skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sigh still to point out. As a father, and a startup enthusiast, I think the same problem applies to both sexes. Women have the problem of actually carrying the child, and post birth. In that case... sorry there's that one year time when you would have to be on lower stress of the startup spectrum. However good thing about your 20s and 30s is you have plenty of time. In that base, just carve out a year or two for kids, and spend the rest of the time like I do on startups. I love my daughter, and she is not holding me back, in fact she is motivation. Like everyone in a startup will tell you, kids come first, male or female. I would never advocate for a male to ignore their kids and work on a startup. How is that any different than a female? You rely on your partner in all cases. The game changes for a single parent, its hard, but its equally tough for men and women.
Also in "hard" subjects, it's a matter of interpretation. Such as, real science. Such as interpreting the results of a finding.

There are very few things in life where there is a true, platonic right answer and everything else is wrong. "For large values of 2."
This is absolutely gorgeous.
I thought that derivative copyrights only applied to work that required intellectual effort, such as a translation (for a book) or reinterpretation (for a song). The physical act of scanning doesn't seem like it should count.
I think it would be beneficial to spend more time answering the questions "What is Node?", "Why would I want to use it?" on the front page than using so much of it to feature social proof from Microsoft et al first.

I've followed node since it was announced but I still found myself searching the entire page to find an FAQs/About Us section. It was harder than it should be.

just my 2c
Naw, I may be in the 5%, but I'm not in the 1%. I just have a nice job at Google and didn't spend money on anything else for five years. :D
It's not just important that they pick up things fast. If you ask to do some task in Python, that would be done much faster in (say) C#, they should be able to point this out, instead of just following the recipe you gave them. Good judgment is important.
Regarding your last point, we're trying to change things! As a economist you might be familiar with the bandit problem. We're bringing bandit algorithms to the web at http://www.mynaewb.com/ Our results show a BIG improvement over A/B (see the blog).
Probably not, unless significant non-mechanical enhancement was performed, in which case maybe, and maybe differs between UK law and law elsewhere (and if you aren't yourself in the UK, how your local law interacts with the law in the country of the work's origin is another source of uncertainty). Here's the guidelines page Wikimedia Commons uses: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD...
I don't think it works that way. People who are good at coding are not necesarilly people who are good at creating businesses (not always, but usually).
Cloud Storage Benchmark by Nasuni [pdf]
At the moment? Nothing. In fact, I only have the bare minimum functionality required to fairly label an application as a "email newsletter service" (that is, handling subscribers and sending emails).

I'm hoping that as people sign up and try it out I'll gather feedback and be able to discover niches or problems that the big guys aren't handling well. It will be a slow, iterative process so I might need a few months before having an answer to your question.

I fully intend to move away from a generic "e-mail newsletters for small businesses" to a more specific and addressable niche in the future.
That is a hard judgment to make, unless you know both Python and C#. Any of the candidates are going to be able to do the task far quicker in the technology they already know.
The vast majority of people who homeschool bring in less than a typical salary for a good developer. It's not about feasibility for the HN crowd, it's about willingness to prioritize.
I wouldn't have ever seen this submission if it weren't for RSS. Along with almost everything else I'm going to read online today.
I see a few low paying jobs for experienced people, but I also see a lot of 80-130k jobs. Most of them require at least a Top Secret, but not all of them. Try clearancejobs.com if you have any kind of clearance at all.
Why? This seems like the perfect thing for an NaCl application.
It is kind of odd considering iOS is a version of OSX, and with the new OSX, they've backported a bunch of iOS stuff into it. There's never been more platform unity. Microsoft won't reach that until next year when Windows 8 is released.
There are some who argue that Beethoven's metronome was broken, and his deafness was part of the reason he didn't realize it. Here's an article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/19/arts/critic-s-notebook-pon...

Along those lines, John Eliot Gardiner conducted Beethoven's 9 Symphonies with Beethoven's metronome markings and with instruments that would have been used at that time period. It's a very different sound that I'm a huge fan of, though I think it wasn't particularly embraced by traditionalists.
1. Fear of not having thought of ever legal angle.
> unless you're doing something that could cause legal issues worry about this when and if site gets some traction. Obviously, I don't know what your site does so take this answer w/ a grain of salt.

2. Fear of no one using my website. And then someone else coming along and beating me in this area and making me look stupid and like Friendster.
> if nobody uses your service and someone comes along and does it better than no one will ever know you tried it first.

3. Fear of the product not being polished enough.
> If you are passionate it will never be polished enough. Just make sure it doesn't break if 10 users hit it up at the same time.

4. Fear of rejection from lots of people at first look which leads to people never coming back to the site.
> You can't please everyone. Find and target your core audience.

5. Fear of knowing that there are unknown unknowns which will come at time of launch and bite me in the behind.
> This fear is just a part of launching something new.

6. A hacker or spammer will take down my site.
>if you're site isn't known this probably won't happen.

7. Fear of the fact that I havent thought of every possible outcome.
> its impossible to know every outcome. You will learn as you go.

NO MATTER WHAT, ITS ALL ABOUT LEARNING. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE. GOOD LUCK.
Sorry, I should have been clearer -- I meant arithmetic with Peano's original axioms (i.e., with 2nd-order induction).
You're looking at this from the wrong angle. I actually did a lot of work for fairly large ad agencies and I still only knew Chiat Day from your list (I did work for them, never heard of the others).

The bottom line is, nobody cares. They care about what you say you've done and what you have actually done, and the passion you bring to your cover letter or whatever. The names on the resume won't mean anything to them.

The bigger problem is you've been stewing in the ad agency world and think other people outside it know wtf it's about.

(Having some of that bg myself, I would be very hesitant to hire someone from an ad agency unless they told me in very clear uncertain terms why and how broken it is. On the flip side, I know way more people at ad agencies who actually ship than I do at any other large organizations.)
Why Pyramid is not a full-stack web framework
I usually use the criteria of "What does this person do in their spare time?" There should be two things that they should be doing:

1. They should be coding all the time. Not just for their current job, but because they genuinely like it. They may not be able to write a red-black tree in your 5minute coding quiz, but if they are truly passionate about coding and technology they will bring a wealth of knowledge with them. More so, they will have lots of exposure to new technologies, ideas, and have good ties in the community.

2. They should be passionate about the industry you are in. I would expect half of the Spotify team to be almost deaf by now, because they are listening to music all day long -- and loving it.

It's hard to find people that will fit both, but you should at least settle for the point 1. Especially now, with public code repositories like Github, it is easy to see the quality of code that most people can churn out and how passionate they are about engineering good solutions.
Keep in mind that a person who passes your test well will be more expensive.
Distributing VLC(even if by MS) does not cause the Win32 API used heavily by VLC to go under the GPL.

There's an explicit exclusion in the GPL to allow linking against non-GPL "System Libraries", which does not include every closed-source library Microsoft has ever released. Even without the clause in question I doubt you'd ever be able to get a court to declare that Microsoft had to release the source to one of their non-Windows products because you tricked them into distributing a GPL application linked against it, but I can't really blame lawyers for being cautious in an untested area.
Your own mobile services
Gingrich’s Electromagnetic Pulse Warning Has Skeptics
The false promises of dedicated IPs for email deliverability
Higgs: 17 hours ahead of the world
Yeah, my bad for not being clear. You are right and I am right and I am wrong. So everyone wins!
What's the standard for correctness in literature criticism? Biology has one (agreement with externally observable reality). I don't know what the objectives of lit crit actually are, nor what their research methodology is, but it seems that lit crit has more to do with conforming to the culture and tradition of lit crit than anything else.
Newton has been an inspiration. There was a famous quote by him that always stuck by me: "If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results."
They should move the "NODE.JS IN THE INDUSTRY" section to the bottom.

The old website was as beautiful and simple as nodejs itself. There was a code example on the front page, near the top, which seemed to say: "once you see it, you'll love it."

The new website seems overly proud of big name users. I guess this is Joyent's marketing department at work.
Manu Chao - Abbey Road Live II - YouTube
Well, if Doc Brown used 1.21 gigawatts to go back in time and the "God" particle is at 125GeV, perhaps we learn that God turning back time would draw 9.68 million electron amps.
Very very incorrect. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_law and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law , which have the force of law but are neither statutory nor regulatory law (which I assume is what you mean by “a text of law”; arguably case law, since it is in the form of written decisions, actually is “a text of law” anyway).
At this point, we aren't taking money for anything beyond free accounts. Paid access coming soon!
Product launches like this make you wonder why removing UI stutter isn't the number one priority for device manufacturers.
I'm looking at the image of a vault in that article and I'm confused because I don't see any slots in the wall/floor for the pins that are located in the door. It is as if that giant door doesn't actually lock.
We call your response "Emo Nerd Rage".

Safari is the best browser, after all.
Combination of Eyes and Algorithms Wins $50K Prize In DARPA's Shredder Challenge
No editorializing in the title, please; that's an HN guideline.

Actual title on the NYT site: "As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised".
Startups have started to see the value in branding, design, and storytelling. Those are things you learn in the agency world.

The thing about ad agencies that startups don't like is their lack of accountability. If an ad campaign doesn't increase sales, the agency says to the client "hey, no biggie, we increased brand awareness".

That kind of measurement is dangerous at a startup. And if you've worked in that environment for the past 10 years, I could see a VC being concerned that you don't know how to "hustle".

But if you have a product with traction, that trumps everything.
> I trust Amazon to fix it!" was the rallying cry of my friend.

You know, I actually do want one of these 7" devices. At the moment, I'm leaning more towards the Nook Color/Tablet since B&N are more favorable towards hacking, but Amazon needs to actually deliver these fixes before folks should parrot that line.
Possibly, it's easier to send several 720p (or some lower resolution) signals over multiple cables, than to try to find some interconnect that can handle a 4k signal. Also, if part of the setup is damaged, it's much cheaper to replace a little screen than a 4k projector or a massive projector screen.
What are some of these lessons (if you don't mind sharing)?
NaCl doesn't have the low level networking capabilities needed for SSH, Telnet, etc. because they would be a security risk (a "game" could run a portscanner or look for open SMB shares on the network).
I personally would love to have a terminal or an SSH client within chrome. I'm excited to see how this turns out.
Yeah, and Amazon has a rather...robust...CDN-equivalent. :-)

Also, they're probably going to have plenty of spare capacity on Christmas morning. I'd guess there's a substantial lull in sales then, at least until the post-Christmas markdowns begin.
Alternative Fuels - What's the Point
Exactly, historically MS suffered from bad case of not-invented-here syndrome, so that they embrace google's V8 is what's surprising. It's good for everyone though, kudos to MS.
It might be a bad idea to put too many eggs in to the NaCl basket, as other browser vendors are resisting it pretty strongly.
Looks fantastic :) Would be event better if it wasn't (Best in Safari)
Because on the Mac, applications can be loaded directly, and do not require App Store approval.
Completion files and man pages
WYSIWYG in HTML with JS? I doubt there is a more painful way to obtain even marginally consistent formatting...
Scanning ancient documents can be anything but trivial, and frequently more involved than simply placing paper/ parchment/ vellum/ etc on a glass plate. They usually need to be handled very carefully with mesh gloves, not compressed or folded , and likely not exposed to overly bright light to avoid fading the ink. The USA founding documents, which are over 100 years newer by comparison, are encased in inert gas and hidden from bright lights for preservation.

Newton's written notes may have required even greater care, which one could possibly argue would constitute unique intellectual effort.
Do you know of any good examples of CSS-based layouts using units like inches or centimeters?

When I do mobile web, I use percentages for UI layout elements (like headers, footers, sidebars, etc), and pixels for text, buttons, etc.

This approach definitely results in a slightly different display on different screen resolutions, but the overall effect is that it looks good and is usable no matter where you view it. For me, this is the approach I've found that "just works", so I keep using it.

That said, I don't think I've ever seen centimeters and inches used in any CSS I've come across, but I'd love to see some examples that are well done.
Sproutcore 2.0 renamed to Ember.js - GitHub
Show HN: Business Bingo, a cloud-based html5 website
My little side project created after the last company meeting. I'm hoping to make the next company meeting a bit more interesting!

http://www.businessbingo.org
The labels don't really provide funding in the same way that VCs do; they essentially provide a very large payday loan. Any VC who demanded the kind of terms record labels do would be run out of the Valley.

The interesting question is, is there room for a real VC industry in music? I think there might be someday, but not in the current market — the existing cartel is so horribly messed up that they'd be pleased as punch to take you down with them.
I'm keeping mine even though I also have an iPad and an older eInk Kindle. It's handy for reading in bed, if nothing else.

Is it as smooth and generally whizzy as the iPad? Of course not, not at that price point, and I didn't expect it to be. The touch algorithms could be tweaked a bit, but other than that I've found it more than adequate for its intended purposes (consuming Amazon content and light web browsing).
Per your own comment, you are ignoring some sources, including those which present counterexamples. In any case, I suggest you back up from this indivudal tree and take a look at the whole wood.
Take-Aways from Josh Bersin "We-learning" Webinar
Chelsea v Manchester City Live stream
> The X axis is turnover

turnout?
I spent a couple of years teaching at a career college in MA. The problem was not so much dealing with disruptive creative students, and I certainly had several of those, as it was dealing with students that didn't have the prerequisites and mental tools to learn the skills they needed to express themselves usefully.

An example: I had one student who spoke very well, he was from Cameroon and in fact spoke _several_ languages, was something of a class leader, he had very good visual ideas and his presentation style was remarkable. But. He did not know how to read a ruler and fractions were a complete mystery to him. Algebra was completely beyond him at his current state.

He was in a graphic design class and was going into a web programming class, and following that a 3D modeling class. He often became actively resentful that I was forcing him to focus on things that he considered trivial and not apparently related to the results he wanted. He very much felt I was stifling his creativity.

Convincing him that he would simply fail at his goals without studying some basics was very difficult.

We got the fractions and ruler issues licked with some outside class work, but he simply was not able to handle the coding in the web design class and failed. I didn't teach the 3D class, so I don't know how well he did there, but I can only imagine.

(One of the reasons I left the school was that with such a wide variety of students with incredibly varied levels of education, I wasn't allowed to adapt the classes to meet their needs. I did finally get the school to offer remedial math and reading lessons, but they were not prerequisites and they did no kind of testing to determine need.)

My point is that creativity is important, but basic skills often are more important, at least at the beginning. And no matter how gifted one is, developing the discipline to work on non-interesting and non-creative tasks is essential in the real world. There are problems that have aspects that are simply beyond hacking and shooting from the hip. And they are often, ultimately, the most interesting and rewarding to solve.
So where would the websites whose business depends entirely on ads get their revenue from? It's not like companies are blindly going to pay them to host ads which they know no one is going to look at. Perhaps you would prefer to pay an Internet fee? Of course an Internet with no ads seems great, but it's not something that would be sustainable, at least not the Internet we know today.

There are some sites which I feel are worth paying for, and others (particularly news sites), that which I don't yet I'm still willing to wade through the non-obtrusive ads in exchange for keeping it free.
The OS is a bit laggy, but games that run on it native and with OpenGL ES are really fast. Game development on it, once you get to your OpenGL ES render, things are moving swiftly.
From a cursory look: Mercury seems to be tied to Ruby and I'm not exactly enamored with the UI

Aloha uses jquery-based selectors to identify editable content areas as opposed to Create's more standardized and semantically accurate RDFa.

(This is based on all of 3 minutes of poking around so I don't claim complete accuracy.)
UX could be improved by not using small dark text on a dark background and a main navigation below the fold on the right side.

The site seems to be catering to two completely different audiences. There's the corporate deciders who will be reassured by the "social proof" logos of Microsoft et al. And there's the 1337 script kiddies who will feel at home with an unreadable color scheme. It seems like many node.js-related sites have this type of unusable color scheme, much like the Flash sites of yesteryear.
That could have interesting implications for the Chrome Notebook (I haven't really used one, but based on what I've heard).

The potential appeal of the Chrome notebook is its security-by-simplicity. If the only thing you can do is use Chromium, then your notebook is basically as secure as Chromium itself is (in theory, at least).

The irony is that we're essentially moving back to the way computers were a few decades ago - people used terminals to access a central computer. We moved to personal desktop computers for a while, then laptops (and mobile phones). It'll be interesting to see if the rise of interest in 'cloud computing' means that, in five years, our primary computers will just be portable terminals to access some main computer remotely.

Personally, I might be fine with that. Network speeds/reliability aside, everything I do could be accomplished easily over SSH, with X forwarding for a few applications. It's possible that these simple tools that we've had for decades could be packaged in a way that appeals to a more general use case.
I think it is, but you'd need to exercise this idea discreetly, as if you make this preference known you could run into discriminatory hiring practice issues. (The sad fact is, people still discriminate - they just don't talk about it anymore.)
NaCl is nice and all, but it's better to have something that works perfectly fine on top of Javascript/HTML5, rather than only inside NaCl.
Windows apps can talk to iCloud according to this page http://developer.apple.com/icloud/index.php
That would explain why the first takedown request was made, but not the second.
Same problem here. The admin site structure of the typical CMS is an abstraction that makes obvious sense to us developers, but not necessarily to the content managers. Inline is the future.
No, no, no. See, I think it's between 0.99999999_ (repeating) and 1. I mean, something has to go between the two, or people will think they're secretly the same number. But they're not. Numbers can't be Superman. They can't just change costumes in the blink of an eye. They should always look the same, dammit.

Sure, you can multiply 1/3 (== 0.33333_) by 3 and make it look like they're the same, but there's really a tiny little epsilon of something that's getting zeroed out.

It's a conspiracy I tell you! They hide all the cool stuff with infinity and you can't see it any more, then it's like it never existed.