skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Book's page has ToC and sample chapters only.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...
the cmd-2 view shows files & folders in one window, while explorer shows a tree of folders only on the left and the contents on the right.
Please accept my apology.

It seems I didn't read the final paragraph in your original post very well.

I was not defending a weakness of Matlab, but instead misunderstood what you said. Indeed, I'm a pretty harsh Matlab critic myself because I know its ugly parts well.

(edit: grammar)
The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century
Context menu integration (more commonly known as shell integration) means that when you install certain programs like Tortoise, the program will add extra menu items to the context menus that show up when you right-click files of a specific type or a folder.

I love my Beyond Compare shell integration. Right-click on Folder A, choose "select left side", find Folder B, right click, choose "compare to Folder A" and then Beyond Compare pops up and diffs all the files in the two folders.
Net kontakt
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Also, the author doesn't look at actual portable game (software) sales.
Yahoo is a classic 1990s land-grab story: go public, use the inflated stock to grab as much territory as possible. In that game, they out-executed everyone else (Lycos, Infoseek, Excite ...) Keep in mind Viaweb was one of their minor land-grabs!

Inevitably, this process destroys the soul of the company. The people who sold them companies mostly didn't stick around (pg!) because they realized there was no soul.

It is very hard to repair such companies (I never say impossible, but very hard!). The comparison is not Apple, because Apple was never built that way. Even in its darkest hour, it had a soul. To give a more relevant contrast, I believe Sun can be repaired, but alas, the longer management fiddles, the more difficult the task becomes.
Free Consulting

Before you conclude the interview, assuming you are interested in the candidate, give them some meaningful homework. For instance, you might ask them to research a potential new market, analyze a competitor or assess a new distribution channel. Preferably select a task that will add value to your team’s efforts – not a make-work project.

There are several potential positive outcomes from this approach: (i) you get free consulting, (ii) the candidate becomes engaged in your business and thus can hit the ground running if they are hired, and most importantly, (iii) it gives you an effective window into their soul and true motivations, as well as an assessment of their skills and abilities.

Free consulting? Strikes me as a little sleazy.
My read was that DHH was referring to leaks in the Basecamp code, not leaks in Mongrel. Was I mistaken? If so, my argument --- that Zed picked an irrelevant nit to derail DHH's argument --- pretty much falls apart.
A photobucket full of rhymes
The personal questions proposed in this post are not in any way relevant to job performance and put you at risk of an anti-discrimination lawsuit in California. The relevance to entrepreneurship is never explained in the post, you might as well ask "what is your favorite color" as it's as useful as these questions.

It's also interesting that all of the "homework" tasks are marketing or business development related. To help the average hacker understand what's being asked here, pretend that you were given a programming assignment and asked to bring the code in on a USB key so that it could be "reviewed" as a part of the interview. This is different from being asked to sketch out an approach during an interview, he wants real work for free.

The downturn may embolden certain hiring managers to abuse candidates, please don't become one of them.
A Letter from Iceland: A World without Money
It could be a slip of the tongue. It's easy to accidentally write mongrel when thinking and writing about "that guy who wrote mongrel."

It is easy and more fun to assume malice, but honest mistakes happen.
You should read their old book: Defensive Design.
I don't know for sure, but I quickly made use of Scribd's download feature!
10 tips for optimizing mySql queries
I liked some of his articles. But he is just a technology journalist and not even the best at it.

And this issue wouldn't pass the screening the Obama administration already stated last week:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cringely#Stanford

(Unless I'm failing to see a joke.)
Yeah, very true. I have an idea about how to detect cheaters, if you want to hear about it. Basically, I think the way to detect whether someone is cheating in an online game is by applying spam filtering techniques.

First consider that every server-side game state (like a player's position in the game world) can be considered a statistic. So for example, a history of a player's speed at points in time would have certain maximums. (i.e. "players don't usually move at 500MPH. And if they do, they only do so for very short periods of time.")

Therefore, by definition, a cheater is a player whose statistics are significantly different from the norm. A speedhacker could be detected because his max speed would become way above the "typical" maximum player speed over a significant amount of time (like, he begins to run at 500MPH for 2 solid minutes). So we can then boil the problem of detecting cheaters down to evaluating probabilities (which is the same way spam email is identified).

This type of system would also handle the case where there's a game bug that accidentally causes players to run fast -- the system won't accidentally boot everyone, because everyone is now running fast, so therefore that fast movement speed becomes "normal". Now let me point out that the very same thing could be accomplished much more simply by just writing code to boot players when their speed exceeds a certain hard-coded maximum global speed, then being very careful to not introduce a superacceleration bug. However, that's special-case code, which should typically be avoided. It also doesn't take into consideration that a player's speed could legally be significantly accelerated for a short period of time by physics, for example, or for a number of other reasons. The idea is to analyze samples of a number of different game statistics, then boot any player whose maximum statistic value significantly exceeds the normal maximum value over a significant amount of time.

This type of system would prevent a situation where a cheater discovers how to manipulate the timing variables in packets, then tricks the server into thinking he's moving faster than he actually should be. (I believe Counter-Strike: Source is still affected by that particular speedhack problem.) We would also be able to detect and ban players using aimbots, because it is very statistically significant for a player to murder 20 opponents in 10 seconds, for example.

So if people modify the client to cheat, the server will identify and ban them. Godda love probabilities and statistics.
I agree, if an in depth technical interview is not sufficient, then pay for a small assignment so it's clear that you own the code. This method can easily give way to fraud and I think is already over the line into misrepresentation with the mention of "(i) you get free consulting."
Were you more bullish on pure mobile IM when you started or was micropayments always in the roadmap?
Yes, there will be many more cores, but I suspect that the cluster programming model will start applying to smaller and smaller systems.

I can imagine a system where each CPU die has multiple cores with on a chip with memory, and multi-CPU machines appear to software as a cluster rather than a single system image.
Yeah. He thought he'd win the Lunar X-Prize too.

They must smoke some damn fine green down there at "The Pulpit".
A cool idea: Using Parser-Generators for Protocols Like SMB, RPC [LtU]
This problem was my life for a lot of years; particularly when you're trying to write fast network code, and everything's a state machine, everyone has wanted some easy abstraction to write the protocol spec instead of a zillion little callbacks.

I thought about this idea a long time ago, but after writing a bunch of parsers, I always figured that the things that make some languages hard to model in Yacc would make arbitrary protocols (invariably more sloppy than languages) even harder.
Here's my navigation feedback: (some of this may be repeats)

- The front image which looks like a video but isn't is confusing. I see you already mentioned on replacing that

- When I click "Send Message Now" I get taken to a screen which is really easy, but how do I go back? Clicking the logo to go back is confusing. Just a small "Go Back" link on the bottom right would do

Apart from that not much to the site. Love the colours and the logo, and the idea is pretty sound too .. :)
we owned other team?
"However, portable gaming consoles (like the PSP and Nintendo DS) fell 14%. This clearly is an outcome of devices like the iPhone which are now full gaming systems in their own right"

This is not clear at all. The blog author is simply asserting it without providing any supporting evidence.
I meant all of Sun's competitors, you know, those guys that are eating their lunch.

The distinction here is between the quality of their product and their understanding of their market.
What Leaders Need to Do Right to Move Up
The Development of the C Language (Dennis Ritchie)
And somehow he gets more than 9 votes up (because there must have been negative votes.)
I wonder where the media get these random stats from. "We asked 3 engineering students and 2 of them said they would consider an engineering job over a banking job" I'd be surprised if anyone could plot a graduating trend in such a short period of time since the media started causing a buzz about the "financial crisis".
Clojure Setup
I wonder if it's occurred to Zed that his attitude might have had something to do with his difficulty finding a job.
Simpleweather.com for sale
I thought that this sale was interesting because they include a pdf Media Kit on the site that gives a lot of details about the site.
For what it's worth, mine is still on. :) Us "dropouts" are just busy building our respective products. (Also, congrats to zhyder. Enjoy being able to take a nap whenever you want to.)

That said, I should probably start a blog about what I'm building. I want to post daily reports about what I did that day. That would be both useful and motivational, I think.
Elevator Pitch Friday: Truevert, The Green Search Engine
Sea Games 25: Ấn định 25 môn và 390 nội dung thi đấu
Thanks! I'll also enjoy responding to customer emails whenever I want to (=immediately), and actually being able to make sales calls.
Beware that if you work for BigCorp this will make you unpopular.

Why?
there has got to be a web app in there somewhere...
You didn't have to pay. I want a supercar, but I don't have to pay the price for one.

No, you missed it. They want to make you buy a supercar if you want any kind of car at all. They'll use their lawyers, their influence and their money to keep anyone else from building you a Honda. Want a car? Get a Ferrari. Can't afford one? Walk.

If you don't watch it they might even get a lobbyist to pay some congressmen to pass a "walk tax".
I don't think that would necessarily block him in the screening process. I've never been through either one, but I've always imagined that these things are a lot like screening for security clearance: they don't much care what skeletons are in your closet as long as you don't mind having them taken out of the closet and put on display.
How to be a programmer - short book under gnu free documentation license.
Yeah I'm running Ganymede - was running Europa - seems a bit slower, but not significantly.

I'm using Java and C/C++ at the moment - but I used a base install and then added the bits I wanted. Maybe the J2EE/whatever Eclipse releases have a whole lot of other cruft? Not sure, but it's plenty usable for me.
I'm confused - are we meant to comment on this or the comment it links to?

Not sure why this was posted as a top level story. Make it into an Ask HN or something at least.
I posted it as a toplevel so that the idea would gain more exposure. (I certainly don't care about karma -- it's meaningless.) I'm genuinely interested to know what people think about the idea of open-sourcing their product at launch. And the more people who give their opinion, the better.

Feel free to leave a comment here or in the other thread.
Congrats once again on the growth guys, fantastic numbers. And you both look dead sexy in the pic - don't let anyone tell you any different.
Google's voice search: Why on iPhone, not Android?
I thought that this sale was interesting because they include a pdf Media Kit on the site that gives a lot of details about the site: http://www.simpleweather.com/swmedia.pdf
You're an inspiration, quiting my day job is the dream! "Starting up" is the reality.
Well I'm probably just being a stick in the mud - but that seems like a bad idea. If everyone posted comments as threads the top page would be a cluttered mess.
Why Spending Stimulus Plans Fail
MiniTask - Minimalist task management
Because there isn't. There are 40M PSP, in spite of being 4 years old there were 193k sold in October. Nintendo DS 84M and almost 500k sold last month. There are only 13M iPhones so far, and it is an order of magnitude away from any significant real share for mobile phones sales. And never mind the apples and oranges pathetic comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-october-npd-sa...
Nice The Who ref.
yeah and it doesn't help they closed down invites for n months after they got acquired and wasted time porting their codebase over onto app engine
Great news. I, unfortunately did not see DabbleBoard prior to this post, but I saw your demo, and was impressed. Great job! Here's wishing you luck, and success.

Cheers!
teh truth they need to come up with something instead of waiting to be bought
I have been getting IM spam on gtalk to get me to sign up on heysan. It comes from my gtalk friends and leads to a google sign in but on heysan.com. It's the exact same message coming from multiple people so its definitely autogenerated.

This shady approach, even if it's coming from a 3rd party incentivized to market heysan, mars this otherwise impressive achievment. Even if this is spam in the plaxo sense, I don't think it's a good thing.
It's not about having a hospitable environment for reproduction (though gay couples would obviously like to get married before adopting), it's about being able to have the other legal rights that straight married people do, such as hospital visitation and decision rights, health insurance, tax benefits, etc. Civil unions only offer about 1/6 of the legal rights that marriage does.

As a gay man, I don't really care what it's called, but the reason we push for "marriage" over "civil unions" is because of these legal rights. The laws are written for marriage, not civil unions.

It's also about the promise of marriage. Where in the typical marriage vows is reproduction mentioned? "To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part." That is what it's about...that promise. That commitment with the one you love.
Only if everyone made insightful or otherwise useful comments, which the community then upvoted. That would be a good thing, not a bad thing.

Also please consider that I spent a good deal of time on crafting my reply, in the spirit of hopefully helping someone (and not to read myself talk). Also, my reply was about a totally different topic than the thread it was inspired by.
At any given point in time, there are some people saying we're heading for a recession, some saying we're heading for a crazy bull market, and lots of people everywhere in between.

There is nothing that could happen to the stock market that somebody didn't predict on CNBC two years ago because people predict crap on there 24/7.
Congrats Gustaf ;)

- Siqi
Monkey Business
Sounds a bit excessive. But whatever works, works. Thanks for clarifying!
Oh, gotcha.

I don't know. I never really used that as a Windows user. It seemed to add clutter, and that always bugged me. But I guess it helps for some things.

Beyond Compare sounds nifty.
Not according to Richard Florida. He hypothesized that a thriving gay population is a necessary (but not sufficient) characteristic of a locale that embraces the "Creative Class".

If you believe his premise -- which a lot of folks seem to -- losing a chunk of the gay (and gay-friendly) population is a serious issue for a successful startup-y environment.
Wow, I had actually copied that quote with the intent of saying the same thing. The only thing that is clear is is that 2 years after launching, Nintendo still can't produce Wiis fast enough.

The PSP has always been a bit of a dud.
A great article, and surprisingly relevant to entrepreneurship.
Wait.

So does this mean that post-menopausal women shouldn't be allowed to get married?

Men with vasectomies?

People not interested in having children?

If procreation is its only use, then lets be consistent.
Please anyone but him...he'd put that $600B into things like hard drives made from metal foil that increase battery life on laptops by 70% (didn't realize HDs took that much power) and they "can spin up, read or write data, then shut down again, all in less time than it takes to perform the same task using flash while being just as resistant to shock damage and more resistant to heat"...riiiiight: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061026_0011...
Which Member of the Startup Tribe Are You?
Startups are like primitive tribes. Which member are you most like?
Even ignoring his serial idiocy, writing vitriol under a pseudonym is not conducive to being confirmed by the Senate
My kid has three parents. At least two and a half. His stepmom is a loving, nurturing and influential piece of his life.

And he kicks ass: he's smart (probably smarter than me), well-liked, well-adjusted, confident and happy.

Seriously, at six he already rocks. I honestly think he's doing better than if me and his mom were together.
Use this link to bypass the "register to read the whole article" rubbish:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66c87994-aec1-11dd-b621-000077b076...
Congrats! Best of luck, make it happen...stay positive and it will.
Was interesting reading the reasoning behind the funky & vs. == precedence rules. I.e. the requirement of parentheses when writing:

if ((a&mask) == b)
Yes, I think the answer to the "too much mails" problem is opening a mailing list or forum. It works for medium to big projects, but for small ones I'm not sure it would be enough.
well his past false claim of a stanford ph.d is going to deep-six any plans for high profile positions. and he's also a supreme idiot who gets by on grand pronouncements that never amount to anything
Some people compare gay rights with slavery (which I think is a bit of a stretch) and argue that though the majority of the population thought slavery was ok back then, it didn't make it right. That's certainly true, but one must also realize that the "wealthy and free" were big supporters of slavery.

The point is, being wealthy and free does not give one a more "correct" opinion than one who is not.

And I don't see a strong correlation between "wealth and freedom and gay rights". I see a strong correlation between gay rights and political image.
Right now you can put together a 32-core amd64 box with 128gb RAM for around $10k
there's plenty of money in the world, just no value. any government can print up a trillion dollars. we have half a quadrillion dollars in total outstanding global debt (all govt, private, hedged, and derivative-based debts)...one must wonder when global citizenry will awaken to the fact that global fiat currencies are all converging at worthlessness simultaneously
This should work:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66c87994-aec1-11dd-b621-000077b076...
Yeah, I know. Maybe that's why he thought it was worth mentioning ( He said it weighed 2 lbs).
He's always been a petulant git
Early in his college career, Tyler Bosmeny assumed that after graduating, he would do what hundreds of other self-respecting Harvard University engineering, math, and science students do: take a job on Wall Street.

It's funny how it seems to be common knowledge in the elite schools that a technical career is to be avoided by people majoring in technical subjects. Perhaps that one piece of knowledge makes the exhorbitant cost of admission worth it. The joke is on the unwashed technical proletariat, after all.
I think the government one should call it "civil unions" (or whatever) for everyone, and the churches can call it whatever they want. Gay people can still get "married" if they belong to a religious institution that "marries" gay couples; same with heterosexual couples.

Some gay people I know say they don't really care what it's called as long as they get the exact same rights. Of course others may disagree.

But then there's non-religious people who want to be married without the religious aspect. "civil union" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. That could be a problem.

How about "marriage" and "marriage~" ("marriage prime")?
Ron Paul for IMF president and US Treasury secretary.
Walking the floor to sell is not easy at all and a private room offsite is a very poor substitute for a booth on the show floor. A trade show is a stag hunt--a collection of firms that get more prospect interest together than individually--you have to join the hunt by either speaking at the conference or having a booth or both to get the full value.
I came in to say the exact same thing. Hey, san! It is not worth it irritating me, to for a small chance that I sign up. Plus I the people whose IMs I got the msg/spam from were not aware that I would be getting a msg from their IM. You might have said that in small print, but it is definately shady.
Why is it strange? Both windows & apple are also resisting commoditization of software. (For various reasons apple more successfully than microsoft.)
Add an image to any flat surface in a video
You've got a good suggestion, but why the snark? Did he need to be put down?
I saw a link to one of my pages on this site. Some comments:

1. No, a patent search does not cost $10,000 although an infringmenet opinion or validity opinion can run that much. Most attorneys charge $500 to $1000 or so for a basic patentability search.

2. You cannot infringe a Patent that has not issued. The claims published in an application are not the claims that will necessarily issue - if they ever issue.

3. Even once issued, trying to analyze claim infringement by amateurs is a risky sport. Armchair claim analysis is invariably WRONG. Patent claims are often not as broad as they initially appear.

4. If you released this 40 days ago, you have one year from the date of first public use, sale, offer for sale, or publication, to get your patent on file (the "bar date") keep that date in mind. You may have already voided overseas rights.

5. Business method and internet business method patents are getting unusual scrutiny from the USPTO these days. So expect a long wait and extra costs to prosecute one of these Patents.

Good luck with your project in any event.
In a sense they do become too slow. After using newer stuff, you begin to expect faster performance. I remember being quite satisfied with my previous laptop till I started using the newer dual core stuff.
So instead of marriage, let's call it...butt-buddies.

Besides, why do you care so much whether Joe is married to a woman, a man, a genderless entity, or no one at all?