skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT: I haven't read this specific article, but have been on DVORAk for about a year and am happy about it. But one of the problems i have noticed in arguments for and against these kb layouts is the hand size. they vary from individual, and i can easily see someone with a bigger hand not realizing the same efficiency improvement as i did when i switched over.

*-- I switched over by trying Dvorak for an hour a day instead of the QWERTY i had used for about 3-4 weeks. I was a below average QWERTY user. Touch typist, but not fast/ not a lot of typing experience.
Depends on the market - I understand the incentives in new york are such that scamming by agents is common, and problematic. In the Bay Area, (indeed, all of california to the best of my knowledge) - it's rare (as in, I've never heard of it happening) for a renter to pay a fee for a new rental, and so there is very little incentive to scam them. I've moved five times since 2003, every time using craigslist. If I want a graphical/map view, I just use housingmaps.com - unlike padmaps, they are simply offering a service to the user base, so, to the best of my knowledge, they've always had free access to the CL data.

I've never spent more than a week looking for a new place, and wouldn't consider using any service other than craigslist to do so.

Clearly the experience in other markets is not so positive.
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You mean the IBM that almost disintegrated in the 90s, and that now employs an entirely different workforce than it did then because their core business has completely changed? And IMO Microsoft is being driving into the ground, it certainly won't be known as a stable employer within 20 years. We'll see what happens with Google, I guess.
That's an interesting idea. As it is I have a rather long RES filter list and it's like I need to add several new filters a day to get the crap from hitting my page.

No matter how hard I try, rate comics and Facebook anything still hit my screen.
> If it's serious, like assault, you're out.

i've seen some examples that suggest it might not be as cut-and-dry as that. i don't have the url handy, but some time ago someone in one of this discussions linked to a publicly-accessible record of clearance decisions. the one that jumped out at me had a guy who'd been a drug addict and involved in dealing in the past--he was clean now and fully informed them about it during the screening, and was approved.
Or alternatively use virtual hosts and have descriptive hostnames pointing to numerous web instances.
Class action lawsuits only ever really benefit the plaintiff counsel.
Very humbled to have Sponsorfied mentioned. I'd also like to point out that while only 8 are mentioned here, there are many amazing teams in our class who are hard at work for demo day and beyond. Looking forward to the world getting to see them all.
We are hiring in BERLIN: http://urge.io/jobs

More on why you should come to Berlin right now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4276951
And if I wrote a piece of software that helped you post the same thing simultaneously on Craigslist and EBay, I bet they'd sue me.

That's not what this is about. CL doesn't care where you post it, or how many times you post it. CL just doesn't want others scraping their website and posting it for you. This is direct action on CL against Padmapper.
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I don't pimp this often, so just a reminder that there's a job board that uses HN karma as the posting criteria that I made called UseTheSource: http://jobs.usethesource.com

It doesn't have ads or recruiters. Details are here: http://jobs.usethesource.com/hrdoc
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Freelance developer based in the Brighton in the UK. I can travel to London but I usually prefer to work remotely as I have a very nice desk in a co-working place 5 minutes from my house :)

Languages are mainly Python and JavaScript (client and server side) but happy with lots of others when they are needed (I love a bit of Haskell, although rarely get paid to use it!). Experience with Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, SciPy, OpenCV.

One of the things I enjoy doing is RESTful API design, here's a talk I gave to a local JavaScript talk about that recently (scroll down for the slides):

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To me (Dvorak typist for > 2 years), it's not about increased wpm. I'm actually not a fast typist. It's about greater comfort at the keyboard, because ~70% of my keypresses are along the home row, compared to ~30% with QWERTY.

WRT Vim, I made the switch without too much trouble. In fact, I find the j/k on the left hand and h/l on the right hand useful.
Well, if your goal is to play Devil's Advocate, then here's one: FP makes simple things hard. Instead of simple for-loops you have to use recursion, if you want to do something as primitive as assigning to a variable you have to learn about monads, instead of control flow operators you have to use functions-as-values, and the type system is based on a foundational mathematical topic called lambda calculus.

Just to be clear: I'm a fan of FP, and I don't think it makes simple things hard. I just think that debunking the above would be illuminating.
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I don't think people outside the US understand how large Craigslist is. I spend 1 hour, each work day, looking at the national OMPL gig feed after its been filtered for charity/stupidity/things I don't do, to see if I can pick up supplemental clients between larger accounts.

The amount of spam and high expectations / low financial reward is high, but a lot of my small business contracts are from Craigslist.
First let me say that yet again, another blog post that contains little to no science to back up claims; instead, personal feelings and an individual's experience become the standard by which apparently all people experience working in STEM. We should not immediately concede that one person's experience defines an industry, or several. (The "stereotype threat" article is not a compelling enough argument to me that there is some gender stereotype conspiracy only found in STEM)

Second: all these things the author experienced can be said about any minority group, and women is just one of them in STEM. Therefore, can we really say that there is a particular bias against women, when the bias actually exists among many minorities? Therefore, can't we assume that really it's the monopoly of the majority that we should combat, and not specifically the gender gap?

Third, holy shit. If your self confidence is so low that any critique by a peer could shatter your world and cause you to abandon your career, you need therapy, or at least some kind of daily affirmation exercise. And being too afraid to ask to join a group is no excuse, for any person. You have to be able to work with other people.

Often times they will not be the same gender or ethnicity as you. Simply saying it's difficult or scary is not some big revelation: many people find it intimidating to work with groups of people they know nothing about. Luckily, that's what college is good for: overcoming those fears and becoming comfortable with what will eventually be a requirement of your job.

I agree with all her Eliminating the Threat points (even though that's kind of a harsh way of saying "Overcoming Obstacles")
Is keeping your site traffic-spike-proof important? Apparently Not.
Very, very excited this is going live today. We're looking forward to the awesome things developers can do with this. We've already been extremely surprised by the creativity of our end-users and are expecting a similar story from our developers.

A few quick ideas:

1. hook your own SaaS app up to Zapier so all of our users (and your customers!) can use it

2. write an integration for a SaaS app you don't own but want to integrate with

3. connect your in-house tools to external SaaS apps through Zapier
Correct, the information remains open--however, how many people are going to go about writing a new ad for each site they post on and make sure it's different enough to avoid triggering someone else's license protection? Reading real estate ads in the area, both on realty websites and Craigslist, they look almost identical.

"BRAND NEW CONDO 1BA 1Br wood floors!!!! sends us an email. $1200/mo!!"

If you take that same ad and post it on Craigslist and another ad service, the license with Craigslist gives them exclusive rights to the ad--if I'm reading this right it means they can then tell the 2nd ad service to take the content down since CL has the exclusive license. I'm not saying CL will do this, just that having that kind of license up front opens the door to such a scenario.
Until someone builds a slide editor that's as easy to use as this is pretty to view, it's mostly meaningless to most people.
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You probably think you know how to write code in which you Don't Repeat Yourself. Haskell will show you you are quite wrong and there are any number of repeating patterns that you currently don't even see, and how you can factor them out too. It will also give you a fantastic workout in learning how to separate logic from code that does stuff. This definitely can have a very positive impact on the rest of your code.

Even if you only treat it as a workout like lifting weights, it can still be worth it.

The downside is, to really see this you need to try to do a couple of real projects in Haskell. Maps & folds & monads are the words of the language, not fluency. I think a great deal of the "this is useless!" has come from people taking the first mile of the thousand mile journey and wondering why nothing's different yet, and why did I bother taking this mile anyhow?
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Yep, prose is very cool and Michael did a great job listening to feedback from fellow developers. I already use a custom version on an upcoming opinion website that I based on Jekyll.
Oh sod off, troll. That isn't how it works and you know better.
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Exciting times.

My predictions:
Developers download it on August 15th and we'll see many reviews like we've seen about the RP. Some will hate it, some will love it. The fact that it's going to be much less buggy than RP will help a lot.

Then on October 26th, all of the new touch devices will launch. At that point, we'll actually see why they focused on a touch interface, and things will make more sense. Some reviewers should install this on a touchscreen device and give it a proper review before that date though, it'd be nice to get some insight.
Turn off soundtrack by default please.
Awesome, I just bought a license. One question, one license is limited to two machines simultanuously... Is the usage in development (on a localhost) also counted against this limit?
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We've changed it to "custom" pricing for now, and will work on an updated pricing table to better reflect our intention of having an SLA included among other things. Thanks again! :)

Re: the deluxe version. Hmm, that wasn't our intention, we merely wanted to include a plan that had the entry level SLA pricing attached to it for support with guaranteed response-times. Apologies if it wasn't clear enough, but we'll be sure to fix this in a future site update.

Re: third server, if you're a startup, you'd end up buying 2 startup licenses. If you're not a startup, that'd be 2 pro licenses (or as you mentioned, buy 25 pro licenses to get up to 50 servers). Hope that clears things up a bit, it definitely is good to get constructive feedback like this so we can try and fix it. Much thanks! :)
Anyone have the text? All I see is: Server Error in '/' Application. And a .NET error page.
Very excited about this! I'm in for the $300 package. I've been eagerly following the progress on the original thread: http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=138&t=14777&... . Carmack comes in and posts periodically.
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Cue transhumanist/Ray Kurzweil checklist watchers. You can mark off 'fully immersive virtual reality available to the masses' at the end of this kickstarter.

Regardless of singularity thoughts, I really enjoy watching new tech become possible due to price drops in components. This would not have been possible just a few short years ago as the price(and size/weight) of LCDs and sensors have fallen significantly. I'd say the smartphone boom has been responsible for most of this advancement. This device is not much more than two phone-sized LCDs strapped to your head. Of course it's the code that makes the magic happen with low latency head tracking.

Commoditization of hardware components will continue to open new doors for developers. "No one would have bought a $10,000 iPod" - as the saying goes.
Since Windows 7, Microsoft has found themselves in the uncomfortable position between a downmarket competitor (Android) with which they can't be price-competitive, and a high-end, aspirational consumer brand (Apple) with non price-sensitive customers.

Among all this, the teams who worked on this product (including several close friends) really busted ass to get it right. I think this will be the best version of Windows ever, and might be the first operating system that gets a touch/keyboard+mouse hybrid UI right.
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I've been lead frontend developer on over 50 projects, and am very experienced building custom websites using WordPress as a platform. Also I was 2-time finalist in our local startup incubator, and applied to YC Spring 2011.

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Congrats guys. We've been using the service for over a month now and absolutely love it. You've given us integrations we'd never have time to do ourselves as a young scrappy startup with entirely too much work to do.
Daphne Koller (Stanford) TED talk - What are we learning from online education?
Well, not understanding functional programming is missing a big part of CS. I would think, in all likelihood, if you understood FP you would probably be worth more financially ... unless you are already at maximal worth.
Microsoft Windows 8 reaches the RTM milestone
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