skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're quite welcome. Here's another one I found while thinking about your question:

http://blog.bitinstant.com/blog/2012/11/12/bitcoin-and-taxes...

Good luck, and thanks in advance for keeping in touch.

EDIT: Actually, that's not the one I was thinking of, although it's not bad. This is the more informative one:

http://www.dailydot.com/business/how-to-declare-bitcoins-tax...
Looks really good, only need a name change..
Religious products are big sellers. Specially anything that has to do with the bible or prayers. I used to sell bibles as a teenager. Made more money than drug dealers. It was funny. But then I went ad turned atheist. I could no longer sell itwith a clean conscience.
I know, no one can accurately estimate timelines. As an independent developer, I crave for a deadline (like a conference) and let parkinson's law[1] do it's thing.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law
I'm glad you were not offended. One thing, I'm 35 and were I not married I cringe at the thought of dating most 24yr old women. I'll say that in the personal cases of older women that married younger men I know, the men had finished school, had a stable career, got a house, and just got fed-up with all the drama of dating women near their age. But again, sample size may be too small.
As pointed out by another commenter, they also ripped off the unicorn image seen on Github error pages, which further confuses the matter because Github obviously used that unicorn since they run the Unicorn web server, not whatever this HTTP library is.

They would have been better off naming it something awful like "Hospice" or something.
This strikes me as intentionally misleading. They're using the github angry unicorn pic.

GH is a noted proponent of Unicorn the ruby app server. https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
I'm just wondering: is the high incarceration rate in the U.S. somehow connected to it's multi-ethnic makeup?

In Europe, and other places/countries with more homogeneous ethnic makeups, the incarceration doesn't seem to be that high. Scandinavia, for example.
Ask HN: Who would pay for easy PDF generation?
We are 2 devs working on a startup idea which would allow people to easily integrate in their website PDF from some data. That should give developers an easy way to reuse some design (like a business card design) and customise it from some data.
And which books are easily available to you in prison?

Obviously the tech world is worse than most for how rapidly information goes stale, but still -- compare working with a few copies of things like Netscape 3 For Dummies, Learn Windows 98 in 21 Days and the like with what you can find in 10 minutes searching online.

Also, most books (regardless of the topic) are actually pretty poorly done. Even most instructional books written by experts are bad; the skills in question don't often overlap with the difficult skills involved in effective teaching something complicated with only static text and graphics.

If you want a really good book, you choose your topic then start reading reviews & recommendations online before you buy something.

If you're in prison you won't even be able to effectively research what the good books are, never mind finding them.
Nice to see a multi-language HTTP library, but I won't be stepping away from python-requests.org anytime soon.
What I Learned at 500 Startups; The Power of Confidence
Cool! I'd done this Gamification course too, though I had enrolled in a lot of other courses as well, so I couldn't keep up with all the deadlines and didn't earn a certificate.
Does ’Sarah Hanson' exist? The story of this 19yo entrepreneur may be a hoax
New Life for the L.A. River
Ah good, nice of him and good of you to obtain it :-)
Another recent comparison: http://tech.cueup.com/blog/2013/03/08/running-daemons/
Office 365. $50/year.
A good video for beginners, perhaps the quiz can be Codetag quest.
Thanks, that's useful information.
apparently they got permission for use in open-source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5597431
It doesn't bother you that it takes days to upload any significant number of photos with native sensor resolutions to Drop Box?
SendHub adds iPhone in-app purchase and sound notifications
Just throwing in my vote for changing your name.

My first thought was "You're kidding, right?"
Recently I've used the moons of Saturn (there are 60 of them): https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saturns_moons. They're beautiful and unusual names.
Toho monsters (Godzilla, Mothra, etc.).
When optimistic, make an estimate an increase the time-unit (hour -> day -> week -> month).
If you are breaking it down and make somewhat accurate estimations ... double it still.
Hideo Kojima prediction of the future in 2002 (from MSG2)
Hello all:

Danil has organized a lunch meeting:

We are meeting up on April 25 at Digital October's Progress Bar at Noon. Please, come by everyone!
http://digitaloctober.com/progress-bar

This is a Thursday - I look forward to meeting up with all of you!
How Your Culture is Destroying Profits
I agree -- the name is super confusing... at least they reference the collision within ruby: "Why not a name change? Well, we decided on the name before writing the libraries and decided to stick through to the end with it, also... this awesome site. The more you know~"
Most libertarians do. It's called making money and all's fair in love and business.
Isn't that a different use case? Crashplan creates a opaque encrypted binary blob on a remote computer which is useful for backup, but not really for syncing files around.
All right, I'm confused. I thought this was a new site for http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ , the Rack HTTP server. This was further reinforced by the use of the angry unicorn logo which GitHub used in their article on the Unicorn Rack HTTP server [1].

If I'm reading this right, though, this is an HTTP client library. The docs[2] say

> If you are wondering why we aren't using the
> Unicorn namespace for ruby it is because it's
> already taken by the awesome Eric Wong's mostly
> pure-Ruby HTTP backend

This looks like a case of two different pieces of software, both of which speak HTTP, and both named Unicorn.

[1]https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn

[2]http://getunicorn.io/?language=Ruby
"Make something people want" may seem obvious, but its still an avoidable and fatal mistake that otherwise smart people frequently make. Put another way: product/market fit is the high order bit.

I like simple, profound slogans like "Make Something People Want" or "Just Do It". They're profound because of what's not written. By those being the only words on the poster the real point its made - "make something people want - nothing else matters".

The prints look gorgeous. Can't wait to put mine on the wall!
I'm pretty certain that that's the error message Github gives when something goes wrong with Unicorn (The Ruby one, that is)...
Bash: All about redirection
Seems like an atheist would have less of a moral problem profiting from the sale of bibles then someone who believes they are sacred texts.
I think I'll never be able to switch to "libs have designed websites w/ logos and marketing messages" crowd. Probably getting old. This one with unreadable pink code font and blinking was specifically hard to look at. Consider this as friendly feedback please.
So I believe you are wrong on thinking it is unnecessary stress, based upon some research done by Dan Ariely on students getting their work done with and without deadlines. You have to read his book Predictably Irrational for the full story, but here's a synopsis: http://danariely.com/2010/08/30/back-to-school-2/

Long story short is that without deadlines people tend to push off work to the latest possible moment, at which point they tend not to be able to do as much as they thought they could in that short time space, so it actually causes more stresses on them than it would have to have had a series of deadlines along the way.
It's actually Daniel Shaw's logo and he has given us (and GitHub I presume) permission to use it.

Sorry for the confusion, we really dropped the ball.
Stupid Legal Threats: You Can't Write About Me Because of Your Blog's Name
I think BoxCryptor is better than TrueCrypt for this purpose. BoxCryptor encrypts each file separately so the sync works as expected.

https://www.boxcryptor.com/
I hate to add another nail to the name coffin, but I instantly thought this was regarding the ruby unicorn web server. I continued to think this until I came back to the comments to verify.
Check out robots.net. A blog about robotics. They have a lot of posts about industry specific stuff. Get in touch with those companies. You should also build robots on your own time. Its pretty fun.
I met a VC at stanford bootcamp for entrepreneurs. This VC had emails going down pages and pages within minutes of each other each with walls of text.

They're pretty darn busy.
That would be quite convenient... A little too convenient?
Why iTunes U isn't all that Revolutionary
Anyone who is interested in technology in education, we would love to hear your opinion about MOOCs and the way tech is being used in education.
I'm on the same boat. I'd rather get each permission notification individually, aside from the notifications when you add a new user to the organization.

I'm assuming when a new user gets added to the org, they probably received one notification saying they've been added to so and so. If that's the case couldn't you just stick all those allowed permissions within the same email?
Fake AP tweet sends stocks briefly plunging
Salesforce - Social.com New Way to do Ads
> And I knew that because there were crappy Spanish Bible apps already making money in the App Store.

How did you know that? Just judging by the reviews or did you actually buy some to try them out?
Memory Safe C/C++: Time to Flip the Switch
retconning the entire premise of the show and Nibbler's nature

Opinions on humor are subjective, but I'd like to point out that this was set up from the beginning and not at all a retcon. For example we can see Nibbler's shadow in the first episode: http://theinfosphere.org/Nibbler%27s_shadow

Edit: link corrected thanks to meandthebean
So Share: Send terabytes of media, all for free.
Gamification 2.0
Naming aside, I think there is some value in a fluent, cross-language methodology for making HTTP requests. While each library adheres to the conventions of its specific language, the overall pattern for making requests looks the same across languages. If you are someone working with APIs in different languages, there is value in having this consistency.
I watched the videos (no sound - at work) and it seems like from the discussion that they are thinking of returning to the launch site. I looked at the Saturn V data and the first stage came down 350 miles down range and the second stage 2300 or so miles down range. Are the SpaceX launches going to have little downrange component for the first stage?
Too many stories from meldium.com. Annoying.
> I have stopped giving time estimates except for very small projects. I take 50% upfront

50% of what?
AeroFS currently does not support ARM.
I sympathize, but at least use a variant on it. Picking that name and logo for an HTTP request library with Ruby and Python bindings is extremely bad form given that there's an existing HTTP server project that uses that name and is associated with that logo.
Reddit apologizes for fueling Boston bombings online witch hunts
SoK: Eternal War in Memory
That web design challenges manhood.

And yet another confusing name. Yay.
It's not overconfidence, it's the full realization that all time estimates are bullshit, and the following disrespect for anyone who demands for them.
Nice product. I'll try this out.

It seems like the isolation level is Read Committed. Are there plans to support higher isolation levels (Serialisability)?
At the very least they should tell you exactly why. To not do so is, at the very least, extremely bad manners.
Ask HN: When and where to move startup to Bay Area?
Once we have a prototype, we want to get feedback and seek funding. We are currently in Austin. Where is the best area to live once we have something to show?

Do we need to live close to investors? Or should we live in a cheap neighborhood?
Same here brother, I feel your pain.
Ask HN: What happened to SETI at Home?
I'm going to operate completely under the assumption that the library authors didn't choose the Unicorn name with intentional malice, and that their motivations were entirely benevolent. It looks like a nice enough library, congrats on all of your hard work.

That said, this name is going to foster a lot of ill will in the community, for all of the reasons already mentioned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5597411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5597402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5597455

Additionally, as has been mentioned, the GitHub Angry Unicorn, whether permission was given or not, is most likely related to the fact that GitHub uses the Unicorn Rack server and are proponents of the software. In addition, the Ruby port of this library presents itself as "unicorn-rest", which could very easily be interpreted as either disingenuous or as a form of "coat-tail riding" off the name/notoriety of the existing Unicorn.
I tried crashplan also, but the showstopper is escaping me at the moment.
LotR characters: laptop is Legolas, brawny web server is Aragorn, dependable media server is Samwise, old laptop was Frodo, etc.
the dough
Yes, but due to their structure perhaps, these ETFs generally seem only to go down day-to-day according to their graphs. You would have had to have bought them right before and sold at the bottom - otherwise you wouldn't make much, since you slowly lose money on these ETFs over time. Also, such a trade combo would probably appear to an investigator to indicate questionable fore-knowledge on your part.
Nice! Even the most frugal of people will shell out some money when it comes to religion.
I guess that by "Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies" this discussion has officially run its course :P.

I think I agree with the major implications of what you are saying: bitcoin hasn't demonstrably withstood nation-state levels of attack effort, so calling anything impossible is premature.

If the bitcoin network survives for long enough [which can't be taken for granted] this will eventually happen, but it hasn't demonstrably happened yet.
Everyone, we are listening! We are throwing around new names but they all suck. Any ideas?
Poll: What process manager do you use?
There's been a flurry of posts on these guys. What's your choice?
Circus
Monit
~Other~
Elon wants rapid (think aircraft), turn around times. That's what's driving the decisions.
How about changing it to "Unicrest", as a play on unicorn/request?
I use ancient Egyptian deities (Anubis, Ra, Osiris, Horus, Isis...)
HP Prime: Color Graphing Calculator
Azuki Systems, Led by Wu-Lynch Clan, Looks to Go Big in Mobile TV
Yes, I think I will be giving him some bad news today unfortunately.
So this will run on RasPi?

It seems like the next step is for someone to attach a NAS to a RasPi and make a "syncbox" -- a NAS which auto-syncs to the other NASes you've configured across the internet.

For end users, they would get 2 and share a secret between them, then install one at 2 separate offices (or home and office), and any files dumped onto one NAS are replicated to the other. Basically Dropbox without file limits.
Bughub: A native Github Issues client for Mac and iPad
I think his point is that without a time estimate, you don't know how long it is going to take and thus if you are charging hourly, you don't know what the 100% is that you're taking 50% of. This obviously doesn't matter if you are charging flat rate.
I remember it being ubiquitous in the university and tech-savvy friends in the late nineties or so.

Now, they say "Currently the largest distributed computing effort with over 3 million users" on their homepage.

It's 2013, everybody is on the internet now, and the "largest distributed computing effort" only has 3 million users?
True about the copycats. Although there are a few things you have to do right in the app that most people don't know. Most versions of the Bible are copyrights for example.

And I also speak Spanish. I can't imagine doing this app in a different language. The text has to be perfect and it's (obviously?) hard to tell what's wrong when you can't read it.
Not servers, but here, we've named our database usernames from Futurama characters.
This one should get a CocoaPods package ASAP.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with 1- I don't think any service ever can transfer files to a machine that isn't on. As soon as the co-worker shows up on Monday, the transfer will finish.

As far as 2 is concerned though, that is not the case. Don't forget, it's built on top of BT. As each piece of the file gets transferred to other clients by the original machine, the other clients will be able to send those pieces out too. In theory it will be faster than a transfer from a central server.
Try closing a deal with a customer and saying that.

You'll have the app delivered when? When we're done with it.

Mobile support is going to be added when? When we're done with it.

...

"When it's done" works great when you can keep the product mysterious or you don't have anyone using it. But not when you have real-world deadlines.
As an engineer, the most soul crushing aspect of sales process is when people simply ignore your calls and emails. I hesitate to follow up because I do not want to seen spamming people and eventually all hope inside of me just shrivels up and just dies.I find rejections to be emotionally devastating.

I would gladly pay for a sales guru/therapist who would listen to what I have been upto and tell me what I am doing wrong , what I am doing right and what I should be doing more.
"Are these so called high frequency trading algorithms being fed Twitter/Soc Med information?"

Yes - Some are. Absolutely.
>Are you really ready to go to jail, yet again? That sounds quite bold, and foolish... of you. (No offense intended.)

Fortune favors the bold and dances with the daring. I truly believe that.

>As a side point, I can't help but think -- a lot of the recidivism in the U.S. is somehow driven by laws and a system that continues to be upheld by the "stake holders". The stake holders here are, ofcourse those private "prison-as-a-business" corporations.

Bingo. Society has been using non-profit solutions, (i.e. government funded reentry programs) to combat a for-profit problem. It's time to fight fire with fire. Our revenue model relies on our ability to keep our policyholders out of jail. This means we're going to bust our ass to provide career training and job placement to reduce the likelihood of them returning to custody, thus reducing the likelihood of them filing a claim and us having to pay out. Our success is directly tied to the success of our policyholders. The better they do, the better we do. We're making it profitable to keep people out of jail.
Interesting thoughts on procrastination. Comparing a software developer that has passion for his craft with some high school student is probably not the right approach though either...
Great idea, did it cost much to record the Bible as an audiobook?
The text isn't very readable.
What Does Modern Prejudice Look Like?
I was excited until I got the word of the day "misunderstanding".
That's essentially what I meant... They'd still be making progress, they just got to make progress much faster thanks to some big contracts from NASA.
Yeah, I did consider optipng/pngcrush. In the end it was a tradeoff between running time and space. I could afford the space but not the time. When I added in pngcrush, because it brute forces a whole bunch of compression routines on each tile, running times went up dramatically and I preferred having the job complete in days as opposed to weeks. It might be something to consider if we generate more tiles on a faster cluster.
Top 10 CSS Generators
I wonder what an actual artist could do with this. I was able to make a hallway by playing with perspective: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkAB9gCNlAAKAbwA0AIzANAAVakBoQDyAk...

Also, you may want to integrate a URL shortener with the 'Share link' button... https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/javascript/...
"But learning alone is slow, difficult, and doing so usually proves demotivating."

That may be true for some people, but for many others (like me, and I suspect a lot of other HN readers) learning alone is our preferred method of learning.
I, too, cannot identify with this article.

Maybe it's the fact that I'm really not overconfident about my abilities; in fact I usually underestimate them. Secondly, I'm quite a good estimator of all things, including project timelines. In fact, I've been asked to make timelines of various projects because I have a good grasp of all the factors.

I think that's the key. You need to understand most of what goes into the project—as well as how long it will take to learn and execute on the things you don't know.

You learn all this from experience doing your work, but I think more importantly, I am good at estimating timeframes because I have a broad knowledge of not only programming, but also human psychology, collaboration, motivation, social factors, and unknowns and doubts. It takes a little bit of the entire human experience to accurately paint a picture of what someone (or a team) is able to do. You need to understand the complex nature of the problem, and then use the facts rather than trusting your gut.

I have a good liberal arts education and fantastic parents to thank for this viewpoint (one of the reasons I still detest the insufferable anti-university movement—if you only learn what you need or want to know, you get a horrible education).

Am I overconfident in my ability to estimate? Probably. But no one cares, I'm usually right.
Yes. The most expensive part of the app by far.
CISPA passed: Now what? - Online sales tax bill hits the floor
If you say so. Some of the best people we've picked up didn't have significant side projects, or any side projects. And jobs here are harder than most industry dev jobs.

If you're a developer reading posts like this, you should know that it's a seller's market. Work on side projects because you love them, but don't cram them like extracurriculars on your college application. Very few competent hiring managers can afford to downselect you out based solely on your Github page.

If you're a hiring manager, my advice is a little sterner: unless you've got candidates coming out of your ears (Github is an example of a shop that might have this problem), don't get confused about what your job is. You need to work on two things: lead generation and lead qualification. Think about recruiting as a sales & marketing problem, because it is one. Most marketing teams don't set up qualifiers that are likely to reject leads that might close.
Centaur, Minotaur, Pegasus, Satyr, Gryphon...
Some suggestions on the new name?

- uniape

- mashcorn

- cornmash

- unimashape

- Restape

- RestMash
I think an easier way would be to make two posts, Vote one up for each choice. Wouldn't prevent double voting but the difference between the two would still be accurate.
Tipping actually started as a way to establish priority in a queue--being served first at a bar, being able to make a song request to the guy performing, etc. It happened before you were served, as a way to signal that you care enough about your service to pay more, so you should be prioritized. (The clatter of coins in a tip jar was the original "bell" one would ring for service.) The modern concept that's most similar is "business class" on an airline--simple, good

The concept diverged from its original purpose as queues became fixed by company policies (could you imagine anything other than FIFO-order at a McDonalds?), companies grew until the people you'd tip got separated from the people who decide who gets served and how well (the maitre d' is not the waiter), etc.