skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's spam post...
I'm not American but i think saying a programmer should be President is just as bad as saying a lawyer should be President, which pretty much all politicians are. I'd rather see a world leader and their Government use an approach like a meritocracy. To me, old white guys that cant turn on a computer shouldn't be making laws that govern the internet and that's applicable to any subject. Assign those that know their shit in that field to administer it.

On another note, I cant remember what country it was, i think either Japan or China, the majority of the higher tier politicians are engineers, rather than lawyers, which i think is a good thing, but again, over abundance of one profession hurts other issues.
Chris Anderson leaves Wired for his robotics startup — paidContent
It's not been easy.

It took me a long time to get up the courage to leave my job, and fear of running out of money still paralyses me from time to time.

Fortunately my wife is amazingly supportive, and my cofounder is less paralysed by little details like running out of money than I am and helps me forge-ahead.
Show HN: See who your network is voting for
Self disruption and super linear ...
That's a good idea, we are using Prefinery to collect the form data, and there's limitations on what it can do, but I'll see what I can come up with.
Don't forget moderators who are dedicated to "doing it right". You do kind of have to figure out and fit into the culture there.

If a new user doesn't get it and causes problems the mods will usually politely PM them and talk to them about what's going on. If the user continues to cause problems (start fights and just generally be inflammatory to the community) they will have no problem banning them.

They also temp-ban users who they know are normally well behaved when they are clearly having a bad day (which usually just means that a particular thread on a particular topic hits too close to home and they just can't be civil about it).
So you need a very lage ablation shield
Keys to Positioning Your Competitors to Investors
DB-Engines popularity ranking greatly expanded by more than 50 additional DBMS
A couple of items comes to mind:

1. Can you modify your system to return results based on a subset of their followers? If this is still of value to the user, it looks like the way to go, providing results based on a subset followed by another set of "final" results based on the full follower graph.

2. If you have enough celebrity-scale accounts using your service, are you able to share their followers details and cut down on time used to pull them?

3. On the business side, the service sounds dangerously like something that would be killed by Twitter if it becomes successful, by some definition of successful because you are pulling out their follower graphs. Look at Tumblr and Instagram. While it is good to milk it while you can and build it with ambition, it is also wise to look further and prepare for the day if it gets shut down and revenue goes to 0. If you have nothing to lose, go ahead, but be aware.
Any other link to the ZeuS source code ? That link seems to be down.
Declaring an emergency: Adapting an aviation concept to software contracts
I have always wondered what the probability of hitting a near-c object/dust particle/micrometeorite is between solar systems is within the galaxy. No doubt a near-c object (of any size) would end up trashing a spaceship, but whats the chances of it actually happening? Is it significant?
Well, there's no indication the usable click area is limited to the slider. In the games setup, it would make sense that clicking anywhere in the option might trigger the appropriate slider change event.

It adds a single "continue" click from what you seem to propose, but if the rest of the checkout process is streamlined, that may be acceptable.
This article isn't something I take seriously, but FWIW Herman Cain has a BS in Math and an MS in Computer science. It didn't seem to help him in the primaries.
Ghost — rethinking WordPress
Not sure if this is against Twitter's ToS, but since follower data is public, can you make use of unused API requests from accounts with fewer followers?
Perspective?
For this sort of user demographics your pricing appears to be off by an order of magnitude. Just sayin' :)
Here's mine:

More node.js

More C

Erlang (well, functional programming in general)

Calculus

Distributed Finite State Machine implementations

Public speaking (need to practice more than anything)

Reading/writing/speaking multiple languages
From zero to 75% in 5 years. Not bad. Others are still struggling at 2% after 2 years, with not much chance of improving.
London, UK (West End): Python/JavaScript developers

Glow has been working with the Facebook Ads API since June 2009, helping clients like Omnicom, Group M, Kraft Foods, Best Buy, Ford and King.com run effective ad campaigns on Facebook. All the team at Glow come from a background in digital marketing services technology and have a knowledge of the marketing potential and techniques on Facebook which is second to none. In September 2012 we were awarded Strategic PMD status by Facebook, "the highest distinction of excellence we have ever offered to our marketing developers"

Glow is on a rapid growth curve and are currently looking to assemble a super team of great developers to work in our West End office. Successful candidates will play a pivotal role in building the company as we go forward.
We’ll do everything we can to make you feel at home.

We cook with Python, Javascript, a large dose of other cutting edge technologies and a healthy mix of social and advertising APIs.

If you think you can hack it, please apply to careers@thisisglow.com
Nah, unfortunately not. All calls originate from my company account or on behalf of a user. So for using other people's account tokens to scan, wouldn't work either as they are only authorized to scan their followers.
I always find these sorts of articles ridiculous. Its like those people who always say "we need an businessman president!" A regular profession is largely irrelevant to the skills needed to be an effective President. The relevant limitation isn't someone who has the right ideas. It's finding someone who can savvily spend political capital to achieve particular ends.
Maybe we should get someone with a CS degree running for president. If HN is any indication, it is the only degree to qualify you as an expert in economics, history, politics, various forms of science, religion, and sociology.
Glow is hiring Python/JavaScript developers in London, UK
Glow has been working with the Facebook Ads API since June 2009, helping clients like Omnicom, Group M, Kraft Foods, Best Buy, Ford and King.com run effective ad campaigns on Facebook. All the team at Glow come from a background in digital marketing services technology and have a knowledge of the marketing potential and techniques on Facebook which is second to none. In September 2012 we were awarded Strategic PMD status by Facebook, "the highest distinction of excellence we have ever offered to our marketing developers"

Glow is on a rapid growth curve and are currently looking to assemble a super team of great developers to work in our West End office. Successful candidates will play a pivotal role in building the company as we go forward.
We’ll do everything we can to make you feel at home.

We cook with Python, Javascript, a large dose of other cutting edge technologies and a healthy mix of social and advertising APIs.

If you think you can hack it, apply to careers@thisisglow.com
"Apple's tablet market share took a hit as consumers "sat out" the third quarter in anticipation of the iPad Mini, analyst firm IDC said. Android tablets made gains as a result."

I think this means that because many Apple buyers sat on the sidelines the overall pie was smaller. So this had a magnifying effect on Android's overall share of the market. Otherwise it's kind of an illogical statement.
Much better, it's obvious in hindsight. Now if you could work some magic on those horrible range inputs…
Is 500 Startups Making A Bet On This Company As The Next Match.com?
The difference being that we do it in a more transparent way
Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer.
Thanks for notifying, it's fixed.
I haven't worked on it in some time (it's still very much alpha; and I keep meaning to release it on github), but I'd love some tips on improving http://sqmight.com. SQLite backend.
"Issue #4: Internet Freedoms"

Adding an amendment for 'the internet' is lame.

The already existing Bill of Rights covers it nicely.

That we're getting laws and executive orders that nullify civil rights isn't a problem with the internet, but with the guys writing the laws and executive orders.
Death of CMS for Personal Publishing
I am finding it hard to figure out the right co-founder. All my coder pals are risk averse :(.

I have made a decision to quit my day job on 31/03/2013 no matter what. will keep you guys updated on the journey.
Great, great points. Here are my responses:
1) Yes, that seems to be the only way out right now. But my core features (most popular followers / most valuable followers) depend on a full set and will not be accurate. Growth data works fine though. The main reason why my service got traction were the most popular followers / most valuable followers metrics though. So that sucks. But seems to be my only resort right now.

2) I can get IDs faster, and then theoretically use my own DB to see if I need details for that ID (i.e. follower details) from Twitter or have them stored. Problem is: I am duplicating Twitter's database, also, I had this before and the database grew to immense size and kept crashing all the time despite efforts to avoid it. Also: Celebrities have a large distribution of followers, so unlikely to save much time by seeing who's details I already got elsewhere.

3. Yes, although Twitter announced their quadrants recently, of services that will be supported by them, one of them is social analytics. This is what I do. So that should be good. But you have a point, I can't touch any money for up to 1 year in case Twitter shuts it down, I want to pay back the remaining unused time to my users. So it's frozen money.
In-Memory Data Grids Explained
I remember being at the first meeting of OHA companies at the Googleplex. I don't recall the meeting going as a democratic group of companies banded together to change the world. We were all subcontractors helping Andy Rubin get the project launched.

This article neglects a large piece of the history of the project. Don't bother reading it.
if exception.message=="Capacity Error":
sleep(x)
x=x*2
continue
Hopefully Microsoft will stop dragging it's feet with Windows Phone 8. I dred to think of a mobile market with only two decent OS options.
Absolutely. I 've heard they have outsourced the development of the open source version of the President v0.1, so that the team could have a vacation.
sometimes, it's follows a clear pattern. request 100, fail. request same 100, success. repeat. --- that's likely because they load it in the cache once they have the results. it halves my success rate, basically.

but sometimes it's just random (depending on twitter overall traffic I'd assume).

plus, some records are faulty and can not be fetched. so this causes other issues as well and drops the api call.
Cassini/Huygens, Voyager, and soon New Horizons captivate the public without conducting life science. Are our Martian missions discredited if they find no evidence of life? I really hope not, and I hope the public understands so too.
ha, thanks! that wasn't my intention, but well, it helps checking out if it can withstand the load.

i feel sort of bad asking for advice here, since many have better things to do and i am the one making money with this, but i've reached a point where I don't know how to continue. and this is very odd.
AMD Launches New Piledriver-Based Opteron 6300 Family
How to become a digital humanities swiss army knife
well, I do back off for a bit once I hit rate limits or the request times out. but regardless, I lost an API call credit.
Architecture photographer explains how he got that New York magazine cover shot
Somebody else just emailed me asking basically the same question, and looking for my advice. My immediate thoughts were:

- Do you need a cofounder immediately, or can you just try and do less. I know that's easier said than done, but scale back your projects into what you think the most important pain/solution is and focus on that, and see if you can get some traction. It will be easier to convince someone else to join you if you can get some traction.

- Similarly: don't look for people to take a big leap, break it into smaller steps. Do you know anyone who would do something for an evening a week. Or hack on something at the weekend. Treat it more as a fun side-project, and people might be more excited about getting involved. Then once they are in, and you have some momentum, try and grow the committment (that's basically what we did).
checking them out right now, thanks for the hint!
I'm sort of surprised COst is not mentionned.
Can every company afford to hire only the best and the brightest ?
Maybe it's an old law which has not been revised to keep in sync with the modern times.
The concept of network effect has been taught by B-school professors as a rule or law rather than a theory. Not enough research has been done to show how network effect can be broken up since it is just recently (last 10 years or so) been taught. 5 years ago, before Facebook started stealing MySpace’s users, you could have put the same wiki link and said the same thing.

One could even argue that Facebook is destroying their network effect by not allowing people to see all posts. The fact that Linkedin, Meetup, Twitter, heck even the new myspace all exist, there are lots of networks with varying degrees of network effects which could slowly take facebook share until the tipping point is crossed.

I’m not predicting facebook’s demise, rather I’m stating that network effects are important, but have not been proven to create a long term sustainable competitive advantage.
Why is all the text a giant image? (That aside, the system looks great)
i know, but as said, it started as a funny experiment, became a toy and then I felt bad charging more for things i can not influence. It'll definitely be able to charge 19.99 a month up to 99.00 a month for corporations, there's a lot of features I can add - but right now, it'd put me under even more pressure to charge that much. it's a messed up weird situation.
You need to learn more about relativity.

First, people on the ship will not feel as if they "have more mass". Their physical properties will be exactly identical, because they are at rest in their frame of reference. Flying through a galaxy at 0.999c is identical to "sitting still" while a galaxy flies by at 0.999c.

Second, you're ignoring relativistic effects in your calculation of the amount of time it takes to "reach c". You can't just divide light speed by the acceleration and convert to days. You need to include the effects of time and space dilation, in which case you'll find you have to pick a target less than c because no matter how long you accelerate you only approach c.
How to trace and debug an iOS crash (Part 1)
The link straight through to the animation: http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization...

(I submitted this a while ago, but it didn't reach the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713048 )
Dependency cycles & Spaghetti code
You don't lose a credit when you get rate limited.
Ask HN: Twitter Bower being used widely?
Hi everyone. I'd like to see how many of you are using twitter's bower package management system. What are the alternatives right now, and which one do you think has more features?

Thanks
I agree that to do better, especially in caring for each other, we need to re-evaluate what we value most.

In a society where money is power however, I don't think you can do much is what I'm saying. Regardless of psychological issues, if someone can function and amass money, then they're regarded as fine and maybe even successful.

My point was people vote with their money and time, and in this case is open. You can't really expect people to care about whether he was a delinquent in some's eyes, because to some, the other side is just as worse.
Issues With Achieving Auto Layout Zen
That's Brasília. With an S and an accent on the i that follows.

Niemeyer is not responsible for the urban planning of Brasília, someone else did. His role was to design some of its most prominent individual elements and ensure a visual language throughout the whole project.

The crazy urban planning was the work of Lúcio Costa (thanks Wikipedia): why not using a quote by him, instead?

Pitting urbanists against architects is just as futile as pitting Android fanboys against iOS fanboys.
Quick one.

I am having inaccurate results. I can confirm I have a verified account and more than 0 retweets weekly.

I am guessing this inaccuracy is as a result of the challenge you are having with indexing.
I came here just to post that it was on Netflix streaming:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Urbanized/70218731?locale=...
I like it but please drop "apple" stuff screenshot.
What was the right strategy for Abhimanyu to defeat the Padmavyuha formation?
Programmers make good programmers. Programmers who make good project managers are not that common. Programmers who make good CEO's are rare. I don't think I've met a programmer who would make a good president.

Sure, if you re-think the world to some utopia where the president only needs to figure out what the problems are, design new laws and implement them by pushing a button, then yes. But you don't need to watch a lot of West Wing to realize that the skills required are primarily people-skills: communication, diplomacy, delegation and negotiation. Some programmers have these, sure, but they are not their typical strengths.
Music discovery & playlist site - take 2
Congrats. You've invented the cursor.
Just because it's a rough concept, and I wanted to put it out as quickly as possible rather than delaying by procrastinating about coding a layout. I actually stole got the idea for making it a big page of images from the original .Mail concept page.
If there's interest - of course we could put something more professional (and machine readable) together!
These are some beautiful concepts by John. However, I think it's also worth noting that just about everyone that works with WordPress wants to see the interface itself be simplified, even if most of us want to retain its flexibility as a CMS.

Here are some related notes from Matt Mullenweg on a "radically simplified WordPress" http://ma.tt/2012/05/simpler/

I'd like to see something like Ghost as a step two of Matt's thoughts, rather than a fork or separate project.
High performers are still a great deal, because you can pay them 2x the salary to get 10x the results.

The issue, for many companies, is that the perks the high performers want in exchange for this "arbitrage" that exists in hiring them-- very high levels of autonomy, rapid career advancement, implicit trust from the first day of work-- are considered unaffordable in the actual political context of the company.

Companies won't give high performers 10x salaries because the high performer might not deliver if the conditions are bad, but if they give them high degrees of autonomy and interesting projects, that's visible to the less adept workers and it becomes an issue for management. Managers know that if they let their best people follow different rules, everyone will expect the same freedom.

High and low performance don't seem to be intrinsic to people, in the sense that mediocre people can turn excellent given the right conditions, and vice versa. What does seem to be intrinsic is that there are high- and low-variance people. Low variance people are reliable ladder-climbers, and high variance people are the creative ones who might have a mediocre year or two, but then have a huge breakthrough. The top performers are, for the most part, high variance individuals. High-variance people can also fail quite badly, in certain circumstances, so companies are very nervous about hiring them at all. The "corporate ladder" rewards reliable mediocrity, not intermittent excellence.

Intimidation-based management (which has been dominant since 1800) regresses performance to the mean, and its purpose is to reduce variance. When the input-output curves relating skill and effort to productivity were concave, variance-reduction was the way to go, because lower variance was equivalent to higher performance. Now that we're in a convex world (at least in software) variance-reduction fails us.
Be fair; this is a correct comment, in line with the OP. Terman admited that IQ tests are only good at testing what is covered in the IQ test. A circular definition of IQ if there ever was one.
Did any of the other word questions have answers based upon the linguistic properties of the words (rather than on the meanings of the words)? If not, then you evidently did fail at that portion of pattern recognition.
Show HN: Fixing careers guidance with Kickstarter
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I don't think it's justifiable. Lots of people can't read from an image. (For various reasons).

I ended up closing the page because the font size is too small.
Very cool! I'm not a big music listener, but when I'm in the mood, I tend to use YouTube as I don't have much of a music library. This makes things a lot easier :)
Yeah, I was about to suggest Datasift as well. IIRC I had a chat to some of them at the last SiliconMilkRoundabout & they seemed like they knew their stuff.

It does occur to me that the OP is effectively trying to replicate large chunks of the twitter datastore & that's going to be very difficult to manage! It's not like twitter themselves were particularly reliably to start with after all.
I noticed Dell is also favoring Microsoft, they released Windows 8 Guide last week here.
FWIW I use plastic business cards which are quite a bit thicker, and pretty effective. With 3D printers being what they are now, you might even be able to print your own business cards around one of these thin batteries.
(http://www.economist.com/node/6919139)

Here's another link about the complex accounting of IKEA.
The whole page is images, and it's a non-existent product, it's just a theory/proposal.

Buried in the text is it would be a fork of wordpress.

Net is filled with that sentiment, but it never takes off:

http://www.google.com/search?q=fork+wordpress&tbo=1&...

If you want to replace wordpress you need a modern rewrite, not a fork.

The #1 problem of wordpress (among many) is it loads every darn thing on every darn page and it's now a godzilla of a program so it's becoming a huge nightmare. A cache miss in WordPress on a busy server is a horrible, horrible thing.

You cannot escape that problem by a fork.
I believe we are going to need a second Bill of Rights to overrule all the Supreme Court cases that have dampened the 4th and 5th amendments plus put in some explicit privacy protections. I had some hope of them going the other way given the 2nd amendment cases and Citizens United, but it looks like thats not a trend.

This administration is worse than the last and that one wasn't any friend of civil rights either. The thought process that a GPS can be attached to someones car or data kept in the cloud can be searched without warrants is going to be a killer for civil rights.
I'd guessed this was to get something out the door quickly. It would be useful if you linked the FAQ image as a mailto to your e-mail address, or just through to your Twitter account. Having to type those out manually is a bit annoying.
Just a quick evening project, the code is up here: https://github.com/nambrot/twittervotes2012

I thought it would be interesting to move the discussion from spamming facebook walls to actually getting the vote on paper.