skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

High enough salary + great benefits to the point where needs are met are ideal. "Rockstars" may be able to negotiate with companies who want to hire those kinds of people, but if you are hiring only the best people and not the best people for your company then your culture will suffer. I like the way Valve does things. No rockstar culture like WallSt or Hollywood has. Everyone gets even footing and credit. You can earn more if your peers agree that you deserve it - people there are not chasing rewards - they are doing what they love well and being rewarded for it. It seems to work very well for them and other co-op like companies.
If you do decide to do some Python:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/turtle.html
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I've used CFEngine (2.x) professionally for a few years, and I'm slowly branching out into the brave new world of Puppet.

Despite that I think there is room for more automation tools, and with my positive CFEngine experiences in mind I've developed my own simple alternative, Slaughter.

Last night I finally published a readable introduction which explores the use, function, and implementation:

http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/guide/
I am a developer in NYC, and I do client projects with two other developers.

I'd be willing to meet for a coffee to talk about any possibilities. Shoot me an email: john@bitfountaincode.com
That is subjective. What is "magic and shiny" and who is doing this embracing? "Magic and shiny" is embraced more in Sinatra than in Django? "Magic and shiny" is, by your definition, a security vulnerability?
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Fair enough, although this comment thread was about its quality as journalism. Ultimately, this is a site about news "hence 'hacker news'", so you have to expect that a piece posted will be judged on its factual quality, and by proxy, its journalism, rather than the literary quality of its writing.
The Skype screenshot is from last year. It was't the only one; another was the Netflix app, and Facebook was really bad: http://i.imgur.com/fSQYQex.png

I'm glad to hear that companies are busy adding big screen support, though that support is arguably coming late. The main point is that an Android app's interface could be stretched across anything, and this has certainly been a design obstacle in the past.
I'd certainly be interested.

I thought about this awhile back but never found the time to get anything going. If you end up going through with it post the Github link as I'd like to contribute.
I publish my blog with chronicle, a static generator.

In the past I also reviewed several of the popular static-site generators, many of which are designed for blogging:

https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators
> but if you think about how it got to this point, this is almost an inevitability.

Of course. I also agree here.

Which is why all of this complaining is just barking up a tree.
Work-for-hire is actually the norm in the mainstream comics world (DC, Marvel). Creator-owned comics do exist and there's a pretty big label that does nothing but (Image), but as you say there's considerable risk involved.
OP here. We actually do have documentation, but that's because our product is an SDK + analytics service that requires developer integration: https://markedup.com/docs

However, what I was referring to in the article was third party documentation. MSDN docs.
OR it is having a mature and charming 35 year-old with lots of experience as your first girlfriend/boyfriend.

The gap is huge at first but with the growing relationship you learn about all the intricate details of being with someone on a daily basis, which can make all subsequent relationships much easier to handle.

C is rough, it's roots, but it doesn't distort the programmer in any way and teaches very sane principles as much as the innards of the machine, which is always a plus for all further endeavours. Just my two cents.
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What do you mean by "iterator and address stability"?
Leap Motion test with 3D physics engine
OP here.

If you want to nitpick over word choice, I did include "usually" into the sentence.

But you're right - there are situations where a rewrite is called for. Just do it for the right reasons.
Preach it brother! The people who don't care about the RC are the ones who jump on it day 1 of the release because it's "finally ready" and then complain about the bugs.
Did you look at lockitron: https://lockitron.com/preorder ? I'm not exactly sure it would fit your need but it seems close event if you might need an extra app/website for people to "book" the kayak?

I think that's how some airbnb hosts give access to their flat without having to meet you in person. At least I've seen it advertised during my last research for an airbnb booking.
I would just focus on making it a constructive open environment where everyone feels welcome (irrespective of age, gender, or ethnic background).

I think the gender gap will surround technology for a little while longer, and I could write an essay on why that is (and what can be done). But I won't.

I would be careful with walking the line between being accepting of female inclusion and making them feel like they're VIP members who nobody can treat as equals as a result of their imposed "status." Such status can easily flip (i.e. "good" and "bad" statuses are both exclusionary).

I've seen several organisations who were typically male heavy attract female members, and it was always a slow grind which just essentially involved treating everyone like equals and with respect.

I would avoid trying to over-respect women too, since that breads resentment and sexism. It is also kind of condescending (i.e. "well I don't think you could get this on your own, so I am giving it to you").

So if you want to get some female speakers then make sure they are up to the standards you expect from their male counterparts, doing anything else is more than a little counter-productive.

PS - Also maybe come up with some basic speaker guidelines to make it clear that sexism, racism, etc (even as "jokes") are not acceptable. This might be "obvious" stuff but it still might need to get said.
What came first, though, strong IP or innovation? I could see strong IP laws growing out of existing innovation.
Sounds interesting, as a blogger, I'm certainly sure it will be useful. Go ahead with your plans:)
Could you put your examples somewhere that we can demo them?
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Oh come on, you can't seriously be using Africa as an example here. Most African countries lack basic infrastructure and many haven't had a peaceful decade in the last 50 years. IP is a type of law, so countries with weak rule of law probably have weak IP. But I think there is a solid case to be made that the other rule of law issues swamp IP in terms of suppressing innovation.
OP here. No, we can't all be rockstars. I'm a productive developer and can own products, but I'm no Bill Joy.

However, we should always seek a means to improve. The items on this list are good set of guidelines to follow and I'm sure there are others I've overlooked.
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I'm pretty sure there are royalties for DC & Marvel artists these days, going back to the big squall in the 1980's. (For when their work is recreated, not their characters. They give the characters over 100%.)

This doesn't mean that Disney should or should not follow that practice.
Call me crazy, but I don't think a lack of strict patent law is the only thing holding African countries back.
I think I'm at 2 interview rejections and 1 app rejection.

The masochism will stop when the motivation subsides!
A note on various of the Gutenberg SF entries: the versions on Project Gutenberg may be the magazine serial versions. They may differ substantially from the book versions. (Shorter, to fit magazine space limitations.)

Copyright law was different back then, and magazine versions had different copyrights than book versions. In many cases, magazine copyrights were not renewed, but book copyrights were, so you'll see magazine serial versions on PG but the books won't be available.

This is particularly true for E. E. Smith's Lensman and Skylark of Space series: the book publication versions aren't on PG. (I have no idea who currently holds the rights to the Lensman series.)

It is possible to find them on the darknet, but quality will vary.
Where's the evidence to that? In fact the evidence shows the contrary. Also, US does not have the strongest patent laws.
Ask HN: What do I need to learn to start an online magazine?
I've decided to explore the idea of starting an online magazine. I'd like to be able to run it myself. Most of my experience is in scientific computing, but I'm familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript, C and Python. I'm working on learning more about databases (currently taking the Stanford Class2Go on databases http://class2go.stanford.edu/db/Winter2013)

What else would you recommend I look into?
Can you tell us how many "no idea" people/groups were accepted last round?
Invite female leaders to the event. Have them do a presentation if they are willing. This will have have their network follow in automatically.

In essence: Focus on attracting key females, and the rest will follow in.
The truth is that you can learn everything covered by the new buzz words out there. However, unless you have a real use case for them or serious about finding ways to use them. You will just be wasting your time. Might as well spend more time with family and just enjoy life.

You can go ahead and learn something new. However, you need to set your expectations right. Unless you are a genius (which you may be. i just have never met you or know anything about you), the new language for you will just be a hobby. Making a career out of a hobby and compete with others who have being doing it for a while is hard unless you are dedicated. Or it could be that you just want to learn it and have fun. No one knows yourself better than other people. So you will know what your realistic expectations are and whether you are okay with it.

That being said, my approach would actually not be trying to start with picking a new language. Each language is good at certain contexts. For example, you use node if you want to do long polling because it's unreasonably low memory usage per connection. Each nosql database has its pros and cons towards what you are trying to do.

My advice will be try to build something and pick languages and backends based on what you are trying to build. You already have 2 side projects. Maybe start with a mobile project this time? Try to look into your day to day life and see if there some little and fun tasks you can solve using new technologies? I think you will learn in a much more relevant context this way.
Out of curiosity, why only the legal industry? I understand a narrow focus might make sense starting out from a marketing point of view, but if you have some new technology that could benefit multiple industries, why not pitch it more broadly. Something like: 'We plan on selling to the legal market first which is worth X billion dollars, after finding success there this technology can be applied to markets Y and Z - together they spend Q billion dollars on software annually?'
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I haven't seen YC's success with no-idea applicants, but I feel that being able to generate an idea is an important attribute to look for in founders even if you don't care what the actual idea is. In PG's running back analogy, it's like testing to see if they can move laterally vs being a "downhill runner"
The DOJ lied in the press release. They have a habit of doing that. There was no possibility that Swartz would face 35 years in prison. You can be upset about that, and that's reasonable, but you cannot synthesize from that upset the idea that Swartz actually could have spent 35 years in prison.

The consensus among former prosecutors and defense attorneys writing about this case is that if Swartz had been convicted on all counts, he might have faced as many as 2 years, but that he also might have avoided a custodial sentence even if he was convicted.
This isn't entirely true. Numerous mathematicians have publicly bemoaned the difficulty of communication between mathematicians in different specialties. So it's definitely not something that is ignored.

The question is what to do about it. We're not just talking about confusion arising from different notation between mathematical specialties (resolving that would be as easy as defining your notation in an appendix), but different, equally valid ways of mathematical thinking.

In some ways, it may be better to think of different mathematical specialties as different programming languages. Proficiency in one will help you, but won't guarantee that you can interpret another. Except that in mathematics, the differences are more extreme. If you have two Turing-complete programming languages, then you have two different tools that can solve the same class of problems. But different fields in mathematics deal with entirely different mathematical objects which require a conceptual instead of notational leap on the part of the reader. It's not simply a matter of figuring out how to write for loops or manipulate strings in the new language. You actually have entirely different ideas in each, and trying to impose some common notational standard among them is fraught with problems.
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Who cares? With so many patents issued in the US there is basically no disclosure anyway, at least as far as a small company or individual is concerned. In addition, many modern inventions are so complex that it is almost impossible to identify every patent they might violate. Even large companies get hit by this sort of thing, just look at video codecs.
That one study only tells us that smaller paracetamol package size may have resulted in fewer paracetamol OD suicides. It says nothing about the impact it had on other methods of suicide. Or how the decline of that specific method of suicide compared to the number of suicides by other methods. If other methods of suicide also declined during that same period, one could reasonably conclude that suicide was on the decline anyway and would have declined even without changing paracetamol package size (perhaps because the economy improved or unemployment declined or any number of things that can lead more people to depression and suicide). However, if other methods of suicide increased during that same period, one could reasonably conclude that people simply found another suicide method "easier" than paracetamol OD. I don't know either way... but that article certainly leaves a lot of other factors unchecked.
What's going on here? Are the folders supposed to correspond to the sessions? It seems to for the first one but then falls apart...
> It’s as if the syntax of a programming language changed depending on who was writing the program!

This isn't unique to mathematics; it's the reason it's hard to scale the number of programmers working together on a Lisp codebase. Each programmer writes their own notation (macros), and ends up down their own rabbit-hole of a sub-language that nobody else can immediately understand.
I love how this was found organically --- more slides and tutorials to come soon!
Exactly, this correlation definitely proves that strong IP rights are the reason for the innovation. It's rock solid, just like this chart[1] that reveals the true cause of global warming.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PiratesVsTemp(en).svg
The iPhone Plus DPI argument
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotschrift
An astrologer has a question about stars. He says: "I know, I'll ask an astronomer." Now he has two problems.

Sigh...
Point taken. My objection was to praptak's generalized false dilemma of corporations cheating their employees versus weak copyright and widely accepted file sharing. Don Rosa's case is indeed more complex.
If that works for you, that's great!

Many software developers around these parts (myself included) want equity in the companies we work for. Equity is just our industry's form of royalties. Make awesome software that people love? Greater valuation of your equity!
yes, the folders correspond to sessions -- haven't had too much time to polish it off (there should be slides in the folders as well)
When I play too much tetris I start thinking about the blocks all the time and find it maddening. I wonder if these guys can ever stop thinking about the blocks or if it just becomes so hard-wired in their brain that they lose consciousness of it.
StartPage.com is nice too. Others here, including me, do not like what Google does much of the time either. But I do respect Go, Android, and Gmail. The other stuff, not as much.
Summary: SF is changing, new people with more money are displacing people with less money. Boohoo.

I'm surprised this anti free market, anti capitalism BS gets play on here.
You might like Rotten Tomatoes' RSS feeds for new and "Certified Fresh" DVD releases:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/syndication_rss.php
Sounds like it's not solved. Don't you think Google would be happily crawling javascript sites without the developer having to do anything special?

I don't know what Nuuton is but from the looks of the home page it seems to be some random no name search engine that isn't even released.

I wouldn't really call that solved, considering most end users are using Google, Bing or Yahoo.
That's not entirely relevant in this context. We're talking about two similar bits of code in entirely different parts of the codebase.
I read an interesting comment on Reddit recently that the higher oxygen content of the atmosphere is what primarily supported massive life forms (and that seemed to be proven at least plausible by a recent experiment where researchers were able to grow larger dragonflies in an oxygen-rich environment).

Given the current descriptions of the environment at the time -- higher volcanism, an asteroid impact, global wildfires -- is it reasonable to conclude that this had a huge impact on the oxygen content of the atmosphere? And, if so, couldn't that have simply led to a tremendous selection pressure on species, where larger animals were constantly oxygen-depleted and smaller, more efficient ones were able to continue thriving? Think about it: a Tyrannosaurus would require an immense amount of oxygen to be able to maintain an active hunting pattern; if the oxygen in the atmosphere were depleted by even just a few percent, it would find things like running nearly impossible, and long-distance travel would require frequent rest breaks. I'm not sure how this half-assed notion would fit into the oceanic species' extinction, but it makes a lot of sense for why so many of the larger species died out over a period of time while the smaller ones survived.
Also, something that I've found really helpful to remember in talking to VCs and angels (and for something like the YC application, presumably) is that for a "demo"/elevator pitch, you can't presume much work on the part of the reader.

Specifically, if you're demoing an iPhone/Android app, you should probably have a textual description, which then links to screenshots, which might also include some video/screen capture. Then, link to an install URL. Essentially no one is going to casually install a random iPhone, Android, FB-login, account-creation website, Facebook, etc. app just to try it out, especially in the earlier screening stages. But at the same time, having a "live" demo people can use as soon as they're interested is ALSO great. So, the best way is probably something which allows progressive engagement.

(the YC application says to not require a login, just to provide a special URL, but for something like a mobile app, that advice is a little outdated and non-specific.)
Very fun. The "map brightness to Z" trick would seem to be too simplistic, but it totally fooled me into thinking this was doing some kind of crazy computer vision trick. I'm almost sad now that I read that detail; now it sounds easy to implement. :(

I will say, though, that I hate the mouse UI: you can't use relative offsets to make changes on a device that might disappear form one edge of your control and reappear on any other. It's very confusing to the user. Please use a drag for that.
Well like I said that's all I am interested in personally. If my cofounders or funders wants to take it in other directions after it's developed that's fine and I wouldn't stop them but I know what I want to do and I think it's sustainable an idea in the legal information area alone (just look at westlaw/lexis/bloomberg).
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Please don't make it a "my country vs. your country" thing. Some people have more aptitude for geography than others; it doesn't much matter where they are (as long as some schooling exists). I'm American and didn't have any trouble.

And who said the GP was American, anyway?
> What else would you recommend I look into?

Content. You've described skills that could be used to put together a Website, but there's no mention of your literary or journalistic abilities.

Nothing is easier than launching a Web-based magazine. Nothing is harder than filling it with fresh daily content so people visit again and again.
I haven't seen Billy Crystal's Parental Guidance, but I am surprised that the film is ranked #8 for "Best Special Effects".
They make the aspies nervous
There many jokes here, though they are disguised inside serious comments. My take is that you should humor to make a point, and not as the point itself.

Good:

A joke that is relative to the subject. As in replying with code one liners when another member posts one. This one is quite enjoyable.

Bad:

One liners like "That's what she said!".

Though I think a thread about hacker jokes could come in handy from time to time. We are quite the uptight community.
In 2012 the bitcoin supply increased 33%
In 2013 the supply will increase roughly 13%

In another 4 years when the reward halves again it will decrease to 4% inflation. At this point it will be harder than most government currencies.

(Gold inflates about 1.5% per year)
The linked article isn't about balancing individual word spaces within justified text, it's about re-wrapping the lines so that the last line isn't markedly shorter than the others, even in the face of changing viewport and font sizes.
> The plan calls for an $82m extension to the San José International Airport with hangers [sic] ...

An airport in a closet? Or did they mean hangars?

Next question. Where have all the proofreaders gone?
Having a zero-tolerance policy for sexist, racist, etc. comments can be a big thing. A recent blog post talked about how people were posting really hateful, insensitive stuff on Facebook about a talk during the talk. Make it clear that comments of that sort won't be tolerated, and make it clear to attendees that if it does happen and is reported, it will be dealt with effectively.
Will the tech world finally get the immigration reform it’s been begging for?
Philosophical Landmines
Sorry, but Helvetica Neue and font weight 300 make the page unreadable for a number of people.
I see that the equity stake that YC gets is variable from 2-10%, presumably based on valuation. I had thought it was a fixed 7% stake; is this new or had I not noticed it before?
South Africa was hard, but the hole for Lesotho was the big tip off for me.
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Someone who is trained and specifically knowledgeable of police procedures, going after police as targets (and thus guaranteeing a defensive overreaction by the police force) is probably the worst domestic terrorism situation.

It's probably fortunate he appears to be batshit insane as well, or else he could keep this up for years.
http://lvivski.github.com/anima/#examples
It's been that way for a long time.