially record all my browsing, especially since that device is something they can directly connect to all my personal info (purchasing history, CC number, home address, etc..).
When Opera Mobile introduced similar concepts in their 9.7 release, they caught tons of flack for both privacy concerns (what if I'm at my bank website, or looking at personal pictures?) and for technical considerations (they're breaking the Web!).

Either way, this browser will likely be used by millions. It'll be interesting to see what we developers will have to deal with.
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Google picks up updates to sites hosted on Wordpress.com usually within minutes. Amazon registered the sub-domain that would pull the most weight for the keyword term 'amazon silk.'

It's amazing how quick Google picks up changes to Wordpress.com blogs.

So, it's just an SEM thing. They'll probably have a post to the official channel soon.
Ask HN: Have any Expense Tracking/Approval Software Recommendations?
Hey HN,

We're growing and IT had to buy a bunch of equipment which Accounting wasn't expecting.

How do you keep track of your IT purchases at your start-up so there aren't any surprises?

Is there a "Basecamp" for Expense Tracking and Approvals?

Thanks,
Max
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