skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points, thanks. I intentionally lead with the name because to me, the news was which of the mocking libs around had been chosen for standard lib inclusion. But that limits the audience to those familiar with the field; your version works much better for a general interest audience indeed. I thought STL to be pretty common though.
Many commentators talk about what the "American car" means, that there is no such thing any more, cars are internationally designed and produced, etc. All correct, I suppose. But notice that the linked article is using the combination of words "American car" as a shortcut for the "American branded car", which they also mention several times.

And indeed I think a commentator has remarked that the focus is on the consumer behavior, not the car industry per se. If the distinction is ignored by the main body of the customers, it can be not too important for the researchers as well.
For an intern, I would guess that $75k is a better salary in New York. You need a car in California.
That's exactly how you should do it.

05 GTI turbo new? ~$18,000

05 GTI turbo when I bought it with 97k miles, all dealer maintained? $9k

Environmental reasons aside, buying used vehicles in good shape is an excellent way to judge reliability. The 5 year break in period not only provides a prospective used car buyer with a good idea of reliability, but it also allows you a great gap of time for TSB's and recalls to pop up, so you know exactly what you're getting.
That's not clear. Folks downthread are talking about corruption that often occurs as a result of sharing in Dropbox.
Because lots of people are idiots, especially so when it comes to buying a car. People want to show off.

I'm glad we have them, so I can buy a barely used car at a 30-50% discount.
Augmented Reality in the Browser, Springbase, jQRange
>The danger is that if you then build a culture where everyone gets recruited out of school, everyone is swimming in the same pool with equally narrow skill sets and no one develops the required breadth. So you get "architects" who know their field really well but can barely write working code on a modern system.

In my experience, that kind of narrow hyperfocus is exactly what most companies actually want -- including startups. Some may think they want breadth, but they actually just want breadth within the narrow specialty they address.
Here's a reason: it's the most comfortable piece of clothing I own.
Unsurprising. Linden Lab's support system is notoriously awful (and political).
Witness the Awesome iPad Game That Lets You Intimate with the Universe
still seems I'm getting attacked by a single IP...
I suppose, though I'd rather it be resizable and let me take full advantage of a monitor. I've been experimenting with this sort of live code preview with http://padhacker.net/ (target platform primarily tablets) and resizing has worked out pretty well. (When it does work. Shrinking the iframe gets sticky.)
So maybe infants should be more scared of plastic bags than firearms. I'm pretty sure that the commenter in question is not an infant, and thus has little to fear from plastic bags. (Does this really need to be stated?)
You're probably right, but it's still wrong to do that without asking permission first.
Unrelated, but related: I do not like classic music at all, but I love J.S. Bach, whom I accidentally found by listening to Carl Bach. Or maybe I should say I love Concerto 3 keyboard played by Glenn Gould. I have no idea why, but I can listen to this over and over and over again while still hating most classic music. I dug into it, and found I kinda enjoy most work from the Baroque era although I couldn't really tell what is and what isn't unless I look up the author.
I disagree. I worked for Chrysler near Detroit during the mid-90s. The Chrysler employee discount wasn't much better than if you did a good job bargaining at the car dealer.

In the Detroit area, there was tremendous pressure to buy American. I observed this both from friends and coworkers. There was definitely at attitude that you should support the local economy, especially if you're employed by one of the Big Three. If company X is employed you, then you need to buy company X's product. It's almost as if you owed it to your employer, that your paycheck somehow has strings attached, that the proceeds should never be used to purchase a foreign car.

Chrysler took it a step further and forced non-Chrysler cars to park in the "competitive vehicle parking area" of the employee parking lot - which happens to be the farthest few rows.
Cassandra and Solid State Drives
Yes, please. Plus - I work in DC, but generally want to see moves in Virginia, so tying the search to my location is too restricting.
Websocket + nodejs: Explained simply
"a responsibility to route society's resources to efficient producers."

I have no idea what that means.

Assuming it is true, would you agree that your "perceived responsibility" in this case has more to do with your emotional needs than it does to your business needs.

your belief is that there are finite resources within the context of wealth, and the transfer of money is a zero sum game, where someone wins and someones else loses.

Your responsibility is to get the most value out of your resources, but you agree that your responsibility is to spend that money, and that money's function is to move around and create wealth.

Your "responsibility" to route "society's" resources to efficient producers, has nothing to do with actually accomplishing that, but rather how you value things and how you feel.

Besides, my point is... you are not getting "ripped off" if you perceive the value to be greater than what you pay. That money will move around, creating wealth along the way, and withholding that money for what you consider a more efficient usage of it is certainly your right, but far from making any difference in how efficiently society produces...
The whole world wants an iPad in its hand.
Personal Development: When the Demons Come
I know, don't feed the troll and all, but for the benefit of interested readers, here are two recent HN threads which largely discussed the current status of the migration:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3696451

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3666361

TL;DR: The tone of such conversations has changed a lot since last year, IMHO. Python 3 is seeing real use now, those who made the switch seem to often be happy they did, and many who haven't yet can at least see the light at the end of the tunnel now. Generally there's a lot more optimism to be found.
I hope you enjoyed your 5-min of fame Mike Daisey because your reputation is now completely and irrevocably ruined.
Me too. I definitely don't use Safari enough to justify the cost. But the instant access and the rational useful model make so much sense that I really don't mind.
> But it also dismisses the value of ideas too glibly. Bill Gates may have

Agreed.

> It doesn't seem odd to anyone that we're reading a post describing the author's epiphany that epiphanies are useless?

Not overly so. Meta can cause strange cases of logic at times (e.g. there are always exceptions).
For you people who talk about bouncing around working abroad, what do you do? Are you running your own company or freelancing? Or just moving to another country and then looking for work?

I'd love to work abroad but I don't really see how to go about it.
Perhaps there is a market here: Inexpensive boarding houses for young people trying to get a start in high-cost-of-living job centers. If there were a place for young folks to live where you could get a room w/space for a bed and a desk, shared bathroom/showers, and 2 meals/day for, say $300-500/mo in Boston, I bet they would fill up. Allow people to focus on finding work, give them a leg up of sorts.

In my imaginary boarding house, you wouldn't get to "have it your way," you'd have to sacrifice some individual liberty out of deference to neighbors. To throw some random examples out there: your lease would not renew past 2 years (not meant to be permanent), maybe there's some work-trade to keep costs down, no music after e.g. 10, no guests after e.g. 11, perhaps locked front door from 0000-0530. The point of that sort of thing is a) to keep stuff under control so it doesn't become a party flop-house (e.g. "this is not your college dorm") b) keep people focused on their mission while there (to find a job and improve their situation) and c) to give people a strong incentive to move out.

I'm thinking of the boarding houses of ye olden days: it was cheap, frequently temporary, you had the amenities of a home (sleep, bathe, perhaps food), but it wasn't "your house" and you weren't entitled to treat it as such.

I think this'd be a great way for recent graduates to move to a big town like Boston or SF to look for work with much less stress & economic demands (in exchange for less "personal freedom"). My hat goes off to cletus's NY friend who "lives in a garage for $300/mo" but this isn't really scalable and most people can't find such a situation.

Anyway this is just a brainstorm about how I wish there were cheaper living options for new arrivals in BOS.
Huh? There are literally millions of people in NYC getting by just fine in NYC making $70k or less. You're not going to live a white-bread suburban dream though.

The funny thing is, NYC has a great public transit system in Manhattan (and an OK system in the boroughs) and lots of access to free or cheap cultural activities. I grew up in Queens and went to the beach, dozens of museums, concerts, etc with my mom.

The vast majority of people, in all sorts of places, and at all sorts of income levels lack the ability to pay for a $15,000 dental procedure.
Thanks for the feedback, I have now added a bit more information to the background section as well as a link to a full writeup of how it is done.
Was the under 35 set of 1980 or 1970 significantly different? I see people who are well over 35 who don't seem to notice when the audience isn't buying what they're saying.
When users out-think you
I didn't downvote, but I do think it's a bit pedantic.

From my dogeared, beaten copy of K&R: "By definition, the value of a variable or expression of type array is the address of element zero of the array."

I don't think what the author wrote expresses that array === pointer, they simply made a statement about the underlying representation.
"I would love to see the tech culture in Ireland experience a revival"

Have you visited Ireland recently? Next time you're in Dublin, give me a shout, I'll be happy to show you what's been happening since you left.
Show HN: Twitter meets bookmarks
I am pivoting
And further furthermore, corporate underwriters do not get to pick the stories covered.
Marketplace is.
Sorry, it only airs on NPR around here and their site says "This American Life is produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International."
On Mac OS X + Chrome 19.0.1068.1 dev, I'm getting

"Uncaught Error: QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22"

on showtimes.js:677

localStorage.setItem('zipcode', String(view.position.zipcode));
I don't think it's too outlandish to expect people who work on building a product to buy the brand of product they help manufacture.

Imagine Google engineers NOT using GMail --or, rather, avoiding GMail. Exceptions for studying the competition and all.

Imagine the pressure form colleagues. "Yeah, I work at Google, of course, but I prefer to use Hotmail. I don't even have a GMail account".

It's their version of dog-fooding it. Albeit, one with greater bottom line involved.
According to Dan Sullivan's periodic table, they do measure that. And it has a weight of "2" according to his model. See the "Ce" tag:

http://searchengineland.com/seotable
An excellent discussion of the pros and cons, with useful comments from 'tptacek, is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=359155.

Another one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2925222; see especially the comments by 'grellas and 'tptacek, as well as the discussion between the latter and 'idlewords.
Great article!! Totally enjoyed the blog.
Banks are broken today. They're more focused on reordering transactions to maximize fees than they are at "connecting customers that have capital deficits to customers with capital surpluses" (thanks wikipedia).

There are dozens of opportunities replacing the way that banking, credit cards, and insurance operate. Jeremy Liew's piece in Pando Daily is a good place to start:

http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/27/big-data-machine-learning-s...
Actually, some of the biggest of the big guns at Fog Creek did come straight from school. More than one product was built exclusively by people who never worked anywhere else. The whole point of the internship recruiting process is to correct for the high grades only bias.
Google Summer of Code 2012 Mentors Announced
I did a little googling, looks interesting but I couldn't find Hofstadter's actual work on this...where do I need to look?
NASA: Evolution of the Moon
I'd expect places with Real Winter to have different taste in cars than California, wouldn't you?
OK, I wanted to appreciate and support the tailor because I like the idea that people make clothes that are about craftsmanship and skill not just utility.

Or my other clothes were in the wash. Happy now?

Is that not a clear enough example of why your argument isn't just about suits when I can just reuse your answer an it works?
This describes his work well. Just go back and read the book that made him semi-famous: 21 Dog Years, Doing Time at Amazon.com

I can't figure out how he's been able to keep a career going. Maybe this will--mercifully--be the end of it all.
The general insurance
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This is a WIP product. As you can see, I am a lazy developer and I didn't customize the bootstrap styles at all. I want to get some feedbacks here.
I hope it's useful to others (people like to use 'favorite' to bookmark tweets: http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/I-have-noticed-that-more-peop...).
We love this setting. It gives us a really nice performance boost on big heaps. Obviously, it can only be enabled on heap sizes below 32GB. We have found that with this setting enabled on a 32GB heap, we need to go up to 48GB+ in order to achieve the same performance.
I think it's more that it's technically kind of interesting, and keeping them in the press (which is cheap) lets them recruit more easily (across all infrastructure, not just datacenter ops), and more importantly, retain staff.

"Green Google" also is a halo for the company overall, and might be heading off negative press about how Google alone uses more electrical power than all the households in (several lightly populated states, chosen to mislead).
Something to do with gamma.firebase.com and firebase.js isn't loading. I kept it going for two minutes and it kept buttering the popcorn. Maybe HN shot over your daily API quota?
Diagnosing weird problems - a Stack Overflow case study
It is not clear whether it reduces the heap size, or the overall footprint of the java process.

By the way, if anyone knows of a method to reduce the RSS size of the java process, I'd be more than grateful to hear about it.
They do say they check if the same user by cookie or logged in is back on Google within a short amount of time. This would mean the site was a poor fit for the query. It is an indicator of the quality of the result for this query and for this user. They never mentioned using Google Analytics, maybe they do too.
> "it rains" ... Not that much

It depends if you're measuring quantity of "it rains" in mm of rainfall per year, or percentage of wet time per year.

Some places are very wet by the first metric, but mostly dry by the second. I haven't spent a lot of time in Ireland, but it seemed to be the other way around.
NPR and your local public radio station are two different things. Everyone acts like they aren't (I never say "I'm putting on WBEZ"; I say "I'm putting on NPR"), but in reality, your local public radio station is a separate entity that buys content from NPR and PRI.

This is usually a distinction without a difference, but when it comes to evaluating the standards and practices of a particular show, it helps to know who actually has oversight.
"Sweet Home Alabama" - Musical Tesla Coils
Amazon allows you to run code on their servers with strict usage-based billing. Usage-based bill for a git server is essentially zero. Also works for irc bouncers and other such services with low computational cost that you want to run somewhere on the cloud.
Kind of unrelated, but I got introduced to fab.com (and now love it) due to a friend posting a link on fb (to the dirty mermaid sheets). I was upset that I couldn't even see the product without signing up; I certainly wouldn't casually install the iPad app based on casual engagement like that.

I wonder what the correct tradeoff is for you between making it easy for new users to see products, vs. getting signups. You certainly wouldn't want to require users to install the iPad app before seeing products, since that's a huge amount of friction, but even signing up for an account is a fair bit.
Subarus tend not to make it to the used-car market because they stay wonderful forever. ;-)
I know because I've seen it. My wife and I used to live in China, and we did traveling in both the high and the low places.

I can't speak to the particulars in Daisey's story (since I don't know which ones were made up), but the overall picture he painted sounded familiar. It's unquestionable that there are horrible working conditions in Chinese factories.

That's the tragedy here. There's millions of awful wonderful horrible stories you can tell about Chinese factories, and Mike Daisey is obscuring them by making up his own.
UltraViolet: DRM by any other name still stinks
I think this is the one time I've ever gotten mail from it that I wanted, if that saves you some time.
You only have to delete your cookies once, and the main benefit is not that you can read stuff on G+, but that Google isn't tracking everything you read. As closely.
The truth lies somewhere between a) and b).

I don't really know C well, as I'm mainly programming in PHP. Sure, I can read and write it, but I definitely don't know the details of the language (and yes, I'd consider that a detail as the only difference I know of is the behavior of sizeof).
Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity
If you look at x-gamers when they fall, they are trained to land on their side - I would think that you would want to do the same here for just that reason. Probably with your arms on either side of your head. You still don't have the spinal compression, but you don't risk your head getting slammed.
Recruitment methods are the key to attracting good talent. My experience is that building a quality network and engaging in the local developer community is by far a more productive way to recruit than by using an agency or more traditional means.

At the same time, I think more companies also need to embrace remote workers. A lot of the best tech startups that I'm familiar with, both in Ireland and abroad, have a healthy mix of local and remote talent.
Node.js based Sandbox game, WIP
Since leaving the current YC batch due to inter-personal issues, I've been working on a (so far) terraforming game in node.js. This is just a super early version, when it's done it will have actual game elements (like AI and collision detection). Check it out and let me know what you think!

Long-term goals for this project are to turn it into a gaming platform where anybody can make their own world and host it, complete with optional micro-transactions and optional subscription fees.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/Ea9O7
Demo: http://zyu.me/
It's a movement? That seems a little over the top.
48GB??? How long are your old gen GC pauses?
You should hear the stuff soundsystem heads talk about. To be honest it's very similar to the things you just listed, power distro and heat dissipation, plus lots of stuff about managing phase, gain structure, the relevance of SPL metering, scoops versus horns, price/performance ratios for different types of plywood, and so on.

To be fair, I expect it helps that after all that stuff is dealt with, the equipment turns all those watts and volts into waves of pounding bass and hordes of dancing people, as opposed to just pushing bits around.

BTW for anyone who does want to debate pro audio, head over to http://forum.speakerplans.com/
Your story would be a lot more valuable than Daisey's, which is worthless.
This piece contains the immortal line "Never compare your inside with somebody else’s outside." I've quoted that to my kids (and myself) many times.

These are hard topics to write about, because inspiring talk quickly slides into feel-goodness which is dangerously close to the black hole of complacency: one false move and you get sucked in. What Hugh writes doesn't do that (edit: mostly), perhaps because he's so direct about the loneliness and pain of creative work. "Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain."

There's also something about the contrast between his trivial business-card doodles and the life-and-death questions. The high and the low go together and understand each other. It's the mediocre middle that sucks.
Google Safari Workaround Leads To FTC Probe
I admit that I know what they mean by "American car", but I dispute that their definition is actually meaningful. I lived in a very small Midwest city when we bought our Sienna. Neighbors driving a Mexico-made Chevy Suburban asked why we didn't buy an American car. What makes GM - a publicly traded corporation - substantially more American than Toyota - another publicly traded corporation? Both have American and non-American factories. Both have American and non-American employees. Both sell to American and non-American dealers. Other than marketing image, what's the fundamental difference?
So exciting when a giant global corporation has a PR coup against its naysayers.
MemCachier in-memory cache now in Heroku Beta offering 10MB for FREE
Heap size should be roughly equivalent to the overall footprint unless you're allocating a lot of native memory or mmapped files from the java process. If you are, well, that's your answer.
No, it is not uncalled for. Yugoslavia was the greatest thing that ever happened to the reputation of the Hapsburg dynasty.

When my father tried to escape from the East Bloc, he was arrested by Communist troops in Slovenia. The commander in charge of the local troop deployment interrogated him and decided that he wasn't a threat to the state. He put my father back on the road and told him to walk.

My father said to him: "I know how this works. You'll let me walk for a few steps and then you'll shoot me."

The commander said "No, I'm not going to shoot you. Go."

Sometimes, my father would tear up talking about it. That sort of thing did happen.
Under the microscope: a closer look at the new iPad
Why Users Don't (And Shouldn't) Trust Startups
In a similar manner - if you aren't driving a "north american" car you're not even allowed to park in any of the close lots at the local GM plant. you basically park further away then everybody else as your punishment. When mixed with the large price discount for buying from GM it is basically a fool's game to buy anything other than a GM here. If you're an employee/partner/supplier/ or know an employee/partner/supplier.

For the rest of us who don't get discounts.... the world is our overpriced oyster.
iPad review (2012)
Collection of tutorials on Node.js
A collection of tutorial lists on Node.js for Node.js fans.
Steve Jobs did not trash his app. OP is either name-dropping or link-baiting.
The author wouldn't get paid for a returned copy either. And publishers have very wide discretion over things like giving out freebie copies — in pretty much every standard publishing contract they control what happens to the books, not the author. An author is usually given a small amount of copies of the book (in O'Reilly's case 10) — beyond that what happens to all the rest is entirely in the publisher's hands.