skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, but here's the problem... Backupify was my third attempt at raising VC. Before I did it, I would have jumped at the chance to raise money from anybody, even average Joes. But now that I know the difficulty in managing investors and their expectations, I would never consider it. So this idea will develop a lemons problem (similar to what you see in penny stocks) which is that any entrepreneur who understands the game well won't participate and won't raise this kind of funding, so you end up with the bad ones, and the uneducated/inexperienced ones. Some of the latter will ultimately be successful, but not enough.
Even learning medicine in isolation (as is common for programmers) seems like madness.

Maybe it is because both of my parents work in the medical profession, but that sounds perfectly sane to me. Most of diagnosing a medical condition is applying Bayes theorem to symptoms. Have symptoms x, y, z? It indicates condition a, or b. Run a few standard, well known tests that lead you to believe that is a instead of b. Follow standard treatment for a. Say a is gal stones, a few weeks of reading would make you close to an expert on gal stones, treatment, causes, how to diagnose etc. Now sure if a is brain cancer then it is a little more involved but there are corners of CS I would say the same thing about.
You're totally spot on Alexey, as usual. Referrals are king...according to our data at Meeteor.com, every person in your network is connected to 200 people across 20 different industries. Pretty powerful stuff - chances are the job you're looking for is just a friend away.
The Kinks were banned from entering the US for 4 years - wasn't such a bad thing for them.

Also, why should we live in a Stasi-like state and change our behaviour.

I've been very critical of the US on my twitter for example, because from the outside the behaviour of the US is that of the later years of the Weimar Republic.

I've know for quite a while it's probably not advisable for me to try enter the US - hell last time I was in Canada (last year) I let my girlfriend go shopping across the border and I stayed back - I didn't even want to enter your country, let alone have to deal with prick border guards who have me on some list.
Lightning Fast Cluster Computing
Why is it important to call the green die 'olive'? Both 'olive' and 'green' have 5 characters... I suppose it's because you can spell out MR. BOY with the dice in winning order if you use olive :)
I didn't see this on there, so let me add: There is no reason, in the year 2012, for a CS or engineering student to take an unpaid internship. Depending where you go, you can expect over $20/hour as a student intern--if you're doing work of real value, you deserve to be paid!
At POPVOX, our first investor was Tim O'Reilly.
Legislative advocacy is a huge market -- and one in great need of disruption.
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Rackspace is comparable in price and configuration to several of those he mentions.
Why did I, as a programmer, have to learn history, geograghy, foreign languages, music, chemistry, biology, etc etc.

Not all mandatory subjects in schools are useful to all professions, but that does not mean that they shouldn't be taught. A large enough percentage of people are office workers that I think teaching programming would be a net win, even if there are a lot of professions that do not require it. Also, as with the subjects I listed above, programming teaches people how a large part of modern industry and business (and just plain every day life with the ubiquity of software on our lives) works and that is, IMHO, useful. I mean, we learn about the world around us in subjects such as geography or biology, why not learn something about how the technologies we use every day (the internet, word processors, music players, whatever) work and are created? At the very least, it expands our minds just like learning a foreign language does.

Saying that everyone needs to know to program is obviously too strong, but enough people would certainly benefit from it that I think saying that, eg, "schools need to teach programming" is valid.
Microsoft's "Office 15" Begins Technical Preview
Since JavaScript functions can have properties, you can construct such a function in pure CoffeeScript:

ofunc =(obj = {})->
fn =(k)->@[k]
bound =(args...)=>
fn.apply(bound, args)
bound extends obj

o = ofunc [1,2,3]
> o(0)
1
> o[0] = 10
10

Not that I recommend this, for the obvious reasons.
It's not a hatred campaign, it's the being put under the microscope that comes with fucking up.

It's also a case of two points making a line.
This is extremely unpleasant given the vast reach of US authorities worldwide, let alone just for entry into the US.

Someone could ruin your life based on just your name just by impersonating you or simply having the same name on social networking while acting in some way an authority finds offensive, even if you yourself have never used it!

It would seem you are actually safer to be the first to create closed and private accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, of your actual name - even when you never ever want to give out your private information, including your name, and will never use the accounts.
And protecting startups. There are disclosure issues here that are much more risky for startups. For a publicly traded company to disclose a lot about its business is one thing... but such disclosures could kill a startup.
I still find myself worrying about the 'app-ness' of lots of JS in a web application. Think it's derived from my web standards background.

Twitter is my least favorite site in this respect.

No idea what this means for of Basecamp Next, as there's no actual code yet, but in my own work I like to make sure that no-JS doesn't necessarily mean no-functionality.
In the end I guess I would go (in addition to redundancy) with the organization that was smaller with hopefully more expertise. I feel more confident with the smarter people being able to solve the problem and the smaller people having the motivation to deal with something and not have the personal aggravation of something not working. In a large organization it's easy to hide behind someone else or make excuses.

Ultimately better to have a person or two that will pick up their cell phone when they are in the mall on a Saturday or out for dinner but are quite willing to tackle the problem when they arrive home. Not because they have to but because they care about what they do and have a conscience.
ACTA considers all infringement sold product. Is this their new business model?
Didn't you folks design Cassandra after the Dynamo paper though?
Does anyone know in which language DynamoDB is implemented? I've read somewhere that SimpleDB is done in Erlang. Is that the case with DynamoDB as well? I've been reading about Ets and Dets in Erlang and it makes me wonder whether they have anything to do with either of these data stores.
ParkingRage is looking for a talented crowd for its crowd-sourced parking app
We're looking for rockstar people who have experience being part of a crowd.

Mobile site: http://m.parkingrage.com/

Normal site: http://www.parkingrage.com/

Job Activities

- Mark parking spots

Requirements

- At least 10 years experience of being in crowds

- Ability to operate a smartphone

- Certifications

- Ability to use Microsoft Excel

Benefits

- Finding parking wherever you go
Show HN: Add screenshots to your Github issues via a handy bookmarklet
> The best known algorithms, however, are very slow, and sometimes impractical for real-world applications.

Is this in reference to paq [1]? Are there any other really good compressors that are too slow?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ
iosfont - A script to install fonts on iOS
The Github for design
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Make a cron job run this? http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/sa-learn....
Your arguments are based on the fact that you know as a programmer how much it helps you. But you are trivializing the years of experience and knowledge it takes for someone to master a craft or profession.

Just because some chefs with decades of experience figured out how to mass produce relatively poor quality cookies does not mean that it will be a snap for those chefs to spend years learning how to program well enough that they can create Star Trek replicators.
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Dealing with people as your primary responsibility is inherently political in a company of any size. (Politics as the "competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership.")

In that sense, management is often politics, though good leadership is far more than that.
In Praise of the Lecture
How does the fact that they did this in the past make it any better? This just shows that their lack of judgment isn't a recent issue, or a fluke.

This looks terrible because it is terrible.
Former lobbyist tells all, describes bill he lobbied for as a 'boondoggle'
Beating PNG is not actually hard; zlib is not fast at compression, nor is it very good at compressing anything besides graphics. It doesn't even do RGB decorrelation, which can be a really big win (e.g. YCgCo).

Ironically, on non-graphics material, most lossless video encoders beat PNG, too. FFV1 is particularly good at grainy images, and is probably quite difficult to beat without either a much fancier predictor (e.g. LPC instead of median) or much more costly entropy coding (context mixing).
My feeling is, at least in California you're getting something for your money. DC rents are high because the average income there is so high, but you don't get very much "city" for your money, culturally at least. In SF it's just the opposite. I didn't move there though, I live in Oregon now.
App Promises More Accurate Indoor Foursquare Check-Ins
I'm not trying to excuse this but I don't believe Curebit are the only startup to have ever done something similar. As benjlang said it seems a bit more like directed hatred.
Does some way exist to get these in the USA?
Symantec’s Recent Android Malware Warning “Significantly Overblown”
That's a fair point. jQuery, jQueryUI, and jQuery Mobile are all very much under the same roof.

The plug-ins are a different story. Some are more "official-ish" than others. So a developer using only jQueryUI must research, find, and add these to a project to "build out" a complete starting point.

We're trying to save developers that time, and provide an unified library that's simpler to learn, maintain, and upgrade. I think it's more than semantics, and when you compare performance, you should also see it's more than just features.

Hope that helps.
The Browser Shuffle
I'm not sure how familiar you are with Paul's record but he's been a Congressman for 20+ years and has ALWAYS voted consistently. He was one of the three House Republicans who opposed the original PATRIOT Act. He consistently indicates that he will not use executive orders. He understands and has repeated that the president cannot take a country into war without a Congressional declaration of war first. He is constantly citing Constitutional provisions.

There is no reason to assume that Paul will turn evil as soon as he gets the Presidency. This is a different question from whether he will be able to be effective or not, and my belief is that he would not be able to do almost anything he wants to do, and that a Paul presidency would accelerate our plunge into chaos and anarchy, but I don't believe Paul himself would be corrupted and start ignoring the Constitutional stipulations on executive power.
British Tourists Arrested in the U.S. over a Tweet
Andy, Basecamp Next does not have a one-screen app feel at all. We're still all about separate pages.

But we do rely heavily on JS for functionality, so it won't work without it.
XHP: A New Way to Write PHP
Understanding Tricky JavaScript Scoping and Hoisting Issues
Celluloid::IO: evented I/O in Ruby with a synchronous API
I'm thinking of getting another rack at the colo place that I use now. Anyone looking for space on that rack that doesn't have high bandwidth or power needs needs feel free to contact me and I will see if this makes sense for both of us.
Visual Storytelling, an Effective Method to Engage and Communicate
there is no love for stealing..none..this is not kindergarten..he now has to face the consequences
Man, their new investors will go crazy. 2 scandals, just a few days after landing new funding...
The End of the Future
Ssltunnel module for node.js
If you watch the video further, James explains that there is in fact a second 'chain' of victory, which is memorised using the colours in alphabetical order.
Oh, common. This is getting ridiculous now. This is just some random people jumping on a free PR wagon while it rolls. It's neither interesting nor it's news. Flagged.

(edit) Feel free to downvote, but do tell me - do you really think this belongs to the front page of HN? And do you not think this looks even a little bit like a group bashing now?
There is a second dominance order using the alphabetical order of the names. The second order does not reverse when using double dice.
It would be really something if someone went and actually proved that their revenues has grown because of piracy. It should at least put serious doubts in the lawmaker's minds who right now say "we all agree piracy is bad, so...".
That's good of you to be open minded and even better that your older devs rock. The unfortunate reality is that there's age discrimination against elders, especially in tech, even if you're bucking the trend.
It also appears to be a case of the musicians using Twitter instead of existing laws like DMCA takedowns. For some reason.
Using your example of bakers, I think more value would be in being able to set up scripts and such to set up ways of monitoring things (temperatures, moisture, whatever). With a little programming and a simple DIY electronics kit (an arduino perhaps), a lot of these professions could easily rig up some hardware and software to monitor their work and notify them of specific circumstances. The more advanced people could rig up ways to automate part of their work.

At the very least, they will have some idea of what they need when some actual software people try to create something for these peoples industries (ie, they will be able to communicate their needs better because they will have some idea of what the programmers actually do).

EDIT: as much as I hate when people ask about why they are being downvoted, I would like to understand why so I can improve my future posting. Unless of course someone simply didn't like or disagreed with the post, though I would at least like to know why you disagree with me as I don't see anything obviously wrong with my post as an expansion to the parent post. I am merely pointing out how knowing some programming would be useful to a very wide variety of professions[1] beyond what parent said (which was a lot of machine learning) and that at the very least, it would help people communicate with "real" programmers, the same way that I learn about business to help me better communicate with the various different business people.

[1] A large enough variety of professions and people that I think everyone should be taught at least basic programming the same way as I think everyone should learn some basic algebra, history, geography, chemistry, biology, etc
Joi Ito's Deep Dive: Lessons from the Director of the MIT Media Lab (Video)
An internet company did something wrong. We'll make them pay by boosting their google page rank.
The glee with which people are piling criticism on these guys is disturbing.
Performance is one of the things we think we're doing really well with Kendo UI. We're jsPerfing everything we put in Kendo UI to make sure it's as fast as possible.

Ultimately, impact on page performance largely depends on how you use the tools (same goes for .NET). Used correctly, Kendo UI will help you deliver maximum perf for rich UI.

Hope that helps.
Could be a rough couple weeks for Curebit. Clearly the Internets is going to go through all their work with a fine tooth comb. I doubt any company could be 100% sure they haven't used non-licensed materials.

That said, Curebit seems to have a bit of a problem on their hands. Smoke, meet fire...
If they deserve some time does that mean we are free to take other peoples music so long as we take it down as soon as they find out?
there is no need to compensate end users for lost data as the MU terms of service explicitly ruled out any such compensation...
I'd agree that programming in isolation is not a tremendously well-remunerated skill. However, it does act as a force multiplier for your other abilities.

A non-technical parallel is public speaking. With extraordinary skill (in isolation), you could end up as a PR flack making 100K or so. If you combine great speaking ability with strong organizational and interpersonal skills, you could end up making orders of magnitude more as a CEO or politician.

Programming, like public speaking, can be thought of as a delivery mechanism. As more of our world becomes "programmable", the increased reach and leverage of coding ability will make it far more valuable.
Matt Kent (3 time Opscode MVP) joins 37signals
I truly think that at some point (far) in the future, robots will put everyone out of "real" work. They'll do everything for us. Money and economics will become irrelevant. Humans will be left to do what we enjoy at will, whether it's spending time with friends and family, exercising, playing music, painting, building things, or all of the above, of course. Some might even take it upon themselves to improve whatever systems are in place, if that's what they enjoy doing. The main obstacle we face, however, is getting everyone on the same page and making the transition from an economy dependent on cash flow to one that is automated where no one has any real responsibilities. I know it's hard to imagine right now, and we can presently think of a million ways why it will never happen; but it's just my opinion: where there's a will there's a way, and for something like this we have to really think outside the box.
Ah, totally missed that when I watched the first time. Thanks!
When did we go from talking about how DMCA is old and flawed to talking about how people whose work is stolen should be ignored if they don't use DMCA and instead use more public and direct methods?
The fact that they're being put under the microscope for everything they've done is unfair. They deserve time to change and improve. After all Random Rab only tweeted them yesterday, for all we know once the founder of Curebit sees it he will remove the video. Haven't even given him a chance.
I believe Rapidshare went to court about this.

They won and they are not required to operate a fingerprinting system.
Wow, great example, thanks.
I don't understand what you are saying. How can you start coding if you don't even know what you intend to do or what your expected inputs and outputs are? What are you exploring, and how do you know when you've found what you're looking for?
Agreed, especially if this was developed in a closed room.
Building data science teams
Connor, actually your risk of loosing too much money is also reduced. Because In a group you will not be pooling as much money as you would if you play alone. For example, if you play alone you might buy $10 worth of lottery. But if you play in a group of 10, you can get away with playing with only $2 and still have double with chances of winning. I'll add this to the landing page and hopefully it will make sense?
Even if the vid was created in 2010 doesn't necessarily mean the artist knew about it until recently. I'm sure he isn't purposely choosing to attack Curebit just because they recently got called out
This is a tough situation for Curebit. People are now looking for a pattern of behavior, and unfortunately for them, they're finding it. The company hasn't been given the opportunity to change their behavior. Should they? If you find a spouse cheating, should a history and pattern of dishonesty be ignored because they say "I didn't know it was wrong"?

I think the lesson here is to behave with the same integrity and respect for other people's work before funding as you would when you're a big and successful company.
I used this setup for years before switching to google apps using dovecot and dspam.

Doing a quick search this seems to be very close and up to date.
http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/dovecot-antispam-2011-03-21....
The people who designed FTP were not stupid: they did the best they could operating under constraints that kids who have grown up with all the serious work of implementing the Internet already done for them cannot imagine. It's easy, with decades of hindsight, to claim you could do better. I bet you couldn't.
Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two
I'll add that if you do multiple internships, do them at multiple places. At this point in your career, getting breadth of experience is far more valuable than depth.
...really? It's not about the money..it's about the experience. Granted, an internship that pays you + gives you the experience you're seeking is a jackpot, but I would always rank experience over money.

I worked 20 hours a week in college (and my summers) mostly for free, and I don't regret a second of it. Learned more through those opportunities than anything that would have paid me.
As for when, it wasn't the land of the free when they wrote the Constitution, but it was when Jefferson made them add the first ten Amendments. It wasn't if you were a black person who couldn't vote and it was in the period directly following the Civil Rights Movement -- unless you were gay, in which case it became the land of the free after the Stonewall riots. Unless you were gay AND in the military, in which case it just recently became the land of the free when Obama ended "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Obama made America briefly the land of the free when he was elected and unmade it again very soon after taking office. Unless your hobbies involve consuming any of a number of harmless or nearly harmless plants and/or chemicals, in which case you're going to have to wait until they ratify the 21st Amendment a second time.

Point is, it's always been a fight.
Will Facebook be the Next Yahoo?
It is not the responsibility of owners to police their assets. Stealing is a crime. Part of the job of startup founders is to make sure that their team is careful.

I do feel bad for all the bad news that Curebit is getting for small issues. But I am glad that such issues are being highlighted.
Ask HN: Can you recommend a source for free pics?
Hi,
I blog as a hobby and also work on testing some startup ideas very often. I dont want to pay for images for my pages and at the same time, wish I didnt have to use stolen images. Can you guys recommend good sources for photographs and illustrations? I tried Foter.com but their search engine sucks.
That's completely true. Versatility opens so many more doors than depth.
Brainstorming is shoved down our throats from middle school on (in the US, at least) and continues into the workplace. We've probably all sat through painful brainstorming sessions in the process of software development, and in some cases the supposed wisdom of the group is formalized in processes like scrum. So I found it somewhat surprising that this continues despite research indicating it might not be productive.
You forgot to mention the benefits of vendor lock in.
http://sxc.hu/
protecting people from themselves

Which is not a bad thing in principle. We do it with lots of things.