skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Internet support is a necessary prerequisite to see that you are not alone in this. This was a critical thing in the revolutions in Egypt and all the other countries. It's much easier to go outside and protest when you see pictures and messages from thousands and thousands of people on the spot.
> Music does have monetary value.

The market says otherwise. People are willing to pay almost nothing for music, even risking huge penalties, because it does have value (the other types you listed). Just not monetary.
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RF is a shared resource. So are roads. Requiring proof of competency to operate nontrivial equipment that uses and can cause DoS or physical harm to people on shared resources is perfectly reasonable.

My dad and several of my friends have HAM licenses. It's not inordinately difficult; it's kind of like getting a driver's license. The structure is not designed to prevent ordinary people from using it, just to keep it usable and reasonably civil.
So my carrier can see what numbers I call, see my text messaging habits and see what websites I visit, all tied to a unique handset ID?

And every keystroke that you enter in "secure" connections, and everything you do offline.
Do people think the hiring and talent argument holds water?

The more I hear this argument (e.g., from the "Python Paradox"), the less I buy it.

Is the theory that true "hackers" care more about the programming language syntax and semantics than whether it has the right libraries for the subject domain of the startup?

Is the theory that true "hackers" care more about whether the startup uses a new and un-tested programming language than traction, likelihood of success, money, or the actual problems being solved?

Do the best "hackers" come in by searching job sites for niche programming languages, rather than referrals?

Even ignoring the huge disadvantages in library support, tooling, community sizes, and so on, are the hiring and talent advantages believable? Are the sort of people who learn Haskell also the sort of people who would be 99th percentile C++ systems engineers for some reason?
I'm not against playing games for short term happiness or pleasure. It just seems like a poor long term hobby , especially to focus so much on one game.

I don't think CS is the worst offender here though, It's worse when WOW gets patched and people complain about the patch making their character worse because they invested so much time in that character which can be so arbitrarily rendered worthless.

I think being good at sports or music is much more likely to get you laid and more likely to be a hobby that people will respect and you will be able to carry on throughout your life. There is also way more chance of making money and of course there are fitness benefits to sport.

I'm not ridiculing people who enjoy video games I just sort of look back and think "wow, why did I take that so seriously" and I know my other CS playing friends now think the same.
That's why I put 'liberal' in quotes.
Are you serious? You equate limiting warrantless wiretaps with alcohol prohibition? In your mind limiting the government's power is the same as limiting citizens' freedom?

How about we just enforce the existing wiretap laws instead of making them even looser as you suggest? Sure, if you loosen the laws, there's less illegal activity. Tha doesn't mean there's less activity, though.

How can you think we'd do a better job of prosecuting illegal wiretaps if there were more wiretaps in general? If there are more wiretaps, then there will be less oversight on each individual wiretap. That makes it easier to hide illegal ones, because they get lost among the masses (which is already a problem). Why don't you come up with a way to decrease abuse our existing surveillance systems before you propose expanding them?
Hooray, now all the people stealing music can feel good about themselves because one particular artist agrees with them. Ergo, it is ethically ok.
"Users love software that gets better over time, with no effort on their part."

This is still a big deal in the desktop world where I live.
Interesting read. Honestly, Scala looks like gibberish to me. I strongly distrust a language where I can't hold its conceptual model in my head all at once. This is true for C, true for JS, true for ML, and hell even true for Common Lisp (once you realize it's all macros over a simple core). It is not true for Scala or Haskell, at least for me.
This is why I abandoned the desire to be the #1 best at something. This isn't to say I can't strive to be exceptionally good, but being the best is such a great cost. I haven't yet found something where I feel the payoff of being THE best is worth it.

This doesn't really jive with conventional worldviews, and I feel like I should be ashamed for "giving up", but honestly it seems like a destructive behavior/goal.
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Sorry about that. It only happens when the JS borks out completely (which is rare), when JS is turned off, or when you're using a really old browser (which i assume you're not).

If you're inclined (I completely understand if not) can you tell us the error that the console in Chrome or Firebug gives you?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome;_I_Fuckin%27_Shot_That! <- working URL
And how is it doing that here?
Er. Well. Ok. So who's going to build Intel? Lockheed? IBM? Apple? Google? These all started as startups. There is real value to society to having people trying to do this. "Value to society while doing something risky" is actually not a bad heuristic for "glory".

There's no clear alternative to "startups" for solving these problems. You simply can't be a happy-go-lucky bootstrapped search engine unless you're piggybacking on someone else (I love DDG, but there are probably 3-4 orders of magnitude more complexity in Google than there are in DDG). The situation is even worse if your goals are those of Tesla or SpaceX. No one is going to do that in a casual way.

I'm all for recognizing the inherent incentive mis-alignment between the startup cheerleader economy (VC, TechCrunch, Wannabe entrepreneurs etc.) and the people on the front lines doing the work. But you can't just dismiss the startup concept outright as a con unless you're prepared to explain how you're going to give up or replace your CPUs, web search engines, and commercial aerospace. There is no evidence that small bootstrapped "non-glory" entities have much meaningful impact on this aspect of the world (with all due respect to all parties involved, consider the net impact of 37 signals vs Salesforce on modern business apps as used by actual large businesses).
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If you're not doing anything illegal and you're not a member of the LLC, I wouldn't worry. Just start trying to line up your next job and don't agree to any sort of executive title like CFO or VP. An employee can be an ex-employee living in another state within a day. An owner has to file paperwork to be an ex-owner.
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He's not wrong, but at the same time I don't think anybody who so enjoys pissing contests on Twitter can afford to be too condescending about slapfights on HN. The last thing either place needs is more hipper-than-thou posturing.
I worked in academia for quite a few years. This is an industry that could really use disrupting, but I'm incredibly cynical about the possibilities of this ever happening (as far as changing internal software).

Just about anyone on HN could write a better lms than blackboard, and sell it for 1/100 of the cost for huge profit margins (okay maybe some exaggeration here, but not much). But blackboard is not unique, almost all institutional level software in universities is terrible and expensive.

This isn't a problem with bad vendors it's a problem with the institution doing the purchasing.

For starters the idea that "Cohen plans to sell Coursekit to professors instead of letting university IT departments slow him down." Is flawed on many levels.

Firstly it's no accident that university IT departments are unnecessarily central to purchasing decisions, they spent and will continue to spend much political capital on campus to remain that way. As soon as campus IT departments catch wind of this strategy, they will fight in every-way to make it as amazingly inconvenient as possible to go this route. Most professors are busy enough that it's not worth their time to fight campus IT over what is ultimately a minor part of their course.

Second faculty don't usually have budgets to purchase product like this for their classes (again institutions have deliberately grown this way to keep central departments powerful), they may have grant money but they would never spend it on something like this. So at a minimum it would have to be a departmental purchases, which mean that someone in the department will have to handle keeping track of making sure everything is paid for, students know how to use it etc. At which point departmental admins will just say "why not just let IT deal with it"

Additionally almost all professors I know already have their hands full with research and just teaching, let alone worrying about the burden of infrastructure. Most professors use Blackboard, not because it's useful, but because their campus IT departments have created university policies that make it a requirement or at least 'strongly suggested'.

I would love to see blackboard taken down, but in the end they're only a symptom of a much larger problem in higher ed.
Great point and looking forward to Lua support in 2.6. GETRANGE and SETRANGE operations also allow buffered writes at the collection time because setting bit to 1 is an idempotent operation. They are particularly attractive in sharded environment where one can perform:

WATCH
bits = GETRANGE ...
bits = bits | buffered_bits
MULTI
SETRANGE .... bits
EXEC
www.jingproject.com can also be used for this purpose. You'll capture a screenshot or video, click on a button and get a url back.
very cool. worked swell.
I really wish as a society we would encourage (by creating a system to allow) high school graduates to enter the work force via internship in the field they want to go into. In my case I went to culinary school, Relator, Insurance, Stock Broker schools all to end up writing software in the end. It was not until 4 or so years into my career that I decided that going back to school would be interesting to fill in the gaps. Had I spent those 4 years up front, my schooling would have been a lot more focused and a lot more interesting.
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It's easy to blame the user, but the fact is that there are languages designed in good taste and languages designed in bad taste. I'd argue C++ is an example of the latter, with its panoply of awkward non-orthogonal features. It's quite possible that Scala is too, and that it's not just the user's fault.
Isn't this called heroku?

or if you want in-house, Mac OSX Server.
There are all sorts of people those that get their kicks on language selection and semantics, there are those that love to discuss process (agile, scrum, TDD, whatever), others that want to focus solely on delivery. Reality is, the best people are somewhere in the middle.

An engineer worth hiring is one that is bright, curious, and learns quickly. That said, they should also have an interest in some aspect of what you are producing. I, personally, have searched for jobs on the basis of esoteric / niche items, mainly hoping for something different. The most rewarding experiences have been where I've worked with/brought in good people and built cool things. One of those involved Windows Server and WinCE work, and I personally dislike working on Windows. But the overall project was interesting.

Technologies, languages, approach, and product. A good engineer who is interested will likely have deeper interests and help contribute in one of those four areas.
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"""startup art"""
Granted, I don't expect that wikipedia will change.
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Thanks!

- I'm no lawyer, but the advice we've received is that we're good on the legal side.

- You're on the money re: audio. It's miles better than it was 1 month ago, but we're still not 100% yet.

- There is a human curation step (~5% of the process), but that is mostly for removing really crappy videos. Searching/Synching/Sequencing is automatic.

- I dunno about next step(!), but i agree the idea is super interesting :)
It's very not okay to hit your wife in most parts of the developed world, it's taken very very seriously by police. The threshold of response is significantly lower than other hints of crime vs. violence against women.
@geuis: the cost for 1000 tweets is $0.10, and that's the Twitter license fee. You get $10 in free credits when you sign up, and you can have an On Demand plan starting from $10. It should definitely make it very affordable to anyone wanting to play with the Twitter firehose, the barrier-to-entry has never been so low.
Can you scale Heyzap?
All types of value can be monetized; the only trick is how. So unless music has no value whatsoever (which would be absurd, since no one would bother making it in that case), it can be monetized.
Sorry, this is bull. I can remember a lot of things about someone, things they did or said (even verbatim) and still not remember their name. Caring about a person is not the same as remembering their name.
Throughout the entire history of the US, you can dig up these kind of antics, what makes this different from those antics that signals that this points to 'late-stage empire breakdown'?
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Forgot who, perhaps Chomsky, said that the rich in this country are actually veritable Marxists. The poor are not, they don't believe in class struggle, they fancy themselves as pre-rich, by being carefully groomed via propaganda. The rich on the other hand are Marxists because they understand very well how the class system works, and they are actively engaged in making sure their class survives and dominates the working class.

EDIT: The bit about rich being Marxists is apparently Chomsky

"""I think he would take it for granted that elites are basically Marxist - they believe in class analysis, they believe in class struggle, and in a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. And they understand. They’re instinctive Marxists; they don't have to read it."""
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FWIW, Armin was playing with implementing a concurrent GC, to help with the pause times. Not sure what the status of it is though.
but as a for-profit entity, it's a matter of financial math rather than "doing the right thing."

Yes and No, I think.

Yes, a for-profit company is generally required to act in the service of their "financial math". But nothing says they can only consider the immediate short-term (i.e. next quarter) for this math. That short-term-thinking-only is a relatively new concept and the smarter companies don't buy into it.

Consider all the money companies spend on political contributions, appointing former politicians to their board, and paid lobbying in Washington DC. There's usually not an immediate payoff expected for that. They just know it pays well in the long term to fertilize the field, so to speak.
Evangelists sold a bills of goods to non-technical managers. Can't be letting something silly like facts or criticism get in the way of putting a pet language choice into production.
This seems to capture the general flavour of the ruling:

It is sufficient for us to express the view that, on the
present state of the evidence, there is a real and
substantial prospect that the importation into and supply
in Australia of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will not infringe
claim 6 of the Touch Screen Patent. We have referred to
a number of difficulties that confront Apple in making good
its case on infringement. It may well be that, on a final
hearing, Apple will meet these difficulties. But
difficulties they are. Whilst we would not be prepared to
say that Apple's case on infringement is not open to be
argued, the difficulties to which we have referred do
affect the assessment at the present time of the probability
that, if on a final hearing the evidence remains the same,
Apple will be found to be entitled to final injunctive
relief for infringement of that claim. If Apple has
established a prima facie case at all (which we doubt), it
is founded upon a construction argument which, if the
evidence remains as it is, is unlikely to succeed at trial.
I think it's this: the best programmers generally want to learn new languages and approaches. This means that by mid-career, they've been exposed to at least 5 languages and seriously used two or more. They've at least tried functional programming. Rarely is the general-case favorite, for such a person, C++ or Java.

Finding great programmers who know C++ and Java is not very hard. Finding great programmers who prefer those languages is quite difficult.
Nothing to say about Hadoop/Java homogeneity, but a Zookeeper alternative I've been looking at for the same reasons is Dozerd from Heroku (https://github.com/ha).
> “From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be,”

I'm sure thousands of peeping toms have said the same thing to a judge and got a jail sentence anyway.

IMO if a "vice president of marketing" says anything about a product, then the opposite is the truth. It's very easy to claim there's not a problem when you have a six figure paycheck and will never have to walk through one of these machines in your life.
I'm curious to know why Yammer went with Scala to begin with (not to imply that it was a bad decision at the time).

Was it Language of the Week the week they started building Yammer? Were they trying to follow in Twitter's footsteps? Were they a bunch of Java developers looking for something better than Java? Did someone on the team have previous Scala experience?

Would Yammer be where it is today had they gone with Java (or another language, JVM or not)? Before running into the limitations described in the leaked email, was everyone happy with Scala?
Those games do not even come close to the competitive levels of CS for team-based FPS and Quake3 for dueling. Not by a long shot.
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I think his point was that the original email was very particular to his use, and it might not have the same issues used by different people. So his public opinion of Scala wouldn't be him lying, it would be him generalizing it more. He was asked what the problems were so he answered. If it was a general post about the language, more care would have probably been given to point out both the negatives and positives. My .02 on how I read the various posts.
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I'll be keeping my eyes open for these. It seems surprising that this can be permitted, bearing in mind the radiation being broadcast from these machines, in order to produce the backscatter for imaging.

Any in Texas, are likely trolling 59 in and out of the main border crossings for drugs.
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Not at all a fan of the fixed bar. I'm on a 13" macbook. That window space is precious, and this bar is bigger than the last, non-fixed one.

If you're using chrome the search box is redundant anyway.

Using Chrome the browser takes up 100px between tabs before the window starts, this bar looks like another 100px on top of that. That's 1/4 of my monitor before content begins.
Ask HN: What's healthcare like in Silicon Valley?
Here's an odd question. What's healthcare like in Silicon Valley?

I don't live there and from what I tend to find is doctors and healthcare personnel around my area's don't like inquisitive people like me. Every time I ask them a question about my condition and so forth, they try to find whatever they can to escape hoping I'll just follow instructions blindly and get better.

Now in an area filled to the brim of inquisitive people, what's the healthcare there like? Do the doctors enjoy spending the time necessary to answer the questions? Are the hospitals filled with technologies that everyone is curious about using? How is it like over there?
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whoah..
Startups are outliers, most of the metrics you mentioned for startups are at best noise and at worst cargo cult business.

The important thing is that people who are using esoteric languages more likely to try new and off the wall things that could lead to a new type of business. A new italian restaurant is not a startup, a restaurant that serves only dehydrated food might be.

If your startup serves italian food then you should probably go hire a bunch of java programmers the python paradox doesn't apply, and arguably most startups by number are serving italian food. (eg. your latest mobilesociallocal coupon startup). If you're truly doing something new then you're probably best off hiring people used to doing new things where there are no established best practices. (eg. trail blazers) You're most likely to find trail blazers on the trail rather than reading best practices docs.

The python paradox is about people not programming languages. (At least that's what I took from it) Also, there's nothing wrong with a new italian restaurant, on average it's probably going to be more successful than an dehydrated food establishment, but if you're looking to create a new nation-wide fad, you'll probably have more luck with dehydrated food than italian restaurants.
Actually has a really good example (a calculator) to show how HyperCard could be used.

HyperCard was a big part of my junior high years. It could even be extended, e.g. there was one add-on that allowed color graphics to be displayed and I learned to make some simple games that way.
I've definitely seen that specific wording when I had to work with my company's legal to process a H1B (or for GC perhaps). It's strange that they'd use that very language everywhere if the law says something completely different. What's in it for them?
Which is why you need to keep your price under the purchase authority for department heads if you do want to sell to big companies via a website.

AKA "The Atlassian Model":

Scott realized that to get adoption, the software had to also be inexpensive. This meant there was often no need to get approval from the C-suite.

Another key was the simplicity of the sales process. “We have a standard contract and there are no discounts,” said Scott. “We do not want to waste time and money on legal."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2011/06/14/atlassian-1...
ruby (MRI ruby, even!) has that same bug.
Why are you stating the obvious?

I am trying to make a point that in the world of vicious competition for grant money, every shitty incremental experiment is lauded as groundbreaking. For very understandable reasons.

I'm being facetious about the way that the key quality of a scientist has shifted from doing and teaching science to being a great marketer who can win grants. The "best" scientists these days are generally the ones who are really great at hype.