skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That student appears to have written some of that code in Lisp. Why is that interesting?

Yes, I distrust all language zealots and I avoid them. Committment to a language is a lack of integrity.
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I disagree!

The value is building your network and meeting the right people!.

Like in the Music Biz... i interned at labels in Nashville, which in turn opened the door for my full time gig at a label in NYC. Without my internships that would not have happened!
If they're hiring lisp programmers ... I AM willing to relocate! Seriously.
I can't speak for the whole process, but a requirement is a PhD in an area Google cares about.

The research divisions of large companies are generally different than the production side. Researchers generally have the freedom to choose how to implement something.
yeah confidence is a huge deal and the second one person waivers, it all comes crashing down like dominoes.
At this point a Google search for getrealordie brings up these threads first and foremost. Considering that you haven't actually launched, you might want to ditch getrealordie.com because these responses are going to sway anyone looking into funding your company.
Or the "prove your mom wrong" trait. That seemed to be his motivation, heh-heh.
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As far as the database goes, with decent hardware DB2 9.5 will have you covered [1]. And, should you become truly huge, it can exceed your requirements by a long shot, provided that some serious hardware is employed [2].

[1] http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/11/04/benchmarking-db2-purex...
[2] http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=10...
"open source" as a synonym for "shared" when not referring to source code is getting old fast.

Especially in the context of recipes, which have been shared forever.
May as well add these...

HN Threads on best SEO resources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119986

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277259
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Python wrapper for Windows Azure storage
Sure... In almost every single hiring situation, years of experience has a big effect on compensation. Age oftentimes correlates with years of experience. And years of experience correlates with value. As you say, not as much in coding as in other areas- but it still does.

Exceptions abound, of course. There are plenty of well-paid morons with decades of experience and lots of young rockstars.

But ask any programmer on the planet whether they got paid more or less 5 years ago (adjusted for inflation) and the majority will say "less".
Or rather, if he got the $100 for being asked to do something; not delivering the product.
Ah, fair point. I actually made that mistake a couple days ago, in fact.
> I was quite unaware that I was posting a dupe.

Again, the original was in the front page with practically the same title. I don't think you did it intentionally, but you didn't do an obvious check, either.

Regarding the other post here, I was replying the "dupes are OK" (paraphrasing) suggestion, in the general case.

But watching:

* the points of this submission (practically the same as the original),
* the votes for the guys saying it is OK to have dupes,
* only one vote for my suggestions,
* and your reply here getting a vote right away,

...I am clearly not in line with HN community. And maybe my "romance" phase just died and I should give it up.

My mistake, I suck, etc.
Ask HN: Easy way to cache current HN pages for perusing at leisure?
I read HN differently at different times. It'd be very cool to archive, say, the top 15 pages of results for a systematic going-through later.

Downside: This would make it feel less like a discussion, and be less conducive to up/downvoting and commenting.

Upside: Don't need to see the same articles on page 2, page 3 when I hit next, etc. Could maybe archive HN three weekly to catch all the best stories. Could store a couple archives for the next time discussion seemed to get really focused on something I don't care for. Would be interesting historical data too.

Is there an easy way to do this?
Why, exactly? Equity ain't free (I actually have a blog post on this: http://www.tonywright.com/2008/a-newbies-guide-to-startup-co... ).

You "buy" equity with risk and lower/no compensation. What is this guy risking? They are funded, so really the only risk is that the owners lose interest or run out of money (a risk you have working ANY small business-- or any business at all in this economy).

Here's some guidelines on what you can expect if you're getting paid roughly market rates:

http://venturehacks.com/articles/option-pool-shuffle#market
Pretty interesting.. actually looks somewhat related to my thesis:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jderick/thesis.pdf

I'll have to look at it more closely when I get a chance.

I was working on learning proofs, rather than programs, but I think there are a lot of similarities.
handling software for accountants is probably the holy grail of "can't be fired".
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now sarcasm aside, the genes that "make people smart" might more accurately refer to genes that create a predisposition towards activities that contribute to the human metric of "smart". A gene that makes you more likely to enjoy reading isn't the same as a "smart gene".
They're still ahead of finance and airlines.
Its like he was walking through a question a professor might ask in front of his class before pausing for that slightest of moments before pressing a button to get the next slide and the inevitable answer.

Most of my ignorant questions are more ignorant than his question. Its like he's thought of it before and was wondering aloud.
moshe: by the way, you have the greatest email address ever.
The graph is indeed scary looking, and it's consistent with both Judith Estrin's book "Bridging the Innovation Gap," and an essay I wrote over the summer:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/all-is-not-wel...
This is a cute story, but recessions are not self-fulfilling prophecies. When people tighten their belts and adjust to economic reality, the economy as a whole adapts to a recession and prepares to get back out of one.

I think.
I've done it a bunch of times and never had hot water freeze faster. How did you (or your dad) set it up?
You missed some follow up information. The person who wrote the original post is the only salaried employee (barely above market average) and has no equity or options within the company. They are looking for someone to come on with a less than enticing salary, put their heart and soul into the project and be happy with the praise from the founders along with a smaller-than-should-be paycheck. Especially with the list of skills they want. They're basically asking for a gung-ho all-in hire who will get nothing more than a commemorative photo in a matte frame if the company takes off.

It isn't the money. It's the demands their listing puts on the new hire and the inadequate compensation they offer in return.
I use merb on ec2 with a redirect back to the app server to write the db reference. We are using a regular html based file uploader and also have a flash uploader - which sometimes gives us fits.
I don't really think it's fair to single out 2008 as the start of a trend. Hell, money market accounts lost money this year. That is very unusual, and the economy is not doing so well right now. Why would startups be magically immune?

Also, if you integrate the curves to get total funds raised and total value created, this doesn't really look bad.
You can still have a system of cab drivers who have medallions and guarantee better service and accountability, and let the market decide on which one they want to use.
The "death of spam" has been greatly exaggerated
What makes them superior to GIF/PNG then?
This can't be said enough. Most people either know they need polish, in which case they work to add it, or they have no clue, in which case they think it's pointless and won't pay.

I don't see why you'd separate it, anyway. Just be a standard web consultant. Polish is always a part of looking up web sites.
Unless you know that language best and deliver the best results in it. I used to always be completely technology-agnostic, until I realized that not everyone has time to learn the best technology for the job (unless your company is filthy rich with talent). A coworker of mine was preaching "you can't just go with what you know" the other day, and I thought to myself, "hold on, that may be good and PC, but if I'm the head developer on this project, and I'm not using anything too exotic, why not, assuming that the app is stable and can be reasonably supported?"

I know that when I work with other developers, I want them to use what they will do best with, because I know that I and others are more than smart enough to make minor changes without breaking the thing. Now, it better be well documented, but that's another matter...

Edit: And dammit, why does this topic title tempt me so much to say "your mom is implemented in Lisp"? That's gotta mean something, and I'll bet it's cold as ice.
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It's dead enough for me. I get around 200 spam emails a day because any email dictionary will spit out my email. Gmail's spam filter is the best in the business. Never had a false positive.
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What's supposed to replace VC, exactly? No one likes having to deal with "the money problem", and there are obvious inefficiencies and flaws in the current VC system, but I don't see any obvious solutions or how anything better could be developed at scale.
There was a man selling web based software on the Information Superhighway...
I'd like to see a graph showing a running total of venture capital invested versus a running total of net income earned by VC investments.
Does Disqus attempt any spam-blocking methods?
I was working on learning proofs, rather than programs, but I think there are a lot of similarities.

I'm just a mathematician, and my mind has obviously been warped by continua and the Axiom of Choice but aren't they the same thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry-Howard_correspondence

Actually, I've gotten interested in learning more about theoretical CS lately, but my everyone in my department is too old/applied/Russian to care, and my university's CS people only seem to care about operating systems and e-commerce. Can you recommend a logical starting place?
Not surprised given the quality of content on Valleywag, after all it was banned from HN.
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I'm pretty sure you got this from the Tomb Raider movie.
JPEGs are really good at throwing out the right data for photographs. GIF and PNG are non-lossy formats; you keep every single pixel you put down (although for GIFs you do lose fidelity in the color space if you use more than 256). JPEGs will do a really bad job with pixel perfect, but faces/mountains/flowers/... will look nice even compressed very heavily.
This is because we never move from our keyboards, lowering us into a state much like hibernation.
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Valleywag I was never fond of: it, along with Gawker, always seemed too deliberately nasty, without ever really being interesting.

It's a shame about the Consumerist, though. It had some excellent articles. Still does, on occasion.
Indeed, cjc sounds like someone who has already tried this at home, right? What circumstances are different between ice cube trays and ice cream mixture? High surface area comes to mind. In the article the experiments described all involve volumes of water (or ice cream goo) that are in containers with low surface area to volume. SA and Volume do not scale linearly, thus the heat exchange rate would be faster for the ice cube trays. Of course, TRYING it out would not hurt. Several hundred years worth of scientists seem to have laughed at previous experimental results out of some egotistical belief that experimental results passed down from history are fairy tales.
Yongfook (founder of Open Source Food) does some nice work. His Sweetcron lifestream project (http://sweetcron.com/) is pretty cool too.
Of course it doesn't make software worse, but you make it sound like it's the only factor in software quality. Far from it, and IMO the degree to which it has become a religion is disturbing. I suspect that might be the source of the downmods.

I've seen projects with more tests than code, and I think that shows a problem with development methodologies. Simply reasoning about the flow through the code (and possibly using a powerful type system [think Ocaml] to help catch errors at compile time) would remove the need for many of these tests (not all tests should go, of course) and would result in tighter code.
Thanks for saying that.

Some may consider it linkjacking, especially since I posted this once before on HN (a few weeks ago) when i first wrote it

The work is all original.
boo-fucking-hoo. a down market hurts everyone. well maybe they should use this lull to re-educate themselves for the future. guess what folks, sandhill road will be as dead as wall street unless you try expanding past websites. let yc fund this low-iq crap. time to bone up on all that chemistry you skipped in high school, you'll need it if you are going to evaluate greentech, nuclear, etc
madscience at google com? wow, i second that sentiment
I'm 25, and compared to when I was 22, I'm a much better programmer than I was... So yes experience does have an impact on salary... and age can be an indication of how much experience you've had... (of course one still need to make the distinction between 3 years of doing exactly the same thing and 3 years of learning and discovering new techniques)
What's supposed to replace VC, exactly?

its possible that VCs can't assemble the level of funding needed to attack the energy market (for example)...these investments will have to scale out to the hundreds of billions with very long time horizons for returns. most likely this stuff will have to get federal funding, and much of it already does from nsf, doe, darpa, etc
I mess around with Photoshop quite a bit and I have noticed that for photos, I almost always can't tell the difference between a maximum quality jpg and a png, while the jpg is much smaller. I can even lower the quality a bit and drastically shrink the jpg size with the quality drop still being barely noticeable if at all.

For most other stuff (things created from vectors for instance) pngs often look better and are smaller.

To me using a png for a photo (which you see often) is a lot like using a wav file for an audiobook, it's just overkill. I realize how totally unscientific that answer is, but I do often export them as both just to see.
I left out inflation (lack of time), though it would be interesting to see it included, since lower asset prices may well be correlated with low inflation (or even deflation, as is being talked about today)

Dividends are included by assuming that all dividends are reinvested w/o taxation. More details on the blog.
But. But. But. Where am I going to hear about what Justin's up to?
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The article's title is actually "Brainy people outlive others".

Well, of course they do, because they are less like to do stupid things that will get them killed.
Questions for Co-Founders (Gabor Cselle)
the first post on the new consumerist will write itself if they ripoff someone on the sale
Mine quintupled, so there you have it. I did start at slave wages, though.
Testing JavaScript performance on Windows XP is a crapshoot, at best
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This is a strong set of questions. The only one that didn't ring true was #8, ownership. For a two-founder company, I strongly believe that 50/50 is the correct structure. Anything less breeds long-term ill will.

What if, as Gabor notes, contributions are unequal? For early stage startups and minor disparities, I'd say skip it and still go with 50/50. The amount of future contribution (and potential for conflict) by both parties will be huge compared to than what's already been done. If someone really is coming to the table with a vastly larger contribution to the company, and intends to bring on a co-founder, I'd challenge the pair to very carefully consider whether the second person is a founder or a highly compensated key employee.
Whoa. That was really nice.
Thanks for sharing!
Article mistook Javascript for Java!. Lame.
uhh, well, there are a lot of people using it. they rant on about images they post, whatever they are doing now. complete waste of time.

don't really see ads generating a huge revenue for them.
The equivalence seems to hold only when the program is complete. Thus, while all proofs can be expressed as programs, not all programs can be expressed as proofs.
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+1 (100% no.)

Although, they might be worth more than General Motors, which is an interesting thought.
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Well, they have about 120 million registered users. A 4 billion dollar valuation places the average value of a user at 33.33 USD. Stated in those terms it does not seem like such a stretch.

I think until someone comes up with a proven business model for social media all social network site valuations are bloated. "Hugs" are not a form of legal tender and neither are "maybes".
Okay, gotcha! Thanks.
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Angels.
I've been using Tracker since they released a private beta right after Railsconf last June ... it is a truly excellent tool. Tracker codifies the Agile process (more or less following XP principles) way better than any other PM tool I've ever seen.

The tool itself won't make your team more or less productive, though. You really have to understand and be committed to Agile/XP theories, processes and practices for it to work. Tracker can help guide you in that direction ... but like almost any tool, there is a "best" way to use it to get the full benefit.
Money market funds in the aggregate have by no means lost money this year.
That is a gross oversimplification of taxi regulation. You're just fixating on the one regulation that we all agree is ill-considered.
The link to http://browsershots.org is the best part of this. I fed one site into it and already feel much better that it renders correctly on 35 OS/browser/version combinations and is at least acceptable in IE 4 and IE 5.
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Finance and airlines get free money from government, VCs not.
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The problem of working out what a program does given its input and output is a very general one. Maybe there could be a competition for programs that do this? (Like the Loebner Prize, but more sensible since the Loebner Prize doesn't really have anything to do with progress in AI). Or maybe such a competition already exists and I don't know about it.

Perhaps a generalisation of this could be used as an intelligence test for AI programs. (for criteria for such a test, see http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/10/economic-defini.html )
> The issue I'm imagining with batching is that I cannot send any data back to visitors until the next batch is processed -- because if I do they won't see how their last post has changed their positions in the hierarchy, and they will interpret this as a system error. In other words, every time a member receives a response from the server, that response must indicate his last post's position in the hierarchy.

You're making this much harder than it has to be because you're assuming that users can see things that they can't.

Suppose that the system had two users, A and B, and they each issued two commands, A1 and A2 in that order from A and B1 and B2 from B. Suppose further that system responds to each command with something that it says is the global state. To keep things simple, I'll use the command, such as A2, to refer to the response as well. (In other words, A2 is the response that A gets to command A2.)

A knows that she issued A1 and A2 in that order, so the A2 response must reflect commands A1 and A2. However, the A2 response need not reflect B1 or B2 unless A has some way to know that B issued them before A2, regardless of when B1 and B2 were issued in relation to A2. In fact, it's probably okay for the A2 response to reflect command B2 and not command B1.

Now let's throw C into the mix, issuing C1 and C2 in that order. As with B, the A2 response need not reflect C1 or C2 even if they actually occurred before the A2 command. Moreover, even if the C1 and C2 commands both occurred before B1, the A2 response can reflect B2 and not C1 or C2.

The easist thing to do is to periodically produce consistent views of the data. This process will take a while so while it is happening, you'll have to use a past consistent view.

Three views, call them X, Y, and Z that the system updates should be adequate. At all times, one view will be "current", one will be being generated, and the third will be a source for stragglers.

Here's how the update process works. While X is being generated, from Z and all data received since Z's generation started, Y will be used to produce results to send to users. While Y is being generated, from X and all data received since X's generation started, X will be used to produce results to send to users. And similarly for Z (using Y).

Suppose that user A sends a command while Y is being generated from X. The response to A need only reflect X and commands that A sent since X was generated. As long as that can be finished before the system finishes generating Y and Z, everything is copacetic.
This looks like a great tool, but here's my beef: I had used assembla.com for a long time. 100% free, integrated svn and optional trac, bug-tracking, per-project access control with unlimited projects, free massages on thursdays; the works.

This was fantastic, so I put 10 of my non-critical but still important projects on there. All of a sudden last month they've realized that their business was unsustainable and will be charging a fixed monthly rate per project. No monthly rate * 10 can be affordable, so now I need to find another. If it's hosted (and especially free), I run the risk of having to convert all my projects again..

I generally find that hosted == bad when it comes to my code.
Nooo..... I actually like valleywag :(
Sure it was nasty, and it was gossipy, and not journalism at all, but it was a lot more frank and honest than a bunch of other tech. blogs out there.
It's a nice thought, Rich, but this won't happen. Twitter has already turned down acquisition offers.
All the data they have might be though. How they're using it isn't worth $4 Billion though.
The question is, are they worth 30 dollars? I doubt each of them brings in that much revenue in advertisements. It's arguable over whether or not promos are earning advertisers that much.

I think that valuing a company based solely on users is faulty, if the users are paying nothing.
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It indicates that the poster doesn't know much about HTML or CSS.
I probably missed something, but why Apple are in front in that respect?

Google are the web masters, I imagine they could provide a funky solution!

One more things: Mobile devices micropayments is an old concept, a mobile phone as a wallet concept is a hard nut to crack.
Aye, it's faulty, but how else do you value a site like this?