skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your definition of competence seems to differ significantly from mine. For one thing, there's not some binary threshold of competence vs. incompetence. What I'm describing is a temporary condition caused by depletion of mental willpower. You also seem to be applying a degree of the typical mind fallacy. Maybe you are the ubermensch incarnate and could maintain total control of your creative mental faculties through the most painful torture, but most people have limits. That doesn't make them incompetent; it just makes them human.
Inflation also drives the velocity of money up, and the interest rate down. And both inflation and demurrage are "continuously assessed," it's just that losses to inflation aren't immediately measurable.

Even if the timing of inflation/demurrage costs were different, could you explain more about the link between the timing of fees and the sustainability of investments? I don't see how the two are related.
I believe this is the non-dramatized version of events.
Can you create an issue on Github and describe the problem step-by-step? There might be some edge cases we haven't covered yet.

http://github.com/prose/prose
Ask HN: Created a news / culture magazine a month ago. Would love a critique
The site is http://planetivy.com/.

I thought I'd post here because without the voice of the outside world I'm worry I'll make some pretty obvious mistakes. This is not the first magazine I've worked on in terms of WordPress or hosting (techy guy) but it is the first magazine where I've had the challenge of working out how to increase views to please advertisers.

Although the site is live we are yet to have a launch party. This should be fun and we're planning on getting in touch with some drinks companies to sponsor the event.

We used a bit of black hat magic (against my advice) to quickly gain Facebook fans and Twitter followers which seems to be brining in a nice amount of traffic. You'd be surprised what people are searching for!

Any resources that you think I may find useful being in this position would be appreciated!
It seems as if every single key press, whether or not it affects the output (for example, writing in a comment or hitting enter to reorganize and space out code) causes every single function to be evaluated again.

You can test this out by adding something like this...

(time (+ 1 1))

...and start typing in a comment on a new line and seeing how the elapsed time that is outputted changes on every single key press. Performance optimizations are probably not as important right now, but that's something that can be improved.

Still, as a basic test of the concept, it looks pretty interesting overall and I can see myself using this. As long as the idea is sound, everything else can be improved over time. Keep it up!
In general, you want URLs that are short, clear, memorable, and stable. You want to tell people,
"Come to mydomain.com/blog," not,
"Come to http://www.wordpress.mydomain.com/stamp_collectors_heaven_bl... The latter includes lots of information that their browser + your server can figure out, so you shouldn't be burdening your (potential) users with it.

So, regarding the "index.html" portion: The index is the default. There's no point having a default if you have to specify it, and there's no point specifying it if it's the default.
What's troubling? A culture of working over 40 hours? Or the fact that some people choose to?

Is it your perception that our culture is moving toward working more hours?

http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS

The trend appears to be downward. Yay?
Digital Democracy in Action
I love a good tongue-in-cheek git repository... Reminded me of: http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com
I see, so his name used to be Gordon[1] but he changed his name so that now he has no name.

[1]: http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/2009/10/gordon.html
That's exactly what I have done (for the prototype) and will do (for the actual client). However adding demurrage is a protocol-level change and would represent a hard-fork.

It's better for everyone involved to simply start a fresh block chain.

EDIT: But yes, the client would be an open source fork of bitcoin.
Hey, great work! I'm currently working a mapping project, with smallish, customized maps. I'm wondering about your strategy for map tiling? Did OSM do it/provide an easy for you to tile the maps/download the tiles? Basically I'm looking for some software that will help me turn my own images into map tiles. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Some smart people like Coda Hale also work there.
I wonder if they'll leave or not.

Oh heeeeell no.
Instead of conjecture, here's how I got started as a freelance dev, starting 6 months ago.

You need a decent portfolio site

Design and build in in WordPress or something similar. Prove your design chops here by having a well-design, functional, and more importantly clear message to potential customers. You want to let your customers have confidence. It doesn't have to be amazing. Mine certainly isn't. http://andrewheins.ca/

Your first job might be among your social circle

Mine was the Tae Kwon Do dojo I attended. They were paying WAY too much for hosting, so they let me make a site and change their hosting. They now pay 1/10th the hosting costs. Demo that site on your portfolio.

Next, you start bidding for work

FreelanceSwitch.com was the place that landed me the most work, but Craigslist and the bevy of other sites work well too. The ability to communicate clearly with your potential clients and bid within a reasonable range are key here.

Build your portfolio on low-end jobs

You will low-ball at first. That's ok. Raise your rates after each job. Quote by project, not by hour.

Find other freelancers with complementary skills

Being a dev, I latched on to a few designers who didn't want to have to code all their work. They can offer full solutions, I get paid. It's a great relationship.
New A/B blog http://icelandingpagedesign.com/#blog
I just realized that the "Community" and "Blog" link in the main navigation are both linked to the "Forum". Is that by purpose? Or a bug?
I know, I read that. The impression I got from the article was that these new heatsinks were going to be used on the CPUs and that somehow that would generate less heat. e.g, if Intel makes a lower power chip, a lot of savings will come from AC, even though Intel isn't making AC systems. It was not obvious to me (and I still have my doubts) that "every fan-and-heatsink" was referring to AC systems as well as CPU heatsinks.
Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks 7 years ago (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2005/mar05/03-1...) in a very similar space failed to ignite anything. I also rarely ever hear about groove anymore and haven't seen it used in the wild in about 5 years. I like yammer and have used it at the past couple of startups I've been at, but there's a good chance that yammer will be on the same downward path post-acquisition.
Thank You HN: You helped my to become #5
HyperDex performs best in a single-datacenter environment. You are right that synchronous replication between datacenters can (and likely will) be slow.

There's much work on this (my favorites are Walter and COPS from SOSP 11) that is on-going. We'll likely be throwing our hat into the ring soon as well.

You are right that pushing some logic to the "thick client" is one of the viable solutions.

Feel free to contact us as you work on your PoC. We'd love to hear about positive results and help with any rough patches you encounter.
Thank you so much for the feedback,
Yes we intend to have a pricing soon, we are still trying to improve our experience and conversion rates before we do :)

I am glad you mentioned it (login), we started working on it and will put this as a higher priority. I think this is one of the big barriers indeed for corporate users.

again, thank you so much
Microsoft understands the value of complementary products, that's why their products are so well integrated with each other. This is why calculating the return on investment from an acquisition like Yammer is difficult, because Yammer may help them sell a few more Exchange/Office licenses.

Also companies like Microsoft have plenty of cash that just sits there in a bank account, like $50 billion or something. Buying Yammer is harmless for them and may yield a better ROI than letting all that cash rot.
tocomment- We have been exploring some options to make checking references easier.

Many larger landlords use a Reference Verification form that they ask references to complete. One strategy would be to create an online version of that form. At this point we're trying to gauge landlord interest.

If you'd be interested in talking more about what type of solution would work for you, please reach out to me at the support email address on our web site.
It's a real, working email address that sends emails to your facebook "messages".
I don't use the store (except a few promotional tracks I downloaded for free) and I don't own an iDevice (though I used to). I use iTunes because it's easy to use and offers features that make listening to music more enjoyable (smart playlists, etc).
Hi, I'm a beginner programmer, I've played around with learning Lisp various time & just started the 4clojure problems. I was having issues getting a nice workflow going & getting diverted with IDE issues etc. This is wonderful. Thanks.
Perfect! Just what I was looking for.
Groove got folded into the Sharepoint family - the technologies are still alive, I believe.
I have Fusion on Sonic and I get around max ~750KB/sec (2.97Mbps according to speedtest.net) downloads. Apparently, I'm at the tail end of the distance from my central office. Sigh.
Love love love this. Awesome work!
It is over-riding and replacing the normal email addresses.
I don't think Craigslist can legally issue a DMCA takedown for posts since they don't own the copyright to them. Padmapper stopped scraping Craigslist because it's against Craigslist's terms of service and Craigslist asked them to stop. A third party scraper as you've described would be harder to stop.
I might release it some day. Right now, the code is not release-worthy. I do know my way around it since I wrote it and so, it's really pretty easy for me to add new maps if you send the names of the cities without much manual work.
Thanks for giving me the idea of automating this further though - may be users can look up cities and the backend can generate a map for them, publish it and notify them when it is available. However, since I get requests for new maps very infrequently, I am too lazy to do it right away.
Stormpath wants to add plug-and-play security to your cloud
The How  You Stink At LinkedIn
No, you misinterpreted, natural language is funny like that. I took those numbers straight from their page: https://www.yammer.com/customers/

85 Percent of Fortune 500 Companies Use Yammer.
...
200,000 companies - large and small - are
changing the way they work with Yammer
>>I would hardly classify 7x slower as "quite great"<< When half of that difference comes from running GC on a separate core, and we know that GC has not been tuned - perhaps we should call that particular difference accidental ;-)
Thanks for the feedback.
The rated item base for now is not yet large enough to give good recommendations to a large group of people.
We'll be able to extend group size in the future.
Robert C. Martin on Clean Architecture
Apart from that, a side effect that is common among antidepressants is (increased) suicidal ideation. This makes it doubly important to monitor people who are starting out on antidepressants.
Right. I mentioned it because any discussion of why something isn't used should mention why it wasn't used. "It's ok to use this" is more compelling if it explains why the observed reality differs. :)
herdrick:

Source? And are those the company's profits, or what the founder, Craig Newmark, has taken out of the company's profits since its founding 17-18 years ago? Does that include his salary, or only his pro-rata share of distributions to all shareholders, or both?

Let's assume for a moment that this is the total amount of money he's received from the company since inception. It's a relatively paltry amount of money for a company with that kind of reach. Compare the "$30 million" you say he has earned cumulatively over nearly two decades to the billions or hundreds of millions of dollars earned by the founders of most web companies that have achieved similar scale.

Moreover, that figure is comparable to what CEOs of large non-profit organizations make per year. Compare $30 million over 17-18 years, or around $1.7 million per year, to the figures quoted in this article: http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2011/09/slideshow-who...

By all accounts, Craigslist behaves a lot more like a non-profit organization than as a for-profit corporation.
We used it when I worked for TechCrunch (way back when). It's perfect for that setting: lots of writers, coordinating coverage, sharing interesting bits of information that you're not exactly sure who will find interesting. Etc.

It's not a good tool when it gets bastardized into a product management/planning/feature request tool. As a developer for them I was keenly aware of this flaw.

I've tried it in other contexts since leaving and it hasn't been a fit. Prefer HipChat/Trello.
Let me repeat myself: Vons was not allowed to bring up the information about the plaintiff's alleged alcoholism. The jury would not have been allowed to hear this information in any court unless Vons could have shown (to the judge, before trial) that alcohol played a direct and immediate role in causing the plaintiff's injury.
Do you have an ideological or practical opposition? Java is cross-platform enough for it not to be an issue. Are you memory-constrained?
If you're trying to learn Common Lisp, then no 'cl' is not sufficient. It ads a few CL features to Emacs lisp, but it isn't the same thing at all.

If you're just trying to write Emacs extensions, then it's a nice extension to the language which makes it slightly more tolerable.
Just best for Facebook. It's their service an they get to do what they want.

This sentiment seems to be implied for pretty much any decision made by any company, so is it even useful to mention? And if it's true, that's still not going to stop me from complaining when a company makes a decision I don't like.

So, why mention it?
The drama comes in Facebook automatically hiding your original email address, regardless of your original settings. There's nothing about that action that can be construed as anything other than forcing you into Facebook's messaging system.
Using Java to deal with multicore programming complexity
“Banks Promise Loans But Hoard Cash”

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/03/banking-federal-reserve-bus...

“Firms' Cash Hoarding Stunts Europe”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230472440457729...
Nice color scheme. Anyone know of a similar theme for emacs?
I use mapnik to generate tiles from OSM data. Get in touch with me via email ravi at light fighter labs dawt com (dawt should avoid harvesters :)) I'll be glad if I can help.
Have fun getting that pattern right by hand. The language isn't doing anything to help you.

Make sure you release the instances back to the pool on every exit path, but don't release them if you let a reference escape into another scope.

Have fun debugging the issues that crop up when you accidentally release an instance that's still being used back into the pool.

Have fun hunting down that one code path that isn't returning instances to the pool, and as a result is draining the pool down to 0 and causing you to gain nothing from it.
"A figure of little consequence in [his] own time..." I thought of Raymond himself. Who decided that this guy deserved to be one of the lucky few with canonical hacker initials?
it's going to be a great project!
Some day phone makers will subsidize carriers. All towers will have been built, bandwidth will be extreme (note I did not say "infinite" although I wouldn't object if that happened!), prices will collapse. Buy a phone, get included service free.
From this tweet it sounds like Craigslist might be launching their own improved housing search...

http://twitter.com/craignewmark/status/217329959373504514
(FYI, The OpenPGP specification got ECC support a couple of weeks ago http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6637)
Alive, and used by practically no one.
watchlist recommendations were dead on! i might totally use this. one thought though: if i could, i'd share my list of ratings on facebook or elsewhere - and i'd totally want check out rating-lists by others. for all those who won't invite friends to a group (for now i won't), such a feature could be in my interest and provide a low threshold mechanism to spread the word about foundd at the same time.
I have no idea if that number is accurate, but $30 million over a decade where the site has absolutely dominated its industry seems like a pittance.
well at least we know that someone is incentivized :) congrats
I can't tell if you're being willfully ignorant or if you legitimately find Craigslist easy to use. I legitimately cannot think of a single example of where you would prefer to scroll through pages of links, reading each classified that might contain the item you're looking for, instead of using an a UI mechanism to filter and sort the searches.

Have you ever used Craiglist to rent an apartment or to buy a used car?
Wow - seems like this space is getting a little crowded... what with padmapper's announcement and other sites like rentify.

Though, www.rento.bo redirects me to bitly.com?
Yup, you are right. Attitude is key to becoming a) (along with a basic level of aptitude, obviously). And, few people have the necessary self awareness.

Attitude is exactly what companies look for when they hire people with less experience. Even for more advanced programmers in a sense it is essential because you never stop learning. This is why there is some bias towards younger people as they are supposed to be more willing to learn.

But, as with any behavior, attitude becomes less necessary if a clearly defined system for mentoring/acquiring the necessary mental models is in place. Someone who graduates from a top school and ends up working at a company where a) types mentor new hires has to try significantly less than someone who graduates from a less well known school and has to figure out some way to learn from a) types.

Btw, the way a lot of the best companies bypass the HR problem is they hire based on employee recommendations. This is another contributing factor to 'talent shortage'. There is a hiring channel at any company that is much better at recognizing potential - existing employees. The high effectiveness and limited reach of this channel adds to perceived 'talent shortage'.
We'll do some optimizations for iPad if we get time. However, this would be a great piece for getting involved. One blocker I see is that CodeMirror does not work well with iPad touch events yet.
Would love to hear other ways of cutting down on $(document).ready madness.
A company I used to work for used it. I found the client to be really horrendous. It was written in some sort of god-awful Adobe Air thing that used 100% CPU constantly while it ran. Just awful, I can't comprehend why anyone would use a terrible bloated architecture like Air to create what should be a simple lightweight chat system. And the chat program itself had no advantages over any other chat system.

Maybe I just didn't "get it".
This is a major breach of trust.
The designed incentives are set up to trade in freicoin, and immediately cash out into something else. Clearly there's got to be an opposing force that turns "immediately" into a variable length of time (maybe transaction fee versus liquidity projection). The changing of this time period based on economic conditions is going to make your monetary flow unpredictable. In fact, it seems that in "down" times when people are looking to spend less, they'll want less freicoins, causing the value to drop with positive feedback.

Presently, banks can loan out ten times the money they've obtained, so any asset-based system is going to be a step back for easy credit (which imho is a good thing). Availability of credit and low interest rates have more to do with the risk of default (assuming a sound money supply). As such, if you want to improve the availability of credit, you should work on improved tracking of people/collateral (which imho is a bad thing).

Fundamentally I think you're looking at this from the wrong perspective. Improving people's ability to live paycheck to paycheck is only further perpetuating the system where most people are at the mercy of the economy.
A company that requires overwork from its people, especially salaried people,
in order to sustain itself doesn't deserve to exist.

I find such strong visceral statements like this really curious and am trying to understand them. Do you resent people who want to work ridiculous hours? Or just the companies that expect their employees to put in overtime?

Do you resent companies that expect overtime from employees as sort of a shared sacrifice on the hopeful way to something like an IPO or buyout where everyone gets a reward for that sacrifice?

If I have a choice to work at company A where I can put in minimal hours and company B where the company expects me to put in "unpaid" overtime. Do you view company B as not deserving to exist?

Do you not support my desire to work in the company and environment that I wish to? Would it be for my own good for company B to be shut down?

Paid overtime is another
story and is a common aspect of the how the manufacturing sector works.

Are you under the impression that Google employees haven't been extraordinarily compensated for the hours they've put in?

This article makes me want to defenestrate myself and join the Socialist Party.

If only everyone who wanted to join the Socialist Party would defenestrate themselves. I commend you for that choice. :P I kid. I kid.
It would help me to sign up and join if I would have seen an explanation of how it works and why it's free, I'm a sceptic, besides that one thing bothered me, the bold text ("Jackpot Buddy is a ...") is too long for a title, I would play with different font sizes and build a title + subtitle (e.g. first paragraph as is, and second, starting with "Join thousands" as not bold + italics + smaller font)

Interesting idea, I will follow
Most of the decent providers will help you improve failure independence. I know first hand that Linode is very accommodating for this.

I mention independent failures because f=3 is sufficient for this scenario for most. If there is correlation between failures and you cannot move servers around then you can compensate with a higher f.

In a future release (within the next six months), we'll be adding support for consistent snapshots that guarantee that HyperDex can withstand more than f failures with a bounded amount of data loss.

It's always possible to retrieve all data with an empty search and manually dump it into another form.
TechRadar User database has been compromised
If you haven't already you might want to try out P2 from Automattic (http://p2theme.com/) - it is much lighter weight.
I can confirm that my profile was modified to hide my real email address without permission. This appears to be more than a hype piece.
Getting started with RTL-SDR
He just worded that sentence really awkwardly.

85% of Fortune 500 companies
200k companies total
From the rumors I heard, that acquisition was mostly about getting Ray Ozzie on board.
I don't disagree, and I'm trying to criticize Mayer here--I think the "article" is a bit poorly written, and I imagine some mid-manager somewhere reading it and thinking "oh, I can make my devs works 100 hours a week, as long as I let them eat dinner with their kids once a week."
Exec is hiring an in-house recruiter.
Huh? SharePoint is used by 78% of the Fortune 500, according to Wikipedia...
Nice being able to A/B test from the backend, without using javascript.

I've gotten some really click through rates from A/B testing religiously.