skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that can happen, especially when you're a single founder. I'm glad you're getting things in order, and the patronage model sounds increasingly more tempting. It's bootstrapping and market validation rolled up in one, so if you can get it, it's great.

Do try to get feedback from the target market as early as possible, it'll save a lot of hassle in the long run. A closed alpha works very well, I've found.

I'm looking forward to see what you're making, let me know when you're ready to show it! Also, if you need help with analytics, just email me.
So, how do you sync your database schema?
Corporate road warriors that need to access the same Office systems the rest of the home-base grunts use.
I also use Jekyll for my own blog [1]. However, because I really love naked domains (easier to dictate over the phone, shorter), I cannot do CNAMEs so I am hosting my blog on a free Heroku instance.

My initial Heroku config evolved too. I am now serving my pages through an Nginx server, installed with a custom buildpack [2] that I forked and modified a little to suit my directory structure (I could also make it compile the site on deploy but was too lazy for that).

I am also putting CloudFlare in front of it. Basically an article can end up on Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot and the traffic combined will probably not make it even blink, while the hosting costs are zero.

Whenever I see people bitch about Wordpress woes, setups of clusters, security issues, or about caching/editing/versioning/archiving plugins or about costly add-ons and restrictions, it makes me chuckle a little - but then again, this setup is not for mere mortals or optimal for large content websites - for technical people however is a freaking nirvana.

[1] http://bionicspirit.com

[2] https://github.com/alexandru/heroku-buildpack-nginx
Hi! SAP'r here too! Yup, this is pretty much consistent with what I've seen too.

IIRC, there was a situation where an IBM/Accenture (I forget, they're all the same) technical outsourcing group in Malaysia brought a few of the guys over to Europe and had them stay in a van instead of a hotel...
JavaScript JITs: The Ins and Outs of Invalidation
I actually subscribe to 100+, 20+ and the regular feeds. If I'm having a busy day (or skip a few days), then I'll just look at the 100+ and mark the rest as read.
So does this not mean that a white person in (say) Nigeria would not be able to claim they were experiencing racism if they were targeted because of their skin colour? [I'm not, in any way trying to be inflammatory]

I actually agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I'm not sure historical context gives a perfect mechanism to categorize racism or banter, but it does give a lot of weight, certainly.
Drop Bootstrap
I know little about Bluetooth 4 except that it's supposed to be low power. Could it be used to "scan" for interested/allowed devices and then "step-up" to a higher power, higher bandwidth connection?
But most public examples of "data science" don't do this. They just publish pretty graphs that a great completely unrigorous.
Silicon Beach Draws Tech Startups to L.A. as Rents Jump
499USD will most probably translate into 499GBP unfortunately
I think you've revealed more about yourself by this. I have never copied a file I made for an employer (and there's some code from my last^2 job that would've been really useful in my current one), and I'd be amazed if more than a small proportion of people did.
The real revelation here is that zynga has trade secrets.
FoldingText — Plain text productivity for geeks (Hog Bay Software)
In the short term, it means designers can prototype a lot quicker, which should mean even if you never use a 3D printer or anything printed from one, you get better designed products.
Are you talking from personal experience or is Modafinil really known to be a powerful willpower booster?

(If it's the first case you might start from it's mechanism of action and figure out YOUR cause for "willpower barriers" and maybe find a better solution for them...)
I do this for my little personal website.

The key downside to hosting directly on S3 is it only does static pages. So it'll be manual HTML or a static-html-generating-tool like Octopress - none of this fancy dynamic content.

If you're happy with this constraint, hosting on S3 works pretty well for me.
> they have managed to meet Apple in terms of pricing for a comparable iPad

No 3G / LTE.
How much can you expect someone to learn in 10 1-hour sessions, starting from a college freshman background?
Hell Hath No Fury
Back when I used vim for fiction writing, I also used to use mercurial (this was several years ago so git on windows wasn't worth the hassle) so that I could track history as well as so I could back it up by keeping my repo on another computer. It was an interesting process. I should probably see if git or mercurial diffs work on rtfs now that I use scrivener, since part of the appeal is being able to track changes.
I very much enjoy the geekyness of this comment thread.
An interesting point here is that the client was asking for an immigrant hire. Here we have a conflict between human nature and the law. It is human nature for Americans to perceive immigrant hires as cheaper. It doesn't matter if pay is actually the same or not. For someone looking to minimize labor costs, an immigrant hire has a better "brand" when it comes to price.

Here's a thought experiment. Suppose hypothetical Product X was mandated by law to sell at the same price no matter what the store. Now suppose this fact was not widely known and not even rigorously enforced. Some people would insist on buying Product X at Wal-Mart because they perceive Wal-Mart's prices to be cheaper. It doesn't matter if the prices are actually the same, or not.

The upshot is that some people with hiring power will insist on getting some of that "cheap immigrant labor" whether it actually exists or not. I have no doubt that this harms American workers' pay.
Yeah. Tethering still is too mysterious. If it's not working, which device is at fault? For awhile (pre-ICS), my Droid RAZR had a bug where it required a reboot before the hotspot would work. Of course, it failed silently and claimed to be making itself available!
I think the freedom aspect is critical in any policy change. The 'freedom', or lack thereof, is tied to what the sponsoring employer controls - the green card process. I would propose something along the lines of:

1) If a person receives an H1-B he/she is free to work for anyone they want [Open Work Permit]. This kicks in immediately - no waiting period. On a job change the H1-B holder sends a job change notice to USCIS. This freedom applies for the duration of the H1-B which I think should be extended from 3 to 5 years.

COMBINED WITH:

2) Some process to migrate smoothly from H1-B to green card. Perhaps you get a green card if you can show employment in your field ("Information Technology" for example, rather than something title specific like 'software developer') for a total of 4 years. No additional job related procedures required - just the usual security and medical clearances.

Will a company sponsor someone on H1-B if the risk of the candidate changing jobs is high? Would they be better off hiring and training local candidates?
The ipad software keyboard is hard to use for any length of time because you have to switch between several virtual layouts to hit every key.

It slows you down if you're writing code instead of English words.

Having punctuation characters hidden away probably reduces the overall complexity of people's passwords as well. I strongly suspect that people switch to alphanumeric-only passwords for anything they would enter into an ipad/iphone keyboard.
I would have thought it'd be obvious. The primary thing Clojure has to offer over CL is egal. You can't have a sane equality predicate in a language where the basic data structures are mutable.

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ObjectIdentity.html
As a bilingual the autocorrect is the bane of my existence. I depend on it but I find myself constantly changing the language... I wished that iOS could switch languages contextually for me.
Ukrainian Killer Dolphins
WTF? Ukrainian Navy Training Killer Dolphins With Guns/Knives Attached To Their Heads
I've seen many kinds of H1B employment. People with excellent skills and experience being paid competitive wages, people with reasonable skills being exploited at low wages at the clear expense of locals, and people who were hardly qualified to warm a seat being pulled in to pad up some contract as cheaply as possible. As usually when you paint with broad strokes you cover some dissimilar surfaces.

But at the core the employment market is about supply and demand. Increases in supply relative to some demand decreases what a rational party will pay. It doesn't matter how kind, qualified, equally paid, etc. The increase in supply weakens the employees negotiating position.

Are the employees entitled to the 'artificial' supply limitation created by national boundaries? Is it socially beneficial to reduce those barriers? Do increases in supply protect the industry and leave all employees better off in the long run and cause little harm because the demand is already so great? What policy decisions can mitigate the harm and maximize the benefits? These are interesting questions.

But I don't think there is any real room to question if H1B's— no matter how well managed— harm employees short to medium term financial interests.
There are going to be x86 Windows 8 tablets coming out that run all your windows programs ever. A lot of people are going to be pissed and confused about 2 different versions of windows with entirely different sets of compatibility. Also x86 tables will probably cheaper, just like netbooks, just to pour some salt in your wounds you got buying an expensive device that runs no programs.
UK is in many ways a special thing; as un-European as a EU country can get.

I am in Norway and have a number of migrant friends throughout Scandinavia and mainland Europe. It's all very similar, with exception of Swiss (where permanent residence for a worker is nearly unobtainable).
The 5 Musts of Metadata
> Now, a fractal is a set with a fractional Hausdorff dimension.

Is there an authoritative definition of a fractal? The one you use rules out structures like Hilbert curves, which are generally considered fractals.
Go check what "quant" is actually a short hand for.
I see this being a strong competitor in the ultra-portable notebook market. It hits a sweet spot for those looking for the portability of tablet with the flexibility of a real latptop/ultrabook. Having a real keyboard and the ability to run and install applications such as Office is a big benefit for many people.

It probably won't click with casual content consumers (web/email), but for people that create and write content, it does seem to provide advantages over a typical tablet without being a full laptop. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Microsoft could buy Always and re-purpose the Maxi-pad brand.
IBM has nearly a half million employees. I would suspect that their stance on visas is not completely consistent across all areas of the business. For example, I would only have to assume that GTS is much more inclined to go for H1B folks than say, GBS.
What is the resolution?
Apple Sends Out Invitations to October 23 iPad mini Media Event
Massachusetts, where I live.

Spent two weeks in Osaka last year and fell in love with the place.
Cellphones and cellular network are consumption, really.
Though 90% may be high (or they're couting phones per habitants without considering that many of us have multiple phones) the cellphone penetration rate is indeed high.

And when you think about how few landlines there used to be, it's just amazing. Or the whole point is that there were no landlines.

But we're still talking about a consumption market. And we're talking about a case in which technogical progress and the lack of infrastructure allowed us to leapfrog.

The real growth is still driven by the thousands of jobs created directly and indirectly by mining and oil. (even construction and public works depend on revenue from mining and oil)
The "persuasive" approach is reminiscent of the basic techique in Vipassana meditation: focus on a particular sensation (breath at the tip of the nose, tingling sensations in right toe, ...) and whenever that focus drifts off, just bring it back. Rinse, repeat.
Well that's a huge disadvantage; I had to ask someone to pay for my domain. Telecommunication companies are in a position to offer such a solution. I heard Telecel,Zimbabwe has been working on such a solution .
The gaming market would seem to be out, since Windows RT devices can only run apps distributed through the Windows App Store, and the Windows App Store refuses to carry any games rated as containing mature content (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/11/windows-8-marketp...).

In other words, no matter how easy they would be to port, you couldn't make versions of Skyrim, Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, or Resident Evil 6 to run on Windows RT, simply because Microsoft will not allow you to sell them to Windows RT users. All those titles have content ratings higher than MS will allow for distribution through the App Store.

Ruling out AAA titles feels like a pretty severe blow to any ambitions WinRT might have to be a gamer's OS. Which isn't to say they won't sell games for it; just that it won't be games driving the sales of WinRT devices.
A 3D printer itself is not interesting for most people. What is interesting is the marketing you can do with its sub-products.

- lego machine that lets you create your own legos? check.
- style-it-yourself house furniture? check.
- toys/dolls creator for kids? check.
I could go on forever.
The keyboard question will be interesting. I've got an iPad and shelled out the $100 to get a keyboard cover (the Logitech one, where I curse its lack of an escape key sometimes). For general use I don't need a dedicated keyboard and/or the on screen keyboard is fine, but the two problems that the onscreen keyboard has are the fact that it covers half the screen when it appears, and it has some really long multi-key sequences for some characters. If I'm composing email or working on an ssh session I definitely prefer the hard keyboard.

So I'd certainly guess there is a product here, between tablets and laptops, and it will be interesting to see how the Surface fills that role.
I posted this in the comments of OP's blog post, but I figure some other HNers could use the clarification around YouTube.

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Hey Scott,

Simple video and it works - definitely better than many other product promo videos I've seen in my time (as a videographer.)

Just wanted to clarify something about YouTube: ads do not run before, during, or after if you don't allow them. Ads will only run if a video is "monetized," which is a setting that the uploader controls. In addition, I believe embedded content (such as the video embedded in this post) does not have advertisements running ever, but I could be wrong on this point.

That said, both Vimeo and YouTube are great video hosts. I tend to prefer YouTube (if absolutely everything inside your video is original) because it makes the video far more accessible and has a greater chance of being discovered by your desired audience. Vimeo's real advantage is its video page presentation and better compression, at least in my opinion.

Thanks for sharing VoiceBunny! I had no idea this existed, and will make my life easier.
Personally, I'm going to be buying one of these tablets, they look pretty powerful and cool, plus I prefer Microsoft offerings over Apple.

They don't need to own a particular market, sure it helps, but personally, I couldn't care less how much it costs or how powerful it is, I would buy one of these just so I didn't have to buy an iPad.

So to be honest, I think at least one market which this tablet will dominate is the "fuck you Apple" market.
MapReduce — a two-page explanation for laymen
I don't think the $500 iPad has 3G?
There is no penalty whatsoever for downloading copyrighted material.

The penalties are for sharing and distribution, and in those areas only the stupid get caught.
I do not know, but if I had to guess, it is for performance.

I am no expert in this field, but AFAIK http://static.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-yunhe... (discussed on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704576) has not really been refuted.

I base that on the fact that both Dalvik (http://davidehringer.com/software/android/The_Dalvik_Virtual...) and Lua 5.0 (http://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf) use register-based VMs.
Diamond Planet discovered
Astronomers have recently verified that 55 Cancri e, a planet originally discovered in 2004, is composed mostly of carbon, at least a third of which is in the form of DIAMONDS. And it's only 40-light years away! Travel at the speed of light for 40 years and you're there. Another 40 years back to earth and getting engaged won't be such a strain on the wallet!
More competition to Apple/Android is good for us. I'm surprised such a techy crowd isn't jumping on the opportunity to try out new tech.

I just pre-ordered mine and I'm stoked!
Yeah, there's no way they don't make an exception for legitimate mature rated games. The restrictions are just there so they have something they can point to when they reject malware apps or apps that are blatantly promoting violence or drug use or whatever.

They just released a Netflix app, and you can watch as many R-rated movies on it as you like. You can certainly view adult content with any Metro-enabled web browser. There's no way, as a corporation, that they're going to give up the revenue stream that is mature rated PC games.
I ended up doing the self-sign-certificate-sideload thing to get a prerelease leak of Skype for the Metro UI loaded. It was no harder than running a provided batch file. Once someone sets up a simple application to handle this (and you can bet they will), the whole "closed store" thing goes away.
How do you calculate that percentage, do you brute force it or do you have a formula that estimates or exactly gives the percentage?

Also, do you allow the result of the division to be near a gaussian integer, or do you do an exact floating point equals?
These are all valid concerns.

It’s interesting that you’re not seeing the value in not having to code your own packaging/payment/update solution from scratch. From our point of view, this is the main value proposition in Gitiosk. We are not a marketplace, just a tool to make it dead easy to sell code.

We might be wrong about this. Let’s keep discussing! :)

— rafBM, one of the Gitiosk team member
Project Eternity breaks Kickstarter record for game funding
From AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6377/inside-microsofts-surface...): 1366x768.
As Surface Goes On Sale Today, Microsoft Seeks to Reinvent The Tablet
Who want this?

http://www.microsoft.com/global/en-us/news/publishingimages/...
Fascinating. Only 2 articles above 3000.
WebGL doesn't work for me, guess i'm screwed
Pro version have USB 3 and mini display port. It is a nice combo of mobility and ease like iPad + power like a laptop. It is a full blown mobile machine. Ipad, android are just content consuming devices. You can't do much on them besides just absorbing content. I am glad MS understood the missing features from ipad and came with this beautiful product.
> And these are just some of the features in this version of Windows. Who knows what new features Microsoft will add in future versions that will make desktop apps even less able to compete with native apps?

Slippery slopes are fun to think about, but are difficult to form a logical and rational argument with. You can't base decisions on a slippery slope. All we have are the facts currently available today.

Today we have one version of Windows being sold. Next week we'll have three (Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows RT)! What if the week after that we end up with six versions of Windows?!
I'm actually very happy with that constraint: I think something statically generated would be perfect for my goals and much simpler to use, understand and customize than something like Wordpress. The only thing to miss would be comments, but I was planning to use something like Diqus for that anyhow. (I will start a blog, one of these days :P.)

Also, almost anything would be an improvement over my current setup which is using PHP on Apache to do what a static compiler would do much better. All I really want is a way to factor my website and reduce code duplication.

Good to hear it's working well for you.
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking no one will buy X if it's not as good at Y as Z. (Here X, Y, Z = tablet, document editing, laptop.) A laptop will undoubtedly be better for document editing than a Windows RT tablet. But then, a full-blown desktop is better for document editing than a laptop yet desktop purchases are still plummeting.

People won't buy a Windows RT tablet because it's the best at document editing. That might buy it because it's good enough at document editing, more portable than a laptop, and fun to play casual games on, though. (Of course it might meet an entirely different checklist for many.)

I don't think anyone is expecting the Surface to replace your work computer. There are a lot of people torn between getting a tablet or a laptop, though, and for a sizable chunk of those people, Office RT + Touch/Type Cover might be a real selling feature.
Honestly I don't think pingdom's "faster than x %" message is all that helpful. My homepage is "faster than 100% of all tested websites" (from Amsterdam at least). Since my site is one of the tested websites (after all it was tested right now), does that mean it's faster than itself - or what? ;-)

For this kind of page-load masturbation, I prefer http://gtmetrix.com - especially the side-to-side comparison is pretty nifty.
could we also get under? Or a range? Instead of just new and top, (and now "over"), we could hang out in the 5-10 land and see what's just above "new". Other people might want to hang out in 15-30 land and see what's decent, but potentially getting untoward social effects.
In addition to this, companies are required to pay the prevailing wage for that profession and location to foreign workers

Part of the game, then, is keeping market prices low/stable by managing shortage. I think this is being overlooked. Lots of H1B coming in will keep prices from rising, by impacting the depth of market at the Bid/Ask. Sort of Econ 101. So the "cost difference" can also be understood as the difference in higher base-costs being avoided. =/
Shht, don't tell anyone! I always user Hacker News with a threshold of 100, but the more people start doing that the fewer there will be left to upvote new articles.

And then there will be nothing to read or I will need to lower my threshold or wait for other people to do that. Prisoners dilemma.
<James Earl Jones voice>I find you lack of interior ... disturbing</James Earl Jones voice)

Admittedly, you would be making stuff up since not much of the interior is visible in the movies but...
Under The Surface: An Inside Look At How Microsoft's Tablet Came To Be
If this is true and if they build it, MCT will be "Mars Colony Transport" (thanks reddit). Lifting 200T to LEO would be nearly twice the capacity of the Saturn V, the largest rocket ever made.
It may not be true for smaller companies hiring the fastest guns in the West (or the East, as may be). But I assure you that the "visa discount" is real. The most common form is to hire someone who really should be at level N at level N-2 instead, and get as much level N work out of them as you can. For example, an architect working as a draftsman, or a managing editor working as a reporter.

I've seen people with 10+ years of experience having their pay cut from $17/hr to $15/hr, and told that they should be grateful to have a job. Again, this may not be common at small companies who need rarified skills, but it does happen.
is Benny Benassi providing ambience for the evening?

This should be really hosted in Benidorm...