skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I've had pretty good luck. I've been using one of their shelving units [1] for more than 5 years, and it's held up very well. My wife and I are using their dining set that was just $100 for the table and two chairs, and it's fantastic [2]. We're also using an Ikea bed. I was a little skeptical about getting a bed from Ikea at first, but it's more comfortable than any regular mattress I've ever tried, or the Select Comfort bed I used for a number of years (it's one of the foam mattresses with slats).

Sure, it's a pain to put some of them together (especially the bed frame and slats... yikes), but I've had consistently good quality. The only problem is that you really need to check the box before you go home. There are often missing or wrong parts.

Just my experience, though. The furniture is good, but shopping there is an adventure I'd rather not go through again.

1. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10196431/
2. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80157129/
A small but crucial point: Hacker Dojo doesn't have owners; it has members.
The general idea above is certainly true for most top schools. AFAIK, several (Yale, Stanford) give no rank whatsoever. A number of the top schools will only segment by one or two major divisions. For example, many give distinction for top 10% and top 30-35%. Some will publish what the actual GPA is for cutoffs, so employers do have a good idea, but many do not post such information.

See, e.g., http://legalgeekery.com/2010/04/09/a-comparison-of-law-schoo...
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That's a pretty out-of-touch statement.

The Web has been around 20 years now. There's plenty of 60+ years olds in many far-reaching corners.

Smart startups would be thinking about that.
Nice article by NYTimes. Too bad about the linkbait headline, but, hey, they have to sell clicks too. At Hacker Dojo, we're working hard to raise the money so everyone can just get back to writing code, safely egressing etc.
This is the best project I've encountered at Hacker News so far. Thank you.
Thanks for your opinions, and you're right. If you don't mindlessly absorb news articles, then great! You shouldn't absorb this one either.

Unfortunately lots of people do, so I thought it appropriate to address the other side for very assuming people who absorb one-sided information.
Rewards don't justify overwork or poor work conditions.
Twitter isn't going to die. At worst, it's merely going to cease being buzzworthy.

(Of course, in Silicon Valley this could feel like death.)

Twitter is probably going to be a fairly successful broadcast network for celebs. The fans will stay because that's where the celebs are, and the celebs will stay because that's where the fans are. And it's a nice medium for celebs: You don't have to write a lot of copy, sign any autographs, or even put on pants. Twitter could go on for decades as the new Entertainment Tonight. Certainly that must be their hope.

What might be dead are all the dreams that Twitter could be anything more than the new version of the E! network. People in Silicon Valley will speak of it about as often as they speak of NBC or HBO, and in much the same tones.
Supposedly, this should be the updated 2013 calendar: http://onlinecatalog.ikea-usa.com/US/en/IKEA_Catalog/

Either the CGI is really good, or maybe it's for the next 2013 catalog.
>The problem with this solution is that Twitter was built
>on the backs of the very developers it is now blocking.

Was it really? I've never seen any specific stats, but what are the number of users solely relying on a third party app to use Twitter versus the number of users who just use the site? I bet there are a lot more who just go to mobile.twitter.com or use the official client instead of paying for a third party app.
Did you click Dan's?
What's funny is that it seems to use a similar perspective (fixed camera angle relative to the craft which doesn't show the entire vehicle, allowing it to be actually held up by a beam from a conventional vehicle) to that used to fake the Star Wars landspeeder scenes...!

Probably just an unfortunate coincidence I suppose.
I haven't, shame on me. I guess I thought it was such a small piece of code that it wasn't worth it.
Imagine if Pythagoras, Leibniz, and Newton were able to receive patents for their formulas. What if the quadratic formula was patented? In fact, why not?

Actually, I retract that argument. The average software patent nowadays does not even begin to approach the caliber of the aforementioned discoveries.
But 1080p == 1920x1200, yes?
So everyone shares the blame equally then. It's too bad the actual owner didn't mention this to the to-be-lease-holders. My guess is the owner was more desperate to lease the space out.
Lol. No, in fact you were the one who tried to "tool" me.

You attempted to point out that:
Well, if you are an international tax lawyer, obviously moves like the Double Irish show that the base of incorporation matters quite a bit: which is not true.

The Double Irish is a matter of where a company is headquartered, which has a distinct legal meaning that is not the same thing as a company's "base" of operations. The difference: headquarters = management; base = actual business activities.

The double irish takes advantage of a peculiarity of Irish law (which no longer exists in its original form) that did not impose income taxes on companies incorporated in Ireland but HQ'd in another nation. This loophole has since been closed (but companies taking advantage of it were grandfathered to prevent them from leaving Ireland). A variation of the Double Irish is still feasible today, but generally does not offer the same benefits as the original Double Irish.
This is definitely the "other side". Unfortunately the extremes are what make the news. The posting you ref'd felt pretty shallow. So maybe it is good to ref the "otherside" here, but...ug. That was a painful read. :)

Positive or not, this industry can lead one to feeling like they have to give every waking hour to the company. At the end of the day, though, one really should ask "what am I getting in return?"

Balance is key.
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Wow there's 13% girls on HN?
> I posted only because you used the entire term "positive feedback loop", which is so specific that it loses flexibility -- it can only refer to one thing and conflates the engineering and social sciences meanings.

There's life to positive feedback loops outside engineering without any conflation. If it's more defined in one field, it doesn't mean it has no value in plenty of others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback_loop
I agree with this completely.

I have yet to even meet someone that uses twitter. I have always seen twitter as a valleywood product. Seems to me like the people that use it, use it because they think they are suppose to.
My girlfriend worked in Spain last year, so I spent about 4 months living in Madrid. I've been back in Australia for 6 months, but the majority of my Facebook ads still show up in Spanish.
What is HN using to manage projects/clients and their statuses?
Have tried basecamp, highrise, sugar, capsule, every GTD task app ever (todoist, toodledo, evernote, producteev, things, etc), google tasks, ical events, etc. and I haven't found anything that seems to fit.

I want some kind of 'dashboard' where i can see everything on my plate, the status of that project, maybe have a small list attached to it... but most of all I want to spend my time focusing on my work NOT on managing my project management software. I want something that helps, not gets in the way.

Does this exist? Maybe I used one of these apps wrong?

What is HN using that I'm not aware of?
The other day I went past the República Cromañon on the bus. The street in front of it has finally been reopened. It's been closed ever since 196 music fans were burned to death because its operators thought the fire regulations were "safety theater", and chained shut the emergency exits.

You can compare the death tolls from similar earthquakes in places that have effective earthquake building codes (like Chile) and places that don't (like Haïti). That's not "theater". That's hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths, prevented.

Fire used to be a major killer in the US, a century ago, far more than violent crime ever has been. People were routinely killed in panicked stampedes out of burning, or supposedly burning, theaters. Fire codes have reduced fire deaths to a tiny fraction of what they used to be.

I don't think this is a "basic philosophical impasse". I think you're just not aware of the relevant facts. Maybe if you're aware of them and just choose to ignore them, that's sort of "philosophical", in the sense that you're being insufficiently philosophical, perhaps even misosophical.

I strongly support my friends at Hacker Dojo who are undertaking the necessary improvements, and I encourage you to support them too, by donating money if possible.
I stayed at Rainbow Mansion a while back, and the calibre of people it attracted was fantastic. SF/The Valley need more hacker hostels like this.

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I think that was the point of his comment. It's not about the payday, or the rewards. If you totally and completely enjoy what you do, then work conditions like these aren't poor. In fact, pretty much every game company, and many tech companies have the same work conditions. I don't understand why Zynga is the only one to get blamed for work conditions.
It is indeed bullshit, particularly because there is no defensible, practical reason for that kind of regulation. This is little more than "you wanna do business? grease my fuckin' palm" on the part of city government.
It's weird to me that "the other side" that anyone might care about is how employees are treated. Frankly, I don't really give a fuck how a bunch of incredibly smart and talented people in an awesome job market are treated. I figure that's their (pretty easy) problem to solve.

If someone wants to write an article about "the other side" then write something about the users for whom Zynga's products are actually providing value as opposed to serving as artless black-holes of attention and creativity.
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> responding to a constant stream of incoming user feedback and support requests via email (we make it really easy for our users to contact us within the app.

Best tip of them all. Deal with user support requests trough email so they won't get back at you with bad reviews. Seems obvious, but lots of devs don't do it.
I agree. I believe the most typing classes are focused on the word processing end of things rather than programming. While waiting to correct errors afterwards can be faster for regular documents, I would absolutely never do that when programming.
I can just glimpse the promise this holds, but I don't really understand one would implement this. Does anyone have a blog post with example code?

If I've got a server that needs to receive messages, do I register it as an 'end'? And do I then send messages to this 'end' from other clients? How does it prevent two parties from registering the same 'end' hash?
It's all relative, isn't it? The App Store has a pretty good story as far as development and especially deployment go, especially compared to prior mobile platforms.
No. 1080p is 16:9, or 1920 by 1080.
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
Oddly enough, I've found that Samsung tablets really are quite crappy compared to their phones. They must be made by different internal groups, as the difference in quality is absolutely staggering.
Nintendo is massively more profitable at the moment than Sony or Microsoft, how are you measuring erosion here?
Twitter didn't have an official mobile client for a while. It was the 3rd-party developers that brought Twitter to mobile.

Twitter's web app stagnated until recently. Apps like Tweetdeck filled the gap.
Really? Of all the comments on this thread, this is the comment that gets downvoted?

If you're going to downvote a statement of fact, at least explain why you think it's wrong.
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You've written about this before? Please stop! This is a great example of some of the worst kinds of advocacy. You showed up to an article about the technology you don't like to pimp the technology you do like, just to derail the conversation we could be having. Does this Stack Overflow question smack of trying real hard to get you to stop using Git? No, so why are you even here?

Your whole point is making a big deal out of something very trivial. These plugins are all core plugins for Mercurial too; the distinction between "core plugin" and "baked-in" is one line of configuration to simply list the plugin name. It's equivalently not "baked in" as your "some assembly required." These plugins are not on by default only because many people don't need to be distracted by them, and those that do wish to use them will have no trouble adding one line to a single configuration file. Learning a whole different SCM is a lot of work to avoid adding one line to a configuration file, don't you think?

There isn't a Mercurial user alive who isn't thoroughly and completely aware of Git and all of its magical specialness, thanks to assholes like you who show up to all of our conversations to proselytize us. Please stop patronizing us with these tired arguments—you're turning us into a persecuted minority, and nobody drags out a fight like a persecuted minority.
There are few on HN that claim they started programming at the age of 3 to 8. I'm guessing it's either them or their offsprings...

On a more serious note, does anyone still trust online survey results?
It's back at 34$ 40" after your post
What's the official price?
I'm guessing you don't believe in games at all...? I think this would be more of a discussion about whether games are a good thing at all, but that would probably be mostly opinions.
Obviously because in Ubuntu you can freely move the non-existing iCloud folder.
Look, you were just wrong, and you know you were wrong. The substance of your comment was that multinationals just consider tax a cost of doing business, and that new taxes alone wouldn't motivate them to consider moving operations overseas.

That's flatly wrong. The distinction between US and Irish tax code is and was indeed highly material. And one you were not aware of, despite being an "international tax lawyer". Moreover, the Double Irish is by no means the only workaround. Microsoft has a pretty sweet thing going with Puerto Rico:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/microsoft-tax-haven...

And there's a lot more where that came from:

http://www.businesspundit.com/25-corporations-that-pay-less-...

Clearly there actually are a myriad of strategies which multinationals can use to minimize their tax bill by exploiting differences between countries, and even more clearly those countries with the most favorable tax regimes are the ones chosen as places to expand. Which is exactly the phenomenon whose existence you denied:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3565426

So tell me this: why anyone would want to engage you as an "international tax lawyer" if you don't have the knowledge to actually, y'know, help them minimize their tax bill?
An industry commits suicide and blames us
We actually do offer guest commenting functionality by default. You can continue commenting similarly as you do on native WP sites by simply not logging in to an account when posting a comment.
Trello (https://trello.com/) might be what you're looking for.
it's $34
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Not sure if you were directing that us as well, but either way just wanted to clarify: we (Disqus) actually do offer guest commenting functionality by default. You can continue commenting similarly as you do on any non-third-party system by simply not logging in to an account when posting a comment.
Yep. Looks like two journalists have been blocked: https://twitter.com/kanchangupta and https://twitter.com/ShivAroor as of now.

This seems quite an unhealthy development after their most recent suppress-and-then-apologize behavior around Olympics coverage.
It's hard to argue that point. I'm under the assumption that they didn't know what it would turn into when they started. They definitely were taking on certain liability.
I suppose you could say that he changed over to the world of "not existing anymore." Or you could just state the tragedy outright, and say that he's dead. Please excuse my bluntness; a person's obliteration is something I'd prefer not to swathe in soft euphemisms.
Ah saw this post after replying to your previous one above.
This really is the tipping point (no go) for someone pondering about buying it like me since I saw it in class earlier this morning. Sorry I'm cheap :( college student status
I don't think most people would dispute that games in general are worthwhile, but I think there are also arguments to be made about the quality of what Zynga does.

Obvious example: http://www.bogost.com/blog/cow_clicker_1.shtml
Twitter's advantages are 1) asymmetric follow and 2) a head start. Neither provides an insurmountable barrier.
Actually, I doubt it's even better for regular documents.

In the writing discipline, people will often tell you to write a first draft without correcting errors, then go back and error-correct on the second draft. But that's not about typing errors, but rather grammatic/narrative errors in your writing.
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Which is more likely:

Manipulative scum-company is really actually a nice place to work

or

Manipulative scum-company has gotten really good at putting on makeup to hide it's festering sores.

If you really are interning there, I urge you to leave as soon as possible, and pursue something worthwhile.
Persuading entranced people to click on ads - for useless virtual bads or otherwise - is a waste of life and talent.

You only get one allotment of life; choose wisely how you spend it.
There is some version 2.0 on its way:
https://github.com/quartzjer/TeleHash/commit/14cecbb2e58dca4...
I've never heard of it before, but I did find this:
http://support.google.com/adplanner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

I'm sure the process is fraught with errors, of course, but there does seem to be data to feed the model and data to serve as a test set. The easy thing about targeting ads with demographic data like this (unlike trying to make statistically-accurate statements about demographic data like this), is that if a person responds to some types of ads like a 45-year-old scuba instructor or whatever, it doesn't matter if they really are any of those things.
How is one to be sure what makes others uncomfortable? In your view, in th years after 9/11, Sikhs (who wear turbans) shouldn't have traveled at all... as they looked too much like the dreaded Bin Laden.

This way leads to fundamentalism.
I already have a page where significant announcements show up at a wide variety of frequencies. It's called "webmail". Or an activity feed.

The point of a dashboard is that no navigation is required beyond turning your head and glancing. Dashboards are for things that you want to see by accident, or while waiting for a phone call. A widget that usually isn't there when you turn your head might as well not be on the dashboard at all. If you have to click to see it, it can be in a separate app or site. If you have to wait for a specific date and time to see it, it might just as well arrive in your mail, Twitter stream, or SMS.
Focus on niche
Didn't the "official" client start out as a third party app. Tweetie.
I agree with your point(s) but specific to this:

> Can someone name me an instance where a site as popular as Twitter eventually flopped because it didn't play nicely with third-party developers?

The internet is still very new, the internet in its current form is even newer. Facebook is ~8 years old, Twitter is ~6 years old, it's probably not even worth considering previous examples of social sites and developers because even Twitter in 2010 and Twitter now is significantly different (as a company, product and community).
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The shifting sands of "Run as different user"
I don't think that data supports the claim that Twitter is a one-way medium. What it shows is that there are a significant number of Twitter relationships which are one-way, but that doesn't mean that any individual is solely using Twitter as a receiving medium. What you would need is data on the number of users with no followers who are still reading their timeline; in the linked post, Dalton says this is high, but doesn't provide a link and I can't find data on this.
Cory Doctorow at Google: "The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing"
i think you might be setting your expectations a little too high. It's ikea furniture, yes the drawer bottoms sag a bit, but it's not hard to grab a hammer and put a brace in there. You get what you pay for, ikea saves money by selling you 'disposable' furniture, but unlike most companies they actually do pass the savings on to you.

And butcher-block kitchen furnishings are designed to get stained and look used and broken-in, that's the style. Please don't varnish it.
I wonder if he would have gotten on the plane by just wearing a "TSA can go grope themselves" shirt without the word "bombs" and other uncomfortable trigger words.

I'm pretty sure everyone hates the TSA - if it's made funny or largely agreeable it becomes a real test of their authority.

Then again, I wouldn't have the guts to do what this guy or the guy who got naked did.
Good evening, friend, do you have a moment to talk about Jesus? Because with pushy, in-your-face evangelism techniques like yours, I think you'd make a great messenger for Christ.

Or, you know, you could be content with not trying to convert everyone you meet, like a decent human being.
It's a shame the courts can't revoke some of these patents that are completely full of shit. You'd think if a troll would just lose once, it'd be over.
Bringing Mention Tagging to Open Graph
stupid idea, fuck it..
My IKEA rule is "no moving parts"and that has served me well after a dresser disaster.

Stepstools, picture frames, meatballs are all very sturdy.
Here's the thing: this guy probably didn't care all that much about software patents before his company was sued and it became a personal issue for him. The public at large is unlikely to be moved by something as abstract and (ostensibly) abstruse as software patents unless a clear case can be made about what's really at stake. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that the big companies can afford to license and defend if need be, so the stifling effects of software patents are even harder to see. How can we measure what might have been?
Ask HN: We are thinking about opening a Hacker Dojo like space near Boston
We intend on creating an affordable co-work environment much like Hacker Dojo. We have already narrowed down our search to a location in Davis Sq, Somerville, MA. It will be nice to know if anyone else out there had any success in promoting/starting a coworking space in a major city. Also, any locals interested in a space should drop us a line.

Please use the following link to contact us:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8484842/cowork.html
No, I don't click web-oriented technology links. I'm generally more of a systems guy, and I find user interfaces rather boring. I suspect most people are like me (in finding SOME aspect of HN boring/irrelevant to their interests).