skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk to folks that work there currently (LinkedIn helps with this) and ask questions when you interview about work/life and whether or not overtime is compensated. As a developer, you have the luxury (that most workers don't these days) of being highly in demand so you can afford to be particular about this if it's a concern.

Startups and the game dev industry are probably a bad choice if you're looking to avoid 40hr+ weeks. Boring SMB software product companies have been bad on this for me (anecdotal, I know) due to misaligned incentives (mainly sales selling product that didn't exist yet.) Consulting has been great on this for me, assuming the folks running the place care about lasting client relationships & quality more than maximizing billable hours.
Amicus (YC S12) Pulls In $3.2M To Bring Social Smarts To Non-Profit Fundraising
How are you measuring productivity? Dollar value? If as you say that productivity has increased because of automation and computers then how are employees justified in wanting more?

Simply because a tool makes you more productive does not make the job more valuable. What it does is make it so whom you work for is more competitive. This is usually reflected in price drops. This in turn means more people have access to the products and services.

So, people are benefiting from their increased productivity, whether by their own hands or automation and computers. Look back thirty years ago, how many people have big screen televisions and powerful computers at home? See, its not a one sided equation as your view implies.

The rewards of this increase in productivity can be as simple as once were outlandish luxury items now being found in every household. Look back a generation and see what they had. Would you live like that and give up what you have now? I remember not having air conditioning until my parents built a new home in the late seventies. Having one TV because they were damn expensive. I remember our first PC. The fact these are everywhere are as a result of the increases in productivity which pushes down prices and increases choice.

Don't measure only one side.
Text messaging falls for first time in U.S.
Frankly, their solution was good enough and could have escaped detection indefinitely, if only they had stuck through with the discipline required. It was an emotional, not a technical failure that exposed the whole thing.
Looks awesome, great job! One thing though: if you have a YT video embedded (like in the example) and you edit some text or whatever, the video keeps flashing. I'm guessing you are refreshing the whole right pane. It's rather annoying and creates needless requests to YT (not that they'd notice, but still).
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Fixing Application Cache Community Group
Both probably evolved gradually, so it might be hard to give it an invention date.
is that 360 degree camera feature software or hardware or both?
> RabbitMQ has some pretty serious limitations related to it being implemented on Erlang that keep it pretty strictly in the realm of being a message queue rather than a generic queue.

Interesting, where can I learn more about this claim? What are the incompatible facets of a generic queue and Erlang? What is an example of these generic queues (or if it's only an ideal, what are its characteristics)?
Can Hadoop Survive Its Weird Beginning?
It was a great article, and I was happy to see David write something with a positive slant. He's a deft operator of flamethrowers, but it's nice to get the other side of him too.
Surprised OP didn't mention OCB which has advantages over his suggestions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCB_mode
http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/ocb-faq.htm#what-is-o...
Hipmunk Launches Improved Hotel Search
A friend and I built Tou (a web clone of Mou) a few months ago. It supports dropbox and HTML5 local storage :-)

http://tou.whiskeydrivendevelopment.com
The author mentioned this risk in the second paragraph:

> ... in fact, you can lose everything even if the stock goes up, but not by enough.
Airbnb Debuts ‘Local Lounges’ In SF
Death to QRCodes
"I'm not sure if your point is that Occupy is unneeded because churches already fill that role for some people, or if it is that it's surprising that folks at HN (who are predominantly non-believers) would be involved in something 'church-like', or if you're simply pointing out the similarity."

I was pointing out that our community changes because "we", and by that I mean the people living in the community, go outside and change it. Spectating, and commenting loudly about how screwed up things are never changes anything.

I think it is wonderful that the Occupy efforts are helping to teach people this very important truth. This teaching, which has nothing to do with gods or mythology, is something that has gotten lost with people who have never been part of a Church community service group. I literally brought tears to my eyes to see folks in the New Jersey shore suddenly get this bomb this goes off in their head that there is no "government" or "them" who know what you need and how to fix it, there is just "us." And suddenly they become catalysts for huge groups of people who want to help but don't know what needs helping with. The CBS news story of the sisters who lived there dispatching volunteers with tasks because they knew the people, they had found out the things needed doing, and provided just enough guidance to let people do what they wanted to do, help.

I've found you can tell people that but they don't always believe it, they will say "Oh right, if I go out and start painting this three mile long sound-wall which is a blight because its covered in graffiti like anyone is going to help with that." And then they start painting and people just show up and start painting with them. It is easier for folks who believe in God because they just assume God will help them out, its much harder for folks who don't have faith. Occupy lets people experience for themselves the raw power of community action. That is a good thing.
I never really got the reason why the switched back to PostgreSQL. It kind of read like "I was told to do this and it ended up being way less painful than I thought it would be". In the end it doesn't sound like they really gained that much either.
I don't want to downplay your point, because it's certainly not trivial identify a problem where people are willing to pay for the solution to that problem.

However, if you know anyone in an industry other than software development, this can be a great source of ideas. Just ask a few questions about what their day to day job responsibilities entail. Then sit back and let them talk. I find that most people pretty quickly start talking about the pain points. Some of those pain points are likely to be something that people would pay to solve. Plus you give your friend/family member/acquaintance a chance to vent which they probably appreciate as well.
Everlater acquired by AOL, merged into MapQuest
Show HN: Fork you is the insult for true geeks (T-shirt)
It might be helpful to add the article's subtitle, so that it reads: "Why Steven Sinofsky is out at Microsoft - Let's Make Some Guesses"
"No" is just a word that I'll frequently hear before I hear "Yes!".
Proposition 30: Yet Another Way California Screws Entrepreneurs Over
My reasoning along the same line is that there will be many more applications for high-end software development skills, vastly exceeding the rate at which new people gain high-end software development skills.

Glad to be a "just a programmer" right about now.
If you want to learn to code, start with Udacity:

www.udacity.com

It is a great resource, and it is free.
Audio: McAfee, Still in Hiding, Predicts ‘They Will Track Me Down’
I'm not the OP but here's my take on it: as we evolve so do our tools, and as more and more people start creating their businesses online, the tools to support that will become easier and more efficient it'll get to do that.

Today you don't need a programmer to setup your online website with a store attached to it (and that could be 100% of your business), imagine what you will be able to achieve in a couple of years by yourself.
Doesn't encrypt then mac allow you to reject messages prior to decryption?
6 Guaranteed Ways to Increase Customer Lifetime Value with Email Remarketing
What are business hours when you are a developer platform used by developers globally?
Agreed. It's pretty annoying to be told "here is the reason" when the article is "spammy guesses, how about some ads?"
Uh.. they didn't 'cut out' anything. If anything, it's the carriers that are stupid for not adopting the same standard of using sim cards (Verizon and Sprint don't use sim cards..). I think they wanted to lock people in to their service.
As a software developer I love this part about my job. But its these freedoms that I feel are now challenged by the App Stores.I hope they don't foretell the future of our industry.
Not bad for a startup that was started by 2 financial guys who learned to code to build their first startup.
How can I reduce existential risk from AI?
That's a bummer. The $30/month unlimited data plan plus $15/month for legit hotspot service isn't too bad, though. I'm considering that.
I'm not @meriksson - but I feel the same way.

They're going to become more scarce because computing is being used in more and more places. The demand for developers is increasing - not decreasing - and I don't see any change in that in the next decade minimum.

Yes there are more folk coming into the field. Yes there are more places where smart code is letting people do more with less. Despite that I think it's harder now to find good developers than it was ten years back because the spaces where you need developers us growing stupidly fast.
Instead, put your subconscious to work on it. Think about it in the shower. Bounce names around off hand. Be patient.

I'm a big fan of this technique in many aspects of my work. Whether it be a programming problem or needing to work through a creative idea, if I'm not 100% confident in a solution I step away from the problem for a day or two and usually have a lot more insight when I come back to it.

BTW, glad to see you guys moving forward; I check your blog once in a while and haven't seen much lately. Good luck!
The only thing I have to say to that is "lol"
the lookmark blog post links to "datagenics" (typo)
Nice work Chartio team!
You should've tried a costless collar. Buy a 10%-30% falling put using the proceeds from selling a 10%-30% rising call on a stock you already own (this is critical - as it is your collateral on this trade). Your loss is capped, and you can still participate in gains (Mark Cuban did this back when he sold Broadcast.com - see here: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Cuban-survive-the-dot-com...).

If your stocks fall, your put is triggered, you sell out at a forced 10%-30% loss, however, as you still have all the cash at that level you can just buy it back, if it falls further you can just buy it back with your cash and redo a collar. If your stocks rise 10%-30%, the call is triggered, and you must sell out at a forced 10%-30% gain, but since you still have all that cash from the rise, you can just go ahead and put on another collar at the new level. Or you can just hold onto your cash.

The collar costs you nearly nothing (simultaneously buying insurance with the proceeds from selling it on things you already own), and you can move around the price levels a lot, "collaring" your wealth to 2 surety levels - aka you will be worth a guaranteed spread between X and Y.

What you wish to do with your cash after the triggers depends on your risk preference, market dynamics, your future predictions of the world economy and the company at hand.
Just ordered a N4 16 GB, it seems they're still letting some stock out today for the US. 4:34 pm CDT.
I only said it is being used, not how good the products are... And CouchDB is a perfect example - from what I saw they use Erlang for what it's good at and use other tools where it's not appropriate - that's exactly how Erlang should be used[1].

[1] Or at least Joe Armstrong says so in his book, "Programming Erlang".
Hear, hear.

I will also say that most people that will excel at data science may not ever be pushing the envelope of statistical methods enough to warrant writing a research paper. Being able to apply and understand the state of the art algorithms is inherently a great skill to have.

The world is a dirty place, and just like there are thousands of applications that just need a developer to implement a CRUD app to expose an API on the web, there are tens or hundreds of domain specific problems to where a 'data scientist' can implement the state of the art data cleaning and machine learning algorithms.

However, being able to understand and apply graduate level textbook statistical methods to a large dataset (bigger than an Excel file) might be boring to some research scientists, it is cool as hell to see what the data is saying.
That's an unrealistic standard: journalists are very rarely experts in what they report, but their flawed accounts can still be useful. The reader just has to be aware and avoid overconfidence in the particular details, when those are filtered through flawed, erroneous, and oversimplified sources.

You can still extract some signal from a noisy or biased channel: bad information is better than no information, if you have some inkling of how it's bad.
Agents were able to use “digital forensic techniques to determine the person behind the keyboard at the time the emails in question were sent,”

How does this work? Does this refer to tracking IP addresses accessing the account? And is this information provided by Google?
This looks amazing. Absolutely great work.

Seems to be tailored more towards angel funded and higher companies, but I plan to take advantage of the free month best I can for my project.
Added part of the article's subtitle to make it more clear.
>If there was a way to see expanded permissions before allowing a program to update perhaps he would have not updated at all?

You really can't do that on the App Store?
c, G, and h need predefined measures of meter, second, and kg to be defined, whether or not they're "arbitrary". There true measure is 1, 1, and 1.
Resigning is honorable, but he might have kept his job if he made a public apology. The American people are generally quick to forgive public figures whose sins have come out and then confess. Lance Armstrong, on the other hand, is not likely to recover his image.
Chip designer MIPS acquired for $60m; patents sold for $350m
2600 Off The Hook leaves WBAI in protest
The problem with BitNami Cloud is that they are AWS only and the pricing model is highly opaque. You pay once for Bitnami and then AGAIN for AWS. According to AppFog's pricing you pay only one source, namely us and never Amazon or Rackspace or HP or anyone else, and pricing is solely RAM-based, which means that it's next to impossible to incur costs that you don't actively choose.
fascinating breakdown, thanks for crunching the numbers Dave. a few new additions to my rss reader are in order.

i'd also like to see which articles are returned to most often (ie used essentially as references), so repeat visitors. this could also be a measure of quality. i bet PG would win here hands down.
Foxconn Replacing Human Workers With Robots
Lessons in the Art of Negotiation
Guess you didn't get the memo that worse is better.

That "common nonsense" you speak of (aka Java) runs on billions of devices and handles trillions in revenue. Erlang keeps legacy phone switches running. It's like people who say X language is amazing and lament the crap that is English.

Who cares?

English runs the world economy.
Yeah we debounced the Youtube rendering by 1 second for that reason, but it still flashes if you aren't typing continuously =\
There are more than 5 countries the US currently has trade sanctions or embargoes on, aren't there? That would make this blog post an admission of violating some federal laws, wouldn't it?

IANAL, I don't know why my mind jumps to such things... I doubt any website's been prosecuted for not having some kind of country blocklist.
Maybe the heuristic:

description of primary data set + "Analyst"

might be a good way to come up with more specific job titles.
Are there any NFC focused startups?
Nope, 8-5 M-F is standard.
* H.R.6529 - ECPA 2.0 Act of 2012 - http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h6529/show

* H.R.6530 - Global Free Internet Act of 2012 - http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h6530/show
This is a good intro to something everyone analytical should know something about.

It's also worth knowing that overall, most options expire worthless, so apparently selling them is a better game than buying them. Also spreads are typically pretty large so trading them profitably requires big moves.

The built-in 'cost' of options and futures is of course 'time decay' as they are all dated and you pay more for a date further in the future.

I think they'd be very useful if you found yourself in a position with a large amount of restricted publicly-traded stock. I'd imagine you couldn't legally just lock in your equity by going short in a retail account but markets are so highly-correlated now that you probably wouldn't even need options on your particular stock to afford yourself some protection against many downside situations. Rather you might just own puts on the closest-related index. It won't be free of course but if you spent 5% of your position as "insurance" until you could sell it could prove to be worth it versus weathering a loss due to overall supply/demand forces that could take the sector and market down 50% or more without any substantial change in your own company's numbers.
Good point, last I remember pintrest is more popular than MySpace.
Ask HN: College: Full Courseload vs. Less Courses + Extracurriculars
I'm a current college student trying to decide what would be the best path to take:

1. Graduate with a major in Economics by taking ~15 credits per semester (this is the school average)

2. Graduate with a major in Economics and a minor in Computer Science by taking ~21-22 credits per semester

Option 1 clearly leaves me with more free time to pursue extracurricular activities, internships, etc. Also, I would likely end up with a higher GPA.

Option 2 would allow me to immerse myself in a field I'm passionate about (computer science), but would likely come at the expense of no free time and a lower GPA.

Career-wise, I'm passionate about finance, technology and entrepreneurship. I've been exploring career options at VCs, tech startups, etc.

In light of my aspirations, which do you think is the better option?
I don't want to put words in meriksson's mouth, but from my point of view our society is becoming more and more dependent on technology but is not becoming more aware of how it works. As the expectations of software and hardware capabilities continually increase, there will be an increased need for people that can meet those expectations. New tools and techniques can definitely help to the existing population of developers to accomplish more, but I think overall more developer talent will be necessary to write all the software that needs to be written. At the same time it seems that there are few students going through school now that are interested in the types of learning that software development requires (science, math, logic, etc.). This is just my opinion, based on things I have been told by friends and family who are teachers. I admittedly don't have metrics to back this up.
Yup good call, the first call to the interval shouldn't assume focus
The phone is GSM based, Verizon and Sprint use CDMA. If the market for the phone was just the US, making it GSM only may not be a great choice. However, outside of the US, the rest of the world is almost exclusively GSM.
> Actually, I think, it makes no difference. Look at Star Trek, a large series of civilizations which are pretty much variations on the same human theme.

Honestly, without an actual alien sapience to compare ourselves to, we haven't a clue what similarities or differences there can be. Fiction written by human beings is limited to the imagination of human beings and the interest of human beings.

I have never found the authorial claims of how different species or races in science-fiction or fantasy or horror are to be particularly convincing. They're just humans proxying questions of racial stereotypes.
The description of the requirements sounds like a very close match with what ExactTarget's "SocialEngage" service offers. If you checked it out and dismissed it, I'd be interested to hear why.
> Guess you didn't get the memo that worse is better.

In what sense? Why do I have to paste this link: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html here of all places?
The comments above are talking about the long term future when robot production fully takes over. How are apples or Foxconn current plans relevant?
I never quite believed in the 40-hour week. It kills every possibility of doing anything else other than work in your life. I prefer the 36 hour week. Work 6 days a week instead of 5, but get 2 extra hours a day to dedicate to whatever you want.
I don't disagree...I've found the lack of GSM support on Verizon frustrating over the years. Unfortunately, Verizon effectively kills the competition for us in terms of coverage and price at a corporate level.
I think providing generalized software and plugins that non programmers can use for say blogging and ecommerce will always be somewhat limited. Once you get to a certain size the plugins will need customization to really work the way you want them to.

I do have a bit of a biased perspective though, instead of looking for a non programming solution I just jump into the code an make it work the way I want. It is amazing sometimes to see what tools people have cobbled together on a website to get away without programming knowledge.
Data Scientist simply means a developer who also knows statistics. Here's how to sniff them out:

1. What is you favorite programming language and why?

2. Which is your least favorite programming language and why?

3. Explain how Bayesian spam filtering works.

4. How do you determine if a given data sample is statistically significant?

5. Suppose we ran a brand advertising campaign on radio and on television. Neither ad campaign uses special tracking codes or custom landing pages, both ads simply mention the web site address. What tools and methodology would you use to measure the response rate from radio ads vs. tv ads, and predict the total response that will generated from each ad?
Wow, the hypocrisy of using such poorly veiled ad hominem in an attempt call out what you apparently feel is mine, is almost comical. I'd ask you re-read what I said more carefully. It really wasn't nearly as extreme or insulting a statement as you seem to think. Certainly doesn't seem even remotely worth such personal ire.
Do we have any evidence that people are actually paying that price?
I agree with your assertion and also think that the increased demand for developers in more places is creating a lot of noise which makes it difficult to match up qualified developers with software that needs to be written. This in itself could be a business idea. Recruiters and job boards are a pretty inefficient way to solve the problem. There have been some startups previously featured on HN that are trying to fix that problem, but I think the field is still wide open.
>> It kind of is, I think RabbitMQ, CouchDB and Riak are doing ok, for example.

And scalaris [1]. For me it's killer app for Erlang.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/scalaris/
Encryption in Cloud Computing
*billionaire. Just so we are all on the same page.