skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I founded and ran Y's developer network, so I would have been the one to tell these guys that they can't pre-announce a developer product.

The last year I ran YDN we were the most productive product organization in Yahoo, releasing a new developer product on average every month with a team of six people. A few years after I left I'd heard the team swelled to over 100 people and they had essentially stopped releasing developer products.
Lasers are simultaneously more and less dangerous than people think, which is a cute trick. So you walk through some low-intensity infrared beams... so what? It's not going to magically fry you. Energy levels sufficient to scare off mosquitoes are probably barely perceptible to humans in any way. Lasers aren't magically dangerous.

On the other hand, the badly underestimated danger of lasers is their ability to focus retina-damaging amounts of energy into your eye in less time than it takes you to blink, which in this case I mean fully literally and not at all figuratively. Blinking is basically your only defense against lasers that might blind you and if you can't deploy it in time, that means you're defenseless. Anything that can burn a mosquito down in flight is probably enough to burn at least some of your retina, too. I can't believe some of the lasers we sell without permits; if you've got a laser that can pop a balloon from across the yard you are playing with something that can burn out your vision with only a moment's inattention. For the love of all that's holy keep these things away from children. More dangerous than you think.
How to escape parents and make wealth?
Ok, so here is my sob story, in short:

Dropped out of MIT due to addiction to digital distractions. Finished a CS bachelors in a no-name school. Took up online poker and did well until Uncle Sam froze the big sites. The one where I had most money turned out to be a giant ponzi scheme, so I won't likely see a dime from there. Currently have $4,000 to my name and back with parents.

Having hit rock bottom, I have decided to do whatever it takes (within conscience) to make my first million and have enough so that I can move on to solving more interesting problems in life than, "How do I eat next month."

Here is where you come in. Put yourself in my shoes for a second; you are a soon-to-be "babe in the woods" entrepreneur with complete freedom of living anywhere in the U.S. on a shoestring budget. You have limited skills in C, HTML, Ruby, and Rails, but have a desperate hunger for freedom that comes from having wealth. You are also practically unemployable because you hate working for someone else for a regular wage, even if it's self-employment. You need freedom.

Further constraints:

Willing to live with up to two other people whose main focus is generating wealth.

Not willing to live on Ramen or to work 16 hour days, simply because my long term health more important than generating wealth in the quickest manner. I mostly eat whole foods that I cook myself and I need 8.5-9 hours of sleep. However, I would be willing to use natural stimulants in moderation to increase performance when needed.

Have lingering remnants of social anxiety from younger days. Working very hard right now to eradicate all of them, and can be fully functional (and even charismatic) in most social situations. Still, anxiety is high in most novel social situations, but nothing that can't be overcome with full immersion. But networking or sales performance might be impaired until more experience was acquired.

Have had bad experiences with callous / borderline sociopath personalities in the past, so working in finance would probably be out of the question (please correct me if I am wrong on this!).

Any thoughts on how you might proceed if you were in my shoes? Remember, you have $4,000 and complete freedom and focus. Your priority is to first get out of parents' place and move to a place best for wealth generation given the above constraints. You also need to find housemates with similar focus and to quickly get some cash before the $4,000 runs out (not necessarily in that order).

Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
Is that really the complete list of privledges? It says a child process can inherit the sandbox but not that a child process can be created. I mention it because I think the plug-in issue could be solved with child processes and sockets, or something similar.

Also, a typical program now can't access a generic thunderbolt device directly (it would be done via the file system which is a possible privilege). Thunderbolt devices are in PCI address space and this needs to be done via the kernel even now.

But it does raise a question: What about 3rd party device drivers?

All in all, I think most of these sandbox arguments underestimate developer creativity.
The system is non-lethal so natural selection wouldn't even come into play (unless these machines became so ubiquitous that mosquitoes start starving to death).
LOL I love this so much that i think my team's about me page is going to be just this. No animation at all.
Ultimate VIM for Python & Django development
Is a popup really the best way to get YouTube into Google+?
Any suggestion where I can get a solid overview of what it takes to hack the Kinect on non-Windows machines? Forums haven't cut it for me, and I don't want to go out and buy a Kinect if the language/toolkit isn't great.
Do a barrel roll - Google Search
We have outsouced a massive amount of our art assets for our stealth VW, but we have kept our dev's close at hand.
"But it's not unique anymore. And it no longer brings anything truly amazing to the table that you can't find in a competitor language."

Name another multi-paradigm language with as broad, deep and well-tested library as CPAN.

"Unless a miracle happens, it will never return to dominance in anything other than niche domains (like quick-n-dirty commandline scripts)."

When has "dominance" (whatever that means) or popularity ever been the goal or desirable? I can't think of any language or system that is universally "dominant"; all have niches to work.

You don't get into programming because you want to do what all the cool kids are doing. Paul Graham (you might have heard of him, you're using his site) argued very well on the advantages of choosing above-average tools for above-average results. (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html)
Except that the very top of the professional high end is not really that populated by macs.

Most pro 3D designers use 3DStudio MAX (Windows) or Maya (multiplatform with no advantage for Macs). Most architects use AutoCAD (Windows only). Most professional studios use a mix of all three, with a predominance of Linux and Windows at the highest end. Even with audio there isn't much of an advantage to using a Mac unless you depend on Logic Pro.
I encourage people to follow this. We need more data on outsourcing effectiveness. If I were the author, however, I would not use HP as a success story.
According to Amazon the keyboard weight is 522g.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-MB167B-A-Wireless-Keyboard/dp/...

Making the Macbook Air 11" the lighter option.
One of the many things I take for granted with my girlfriend is the amount of support she gave me during my year-long experiment with my own company.

1) She knew she came after work. She fully supported everything I needed to do to become successful and was never short on support. However, I made sure that I made time for her and reminded her that in my heart, she's first.

2) She was willing to lend me money. Always offered to but my pride never let me do that, and it turned out just fine anyway.

3) Was willing to have plenty of "staying in nights." She never asked for fancy schmancy meals unless I offered, and she sacrificed plenty of fancy dates just so I would stop worrying about money.

These three things are just a really small sample of the great things she's done to support me, and now that things are better off, I make sure I spend a lot more time making her happy and compensating for some of the stuff I messed up with in that year.

The moral? A lot of women will shy away from entrepeneurs and guys who behave like entrepreneurs because of how cold and distant they can be. However, the right woman will stand by your side and be the strongest person in the world.
I'm pretty sure this practice has not been stopped.
Especially when both const and mutable exist in C++. ;)
Great rant, couldn't've said it better myself. Also, per ActiveState (Perl is still all over the internet), assisting in server management and powering websites and applications (not just the legacy ones). So there ....
Ask HN: What if upmodding was different from saving a story? 
The triangle button next to a submission serves two purposes:

* upmodding

* saving a story

It's obvious that in many situations we want to save a story that is a good and on-topic story. But what if it's not the case?

How often it happens that you save something quirky but you don't want it to have a lot of points? If we would separate upmodding and saving a story would that improve HN content?
I am in a long term relationship with a girl I plan to marry. For the first year-ish of my startup it was a slow ramp up to the hours/comittment talked about in these articles. I used to read these articles and feel like I was doing something wrong, or was going to fail, because I did have a healthy life and relationship.

But when we started having real customers and real investors and real competitors.... excuse the pun, shit got real. I've become a classic startup 'cocky jerk' - and I love it. I'm losing my hair faster than otherwise, but I've never felt so alive.

My gf takes the long term perspective. Luckily she started grad school around the same time my work ramped up, so we're both busy. She also knows I have a few years window to really do this (we're 28, want kids in early 30s) so I've got to give it my all. Make the time together really really great when you get a moment, and take a long term perspective. She knows, success or not, when I'm 40 family will be priority #1 and understands I've got a once in a lifetime opportunity for a short window of years.

It works for us, for now. She has 1.5 years left of grad school. But I admit I am super lucky to have found her. :)
I always wondered why it is so difficult to find the best tutorials that are all over the net. A good directory of tutorials would be incredibly useful, is it possible that nobody is trying to fill that space?
That was a very inaccurate headline on the story.

Our software can create eight paragraphs now, but is it possible to create eight chapters' worth of content? The answer is "yes," but not quite the same kind of technical books I used to write, at least right now.

...which is why the previous paragraph says "[b]ecause I've been so focused on running Automated Insights, I haven't had time to write any new books recently."

That is a variant on the Calvin and Hobbes bed making robot[1]. I strongly suspect he will end up like Calvin, with something that doesn't work as planned. If he is lucky, like Calvin he will find he accomplished his goal, but discover he started with the wrong goal in mind.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=NV4WEqQtvTYC&pg=PA126&#...
I'm sure it will, I'm just surprised they started with such a small number, something like less than 1% of all their Kindle books if I'm not mistaken.
No, it means people are not willing to pay for it.
Being an entrepreneur is more than a set of "skills". If you have to ask, you should be working for Apple. There shouldn't be any doubt and this post wouldn't exist otherwise. Having said that, there is something to be said in regards to "a time to learn and a time to earn". You sound like your in a phase in your life where you still have a lot to learn and a lot to make up in your mind. Pursue entrepreneurship when its the only thing in your thoughts and you aim to take it head on without a doubt. Currently, that's not the case.
See section 9 of our terms: http://www.kaggle.com/pages/terms

In general, the competition host gets a license to the winning algorithm in exchange for a winner accepting the prize money.

We also have private competitions that do not appear to you unless you're invited. In these competitions hosts can offer appearance fees just for participating as well as access to more restricted data.
Google Does a Barrel Roll
2/3 things that you don't think you want to see, but will use heavily anyway
Yep, looks like whatever version of my app (DubPlate) that's up on the store in March '12 is the version that's going to be there in perpetuity, because it can't be updated for the sandbox on account of its using the CD burner pretty much as a core feature.
You can always find cases where it would fail. And that's ok. For what it's doing, and what it allows it's simply unbelievable (at least to me) how it succeeds in doing it (I understand very little of compilers, and little of interpretters).

One area which is not easy translatable is OpenMP (www.openmp.org), inlined assembly, and SSE packed floats. But that's okay, and even then there is probably a better alternative - a language more suited to such tasks, instead of "C" - OpenCL (www.khronos.org) or DirectCompute.

But for general coding, it's very very good.
Variety is a good thing: drives innovation, pushes change, keeps incumbents from self-satisfying lethargy.
By his logic you should just write everything in machine code and be done with it...
You realize that eInk (which is what most ereaders use) is basically only for reading books, right? You can't watch movies or even really browse very comfortably with it, due to the very, very slow screen refresh. The other side of that coin is that it's fantastic for actually reading, and you're not tempted to go check your email every 5 minutes.
It took me a long time to even discover that upmodding saved a story. I'm guessing a large part of the HN readership doesn't know about this feature.
(Disclaimer: I've been working with Amazon for a while but have been a Prime member for much longer.) It's also the free shipping on any order that's important. It's free shipping on any order, whereas I think normally you need to spend at least $25 or $50 to get free shipping. This enables me to purchase anything on Amazon whenever I want without worrying about added cost and turns shopping into an almost entirely asynchronous experience. It's a huge time savings.
FogBugz and Kiln Build and Release Report Card
Android hardware fails more than iPhone, BlackBerry
The Geek Atlas consists of 128 similarly sized 'chapters' (one for each place) so I had a number of key metrics:

1. Number of chapters completed. A very gross progress bar that I could use to get a rough estimate of when I would deliver.

2. Words per chapter. I used this to determine if I was changing the length of the chapter without realizing (which did happen) and correct for that so that the book would be consistent.

3. Hours per chapter. I used this to test my writing speed and work out more accurately when I would be done and also how many hours I could allow per chapter.
While this is an awesome development in a preventive approach, the best reactive approach to those purveyors of pestilence remains the mosquito bat[1] - for disease prevention and fun!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_bat
Only works in Chrome or Firefox, pretty fun :)
Wow. Virtual round of applause for such dedication. Those guys need a medal: even prison inmates are allowed more frequent showers.
Link to the SVN rant?
College or Incubator for founders? (Incl. YC vs TechStars failure rates)
I stand unimpressed.
I am still waiting for "How I automated my reading hacker news"...
There's a lot of stories of successful outsourcing dev work being done by US startups. Eastern europe is actually a very good pick. Some more thoughts on this: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/07/polish-programmers-are-j...
That is the boxed weight for shipping.

I have the wireless keyboard (the older three-AA revision) and it's comparatively lighter than my 7" Tab, which is 380 g.

edit: Charlie Stross says 325 g for a four-AA revision in http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/ipad-wri.... Macworld says 323 g in http://www.macworld.com/article/150600/2010/04/ipadwhichkeyb...
GM mosquitoes show dengue fever promise
Some of those companies are using Oracle for certain apps:

Oracle at Facebook:
http://venturebeat.com/2010/12/08/tim-campos-dreamforce-comm...

Correct me if I'm wrong, Amazon (the retail online store) was using Oracle in the past. I don't know what DB they're using now.

Ditto with eBay.
Have IP Address, Get... Everything Else
:) Yeah, I'll take a look at your link, but the new styles are surely reminiscent of the awful YUI, which much as I love Crockford, I'd have to write off as crap, due to its convoluted programming model and wretched bad appearance and inefficiency. (Example: compare the stock charts in Yahoo with Google's - slow and very flickery)

Here's a concrete example in the form of a comparison between old Gmail and new GMail.

Page headers for old and new Gmail compared: http://imgur.com/a/X4gdp
You might be right. I clicked at my username and there is was: saved stories. I find it very useful. Here is URL for those who don't know about this feature:

http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=your_username
Rape used to be a capital offense in the USSR and no black had been executed for that. However they stopped making the death penalty an option anyways. The reason being that it turned most rapes into rape+murder.
>Unless it's used as a transition for a clueful, but new to Linux, user who's going to learn a bit and then move to a different distribution.

Exactly to those I would point to #!. By the FSM, I would never suggest #! to a user that doesn't already have a degree of technical knowledge.
Banakum
Banakum "in the army" is a TV series which presents every-day life of Armenian soldier with details and funny stories. The film is about the character of the soldier which is being shaped during the military service. The story is developed around the strict attitude of the commanders towards the soldiers. The most interesting is it teaches to take the military service serious, honor the army, love the country and have a sense of responsibility.
i can't help but think that, due to the current legal climate, a company has to actively defend their trademarks to establish precedents for future lawsuits. i speculate that apple does not see a threat in the Apple-a-day restaurant, but feels it is strategically to their advantage to go through the motions in court. i speculate that apple doesn't care about the outcome of this lawsuit.
I'm guessing this changed in iOS 5 then (AFAIK; it didn't in iOS 4). I stand corrected.
Ask HN: Could we sue Microsoft for IE and wasting our time?
I'm taking the idea of my co-worker and running with it a bit further.

Could we put together a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for their line of browsers? Lets face it, anyone to ever develop or design something for a browser has had to deal with IE. And if you've had to deal with IE, then you've had some pretty bad experiences.

How much time do IE-only fallbacks take?

How much time do IE-related style adjustments take?

What about the time lost because IE doesn't fully support standards, even in an experimental way?

What about not retiring the old versions of it properly?

I don't care about money... I want compliance and a lack of hassle! Even IE9 is a big hassle. Why, today alone is ticking into the second hour of trying to "make IE work".
First of all, I was talking about the death penalty in rape cases, the statistics are old because it's an old problem, "The 1977 Coker v. Georgia decision barred the death penalty for rape, and, by implication, for any offense other than murder." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unite... So your point is moot.

As for your wiki cite, first of all you're talking about murder when your first comment was regarding the total number of black people incarcerated. Which would you like to discuss? You pulled that quote (as of 2005) off of a graphic, had you read the text to the left you would have seen this: "As of 2008, statistics report that of 16,277 murders, 10,568 were committed by males, 1,176 were by female, and 4,533 were committed in which the offenders sex was unknown. Likewise, 5,334 murders were committed by white offenders, 5,943 were committed by black or black and Hispanic offenders, 273 were committed by offenders of other races, and 4,727 murders were committed by offenders whose race is not known. [12]" So white people murder about the same as black people. There are less black people in the united states, what do you think the reason behind this is? You think black people just have more bad apples in their bunch than whites? Are blacks just more prone to be criminals? Or is it based on the conditions of their community? How did their community get that way? Was it their own doing or did it have anything to do with Jim Crow laws, were those laws racist?

Your other statistic is NY specific therefore I will not address it because I am talking about a systematic problem, not NYC which is a major metro area and therefore likely to have more crime.

"Slavery ended 150 years ago" But how long ago was it that Jim Crow was in effect? How long did it take for Jim Crow to be completely abolished? There are still signs up that say whites only because they haven't been removed--I've seen some with my own two eyes.

It's unfortunate that you cannot see the connection between the current state of the black community and the trans-atlantic slave trade, hundreds of years of enslavement followed by legal racial segregation that just ended 40 years ago--I know plenty of people who went to segregated high schools.

"The causes of this situation are complex, and reducing them to one dimensional truisms does no one any favors." I don't believe I ever said it was due to one thing. Racism in itself is highly complex and in no way one dimensional.

I really have no interest in continuing this debate with you. I'll agree to disagree.
You are assuming that people who use a net or pesticide solution for their insect problem are satisfied with that solution. (They're not)
If it was a widespread system, the mosquitos which were immune to it (if any) would have a better food supply, and tend to reproduce more easily, and come to dominate the population.

Natural selection doesn't need a lethal system to come into play.
I wonder what the impact of knowing you can leave at any time is... Well, short of imprisoning them I guess this is the closest we can get to simulating the experience.
Yeah, that wasn't clear to me on my first reading, which is why I think it's better to phrase it similar to how I did above.
Well, it is open source, so we can always yank it out if they try to push it on to us.
It doesn't need to bow out - it can continue to serve its purpose while existing next to other useful languages, even if some strengths and weaknesses may overlap.
I'm super pumped about this. Makes IP-to-Demographics and IP-to-GeoContent super easy.