skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Case in point: the housing bubble. I frequently read from a blog called thehousingbubbleblog from 2004 to 2008 and learned about the looming crisis from all kinds of insiders - mortgage folks, appraisers, etc. On the other hand, my local newspaper, with an enormous Sunday Real Estate section, rarely reported on it and when they did it always ended with a spokesman from the Realtors association who would put their spin on it.
Joel Spolsky is as fallible as the rest of us. It’s very dangerous to mistakenly consider a skill an aptitude.
A friend's been posting his Lytro photos, and we realized that it lets you focus unto reflections, thus sharpening them and letting you do things like reading an out of sight monitor off the reflection on a table that would usually be too blurry. So you don't even need a telescope anymore.
I was wondering about this as well. I did think that the advertisement was sexist and made the hackathon seem exclusive to men. I don't know whether this incident was just an isolated bonehead move or it reveals incorrigible bad character in the people involved. I can see it either way depending on how I stare at it, but I don't believe I have enough data to make a firm conclusion. I don't have a pressing need to do so, so I will probably just leave the question unresolved in my mind. But for the people that have made firm conclusions, it seems like the apologies make no difference.

I would ask people that are unsatisfied by Sqoot's apologies: Could they issue any apology that would satisfy you?

We are supposedly talking about how to apologize and whether they can/should offer a better apology. But if nothing can change one's mind then we are really talking about whether the offense is forgivable or not, irrespective of the content of the apology.
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I agree with Paul in some respects. But I did feel that his analogy was a bit strange, although kind of creative.
They're rarely as strong as MRI magnets. My sister, who works as MRI technician, have seen MRI pulling with a blazing speed whole wheelchairs or heavy steel oxygen canisters from many meters away.
HTTP Live Streaming already provides a perfectly serviceable way to do exactly this: provide multiple streams at different bitrates and let the media library choose which is best for the network and output resolution.

HLS doesn't solve this problem. HLS adjust bitrates, the problem here is resolution switching (which sometimes is involved in bitrate switching). On an iPhone the largest HD resolution you can fit on the screen is 960x540. On an iPad or OTT device (Roku, AppleTV) its 1920x1080.

Slight niggle, this shouldn't be addressed at the codec level but at the container/wrapper level.
Great idea, but note that you shouldn't actually use it, and if you do- not much. Putting dyed paper on your hind parts like that is not good for you over the long-term. For women, it may cause cystitis infections. The FDA and DHHS said it can cause cervical cancer and outlawed it in 1987: http://www.ehow.com/list_6863028_health-concerns-colored-toi...
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Agree. In the absence of officially sanctioned cash, something like Bitcoin would likely become a viable alternative for System D transactions. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735407 elsewhere in this thread.
I've considered this very idea.

I've thought of a few legit business ideas that I cannot afford the legal costs of startup. I could, instead, do it without help and rely on system d with multiple payment options. It would most certainly include bitcoin as a payment option.

One of the ideas is effectively is what paypal does with money, but with people. They break state money transmitter laws, yet still stay in business. Mine would break labor laws, only because they are meant for the individual to work for X bigCo.
You can feel transformers from a (comparatively) massive distance away: I can feel a 230-to-12V transformer from 5 to 10cm, which is generally bigger than the transformer is. So you'd know to steer clear. I mean, IAmDann said here, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g7lom/iama_24_year_old... that he can feel subway power transformers while walking down the street.

Demagnetizers... isn't the whole point to enclose the field? I'd also expect a warning sign or two, or for you to pay attention and know it's there. This is one of those "make your decision, and then live with it" things, and part of "living with it" is being aware of these things (and that acquaintances with more humour than sense might try to hand you magnets you can lift tables with).

Large electric motors... Dunno, have no experience of them yet.
I'd like to contact you regarding how you went about getting your implant. My email is in my profile.
Ask HN: Would You Pay $7/mo for Server Monitoring?
I'm currently in process of examining a potential business of monitoring servers/systems. You'd have a dashboard where you could hook in a connection to all your servers to see # of http connections, memory consumption, process performance. Would this be something you'd be interested in?
I think a better explanation would be that they used the same video decoding for all devices and tried to implement a UI for that rather than re-encoding their entire library.
If you really have the time to read everything on HN, then maybe have enough time to read a news source that requires more concentration:

http://arxiv.org/
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Yes, but its already been done by both Server Density and New Relic.
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There's no reason you couldn't do it right now with the existing infrastructure on HN. It wouldn't be as fancy (e.g. the AMA subject's comments highlighted) but it would be just as functional, down to the ordering of the questions in the comments.
cool jeff ! I wanna see it in real (today?). a bluetooth version is the logic way to run.
I wanna use it for games wherever I want, by any other computer and play in real time with many other guys based in different locations. what about real time cloud ?
using iPhone as a mouse, a remote, it's a very good idea.
I don't quite recall what they told the rest of us, but another 20% of the remaining employees submitted their resignation within a few weeks. Those who stuck it out were given the option to receive payment as stock and take a pay cut.

I think they may have considered your colicky-baby-nursery idea as a way to make up for office space costs, but they eventually settled on renting 33% of the floorspace to another company.
Design nit: make your logo in the upper left link to the home page.
No problems here but I'm on a beefy machine: FF11, 64 bit Win7, quad core i5, 8GB ram, SSD drive - frankly I'd cry if a website was able to slow/crash that.
For a few things in life, I confess to liking the old-fashioned ways. For time zones, I like this iOS app:

http://www.emeraldsequoia.com/h/Terra/Terra.html
Really fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
2. Under heavy sedation, a single kick isn't enough - it has to be a series of synchronous kicks from the current level and the level(s) above. This is why the rest of the team doesn't wake up either when the van hits the barrier (the first kick), not just Arthur.
Why technology should always be simple
"Sure I did use some SEO services over the years a few times for testing purposes" Hmmm...
The line between 'competitor' and 'clone' is right here: the site layout and elements are startlingly similar to Etsy.
This is neat. It reminds me a bit of part of my Conky setup. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/zi1Ub. It's not as accurate, but it gives me an idea of what time of day it is everywhere.

I have a cron script that runs every hour that pulls in sat images of cloud cover, the earth, and then the daylight lines and composites them together with imagemagick. I got the script from a lifehacker article where they used it for wallpaper.
Maybe. It might just be that some people tune out when the rules are explained. Sci-fi geeks won't (because we know they are important). If you expected Inception to be an action flick, you might tune out during the techo-babble (since it's often just an excuse for blowing stuff up) and not be able to unravel it.
It would be nice if you guys has a text chat box underneath the video conference.
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Check out #5 for another illustrated version of the plot, and one that predates the movie:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invent...
both of mine (parse.com and scribd.com) are also zerocater customers :-)
Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC for Node.js
exactly my thought when I saw this on the front page :)
Visual tool to create impression.js presentations
Not really, because no-one would argue that a creative work has more value just because it took longer/more work to produce. If that were true, people would value the hell out of Chinese Democracy.
Actually, I think you may have misinterpreted me. It's not simply a matter of history or culture. There will be a greater market for looking at attractive females than for attractive males in the greater human culture until we have the ability and the will to re-engineer our biology. I would be very surprised if any level of condemning men and/or other social manipulation changes this in our lifetimes.

Sex sells. While there are good reasons for restrictions in many situations, the successful strategy will be to walk up to the line of what's acceptable, whether that is booth babes or simply having attractive people (particularly women) in PR and advertising materials. This isn't an ideal situation, but unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world.

I can respect people who wish we were built to value competence or altruism like this instead of sex. It's very hard to make progress without addressing reality, though. One of the more unfortunate things about political fads is that they make it difficult for people to even discuss issues. It's far easier to write-off, downmod or brand dissenting opinions as immoral, heretical, communist, sexist, divisive, etc... than it is to really probe them.
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So, as a member of the core team who these days spends most of my time working on recruiting, I can attest that the role you describe is very much not what we're hiring for. A recruiting engineer isn't necessarily someone who works only in the narrow recruiting box (our engineers get to work on the pieces of Stripe they prefer, but most of us have a primary focus). Instead, it's someone who is excited about solving recruiting, making it as efficient and effective as possible, and wants to spend a lot of their time doing so.

There are a lot of problems in hiring that people have traditionally regarded as unsolveable, and try to solve by throwing more people at them. It's not just a matter of building a webapp to schedule candidates. It's about defining and tracking metrics around the effectiveness of our recruiting process. It's about building tools and platforms for identifying people we'd like to work with. (There are entire startups devoted to some of these challenges, cf Interviewstreet.)

Anyway, I think that above all, anyone working in recruiting at Stripe needs to be part of the "core team". You're completely correct that someone working in recruiting who is not part of the core team just wouldn't work out well. But it's quite possible to be in this role and also be core.
This is even more confusing than the film :)
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Here's a video showing the tool in action:

http://css.dzone.com/articles/build-impressjs-presentations
I am using Python (as well as Perl, OCaml, etc) on Solaris/Sparc, AIX/POWER7, HP-UX/IA64 on a daily basis. As for C code, If you just want to use redis as an example, I built and installed it on Solaris/Sparc with no incident. This is the case for most C POSIX compliant apps.
Ask HN: What's your favorite exit strategy from a webapp
I'm implementing the exit strategy for a web app so a user can export all his data from the service and move on.

I've seen some apps provide a way to do this via an API, a XML file.. even a dump from the DB.

If you were to export your data from a web app what would you prefer?

note: the app is an enterprise-level CRM solution.
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I guess I rather meant that it's subscribed through a GoDaddy-ish service instead of a marketing company that forgot to cover its tracks... :-/
I don't understand why you think there is some sweet spot for a professional event where a sexist joke can be appropriate.

Problems with your rewrite: Women: Yes, we aim to make a welcoming atmosphere for women who want to participate in our hackathon. (And for those men still afraid of getting out-programmed by a girl, we've hired an all-female event staff to serve you cold beer.)

1. Boys and Girls are children. Men and Women are adults. The target audience for professional events are people.

2. You imply that being out-programmed by a woman will hurt a man's ego. This is outright sexist and perpetuates the idea that men should be better than women. It both degrades women and shames men.

3. It creates a hostile environment for a woman who programs well. By outing herself as capable she will create social strife with her male peers. There is a reason women do worse on math exams in the presence of men. Social pressures is a real thing that you, as a presumably straight white male, get to ignore.

4. Pointing out you hired an all female staff makes explicit you cater to straight men.

5. By prefacing it with "Women:" you are still listing the female servants as a perk. "Great Food" Is a perk. "Handed to by a woman" is not.

The entire concept literally uses breasts and vaginas as a lure for men. You keep trying to force the idea but it won't ever work in an inclusive way.
it's actually a very cool demo. I hadn't thought about using CSS transforms this way before.
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It took Apple 6 years to sell 100 million iPhones. They’ll sell 100 million iPads in 4 years. If I’m right, they’ll sell 100 million iTVs in 3 years. People’s desires for the latest and greatest device to complement their iOS set is increasing over time.

Minor nitpick, but the iPhone came out in 2007 - 5 years ago. These numbers seem suspect...
I'm sure it is, but apparently I can't see it, through either incompetence or measly karma. The short-form of my implant tale is here: http://discuss.biohack.me/discussion/comment/862#Comment_862
It's neat, but it's hard to find something unless you can guess what people name their fn and vars for programming domain X
I meant servers in the local network, not ones provided by you. I assume that you actually distribute the uploaded documents and if someone publishes a file and turns off his box, it won't go away.

Patentable - depends on the country. Plus we could go into the whole "software reduces to maths formula which is not patentable" discussion... but that would be a waste of time.
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I am really getting sick of everybody and his uncle being compared to Steve Jobs. I mean, a comparison to Woz might not be out of place (both men were technical architects of things that revolutionised the industry), but Steve Jobs was a businessperson with an uncanny eye for industrial design, not the architecture of software.
I think there's a good chance he will be proven right over time. You may appreciate this blog post too: http://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adopt...
Why I Joined MS (from Google)
>> put more money in sure winners and don't fund anybody else

That is not their business model. Their model is to take a small fraction of the company for a small amount of money, and then help them succeed.

>> There can be only two explanations to this: either they're getting worse and worse, and are spreading their bets; or, they're getting better and better and can afford to offer their services to more and more companies.

So far YC has a fantastic return on investment. I imagine that their returns are the envy of many conventional VC firms.

They invest so little per company that they can afford to invest in every company where the expected return on investment exceeds the amount invested.

As they become better known, they get more and more qualified applicants, and thus the number of bets that they make should be expected to increase over time.
I wonder how many people are like me, and become LESS productive after a beer?
Writing code on an iPad would require an external keyboard and a propping mechanism - both of which have their problems.

When working with an iPad half the keys on the external keyboard are useless. And it just so happens that these 'useless' keys are the ones we hit a lot while programming.

The propping mechanism should be sturdy enough to not fall over since tasks such as alt-tabbing now require that you reach over and touch the screen, which should ideally be situated at a distance of 20inches from your eyes when typing. Shuffling between touch gesturing and typing wastes a lot of time.

For these reasons, an iPad would make a pathetic medium for coding. However, there was a link recently to an iPad IDE which focused on trying to get a lot of work done with as little typing as possible. I haven't tried it out yet, so can't comment on how useful that would be.
> Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant.

...and the audio is pretty inconsistent :P

But seriously, seconded. One of my absolute favorite films of all time, and made on a budget in the thousands. Completely stunning.
I get it but the fact that some don't neither offends nor concerns me and I certainly don't feel the need to belittle them or bemoan their existence.

Seriously, get off your high horse.
My point is his whole argument consisted of an emotional appeal about a. the intention of the 'creator' and b. the cost of creating XYZ piece of 'IP' as defenses of copyright.
The iTV may very well be a set top box. Apple has been posturing themselves to take on the cable companies with a disruptive technology, just like they did with the mobile phone carriers and the iPhone.

And PC sales are not in decline, as you suggest. The article states that market grew 10% last year.
I drink really good beer. They would go broke funding me.
Good argument. I thought PG had some good points, but I also think that the problem is not only the RIAA and MPAA (among others), but it is our government, which is incapable of handling the complexity of copyright and trademark infringement issues without screwing up something. It is a terrible thing that the creators or copyrighted material are suffering.

But the biggest issue is that we have a means to transfer almost any audio or video data almost anywhere and copy it almost indefinitely. No matter what laws were created and will be created, they can't beat that force. Data is and/or will tend to be free, like it or not, and that has changed everything.

To solve this we all pay subscription fees for some music service and some video streaming service and hope that it all works out in the end. Why? Subscriptions don't inflict as much pain as paying for a song or video every time you want one. So they are the best way for the creators to get compensated.
Thanks much, I'll check it out. I'm a huge sucker for movies like that.
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Seems like the site has become terminally-inaccessible
Why Amazon bought a robot army
You're right. My phone and I need a bond with the Universe such that I can predict every unfortunate thing that happens to it both from inside forces (forgetting it) and outside ones (dognapping).

Look. I care for my phone (Bionic), but there's a reason it has a case around it, and there's a reason I have insurance. Accidents happen. With a rugged phone, those accidents csn be less detrimental.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people get annoyed at my annoyances?

Edit:

Am I the only one who sees the irony of the annoyed pot calling the annoyed kettle black?
So how does this work in VMWare? :P
Show HN: Mandelbrot Maps, a real-time Mandelbrot/Julia fractal app for Android
Developer Tear-Down of HTML5/CSS3 Hunger Games site
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You're pushing the metaphor too hard. Most sports don't involve typing, either.

The point is that complex enough software systems are beyond the capacity of a single person to build, and once you have a team, the team becomes the most important thing.
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Can someone explain how its done?
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about them really.
Chrome Overtakes Internet Explorer As World’s Most Popular Browser, For A Day
little laggy in my firefox 11 on a 1.5G p4m with 512mb of ram. probably a just a bug.
Thought, someone else brought up a point that the person visiting the landing page might not be willing to use his/her credit card when trying to sign-up on a company's behalf. So, does it also boil down to the kind of market you are selling to (when the end-users are not independent decision makers)?
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Yay, hopefully I can soon run Android parallel to a x-server on my netbook
Ongoing support may have been a concern. Transitions in support are expensive and fraught with their own risks.

I'm not saying you couldn't provide satisfactory service and support. But if you are looking for possible perspectives they might have.

(Support is not just sufficient skills and/or prior experience. It's "will this person be moving away to or after college?". "Do they have emotional maturity/stability?" Etc., etc.)

As for a practical approach on your part, I agree with the others here: Move on. You're doing the right thing in looking for what you might address with respect to this experience, in future endeavors. But there are many other opportunities out there, and they won't all have the same hang-ups.

For example, you might encounter someone who was given a break when they started in their career, and so who is willing -- even eager, perhaps -- to do the same for someone else, if and when it seems like a good fit.

Last year, I put significant effort into helping out a family member whose business had gotten their web property "behind the eight ball". When it came time to decide and coordinate, however, their partners dismissed my suggestions without ever really looking at the work or the documentation. Best guess: They had hang-ups about bring a partner's family into the work and/or relying on same.

Sometimes, it's not you, and there's not much you can do about it.
There are two types of consumers.

-People who are willing to spend a lot of money on a device they love (iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch) will spend money on apps.

-People who got their 2nd-rate, poorly built device (most android devices) for free from their carrier or for $50 from a flea market. They are not going to spend money on apps and are most likely to pirate apps/content.
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