skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good advice, but I disagree with this:Don't ask to see an article before publication.

I've always asked to see articles before publication, and have never had any problems with it. I have, however, caught a few mistakes that have been corrected before they went out. Nothing like seeing your company name spelled wrong...
"Unless you want to actually do the statistical analysis, control for all the proper variables, and try to make a statistically significant statement at the end, all you'd be doing is talking out of your ass."

I've never claimed a proof -- just a counter-example. But more importantly, I stop trying to have civilized discussions with people when they can't summon the maturity to avoid profanity.
Do what Yelp did: try to launch a totally-unlike-Yelp site, and realize that Yelp is what your customers want.

But seriously: that sounds like a valuable app, but it's hard to tell how you should launch without getting some details. Maybe you can start giving feedback to businesses you patronize, and just contact the first few businesses you review ("Hey! You just got a suggestion on FeedbackJar.com!").
Sorry, but this is nothing more than a cheap attempt at stirring up class hatred. The jet is one of the most useful, efficient tools in the corporate arsenal, especially when you have to run around and meet people 24/7 (as tends to be the case with banking). If we lived in a perfect world (which isn't the case), everyone would have access to this sort of transportation; having experienced it first-hand, I can say that it seriously makes life more productive. Also, there's a very small number of short-runway jets capable of transcontinental range, and the Falcon 7X is one of the most efficient of the pack.

I think Citigroup is one of the worst-run companies in America, if not the world, but I don't think their private jet usage is the problem there. In fact, perhaps it would have been better for us all if they had spent more time running around the world and seeing the sort of mess they had been creating (one need only see the tract-home-filled foothills of Orange County, California in 2004 to understand there was a bubble).

This is the absolute worst time for us to start getting morally indignant over others' consumption. The more we do this, the worse it will be. Any purchases that lead to gains in productivity need to be celebrated -- that's how money swirls through the economy and gets us out of this mess!

Oh yeah, and people who work in corporate aviation departments tend to be really cool.
This is too long to read in one sitting, but it seems like a great overview of many of the problems facing the world today, and what the Gates Foundation is doing about them.
I suspect that if that were really the case, you'd hear about it from corporate jet sellers ("We compared our clients to their Fortune 500 peers, and found that companies with jets outperform the rest of the market by 2% a year!")
But the difference is that we allow the business owner to reply back to the same thread.

There's more of a business owner and customer engagement.
But assuming the jets are of roughly equal performance and capacity, can't they just sell one jet for $27M and keep the other?

Not to mention, how much is a cross-country flight in first class these days? $1500? How many execs can you fly for the cost of that airplane? (the answer: over 33,000)

That's already not including hangar, maintenance, pilot/stewardess/ground labor, nor fuel...

My guess is they can fly all their top-dog execs in first class for a clean decade for the price of that plane. I would really like to see them justify this.
Anyone from HN going to apply? I know that most are early stage but there might be a few more established companies running around here.
The Prestige (competing magicians inventing new tricks, cameo by Nikola Tesla):

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/prestige

Iron Man (fun movie where the main character is hacker/inventor):

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/ironman

There Will Be Blood (not a hacker movie per se, but still kind of startup-relevant, it's about creation of the oil empire from scratch):

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/therewillbeblood

Odyssey 5 (TV series about a group of astronauts sent back in time to prevent destruction of Earth, AI plays a significant role):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318236/

Few Japanese cyberpunk animated classics:

Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347246/

Akira:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/

Bonus: if you liked Primer, you may like also Timecrimes (even though it's not a hacker movie):

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/timecrimes
I write affiliate systems and have to say that they do work very well for the company using affiliates. The affiliates that actually make enough to quit their day job are probably few and far between, however. There are also a few shady characters out there that can make your business look bad and also flat-out steal from you/other affiliates.
Though Safari does have it right that Flash doesn't load until you view the tab. I can load up a bunch of video clips in the background and they start playing only when I enter the tab. FireFox really grinds my gears in that regard.
Yelp paid contributors to get the ball rolling with their community:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2006/tc200...

But it sounds like your service is less like Yelp and more like uservoice.com or getsatisfaction.com for the small business market.
thats funny..
Is the PHP community open to refactorings of the code? Do they have the tests in place to make that possible?
Your project sounds interesting, though it's difficult to see what the actual deliverable will be. It looks like you just want to model social behavior through innovative ways. I would suggest that you do some practical stuff first, and forget about "revolutionizing" the industry. Perhaps your time will be best spent doing some innovative data mining of a social network already in place. For example, you could easily do some creative things with Twitter's public feed as many people have shown recently. Second, maybe you want to build another portal like Friendfeed whereby you could incorporate social status and try to extract some meaningful data.

This sounds like a fun data mining project, but I wouldn't stray too far off course if I were you. Instead of making diagrams and presentations, just get right to work by modeling simple streams of data.

For the record, I do pattern analysis on materials, but I'm interested in applying the same techniques for other social projects.
Bring back the unions?
The jet is one of the most useful, efficient tools in the corporate arsenal

Maybe they should be taking public airline transportation, it might slow down the rate at which they can flush investors' money down the toilet.
Real wages have stayed pretty flat, but housing costs have skyrocketed, we are working more hours and not getting more vacation, and healthcare remains abysmal.
Exactly! That's how I got the idea!
Both uservoice.com or getsatisfaction.com are doing really well.
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There is a thread on Reddit where Mark Pilgram states that the final manuscript is due in June. He also states that if you have any suggestions/feedback, you should speak up.

Check it here : http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/7sj39/dive_into_pyth...
See I-expressions.
" American interests are best served when corporations (Microsoft in this case) are as efficient as possible."

That simply doesn't pan out. It is in the capital-owner's best interest when their holdings operate as efficiently as possible. Most americans are not capital-holders.
So, I do a lot of code review --- a job hazard --- and we tend to score them based on whether we find anything. You may want to find a softer target.
Why would they want to refactor their lexer? They're hard to get right in the first place.
One stupid requirement from the application: your company must have been generating revenue since 2005. What happens to startups that actually are growing like crazy today but were not around in 2005?

I can understand some need for past performance, otherwise Inc. can't compute a growth rate, but still...
Why can't you 'run around and meet people 24/7' with commercial airlines? This is not a moral issue, it's an issue of corporate governance competence. Corporate jet is a luxury, just like $1M in CEO office renovations at Merrill Lynch. I can't believe you can lose $50M in productivity by using alternatives to private jets.
This is a tiresome argument, but more people = viewer resources per person. And, if history is a guide, different people = political squabbling, and sometimes political disaster.
King of Kong is great, but beware of the controversy surrounding that movie. The director faked a lot of scenes, mislead viewers, and generally made Billy Mitchell look much worse than he actually was. (The entire plot featuring the actual breaking of the world record was fictional: events were shown out of order to establish a narrative.)
Globalization will make America more like the rest of the world -- with a very wealthy elite and terminally poor servant class with low class mobility. I appreciate economic freedom within the borders, but only because of the safeguards and investments we have made and will continue to make.
IIRC the areas where things are getting worse, or at least, not getting as good as the GDP statistics would lead one to believe, are:

[edited to incorporate some stuff from downthread]

- people with only a high-school education don't have the same job opportunities as they used to

- the employment sectors with the highest job growth are those that don't pay very well, e.g., janitorial work rather than automotive plants

- a lot of people who want full-time jobs can only find part-time work; people with full-time jobs are working more hours with less or stagnant vacation time

- more families in which both the husband and wife work out of economic necessity rather than choice

- the housing bubble caused many people to treat the appreciation in their home's value as a substitute for saving, and now that the bubble has burst that "wealth effect" is operating in reverse

- cost of health care rising significantly faster than inflation; higher premiums and copays for those with insurance, more economic risk for those without

I think some of these are 40-year trends rather than 20-year trends, but if you drill down into the quality-of-life statistics, I think these are the kinds of things to look for.
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Didn't look like he pointed out any bugs - but that's not really the main point of a code review. It's all well and good for the compiler to understand the code and have it execute properly, but is it human-readable? Or maintainable? Having looked at the source file, I'd say that particular method is neither.
I thought anonymity was why trolling was/is so prevalent.
E-everything
I'm not sure how cost effective it is, but mailing postcards seems like a damn good way to advertise the site.
The problem with paying is that you get skewed results. The type of people who will take spare change for writing reviews do not frequent many of the places or use the things you wish to collect opinions for.
Excellent, excellent movie. It always inspires me in some strange quirky way. Or maybe it just inspires me to be quirky.
If you liked this, you might enjoy another religion what-if TV movie, starring the Ninth Doctor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353104/
Look again at how your pension fund is invested. Most americans have an interest in the stock market (Exxon, GE, Walmart, and index funds are particularly polular among large pension funds like CALPERS). Furthermore, all Americans are capital holders in the sense that they own (some) US dollars which can be used to buy from the US economy. If the economy becomes more efficient, they can buy more and therefore, are aided by the increased efficiency. That is, until the dollar is devalued even more.
This is of course oversimplified. The argument seems to me like:
1) If you love what you do, you will care. You will go the extra mile to do it right.
2) After a couple of years of doing what you love, and caring, and improving every day, you will be very good at what you do. You will be able to beat most competitors (who don't really care and are in for a quick buck anyway).
3) Assuming your clients can tell the difference, you will never lack work.
4) Assuming your market is big enough to support you and your more important competitors, you will be able to pick clients, and rise your fees, and have lots of work anyway.
5) Then money follows the good work.

Now, there are 2 big assumptions here. One is that the world will be able to figure out how great you are and how lame are most of the others. If they cannot, or doesn't care, you are in a lemon market. The scam artists grow rich and the good practicioners get exploited. Not a nice place to be, unless what you love is take advantage of other people.

The other big assumption is that there is enough demand for what you love to do. By example, if you love classic music and want to be a piano concertist, good luck with that. There is not enough demand for that skill to support but a handfull of performers. Unless your talent is that of a genius or have all the right connections, you will not survive long enough to actually learn to play well. Again, not a nice place to be.

What you want to do if not to do what you like the most. You want to ask yourself what are those things that you like. Get a list of a dozen items. Cut half of those that seem like lemon markets, the cut again by half those whose market is to small.

You will end up with a couple of solid options of what you can realistically pursue.
Pirates is a great nerd party movie. Popcorn, soda, and just reveling in the melodrama :-)
Yes the PermGen issue in general seems a major weakness of the "Sun" VM (now OpenJDK) - although its not an intractable problem - just an irritation.

It seems an out dated idea today to have a separate space/special rules for generated code versus the rest of the heap - I think other VMs like JRockit didn't do that and didn't have that issue.

Although - I think the class/classloader relationship is in the spec, so to allow easy GC of generated classes you need to have 1 to 1 with classloaders (I hear that all this is going to change anyway to reflect how people really use things).
Hmm.. I agree these are becoming bad habits, but what if all the good habits fail? That is actually a very common case, I think.

I once couldn't make sound work on a laptop, so I tried all the obvious tricks - check if the mixer isn't accidentally set to zero etc. But when all failed, I decided to download the latest nightly build of ALSA, recompile it, and guess what - it solved the problem. I still don't know what it was...

I have similar stories with GPU support and power management, and I think I'm not alone. But we're getting into too much detail...
My tax dollars make it a moral issue. Why should my life's work be hijacked to subsidize this?
Remember to take breaks (in an inspirational way)
You have to love the great American tradition of poor fashion sense; I can imagine what my European friends would be thinking if they saw the crowd in this photo...
On the social engineering tip, I'd say "Catch Me If You Can" is a good watch. It's a little too hollywood, but there are some good bits.
It makes sense to have some minimum starting point -- e.g., the $200,000 revenue in 2005 which is required here -- because it's easy to get astronomical growth rates if you're starting from low enough.

That said, I think this would have been better accomplished by saying "if your revenue in 2005 was less than $200k, we will treat your company as if its 2005 revenue was $200k" -- don't allow companies to measure high growth rates simply because they're starting very low, but don't exclude them either.
Yeah, I like watching the debate swirl around stuff like this. It's fascinating stuff.

Trolls aren't the only people who're disruptive. It depends on intent. Trolls do it just to cause pain. But if you get that shirt primarily to shock people into a new way of thinking, then it's not trolling. For instance, I'm considering getting the "slaves get shit done" shirt I mentioned. I don't typically wear shocking shirts, but I thought that one was genuinely funny. The point of wearing a shirt like that wouldn't be offending people. It would be to slowly make these more controversial topics (slavery humor, foul language) acceptable in the mainstream. It raises the question of what's acceptable to wear on clothing. My view is everything goes, and I figure that getting a shirt like that might help spread the message.

Cheap? I dunno. Some of the jokes are, some are legitimately clever. Yeah, they're all shocking, but some are shocking in the way that "Rednecks", the Randy Newman song, are. (That song is sung from the point of view of some rednecks "keepin' the niggers down"; some people miss that the point of the song is that stereotyping against rednecks is just as bad as stereotyping black people.)

But I guess it's a matter of taste. Fun discussion, either way.
In my experience (and I'll preface this by saying that I'm not quite an expert yet) ASP.NET is fairly easy to bring people with no web experience up to speed. Our development company switched from LAMP to ASP.NET, C#, and MS SQL Server. While I wasn't involved in the decision-making process, I did ask them why they switched as I came from a LAMP background. They said that their company gets all of their employees from their internship program, and it was easier to train interns with all of the standardized tools that Microsoft puts out. Plus there is a pretty good community of .Net developers that makes the training process easy. It took me far longer to learn PHP than it did to learn C#, but maybe that's because my coding experience is better now than it was then. :)
You hit at the fundamental difference between my approach and others, which may make mine better or worse (certainly worse if nothing ever comes of it, and 'revolutionary' if it does and it is a fundamentally new way of looking at things with some utility).

Here is an example of why I would start with modeling the human side (essentially sociological) instead of simply
modeling the data. Suppose what we want to model and improve is an academic journal. What will our data be? Submissions to the journal? Articles published by the journal? Should corrected articles re-submitted also be included?

What we have is essentially data coming to a node (a human editor) and then sorted by viability, then sent back to the originators when a certain criteron is reached (an article that needs corrections in order to be published), the item is returned in better form, and then various items are collated and released as a journal.

The essential work here is the human side, and I know of no possible way to capture the necessary qualitative aspect merely by analyzing the data stream. For instance, is there anything we can say simply from analyzing Twitter feeds without attaching labels assigning some worth? We can talk only about quantity, but not quality. And if we talk about quality (e.g. we create a point system and posts that Pg or Chad Fowler reads are worth twice as many points in our system) then we are introducing a human element, that may in some sense be arbitrary, or even if it is not arbitrary it does not follow necessarily from the our purely mathematical modeling structure.

Admittedly in my case study, the academic journal, we also haven't discussed anything about the type of journal and whether or not there is quality of content. That is because I desire to provide a platform to allow different groups of people to assign their own value to things they find important, even if I might not find it especially so myself (i.e. post-modern literary criticism).
Blade Runner's on there, too.

Oh, and cowboy bebop.

Another vote for:
Hackers
Sneakers
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Also are you familiar with the Sunlight Foundation? The have some interesting APIs and I hear they give "mini-grants" to sites like yours.
Anonymity may be why it's so prevalent on the internet, but it's not a prerequisite.
I love this show! I was going to mention it but refrained as its not a movie.

I can't believe this is on network television.
That's like a DoS attack against safari :(
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Sure, but I'm meaning at the moment, users expect something to give feedback. They want money for their time, a money off voucher, some freebie.
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I'm sure this is a large issue when presenting to investors or the board. How do you convey the complexities when the output is visually weak?
Netflix profit up 45% in Q4, nears 10 million total subscribers
not too bad on chrome...
I don't think it's wrong to ask politely, but understand that 1) many journalists won't do it out of principle, 2) It does not mean that the journalist is obligated to change anything based on your input, and 3) You are unlikely to get a final version of the article before publication -- an editor may make changes even after the author is done with it.
But not the RC1, is an earlier build
Russel Brand gets 2000 followers in 5 minutes - is this a record?
Antitrust always gets me in the mood to code
Justice Clarence Thomas is catching up on some sleep.
Mostly, I'm curious about my second question. What's the state of testing the core of PHP? I'm totally unfamiliar with the implementation.

I understand that it may be dumb to refactor the lexer, but it gets less dumb if it's supported by hundreds of tests, and far more dumb if it's based on testing over time.
Sneakers is my favourite film. I don't find it particularly corny, but it's very deliberately paced and most of the acting is understated (I guess apart from Dan Ackroyd) which is why I think it never got the recognition it deserved.
Hm, seems to be up now.

I'm thinking this is pure fud.
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:D This was gold:

Habitable Planets: 1
As a former tech journalist of sorts, I have to agree that this is pretty solid advice. For example, I always asked about competitors. And it's always great to have numbers -- especially internal numbers (number new downloads per week, internal market research/survey results, etc)

Only thing I would add (and maybe this is a personal thing) is that you should be prepared to answer slightly technical questions about how your product works. If the person giving the interview isn't qualified, then it's great if there's also an engineer on the line. You would be amazed at how many VPs of Marketing don't know how their products work beyond what it says in the marketing materials.
Along the lines of do one thing and do it well: Start narrow but deep in an area that you either know well or have connections to. Excel in a small, defined area in order to build buy-in from businesses and credibility with your audience and then branch out.

Whether it is a core of local businesses, online businesses run by people you know, etc make sure that there is actual value to the service rather than a smattering of unrelated content.