skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't want to have anything to do with

Gotcha, and I'm not trying to be argumentative, but do you use his work? And if so, are you okay with using his work, but disagreeing with his ideas?
Took me a while to realise that you had to click the share button in the far top right to share the currently viewed item.

The physical separation between the item you're sharing and the screen element you have to click to share it strikes me as rather counter-intuitive.
I liked the search by shared items. Thankfully I always star and share, therefore I can still search (Google +1's search is pathetic, as it is non-existent).

Still wish they'd give +1 a search tool, and make all the previously shared items shared on Google+. But then again, this is power-user wishlist, and Google has been moving away from us.

This is not so bad for Google+, as it has an API, but it is terrible for Google Reader, as it still doesn't have an API. Guess this[1] issue was not starred enough on Google Code...

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=29
I am a quant. I work at a bank. We do a fair amount of portfolio optimization & price-analytics, in Scala, Matlab,C++, CPLEX. Its not hard to get your feet wet with financial modeling, though reasoning about the models does take an MFE or comparable education.

For example, here's a tiny scala pricer I coded up in 5 minutes to spit out the price of a google at-the-money call expiring 47 days from now, on Dec 17 using a 10k Monte-Carlo simulation.

--

val risk = 0.28 // google has a 28% implied vol

val T = 47.0/365 // 47 days annualized

println((1 to 10000).toList.map(_=>Random.nextGaussian).map(x=>595 * exp((-risk * risk/2) * T + risk * sqrt(T) * x)).map(x=>max(0,(x-595))).sum/10000)

--

Output: $23 & change ( its selling at about $23 right now )

To veyron's excellent list, I'd add Brandimarte's "Numerical Methods in Finance".
Yep, with GNOME3 and Firefox, the new Google Reader takes some 326 of my 768 vertical pixels before we get to the actual article I'm reading
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See my other comment. I made the same mistake. You have to click the share button in the top-right.
I very much doubt that, since the definitions are very similar. Just because you could look at the source doesn't make it Open Source, as defined by the OSI.
I think he meant crowd funding.
I have a feeling one of these sites (Niroka, Skillshare, Codecademy etc...) will be a billion dollar revenue school.

Edit: I have a former colleague who started his own SEO shop a while back. After getting tired of competing on price, he switched his business model. He now goes to small companies and charges a minimum of $1000/day to train employees on SEO (I have no evidence, but I believe him). I can only imagine how much money the above companies will make if they were selling course to businesses.
The problem with that mode is that the content area becomes way too wide. With a 1024-1280 px wide browser window, the sidebar makes the content area an acceptable width for comfortable reading.
BSD however, was not BSD licensed untill the early 90s, and they clearly stated this move was in response to GNU and the GPL, to use BSD before that point required an extremely expensive AT&T source code license.
Bootstrapping startup (tech) founder needs a consulting job for food.
Hello,

I hope I am not violating any rules posting this. But I chose HN because I think I would find great startups that I would love to work with.

A little about meI am a founder of a tech startup (ctrleff.com), a year 4 computer science student in the National University of Singapore, and most importantly a passionate programmer. And I am seeking (freelance/consulting) development projects so I could continue bootstrapping my startup while having some simple food on the table.

But it is best to talk a bit about my experiences. I have been programming for at least a decade, and doing freelance work since 17 (I am 24 now). In my belt, I have a repertoir of experience in various programming languages such as C, C#, Java, Javascript, Python, Scheme (Lisp), Prolog, PHP. Lets not forget basic SQL (for database queries), bash scripting, html, css, etc. I am especially well experienced with web development (Django, Flask), and just gave a talk on the "Rapid web development the right way" of which you can view my slides at speakerdeck.com/u/nubela/p/rapid-web-development-the-right-way . I spent a year at internship at Videoplaza (Swedish tech startup for video advertising) in Stockholm, I have consulted with OCBC (local bank) and TheUpperStorey (marketing firm) on the OCBC Cycling marathon of which I helped with my experience in Django development. I am currently working on a startup on which the primary mode of development is on mobile clients (ctrleff.com).
You can perform some code review at github.com/nubela , you can also read about my recent solo attempt at http://e27.sg/2011/09/19/i-survived-...o-code-a-thon/ .

I'm running really low in cash now, and if theres any startups/companies out there that needs a developer who seeks pleasure in getting his job done, and am extremely passionate about technology (linux advocate, pythonista, git-meiser) please do email me at nubela@ctrleff.com , thanks!
There is so much wrong with Anil Dash's long-winded comment. The first thing he gets wrong is expecting Stallman to handle traveling around for his cause just as well as others have done. Wrong. The personality traits from which people find themselves leading a cause are not the same ones which make people great traveling guests. Another big thing he gets wrong is understating GNU's role in Free Software Operating Systems. After reading that I'm convinced that he doesn't understand how important development tools are when creating a new platform.

FWIW I don't always say "GNU/Linux". I usually say "Linux". I certainly am not opposed to saying "GNU/Linux", however. I wish more people, Anil included, understood the pivotal role the GNU toolchain provided, but I don't think saying "GNU/Linux" is the best way.
The BSDs are also Free Software.
2007 or 2008 I think.

Unfortunately I don't have any email from that time so I can't check or find exactly what he said
So Ducksboard is free? Are there any details about future plans to charge for services? I hate signing up for services when there is no indication about the future.
Kickstarter for an indie trivia game
Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)
Which Mindset Do You Have
Remember, even if you've been exposed to something in the past, it doesn't mean you know what it is. I clicked on the article on the HN page, by reading the title, and didn't see the domain until I went to click on the back button. I can't say that I didn't have any inkling that it was a game, and whether it was from the mine craft like picture or the url I can't say (though I don't know for sure that humble bundle is only games.)

IF people are tweeting this page, how many people who see that tweet are likely to follow it and have never heard of Humble Bundle before? So, they'd know even less than I would...
Pay by Numbers
You are right. The sentences were hastily written.

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Can you elaborate on this, please?

Do you mean the minute you publish your work it is already patented?
Thanks, John. An awesome game indeed.
Don't take this the wrong way, but can you explain the thinking on requiring a Facebook login?
The new UI seems to waste a lot of the screen with whitespace, to the point where I feel like it is an unintended bug (this is in the 'Expanded' view)...and it seems like you can no longer resize anything on the page?
never sure what's to be considered a "power user" really, but i'm a developer who used to be tied only to debian (and by no means think that unity is perfect), but have switched over to it on my personal laptop and do see great promise there; esp. w/ it's growing stability -- not 100% there yet, but i can see the appeal.
But you don't need all that stuff any more - you have garbage collection !
I don't want to speak for anyone, but while Stallman definitely thinks that using work created from a differing ideological perspective is seriously problematic, one shouldn't assume the same from people who disagree with him.
Considering just Indonesia has more than 10x the population of Australia you could also say Pacific-Australia.
raganwald, if I were to spit on you and shove you into a locker, people would be expecting me to apologize to you, not follow up my bullying by attempting to justify my behavior. Anything less than an apology would be deserving of scorn.

The analogy you've drawn between Stallmam and your kid does not validate. rms isn't being bullied; he is the one doing the bullying. The public reaction is appropriate and rational. There is no excuse for Stallman's behavior, and if you disagree that it's deserving of backlash, well then we'll just have to disagree.

That said, it hurts my heart as well to hear about your son being picked on. I hate the thought so much. Your kid isn't the bully. He's the victim. I hope you've explained to him, and I hope he realizes, the difference between him and those who push him around.
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Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out Of Google Reader
Tim Gowers: How might we get to a new model of mathematical publishing?
Why YoYo Games bet on HTML5
It looks cleaner, but overall it's less readable. The old Google Reader featured distinct boxes for each news article. But now Google got rid of this so the articles all sort of glue together and the only way to distinguish articles is by the focus effect and the headings.

Also I'm not sure what prompted Google to move the star button from the left of the heading to the right. Titles are variable-length so it doesn't make sense to put a frequently used UI element in a position where it would constantly change..
why why why do they make it so hard for people to casually vote for this stuff? I have to register first?
Well, from Google's point of view, that is a feature :)
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ONA Highlights: 10 Techier, Trendier Tech Trends
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That's ok, after having done it once[1], and been written about as a result, I'll never date a reporter again.

[1] over a decade ago. Date was made under false pretenses. I though it was date, she was gathering material.
It's really straight-forward for simple usage. There's no official river for mongoDB, so for now, since I've got very small documents, I just save in MongoDB, and then index an even smaller searchable document in ElasticSearch. My front-end talks to ElasticSearch through a simple node/expressjs route, which was made far simpler by this NPM module -->

https://github.com/rgrove/node-elastical

I apologize for using the term "combining" as it's slightly misleading. I actually use ElasticSearch for search functionality only. I use MongoDB for the standard DB stuff (read, update, etc...)
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How to get a job after the Singularity comes
Built-in Ethernet and SD reader with Linux distro running node.js! Sold!
Well to begin with, different words have different connotations and meanings in different languages.

In Canada we might say arse when we don't want to swear. My english friends tell me that arse is actually a pretty bad swear word over in there.

From my experiences, hate doesn't have a very strong meaning. My wife might say she hates brussel sprouts and I wouldn't think anything of it. That's just a normal expression.
Apologies to Aaron for the incorrect attribution. I can no longer edit the post.
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Worth reading Arrington's post:
http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/28/oh-shit-im-a-racist/

CNN doesn't pass the smell test. Media in the USA is all at the tabloid level these days, and the whole purpose of covering NewMe (as opposed to a non-racially oriented incubator) is to be able to pay the race card. That's why Arrington was sandbagged.

It's kind of a sad statement about the state of news media that things like Startup School, Y-Combinator, etc, are not worthy of this kind of coverage in their own right. We've had a revolution in starting businesses in the last 10 years.

But, there's no conflict in a radically better way of making the world a better place.

However, charges of racism? Ratings gold, right?
As the current top comment notes: You click the "Share..." button on the G+ (black)bar.
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same setup, i used the minimalist reader plugin to make life easier: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgpppbiipcfcldpgcj...

NOTE: I haven't checked to see if this plugin still works on the new google reader design.
Bootstrapping - the secret (family friendly) work week
Thanks for the thorough reply! It sounds promising.
The inferior UI I could deal with, but eliminating note in reader? Deal breaker. And it seems they've deleted existing notes. Terrible.
How is one game a 'bundle'?
i agree with the promising part here; will be interesting to see how it develops. and for as much as i love the gnome universe, i'd prefer avoiding gnome3...it has nice features, but seems like a lesser unity (just my 2cents)
tptacek was responding to this question by VladRussian: "how the interviewer would know about the kids to start with? "
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Isn't HN a bigger deal than Techcrunch by now?
This thing has an acre of useless interface and padding. With the rise of instapaper, safari reader, reeder, readability, etc, how did they possibly think more clutter was the right direction to go.

I really think Google makes decisions like this: "The data says the search bar is only used occasionally. Okay, so that means it needs to be bigger so more people use it." Search in a reader is fine, but it needs to be about as prominent as
"search this page" is in a browser.
What exactly do people view as "wrong" about building a company to sell? Companies are sold because it's in the interest of both parties involved in the transaction, so it must serve some legitimate function in the economy. Perhaps it's a little different if they're bought by a larger company only to eliminate the smaller competitor, but I doubt that's why buyouts usually happen.

It seems really silly to me to criticize someone for wanting a high payoff to labor ratio or not wanting to dedicate their life to everything they do, but I don't know - what's the reasoning?
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Congrats to the chartio team. We use their product at dotCloud and are loving it.
Woah. I kept looking for this share button you were talking about - I completely blanked on the actual Google header bar, which at this point I've mentally "edited out" on Google sites. My first thought was that that button would do something stupid - that it would share "Google Reader", not the currently viewed post.

My problem with the new Reader is the lack of visual indication of read vs unread items.
The Free Fall Of A Startup Entrepreneur
> Personally, I seriously doubt I would date anyone who worked a lot of hours a week...

One solution is to date/marry someone who works with you -- an actual "partner" in your life. If you do this, you'll need to take care to have a life apart as well, but from my experience, that's doable.
You can press +1 and then share to google+ in the lower left corner.
Back in 2007 I built a social RSS reader called Feed Each Other (http://feedeachother.com). It was actually pretty good, but I had to give up on it because I ran out of money, Google Reader was slowly stealing all my features, and I found it very hard to convince people to switch from GR.

It had stuff like:

- "Circles" aka, letting you group your contacts however you like and see what each group shared with you and share stuff with all your contacts or just certain groups.

- Feed and user discovery and recommendations. "People who read X also read:" and "Look who subscribes to this feed" type of thing.

- Keyboard shortcuts, auto discovery, opml import/export etc. All the usual feed reader stuff.

Check out this old intro video I made for it (social/interesting parts start around 1:40). The design in the video is out-dated though, it ended up looking like this, http://feedeachother.com/screenshot_500.png. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Ltwh4AO_w&feature=youtu...

Maybe I should turn it back on? Any takers?
Someone should tell the GReader guys.... http://cl.ly/BRqw
Thankyou! It does appear to work.
Author forgot about GPUs.
A valid question in return would be, "Do you know how many people don't know what the Humble Bundle is?"

Moreover, what percentage of the population is even aware that A) you can buy games to play on the computer, and B) that didn't come from a big box retailer? I'll tell you this -- it's very much in the minority, especially when you look at the 30-and-up crowd. Much older than that and the percentage of the population starts to approach zero.

I grew up with an Atari VCS 2600 (that my parents had bought for themselves), as did most others I know. However if I asked my parents -- or those of anyone I know -- what Steam was, they wouldn't think of anything other than water vapor. Humble Bundle? Not a chance.

I've heard of kids on the bus and subway recently, talking about "this new Steam thing". If kids aren't aware of it, how aware is the general population of something far more obscure? Not very.
You misunderstood his position, he clarified it later and corrected the quotation he used.
µA/MHz is only the beginning
Stallman says something tactless and suddenly gets allot of coverage on HN leading to more discussion of free software etc.

Funny how that works , maybe he isn't as dumb as we think.
It seems like there are two possiblities:

1) Jason, a bright guy who is very familiar with the internet and characterized by Dave as standing up for those being attacked by the masses, did not read his own link and by chance chose a spectacularly poor but well-known example to ridicule and bully Stallman.

2) "It's cramazing" and "right up there" were not intended to signify ridicule and bullying.

My money's on the the second.

Of course, one weakness of this dichotomy is that Dave is also bright and internet savvy, and choosing Two would imply that Dave grossly misinterpreted Jason. Also low odds, but I'd guess more likely than One. Maybe we'll have to wait until Jason chimes in to clarify. Or maybe Dave already asked Jason to clarify and is certain of his interpretation? But we can still agree with moral of Dave's post, right?
Please expand the information available on your site; it's difficult to determine what is actually available now, and what state it is in.
BuiltWith jQuery Version and Usage Report 2011
Nice data point. What is the rest of the stack?
The iPhone is not a "finger responsive touch screen". These screens are really easy to make-- they have a grid of sense lines and can tell if there's a finger at the intersection of two of them. They are completely confused if two fingers touch the screen at the same time.

What the iPhone does is map the entire shape of a finger, as well as many other fingers, touching the screen to determine how many fingers, what orientation, etc.

This is completely different. That you and others claim they are the same shows the frank dishonesty at the core of the anti-innovation crowd here on hacker news. I'm at a loss for the motivation of anti-innovation people to hang out on an ostensibly startup oriented site, but you have succeeded in ruining it.
"... and you're going to burn in hell
for an eternity"

I never heard him say anything like that in his speeches.

Maybe I have a short memory, unless you mean the short NO answers he gives to people that ask whether bending the rules a little is OK to do or maybe you're referring to how he hasn't given up on correcting people about the GNU/Linux naming. I also heard multiple times about how he holds the FSF members to these higher standards.

But have you ever asked a Christian if you'll go to hell for being an atheist? The answer is pretty predictable. And compared to Christianity, a faith based on non-falsifiable beliefs, Stalman was proven right again and again.

Maybe he just got tired of repeating everything like a broken record? Maybe, just maybe, he worked for his whole life trying to build the GNU operating system without the results he wanted? And to put salt to the injury, OS X built on top of those tools. Wouldn't you be pretty pissed about it?

He's not young anymore, he may not have the same patience or pragmatism of 20 year old. He does sound like an old grump. His idealism is kind of obnoxious.

But regardless of that, he's one of those people that pushes the human race forward. It's OK, you don't have to be friends with him to give him a little respect.
dotCloud runs a fully replicated MongoDB along with your entire application - no need for a separate add-on provider.

http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/mongodb/
great suggestion, we are working on that now. This was a weekend project for fun so all the features aren't finished yet.
The problem is, as an individual who wants to compile his own kernel, how would I pass security checks? Any malware author could do the same. Also, a CA doesn't really work because once Secure Boot systems are distributed, you can't revoke a CA or keys.
Good thing it's pay what you want :)

But seriously, they don't call it a bundle anywhere on the page. In past releases, they've called packages of more than one game "bundles", this one is just "Humble Voxatron"
Hi "mike" welcome to the party -- I think your staff will find HN full of ideas, and not just a place to spread your own.
My guess is that he's talking about this problem: http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/04/success-and-farming-vs-mi...

"Founders and angel investors usually don’t particularly care if the companies they created live or die after they sell out, because they’ve gotten their money and moved on. There’s no stigma to having a company you founded fail after you leave it. In fact, again, it's a badge of honor: “Bob Smith founded Flopper.com, sold it for $46MM, then got out before it tanked! Genius!”"
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Can we get a confirmation from pg that this is legit?