skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I want to know where they got the name. My wife and I were going to name our daughter Tindie, but only because Tünde is a family name and we wanted to spell it phonetically for the US. Quite a trip seeing something we both thought we made up out of thin air on HN!
Therein, quite related: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/20
"There's a reason GPL/LGPL is the most popular software license."

Is it? I honestly don't know, but my gut feeling is that I run across the MIT license more often these days. Maybe it's just an artifact of the stuff I do?
Dissecting Operation High Roller [pdf]
"If you're campaigning against ACTA, you're a terrorist"
Rust is interesting to deal with some hard problems keeping a multicore program safe and efficient, but I'm sure sandboxing will provide a better tradeoff for a lot of things (and as sho_hn points out, Harfbuzz correctly embeds a lot of domain knowledge from multiple cultures). C can be locked down pretty tight, see for example ZeroVM which restricts it to pure functional code.
planetguy: during periods of extreme economic suffering, there is an increase in all kinds of criminal activity as many people are driven to desperation -- regular folk as well as professional criminals.

Consider the case of the US during the Great Depression, which "brought a rapid rise in the crime rate as many unemployed workers resorted to petty theft to put food on the table. Suicide rates rose, as did reported cases of malnutrition. Prostitution was on the rise as desperate women sought ways to pay the bills. Health care in general was not a priority for many Americans, as visiting the doctor was reserved for only the direst of circumstances. Alcoholism increased with Americans seeking outlets for escape, compounded by the repeal of prohibition in 1933."[1]

Some of the most audacious criminals in US history, like John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde, rose to fame during the Great Depression of the 1930's.

[1] http://www.ushistory.org/us/48e.asp
The password part is a bit silly. You don't even need to do that. Just leave it rough around the edges and give people a technical description of how to use the tool. I've done that accidentally a number of times. It's amazing how many times, people just give up without even trying.
Uhm I don’t get this: yum uses /usr/bin/python, why should it care about /anywhere/python3?

Also we have many CentOS 5 servers but won’t let dictate our Python based software development by their Python 2.4. So we just rolled our own RPMs and put our python binary outside PATH. We deploy only via virtualenvs, so it’s not problem.
I couldn't agree more. This company stains the name of YC in my opinion.

I bought a WakeMate in Jan 11, it stopped working within 3 mos. So I emailed support, they asked me to fill out a Refurbishment Request Form (a Google doc). I did, but they never responded. I emailed again... no reply. $100 down the tube... just threw it in the trash last week in fact.

I defended these guys when they had the bad USB plugs that caught on fire. I'm an entrepreneur too, I get that hardware is a pain... support is a drag. But I also know I've absolutely bent over backward to help paying customers... I've easily spent several hours helping customers paying for a $29/mo account on many, many occasions. It's just inexcusable to completely ignore customers.
I haven't been on OKCupid in years, so this info may be outdated, but they used to display a green/yellow/red dot to indicate whether or not someone usually responds when you initiate contact with them. Most women have red dots because you probably won't get any response from them whatsoever if you send them a message.
Fight Club and Children of Men are two books that I truly enjoyed.
Our photo based journal as we travel- http://blog.seat14a.com and as a thank you to the HN Community from our side the coupon code "HACKERNEWS", brings the price for the Summer 2012 ensemble down to $99
I came to say the same thing because things like "Click here for all the detials or to order" completely turned me off and made me think their mailing list got hacked and some new spam magnetic balance bracelet was being announced.
I dont see a all how this is like an App store, unless you start selling arduino firmware as downloadable content. Its like the title says, Etsy for electronics
I bought this book last week and it's easily worth $2.99. :)
DNS as a platform for building apps
How can you know what Enlightenment is very correctly? does that mean that you are yourself Enlightened? If so, that would explain how can you sanction everyone else's Enlightenment, like all of Zen monks, etc.

Also, how do you know that indeed a Buddha comes every 3000 years? where is the Truth pointing to that?
Oh this is spot on! There is far too much hipster drivel written about personal habits, lifestyles and fashion choices of founders as if building a successful company is largely determined by what kind of coffee you drink.

Likely because focusing on that is a lot easier than focusing on reality: It's hard work, takes extreme dedication and sacrifice. Much easier to pretend that certain types of yoga exercise are key factors....
This is cool, but every diagram I've seen for git history uses arrows pointing to the past instead of the future, which is a bit confusing.
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Did anyone else catch that they said Kickstarter in the video and its clearly on Indiegogo?

(link to YouTube specific time, but its the same video from Indiegogo) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZQvguYTqg&feature=playe...
i fail to understand how any decent web company does not at the very minimum hash passwords in this day and age. More importantly - a company who teaches people coding and often runs 'best practices for XXXX courses' each month.
I wonder if the story would have turned out the same without the password? It seems like the password may have created a mystery that prompted them to want to see what's inside. If it simply worked poorly/not at all without a trained operator, it likely would have been thrown away instead.
How startups hack the talent pool
Check out the Wanted section:

http://tindie.com/wanted/

(I've already suggested adding a "bounty" field :)
Nice try, Alexis Ohanian....
Huh? It's a pretty widely accepted fact that correct & performant parallel programming is inherently a hard problem (barring invention
of a silver bullet...)
How is it best to avoid issues like these without having to get approval by a 3rd party? Is coding it at home and sending it to one's office email address enough for documentation that it was done in non-office time?
You removed the rest of the context.

> in Rust to ensure the language can do it

When creating a language you want to write as many things as possible in it to vet the design. See Go, e.g. http://golang.org/src/pkg/image/jpeg/fdct.go.
Why would they sue him? It would be a huge waste of money for all involved. Instead they could just hire him for a job he was clearly qualified for and then everyone wins.
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Hm, so? It's not like you need /usr/bin/python to be Python 3 to use Python 3, especially considering that Python upstream is recommending for it to remain pointed at Python 2 for now and essentially guaranteeing/mandating the existence of /usr/bin/python3. I doubt there's any Python 3 code out there that is meant for public consumption and relies on /usr/bin/python being Python 3.
LLVM is more interesting piece of software, gcc is kind of crusty and warty.

Still, I'm glad you're interested in the language, if you're interested in undefined behaviour then you should carefully and closely read the latest free draft standard (N1570) and perhaps implement a small C compiler of your own ( Appel : Modern Compiler Implementation ).

There are many C compilers, they are free to do whatever they want when behaviour is undefined and in many cases you'll unfortunately not see anything odd at all, not until you port your code, change your flags or upgrade the compiler and then you'll having a seething mass of "well this stuff worked when we tested it" errors.

Strapping yourself into a vehicle and driving off a cliff teaches you a little about the dangers of accidents and gives you a reason to drive safely, it doesn't particularly teach much about the practice of safe driving.

The example code drove off the road, what happened next really isn't all that exciting.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/c/
He states thought that the boss who fired him called later to demand the password. A somewhat likely motive for this was so he could utilise the code for himself, fire a bunch of the workers and then claim the credit for the productivity bump and cost savings.

I'd rather not make life easier for such people. What this kid did turned out to be a win.

The only puzzling aspect of this story is why he took the same money back. He has demonstrated value far beyond his pay grade and was hired back at the same compensation as before. Why?
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Don't forget just abandoning the Android version completely, without bothering to tell anyone. I really don't believe they are going to support the new Android app any better.

It's not exactly giving me confidence when there are tweets like this one: http://twitter.com/wakemate/statuses/218007015379845120

Seems slightly unethical to use you former companies twitter account (and email list it seems, based on the ad I received) to market for your new company.
I seem to remember something about the app simply uploading its collected data to their site where all the analysis happened. Is a Wakemate device even useful without the site, or did they just hang all their remaining customers out to dry without so much as a public announcement? Another argument for not just data portability but vendor independence.
Just to help you out - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
And even worse, still, in that it's being offered by the same people behind the WakeMate disaster: broken promises, long waits, defective units, poor software, non-existent support, and power plugs that burst into flames.

Remember when they promised that they were going to ship power plugs that didn't catch on fire? They never did that.
Not exactly the same scenario - but at the end of 2001 I worked at a company that went under - our parent company decided to close our doors, fire everyone in one shot and then didn't pay us our final paychecks. About 4 to 6 weeks later I get a call asking for the server passwords as I was the only one with them - I refused to hand the passwords over until all of us got paid. We all had paychecks within a few days and I released the servers to them.
Its too easy to substitute working on the tools and resources for working on the actual goal. I separate new managers that way: some focus on the job at hand, many focus on the setup of their office, the desk, chair, parking space, etc.

A building is the easy part to creating a startup incubator; its a tool/resource for the job. Money is just another resource, and the investor a vendor, unless they're like YCombinator. Groups like this bring much more to the table than money; their focus isn't on the building, either.

Build the project; you'll find the tools along the way.
Eventually consumers will figure out what most of this crowd probably knows already. If you want the best android phone experience with the cleanest implementation and the most updates buy the phones produced / branded google.
It is very easy to find a niche related to something you actually like. The title of this article is a troll.

But, that being said, all you people who can't do market research, please follow this advice to try and chase the low hanging fruit. I'll continue turning over rocks to find gold. Stuff like this just keeps you the hell out of my way.
Cool I see the difference now, thanks for clarifying.
Well, when Steve and I got about a month into the site, neither one of us had to vote or submit links one day and we knew, "holy shit, this might work." But it wasn't until much later, maybe a year or so into user-create subreddits, that we really saw it chugging along. Maybe around the time /r/IAMA was created, because early subreddits like proggit and /r/gaming were made by me and Steve (as well as HEAVILY promoted on site with house ads, esp in the case of the latter, before it got enough momentum as its own community).

When something like /r/IAMA spawned, we knew that all the work we'd done to curate our own Ask Me Anything interviews with celebs (we took the top 10 questions and asked them on camera -- here's one of the early ones we shot w Adam Savage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jqea8R-bE) was no longer necessary. The community at IAMA could do it themselves.

Subreddits have always been the 'secret' reddits continued growth and I hope that as a platform, we can keep expanding in to all kinds of online communities.

e.g., my gf just turned me on to /r/blackgirls
Is MiLife a new company? If so, did they buy the assets of WakeMate? Or is it the same original entity that YC has equity in?
Great Documents: A By-Product of Effective Software Development Managers
It looks nice but it also looks very busy.

One thing I will never understand though, is a design that includes infinite scrolling and a footer. I finally got to the footer because the refreshing locked somehow, but it seems that it's just supposed to add more listings forever.
I don't know what kind of work you were doing, but sometimes data needs to be checked with human eyes for legal reasons, in which case you would actually be cheating.

It doesn't make any sense since your error rate is actually lower, but sometimes bureaucracies work that way.
BS, BS, BS.

Way too perfect. At the end, all of his coworkers get transferred to other places in the company to do translation work, for the same pay? Uh huh. The only thing this kid did is spin a good yarn and rack up a ton of reddit karma.

Between this and the passing out at 10, I'm more and more of a grumpy, cynical old man...
Probably not unless his contract was written in such a way. If for example you wrote a personal email using a company computer while at work, you would still own all the rights to it. Your work contract will specifically say what rights you assign to your employer and the specific works it covers.
I was not speaking quite that precisely. Online spaces that are offering services to the public I would think are clearly spaces of public accommodation; there might be exceptions but they would be exceptional.
SMS PDU in Python for Raspberry Pi
Kickstarter doesn't allow "Exercise and fitness products", "Health and personal care products", or "Medical and safety-related products".

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines?ref=footer
> You can found any type of company in Germany without having citizenship.

Are you sure this statement is true in general? In particular, what if you don't have a EU passport?
Facebook's 51st employee On Life At Facebook: 'It Was Like Mad Men'
I first heard of this via email ... an email that had a spelling error, associates itself with Wakemate (but is a different domain) and when I visited the Wakemate site, find it is offline.

Up until I saw this HN link, I had assumed the Wakemate accounts had been compromised and marked the email as spam.

Given the issues they had with customer relationship/communication management with Wakemate, it looks like they haven't learnt from their past mistakes.
This is what I imagine when I hear the phrase "job creation."

If you want something done - your lawn mowed, a meal made, etc - you'll hire someone. But a job for its own sake? What, are you going to hire somebody to move a pile of rocks back and forth across your yard?

A job starts with a need, not vice versa.
Maybe something specific yet cross-language, like "bridge-rpc"?
I wasn't addressing the legality of it, I was addressing the facts of the matter. Whether online spaces are considered to be such by the courts is a matter of the facts in part, but also law and precedent of which I'm not particularly well acquainted.
How you or others "feel" is not a moral argument. And you do not understand the point of Dr. King's quote.
More importantly than just being slow, the site crashes my iPad. After about 60-80% of the page loads, Safari closes to the home screen.
Yes, it is a new company: http://twitter.com/wakemate/statuses/218002374436995077
Fair enough, but why can only CPAs perform such audits? It is spending $20K-$40K per audit for essentially nothing of importance. This cost gets passed on to customers.
This is the dream of many HN readers.
They wouldn't even need to be good at it themselves, necessarily - they could contract it out.
Software engineer/programmer wages in most of Europe are much lower than what you'd probably expect, if you're in the US.

Now I don't know how much bonus he was earning, but he says he was earning 85-95% of the entire bonus share, and that the other members of the team were earning about 100-200... Given that, I'd guess it was at least 1500 on top of his basic wage (let's assume that's another 1500), totalling a low estimate of 3000eur/month, which is higher than the average in many European countries:
http://www.worldsalaries.org/computerprogrammer.shtml
If the team came to him and said, "Mr CEO, we have this glaring security problem we want to fix", and then Mr CEO replied, "We have other, higher priority things to work on right now, so no, please do not fix that."

We already know they didn't write it, but we don't have enough other information to make any other judgements (and the blog post at least implies the above may have happened).
+1

I also don't have a clue how could someone confuse SGSII and iPhone. I have both and I could distinguish them blind.
Twitter account now changed name from "Wakemate" to "Greg":

https://twitter.com/#!/wakemate
>but I personally like trying things out before buying.

Scroll to the bottom of the page. You'll find links to sample pages.
Why we think 37signals' Backpack is getting phased out
It might as well be compromised, it looks like someone who had access to all the wakemate info has decided to start marketing a new product from a new company using all the old wakemate accounts: http://twitter.com/wakemate/statuses/218007015379845120
In retrospect I feel the same way. It's only during the multitasking do I get any sort of feel-good feeling.

I think you point out something important though: you can feel very accomplished without actually accomplishing much. I think this parallels the feeling you get finishing off a ton of chores. It may not be the best use of your time.
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There has to be more to that inability to identify the products. Surely the Tab would be the one that says "Samsung" on the front, and the iPad would be the one with the big Apple logo on the back.
The same base plus the performance-linked bonus he was getting for doing most of the data entry with his program. It came to more than what his old boss was making, so it wasn't just data-entry wages.
My understanding is that the ADA requirements are based on what can be reasonably expected of the company based on its resources. If you're a small company turning a modest profit and you rent a space, you don't need to worry as much about putting in ramps and whatnot as if you're Walmart and you build a building. For the man selling newspapers on the street corner, learning sign language is a big investment. Netflix has the resources to manage this.
> I should also note that aMember had in the meantime released an upgrade to their service which deals with the issue, though an upgrade with our heavily modified system was a significant endeavour.

In the previous blog post:

> Our current Tuts+ Premium app makes use of a third party plugin that unfortunately stores passwords in cleartext (i.e. unencrypted).

The previous post sounded like they were too lazy to change the authentication system to a more secure one. But they now said they had a "heavily modified system".

> I’d like to take a moment to be clear that this wasn’t a failure of, or a reflection of, the professionalism and integrity of our development or Tuts+ teams.

I think any capable developer should find it easier to add BCrypt into the password field than the heavy modifications. Once they are familiar enough with the plugin (for heavy modifications), it shouldn't take more than a day to make it secure.
Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App
JPEG is a good benchmark because it is a bottleneck, heavily optimised with SIMD, and still amenable to some parallelisation. That doesn't apply to text layout.
Ask HN: Marketplace for Rapid App Development? Hackathon Marketplace 
As a business owner and digital marketing consultant for larger brands. I get tasked with fleshing out concepts for apps regularly. By the time I get wireframes done and specs done usually the original motivation has passed.

My question is this. Is it possible to create a marketplace around hackathon type rapid app development. I could see brands spending upwards of $2k an up for an app concept to be done in 24-48 hours.

Would it be worth it to developers to make money in short bursts like this?

Anywho.. just a thought .. Interested in your thoughts.

Tom
Sites like this give me a warm nostalgic glow. I'm glad there's still some of these kicking around the 'net.
I’m not sure what’s half-baked about a 3 years old ticket for a Python version that has never been declared as usable. (3.2 was the first production-ready Python 3)
Preface this by acknowledging don't know much bout the OP and his professional experience, but he is likely young.

I don't care for the "I'm now the Lead Software Engineer with my own department". If he was in manual data entry, he is likely young and has limited professional coding experience to cut his teeth on.

He is likely soloing himself, will limit his advancement by not having peers, and when he changes jobs he may have unrealistic expectations not realizing these.
Very nice set of diagrams.

But every time I see something this I have to ask myself again why I'm just not using CVS (or SVN, i.e. a simpler tool).
Should add the Visual Studio 2012 RC to that list.
I'd be surprised if that was true in this case. Especially given that the human operators were given about a days training and didn't have any knowledge beyond what was written down, so would have been pretty useless for checking anyway.

If that had been the case, I would have understood if they had explained that to me but it amused me that the immediate defence was basically "this makes everyone equally productive, so how do we know who is the most productive?".

It's sort of like being pissed off with people typing documents on computers because you can no longer tell who has the best handwriting (incidentally I had a similar issue at school when I submitted a typed essay once).
It's not even a matter of developing it on non-office hours using non-office equipment. Clauses are usually more broad to stop someone from creating a competing product, even when not on company time. Having built an app designed specifically for company systems, the company would likely have a legal claim against the invention, even if it were developed outside of office hours.