skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly go buy Steve Blank's "The startup owners manual".

Secondly, you have a big idea, but what is the one thing that above all else will totally convince everyone to buy?
Web-based HR for SMEs? Well its the recruitment system that everyone fusses over.

Build that, in 1 month, with just a OpenID login and stripe integration.

If you cannot have 2 customers on there by June 30 giving you cash, its not a winner. Pivot.

Got 2 customers? Great. Get on AngelList and then you can afford to hire developers, be picky, and still not risk the roof over your kids head.

You are setting yourself up to spend a lot of money that should go on children's clothes and holidays, and throw it in a hole. It does sound a lot like you have made up your mind and want some justification. DOes your partner support this?
Please read the post recently about 40,000 USD and 100 USD.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but you most definitely do not have to build it all before it works.

And if you want to hire people or get funding, a working system with paying customers makes that orders of magnitude easier.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank
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You should spend your early time at a company gaining an understanding of its business needs (basically understand why you're there) so you can later take 'ownership' of important projects and tasks. Ultimately you'll be judged by your importance to the company, not much you work (although those two are positively correlated).
>> And they were wrong on all counts. No bullseyes.

The silver lining to this 0% hit rate is that it might actually provoke some soul searching among the respective communities. That would probably be less possible if there had been a bullseye hidden away somewhere.
There's gotta be some kind of organizational size:responsiveness inverse metric for stuff like this
Killed Bomber: "I Don't Have A Single American Friend, I Don't Understand Them."
So this goes without saying, but don't click the link or read through the comments here if you aren't through season 2 and have a distaste for spoilers.
The N9, which only runs a Meego instance, i.e. provides the Meego API on Maemo (the biggest difference is likely that the package manager is dpkg rather than rpm as for Meego proper) can do pretty much everything the desktop can do, modulo the missing keyboard, libraries and architecture. Really, it’s mostly like any other Linux distribution with a little weird hardware.
This is pretty embarrassing after their Azure SSL certification expirations issues just a month or so ago.
These are "Harvard economists", and AFAICT Harvard has one of the strongest econ departments in the academic establishment.
Being denied cat pictures and trite memes is a reward, not a punishment.
Everybody hates a witch hunt until they see a witch. "Witch!"
Cron Schedule Azure SQL Database Backups on a Worker Role
For what it's worth I alawys had problems reaching bing.com when using openDNS.
I heart Boston - show your support
When you say MVP, do you mean a tech professional or is MVP some tool I am not aware of?
> public transport will still be running by the time you stumble out of the pub again.

I always count myself fortunate to live in a city where public transport runs 24/7. The biggest challenge is staying awake long enough to get on the train, and then not sleeping past my stop and ending up in the Bronx.
Exacerbated?
Best comment from the WSJ article (in which Reinhart and Rogoff admit their mistake): "The two profs are incompetent enough to now be hired by Fox “Business” network."
Alexandr Laveikin (cosmonaut) spent time on the Mir (Мир) spacestation in 1987. He said it was "very noisy, very hot."

(This is from 'Packing for Mars' by Mary Roach)

I guess heat conduction is difficult if your spacecraft is in a vacuum.
I know! Apparently my Beer hour is 30 minutes before I leave work.
Yes, this is good advice. It centers on the person and advocates a work/life balance. It doesn't center on the employer and how they can be manipulated and cheated for the employee's benefit.
Experience and observation. Don't discount them. The first person to say the sky was blue was going out on a limb, too. What if everyone else saw an orange sky?
Why are you here ?

This is absolutely typical of the problem with society.

Judge me, exclude me, push me under a bridge.

It doesn't matter what you do to me, the day will come when man will be judged by those he has judged.
http://www.paperplane.io/ supports static hosting from Dropbox and Github.
FFS. Not knocking what you're doing, but if HN was coded by someone who cared about what they were doing, this wouldn't be an issue.

It's a text side, with some indentation.

This isn't about UI, or fancy animations, or even CSS - it's about caring that your users get a halfway decent experience on the devices they choose to use.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombin...
Better entertainment, more varied food, high speed internet, free knowledge at our fingertips, mobile phones, more interesting jobs...

It's all rather subjective. I would not trade my current living situation with that of my parents at my age.
i was expecting some insight into Game of Thrones story.. this is just celebrity gossip.
Ask HN: Is Github essential to your life?
I don't know the way you use Github everyday. Is it essential to your day ? How about a day without it ?
Ask HN: Does anyone else also have habit of Upvoting first and then reading?
Lately, I've been oberserving that I tend to open intresting headlines in new tabs and then up vote straightaway.<p>Several times, I've found myself regretting the up vote because off this. Anyone else also experienced this?<p>If yes, any extensions or methods to get rid of this?
I remember reading that water is generated as a byproduct of the hydrogen fuel cells on board. And then the water vapour is also recycled and repurified back into the system. So it's a closed water system powered by solar energy inputs.

Of course, the machinery necessary for this loop costs x billions, but the particular molecules of water used in this experiment probably came out of the internal water cycle and didn't cost to get the water there in the first place.
Didn't Reddit make a big show of banning doxxing a while back? Super effective. There should be multiple lawsuits here.
Mental illness is certainly common, but someone who is normally able to cope ok can be pushed over the edge when under too much stress, and even who initially has no mental health problems at all can end up being driven to insanity, given the right conditions.

We need to be treating mental health just as importantly as physical health. There's all sorts of OH&S guidelines for proper posture, lifting things etc. Similarly, there should be OH&S guidelines for ensuring employees are provided with a safe working environment in which they're not going to end up like this (at least, to the extent that work contributed to their condition).
Well, it can certainly do a lot better ... check out caniuse.com for more details.
Awesome. Looking forward to checking this out.
But it won't be energy source then and will just be source for plastic/organic molecules.
> public transport will still be running by the time you stumble out of the pub again.

Not in Boston. But then again, today isn't a bad day to just stay in the pub.
The timezone support is a bit buggy unfortunately, I'll try and fix it tonight. But I agree with the comments below, it's always Beer O'clock really!
I wasn't at the time, dude.
If you have a networked multifunction printer/fax/etc., read the manual. Odds are pretty good that even a low-end one supports scanning to FTP, SMB, and email. It's worth checking first (some manufacturers require software on a PC instead of having the capability in the device), but you can get something that'll do this for less than $100 (Brother MFC-J430w supports scan to FTP, as do most Brother devices).
Wow! Very interesting stuff but every time I see something interesting, I have more questions than answers. For example, what happens to the fluid in your body? If it floats around, won't we die???
This is especially fun if you have Slate installed:
https://github.com/jigish/slate
Leak details. If nothing else, more light on the area would make it harder to screw around.
Can you be more specific about what seemed wrong to you about the culture surrounding ruby? I'm curious.
Their UI is very difficult to use, we tried, but give up eventually. That's part of the reason we created phdtree.org. We believe we have a much better user experience and "wiki" support. Try phdtree.org, and let us know what you think.
Why stop there? They should sue the Internet.
Right. MitM attacks and variants are a proper subset of the mischief that can be achieved with an unsecured connection. Among other things, it's routine that people (hi!) use self-signed certs for personal or temporary TLS sites. I'd be very annoyed to pass a basic-auth-protected https git url to someone for quick-and-mostly-secure read-only access and have their access be denied by a local proxy...
I read it and it's quirky sure, but in a 'so randum!!11 NACHO BEANS! holds up spork' sort of way. I'm probably going to get modded down here, but that's just my opinion on it.

'A++' for effort though? It couldn't have been easy to draw all those cartoons.
Viacom Loses It's $1 Billion Copyright Case Against YouTube
Reddit was worthless. It libelled countless people for the "crime" of attending the Boston marathon whilst carrying a backpack, or worse, being "brown".
What's the name of the music this is playing?
Facebook Lets You Spy on Its Data Centers
Are nighttime space-walks common? I'd imagine you'd want to schedule them when you have sunlight to avoid any unnecessary complications. I mean their schedule each day is jam packed, but I'd imagine it wouldn't be too much trouble to schedule around nighttime?

EDIT: Duh, orbit is much faster than a 24-hour day...
Is the issue really work-life balance, or mental health? They are actually two separate things.

Perhaps, but I believe there's a close relationship between the two. Getting the balance wrong can definitely lead to mental health problems.
Senate edges closer to vote on Internet sales tax
This would be cooler if there is a way to actually _play_ the accordion. For example, map keyboard keys to the keys on the accordion. :-)
Energy based system of currency create a system that is very good at tracking GDP by design. Also it is self adjustable and it creates natural currency sink.

The fed has only half the toolsets nowadays - it can create and pump liquidity, but cannot extract excess amount and cannot direct where the liquidity will go.
Well. My speakers were at full volume and I'm in the middle of an office with 400 people.

I'm off to hang myself.
It seems almost obvious that failure to innovate does not lead to a fast crash-and-burn style death. It is the slow decline that they warn you about when they talk about innovate or die.

You can innovate and still die as someone pointed out the case of the Osborne effect[1] in another thread on HN earlier today. On the other hand, you can look at Kodak which still has a long way to go to recover to its former glory. Just take a certain Internet search company which apparently just reported its revenue jump 31 percent year over year. How do you sustain this kind of growth without innovating?

This is not to discredit either side but like most things in life, there are two sides to a story.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but that's an implementation issue and not a root problem with austerity. Just because I mess up all the config options for Apache doesn't mean Apache sucks. The argument that austerity itself is bad because it's killing babies and giving everyone AIDS is a bit ridiculous.

Just to be clear, I'm not arguing for austerity at all. I'm just saying everyone's jumping on the chance to blame austerity for every conceivable problem because they happen to disagree with it politically.
Reddit is a discussion board made up of individuals with widely varying viewpoints, motives, and ages...what would a collective apology look like? The closest thing to official Reddit action on this is when a moderator of r/findbostonbombers shut discussion down on Sunil 14 hours ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1cnafx/mo...

The mod was ridiculed when Sunil's name was reportedly mentioned on scanners hours later but he/she stood their ground.

Demanding reddit to collectively hang their head in shame would be like asking all of Russia to apologize on behalf of the alleged actions of these ethnic Chechens...it's a bit impractical and overestimates the cohesiveness of the group
I think it's as simple as having chosen an awful name. Bing is physically difficult to pronounce and it evokes no meaning whatsoever.
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Emergency Alert [Gov. Patrick advises to stay indoors]
For the ISS, an orbital day is about 90 minutes.
Dominoze PC Post-mortem: Nine Years, One Programmer
it isn't, it's all political.
TL;DR means "here's a very short explanation".
I agree that it's silly, but there really are too many hipsters in Brooklyn.
I'm not discounting them; I'm also not just nodding vacantly. But comparing your observations to widely-accepted facts like the color of the sky doesn't exactly scream rationality.

Your assertion is that people with high IQ (which we're taking your word for, as well as the accuracy of the tests that we're assuming they took and shared the results with you) actually had the government after them in numerous enough occasions to be statistically significant. We're further assuming that you're right in that this is generalizable beyond your sample set (which is how big?), and then that there's no sample bias going on that would make your observations irrelevant to most populations.

I don't see any reason to believe that what you've seen can actually be called representative. No, just because there isn't a study behind it doesn't mean it isn't true. But that also means you have no grounds beyond "experience and observation" to make your statement, and when you're giving basically no useful data on how you reached your conclusion, no rational person would call this a useful or valid generalization. A hypothesis worthy of testing, perhaps. But that's all it is.
This is how you should treat most things on the internet.
I agree. I was not trying to defend jobs at startups. We're hiring but can't afford high salaries so I totally understand that such jobs are no good for most people : not well paid, you lose it if the company fails, long hours, stressful. There are good points too (I wouldn't be doing it otherwise!).
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This is a good point, but it serves to point out what others are not bringing up. The truth is, managers know programmers aren't cogs and can never be. How could they not? The issue is that their managers believe or really want to believe that programmers are cogs, so the lower manager can cut all experienced programmers and replace them with the cheapest labor they can find. What shows up in the short term is a cost savings, and therefor probably a promotion. Yes, since these new programmers don't know the system it's destined for failure, but who cares? By the time that happens the PHB will be in a new position and no longer responsible for this mess they made.

The true plague or our industry and everyone else's is short term thinking, and I don't see how it could be fixed at this point.
Overview: The Asp.Net Web API
I was about to reply that when this meeting took place in 2011 Schmidt was still CEO. But in fact you're right, he was not: he'd stepped down a couple of months previously.
It's illegal to sell alcohol before 10am over here (UK).

So for many, 10am is most definitely the time for a beer. :P

Edit: okay, so off-licenced retailers specifically, child commenter - it just doesn't quite have the same ring to it (and off-licence probably isn't a known term outside the UK)
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/as...

So there is still some loss of water even with the recycling
Hydrogen and Oxygen compress though, and are combined into water in the station's fuel cells.
Funny that this shows up beneath, "Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling". The contrast between them and this pair of posturing do-nothings is incredible.
Digital Public Library of America launches free knowledge to all
Who else remembers when it used to be an insult? I preferred it that way.
'Raped' Delhi five-year-old in a critical condition
That's a choice you can make, but it's not relevant to the point I'm refuting. :)
The chinese are trying to censor reddit because of that article about china censoring the term "censorship".
How Facebook Pushes Two Releases Per Day
I'm just trying to say that just because one may not have experienced them or seen them does not mean they don't exist. I've worked for a few and with a few. They helped me grow.
Instead it was something useful and I was pleasantly surprised. Hooray Friday!
What would a "404 error" have to do with his health?
Bitcoin has adaptable difficulty and it will always be very close to the most efficient way to mine them. The only way to decrease total energy is to crash the price of bitcoins or cartel. In both cases the system is already screwed anyway.
fucking seriously? Why would you want to use a WEB BROWSER to debug an iOS App?

Why is it when a company like Apple puts out iTunes, with only vaguely related functionality, people scream its bloat.

When Google does it, they can't wait to give Eric Schmidt a fucking reach around.

If you want to debug an iOS Apps' traffic, use a HTTP Proxy Debugger. If you want to debug a server-side app, use a debugger or a decent IDE that supports debugging.

This concept of putting everything into the browser is exactly what led to Windows Update being a part of IE in Windows.
Makes sense. In the era of cloud services IBM's traditional targets are going to be buying far fewer servers. And you know Amazon and Rackspace aren't buying IBM hardware. Name-brand computers are a shrinking business. This is true across all markets. Even Apple's share is shrinking (as it continues printing money with the devices it's selling, of course)
Looks like it might be related to the reddit DDOS: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditTraffic/comments/1coaer/201304...
Saving for retirement by investing in Bitcoin
Hasn't Paul Krugman been saying this for quite a while? Judging by the performance of the Irish and British economies since the implementation of austerity programs, it looks to be verifiable.
I submit Fargo, ND for your consideration. We have oil money, cheap cost of living, and a decent tech community.
I do believe the title was pretty clear as to the effect of this webpage...
Yep you're right, founders have that upside too. But raising a seed round is not that easy (don't believe Techcrunch :)), and if you can't do it your story will be "I spent xxx months/years on something nobody cared".
The ISS orbits every 90 minutes. Any non-trivial space-walk will be in darkness at least part of the time.
You are talking to grey-area after all.
I'm honestly surprised to see this opinion on HN, the defender of the free Internet.

Should the family also take legal action against the ISPs of the Reddit users involved, simply for "facilitating" this garbage?
Death of a Hacker (From Hacker to Developer)
This is a very timely article personally for me and I think this is a really important issue that companies of all shapes and sizes need to be aware of.

I've had a couple of times in the past where I've come very close to being this guy. I'm a very hard worker and take my job really seriously (probably too seriously), and have had management that either doesn't appreciate my contributions, or is driving the company in the wrong direction that you can just see it's going to fail. In this situation, the best thing to do (for both parties) is to simply quit.

And now I'm my own boss, and putting just as much pressure on myself as the management mentioned in the article. I've come to realise very recently (and after some wise advice from a very good friend of mine) how dumb this is, and that there's a certain point you reach where doing more work actually produces less value. In fact you could draw a graph of working hours vs. output, and it would rise steadily up to something like 40-50 hours, and then drop pretty rapidly after that.

I'm learning that not treating everything as urgent, and getting priorities right and accepting that some things just have to wait ultimately ends up being the best thing for everyone involved, including customers.
That does look awesome. I like how it can also work on a custom XMPP server, so that you could have a type of internal buddy list or chat system. Great link! I will keep myself updated on your client and maybe I can use it on an upcoming project.
And Hacker News has officially turned into a less-funny Reddit. Thanks, guys.
Yeah. I remember TL;DR meant wall of text, kinda same way RTFM was used. It was a response to something not a tag to indicate what you were doing. How things change so fast on the Internet.
>the superb racket/class encapsulation mechanism.

Superb? The racket class system strikes me as awful/embarrassing. The language at least looks functional in nature, but to do OO they implemented this ridiculous single dispatch mechanism (manually calling "send" no less!). Why on earth didn't Racket end up with a CLOS like system? They could have made anything they wanted, and yet they ended up with a system that will require people to write the Visitor pattern. Shocking.
Obviously Reddit can't offer a collective apology, the parent even said as much.

However, since there are obviously individuals who were willing to take credit on behalf of Reddit ("Reddit was right!", "Historic thread!"), it stands to reason that the inverse is also possible.

In the "duh-factor" statement of the day : groups are made up of people, and we shouldn't hide behind the amorphousness of a group to avoid taking responsibility for our actions. I'm sure the family would appreciate a few retractions, even if they didn't represent reddit/4chan/the internet as a whole.
There is a reason the police and media reported much more slowly than Reddit - they tried to confirm information before releasing it. Most of information that originated on Reddit was wrong. It's true that the media also reported a lot of incorrect information but they usually confirmed the important facts before releasing them.
Apple remembers where you wanted to get drunk for up to 2 years
> Because you won't consume it in less than a day.

I would if I could…

> And iiNet overage at $0.10/GB is pretty favourable as well…

Well, I suppose it's reasonable. I don't think it's fair to compare it to business-grade services like AWS though; it would be more appropriate to compare the NBN to Google Fiber or one of the Japanese/Korean ISPs.
Thanks. Care to elaborate on this?

It's difficult to leak details and make an impact. Academia is really screwed up. 90% of what gets published is a blatant lie, but nobody seems to care. Most researchers live in a distorted reality.
Fourth link on the page links to http://nerds.airbnb.com/github.com/airbnb/rendr-app-template (which obviously does not work) instead of http://github.com/airbnb/rendr-app-template
Also, "Tor" is the Scandinavian spelling of Thor. He probably thought of that when he saw the name, and mentally hashed it as "that anonymous routing software that's named for the Germanic god of thunder". I can imagine making that mistake.
True. Unfortunately Firefox had a bit of a moment to itself and did the looping sample thing, then hung while playing.

It was so loud. There was no escape.

Had to pull the battery to end the ordeal.