skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, this is an invite for a speaker series at New Work City, which is a startup incubator. The proceeds from the $10 ticket price goes to hackny.org
Startup funeral #1: http://www.youtube.com/user/StartupFuneral
I recently stepped through "Programming from the Ground Up", and found it very educational. It's aimed at the x86 processor on Linux, so it's still quite relevant.

Worth going through, if you have the time.

http://programminggroundup.blogspot.com/
Raspberry Pi & Siri controlled garage door, alarm, thermostat, lights and TV
May I suggest the #craprasoft tag on twitter to try to start a trend countering this advertising? Really dislike it.
Show HN: DrawExpress - a fast gesture based diagram and UML Android app
I find it annoying when companies who don't have a need to invest all profits into themselves and have little chance of being acquired don't pay dividends. Otherwise what's the point of owning a stock? To resell it at a higher price? That's fine I guess but you're offering no value or investment opportunity to long-term investors. Profiting in this case ultimately requires a fool willing to overpay.

Edit: or if there's no fool, the company could buy back shares, but at that point you should seriously consider just paying a dividend.
Geocities Screenshots: 75 a Day for the next 14 Years
Thing is, these days it would probably only take a small outlay of cash (or finding the right, desperate pro-bono designer) to get a fairly good landing page. Nat Friedman of Xamarin laid this out pretty clearly in a blog post [1]. Just a damn themeforest template would do wonders.

[1] http://nat.org/blog/2011/06/instant-company/
I felt that way about the ads. The idea that Macs were immune to virus infection was laughable.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I guess I was a little coy about "no" programming experience. I dipped my toe in far enough already that I feel I can guess (with not too much precision) what to expect. I'm not expecting glamour, but I am hoping I end up loving it. I do wish I had started programming earlier.

The "find a job at Home Depot and program at night" strategy is basically what I plan to do. And yeah, plumbing is on the list of possibilities too. But I hope I find something I like in programming.

Somehow it feels like I've been waiting for "permission" to do this, which is bizarre and makes no sense. But the five replies I've gotten to the first comment are confirmatory enough that I think I can keep my mouth shut, stop doubting, and just pursue this for a few months. Then I can pop up for air and see how far I've gotten. Again, thanks.
Makes me wish I had the foresite to register pledge.com

Damn you Johnson and Johnson!
The $10K Memory Competition: learn to remember a shuffled deck of cards
Website Finds Chink In Steam's Security Armour
The Role of Security Mapping in Vulnerability Management
In this blog post, Risk I/O discusses the role of security mapping in vulnerability management.
Ah, cool, they've got some of E.E. Smith's stuff and Campbell's stuff. Capek's R.U.R. as well. A bunch of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

I also spy some cool short works of Phillip K. Dick (Second Variety), some Cory Doctorow, some Harry Harrison. Very nifty!
Thanks for the tiny little secret! That sounds ideal, once I reach that level of competence. :)
While I'm quite certain that this has nothing to do with anything, Beyond Lies the Wub sounds like an awesome album name for a dubstep or EDM anthology.
Hoogle type search is great: Give a type, get back names implementing that type or a generalization of it.

There's the haddock auto-generated documentation from cabal (if you enable it). Not sure if that qualifies for "available from the command line".
Sure, I'm game (admittedly because right now I value any-and-all feedback ;)).

The core idea isn't very original - live chat for websites - but the tool itself is slowly picking up momentum, albeit whilst under heavy development from me: http://track-chat.com
How to Parse Ruby
Wow, that would be an awesome opportunity and I'd really appreciate it. Any chance I could contact you in a few months when it's closer to me moving back up there?
As Startups Produce More Data, the Search for Data Scientists Grows Frantic
We had a blog article on the front page of HN recently ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133906 ) and I can’t say we had much trouble. Pushed the Heroku dynos up to two for an evening then dropped them back down to one at the end of the day. The site assets are hosted on S3 and we didn’t have to touch that. Ended up with about 16k hits.
1 million rows as of v3.3 http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-3-new-features-and-fix...
It isn't easy, although paradoxically I prefer the 9-5 to be interesting work in its own right. It is surprising how many ideas can flow from your day job into your own projects.
The LHC and worldwide grid computing - live now
Companies don't have any responsibility to the shareholders. Directors of the company do. However that responsibility does not extend to making money for the shareholders. In the UK and the US directors have a huge amount of latitude in running the company and it basically resolves down to making "good faith" decisions for the betterment of the company.
True, but Apple now has enough money to buy Facebook, and Twitter, and still have $50bn left over. I'm not sure how much is "enough reserves", but it seems reasonable to me to expect Apple to justify it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Metabolism
This is a nice example how to do low level programming while using a safe strong typed language most of the time.
I'll second FBReader; works great on my N900. Though you do have to have your library organized outside of it, it doesn't browse well.
At the time I was working for a .NET consultancy firm, every morning around 6 am I was learning and coding in RoR.
1.5 h uninterrupted time every week day for 2 months makes a huge difference. Plus the weekends.

Don't forget to embrace a healthy down time. You body and mind need to relax.
A startup that believes in something
If you're asking whether I was productive, yes, I was, just not sufficiently so apparently.

My failing was explained to me that since I was a "Senior Engineer(tm)" I was supposed to arrive at google an expert in all their technologies so I could be a successful generalist and finish my starter project (in a brand new unfamiliar field to me) in <2 weeks. Whatever.

In contrast, I reached productivity <48 hours after starting my next gig, which did make use of my skills.
There's always Feng Office. I can't speak to how fully featured or mature it is.

http://www.fengoffice.com/web/opensource/
You don't annotate anything. It simply becomes the following,

...
public Repository(ISessionFactory factory)
...

The repository never knows about IoC or where things come from. Nor should it.
Oh, even the weird pieces turn out to be more malleable than you might first imagine. I've even seen a game based on making LEGO robots by using surprising combinations of pieces (http://mobileframezero.com/mfz/). That's inspired me to take custom pieces from my kid's LEGO sets and put them to all kinds of new uses.
MI5 Wants to Watch What Everybody's Doing Online
Open Source in your Inbox: Code Triage
Warning: not about pattern matching as found in functional languages. Hopefully those discussing race in tech can latch onto another term.

[Edit: yeah I missed the word "Media" in the title which would have been a hint...]
About the research of heat-tolerant electronics
Ohm - Oaml web framework
I'm not saying spending money is always better than spending it, but there is a balance. At this point 'Apple' by itself is one of the world's biggest hedge funds. Apple is not just sitting on cash, it is doing it's own investment.

If the owners of Apple think they can do a better job with that giant pile of money, then they are quite within their rights to ask to be given at least some of it. They can still leave Apple with a bigger reserve than any other tech company around.
Gluten-Free for the Gluten Sensitive
I don't have any evidence nor claimed he was depressed. I was commenting on the reliability of significant others' post suicide reports. If I cared to investigate, I would look at almost anything else than her report for reliable evidence. His writings, statements made during his lifetime from those close to him, etc. The sheer amount of things that could color her post (laying blame outside of Aaron, refusal to believe someone she loved and lived with was that unhappy, continuing his battle posthumously, etc.) make it hard to lay much persuasive value in her report.
This reminds me when divmod.org was attacked. The site has been "temporarily" offline for years now. It's really sad because divmod had some quality Python libraries which have never become popular because they have no documentation; the documentation was destroyed when the site was attacked.
I don't want to run it locally.

I want to share docs with the internet, or with a small team, have integrated history, have instant editing, have the possibility of more people editing it. I want to have instant access to it from any computer with a browser.

Etherpad sort of does that, but not 100%.
Presenting The World's Biggest Hedge Fund You Have Never Heard Of
I'd be willing to write in brainfuck exclusively for 200k. This guy has it good, doubt he'll ever find a job with that kind of attitude. He could be ol' Don Knuth, still wouldn't get a job from anyone worth working for.

Although, with that guy's track record, maybe he knows being a cocky asshole is just the way to get a good job in software, I don't know.

edit: after thinking about it more, I think this may be a parody of the sort of unrealistic expectations recruiters have for 'talent'.
It would be a great deal for Sony/MS , not such a great deal for other distributors like Steam, Ouya etc.

Probably not great for the consumer in the long run either if it leads to an effective monopoly in online games.
This seems interesting, thanks for the pointer.
While I agree that the best way to learn coding is to just get on with it, I'm can't agree about "Forget Books". It is true that there are some terrible books on software (possibly where the need to publish first is the prime objective), there are some amazingly detailed and informative books that provide in one place the content that you'd need to trawl through a thousand blogs to uncover.
Thanks for the advice. I'm near the beginning of Harvard's free Intro to Computer Science online course at the moment, and creating a niche community website sounds like an excellent project to take on once I have the skills. :)
As Robots Become Smarter, They Will Walk More Like Animals
Ask HN: Why can't I right-click my username? (meta)
It seems like the context menu action is disabled for it...
What Building Spacebook Taught Me About Finishing Something
Weekly Science Sections In Newspapers Drop From 95 In 1989 To 19 In 2012
Large networks of small programs fail in exactly the same way: static typing fails on versioning issues (an RPC call carries inherently less type information than a function call) and compile-speed problems (compiling 200 small services can take just as long as compiling one behemoth). We also don't have mature tooling for the "network program" you're talking about.

I don't know what your metric of "large program" is, but AAA games often weigh in at 10-100 million lines and are typically architected as a single large codebase with auxiliary small programs, and doing them any other way is not a sensible approach.
I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but what are you even saying here?

I can empirically prove to you that not everyone who succeeds has a PHD and that, in fact, the absolute number of successful individuals with PHDs is significantly lower than those without.

I understand that what you do is complex, and you require mathematicians, but let me explain succinctly why you're getting a backlash on HackerNews by describing your engineers as Ninjas or GrowthHackers.

There's nothing wrong with Growth hacking, but the gentleman who wrote this article failed to do 3 key things:

1) Use correct grammar. No one on HackerNews writes like your author and frankly no one should.

2) Make a point. Constantly talking about how amazing your employees are isn't something I care about. I either have to take your word for it or not, and I have no measure to evaluate your employees. It's just masturbatory to be honest.

3) Stop demeaning scientists by calling them Ninjas.

This whole article smacks of hubris and a basic disregard for others in the field. It seeks to say "we're doing it the best, we have Valedictorians and PHDs!" but there's no substance there. You know who else had a lot of PHDs? Cuil.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/194162/search_engine_cuil_com...

All I'm saying is, if you want to appeal to people on HackerNews, write stuff that hackers dig. Talk about your use of R for statistical modeling. Talk about how you analyze the analytic abilities of your candidates without using "gotcha" questions. Tell us how you think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

"The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the supposed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.[1] According to this theory, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. Brickman and Campbell coined the term in their essay "Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society" (1971).[2] During the late 1990s, the concept was modified by Michael Eysenck, a British psychologist, to become the current "hedonic treadmill theory" which compares the pursuit of happiness to a person on a treadmill, who has to keep working just to stay in the same place."
But if you live there then this helps your property values. Otherwise why not live in Detroit?
I always wondered what Apple had to gain by being a public company with so much money on hand.

Don't you usually issue shares when you lack the capital to fund projects/research etc?
Lego prices were my introduction to economics and budgeting as a kid.

My parents worked out and explained that you should look for value per brick in the sets when choosing purchases. I learned how to rapidly estimate mental arithmetic largely from wanting to get the most Legos for my allowance. The benchmark was 10 cents per brick (in the mid 80's), sets which worked out below that were good buys, sets above that were a ripoff. Surprisingly, it didn't correlate much with set size, bigger sets weren't always so economical. There were quite a few very small sets in the Space line, things like one figure and a spaceship composed of about thirty pieces for $2.49, which were good buys and I accumulated several.

Side note, I actually didn't play with Legos as much as with a different builder set called Construx. Anyone else remember that?
I bet there's a way to do this.

ceil(log2(52!)/8) means it's basically 29 bytes of information you need to memorize in under a minute. The method of loci (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci) would probably allow you to memorize that quantity of information in a minute, but the real challenge here lies in coming up with a scheme to quickly translate a card ordering into a form suitable for memorizing.

This is going to require some more thought.
Microsoft Should Promote an iOS Game
I doubt Einhorn gets any ideas from zerohedge.
Moving data centres in 9 minutes
It would be great if it people made the kind of changes you mention, but would it be worth the time and effort? It may be better for people to work on other kinds of programs than to spend a lot of time improving the LibreOffice code base.

Writer is good enough for education up through undergrad for many majors, and good enough for some nonprofits. It is certainly good enough for my needs. I don't use the other applications so I can't say about them.
The Myth of “Saudi America:” Straight talk from geologists
You can always search "go programming", and the search engine should give you the results of go that occur in the context of programming, which should usually pertain to the go programming language.
Tech jobs account for up to 14 percent of hiring in January
Nothing is stopping Google from setting up such a service, though I would personally rather just pay an upfront fee than sell Google more of my privacy.
The original post on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Wealth/Is-getting-rich-worth-it
I submitted that and it was instakilled by the submissions system--is there a filter on submissions or something like this?
No I think his point was that Swartz was trying to "get away with it" in his actions during the MIT incident (hiding his face from the cameras, etc), and wasn't prepared to be caught. Clearly, he wasn't willing to plead guilty or do any jail time.

In most of the other examples (Pentagon Papers, Bus desegregation), the people were prepared to be caught and wanted to highlight the immorality of the law. They weren't sneaking onto the bus.
(Ab)using Pandas to Migrate Disqus Threads
Hackers deface Hostgator Indian domain - Hacking News
> So remind me, what is the publisher being paid for?

Nothing is stopping you from, you know, just not submitting your paper to Elsevier. You could just put up a link on your blog or something. Whatever thing it is that makes you submit to them instead of just doing that is what Elsevier is being paid for.
Datomisca: Embrace Datomic the Scala way
The world record stands at 21.19 seconds

(http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/memory.html#cards-speed)
Not always, and not quickly. See http://nissan.com/ for an example that's been dragging on for around 10 years or so. He's not squatting on nissan.com per se, but in my opinion is fairly close to it. It's a David vs. Goliath situation that's for sure, I'm amazed he's managed to keep the domain.
Xcelerate: you can learn the method, and practice, in the site.
It would be interesting to see price per brick variation with pack size - those $500 dollar sets have prices per brick under $0.05. The increase in volumes of larger sets could be balancing the increased pricing of small sets, leading to the stable average.
It can't possibly be rebasing since the changesets on BitBucket are "published" in HG parlance and cannot be rewritten. I'm assuming it does simple merges.
Thanks. The suggestions would be a great add. We thought of the dvd release countdown too but did this as a quick and dirty meteor experiment. Unfortunately, the code is not in a readable state. We'll clean it up and share it on github soon.
No, 2 is never necessary. You can set yourself apart with design just fine. The text, actual information people are trying to retrieve, is not part of the design. Specifying a font for the ordinary text is a perfect example of designers prioritizing self-obsessed wankery over the user.
Being at my 4th development internship (as part of my schooling) There are 3 pieces of advice i would give you.

1)Ask as many questions as you need, but find times that don't interfere with others too much. Your an intern, they understand that you are learning and expect to help in your learning process, especially since this is your first. As long as your not bugging everyone every minute you should be fine.

2) Read files in the codebase as much as possible. Someone mentions a bug in a file at a stand up? Go read the file. Someone mentions a funny comment made is one of the files? Go read the file. Slow day and you don't know what to do? Read as many files as possible. The first time you get access to a large codebase it can overwhelming, but the more you sit down and become familiar with each file, you will become more and more familiar with it. There is no replacement for just sitting down and becoming friends with the codebase.

3) Out work everyone. In my opinion the way you overcome a lack of knowledge is by putting the work and time in. If it takes you twice as long to do something but you work for twice as long per day you end up with the same output. Now this is an unrealistic example but you get the idea. If you are an intern and out work everyone, you will impress.
Even if the reviews are positive, I've spoken to many people about the Surface (techies and not) and very few spoke well of Windows 8/Surface.
I got bitten by this problem once: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/t7MZYkHnL... . Essentially, one fine day, google docs couldn't draw a scatter-plot that connected the plotted points with a line (the feature got removed for some reason). From the timeline of that thread, it took months to get the feature back. This is just unacceptable. Ever since, I have decided to stick with a native app for office software (excel on win + mac and some other stuff for Linux).
There is also the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (http://www.i-comp.org/), a fairly neutral sounding lobby group which (according to Wikipedia) is sponsored by Microsoft.

ICOMP bought an amusing half page ad in a national UK newspaper in the Autumn, quoting the owner of Hot Maps in saying that Google Maps essentially destroyed his promising business. Look at http://hot-map.com/ and judge for yourself..
Your interviewer was an idiot.
Again, if this was at google, please let me know privately who it was, and i'll take care of it.