skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have worked fulltime for both Amazon and Palantir and interned at Amazon during college. Amazon is a good place to learn new things, but you don't get to choose what team you are on or what projects you work on, and it is hard to make an impact there or really innovate. It is a large company, and you definitely feel that.

At Palantir there is a big opportunity to innovate and write something impactful right away. Productivity is much higher and there is much less internal friction in the company so you can be much more agile. Your peers at Palantir are going to be rockstars, so you never have to feel like you are picking up slack, and you will always have more to learn from them.

One anecdote of how fast you can innovate is my intern last summer. He singlehandedly wrote a tool that was deployed to production in one summer and worked with one of our designers to make it one of the most polished features we have. I can't go into detail about the project here, but if you contact whoever extended you your Palantir offer, they will be able to put you in touch with former interns.
If they were going to release all the data they should have said so.

They didn't release anything new - all the data was already accessible from their website, and users were aware of that. They just made a zip out of it.
What? What kind of car takes $35 worth of fuel to drive that round trip? I drive a Chevy Aveo, costs $40 to fill up the tank, and I could probably make 3-4 round trips on a full tank.
Same here. There are two theaters within 5 miles but it found nothing.
This Weirdly Hot Weather Even Has the Weather Peeps Freaked [Weather]
While you are correct, it looks to me like tedunangst thought the numbers should have a bit length of 65,537 bits. That frakken huge. And not at all what this article says.

He said "2^16+1 bits would be a very big number." That's 65,537 bits.
Yeah some very big forums already have this. But it's not very well executed.
Example: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2429403

On Classfy right now you can add your forum username and the url to your profile. There is no way to authenticate the user but if many members from a forum join and list with classfy. We will arrange something with the owner of the forum to authenticate the users.

I have added a reddit authentication system too.
This is an absurd argument. Evaporative cooling is green and efficient, but problematic during droughts. Your argument is like saying wind turbines are pointless because sometimes the wind doesn't blow.

If Google cools with fossil fuels during only droughts, that is still much better than using fossil fuels all the time.
Summary of release notes:

* Many effects significantly improved, especially Equalization, Noise Removal and Normalize. Vocal Remover now included plus GVerb on Windows and Mac. VAMP analysis plug-ins now supported.

* Improved label tracks with Sync-Lock Tracks feature in the Tracks Menu. Multiple clips per track. Tracks and selections can be fully manipulated using the keyboard. Many more keyboard shortcuts.

* New Device Toolbar to manage inputs and outputs. Timer Record feature. New Mixer Board view with per-track VU meters.

* Automatic Crash Recovery in the event of abnormal program termination.

* Fast "On-Demand" import of WAV/AIFF files if read directly from source. FLAC now fully supported. Added support for optional FFmpeg library for import/export of AC3/M4A/WMA and import of audio from video files.

This hardly seems to justify a leap from 1.3. That and the fact that selection and playback still work in the most counter-intuitive way imaginable.
> Maybe they don't do much for you.

I don't think you quite get my angle; it's a bit subtler than "this stuff isn't important". I think it's extremely important. Far more important than pretty much everything considered 'on topic' on this site: people live or die due to the health care system in their countries, for instance. Therefore, if we start posting this stuff, it could easily crowd out the 'hacker news' content. Problem #2 is that most of these things are either something where 1) pretty much everyone agrees (like this article), or 2) it because episode 3391913947165 of "libertopians vs lefties" on the internet, trotting out the same tired stuff and not resolving anything.
George Clooney and how the Media is Broken
"Respect your users" is not a question.
ORA was absolute go-to in the early to mid 1990s.

By the dot-com era, quality had slipped notably. There was so much new tech coming out, and so much demand for it, that random titles would come out, several of which were quite slipshod: poorly written, conterfactual, bad examples, etc.

The Beowulf clusters book was a particular low point.

I recall flipping through another via my standard algorithm: table of contents, introductory chapter, skim a few pages elsewhere, index, and I still had absolutely no idea what the technology in question.

The tagline "the last book on X you'll ever need" did stand out, though, and I can vouch for its truthfulness.

There still are good O'Reilly books out there, but they've long since been an automatic buy (and in fact little on paper, real or virtual, is any more).
That doesn't cut it for me. Media organizations ought to be doing their own reporting, and where they don't they need to be going with reputable organizations with standards and procedures in place to keep this kind of thing from happening.
>(I'm not sure if they are upsteam or down from Atlanta).

The two reservoirs which provide water for Atlanta are located far north of Douglas County (I'm a resident).

I do find it odd that they are using evaporation cooling, since humidity is so high here.
Incredible design of a painting
This painting of a girl really amazed me. I am sure you will like it!!!
Erotic Stories A HOLIDAY WITH SURPRISE ..
UNIX Power Tools as well.

One of the best 'Nix cookbooks ever written.
That seems backwards. At a big company like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, engineers code all day and industry-leading problems. At a small company, there's a lot of setting up servers and customizing UI and evaluating 3rd-party software packages.
2^16 is significantly larger than 1024.
Yes, but it's, what, a six hour drive? Not great, I grant you, but you could work for a few days in LA, then drive to SV, stay for a few days, meet the people you need to meet, then drive back to LA. Once things start happening you can make a permanent move.

I know it sounds like a waste of time, but you're going to lose a hell of a lot of time dealing with the inconvenience of living in a car.
NYC: View From The Front Of The iPad3 Line
‘Mass Effect’ Solves The Fermi Paradox?
thanks for taking the time to have a listen, I agree with you on getting them produced a bit better also!
I've hit the "post a comment --> redirect to another user's comments" flow very occasionally, although I've never noted a particular context (e.g. a long thread).
Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes
No structure? It was www.oink.com/{nick}, how is that not a structure? That's exactly the same structure as the zip.
But startups like Workday and Jobvite are mopping up customers from Peoplesoft/SAP....
> This hardly seems to justify a leap from 1.3.

Audacity uses even/odd version numbering for stable/unstable release branches, like the Linux kernel once did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Odd-number...

So when Audacity 1.0 was released, new feature development moved to the 1.1 branch, while the 1.0 branch received only bug fixes. When the 1.1 branch was considered "finished" it became the new stable version 1.2.0, and the 1.0 branch was abandoned. Then new feature development moved to the 1.3 branch, which has now been released as the new stable version Audacity 2.0.

If I remember right, many of the major changes between the 1.1/1.2 series and the 1.3/2.0 series were under the hood, such as support for new versions of Portaudio and wxWidgets (which added compatibility for newer hardware and operating systems), improvements to the file format, and enhancements to the importers.
The yo-yo diet bet experiment: gain with carbs, lose with fat
I actually did this.
In 1999, I lived Monday through Friday sleeping on a mattress in the bed of my truck under a camper shell in the parking lot of the startup I worked at. I would drive down to Orange County on Friday nights and come back up early Monday morning. I rented a really cool house in Orange county in a great place near the beach with 3 buddies... and I didn't want to give that up... But I wanted to work in the Valley... After about 6 months, I was fed up and I got an apartment and moved to the Valley full time.
Actually, I'm saying it is not the bit length. But that seems to be the interpretation of the original comment.
How long do you work til? Going to the gym for me would entail: getting ready, driving there, working out for an hour, driving home, showering and then getting back to work. Seems nice in theory but it'd be way too disruptive for me.
Ha, love it :)

mohene1, try searching LinkedIn for people who work at LinkedIn. If you want, you can even look up the co-founder, Reid Hoffman. Maybe he answers emails :)
I'm curious, but why are so many people against sharing their location through the browser? You already give up your OS, browser version, and IP address (which can give a rough location) just by visiting the website. I understand if someone personally has something against sharing their precise physical location, but I don't understand why it's an issue for so many people.
I think you're missing the point. I will be staying in Palo Alto full-time. I won't be commuting to LA very often.
I have a feeling of deja vu, I think I've seen this link here on HN before.
I have a galaxy nexus (verizon version) and yes, they can be disabled in the same manner as any other app on the device (hold pressing and dragging it to the top of the screen under app info and clicking disable afterwards).

If that does not go far enough, you can flash the stock firmware from Google http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
Um, nice article?

Title: FUCK THE CLOUD

Headline: FUCK THE CLOUD

Conclusion: Hell yeah, use the Cloud, blow whatever you want into the Cloud. The Internet’s a big copy machine, as they say. Blow copies into the Cloud.

Nice backpedal.

There's one line of excellent advise in that rant: "Don’t blow anything into the Cloud that you don’t have a personal copy of.", but it's buried in a mindless ramble.
Hmm, so assuming it's about on par with the Kindle Fire, we're looking at about $200 to manufacture (http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Amazon-Kindle-Fi...). Throw in an additional $50 for marketing/distribution/shipping/design/overhead, and Google is looking at losing $100 per unit if they price this thing at $150. Amazing the lengths some people will go to to make a few dollars a month from ads.
Exactly. From the OP: If you have 1 million free users, that is 1 million people that you can serve ads to.

If you aren't paying for it, YOU are the product.
Apple’s New iPad Costs at Least $316 to Build
Picnik functionality is actually being folded into Picasa Web, er, "Google+ Photos", though.
There was some speculation at the time about who it might be, but the explanation was simply that Jessica hadn't quit her job yet.

Incidentally, "The Fourth Man" was not an attempt to conceal her gender; it was a reference to the Guy Burgess spy ring.
Here's the HTML without the Wayback Machine addition in case anyone's interested:

https://gist.github.com/2053395
Holy sh*t, this is a great article
If he works 16 hours a day, gets enough exercise, and gets enough sleep, he will likely be extremely productive. Having not much place else to go but his working space will encourage that.

Not everyone has the same cookie-cutter brain that you imagine.
I really think that if the manager said this, then there would be major ructions. Can you point to what he said exactly? It would be a scandal if this is what he really said.
For the record, the poster of this is not Kurt. I am Kurt. I have no idea who the poster is and why it was double posted from yesterday.
Why not release it as 1.4?
If Windows 7 "Simplifies" the PC, What Does Windows 8 Do to It?
Check out this guy that lives in an RV and loves it: http://tynan.com/living-in-a-small-rv-introduction

He's got the perfect sized RV that fits into standard sized parking spaces. It must be pretty nice being rent free.
Two people (I assume bf/gf or spouses and not a depression-era immigrant flophouse roommate situation) in a studio apartment is in no way comfortable.
I love it. I go the movies all the time. I wish you had a way for me to put my email address in so I could get an email every Friday to remind me this site exists. Cool idea and implementation. Keep going!
Not much different to today. I guess you can't improve on perfect!
Is it wrong to be selfish and not think about the greater good of the team/project/company?

Primary, or highest ranking, responsibility for this is the company's (and so management's), not yours.

If they are significantly underpaying you, that's a risk that they chose to take on.

If no people will die, planes fall out of the sky, etc., I'd say that, speaking generally, one should be able to leave with a fairly clean conscience, barring any obligations of more personal connections (true, mutual connections -- not e.g. propaganda about "our marvelous environment").

That said, I know nothing about your personal circumstances. So, it remains your call.
I've always seen and used "std lib" for referring to Python Standard Library.
No, I understand that is the point. What I am saying is that I think that the benefits of being in Palo Alto full-time and sleeping in a car are minimal (at best) when compared to working in LA and travelling to Palo Alto as needed, until you get set up and on your way.

I can understand wanting to be in SV for the networking opportunities and so on. But you can code anywhere, including in your home in LA, and the results will be the same.

SV is a fantastic place to create a startup, but it isn't the only place you can ever do it- I'm in NYC and plenty here have no trouble. Presuming that the only reason you haven't been successful is because you haven't got to SV yet is a very dangerous path of thinking.
5 crazy Lego inventions that actually work
Joining Exec
There was enough of a backlash, especially in the literary community (who silently give all memoirs wiggle-room for truthiness), to Oprah's public castigation that James Frey isn't really thought of negatively. More people remember Oprah's childish need for revenge over Frey changing the way a character committed suicide.
Really cool feature!
For a moment I thought George Clooney was going to joing their team!
Chrome extension are probably a major source of untapped security holes. No-one really considers security when writing them and they often take arbitrary input (in the form of webpages they're processing) without validation.

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of them have javascript injection vulnerabilities that allow for privilege escalation.
If it's about intellectual property, it's possible. Otherwise, what possible synergies could exist between RIM and Samsung?
I kind of agree, but, lets see, my current rental in the Bay Area is about $60 per day if you calculate it based on the monthly rent. I just checked and a room at a motel 6 can be had for $55.99 a night this weekend in Sunnyvale, CA (Palo Alto doesn't have any Motel 6's apparently), so if say, every 3rd night, you stayed at a Motel 6, you would be saving based on my rent situation, however I am not sure how cheap one could get a long-term rental (apartment), however, it would only cost about $600 a month to stay at motel 6's every third night and I don't think you can even get a room in an apartment, with roommates for that cost in Silicon Valley
There is no news here. OP's Post/Comment ratio is really bad.
Ah thanks, that was the mystery I was wondering about.
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sorting:
"closest"
"rating"

filtering:
"start times"
"location" (don't assume geo-log, let me enter zip)

neat idea, needs a lot of polish.
Thank you for listening, Microsoft
EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
No, but a lot of people seem to work on the basis that "more is more". While it's possible that this guy is uber-productive in 16 hour blocks, it's unlikely. It's a recipe to burn out.
Kudos to Ira Glass & TAL for being honest
I think the Nexus is about letting developers start working with next year's version of Android, not about making money.
I like OpenBSD. But, Python is not OpenBSD, it has a different set of core values. Pragmatism being high up that list. It is written by and for pragmatic programmers. Not purists, not idealists.

It is stupid to violate core values.
That's why they're transitioning to "manifest_version 2" (CSP): http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/more-secure-extensions-by-d...
Nexus devices get updates sooner and longer than other devices. I'll never buy a non-Nexus Android device until other manufacturers build up a better track record in that regard.
I think the issue is pretty subtle, since it works when compiled with the new XCode and the Retina simulator comes with the new XCode. So if he downloaded XCode and ran his existing code base on it, it would look like it works fine.
"there is a high probability that global warming is having an influence upon its extremity."

I stopped reading right here.
Thanks! I would've missed the little easter egg in there if not for you:

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startup molecule into the summer-job receptor to see if the
resulting organism is viable.-->
I usually wake up at 8 and work until around 12. I'll go to the gym and be ready for work by about 2. Most of the time I'll work until my girlfriend comes back from work which is around 10pm. I try to do a minimum of 8 hours a day with a few breaks in the day. Some days I'll do 3-4 hours but because I tend to do 6 days a week (and quite frequently 7) it is not a big deal.

I'm currently living in Toronto, Canada (I'm from Australia). I don't really know anybody here so I have nothing better to do than work. I take time off for the gym, food and when my girlfriend has time off work. This way she stays happy and I get to work as much as I want.
Since there's no "right" answer for version numbers, it's hard to answer questions like this. If the developers feel that 2.0 is a good number for their new release, then who are we to argue with them? (And why should we care in the first place about what number appears in an about box somewhere..?)

It's been eight years since Audacity 1.2 was released (and at least six years since 1.3 development began), and the code has seen pretty major changes in that time even though they happened gradually and not all are obvious from looking at the UI. I think it's fair to call 2.0 a major upgrade from 1.0 and 1.2.

Or to look at it another way: If you haven't changed the major version number after ten years of development, then you'll probably never change it. And if you're never going to change that number, it's redundant and you might as well drop it. (This is roughly what the Linux kernel did when it switched from 2.6.x.y to 3.x.y after fifteen years of 2.x releases.)
Never getting yelled at or getting phones thrown at you would exclude every financial firm I've worked at (programming at Morgan Stanley being the sole exception).
One last comment... you need to stop touting around these essays as if they're canon. This isn't the promise land.
I envy you. Not because you're doing what you're doing – but because of your 'invincibility' and 'top of the world' feeling. As long as you aren't burning bridges or on a irreversible course, there's no harm in exploration and trying out new ways to live.

I'm sure you'll have fun in the first week, but from where I stand, I think the better way is to crash at a fixed place so you don't have to spend the energy worrying about showering/survival and actually focus on the reason why you went to SF in the first place.

Don't get hyped up and waste too much energy on the novelty of living out of your car, blogging about it, and let it take over your focus.

Good luck!
You didn't pose one. I did, and you ignored it.
Many comments in this thread are so petty and naysaying, it's shameful.

Surely we can do better. How about suggesting specific places for this guy to park his car at night? That would be my biggest worry. I was going to nominate somewhere around here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Terminal+Boulevard+and+san+ant...

... but it's not (quite) in Palo Alto. It's beautiful there, though, and there might be something equivalent on the Palo Alto side (I haven't been).
Sounds like an immigration check in Texas.
Ehy, "Hacker News" was "Startup News" at the time http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi... . I didn't know, and thought that Russ Cox was joking here https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/h95SSbSJ...
It was through the Flash extension that Chrome was hacked in 5 minutes in a recent Pwn2own contest
Can't you do this in Firefox and other browsers too? I thought that was one of the reasons why your browser can be uniquely identified.
I remember there was a debate when the name changed.
Seriously.. I used to live in Phoenix, recently, and commuted probably 60 miles a day (roundtrip) and spent about that per week. Granted, SF to Palo Alto may be a bit further and gas is more expensive here but no way is it that much more to where its costing that much unless you have some huge gas guzzling truck, which he obviously doesn't, as you can see his car in the pic
Yup: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Also: http://ha.ckers.org/weird/firefox-extentions.html
The myth of the overnight success
Yes, Verizon screwed Google over with Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus, I bet there won't be another Google flagship device on Verizon for a long time. But Google's intention is still that Nexus means the latest unmodified Android drop.
It's funny that you make this comparison. Telephones used to be considered a luxury item, and they carried a luxury tax in the US until about a decade ago (to pay for the Spanish-American war, initially).
The search space of the object name is a sha1 and is 40 characters long and not 32 bits so it's quite a bit larger than the op was talking about(it's actually 160bits).

see: http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html
But the whole financial sell of Facebook is that they're purporting to work towards something better than targeted advertising. Due to increase in volume of communication between people, targeted advertising is going to be eclipsed by social recommendations. But Pinterest could never have been Facebook/Pin, because half of the second N in Metcalfe's law doesn't want to see dresses and shoes.
> 5. Very few bums and vagrants have good stories but the ones that do are worth their weight in gold.

Many have Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome from alcoholism and will lie about absolutely anything. If you are bored and stuck hanging out with vagrants, you can make up a story that involves you and them, and they will jump right in. Like, "remember, what was it 5 years ago... that we took the trip to Alaska to go moose hunting." They will remember and fill in the details. A very strange disorder from a lack of thiamine. Even though the conversation is complete fiction, they enjoy the story time.