skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with star ratings is that they have nothing to do with measuring approval. They are a form of social inclusion mechanism to give the rubes the erroneous sense that someone cares about their opinions. It is done to attract users, not to guide them.
Quite a few "desktop" apps have hybrid models - Evernote, Dropbox, CRM software, iCloud, etc, no doubt there are more which I can't think of at the moment.
Microsoft counted as key Linux contributor, for now anyway
>And is there anything wrong with people feeling like they are creative?

Yes, there is, when they aren't being creative. When they're just choosing a cookie cutter, telling them they should feel creative is cheating them of the real thing.
I don't know if it really would be that more work if you planned it from the start. Granted, I'm not very good or experienced at presentations and public speaking; so when I do I tend to spend a lot of time preparing. This preparation invariably involves practicing the talk a lot and writing down key words to remind me of points I must not forget. I suspect that writing the talk out at some point during that process would help just as much as (if not more than) spending the same time practicing the talk a few times. I'll certainly try this next time.
Could you please comment on the appropriateness of other subscribers sharing a link like this?

Within certain bounds - glibc being a good example - the general interest in the article might justify its widespread use.

I would hazard a guess that for the majority of articles, LWN would prefer subscriber links be kept relatively "out of public circulation."

Thanks!
Also, various groups have remade Sierra games:

Kings Quest I/II/III, Quest For Glory II: http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

Space Quest II / Kings Quest III: http://www.infamous-adventures.com/
Hi. That's what I'm here for.

Why "Uh oh"? I'm not the boogeyman ;)
Note that in the US, protected health information (PHI) may not legally be transmitted across the internet unencrypted, according to HIPAA, which renders emailing records much more cumbersome than simply faxing them, which is cheap and ubiquitous.
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If you don't understand it, why use it? Is it that important for you to do this in one line of (relatively obscured) code, than in 2-3 lines of readable code?

For the record, the do() block defines @ARGV (which normally holds the command-line arguments) to contain the value of the $file (presumably a file name), and sets $/ (which is the input record separator) to an undefined value. In Perl, <> is synonymous to <STDIN> which makes it read from stdin. Since @ARGV now contains a file name, Perl will open this file for reading. Since $/ is undefined, Perl will enter in "slurp" mode, and will gobble up the whole file in one shot. Since this is the last statement in the do() block, it will be returned as its value, and stored in $text.

Lots of Perl magic happening here. I advise you against using such shortcuts.
This is a really cool idea. I tried to book Matt or Justin saturday for an hour but any would be worth that small price. I bet if you had pg people would pay 1k+ per hour.
I don't have any insider knowledge of Square specific to this, but it's not that hard to make a shim for a PoS to do all sorts of stuff. I contracted for a company in 2003 which did NFC/RFID readers with a little magnetic shim for existing magstripe card readers. You can also integrate at a deeper level directly into the PoS -- there is some customization needed, but a lot of it is generic.
In my view, that's more about the "Crossing the Chasm" transition from rabid early adopters to the early mainstream market. In your shoes I'd interview various potential customers to see what each group considers must-have features, and listen carefully to any early mainstream people that have used your current version.
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All of my code is Python and JavaScript
It is not a new version, it is a draft!
This theory is called "penetration pricing," and most research shows that it works very rarely, and only in specific circumstance.

It's intuitive, and mostly wrong.

Which is why I recommended the book Pricing with Confidence to Sascha when he made that same argument in the comment thread of the OP. And why I blogged about this book several times:

http://unicornfree.com/2011/will-low-prices-sell-more/
http://unicornfree.com/2011/when-customers-bitch-about-your-...
http://unicornfree.com/2011/biz-book-friday-cost-plus-pricin...

It's a fantastic book. Everybody who cares about their business should read it.
Navigation is really klunky.

Variable resolution is the thing it has going for it. Ability to zoom in on painterly detail, or on details of larger-scale work.

Much of the sculpture does not come across well at all -- no multiple views, very static presentation (e.g., http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-art-institute... or http://www.googleartproject.com/artist/andrea-zittel/4132322...). A loss.

They should focus on pieces that will come across in this format.
that's when you start having these unofficial shadow systems spring up

Exactly what happened to me today.

An engineer [1] opened up a ticket because some java code he was developing to insert attachments to our BOM system was returning funny errors.

Which is fine except he'd somehow gotten credentials for my production system and was testing his code against live bits.

Hooray for initiative, but good lord, fella: how would you feel if I ran out on the floor and started testing new widgets on equipment we're building for customers?

[1] Not software but electrical.
This is full of win.
$100 for charity and an hour of advice from some really great people. I'm on board, now I just need to figure out who I'm going to talk to. Edit: signed up to talk with Tikhon Bernstam.
The Carpenter
Ah, I see. I stand corrected. That really is pretty bad.
mostly trance podcasts or live streams.

~130 bpm seems like a good work groove for me during the day. solarstone's solaris international podcast is more chilled, perfect for late-night coding, so i try to save them up.

i actually enjoy a little bit of commentary between tracks in a podcast, since it's usually a continuous mix anyway.
Tell Microsoft about pirated copy and win a free Genuine Windows 7.
Jarrod's point in writing this essay was to question and counterpoint Sascha's original claim about the "perfect price."
The devbootcamp is so freaking expensive, you can rather invest that money and let it grow and learn Ruby on Rails on the side on your own. There are so many free resources for beginner to advance developers.
Orangecat linked to an investigation on the subject:

http://courantblogs.com/investigative-reporting/claim-check-...

Original post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3791357
>Python
>Perl

If it ain't Lisp, it's shit.
On HN anything that EC2 doesn't provide is considered exotic. And cheap servers still only have 16 cores/32 threads.
Rails isn't for beginners
Agreed. I get that MySQL is incredibly simple to set up, so I can sort of understand why people use it for pet projects or whatever. But what I never understood was why doesn't PostgreSQL see better adoption from the big player (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.)?
Not in the minority, but here’s the thing. As long as this was primarily in our community, I was comfortable with a wee bit of ambiguity. Hackers and others are perfectly capable of doing a little fact-checking such as looking at my online resume or noticing that I write a lot of stuff like this.

Perhaps one in a hundred or even thousand people reading it might have thought it was real.

But once it escaped our cozy little echo-chamber, it went to a place where many people thought it was real. They aren’t part of a culture that expects parables and satire. They have no familiarity with my existing blow-hardiness on the subject of hiring programmers or privacy. It’s not as reasonable for me to expect that J. Random Facebookfriend will read it and assume it’s a parable.

So, it seemed like the right thing to do to issue a clarification.

tl;dr: An item on the front page of HN doesn’t need a clarification, an item on the front page of Reddit does.
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They're not even using the Android sharing system. The only way to share from the Instagram app is to upload to Instagram, and optionally tell it to forward the photo to one or more of the sites they support (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr). If you want real Android sharing, you have to switch to the Gallery and share from there.
Is it even worth getting an MBA now if you're a developer in silicon valley. I'm talking in terms of putting so much money out there for MBA and then is there a big difference in salary afterwards?
Um. What was the point that? (and I read all of it)
Closing The Gap Between Computational & Pharmaceutical Innovation
A Day At The Mall
This is the most insightful comment in the discussion thus far.
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PlayStation 4: Sony’s chance to redeem itself
I just wanted to say that your explanation for e is excellently done. I found it incredibly helpful - it was exactly the kind of intuitive, step-by-step explanation I was looking for. I hope that you're planning on releasing more content.
http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/ has PDFs in other page sizes and other electronic forms too.
I am extremely glad to have gotten out of Arizona, I made the mistake of moving there for two years and literally put everything I had into being able to move out of there. The only way I can really describe the state is "assbackwards", I'm sorry to anyone who still lives there but there is just something off about the place as far as the way the police, other government officials and elected people there act, they are trying to make their own little fiefdom out in the desert and "to hell" with the rest of the U.S. and its laws, rights, etc
A Reflection: 6 Years In the Valley
Here's an example of a web-app (web-parts) built in SharePoint:

http://store.bamboosolutions.com/project_management_suite.as...

Sharepoint also does Workflow, good for companies that have red-tapes.

Not everybody have red-tapes but for some that do have them, Sharepoint is there to red-taped-taped you :D

Oh and excel in the browser: filters, pivots, formula, sorting, etc.

Also, Excel for data entry! (Excel to Sharepoint List).

Don't forget InfoPath forms to fill out expenses!

SharePoint also solves the problem (depending on how you look at it) with business people not wanting to use Subversion or version control system. It has "Check in" and "Check out" features.

At the end of the day, you can't replicate Sharepoint features with scrappy web-apps. I know it's enticing, but it's a very very super hard sell because the numbers don't add up.
Facebook counterclaim accuses Yahoo of infringing 10 patents
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Facebook Accuses Yahoo of Infringing on Patents, and files a counterclaim
TL;DR: The Problem With Long-Form Publishing Plays
As much as I love PostgreSQL (and I do; it's put food on my table for the last decade), I have to stress that this linear-ish scalability needs both pg >= 9.2 and a Linux kernel >= 3.2. It seems to be a combination of the lseek(2) changes in the kernel, and the lock contention/handling changes in the db.

That is: if you're running on an older kernel, you probably won't see quite as much gain.
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TRUSTe Announces An Opt-Out System for Mobile Ads
I found this answer on Quora, by a medical student, to be quite illuminating on why machine diagnosis isn't going to be any good, any time soon. http://www.quora.com/Why-is-machine-learning-not-more-widely...
Google suggests it is #startups on irc.freenode.net
Happened (happening) to me -- I'm 7 months pregnant, out of work for months.

I haven't looked for new employment because it didn't feel "right" to apply to a new job knowing I'll be on maternity leave for a full year.

Legally I know I'm protected -- if any employer refuses to hire me, I have certain grounds to sue for discrimination. But it doesn't stop making me feeling like an a$$hole if I do so.
This phone-calls-with-celebrities model has been tried many times before but it simply isn't viable in the longterm for various reasons. Clearly you can get people to do it occasionally and even enjoy it, so it's great for things like what exec is doing, but it's not something that many people would do on a regular basis.

That said there are definitely still unexplored variations on this idea that have at least a decent probability of success, so I think it's worth it for those seeking ideas to take a closer look here.
You think seeding some of your designs on pinterest might pique interest further? If anything, it can be a "proving grounds" for your newest wrapper designs.
I read the article, went "The ^&#$?" and came here to post this, more or less. It's amazing the $&#! people will get up to when they don't know Bayesian statistics.
The syntax is horrible. I would prefer C over that.
you might say the same thing about college. the majority of the stuff is just being taught straight out of books in large lecture format and a lot of its available for free by universities and online resources.

personal trainers at the gym mostly tell you things that you can figure out online too.

its a mistake to think of devbootcamp or code academy or any of those programs as strictly "cash in exchange for knowledge in your head".

you do it because you get other benefits. some people learn faster in that environment, for example. or having an experience resource available on call the entire time. or access to mentors that would be harder to get in touch with otherwise.

anyways, i didn't do devbootcamp, and this is NOT an endorsement of it, but i think you're missing the point, and why would you come rain on someone's parade by telling them that what they did (and saw value in) is pointless?
I've used Ada. It was a super major pain in the butt. Go is like an easier to use C, where Ada is like a harder to use C. The solution to "people screw up dynamic allocations" is not "make dynamic allocations brutally difficult".
Also, just want to point out, in Arizona, for most misdemeanors, you have no right to a jury trial, I didn't read up enough on this to know whether it would be a felony / misdemeanor, etc (or if it could be either), but its something to also be aware of, I have lived in Arizona and seen their legal system firsthand and its a pathetic joke, it has to be one of the worst in the U.S., certainly for a state that has a major metro area.. if you get charged with a misdemeanor, your options are 1) bench trial in front of some corrupt judge (about 80% chance of conviction) 2) plea deal. Someone needs to stop the nutjobs out there, I am all for the federal government stepping in, in cases like this, where they are essentially trying to massively violate people's civil rights.

The state truly does have a "prison complex", it has a huge law enforcement culture and they are looking for bodies to put in prison as it makes the state money and this may just be another one of their sick attempts to have another way to put people in jail. Seeing something like this is getting me all worked up, I truly hate that place with a passion
From Y Combinator's FAQ:

Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea?

Yes. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tried not to accept competing companies, you'd still get overlap because startups' ideas morph so much. The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.

In practice it has not turned out to be a problem, because most big markets have room for several slightly different solutions, and it's unlikely that two startups would do precisely the same thing.

To be perfectly honest if I were in Y Combinator's shoes I'd be more concerned about you seemingly giving up (from your post: "this is basically a pre-mortem for ShopJoy"). If you believe in your idea and your team, then you'll succeed with or without Y Combinator. The path of a startup is filled with roadblocks and the question is how you handle them. So show that you haven't given up! Forget about this and focus on your product, and by the time you hopefully get an interview you can show progress.

Good luck!
You had to take a course from another "how to get rich" type to realize the power of compounded growth?
It's neither precise, nor elegant, and certainly not rigorous. On this approach, an item with 1 upvote and 2 downvotes will be ranked below an item with 1000 upvotes and 2000 downvotes, as one commenter pointed out; and in general, bright new items will almost never be presented to anyone. Search on "Bayesian" in the comments for the precise, elegant, rigorous solution below. I won't claim that it's easy to understand, but it's a lot easier to understand than the frequentist ad-hoc version.
Testing SMS Interactions in Ruby on Rails
I love that the waiter is fully dressed in the hot tub, posing as though there is nothing unusual about that.
It feels inevitable, given where technology is heading --- not only in terms of my personal effects emanating trace information about my location, but also just because monitoring and sensing networks are getting so much cheaper.

It also feels (word chosen carefully) like this capability is going to have more positive uses than negative ones. If I want to focus my energy on the law enforcement stuff that really matters, then perhaps I focus on whether we're criminalizing the right things (for instance: drug criminalization is a debacle), and whether we're appropriately constraining the ability of the police to detain and physically search us.
also, people talk a really big talk about how its great to invest money and let it grow, but in my experience those people really don't 1. do that, 2. know how to do that well.
Ask HN: Family Business Goes South
tl;dr Family starts brick & mortar business, founders dispute, how to deal with aftermath.

Long version: Two family members and I started a bar business located in Arkansas. First business venture for all of us, and therefore we didn't know anything about vesting or the like. We have an LLC with 1/3 ownership per partner, no exit-clauses, no vesting, no special cases. Basically the minimum paperwork you could have filed. We took out a loan and also all invested a small (mid 4-figure) amount.

There was a business-related dispute that turned personal after about one month. One family member--we'll call him Angry--walked out and has not been back in in over two years. He has not spoken to either of us regarding the business. If relevant, the dispute was about how to run the business, Angry didn't agree, and it had to do with changing a couple of trivial things he had been doing. It was presented well (we weren't shitty) and culminated in several "fuck you guys" from Angry.

This has been a lingering shadow for two years, and we'd like to handle it--especially because I plan to depart from the business myself. We have opened a dialogue with Angry, who appears to believe he's owed 1/3 of the "profits"--disregarding our (time) investment (over 15,000 hours combined) vs his (about 70 hours the first month). Also, if relevant, profits are negligible (think breakeven) not counting a VERY meager draw the remaining founders have taken weekly.

What do you think? The paper says he's owed it, correct? Do we have any (legal) recourse? Is there a way to "make things right?" What's right? Angry will seek the maximum money, regardless of morals/values/etc.

Also, lessons learned: vest shares, don't mix biz and family, take care of this way sooner.
I hope people are skeptical of these results. I wouldn't be surprised if you made most of your money from your get rich quick program.
My only question is that after that time and money, did you learn anything about software engineering, or just how to code RoR apps? Did you learn about stacks and their options and nuances, even practical design patterns? Or was this more on hacking out some web apps in Ruby on Rails with RSpec? I'm just curious how much is taught about the process of software as a whole.
I very much agree with you!
calls-with-experts has been done and is huge.

http://www.glgresearch.com/
Or maybe they sent it just because they are assholes?
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I wouldn't mind that a single dev or some indie team starting up can't handle their workload or afford a device to test on. They are funded 7mil so affordability shouldn't be an issue, they just supposedly can't make this app work on lower requirements than their competitors' products and that only was my point.

If they don't care, it's their problem and I'd have left after my first post, but pardon me, I'm tired of every comment like that where someone is trying to excuse developers by raising some Android cliches that there are too many phones around. There are apps more powerful than Instagram which work on my entry-level htc, theirs doesn't and it's their fault, not the OS, not the devices'.
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I began my career as an Oklahoma City trial lawyer over 30 years ago. My intention then is the same as it is now: to provide my clients with high quality legal services in a comfortable environment of a small law firm.
Ask HN: are there any democratic social networks?
Social networks like HN are basically [usually benevolent] dictatorships. The users don't get to decide the direction or rules of the site.

Then the question - are there democratic sites that let [force?] users [to] vote on the rules and such.

Does anyone know of such a site that is democratic all the way down?

Reddit seems to be there partially in that anyone can apparently start a subreddit and determine rules within an established framework. However somewhere like HN is apparently the opposite of representational democracy in that you can vote on specific content but not on the overall site structure.

To recap, I'm interested in social websites where one can vote to change the moderation system or vote to alter the algorithms used in producing the top stories or what-have-you.
It's not different. It's not different at all.

It isn't about standards, it isn't about IE6 or FireFox or Chrome. It's about providing a baseline of functionality and building up features. It doesn't cost any more money or take any more time than it does to build top-down - and in fact, in the long run, there's a quantifiable cost savings in maintenance of an application built with a solid foundation. It's not more work, it's just working differently. You'd plan and build your back end to scale, to be maintainable, to be testable; why not the front end?
Doesn't seem to have improved the relevance of the definitions:

"USA: The only country keeping penguins from coquering [sic] the Earth"
I've not used Perl in any real way for years but I am now brushing up on it again.

You can do neat one-liners in Python or Ruby but I've always liked Perl for this kind of thing.

I also have a weird penchant for using BASH scripting to do quite complicated things. Just because it can.
my $txt = do { local $/ = <$file>; };

or

my $txt = do { local $/; <$file>; };

are as I know the preferred ways to do it. As a previous comment explained, $/ is the record separator and when you localize it it's value is set to undef. Which means we read the whole filehandle (the second part). As a do block evaluates to the value of the last expression, the contents of the file is the result of the whole expression.

If you're serious about Perl I recommend Modern Perl which is a 250 page really good introduction for the language, intended for programmers.