skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it helps you I chose the title of my actual post to appeal to my family members who read my blog and are looking to know what I'm doing. The "editorialised" title is for the more targeted readers on HN.
One advantage is that getting in at 11am usually means it's more difficult to bully you into staying past when you should be leaving.
I can see it at an easy and almost transparent way to send large files by mail (in Gmail).

We are in 2012 and it still sucks to send large files. There was a relevant xkcd about it not long ago.
draw something? hmm
Sounds more like Paul Harvey.
if you actually read through the post you'll see that the content relates directly to the title
What doesn't work for you on dropbox for android? I use it all the time and am wondering what sort of things I might be missing.
To be completely honest, if all you want is get a job at a big company, directly applying is probably more efficient than creating a startup.

You don't get the same welcome package, though.
Libcatcode: Cataloging and coding under one Q&A site
Physicist uses math to avoid traffic penalty
Go look at any documentation or discussion of any non-Java language, and see their examples of using their sequence abstractions, or generators (yield), or first-class functions. Those are not ideas which are unique to C#.

If you just want to see a piece of code in C# that would have to be written totally differently in Java to be readable (unless you use some quite abstract third-party libraries like Guava to help) I picked one of my Stack Overflow answers at random: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2966592/how-to-refactor-t...
Well, first, the 9 elders only have input insofar as the meaning of the constitution is disputable; they don't get to decide whether the general idea of freedom of speech is a good thing day-by-day like the UK parliament does. But more to your point, that the US constitution leads to rules being created by small group far removed from the election mechanism: yes, that is exactly the point. The authors of the constitution were quite deliberate in their choice to insulate several parts of the government from the whims of the people.
Great point. I get that people want to inject some personality, but listener's time is precious and there's enough "what did you have for breakfast" shows out there! I like podcasts which leave the chitchat to the pros and let their personality and views shine through the content you're covering. (With the exception of those where they can actually pull off banter and comedy well. IMO The Verge is one such podcast.)
I think it depends where you are in your career. For me, there are times / projects where I find that I am pushing myself and improving my skills by working on them so I may go beyond whats expected by really delving in, optimizing code, etc to better my skills. Other times, I feel the way you do and have little connection to the work.
Speculative game theory: Hofstadter's 'superrationality' essays
I've been using parse for the last 3 weeks. One thing I've discovered is that it works very well for situations like a chat room, where the app is expected to always be online. For apps which need offline mode, like mine does, things start to deteriorate quickly. Object associations, for example, can't be saved while the app is offline. This has forced me to create my own hacky UUID method of storing and looking up object associations which I'm not particularly happy with.

These are joys of beta, closed source software, I suppose.
"Hash tables aren’t a magic bullet data type. They have plenty of issues, they’re not really constant time, and in most cases there are other data structures that are much more appropriate."

Be sure to not tell us anything about said data structures though, we ain't too keen on knowing stuff anyway.
Seconded. Roberts at EconTalk is a great model for how to avoid this.
I was so pleasantly surprised I could watch with no problems from Switzerland.
LINQ + lambdas are great at this. Simple example: say you have a list of Car objects, and you want to get a new list comprising only the cars whose engines have greater than 300 horsepower, sort them in order of increasing price/horsepower ratio, and then take the top 20. In most languages, this requires a bunch of loops. In C#, it looks like this:

cars.Where(x => x.Horsepower > 300).OrderBy(x => x.Price / x.Horsepower).Take(20);

This results in a lazy-evaluated evaluated expression that works exactly the same whether cars is an in-memory list, a SQL table, a RavenDB collection, or anything else that implements the right interface (IEnumerable). It's not only concise, but also self-documenting. The syntax implies the semantics.
Have you seen this thing from NASA?

(http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html)

It was posted to HN a while ago here - (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3756044)

(Only got 7 up votes, which is baffling.)

There's also this - (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/an...)

Which was posted to HN here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3758047)
When I was working for a company, I would get it an 8:15 and left at 17:00 on the dot. When asked if I could stay to do something which I felt could wait until the morning, I would say no and leave. I didn't get fired, instead I had a life. Working is not everything, there are much more important things in life.
What web server you're running on? I've had very bad experience with xsp
Take a look at juggle.com. All .NET.
Great initiative. Will definitely listen to this podcast. And I would reply if I was native English speaker.
The article mentions 23 GB of storage upgrades for HTC users. Can I also get that on my old HTC Desire S? Or do I need a new phone for that?
>"satirical use of a mark" //

Of course there is provision for non-commercial uses of trademarks &c.. If this were about trademark law then London Olympics 2012 could be used by anyone as it's merely a description of an event - it's not a distinctive mark by any stretch of the imagination; people couldn't however use their "Lisa Simpson performs fellatio" logo for example.

The problem appears to be that the government passed a bill, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/12/schedule/4, to strictly limit free expression wrt the Olympics.

Presumably the IOC consider this sort of curtailing of rights to be part of what defines modern sporting events. TBH a request to do this should have had the response "we're sorry but the rights of the UK public aren't for sale to the highest bidder" ... obviously things swung the other way.

For example under the London Olympics 2006 Act Section 3 I can't mention "summer 2012" unless I'm a licensee of the new "London Olympic Association Right" lest a judge find me to be illegally associating commercial enterprise with the Olympics.

What a faff over a bit of sport.
I think good syntax won't make a language better
but bad syntax can make a language worst

Its like you will not work for a company because it have clean toilets, but if they have dirty toilets you wont work for them

If you find this logic familiar, its because i am basing it on motivation theory
Introducing JobMappr (It's like PadMapper for Jobs)
Yes, I did, though I'll only know today whether yc has a chance of happening (interview invites go out this evening I believe).
This sounds similar to what The Asylum does (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAsylum); they make extremely cheap knockoffs of big-name movies, like "Transmorphers", and rely on people not paying attention to inadvertently buy or rent their movies. It's apparently incredibly profitable.
YC has had a few small-exit founders come back though--do you hold that into consideration? In other words, would you fund an unambitious startup if it gave a promising entrepreneur a potential launchpad to go bigger next time?
I disagree. The best way to become better at basketball isn't to play pickup games exclusively. It's also important to engage in deliberate practice on individual skills and micro-skills.

In this case he is turning out several designs a week. This would be impossible if he were diving in completely on each one to understand the problem perfectly. Instead he's making some assumptions about each company and executing against those assumptions.

Perhaps you're just arguing that it is more important to practice the skill of understanding a project instead of the skill of executing a design. I don't really have an opinion on that, but I hardly think this project is dangerous. If anything, internalizing design execution skills will free his mind to think about design projects on a higher level.
Estimating Organic Search Opportunity Part 1 of 2
"OpenStack® is the open alternative
to proprietary cloud platforms and lock-in."

Oh the i®ony.
Or even the micro-stagnation of regions dominated by dying industries.
I used their language after reading terms on their site. They mention "establishing a connection" and outline terms their "protected" terms and logos. It may as well be an overreach but it seems they're an effective bully and the choices would be to either stop mentioning Olympics in ads or fight over interpretations of the various protections in court. I think most targeted vendors that would take on them would probably go bankrupt pretty fast.

Either way, I don't really know if they should be able to quash unauthorized ads but I do know they're going about it like assholes.
That's... not what they got into trouble for.
QR codes are too small. The user would have to walk up to the TV.

Also Shazaam is doing it with their music fingerprinting.
Having worked on the MSSQL source code -- even if you could see it it would not help. It's a incredibly complicated monolith with a lot of historical baggage. Not kind to fresh eyes. Remember that SQL Server was originally Sybase SQL Server.
Bottom line:

(a) We're not in a bubble. We're in a revenue tsunami like nothing any of us have ever seen in our lifetimes.

Instagram didn't have a single dime of revenue. and the CEO basically waved away any thoughts of revenue when pointedly asked about it in an interview.

Facebook, who has 800M active, engaged users has only $4B in revenue. Is that what passes for a revenue tsunami these days? Guys, a revenue tsunami looks like double digit income growth quarter after quarter.

NB: Kudos to the CEO of instagram for making out like he did. But it's not an example to follow. Unless you like failure.
where can we find information on what the different libraries choose to do differently
Actually, again to make up for my inaccurate post, I have to give them kudos. I believe they're rolling out an oAuth api for SkyDrive so someone could build a linux client.
Overused allusion becomes cliche, and unoriginal communication is line noise.
just wonder during the wait after we submit the application, anyone received any msg from them?
I've never understand the hatred towards sponsors who partly pay for the games.

Would you rather have taxpayers pay even more for the Olympics ? Or how about in the case of the Youth Olympics not having it at all.
Finally, an Exit Strategy for App Developers
A requirement for 24/7 on-call programmers demonstrates a systemic organizational failure in the design and implementation of robust, well-architected software.

37Signals would see significant savings in development and maintenance costs -- and increased customer satisfaction -- if they approached this staffing requirement as a band-aid, not as a final solution, and took a long, considered look at the root cause of this systemic failure.
Do you have any link that compares performance of workers to EC2 instance types (for a raw idea of how much power an existing app needs) ? Also, how does deployment to IIS server and running multiple custom executables for various other tasks workout on your platform.. I mean can a worker run multiple applications ?
Here's another take on that, a scale model of the solar system that stretches across much of Sweden:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

The sun is 110 m in diameter ("including corona" they say). A 65 cm Earth is 7.6 km away.
Same here. If I find a project that upon inspection has some interesting source code I will often sit down and just read through it. I often end up learning a trick or two and by reading it I typically understand the system better and so when using it can take full advantage of what is there.
Entrepreneurs don't look too promising if their startups are clearly "unambitious".
This is ridiculous. Twitter's developers are lazy.

You don't NEED a semicolon for the interpreter, you NEED a semicolon for the other readers/users of your code!!!

That goes for all other code practices that enhance readability. If you disagree that human readability is less important than interpreter/compiler, you're a lazy moron.

Period.
Only with the permission of the courts.

How is this ANY different to the status quo ?
An Engineer's Experience on the StartupBus
of course, we checked our utube video, there were not that many views, so this is definitely not encouraging...

we have funding from other sources. still it would be cool if we are chosen by them
My impression is that the SO crew knew about running machines in front of them more than they knew about running cloudy things that depend on people they didn't hire. They like to reduce leaky abstractions, not add to them. So getting the biggest badass server and slapping SQL Server on it is exactly what I'd have expected them to do.
Game Engines for Indies
That depends on the library, of course. Yes, if the library is open source or shared source, you can step into it with no trouble. But if you're using a closed source library (a phenomenon that's far more common in the Windows world than in the Linux world), you're eventually going to run into problems where the library returns an unexpected value and you just don't know why.
Yes please Mr Krugman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Economics_and_poli...), enlighten us idiotic European people about the ins and outs of proper economic management.

The American economy is doing so well too...

The nerve on this dude, amazing.
The power of vocabulary
A credit rating is a likelihood of default. In other words, Moody's believes that Nokia has a non-negligible chance of declaring bankruptcy. These ratings are intended for investors.

Moody's isn't passing judgement on Nokia as an employer, though you may take into consideration the probability of getting laid-off in the next 12 months.
> These days, meeting such a threshold is probably effectively impossible.

At first I was inclined to agree with you, but consider this: there were six amendements to the constitution in each half of the 20th century but just four in the entire 19 century. (The Bill of Rights and the 11th Amendment were all passed before 1800.) Now, it's true that when you throw out the 27th Amendment (whose multi-century ratification time makes its 1992 passage deceiving), it has been 41 years since the last amendment was passed. But there was 60 years between the 12th and 13th Amendments and 43 years between the 15th and 16th. Neither of those two lulls were signs that the Constitution had become effectively un-amendable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Unite...
This post seems to take the attitude that "documentation will always suck, so just go right to the source". I think this attitude can impede software projects with changing code (that is, all of them).

The problem is that the source can only tell you what a program does, not what it is supposed to do. If you don't know what it is supposed to do, it can be difficult for consumers of the code to know whether some behavior is is intended or a side-effect of the current implementation. Likewise, code maintainers can be prevented from changing the implementation when they don't know if consumers are relying on undocumented behavior. It's more difficult to file bugs against undocumented code; how do you know it's a bug if you don't know what the code is supposed to do?

In brief, good documentation and good code are a virtuous cycle. Reading the source is often necessary but it should be viewed as a failure of documentation.
9-5 means you're either not working 8 hours, or you're working without taking any good sized breaks. The former might get you in trouble, but the latter is more likely to cause sub-standard work.
The ultimate endgame has to be a Google Online Bank, a Google Amazon, and a machine learning algorithms that bypasses advertising altogether and just buys you stuff before you even know you want it.
Only thing insane is your misrepresentation of the facts.

Wearing (just) your underwear at a game = OK.

Being PAID by a competitor to wear clothing and attend the game that they weren't previous going to attend = NOT OK.
SQL Injection Pocket Reference
No Support for Linux on Google Drive (As Usual Google)
August. Just remember that a rejection isn't quite pluck a random boolean out a hat: you should be looking to move forward and improve, then try for it again if it still seems right. That's what I'll be doing if/when it's a No. Looking to just file again with no change isn't really going to go anywhere.
Thank you.
It shouldn't be any direct costs to teachers. The lessons might need to be supervised by a teacher, which would be an hour of their time once a week.
As for volunteers, one hour once a week, plus travel, plus time to prepare (this will vary from person to person).
We need to raise £5000 pounds before we can register as a charity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization#Charity...
Yeah! It's not like this is a hotly anticipated service that has multiple years of "will they or wont they" hype behind it or anything...
I'm afraid the lens rental company comes out of this looking a bit better than you do. Having spent many years in indie film, I understand your position well, and am familiar with the steep cost of gear rental. On the other hand, a request for 7.5% of the item price as a reward is somewhat excessive - that's more than the insurance premium. You had a legal duty to return it, and the reward offer was at their discretion. The account manager should not have given you to understand that it was a done deal, but you would have been better off clarifying the terms of your agreement at the time, and - more importantly - not counting your chickens. On a slim film budget, this is an understandable temptation, but one you must learn to resist or delegate to a producer. Honestly, I think you'd be better off waiting for a response to your complaint letter than going public with it.
Do you think that you have the ability to solve problems that fall outside the envelope of your harvested and processed data? I certainly don't think I have that ability, and I'm human (i swear).
This downgrade is just based on Nokia's current performance which is going to continue to be bad for a couple of quarters.

But their balance sheet is solid and looks like the Nokia Lumia 900 phones are getting very good reviews and selling well:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-S...

I played with my wife's lumia 710 and it beats iphone in ease of use. If these phones sell well, which they seem to be doing, developers and apps will come too.
It's because normal people understand that:

a) Companies who sponsor an event have a right to not be screwed over.

b) Most taxpayers don't want to pay more for the Olympics then they have to.
It only feels like a bubble because of structural unemployment.

We wouldn't be talking about a bubble if blue-collar workers had the same opportunity that white-collar workers do. (Yeah, I know, I can't find a better term for the groups.)

Also, the vast amount of economic activity is happening in SF/SV and in NY. Raising money outside of these two centres is much harder. This is one facet of structural mismatch between supply and demand. One part of the 500 Startups thesis is to find under-valued startups that don't happen to be in the major tech centres.
My only concern about working with .NET has nothing to do with the language or the underlying tech. They're both fine. The problem is that the open source community on .NET (both C#, ASP.NET, & VB.NET) is anemic compared to virtually every other language, and I'd rather not reinvent wheels whenever possible.

I know one way around this is use java open source, by either a source or bytecode translator from Java to C#. Is there anything good to know in terms of limitations of this approach? Are there alternatives?

There's also the problem of using stuff that's targeted primarily for Mono, instead of .NET proper, and vice versa.

That being said a good carpenter can still crank out a nice table with a rock and some wood, but the question is should he?
Was I the only one expecting Google to knock this one out of the park, a la Gmail's introduction?

It's all about the integration. File locker service? Yawn. Everybody and their dog has a new one.

File locker service that's tightly integrated with what is (subjectively, to me) the best online collaboration suite available? And is priced to beat all competitors? Yes please.
Thanks. Some great listening there, some that I've listened too, and others that are new.
Ah, but YC has the luxury of funding 200+ companies, a founder can never hope to start that many in a lifetime.
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Well even they do not look for co-relations we all know that Jewish and Chinese are the most intelligent ones. I read a recent study that showed most of the successful entrepreneurs are from Israel or China.
Can you go in the street and sell Mikrosoft Windows or Apple EyeMacs ?

For a website with so many startups you think people would be a little more aware of how copyright and trademarks work.
even ebay's seller policy is bit more fair, their watchdog paypal is worse. They will freeze your fund for 6 months, which is definitely punitive abuse of power.
just curious.. what file types do you want on your phone?

I don't have a use case for mobile file syncing for myself.
We're doing lesson plans for ages 10-11 first. Then we'll move on to other age groups :)
How far you've come. I'm proud to see you write this.
A new version of the extension is now available. A better version of my new file extension is now available, thanks to a commenter on my blog. http://ianisted.co.uk/new-file-for-alfred-2
I absolutely agree with this. Hopefully with different guests each week it becomes easier to start with who people are, rather than some inane nonsense.
There was a post a few months ago about a startup that needed to redo their entire application in open source because their biz spark ran out. Anyone remember that? Maybe it's a good deal now, but it better be a good deal a couple years from now when it expires. Anyway I am just happy I don't have to do microsoft stuff.
That's the sentiment that's been conveyed to me when visiting a few university classes that make use of LabVIEW. I think that a great number of programmers that come from textual programming languages (I'm one of them) find the environment jarring as we try to force LabVIEW to fit norms we've built through out experiences in other languages. I think this is a combination of poor educational material catered towards dispelling projected similarities between graphical and textual programming languages and less than great communication beyond the scientific engineering user base of what LabVIEW is really great at.

In any case, thank you for the feedback, it's always great to hear back from fellow programmers that have had experiences with LabVIEW.
You are most welcome to use all our lesson plans and projects to start up your own thing in the US.
Manila-Based Social Music Service Twitmusic Makes It Into 500 Startups
A better Create New File in Finder extension. Download.
> you can never go broke underestimating the good taste of the american public

Is bear-baiting coming back, then?
U.S. Treasuries Lose ‘Risk-Free’ Luster
If you want to work on scale I've got a job for you.

email me: Jerickson@yammer-inc.com