skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because he came from a place where hard workers could barely afford the twenty-five-dollar donations they pushed across the hay bale, he immediately acquired the reputation of budget miser. There was an Axelrodism that claimed that if you went to the bathroom, pulled out a paper towel, then went to pull out a second one, it would actually be a note that said, 'See Plouffe.'"
yes, the terminal school matters. which is why people care about the quality of the undergrad school they go to. most people don't know whether or not they are going to pursue a masters. if they at least go to a decent undergrad school and they wind up not pursuing the masters they still have viable career options. beware premature optimization.
I'm a rider, too. I don't think loud pipes help all that much.

Generally, the pipes face away from cars that are a danger. I guess a Harley is a whole lot louder than the Kawasaki I ride though.

Frankly, I would mandate that all cars have Panoramic rear view mirrors.
http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Panoramic-Rear-View-Mirror/dp/B...
Kaspersky Lab hacked: another sign of the losing war against hackers?
I've thought of letting profiles be more detailed, e.g. letting people post their resumes, and having them be searchable. Would people like something like that?
Is there something like a census with the percentage of workers in each profession for those times?
Drafting the cap as "the top 5 highest paid people can't make more than $500k" isn't the same as a $500k cap on the top 100,000 employees?
More early stage venture firms is a good things. Copying good things, like open legal docs, is a good thing. The only thing I've heard I didn't like was setting deadlines to exclude YC, and I haven't heard definitive specifics on that.
I'm not a gmail user, but "organize by thread" in Mail.app sounds a hell of a lot like "conversation" view.
I think it's time for a new email protocol. IMAP is far too slow and lacks tagging. POP doesn't synchronize read/unread status (or anything else).

There's an interesting opportunity here for building a web service on top of email that would allow for more robust client-side applications in addition to a web interface. However, I wouldn't want to invest too much time into the idea at the risk of Gmail coming up with their own streamlined API.
and the costs being prohibitively high have nothing to do with the fact that there are so many people receiving these ridiculous salaries and driving up the costs of services?
give me a fucking break. hello supply, meet demand. when salaries go down these ridiculously inflated prices will come down or these houses will be empty and these services going bankrupt.
This story says pretty much nothing, and in so doing manages to repeat the bogus assertions that antivirus companies should have innate resistance to web vulnerabilities, and (more perniciously) that antivirus has anything whatsoever to do with Internet security.
Yes! This would be a great way to increase opportunities.
Why game the U.S higher education system? The author seems to base his entire article on the premise that "In most careers, a Master's degree is required". He is a Stanford PhD student so I can see why he thinks that way, but I just don't see that need in 'most careers' outside academia.
So basically it's saying work hard and act smart? How is that gaming the system? Is this article a parody?
Great - then use Tutu for the example. Just be careful that you don't go through life missing the point in discussions by getting caught up nit-picking the examples people use.
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I also tend to dislike people who describe themselves as artists. True artists create art, they don't brag. Many are enchanted by the power of labels and mistake their identity with the labels they use to describe themselves. Reminds of that Shakespeare quote:

"There is nothing so common as the desire to be extraordinary."
what about cisco? they seem to be pretty decent. they buy small companies and merge them in nicely and profit by it.

what about nike, which had a bad child-labor image back in the 90s and has really turned things around (though perhaps doesn't have a means to demonstrate this against the competition ?).

it is true that culture is changing. our concept of 'good' is becoming more humane, and possibly less financially driven. so yeah, we'll see what companies look like in 20 years.
I think he is 'gaming' the system purely from a financial perspective. His argument is that the sum total spent on undergraduate + graduate study can be a lot less with the same end result.
The author forgot the writing portion of the GRE, which is not easily gamed at all, not to mention that writing is crucial for academic success. You must be able to write. How about some tips for writing well?
I think here we have an 'IQ Test Problem.'

We define money in terms of wealth & then are forced to define wealth in terms of money. Even using item baskets as a unit of wealth is really doomed to imperfection. All you are doing is attempting to standardise wealth. That's what money try's to do.

In any case, while I disagree that it is meaningless to make comparisons, I think that it is meaningful to discuss the value of money. Wealth is not a precise unit. I'm not at all sure that makes it meaningless. But I'd rather avoid defining it as that which a basket measures.

Emotional wealth anyone?
Yeah I have news for the author. State schools don't have money and private schools do. If you/your family don't actually have enough money to pay for your college education, you'll get financial aid from the private school but you'll have to pay full tuition at a state school. The schools who he was throwing around (Brown, Stanford) all guarantee 100% need based financial aid. And if you are a genius like the author suggests, you're sure to get some merit based financial aid as well.

Personal anecdote: If I had decided to attend University of Chicago instead of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, I would have paid $15k less per year. Urbana's tuition is ~$25k per year and Chicago's is $50k. Of course, since I wanted to study Computer Science the choice was obvious, but if money had been the issue I would have gone to Chicago. If money is a _serious_ concern, you _will_ get financial aid from a top private school.

If you do have enough money, the monetary aspects of your college choice become a question of value, not necessity. The author should have framed his article in that sense. There's good advice in this article, but none of it applies to people who are contained by money. Rather, it should have been written for the people who want to get the most of their money.
I found life a whole lot more enjoyable by not giving a crap about prestige, and not planning out the entire next 12+ years of my life (HS, undergrad, grad school) when I was an 8th grader.
Generally, I like more informative profiles, but specifically with resumes, I don't think it's a good idea. I get the feeling that it'll help bump up the noise as individuals come here to post resumes and then try to enter conversations for which they are unqualified to speak.

How about a special "Hacker News" hash that I can hide in the resume along with my profile name? So if anyone cares to find my HN profile and/or my resume, they'll just have to search for that hash+username to bring it up.
I'm glad you mentioned that...threads++
There's a great interview of Frank Addante on Venture Voice. He mentions one startup of his devoted to building a new email platform for large scale (think FOX), real time communication. Didn't look into it at all, but it sounds like whatever he built is working well.
You're lucky you realised this trick so early :-).
A good PR firm works to maintain a very personal and trusting relationship with major news outlets, including the popular blogs and web presences. While there are a lot of bad PR firms out there you should avoid, a good firm is extremely valuable and should be included in your marketing strategy once the product has shown life.

However, most likely your first year (or two) you'll be able to handle a fair amount of the basic PR work yourself. Here's a good blog post from Josh Dilworth who works with a lot of tech startups.

http://joshdilworth.com/post/68998214/what-the-heck-is-pr-an...
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html...
The path this article prescribes is almost identical to my own story, and so far I strongly agree that financially it makes a lot of sense (although there are cases where this may not necessarily be true, based on tsally's comment).

The only difference in my own personal path from the article's is that before coming to grad school I worked for two years in a position that was extremely relevant to what I wanted to study. Not only did I make enough money to pay off my undergrad debt, but I also gained a great recommendation from my boss (who was a PhD, which helps a lot) as well as an interesting story to add to my personal statement when applying to grad school.
Should We Deprecate WWW? 9 of the World's Top 10 Websites Don't Seem To Think So
Is this worth emulating? 9 of the top 10 largest websites in the world default to www.domain.com.
It'll take me more than 6 minutes just to switch to an IDE.
Different feel, same instrument is all.

Again, these aren't the documents that YC and TS use for their admitted companies; these are the docs for the round after that. These are actually more useful than the internal YC/TS documents, since you can use these documents for your discussions with angel investors outside of a YC/TS program.

Again, I prefer the Techstars documents because they're more similar to standard Series A/B/C VC documents that I saw in my prior life as a lowly VC Analyst (still bitter I didn't negotiate the Associate title). But thanks to both Y Combinator and Techstars for releasing this stuff. They're both much, much better than the model NVCA documents for a potential angel round. You can't go wrong with either.
The real problem is that the heuristics that Mail.app and Gmail use to determine which emails constitute a thread/conversation are slightly different.

That means that GMail might count ten messages as being part of a conversation, but Mail.app will only count 8 of those as being part of the same thread.

It seems minor - but it's really infuriating when you try to switch back and forth.
Those transfer prices are so insane. We transfer about 5 TB a month, that would come up to 10k in fee's alone.
Well, my first thought would be using macros to ensure you never have 'unsafe' strings anywhere.

But, for some inexplicable reason, Joel says "Don’t use macros to create your own personal programming language."

How is using macros to encapsulate common functionality any different than using functions to encapsulate common functionality? Both lead to less mental overhead, more code reuse, and code that's easier to parse.
I assume they're counting New York city and State taxes, which add up to a little over 10%, iirc. However, you're right that, with the help of a decent accountant, they can get out of paying the full tax rate normal people pay.
So as an hacker looking for a job I can ask a question about job hunting and get a job? Oh, boy sounds like we're going to get a bunch of those types postings and that PG is going to have his work cut for him modding down a lot of postings! :)

Now I'm going to be like Yosser and say:
"Gissa job"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosser_Hughes
"Gmail presents email threads as one long conversation, starting with the oldest message and ending with the most recent."

Oddly, Gmail encourages top-posting, which it makes up for by decent (although not fool proof) hiding of quoted content in subsequent messages.
Prestige may be part of the equation to the extent that prestige is a proxy for the quality of education and research that you'll find at a given university.

That said, I chose my school based on a lot more than the limited metric implied by the author. College (and grad school...) is about more than just the job you get after graduation. I've met so many incredible people and had so many awesome experiences here... to simplify it to a "game" measured in terms of post-grad salary is ridiculous.
Everything is politics, religion is politics, javascript is politics. Anything where disagreement is possible incurs politics. This is why javascript discussions descend into religious debates and also why the premise and conclusions behind your entire essay is garbage.
Although using Twitter for real-time emergency response at a governmental or NGO level sounds quite interesting.
Well, ask around and you'll hear some other things.
But the beauty of the minimal Hacker News design is that users can create their own idioms on top of it, that, in effect, become part of the design - a domain specific design, or DSD, if you will. Crystallizing a common idiom into an explicit feature. with explicit design, would enforce a common interface upon all users, which despite its benefits would reduce the raw power and flexibility of the minimal design - a step along the road to Blubber News. ;-)

But seriously, it's a good idea; but why not do it within the current design? That way, you get voting on the summary too. Herring's point about RSS could be accomplished by including the top comment in it...
Ask HN: RateMyProfessors replacement?
I think it's about time this shoddy site gets replaced. 350 character cap on comments and silly criteria like hot-or-not doesn't make sense when you're deciding how to spend (literally) thousands of dollars. The website is ugly as sin and bears load horribly to boot.

I envision a much cleaner site where comment length is uninhibited and users actually need to log in with a school e-mail to post comments. I'd also like users to be able to reply to each others' comments.

I'm seriously considering going after this. So, Hacker News, you think it's worthwhile?
Openness shouldn't be a political issue in a democracy, it should be the default.
Conversation view in Mail.app is nice, but it really only threads the messages in your inbox (or current folder). Gmail's threads are a bit nicer since it'll grab all the related messages even if they've already been archived.
It was, sorry. I guess I got annoyed with the inaccuracies and didn't bother to read the main point. I'll try to give you some feedback that is more thoughtful after reading the article more tolerantly.
Zappos CEO Talks Culture Fit and the Importance of Creating a 'Wow' Experience
Agreed, though the article specifically said "salary", so I gave them the benefit of the doubt there ;)
OK, maybe a better word is needed for that. How about "relevant."
Yes that would be useful. Also, might want to allow an option as to how public people's resumes or profiles are. Maybe an option that only allow logged in users can view other user's resumes.

Also, not everyone wants their resume cached by Google, nor publicly searchable, nor have their opinions or comments traced back to whom they actually are.
I can see how this would be very helpful in some cases, but I can't help but worry that there will be an immediate flood of users simply coming to spam their resumes.

The only way I can see to keep this from being abused would be to add a karma barrier. It wouldn't have to be that high (50-100?) to be a pretty good filter.
Not worth it. My company, Viximo, has created numerous applications including our most popular TrueFlirt. We've had a number of reviews on the top application review sites (unpaid and unsolicited) and the resulting downloads is very minimal. Most consumers of applications don't really read those sites.
There's nothing special about New York City. There are huge financial firms in Omaha, and Goldman Sachs et al can simply move there or other places. Problem solved.
Given the overall theme of this rant, I would assume that it's about keeping code close together and easy to understand.

Obviously, macros have almost nothing in common with functions. Macros are simply shorthand for code that will be literally placed at the spot they are called.

So rather than calling functions, with all argument expressions evaluated, and a call stack, and blah blah blah, you are just copy-pasting code without it actually ending up on the screen for a developer to see.
Perhaps it's simply dogmatism?

For example, test driven development and design patterns can be (and sometimes are) practiced dogmatically, and raise questions about how something "should" be done within the paradigm. Being forced to think differently isn't necessarily bad (or good).
When I was in physics grad school, we'd sometimes amuse ourselves with the game "grad student or homeless", which involved guessing the circumstances of a given person we might come across. It was surprising how often we were wrong... :) There was one guy who I had seen at the weekly colloquia for almost a year, who I had always assumed was a homeless, probably mentally ill guy, who was just there for the food. Then one day he asked an incredibly technical question in the middle of a lecture. I think he was actually from the math department.
Why can't web browsers allow drag-and-drop? Why haven't we seen any innovation in DOM-addressable UI controls since HTML3? The obvious impedance is starting to get to me whenever I fire up Safari on my iPhone and notice that none of the input fields use the right keyboard layout. It would be obvious to refactor <input type="text"> and <input type="password"> into <input type="text" inputscheme="prose"> and <input type="text" inputscheme="password">, and then add <input type="text" inputscheme="phonenumber"> and such on top of that. Why can't we do things like that?
Allowing a user to edit the string later is the most common reason I've encountered.

No one likes to see an input all cluttered with "&quot;", "&amp;" and the like.
I love the fact that all distros were on a 2.2 kernel and debian was on 2.0. Some things never change.
That's part of the real power of gmail's mail handling methods. Like POP (and the concept of "delete or keep on server"), a message can "logically" only exist in one place at a time. IMAP can move/copy messages, but if the same message exists in multiple places, they appear as two distinct messages. In gmail, the message only appears in one place, the single, massive mail store. How things are tagged, er I mean labeled, determine your view on them. Since labels don't move or copy things, they are available to be pulled into different views without breaking a concept of different storage locations. The fact that IMAP works reasonably well on top of gmail's labeling is impressive.
Without anonymity, will people post ? If they have to use a school email to post, will they be anonymous ? If you send an "account confirmation" email to the student's address, won't some idiot at the institution read it and try to use it to deduce who is giving certain reviews ?

Maybe one way to get an edge and get started, is to also allow rating of a lot of other stuff besides professors. Rate administrations, lab conditions, dorms, frats, etc. You could even have a way for Professors to rate their students, and for students to rate students.

Maybe to keep it at least slightly positive, make it so there is some kind of reward for posting positive reviews ?
I think that this is an extremely difficult market to break in to, as any advantage your site provides would have to outweigh the large base of reviews that RateMyProfessors already has.

There are already several other sites attempting to do this, with varying levels of success. My school (Marquette University) is currently affiliated with PickAProf.com
You mean like airtrax? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPmC4KPvOfg

I think people should be encouraged to reinvent wheels. Sometimes it's the firm foundations of something that everyone takes for granted that need to be questioned and reexamined.
Ask HN: How profitable are most iphone apps?
Is there a link you can point me to with recent stats?

Also how does Apple rank iphone apps in the app store? If it's by # sold, then how do new apps get a chance at success?
I use 14, I find it quite comfortable.
I think the six minutes refer only to the amount of time it takes to read the article.

If anything, it did remind me to refactor some longish functions I had in a class I was working on.
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Owning a home long-term after the adjustment will be a great investment in the US, I imagine. The US is a debtor nation. The debt can be paid off by printing currency (perhaps gradually). This will cause inflation as more dollars chase the same amount of goods and services. Your mortgage debt dollar amount remains the same, but gets paid off with new, cheaper bills.
Yeah, why not. As a student, the hotornot-like criteria is a big turn-off from me rating or reading ratings of teachers. Typically the teachers with high ratings are the easy markers, not necessarily the best professors. A lot of the ratings appear to be the result of personal grudges as well.

So yeah, there's lots of room for improvement here.
He was talking about writing short methods to begin with, not fixing the already borked ones.
MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism
This actually is a neat article. Especially the hit-it-home sentence:

Now, you too can share some of this glory by writing your own compiler for the Microsoft® .NET Framework.

Made me ready to pick up the phone and buy a "10 Steps to Making Trillions on eBay" book... or write a CLR-targeted compiler.
Alexander Technique Classes
http://www.smtp2web.com/
this looks just about right. How does it compare to something like cacti? Has anyone used this? How does it feel? What else should I be looking at? How much mem and disk space does it end up taking up with default config? Recommended tweaks?
try to enter conversations for which they are unqualified to speak

What makes one qualified?
By the time you could develop a new mail protocol there probably wouldn't be enough users left to justify the effort.
Simple solution: require X metric of participation before you can post a resume (or before your resume is searchable, take your pick). That could be owned account for N days or N karma or whatever you like.

(Personally I don't know if "Don't let lurkers solicit opportunities" is desirable but, eh, simple to implement if you decide it is.)
"He had to buy a car using his American credit card...he loses the entitlement to drive on his Canadian licence after a year..."

The article mentions all of the "red tape" involved, but these seem to simply be problems for people moving to (Northern) Ireland in general, not businesses.

Admittedly, not having a credit card for a few months could make it more difficult to live there, and having to re-take your driving test is a hassle, but why does this make (Northern) Ireland closed for business?
Either way, are we really supposed to believe these bankers don't know their way around taxes? It's not like they're squeezing paycheck to paycheck.
DIY Ring Flash [via Lifehacker] - great idea
Great questions, thanks. Ideally, I'd allow the student to choose whether or not they'd like to remain anonymous, but all accounts would initiate to an anonymous state.

Another reason I'd be doing the e-mail verification thing is so professors can't rate themselves highly, which I've heard is rampant on RateMyProfessors.
Just don't go.
thank you for the link and the video :)
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