skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple years ago, I passed a very pleasurable hour in front of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles when the man behind me in line noticed the database book I was reading, and struck up a conversation. Glad I had the luck to rub elbows with one of the Lisp old school. RIP.
Not all are successful, and some observers worry about what might happen when a fan-funded game flops.

This is the great thing about crowdsourcing - if the game sucks, you've probably invested less into the game than if you had bought one you were less interested in. So when the invevitable flop happens, most of the contributors are just going to shrug their shoulders over their $8-$15 and move on to another game.
Hi Robby - the other one didn't get any responses, and I think it was in big part due to the time I posted it. I wanted to see if a new crowd had add'l insights.
The quietest, most-reserved people are the best. Look for the person who delivers consistently but doesn't talk about it.
Maybe he should write a blog post about it and put it on HN.
Despite being a great business person, many of Steve Job ideas were just plain stupid (like for most other human beings). What is funny as that people seem to think in hindsight that even his stupid ideas are great. Don't be a victim of this disease: there is no good reason for wearing the same cloths every day, whatever somebody else have told you.
Violation of Heisenberg’s Measurement-Disturbance Relationship
I wear mostly the same clothes every day. I have a bunch of plain t-shirts in various colors (mostly shades of gray, but colors too), a few band t-shirts I wear occasionally. 4 slightly different colored pairs of levis, and either navy/red or black/blue shoes. Other than that, a black hoodie and a denim jacket over that if the weather is cool (usually at night). I've got a bunch of button up t-shirts I'll wear for a night out and occasionally at work.

It's simple, clean and standardized, but I can still look different everyday. I can pull an alternate when the time is appropriate and dress up nicer, like for a date. Most importantly it's unoffending to the eye.

A google/grouper/conference t-shirt is offending to the eye. I tend to have a whole lot of preconceived notions when I see someone wear those shirts, usually it's related to their lack of a social life.
BinaryJS - Realtime binary streaming for the web using websockets
>If they're willing to flip off search engines and do all page rendering in JS

Isn't that a pretty big if?
There's another corner case: You are actually not that good in the area the question's from, but you know the answer to the first question. By interrupting, answering the question right, you might get the interviewer to tick the box for that area as covered, and spent his time on evaluating your other qualities.

(At least that's how I sometimes managed to get better marks in my oral exams, which aren't too far away from some job interviews.)
I finished reading it and I still don't know his name. If it was an attempt to get hired, it was a bad UX.
The concept is really awesome and I'm excited about what the app could turn into. My suggestions would be to fix the force closing issues, and to turn this into a taskbar style app which stays opened all the time, instead of having to open/close every time you want to switch to a different environment. Also, a more polished ui/ux would be apreciated, I don't like the way you add apps to the group. But for starters, good freaking job.
Depends on what you are looking for. In a leadership position talking might be one of the things to deliver.
While I agree, he hasn't shared his findings in this case yet.
It appears to be a bug in Safari in general. I see it on 6.0.
Hah! HN has definitely gotten worse over the last 5 years. You may have gotten smarter, but HN is now a major news hub for a VERY VERY VERY FUCKING DESIRABLE DEMOGRAPHIC.

So there is about 1000% more spam and maybe 20% more useful posts. C'est la vie.
Also Germany (.de), Switzerland (.ch), Croatia (.hr), and several more. It's quite common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...
Are you implying that even very complicated software hasn't become easier to write over the past 15 years?
Mr. Artesians's Conscientiousness
by Ogden Nash

Once there was a man named Mr. Artesian and his activity was tremendous,
And he grudged every minute away from his desk because the importance of his work was so stupendous;

And he had one object all sublime,
Which was to save simply oodles of time.

He figured that sleeping eight hours a night meant that if he lived to be seventy-five he would have spent twenty-five years not at his desk but in bed,
So he cut his slumber to six hours which meant he only lost
eighteen years and nine months instead,

And he figured that taking ten minutes for breakfast and twenty minutes for luncheon and half an hour for dinner meant that he spent three years, two months and fifteen days at the table,
So that by subsisting solely on bouillon cubes which he swallowed at his desk to save this entire period he was able,

And he figured that at ten minutes a day he spent a little over six months and ten days shaving,
So he grew a beard, which gave him a considerable saving,

And you might think that now he might have been satisfied, but no, he wore a thoughtful frown,
Because he figured that at two minutes a day he would spend thirty-eight days and a few minutes in elevators just travelling up and down,

So as a final time saving device he stepped out the window of his office, which happened to be on the fiftieth floor,
And one of his partners asked "Has he vertigo?"
and the other glanced out and down and said "Oh no, only about ten feet more."
Given that there are N animals of size X, how many animals are there of size X/10?
I don't think it's "es" for "español (Spaniards don't speak Spanish), it's "es" for "España".
A tale of hacking in Cyprus: What we've learned from organizing a hackathon
DIY printed circuit board design and build w/ Fritzing
10 seconds here, 10 seconds there, before you know it you're talking about... I dunno... a minute or so. Can you seriously afford to waste that kind of time?
I really like Guidebook.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/guidebook/id428713847?mt=8
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I believe the point was to unify request.session.flash(…) with things like helpers.flash_success(request,…) such that both flash and flash_success can be methods on the request object.
This habit is on DidThis action wiki (with other ref. links): https://www.didthis.com/same%20clothes%20every%20day and yes I practice it for my own startup regularly.
SoundCloud Alexander Ljung CEO CoFounder was wearing over and over his black leather jacket with SoundCloud logo on it. He did not try to be Steve Jobs, he was showing his total determination to make his company big.
My definition of being rich is being able to spend an inordinate amount of time making these trivial decisions.

I watch my daughters when they go to a local candy store, and they savor making their choices. They literally have hundreds of different items to choose from.
Cool infographic laying out categories & vendors in marketing tech
Dan was a super guy and a good friend. Incredibly smart, incredibly experienced, well respected and wonderfully nice to be around.

It's incredibly sad and a big loss for the technology world, but let's not forget to direct our thoughts to his wife and son that he leaves behind.
A ninja developer is someone that no one on the team has ever seen or interacted with but somehow gets their work done. Usually in the dead of night.
Simpler: you set your alarm tone to sound like your incoming call tone, then just set an alarm.

Even simpler: take your phone out your pocket and pretend you have a call and it was on vibrate.
> jacobian inferred that because the OP doesn't care about diversity then he doesn't care about fairness. That is tantamount to charging someone with sexual discrimination, also known as mysogyny.

Really it's not. There's a big difference between active discrimination and just not caring. I said that my guess is that icedancer doesn't see lack of diversity as a moral problem, not that s/he is a engaging in discrimination. Accusing me of "jumping out of the bushes" to "attack dissenters" is really unfair. Look, I appreciate that some people don't see lack gender diversity as a problem. I disagree, but I'm never going to convince those people to see the issue in my terms. I hope you'll re-read my comment and try to assume just a tiny bit of good faith on my part.
Both words actually have a meaning, "hamas" means "enthusiasm", and "fatah" means "conquest" or "revelation".
Crunchbase says 1.16B invested: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter
More here: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/09/07/dan-weinreb-boston-...
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No, I think he is implying that major software is not a "mostly drag-and-drop" affair. In some ways, things have progressed and software is easier, but it's far from drag-and-drop for all but the most specialized problems.
"And modern supply chains were built around that very premise – that hands were needed"

That is quite far from the truth. Having been in many plants, automation is almost everywhere. The pay-back period on automation (Variable Speed Drives, for example) is under a year.

If you watch an updated version of the crayon process (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl1v1m_you-ve-got-crayola-c...), you see how many of those people have been replaced by robots. A fully burdened worker salary (~$70k) can buy you a good deal of robots.
Show HN: A command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript
Doubt it. They essentially don't have anything that competitive with ARM until the 14 nm Airmont late 2014, or 2015 if delays happen. That's also the year 64 bit ARM chips will appear though, and I think ARM will benefit from a lot of hype that year. A lot of chip companies will be trying to attack Intel in the server space with those chips, including Nvidia.
Post-Seed Funding Checklist for Founder/CEOs
This stuff sounds like a complete antipattern to me. Who shouldn't be thinking about users? That's not a specialty.

Prototypes and architectures divorced from working code are the kinds of thing that bog a project down and get in the way of people doing the real work, i.e. making the actual product.

I know what programmers do and I know (more or less) what visual designers do and I know what the decision-maker for a product does. I don't know what a "UX Designer" does, other than claim to do all the product thinking. In my experience, they mostly talk vaguely about how important they are.
Software development is not a D&D stat block item. No reason to believe it is even quantifiable (although I like to think some developers approach writing code the same: rolling dice). If it were quantifiable, what would be the metric?
"Public good" has a fairly technical meaning that doesn't fit here. Wikipedia's article on it is pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good

Basically public goods have to be non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Internet access is neither (you can both kick people off and there's a marginal cost to hooking new people up).

The article on rivalry[1] mentions that it's possible internet infrastructure is non-rivalrous if there's unused capacity, so once someone's hooked up actual internet use might be a club good.

If you don't want to imply the other stuff about rivalry and exclusivity you could say that gigabit internet access for everyone would have positive externalities (which it certainly would) and leave it at that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
They've been maintaining and updating the safe browsing database for some time now. It shows a warning in supported browsers for potentially malicious web pages. There's also a web diagnostics page available btw, here testing hacker news: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=news.ycom...
I found this super useful:

cat data.json | underscore print --color

Gives you a well-formatted, color coded output for your JSON data. That is just one of the many things it can do.
OP is missing the point. I don't think App.net is going out to be a Twitter replacement. I don't think App.net requires the critical mass or wide spread popularity that Twitter enjoys.

Its a niche product that is serving a very particular purpose. I wish that some blogger or journalist would try to evaluate App.net on what its setting out to be, not comparing it to Twitter.

At the end of the day, App.net will be a paid service. It's not fair to compare it to Twitter. There is some overlap, but for the most part this is a different market segment.
Evan Williams on Twitter and its ecosystem
There are a plenty of choice available when it comes to Linux. The problem is people expect some distribution to behave in certain way which of course doesn't happen as "user experience" is a design choice and not a technological fault.
Strage reaction here. I'd assume that the thought of dressing the same every day has at least crossed most people's minds on HN. It's an engineer's (lazy man's?) solution to a common problem. For me that problem has more to do with clothes management and what to do when your favorite outfit isn't available than with the paradox of choice.

As for what to wear, if you're in a startup you should wear your logo as much as possible; asshole or not.

Pro tip for people who have trouble finding matching socks in the morning:

1. Donate all your socks to charity

2. Buy a single pair of socks you really like many times
The creation of non-Latin-script TLDs has been going on for about 3 years now - see this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
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Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping, judge says
"why not wear the same thing all the time?"

Most of your fashion cohorts are cartoon characters?
Once you can download an isotope separator or a plague kit, privacy concerns become moot. The societies not running under total AI supervision will simply go extinct. So the question is what kind of supervised society do you want?
I must have missed something. What is the very particular purpose that app.net serves? What is it supposed to be used for?
All social networks suffer from 90/10 rule (90% of the content is generated by 10% of the users), so this really isn't surprising.

Other posters have mentioned this as well, but I think Twitter has too much momentum. Someone trying to do the exact same thing from the end-user perspective isn't going to be able to compete.
I get the point, but I still disagree with it.

Intentionally using an aggressive and insulting tone seems more harmful to the community than expressing the opinion that there is a performance gap between C and higher-level languages, but that gap is narrowing

How dangerous is that opinion, anyway? I mean, even if the opinion were demonstrably incorrect, is it so important to keep someone from daring to express it a second time?
I don't have data going back that far. My earliest data I have on-hand goes back to 1997 at which point about 2% of the world (11% in the developed world) had internet access. I do have host count data, though and can tell you that in August of 1983 there were a whopping 562 web sites in existence. In July 1997 when only 2 (or 11) percent of people had access, there were about 19.5 million. As of January of this year there are almost 900 million.

So let's extrapolate: There were about 5.84 billion people in the world in 1997, 2% of which is about 117 million people on the internet (round numbers). Thus, in 1997, we can estimate one in every 6 internet users had their own web site.

Today there are about 6.97 billion people in the world and about 35% of them have internet access (74% in the developed world, but I digress). This means that about 2.4 billion people are responsible for about 900 million web sites - that's one web site per 2.7 internet users. If we work backwards from this imaginary (and probably wrong) line, we can estimate that there were about 3,000 internet users back in 1983.

There are currently estimates that the Bitcoin network is made up of between 15 and 20 thousand users. Let's call it 15, just to be pessimistic. Adjusting for world population that puts us about on-par with the internet's adoption level in 1987. Bitcoun is about 4 years old, while the 1987 internet was about 6 years old, which means we're growing 50% faster than the internet did. Assuming nothing gigantic implodes along the way, Bitcoin is on its way to greatness.

Of course that's assuming you can compare Bitcoin to the internet, which you probably can't ;-)
libev user here. While I couldn't care less about portability to windows, if libuv really does improve libev's performance on unix then consider me interested:

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/issues/485
It would be good to see something along these lines in printing. It is amazing how much grunt work small print jobs still require for anything more complicated than the smallest paper with simple binding. Give me an API that lets me print up to A0 on different media types, with different options for binding/glueing/finishing.
Sure, we have been looking to add something like that to Codiqa for a bit but haven't gotten around to it. Feel free to email me at max at codiqa dot com
> why not wear the same thing all the time?

Because it's not considered to be "normal". If you wear the same clothes every time, people will notice and think you are weird. You don't want people to think you are weird if you startup.
Cool :) let me know what you think!
Just don't make me use a Google account instead of a VT API key and I'll be happy.
Threw the old socks away, but I have about a dozen pair of tan socks (all the same), a dozen pair of the same style in dark brown and half a dozen of black dress socks. I have zero desire to be stylish in the sock department, so this greatly simplifies my life.
I think it started with the 500 karma requirement for downvoting. I wanted the ability to downvote so I min-maxed my comments to get there quickly. After that trying to increase my average is just a way to see if I'm improving.

I don't view it as conforming or trying to gain acceptance. It's more like a silly game. It does have potential value as it's good practice for interacting with the media and making company blog posts.
Ask HN: What's with the one-off usernames?
As asked by krubner on this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4490159 submitted by "onetimeuse001", what is the cultural or psychological meaning of these one-time-use usernames on Hacker News? What purpose do they serve (other than to mask long-term users for reasons unknown)?

It would be one thing if someone wanted to answer a sensitive thread anonymously, or even post off-topic content that one finds intellectually important, but is that what is really going on? A lot more green handles seem to be appearing on HN lately, many of which are decidedly for one-time usage.

Any ideas?
I'm very interested if we'll hear anything from rms' side about this.
Yes, I knew it was "España" but I was too lazy to get the special character.

But, um, what do the people in Spain speak if not Spanish?
Luckily, awesome and crap, are not the only choices we have available. I agree with the OP here, just try to convey what you're looking for, and leave out the adjectives.
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One thing about abbreviations in Arabic is they will be read as a word, not as distinct letters. In English, "http" can't be read as a word, you always read it as "ech-tee-tee-pee". "etc" is not read "etk" but read as "ee-tee-see". Where as in arabic, "الخ" is read as one word "ilkh" instead of as letters "alif-lam-kha".

So, to abbreviate words, you have to think hard about how people will read it. For instance, someone mentioned in another reply "Hamas" and "Fatah". Both these abbreviations read nicely as other words with related meanings. But, how would one abbreviate "Filisteen"?

If you choose the first three letters "Filis", well, that reads like "penny" and is generally used to refer to cheap things - you don't want to use that.

If you use "ft", that would read as "FiTT" فط which just sounds awful in Arabic. (it's not like "fit", the "t" here is heavy/strong).

Actually, "filisteen" is already bad enough: it sounds like "filis" + "TTeen" which is "penny" + "dirt" (we used to make fun of this when we were kids). Though in Palestinian (and the Levant region in general) they pronounce it "falasteen", not "filisteen".
Perhaps "democratized" would have been a better way to describe it - the point of that sentence was to convey that you don't always need a huge pile of cash or specialized equipment to make software these days. Major software absolutely requires incredible skill, cash, time and craftsmanship. But it is also doubtlessly cheaper and easier now than in years past. Though that's another post for another day.
I think you mean in their native character set, rather than native language
I am critical of any erase that does more than one pass. Is there any research that suggests it is ineffective with modern drives?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method#Criticism
I don't understand how this relates to my previous comment.

As for your rant about surplus-value extraction: Presumably your boss isn't just taking your surplus for free; they're providing things that helps you work more efficiently. For example, if you're a steelworker, your employer provides a very expensive steel mill; without access to that equipment, your steelmaking skills are fairly useless.

In industries that have little capital requirement, like software development or web design, the things an employer might bring to the table to enhance their employees' created value include: A product vision, an already-existing codebase, brand or website, a talented team, support services such as marketing, accounting, legal...

Also, working for an employer lowers risk for employees who work on uncertain ventures. If you spend half a year developing a new product for an employer, you still get paid for those six months even if it's a total flop and nobody ever buys it. But if you'd built it on your own time and bootstrapped it into a startup instead, yes, you'd keep the entire profit if it went well -- but you'd get nothing (financially) from those six months of work if it flopped. This "insurance" against product flops is part of what the employer's portion of your created value pays for.

If you feel you're being exploited -- your employer is taking too much of the value you're creating -- then you're free to negotiate with them, change employers, change industries, or build your own startup.
Any conversation that mentions evolution triggers it.

As for the old days, I don't recall it being an issue, but that could be because I have a bad memory or that previous work environments were hyper-sensitive about posting to websites (or some combination of both) so I didn't get involved directly.
>> Nobody knows what your startup is,

That's the catch - for the shirt to be effective as advertising, people who see it need to know what it is.

In the absence of any previous knowledge of the startup, most people would simply assume that "Grouper" is a clothing company, or has something to do with fish products.
At least with cities, that kind of thing worked before. For example irc the German Hanse started by creating attractive laws for merchants, which flocked to the participating cities and made them rich. That kind of thing was possible when countries were more fragmented.

Why not try it again? I think even in developed countries there are a lot of struggling cities that could experiment (I guess Detroit, or the whole of East Germany).