skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the post.

Over the last few years I've worked from home or on travel a few times. I was able to make it work but it never felt very sustainable. As to working from home it is getting easier as the kids get older (they are able to control the urge to interrupt and they are able to understand that I am working). I remember I was on a phone meeting with about 20 people once and my son kept coming to knock on the door and shout, I was very worried everytime I was off "mute".

On the other hand, when we travel (a month or more during summer vacations), they get so excited that they tend to be very loud or litteraly out of control.

I totaly relate to feeling selfish about uprooting your kids.
Yes, the desktop is a thing of the past for youtube/facebook/news/casual gaming/light email. Tablets can handle these tasks (content consumption) imo much better than a desktop.

It is a completely different story for photoshop/maya/visual studio/solidworks/nx/matlab.... These programs are not designed for the type of mulch-touch input that tablets are able to excel at. XP is supported until 2014...
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I haven't looked at Groupon's numbers in detail, but yeah, I'm inclined to believe that they are overvalued. I certainly wouldn't buy at this price, the downside seems bigger than the upside.

My original comment was a general comment about startup valuation. I've heard so many arguments on HN that seem blatantly incorrect about the valuation of companies that don't have positive profits or revenues, and I wanted to start a proper debate.
Actually back when I was using OKC I didn't have a problem finding women -- it was just that there were few dateable women.

I expect that to change though - one (of the many) differences between men and women is womens dating worth as a date falls in her twenties while the typical male sees his dataing value go up.
I see no problem with this.

It's not "censorship" as TorrentFreak wants to linkbait. All results are still indexed, even sites that are obviously piracy related.

All Google is trying to do is cover their asses when it comes to contributory infringement.

If they were ever sued search engines are USUALLY safe. The exception being when sites actively push users towards pirated content - as we've seen through cases such as the isoHunt case where having a "Top Torrents" list that had mainly studio IP condemned them to heavy losses.

I think the last thing anyone wants is Google to lose a copyright infringement case. The precedent would be the gold standard against search engines and would be enough to start knocking out indexers and torrent sites all over the place.

If they see cause to do a bold move such as this to protect themselves, I say all the more to them.
If you liked the pump, you'll LOVE the dump.
I have to agree with avichal. I look at it more like JC Penney/Ross/Marshall/etc. All of the stores have distribution and pricing models. That does not mean that the clothing industry is fragmented or that Gap will suffer.

It is a good thing for Google that Amazon sells more Android powered devices. It helps them that more people are online. Regardless of how many apps are sold or how easy or tough it is to install etc - the fact remains that the web is way more interesting and easy to navigate than an app.

As long as they can get you to the web...through any mechanism possible - they win.
Though I tend to agree with you, I think it goes both ways depending on how restrictive your framework is (and whether or not you work well with restrictions).
I put censor in quotes because it's barely censoring - the results are still there in the search, they just don't autocomplete.
Agreed. Picassa sucks. SmugMug is a bit better for professional photographers, but I haven't seen any photo site (500px included) that beats Flickr if you're looking for a large community of photographers with lots of sharing.
I came to Jazz via its margins: Jazz Funk, Rap samples, Movie soundtracks or Salsa.

Show how it's at the middle of everything.
US business practice eliminated overtime for CS professionals decades ago. What is the point of this proposed legislation?

Hours mean nothing; complex problem solving happens on a background thread anyway. A well-managed CS organization demands overtime rarely or never.
The last part of (a)(17) was changed from:

who, in the case of an employee who is compensated on an hourly basis, is compensated at a rate of not less than $27.63 an hour.

to:

who is compensated at an hourly rate of not less than $27.63 an hour or who is paid on a salary basis at a salary level as set forth by the Department of Labor in part 541 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations. An employee described in this paragraph shall be considered an employee in a professional capacity pursuant to paragraph (1).

The law as currently stated implies that a non-hourly worker (i.e. salary) is also considered exempt regardless of their efective hourly pay rate.

The proposed change just makes this explicit and clarifies that to be considered as a salaried employee, the person must be paid a minimum of $455 a week (see TITLE 29 541.600(a)).

This change effectively reduces the effective hourly rate from $27.63 to $11.38 ($455 * 52 / 2080).
I don't understand this. Which part of the linked page outlaws paid over time? As a college student I don't have a lot of experience a) reading legalese and b) with getting paid.

Also, what are the benefits of laws that outlaw overtime? Is it a form of income redistribution? Why computer professionals specifically? Is it because the jobs are not physical and overtime is thus supposedly less taxing?
Yeah, I know, it's just a lot less of a "must have" as long as it won't replace my regular book purchases.
As someone's who has exclusively used Linux since early 2000s, I never saw the aspiration for Linux to ascend to mainstream popularity on the desktop as something I favoured. I wanted feature parity - browsers, plugins, sdks etc. - and for several years these have all been released near simultaneously. The 'mainstream' ambition required stripping out the fragmentation/customization which has always been one of the biggest draws for me. Unity is the eventual conclusion of this goal - the pursuit of generic, supportable 'usability'.

As for the premise of the article, the massive skew in Distrowatch's stats are deeply misleading. It's not downloads or active installs, it's hits to an informational page. DW is #3 on Google for 'Linux Mint' so it's a barometer of general interest, but the only conclusion you can draw is 'the negative reception of Unity as default was capitalized on by Mint to drive interest'.

Not to say it won't result in an upswing in Mint installs (I was considering it myself until I discovered the baked-in search engine capture), but DW stats make Alexa look like a paragon of accurate reporting.
When my friends and I were sharing videos online this weekend, I realized that a lot of times we just wanted to have something interesting play. It was a drag having to rack our brains or look for new videos to watch. Hopefully this will be fun.

I'd love as much feedback as possible.

Also if you have fun and interesting videos, please submit them.

Added bonuses: It seems that watching embedded videos means that you don't have to watch ads before a youtube video starts. You also don't need to resize the video or click play.
Ask HN: export Google bookmarks lists before quit
hi all,
i've read about the next end of google bookmarks list. is it possible to export/save all data?

if I try "export", it exports bookmarks, but not lists. ideas?

thanks
I was given this book last Christmas. It's a great overview of HTML5's features. I also met Bruce Lawson in London earlier this year. Definitely worth checking out.
I second this. Although my story is different. I would put my toe in the water and try to learn to program, but it all just seemed so absurd to me, so I pursued other areas of study.

Then earlier this year I started doing Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial and things just started clicking. Now I am teaching myself Ruby on Rails and I am looking for explore other more difficult languages (just for fun, I don't want a career as a developer).

For whatever reason, Ruby just got me more interested in programming. Now I am dipping my toes into SICP, which I would have never have guessed I would be interested in.

I think once you get your hands dirty with something relatively easy like Ruby on Rails, you start seeing the need for all the other computer science concepts and languages and that piques your curiosity.

However, I can say that teaching myself a little coding has really helped out in my day job, I notice I think differently about problems. My thought process is much more structured.
Duly noted. Wikipedia says the actual keys were Alt-F3.

Seems forever ago.
Ranking of HCI conferences based on average citations per paper
I didn't realize how many different Git GUI clients there are on Mac OS:

- http://www.gitboxapp.com/
- http://www.git-tower.com/
- http://gitx.frim.nl/
- http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

in addition to Github for Mac.
At this point I wish it'd go through so somebody could put Yahoo out of its misery.
Writing django apps requires the use of algorithms and data structures. He just didn't talk about them.
From the article:

"Request: Please don't email me to educate how this analysis should've been done. I know that it's limited. Instead, can you please do the analysis yourself and share the results in order to benefit everybody?"
Lego gone wild: Sam's Club bans bible illustrated in lego??
What Pepper Spray Does to Your Body
https://torrentfreak.com/googles-anti-piracy-filter-110712/ astonishes me. The autocomplete stuff actually matters that much? I would not have guessed it, which is just another reminder that I am a geek whose Internet usage differs considerably from much of the population.
And you are falling into the "if I build it they will come" trap.

He definitely has a niche business. Many of us do. For most of us, our niche is tech. Patrick's niche is education.

In the tech/startup niche, often the extent of marketing that is required is posting to HN and getting featured by TechCrunch. Trying to expand our niche outside of this is probably a bad sign, and most likely ineffective. I hold this thread as a prime example of how much we hate advertising.

The education niche is quite different. You don't reach them by getting coverage for raising a round of financing or writing a blog post on SEO that casually mentions your cloud based retro encabulator. This "deceptive" marketing may be an effective way to raise interest in different segments of his target market.

Traditional online advertising is increasingly ineffective because of all the bad ads in that form. Would we be so quick to ignore all ad-like content if we hadn't been tempered with the aversion therapy of flash horrors, scams, and weightloss/white teeth/work at home? The end result is even advertising that might serve a useful purpose can't exist in that environment, so, like bacteria after the invention of penicillin, it has to adapt and change and find a new way to continue. If only "good" ads make the jump, then I think we're better off as a whole. If bad ads make the jump, we'll soon get pretty good at filtering them out as well. Honestly, if scam ads can blend seamlessly into a page, what does that say about the actual content?
I think that bracket creep has very little to do with simplification. If one plots the page length of the US Tax Code over time, that figure continually increases. Simple page count is probably more highly correlated with the complexity and arbitrariness of corporate tax. Tax brackets often fit on 1 page, are rarely litigated in court, and pose little complication to corporations.
Graphs show that the drop started on Monday morning. On Friday afternoon a piece of news appeared that LivingSocial is about to raise a $200M round to strengthen its position as a competitor for Groupon. More recent rumours say that the round may actually be much higher than that, backed by some big names, and the cash would go to the company and not to investors (http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/11/22/livingsocial-...). So this may have influenced investors mood to some degree, maybe enough to make a spark so to speak, which probably was the opportunity that short sellers were expecting to start making big bets. It's just an assumption, but it could make sense.

According to an earlier Reuters analysis, Groupon shares are very attractive for shorting because the company is losing money, had issues with accounting, unproven business model, and may face stiff competition (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/14/us-groupon-shortse...).
I don't get paid overtime in Australia, but I did (sometimes) in San Francisco.
I answered the questions people asked. Are you for real?
You really need screenshots / screencasts. Nothing on your marketing site compels me to signup. I'm a happy user of Campaign Monitor so I think I get the general idea of what you do.
La RFID Y El EPC
Let's not confuse correlation with causation; I once looked around for studies showing experimental interventions which actually increased work ethic (specifically, I was looking for studies on the Big Five construct 'Conscientiousness') and didn't find any.

So, I'm sure the work ethic that let him join and last 10 years in the USMC helped.
How do you remain engaged and active across all of the major social networks?
Hi,

I'm starting a blog soon and finding it very difficult to maintain multiple social network accounts and remain active amongst all of them.

At the moment I'm using twitter, facebook and google+ but overtime find I'm favoring one over the other due to the trouble of having multiple accounts.

My question is how do you remain engaging and active amongst numerous social networks when your just one person and quite timestrapped?

Thanks a lot
Here's a problem I need solved ...
In less than two weeks I'm going to be giving a talk in New York. On the evenings of the 6th and 7th I need a hotel in New York that's not too expensive (by local rates), close enough to the subway (or other transport) to be able to get around, in a reasonably sane place, reasonably close to Penn station (if that's hard to get to by subway (which would be hard to believe)), clean, and quiet.

I, however, have next to no knowledge of the layout of New York, its stations, its facilities, its districts, or its dangers. Yes, I can learn all of this from the web, but how long will it take? My guess is hours to try to find a reasonable deal, which is therefore not worth finding because it has cost me more to drive to the gas station than it has saved on the price of the gas.

Someone with a very small amount of local knowledge could solve this for me with almost no work. If someone were coming to my area I could give them near complete guidance in less than 5 minutes.

Is there a web service to do this? I can go to hotel web sites, but that doesn't tell me about the situation, transport, area, or anything.

What would you do?
This Just May Change How You Do HTML
Another way is to redefine the problem so its solution can have a simple mental model.

This is similar to the subset approach of the first case (Economical Design), but it might not be a subset (i.e. it might overlap with other uses), and it might not serve only one user scenario, perhaps not even the most common case. It requires a wider perspective. For this to actually be useful, it needs to interact with other solutions to other problems. That is, it refactors the set of problems, shifting different aspects to different places, in such a way that it changes the information required from the user, to make a simpler mental model possible.

IMHO the key questions are:

- What information is needed from the user?
- How can we arrange things to minimize that?

Surprisingly often, it can be reduced to zero - automation.

BTW: The iPhone doesn't have a "small number of affordances". You can touch the display in 1,000's of distinct places, with many simultaneous touches registered distinctly. What the iPhone has is flexibility and power: instead of a specific grammar of interaction, it enables the specification of many arbitrary grammars of interaction. IOW it's programmable.
Try awesome[1]. It uses Lua, which is probably a more familiar language(I never learned Lua, but am still able to make minor changes to the config file, something I wouldn't try with Haskell). That, combined with a few other things, is what made me move from xmonad to awesome.

[1] http://awesome.naquadah.org
love it!!! brilliant idea!i usually 'stumble upon' videos via facebook when my friends post anything interesting.
The best brains in *nux should be focusing on the next generation FOSS/GNU tools to 'power the web'. If desktop OS itself is at risk of extinction , this is one fight which the Linux community has taken on for too far and too long.
Automate movie downloading with The Rotten Pirate
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established the over-time compensation requirement and this bill would exempt those professions from that requirement. This would NOT mean that you don't get over-time pay. It would mean that your boss isn't legally obligated to give you over-time pay. Two very different things.

If your boss isn't compensating you properly for your work, give him the finger and find a new job. The government has no business dictating who gets paid what and when. If only they got rid of the entire damn thing.
You do know about http://video.stumbleupon.com/ right? :)

Not that that takes away anything from your project of course :)
If you use emacs, magit-mode is great for this.

http://philjackson.github.com/magit/
I never knew.
How can that justify that they deceive many users?
Every company should offer Starter licenses like Atlassian does
photoshop/maya and other graphical tools can be repurposed without the Windows-style buttons and menus.

Programming tools are already being ported to the web (cloud9 ide).

Google Docs and Office 360 are already being targeted at replacing MS Office.

In a few short years very few reasons to still use a Windows desktop UI will exist.
Accelerators vs. incubators: an alumni panel debate video
Insider trading motives aside, this fall in stock price coincides with a general trend I'm seeing in this daily deal market. As a merchant whose had lots of success with these sites, the offers have become better and better over the past few months. Our first Groupon ever was a 50/50 split. Our last deal was 80/20. They offered 70/30, we asked for more, we got it. Maybe that's a sign that their costs have gown down so they have more room to play with.

Personally, I reached deal fatigue and unsubscribed from all of the sites. How many times can you possibly eat out / get a message / get your car detailed?
There's also a lot more to learn and possibly more confusing. In 'my day' it was just CGI with MySQL, Apache and perl, then comes Java, then along came PHP then Python, Ruby, now there is JQuery and Redis and Hadoop and.. and on HN now you see a hundred new frameworks each saying 'we're great, use us!'. While I welcome that there are easier ways to actually learn all these things and the amazing communities, I'm not sure it's really easier to actually just get started. Oh, and you've got Reddit and Facebook and HN sucking up your time and a fast internet connection to procrastinate on Netflix and Youtube.. I could go on.
That was not Einstein but a drastic paraphrase: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#1930s
I second this sentiment but perhaps for not the same reasons.

I work as a programming contractor on short term (3-6 month) jobs and right now the job market in Australia (Melbourne specifically) for coders with a demonstrable track record is fantastic.
Given that you have a bit of time, enough for some back-and-forth, how about a forum?

http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-york-city/

Now, aggregating that data to make it fast for future people (while being forward about the age of the data) might be an interesting business.
> You need a department that can take responsibility for account lockouts and resolve them! STAT!

They already do. It's called legal. I've been in this situation numerous times already with PayPal and a few others. They won't even look at the matter until your lawyer sends a nasty letter. At which point they'll look at it. And then either cut you a check or kindly tell you to go fuck yourself, politely.
Why would you expect "mouse-free control" for an application whose user experience is fundamentally designed around a pointer?

Of course, GitHub for Mac should leverage Mac OS X's Accessibility infrastructure so it works with assistive technologies like VoiceOver and full keyboard control (I hope it does!) but I suspect from your comment that's not what you're looking for.
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I downvoted you and also flagged your post. This kind of negativity is totally uncalled for.
>I can tell based on profile text alone whether I'm likely to get along with a person.

but this is age and experience, not math. //

Arguably your brain is running an algorithm that can be expressed mathematically, we simply don't know the exact nature of the algo.

Age is largely irrelevant, it's mainly a first pass indicator for experience. Your experience is probably largely a statistics based algorithm with some unsound choices caused by your psych make-up thrown in to keep things interesting.
Stupid handling of ampersands is exactly why I prevent viewtext.org from displaying articles from https://grepular.com/

Viewtext.org rewrites all links to a redirector on their own site, but doesn't decode the entities first. So if I have this link on my site:

<a href="http://example.com/?1=2&amp;x=y">link</a>

Clicking that takes you directly to:

http://example.com/?1=2&x=y

However, clicking the munged viewtext version of the link, sends you to:

http://example.com/?1=2&amp;x=y

That is a different URL! Can everyone please learn how to encode/decode html entities and uris properly.
"Title generates fewer outraged upvotes and pageviews".
I'm not sure if a startup is the best solution to making jazz more popular. I think becoming a popular musician in a genre heavily influenced by jazz is a better shot.

I have seen an iPad app called "The History of Jazz" which is aimed really at people who are already fans, but something like that could be good education for others too.
I hope the YUI team can find a new home (and some other good teams like them) at least before that happens. Maybe google could buy the whole team ?
Another question:

Why do you feel it necessary to remain engaged and active across all of the major social networks?
I really like http://video.stumbleupon.com, but I feel like I spend 90% of the time stumbling after a few secs.

I wanted to try to make a site where I want to watch a higher proportion of the videos all the way through. Figured that it would be a fun weekend project.
Did you even read what I wrote? Your comment is irrelevant because you obviously did not understand my point: that git is not a "simply better" substitute for svn as a lot of people seem to think. There are situations where svn is the right tool for the job, my example is one of those situations in my opinion. So yes, definitely are they NOT the target audience for git - exactly my point.
Nice post, very inspiring.

I have been dabbling with Ruby and other languages for a year, but have never had this sort of discipline. For a couple years I have wanted a programming job but have always had serious doubts about whether I can really "hack it" as a professional. I don't know any programmers personally (well, one friend on the other side of the country in SF, heh), and I look at job openings and their requirements / desired experience all seem so intimidating. :-/