skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a couple of other comments here have the right perspective (multiple, so I'm not commenting as a child to any particular one).

First, assess where the intended user(s) is at and what they can and will realistically do, and not do.

As a favor to a relative, I once revised a business's static site to use a CMS. Pretty simple stuff. But it turned out that the business partners, while claiming they wanted to be able to edit/update the site themselves, simply refused to look at the prototype and the pretty clear documentation I'd written up -- screen shots and all.

They said they wanted to be able to update the site themselves. What they apparently really wanted was to be able to tell someone to update the site and have it happen quickly.

Well... that's what you pay a web developer or assistant for, on an ongoing basis.

They weren't so into the paying part (aside from my relative -- also, I wasn't particularly looking for a standing content-maintenance gig).

Assess where your customer is at. Make sure you're really on the same page, and that they are willing to take the required initiative.
I don't have a good cite, I believe it's supposedly all purchases though. Not sure how accurate it is, but my understanding is that sites with a lot of women do have vastly better clickthrough rates and conversion on their ads so it's not entirely apocryphal.
talent can't get "trapped" by a bubble: if a bubble is really a bubble then it will burst and the talent will become free. in fact if you feel there is a bubble then you should encourage it because over the long term the market will be flooded by talent which will be cheaper.

but something that everyone here has to think about: even if you don't think there is a bubble, the nature of tech is that it is cyclical in nature. this means that sooner or later there will be winners, and those looking for a job. although i dare say that those down cycles are in fact THE best times to start a new business or venture.

i would also say that at this point in time that most of the costs of most startups are talent. years ago this wasn't the case, and one of the things that screwed me over in the original dot.com bust was the fact that my real estate costs tripled in the same space at the high point of the bubble. i also wasted a ton of money on hardware and have bitter memories of owning expensive servers that were destined for eBay.

i should add that deeply respect 37signals, and i've found myself following their model -- but it's not the only model.
This is the biggest problem for me; I'd love one of these if I had stable OS X or Linux software to run it.
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I wonder how this will fit into the network neutrality controversy.
Nothing about how it works?
There are plenty of paid online services for monitoring - take Pingdom for example.
I'm well aware of the words he chose. I am referring to his actual meaning.

The fact is that there are stupid people on this planet. The fact is that we can know there are stupid people. The fact is that we can identify a stupid person. And it is utterly stupid to pretend otherwise. He's made a very stupid generalization based on the behavior of the masses -- yes, most people who call others stupid are themselves stupid. But that doesn't mean we can't know who is stupid nor does it mean that it's wrong to call someone stupid.
$100 billion valuation on $4 billion/year revenue(not profit)? No thanks, I'll pass. For perspective, Apple's $570 billion value is with $100 billion/year revenue. I don't care how fast they are growing, it's going to be a long time before you see any return on your investment (other than trendy mood swings with the market)
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Without major changes, Thunderbolt for PCs is dead in the water
Android-based device compromised - by design?
Let's say that I suspect that my Android-based device (a tablet) is compromised by design (customized at the factory of the manufacturer) and I want to prove it somehow.

For months I've felt that somebody is able see what I see on the screen of the tablet, because "strange things happen" seemingly purposely, when there is text or photos related to certain narrow subjects - and only then. It doesn't matter if I were using a browser or some application. I decline to describe "a strange thing" as that way you can't fixate to it.

I haven't installed any application that could listen for external commands (like the ones that use "Cloud to Device Messaging Framework") nor any other application that I don't fully trust.

Who, in the Internet, could answer to a question: Could the screen of the mobile device be read remotely by eavesdropping leaked electromagnetical fields? But still, how would it be possible to (remotely) command the device to do certain things that the currently activated application isn't allowed to do (didn't ask for certain rights)? This is not a rooted device.
Incorrect on both counts. Democrats in Congress do not have anything remotely resembling the record of consistent obstructionism for its own sake that the GOP has. Nor do Democrats sign ideologically-required Grover Norquist "pledges" before taking office. Nor do they filibuster any and all appointees to anything close to the extent that the GOP has in recent years. And lastly, the Senate has, of course, passed budgets yearly during Obama's term...no thanks to the Republicans.
Petersburg is exactly what I wanted to read once school ends. All this CS and math work makes me want to just discorporate myself into a ridiculous, subjective work.

Which translation would you recommend?

Also, if you enjoyed the darker parts of The Master and Margarita, I highly recommend Blaise Cendras' Moravagine (http://www.amazon.com/Moravagine-York-Review-Books-Classics/...).
A little off topic..I had never heard of Arista Networks until just now. I did go and check out the product line, and one of those products promises low latency switching at the same speeds for both layer 2 and layer 3!!
How is it possible to process routed and no-routed traffic at the same speed?
I'm genuinely interested...Designing networks is part of what I do for a living.
Congrats James and Khaled! Awesome company from two of the nicest guys you will ever meet.
> I think SASS is going in the wrong direction of putting more ability to create convoluted rubbish in the hands of people who create enough convoluted rubbish with simpler tools.

This sounds like maybe more of a people problem than a technical problem.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sub/ looks like maybe $700/mo. at the lowest to sublet a room temporarily.
Do you know if the Stylus compiler works any faster than the SASS one? Long compile times were an issue for me when I was using SASS a year or so ago. Although come to think of it, maybe I could've hacked a workaround by splitting my CSS into more than one SASS project.
source: http://byuu.org/bsnes/accuracy

this is also awesome, posted a while back: http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors
Clearly there isn't just one reason, right? Can't all of these factors, and others, be contributing? I don't claim to know who's right, or how to weight the various factors, but big exits certainly do free up capital to be reinvested in more companies, don't they?

I'm curious in a broader sense what you (or anyone else who is experiencing it first hand) makes of the "bubble question." I'm sure it's unlikely but it would be great to have such people on the record with general predictions about the coming months and years.
Few would continue to overpay for Apple hardware.
and boundary.com and several others, but none that allow you to address issues from your mobile phone.
Or consider Air Strike Patrol, where a shadow is drawn under your aircraft. This is done using mid-scanline raster effects, which are extraordinarily resource intensive to emulate.

So what's really going on here is that the emulator must emulate not only the SNES hardware, but also the television. Video game emulators have had to deal with this for a long time, to varying and increasing levels of accuracy. Televisions (especially analog CRTs) have quite a bit of emergent behavior in processing the display input that is not easily captured and replicated by your typical frame buffer. Interlacing is a major such phenomenon; most emulators still simply treat the 60 fields per second as 60 distinct frames rather than interlacing them. (And younger players are used to seeing the games that way, never having played on original console and TV hardware.)

The ultimate example of this effect occurs in emulating games that originally used a vector CRT. An emulator writing to a raster frame buffer simply can't replicate the bright, sharp display of a real Asteroids or Star Castle or Battlezone machine.

TV behavior even goes beyond electronics. Consider the characteristics of the phosphor coating and the persistence time between refreshes. Some games made use of effects where that characteristic mattered, so if you want to emulate that with high fidelity, yes that will take a lot of CPU cycles.
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I suppose. I guess I use cash more than others. I would easily toss a $20 at a $19.32 bill.
Sweet! I'd immediately snag some of their code for use in my own projects. There would be so many feature requests and patches written by other people. I'd probably make a custom build of the OS with some of the interesting mods.
Where is the money that's driving increased developer/designer demand coming from?
> Yup, www.graze.com for healthy snacks in the UK

Yeh, there are many others offering fresh/organic/luxury/quality items delivered to your door. Wine has also made a comeback (forgot the name of the recent big US startup).

Graze have a great website. Will offer some inspiration to others looking at getting into similar businesses.
Fantastic paper, one of my favorites in computer science. I recommend all programmers read this.

Succinct, to the point, and brilliant.
Bobbin lace patterns look like they could be the output of some finite state automata:

http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com/Patterns.html
Not a software one, anyway.
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I don't think this is the issue addressed in the talk though. The question he was responding to was "does having lower taxes on the rich create jobs?". He argues that it does not, but that lowering taxes on the lower and middle class probably would.

It's not about putting all the blame on one side or the other, it's about the factual question of whether a particular policy improves or worsens the job situation.
I personally don't think Instagram is worth a billion dollars.

But the general consensus is that when Zuck saw those numbers and thought of the upcoming IPO, he saw buying Instagram a very good defensive move that would solidify his company's position in the photo sharing marketplace.

Beating the same Nietzche-esqe drum, Zuck valued buying out the competition to be worth a billion.
Is Diaspora dead?
Diaspora, the Kickstarter princess that took on Facebook started with a bang, but now, 6 months after opening it's beta, I see almost no activity.

I scan the member pages and less than 1% have a pic, only 1700 people following #newhere, and those that are following it have not been around for 3-4 months.

Is it dead? Flawed? Too much work? What's the deal?
Thanks man. It is easy to be nice when you are surrounded by awesome individuals like yourself :).
I'm just a working developer. I'm not looking to start a business of my own any time soon. I'll say one thing: I don't work for companies that cut paychecks out of rapidly dwindling venture capital funds and I don't work for large corporations that hire and fire teams like chattel. If the bubble burst tomorrow, it wouldn't affect my life in any meaningful way. I'd probably get fewer recruiters bugging me, which would be nice for a change.
While carrying out those commands might not be programming, writing them down should count as programming.

But then again, documenting any algorithmic process could count as programming by those standards, say, baking a cake.
So you are saying I should not worry because nothing ever happens that is against the law?
I used to believe that too. But my experience over the last twenty years it that anyone without specific interest in the problem tends to average everything they here and assume that's where the truth lies.

So the product of (amount of editorializing)*(how much noise you make) should balance the other side.

There are non-linear effects - e.g., you lose listeners if you editorialize too much, ("RIAA is killing babies", which might be plausible with some chain of reasoning that includes far fetched assumptions and highly improbable assumptions, but not entirely invalid deductions).

But basically everywhere, and especially in American politics, being calm and factual is a guaranteed way to lose the vote, regardless of how right you are.
pinterest was profitable before the court case that made it more difficult to use skimlinks.
Congrats guys, Crowdtilt rocks! (said the guy wearing a shirt bought using crowdtilt).
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I like to read about new ideas, advances in science and technology, and political developments, especially where the Internet is concerned. I accept that people have different lifestyles and viewpoints, and if variations on those sorts of things are presented as "hey, here's a different way to live", then that's alright. On the other hand, if the message is "hey, do it this way because I'm right" then I'm inclined to stop reading.
It seems an interesting exercise to do, and keeps you aware of your long term achievements. Focused and aware.
I'll definitely try that.
To which the standard debate-derailing answer is 'raise taxes, and nobody will be able to buy private goods, therefore more taxes are bad.' A great many tax objectors have convinced themselves that they are already groaning under a massive tax burden.

I agree with them in one respect: there are too many taxes, fees, levies etc. People overestimate the amount of tax tax they pay in many cases, but they see so many government charges (whether federal, state or local) that they feel they're being nickel-and-dimed to death.
Assertion: if somebody comes along and solves a problem that was previously thought solved, then they are solving a new problem.

Facebook solved the "How do I share photo's online?" problem. Instagram solved the new problem of "How do I take pictures to put onto Facebook?" problem.

And I have no idea how to value companies that aren't making money. Way beyond me.
What does it even mean to say "creating jobs"?

A 'job' is something that you 'do', in this context, for a wage. So to "create a job" is to cause a need for something to be done, e.g. breaking a window "creates a job".

So we don't want to "create jobs"!

There are certainly lots of people right now who are looking for gainful employment. Let's reframe the problem in terms of figuring out how to get them doing stuff that actually needs doing. I think that means creating things of lasting value, not just throwing money around to stimulate ourselves.
The headline is a bit misleading for what is actually a somewhat interesting study on the effect of leaks on album sales (rather than post-release piracy on music sales in general). I've long believed that a leak of a great album can help generate buzz and ultimately sales for a new record since the people who would be most likely to evangelize the record would also be the same people who would be most excited to download it pre-release. It goes both ways though, a leak that exposes a record as being sub-par pre-release can have a devastating effect.
Sometimes I just wonder: what "talent" are you guys talking about?

It's almost as if there exist a group of fresh-grads who just completed their CS degree but can magically write a better compression engine or a revolutionary protocol that is better than TCP.
I don't know; "Potentially marginalized technologies: Consensus reality" is pretty special....
While it's unlikely as it would spell the demise of the manufacturer/brand if made public, yes.

If the manufacturer installed VNC and connected out to a remote server when you came online, yes, this could happen.

You could use WireShark on your PC/Mac attached to the same network to see if the tablet was sending VNC (or similar) data to or from a remote location fairly easily.

It's a well known fact that Apple installed "Keys-dropping" software on their devices to track what you do, but I don't believe it was a 2-way connection. I believe the data was just reported, but not received by the device.
Perhaps we should start using CardBus and PCI-E based FPGA cards and go for hardware simulation rather than software emulation?

Performance is far easier to achieve there.

The devices aren't exactly expensive either.
Could be me, could be the docs, but I was having trouble groking how to wire up non-graphite/node.js connection.
Elon Musk is a good example.
Your first remark is irrelevant because he didn't just reside in the US. He is/was a US citizen. This is not an issue of whether or not the investor should pay income taxes on top of it or not. This is a tangential issue that is not what's being debated, though it is a reason that a lot of people get upset.
This article left a bad taste in my mouth. Companies that have millions of active users are hardly bridges to nowhere that are devoid of economic or public value.
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I was under the impression that the rich pay a much greater share of income tax than when their rates were higher. Can someone check me on this?
I am planning to spend the next month or so getting up to speed on the following:

JavaScript + NodeJS (Given how widely supported and used it is)

Twitter Bootstrap (Really easy to build front end)

I have considered Ruby/Python however think that the learning curve is too great at the moment. I just want to know enough to build a good looking site that has basic functionality.

HTML5 is attractive but will have to wait for now.
+1 for OSX support. With GarageBand and with the huge popularity of Macs in audio circles in general, support for it seems pretty critical.
Oh, common. Who keeps changing the submission titles? It is really getting out of hand lately. What was wrong with "{css:hat}" ?
Is it safe to assume that this compiles CSS much faster than the original?
Agreed on Khaled, although I'm at best unsure on James.
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All due respect, but I think the Judge is missing the point here. Its kind of like saying "I can carve a turkey, therefore any high-schooler could do open-heart surgery".
Sure, its easy to check whether an integer is in a range. But THEN what do you do? Return 0? Throw an exception? How does the result of this little function combine with thousands of others to form a coherent and productive API? Of course, as system architects, we can decompose the large, complex problem into smaller problems, and repeat the process until the sub-tasks are trivial. But then for the Judge to look at one of the results of this process and declare the whole thing trivial is really a monumental misunderstanding of what goes into creating a world-class API.
People would, but that wouldn't alleviate the overarching economic failure of excess concentration. Look at places like North Korea; there's an underground economy, but virtually all economic power is vested in the state, with dreadful effects for the population at large. Well, you say, that's not a free society in political terms; but preservation of ownership is essentially a political good. Indeed, it's one with a high cost for the American economy:
http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/GarrisonAmerica2007.pdf
My dad is also a programmer. He helped me out as best he could; but for the most part we lived in two separate worlds.

Sure some stuff was common: if I needed a regular expression, he could always help me out. He had an editor (CodeWright?) with great support for that.

But I lived in the web world, and he made his living with embedded devices. Back in the 90s I was hacking away with 384MB of RAM in a Linux server. He was hacking away with, if he was lucky, 8MB of ROM and 4MB of RAM.

Still we talked about programming very little. Now we talk about the hilarious nuances of project management, but our work is still done in two completely separate worlds.
Ask HN: What was the hosted search startup shown on HN recently?
I've searched a bit and can't find it on here or via Google. I'm 90% sure it started with an 's'.
That can only be sustained so long, the company buying you has to get money from somewhere.
We are working on a Mac simulator. It will work exactly the same way as the Windows Kinesis Simulator.
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I understand, and maybe agree with, your assertion. But, you could also say that this is part of the problem. Does even more refinement, and even better solution to the problem of how to share the trivia of your life with the same few people, really improve the "economic base"? I have no idea. But I think it's a valid question.
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In the Guardian link I posted it lists a mosque gaining a restraining order against a FBI infiltrator. They also reported him to the FBI, but as the FBI was employing him, they didn't do anything about it.
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http://www.searchify.com/ ?

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=hosted+sear...
I learned strictly on Mavis Beacon. It was all they used at my two private K-12 schools. However it clearly did something right, as I was typing ~120WPM by the end of grade 7.

I guess I hold an unpopular opinion, but I think typing is honestly my greatest asset. Not because you have to be a fast typist to program - but it honestly feels like theres less barrier between the computer and my thoughts.

If I could make one suggestion: focus on accuracy over speed. I took the opposite approach and it frustrated me to no end when I made mistakes because I'd instinctively backspace.

Touch typing and accuracy, in hindsight, are more important than raw throughput.
He is considered a demi-god to a whole generation of programmers and drives a custom pagani zonda, I doubt he is that envious.
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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Blows Past 1M Downloads
Example is coming from Prosper.com data. In addition to the XML, an XML to CSV jar converter is provided. The size after conversion is 3x that of the original XML--which just seems odd to me.
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To me the most convincing part is the bridge to nowhere.

So, just build bridges to somewhere.

Build what people want, and preferably, will pay for.

Even if you build it in a bubble, its still a bridge, somewhere.
Seems focused on ad-based or freemium business models. Would like to know his thoughts on top 3 priorities for a company selling product directly.
All set, for a fellow HN reader we bumped you to the front of the queue. (currently about a 4-5 week backlog)
http://ratemystartup.com/manage-and-monitor-your-virtual-mac...

Hopefully this gives you some additional well deserved exposure.
Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue
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Legal question regarding iOS app
Think of any game were you can earn virtual money or points (farmville, mafia, etc).
Now imagine that at any point in time the application allows you to redeem the points (or fake money) for a fraction of real cash (ie: 1000 points = $1, 10,000 points = $10, and so on).

I want to know if doing that is legal and if so, will Apple allow an app like that?