skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a little bit of nitpicking... my mother was one of those secretaries in the 70's and 80's, So I can speak with some degree of confidence about this subject.

I agree that the work was grunt... but it was far from being "unskilled". Companies' needs have not changed that much over time, but the means to achieve those ends have. Low-level office clerks would basically tasked with executing the "organizational software" that kept the business running. They had to follow complex procedures in a very precise way, if the opaque data contained in paper was ever to be used as information. And remember, we are talking about the entry level positions here.

Now, there was a career path for those white collar workers as well. I.e. my mother, she never got a high school diploma, or even a junior high "traditional" education. But, she had responsibilities that would be now require a college education, and paid accordingly. For the conversations, I take that she would basically execute algorithms by hand and process information in the same way a RDBMS would in the present, even if she does not have the technical vocabulary to describe it that way.

So, the fact that you think those jobs are "unskilled" reflects a lot of how, as a society, we have come to trivialize a whole economic activity that was rendered obsolete by technology. What happened to those people is the equivalent of what would happen to the medical profession if nanotechnology advanced to a point when a semi-literate technician could listen to a patient for 5 minutes and choose from a handful of flasks which mix of nano-robots to inject her.
> scp to copy files to another machine or server

Shouldn't that be rsync? I was under the impression scp has been fully superseded by rsync. Secure, more efficient, basically only transfers diffs instead of whole files.
so long as you're not doing a !bang specialized query, all of them.
Have you ever read a prospectus from start to finish?

Groupon's is ~270 pages long: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/0001047469110...
From my understanding, pre JOBS act, you could not use something like kickstarter to sell equity in your company (especially bc investor accreditation issues.) Kickstarter has been used for preorders/donations.

Post JOBS act, I believe a tool like kickstarter could be used to sell micro portions of equity in a company.
Sure, but by their definition someone who visits Google+ once and then never does anything with Google except search for the rest of time still counts as an active Google+ user.

Those people simply aren't engaged in any kind of social layer, and yet Google is reporting them as if they are.

It might not be correct to measure Google+ as if it were a direct equivalent to Facebook, but that doesn't make the numbers they are releasing any less misleading.
This is important because some leading local search engines (seznam, naver (?), baidu) use Bing for their global index.
I don't think product pre-orders are regulated like that. For the SEC to have some jurisdiction, I think you'd have to be promised a share of the company or the eventual profits.

I do think the JOBS Act has been touted as enabling Kickstarter-like things where you actually invest in the enterprise, though: money can be raised from small-net-worth individuals as long as the sums are modest.
You may have assets that are worth, or potentially worth, a lot -- now or in the future.

The reality is, for some, the value of their digital dabblings will be worth as much, if not more, than their tangible assets -- if not today then several years down the line.

So establishing legal ownership on these is potentially very important.

I know. Some things (years old and forgotten) have benefited me greatly.
This got me thinking...is it possible for Microsoft to secretly buy out DDG and leave them the fuck alone except where they need help(ie. access to Bing index)?

For all the money the Bing unit keeps pouring, I feel buying DDG and leaving them the heck alone can be a reasonable long-term bet with relatively little risk.

The challenge would be to keep the founders/team motivated. They could spin it off as a completely different company on IPO track and give significant equity. But then what if Google wants to buy them out? And of course, the Bing team may have a problem with MSFT creating internal competition though that may just push em to do better.

More likely if DuckDuckGo gets in an acquisition bidding war, I put my money on Gabe passing acquisition for raising a huge funding round that lets him take some money off the table.

With all the flaws(enough that I don't use it), it remains a rare search engine start-up that has its heart in the right place: to actually serve consumers versus build some technology or team and get acquired(looking at you, Powerset).
"Google+ is not and never will be (and never wanted to be) a Facebook"

Tell that to my new Google+ Cover Photo....

Even if all of your points are valid, you must admit they keep releasing numbers trying to show it's this super fast growing network, and yet you can see just by the number of sites that have a G+ button, that people are not even engaging in that level of activity. Pinterest on the other hand, which has actual user engagement is already starting to overtake Google on these little + buttons.
3 months ago I thought JS was a toy language for those who don't know any real programming language (a.k.a. script kiddies). I've never been so mistaken in my life.

Node.js (written in CoffeeScript) + MongoDB/CouchDB/Redis + socket.io is a wonderful (and scalable and wicked fast) development platform.
How would PGP solve the problem of knowing that a resource on the internet didn't change? Doesn't someone have to verify this, which is the point of httpc?
Isn't Facebook doing the same thing and reporting active users as people who use the like button or post comments through their commenting system on 3rd party sites?
Me, yesterday:

"Seems to me that continuing to count everyone who gets an Android phone or signs up for Gmail as a G+ user just invites people to pile on and point out how underwhelming G+'s userbase has been to date."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3829846

You can defend G+ being a beta release or fundamentally different from facebook and twitter despite aping tons of FB and Twitter features. What you can't really defend imho is the continued exaggeration of G+'s userbase. I'd guess over half of the claimed G+ userbase has never touched it. Many have probably never heard of it.
You'd be amazed how little that matters in Lisp.

It bites me in Ruby/Python, but not in Lisp.
We do it so that when people zoom in on the site (using `⌘ + +` on a Mac) the image doesn't become pixelated and ugly.

We do it with most other images, too.
> I don't want to recharge my watch like a cell phone

Isn't that (part of) why it's got an eink display?
I was expecting this as soon as I saw that the CEO of Pastebin (or whoever he was, I don't remember) said that they will put a stop to posts from Anonymous and such.
It's a pity that there is no discussion of the fact that the 2 interpreters use different scoping. The 1st uses lexical scoping, and the 2nd uses dynamic scoping.

It's also a pity that there is no discussion of the “label” special form, even though its implementation was right there in the code being discussed. This is a very fertile area for conversation.

For example, why is it that McCarthy was able to implement recursive procedures with “label” so simply without using any assignment or mutation?
Or, paraphrasing my recollection of Tim Cook's remarks, "we're working to extend our inspections of factory conditions deeper into the supply chain." Probably if you chase down some of the components to the iPad you'd find much worse conditions than shown here. Not to mention the bags of concrete and hunks of rebar I get at Home Depot.
I've been using the same protein for years because it seems to work just fine and it's such a hassle to spend the $20-$30 on a new tub just to try a new band out, even though I'm sure there have to be better, more advanced products out there as research has improved.
Not only that but the required intermediaries for the crowdfunded companies will be required to do background checks, verification of financials...etc, etc. The details on what will be required, reporting wise, from these companies and the intermediaries that handle the crowdfunding are being worked out now.

I can guarantee it is going to involve a bit more than a powerpoint presentation.

I don't know why they are spreading this FUD.
Personally, I don't see any reason for anybody to have access to my online passwords if I die tomorrow. Everything that really matters is either already public (e.g. GitHub) or already shared with people who matter (e.g. Dropbox shared folders). No need for a password to access their contents. I also can't think of any cloud-based data that I would want to keep password-protected during my life but reveal after death. If it's not already public and/or shared with at least my family, it's probably because I have judged that it's none of their business in the first place.

But the contents of my encrypted hard drive is a different question. The article suggests using a hidden volume with a separate password, and that's a use case I've never thought of. Although practically, it would be more convenient to use two separate partitions or an external hard drive, because then you can mount both at the same time and periodically synchronize data between them.
Inspiring. I wonder how helpful YC was to them for being largely a hardware company. Mass production and distribution must be some of the biggest challenges... maybe they can be the next Apple :)
That is because they have little to gain by announcing the number of searches because they're already way on top.

On the other hand, if G+ numbers were good, they would definitely announce it to increase the hype and get more people to check it out, out of curiosity.
Thanks. Isn't ePub just zipped xml/html?
Why aren't there more choices? Seems like a wrapped Webkit would do the trick.
Or maybe people just don't read much on PCs anymore.
NYU students are petitioning for a permanent hacker space
Boeing is developing an Android phone
Violating the user's expectations to this degree is not delightful UX.
Thanks for sharing this! Too busy in chat to keep up with all the HN comments : )
It does, the video says ~7 days on one charge.
Not bad but not great either.
When to apply for a startup accelerator - and when you shouldn't
Sales post-mortem for an indie game
> They can say that it isn't legally binding, but that claim isn't ... err... legally binding.

That is the most perfectly succinct explanation for why this might be a bad idea. Well done.
Outstanding concept, and a wonderful way to use very simple technology to provide a service we'd all like to have, even if we don't realize it as yet.

Questions:
With something so important, what assurances can be made that 20, 30, 40 years down the road, that this service will still be up and running to do its work? Or does the service itself have such a provision?

How does this establish "signs of life?" Do we count things like tweets, Facebook posts, etc.? ('twould probably be cool if we did).. What about in 15 years when we're using xyzzy and plugh? Seems like not only that this service commits to keeping itself up long past the founders are on to bigger and better things, but keeping itself current with the social media of the day.

*Wouldn't spinning this as an e-will or "social will" be a good way to help people understand it? Sure, I might want to tell my boss off after the statute of limitations expires, which doesn't count as a will, but those are limited instances.
ACTA rapporteur will recommend EU Parliament to reject ACTA
>By my reckoning, despite superficial similarities and similar heritages, Lisp and Haskell are actually polar opposites at a philosophical level, so you will certainly encounter a lot of difficulty trying to understand Haskell through a Lisp lens.

That has been my suspicion and my experience.
As opposed to the fraud that IS the stock market today? (For the average person the stock market offers no return, the 20th century was good but now it is so efficient that any extra is skimmed off by the smarter hedge funds).

There is an overinvestment in the stock market today, the excess money needs to go somewhere so elsewhere, which for the past few years was the housing bubble. However housing is not a wealth producing exportable industry (and is already overinvested/iverpriced), and so the capital needs a new outlet - private equity (which includes venture capital). The fact that this investment option has been closed of to ordinary people is the real fraud (that has been occurring for 80 years now).
When the multi-player asteroids story was published, people were talking about Firebase, and having never heard of it, I started googling and found this:
http://www.cubeia.com/index.php/products/firebase
A scalable real-time game server with a html5/javascript front end. I still don't know which Firebase that game was built with. You guys have trademark issues.
> David: One state had its voter file arrive on a magnetic tape format called 128 CPI — characters per inch of magnetic tape (same format that was used by UNIVAC in 1951) — which is probably how Auric Goldfinger stored his data. Converting it to something useable was more expensive than acquiring the tape itself.

That's amazing. I wonder which state it was.
No, I'm not looking for Github Logo. I'm looking to open dashboard in a new tab. ok thanks.
DuckDuckGo uses more than just Bing for it's search backend [1], however I wonder if their other sources are enough to compensate for the potential loss of Bing.

[1] http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
If you want to build a sustainable business you should keep up the discipline of living within your means and grow slowly through the bubble.

If you want to make money rite now (and lots of it) ride with the bubble. The answer depends on what your objectives were when you started your business.
I have to ask, what was the point of the post ?

It just looked like an endless rant deviating from the numbers that google was not publishing to the comparision with Facebook to the actual realization that G+ may not be a _ghost town_ and back to more google bashing.

-1 if I could, but I can not.
The act allows mom and pop to invest with little or no "burdensome" ongoing disclosure. I run a startup and would love to have their cash, but the sharks will get it instead.

Instead of doubling down on opacity, Congress should take a leaf from the non-profit industry. There, at least everybody's tax return (Form 990) is available for public inspection. Some of them are very illuminating. Even just that would be a better start than this.

The idea that continuous disclosure has to be burdensome is a relic from the past. You want to raise money from my mom? Let me monitor your Quickbooks online account.
If Google+ runs as deep as Google seems to imply it does, anyone using Google search while signed in is "using" Google+. I know when I do searches, I get results based on what people I know have been sharing. If I search for "putty", my top result is the PuTTY client, because lots of Google+ users have visited the page or liked it or shared it or something. I can see under the search result how many people +1'd it.

I'd consider that "using" Google+ the way I understand Google+ to work. You don't need to use it as a Facebook in order to experience the "plus" in Google+ (criticisms about SPYW aside).
no, i had no idea the original commenter was a woman. she didn't say "i am a woman and i was offended" either, so you're putting words into her mouth.

the author of the original post Kelly Faircloth is a woman too. that also deflates the notion that the headline, picture, and phrasing in the text was sexist.
It's interesting that Microsoft is planning to charge more than Yahoo! Boss for access to the same data. BOSS charges $0.80 per 1000 queries, while Microsoft is priced at $2 per 1000 queries. BOSS is also pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimum. BOSS has less restrictive terms and conditions (re-ordering allowed, for instance). I've been using the Bing API instead of Yahoo! BOSS for my metasearch engine for two reasons: the feed is free, and the response time is faster. The Microsoft/BOSS prices are not unreasonable if you are actively monetizing your page with search ads, but if you are doing an experimental search engine it is very stressful. If I suddenly get a surge in traffic, I could be broke very quickly.
Lies, damn lies, and online video traffic rankings
MintChip Misses the Point of Digital Currency
I agree entirely, but we're thinking like programmers. Grab someone who's never programmed at all and ask them if `123 is equal to "123"`.

This essentially breaks down to the top-down vs bottom-up education style debate. You can learn the gritty details and get caught up in minor details that may not matter in other languages, or learn how to do something, and get tripped up by the details in other languages. Similarly, we could teach kids abstract algebra, or basic +-*/ and then over-simplify when they try to divide by zero.

Neither is ideal, both have useful traits and problems, so we have to pick one. Or try to come up with something radically different.

edit: to ask it another way: if PHP is a massively-popular gateway drug to the world of programming, but it gives some people horrible flashbacks for the rest of their lives, do you want to make it illegal and close the door to a huge number of people?
Ask HN: I'm doing Startup Weekend for the first time. Any advice or insight?
Show HN: Finding running partners to run together.
A small site I put together as a weekend project. For now limited to NYC (because that's where I'm) to figure out the right features and get some traction in one small area before opening up to other areas. The goal is to help runners find other people to run with who run the same distance/pace.

All feedback/suggestions are welcome.
Reddit being subpoenaed after users reportedly egged-on suicidal man
Time for people to start supporting something like Common Crawl http://commoncrawl.org/ to build their own search engines.
Care to elaborate? Firebase's FAQ seems to suggest that they're still working on a solution.
But in this case, Google is publishing numbers. Numbers that by their own admission aren't even trying to measure the right thing, and which seem to over-count that wrong thing anyways. Given that they're publishing any numbers at all, why are they publishing those numbers in place of more relevant ones?
Highly interested in what you plan to offer for authentication options and security (both data and transport).

This sounds like Model-as-a-service from the MVC pattern.
The kid had a fun hobby making and tinkering with stuff. Buying him a claw machine means he has less reason to create new things. He now has a complex bit of machinery that he needs to service. (Cost of stocking it; running it; repairing it; etc.) How much space does he have for these machines?

Running a business is fine. But does he really want to be someone who owns an arcade, or does he want to be a design engineer creating tech?

> I'm guessing you had a very controlling parent and have the terrible urge to do the same.

You didn't need to say this. You can do better.
everytime i browse kickstarter-like sites I keep wondering how that affect tax.

i'm buying a book from this guy, but it's not a product still, as he will work on it. but it's not service either, because i have no say on what he will write. and i will get a book in the end, so it's a product. unless he never get's to write it.

oh well, one more experience ruined by tax filling month paranoia.
no that's just the high level representation of the program I was commenting the tendency of non political tecies (who are not wonks) to make a very superficial link between using a SCS to commit code and how government and in how particular laws are made.
Facebook: a tool for interaction that breeds loneliness?
What level of control do you have for authentication? I didn't see much info on this on the website.
I love it! The Boston Globe website (boston.com) had at one point demoed a similarly responsive front page, but they seem to have switched back to their old annoying format.
I didn't even know Bing Search API let you just query it. IMO they should have done more evangalism before starting to charge. Has someone used this to re-create the classic Google search experience that Google has shit all over recently?

On a different note, it seems both Google and Microsoft are in a battle to first commoditize the other's core product and then start charging. Google's getting more aggressive with charging for Apps. And now Microsoft with the index.
This could be incredibly useful for full stack developers that need to do mockups quickly, or have clients that are constantly calling them and asking questions like, "Can you build me something like $data_driven_webapp_dujour".

If your client just needs something small, you could host it on Firebase.

I also like the possibility of hosting an entire data driven application on Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files.

Looking forward to giving it a try.
What will this mean for RSUs?
They claimed 2B rows for their voter database. If I understood that correctly, that means they know about 2 billion people.

Do they cover countries other than America? Because the population of America is only 300 million or so; even accounting for false positives (failing to sync two accounts as one person) or fake identities (pet dog has an account), I don't really see how you can get from 300m to 2b.
Pebble Smart Watch Blows Past Funding Goal, Hits $1M on Kickstarter
So what's the big difference of doing it on server side v/s client side? You can get it wrong on both sides.

Especially what's wrong with a templating system? A templating system on server side can help avoid casual escaping bugs by doing automatic escaping of everything by default. Exactly the same thing can be done on client side.

OK, I think I found the quote that is troubling you:

> It has been well noted by the group that any kind of reliance on a JavaScript library for encoding would be problematic as the JavaScript library could be subverted by attackers.

So basically we are talking about the case where users machine has been compromised? In such a case I don't really see how you can be sure of anything - that user is screwed.

At the same time the article suggests multiple ways of encoding the data on client side... I'm a bit puzzled.

Maybe what they really meant was that you shouldn't hope at server side that the client side correctly performed the encoding, like hoping the client will escape you database query arguments... but that's just basic everyday knowledge.
Macintosh Text Editor BBEdit Turns 20
its terrible when Windows (ouh ouh EVIL MS) does stuff like that
it's normal when Mac OSX does it.

Lets push this further. It's ok when github hijacks your right click (makes the logo download more annoying while pretending to make things nicer).
It's terrible if MS/Mozilla/Whoever isn't hype right now does it.

As simple as that. Sadly.
Cool feature, but it block the "open link in new tab" menu option.
Its all Arial for that very reason. And I thought PDFs would work. When I first started this process I'd send a link to linkedin but got push-back. So then I tried PDF. Push-back on that too. "Have you got it in Word?"
Well this way it's pixelated and ugly by default. I don't think that's better.
Awesome talk! I see you are located in Cambridge, are you going to give a talk/demo there anytime soon?
It's about ~200M voters (United States only)
Played with Win7 today in a VM, trying to test IE stuff - you can't even drag the command line window handle to make it bigger. Your options are taller window or full screen, but the text just gets larger. Pure garbage. Glad I switched to OSX a long long time ago (Linux is also equally awesome, but I like the hardware/software integration Apple gives me).