skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, TC is a bully. Not only that, Arrington is a major con artist. Half the people in the valley these days are con artists. It's like this girl was the scape goat for this overwhelming shitstorm of lies that has grown the past few years. Pathetic.
Probably of little utility for the average reader here, but I'd instantly buy one for my dad (if it were currently available outside of Israel).
Dijkstra's notes are available here:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/

They are hand written as you said.
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I'd appreciate an invite as well. Email in profile, along with submission and comment history of course.
I like Sketch, it's cheap, very good and is aware of pixels.

http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
Im sorry, but this is ridiculously unfair. Dont judge a company by what just one person in it has done. Everyone has made mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Animating Non-Humanoid Characters with Human Motion Data
> Steelworkers and teachers unions negotiated agreements that based pay on seniority - I can't imagine developers would do anything like that.

Why not? Unions and union members are extremely rational. Are you suggesting that developers would be less rational?

I'm reasonably anti-union but I'd vote for seniority as a union member. It elevates my salary at the expense of people who don't get a vote (new people). It lets me slack off. And, for folks in the bottom half, it's a salary increase.

> Wouldn't you like to have some kind of transparent review process for iPhone apps?

That doesn't have anything to do with unions.
A lot of busy, high-profile people (Noam Chomsky, for example) have done off-line AMAs. That is, commenters will post questions, and upvotes will determine the best/most popular ones. And then, answers for those will be posted all at once, maybe even as a different thread if enough time has passed since the questions were asked.

That would have been an excellent model to follow here, and probably would have meant more time spent answering each question (for the President) and higher quality questions getting upvoted (since there's plenty of time for the collaborative filtering process to shape the question-space).
pg, if you think potential size is interesting, why are you so against the biggest ideas?
Another issue with email on the phone is that I find myself replying to emails out of habit, in many cases to emails which require some thought in the response and half-ass te response because I'm on a smartphone and don't have a real keyboard.
Moving fast and breaking things in the database world is not a good thing. That said... I highly doubt collection level locking will take too long.

I don't see anyone nipping at their heels. They have some competition in the key/value space, but there are a few different KV paradigms.

MongoDB is a complete replacement for most RDBMS apps and they are way ahead of the pack.
The fundamental difference remains: a union is for influencing an organization by employees for the employees (within). What you want is to influence on behalf third parties with no affiliation with the organization.
While this account is only approaching its 2 year anniversary, I was a lurker for a while before that. I do agree there has been some decline, but my biggest complaint about the comments these days are the complaints about the decline of HN. They are all over the place and to me are a bigger annoyance than anything that the actual comments are complaining about (except for the community support comment - that needs improving).

Not meant to single you out - just my opinion on the overall sentiment on HN these days.
You've been downvoted and at first I couldn't figure out a good reason why; but...

Technically, it does take more work now than it would with a 3d printer. With a sufficiently advanced 3d printer, it'd probably be, download p3f (printable 3d format), open cad, click print. For you, it's probably: mill steel, inserts screws, twist screws... this is more work than a couple keystrokes and a mouse-click, technically.
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I agree with you in principle, but in practice it is hard to even have that discussion on HN, where metadiscussions are frowned upon, there is zero transparency into how moderation is conducted, and you can be hellbanned without explanation or recourse.
> Steelworkers and teachers unions negotiated agreements that based pay on seniority - I can't imagine developers would do anything like that.

In other words, a developer's union would want to be a lot less like the United Auto Workers and a lot more like the Screen Actor's Guild.
Deactivate push messages from your phone mail app and only allow for manual checking. I did that. And now I have to wait to read email which is usually enough time to drop the crack.

It might not work if the internet is way fast like it is in the US. I am in the DR which might make a difference...
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You will lose up to 24 minutes of full productivity, according to several different pieces of research. For example: "A study by Microsoft researchers tracking the email habits of co-workers found that once their work had been interrupted by an email notification, people took, on average, 24 minutes to return to the suspended task" [1].

The issue is the cognitive load introduced by task switching. You may not realize it on the surface, but breaking away each time to write a reply (or even to a lesser extent just the mere fact that you are now notified there's a message waiting) is causing a huge distraction for your brain, and slowing down your "real" work.

[1] Paul Hemp. 2009. "Death by information overload," Harvard Business Review 87(9).
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> The important figure is on page twenty. 5.5% of Canadians are self-employed with incorporated businesses compared to only 3.6% for the USA. Assuming this figure corresponds to entrepreneurship then there is definitely significant correlation.

That's not the only bogus assumption in your argument. You're also assuming that all other things are equal and that they're measuring the same thing.

I can look at two adjacent blocks in San Jose and find a much larger difference in entreprenurship measured the same way. Yet, healthcare is exactly the same....
I think today it is quite understated the value of giving back to the programming community. It is so easy for people to consume and take the information online but it is just as important that people contribute as much as they can back to community to continue the cycle. John is a perfect example of someone who went beyond the call.
'Gun control has never been about guns anyway, it has always been about a society that thinks killing people is an acceptable way to settle disputes.'

Eh?

I thought it was always about people misusing and people being afraid of big, scary, long range killing machines.
Good for a laugh. The terrible advice starts early, though. If you start hiring developers without a good screening process a large percent of them will be developers who can't find a job anywhere else, often for good reasons. Classic Joel Spolsky.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
You forgot advogato
If it was meant as a joke then I rescind my comment, with apologies.
What's next in the war on Adobe Flash?
Very true. An algorithm that prioritises email threads based on dates mentioned (including keywords & phrases like "tomorrow", "after lunch") as well as tone ("No problem!" vs "Guys this is really dragging on!") would be a cool project to work on.

I made a simple "word monitor" for my emails that can make assumptions about gender, social status etc based on words that are considered 1st person singular, 1st person plural, articles, emotion, cognitive, and social. Works ok but really needs a lengthy email to make heads or tails of any hidden information/agendas embodied within.
I'd say there's a significant difference between ordering gun parts (which can potentially be tracked by law enforcement) and ordering raw materials that can only incidentally be used for guns.
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I would really like to set up GMail so email only arrives on a fixed schedule, say 2-4 times a day

why not do it then? it's pretty simple to do?

I think the real reason is that you like the idea of doing that, but not the reality.

Cultural atavism might sound like a good idea, but the reality is the positive benefits of email and smartphones way outweighs the negatives.
If you'll notice the article never mentioned any context for the pictures, just kind of put them out there for the reader to draw conclusions.

Was it a joke between friends, or an actual attempt to defraud people. Who knows? The article certainly didn't offer any evidence either way.
what is this, 1950? Sounds like something from Mad Men.
Just shows that there are foolish laws everywhere. American IT companies may have to deal with software patents. Europeans deal with - sometimes - misguided and excessive consumer protection rules such as the cookie rules.
HTML5 and native apps: the hybrid approach
Sorry, that was a quick design work to get the product out. We are working on making the design better.
I think the new rules assume that apps are persisting any (invisible) state across quit/launch.
Let's do a quick fill in the blank quizz here.

If you start hiring _______ without a good screening process a large number of them will be _______ who can't find a job anywhere else, often for good reasons.

a. developers
b. managers
c. plumbers
d. mechanics

I didn't say I would keep them all, did I? :)
> Universal single payer health care would cause an explosion of entrepreneurship

No, it wouldn't.

The fraction of folks with chronic conditions isn't high enough to support your argument. Morever, the vast majority of them aren't shackled if they pay attention. (Staying married and/or staying covered is adequate in most cases and there are other ways to solve the problem.)

Do you really believe that there are a lot of good potential entrepreneurs with chronic conditions who can't handle this?
This is definitely a great idea, I've been thinking of different ways to accomplish it myself. The research backs this up too as a very reasonable solution, allowing workers to still be productive in replying, while only checking new email at certain intervals.

In fact, you've even come across the magic number for email checking frequency. Checking it 4 times a day provides the best trade-off between reply speed and productivity gain, as seen in research by Gupta et. al.[1]

[1] Gupta, A., Sharda, R., & Greve, R. a. (2010). You’ve got email! Does it really matter to process emails now or later? Information Systems Frontiers
"The feeling of satiety is not just a function of how full your stomach is. It's also a function of blood sugar levels."

No, it is not. Satiety is a complex process mediated and regulated by a certain number of hormones. Leptin controls satiety, whilst the release of ghrelin induces the feeling of hunger. There is no difference between eating pure sugar and potatoes, as the latter breaks down mostly into glucose, anyway. Eating both will give a blood sugar spike but won't stop you from gorging on both unless your body promptly starts releasing leptin.
I don't disagree with a single thing you said - but I do find some irony in the fact that this community for the most part is centered around startups - some taking huge risks with either bootstrapped money, or angel money - and the failure rate is often estimated between 30% to 40%.
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isn't it kind of arrogant to think that people would want to read what you have to say, but not the other way around?

There's already an app to do that, it's called SMTP, just don't use POP. After a few weeks you'll be so unpopular with your friends that you wont even need to switch off POP.
To be honest, I don't view Gimp as a tool for working with photos. I prefer RAW editors, and find myself surprised that you wouldn't be using Lightroom or Aperture.

In fact, I don't really see Photoshop (despite its name) as a tool for working with photos, either.

I admit adjustment layers are nice, but I don't see lacking them as a fatal flaw when there are a few workarounds and, depending on the task you're trying to accomplish, might not even be an important feature.

In any case I don't really claim the open programs are currently 'better' per se (though in one or two cases it may be true or close true), just that they're more than good enough to get decent results from.

Gimp definitely has some hidden surprises.
Five lessons companies can learn from Facebook's new iOS app
Right now I have an iPhone 4, a Galaxy Nexus, and a BlackBery Bold 9900 in front of me. I do dev work, so I flip between devices fairly regularly.

My Bold is still my daily device. Sure, the other two phones are better in almost all ways, but e-mail and unified messaging is one thing RIM knows how to do. At a quick glance, I can see incoming e-mails, SMS, twitter or Facebook, and know if I need to respond. I can set up different audible alerts for each and/or different coloured LEDs.

I rarely have my desktop e-mail client open, since my BlackBerry helps me filter out messages as needed while I work.

You can rally against me if you like, but I like my BlackBerry better than my other devices. It simply works for me. And I think this aversion to e-mail/distractions is a by-product of the devices being used.
I'd appreciate an invite too (my email is in my profile as well).
Images. Can we have less?
Not too hard to edit /etc/hosts or equivalent and wall off distractions.
(Full disclosure: I have a Happy Hacking Pro 2. I also have multiple Filco Cherry MX keyboards).

The difference with HHKB is:

1) the Topre switches over standard Cherry switches; it's personal preference, but they are more expensive. In my opinion they feel a lot nicer for long sessions. Very satisfying to type on.

2) It's made in Japan — I believe Topre Realforce are too, but they're also expensive.

3) The layout/size is (fairly) unique, and very awesome. Not having to move from the home row to hit any key at all feels great.

Anyway when you amortize the cost over how long these keyboards (any of them) last, and how much you use them, the price difference isn't such a big deal.
A good five minutes is "Where was I?"

If you get interrupted a lot it helps to take notes on a pad, kind of use it as your "stack" and just list out what you're doing so when you're done you can go back to that frame of mind more easily.
If you have access to a drill press, you can build an AR-15 without undergoing a background check. Just buy an 80% lower and a jig. You can order these things online. An 80% complete lower receiver is completely legal for anyone to own. In the eyes of the law, it is a chunk of metal. Once you put it in a jig and drill out a couple of parts, it becomes an AR-15 lower receiver. Now it's a firearm. The rest of the parts (upper receiver, lower parts kit, stock, sights, etc) are completely legal for anyone to own without a background check. You can order these parts online as well. Total cost will be somewhere between $700 and $2,000, depending on how fancy you want to get.

Actually doing this may or may not be legal. It depends on your criminal record, mental health, the combination of parts you assemble, and where you live. There are a ton of laws related to firearm ownership, transportation, and manufacture. Even summarizing them would triple the length of this comment.

My point is that building dangerous weapons is already not particularly difficult, time-consuming, or expensive. 3D printers will make it a little easier, but not drastically so. Different parts of the firearm require different materials. The lower receiver can be aluminum, but the barrel has to be steel. The recoil buffer won't work if it's too heavy, so it has to be aluminum. But it also has to have plastic caps to avoid damaging the buffer tube. Even if you could print these parts out with the right tolerances, you'd still have to assemble them with special tools.

If it's so easy to build an AR-15, why don't we see a ton of killings with them? Simply put: because most people are sane. The vast majority of the population, given the chance, would not want to kill innocent people and spend life in prison.
Java developers that use Eclipse or IntelliJ seem to work remotely pretty well using NX or VNC to get a remote Linux desktop, and Googlers who work on open-source projects obviously have different rules for that code.

I'm actually not sure what the IOS devs do. They might have different rules since their projects are more standalone and not tied into the rest of the main Google source tree, but it might also be that they just develop on-site. You could probably be fairly successful with XCode using something like SSHfs if you're on a fast enough connection, but I don't know if anyone actually does that.
The really interesting part if I understand the recent Supreme Court rulings is that Federal Law would no longer apply to those firearms since they regulate commerce between the states. Since it would be built all within the state (Montana past a similar law) the Federal Government can no longer place any limits on those firearms.
Except that it is dog slow, horribly out of date, neither really compatible with Windows nor Unix paths, and lacking support for graphical stuff.

Well, I use msys and eshell instead, which I find less jarring.
Wow very sad news, RIP. I never knew him personally but feel like he gave me so much through his contributions to the python and scientific computing community.
Variety is what makes HN so engaging. If I wanted to read exclusivly about computers, I would just hit usenet.
When's the last time a free market had a famine?

How often do "not free" markets have famines?

In the US, poor people are fat. They don't lack food. (They don't lack TVs, cars, or houses either.)
What Is Value? What Is Money?
Great real-world anecdote, it's really refreshing to see busy people (I'm assuming Harj is a pretty busy person) understanding the implications of email overload and trying to deal with it.

Not everyone needs to completely remove email from their phones, but doing simple things like turning off push notifications and trying to push one's self to only check at certain intervals has been shown by research (and substantiated by experiences like this) to have huge upsides to productivity, lower stress levels, and creativity.

I'm learning a huge amount in this arena, it's a fascinating topic. If anyone wants to see a very cursory summary of what I've assembled so far, check out a small deck at http://www.slideshare.net/jlyman/email-overload-13506201
Android v. iOS Part 2: Profits
You should definitely re-read it and if you a mac user there is dayOne app.
> It's laziness mixed with condescension and moral outrage.

AKA, The Internet.
You have lot to learn, derleth, and a lot of arrogance and ignorance to own up to.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein70.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo59.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/dunaway-r1.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/huebert7.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/katz2.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcelroy/mcelroy37.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey62.1.html

I DON'T think you have it all figured out!
""We chose Debian because packages and apt [Debian's basic software package programs] are light-years of RPM (Red Had and SUSE's default package management system.]”"

Would someone mind giving a brief overview of why apt is better than rpm (or why someone might think this?)?
This leads me wonder if another set of eyes need to look at the case. Its hard to discern too much from this short form. Juror seems something odd.
so far I have a 0% conversion rate

that's not surprising given that the GIMP pales by comparison to photoshop. There's just no comparison. I think the high price of Adobe Creative suite has always been there because any professional uses it and buys it, but Adobe knows there are many illegal copies used by students and they just assume they one day will get jobs and then they will be paid users, meanwhile the illegal use is subsidized by the industry who doesn't care how much it costs because it gets the job done. By comparison GIMP is a toy. I know its a pet of the open source community, but commercial software with real designers and focus groups and product managers sometimes get it right.
How Do You Use Responsive Images?
Automator, a printer and Siri might be pretty close.
"... if you're a monkey."
Indian Founders Don’t Think Scale - Agree or Disagree?
NIH study finds calorie restriction does not affect survival
I'm not sure what is the 3rd party you are referring to. There are two sides here - individual developers or small dev companies, and giant tech companies - who should be working together to create a healthy ecosystem, but when one is in conflict with the other the giant companies do whatever they want. A union is a collection of individuals / small companies that together have enough leverage to negotiate on better terms with the giant companies.
Throwing more developers at a problem doesn't always help things. Sometimes, it can actually makes things much worse. One very talented middle-manager can often lead to more productivity than adding 20 inexperienced developers to the mix.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
> I have absolutely no idea why he feels that someone who has cleaned homes for 20 years is an incredible success story. It's almost as patronizing as it is naive.

Project much?

> What would be at least somewhat interesting is if she figured out a way to get paid 2x the hourly rate and/or get houses cleaned in 1/2 the time.

How do you know that she hasn't?

He says that she's happy. He doesn't know much about how it makes happy or how it has developed. You think that you do and you think that she's doing it wrong....
It is brought up constantly but it is not the kind of discussion which seems to be much approved of. (In the interest of disclosure, I don't even care)
Why such a hatred, not in this piece, but trending, against e-mail? It doesnt bother me much. What i did instead, i dropped my phone, figuratively speaking of course. A month ago i switched, lastly, my phone off. What a relief, no more calls, no more call when i'm busy, no more missed calls and whats more important, no questions about why you didnt answer, called back, etc. I'm free!
"...not the guy who hired the guy who used to run the site or whatever"

That is why we are referring to the DNA of the company...

Meaning that its founder's character sets the tone for the future of the company...

This is fact, as founders hire people whom they believe will carry on the traits they themselves want to instill in the company...

Arrington, while successful, is a farking douchebag.

The whole of techcrunch has followed this from the sensationalism, to the lack of proof/editing, to the very fanboi-ism and game mechanics they have attempted to apply to the stories they write.

I rarely frequent TC - when I do, I find typos and grammar mistakes pretty much in every story I see.

I think the site is a joke, and the egos abound.

Do they get good scoops, sure they do - but they are CONSTANTLY offered excellent opportunity only to fumble and look like fools -- the sad part of that is that too few people actually notice and even fewer hold them to account!

TC is successful - but they really should not be.
Yeah, it's weird that this feature doesn't exist.

It would be even better on smartphones; constantly having the new mail icon pop up on is so distracting that I have turned off automatic email checking on my phone, and just check manually every couple hours when not near a computer. This was after being surprised not to be able to find an option to control gmail's polling interval.
I guess it depends whether you define "top media company" as top in quality of top in readership/influence/etc. I've on idea about stats but it wouldn't surprise me if TC was at the very top for its niche on the latter.