skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to be so disparaging, but this has to be one of the worst ideas I've seen thrown around here.

Anonymity is part of the reason you have such intelligent and verbose conversations. At the end of the day it's up to the reader to assert the meaning and usefulness of what they are digesting.

If some sort of a helper guide is needed for you to determine the validly of someone's words, then I suggest you go about trying to think a little more critically.

I don't want some pre-disposed criteria affecting the conversation that's made HN a staple of my daily reading for well over the last year. In fact, it goes against everything HN and the start-up scene stands for.

Hacker News is where the future known commodities of this world come to cut their teeth and get their 'education'. Just because someone hasn't made it, or hasn't promoted themselves to the point of becoming a 'household' name doesn't mean they don't have wise or intelligent words to type.

Lastly, some of the suggestions calling for people to be labeled based on one thing or another.. couple that with some of the legislation that's been getting introduced in the UK/US/FR and extrapolate that out of a little further.. What kind of society do you want to live in?
> Has anybody else found themselves in a similar position after selling a start up? If so, what did you do at this point?

Yes. I did a lot of research. I talked to HR people I knew, people who had owned businesses and sold them (online and in person), and hiring agents (recruiters). I probably revised my resume ~50 times before I had something that I was comfortable with.

You need to explain your lapse somehow. The reality is that companies don't want to hire people that might leave. Being that you've got a four year gap in your employment history AND you were self-employed, they take you for somewhat of a one night stand. You need to write a good cover letter to explain what you got out of your entrepreneurial phase and what you're looking for now.

Finally, if your skills are out of date your skills are out of date. I don't want to be harsh, but in 2012 it's inexcusable to not know OOP PHP (or even OOP Perl!). Your skill set seems to fit the role of crufty systems administrator very well. Is that what you're looking for?

My final piece of advice would be to find an amazing recruiter (easy, right). I was placed within six weeks of starting to look (after only a two year lapse, though) because my recruiter was incredibly honest with me about my skill set and what other companies were looking for.
Office can open Open Document types pretty much universally. More complex formatting is generally screwed up though, just as it is when opening MS types in LibreOffice.
Netcat continually astounds me. The amount of functionality that that little tool provides is just short of incredible.
Very interesting. Looks like a new way of consuming content in general, not just the usual things that would be on my to-do list.
http://xkcd.com/933/
hipbucket.com is an alias for cf-protected.hipbucket.com.
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Longtime Windows Admin, switched to OSX in 2008 and working on OSX since end of 2011.
In this case this isn't government-issued software. It's just some free(as in beer) software attached to law newspaper. They attach it each year with updated forms and formulas to calculate tax.
Yes, the PalmOS UI was very good. I think the Palm team really asked themselves 'What would be a good interface for a handheld device?'

In contrast, their competition at that time was Microsoft PocketPC. MS just had a terrible UI. It looked like they had shoe-horned the desktop UI onto a tiny device. I mean, 'Start' button on a handheld device ??

It might have been comforting to 'enterprise' customers to have a familiar interface, but it just sucked compared to the elegant PalmOS UI which looked like it had been designed for a tiny screen.
did a FORTRAN course 3 years into a physics degree. In order to avoid using emacs over X11-forwarded SSH within windows (yes, this was how the course recommended you work.....) I built a proper computer (as opposed to ancient laptop which had been fine up to then) and installed openSUSE. I have not stopped playing with code since, and my first job on graduating was as a developer (although I've since quit to do a physics PhD that is mostly python programming.)
X-Plane flightsim developer creates emergency auto-land for real aircraft
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Java/Java EE, Python/Django, HTML/CSS/JavaScript

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Implementing Caching on your RESTful server
A post on HATEOAS and hypermedia and then show you the role it plays in a native mobile client development. But the crux of this post is going to be centered around how to implement caching (or rather server side support for caching). Target audience include, server developers and to some extent, iOS or any mobile platform developers.
> I confess ignorance on the particular details of whether a PGP-encrypted message leaks who the sender/receiver are

An important part of public key cryptography is the "web of trust" - you must know that you're sending stuff to the right person. A person's identity is tied to their PGP key.

> You tell me how useful it is to know that I sent a message to cornflakesrule12345@emailprovider.ext without knowing what the message says.

They build up big databases and then mine that for information. Most people are not disciplined enough to use cryptographic technology properly; and that holds for "not doing stuff that leaks data". Associating username@example.com with a set of data is an important step in getting the identities of both username and the people username is communicating with. Don't forget that even if username is careful the people that username emails might be idiots.
ReactOS is poorly supported, incomplete, and user-hostile. Very little actually works on it--the software support is mostly limited to fairly old software, the only development happening for it is OS development (which is fine, but that's not a lot of use for normal people, or even software developers who don't have a burning desire to reinvent the wheel), and its UX decisions are a noted step backwards from Windows itself.

I don't intend to be rude, but recommending ReactOS as a legitimate Windows alternative is reality-averse.
The Watchmaker
I started with BASIC on Commodore 16 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_16) and shortly after MOS 6502 assembler back in the mid 80s when I was in my early teens. Commodore 16 had a monitor program build in, all you had to do is type MONITOR and you were able to edit memory directly in machine/assembler code, save it, run it etc (http://www.commodore16.com/php/images/books/downloads/Tedmon...).

Later, I got Commodore 64, then 128, then Amiga 500 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500) which was such a joy to program. This is where I got my first exposure to C programming (Aztec C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C) and VIM. VIM was in fact first developed for Amiga where it was known as VI iMitation (hece VIM), and later back ported to UNIX. In the 90s went to university to study math and computer science and that's where I got introduced to "big iron" UNIX (HPUX). In late 90s I did some Windows C++ development, but I now program for all kinds of platforms from Solaris, to AIX to HPUX to Linux to Windows and Mac OS X and in dozens of languages. We even make our own VI, awk compiler, Perl interpreter, std C lib for all kinds of platforms, POSIX APIs port to Windows and others, port of UNIX tools and shells to Windows and a multi million LOC ALM application suite.

But today's computing really can't be compared to the experience in the 80s, when you as a kid could master your CPU and know its complete instruction set, its registers and important memory locations and feel completely in control. I shudder when I see where general computing is headed with kids dreaming of owning iPads.
"To date, almost three years after launching 4ormat, not a single person has ever contacted us requesting support for Internet Explorer."

yeesh
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I spent a ton of time trying to get to know entrepreneurs early--even before their ideas are fully formed or before they have their decks. That's where I think I'm going to have the best outcomes and where I'll be able to be the most useful investor--where everyone knows why they're in, what they're there for, and we can all thoughtfully get on the same page about the vision we're trying to move toward.

Great! I'm one of those entrepreneurs, but I am an unknown. Before I get into YC (assuming that happens), how do I get in touch with you, Mr. Investor?
Two questions:
1. When a country limits capital flow, it sometimes becomes impossible to move your money out of that country. Doesn't Bitcoin solve that problem?
2. I have very little knowledge about how it actually works and how secure it is. How secure is Bitcoin ? Are governments via ISPs able to recognize packets that contain Bitcoins ? Or do you need to use ssh ?
If you think that, you haven't understood exactly what DDG's competitive advantages are. I for example am using DDG because I got fed up with Google collecting data on me to sell to advertisers. If Google copies that one they lose a bucket load of money...

Now maybe you want to make the argument that I'm a "confused user who isn't really sure how privacy works" - I would disagree, but it really doesn't matter as long as I have the perception that my private data is being sold off to the highest bidder and I choose to do something about it.
Apps Are Over
I use OSX at work with a Virtual Machine running Windows 7 for corporate tools (such as mail, instant messaging, etc.). I also use that OS on my laptop, mostly because I bought a macbook pro a couple years ago and still want to get the best of its hardware (battery life).

At home, I use Windows 7, simply because I don't want to reboot to switch back and forth from one OS to the other. I exclusively play Starcraft 2, and if it was possible to play it under Linux with excellent performances, I would switch and never go back again to Windows.
NavEl gazing. (Or Omphaloskepsis [1], if you are so inclined)

Naval gazing would be a pretty fun thing to actually.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphaloskepsis
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The issue is not that one would like to tinker, but that without a significant time investment tinkering, you can't get the basics working.

Nothing precludes the OS from being tinkerable but mostly working out of the box.
It's always a pleasure to see a screwball actor flourish on being cast outside type. Here are a few more examples:

* Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction

* Robin Williams in One Hour Photo

* Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love and Spanglish

* Bill Murray in Broken Flowers
I wish I had the experience some of these comments show. I'm 24 an didn't see a line of code until high school..... so 10 years if you count that. 3 years if you count anything worthwhile (wanting to actually learn what I was doing)
Build a Setup Project in ASP.NET
As we know that Window Applications or Window Projects run on the client system. and to run this projects on the client system we need to create a setup of the project.
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Internet-induced fear culture (or: Why Girls Around Me isn’t the problem)
As someone pretty involved/familiar with tattoo culture, getting a flash piece off the wall is pretty common and accepted.

I mean obviously you don't walk into Tribal Overlord Tattoo on the strip in Orlando Florida (doesn't exist) and pick a biomechanical alien off the wall, but you would walk into say Smith St. Tattoo in Brooklyn (does exist) and pick something off the wall.
Android was purchased well over a year before the iPhone was unveiled. And remember that the iPhone was seen more as an expensive iPod, not necessarily a challenger for the most prevalent software platform in the world, for a very long time after its release. So it really is a stretch to portray Android's early history in terms of competition with the iPhone.

Microsoft was the threat. Google was expanding into desktop software like Desktop Search, Google Earth, and Picasa by the mid-00's and MS was playing hardball. Google filed a lawsuit against them in 07' over being handicapped in desktop search performance. And Microsoft was already investing billions in web search, so the threat of deeper integration of search into the world's most popular OS was a major long-term threat.
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It was informative to note that the bulge of 'years of coding' for [OK .. participating] HN hackers is the 10+ year set.

It would be interesting to see a 3-dim space mapping to years of {hacking, business (startup), investing (vc)} and see how the HN clusters manifest.
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I'd add a js form validation before posting to GoCardless if I were you.. But the rest looks good, nice and simple!

Bad request: ["Ad hoc authorization amount is not a number", "Amount is not a number"]
Future telescope array drives development of exabyte processing
The best book I've read about .NET programming was Microsoft .NET for Programmers by Fergal Grimes. Though a bit out of date now (published in 2002) rather than starting off with a Visual Studio project you write some C# code in Notepad and compile from the command line with csc. He takes you through the process of manually wiring an ASP.NET page and codebehind file, etc. all without an IDE.

Later on when you start using the IDE you have a MUCH better understanding of what's happening behind the scenes.

I'm not sure if anything like this book has been written for later versions of the .NET platform, as I haven't touched .NET since about 2008.
PowerShell still uses the same terminal as cmd.exe; the one you can't resize horizontally without diving into its properties window.
The most important part of being a big company when competing with other big companies is keeping mindshare. You need to stay relevant in people's minds. Google owning Android does this in a subtle but powerful way. This is why RIM is failing, or perhaps more so why there's a huge belief that RIM is failing - which will only then. RIM used to be mentioned all the time with people BBM'ing. They had a chance to continue to be relevant, though I am unsure if that time has passed; I've not had the time to determine if they still have a chance to recover and become dominant in people's minds again.
Windows 7 at work, which isn't too bad (coding Python and .NET stuff).

Mac OS and Arch Linux at home, with an OpenSolaris storage server and OpenBSD firewall.
but the stylus available for android and iphones are horrible (at least the 2-3 i've tried).

my sharp zaurus had a neat learning mode which allowed me to teach it graffiti.

one of the main reasons i gave up palm (had a iiix, iiic, visor neo, m125 and palm e) was when they moved to graffiti 2 due to the lawsuit as it's accuracy was less no matter how much time i spent with it.
"And I think it's really important to not fall into the trap of the hype using Node.js for everything"

Don't worry, I think the lack of the sort of standard library you would find in PHP or Ruby would keep people from considering using Node for "everything." ;)
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Not here in the UK. Fired on the spot? That'd be a dream scenario to take to an industrial tribunal.
If you cut the highly processed carbs (sugar and wheat based snack foods primarily) from your diet, you will stop having the 2-3 hour cycles of hunger, energy rush, crash, and food cravings. Once your body has corrected itself, you will no longer need to eat for "high short term energy". Think about human history for a minute and consider whether

While it is an aside, getting enough sleep will also reduce your necessary daily food requirements by about 400 calories.
Approximately 1.5 Million Credit Cards Compromised in Hack
Adam Thierer: Why Apple could become the next RIM
I don't think I missed the point, that point's pretty obvious. All of us on HN recognize that the legal frameworks of the US and the UK (and other countries) are screwed up, and we don't need this particular post to point that out. The looming totalitarianism manifests itself elsewhere with even more clarity.

My point, admittedly facetiously expressed before, was an aside, and it is that hey, we know the government's screwed up, and it's not likely to get much better soon (especially on this particular issue) without a fundamental shift away from Big Government (and more debatable, a Massarchy implementation of government). In the meantime, there are technical solutions around it which we could implement en-masse today for the benefit of the masses instead of the localized solutions like GnuPG that us privileged nerds have--and it's worth reminding/letting be known by budding smarty-pantses that they too can communicate with other smarties securely if they want to. (I suspect any dangerous terrorists already do communicate securely and don't need reminding, but most terrorists are dumb and ineffectual in whatever their particular goals are so most probably don't.)

If only Joe Public was educated about it and motivated to care and demand... Does a gmail-to-gmail message stay on Google's network alone? If not, they should encrypt everything behind the scenes before it leaves their network, just like how they've now been using https by default. It limits gov. snooping to subpoenaing the specific email provider to get the data off their servers rather than catching it in real-time as it passes through some network node. Also, I think that most probably gmail-to-hotmail or gmail-to-yahoo goes outside, so you can expand. Why can't Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo each agree to roll out an auto-PGP system where when an email is sent to one of the others, a handshake occurs first where a one-time public key is swapped from receiver to sender that's used to encrypt before sending, and the receiver will decrypt before presenting the decrypted email to the receiver user? (And to the receiving user's provider's content-scanners to display targeted ads.) With similar legal implications, the public could always demand regulations that require an auto-PGP protocol alongside a requirement of https (even though https isn't as secure as it could be). But that would be an instance of the government looking out for its people when the private companies aren't doing so, therefore it's not going to happen.

It's hard to enforce any anti-encryption laws beyond monitoring for distribution of specific software and monitoring for users who encrypt almost everything. Basically you can only catch someone using encryption for almost everything by noticing that none of their data is understood by any of your software. If you only encrypt important things, well, a steg'd image once in a while isn't going to be detected (and there are other things you can do too).
Because their motivation is control and their major influence is moneyed lobbyists representing arbitrary interests.
Windows 7, but all my personal development/work happens inside a Ubuntu VM (through VirtualBox).
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If you cut the highly processed carbs (sugar and wheat based snack foods primarily) from your diet, you will stop having the 2-3 hour cycles of hunger, energy rush, crash, and food cravings. Once your body has corrected itself, you will no longer need to eat for "high short term energy". Think about human history for a minute and consider whether it would be an advantage for hunter-gatherers to have to stop and eat every couple hours. The fact that everyone generally does now and that people living on traditional diets like the Masai of Africa do not should tell you something.

While it is an aside, getting enough sleep will also reduce your necessary daily food requirements by about 400 calories.
Primary is hard to define. Desktop? Windows. Server? Linux (Fedora 16). Both are crucial to my home operation.
This is why it never saw mass adoption. Strange, tiny, proprietary distribution method that nobody could use because no companies bothered to make a 1.44" floppy drive. You had to build one from scratch if you wanted to use OS/2. (The best place to start was by harvesting the motor from a larger drive.) Thus, only the true tinkerers and hackers ever made it past "Step 1 - Preparing Your System."

(Somebody went and edited the main article, thus rendering this thread moot. Quite a shame, really. Typos can be fun. ;) )
Why Google Will Abandon Android
One that has a lot of programming and hackerish humor is the Wizard's Bane series by Rick cook. Fantasy realm mixing programming and magic quite well.
CloudFlare doesn't like direct IP access =\
Thanks for the heads up. Didn't get round to thinking about validation over the weekend. Will take a look this evening.
Since dinosaurs roamed the datacenter! I voted 20+ since that is how long I've been programming for a living, if you include back to high school (BASIC on a RSTS/E time share) change it to 30+.
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This is tough because I started as a designer who just wanted to make sure my designs worked like I wanted - hacking together what I could find. I slowly developed an understanding of Javascript pre-jQuery, so I was learning the DOM because I had to. Then, I got into Flash development which, at the time, was AS2. If you design and develop, AS3 was/is joy. Not because it was Flash, but because AS3 is close to JS (AS3 is actually a ECMA dialect). Since, I've become pretty good with JS, Ruby, PHP, C#. It's hard to really nail down an exact year since I wouldn't know if it would be appropriate to call what I did years ago "programming".
This is widely believed but not true or supported by scientific evidence. Have a look at Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" for a rundown on much of the relevant research.
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NASA auctions off patents for $75k; two other sets go unclaimed
Started with my TI-84+ SE in middle school and never looked back
See also (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3659317)
How To Have An Endless Number Of App Ideas
Thanks for the ad hominem.

I like calculus and math in general. But undergrad CS emphasis should be information theory, algorithms and discrete mathematics. They never used calculus to analyze algorithms, not even once. I've only seen it used on books (Knuth or Rivest et al.) In the majority of universities CS is still dominated by the same teaching body from math or engineering.

Since now we have videos of classes at top universities, there's no benefit of the doubt anymore.
Ask HN: My post just did 10 points in 30 minutes and was nuked. Why?
I wrote it for reddit's startups subreddit and a lot of people found it helpful, so I re-wrote it for here -- and it was again, useful, based on votes. And now, poof, gone. What happened?
Sony's tools support got a lot better after they bought SN in 2005, but it wasn't that long ago that you couldn't do things like source-level debugging on an SPU (I assume you can now). Compare that to something like Pix/remote source-level debugging, which the 360 has had since day 1, and the difference is quite clear.
My Dad and I started with a Basic time sharing system in the early 1960s that was occasionally available Saturday mornings. Then in the summer of 1966 when I was in high school I took a FORTRAN extension class at a local university: punched cards :-)
This! +1

I love reading HN because arguments and reason are all that matters. Spiced with some trolling here and there to make it fun. Trolls' messages end up gray anyway.