skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it was definitely good for a laugh, but not much else. Honestly what's worse, a few new inexperienced users or a completely irrelevant front page for a few days? I'd rather deal with the users. Hopefully the moderators can take care of this flood :-).

I suggest eliminating karma awarded for the recent submissions and associated comments, plus increase their gravity factor in the Arc code so they fall off the front page faster.
Self-reported Happiness by State
Debugging Sempahores
Cloudo
This is sure to drive you to use Erlang!
Are you guys single or married? Would it be possible to share an apartment? Productivity will definitely increase if you're around each other for 8-10 hours a day but $1000/month seems like a lot if you're trying to keep costs low.

Another possibility could be looking into office spaces and startup incubators that rent out small (and crappy) offices for new startups. The rent is super cheap and you usually get fast internet and access to conference rooms. This option depends on where you're located though, as not every city will have these.
I agree, but I'd still encourage everyone to upvote hardcore hacker interest topics.

If in the past you might have ignored a Haskell article because you've tried it and you like Erlang better, upvote it now.

If in the past you might have upvoted a borderline HN article, consider leaving it alone now.
Utah is happiest. Or is it?:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/03/eveningnews/main51...
Also seems this post is in direct response to a question he received at his Q/A. A link to the blog post about his talk was posted by another user just recently (can't seem to find the user atm), http://www.rubyrailways.com/dhh-fuck-the-real-world/
That might work.Sure it will probably make the site hotter, but as long as potential users are evaluated, it probably won't hurt the quality of the site.

If we shut the door to new registrations, we definitely shouldn't make an invite only available from a member. I'm sure I would have had trouble getting an invite that way.

What might work is deciding on a growth rate that can be handled by the site and the community, and then limiting the number of sign-ups each month, or even day. We could just use a list of email addresses for new users and send out X number of invitations a day.

And we could also do more discourage those wacky comments. We could have new users do a short test, something trivial that requires them to have actually read the user guidelines. Maybe a multiple choice quiz where they have to distinguish between a trollish comment and an acceptable comment. Also we could start them out with a probationary account with stricter rules. Maybe if their account is newer than 5 days, and they have less than -8 karma, they get banned, or forced to read the site guidelines again before they posted more comments.

Though if the site does implement anything like an invite system it's going to be hard. Some people are going to accuse the site of being elitist. So it would have to be communicated that any rules are solely for all comments civil and professional, not because we are trying to exclude anyone. Hey, I like some of the pun threads on reddit, and trolls on yahoo answers, but I think this site would get ruined if even a few trollish comments were allowed.
Seeing that many Erlang links is truly entertaining - a true phenomenon
i call collusion. somewhere there some back channel irc rolling...
Replace free blogs with tech buzz and publicity from established blogs and its exactly the same thing in eyes of google. This would never get you banned.
It's not a defend the wealthy, it's a defend what you earned, and that you should not have your wealth stolen from you by jealous people who wish they had what you had. I'm not wealthy. Income inequality is not by definition bad.

Your self-righteous attitude is disgusting, do you live at a subsistence level funneling all of your extra income to the needy around the world? If not, then how can you demand that others skip their steak to provide health care for someone else.
"You'll discover, for example, that California's 14th district, located between San Francisco to San Jose, has the highest well-being index level. That district [is] considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley..."

Presumably, like most maps, this would be more interesting on a county-by-county basis.
I've been laughing so hard at the extreme geekiness of these articles, for some reason the video on youtube was of the funniest things I've seen in a long time :D
"I don't know if there are programmers out there whose pseudo-language is functional. Maybe it's just human nature to think imperatively."

A lot of time it just kills me that "if" statements don't default to returning the true branch or false branch. You need the ternary conditional operator in Java and other C-derivatives, and in Python you need to resort to some hack with and/or precedence.

I'm also wondering if I should declare all variables final in Java, and only change that default if I really, really have to.
actually live with our parents right now to keep costs even lower ;-)
but yeah I've seen incubators for 600$ for a cubicle that would fit in 2 people.
Some additional snarky commentary on the Utah results: http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/03/10/united-sta...
Statistics: Erlang Distribution
BSD, MIT or Apachev2 is my preference. I really don't like the GPL and it does tend to turn off some folks from using open source projects. I would not be too concerned about someone taking the work closed source even if you do go BSD.
Definitely the best Erlang title so far.
Haskell is more elegant, but erlang feels a bit more practical. In particular because of erlang's dynamic type system and symbols. If you are writing distributed software, erlang wins easily.
Tuesday Ramblings
Ask HN: Erlang -- Does it really prevent hair loss?
Ok. I had to do that.
Termite: Erlang-style concurrency in Scheme
New Startup Incubator (in Austin, TX) Adds New Mentors, Calls for Companies to Join
what are your experiences with working in the same place you sleep? isn't it nice to be able to go to an office? Isn't there a risk that you'll start wasting time on stuff you'd never do if you were in an office?

I know this is just self-control, but if you can trick urself into being more productive because your in an office environment I feel this could be worth the additional money spent on rent.
Ok everybody want BSD, so it's the way to go. About someone closing the source in a proprietary application, who cares as long as we can still access and hack on our source BSD-licensed? Ok we have a license :) Thanks
I'm very interested in this, but I do not see the chart. Could you please post a comment on how I can see it and why you find it interesting.
ConcurrentLua: Erlang-style concurrency in Lua
Capital Factory: new YC clone in Austin, TX
Yeah, I realize that. I'm just (half-jokingly) saying that if the inside joke results in more erlang articles being posted, that wouldn't be as devastating as the kind of inside jokes that take over other sites.
The slow death of handwriting
URGENT: Please read if you have any information about Tony Morris

http://www.nabble.com/-scala--URGENT%3A-Please-read-if-you-h...

Also please upvote this submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512491
Programmers Unite How to get on Digg…
I am in total agreement that all of these "boring" stories are far more interesting than most of the interesting stories have been.

Er, I think that makes sense.

Anyhow, maybe now we can pick a Language of the Day, or some other geeky topic to vote up on the front page each day of the week? Maybe C Efficiency Hacks, or Interesting Uses of Graph Algorithms, or ...
Concert Tickets Get Set Aside, Marked Up by Artists, Managers
Greetings,

I am so glad I found this site. My two other favorite sites are valleywag and peoplemagazine.com. The only thing I really needed was a site devoted to Erlang. I'm glad I found it. I'm adding it to my Internet Explorer favorites.

thanks
Yes, it is an amusing joke, but this is just silly. I dare day, it is now counter to what PG intended. Specifically the Thread Starting Post.
Facebook’s Real-Time Homepage Goes Live Today
Where do you live? In SF there is a new art space where you can rent an office space that would fit 3 people for $450/m.
It's pretty small, though. I'm talking 3 people at the same big dinner table.

I like having somewhere else to work but I don't really like traditional office space. The best spaces I've worked at were a huge loft style apartment and an old house. Thus I'd suggest a shared apartment, BUT:

One thing about office space vs. apartment space is that office space is usually much more negotiable than apartment space. You can probably talk away the $6K advance and lower the price. Aside from the times during boom economies and maybe always on the island of Manhattan, office landlords are often borderline desperate.

On the other side of the coin, if you're looking at living spaces and suggest to the landlord you're planning on using the apartment for an office, they probably won't rent it to you. So don't mention it.

Another thing you can do is sublease a corner of a space where another company got stuck in an overpriced lease last year.
think of it terms of option value. its relatively cheap to invest talent into something with bigger (as a function of time) payoff. when you make the point he is talented you are right, this makes the discrepancy in option value larger.
Boring is fine. All Erlang, all the time is a problem
It appears the original submission was lost in the mounds of Erlang submissions. I do not know much about it, but it looks legitimate to me, and I don't mind looking foolish if I'm wrong: but I would feel terrible if I did nothing when someone's life was on the line.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512491

I am reposting because I think the other submission is so old it fell off the new page, and will have a hard time making the front page at this rate.
Then why are you here?

Honestly, if you enjoy reddit, why waste your time here?
Reddit is bigger, more diverse and customizable.
Does anyone know how secure this is? I'm assuming that the traffic is unencrypted, so technically your packets could be intercepted.
Rent a two bedroom apartment fro one of you. It will be cheaper than office space and save rent at the same time.

Alternative: most cities, towns even, have parks of steel buildings with garage space and a small office, pretty cheap. Also executive suites, they are expensive by the square foot, but cheap overall and you get to use conference rooms, etc.
That clarifies it for me, thank you.
Maybe, deep down inside, every programmer here has an obsession with Erlang...and just needs an excuse to submit/promote articles about it.
The conundrum of ‘FREE’
I reposted your submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512587

I think your original is too old, so it's fallen off the new page - which means not in front of enough eyeballs to get voted up and likely won't make the front page at that rate.
Or in a few years it could be - remember when HN was not only about Erlang?
i love hacker news
pretty much as reliable as IP, and that is not reliable.

put TCP and UDP on top of it and it works fine.

use a VPN and go through that and you're good to go.
Feedback on open source "home server"
I have been spending some time supporting an open source home server from www.amahi.org

It's easy to install and will eventually target "consumer" users.

At this stage you get users/file share creation and authentication, a VPN, and importantly, the ability to install more applications over the web.

For example. the newsreader sabnzbd can be installed with one click after a community member spent a few hours packaging it for deployment. This pleased a whole bunch of people who had previously tried to install sabnzbd on a 'normal' Linux server and failed.

The question is, how best to let open source developers know about this?
What iPhone needs: Core Location Daemon
Even better: esoteric languages. Maybe someone will write the first ever HTTP server in brainfuck?
I suggest eliminating karma awarded for the recent submissions and associated comments, plus increase their gravity factor in the Arc code so they fall off the front page faster.

I vote we just let it all die a natural death, and not mess with the experiment that is Hacker News.
Why this matters to Hacker News:

http://cv.tmorris.net/

A small sampling from that page reads as follows:

Tony actively participates and contributes to the open source software community.

* Scala core libraries §
* ScalaCheck §
* Scalaz §
on python - not anymore, since 2.5 (probably earlier) you can do:

(x if cond else y) which is essentially (cond ? x : y)
You are not an island and what price society decides to set for its services is not theft, they are not stealing from you and you do not earn anything outside the platform society provides for you which enables that earning in the first place. Society has a right to take a share of your earnings; so says our constitution.

Extreme income inequality is bad because it's bad for society as a whole and at some point society as a whole becomes more important than the individual.

Your self-centered fuck the rest of the country it's my money attitude is equally disgusting. We aren't talking about the whole world, we're talking about our country, because that's what our social contract obligates us to support with our taxes. I pay my taxes, don't cheat on them, and don't whine about it and call it stealing like a self centered narcissist who thinks his right to property matters more than someone else right to life. It doesn't, not even in the natural world; people would just kill you and take your property by force to survive.

If, as a collective, society decides to limit the maximum wealth an individual is allowed to obtain and funnel it back down to limit the amount of poverty, thus capping both extremes and making life generally better for the vast majority of people, well... I'm good with that as are the vast majority of people.

Inequality is not bad, you have to let people reap rewards for their efforts, up to a point, but not to the point that it damages us all.
... and you'll be much faster than you used to be in not much time.

If you know someone who types 70wpm with 2 fingers or 120wpm without a proper technique I'd like to meet him.
99% of the web is low quality drivel, often wrong, misinformed and uneducated opinion pieces.

If he was writing all of that content himself would you still have a problem? If not, then what makes him any different than any other two bit blogger - you (presumably) and I included?

If outsourcing is your problem, then that's another story altogether. The provider he linked to seems to output relatively high quality pieces. One would suppose that you could get a refund on your $8 if you really were dissatisfied.
The author of this post is the same person who created the site to get hired by Twitter. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510591) The timing of this post and the visibility of it, really, really stinks.
Finally, finally, the HN community has done a group joke. I'm glad.
Coffee shops ftw. It's like having a ton of offices, all around town.
[Edit] I just realized this reads as if I think we should only save people who are worthwhile hackers. That is not what I meant. What I mean is that I think it is appropriate to post to HN, because based on his CV, many of his peers would likely see it if it was on HN. We are not an amber alert service, but if a well-known developer is missing, HN is where I would turn to. [/edit]

Why this matters to Hacker News (in addition to it being a person in need):

http://cv.tmorris.net/

A small sampling from that page reads as follows:

Tony actively participates and contributes to the open source software community.

* Scala core libraries §
* ScalaCheck §
* Scalaz §
I found this site as a "sample" of SEO writing from the guy he links to. Seems to be high enough quality to me.

http://www.businessaviationtraining.com/
Of course they are. They are de rigueur in the realm of high-end analog audio equipment (which digital still can't touch btw). Tube amps provide linear frequency response and near-instantaneous slew rates that transistors can't touch.
I'm relatively new here, is it common for HN to be flooded with a single topic for a day? It's rather annoying.
[VID]Torrent Droid: Take pic of barcode at the store & your computer will DL the torrent while you drive home
Definite improvement! Thanks for the information.
It looks like a lot of stuff, but try to do a pile of overestimated assets costing 1 trillion dollars, it wont fill your pocket, and today won't buy anithing.
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't like the example used.

I found the twittershouldhireme blog a good lesson: KNOW your audience. That girl was surely noticed by Twitter execs and she did something simple that no one else in her position thought to do.

Erlang posts also belong here and politics usually does not, but don't pick on the twittershouldhireme girl. She's fantastic.
If [the proof of file name deleted] is backed by other evidence, like ISP logs, CPS will likely hold [the case] valid. In this example, the suspect cant deny it was him instead a housemate or neighbour.

It always adds.
Erlang and the Great Computer Language Shootout
The creator of the site in another thread said the site was running slow due to a sudden influx of traffic, and suggested we try to talk about something like Erlang that wouldn't be so interesting.

Yes, it is very unusual. In almost two years I've never seen it happen.

BTW, in general, jokes are not done here -- it's mostly serious stuff about technology and startups. ("things a hacker might be interested in") In this case, it was a simple suggestion that got way out of hand. So if you make a joke in a thread, apologize and try to say something interesting. Otherwise they'll down-vote you.
Using the GPS would impact the battery life.

I can't say about the cell tower triangulation. Presumably the phone could send its list of nearby towers and has to keep that list updated anyway to stay connected, so that should be a minimal effect.

The next question is why only iPhones? Presumably the cell operating companies have the same information from their end of the connection and could make it available for any phone number on request without any impact on your battery life. Of course being phone companies it would cost $5/mo to keep 3 services informed and if you informed a 4th then it would be $0.25/update for a $1800 overage charge.
I did a cntrl+f on this page for the word 'incorporate' and didn't find one reference.

Incorporation solves most of these problems:
- it forces you to write everything down
- it forces you to assign roles
- it forces you to establish a board of directors
- it forces you to pay out only in dividends at times agreed on by the board of directors

no more problems! one partner wants out? buy his shares!
Don't down vote him simply because you don't agree with him. Leave an intelligent and thoughtful reply instead.

Upvoted to balance it out.
As of 22:12 European time, it's the first page and the second page. Olé!
Be the next Facebook? Rent their old downtown Palo Alto offices
More people visiting a site does not make it bad..but more submissions and vote-ups could be the reason for the dilution. Just make that process as hard as possible. How hard can it be to make a user-unfriendly html-hiendish registration page, eh ? :)
This is horrible advice. Sure, you should always deal with boredom and a lack of motivation in your career, but that doesn't mean quitting after two weeks.

If the job entailed doing something new, for instance a sales job for me since I haven't done a lot of sales, you should a least stick it out. I'd really doubt that you would have the knowledge and experience to be successful at a totally new task after two weeks.

And if the job tasks you hated, weren't new for to you, I question the level of research you did before accepting the job. Basically, quitting before two weeks should only be for huge problems, like if someone with a potentially deadly allergic reaction to peanuts was asked to work in a peanut processing plant. Those issues should all be taken care of before you accept the job.

Also the company is making a big investment in hiring you, so I'd consider it almost unethical to quit a job after weeks just because I disliked it. She should have worked with her boss and the company to improve her job satisfaction.
I didn't downvote him because I disagreed with him, I downvoted him because of the unbelievable lack of tact in using this post to express that opinion.
I personally prefer a more fluid interaction between my life and my work, but it's important to have concrete delineations between "work" and "life" mindsets.

I learned this lesson quite quickly while working as a resident assistant at my university. In a sense, my job, my studies, and my life all took place in the same small room. If I didn't control my space, I wasn't able to be productive, and thus I became stressed.

I built a solution around my door. If it was closed, residents couldn't come in, and I couldn't go out. I had to be studying. There had to be a reason that I was isolating myself.

If it was open, I had to be interacting with my residents. Running or planning events on the floor, socializing in the lounge, and building stronger connections with the community. I wasn't allowed to isolate myself.

Anything in between - browsing the web, reading, or idly poking at work - and the door was cracked.

Find a signal and make it known to others, and to yourself. Make sure it has a real impact: you can't collaborate through a closed door. And don't forget to build in time to get away from it all.

For a startup compound? Get a bulky desktop computer for work and a sleek laptop for play. Never let them within an arms length of each other.
While I didn't find the twittershouldhireme lady very interesting, I don't know why you're complaining that you don't like my using it as an example, since I didn't.

Was this reply was meant for another comment?
At the moment, the site is even more fun to read if you have Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice playing in your head at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_(Du...
In terms of energy yes I perceive positive effects and personally think it's powerful stuff and am try to dose it when I'm sluggish.

I know you didn't ask but I like sharing :) I also love eggs, especially pasteurized egg whites, and place them in the same category. To me pasteurized egg whites are equally as powerful. I would liken it to caffeine with no negatives but I don't like the sensation all the time.

Veggies like broccoli and spinach to a much less immediate effect. I would place berries higher than veggies. I take fish oil. Mayo Clinic recommends it.

And of course exercise. I weight lift like you see in the olympics, albeit with much less weight. It's a very efficient weight lifting related exercise. There's also sprinting, akin to spinning but fuller body, and swimming.

So that's my core physical body and mind well being philosophy :)
How Office Depot browbeats clerks into pushing service plans
Meh, I don't even care about the spammy blogs. They aren't there for human consumption, and will never get enough links to be visible to humans.

The articles on the real sites are custom written, and he pays a small premium to decent content. (8-12 per it looks like), and in theory are researched a little bit.

He's creating value, then marketing it. A tiny bit spammy w/ the blogs, but it doesn't really hurt anybody (ie. humans won't see the spammy blogs).
It was fun for a day, and now that we've done it, in the interests of DRY, hopefully we won't have any further.
I guess that's why Ruby has been called an "acceptable lisp". I take "everything is an expression" so for granted by now, and it makes for beautiful, terse code.

The non-working python if statement/assignment example from the article works perfectly fine in Ruby. (No python/ruby flamewar please, that's really not the point)