skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? How much is the hotel? If it's $100/night, which I don't think gets you a very good hotel, and you stay 20 nights a month, that's already $2000.
Sorry, I don't know. I just read the occasional article on the web (and it popped into my head that a subscription would be the perfect gift for someone I know).
To clarify, I don't think marketing or a business model are optional, and I don't expect to have a hit or a small successful business without them. I would like to try something unconventional, so we'll see.
"for instance YC funded companies job postings are special news that are "sticky" or alike."

I didn't know HN did sticky. These articles are voted up out of general interest level.

Cool to see something like this tried and wish you luck, but this kind of reminds me of Diaspora. I think when you closely base your product on something else, you need an exponentially better value proposition. I don't think "being open" is a huge selling point, and really the whole motivation is explained in less than a tweet.

The community here might be more sensitive to openness than other communities, but HN is generally seen as impartial/neutral anyway.
You are arguing just for a purpose of arguing. I am not going to play that game. The way of doing big business in Russia involves bribes, corruption, ties to organized crime, cronyism, very close ties to the ruling class and government, and also Russian security apparatus.
Also, the idea that a random "Russian Businessman" can just flash his money and be accepted as an investor in Silicon Valley should be in fact investigated by the FBI. We do not need to enrich "Russian Businessmen". We should be working with people from countries who are our close allies.
agreed; i've been runing quicksilver non-stop since before the developer passed the project on to others. for a time, it was sluggish and caused some problems. but i have no complaints to speak of about the last couple iterations.

i switched to quicksilver from launchbar, in spite of the fact that i'd paid good money for launchbar. it's not so much that something was wrong with launchbar; it's only that quicksilver was noticeably better in many respects (flexibility, esthetics, flow), imho.
Occupy Wall Street will be forgotten about by Christmas.

If you want to spend your energy complaining how unfair life is, go ahead. I prefer to spend mine doing more useful things.
Good idea, I'll look into that, I've been thinking about putting a link to either Amazon or iTunes for those interested in purchasing music. Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad ya like it!
Thanks, didn't know about that. 3 years old though, I'm assuming there's a more up-to-date list in operation.
I use Awesome, but it's really not for someone who doesn't want to configure it to their tastes. I use it because unlike alternatives, I can easily configure it to my tastes. It takes time, but in the long run it helps my productivity.
Just an FYI to those looking into Slicehost, it's now part of Rackspace Cloud Servers and doesn't sell their own VPS.
someone got like a good intro to quicksilver for hackers? especially for running terminal related stuff
Funding for venture capital industry plunges
Pivot tables in Python with pandas
I just use Ubuntu 11.10 with a fairly standard set up of Sublime Text 2, Chrome, FileZilla, and vim for quick file editing when I'm in the terminal or SSH'd into another computer. This was after originally trying to cope with Eclipse and other IDE's that weren't my cup of tea.

Mind, I'm looking to switch up the OS (or at least the window manager) because Unity offers a less productive environment, and Gnome3 on Ubuntu really disagrees with my hardware for some reason. Even Classic appears messed up.
This is the best comment on the page.
Ah, thanks! I forgot to change the URL to /settings.
Right, `ls` could be shrinkwrapped. But then so could the entire ruby environment.

You're missing an each after your glob. Also -- did you know about [] alias for glob?

Dir['/Applications/*/Contents/Info.plist'].each do |f|
...
end
I am a huge fan of evernote. It works really well for me and helps me stay organized.
I like it, maybe show the thumbnails for the next videos !
Well no duh. Not to sound juvenile, but it should come as no surprise the extremely inventive and competitive genius that was Steve Jobs would take aim at one of the lagest internet companies in the world delving directly into his business space.

Patent issues alone, I find it very likely Jobs saw Google's foray into iOS as a direct assault on one of his flagship products.
FYI You can easily have a hybrid development environment. One box (or virtual machine) runs Linux with all the stuff you need. The computer in front of you runs Windows or Mac OS and you ssh to the other box. Especially useful if your production environment is Linux. You can have the Linux box match your production environment.

I personally prefer this setup, as it allows me to use Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and Microsoft (Office) and a few other favorites not found on Linux.
Then just read the comments and/or skip to the next HN story. It's not like HN will ban you if you don't post your tax returns here,
It's an interesting idea. There's a bunch of very hard, non-trivial stuff there.

Has there been any good research on interviews? I have a hunch (with nothing to back it up) that some interviewers will make a yes / no decision very quickly, and will then post-rationalise that choice. What implications would existing research have?

Also, there's existing tech such as "stress detection" which might be a useful start, for a tiny value of start.
Fair enough, I won't quibble. In the absence of a bug report, and having to do this in public, I'm trying to get what information I can. I'm also trying to respond to the author's claims about private investigators, etc.
This looks like a good idea to encourage contributing instead of simply lurking around and voting things down. But LN will have to be careful with the economics of karma, because otherwise people might become reluctant to vote for fear of losing karma.
Please tell me how you found a renovated walk-up 1BR in Chelsea for $2k :)
you are all a bunch of arrogant pricks on the internet.
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It sounds like a good idea ! Waiting to test your app!
These salary polls are getting very tiresome.
Moving would be a Pyrrhic victory. There would still be 46 similar laws holding us and other startups back.

Winning is to convincing Congress to pre-empt state laws with a sensible federal regulatory system.
There are enormous differences in the productivity of programmers. Even in the area of "good programmers" really good people can be multiple times faster than others. (Also "better" than others, but that's not directly measurable).

So I think it's perfectly reasonable if the salaries of people are assigned directly according to their capabilities. Why should a programmer that is twice as fast as his peers only get 10% or 20% more?

Actually that's one of the reasons why I've moved to the Bay Area. In my home countries things as seniority are the main factors in regard to the salary. In the Bay Area it's exactly the opposite - and that's much more motivating for me.
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I'm curious what the hebrew at the very bottom of the page says.
I come from more of a designer stand point and I've realized that sometimes I've had "cool" ideas but when I go to plan out how that would look and the process behind it in a programming language, it gets quite complicated pretty fast.

I can think of the coolest UI's and 'experiences' but when you go to plan those out and map out the structure you soon realize stuff is harder than it appears on the outside. Kind of like a commercial I've seen recently that shows a couple walking into their house and everything they touch or use expands showing all the intricacies of modern conveniences. Things are so easy to do nowadays without knowing really 'how' they work.

I think this is an interesting point in our history. We can pick up anything nowadays without having a clue as to how it works. We lose sight of what it takes to bring something from idea to reality. More people need to become aware of how things work. This kind of makes me rant about how a lot of people I see constantly refuse to learn how things work. I see friends that have cars and they break and they just take it to a mechanic and let the mechanic worry about knowing how it works. In a sense that's nice but in another sense it's scary. I still may take my car to a mechanic but I at least know how it works to a certain depth and what could cause the problem. The same scenario for computers to proper zombie invasions. I'm guilty as much as the rest but I still try to keep a handle on things.
Ramen was actually too expensive for me. (Spaghetti has identical nutritional information and costs less.)

If you are buying food on a minimal budget, you go calories per dollar (which I'll abbreviate as C/$). If you have money left over, nutrition per dollar.

Set a target - if you want to spend $14 a week, avoid buying foods that do worse than 1000 calories/dollar.

Sugar is 4000 C/$, flour and rice are about the same. Olive oil is 1000 C/$. Ice cream, 700 C/$. Oatmeal, 2000 C/$. Whole milk, 500 C/$. Potatoes (even instant flakes) and peanut butter are also good deals. Eggs and beans are cheap protein.

Vegetables are a bit trickier. Kale for instance is only 140 C/$. An all-kale diet would be $100 per week! Wheat sprouts were the best I could find at 400 C/$ (and that jumps to 700 if you can find a local supplier). Fruit is also tricky. Grow your own if you have space. Raspberries have great yield, require no effort besides picking them and grow almost everywhere. But I'll assume this is not an option.

Meat is stupidly expensive per calorie. Spam is one of the better deals at 400 C/$, but I do have standards.

So anything cheap becomes a staple. Work these into being a large part of every meal. A lot of my breakfasts were "something on oatmeal" and a lot of my dinners were "something on rice". But the more you fill up on the cheap stuff the more money is left over for nice things.

The nice stuff you "ration". For example, I limited myself to at most 8oz kale and three pieces of fruit a day, as well as 8oz of nice steak a week.

Of course, budget a few bucks to flavor - soy sauce has no calories to speak of but it makes rice much more palatable.

Probably the biggest way to save money is to never eat any food you did not make your self. Lots of clever ways to do this. For example, lunch at work: fill a vacuum thermos with rice and boiling water, and it will be done in 90 minutes and keep hot until you eat it.

Can I afford to eat out all the time? Sure. But I like to cook and this is a fun little numbers game.
Well, if we are talking about bigger instances, then it is not "budget VPS" anymore either :) Still, depending on your needs (and specially if you combine with reserved instances, which can drive the cost 50%) it can be quite cost-effective
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Using Roslyn to parse C# code files
>I sometimes wonder why these interfaces are so freaking common for anything not facing the general public.

It's simple, the choice is to either use it or find a new job. Quitting is not easy or practical to many people.

Even the general public faces such choices with atrocious bank, DMV, govt sites etc. written 10 years ago in with CGI or ASP. (and a COBOL backend).
By letting them FAIL.

By making clear that if you have the brain & brawn to work, and you don't produce, your needs WON'T be met by compulsory redistribution of the wealth of those who did.

By telling (and enforcing) students that if they do not achieve the performance standards set then they will not, because they CANNOT, take on more advanced material.

It's tragic that so many students get so far before they experience the message "if you don't do the work you won't pass the course."
A gay novel about the bear subculture - probably not of interest to the majority of you, but there you are. :) http://www.bearlikeme.com
Depends on where you live in Manhattan. When I was there in 2006 I lived in Harlem and paid approx. $1000 a month. And with the express trains it only took a couple of minutes to get anywhere.
... make a new account?
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One big interruption is that I have been writing an FFT implementation completely from scratch that can eventually be used in BSDNT. You can find the code here:

https://github.com/wbhart/mpir-fft

For the time being it is implemented against the MPIR bignum library. But once BSDNT is up to it I will install it in BSDNT.
The rules have the authority we give them. Either we give up on having an English language that we can agree on, or we have arbitrary rules.
> Jobs are not about building tangible things. They are about providing something people want.

For most of the world, I'm pretty sure jobs are about making money to survive. Providing stuff that people want is for entrepreneurs and others willing to take the risk that starting a business entails.

Furthermore, you're mistaken about "simple, robotic manufacturing". Automation extends far beyond that. Pharmacists used to mix medication for people; these days they effectively spend years in school to do nothing more than clerical work, and that's about to be replaced shortly http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011... .

Cashier work at supermarkets, traditionally a starting place for kids in their teens and a fall-back for poor and lower-middle class people that lost their jobs, are rapidly being replaced right now by self-checkout.

More complex tasks, like travel agents, translation services, accountants and others are being displaced by DIY web services and the like. Even extremely complex work like surgery is becoming much more efficient, possible to do remotely, with greater precision, and without assistance.

The point of all this being that efficiency and automation today is not limited to effects on boring manufacturing jobs, but people at all levels of the workforce. And unless we have some way of providing those unemployed people with ways to adapt, or at least survive at a reasonable level if they're no longer needed, there's naturally going to be trouble.
"Considerable" is unclear, it'd be easy to cover a 1k/mo spread under my definition of "considerable".
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I don't see why there is an inherent assumption that college and entrepreneurship are mutually exclusive.

Pretending that college prevents people from pursuing a career in entrepreneurship is ridiculous. What would those students be doing instead? Working at Starbucks while they build their startups at night? How is that better? Zuckerberg and Gates dropped out because their startups were already wildly successful. They didn't drop out to start them.
No problem. Do you have any way to weed out covers and other possibilities? I haven't seen any come up but just curious how you implemented it or if it is even a problem at all.
Unmeltable? Not for long. Heat is becoming a problem Ben & Jerry.

The entire article is a sales pitch, skip to the final paragraph for the pay off.
I'm surprised more website developers don't use Linux to develop in. It is what we all push to in the end after all. I use Ubuntu 10.04 w/ Sublime Text 2, GIMP, Chrome, Firefox, VIM, Vagrant, virtualenv, git, and ssh. Then whatever framework I happen to be using at the time. Mostly Django.

It's just easier to develop in Linux than it is in any other OS. Being able to hit "sudo aptitude build-dep python-psycopg2" and then being able to "pip install psycopg2" without having to hunt everywhere for deps and it just work is one of the greatest things of all time.
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I have the same setup more or less, interesting that we both switched to gnome 3 at the end.
Seems a lot of people get fooled by the average prices on Padmapper.

But the reality is that expensive apartments stay on the site longer than cheap apartments. So the "average" prices are likely to be higher than the real average.

It takes some time to find a reasonable apartment however.

I've was apartment-hunting for one month each weekend and finally found a huge $1350 a month studio in Nob Hill (that's nearly the size of a one-bedroom). If you don't have that much time to look for apartments the rent will be much higher of course.
Minor bug: Both lamernews.com and www.lamernews.com lead to the same site, with no redirection either way. Logging into lamernews.com does not log me into www.lamernews.com, and vice versa. This would get confusing once people start linking to various parts of the site. Nothing that can't be fixed with a quick rewrite rule, though.
There's too much whining on this thread. It's clearly limited to the US. Are there other places on the planet? Sure. Go get your own poll. As for total comp, assume it's what's listed as your gross pay on your tax return. There you go, easy. Is it restricted to HN folk? Yes. Do they make more than others? Probably. Does it matter? No.
The article says that Fibonacci can't be parallelized. But I seem to recall that there is a true data-parallel way of doing Fibonacci - one of those virtuoso tricks where something that seems intrinsically sequential gets transformed into a parallel computation. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Edit: to be clear, I don't mean the obvious but useless trick where you can compute F(n-1) and F(n-2) recursively in parallel, which is just redoing most of the work. I mean a way to model the problem as operations on data-parallel vectors.
We don't ban sites of competitors of companies we fund. Even if we wanted to do something like that, how could we ever get away with it? I'm guessing you're referring to Nodejitsu.com. They're banned because they created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts.
In NYC you will pay about 50% of your gross income if you are just barely qualify for the marginal top tax bracket. Of course these numbers mean squat for your own personal situation:

Federal - ~25% effective, not marginal

State - 8%

Local - 4%

Payroll - 13% on the first 100k or so. 2.5% on the rest.

Sales Tax - 9%
It's even different inside the US. For example, my company currently pays all health care costs for me (in addition to the salary). But as I understand with many other (small?) companies you have to pay for the insurance yourself.
This article omits important details and is factually wrong. In its attempt to 'blame the bankers' it glosses over the role of ethanol policy and the federal reserve on food price rises and wrongly presents the link between futures markets and actual prices.

At the end of a futures contract term, an actual delivery of physical product has to take place. "Rolling over" long futures contracts does not mean the holder can get out of physical delivery. Exchanges do not raise prices of physical products by themselves. They also provide valuable price signals for producers about expected future events.

Blaming speculators is easy, but a factually incorrect way to see the situation.

A world bank report written in July 2008 stated that "large increases in biofuels production in the United States and Europe are the main reason behind the steep rise in global food prices responsible for 70-75% of the price rise...with higher oil prices and a weak dollar explain 25–30% of total price rise."

It is a common theme these days to blame bankers and market participants for problems created by government policies. Market actors are agnostic. Governments set the rules of the game and should be the ones held accountable.
First thought was "meh", requiring four times the pixels is quite steep. But after giving it some thought that might be as good as one can hope for and considering that the pixel-graphics of today can't really be made to look good scaled up 10-90% it probably is one of the better (the best?) solutions as well (forcing vector graphics is going to be a nightmare and it won't look good on standard-DPI-monitors anyway).

(the biggest drawback I guess is that it doesn't really do anything for people wanting a larger interface for readability reasons, having everything four times as large is a hard blow for the real estate when you really wanted 120% or something)

What the author constantly mixes up is that you need four times as many pixels, not twice. And thus we need ~400 DPI to have everything at the same size as today. But yeah, just hope that it becomes mainstream enough to be affordable, OLED to the rescue? Thanks to displayport the interconnect won't be a problem at least.
I've found Komodo Edit to be indispensable for PHP development on Linux. I haven't yet found an editor that does such a good job mixing PHP and HTML syntax highlighting, has solid autocomplete--even of custom classes--and is so easy to set up. Eclipse is far too massive, emacs/vim are too finicky to learn and set up, and gedit with lots of plugins is actually close doesn't do autocomplete well.
Yeah, but most people pushing more than a few tens of GB/month probably don't really need to save a few dollars over e.g. Linode.

Budget VPSs are the modern "shell account", their primary users are a combination of learners, early-stage developers, small-scale control-freaks, people who don't know any better, and of course the odd criminal enterprise.

Some of these will never grow much, the ones that do should normally have the cash for better accommodations and/or more EC2 bandwidth, and the criminals I don't really care about.
Genetic Fallacy?
This Always Works: So Far
We didn't remove his post. It only got 3 points. That's not enough to stay on the frontpage long. In fact at most times it's not even enough to get on the frontpage.
The original Turing test involved two closed rooms and text based terminals. That way of communicating has an extremely low emotional bandwidth. While it may test the machine's ability to reason like a human it does not test whether or not the human connects emotionally to the machine.

For example, a machine can be made to sing better than a human from a purely technical perspective. But once you know that the person singing is a human being with a history of happiness and pain, ups and downs, you can connect on a deeper level. The song gets meaning.

Or a soul.

I mean, would you want a machine or a human singing on your wedding?

When it really matters we will always pick the human.

Now, what is a more likely development is an _augmented_ human, improved by machines. The wedding singer will use autotune (or at least a mic). And that's fine, I guess, it's still a job.
Can anyone else comment on experiences with Linode (and equivalent alternatives)? I'm considering moving a group of servers off expensive dedicated hosting ($400/server) to a VPS service. I've looked at Amazon EC2 but they don't seem to have a sweet spot for my needs.
I’m extremely surprised that there hasn’t been any mid-range work done on this for laptops with either USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt. I know from personal and work experience that a dual-out box that can push the GUI around better than the DualHead2Go would be fantastic, similar to a USB-based video card but with a less bandwidth-constrained environment. Right now, there’s only certain Dell laptops using an E-port that do anything similar.

Seems like the manufacturers are doing really high-end stuff, like Magma’s 3-port 220w beast, which is overkill and over-priced ($700 for the enclosure) for pushing two externals.