skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very interested in this, as I have a similar project on my TODO list. I can not figure out how your page works, though. All I see is some blog articles on "we did experiment x". Do I have to sign up somewhere?
'In the last two years, Mac OS X's share has increased by 3 percentage points, a gain of 58%.'

That's about 25 percent CAGR, so there are still a few years to go before we hit that point, assuming of course that the growth rate is sustainable.
It's exactly the point at which the loss of revenue due to incompatibility is greater than the cost of developing cross-platform.
You seem to imply two false points. Chavez was elected democratically, twice. And Venezuela's oil was not nationalized.

I don't like the paternalistic and interventionist style he has but he isn't Fidel Castro. In many ways, he is quite a capitalist.
Thanks. I should probably put the signup button next to the login fields.

You can signup here: http://www.bricolagelabs.com/signup
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"Developing Erlang at Yahoo" - New Delicious was rewritten in Erlang
Sony sucks. Kindle sucks.

Kindle and sony together would be great.

Wait, what?
Honestly, I'd be more worried about New York.
I need to work tools like these into my development habits
Myspace released crap. stop the presses.
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Facebook Former CTO Dustin Moskowitz quits
Bush Signs Bill
Is It Time to Raise Prices?
I registered politwiki.com for something like this. If someone wants to do something with the domain, let me know.
(1) Plenty of founders do get deferred comp. Like all other compensation issues, it's all about sales ability. You either sell your investors on getting money, or they sell you on keeping it.

(2) "There's never spare money" is a great argument for paying the CEO a sustenance wage. That never happens; the CEO walks in the door at 175-225k with a severance package and a founder's share of equity.

(3) "There's never enough revenue" is a great argument for running your business to break even or profit. If you can do that, you don't need VC. The question isn't whether to lose money, it's where to lose it.

(4) Get your accounting advice from an accountant, not a blog post.

I'm not advocating in favor of deferred comp, I'm just saying, anecdotally, I know the story not to be as simple as this post represents it. I don't think you should take VC at all.
I didn't know that, I knew they consulted at companies. Do you have a link to which ones they consulted at?
This plan is a disaster that will be remembered as one of the worst error in History ever. The US shot its last bullet, and it aimed at its feets. Buckle up, folks, cause the future is even more incertain now for the world.
This is the perfect idea for using facebook connect, or to make an app for.
As soon as he started drinking, you could see a little smile on his face.

I get that from work, and from being in nature. But I can be pretty unhappy otherwise...
One of the meanest things a friend has ever said to me is "people get the government they deserve."

Part of me still hates him for that.
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It would be really fantastic if technology like this encouraged the public to work together on concepts and ideas. For example, let's say I wanted to do some exploratory work on a concept or idea. I'd love to be able to publish a request describing what I want to do in a time-based directory, users select the "project", and we all play around together trying to test the idea.

Certainly I would probably avoid using my own intellectual property, but if I was testing a particular concept, sketch, layout, or idea, it might be neat to gather responses from people who are interested in similar topics, in real time.

Just dabbling in thought.
This is ridiculous. Privacy is extremely important.

As application developers it is our responsibility to worry about privacy. Even if we are given an apparent free pass by the majority of our users.

In most instances if we think about it, we can create our application in a way that protects the privacy and security of our users.

It appears that SkyDeck actually does encrypt their users data. Although the aren't particularly explicit about how they do it.

Nonetheless they should not be asking for users account username and passwords.
I certainly remember seeing shapes, figures, people, and other things in randomness of the cracks in my ceiling when I was a child. I also remember "seeing" patterns in the television snow on empty channels.
Have you actually read a book on a Kindle?
Huge congrats, I loved it back when you announced it here, and I love it still...
Stocks fall on fears bailout won't save economy
I think we're going to be the largest and richest third world country in the world because of this. Lets hope I'm wrong.
The quants are going to go to town on this one. This bill gives the SEC authority to suspend the practice of marking to market. Bad idea. That makes this bill just a big money giveaway in practice. Transfer of wealth basically.

Further, the FDIC is already running low on funds, we should be slow to make new promises when we are already uncertain with regard to meeting present obligations.
Additionally, raising the limit on FDIC insurance will make it harder to determine when a bank is in trouble. Now I am not naive, I am sure that was the idea behind raising the limit in the first place. But the less educated among us actually believe this was done to protect their money.

Lastly, $150 billion in tax cuts? These people really need to get some cost accountants.
Nice example of a developer team completely ignoring management and corporate guidelines. Too bad it took them so long ;)
What a classic transcript! I loved reading it. What impresses me most is how far forward-looking Feynman was. A true visionary. This reminds me to go back and read those Feynman books again.
darwinports does a pretty good job. And for many things, the mac has better software available.

Besides "fake *nix" could apply as well to linux as to darwin. Remember that OS X actually licensed the Unix name...
The Linux community should embrace the Apple AppStore and sell apps for Linux for less than $9.95, specially games.

There will be a gold rush to that model if implemented, benefiting the platform and developers as well.
All I get out of this article is that the example code wins the award for "most useless uses of boolean returns".

I think I am going to one-up them and start writing:

(setf foo (+ 2 2))
(cond ((eql foo 1) 1)
((eql foo 2) 2)
...)

Deliciously verbose!
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The presentation is definitely worth a look. Evidence of erlang becoming a solution to real problems is coming up more and more, and the examples (like this) are significant.
producing cross platform software becomes almost mandatory

How does this explain all the Mac-only software?
Facebook Co-Founder Departs To Build “Extensible Enterprise Productivity Suite”
Too bad

Why? OS X doesn't stop anyone from running Linux.
HP has a new WinMo 6.1 Touchscreen handset in the works
A major court victory for open source
Some are doing pretty well (6 figs) on tiny little iPhone apps.

The Mac software market's humming pretty well. Their users appreciate good software and pay for it. A friend of mine's making a nice living on ~4 hrs a day on mac shareware.

I think you're asking two questions:
1) Is there money in desktop apps?
2) is there money in try-before-you-buy apps?

Plenty of money on the desktop (ask microsoft or adobe), and try-before-buy is just risk reduction. For both sides, actually, as you'll have fewer returns & customer complaints if they had a fair chance to try out the app first.
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How to Fix the U.S. Financial Crisis
Earthcomber Cries Patent Infringement Against Loopt
Interview With Last.fm Founder Richard Jones: Part 3, Design & Features
Poll: Which version control system should we use?
It's time for our teeny team to start using something to manage versions and we need to decide which. Help?
Other (list below and I'll add)
None - who needs it!?
Uh. In other news, no wait, in the same news (the site the article is based on, link at the bottom), Linux' market share almost _doubled_ in 9 months. How's that for growth ;)
a democratic people get the government they deserve.

those living under a monarchy or dictatorship get to say "Well I didn't vote for you~"
In Brazil, there is a e-legislative solution based in Zope called SAPL (Sistema de Apoio ao Processo Legislativo or Legislative Process Support System). It's quite functional and it's installed in a lot of different legislatures across the country. I have met the team and briefly worked on some possible extensions for it.

And, BTW, it's open source, so, if you want to play with it, you can.
I use both git and svn. Git for open source projects and projects I personally control. Subversion for a number of projects that are linked to things like trac and other encompassing systems that the teams do not wish to change.
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Katzer demanded $200,000 from Jacobsen's open source model train project (JMRI), alleging patent infringement.

Jacobsen sued him.

After he filed the suit, Jacobsen found that Katzer's commercial product copies some of Jacobsen's JMRI (which Katzer has admitted in court [...] )

Jacobsen lost but appealed, and: A large number of Open Source projects and their attorneys, working for free, filed a "friend of the court" brief - and won.

I see this case not as a victory against patents, but as a victory for basic decency.

see also (where I stole it from) http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/752td/a_major_c...
Here is a diff between versions of the bill:

http://www.govtrack.us/special/econstimbill/changes.xpd?id=4
To put it shortly, Castro is a Communist and Chavez is an opportunistic populist proto-dictator.

Anyway, Venezuela is screwed.
San Francisco, and I'll choose to ignore the ad hominems.
First Set of SXSW Panels Announced
Oh please, stop assuming Qwerty or we'll still be stuck with this shitty layout in 500 years!
I used subversion until about 2 weeks ago when I started work at a new company and now use Git. Git is much more powerful, in my opinion - branching is incredibly easy to work on experimental code.
I hope Justin.tv doesn't sell itself on eBay now, I think they should take Google on this time. Their streaming is really top notch. We watched yesterday's debate on JTV.
AFAIK Buffet would support a bailout that involved buying assets at fair market value because he thinks the government could make a lot of money. He said that not buying at market value and instead giving the banks whatever they ask for these assets will likely lead to a wasted 700b. So at least in theory he supports doing the right thing.

I don't know anything about his involvement with Goldman, but maybe he realized the government will do the wrong thing anyway so he might as well profit from it.
I would venture that a country whose most credible news source is a comedy show has some substantial problems with their meida.
This is just a concert, not some Justin.tv killer.
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This is a real low point for HN (comment wise), the subject matter is interesting but I would have expected some interesting comments.
Great job. I've actually been working in this space for about 2 years. It's an interesting development and people are tackling it from a number of angles.

It seems your approach is more descriptive than numerical. That could be good, a lot of the recent players are more numbers oriented which may turn off most users.

For a good summary of the field, Google "Me-trics", who presented at TC50. You'll find a lot of the competitors listed on various posts discussing Me-trics. I think the personal analytics/crowd-sourced-research-experiment space is set for solid growth in the coming years.

I've tried a number of different UI's and a number of different techniques to mining the data. I don't think the market is quite there yet, so I'm doing these things on the side until I have the money and technology ready to focus on it. Anytime you want to chat about it, shoot me an email.
Well written and I learned a few new things about limitations of the AppEngine platform. Definitely worth reading if you consider trying something on AppEngine so you can know ahead of time what some of the less documented limitations are.

Some of the things the article mentions that I never realized: 1MB limit on python variables, 1000 limit on offset (which together with the 1000 limit on results means you can only ever fetch 2000 items).
This is by the creator of SQLite.

It is its own distributed SCM which does seem a bit silly given that there are already some very good ones out there. I.e., I'd much rather see this work with Mercurial and Git rather than competing with them.
Why the bailout will cost at least $350 billion -- we won't be making any "profit."
Currently SVN. Previously CVS, ClearCase, and RCS. (Over the past 4 years, in reverse order.)

I was trying to encourage the use of SVN and the first place, but did not have the clout and systems access to change it. Between the 4, SVN is a clear winner, although Eclipse still has slightly better CVS support.
You probably want to rephrase this as what version control system do you use that we should use.

As my other post shows, it's quite possible that people responding will be skewing the data because they only know of these products ... and they might not be recommending it as opposed to being stuck with it.
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Great point. Fixed (but hopefully doesn't change the results too much). I easily forget that many are forced to use tools they'd prefer not to.
Why is Erlang a good fit for an application like Delicious?
You can still acquire wealth as employees do, by living beneath your means and investing the rest.

It's not as cool as a huge hit, but you still get to do what you love and be your own boss.
Sure, and consider the new form of shareware: release two iPhone applications, one free with limited features and one < 10$, full version. Mobile appears the next big market for resident applications.

p.s. I can't find iPhone user base figures, somebody willing to share this numbers?
Completely unrelated fields like what?

Traditionally, the answer has been "Finance!" but I don't see that particular job market bouncing back quickly.
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In-memory databases threaten Oracle's dominance
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You need to decide how important this is to you. When you mention the words "cheaply" and "quickly" as part of your hiring process - you shouldn't be surprised to what kinds of results you get - especially if you get poor results. If you rely or use some sort of certification test especially if you rely on somebody else to do it, you will most likely miss out on the aspects of the interview and the person that tells you how they handle stress, pressure, challenges and time compression. Sometimes, the best interviews are when you can observe "first hand" how someone deals with a problem and solves it - do they struggle with it but work their way through it and shine, OR do they hit a brick wall and break down putting blame all over the place. If you feel you don't have the expertise to hire someone based on skills required, then bring along a team or other individuals to hit those areas. But then again, that kind of hiring process would drive your costs up but you still need to consider your long term costs of hiring the wrong people.
It looks like it's coming along on OpenBSD:
http://www.nabble.com/UPDATE:-python-2.6,-unbreak-python-2.5...
I dunno, It will be hard to top Smoot-Hawley.
Dabbleboard is sick. I love that I can ctrl+Z away what I just did. Extremely intuitive.
Check the slides, specifically #31.
thanks, I had a look at gsn - That would be the middleware to gather the data from sensor networks...

..whereas my interest is in how to deal with the fire-hose of ~10Gb data per day, once you have 100Gb of it on disk and more streaming in all the time.

I'm aware of commercial offerings -
- KDB+ [its own semi-functional terse languages - K & Q ]
- StreamBase [extended SQL]

The open source ones ...
- Aurora / Borealis ( MIT, Brandeis)
- Medusa (MIT)
- Streams (Stanford)
- MonetDB (a Netherlands university)
seem to embrace/extend SQL and/or XQuery and/or RDF

Im thinking there must be a better way.
http://www.earthcomber.com/splash/index.html

I guess they had to hire some kid down the street to design their website so that they could afford the patent lawyer.
"You"

Rather, the reporters did. And Waters was also elected democratically. And that's not the point; the point is the media's reaction to nationalization then and now.
I'd like to see market share stats broken down by segments of the market, i.e. business, servers, consumers, etc.

I suspect OS X's consumer market share is much higher.
This is where your silly Valleywag ban bites you in the ass. They broke this story fair and square.
They do broadcast the event live on YouTube though.

It looks like they are using the event to test the live feature.
I can advocate for Git on a number of levels. Certainly there is reason to evangelize the distributed architecture, but it also has merits for a many other reasons like amazing speed, features, and the like. I am sure that I haven't even scratched the surface yet, but I constantly find git features that make me never want to return to svn.
All that said, I have no experience with mercurial or bazaar, both of which are of similar designs to git.
Not that this project isn't cool, but it seems like the ICFP must be desperate for presentations if this is what suffices.

When we were doing Powerset's infrastructure I didn't even think of writing a whitepaper or anything, I didn't realize that "Just doing it functionally and in a distributed fashion" was grounds for attention.
I thought this bill was the worst idea ever, until I heard Warren Buffett speak up for it two days ago. Buffett has both integrity and economic skills, and he probably understands this proposal better than any of us.

For instance, http://ph.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080924/tbs-buffett-bailout-7...

The US government has a pretty poor track record for "emergency proposals" and other decisions these last 8 years, so I understand the skepticism. I'd vote against it myself. But there's more to the story than what you hear in most inflamed internet postings. Buffett himself says that we eventually need to roll some heads, but that it shouldn't be our first priority.

They shouldn't buy them at what they're carrying, what the carrying value is, necessarily.
They should buy them at the kind of prices that are available in the market.
People who are buying these instruments in the market are expecting to make
15 to 20 percent on those instruments. If the government makes anything over its
cost of borrowing, this deal will come out with a profit. And I would bet it will come out with
a profit, actually...
Oh! 'Power to the people'. It's so childish and pathetic :)
I'm now desperately trying to decide between a master's and a PhD. I'm unsure as to whether I should take the economy into account.
introversion is actually a well-regarded indie in the games industry. oh, and uplink was 7 years ago.
How about raising some seed funding and paying yourself a modest salary out of that, rather than seeing no cash for years? Seems to work well enough for many.
Anyone up to a Hacker News meeting in Kiev [Ukraine] in October?
Hi everyone!
In Kiev we have two local "must see" events for Hacker News\Startup mindset people in coming days:

1. Blogcamp CEE 2008 is a three-day conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 17-19th, which is going to gather 500 new media specialists, bloggers, start-upers and investors from Central and Eastern Europe. Those interested in CEE region are also welcome. http://blogcampcee.com/en

2. “Business of Internet Shops and Online Services” – largest specialized conference in Ukraine, dedicated to the questions of internet entrepreneurship (Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 28th). This conference is hosted by Ukrainian clone of Viaweb (PG thanks a lot for useful idea and inspiring essays). The speakers are going to provide interesting and useful insights for local and global internet business issues. http://conf.owox.ua/speakers/

It would be great if we could setup some kind of informal meeting of Hacker News people during these events.

Please make comment here or ask question if you will be participating in one of this event.
First one event is more friendly for Hacker\Investor type of person while the second one is more for Marketing\Promotion type of person.

Hope seeing some of you guys there!
This is very bad news for Facebook.
I met those guys when they were in Albuquerque. They built a dome for a Protestant megachurch there. It's kind of a neat concept.
The SEC already had the authority to suspend mark-to-market accounting. This bill just re-affirms it. Furthermore, mark-to-market is an accounting technique.It may result in fraud but there is no "transfer of wealth" about it. Furthermore, if history is any indication, corporations can always cook their book if they really want to.

The FDIC is indeed running low on funds and raising the limit at this point in time is a bad idea. However, the FDIC limit does not hide the financial health of a bank or have any direct impact on it for that matter. The limit governs what happens to customer deposits after the bank fails. Having a higher limit may indirectly help troubled banks by placating their depositors and convincing said depositors that their money is safer.

About the tax cuts. The $150 billion is a drop in the bucket. If you really want to bring costs in line, take a very hard look at Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and Defense spending. Everything else (except now this bailout) is a rounding error compared to those.
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I use SVN at work, but for my own projects I use Mercurial because I was already familiar with TortiseSVN, and I was able to start using Mercurial right away with TortiseHG.
Producing cross platform software becomes mandatory for companies that make Windows software currently (unless they don't mind their market shrinking). For Mac only software the market is growing so if they're happy enough at the moment there be even less incentive for them to develop cross platform.
Open Source HR Applications for Sub-Contractors? 
We've started a small outsourcing operation for local coders and designers. What we're looking for is an application that will keep a database of our contacts previous job history, skills, location etc and, upon request, export that information into a standardized resume template.

Is anyone aware of such an app?