skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be helpful to turn this around, and compare it to working in some other field. For example most programmers would not want to work like this, constantly under time pressure, competing with others without time to gather requirements properly or interact with the client, and accepted or rejected for unknown reasons at the end. For a small hackathon or other little competition, it'd be fun, but who would want to work this way all the time, with no dialogue, and the possibility of your work not being paid for but being harvested for the best ideas which are then farmed out to the cheapest bidder? I'd fire the client for even suggesting it.

This sort of process implies a lack of respect for the design process, a belief that it's just a veneer, and a lack of trust in your designer. Most design isn't just about firing off a brief and receiving some stuff back, and then judging which is best based on the client's instincts, it affects flow, functionality, and most importantly of all is based on a dialogue with the client and moulded by ideas extracted from the client; it's not piece work.

Most good designers would respectfully decline an invitation to a race to the bottom, except if the work is really well defined, like a logo, and could be viewed as a small fun sideline or a way of boosting profile. I'd never work professionally this way, would you? Why should they participate in this sort of bargaining for any amount of money if other clients take what they do seriously? Design is a collaborative process, and getting to the real requirements is actually not dissimilar to say website or app development - it requires time, patience and commitment from both sides. If you can call this process "pay and pray" you are (both) doing it wrong.

I actually think the SO competition was a good idea, and they ended up with a nice logo which suits them, but for work larger in scope than say logos (like app design, or almost any other design job) it doesn't make sense, and even logos are better done as part of a larger process about the whole brand.
@citricsquid excellent argument.

Psy's song was catchy, new and entertaining. That's what mattered the most.

That's what happen with good internet products as well.
Implemented with Python:

http://vixn.org/
Mentor’s Thoughts Week 31: Is being an entrepreneur a job?
I would have liked to see that analysis as well..

Still waiting on the "killer app" for remote programming to make it widespread. Tmux and Vim isn't it..
Tech City: two years in, how is east London's technology hub faring?
Going long on markdown
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I've been watching the video and it doesn't look bad but... how is VIMs plugin system a mess? It always worked like a charm for me.
5 months ago, 141 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962029
Talking with Y Combinator founder Paul Graham [Audio]
In Portugal, the average wage is 777€/month, paid 14 times a year, resulting in about 10800€ a year. Not exactly 10000$, but close.
Simple Node.js Twitter user stream module
Simple Node.js Twitter (API 1.1) user stream client (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/streams/user).
How do some cultures stay lean while consuming high amounts of carbohydrates?
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Reformas al mejor precio de Madrid.
They have they Power series of chips so it would be really weird if they were to choose x86 (even x86_64)
There is also the cases where you are so interested in something that you can't keep away from it. The 10,000 hours of practice happens by themselves. You don't need to "trick" yourself to do it, because it's so much fun so you do it anyway.
Are people trying to say the context in which something happens shouldn't have legal bearing?
La série télévisée portant sur l’agence SHIELD continue son casting 
La fameuse agence gouvernementale imaginée par Marvel, SHIELD, continue sa route vers une série télévisée. Les producteurs viennent de trouver un deuxième personnage, qui vient étoffer le casting.
This is me too.

I developed an app which was constrained by time (sport event to be precise). I had to work towards a time limit or else it was worthless. I also spent a decent sum money on getting design work done so I wasn't going to quit.

The app was big failure but I actually feel very pleased with myself for sticking to something and getting it out the door. Because of this experience I feel more confident about shipping the new product I'm working on.

In summary, reasons I believe I got something out the door:

- Having an actual deadline

- Working with others

- Investing your own money

Having a deadline means you have something to aim for. Otherwise it's just too easy to be working on something for ever. This twinned with seeing you become out of pocket for not sticking to your deadline is a motivator too.

By working with others I don't just mean working on a project with a buddy. I mean the people I hired to do designs or do research. These people often came back to me asking questions about what I wanted done so I wasn't able to stop thinking about the project for too long. Having people help out also made sure that I had stuff ready for them to work on too.

Good luck.

edit - when I had to research / collect media for the app I encountered some really painful problems - which is now the basis for my present project!
> And if you're counting bang for buck, $9 can possibly save 18 lives. Oral Rehydration Salts and zinc cost $0.5 per course, and could prevent about 3/4 of the 1.5 million child deaths from diarrhoea.

If that's actually the case, you should contact Givewell, because that's a couple of orders of magnitude better than their current best charity ($1,600 per marginal malaria death prevented). Is this just something you read somewhere, or is there strong evidence that this treatment is actually orders of magnitude better than bednets? If it's the former, you probably shouldn't submit it without doing at least a bit of research (and if you don't want to, I can), whereas if it's the latter, I recommend you submit that charity for review here:
http://www.givewell.org/submit-for-review
My 2cents: The text on the homepage is overwhelming.

Would prefer any of the 2 ways to convey your point:

1. Have a decent landing page OR

2. Have a tagxt page (like this http://www.tagxt.com/post/567) which talks about tagxt.
That's pretty mean. There's a whole internet for personal attacks and I don't see why every forum has to trend to internet-level nastiness. PG mentions "niceness" many times, and HN's niceness has always been an attractive and useful quality. Arguing about the ball rather than the man forces people to think more clearly about the ball. That's a good thing.

I think PG's stated principles helped build HN. I don't know why you want to dilute them when everywhere-but-HN is already the forum you're pushing for.
Steam vulnerability can lead to remote insertion of malicious code
Lots of different analytics solutions suited for different scenarios mentioned in your list. Each one serves a different need even though there is some degree of overlap between them. You need to answer questions about your business to figure out which tools you should be using - Are you guys in the enterprise or consumer space? How do you market your startup's products? Do you use Email Marketing? Do you use Social Media to promote your startup or its products? What are the metrics you should be measuring to understand if your business is growing? Answer to these questions will determine which analytic solutions you should be using for your startup.
Uh, I meant to type "motivated locals". Autocorrect strikes again.

There are three parts to his business: the brand, his connections with indy film publishers, and the event organisation. From the sounds of it the later is what is taking most of his time and energy, but that's also the part that is has nothing to do with what makes his business unique. There are thousands of people who can organise an event. Many probably do it better than him.

The value of his business is in the brand and connections. His business doesn't even support one person's wage with three cities so a single location franchisee would have to be a hobbyist. Such a person has no time to be organizing the rights for screenings, designing and printing flyers or maintaining a website. For the franchisee, the chance to make a bit of pocket money doing something they're passionate about as a socializing film-lover, and to have Lucas handle the rest of the organization.
Anyone here experimented with a working-nomadic lifestyle? It seems an intriguing possibility for anyone without a house or family.
www.wholehealthsource.blogspot.com

Start from there, a researcher's blog. The post, while stating important nutrition concepts, do not explain the story. Simply put, Americans are eating more than they should, because modern foods are rewarding for the brain. Traditional carbs are not like this. Try overeating on rice.
Saying No In Less Than 60 Seconds
On the other side, are lots of Web 2.0 A/B testing results that basically say, shorter is better.

I might have missed that one. Could you provide a representative link or three?
WebZap - Photoshop plugin for web developers
> Our financial adviser sends us about $6,000 a month, generated from investments. We also collect Social Security and a small pension.

Why would you even need to sell a house when you get so much money monthly?
[CSS] Creating Multiple Shapes - Saher Team
Actually, the editor core is relatively easy. The hard part is adding all those 100s of little extra features you use every day. (Emacs ships with almost a million lines of extension code.)
yep, that did it, thanks much yuchi!
Their A/B Youtube redesign as well.
and that tells you he is right and everybody else wrong?
Sky drive is not suitable for me because it currently lacks selective folder syncing. I actually have gigabytes of data in the service that I'd synced previously but I don't want/need all of it back on my laptop where I have limited storage.

Until this changes, the service is not particularly useful to me.
I assume this is partly generated from the sale of the house.

You would need huge investments to generate that per month though without drawing down on the capital.
The Future of Search: Why it looks more like Yahoo than Google.
Please read this for a more through discussion of the issue and applicable laws.

http://us.practicallaw.com/9-519-7148
I am curious, how much data do you sync up with drop box ?
What's the point of this comment? Why should the author give up milk so that the taste puts him off? What benefit would that be to him? And finally, [citation needed]. Milk contains fat and sugar, two things that the human brain is programmed to like. It seems unlikely that not drinking milk for a while would make that stop happening.

Anyway, if the OP likes milk, he should drink it. The "obesity epidemic" is not from people having a glass of milk with their dinner. If you don't like milk, then don't drink it. But getting all high and mighty on some comment site about what tastes other people should experience is just plain irritating.
New JS library that pulls YouTube into an HTML5  element
Used on http://omgig.com
There is also Lifx http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light...
5 Overlooked Ethical Link Building Strategies To Help Your Website Rank Higher
10 Simple Thing You Can Do Today To Spice Up Your Blog
Is Taiwan a country? How about Kurdistan? Where are the borders of India? Google Maps needs to know.

Google Maps needing to know is the technical problem, sure. But representing borders is a reasonably solved technical problem. The social problem is people disagree about those things, and Google Maps representing that disagreement (if it can be represented at all) is a secondary concern to third-parties who just want to provide accurate maps. And there's nothing technical that can be done to solve that disagreement. You could very well provide localized Indian borders when viewing Google Maps (which is actually easier to do, and keep updated, with electronic maps than with print maps), or show the areas in dispute as being in dispute, but the issue is that the parties that disagree think everyone else should see it their way (thus the nature of disagreement).
Or, it could be that writing software is significantly more difficult than complaining on the Internet.
So, I was working at a very small internet service provider in a rural area in the mid-nineties. For the lack of affordable hardware, we were using Linux machines for routing, and a lot of "unconventional" solutions were necessary due to insufficient hardware being used. Tunelling, and other virtual interfaces of any kind were used often.

I remember one particular case were we running both routed IP and bridged ethernet over a single frame-relay link, and there we had to resort to fixed ethernet-to-ip mapping (turning off ARP) on the bridged link for some reason I really can no longer remember.
my comment was purely sarcastic. I despise services like 99designs, but these are the laws of the "free market".
Amazon attacks iPad mini in giant homepage ad
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X-notifier (for Gmail,Hotmail,Yahoo,AOL ...): Reviews: Add-ons for Firefox
The audio becomes very laggy when I switch to other tab in chrome. It is fine if I switch to other application so I guess it's chrome itself throttling the background tabs.

Anyone else experiencing this?
Why not just chew nicotine gum and abate the possibility of cancer.
I love Sublime and have been using it since the beginning of this year but I'm really worried about getting too "invested" in it because it isn't released under a Free Software license.

My old emacs.d still sits in my home folder because I have this fear that Sublime will just stop being supported tomorrow and I would have no choice but to go back to emacs.

I really just wish emacs had an amazing mixed mode, it's the only thing that even made me try out Sublime. All the php mixed modes I tried were really bad and I do a lot of work in PHP/HTML mixed view files.
It's a little anoying not to be able to read HN offline. I mean, I use my Smartphone to download several RSS feeds. All of them includes a short summary of the news so I can read them quickly. Unfortunatelly, HW DOES NOT include such summary so I have to go online to and, even then, what I see is not the new, but the comments.

Please, please, please, include summary in RSS.
In general, reducing fat (especially the animal kind) is good for modern people, since we tend to get too much of it.
Good discussion of the same case here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706572

There's a lot of FUD ("they might" "a ruling could") in this article. The short version is that this case deals with the fact that the Copyright Act prohibits unlicensed copying _and_ importing of copyrighted goods.[1] It comes up because (just like in the textbook case), it behooves a lot of manufacturers to charge a high price in the US and Western Europe and a lower price in the rest of the world. The price difference goes to cover things like research, writing, and other fixed costs that exist no matter how many marginal copies are sold.

The case deals only with the "gray market" importation question --- not what you do with your iPad that you bought in the US from Apple. There's no question (before or after this case) that if you buy an iPad in the US, the "first sale doctrine" still applies. Any copyright interest that Apple had in the device were terminated by their licensed sale to you in the US (even if the device was made in China, shipped directly from China, whatever). Nothing about this ruling would change that. Same for your DVD collection you bought from Amazon. Or any other product you bought in the US.

The only question raised by this case is if you wanted to fly to Manila, buy 1,000 textbooks at the Philippines price and then sell them in the US at the US price, could the textbook manufacturer claim that you imported unlicensed goods into the US?

There's a good economic analysis from the old thread: if the Court rules that publishers cannot prevent gray-market imports of textbooks that sell for $100 in the US but $20 in the Philippines, publishers aren't going to set the price to $20 in the US. They're just going to raise the price in the Philippines to $100 minus whatever it costs to ship from Manila to the US. Students in poor countries just get further screwed.

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap6.html
I'm interested but can't commit until next week. I assume you will allow walk-ins if you're not full?
Dmitry Yemanov's Firebird Conf 2012 recordings
This kind of feels like the difference between the nations of Extremistan (extreme variance in outcome) and Mediocristan (normal distribution in outcome) from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan".

For example those with the largest adjusted incomes probably live in the safest areas where one can get comfortably wealthy over a long period of time. However, they probably forgo the option at huge wins by shirking the cost/risk of getting a tech startup lottery ticket.

Same thing occurs with those who go into med/law/normal engineering. They essentially shoot themselves in the head to take themselves off the lottery list and put themselves on the steady, safe and slow wealth generation list.

Those in extremistan pay a greater entry fee in terms of risk vs. reward to play the finance/startup lottery and have a small shot at winning really big. In turn, risk adjusted their salaries are pitiful when adjusted for risk/cost of living - but somewhat decent if you factor in the value of the lottery ticket.
Might just be accidental as it could be bad RAM. Perhaps it just happened to pass poor QA tests that only checked small packets.
but it's so thick(?)
Any reason I should wait for LIFX instead of getting the Hue right away?
It really sucks living in norway with lactose intolerance. Just about every kind of processed food got milk in some form or another in it. Bread, hot dogs, caviar, potati chips. It's mad cow milk disease!
The assumption that the trivial solution won't be optimized out is, I think, wrong. From your experiment GCC is indeed not smart enough to do so but I would bet that a compiler like ICC would. In this case the best is probably to use some pragmas to avoid optimizing out a statement.
Articles like this used to excite me. But now, they are just sort of depressing.

Would it be good to have denser transistor counts? Sure. There are lots of benefits for hardware. Denser transistors can mean (possibly) reduced power consumption from smaller chips. Manufacturing costs are reduced because you get more chips from the same materials. Device production costs are reduced because you can combine functions that used to take two chips into a single chip. Overall devices can be smaller.

But from a software perspective, its a limited blessing. To be sure, there are benefits for cloud computing applications and other "embarrassingly parallel" applications. These chips might be great in data centers, which are power sensitive. And being able to do more things at once can be good, even if its at the same speed - Google can maybe crawl the web more frequently and video games might get improved graphics.

But the thing is, we already have nearly unlimited computing power at our disposal. On a whim, I could spin up a hundred thousand computers on Amazon Web Services to do some desired computation (which would cost a mere $700/hr at the current spot prices). My laptop has a 192 core GPU which, by itself, is more powerful than most super computers that existed up to the mid-1990s.

What we really need are software advances to exploit this hardware. For decades, there has been essentially no progress whatever in software that can take advantage of parallel computing. What techniques we have are either brittle (threads) or forfeit most of the hardware's power (multiple processes combined with relatively slow inter-process communication). Software is in such a backward state that people are amazed when the home-screen icons on an iphone scroll smoothly from page to page.
This kind of packet corruption probably happens more often than we like to think intentionally, I know at least one country whos ISPs all corrupt and drop random packets, just to make internet-usage an infuriating experience. It works, the people are held away from it, and dont see internet as anything but a bad toy. Id would be really surprising other states hadnt thought of similar techniques.
It's a startup and this is Startup News, of course.
The example from the slides was a __str__ method for a data structure, which makes a class the perfect fit in Python. (They did not call it __str__, of course.)
> "Intuitive" is completely dependent upon audience, in this case.

"The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." -- Unknown, possibly Bruce Ediger

There's a page about tracking down who said this: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html
Browsers slow down background javascript execution.
This is another instance in which an average doesn't really tell you much because, as usual, you have more information. If you play this high risk game the average doesn't mean anything to you because eventually you do learn the value of that success bit.

The smart approach here is to take a cold hard look at your skills and ideas and only pursue this if you can persuade yourself you're good enough to beat the odds.
I'd say the low ticket sales coupled with scalability problems was probably the thing that brought about the end - possibly a surmountable problem, but one that takes a lot more time and capital.

(ie, each showing requires staff at the very least to collect tickets - he makes reference to smoking and drinking with the bar staff).

That's the sort of problem that, if you come across it, and you're already low on energy + resources, is enough to finish it off.
That's actually the parent's point. Except specific to large integers, because there aren't enough small ones to encode anything meaningful that can be decoded by a general purpose program.
I believe $40 million per year is a lot because it could, just based on crude rules-of-thumb, support a strong technical staff of well over 100 people indefinitely. Indeed, according the 2012-2013 Plan document, current Wikimedia Foundation headcount was about 119 at the time of writing and expected to grow to 174 next year.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'technical requirements', but if you specifically mean hosting costs (other than staffing) and capital expenditures on equipment, per the plan's page 69 that is forecast to be about $5.3MM of the total $42MM budget -- around 13%.

Staff is the major cost -- I believe it is chiefly technical, administrative, legal, and community/chapter outreach roles. I also believe there's a not single person with explicit 'editing' duties on their payroll, as a matter of strategy and doctrine: Wikipedia is edited by unpaid volunteers, the Foundation supports those volunteers. Adding any 'official' and compensated editors would tamper with the formula/culture that's worked so far.

In one respect, crossing that threshold by adding just a single paid editor would be 'cheap', but if that steps makes the volunteers feel less appreciated, or start thinking of things in terms of a salary (aka: 'motivation crowding'), the loss in productive contributions could be much larger.

Why do you think $40MM-per-year is a "very tiny amount", and how big of an editorial staff do you think they'd need under some new model including professionalized editors?
Groonga CloudSearch (open source Amazon CloudSearch implementation) 1.3.0 is out
If he's using HTML and JS to code this, can we expect it to run in a browser as well? I'd love that.
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