skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheers to them for all the publicity, I suppose. If I worked at a place that wanted to do this, I'd quit in a heartbeat though.
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup
Sales people have it tough in a startup environment.
They can't go around acting cool, wearing shorts and slippers.
Cause they are business and need to act like that.
In a startup they need to act different especially with clients. If the client is interested in working with a startup, that's a big leap of faith they are taking.
So the sales dep. need to adjust and accommodate the clients deamands and concern.
ISCSI over DRBD for Linux, seems to be one solution. I know of a highly available VOIP company that uses this in production.

And maybe this sounds snarky, but AWS is your "making it better" solution? Seriously?
I don't think it's a "reality" show. It's more like a mockumentary style sitcom. I watched the first episode yesterday (a high school classmate of mine is one of the stars). While I appreciate some of the deadpan delivery and spliced-in internet videos, it just feels like it's trying to hard to be The Office.
I don't remember my first script. Though I do remember the most value I've ever gotten out of a script.

To set the scene, I had a high school science class, and in it you were supposed to do journal entries. (Read: Notes.) You kept track of all your notes and put them in a table of contents. The instructor kept all the notes on his website. It was the night before the last day of school. Or the night before that. I hadn't turned in my organized notes, and thus had a C in the class. I needed them turned in yesterday.

So what I did was:

1. Download the powerpoint of all the notes.

2. Use libreoffice to convert it to pdf.

3. Used less to read the data from the pdf into text.

4. Used sed to remove the garbage characters from the text.

5. The file had uniform formatting, so I went over it with sed again to turn it into an HTML file.

6. Went over the HTML file by hand to correct anomalies and fill in answers to questions. (This was the 'real' assignment, fill in various questions throughout the notes.)

7. Wrote out an table of contents. (Which in retrospect could have been done with a sed script.)

8. Turned the whole thing in.

He never actually read it (As it was quite apparent from a glance that I had done it.), but I got an A in the class; and a night of no sleep.
Which is currently available for $8 (for the next 8 days).
Some of the sites at http://urlfind.org/?server-status even keep a session id in the URL -- look for PHPSESSID.
http://www.hulu.com/lolwork
Google's data-collecting habits drawing more scrutiny
Trello has switched to AWS as of this posting. The Trello team are insane, and I'm very proud to be part of the same company that they are.
I was at a dance club the other night. I saw a couple sitting in the corner. They didn't dance at all. They just sat there looking depressed. A little later I noticed they had their phones out and were taking photos of each other as though they were having a big time partying. Then they put their phones away and left.
No, those qualities you list in your second paragraph are orthogonal to passion. They are also good qualities to have. They can exist with passion in the same person.

They way you describe passion in your first paragraph approaches passion.

What job ads mean, when they use the term passion, is that you will spend long hours and weekends slogging and slaving to get something delivered in half the time that it should have taken, something that will either ultimately be killed anyway by management or something done for a company that will kill itself while, ironically, it shaves away anything resembling passion from its employees.

If you are passionate about programming, or anything, you should generally not work for a company clueless enough to use that word in a job ad, description or interview, because that word does not mean what they think it means.

The only things that deserve passion are your family, and whatever grabs you in life. You don't have to be passionate about your job to be an asset to an employer. You just have to ship and be pleasant.
I feel like the I'm the only person who is totally confused by github. Are those little phrases in that graph supposed to be life milestones? They don't make any sense. Aside from this graph, all I'm seeing here is a readme, a resume, and a huge file presumably containing dna. How is this getting attention? I ask this not rhetorically, but I genuinely want to know how to use this/what's going on here.
Thanks for the response. It has clearly made an impact on your life. I play guitar and have recently started learning to play a keyboard. I do find it very useful in that scenario.
If aws is up and their DC is down, in what way is that not better?
Hyper-V has been added as a guest OS, but it is not "supported", so YMMV:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws90/doc/workstation-90-releas...
>We can always count on California government officials to intrude on technologies they know nothing about.

And for some reason the AG is always the worst of the bunch. I guess because it's an elected office that puts you in pole position for the governor's chair.
At least to me the author seems like someone who values and wants more content with the "Slow Web" principles of interaction, timely based high quality content.
Trello has moved to AWS
Sure, for a skeezy site. The parent was talking specifically about php.org, I can't imagine any real risk for a site like that exposing their visitor ip log.
I think having a few samples of some strings (maybe "ok", "cancel", and a more complex string) would increase the number of purchasers. As it is now, I have no idea of the quality of the translation or even what languages are supported.

Other than that, looks like it could be useful.
Helpshift: The embedded support desk for native apps
If a logo design can cost from 1k to 10k, how about a complete app design? I thought this range was for an app design from Folyo designers.
I loved GitBox, so I'm more then willing to give this app the $2 benefit of the doubt, but the AppStore description doesn't do a great job describing what the app does. It's a list of common app phrases and terms in different languages, but does it localize your apps for you, or do you have to copy and paste the words out of the app?
It will truly be a brave new world when people are expected to not stand up for their own values.

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Now if Google really wants to finish the job and stick a fork in Siri, they should make a developer SDK available so other iOS apps can use this technology. Right now, the only
ad hoc speech-to-text service available is Nuance's (which yes, powers, Siri) but the API rate restrictions (and pricing tiers) make it a much less than satisfactory option.
I don't think Jar Jar is a bad character per se. It's just not fitting into the Han Solo Star Wars universe.
I applaud you for creating such tools. They obviously have a place where they fit very well.

As for what you term "hard to learn" tools, well, I'll have to disagree with you on that one. At a professional level tools such as SolidWorks are an absolute necessity, not a luxury. The list of needs is endless, from parametric modeling to assembly management, mechanical, thermal and fluid simulation, interference evaluation, draft analysis, configurations, documentation, sheet metal tools, molding tools, CAM integration, DFM integration, programmability, etc.

Parametric design alone (and table-driven parametrics) is a huge advantage in these tools.

And, as you get into complex assemblies of assemblies with hundreds or thousands of parts and thousands of fasteners things get interesting too.

The same is true of circuit design tools. As an example, once you get into serious high-speed digital design you need tools that can facilitate the design, simulation and layout of complex multi-layer controlled impedance data paths as well as power distribution systems. At the higher end you have to get into field solvers and various SI (signal integrity) type tools. With FPGA's you need tools that, at the very least, make the task of working with devices that have thousands of pins as easy as possible. Bank swapping, for example, is a nightmare without the right tools. Heck, dealing with any IC's with more than, oh, 100 pins per package on a less-than-capable EDA tool is a recipe for disaster. I did a PCB with an FPGA that had over 1100 pins. The design started on a lesser EDA tool because, well, long story, but the client didn't know any better and didn't want to spend the money for a better tool (I use Altium Designer, but there are others). After 16 hours spent defining the pinout and PCB footprint for the FPGA (with verification, etc.) he got the message. The same job on Designer took about 30 minutes tops.

As for simulation run on clusters. Yes, of course. There are services that will take SolidWorks fluid simulations and spread them across multiple nodes for speed. I've fluid/heat-flow simulations that have taken upwards of 18 hours on 64 nodes. Fun stuff.

Like I said above, there's a place for what I will term "entry level tools". This is not intended as a derogatory term at all. That's just what they are in the context of what "pro-level" (another grab for a term) tools can do.

I will definitely keep Tinkercad in mind to recommend to friends with projects that might fit what the sofware can do. I wish you huge success. Get it into schools. Kids need to learn to create this way.
[video] In Conversation with Stuart MacDonald of mesh
IE10 DNT and the Apache patch for it are useless.
It's kind of hard for me to believe you since I predicted what would happen so accurately from the email chain.

Like how could you in good faith hire 8 people and then fire all of them in days. I mean honestly you only were hiring them for 3 months anyway. Did you hire them without having enough money to pay them for 2 months and no method of earning revenue? It seems like you made contracts in bad faith, and then did exactly what you told Patrick to do with his real internship offer.

"When you signed the contract, you really believed that you wanted that job. Now you dont. Human being can change their mind, it's not ethically wrong to do so."

This isn't right. That is not a reasonable or ethical way to treat employees, and from your emails it sounded pretty clear that you thought it was.

This is why I thought you guys sounded sketch and that there was not enough trust to work for you. If that is your outlook on agreements/commitments then nothing would stop you from screwing over your employees, and employer's have many many opportunities to do so.
Reluctant to provide an example? In my comment above I said that all the companies at the conference were examples of effective growth teams.

I suggest that we respectfully agree to disagree.
IOS + Philips Hue Connected Bulb = pretty sweet
Oh come on guys. If you're serious about developing for the system, installing the new version of the OS or buying a $99/year subscription is really not a big deal. If all you want is to fiddle around with it for a bit, then it doesn't really matter that you're not going to develop for it.

Don't get me wrong; I develop primarily for iOS and some Android, and don't even think about installing Windows, much less developing for it. But consider this:

If you want to develop for iOS, you need a Mac (which still sits at only 14% in US, less in the rest of the world; so chances are you need to buy at least a $600 machine), you need the developer subscription at $99, you need at least last year's operating system (Apple drops support for older versions rather quickly), and at least one device to test on. It also uses Objective-C, which you haven't used before unless you developed for Apple hardware.

If you want to develop for Android, everything looks free at first sight, but you'll also need a developer subscription and if you're serious about supporting your app, you'll need at least several different devices (this easily trumps the price of a Mac), because Android emulators are horrible.

There are more examples like this; recently Sony announced PSVita SDK, but for some inexplicable reason it uses Mono/C#, isn't compatible with Visual Studio, etc. It's even worse with traditional console SDKs.

The point is, although it's great to be able to choose the tools/platforms you use and have it all for free (web development anyone?), those companies want you tied into their ecosystem, and besides it's just not worth it going out of their way to please a minority of developers complaining about a number of random reasons.

You choose whether to develop for a platform or not of course, but if I were Microsoft and your main gripe was having to upgrade to Win8, I'd just not care.
It does not manage Localizable.strings (yet), but copy-paste is fairly efficient. It makes a copy of a complete line in .strings format: "key" = "value";
There are plenty of great things about the new trilogy, even if there are missteps too. Lucas was making the films he wanted to make, and whatever happens it seems unlikely Disney will be producing films with such a deeply anti-corporatist, anti-imperialist and pacifist message:

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~anne/clones.html

That said, Lucas is a self-reliant guy who bootstrapped his company and deserves his success. So it is good to see him get a sale like this if he wants it. And this move will probably keep his legacy alive for much longer than if he had to keep running it himself.
The home information terminal-a 1970 view. [JMC paper]
Blogs are not the web. I didn't have any favorite blogs in the early `00s, and I don't have any now. I don't read TechCrunch, and I don't read LifeHacker. I don't pay attention to Twitter. The web is fine.
With New iPad, Apple Accelerates; With Mini, It’s Pedal To Metal
Sorry if the post wasn't clear. The 1k to 10k budget is not just for a logo, it could be for the whole app too.

The idea of this post is more to say "if this is your budget, here are the options that are available to you" rather than give out precise costs for different jobs (which is hard to do, but I gave it a shot here: http://blog.folyo.me/how-much-does-a-website-cost-and-other-...)
According to the article:

Using Clickthrough Agreements. Zappos had an easy way to
form a clickthrough agreement. As shoppers are checking
out of the store with their shopping cart, Zappos could
say "By clicking the 'purchase' button, you agree to the
Zappos terms of use" with a link to the document. It's as
easy as that. No custom coding, no interstitial web
pages, no real risk of abandoned shopping carts.

Considering that the author is a professor of Law at Santa Clara University, I would think that the TOS in the login dialog would hold water in court.

http://www.ericgoldman.org/biography.html
A New Social Live Chat Service
Minecraft-like WebGL/HTML5 Demo
Github wouldn't have qualified: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...
The standard machine learning approach for doing exactly what you describe is to use a conditional random field. I don't think wikipedia has a great page on it , but check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_random_field for a jumping place.

CRFs are used in places like voice and images where recognition or decoding of a segment logically depends on the pieces near it.
Microsoft: 4M individual Windows 8 upgrades sold
Really? What technology is being misunderstood here? As far as I can tell, the AG is mandating that mobile apps include privacy policies detailing how they gather and collect user information. Given the large number of stories about apps sending user data to 3rd parties or using it for things other than a user may expect/desire that have come out over the past few years, this doesn't seem particularly unreasonable. Now, you may disagree that mobile app developers should be required to post these policies, but I don't see how such a position reflects a misunderstanding of the technologies at play.

I'm also hard pressed to imagine how this is an "assault on product development freedom." If you don't gather any data, it's not too tough to state somewhere "hey, just wanted to let you know that this app respects your privacy and does not collect any usage data or personal information." If your app does gather data, I think it's pretty reasonable to ask for a basic privacy policy to be posted. I, for one, would prefer that mobile apps that send PII be required to explain what and why.

Overall this looks like a reasonable extension of existing laws to include new technologies that have come to prominence in the last few years. Do you think the existing law requiring online services to post privacy policies is an assault on product development freedom? Or is it only because they are extending this to mobile that you are losing your freedom to create software products?
Are startups in dire need of enterprise class wifi? The only purpose I can imagine a startup needing their product is to put wifi in their office - but wouldn't most office setups be wired? I'd like to see this offer extended to community makerspaces, libraries or co-working spaces. A gift like this would make a heck of a lot more difference (and I know quite a few that could use it).
I've actually started implementing a similar idea several times since 2004. My working title has always been Idea Novella. I envisioned it as kind of a github for stories. People could work together to build up a story, and it could take different branches as it progressed.
Languages: all 34 in the iOS and OS X. Including two variants of English, Chinese and Portuguese.

String examples (in Spanish):

"A connection timeout occurred." = "Se ha excedido el tiempo de conexión.";

"A fair night" = "Una buena noche";

"Importing ‘%@’" = "Importando “%@”";

"“%@” does not appear to be a valid email address. Do you want to send it anyway?" = "“%@” no es una dirección de correo válida. ¿Desea enviar el mensaje de todos modos?";
Quantum mechanics is very simple and intuitive, after you remove the annoying physics (and the long history of misunderstandings that courses in the subject seem duty-bound to cover) from the mathematics. See http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/default.html
These websites already exist. Fetlife, Adult Friend Finder, Bedpost and others. That isn't even counting all of the sub-reddits dedicated to this in some way shape or form.

Honestly I wasn't repulsed, I was intrigued and interested in seeing how this social network sets itself apart from the rest of them. Not sure why the author tried to tell me that I was repulsed when I wasn't.
I think IE10 does support CSS multicol.
Hurricane Sandy and Twitter as a self-cleaning oven for news
Except I didn't ask for "effective growth teams" but for instances of successful "growth hacking" (where the conclusions were not utterly obvious to begin with).
Exactly. You hit the nail on the head.
If you prefer command line, there is a script called imapsync. It looks like now it's sold for money, but there are older versions around back from the time when it was opensourced.

I used it to move mail to gmail quite a while ago since I was tired of having mail, calendar and contacts in different places.
Question should rather be : "Should writing better code be a reason to take drugs?"

For that matter, it's not the best code that makes a good product. A good code is just part of it.
I don't think this is new to cellphones / mobile culture. I've known plenty of people who would spend all their time at parties and social events taking endless pictures, then spend hours showing them to everyone they knew afterwards. Like they were more focused on getting proof that they were having fun and socializing than just enjoying themselves.
Are we stupid or something? First, why the hell are we arguing over the freakin' theme here? Seriously. This tangent discussion should be removed. If you want to complain about the stupid theme, which I also find it hard to use, start your own thread.

Secondly, are we stupid for using these annoying shift, control shortcuts? Google is not reinventing the wheel. Google is not used by elite computer programmers. I don't even use emacs because I am a VIM user. GMail is used by over a billion user and most of them don't even know some shortcuts or nice ways to make their tasks better.

I don't know all the secrets you guys are pointing out, and are you going to call me stupid? This is not reinventing wheel. It's just making the app more usable.

If anyone start spamming me with "you can already do this with X, Y , Z ways but it's not known by everyone...".
Ask HN: Why are some very old submissions appearing in the first few pages?
I was browsing beyond the first page of HN today and noticed something very unusual:

http://imgur.com/VqVXX

How is it possible (not having any real knowledge of the weighting and ranking algorithms used) that some extremely old submissions have managed their way to such recent pages?

I would have expected that age of submission would be a major weighting factor in determining story rank, so perhaps there's some weird bug in the algorithm?
Build from gangsta to gangstas!
Just like the life may be. But both are important and beautiful too.
Good catch. Beta release will accomodate all the things then, including a clean view that may or may not still include social feedback components.

Even more fun, the bigger scheme includes the ability to export these stories directly on-demand to different e-reading formats (epub, mobi, pdf). So, if you want PDF, you'll get it. With enough content in the network, we'll take on content discovery in a big way so we make sure you don't waste your time having to skim so much.
I think the value proposition of college is completely based upon whether the learning strategy of classroom lectures followed by written tests works for you. For me, reading books and attempting projects are the only way I can learn effectively. Technical lectures are incredibly boring as I can't control the pacing, and many times I find they are altogether irrelevant.

Technology moves at such a blistering pace that if you aren't working with the cutting edge tools on a regular basis, you are falling behind. Unfortunately, most classrooms insist on teaching with antiquated methodologies and overemphasize classroom time/testing versus building projects with modern tools. For example, I had to take a full year of Scheme, which in hindsight was helpful, but could have been done far more efficiently by me reading How to Design Programs [1] over the summer and attempting the exercises. School time could then have been used to teach modern methodologies via project work.

1. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
Now if only they would have some disk corruption in my favour :P