skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the site and immediately thought of 4 or 5 family/friends that could use something like this. Good luck.
Whats it built in?
Using attention analytics to sell attention analytics
I recognise most of those names, but I have no idea why you think this is a 'should'. People hack on different things and have different interests.
Cool. Sent. :) Let me know if you find it..
Erlang User Conference
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the 2012 Erlang User Conference in Stockholm!

This year we'll get to enjoy the perks of having a conference in the glorious summer as well as holding it once again in the exciting, spacious building of the Münchenbryggeriet.

Please jot down the date: 28-29 May 2012 in your diary and join us at the conference. This year the Erlang User Conference will take 2 days (plus one extra day of Tutorials: 30 May!). Very Early-Bird registration will open soon, but in the meantime, feel free to submit ideas for talks or presentations.
The Erlang User Conference brings together the best minds and names in Erlang programming, from language inventors, implementers and maintainers to open-source committers, community leaders and Erlang authors.

Everyone is welcome at Erlang User Conference 2012!
I had forgotten about the TV! I imagine a lot of people will go that route to save the money on a new monitor.

Though, I think about the insane hours I spend tinkering with my computer when I was a kid and it makes me wonder how many parents would be happy to let their children go on tinkering for hours like that on the commong family screen!
Didn't Raymond Chen write once how most Windows crashes (of some version, during some year) were due to beta nvidia drivers installed by gamers to increase FPS?
New Basecamp
Aye, I'll do a FizzBuzz style question, but it totally changes the dynamic of the interview. Now the onus is on them to sell me the role. And it's going to be uphill.
Conditions inside Amazon don't necessarily reflect the state of every business in the industry.
OK well then, what were the results?
FriendFeed actually used a similar mechanism with MySQL for some schemaless data that they knew they wouldn't need to index.

"Entity bodies are stored as zlib-compressed, pickled Python dictionaries."

http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql
So, we administer an online coding test that's similar in complexity to fizzbuzz, but a different problem. If you come to us through a personal reference, we skip the test. If we come to you, because we've learned about you, we skip the test.

If you come to us, and we don't know each other, you'll expect to be screened. Why would you not prefer writing a tiny bit of code, rather than do the "guess what we want to read on your CV" game? Especially when we tell you it's actually a good filter?
How to use RadioButton Controls as RadioButtonList Control in ASP.NET WinForm
ASP.NET provide some list controls to select single as well as multiple values from a specific group. The RadioButton control is one of them. Previously we have learned how to work with CheckBox Control and CheckBoxList Control. The Radio Button List is also used to get a value from the list.
ShopMarks, my first Chrome extension
MSM links create traffic spikes. There is a (somewhat small) spike in August that pg attributed to a PC World article. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985 and the article here http://www.pcworld.com/article/237616/baseball_bat_sales_ris...

Perhaps the Dec spike is from the Inquirer article which links to HN. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2130668/facebook-pr...
What I wouldn’t do to welcome Windows 8 into the world…
Interesting fact: If the sum of all digits in the dividend is a multiple of 9, then it can be assumed that the dividend is a multiple of 9.
you learn more from doing something than from reading something. nothing new. might want to check Einstein's quotes
I agree with the separation. Two separate checkboxes for disabling regular updates and security updates, would probably stop most users from disabling security updates.
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I love this article. While reading the comments I had the following thought. That the RP is somewhat intimidating and exposed as a raw piece of electronics. While you or I have plenty of keyboards and mice around, and no doubt schools do too, what about the people who don't? Has anyone reading this had any experience building something like this? If we could package the cheapest screen with the cheapest mouse with a small case some people might find this a useful package. Seems like a good candidate for a kickstarter project? To be clear I wouldn't intend this as a business, but as a way to contribute to the RP project. (I think I would actually like to buy on e of these as I ony own laptops, so I have to buy all these peripherals anyway when I get my RP)
This is true. Historically, I've gotten the most points on posts I posted expecting massive downvotes on due to their controversial nature.
Ask HN: Leadership Trends in Software Development/Entrepreneurship
Good Morning HN Family,

As HN is one of the most vibrant, thoughtful, and supportive communities on the Web today I thought I'd bring my research to this forum. I'm currently enrolled in a Professional MBA program at the University of Louisville although I work and have worked day to day as a software development professional for the last 4 years. This discussion will help me greatly in my report out for my Leadership course. But enough about me this question is truly about you all.

As I lookout over the landscape of our community (which I believe broadly encompasses: Software Development, Technology, Web Design, Entrepreneurship, etc.) I tend to notice a trend in our leadership. For the most part those we consider leaders in our community aren't the gentlemen/women doing the most hand-waving and evangelizing about what they support, instead they are often some of the more thoughtful, brilliant minds, and thought leaders in our community whom we respect for their talent. Although we have our various camps and flame wars I think largely my previous assertion rings true.

What I'm curious to understand, and hopefully the HN community can help me further develop this thought, is why doesn't this same trend tend to transfer well into other industries (i.e. Politics, Civic Organizations, etc.)? I realize this is a very broad stroke I'm painting here but I believe this holds generally. As a corollary, do you all think that this trend is truly reflective off our community? Do you think it (i.e. our typically higher levels of rationality) gives us a potential sustainable competitive advantage with respect to other industries moving forward? Other thoughts?

Thanks in Advance for your time and support!
That is awesome. The experience of download a high quality game on Android Market and then have to download the data (usually quite big) from the game company server (that can be slow/unavailable/unstable) is frustrating. Be able to download it from Google itself and the possibility to pause/resume is great.
A few years ago I became really interested in recording music. I had been writing a little with a friend, using whatever crap equipment we could afford, the results weren't amazing but we were having fun and staying focussed on the music itself.

Then we starting recording other people. I became obsessed with gear, software and all the associated toys that go with any technical pursuit. I'm a programmer, so it's easy to understand how that happens but I totally lost sight of the music, spent way too much money and equipment that was nowhere near being required and generally lost the plot. I was tracking everything 24-bit/96kHz and bemoaning the loss of quality when I mixed down for CD.

Anyway, the TL;DR version of what followed was that we recorded quite a bit, lost interest in making our own music and then the whole adventure came to an end. Now my gear is leaving via eBay and I'm finding my way back to just playing guitar and trying to write good music.

24-bit/192kHz - pointless. Give me a small venue and a guy with an acoustic guitar any day.
I only know of John Gruber because he is mentioned/linked to on HN so often, same with Zed Shaw.

if I google Matt Dillon, I only get things about an American actor. So I can't really think of a any reason that I would have heard of him, since this is the first thing that I have read (afaik) that has mentioned him at all. If he was writing a popular technical blog on top of his work then I'm sure I would have.

Of course that is not to disparage his work at all, there are many people who do extremely impressive, valuable things but receive little fame. Even amongst educated people you would probably struggle to find someone who could tell you who invented the combustion engine (Étienne Lenoir) but I'm sure many could name the members of the latest fad pop music group.

It's just that some people are pushing into the spotlight more than others, or more likely they get there on purpose. Some people are happy doing good work in the background and only want recognition amongst a small group of peers.
Also I've seen many people complain that because of this two-step install, you can't use the 15 minutes window to decide you don't like the app.
I completely agree with the article though I think it misses what the iPad 3 is. I think most tech commenators miss the point.

Apple isn't a traditional tech company. The majority of Apples 'new products' aren't new at all. They are just a new iteration of an existing product.

Many tech commentators look at the iPad 3 and see it as make or break. They want reason's why you would toss aside your iPad 2 and buy an iPad 3. The fact is though, if you don't want to piss away your money you will not get an iPad 3 if you own an iPad 2.

Its like like if you own a 2010 iMac you didn't buy a 2011 iMac (I assume there was a 2010/11 iMac). While the latest model is superior, quicker, has better gizmo's etc. The one you have is just fine.

The iPad 3 will be the continued evolution of the iPad product, just as the iPad 2 was. This isn't a new product, Apple is just continuing to keep its product up to date.
The German pay for factory workers isn't so great, by the way. Income structure is more flat in Scandinavia, for instance; compared to Sweden and Finland, Germany has cheap factory labor cost.

However, the main problem with British industries and collapse of some of them in 1970's was unionisation and political fighting. This included even outright sabotage, and of course abysmal build quality. My uncle had a Morris Marina, my father a Sunbeam Avenger. Never again a British car. British workers are OK as long as their overlords are Japanese or German.

UK manufacturing value as such is not so bad, after all. The curve looks very much like any other Western country.
See
http://management.curiouscatblog.net/images/curiouscat_top_m...

The only major country that took a significant dip recently is Japan.
I don't think you realize how complex the software in the financial industry is. Finance is probably the second most software driven industry in the world after the software industry itself.

Only a tiny percentage of developers in the financial world are working on arbitrage, the average bank probably has more developers working on compliance software than arbitrage software. A vast majority of software development work at most banks is infrastructure (integration between systems, data feeds, settlement, etc.) which supports the day-to-day operations.
"Apple could lose $9 billion in one day if aliens descended from the skies to steal it". Relevant parody on TNW.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/03/06/apple-could-lose-9-bi...

I was thinking of making an iPad headline generator, which looks something like <N random characters>iPad<N random characters>
The all-new Basecamp is live
With outputs on the picowatt region, you'd need a couple trillion LED's ;-)

But I agree engineers are weird animals. Often people have no idea of what they are really doing when they say "that can't be done" to one of us.
Akka 2.0 released (Scala and Java concurrency library)
I wrote a basic primer for django on EC2 to take advantage of the free tier last week here: http://eddychan.com/post/18484749431/minimum-viable-ops-depl...
> Interestingly, this is true for any two digit number

Not only for two digits numbers.
Also there is a trick based on that: ask someone to think of a number (two-digits, or greater). Ask to subtract the sum of digits from that number. Ask to multiply result by any number. Ask to cross-out any digit, except 0 and then say remaining digits to you in any order.
Then you say what digit was crossed out.
The secret is simply: you add the digits told to you till you get one digit number, and then subtract it from nine.

E.g.:

Original number => 42
Subtract the sum => 42 - 6 = 36
Multiply by any number => 36 * 666 = 23 976
Cross out 3 => 2976
Name the digits in any order => 2679

So you got 2679. Calculate digital root: 2 + 6 + 7 + 9 = 24, 2 + 4 = 6.

9 - 6 = 3 <= there is your answer.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_root

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_out_nines
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Thanks for the context.

> But yes, if the candidate fails Fizzbuzz then it's probably pointless to continue the interview.

I didn't really mean to imply that basic programming skills are not a prerequisite for a programming job, which I guess is what the second quote of mine above seems to imply. What I'm saying is that testing itself shapes the type of candidates you'll get, not just in the way that testing is meant to (i.e. screening out the ones that are not qualified) but also in other, unintended ways.

If the first thing you do in your interview is check if I can pass FizzBuzz, what does that say to me about your company? Tests like fizzbuzz are so uninspiring and uncreative. Aside from the fact that some strong candidates may just blank on them even though they can program fine, the deeper issue is that testing in this way says to me as an interviewee that you see candidates in terms of black-and-white "testable" skills.
This sounds extremely useful, would you consider opening the script for public usage?
You could cross-publish meetup dates on Techism, too: http://www.techism.de/
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/0.7.65
Is there a way to migrate existing Basecamp accounts over? I can't seem to find anything on how to do it.
Here is a great programming environment you can run with only an iPad: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

If you mean that you can't develop native apps using only an iPad, that is true. For that you need to buy other tools (e.g. a Mac mini), which is why I said it was an expensive option.
The main reason you're unhappy (and how to fix it)
Very clean site with some challenging problems.
Packages and frameworks are great, but they exist because they solve problems that core PHP doesn't solve well. That's why there are so many different ORM layers and databases classes and templating frameworks. For example PHP gives you the nuts and bolts to put together a database class, but there still isn't a good, reusable library I can plug in to my next web app without having to mess with details like handling exceptions for update operations and so on. (PDO is close but not there yet.)

Instead of centralizing a bunch of 3rd-party packages, PHP might better benefit by putting together a cleanly designed, optional, STL-like layer on top of the exposed nuts and bolts. Something like the powerful classes .NET provides. That way, a person could point to the official, well-documented, core-supported way of doing something like querying a database or subtracting two date objects instead of pointing to yet another "ultimate" PHP extension repository, maintained by who-knows. It might include things like rich database encapsulation, clean and obvious escaping of output for PHP's built-in template functionality, better datetime classes, and so on.

SPL is kind-of-sort-of heading in that direction, but right now it's more for things like iterators and lists--still nuts and bolts. PHP is building some of the stuff I described into the core--there's an equivalent DateTime class now, though it's still in its infancy, and PDO is getting closer and closer to being a pluggable database object. But we've still got a long way to go.

End the need for massive 3rd-party extension repositories and frameworks by building the necessary basics into the core. My dream would be to be able to have a PHP object library like the .NET ones. (Just the basics--DateTime, String, etc., not nightmares like DataGrid.) But I suspect PHP is too weighed down by its syntactical baggage and twisted history to be able to rise up to that dream.
Without knowing the internal details it sounds like there's some fear locking out change-making decisions.
Watch John Carter
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Impressive job Mercedes
Of course the free market isn't efficient in hiring. Companies do everything they can to hide salaries and, for whatever reason, the culture is such that people generally won't discuss it either.

Imagine if everything you ever bought worked this way. You want some eggs? You'll need to go in the store managers office, he'll make an offer and you can accept it or negotiate. You might not even get the eggs. Once you do, you're afraid to tell anyone else how much they cost. How efficient would that market be?
I 've had my 2 previous accounts hellbanned and i can only guess someone did not like my comments or something although they were by far not my worst comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ristretto (karma 835)

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ignifero (karma 1761)

It's my understanding that it is a normal thing here. I mostly visit the community for the curated frontpage links. I also have showdead on, as i often find engaging but controversial opinions at the bottom. Typically the top spaces are occupied by either extremely long posts or some very politically correct opinions that offer nothing as debate fodder. Anyway, given that this is a corporate forum, i think i can live with that.

I would suggest at least letting us know when we are hellbanned, it is a pain to talk to a black hole.
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Perhaps a bit off-topic, but isn't the use of post-receive hooks to publish your content effectively hacking Git to do something that it shouldn't?

For me, the ideal approach was always to use continuous integration to publish/build my site fresh every time I commit.
This article reminds me of the description of the economy of post-collapse america in Snowcrash.

“When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery”
Actually Andy promised to fix the problem that forced games to be downloaded in two stages. It was in an interview on The Verge. If I can find it I'll post it.
Sounds really interesting I'll be there, Couch Club is a really nice location.
This is the same reasoning that somebody used when I was debating with her if insurances should reimburse homeopathic and other alternative treatments. Her reasoning was 'well if it works, it should be reimbursed, doesn't matter if it's from a placebo effect or not'; my position is that they shouldn't be reimbursed, but quite honestly, I don't really have a rational reason for it (at first I thought I had but it turned out I couldn't formulate it, which is the same as not having it).

So, while I have no option (for now) but to acknowledge your position, I still feel dirty for doing so.
Five years is a long time. However, with something as important as OpenSSL, some degree of discretion and evaluation should be done before patches are merged.

Does anyone know the reason for the delay? I can't imagine that it's just them being lazy, for instance. Maybe they don't have the time and resources to properly analyze something as critical as this?

Edit: I guess what I mean to say is, for OpenSSL I'd rather have no feature than a feature with a security vulnerability.
Is it only a 15 minute window where people can call and ask for a refund? I've been wondering that. I see ~10-30% of my android app's purchases then cancelled.
Akka 2.0 Released | The Scala Programming Language
> The iPad 3 will be the continued evolution of the iPad product, just as the iPad 2 was. This isn't a new product, Apple is just continuing to keep its product up to date.

The branding seems to contradict that idea. If it's just an update, then why not just keep calling it "the iPad", without appending a Big Shiny Version Digit? You know, like they do with all of their other desktop and notebook products?
I always thought that was the goal of ZendFramework.
I subscribed for a pro-version of iubenda and I'm very happy with it.
i586 has stayed backwards-compatible (although performance isn't the same if you don't know what you're targeting), ARM hasn't. The raspberry pi's ARMv6 is very different from a Cortex's ARMv7. The kernel also needs patches to know how to initialise an ARM device, and those patches need to be forward-ported.
It leads to http://noslims.info/?787254572
"Acai Berry Diet Exposed: Miracle Diet or Scam?" - a fake news ad.
I guess this is what you were looking for: http://basecamp.com/transition-steps
Their new pricing page breaks many of the "rules" for getting conversions (eg. clear call to action). It will be interesting to see if they blog about the results of it.

http://basecamp.com/pricing
I'm was in Munich on Monday and in Jena for the rest of the week coming from the Philadelphia area. In general, people speak English very well. I know a little bit of German and try to speak it as much as possible, but people pick up right away I'm not good at it and they start speaking English. I would imagine you'll have no issues at the HN meetup like someone else said, it's an English speaking community.
Using wget, yes, there is a 301 redirect to some page about acai berries.

The on.msnbc.com domain seems to be setup to redirect all links to some other page. Not sure if this is part of an exploit on that service, or if you can somehow pay to advertise there or what.

It's interesting. A lot of people probably trust the msnbc.com domain name.
There will be NO iPad 3 - It will be called 'iPad HD'