skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also love to see a trimmed down version just to use datalog.
FWIW, In my experience, the Python community has consistently been full of high-quality, very welcoming people. I don't understand why different parts of the open source world vary in such things, but they do seem to (in my limited experience) and the Python world is consistently awesome.

Your mileage may vary, of course...

(and, also fwiw, ned batchelder has a reputation for exemplifying that spirit – just trying to give credit where it's due.)
I've been using this for a while, it has a pretty decent collection of icons and I love that you can import other icons to customise your font!
I used to be in the Promethius Society, which is people with an IQ of 148+. I don't actually have an IQ of 148+ as far as I know, they just weren't smart enough to properly password protect thei Ning group. I have to say though after reading through the threads, most of them seemed vastly less intelligent than the smarter HN posters here.
FundersClub (YC S12) is hiring a full stack engineer
We're FundersClub. Between the 5 of us, we've been part of 2 different YC batches, and we've founded multiple companies that have either exited, are profitable, or are VC-backed and growing. We've developed everything from the gesture motion control software that now powers the Microsoft Kinect to Facebook's original fantasy sports games to the next gen touchscreen hardware now being designed into mass produced consumer electronic devices.

Back then, we never thought we'd be building the world's premier marketplace for private company investing, literally a trillion dollar opportunity that is a core piece of the financial and innovation ecosystems. But our experiences founding companies, raising capital, and investing in startups as angels made us recognize that the existing system is broken. We're trying to change the way the world fundraises and invests by providing greater access to private company investing for investors and greater access to investors for deserving entrepreneurs and business owners.

We're hiring a full stack engineer with an emphasis on backend. We work mostly with python/django. You should be as comfortable writing an API as you are consuming one. Although most of the work will be in the backend, you shouldn't be afraid to get your hands dirty with frontend development (HTML/JavaScript/CSS/JQuery). You should also be comfortable with linux administration for things like devops and installing packages and software related to running the backend.

We move at startup speed and ship production level code daily. We believe in leveraging open source solutions, though having enough flexibility and creativity to solve problems with our own approach when appropriate.

We believe in focused work and leveraging our limited time to accomplish extraordinary things while having fun together. We take periodic working vacations to work from new locations for a change of scenery. We like having dinner parties where we cook and share meals with members of our community. We go hiking, clubbing, wine tasting, running, and more. To make everyone's lives a little easier, we also cover your laundry/dry cleaning, maid/house cleaning, health insurance, all meals at the office, parking or public transit, gym membership, and more.

Salary is $100k+, equity is 0.50% (though you can choose more equity and less salary). We're based in SF.

joinus@thefundersclub.com
You're certainly right about users being turned off by a small user base, but as an entrepreneur you should "break the rules" now and then! Or be a little "naughty" as pg says.

I've had the same problem as you once so I created some fake users and some fake content just so it wouldn't look like an abandoned web site or something. I didn't read this in article or anything, but I'm pretty sure this helps to "break the ice" for new users!
This TED talk does a good job explaining the concepts of what is happening in this article.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
Agreed, it very quickly starts to erode an early startups' most precious resource: time. We've taken to outsourcing what we can, as most do, but it would be nice to see how some people get it out of their way quickly.
It's not a transcription of the video!
Cool! Love to see a Windows version of Sparrow. Looks really nice, and excited to see what apps will be available. Has my support!
Is anybody else bothered by selection of products listed in the blog post (I didn't check the full list since I'm on my phone)? How about some fruits? You can eat healthy and support the local community at the same time. And Red Bull, even though it's sugar free, isn't something I'd drink on a regular basis. Tea is a nice alternative.
That would

a) defeat the point of signing

b) require a new version of Android (which these low-end phones aren't likely to get)

It'd be far easier and more effective to tweak the build tools to crunch the images before packing up the APK in the first place.
What do you mean by "academic party line"? The university system is not a party (let alone a communist party). Phrases like "denying privilege" are not general to all of academia, they are specific to certain people. What is your interest in portraying all academics as people who deliver lectures in denying privilege (or whatever)?

Leave the people who develop knowledge and disseminate it for the rest of society alone with your political agenda.
A few bugs:

1. Dexter hasn't aired on the west coast, but the next episode is listed as 7 days from now, when it's really a few hours from now. Same with The Walking Dead.

2. Doesn't work on my iPhone.

A few comments:

1. Don't make me click to see the next episode air date. If you want to keep the current interface, do it on mouseover. Better yet, just let users add shows and present a table with a list sorted by date.

2. It'd be nice to show the next air date of old show re-runs too.
>When it's a resumé, sending anything other than a PDF or a website is an instant fail.

What sucks is when you make your resume in latex and you apply to a company that only takes word or raw text files. I've actually skipped out on companies because of this.
I agree on some points - getting a bad screen or keyboard will make using the machine painful - get good ones. Investing into a faster CPU or GPU is a complete waste of money. Most of the cheap machines try to give you a fast CPU while skipping on the important parts.

I found chromebooks to use decent hardware where it matters and skipping on the rest.
The race issue... well it's just not my little pet issue, LOL. My point is that I see these arguments being brought up in the context of women in engineering, not just minorities, and the underlying math doesn't support the conclusions even if we use the studies that are more favorable to the point. The numbers I've seen Richard Flynn throw around are a 1:5.5 ratio of women to men at 155+ (almost 4SD). While 1:5.5 is just a little under the representation of women in engineering, the 155+ figure is far beyond what you'd find for a practicing engineer. It might characterize the set of engineering professors at top schools.
Dried fruit is a must imho.
I think that's a feature :)
It won't be a waste of resources if the place you go is cheaper than your current location. Your burn rate will go down this way.

I know 3 teams first-hand who moved to "cheap" places (two in Bali, the other one being us, in a small rural village of France), all while doing remote consulting, to bootstrap businesses (I'm bootstrapping https://www.wisecashhq.com).

I can say we have a pretty good work-life balance, all while being indefinitely sustainable, under that setup.
Show HN: Power Outage Data via rubygem
Backspace nagivates back in browsers, isn’t this silly
This is such a common mistake that it's even got a name: The Commuting Paradox.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp1278.pdf
>Surveillance cameras don't distract musical performers.

(Street) musical performers distract me though.
Comcast: Why is Port 25 for email submission not supported?
All the people who vote Republican in my social network believe in evolution. I allow that I have seen news reports of people who tend Republican in other areas of the country who do not. Have you ever met a Republican creationist?

I would be interested to see polls on evolution belief of poor inner-city residents or unionized blue collar laborers who support Democrats. I expect the results would not be flattering.
We pick up fresh fruit from the market at Pier 1 or get a farmer's box delivered, I should add them

Updated post (for those who won't read it here): Important Note: We also order in fresh food from restaurants with GrubHub.com or Postmates, and pick up fresh fruit and vegetables as needed from the local farmer's market (for us at Pier 1). You can also arrange to have farm fresh baskets delivered locally, or from TheFruitCompany.com to anywhere in the U.S. (disclosure by lovely brother-in-law is their CFO).
What TextMate bundles does everyone use?
The particular tests she complained about were not aimed at measuring creativity, I believe.

But the animals question was really poorly designed
There is nothing "hipster" about it, it's a perfectly valid technical decision for someone who doesn't want to fuss with a janky, complicated WordPress installation or writing raw markup for each blog post or writing their own CMS. Frees up more time for developing things which are of any actual interest.

It makes getting good, scalable performance basically trivial. Static content distributed across CDNs means someone else solves that problem for you at low cost. Forget SQL injections and usually forget XSS. If you need a comments section, you realistically need outside help to filter out spam anyway, might as well use something like Disqus. Also, very few moving parts to break after deploy.
> It's a failing of our society that genuinely high IQ people are not out there working to improve the lot of mankind.

Or maybe it's a failing of those high IQ people? The genius who proudly saves the codebase at Zynga every single day is completely useless compared to any single nurse working her shift right now. Even the doctor at the top of the hospital does not necessarily have a stellar IQ. What other way is there to put it? Should we feel bad for smart people because society tricks them into financial services rather than less-paid cancer research? (No one would look down on someone who does the latter.)
Germany is going to leave the euro and let the other countries adjust their own affairs.
Revit LT has been recently released, this will set you back a little more than 1000$. Revit is a pretty difficult software to learn that I have trained professionals on for more than five years, it usually takes a few weeks for trained CAD professionals to get up to speed. Revit is a Building Information Modeling software that uses a parametric relational database to track changes between components, its quite sophisticated.
For renovation, there is an web application from Autodesk, that will allow you to make simple changes - http://www.homestyler.com/ - I would suggest hiring an architect or designer, of course. Sketchup is a good basic 3D Modeler that is free and can create scale drawings. Easy to build a static model but more difficult to accomodate changes.
Review: Samsung's new ARM Chromebook gets by without Intel inside
Oh! Sorry, looks like I'm wrong. I do see it being offered on their website, but it's for new activations only - that would explain why I was under the impression it's no longer offered after not seeing it in the prepaid plan switcher in my account.
Coming from a commercial real-estate consultant (as opposed to a programmer/startup guru) these are the things many companies would do well to consider when doing office fitout.

- Don't put boardroom/meeting rooms against the windows with the best views, leave them internal and put your employees where the best views/natural light is;

- Avoid a single monolithic meeting room and go for two smaller rooms with a common wall that can be pulled back. Large meeting rooms for >30 ppl at once tend to be under-utilised most of the time;

- If the expected budget is more than US$100k consider bringing on a project manager - they will generally earn back their fees with keeping everything in budget and fixing potentially costly issues as they arise rather than 6 months later;

- Don't try to cut costs on anything that an employee touches, sits on or uses i.e. chairs, desks, coffee machine etc. It is almost always a false economy to cut costs here;

- Ask the landlord to contribute some money to the fitout (can't hurt to ask);

- If you are going open-plan try to avoid offices around the perimeter windows as they will tend to block the natural light from getting into the main office;

- Hardwood/concrete floors sound like a good idea but keep in mind they can be quite noisy in high-traffic areas.
That doesn't sound quite accurate. I know Microsoft ran a study saying such but in the small sample size of friends on various social networks I saw test this Google won nearly every case, with a few ties (I don't think Bing won any of the posts I saw).

So, nice try Microsoft?
Yeah, the Red Bull immediately suggested 'we want to help you crunch' in my mind.
I agree. Pretty much the only things they got right with the iPad mini are the aspect ratio and the form factor. An a5 processor and a non-retina screen don't justify the price in my opinion.

I'd recommend it to someone who absolutely hates both android and larger tablets, but most people would be better off with a refurbished iPad 3, the new iPad 4, a Nexus 10, or the Kindle Fire 8.9 when it comes out. All of these devices represent a far better value.
Depends on how long the guy who comments on your hair hangs around. Does he move on or does he stay and comment on your nose?
WSJ is really turning into Murdoch's mouthpiece. The breaking news is that at standing president of 4 years has different search results than his opponent?
Yep. This is what happens when you do a startup.

My version: about 2 weeks after I quit my job and moved to India, we started having scheduled water outages from 9AM-whenever on thurs. We also had 6 female employees. So in addition to coding, my job was to show up at 8AM and fill buckets.

I'm now at a big company (startups fail). One perk of big company life - I don't even need to think about front end code (unless I want to).
No one in their right mind would press the issue, lest it causes a chilling effect on bystanders attempting to help someone in need.
Having something that is "only useful in SQL" really sells it quite short.

SQL is the bread and butter of the data storage world, since it is compatible with more DBMS systems than anything else.

For every mongoDB deployment out there, there will be thousands of Oracle/MSSQL/MySQL/etc databases running critical business functions working with both off the shelf and custom software in everything from family businesses to FTSE 100s.

Besides, SQL is not a fully turing complete language which actually makes it easier to reason about and to evaluate.
Not to mention the amount of study it has had (COD NF etc) over the years.

You can do a lot with a Database by understanding a subset of syntax; SELECT , UPDATE , INSERT, DELETE , INNER JOIN , OUTER (LEFT|RIGHT) JOIN.
> I'm assuming the end user doesn't want their device compromised.

It is far more complex than that. How many users have no lock screen, weak passwords, use old versions of operating systems, let others play with their devices, share accounts etc?

What a user wants is for their devices to perform a job such as communication and entertainment. It gets very confusing for technical folk who then fail to distinguish between goals and tasks. (The software we write is focussed on tasks.) Here is an excellent article on the distinction: http://www.drdobbs.com/goal-directed-software-design/1844099...

"security" as such is not a goal - it is more an annoyance. It is why you have to have a lock screen (which gets in the way of the goals), "strong" passwords, and worry about compromise. Performing maintenance (which is what updates are about) are also not helping the goals - they are actually more work that also gets in the way of the goals.

A good way of looking at security is not as a binary on/off thing, but rather as an expense for someone who wants "your stuff". Does it cost an attacker 1 cent, a dollar, a million dollars? If "security" was part of the purchase decision process then it would be mentioned in the specs in some sort of measurable way.

Ultimately what will happen will only happen because of the economics or laws. Laws that try to put liability on the developers won't work for many practical reasons. What would be most effective is for it to be easy to for consumers to respond by taking their money elsewhere. This happens when there is low barriers of entry to the market, and low/no switching costs, as well as the items being relatively cheap. This is happening to various degrees, although it is fought tooth and nail by some (eg carriers in the US).
Looked into it, and this is definitely not the case.

Google Chrome hasn't synced for over a week: http://imgur.com/WmrAS

And my laptop is the only one thats accessed my account all month: http://imgur.com/NeL01
It appears to me that your workflow is missing several pieces. You are missing RSS, which will keep some people from following what you write on your website. You are missing a sitemap.xml file, which search engines care about. You could add support for these to your work flow, but they are pieces that require very little work to enable support for in wordpress (RSS is just there, and sitemap just requires enabling the add-on), and I presume are trivial to enable in some of the static generators like jekyll or hyde.
Tell HN: Legally, building a product sucks for minors
I reside in the United States. It's pretty well known the age to have the legal capacity to enter a contract is 18.

However, after a glance of the legal bit of the many services I use, almost all of them require you to be 18, in the US. The consequence for many of the services discovering your breach of the TOS is an immediate termination.

For SoftLayer, they explicitly state you must be at least 18 at the time of your contract, otherwise your services will be terminated.

Amazon AWS, Linode, 6sync, also follow the same patterns, although they may be lax on enforcement.

This is just a friendly reminder to the minors on HN, and for me. Don't host anything you cannot afford to lose on those services and others.

As for me, I prefer to stay anonymous with my ventures and personal information online. I cannot afford having my parents signing up on behalf of me.
I mentioned this above, but...

I looked into it, and this is definitely not the case.

Google Chrome hasn't synced for over a week: http://imgur.com/WmrAS

And my laptop is the only one thats accessed my account all month: http://imgur.com/NeL01
Perl is dynamic and does allow return value overloading via the wantarray function.
Profits are what matters

No, opportunity is what matters. "Underrepresentation does not equal racism" is true but it may (and I stress "may") be an indicator of disparate impact, and so underrepresentation shouldn't be dismissed.

Paul Judge worked his way to the top, and I'm happy for him. That doesn't mean that the only reason other folks haven't (of any race/gender/background) is because they didn't work hard enough.
Reread the sentence with a different emphasis and a British accent - the meaning was probably "he must live nearby".
That's a good point, why are these guys doing this stuff illegally for pennies when there are probably plenty of companies out there who would pay them decent money for a proper pen test.
> I would guess that your ability to correctly answer an "ambiguous" question like that measures your ability to effectively communicate with other humans

So it measures how good you are at not thinking outside of the box? ;)
At our office (we have 8 employees, 7 are salaried and 6 are engineers) we have a sort of partnership with a sister company who is larger and more mature. We piggyback off some of their resources to help us manage things like payroll, insurance, HR. We do spend far more time than we'd like on things like office supplies, lunch runs, looking at new office space so we can fit more employees, etc.

Some of what we do is building one-off or small runs of custom electronics, so we hired a person from our sister company who was previously emptying trash cans in their warehouse. At first he did our inventory as well as QA for our software products. A year later and now he operates our pick-and-place, reflow oven, milling machine, 3d printer, and tons of other things. People are capable of a lot if you give them the opportunity and some guidance.
This is a stupid statement. If that's true, then why are many casual users ditching computers for tablets?
Faster CPUs are always nice, however. I wouldn't consider them a waste of money for a development machine. Even web browsing is improved by a faster processor, however.
What you say makes me think about Nigeria, as well. Historically, most of their wealth has come from oil, and up until 1999, they were ruled over by a corrupt military. Consequently, it seems to me that Nigeria's "entrepreneurial" culture is all about "getting money from rich people", rather than creating new things that people value.
Ask HN: iContact's email databases may have been compromised. What would you do?
I have been receiving a lot of spam lately. I tack the company's name onto email newsletters so that I'm able to identify the source of spam. One recent trend I've noticed was spam to the email addresses used for:
1. Qatar Airways
2. Invision Power Services
3. Zibbet<p>The one thing I've found in common for all three is that they use iContact for email distribution. It's reasonable to conclude that spammers may have acquired my email address through the service. I could always block the email addresses and let it be, but I'm never comfortable when other personal information could have been compromised as well.<p>What would you do?
"Do one thing well."
A Disproportionate Number of SV Founders Came from Dysfunctional Families
Guest Sid Roth
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I don't believe that wasn't a shot at dmix so much as a "Well, I didn't know this previously, but evidently he lives near me because I saw him the other day".
Ruby Application Monitoring with Metriks and Cloudwatch
A quick tutorial I wrote on getting started with Metriks and Cloudwatch custom metrics. Both of these tools are very handy.
I have taken three and I have never applied for Mensa. Once in school when our biology class was curious about the topic; once online because somebody challenged me to it; once because it was in the TV magazine and I was bored, and I wanted to know if one really gets better at it. (I think I did)
Yes, you have two hours and then you can't edit anymore. Also you can't downvote comments that are older than one day.
How about advancing scientific research while playing a game?