skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but they have their R&D arm and they easily have enough cash to acquire upcoming companies. Granted of course, they will need to be smart enough to spin money out of those things but they aren't in a dreadful position like Kodak was.
Down the rabbit hole of types
Absolutely. It is probably a decent idea to have a company policy on record that HR should never look at that sort of thing. All sorts of information that can indicate things which are protected classes could be found in those documents.
OS X and Linux apps don't have to be bundled in a custom installer. In OS X you simply drag the app into you Application folder and now there's an App Store that makes the whole experience even simpler and curated.

Linux distros have great package manager and you won't get greedy crap-ware from the Open Source community.

It's a shame that Windows installers have become so bloated. The other day I've seen one with a check box labeled "I agree [to install this crap ware]" just bellow the license text. Really deceptive.

Hopefully the Windows Store will help improve that experience.
Fedora Looks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB
How TechStars Builds Founding Teams; David Cohen Testimonial
Nobody's pretending that everything is "hunky-dory" with Cabal--there are concerted efforts at fixing the problems, and discussions on it come up often both on the mailing list and on /r/haskell. However, some people are pretending that it's worse than it really is. It's not perfect, but it's certainly not bad enough to not use Haskell!

I remember having annoying problems with Python--both easy_install and pip--just a year ago. Perhaps it's better now, but that just means packaging issues can be fixed. And, for Haskell, people are fixing them.
I have some relevant personal experience. I grew up in Alaska, where Andrea, the woman who wrote in lived for 15 years and raised children. We lived in the woods outside a small town for most of my early childhood, then moved to a city when I was 11. Now, I live in Florida, I'm dating a German and spend several months out of the year in Hamburg.

I had a great deal of freedom of movement as a child. I could run around in the woods all day by myself if I wanted. In town, I could ride my bicycle anywhere starting from around 6 years old. I may have had a bit more freedom than other kids in the area, but not enough to shock anyone. When I got a bit older, I had access to snowmobiles and three/four wheelers - pretty much as soon as I had the physical size and strength to pull-start the engines and operate all the controls without assistance. This, too was not unusual in that area at that time.

My freedom of movement was pretty good when we moved to a city as well. The city wasn't especially designed to be bike-friendly, but it was possible to get most places without having to ride in traffic. A snowmobile was an option for a lot of things in the winter. Even when we moved a few miles out of town, it was practical to ride a bike to town.

Where I live now, I still use a bicycle for quite a bit of my transportation. It's a good workout and doesn't cost much to operate. There are a few places I ride that wouldn't be safe for a young, inexperienced or slow cyclist, but there are alternate routes available in most cases. Public transportation is not very good here, but it's an option that can fill in some of the gaps.

Germany certainly offers better parity between children and adults as far as transportation. Design may play a role, but it's also important to consider that it's 90 million people in an area smaller than Montana. Not owning a car can work for a greater percentage of people because economies of scale work for a larger percentage of possible trips. That, in turn allows all the infrastructure to be designed for a smaller number of cars per person, hence the smaller streets and multiple grocery stores in every neighborhood. This situation is probably objectively better when you're 12, but may not be when you're 21.

What's really different is parents in this time and place. They're now terrified of things that are less likely now than they were 25 years ago. It's that attitude we need to change more than anything.
> It's not "rent seeking" to build a value-added service on top of publicly available information, or even to charge for making obscure publicly available information more easily available.

I'm inclined to agree. But perhaps "rent seeking" or not is not the right debate.

It's hard to tease out how much of the value of WL/Lexis/BL is in comprehensive access to cases and documents vs. how much comes from the kind of value added products/services that you mention.

An interesting question is just how valuable these value added services actually are. Whatever value they provide today might reasonably be discounted by their lack of defensibility going forward. As you noted, there is much room for technological disruption here. One could imagine dramatically better products (my thesis is that the right Silicon Valley startup can build them). If WL/Lexis/BL want to survive in the next 5-10 years, they are going to have to get away from publishing and push technology farther, either internally or by acquiring the very few startups who are doing interesting things in this space. What do you make of that thesis? It sounds to me like your thinking about their value add might be clarified by distinguishing between publishing and technology.
I've been using it since it was GrandCentral, and in all that time the only issue I've had with it is the lack of MMS. Which is a big issue, don't get me wrong.
Depending on what state you live in it would be your lucky day if a perspective employer went through divorce records and decided not to hire you (many states have marital status as a protected class).

If you're head set on opening yourself up to discrimination lawsuits, PACER is available now. In addition to the 10¢ a page, I recommend saving up a bundle for the employment attorney you'll need to retain.
Are you planning to open source this code? I can see that this would work for many geo locations. I want do a similar web app for cities in India.
They could do the same thing in a blog post; they could even get the blog post notarized if they wanted to.
When I was about 15, I bought a Yamaha TG100 tone generator [1]. It was a synthesizer without a keyboard, and I composed music on my Windows 3.1 system with a program called Midisoft Recording Session (apparently in later versions it was renamed Midisoft Studio).

Amazingly, I can still play those songs today on my Ubuntu machine using TiMidity [2] and my choice of SoundFont [3] files.

(Note: I'd love to find a soundfont that reproduces the wavetable from the TG100, my copy of which no longer seems to work.)

[1] http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/tone-generat...

[2] http://timidity.sourceforge.net/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont
The argument isn't that they should, but that the government should: we should have easy, free access to the laws that we're required to follow. If a court construes a criminal statute in a certain way that's surprising to me, the fact that I was ignorant of the court's decision isn't a defense, which effectively makes the decision part of the law I need to know and follow.
I think 100 is a bit much.

A the place I work we have one manager for about 30-40 people. He's managing about a dozen projects. Why is he effective?

0 - He knows he's not working on each project day to day, so meetings and decisions are not very top down and are mostly done by consensus.

1 - He's got about 20 years of experience, so he can provide technical input and bring in ideas from other projects. If we hit a problem he'll throw out ideas that have come across in previous projects. He's not a super coder or a math genius and technically isn't super strong (which can make it frustrating to explaining things to him) but he can quickly bounce ideas off of us.

2 - Since he's very familiar with a lot of people (both because he manages a large group and because he has the years of experience) if our team gets stuck or we are not sure of something he knows exactly who to bring in from outside the project to help.

3 - All the above could apply to anyone with enough experience. What makes HIM the manager is he's exceptionally good at dealing with clients. In part this is from experience and in part because he has a natural knack for it.

By no means do I think he's the best manager ever. He has plenty of problems - but a the end of the day I have to say he's very effective in getting things done and getting the teams the help they need.
Yeah, people dig celebrity gossip, but does it follow that HR is going to be interested in Joe Smoes divorce five years ago? I don't think so, particularly when they are looking at dozens of Joes a day. It would be a waste of their time to read that stuff, and boring to boot.

Sure, someone out there will probably do it, but I just can't wrap my mind around this becoming a pandemic.
I think this is an important question. I'd be interested in some answers from non-hackny folks.
I don't understand what Dell has that Microsoft would want. Is Dell even capable of doing its own engineering? This seems to give Windows OEMs a giant signal that they need to jump ship, but doesn't give Microsoft the hardware capabilities to replace them and go vertical.
When VMware said that Tim Fox couldn't be in control any more but they didn't name anyone else to lead the project, one possible interpretation was that the project would have no official leader at all. VMware could have avoided that confusion.
5 Reasons You Need to Generate News
Yes, that was a reason that I liked about Phidgets, they have a nice and mature ruby library, the only 'drawback' that I found is that the hardware isn't open source.
Didn't http://pinboard.in/ do the same? I mean, the one time fee - and I remember it worked well for them.
Linux pros saw a giant salary leap in 2012: Dice
I understand your concern here, we're looking into it more at present. The main reason for our current pricing is that it also includes unlimited texting. Watch this space, I expect we'll start offering more voice minutes on the paid plans very soon.
A Bit of Advice for the JavaScript Semicolon Haters
Roll Up Your Sleeves, Get Involved, and Get Civic-Hacking
MIDI in my mind is unfortunately incomplete, or rather, makes a lot of assumptions that are great for contemporary western music, but buckle under the strain of other ideas.

I've seen some really great early music (1200s?) MIDIs put together by doctorates, and to simulate the early instruments, each note is hand tuned (or perhaps re-tuned using software, I'm not sure). Those instruments were not diatonic.

Additionally how could you express a solid sweep from C1 to C8? Not that you could or want to, it is just that it isn't something MIDI can handle.

There are a lot of compromises and hacks and such. Recently at PyOhio I saw a presentation about the raw data of the Open Goldberg Variations, and some of the raw data from that device has pressure sensitivity readings outside of the scale of MIDI.

Most artists I see wind up using OSC. It is lower level and more general purpose, and you can convert to MIDI (lossy) if you need it. I was thinking of how to sum this up, but I guess MIDI is good for what it is good for, and like most things, aren't much help when you go down a deep rabbit hole. I love MIDI though!
We are talking about divorce cases (amongst other things). These should be private matters and there is no public benefit in this being made available for free via Google. To take your argument to its natural conclusion, all your interactions with publicly funded entities should be freely available as well. For example, maybe your medical records, your school transcripts, transcripts of complaints made to police about you, etc.

I think most people who are lionising Aaron's efforts in "freeing" the PACER data really do so because they are in love with an idea rather than because of any considered assessment of the value (and harm) that this content could bring if made freely available.
Henk Rogers Looks to Social Games for World Peace
Whoever said Recruitment is a HR function has never hired the best employee
Unlike "C" and "A" in "CAP," "AC&D" (specifically, "C") can't be easily separated from "I".

Serializability ("I") ensures that database consistency, or maintenance of integrity constraints ("C"), is not violated. While it's possible to get consistency ("C") without serializability (which would give up traditional "I" in favor of a weaker form of isolation), it's often difficult [see http://www.bailis.org/blog/when-is-acid-acid-rarely/#arbitra...].
There's a pretty interesting study of Homer's The Odyssey from that perspective.

Pop-science story about it: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odys...

Original article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/06/23/0803317105.abst...
Yes, and Apple had to completely reinvent itself to get to the point where it is now. Apple then and Apple now are two very different companies.
I would love to have a cooking robot because I don't like to spend time cooking. I worked on a related project, an automatic bartender: http://youtu.be/iqvUJ6vvzxk as a group project in one of my classes.
Let's not forget their market share has dropped. A company is measured by it's today, and it's tomorrow.
Clef: new iOS and Android apps to kill passwords
We've only launched Task Messenger but I like the sound of auto ranking tasks, something to go on my 'to-do' list. You could always give us a go. We're building a to-do list for teams.
Try Warzone2100. It's quite fun RTS.
Yes and no. For example during divorce they are trying to convince a judge and by extension get a lot more money, custody etc etc. So, the incentives to lie and dramatize things are much higher, for most people, during the divorce (or civil suit or...) case.
A Random Sampling Library for Clojure
There is a feedback link at the bottom of the page that you might consider telling them about your issues. help them make it better for all of us.
Literate programming tools for F#
It's been a backburner project of mine to data-mine the publicly-available clinical study information...while not all results are reported, there are useful meta-analyses that can be done (i.e. which companies are least likely to report, under what circumstances, such as study size and disease, are studies likely to omit info?).

It's not immediately evident, but ClinicalTrials.gov does provide their database in a structured format...probably the most convenient endpoint is this giant sitemap, which they have generated for scraping uses:
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-site/crawling
Twitter Blog: An update to embedded Tweets
'math' makes me think of a iOS feature: a timer that locks
your iOS device to a single app for a user-set table duration.

Useful when using your device during an exam: before the exam, let the school lock your device to a graphing calculator or some other custom app (maybe even an eBook?) for the rest of the morning.
Okay, I love Eclipse (technically). It's just a dog, most of the time and tries to be everything at once. Still, it _is_ a great project.

Maven: I .. never got that one. I guess the parts that make sense to me are covered by nuget. But I might be totally ignorant here.

CheckStyle -> StyleCop ?
Jenkins supports .Net
Tomcat makes no sense in this list for me. IIS?
Jetty: See above? Maybe the ASP.Net dev server, depending on why you'd list jetty?

I rarely feel the need to do a lot in msbuild files. I might add build tasks (StyleCop?), but that's about it. Deploying is not in scope here (and for that I'd probably go for WiX. Not a huge fan of MSI, but that's what the platform uses and what other tools can manage).

I appreciate your opinion and read your sibling post, but I guess we're both a bit ingorant of the other guy's platform?

Jenkins: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/MSBuild+Plugin
Sonar (mentioned in your sibling post): http://www.sonarsource.com/products/plugins/languages/c-shar...

Incidentally the Sonar page for C# lists a couple decent code quality tools for the .Net side of things.

But in the end if will remain a matter of taste & experience and I'm very certainly biased.
This is the definition of creating. Bringing other ideas together, and making them better.

Apple are exactly the same too. The stuff I love the most has come from elsewhere.
Ah, thank you for your internet diagnosis. I suppose it is possible that I suffer from a "pathological lack of empathy," or, you may just be over reacting to the word "manipulate." So, let's sub in a different phrasing so you don't take it so harshly.

"On a tech centered website such as Hacker News, it seems a perfectly reasonable position to ask someone not to appeal to emotion in an attempt to garner page views and/or karma"
I find TypeScript to be an exciting new take on the language. I look forward to using it more this year. Thanks for your post and your PluralSight course
How to implement quick action pattern in Android
Yea, an example.
Proposition HN: I Will Validate Your Startup Idea With 100 Real Customers
Premise 1:
Most start-ups die because they are unable to find enough customers to keep them alive.

Premise 2:
They can’t acquire enough customers because they built a product people just don’t really care about so acquiring customers is a tough expensive process that eventually puts them out of business.

Premise 3:
Many founders know that they are meant to somehow validate their ideas with real customers before they build anything, but they just don’t know how to go about this process correctly.

Based on these premises, I present The Proposition [Version 0.1]:

I will help you acquire 100 beta-testers (potential customers) for you start-up idea and based on the insights we are able to gather from them about the problem you are trying to solve with your idea, develop a business model and an initial concept for a product that will effectively meet their needs.

I am offering this service FREE to 10 HN founders; If you are interested, you should send me an email here – customerdevelopment@outlook.com – and I’ll book you in for a Skype interview.
Video Concatenation? HLS to the Rescue
It's not really the rate that's the issue here, it's correlation between failures. The chance of losing a third or more of your machines at once is enormously higher with EBS.

Partitioning a disk should take seconds; I don't see why it would be an impediment. As it is, someone can do it themselves but now it'll be a custom job and less reliable.
I recently discovered Dropwizard, which I found to be incredibly easy to use and eminently readable. The example code I saw for Vert.x, on the other hand, reminded me of the "callback spaghetti" I've heard lamented as a problem in NodeJS. Do I have a poor first impression? Can someone sell me on Vert.x for web-facing applications? Am I the wrong audience because I'm using other technologies like RabbitMQ to handle distributed polyglot work? [Apologies if I come across like a hater, because I'm not; I'm genuinely confused about whether Vert.x represents an improvement or an alternative to my situation.]
I read that to apply to a "fee exempt user" -- one of a very narrow class of persons exempt from fees, no matter how much they download.

A regular user who happens to download less than $15.00 per month is not a fee-exempt user. They are someone for whom, in the words of the website, "fees are waived for that quarter."

[See this page and look at the questions "How much does PACER cost?" and "Can the user fee be waived?": http://www.pacer.gov/psc/faq.html ]
I never got into composing (much), but I still fondly remember my Yamaha DB50XG daughterboard plugged to a SB16 MCD (ISA bus). Haven't heard another MIDI, softsynth or wavetable that sounds as good since. Unfortunately, my last computer with ISA slots was a PPro, and something changed between versions in PlayMidi[1] to where the drums didn't sound as awesome. Thankfully, I still have MP3's of MIDI playback on that board for some of my favorite songs.

[1] - http://sourceforge.net/projects/playmidi/
Google is, at heart, an ad company. As far as I understand it (and I don't pay all that much attention to this kind of thing so feel free to correct me), everything Google does has to eventually, at some point, theoretically, go back to advertisement.

What this means is that they don't give a (large) hoot if the eyeballs are looking through Firefox or Chrome (to elaborate a bit, I imagine Google would prefer if the eyeballs came through Chrome, but Firefox eyeballs still pay the rent). So from a purely business standpoint, I suspect the "loss" of promoting Firefox OS is less than the "loss" of not being Firefox's default search engine.

Also, competition is, as far as I understand it, to Google, A Good Thing. There are probably lots of reasons for this, at least one of which likely has to do with how the Microsoft antitrust thing went down back in the 90s.
This is a dummy manual entry to satisfy people looking for unlink().
I'm surprised that Tomas's idea of generating tooltips in HTML hasn't caught on in other language communities, but perhaps it's just not widely known. Of course, it's especially useful in a language like F#, where type inference means that there's a lot of available information hiding beneath the surface of the code.
Why do I need to go through the Django tutorial before starting "Getting Started with Django"? I thought this would be my first stop, not something after the official Polls app.
What the heck is Shadow DOM?
I always wonder if we'll ever see OSC catch on in the way MIDI has by the big name manufacturers (Roland, Korg, etc). You see it in niche interfaces like the Lemur but not much else. Even the Monome devices don't work with OSC natively, they send serial data over USB, you need software to convert it.
AMA on why patents and copyright should be abolished
I'm a practicing patent lawyer, and have written and spoken a good deal on libertarian and free market topics. I founded and am executive editor of Libertarian Papers (http://www.libertarianpapers.org/), and director of Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (http://c4sif.org/). I am a follower of the Austrian school of economics (as exemplified by Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe) and anarchist libertarian propertarianism, as exemplified by Rothbard and Hoppe. I believe in reason, individualism, the free market, technology, and society, and think the state is evil and should be abolished.
I also believe intellectual property (patent and copyright) is completely unjust, statist, protectionist, and utterly incompatible with private property rights, capitalism, and the free market, and should not be reformed, but abolished.
Ask me anything.
How to create Popup Windows with JavaScript
An the Impulse Tracker (+ the fact that it was developed on asm)! For me Jeffrey Lim was the coolest developer then.

Oh, I remember the playback of my first mp3 file with winamp on my 486 DX4 100 with 4mb RAM. I couldn't even move the mouse without getting stammered playback.
Why do people believe that this data is a "public good"? In the case of disputes between individuals, such as divorce, I do not accept that this information belongs to the general public and must be "emancipated". On the contrary, I believe that this is owned by the individual participants in the case and not the government or public. Only if they collectively agree to publish this material should it be available in public. There is no moral justification for the wholesale distribution and publication of material relating to other people's private lives and affairs.
I'm not qualified to make that claim at all.

However, there is plenty of literature that backs up my claims by people who do have the qualifications. Someone actually posted a good reference in another reply:

http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/...