skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really does depend on where you're interviewing.

List the experience either way, but "founder" tends to count negative far more than "lead developer". Companies are paranoid they'll hire their next competitor or a distracted employee who either pads their timecard while they work on their own stuff or jumps ship in three months when they can locate a seed investor to start their next company.

Replacing any employee is expensive, but software developers compatible with startup environments are far more so.
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It was for a frighteningly ambitious side-project initiated thanks to a great university course - http://frapp.it

Unfortunately, due to time constraints we went the built first, talk to mentors etcetera and only then do actual diligent market research route. Everyone we've spoken to recognizes some value in the project and came up with different USPs. As a result, focus shifted dramatically in a matter of weeks, ultimately leading to a complete lack of focus and loss of a common goal. This week we re-evaluated it all, decided to work out these wrinkles in the coming weeks and start selling aggressively to a narrow collection of potential customers.

When all is said and done, I expect the iOS app will be shelved. Did learn a lot about iOS development, though :D!
Does a URL shortener service exist that compresses the URL instead? It wouldn't be as short of course, but then you could recover the original URL yourself if the service is down. A browser could, should this become a popular enough method, be capable of detecting such compressed URLs and doing the decompression and redirect
This is pretty common, no big deal. Almost every federal contract gets protested anymore (even ones this small). As long as their was no hanky-panky things should proceed like normal after a few month delay.
Windows does dominate, but how many software programs are now unused because people have found they can duplicate those functions on a tablet? Do you think a map app would be popular on the desktop when a tablet can do that better?
It would be insulting to say "in honour of Aaron," given that I obtain a great deal of gratification when people read my works and that a wider audience helps my career.

But I will say that reading about academics open sourcing their works in his honour reminded me that everyone wins when ideas travel freely, and that is the theme of one of the books in this bundle.
Firing a bad employee is not "the same" as sending someone to federal prison for 30 years or hounding them to suicide.

So in your view, employees should never be fired no matter how bad they screw up?
OP here. I found the tweet that announced the idea, and shared. Agree today doesn't seem very organized. Maybe there will be just 5 people, but I'll have an open mind.

Today I'm going to exercise our right to peaceably assemble. I'm not going to bring a sign, nor yell, nor point fingers, nor hero worship.

I want to meet other hackers who care enough about what happened to meet, if only for a bit, in person. And, it isn't just enough to meet in person. The gesture can be visible, open in location that has significance to this story.

To simply bear witness to shared grief and concern.
I am - but it's not working for me, either.
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I would love to get a list of that ruby prep work as well.
Thanks
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Whenever I speculate with colleagues on what replaces Windows in businesses in five years, it's a Dell or HP machine that's just monitor, keyboard and mouse, running an upsized version of Android that accesses a cloud based office suite. That would keep me up at night, at MS.
Their usage example is terrible. It makes you focus to its subject (android vs iphone) instead of their platform.

They should replace it with a question that most visitors are neutral and/or not too interested to.
Are incessant references to Betteridge's law of headlines passé?

I see what you did there. Well done.
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The Web itself is a distributed system but the personal home pages are not really a social network. We can imagine as possible a system where pages/small apps that you host with different cloud (hosting) providers obey the same rules to form together a distributed social network. This way,you have total control on your pages and apps and not a corporation. Is Facebook doomed today or tomorrow? Everything dies in the end but that simple and powerful implementation (idea) capable to replace Facebook can be years away...
> Think about Kim Dotcom, Bradley, the British bloke you chaps tried to get, copyright stuff, patent stuff, hell, think about damn drone strikes which I assume will begin to happen in the US eventually.

Well there's no common thread that binds those situations so the message is... "things are bad, we are angry"?

No, the focus on this particular case is better than a vague outpouring of frustration.
This looks like a mashup of Android, iOS and Maemo in my opinion, with regards to the UI. {Notification, Icons, and Menus resp.}
The sense I get is that it might be a nice feature to make quick edits on a document on a tablet, but not to create an elaborate document from scratch.

To write large amounts of text, a separate keyboard would be almost essential.
Solvitur ambulare - It is solved by walking.
What would happen if the 97% of cases that don't go to trial actually were to go to trial? It would seem that the prosecutors wouldn't have the resources to try everyone and would be forced to reduce or drop charges entirely. Not sure if this would be possible, but by coordinating this tactic among all federal defendants could discourage prosecutors from tacking on unnecessary charges.
I'm very sorry for your loss. Sincere condolences.
Processing the loss of Aaron Swartz
Not a fan of the logo, it looks very amateur. I hope it changes before this launches.
The killer feature to me would be the following:

You may recall that certain Ubuntu phones will become full Ubuntu PCs when docked with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

The idea of being able to carry around just one small, main device instead of two separate (though well-integrated) ones, a la iOS/OS X, would probably be just enough to tip the scales and get me to use it, provided the experience was good enough.
I think it should provide a mean for searching/browsing papers without login in.
Aaron's crime is theft in precisely the way that a member of the underground railroad was an accomplice in theft.

Really?
That is not true. I work in neuroscience and often find myself not having access to "just released" papers. Some of them may appear as preprints months later, if the author bothers to do so. I 've tried to email authors for copies a few times with no response. Even my institution doesn't provide access to all the journals we need (probably the situation is different in the US). There are actually underground websites for searching paywalled journals through proxies.

TBH, historic papers are not that interesting anymore, since the most important ones are cited in more recent research. It's the cutting edge research where it's more annoying. What's more important though is that closed-access is depriving science of the ability to use automated tools for textual analysis. I hope this unfortunate event will motivate more people to realize that having unrestricted access to scientific results is an extremely important issue.
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In Remembrance of Aaron Swartz
In case anyone wants to run Android on their desktop today check out androvm: http://androvm.org/blog/download/. It runs much faster then the emulator that comes with the android SDK.
This is what happens when authors have quotas. They fill space. No analysis, no research. No facts even, would not have taken but a few minutes to pull data and do a juxtaposition on market shares of desktop PCs and the move to tablets in the consumer space. The sad thing is, that guy got paid to write those words.
Ask HN: Can I visit your startup in Berlin?
I'm in Berlin to teach a course for General Assembly tomorrow (14th Jan) and Tuesday. I've the whole of Tuesday free, and would love to visit some startup/HN folks for a chat/code/whatever!
The zeal with which Carmen Ortiz showed in prosecuting the case against Aaron Swartz shows a criminal lack of discernment on the prosecutor's part which directly led to Mr. Swartz death.

The prosecutor should be removed as judgement (or lack thereof) has resulted in a tragic miscarriage of justice for the defendant.

The defendant was not a hardened criminal, but he was treated as if he was.

The case involved no violence, breaking in, no drugs, no profit.

The employing of such heavy-handed techniques that the defendant would prefer to end his life rather than face whatever punishment the prosecutor was proffering was entirely inappropriate.

The crime was one of accessing JSTORs files which, since the files are locked behind a paywall, contain information which JSTOR was NOT involved in creating, the legality of JSTOR ownership is questionable.

This is a case of prosecutorial over-reach. Carmen Ortiz is incompetent at best or malevolent at worst.

Let such individuals find employment in other professions where discernement or judgement are not required.
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I am an hardcore Android fan. But this is too much of a stretch. I've been using Windows since Windows 95. I use OSX too, of course. And then Ubuntu too - 10.04 LTS, 12.04, and 12.10. As for smartphones - 4 HTC phones with Android 2.3+, an iPhone and a Nokia Lumia. But, even if today Google releases Android for the desktop, I wouldn't use it (as my main OS). Atleast not now.

There are somethings that are hard-coded within users like me. No matter what we do, we will go back to windows, no matter how bad it is - be it Vista or Longhorn or whatever. Because that's the influence of Windows. Bill gates made sure Windows and PC's are in harmony with each other right from the beginning. The number of applications, the vibrant developer community and the number of epic GAMES!

You may not notice this pattern within the US where you will encounter a lot of people on OSX. But the rest of the world, which is the majority, loves Windows. It's not going to be like one fine day someone comes in and says hey, you know what, Android's there for desktop, so you can stop using Windows. That will never happen. One main reason is the enormous developer community and applications available for Windows. Not to forget the fact that Windows is the #1 most pirated OS of all time ESPECIALLY in countries like China, India, etc. which is where the majority of the population lives (#1, #2 respectively). This means, if you take into account all the pirated copies too, the user base is enormous and it only keeps growing with each day. Because that was Bill Gates' vision and he has actually accomplished it. By no means I'm an MSFT 'fanboy'. This is just from what I know, what I observe around me, based on some analytical data derived from my business. In other words, this article is a fluff.
I agree. This was a horrible article.
... and just how or why does all of that justify 35 yrs in jail and 10^6 USD in fines?
Okay, I reposted the final post at my website, http://www.jessicarichman.com/science-citizen.html. Thanks for your patience!
But there is something to it: Linux could use some Google attention and to make Android/Linux run on laptops would be something Microsoft fears if it catches on. The Samsung ChromeBook is the best selling laptop for Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-Lap... Why make Chrome OS and Android? Put the effort in Android for desktop...
broken, unfit, insidiously malicious gear

Ortiz comes across to me as a better than average human being who did something evil because she seems to have been morally confused about something. I don't think Ortiz is, say, as bad as Kissinger.

Maybe the evil justifies the revenge of removing Ortiz. But this petition striking me as an exercise in nastiness. Wouldn't an official, public reprimand be better?
Thank you. I've tried setting debug to false but it causes a problem with the template. Do you know how I set it to false without affecting the design? I've tried a couple of ways as suggested on SO but all seem to return a server error.
Okay, reposted on my website at http://www.jessicarichman.com/science-citizen.html. Thanks for being patient.
> but it doesn't seem unreasonable that Aaron would have been able to get a deal with a relatively light sentence

Being sentenced and getting a record for doing something you feel is right is not something everybody takes equally lightly. Personally I couldn't care less but I can see how someone with stronger principles would react much stronger to this.
Her political ambitions, professional contact network, and post-DoJ employment prospects could be destroyed, costing her millions of dollars in income. Same for Heymann.

Knowing that hundreds of thousands of people in an industry they interface with would fuck them over given a chance must be a bit depressing.
It's really sad, I'm younger than Aaron and he was like an example of a white hat hacker, great example.

It's sad that people started to protest after his death, hey, where you'we been before?

Had anyone imaged that Aaron decided to suicede just to wake people up, he did so many great things and was so altruistic for to internet freedom that this could be a real scenario...

RIP
Thanks! I'm so pleased to have finally built my first one. I'm sorry about the error - I'll look into it.
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just choose the right category :
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This is true, for the most art. If what you want to do depends on other people, it may be "too late". For instance, if your dream is to work for a startup in Silicon Valley, and you're in your 50s, it may be too late. No one will hire you. You can start your own startup though...
Thanks Reg!
Yes, I could deal with the rest of them, but #3 really reduces its usefulness. It's still better to find a publicly accessible paper on academia.edu than nowhere, but having to page through it online and not being able to download a PDF is not good, especially when the authors in most cases didn't intend that restriction.

The arXiv is my favorite of the preprint repositories, but focuses mainly on scientific areas. For the social sciences, law, humanities, etc., SSRN (http://www.ssrn.com/) is a decent alternative. Some people are wary of it because it's for-profit (like academia.edu), and it also has a bunch of pointless cruft (such as a completely useless categorization system and proliferation of "top-10" lists), but it does at least allow you to download the PDFs. It's really improved access to legal scholarship especially; like with physics/arXiv, law/SSRN is now a pairing that's widely known in the field and it's basically expected you'll upload your preprint there if you want to be read.
Just a few responses as I've been using the site for awhile:

1) The advantage over the personal homepage is that more people will see it. Would a video get more views on your blog or on a video sharing site with lots of content where people went to find content like that?
2) I think the idea is that instead of using the current journal system, where professors try to show how their work has an impact for their university by paying to put it behind a paywall is just broken. Ideally professors will post straight to Academia and bypass publishers altogether. if you want people to read your work, putting it in an open, free forum where more people will see it AND you can track the metrics of your work seems far preferable to paying to put your work behind a paywall if you go the traditional route. I think they seem to acknowledge that publishers won't be pleased if you post your already published work on Academia.
3) The answer to the final thing seems to just be that it is a really tough technical challenge. They seem to be a fairly small team and the facebook motto that "the journey is 1% finished" seems to apply here. Imagine the possibilities if this takes off. We currently think of journals as paper with ink on the pages, but a site where all academics can share their work, and we see new ways of sharing research, like executable code, rich media, etc, could really improve academia and science in general IMO.
Depending on how obscure your links are, you can use .htaccess to go from mysite.com/blog/2012/05/05/somethingsomethingsomething to mysite.com/s/1231, assuming it's not a static website.

Stack Overflow do the same for instance.
Probably because the US designated it a terrorist organization. The Free Syrian Army dislikes them because of their autocratic ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front
Hi sycren, I mainly chose python because of http://learnpythonthehardway.org/. I've tried so many different tutorials but this one really clicked with me. I also used Django (following this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/) The other languages I used were HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery. Thanks to Twitter Bootstrap I didn't have to do much with the CSS. I would definitely recommend the tutorials above.
Of course, all of these other cases are ridiculous as well. And there have been protests about many of them. Should we not protest one injustice because another has been committed?

> Look at the lot of it in this blokes name, not just one tiny insignificant part of it.

Do you believe that everyone here cares only about Aaron Swartz, and not the rest of these issues?

The death of Aaron Swartz is a particularly painful wake-up call, but it doesn't mean that people care only about him. It helps that he was a particularly sympathetic character, and that many people in this community knew him personally or were directly involved in his work and writing. Kim Dotcom is a international millionaire, who was violating copyright for substantial personal profit, and who had a mansion with a built-in bunker for just this sort of problem; and has been able to use his wealth and power to much more successfully defend himself. Bradley Manning is more sympathetic, but he did violate his duty to his country by revealing many secret documents that he had access to, without being particularly selective about anything that really showed abuses.

Aaron, on the other hand, was merely trying to preserve access to a large body of academic and scientific work. Nothing he did ever indicated that he intended to profit from his downloading. Heck, he never even distributed any of it. And while he used some techniques that were further into the grey-zone than many of us would try, the prosecution was so clearly out of proportion with the "crime" as to make the absurdity apparent to almost anyone (and the fact that it's treated as a crime rather than a civil matter is patently absurd as well).

It has always been the case that martyrs, or particular example of people persecuted by a system, are far more effective than general complaints about entire populations. There were millions of black people who had been treated unfairly, made to use separate bathrooms, drinking fountains, sit in the back of the bus, before Rosa Parks decided one day that she wouldn't take it any more and refused to move, leading to her arrest, and subsequently leading to bus boycotts and the case that eventually worked its way to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on the bus system was illegal.

Putting a face on injustice is so much more effective than simply talking about it in the abstract. And when that face is a brilliant and well loved young man, who had many influential connections in the tech industry, who was working in the interests of knowledge and social justice, rather than some kid downloading the latest Hollywood blockbuster or an international millionaire trying to make a buck, it will be much more effective.

The stakes have been raised. We cannot sacrifice our future, and our freedom, in the interests of failing business models.
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I'm not logged in and just searched. Is this what you mean or are you talking about something else?
Please add "(2011)" to the title.
Do fix your domain.
Thanks arenaninja. Yes, I used Django and Twitter Bootstrap as proexploit said.
facebook isnt doomed for the reason you say or wish.
in the same way freindster and myspace became old news it will fade out when something new comes along.
the average person dosent care about security or even understand it
All of you who want to minimize what Aaron Schwartz did and lead a pitchfork mob against a prosecutor are misguided little spinsters. Lest you forget that he was caught on security cameras breaking into the a server room with a bike helmet covering his face. He knew he was breaking the law. He was caught. The heroic part of his action was the very fact that he knew he was breaking the law and still did it in the name of free access to knowledge. Anybody who says that he killed himself because of prosecutorial overreach it taking away from the significance of his action. No, he was being prosecuted because he committed a crime. He committed a crime because he did not agree with the law. The problem is the law, not the person enforcing the law. And if any of you had the capability to have an independent thought not shaped by emotion or group-think you would realize this.
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Not sure I agree here. Running a single company allows you to focus exclusively on that company, but providing you have the bandwidth there's no reason you can't do something else as well. I run a company as a single founder and it takes up a lot of my time, but I also run another company with a co-founder and I find that the two unrelated companies both benefit from me being involved in the other.
If it runs office, they'll still make their dime on it.

Ah and look what we have here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3612422/microsoft-office-m...

They might still do ok on the corporate desktop. Windows rt is competitive with android in functionality and price (when you look only at the sort of tablets corporations would buy.) The lack of apps is not a showstopper for tablets that will be locked down anyway.

Also, the PC market is getting replaced largely with tablets, so PC vendors who aren't big players in the tablet space face an uphill battle. HP is done for. Dell has some tablet expertise, and betting on windows 8 is smart in case it succeeds, but they will have to fight hard to not be driven out of the market by asus, samsung and google.
I've never really understood why people want such long prison sentences. Is that guy going to be any more reformed after 20 years than 5?
I am in astronomy and it is common practice to post papers on arxiv.org. Because of the need for journal subscriptions and the time it takes for papers to be published, this has become the primary way we keep up with the field. I would say this has revolutionized math and the physical sciences.

Perhaps one of the reasons for the difference between fields is that, at least in astronomy, our journals are supported by the professional societies, like the American Astronomical Society, and not run explicitly for profit.

I should also add that in astronomy, the authors pay a significant amount of to the journal when a paper is published. It is usually in the range of about $100 per page.
Thanks jimzvz. I'm planning to add more features over the next couple of weeks. Thanks for pointing out the errors - I'll look into those.
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