skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps slightly offtopic, but at least in Software dev consulting, there's a market for the multi-hatted individual in consulting directly, and pay is generally commensurate with the number of hats you can speak intelligently on to a customer.

This isn't necessarily true everywhere -- when I lived in Memphis, TN, I often felt that I was dooming my professional career as, every time I ran into a challenge, I'd fork my efforts and start tackling it. This means that I was getting skilled in (but not expert in) a wide variety of things. In short, my knowledge set was very wide, but somewhat shallow.

It wasn't until I moved to the DC area that I realized there's not only a market for that type of person, but a fairly lucrative one.

There are other tracks too, Architect, Management, whatever... whereas the scale repairman who can weld, machine and EE on a scale system is not exactly limited to just working on scale systems, but isn't necessarily opened up to as many positions as with software dev.
One thing that is quite easy to forget:

A formula is a formula, it's a tool

It does not crash markets, people who misuse it are the ones who cause trouble.
great to hear from you buddy. Great stuff you are doing and I wish you the best. Whats your twitter handle?
My thoughts exactly. The whole idea of caring (at least more than a light curiosity) about whether other people from the interwebs disagree with something you wrote sounds bizarre to me.
My question is WHY do they need to switch to HTML5? Does the complicated layout and rich metadata of 4chan require something more advanced than HTML4?
I have this problem now and then. I've begun to treat it as a sign from my subconscious that my code has become ugly and some housekeeping/re-factoring is in order.

Sometimes I can push through (e.g. due to a deadline) by picking at individual tiny features and working my way through the spaghetti until they work. I generally start by adding something visible to the UI and keep at it until it works. This has the advantage that I'm almost guaranteed to make visual, visible progress, which helps with motivation.

But often, the only choice is to take a step back, accept that I'll be making "no progress" for a couple of weeks and go clean up my mess and re-factor the code. :-)
The iPhone app I use to access HN when I'm on the move goes one further. It removes the name from everyone, still lets me reply... but doesn't show me the username.

Now in all honesty I think something broke it last year because it used to show, but I've forgotten about karma and it just lets me focus on the content and context of the post.
People are being way too negative about this. So, they were a pair of "idea guys" who failed to execute and then managed to grab more than their fair share of the latest Valley success story.

I'd be fine with the negativity if that was even what happened. But it's not.

They didn't "fail to execute". They were fairly far along in the process of executing ("the previous HarvardConnection programmers had already made progress on a large chunk of the coding: front-end pages, the registration system, a database, back-end coding, and a way users could connect with each other", according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU), and would have finished up just fine with someone else if Zuck hadn't signed on and lied about progress specifically to delay them (that this was his intention came out pretty clearly in the IM conversations that were leaked a couple years ago, he basically lays out his plan to feign progress so that they don't look for someone else to finish ConnectU up before Facebook launches).

It's one thing to get beat to market because you didn't hire the right programmer, that's a straightforward failure of execution; it's another thing altogether to get beat to market by the very programmer that you hired to beat the competitors to market. That makes you a victim of fraud, and I have a lot of sympathy for that.
Hey, i'm really interested in reading this but the site is down. Thanks!
The 10-user limit and no dial-in option limits its usefulness.

The screen-sharing also doesn't work very well, at least on linux. You either have to share your entire desktop, across all screens, or a single window of an application.
Private variables in Javascript
Like I say: I'm nitpicking. To be honest, I'm not a fan of inline javascript. But I'm not really 4chan's core audience - they may have a reason why they have so much inline js.
This happens with every genre of music. When it's young it's well known in the area it starts. As it spreads the new areas tend to lag. As popularity grows the genre changes and people who knew about it since it was young bitch about how going mainstream killed it.
It seems to be an easy fix to reduce an unnecessary environmental impact, save animal lives, save money on carcass cleanup crews and wire damage, and increase public goodwill. Is there a FAA reason for having steady lights, is it bureacratic inertia, or are the rules accommodating the owners of older towers, or the manufacturers of steady lights?
I think if I were a pilot a flashing light would catch my attention faster than a steady one (cf, blinking vehicle turn signals).
I think "upvote" is good and help conversation, but i don´t like "downvote". I think that is unnecessary. Many times i saw comments heavily downvoted and valid to me. Vote what is good is sufficient for me.
Man, this is statistics. You should be able to get any result you want!

I'm only half kidding. I can remember writing my first report (project summary) when I did a contract right after grad school. I put in maybe 5 graphs. Two looked good, three looked bad. The project manager just deleted the bad looking graphs and sent it on to the client.
Well done I guess... heh

slow clap
The real problem with XML isn't XML, it's the APIs of XML parsers. JSON took over because the parser APIs are dead simple to code to, while XML's APIs tend to have this bureaucratic committee-designed API feel.
Just fyi, I too would also be very interested in the source for this. It really looks nice!
I don't care for the multi-touch mouse, but the trackpad is really nice. The gestures probably should be more transparent or off by default though, since I suspect many users find them accidentally and aren't sure how.

There are several short videos about the gestures in System Preferences -> Trackpad.
any opinion about F#/Mono which seemingly does have blas/lapack support ?
They have just a few percent of the market and they expect us to write special CSS codes just for them.

In addition I don't recall them being open source.

If they had taken on IE back in the day, it would have been something else but I just can't see why I should care today.
That would explain why it was transferring <100kB/sec.
I can't remove that code until webkit and mozilla have updated their code to use the official standard. That won't happen for a while, so I see no advantage in adding -opera prefixes as well.
I find this statement outrageously offending. Why do you assume the programmer is a "she"? It might as well be a "he". Or it might as well not want to be associated with any gender (consider a transexual, asexual, or an alien from Mars).

I think s/h/it is the correct pronoun to use to cover all those cases.

(yes, it's /s. When I see "she" used to imply the author is oh, so progressive and non-sexist, I resort to sarcasm).
I agree with your overall line of thinking.

In your last sentence you wrote: "There is a shortage of talent in computer science, but never in the other disciplines, it may take another 30 years for the suits to have the ability to understand why."

Could you elaborate on this point -- do you feel that there is not a shortage in disciplines such as dentistry and law because many people are willing to work very hard for only 4% raises?

Thank you!
I think the problem is that there's only one mind on it. As you said the project is quite big with a lot of dependencies, it is quite possible mind becomes numb to the future developments. Here's my advice. Pick the parts that might interest you

* Even if it takes a day, try telling it to a rubber duck. Take it for a walk if you guys get tired at desk.
* Talk it to at least one friend who can try to understand. In my short experience, this helps in realizing how we can or want to proceed. Or even go with the freelancer your thinking to hire, you might succeed. Can't know unless you tried once.
* Stubs and skeletons
* Sequence matters. If it is only you that has to do parallel work, you have to do it anyway. Even with a freelancer, you should decide how to proceed. So, either ways, even though hard, you need to break it up. Try not to multitask if you do it alone.

And, I think more technical details might fetch you better advice. I could be wrong!
The OpenMeetings API's RoomService could probably be used to create ad-hoc MeetMe or ConfBridge bridges with Asterisk.
Maybe you happen to be one of those developers who's
happy and comfortable to make the app/project using whatever externally mandated set of tools happen to be at hand. That's an
advantage, even though it I think it also has a flip side.
Thanks; we were both pretty surprised that it was available. We kind of named the site based on the domain, rather than the other way around.

I like the idea of making edits public - kind of Stack-Overflow-like in a way, so that if someone with mod access edits your post, you can see who. We could also put in an option to allow everyone mod access, more wiki-like; if you have a trusted whitelist that could access your board, only those people would be allowed to read, and therefore edit.

Cool ideas. Thanks!
I think that's good advice, and I would like to send it along also to the tiny-minded portion of users here on HN who campaign personal, pityful battles on others by systematically downvoting their posts for no apparent reason, as well as those who just can't seem to let things fly, but rather just have to hammer down on users with opinions they simply don't agree with.

I think the karma system as it stands now is problematic because of how it simply enables the generally grumpy crowd of HN to fuel their own overgrown negativity.
Entrepreneurs are rebels. But in HN you have to contain yourself to not "hurt anyone". Know what, i like all kind of comments, especially the harsh ones. I just ignore the stupid parts and go on. I don´t read the comments emotionally.
Problems with Django
I've downloaded Python 64 bit and Django 1.4 on Windows 7, but every time I try to execute "django-admin.py startproject mysite" no project gets created? I've uninstalled django and python multiple times and tried over, and no luck. How is this fixable?
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how hard it would be to totally reskin this?
I can't fault him. Incomplete data is what we have in the real world and while he has shown no evidence in this story a lot of what we read in the media is planted to either pander to their readers or from public relation firms.

I don't think it is a bad habit to assume that this has been planted for some reason. If not, 7 million birds should be enough that you can see them drop in droves. 7 million is a very, very high number.
6.2 The client undertakes not to publish content that may violate the rights of third parties or otherwise violate the law. The placement of erotic, pornographic, extremist material or material not deemed in good taste is not permitted. We are entitled to block access to the account of any customer who violates this.

The same applies in the event that the customer publishes content which is capable of violating the rights of individuals or groups of people, or that insults or denigrates these people. This applies even without an actual legal claim. We are not obligated to review our customers' content.

That basically rules out many user driven content sites.
Couldn't have said it any better. Just look at how your post was downvoted for simply pointing this sensitive fact out. The action speaks so loud and clear. In every social construct and gathering you always find that group of "socially immechanical" people who, with every means possible, try to assert some kind of status or rank over others. In the case of HN, it's done by downvoting posts of users holding a different opinion than your own.
There are extensions that open such files. These extensions do mainly syntax highlighting like:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cgjalgdhmbpaacnnej...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/epmaefhielclhlnmjo... (offers some more features but does not work when AdBlock is enabled)

So opening instead of downloading is possible by using an extension. Perhaps an extension already exists which does that without any other features.
Find Rails Partials in Your Code Base Easily
I still remember my first business presentation. I had a slide talking about how I did a statistics study. I was told to take the word "study" out because it had bad connotations for the target audience (middle managers at Bristol-Myers Squibb if you're curious).

The comment was probably right. But I was horrified.
I noticed you're loading jQuery before testing the page's URL. You'd be better off testing the URL first to prevent unnecessarily loading jQuery.
I think there will be a day when this will work. But right now my concerns would be:

1) The people looking for outside help probably don't have ANY model, so baselines are difficult. (I use synthetic baselines like just predicting the average of the predicted variable every time, and that's a very valuable tool, but I don't think you could get paid by beating them.)

2) When would you cut your losses on a failed project and move on? That would be incredibly difficult to do on a project that you had spent weeks or months on and not been paid. It's like cutting your losses on a failed trade in the stock market... it seems like it would be easy and obvious until you actually experience it yourself.

3) Once a company was in a position to take you up on their offer, they might as well post it on Kaggle and get a hundred people to work on it for peanuts. I'm really rooting for Kaggle b/c one of their long term goals is to let people like you (and me) make a living doing analytics work like you describe. But right now they just don't have the volume and all the projects pay out just a few thousand dollars (and only if you beat the other hundred participants).

4) If I was a company, and didn't have the expertise in house to build the model myself, I'd be wary I was really getting what I paid for. If I'm paying for a 10% boost in accuracy, how do I measure it rather than just taking your word for it?
That course is called "going to work for Facebook instead".
A state of feeling "unsafe" is an incredibly powerful motivator that can drown out almost everything else. It can link work directly to your survival instinct-"I have to move or my life is in danger."

While the fear of going broke can certainly instill the feeling of unsafety, other factors can too. Near death experiences and losing a parent at a young age are both examples that are frequently present in people with high levels of success (moreso than in the average population)[1]. Even a run-down living environment can help.

[1]: The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle
Time Warner Cable is preparing for TWC TV IPTV streaming on Roku boxes
I read these articles about crazy work intensity at Google sometimes and wonder if I'm really working at the same company. I've been at Google since 2004 and have never felt the external pressure described in this article (80 hour work weeks? didn't even realize that was legal). Though I've read enough of articles like these that they surely must be based on truth.

(Of course, like any achievement-driven person I do get stressed about work, but it's internal pressure, like being frustrated about not making progress on something I find important. And that is not a cagey way of saying I work an 80 hour week.)
According to the post, they got rid of a lot of spans and tables. Sure, they probably could've done that while staying within HTML4/XHTML, but when you're changing things around already, why not stick to the most recent standard?
pg is a documented liar and snake oil salesman.
I agree with you but it also depends on the particular person and their background also. For example I did a "startup" and succeeded right out of college. But I had always done business things on the side. And I came from a business family. So it was second nature to me when it came time to start something and I had plenty of confidence and it was encouraged by my family (not directly "go do it" but by the lack of negativity.) Had I come from a family of, say, educators or scientists, I don't think it would be the same. Unless of course there was some external reason they were supportive (reading about it or knowing another child of a friend that succeeded or other evidence). Only one example of course but I remember at the time my gf's mother cringing at what I told her I was going to do (after graduating from Wharton no less).

If you've traveled the world (I haven't) you are definitely going to feel more comfortable picking up and just going to another foreign city. You feel confident about that even if you, in general, lack confidence. I'm sure I would have more anxiety than you would even with my confidence that might cause me not to take that journey.

I do agree with the "told don't do a startup" and listening most likely don't have the personality to overcome many of the obstacles that are involved.
No kidding. I was tapping my foot so much I got leg cramps.
They do? Which companies? How do I find them? :p
I agree, but only with the it-depends disclaimer. The dependency: the person.

I personally agree with the sentiment as it applies to me. I'm the kind of person who responds (at least, has historically responded) in a similar, no-bullshit, hyper-focused mentality. But the back-against-the-wall, fight-or-flight type of situation doesn't always yield a similar response in others. I've seen others where the weight of the situation deviated from their ability to focus.

The thing is, even when most of us in this industry (devs & engineers) are faced with "no other options", that's really a creation of our own mind. Last I checked, if you're competent, you still have options at your disposal (other startup opportunities, consulting/contracting, etc.) While they may not be your life's dream, they do keep you fed -- and often beyond meager means. When one is in that situation, even the risk of going broke is lowered.
The problem is that many others cannot do this. In general, the more emotional the discussion, the more noise is generated. You don't want to have to wade through a dozen nested comments of accusations and pointless and off-topic argumentation before you get to the actual decent content.
So...your interrupted 'sleep 10' took 13 seconds?
I agree with the other posters. You need to take some time and get re-inspired, and to do so, it helps just talking with somebody about it. The fact that you're posting about it here tells me that you're likely to make it through (otherwise, you would have quit already).

Seth Godin calls this point "The Dip". It's a trough in the lifecycle of a project/plan/development/etc when the high and excitement of starting something has died off and the rewards don't seem worth the remaining effort. I can tell you, though, that if you put in the time, get inspired, and slog through the toughest part of "The Dip", you'll come out the otherside with something great. Most projects don't make it past, so there's great value in doing so.

Here are some links to read more about "The Dip":

http://www.slideshare.net/stevecla/pushing-past-the-dip-how-...

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/the_dip/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/09/06/seth-godins-dip-and-mul...
مشاهدة مباراة الزمالك والمغرب الفاسي
مشاهدة مباراة الزمالك والمغرب الفاسي بث مباشر اليوم اونلاين السبت 28-4-2012 في دوري ابطال افريقيا -Vs Zamalek, Morocco Alfassi Live Online today Saturday 04/28/2012 in the Champions League Africa
Did you win the competition ? If not what was your rank, if you don't mind sharing ? I'd be really interested to know how much impact this could have.
Isn't it sad that building products that add real value into people's lives is turning into a novel idea? Stop building "clever products", build useful ones that people will love. Money comes later, imo.
1. only use numbers based on models you fully understand

2. always remember: all models are wrong, (but some of them are usefull.)

p.s.: does soembody know a really good book about system modelling? i`m searching for one.
If you look at the code it's not using WebWorkers. It's pretty unfair to compare single threaded vs multithreaded. I don't know how JS would perform with better code but it'd certainly be better than 40x slower.
This article reads like a long advertisement for Mr. Tan's course and book (which has, coincidentally, just been published).
Watch me work: Video of me building a new Rails app from scratch
Seems to require a keyboard so not usable on iPad.
If those talents are also sought after for other jobs then the price will go up until one of the jobs will be done by some other method or some other person. I do have trouble imagining that anybody who is working on a farm would be a good data-scientist but then I no very, very little about farming.

Economics is not tainted or colored by ideology, it is a science. It is the study of how best to allocate limited resources that have multiple conflicting uses.

In this world there is nothing that is free, everything comes with some price. As long as there is a human want that is not fulfilled, there is no additional humans.

That isn't necessarily bad though. You can charge societies progress to how few people are required to provide food to the rest. Once most Americans worked in argriculture, now only a few do. That is a good thing, because the rest of us can the do something else and satisfy some other human want.

And the remaining farmers are better of too, since they don't have to work as hard and have things like tvs and computers.
Seems like it was just a rewrite for the sake of cleaning up code rather than to be HTML5 and it's not like the old site was valid HTML4 or that the HTML5 can't be parsed by most HTML4 parsers. I don't know why you wouldn't use a HTML5 doctype.
Call of the wired
come on dude go at the mailing list or better search google or try python 32 bit and make sure it is python 2 not 3 and next time give more information. Search on youtube maybe you forgot a step (for example to change the path variable of windows)
Stop writing, start cleaning up what you've written. Then, after a while of cleaning up the solution will fall out of the sky all by itself.

What has happened is that you have lost the overview, cleaning up your code will restore that.
Yep, lots of things are based on assumptions, but one should also look at your audience. E.g. an endocrinologist (hormone doctor) will probably see a large percentage of trans patients.
Sorry but, google has no help for this, python 2.7, and can I have a link to the mailing list?
coming soon -- Compound interest: the maths formula linked to the financial crash
I hope you are right. If you are, you have identified a potentially very, very lucrative option for a start-up. Broken markets can provide you a lot of money when you fix them.
OK, so no one's going to mention Above & Beyond's Group Therapy Miami set for this year's Winter Music Conference?

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/above-and-beyond-live-group...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/mat-zo-live-group-therapy-m...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/arty-group-therapy-miami-wm...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/andrew-bayer-live-group-the...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/boom-jinx-live-group-therap...

Or Pretty Lights' The Hot Shit radio show?

http://soundcloud.com/prettylights/pretty-lights-the-hot-sh-...

You're welcome.
How long is a typical Google work week?