skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two types of claims typically made in the "people who use X are better/worse programmers than people who don't" argument.

One is a claim based on difficulty. X is really hard, so if you can use it successfully, you must be an excellent programmer.

Another is a claim based on taste. You must be very sophisticated and knowledgeable in order to see why X is good, so people who choose X are excellent programmers, because they know the difference between good and bad technologies.

I tend to feel that you shouldn't take credit for having good taste in frameworks (or text editors, or etc.) until you have worked with more than one. Otherwise, even if you pick the 'best' one right off the bat, it was mostly luck.
Humans are dying at that rate, and being born at a rate well faster then our death rate. Otherwise how would we have gone from a population of six billion to seven billion?

Also I'm going to drop back to an argument I hold near and dear. Lots of people are terrible, they hurt other people for their own gain. We start wars just because someone doesn't believe the same things as ourselves. We go out of our way to put others down with words just because we think that since words can't hurt then it must be okay to say whatever. All in all it's rather sad that a human being which is supposed to be superior to all other forms of life doesn't have the empathy to want to fix a problem we made for these animals in the first place. Call me crazy but as a human I'd like to leave things in a better state then they were in when I got here.
I'm unsure if this is trolling or not or if I lost my sense of humor. Anyway, I can simply not buy that Windows 95 sucked or was a half way-house of old and new tech where Windows 98 was a major technical step forward in comparison. And of course, the author very conveniently forgot Windows 2000.
You say in your blog that you sat on the "Heritage Health Prize" advisory board. Have you looked at these data sets?

https://www.i2b2.org/NLP/DataSets/Main.php

De-identification of medical charts is a bottleneck in clinical research. It's impractical to ask for thousands consent forms, however, smaller sample sizes are inconclusive, so much, that most of medicine is driven by inconclusive research findings. Moreover, full anonymization does not allow to follow patient records over time. This will kill any big patient outcome study, at least financially. What are your thoughts?
Aishwarya Rai’s comeback with bolly-wood biggies
> YC is probably the top business school in the country by market cap created.

Biz schools aren't all that good at creating market cap.

Consider Stanford. It has a top-ranked biz school that focuses on startups.

Still, the CS department laps the biz school in "market cap created". I think that EE does as well, and there are probably a couple of other departments that have created more market cap. (Bio-tech is the obvious candidate.)

I think that a biz school that creates more market cap than the top technical departments is evidence that the technical departments are failing.
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Self-published artists, with their own labels, don't exactly catch a break. Filesharers don't care about anything but their own entertainment.
I've used the Beta for a multi-user sales pipeline. Worked wonders!
Ilike that idea. While offering money for the crowd is a nice idea. The confidentiality agreement may have been startling their progress. Maybe they would find more prior art if users were expected to contribute out of live for a bogus patent free world.
Cleveland, OH
Intern/Freelance/Remote

Babl Media (http://www.bablmedia.com) is an early stage innovation agency. We're currently looking for skilled Python developers who are capable of delivering pixel perfect front-end experiences. Experience with mobile web, django, flask, and CI systems are all bonuses.

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If you're interested please email robert[at]bablmedia.com with a resume and a little about yourself.
Adding Windows 2000 into his list would change the entire article.
>Microsoft cannot afford to give people another reason not to stick with their platform.

Microsoft isn't going anywhere - they have the business segment locked down tight. The reasons for which are out of the scope of this discussion- but there are still companies out there writing ActiveX apps for IE6. Them upgrading to 8 is irrelevant because they're still on XP fer chrissakes.

I can see them taking the RIM tack if they continue down this road (namely making every other release distasteful for one reason or another and pissing more people off) - disregard the wants of consumers and sell a primarily business-focused product which consumers can also use, if they wish.
On anonymity and privacy... I always thought this was an interesting fact:

Birthday, Gender and Zipcode is enough to identify someone uniquely approximately 85% of the time.

And a quickly googled source but the meme is older than that: http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/12/uniquely-identifyin...
Ask HN: Any systems out there that keep you update to on what's in your fridge?
My family often forgets about recent leftovers in our fridge, or simply new food that is buried in a drawer in back of the fridge.<p>High level, I'm imagining a system of some sort that automatically "scans" items as they're put into your fridge and as they're removed. The system (accessible via mobile and web) keeps an always up-to-date inventory of what's in your fridge.<p>It reminds you (via physical display, email, SMS, whatever) of soon to expire items and items that haven't been touched in a while. It causes you to stop wasting food and save money on groceries.<p>Anybody know of anything like this out there?
Death and physical injury aren't the only ways someone can be harmed. Trust me - if you're the only kid in highscool without cable who isn't able to talk about that show from last night, you miss opportunities to bond. Those missed bonds are worth quite a lot, since they directly impact your future.
Startup Infrastructure: Who Makes Up the Human Capital?
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Windows 2000 was targeted at businesses and servers. It's specifically excluded as this is talking about the consumer releases that get bundled with new computers. Likewise the NT releases and any of the server releases are also excluded.
As far as I an tell yes it is, but with a few changes on how you interact with "applications". I believe this is Microsoft finally stepping into the tablet market. As a power user I will just disable metro or stay with Windows 7.
The documentation assumes I know why I would need to do this. This sounds kinda cool but as someone who wasn't already fully aware of CloudMine won't understand this press release.

If the goal is to announce platform expansions to draw in new people you'll need to paint the problem-space a little clearer. Tell a story.
Vin Dicarlo's Pandora's Box: An Honest Review
Ask HN: New companies doing desktop software?
Are there any new companies making desktop software using the so-called traditional model? (Autodesk, et al)

I am writing a personal desktop program - an organiser/tasks app that meshes with my lifestyle; existing solutions really don't. I wondered if there are any new companies that are making software using the early 00's/90's-era model in this age of web apps...
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Windows 2000 was more or less a ME with NT kernel. It wasn't a consumer oriented OS. Same as NT 4.0 that it replaced. The application compatibility and the security was pretty sucky.
Was thinking that you treat a patent as a bug, then submit it through the bug tracker and the result ends up on the wiki.
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Have experience in a multitude of languages (PHP, Java, Perl, Flex, and C++ in order of experience)

Loves projects that use SVN and git for source control

Most professional experience is in the back end web development realm, with some "moonlighting" with desktop and mobile application development

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similar reaction here. I just don't see the merit in reading fiction, even less in speed reading it, if it's not for your own entertainment. I figure a lot of people feel like there's some sort of intrinsic, intellectual merit to the act of reading, no matter what (as long as there aren't a lot of pictures...), but i believe this stems from a time where reading fluently was a skill not so widely distributed as it is today.
> true computer scientists already have the answers.

And the answer is .. 42?

No, really. When did the distributed computing issues become "solved" in computer science?
Already got my support and deployments team using Streak and its been an amazing experience! Constantly adding new features and making our lives easier.
I interviewed there recently, though decided to take another job. ITA uses Lisp for their core flight search engine, but uses other languages like Java and C++ for many of their other projects, such as the one mentioned in this announcement.
Truth about Defibrillators - too many fail at crucial moment
This is NOT how big boys (corporates) buy their software. They like it slow, at par with their pace. If it's too easy, they won't use it.
For Google 3/1/2012: Noam Chomsky vs. Michel Foucault
Hi jedberg,
Seems like your Netflix job link is broken with NPE exposing your technology stack etc.
So its not just us who display the stack trace on the UI.
Thanks.
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University of MD considers higher tuition for STEM subjects
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Quirky is a social product development company where people from all around the world submit invention ideas to our website. With the help of our passionate community, we select the best ideas each week to develop together and try to bring them to market. If an idea actually makes it, then everyone who helped along the way gets a piece of the pie. You can find our products at retailers such as Target and Bed Bath & Beyond.

Quirky is a rails shop, and we work with lots of fun technologies like AWS, mongo, iOS and heroku to name a few. We're a small team that works on lots of big, fun and interesting problems. We just moved into a brand new, fully custom office space in Chelsea (might be the coolest office you'll find in NYC). Oh and we also had a reality show on the Sundance Channel last year.

We're looking to hire rockstar rails and front end developers. More details here:
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If interested, shoot me an email greg at quirky dot com. Relocation is available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
Yes, because there couldn't possibly be people who handle their own distribution while still supporting the artists.
I recommend not buying into this narrative. 7 really was not that much different from Vista, but people persist in this perception that Vista was an abomination whereas 7 is somehow incredible.

The truth is, Windows has a huge obligation to legacy and backward compatibility, and MS has to pay homage to that instead of breaking with the past and starting something new. That's not to say that if they did do that the results would be any good, but they can't even try at this point. They are attempting to sorta-kinda do that with the Metro experience stuff, but I think this approach is ultimately doomed. Computing is changing, rapidly, and a mish-mash of old and new probably won't work very well.

I hope I am wrong about this.
I'm a Mac/Linux guy so I haven't really looked at it much. However, people should consider that 9/10 desktop computers run Windows so the little things that Microsoft does makes a difference.

My one big positive takeaway is that IE10 is the default browser, and it's on par with all the other HTML5 browsers available. This will go a long way towards getting the stragglers using "HTML5". It's about time for a lot of XP users to upgrade, right?
Windows 98 was just awful. I still remember having to re-boot that sucker 10 times a day.
Design Pattern: Threaded Requests With Retries
Couldn't damages be gauged by comparing the injured party's income stream before and after MegaUpload was shut down? If the parties suing are really losing 13 billion in a 20 billion dollar industry, they should see an obvious upward spike in profits now that that MegaUpload is shut down.
Chattanooga, TN

Small interactive shop that focuses on both client projects and our own products.

Looking for front-end & back-end developers. Python and Ruby are our primary server-side languages for current & upcoming work. We have a heavy amount of development work that comes from SF-area clients (most recent clients include Teak (www.teakdigital.com) and Snapfish (just finished building photosuite.snapfish.com)).

Our products include markup.io, showoff.io, and nextroomapp.com (an iOS app & web-based service), though they've suffered an unfortunate amount of neglect this past year. We're trying to build up a good team to both change that and work on some new products, too.

Looking for both freelancers and girls/guys who want to be part of a creative team long-term.

bob@thisismedium.com
Many points in this article are wrong or at least misleading. There will be no 2x zoom button on apps that are not retina-optimized, they'll be scaled automatically like iPhone apps without retina graphics. The 2x button on iPads was for running iPhone apps on the iPad. Nothing will be shown "smaller" because that's not how retina screens work. Have you ever seen an iPhone app shown at 1-to-1 pixel resolution on an iPhone 4, occupying only part of the screen? Of course not.
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Seattle or Remote (NA hours required - we're on Pacific Time)

We're looking for a few freelancers for different clients.

1) Ruby/Rails developer, primarily front-end development: clear knowledge of view layer, highly detail-oriented. SASS/Compass knowledge useful for some roles. Could be short-term (think a month or two) or ongoing.

2) Python/Django development, full stack. Seattle better for this one. Have a 2-3 month project that's well-specified but needs someone to own and develop. Need experience building out full-stack applications, not just brochureware.

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Chicago, IL - Braintree

FULL TIME or INTERN Engineers

Braintree helps businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage. We're unlike others in the industry; we think and do things differently.

We mostly work with Ruby/Rails, but consider ourselves polyglots. Our team is talented, our practices are collaborative (pairing, agile), we work on challenging problems (high availability, quality of service, scaling, security), and our devs have 10% time to work on whatever they want. Developers use and love our product. Although we mostly work with Ruby, we also work with Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, .NET, Perl, and Objective-C

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"There are now 1.5 million AEDs deployed nationwide, five for each of the 300 000 people in the country who need them every year."

[...]

"Yet despite the enormous investment in these AEDs, the death rate from sudden cardiac arrest is no better than it was 20 years ago. It still kills more Americans than lung, breast, and prostate cancers and AIDS combined. Worldwide, it kills about 7 million people a year."

[...]

"In 1998, Washington state began a citizen defibrillation program that included advertising, public training sessions, and the creation of a detailed registry of AED locations around the state. The survival rate for witnessed sudden cardiac arrest in Seattle is now more than 45 percent, compared with less than 0.5 percent in Detroit and 4 percent nationwide."
They are also betting on touch screens with Metro. MS believes that touch screens will be common on all computing devices in the next few years.
One of my best investments/buys last year was an Audible platinum membership - basically buying 24 credits/audiobooks for roughly $9 each. Especially since a credit gets you even brand new books, irrespective of length, it's an insane value - almost like getting CDs for $3 or new video games for $10. I was never into audiobooks when they required lugging CD cases around but with Audible's iPhone app, they're actually the most convenient book form, since you can even "read" while driving, walking, doing housework, etc.
San Francisco, CA

(H1B welcome!)

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IPL 5: Pune Warriors India IPL Team 2012, PWI IPL 5 Team Players List
Jesus didn't feed 5,000 with five loaves and two fish, he entertained 5,000 with five mp3s and two mp4s.
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Thanks ben. Appreciate the plug!

PS: Worked with ben on http://www.garnishbar.com
IPL 5: Rajasthan Royals IPL Team 2012, RR IPL 5 Team Players List
Here is the list of Rajasthan Royals IPL 5 Team Members List. Get full squad of RR Team in Indian PreRRer League IPL 2012.
Seeking Freelancer
Chattanooga, TN

Small interactive shop that focuses on both client projects and our own products.

Looking for front-end & back-end developers. Python and Ruby are our primary server-side languages for current & upcoming work. We have a heavy amount of development work that comes from SF-area clients (most recent clients include Teak (www.teakdigital.com) and Snapfish (just finished building photosuite.snapfish.com)).

Our products include markup.io, showoff.io, and nextroomapp.com (an iOS app & web-based service), though they've suffered an unfortunate amount of neglect this past year. We're trying to build up a good team to both change that and work on some new products, too.

Looking for both freelancers and girls/guys who want to be part of a creative team long-term. Remote is possible, though we'd love to be able to hang out in the same room, too.

bob@thisismedium.com
WSJ: All Mobile Traffic Isn't Equal
Why Isn't ICANN Speaking Out Against ICE/DOJ Domain Seizures?
Windows 98SE, however, was awesome and a VERY different beast from plain Windows 98. It was an entirely new release and it should really be on the list.
Not true. Please see http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3653006
With all due respect, I'm not sure there's a correlation between being familiar with <insert_your_startup_here> and being the kind of person said startup is looking for. It's your prerogative, of course, but that sort of filtering doesn't seem very optimal to me. Shouldn't you want to inform people of the awesome and important work you're doing?
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