skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why compete? i saw the guy was a libertarian (and, perhaps worse, some kind of smelly metal head), which is not my scene at all, but i still emailed him to be added to any kind of list because i think privacy is important.

if the list ends up being for "crypto to avoid paying taxes so the poor die as darwin wanted" then sure, i wouldn't join. but i think there's a clear need for a unified voice on crypto and online rights.

worse, i think you are doing this a disservice, in that you're implying that these rights are only important for your group of people. these rights are important for all of us. even metal-head libertarians.

incidentally, i would also encourage people to donate to eff - almost all the free gifts they give you for donating are horrible, but the hat pin is actually really nice. so go buy a $100 dollar hat pin and help spread some good.
I suggest you try and create your own brand, rather than trying to stand on the backs of the people that have worked so hard to make this site what it is over at ycombinator.

Hell, it just seems cheeky. And badly done.

Change the name, change the color scheme and maybe revamp the design... then you might have a good project.
If they have no money for the present, and the only possibility to make some money is to have an IPO or sale, then the CEO is not necessarily aligned to the long-term interest of the company.
If they are going to do a complete redesign I wish they would also offer an API for developers. Currently, all third party apps built around craigslist are dependent upon parsing the raw HTML of the listing pages. A re-design is likely to break all of that.
Here's a link to a list, by year, of how the future is portrayed in films. I'm not sure if it's listed in the infographic, but the film 'Code 46' (Tim Robbins) tells an intriguing story of where I see things heading.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3199/inforn.jpg

Another image I can't locate showed how we used to see the future, from a 1980's standpoint (think: Jetsons), and how we see it today (think: "The Road", "Book of Eli" or "I am Legend").
I think FLOSS popularity is not at an all-time high around here.
> How exactly are you going to enforce GPL compliance when a Chinese company uses your library in their proprietary product?

Depends if it's hardware or software. If it's hardware, Customs gets involved. Software's harder, but the fact that there is a set of circumstances which make enforcement difficult do not make enforcement in general impossible, nor does it invalidate the concept behind the GPL.

> Bonus question - what exactly will you be gaining by spending your time on enforcing the GPL compliance rather than on something else (like coding)?

You'll be gaining GPL compliance. That's the point.
Oh, right, I didn't consider that AD would only upload stuff when he logs in.

I don't quite get why doesn't he use something that syncs before he reaches the office, though. Setting up the machine to power-on automatically a couple hours earlier and syncing using Dropbox, Unison, etc is not that hard.
The advent of social networking can actually help make this stuff easier for normal people. The hardest part is managing a web of trust. If you can automate building your web of trust on top of existing social network connections, you can get strong crypto that's easy to use.
Please kickstarter that book right away. Dilbert identifies problems but does not provide solutions, only an outlet for the rage.
Put differently, I can't even guarantee that my program finishes compiling. That's dumb.

Brainfuck is Turing-complete too, you know. It's not a good language either.
FTS engines - memory usage
I believe you, but if I was writing a scifi/horror movie, that's exactly what the scientist character would say in the first scene :)
They won't. Craigslist has to be minimal due to it's culture, massive traffic, and user expectations. So no shiny buttons everywhere or glossy logos.

Things will probably just be re-arranged.
There are lots of really easy to make headphone amplifier plans on the www.

Some of them would be suitable for beginners to electronics. The practical aspects are easy enough. And the theory is reasonably straightforward.

And people enjoy putting them in nice cases. Often these are lumps of wood, or aluminum; this resin case is a lovely example though.
I do see value in the core of your argument but, boy, do you ever not know how to sell it.

In essence, your main argument is: "Here is how I see it". Well guess what, that's the same argument that the guy you're replying to made, so it might help to be a little more humble about it.

Arguing with others is only a tiny bit representing your own viewpoint. It's mainly about then figuring out where the person you're talking to stands on this and finally negotiating a path for the other person between the two points.

Your main point seems to be portraying the hurt that you've experienced and how you dealt with it when your mother had her "episode" (does she still have it? It was never resolved to us) while reminding us (rightfully, I think) that having a core priority is all fine and well, but (especially at times of distress) it might not get you through the endless sea of small challenges. A fair point that is not particularly nuanced, but that always makes for a good discussion. What came out of your mouth (fig.) was basically "you're an idiot, I see this differently. Also, while I'm at it, let me curse some more". (Not that I particularly mind expletives, but in your comment, I was tired of them the third time around already.)

Not very persuasive.
I'm not, nor do I claim to be. I'm a fan who wanted a different interface and decided to share it with the community. Thanks for looking.
Firefox has also been out a long time.

When FF was in beta versions it was already a better browser than IE, but nearly no one knew of it, therefore FF had a small number of users. As awareness of FF grew, so did its popularity.

It is silly to judge the quality of a product or service by the number of people that use it.
I believe the point that oconnore was trying to make is that asking what Erlang offer besides message passing concurrency is like asking what C++ offers beyond RAII and templates. You could add that sort of functionality to C, but it's not going to be as nice as just using C++. A lot of the things which make Erlang ugly are safe guards that prevent the kinds of bugs that allow you to accidentally share state. For instance, if I send a pointer between distributed systems, my program is hosed. Any distributed C++ library is going to either be extremely limited in the kinds of objects it can send or, more likely, just declare via fiat that it's the programmers responsibility not to send anything with a pointer. That's okay until the moment that you import a third party library and you have to go through every object to make sure that it doesn't use a pointer somewhere as a private variable. Meanwhile, with Erlang, there aren't any pointers, so I never even have to think about this stuff.
It's impossible to provide good tools for your average user without getting some government actively working to destroy it. There are already great tools for experienced users but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my friends to send email using PGP even if I install it and set it up for them. They seem confused by the whole concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system_model#Scale_models...

will tell you if there's one already close to you.
I couldn't have said that better myself.
Or that VC salaries are $1 or at most $15K? Because again, they should only be paid from profits.
I agree in the literal sense, but couldn't you look at the GPL as an agreement between the original developer and all downstream users that the developer will enforce terms when violations are brought to light?
Outsource Things You Don't Care About
What? Uh no there's plenty of businesses that are just one coder. There's no software businesses that are just one marketing guy.
Let's not be silly here. If it weren't for VCs doing all the hard work, what would ever ship?
Minor thing about starting conversations on the street: some folks just don't want to be bothered in the middle of their own thoughts as they're walking. If you feel weird approaching random folks - that's just being an empathetic normal person. Nothing wrong with being embarrassed - because it is weird.

That said, I do agree that practicing facing rejection is a good exercise. I just feel better about that exercise when it's done as part of something useful to others - e.g. handing out lunch coupons, etc.
I don't understand. Why would improving the UX necessitate the quality of content going down?
Thanks. I've got my hands full with other projects at the moment. This was a fun weekend project that I will revisit from time to time to add features to, but it is not intended to be a new news site, as such. It's just a different UI for reading stories from HN, just like the many other HN redesign posts that show up here every few weeks. I hope some enjoy it and find it useful.

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment.
I am pretty sure this is a correct and relevant factual statement. Yet someone with more privileges than me voted it down. Am not impressed.
Full Text Search Engines, Part I (benchmarks)
Erlang Tutorial from intro to production deployment
To give you an idea about us (Iran) have a look here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranian_Americans , you can skip to Business/Technology section if you like, we survived a devastating war and more than 30 years of crippling sanctions that continues today. and I have to say we have pretty good infrastructure that you have no idea about it, which is good.
I think there's a bit more focus on networks than on cryptography lately among freelance activist type people. But if you include that, there is still substantial activity. Tor is going fairly strongly, Retroshare has recently gotten a big uptake in publicity, and some other darknet projects have been floated. The focus seems to be on hard-to-disrupt connectivity, with some indirect association with groups like Wikileaks who aim at using that connectivity to promote state/corporate transparency (which is actually pretty close to an old-school "information wants to be free!" agenda). In Europe, there's also been a rise in "Pirate Parties", which despite their name are more generally interested in techno-freedom issues, not purely copyright-infringement issues.
Nice. Now I can use Python at work (where the computers and servers are otherwise locked down).
Kolmogorov Complexity - A Primer
FPS Video Games
Then I guess you'll just need to live outside the city and commute like millions of people do every day.
Your homepage_view function doesn't return an HttpResponse object. How do I know that? Because you're in debug mode. You should disable that.
At least in Firefox, you can disable stylesheets at "View -> Page Style -> No Style".
Just release the compiler for native code, and you would see a change.
I guess it is easier deal with them and using them is more idiomatic in Erlang. For example you can write your own persistent data structures in Java and use them in your concurrent program. Actually you don't have to write your own, Clojure's persistent data structures written in Java and you can use them in Java, but these data structures makes much more sense with the rest of Clojure's tools, syntax, semantics...
Managing the Scholarship Dilemma of well-funded communities
this is windows 8 not windows phone 8
they're actually pushing native code rather heavily.
Yes, rationality means that we don't believe everything we read 100%. That said, critical "insider" pieces are far in the minority, which means overly rosy stuff dominates.

Take for example Steve Yegge's accidentally public Amazon rant. He later said it was a mistake because it was "unprofessional"; it would be more professional to focus on positive aspects rather than negative. (https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...) This ideology of professionalism dominates, skewing the news we get.

Personally, I don't like to talk much about the corporations I work with, either. But to succeed under their constraints, it's helpful to coldly analyze their many dysfunctions. Then adapt to the bizarreness. Though I respect those who don't adapt, and get filtered out.

BTW, Carrie Lane studied tech industry workers in _A Company of One_, and observed how they much rather blame themselves (and each other) for losing their jobs, rather than use institutional analysis. I think we see this phenomenon a lot in comments sections.
Haters, no. Critics, yes. Anyone who asks an interesting question or poses an interesting problem shouldn't be ignored completely as long as it seems relevant to what the creator is trying to do. Judging by the timeliness of this post however it seems like he's doing a fine job of that.
Apple vs. Google: Lessons from Bill Gates' playbook
I agree that code with too small functions can be hard to understand, especially if the naming of functions is not top notch. And naming things is one of the hardest parts of programming. Ability to give good names requires thorough understanding of concepts involved, which often isn't true the first time (or even second time) you write the code.

There's also interesting discussion about "optimal" function length in Steve McConnell's Code Complete. If I recall correctly, there was no evidence that functions of even 100 LoCs for complex algorithms were significantly more error prone than similar code with shorter functions, and that very short functions actually lead to more bugs than code with functions with reasonable length. I think it is because of naming: it's hard to name hundreds of small things well.
"Even Upper-East-Side Manhattan, one of the wealthiest zip codes in the U.S., has average incomes "only" in the high 5 figures."

I'm not sure that you can look at simply average income without knowing whether the people are single, cohabitating and if they have children and how many. Also average income I would imagine doesn't take into account healthcare costs which can run thousands. One person may be covered, another not covered, another on medicare etc. Some may have child support to pay.

Saying that someone can get by on "less than 150k" is like saying that someone can build an ecommerce website for $X.
Amazon looks essentially the same. In fact, about a year or two ago it looked almost exactly the same.

This feels interesting. I wonder why that is ...
I've worked for companies at which a PIP was always a signal that the decision had been made to fire someone. Google is not one of those companies. I know people who have been through PIPs at Google and then resumed successful careers. Including transfers.
Yeah, there is definitely a balance to strike between just venting your spleen and calling out real douchebaggery. I have always suspected the "never talk about being screwed over/speak ill of a previous employer" meme is strikingly similar to the kind of meme sociopaths would want to become "the norm". Absent anyone talking about their experiences (good or bad) there would really be much less downside for terrible behavior, since no one would ever mention it so the offenders could just continue on mistreating people with impunity, of course as I said, balance is called for and not all situations are really so one-sided. I was reading a Marshall Goldsmith book awhile back and he made a good point, to paraphrase: "There are the facts and there is the story we tell ourselves about the facts. These are two different things but most people don't differentiate them".
It's a chicken-or-the-egg problem. Microsoft should be contacting developers like you and offering cold hard cash for writing apps for their ecosystem.

Sony did that for certain Vita developers. Vita is still a disappointment in sales, but at least the devs don't feel burnt.
Standardized Testing: the Pineapple and the Hare?
The Windows 8 store isn't even open for developer submission yet, seems a little early to compare size or quality.

I imagine once we see a Release Candidate and the store open it will be a different story, but still far too early.

Here's a post about the process of getting into the store in the future.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaimer/archive/2012/04/19/wanted-gre...
Everyone project listed is a iPhone / iPad based, maybe by not producing every possible accessory Apple is leaving a big market for Accessory just like for apps
After I installed the new NVIDIA graphics driver yesterday to play Tribes Ascend, Microsoft-Security-Essentials informed me that it had ceased running because my Windows was not genuine. A second reboot seemed to placate it.
Android has 32,000 apps for tablets? That's very nice if true (plus all the phone apps). I don't have a tablet, but I haven't heard of many updates on this, and I thought the situation for tablet apps was a lot worse.

So then Windows 8 for tablets will come way behind both Android and the iPad when it launches, just like it happened with WP7. Things don't look so good for Microsoft right now.
Exactly. Craigslist, like softpanorama or drudgereport, is refreshing in that it doesn't attempt to look like a 19th century circus flyer.

If only the web were rendered more like a generic latex article. No rivers, proper kerning, ligatures, optimal paragraph width, and - in general - respect for the traditional art of typesetting. Instead, the web looks like a menagerie of cereal box art.
List is great. I would appreciate one for ruby projects.
Compulsory coding in school: The new Nerd Tourism
He is omnipresent, after all.
Hamburg court: Google must police YouTube content
Oracle v Google round-up: The show so far
This site is seriously hard to read. There is not enough contrast between the text and its background.
They better watch out before they insert their USB cable into the drone's port. The last time they inserted without protection, they caught Stuxnet.
RE: Technical = Coder; Definition of “Technical” can be rewritten.
Are Travel Agents Back?
I really can't understand this kind of lack of perspective. Ask your waitress, or barista, or the guy that changes your oil sometime if they have a "9 to 5, low stress job". Because they don't. And no one's paying them $150,000 a year--more than three times the median household income in the United States--to make them feel better about it.
ESPN has a scores API that's in beta for "premium partners" only at the moment. Unless someone here can say otherwise, I'd recommend against using FanFeedr as their data doesn't look to be too accurate or up-to-date.
MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Django and Bootstrap
if the list ends up being for "crypto to avoid paying taxes so the poor die as darwin wanted" then sure, i wouldn't join. but i think there's a clear need for a unified voice on crypto and online rights.

The thing about privacy is, you don't know what end it does serve. I personally am a Libertarian (and a metal-head, yes, although I'm getting too old for a lot of moshing and shit), but I certainly advocate for privacy rights independently of any other Libertarian position. If I'm using crypto to discuss my beliefs about ending tax-payer subsidized entitlement programs, others may simultaneously be using it to discuss their desire to raise taxes, end all private property and redistribute wealth "to each according to his need."

but i think there's a clear need for a unified voice on crypto and online rights.

Yes, this is one area where Libertarians and most left-leaning types can find some common ground.
No this device has a faster CPU, more RAM etc. It's not an exact duplicate of the Pi.
It bugs me that the writer opines amazon looks quite modern after using a 1999 page. A lot of the sites listed looked a lot more modern in 1999 than they did in 1997.
Well that brings up the flip side of the situation. Out of the types of roles you need to run a software business, what ones can you outsource? I can outsource my initial design to a site like themeforest, accounting to an accountant, marketing to a marketing company, sales can be outsourced to a form on the site, and the coding can definitely be outsourced.

I've found the only thing that's very hard to outsource is product management because you lose control over the product. Sales might be a close second if your product needs direct sales, but then I'd ask why you need software in the first place?

But, think about it. MBAs spend years learning all of the other aspects of running a business. They learn the basics of marketing, sales, economics, accounting, and management because that's part of the business. Why is it then such a stretch that learning basic software skills is needed to run a software business?

Especially when it is really not that hard to learn. I teach 11 year old kids, 30 year old rock stars, and 60 year old grandparents to do it. I'm sure a smart MBA type could spend a few months learning at least that much.
I'm going into UMD, majoring in Computer Science, in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Honors College next year. Any recommendations for someone interested in getting into the startup scene at Maryland? I'm probably going to apply for Hinman CEOs for junior/senior year, and I've been researching MTech and the Tech Entrepreneurship minor.
This website crashes my browsers (Omniweb and Safari, any webkit-based browser?)
Only if that single coder is performing the duties that you're saying you're removing. That's the point.

And there are software businesses built with one marketing/business guy. The software development industry is very efficient. You can have an idea, get a product built and sell/license it without ever writing a line a code.
Well, how many iPad apps were available on the iTunes store 6 months before the iPad was released?

It's not due to a lack of developers. Microsoft developer evangelists and MVPs are out on the road holding Windows 8 developer camps. We had 100 people at mine and it was "sold out" quickly. At our camp an evangelist said Microsoft was being /very/ picky about what they allowed in the store now. What's neat about Microsoft is that they said that if you think you have an app that is really ready for the store now, just get in touch with a developer evangelist and they'll help you out.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/edvangelist/archive/2012/03/28/windo...
Most parents, even parents with kids in college, get by on less than $150,000 a year. Kids can get scholarships and student loans. Actually, a lot of private colleges give need-based scholarships, so by taking your compensation as a lower salary today followed by lucrative equity compensation after you exit, you can usually end up minimizing the amount you pay out of pocket for your childrens' tuition.
They contacted me, tried very hard to convince me. Then when a higher up person started talking and just as I was about to do it he tells me my app is probably not a good fit because they want people to specifically build Metro-style UIs that showcase it.
This is the inevitable result of social news sites. Most people are not libertarian, and so they down vote comments that don't fit their ideology. On Reddit in many subreddits (including the politics one everyone is subscribed to by default) they practice outright censorship.

Here on HN the down vote seems to be deployed for disagreement, even against well written comments that include substantiation.

Fortunately, Libertarianism is far more mainstream now, even if the Ron Paul movement has managed to dilute it to some extent.