skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i see your point, but i'm often working on 2 or 3 man projects with different front-end and back-end workers (as well as 2 and 3 man projects where i'm the only softwarer).

it depends on the project.

i can do both ends, but i much more enjoy and excel at back-end work that supports an artistic front-end developer. i like abstract design not aesthetic design. those are very different things to excel at.

i don't really get "product manager" or really any manager. effective and efficient and pleasant communication between collaborators is crucial, 'nuf said.
My first impression: Compressed Indexes, New Index structure that allows sequential I/O read/write to disk of indexes, making indexes cheap. Cheap indexes = many indexes = improved query performance.
Is it getting-the-data which isn't trivial? You can write a crawler for wikipedia. Each country has their time zones in their entry (nicely formatted which makes it easy for parser to find), with daylight saving information too. Many countries, are, of course spanned across a few time zones, but that shouldn't matter.

The root page for your crawler could be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population, for instance.
That reminds me: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them-the-code

Actually, every time I see the letters ESR I think of that comic strip. It's so perfect.
On the one hand Gmail.
On the other, running your own sendmail server and being the authoritative DNS for your domain.
Its great that you are experimenting. Be prepared for people staring at your foot-like shoes. You may want to try keeping your vibram five finger running on grass or at least dirt, and getting into it as gradually as possible, although if you already do frisbee barefoot you might be ready to go at it hard. Our feet did not evolve to constantly run on concrete, although they still absorb more shock than any running shoe.

You may also want to try practicing raising your arches by gripping the floor in such a way that your toes bend backwards and you make contact with the big toe and little toe ball of the foot.
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"it's very important that I am covered against any liability and have that indemnity" -- then don't ask anonymous people on the Internet for legal advice. It sounds like you need an Indian lawyer.
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New Apple online ad rickrolls NYTimes readers
One of my favorite examples of ambiguity when it comes to punctuation is the following

"When hunting lions, hide in the bushes."
vs.
"When hunting, lions hide in the bushes."
Yeah there are clickable ads within the map, a lot of the billboards seem to be clickable, which is really quite clever if they're selling that ad space.
Oh my. Jamcracker Inc. raised $100 million in 2000.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1033-247167.html
could you please elaborate on the "inevitable crises of confidence"? What about? How often? How severe?
Not a comprehensive summary of the available options. If you're really interested, you might check out the Typing Injury FAQ and their list of alternate keyboards at http://tifaq.org/keyboards.html
I bet one of the overseas pharmacies has an affiliate program.
Few would disagree that a teenager should learn how do deal with peer influence, but many would disagree with the idea that the artificial social environment of high school is the best place to learn, or even a good one. It is not a microcosm of the adult world.
Is it possible to try and default to the country the person is actually in? That is, look at their IP address?
Should I register my business
i have a website that has been up for a year or so in a really niche area that is generating constant (small) traffic. it is a content driven site where i have created the content for educational reasons.. now i want to sell a pdf and an audio book on the site. should i register a. my website (or business)
b. my pdf file is a pdf file.. should i ISBN it?
c. my audio cd.. is there a way to register it..

i am concerned with copyright and protection from being sued. also, for tax reasons i can manage separate books and report that..

would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions,
My app is now in the iTunes store.  Besides submitting a lite version, what else should I do?
How do you promote your iPhone app(s)?
Sounds like my my reaction. Until their improvements can actually be tested and used outside the lab, why should I care? This announcement is very, very close to being vaporware.
foo is a variable, no?
Warner Music just picked on the wrong lawyer
Oh man. Looks like he missed, or didn't understand, Giles' excellent comment. Witness:

My view is that offending someone is walking up to them and saying: “You suck, your code sucks and your partner’s code sucks!”.
That is not what I did in my talk.

Failing so hard it's almost painful to watch.
Introverts don't necessarily have bad social skills. The average introvert is kind of an anti-nerd -- the same elements are there, but the causation is inverted. An introvert's self-imposed isolation comes off as snobbery, which creates a social challenge for them. Nerds are socially challenged, which leads to social isolation, which they try to frame as high standards (i.e., justified snobbery.)

The Introvert: introversion => social isolation => perceived snobbery => social challenges

The Nerd: socially challenged => social isolation => pretense of snobbery or introversion
I hope that guy was being facetious when he said he doesn't understand why some women find "Jamcracker" uncomfortable. If he was being serious, he lacks such basic intuitions towards spoken English language that I wouldn't want him anywhere near my company name.
My wife is an IT manager. She knows Unix, can code, debug nasty windows problems, and gets shit done. Still, coworkers, new hires, and people who don't know her try to address her male subordinates during escalated issues assuming the men are the ones who know what they're doing.

>> I highly doubt discrimination is the reason behind the low numbers of women in tech, for example.

I'm guessing you're a young man. Are you sure you're really in a good position to claim that? She often thinks of leaving the field because over time, it wears at her. I can give dozens of other examples.
Wow... BTW, there's NO way "Flu Shirts" has the rights to this:
http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/Article/Index/ar...
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60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month
This is some solid press for YC, but I don't really understand the title...who is putting themselves at risk by ignoring YC?
Ask YC/PG: Quantitative success of YC so far?
The story on Fool.com about YC being a force to be reckoned with got me thinking about whether the data backs that up. I'm not disagreeing, just curious. YC has funded a lot of startups and it would be interesting to know roughly what percentage have failed, become profitable, exited, etc. How does this compare to other venture portfolios? If it's still too early to tell, at what point will you have enough data to know if you're earning an acceptable return?

Perhaps this data is already available somewhere?

PS - One of the things about the article that bugged me is that they seemed to equate $$ raised with success. That's not really what I'm looking for.
Seriously. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, just a lame joke that went on too long. Now I see it's the organizers fault for having him talk, and my fault for "choosing to take offense".
If this guy had any p.r. savvy he'd just issue a simple apology and move on; instead he's stoking the fire more.
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"You might have a provocative, fun name. But do you have the basis for a lasting brand? We still don't know how compelling a brand Yahoo will be 10 years from now. I sense a real missed opportunity."
"I'm sorry, but your line of code was ugly and inefficient, so it was killed in the last merciless refactoring."
As an outsider to ruby/rails, this whole issue is crazy. Don't waste your time paying attention to it.
Before just repeating the fallacy, why don't you read the HBR link I posted. As it turns out, what you say is just not true, when actually measured.

On what basis would you suggest otherwise? Anecdotal evidence from a bunch of failed entrepreneurs who want to believe the experience helped them?
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Google Books Deal
You know you've made the big leagues when people write fluff pieces like this about you. Congrats guys!
I think the author might be referring to the "big companies [who] are cutting back and letting talent go". There seem to be repeated suggestions that YC alumni will nibble away or topple the Fortune 500's, uh, fortunes. With a lot of these startups creating new markets of their own I'm not sure I necessarily agree with that zero-sumesque view, but I wouldn't be surprised if they cause some interesting disruptions.
Good to know. Thanks. I'm getting the sense that Virginia is one of the hotbeds for homeschooling nationally.
Wow, neat.

GoogleLookup: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

Comprehensive function list: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Hmm, now I am imagining RMS wearing a Batman costume. Thanks, I guess.
"If the screening process is passing women by because they are not technical ninjas or dont want to work 80 hour weeks or dont do so well in alpha male interviews"

Except for your last point there the others are pretty bad stereotypes. For example women have no trouble finding employment as lawyers or doctors which comes with 80hr work weeks... yet they are still vastly underrepresented in IT.
What about API accesses? http://twitter.com/jorgeortiz85/statuses/1644880255
I didn't repeat the fallacy, I characterized his talk. He's explaning that he learned an awful lot about metrics.

Failing is one thing, demonstrating that you've learned is another.
Their terms of use are pretty explicit that this data is not free. You can look at the web pages though.
Never Enough
Now, let's not be too harsh. This is vastly improved over the initial response -- he's trying to apologize, for sure this time, and only a few bits of the apology are overly defensive.
Obviously PG knows better than me, but I think it's still too early to tell given that most funding cycles are 7-10 years.
Was there a primary reason for your home schooling?
Haha. Your city probably got polluted and was riddled with traffic, followed by intermittent power outages forcing you to replace power lines constantly. Eventually you ran out of money because tenants left your commercial developments, resulting in a crushing defecit.

(isn't that how it always goes?)
Keeping 40% is a good number
This tool appears to be Microsoft only, FYI.
So, are people who rent vs. own their homes non-free because they are opting into the home-as-a-service trap? Of course, they are at risk. The landlord could kick you out, forget to pay the water bill, etc. But, you accept those risks because you perhaps want the flexibility of renting, the extra time saved by not having a lawn to mow, or the financial benefits of living without a mortgage.

Why stop at owning a server? If you rent rackspace in a datacenter, they own you too. What if they lock the door and won't let you in? They could even steal your server along with all your data. What are you going to do then? Perhaps you should build your own. Then, you're still in trouble. What if the monopolies that control the pipe into your datacenter decide that you don't deserve connectivity anymore? Then, you're really screwed. You should just go live in a cave or something. Life is just too risky.

Seriously, business/life/whatever has inherent risk. Often when faced with a binary choice, both options have non-trivial risks associated. You either accept the risks or mitigate them. Most importantly, you measure them. Is Amazon willing to risk what must be its fastest growing business segment by holding someone's data hostage? Doubtful. Are you, as a small start-up, capable of messing up servers you physically manage. You bet! So, pick your poison.
One day I'm going to sit down and drill all of this into my head.
I’m Twitter’s bigger detractor but this seems dubious to even me. People see the name Nielsen and think its gold because of their dominance in TV ratings. But the reality is they put their numbers behind a pay wall so they aren’t scrutinized by enough people to determine just how accurate they are. Combine that with the fact that their methodology doesn’t necessarily work at all when measuring web traffic and you have numbers that mean very little.

With that said, I can see a decent amount of people dropping Twitter soon after trying it. Twitter’s usefulness isn’t immediately apparent which gives them a chicken-and-egg problem. In order to see why Twitter works for some people you have to be active on it and have a group of friends who are also active on it. But in order to get that you have to see why it’s useful.
Python Autocompletion for Vim, Emacs and TextMate
This one has given me problems so many times. Never got an answer.(I'm not a native speaker)
Opera is a classy browser. It's fast, efficient, and has a lovely interface. I love it and I really wish it was more popular.

Happy Birthday Opera! Here's hoping you get more love this year - you deserve it! http://www.opera.com/portal/15/
Programming conferences are a lot different than clinical trial studies or a lawyer's closing remarks. The attitudes of people attending are way different. We're just some guys, ya know? The talks are just conversations among peers -- peers that generally shun social conventions like having short hair and wearing a suit and tie. So while "porn" is probably not the most interesting content you can add to your talk, it's not really inappropriate either. (Sure, it may be offputting to outsiders, but that's not who the talks are for. The open source community is often offputting to outsiders, because the outsiders completely misunderstand our goals.)
If that's the case, then this would be a much smaller improvement for DB's that can be stored entirely in-memory or on SSD, right?

I think that most small db's are mostly in memory, and most large ones will be on SSD soon, so do you think that this will have a smaller impact on those use cases?
Why is sex offensive to women but not men? Would there not be outrage if the pictures were of scantilly-clad guys?
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U.S. Report On Who Gets a Vaccine First - Hackers Need Not Apply
Bank Nixes Use of Social Networking Sites in Hiring Process
Awesome - I'm going to Shanghai in the fall and this is very fun to pan around. Now if only I could read Chinese.
Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice.org's independence
Examples of “Lazy Registration”
Nope, nothing like socialfeet.
They are already failing since they give you a search box that doesn't work. When it finally does work, I probably will be trained not to type into that box.
Deposition in Apple options backdating case gives glimpse of the real Jobs
At Startup School in April 2008, PG cited a '50% success rate.' The full video of his talk is located here: http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/paul-graham-at-startup-sc...
http://codecampjunkie.com/ is a pretty decent place to find free tech events
you can find people complaining about the chronically spoiled in ancient greek plays. nothing new.
we've lived in northern virginia and montgomery county maryland and homeschooled our kids (now 3,6,8) from day 1 and continue to do so. go for it! it's not nearly as hard as people make it out to be and you can go with your children's interests and teach them how to love learning. really, can you possibly fail worse than the public system?
37signals mocked this back in the first bubble:

http://www.37signals.com/enormicom/

It's almost dead on. Wow. I'd thought it was pretty bad hyperbole even for 37s, but it's exactly accurate.

Edit: The last paragraph is amazing: "our senior manager for Internet development just fell in love with the name 'Jamcracker.' And so today, the Harvey meeting is known as the Jamcracker meeting. There are 300 people at this company who identify Jamcracker with Harvey." among others.
My thought exactly. Where's the beef?
if this is true it is something i can support. free competition is the defining feature that has created the standard of living we enjoy. it is also the only thing that will bring that standard of living to the 3rd world. never ending aid doesn't fundamentally improve conditions.
Some of the nostalgic things about the "old web" have modern incantations, if you look for them. For instance, the awesome spinning "construction" icons have been replaced by "Beta" tags.
sounds like you got "distracted" learning, and had to refocus on "playing the game" -- what a shame that we have to do that to get through a so called education.
The "rockstar coder" nonsense needs to stop. If someone does excellent work, then say that. If they're an ass, then say that. If they're an arrogant ass who does excellent work, then say that - don't call them a "rockstar," thereby glamorizing their condescension just because they're good at their job.
I know the "not hacker news" comment is frowned upon, but I'm genuinely curious about this post, since it's at #1 as of this comment. Is this blog written by a hacker wunderkind turned 21 years old hollywood ersatz man-of-letters? A clever HN karma gaming bot written by his blog network? Why his blog? Why this comment? Please advise - I am getting old and am paranoid about losing my online relevance.
Much easier to find the statistics you are looking for. It is annoying trying to navigate government websites, and having it all available on Google just seems like a good step in making these statistics more usable.

Does anyone know if you have to search for each individual public data type (IE: "Unemployment Rate"), or is there a single list of everything Google has indexed?
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How to Play Video Using an Open Source Player
Yep, it says so in Painting The Web, a fine book on graphics design for the left-brained neanderthal :-P
Bajaj Pulsar 300cc Bike - Is this true?
not right as in should be more, or less?
I was use it when I'm away from the laptop charger. All other browsers drain it out in less than an hour. With Opera I can squeeze a good 4 hours out of it. (I also use a lightweight win32 editor called editeur that does syntax highlighting instead of emacs for all my "write first, see it run later" type code.)
MLB is about to make a million dollars off an iPhone app
where 'at this moment' == 30m after post was made. Post has, after 33m, garnered 8 points.
Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth
I'm very sorry. I have a terrible habit of double spacing with each paragraph. I wish I could change it, but the edit button is gone :(

I'll try to be more careful in the future.
How about telling us what it is :)
I find it more comfortable to use tab for auto completion in Vim. Here's how:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Smart_mapping_for_tab_completion
Is something like this available for PyDev (Eclipse)? Supposedly, PyDev already has autocompletion, but it doesn't seem very effective. Because of my experience with PyDev's autocompletion, I am also skeptical of PySmell's effectiveness. I'd love to see a screencast of it in action. Does anyone have first had experience with both PySmell's and PyDev's autcompletion? With Python IDEs, my biggest complaint is with this functionality.
I really agree that this approach of gradually engaging the customer is the best way to go. The last thing a startup needs is to lose customers just because they can't use the product without going through a ridiculously long signup form.

It just makes sense: don't take the information until you need it. I found another article on A List Apart that may of interest to people who liked this article. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms
Sure life is risky. But most of the scenarios you mention have nothing to do with software freedom.

Say you rent rackspace. You can run free software on that server, and have complete control over all of your data. If the datacenter doesn't play nice, you can always take your software and data elsewhere. You are free. That same freedom will be useful should someone choke off your connection.
I'm almost annoyed at the title. It could be a little more descriptive so I am not wondering if it is: "Never Enough Space on a Hard drive", "Never enough posts to read".

Yeah, this isn't really relevant to the article, but just my thoughts.
Just to be clear, the 2D map and the satellite pics are from the actual Google Maps for China:

http://ditu.google.com/
Very good approach and something that I'd like to work toward in my projects ...

From a technical standpoint, what's the best way to tackle this? Let's say you're using Rails or Django, you let a visitor create [some-widget] and then ask if they'd like to register ... do you store a reference to the new [some-widget] in a cookie until they do?
What exactly constitutes 'success' tho?
I don't think I would call the Motley Fool "solid press". Maybe that's just me. Not to say YC doesn't get or doesn't deserve great press coverage.
Luke Wroblewski's "Web Form Design" http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/ makes this case well. He calls it "gradual engagement." It's also one of the best books on a web design topic I've ever read.
Stack Overflow's registration is awful because it only supports OpenID, a service that is spotty at best. I tried to ask a math question there and just couldnt get it to log me in.
I think it's worth asking those that have went through the program as well. Lessons learned go way beyond "$$".
Then why don't we have/create a free version of "Software As A Service"?

How could that be applied to the various cloud computing services that RMS has an issue with? Like Google Docs, Gmail, cloud computing power (like Amazon, Google).

In my limited view, I think software is not the problem - it's the hardware. There's a lot of upfront cost to setting up a server farm and employing people to run it, and there's a lot of competition out there.
Copying Databases across Platforms with Python's SQLAlchemy
It's not just about how long the signup form is, I believe it's simply the language "account" or anything that connotes joining something. The form can be three fields, and people still hate it.

The language "save my info for later", and versions of that, are much better. It flips it around in the user's mind: "oh, now they're not asking me to give something up, they're helping me out"
As a user of ruby/rails, this whole issue is crazy. Don't waste your time paying attention to it.
Are you using Opera on a PC, Linuxbox or Mac?

I've use Opera recently on my Mac and find it nowhere close to Safari or Firefox in terms of elegance and feature set. Gestures won't work via the trackpad and Google Docs won't load. Clunky.
Makes it clear just how dense Hong Kong is, even compared to other Chinese cities.

Do you happen to live in Hong Kong?