skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I --and I am sure others-- have exactly zero interest in touching any Google product other than Analytics because it can all go "poof" overnight if an algorithm doesn't like something you did somewhere...and you'll never know why and never have real recourse to attempt to fix it."

We who recognize the problem are in the minuscule minority, and those of us who don't use their services because of that are in the unmeasurable minority. Google won't lose a measurable cent over it.
Anna Miminoshvili Fall/Winter 2012-13, Moscow
On the long game: a 20 year web page
Baby Born With Six Legs
It would take me far longer given that I've set it up on all PC's and devices that I use.

Also, would require to be quite certain Google's software works as well as Dropbox's does.
But while things like technologies change quite quickly I would argue that the methodologies that sit around these technologies develop a lot slower.

Also while I understand that this is technology site there are many skills today that don't require passing on knowledge of specific computational technical knowledge, and I would argue in the future this would also be true.
I agree. Bill Gates is doing great work.

But space exploration and colonization is as important as finding cure for diseases considering our tendency for self destruction.

Currently all humans staying on earth currently is the equivalent of putting all eggs in one basket. Just as it is important to find cure for diseases, solve the problems of hunger and improve people's lives, space colonization is important too!
I find it very hard to figure out the context of this article. First, what kind of repositories? After a while, I settled on "source code repositories". Now, given that a lot of importance is given to readmes, maybe we're talking about Github repositories? Surely, the repositories at my company don't have readmes, because they don't have something like a Github. When you join a team, the rest of the team is the readme.

And so on, and so forth. Please, guys, if you write a blog post, add some context!
Hold That Password: The New Reality of Evaluating Job Applicants
Reports that some employers are asking job candidates to provide their Facebook logon information has generated intense outrage from some circles, along with a bevy of legal and privacy-related questions. But these recent events only highlight a new reality: The identity that individuals create in the world of social media is quickly becoming an important factor in hiring decisions and in people's broader professional lives.
Perhaps the difference can be explained by this guy's employees - sounds like he started with exactly the right person as contractor No. 1 (or employee No. 1, given the other discussions on this thread). That has allowed the company to scale and train others to the same high standards.
If they want, let them provide links to their songs on the itunes/<mp3 store>, add your affiliate code to the links. $$$
MOBIbuck's Jorge Fernandes: The Future of Knowledge and Money Is Mobile
The global market for mobile payments is expected to reach US$670 billion by 2015. But while portable devices such as tablets and smartphones slowly become the predominant means for staying connected and online, MOBIbuck CEO and co-founder Jorge Fernandes says the reason the world is moving to a digital lifestyle is because of a shift in culture and consumption patterns. Speaking with Arabic Knowledge@Wharton, Fernandes shares his thoughts on the mobile world, emerging technology, digital learning and innovation leapfrogging.
My only problem with reading source code of larger projects is architecture. It can be quite difficult sometimes to understand the architecture of some of the larger projects in order to actually read the source.
Source: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/blackmagiccinemaca...

I've used their Intensity Pro and Intensity Shuttle for capturing 1080p/60 HDMI (gaming consoles) and those are the cats meow for under $250. Nothing else comes close for the price.

I can only assume this will be similar. Nice job guys.
Batik Bola City 1C
Not a very accurate comparison.

The question is not, what would you do to make a living. The question is what would you do in your time if you had enough money not to go out and make a living. Many of us do what we do, because we need a monthly pay check to feed us, pay our bills and send our kids to school.

If you had 20 billion dollars, what would be your bigger priorities. Building and maintaining a Php site(which is important too, because that is what got the 20 billion dollars) or Space Travel?
Jordan Jumpman
This is what the future of online storage will be, but it won't be google/dropbox/amazon etc. but rather 'your wordprocessor'/'your email'/'your social network' etc.

adding a compatibility layer between storage networks is a temporary fix for when a standard is formed.
Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)
Just glancing over at my bookshelf, how about Tanenbaum's OSDI and Knuth's MMIXware?
I think you picked the worst example. I have heard harsh warnings about going into the (German) game industry since I was a freshman. And I have heard bad things out of the most famous German game shop during their last AAA release crunchtime, so it doesn't seem to have gotten any better.
I've been using their low-end product for a while (Intensity); both their hardware and software so far has been solid, especially considering the price.
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pud, get on the phone with this man. He's bound to have more ideas.
Rejected.
We build mobile mall app with indoor positioning based on wifi fingerprinting. App allows user to find what he wants inside of mall, and retailers get ability to analyze user's routes and push location aware ads. Think of point inside with better accuracy.
Yc is awesome opportunity but not the only one so rejection is not painful at all.
I love the intensity extreme with a MacBook Air. They make really good hardware -- just sometimes slips in general availability by many months.
Well, it doesn't look like it will be available for Windows 8 RT, which is somewhat strange, considering that I would assume the ARM devices are media-centric.
Show HN: Visualize your computer time
The top paid game apps in the iTunes app store right now are: Draw Something, Angry Birds Space, Clear Vision, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, TETRIS, Bejeweled, Skylanders Cloud Patrol, and Cut the Rope.

None of those games would be improved by increasing photorealism.
> Is it going to be a programming competition rather than a computer game?

I certainly hope so. It is rare in games that you get better in virtual word by training a skill that is useful in real life.

Someone please do something like that for maths, physics and chemistry; we may yet be able to save education.
Enter Git - Getting started with git
I wrote an article / tutorial on Git from a newcomer perspective. It's supposed help front-end developers pick up git.
Pinterest, here’s why we won’t all be publishers
First, you want this one (inflation-adjusted): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=real+gdp+per+capita+uni...

Second, women's participation in work force increased (data the article quotes is per worker-hour not per person).

Third, hours worked per person increased (and quoted figure is per worker-hour not per person)

Fourth, share of wage in compensation decreased drastically. Larger part of GDP goes into non-wage compensation (health insurance, retirement funds etc.), smaller part goes into wage. (and article quotes wages/hour not total compensation/hour).

So far so good. Except that's only stagnation, not any drastic collapse.

Fifth, the article lies outright and uses conspiracy theory inflation figures from shadowstats. You need to use the blue line on their graph (which shows stagnation is hourly earnings - that much is true), not conspiracy theory green line.
I think that's possibly too simplistic. If the reason there's so much shit that needs doing is because the second guy didn't do it right first time then hiring the second guy might have been a mistake.

Maybe the first guy is just pissed that he has to put up with so much shit written by the second guy and is vocalising his desire to be free from it.

I prefer to think in terms of 'mean change turnaround' time; how quickly can your organisation or individual go from a problem or change request to functioning production system? If nothing ever breaks but new reports take 6 months, that's probably worse for business than the occasional outage and new reports taking 2 weeks.
Adrive.com offers 50 GB of free space and has already offered for years.
You are entirely wrong. If everyone earns 10x more and everything costs 10x more (compared with let's say previous year), everybody's standards of living is exactly unchanged, while inflation is 900%.
I think they meant YC Application not software application.
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are Vested in Vision
I wouldn't worry. It's not changed a single thing for us. YC is just the lamborghini. We are still going to get exactly where we need to go in our trusty wagon, we just might of got their quicker in the Lambo.

Ultimately, I don't think anything should change for anyone who got rejected.
There are so many articles because there are a lot of people out there that really like git. It's like cutting meat with a spoon and then you are given a knife. Everyone is complaining about how you can cut yourself or how two sides of the knife but only one is sharp is confusing but once you know how to use it it is a game changer with respect to actually cutting meat. There are a lot of people passionate about cutting meat.

It's not really that hard to learn btw. There are some esoteric things that can be tricky but the Svn workflow can be learned in a day or two tops.
But how much of that effect is explained by the olive oil?
Microsoft Confirms “Windows 8″ Name And Version Details
Don't forget the opportunity losses. These people could have contributed to society and the economy further.
One of the main reasons I hang out on programming help channels on IRC is to hone my skills in reading other peoples' messy code when helping them solve a problem. Plus, there's the bonus good feeling from helping people :)
Now what if the leadership are the ones telling the grunts in the trenches "it's not your job"?
5 Smartphones that are Perfect for Business Users
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It's certainly related. At many points in the history of US labor people have sought for the appropriate "resting point" for various responsibilities (such as pensions and retirement investments) and often they've come to the employer, because through a certain viewport during a certain period of time it seemed like a sensible solution.
Obviously not everything studied in Rat models scales well or is even effective at all in Humans, but the potential applications of this will surely raise a few eyebrows!

Interesting to note a daily diet of olive oil increased their average lifespan by 4 months alone! The Omega-3 fatty acids in it at a guess... but I wonder what the exact methods of action are for C60!
GateOne: HTML5 web-based terminal emulator and SSH client
I often find that over-enthusiasm for a task can often be a huge factor in getting estimates wrong: over-enthusiasm will lead to the compound effect of underestimating past experiences, over-confidence, and, when your interest wanes, you end up dragging your feet and spending a lot more time doing the gritty, uninteresting parts of the task.
> your average company or publisher does not care to fund AI beyond enemies that can throw themselves into your gun barrel

Ironically the game where I've seen the most convincing AI currently is the Forza Motorsport series (increasing with each release). There is nothing short of impressive in seeing opponent drivers trying to pressure you to fault, intentionally breaking on you way after the apex just when you are about to floor it, showing excess of confidence throwing them out of the track, or reacting to pressure you put on them (you can literally see some panicking or getting aggressive in their driving), learning to clock faster times lap after lap and race after race, and even from your own lines. Sure they're nowhere near a real human, and with experience you can land better times than the AI and outsmart them, but there's plenty of physics and graphics going on already and there are trade-offs to be made.
The biggest culture gap between content and coding is that we have repeatable processes to extract a million dollars (or more) out of a programmer paid $100,000, and can scale that to an arbitrarily high number of programmers, but we do not have repeatable processes to extract a million dollars out of a... "creative" paid $100,000 or $10,000, and to the extent that any business has figured out how to scale that, they have either a) decided that the way forward is to use prometeur talent paid peanuts (+) or b) have large Our Business Model Is Dying signs stapled to their forehead. Techies, who like to think we have the intelligence God gave the average squirrel, do not like imitating dying business models. We prefer killing dying business models instead. This is why Demand Media of X sounds like a semi-attractive proposition as long as X is not "Programming." +

+ I write. I don't have an emotional attachment to the profession of writing. From my perhaps biased perspective, there exists a wide spectrum of writing, and the overwhelming majority of it is not the New York Times editorial page.

There's a market for 5 star chefs in writing just like there is in food, but pink slime and Tyson chicken keeps people from going hungry every single day, and the numbers suggest that pink slime is a sustainable, growing business and 5 star chefs are a perpetually money-losing luxury good hanging on to life via subsidies from rich people who enjoy cocktail parties in New York and the social superiority this gives over people who eat Tyson chicken. If we agree that large portions of the creative industries are producing writing/videos/etc where enduring works of literary genius are neither necessary nor particularly desirable (from "How to roast a chicken" to "3 Adlai E. Stevenson High School Students Got Perfect Scores on the SAT" to "7 year old killed in gang crossfire; Family mourns" to "Her: librarian. Him: mindflayer. Plot: chance brings them together, they hate each other, they go on to have mindblowing sex, stay tuned for more of same in books 2 through 8"), then the really interesting questions are not about quality so much as they are about process / business model / etc. We have good, interesting answers to many of those... and our answers frequently do not include high-paid, high-status creative folks.

P.S. If there is any pink slime in the audience, I apologize for putting you in the same sentence as the New York Times editorial page, it is just adopting a common conceit to make a point.
They had a plain olive oil control that increased the lifespan from 22 to 26 months, compared to 42 with the C60 + oil.
I totally agree with this last point. I help run a small sailing website. We have no ads on our site, but we send out regular email newsletters that contain ads. These ads more than pay for the site itself, and we can easily switch advertisers between the newsletters. It's been a lot easier than I thought to target advertisers, because we have a load of data on how many people have subscribed and click-through rates etc. We typically sell the adverts in blocks of 3 or 6 months, where we send out 2 newsletters per month.

The most clicked-on links in that email newsletter is a list of the recent posts made to the classified section on our website. It's free to post an advert up on the classified section of something you're trying to sell, but you need to be a member of the site to do that. The newsletter acts as a reminder - so people can regularly see what's been recently posted, as they probably haven't visited that part of the website recently.
> what kind of repositories

There's only one "kind" of repository generally referred to in programming topics.

> Surely, the repositories at my company don't have readmes

Good lord, why not?! Mine do!

> When you join a team, the rest of the team is the readme.

What nonsense. That is a horrible, inefficient use of resources. Stop it now, you're wasting time and, hence, money. There is no reason to keep walking new developers through the same steps and answering the same questions over and over again. Write a README! And a HACKING!
Hawley Channels His Inner Schneier
Sorry, link got hosed.

http://www.zazzle.com/read_the_source_tshirt-235248361224605...

This one should do the trick.
There were three groups:

1. control (normal rats) - 22 month lifespan

2. olive oil rats - 26 month lifespan

3. olive oil + C60 rats - 42 month lifespan

So, only about 1/5th of the effect is explained by the olive oil.
Scrum attempts to solve many of these problems, rather than just labelling them:

http://www.writemoretests.com/2012/02/estimating-like-an-adu...
So that review says multiple times, that Debian is the OS of choice. I remember reading that a Remix-version of Fedora is the "official" RaspberryPI-Distribution.

Maybe that's the reason for some negative test results?
Instagram, Not Instant Success
I was probably being an arse by not admitting a misspelling. (Chrome says arse is spelt wrong.)

However, I still don't think it is appropriate to swear in a written communication.
440€? no way!

If you need performance and graphics:

PandaBoard ES (182$, dual 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM, wifi)

BeagleBoard-xM (140$, 1GHz, 512MB RAM)

If you need a small form factor ("Altoid"-size):

BeagleBone (90$, 700Mhz, 256MB RAM)

All are able to run the latest official Ubuntu ARM release e.g.
Some people are leaving partly to pay more tax. Sometimes the spiral downwards of paying less tax can be bad for society. eg raises poverty line.
The more I think about this, the more you are wrong. Etiquette shouldn't be enforced, it should be automatic and implied.
I don't know anything about movie production, but are camera costs really "a tiny fraction of budget" for indie film makers?

Also, doesn't think make movie production more accessible?

Isn't this similar to < $1K DSLRs? Sure, the cost of a camera might be nothing to National Geographic, but for everyone else [interested in photography] they've had a pretty big impact.
Hello, world. My first contribution to Hacker News.
If I remember right, there are actually rules about that specific type of situation. If you've never lived in, had any substantial economic links to, or done anything that could be seen as claiming US citizenship, I believe you can renounce your citizenship and received a formal waiver of any tax liability.
nice photo
unless it meets SEC disclosure laws then a price is almost always leaked, and then often in ballpark

responsibility for leaks, almost in order, would be angel investors, VC investors, lawyers and then founders, almost always on the side of the company being purchased.

M&A execs, founders and investors sometimes leaks sales negotiations when they believe it is in their favor to do so.
Google no longer allows Web Of Trust and similar ratings next to sponsored links
thanks for those thoughts. your points #1 and #2 are where we've focused so far. #3 and #4 are definitely interesting ideas. really appreciate the input.
There are also simplifications. We don't spend years in training how to throw a spear well or use a bow and arrow or blowgun, we don't spend years learning how to make needle and thread from plants and bone, nor sew animal hides, we don't memorize long oral poems, we don't cure our own leather, we don't learn the best ways to store ice for the summer, nor how to ride and keep a horse ... I think you get the idea.

Even in the sciences, we don't learn Euclid's Elements but instead learn trigonometry, we learn evolution, so have a single unified field of biology instead of multiple independent disciplines of botany, anatomy, etc., we have solid state devices so few of us know about vacuum tubes.

('We' here of course is meant in the general sense. There are still people who learn the intricate details of flint knapping, or learn ancient Greek to read the Elements, or any one of these topics.)

So yes, there are limits, but either 1) we reached those limits long ago, and solved it by diversification in individual rules, or 2) we are nowhere close to them for our cultural requirements.
A social network dedicated for musicians can't yield any blame on you. Musicians need visibility. You would provide it for free and take a small cut on the one who get traction and earn money from it. It sounds to me like a fair deal.
This is a kickstarter like model specialized for musicians.
Apple disables automatic Flash execution
If you can't make do with a cheap camera, you probably will want good lighting and sound (or else the expensive camera is literally wasted), and that is indeed much costlier than the camera in my experience.
That apocryphal last comment is irrelevant though as the code bases entire split many, many, versions ago. (pre 7.0)
It is usually possible to do for any type of position [not only developers] if you make a deep-dive interview, asking a lot of open questions (how? why? etc) to understand the operating motto of a person. Drawback - it may take up to 1.5-2.5 hours of one-on-one conversation.

I have never failed to separate doers from other types.

The only issue I had is that sometimes, after interviwing 20-30 people, I could not find a 100% doer, and therefore I had to make a comromise.
Sellaband.com has been doing that since 2006.

For the record, most artists, including winners (I personally know one of them), say it's a double-edged sword: it gives you exposure, money and a foot in the biz, but in the end it's all about marketing and getting viral rather than concentrating on making music.
I didn't know it was all written in Assembly.
Is there any documentation to help with reading the code?

Thanks for the code btw. PoP is a landmark in the history of computer games.
+1 the not yet rejected part
I can't find the Makefile :D
we are two 22 years old guys from Moscow:
1) me, currently one of the first engineers at vc-backed startup. prior that worked in russian space corporation on GLONASS programme. Graduated Moscow Aviation Institute with speciality in navigation systems.
2) my buddy, who co-founded executive photo company mnmf.ru which profitable from day zero. Prior that was responsible for marketing at real-estate company.

We're building mall app with indoor positioning.
Well. This language seems to be senseless. It looks like all those parenthesis are there to make language look like Lisp. Well, I'd grade Lispness of this code as totaly non-Lisp like. Far more interesting would be atempt to create C-looking functional language that could look like that:

define( fact, ( n ), function(
cond( ( n = 0 || n = 1, 1 )
( n > 1, n * fact(n-1) )
)
)

print( fact( 5 ) )

I think I'd try to program in language like that. Lisp way of thinking, but parenthesis are bit more helpful and there are "normaly" used operators which makes language bit more readable.
Your project looks like another purely academic example. I think purely academic examples sucks because don't teach people to do what is actualy needed.

I didn't read your code carefully, but "endles" elsif chains looks terrible and I think there shouldn't be stuff like that in tutorial project. Moreover I believe java isn't good tool for that purpouse( another nobody seems to teach ). I'd use flex and bison or perl if you realy want to implement lexical analisis yourself..
Cue DCPU-16 port in 3..2..