skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, in which case, perhaps the problem was your job ad sounded like you wanted a unicorn when in fact you didn't.

Looking at the job ad on your site, you ask for three attributes:

Ability to communicate effectively, self motivated, flexible and works well under deadlines.

Self-starter, entrepreneurial or freelancing type person who is going into an incomplete team and will need to deliver a lot to satisfy.

Advanced knowledge in HTML, CSS and Javascript with in-depth knowledge of DOM
3rd Party API Integration ( Twitter, Facebook , Maps, etc.)
Experience with jQuery
SVN and QA tools.

Advanced development chops.

Well-versed in design and concept development
Advanced knowledge of responsive design for mobile
Knowledge of tools /apps such as Adobe Creative Suite

Understanding and advanced knowledge of design, including using tools most front-end developers do not ever touch.

Not trying to be rude here, but it seems to me your job ad was probably asking too much in one person. I've been a full-stack developer for ~10 years, computer science PhD, work with a designer at my current startup, and I wouldn't have felt qualified. Maybe I'm misreading it, but maybe that's why you didn't get the applicants you wanted?
There is also that part of real world which needs programmers who are good at finding and implementing algorithms. Calling someone "best programmer in the world" because he won some coding competitions is dishonest, but pretending that he isn't somehow programming in the real world is outright quackery. Yes, that CMS, HR management, project management... needs to be written and it doesn't involve any clever algorithms, but that new storage back-end for MySQL, matching algorithm for dating site, data compression for backup service, shopping recommendation needs to be written as well.
New protocol that boosts WiFi performance by 700%
Is it possible to use this without damaging the toilet or any extra issues? I'm thinking about apartment situations in particular.
Any comments are very welcome! The readme file includes links to a demo site that anyone can access (sign-in with @mockmyid.com email if you don't want to create a real Persona account).

Do you have any use cases for which an authorization layer like this would be handy? What additional features would you need?
The headline is taken from the article http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507186/nokia-unveils-a-...

I believe by cloud, they mean that the service can be accessed by any device with a browser, removing the necessity for a 'Maps App'.
So every contributor essentially gets to vote on the license change, and their vote is proportional to the contribution they made (because if they vote no, their contributed code has to be rewritten).

I think I quite like it, but only because there is an option to replace their code if they vote no (which admittedly may be very technically difficult). No single contributor can truly veto the license change.

Clearly has it's downsides though.
Subtitle rendering (with xy-vsfilter/vsfilter in general and newer versions of libass).
High-quality video rendering (madVR).

I'm not at home right now so I can't reliably confirm if certain long-time issues still remain in the latest version (2.0.4), but VLC has also for the longest time had issues with pause not being completely instant (despite claiming so), the audio glitching slightly when pausing/unpausing, and seeking in H.264 video producing a garbled mess (this at least has gotten better with over time). Matroska ordered chapters support has also been shoddy for a very long time. Subtitle rendering was also absolutely hideous before they started using libass in version 1.0 (IIRC), at which point softsubs had already been in use for quite a long while. As I mentioned, VLC's development in terms of high quality playback has mostly been about playing catch-up with the better players, at worst being years behind them.
With the MIT license, proprietary interests have the option of giving something back without having to give all back.

Which very often happens.
It's one of those things that every time I look at templating, I get overwhelmed and my procrastination says that the time it would take me to learn templating would be better served coding the site...
IIRC, it cannot be just any kind of startup, i.e. if you have a software service house (build software for others / consulting), you are not going to get into BizSpark.

Feel free to straighten out my misconception.
Video quality for one.

If you run Windows, using Media Player Classic - Home Cinema with madVR[1] will give you much, much better quality.

VLC handles some large video files - or file types - very poorly in my experience, too.

VLC is great, because it has an excellent standard of video quality, and it's easy as heck to use and set up for others, but for people who really care about optimal playback, it isn't really the best choice.

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I think the main allure of VLC used to be that the tortuous labour of finding and installing codecs was suddenly moot. Using MPC-HC requires a lot of painstaking effort, especially once a codec stops working all of a sudden for some reason.

VLC is very Apple-esque in how it does everything for me and gives me an ease of mind, but with no guarantee that I will get the highest quality. And MPC-HC is very Windows-esque in how it requires a bunch of tweaking and pulling out hairs, which will eventually result in superior quality, but all in all perhaps an inferior experience and enjoyment, because it takes jumping through so many hoops to just get there.

Moving on from VLC to MPC-HC is very much like moving on from using primes in typography to curly quotes; it might be more aesthetically pleasing, but most of all, you kinda wish you could just unsee the difference and quit pursuing the folly of proper typography. These days, I can hardly stand reading books with justification, which unfortunately is quite a large majority of them.

It's a blessing and a curse, and I'd properly just recommend most people to find a video player similar to VLC in how easy it is to use, all while providing superior video quality and performance.

If you're watching a movie or TV show, I recommend that you watch it on Netflix or Blu-ray, if the option is available to you. That's what I do. :)

[1]: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228
I looked at Flask once. Not sure why I didn't return. This article is great. Thanks!.
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But those are the ONLY people who are defending Faceplant - people with money invested in it. Everyone else is either apathetic or has left.
1. Talking with your potential users looking for problems - warning: it's gonna be hard but with a very high ROI.
2. I've recently used Google Consumer Survey - you can get a $150 coupon by sending an email request to: pmcdonald@google.com
3. I'm now working on a survey to send to people I know that will be willing to fill in many questions.

In general your time should be spent:
50% problem team - finding more facts about the problem you are solving.
50% solution team - building a very minimal product(aka mvp) based on current data problem team has discovered.

This kind of work should get you into a feedback loop where you not only research but also test - these two together should make you move faster and wiser.

feel free to ask more.
So... like Google Maps?
Maybe, but that doesn't determine whether Facebook is in the right or not.
"The most popular web server for CL, Hunchentoot hasn't been touched (based on the darcs repo anyway) since Tue, 24 Aug 2010."

That statement is just untrue, take a look yourself. https://github.com/edicl/hunchentoot/commits/master

Also there is an active community in Japan from what I can gather from github.com

They done cl-annot[1], which is a way to annotate functions with the @ syntax from python. Clack[2], the WSGI-equivalent for cl. And the Caveman[3] and Ningle[4] webframeworks.

[1]: https://github.com/arielnetworks/cl-annot
[2]: https://github.com/fukamachi/clack
[3]: https://github.com/fukamachi/caveman
[4]: https://github.com/fukamachi/ningle
Consistency is Consistently Overrated
The UK's first hacker festival: EMF
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Yeah, but it's not possible (I think, but am not 100% sure) to reason about F# code without object semantics because of how it's implemented: it probably could be implemented on top of MSIL without objects, but (again, not 100%, but 95% sure :)) it isn't.

I thought about another language I think you'd call functional: Lua. It supports first- and higher-order functions and has no objects at all in the core language. What do you think?

Also, now that I understand what you mean I can agree with you, but you do realize that this is not very common definition of "functional", right? :)
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"Dude", I'll again admit that that comment was out of line.

Nevertheless, I have a hard time understanding what you hope to gain by your approach here. While you may be quite right that stating "i am only criticizing israel, not jews" is common among people who hate Jews, did you ever consider that this does not imply the inverse? It does not mean that everyone criticizing Israel hates Jews. As a programmer, you must understand this.

IMHO, the fastest way Israel support organisations can lose popular support in countries outside Israel is by calling people who criticize them (no matter how tastelessly) antisemites. I never understood why commenters like you and pro-Israel organisations appear to be so trigger happy with the term. It moves the entire discussion from the sphere of fact and opinion to the sphere of taboos.

I'll happily discuss fact and opinion with you. So whether or not Israel did right or wrong things - that's an HN-worthy discussion. But playing the antisemite card on a criticism of a government, even if this criticism is exceptionally harsh and inappropriate, that just doesn't work. I called a bunch of politicians something horrible. You called me something comparably horrible.
For a minute I thought it wasn't a bad pun. Please enquote 'defenestration' instead of 'shocked'.
Nice article. One thing you should talk about in my opinion are systems like Redis. Redis can be used as a generalized key value store, but it can also be used as a messaging platform. In fact many systems like Storm (which would be another great topic) have easy integration with redis pub subs. While Redis and other solutions like it probably are not a good fit for all your data, they are great for mixed supporting data, caching and messaging. There are also really nice integrations if you like Java, these days you can make Spring message driven beans to consume messages from a redis pub sub very easily with minimal configuration. ZeroMQ is probably another technology that is worth discussing, either using it with a layer like Storm on top or by itself. Not every messaging system has to be heavyweight and cumbersome like the good ole' days.
I've read about Xeon Phi a few months ago and I really want to get my hands on one. My problems are in the embarrassingly parallelizable class (or almost). Having said that, does anybody know how each Xeon Phi core performs with respect to a modern Intel processor (i7 or Xeon) for standard numerical code (Linpack etc.)?
Defenestration: Latin word for throwing someone out the window.
While they may have done this figuratively, I do not think it means so literally. I'm sorry, but I can't help being a pedant.
I was thinking the same. Now a growing startup on $100? That's a lot more interesting for me, maybe because I relate to it more.
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The only thing you could infer from that is that you're not a bad enough poster to warrant downvotes.
FWIW, it's okay for me (London).
Tanks Krsunny! Really helps to have some advice on what's current and where to start.
thanks, I never heard of this movie but it sounds interesting.
So, you have a problem with the word "fired", too?
"Here is available through a Web browser and as an iPhone app." Anyone know how to get the iPhone app? Doesn't come up on the store.

EDIT: Ah, the answer comes later: "Skillman also showed off the iPhone version of Here, which will be available as a free app in the next several weeks."
The chilling history behind the abandoned island in 'Skyfall'
I miss when Opera was ad-supported.

Obviously I'm being sarcastic but I can't believe I actually found that browsing experience acceptable. If you told me today to use an ad-supported browser (or pay for a browser) I'd laugh and laugh and laugh.
Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs matters
If the brand is using Facebook, Facebook is in the right. It's their platform. They can do what they want. I don't understand why brands feel so entitled.
Animated Factorisation Diagrams
Unix arrived in 1969 according to Wiki

Smalltalk arrived in 1972.

That's only 3 years; and that's implementation not idea creation
There is also "AdBlock" (without the "plus") that I use. I don't know the difference between them.

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adblockforope...
VLC struggles with DVD playback. In fact most DVDs this year will simply not play at all in VLC due to the menus causing it to crash.

Some random examples: Thor, The Dictator, The Avengers Assemble, (essentially everything published by "Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment", and many things published by "Paramount Home Entertainment")

Now one might say to "just disable menus!" but unfortunately that is ineffective as they have put a bunch of fake tracks on the disc which cause you to bounce around the movie out-of-order.

Playback works fine on Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, and most hardware players. Only VLC and the DVD extraction software seem to crash. Unfortunately there are likely things in the spec' which allow this.
Coming in Linux kernel 3.7 (Part 1): Filesystems & storage
I was quite impressed they actually have a street view! Not sure which city you tried, but I just zoomed in on a random street in Helsinki, and it seems to be good enough to read some license plates (they might want to fix that).
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1) congrats to whoever wins at algo

2) will people should wake up, you need at most (in an algo intensive IT business, not scientific research of course) one algo solver for a dozen excellent programmers, and algo is mathematics, not programming.

Once again, the noobs have picked the wrong metric (...)
No, because that is used a lot more and isn't latin. It's just the combination of little use and latin that bugs me on the usage
So are you going to change that about yourself, or are you going to prolong it in your particular corner of the universe?

Humans are equally borne into the world weak and helpless, with but a day of survival unless they gain help from others, immediately, for a few years. This equalizes everyone, in terms of need. We all need at least a decade of help, if not more, before we can help others and help ourselves.

So, how does it help, in any way, to consider that babies born in 'lesser conditions' are economically worth less than babies born 'in luck, elsewhere'? It doesn't, at all, help one bit .. but your position does, instead, prolong the righteous justification for continued hatred of ones fellow man on the basis of their inferiority, economic, mental, culturally or otherwise.
Twitter marketing and Increase Your Popularity
The existing trend regarding meeting new people these days has brought your well-known micro-blogging site named Twitter in the current reputation; this particular explains why many people are going to get more twitter followers.
Another clue is that nobody ever responds to you.
In conversation with David Karp, CEO & Founder of Tumblr
> proprietary interests can take free code without giving anything back.

As long as the author is ok with that, and proprietary interests are happy with merging their own changes on each upstream release, I don't see any wounds.

Also, sometimes it's better for proprietary interests to lift (for example) a working TCP/IP implementation, rather than implementing their own poor thing and put it on the 'net for everybody else to deal with.
I dunno. I've seen companies go through 4 or 5 different message queue systems and find that none of them work quite right.

12 years or so ago I developed a few systems that used qmail as a message queue and I was pretty happy with that.

Asynchronous processing is a necessary evil, but I think a lot of people underestimate the difficulty. It's one thing to compress a video in the background, but if you have one asynchronous task that spawns a bunch of asynchronous tasks and they spawn asychronous tasks and someday they all come together... Well maybe they come together someday. There's a definite "complexity barrier" you hit when asynchronous applications rapidly become harder to maintain.

There are ways around this, but I've frequently seen MQ-based systems that never get "done".
Presumably it's useful for web developers on Windows 7 or above, but who need to test on IE6/7.

As to why they'd use their own VM in preference to VirtualBox I don't know. But to be fair, Microsoft isn't the only company that neglects developers who aren't on their platform; "not invented here" syndrome seems to impact all software companies eventually!
Wtf. Can you read? I said the exact opposite.
I have been using this one for a long time. I got tired of seeing 30 second ads between every video and AdBlock stripped them out.
How a startup acquisition works...
I like to make some fun out of this "endoresements" thing whenever it pops up with the grid of people, by just running this script:

javascript:setInterval(function() {$('.endorse-all-btn').click()}, 1000)

you don't even need to open Web Inspector/Firebug for that - just post it into URL.

This will keep endorsing hell out of everything for everyone.

Be careful though if you have nervous people amongst your connections - I managed to annoy one of directors of the company I worked for using this.
I didnt realize I was following a political blog.

I also like how you failed to mention that this is a constitutional process that democrats exploit just as frequently as republicans.
Monitoring Linux and Unix Server Temperatures with Opsview
Opsview can be used to monitor server temperature and also the temperature of individual server components (Memory, CPU and Hard drives). This blog post tells you how.
I just checked London, and quality is definitely subpar to Google's Street View
Google is at same position as Microsoft, both of them are not earning any money from this large market share. Not to mention about rampant piracy of applications there.
Can you think of any good ways of finding these niches and things within them? How did your friend find his?

I guess you need to make friends in 'hard' industries and talk to them a lot? There are also meetups for "unsexy startups" starting to pop up.
What are your skills programming language wise, experience etc...
I think they might have attempted to work around some bug in Windows boot loader, and then it kinda stuck.
Central London - the imagery is horrendously low quality. Looks like camera tech from 6 years ago.
This game was beautiful!
Yes, I have also seen peculiarities with Multiple IE. IMO, it's decent for casual testing, but you still need to do testing on real installations of your target platforms.
"jack of all trades" = superior product

"master of one" = inferior product

see also: Worse Is Better, Innovator's Dilemma
WMP and PowerDVD are not free-as-in-beer software.

EDIT: wow, checking now, PowerDVD 'Standard' edition is AU$55 - you can get actual hardware DVD players for less than that!
What an abysmal name. Most of the time you use a web-based map and at least half the time you use a mobile map, you are not looking at "here" but where you want to go.
The commit message includes in its list of modules which are not converted:

- iOS audio output and video display, because author refuses the license change

- Mono, Headphone and Dolby, because author refuses the license change

So there is some dissenting opinion.
This is my website :) (I did not expect that to come on HN, to be honest)

Anyway, the title is, of course, misleading. VLC core, named libVLCcore is LGPL since last year (I did it too in december) and the wrapper for 3rd party applications libVLC was relicensed too at the same time.

This is different, since most modules of VLC are now LGPL.
We speak about codecs, demuxers, format parsers, protocol accesses, filter and outputs.
And those modules are way more important in terms of contributors and lines of code than the VLC core. In fact, we speak here of 230 people with around 300,000 lines of code, compared to 80 people and 80,000 lines of code for the VLC core.

Of course, from a higher-level point of view, all those playback modules are part of the "core of VLC" :)
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How adding indexes to our MongoDB really improved our perfomance
Possibly, yes. But so far, iOS aout and vout are not LGPL.
I did delete some code, and rewrote some. But not for many people.
whose blog? you follow motherjones blog? Or you think HN is a blog? And when you say "you", who do you mean? PG? Me? Motherjones?
Part 3 is coming soon, about FAQ and numbers, but part2 is probably the most interesting one, indeed.
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Yes, they can, which doesn't mean they will.

I understand you may not like BSD/MIT, but LGPL seems pretty reasonable to me.
It all depends on how big/important your software is... if it's something that you're sure you'll never be able to make a living out of and that may be useful for others, why ask for anything else other than an acknowledgement?
I found the book "The definitive book of body language: How to read others's thoughts by their gestures" by Allan and Barbara Pease to be a great read.

The greatest show on Earth - Richard Dawkins was an excellent read.

Surely you're joking Mr Feynman by Richard p.Feynman was terrific read by a very small bit can considerred offensive or at the least dated in its outlook but if you can get past that its great!

I recently finished a book on ID called "Masters of doom" by David Kushner which I rather enjoyed as well.

I also love reading about crackers from the (mostly) 80's and I can recommend.

Cuckoo Egg by Cliff Stoll
Masters of deception
We are anonymous - Inside the hacker world of lulzsec, anonymous and the global cyber insurgency by Parmy Olson

I loved "Underground Hacking Madness and the obsession on the electronic frontier" once I got past the first 2 or 3 chapters (also it was researched by Julian Assange before wikileak and has a chapter about his hacking) An Ebook copy can be found on the authors website http://www.underground-book.net/download.php3

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With a traditional database this typically means a service that is constantly querying for new processing tasks or messages.

Traditionally, but not necessarily; PostgreSQL supports the LISTEN and NOTIFY commands for asynchronous notifications, without polling.