skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you should visit your local cancer ward or rat-eating homeless indian peasants and then decide what's what.
Show HN: boardgamers.me - social netwok for grognards
I built this as a part of the Grails48 Hackathon this past weekend. Since I was a single person team, I only managed to complete login, board game search, and game check-in but it's a start.

Check out the about page for a few more details about what I used to build it.
'Brain on Fire': A Writer Possessed
Yep, thanks for the link. :)

I'm inclined to think that anyone with his success and media profile will inevitably have jealous rivals who think he's a show pony, and that they'd be lining up to stick in daggers now he's down.

So maybe the article is credible, or maybe not, but this kind of thing was always going to to be written regardless of the facts. I'd put far more stock in his undisputable military achievements, which are perfectly sufficient to explain his media profile on their own.
Push all things all the time?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774490
Two most important differences that come to mind are 1) Erlang is dynamically typed language vs statically typed Haskell; 2) Haskell is functional language with lazy evaluation where side effects are the primary concern, Erlang has eager evaluation.
Interaction oriented programming using roles and protocols
Yeah it's all about how much capital you have. People selling "cheap" options whose underlyings are worth 10x more than their entire net worth are playing with fire. Options should always be bought or sold as a proxy for the underlying, not thought of as standalone priced securities, IMHO. I think this is the mental trap that most people fall into when they get screwed by options -- they are seen as just another symbol on their trading platform with a price they can buy and sell. However, they have wildly different dynamics since they are, literally, derivatives.
Chartio (YC S10) - Start to Launch
I never really found the idea of a iPhone dock to be all that necessary/interesting, but I can definitely see the value here. Very cool guys, good luck.
What don't you get? One is on a white background. One is in random orientations, placed in complex scenes, with random fonts, positions, numbers, sizes, shapes and locations and you don't even know where they are.

It's like a game of "Where's Waldo" on freaking crack.

You have literally no idea how complex this stuff is now then do you?
This is why a capitalist economy must be balanced with a robust welfare state. We luckily have an economic system that creates enough wealth to easily take care of the losers it also creates and still leave everyone better off.
It calls into question whether they have the requisite character for the job. Someone who breaks one oath of loyalty (to one's spouse) may not be especially trustworthy in keeping another (to one's country).
Personally, I did. I was lucky enough to get a job at a large organisation that is still very interesting and challenging.

Not everyone can be so lucky though- startups are often doing more interesting stuff than large companies, so there's an appeal.
I was just put on a new Erang/OTP project at work and will be working on it for the next 9 months or so. I'm currently on a "ramp up sprint" to get to learn the language, tools and libraries, then we will move on to development. I'm really enjoying the language. OTP is quite elegant and just awesome. Sure, there are a few annoying things in the language that I have already read about on the Net/here but, I can look past those paper cuts. I've been really diggin' Lisp (Clojure, Racket, CL and Scheme) and other functional languages and have been enjoying the concepts so much. I've really become enamored with functional languages and really don't want to write another lick of Java. I'll keep the Objective-C because I have to, you know why. I am not dissin' (crap, I used that word) Java. But, it is nice to be given the opportunity to think differently (damn, another unoriginal phrase).

Anyway, just giving a shout out to Erlang as I am finding the platform to be very interesting and that makes the day go by much better.
Big Data analysis with Hadoop, Pig and Stack Exchange data dump
I'm glad I got in cheap with their stock :D

We've implemented Open Graph as well for some brands - It appears as a user action on a brand, instead of the brand directly reaching out. That's an implicit recommendation from a friend - Much more powerful than a branch explicitly recommending themselves.
> The financiers like you are the true heros. You get a lot of hookers and blow and we should be thankful for you consuming them.

It's a hard job, but someone's got to do it. Glad you're appreciative.
Well, consider it incentive scale. Everyone wants the same thing, but the founder will benefit but an order of magnitude more than most employees. Just because he's there late doesn't mean everyone else should feel obliged to.
Sinofsky's departure gives me hope for Windows
Flowstone (DSP/Robotics graphical tool) now incorporates Ruby
Do you think startups should never use recruitment firms?
Just Duck It
The Open Graph examples given are: “Bob just watched a video on Socialcam” or “Jane just planned a trip on TripAdvisor”.
Even if Bob and Jane are my dearest friends, why should I care?

"A large percentage of them are related to ecommerce transactions."

This reminds me of a short lived startup called Blippy[1] that attempted to get people to automatically share their credit card purchases. They even got a not insignificant amount of people to share that info -- turns out it just didn't make for a compelling firehose.

I would only care about Jane using TripAdvisor if I myself was planning a trip just then, Google works because there already exists an intent to purchase that they funnel to the highest bidder. Open Graph as presented by the OP will just be mostly noisy events from people that I happen to know.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blippy
I'm disappointed that I don't have a source on this, but from what I understand, you have to sign papers that gives the government full access to your accounts at any time when you join the CIA. For such a high level individual I don't think that the internal spying is unreasonable, especially when it is an understood part of the system.
Did you know that according to the CPI, 2/3 of "public transportation" is airfare?

So in the specific area of "public transportation", the basket favours higher-income households. Not that I think this is necessarily representative (public transit is a tiny slice of the CPI, 1.2%); I just think it's surprising and amusing.
I think he means "Facebook analogue to Google Adwords", not Adsense. Adsense is low CTR / low CPM on non-Google properties.
I think the point is that people should have the luxury to only work 40 hours, and/or properly report overtime and keep their jobs.

Over here if an employer forced one employee to work more than 38 hours a single week, they could be fined up to $6,600. Firing a worker for not working more than that would be unfair dismissal and attract more fines, prosecution etc...

There are provisions for reasonable overtime, but cleaning desks wouldn't fall into that unless it was some kind of emergency... And the employee can work overtime if they want (and are paid for it or get time-in-leiu) but they can't be expected to.
Historic Video: Boxer Sam Langford: The Most Feared Fighter of All-Time
The whole launch seems very poorly thought out. Or am I missing the genius of it?

* no official launch time.

* no early email notifications went out.

* no sense of stock availability.

* high phone limit (5) per user.

* constant site errors.

* constant checkout errors.

* HSPA+ feature typo.
I too decided not to do a postgrad. I'd rather spend money starting my company than paying a university to acquire knowledge which I can get for free on the Internet. Moreover the practical experience I get from starting a business far exceed the theoretical stuff.
Isn't that what Amazon really is?
Skype security issue allows to steal any account
It's been some years since I read it so perhaps my memory is hazy. This is the part I found most objectionable:

> In other words, no matter how many hours you are officially supposed to work when you are new you will put in a lot more to get those projects done. That is ok. No, that is expected because you are going through the learning phase. Your learning is not happening on a practice field but is happing in the big show. So the extra hours and effort are worth it to you and the team.

Then later:

> Microsoft will feel a lot like college in terms of the hours you put in and the environment you work in. It will be fun. It will mean late nights. It will mean "hanging out". All of those same things. That was my experience and when I look around I see the same thing happening now.

Even though your excerpt makes what I would call a more correct point, I still think the above is uncool. Reading it several years ago put me off severely and coming back to it I still think he was wrong to put it that way, even if he partially redeems himself later. I read it as "it's OK and good for low-paid college grads to overwork themselves, but later you won't want to do that."
I just want to point out that this conversation is specific to the USA. Most people in most non USA countries don't have access to the same volume and quantity of streaming content (movies, music, even magazines). Very few people would ever suggest Canadian Netflix could take the place of a good DVD library.
I suppose. I got an ad in my feed this morning from "Deals4every1" selling a set of DVDs(!!!) containing a "viral blogging system" howto. This godforsaken thing was right up there with the very worst banner ads.
Reddit is already my shopping recommendation engine. If I'm looking to buy something, I find the most relevant subreddit and either search for a past post or make a new post. A lot of subreddits will already have a list of the best related equipment. It totally makes sense to formalize it and make it a little easier to discover / use.
Short-term vacation rental arrives in Singapore
Just carry the bare drive, in an anti static bag. That's smaller than an iPhone.
Right, obviously you can only go so far on the steak to hamburger. But there are lots of places for abuse. The problem is that the definition for the CPI keeps changing, and thus, it's meaning over time is less useful.

What this study showed is that perceived inflation is real and doesn't jive with the numbers that the economists produce. Who is right? A 500 person sample will be good to predict the sentiment of the US as a whole. Gallup says that they only need 1,000 people to get +-4% so this is reasonable.

Ask yourself, which is more likely? The entirety of the US population doesn't understand how prices affect them day-to-day. Or that some economists have devised a moderately useful but not flawless metric?

Price formation comes from the relative values that every human being places on the marginal unit of a good. Prices are an emergent property of people interacting chaotically in a marketplace. To suggest that literally EVERYONE's ability to sense the change in price over time you also need to throw out the very people that set the prices to begin with.

EDIT: Link to gallup
http://www.gallup.com/poll/101872/how-does-gallup-polling-wo...
It's hardly a corner-case.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Bayesian Bandits
No worries SideburnsOfDoom, I'm sure it wasn't deliberate.

p.s.: your handle made me smile!
From the linked post [1], 1/4 the power to run pumps instead of fans is a major difference!

Was curious if using local water sources would have any environmental impact from the heat or flow, and found an article talking about the first seawater-cooled center, from only May 2011 [2]. Google apparently creates a 30-year thermal model of the effect on the environment. I hope other corporations take their consideration and transparency as an example.

[1] http://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2012/11/13/google-adopts-wate...

[2] http://gigaom.com/cleantech/google-to-switch-on-worlds-first...
Compare the addresses at http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/decorating/eye-cat... and http://mandydouglass.blogspot.com/2010/10/addressing-envelop... . Those are two representative images I picked from the first google hits for "house number" and "handwritten address" respectively - all the others were comparable. Are you seriously going to claim that the house number is harder to recognize than the handwriting?

I do have an idea (literally, even) that there are additional problems having to do with extracting the house number images themselves from full-motion video, but that's an image registration problem and not an object recognition problem.
The Laws of Money and Meaning
Reflections in Scrum's Silver Mirror
And how on earth seeing suffering/poor people convinces you that the solution is to grab from the rich and give it to the government?

That's one of the less efficient ways to solve most problems, even after discounting corruption.
Not only tickets matter for international applicants, I believe, there are a lot of applicants who have a visa-stuff going on... And this is more troublesome than expensive tickets.
The Wireless card Whitelisting is due to FCC regulation

Does the regulation require that steps be taken to make it difficult for the end-user to modify the device in to a non-certified configuration? If not, I find this answer inadequate.

The whitelist affects other components as well, such as displays. It seems a little nannyish.
Senior Engineer Defined
Maybe you'd be interested in what I'm currently developing: http://www.instahero.com/

I'd love to hear some feedback.
How about FromMaine? It looks like the .com is about to become available.
Having Reddit do it themselves may increase the authenticity of the recommendations. Also you might want to look into subreddits like Redditgifts. As noted before, there is a lot of valuable data hidden in those conversations.
It doesn't feel like Adwords either though. It feels more like as though Google were to start selling rankings in organic search results.

Of course, Google couldn't get away with that because it would torpedo the quality of their product and erode their market share because search doesn't have strong network effects.

It seems like Facebook is betting that the stronger network effects in social will save them from the forces of the free market on this one. I guess we'll see if they're right.
Enterprises Pressure Software Vendors To Clean Up Their Apps
Tasty Pizza Recipes (hungarian blog)
Hey, isn't that David DeAngelo from Double your Dating video, pickup artist dude.
The domestication of livestock and beasts of burden.
If you concede that many/most people aren't aware that the links in the yellow box atop search results are paid results, then Google is essentially selling the first three spots in its search rankings right now and has been for some time.
In case anyone else is wondering like me: the site is http://letsembark.com/
Regarding the bls.gov link you linked....

1) The link explicitly claims that hamburger was not substituted for steak (and the shadowstats link does not contradict this, only claims that it was proposed). So why are you claiming that Greenspan did perform this substitution?

2) I don't find their explanation laughable at all; I find it entirely plausible. And, without having read all of the shadowstats site (only about half of the article on the CPI), I found it ... long on wild claims, short on methodology or references.

With this in mind, I'd be curious to hear a clarification of what you meant, and why you believe it.
I don't know where you went from "here look at this link, it's interesting" to "we've been in a recession for 10 years" but I would tend to agree with you actually.

It's not that the BLS covered anything up, but rather than the CPI is a flawed metric and it's continual revisions always go in the favor of the central bank.

When the dot com bubble burst we had the first ever recession where housing starts and car sales didn't decline. Doesn't that seem strange to you? That smells fishy to me.

I'm not saying that the BLS are a bunch of evil geniuses who through brilliance and skull-duggery keep us all in the dark. I think it's much more plausible that a few key people jigger things to do political favors to others and it makes the CPI look lower than it should.

It's the interaction of everyone in a marketplace that sets prices to begin with. Without people, you can't have prices that are meaningful. So if you want to say that people aren't competent to understand inflation, then it seems to me that you also have to say that people aren't competent to set prices. Since the latter is not true (by definition), I'd suggest that the former doesn't hold either.
They innovated on three frontiers - search engine algorithm, intent based advertising, and data center/infrastructure technology. A startup has to be really good at one thing to succeed. Google was really good at 3 three things right from it's early days.
He's going to have no choice but to pass that cost on to his customers.
Well, it was a generalization but you did not offend me. I guess I am no better than the comments that may have actually annoyed me, huh?

No need to apologize to me, by the way.
> Open Graph as presented by the OP will just be mostly noisy events from people that I happen to know.

Agreed. Seems the basis is sub-par. It shouldn't be friends, it should be people with similar interests. In college people may largely have similar interests. As adults the interests of friends diverge. This is why I like HN but not FB.
Kyocera introduces brand new touch panel
Sitting is the new smoking
Ditto - my partner is poet ... this is neat, but doesn't relate to what poets do nowadays.

That said, this has prompted some very interesting discussion of what kinds of tools /would/ be useful.
Yeah, I am thinking we might be able to contribute something attractive and useful to the community. I just read up on their licensing and we'll see where it goes. http://www.reddit.com/help/licensing

For all I care Reddit can have all the money, or donate it to EFF like we're doing. I just want to show people the amazing stuff that is locked up in forums (and that Referly is a cool way to build/moderate/curate it)!
That's really not true. It's very easy to stumble into a credible claim from an employee that they've been reclassified as overtime-eligible. One easy way to do it is to discipline a team member, or the whole team, by docking pay for coming in late.
Is ringing true anything like being true?
It's probably not the case that everyone would be better off if work weeks were limited to 40 hours because of the administrative costs of ensuring 40 hour weeks. A statutory 40 hour week works when everyone comes into work at the same time, or when people punch clocks. It's much harder for knowledge workers who drop in and out of "flow" at semi-random times.
So, it didn't used to be this way (in recent history). IT industry people making less than $75k/yr used to be able to invoke this law. This was iirc in the early 2000s.

FWIW, exempt/non-exempt status has everything to do with what you do and not what you were "hired as" or if you're salaried or not (salaried non-exempt is possible).
It's simpler to think about the misaligned incentives issue in terms of compensation rather than in job requirements. The issue with many startup jobs is that they underpay relative to their requirements, and get away with it because candidates have a hard time valuing equity grants in unproven and illiquid companies. But this is a market value problem, not a "40 hour work week" problem.
Ubiquity: http://github.com/languages
If a bunch of physicists came out with a paper entitled "The Curious Case of Every Electron Having Slightly the Wrong Charge" they'd be laughed out or arxiv.

How come some economists can say that the system they are studying is "wrong" relative to their models and be taken seriously? If your model doesn't line up with the data, it's wrong!
There is nothing wrong with the most fun jobs paying less than the most boring jobs; that's just supply and demand. For similar reasons, jobs at game studios tend to suck a lot.
Ask HN: Would it be a conflict of interest?
I've been working with a non-profit company for the past five years. I now have been given the opportunity to volunteer at an early-stage non-profit that is in a very similar--if not the same--field. This would just be in my spare time and for fun, but I'm not sure about the legal/ethical issues of doing so.

I've asked some other people for advice, but I'd like to hear some more. Of course, I don't expect to get legal advice online. Rather, I'd like to know if I should avoid going into this realm, tread it with caution, or not even worry about it.
Those aren't the pictures Google works off - cf. maps.
The organic results are still the organic results. Sometimes the ad links are the things the user is looking for -- and that's great for everybody -- but when they aren't, the organic results are still there to give the users what they want.

If you open up all the results to bidding, you can end up pushing the most user-demanded results entirely to the side whenever there are enough advertisers willing to pay money to fill up the entire page, which creates a much more substantial negative impact on the user experience.
Judging from the reviews for Curiosity in the Google Play store, it was not time well-spent. (I would provide my own comments on the game, but it insists on crashing before I can do anything with it.)

If it is a joke...Mr. Molyneux would have better spent the time on fixing his abysmally bug-ridden game.
I agree entirely. I worked in Shanghai for 4 years and hired a lot of Chinese developers. There is some very good talent out there. You need to work at finding it, but that's true everywhere. I think the main difference is that community groups and networking events are really not done out there. And if you're going out to bars looking for developers, well, you're doing it wrong.
Besides the fact that the past does not predict the future, especially with something to do with human nature and economics, if everyone did the same thing, then there would be no return left (after inflation).

Also, some historical data from the S&P 500:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
Between $500 and $1500 per sms? Where's the justice in that?
I thought about that. But consider, if you are on a book tour or your job as DCI takes you from place to place. Investigators will map the location of each access point you used. Airports, coffee shops, hotels, whatever. Then they'll match their map up with the various possible suspects. They'll look at security cam video and inspect hotel guest lists and airline passenger manifests. Bingo!

Thus, you need to be logging on from IP addresses that have no connection to you or your whereabouts. Maybe if you could arrange to VPN into a Russian office that does not keep logs and laughs at FBI subpoenas. Even then, there's the danger they traffic-analyze the data in and out of the VPN server.
My advice is for Peter to have a read of "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" by DeMarco & Lister.
Something I have been curious about for a bit; how do you include textual data as input into a NN?
Why post this stuff? He offers opinion without explanation, this is the same type of JavaScript "wisdom" that probably had him following the conventions he is now nixing in the first place. I'm not sure if his "dogma" disclaimer at the end is ironic or a cop-out.
Maybe, but probably not.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2209269
>There shouldn't really be any reason for anyone to starve in such a world.

There is, because having food when your neighbor starves gives you power over them. Even in a world where all the work is done by robots, unless all the decisions about what work is done, how much and for whom, are also being made by robots, someone will find a way to oppress someone else with the system.
But, they are equally deployable in similar circumstances. Right?