skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whir and clank is not encouraging. I'd leave it alone and take to an expert if the data is (are) that important.

At work, the IT guys have had to send drives out to be recovered (mostly from remote workers who don't have the best backup environment or discipline). I'm not sure which service they used and can't make a recommendation, but there are are few big names. At least one data recovery specialist sponsors public radio, I think its TechFusion.
Assuming your web development position actually requires a computer science background, I'd recommend rephrasing your educational requirements as "Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience".
I'm a little sick of the Mac/PC geek stereotypes.

Here's another promo that features a radically different geek type.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNyoxpENXc
Except that the bank can also refuse to consider these transfers to be made "in error", given the vast publicity this has been given on the web. Indeed, given the fraudulent intent behind these transactions, the bank can simply keep the money (without forcing the intended recipient to swallow the costs of the transfer) to pay for its own costs in handling the transfer.

On top of that, above a certain dollar limit (don't know what it is in this case), this gives the Swedish court jurisdiction for criminal charges for the mastermind, for bank fraud.
Look, you seem like a nice person, but you're coming on too strong. Why would I hire you when you come on so strong?
Absolutely, completely amazing! I hope they launch a solid API!! preferably in RDF...
Steve Jobs gets OK to raze his house
I can vote in 40 days time! not that's it's a big deal I mostly vote on comments not stories.
I'm an engineer and I take the bus because it's more convenient and I don't have to think about driving. Some of my best work (thought) has been done on public transport.
Solving the problems of early stage me-too product startups
My emotional associations with economists are more positive than my emotional associations with Joe Sixpack, so I will assume your argument is correct.
I have to agree with the passive-aggressive mentality being common. I think all the nervousness surrounding interviews shows how adversarial they are.

For how aggressive some interviewers are, I believe half of that aggression comes from the interviewee. If they start with some passive-aggressive questions and you get defensive then you're just as much a barrier to communication as them. When you read someone else's answer to an interview question and are struck by how well they answered it is rarely because they had a witty answer that stunned the interviewer, but rather that they were open, honest, and entirely non-aggressive and so were able to show how smart they really were.
warfangle said "It's lightyears beyond Google's NLP". I'm afraid there's nothing NLP about WA, neither Google. It's just very basic parsing in both cases, if you know what I mean.

Not only chromosome traversing, there were a few other impressive things in the demo, but that's some level of structurization and formalization of certain knowledge domains done by respective professionals. Good job. No, very impressive, stunningly scrupulous job. But I see nothing revolutionary (edit:) technology-wise.
The idea is not to stop crime, it's to look like you're stopping crime.
If you have never read it, I recommend checking out "The Psychology of Persuasion":

http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...

It's a fascinating examination of persuasion. It covers selling, business, cults, authority - a great and practical intro to some of the research and results in the field.
For me, it can really help when I am trying to solve a problem, not when I am trying to code it up. I still believe coding is only 10% typing code and I still find typing code tedious. I will drink during tedious work like building product...
Static Authority Sites vs Dynamic Authority Sites
Which way to go? What to read? In today’s world each and every topic needs some research. We need to have good information and perfect facts about every hard and soft news floated.
The spectacle doesn't matter, what you accomplish does.

Some people start companies because they have a deep seated need to be "the boss." In these companies spectacle often takes precedence over everything else.
I wonder if the general stats for the books hold in other countries. It would be interesting to see if France or Germany had the apparent weight loss and self-help level of interest that we have.
This is a really good example of mutual benefit marketing. The 45m is nothing to sneeze at, but it's gross, so their actual take may be minimal, but it's a fantastic service to their customers and drives hardware sales for them.

I honestly think it's the only future of marketing as the mindshare we're all vying for becomes more and more saturated/savvy. I've written about this a few times at my agency's blog (http://voltagecreative.com/blog/?s=mutual+benefit) and I'll probably do a write up on this.
I think a good middle ground, and a good practice in general, would be to state your assumptions and make sure you recognize them as such.

When you know what your assumptions about a problem are then it quickly becomes clear what questions you'd have to ask if you were going to actually implement your solution. Having a solid definition of your assumptions also lets you create a good base for building a solution and determining if it is at all feasible.
Good comment at the bottom: $99 developer registration fee from 600,000 developers is more than the speculated $45,000,000 made from selling apps.
There's a Q&A with press and someone asks this questions and Wolfram essentially says that yes they very much want third party participation, the only caveat being that there would be some manual review process of the data for accuracy.

So ultimately I think thats what this is like a Google Base + computation where they have added (hopefully) enough of the core to push it over the hill.

A place to put structured data where it can be fully leveraged minimal effort from the data provider.
Some of the commentary at the bottom of the link is good.
The differences are hard to notice, but to me the /classic page is subtly better. Things I'm personally interested in ("Fibers & Cooperative Scheduling in Ruby") are mostly voted a couple places higher, and things that bored me ("Steve Blank: Gravity Will be Turned Off") are a few places lower.
I'm fan of palm-fist salute (in martial art.) It predates Medieval but decidedly more hygienic :)
That also means that the mean revenue / developer is $300... Doesn't sound like too profitable a business as $99 of that $300 has bought you the registration fee ;)
it's not harsh, it's just silly to write a comment of +1 when you already up voted. it's redundancy, and DRY is in the vocab of most coders.

you shall learn the efficiency of HN soon enough ;)
This is the most persuasive argument for structured data I've seen so far. Google's biggest limitation is that it can only help you find things that someone has put on a webpage.
All joking aside, their app reviewers might cost more money than all their bandwidth, as they have already invested heavily in that infrastructure for the iTunes store.
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_ts_pg_1/279...

http://www.amazon.de/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_ts_pg_1/279...
Monty: Open Database Alliance Founded
Ask HN: What do we do when our leaders are corrupt?
I would rather be building the first GAI, just to torture it by giving it a segfault.
Wow. Don't know about you, but it seems to me that Wolfram to Google is what Google was to Altavista. A principally different search paradigm that may yield dramatic increase in a search quality. It's no longer a web search, but rather an information search.
It's important to remember that after building the bridge, they then built the school. In fact, Greg Mortenson's organization (The Central Asia Institute) has built dozens of schools since then. It's been a while since I read the book, but as I recall, in that particular village, they had at least one teacher, but the children had to study outside until the school building was completed. (I also recommend "Three Cups of Tea". It's not as well written as, say, Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains", but it doesn't matter, the story pretty much tells itself.)
Keyboardr.com/nightly goes public
I think it takes bits and pieces from various languages.

Python's influence is obvious: iterators, whitespace, and default values for arguments. Pascal's main influence seems to be type declarations and the way things are named. C-esque enumerations, strings ending in null and pointers.

It does have lists/sequences, sets and tuples, but associative arrays/dictionaries seem like a major oversight.
the boyer-moore algorithm should have been used. it would probably outperform any other given implementation for this kind of problems.
NBA coaches could all be idiots, but my point is that this article doesn't show it.

One way to think of a full-court press is as a way of spreading resources thinly. You can beat it by handling and passing the ball well. On a thinly defended court, this leads to a lot of easy baskets because there's so much open space.
It's so hard to get good information on this issue because so many of the people we get our information from are themselves key stakeholders in the process. Of course the general public wants more doctors. That would generally mean lower prices, lower waiting times, etc. And of course the AMA will insist we don't need more doctors.
It was an analogy.
presumably threads that are sleeping are similarly marked?
Assuming you didn't agree to it, it sure is. But it's possible to want the necessary stuff without favoring a tax.
Well, personally I'm not a huge fan of intellectual property (except for trademarks -- a way of reducing fraud), but I wasn't talking about copyright I was talking about patents. With copyright I can't take Microsoft office, but I can reimplement it; with patents I can't do that -- I'm forbidden to do what the patents cover. Imagine patenting the WYSIWG interface. There is a huge amount of value in having code that works so copyright is more than enough for companies to profit off their software.

Now,as I mentioned earlier I don't really agree with copyright, primarily because it lasts too long & its not a voluntary contract between individuals. Everything that copyright covers could be defined in a contract between the buyer and seller and not defined by politicians.
You could try taking it out of it's housing and using another housing. But that is only worth trying if it's a failure of the electronics, not of the drive itself.

Since you mention downthreaed that's it's making click+grind noises... It sounds like it's dead.

Freezing a drive of any vintage more recent than Y2k is less than useful. Older drives were built to looser tolerances and thermal shrink could actually move the drive head off the platter. More recent drives aren't going to be dealt w/ that way, and freezing the drive can cause condensation in places you don't want condensation.

Unless your data is worth considerably more than $10k, don't bother with drive recovery services since you will in all probability be wasting your money.
What do you do? You wonder if you really need them in the first place.
This is contrarian BS. In terms of SERP quality it was like discovering another dimension when web pages started being assigned value based on incoming links vs. on-page content. It might have been all acquisitions after they got rich off that, but it was a huge deal. I don't think it can be overstated in the terms of how it's affected the internet, it changed everything.
"Yeah, his 'only boring people [go] to heaven' comment acknowledges that RMS has the higher moral ground"

I took at as a sarcastic indication that he didn't think it was a valid moral claim.
Maybe he just likes screwing with Google.
I have been formulating the opinion that we need more doctors. Most doctors will tell you they work too many hours. This can't be good for anyone. The only thing it does is allow them to make more money. Many need that cash: pay off loans, ROI for all their training etc..

What would happen if doctors only worked a 4 day, 40 hour work week? We would obviously need more doctors to make up the shortfall. There would be costs associated with that, but once we doubled the number of doctors, there may be some great financial and quality benefits for all parties. The only downside is most doctors would make less, but they would have still be upper-middle class and have a very comfortable life.
oh hai

can i haz monies?

kthxbai
A couple of weeks ago there was a patch of articles that reassured me about the site.

The most significant difference I see between 'classic' and 'normal' is the article entitled "First Steps Towards Post scarcity" is 28 on classic, but 13 on normal. Could be there had to be some difference and its random, but I generally find articles on this topic pretty light on quality thinking.
VCs Pay Business Plans Little Heed, Study Finds
I seriously hope this would lead to more discussion or light on this that would pave way for legalizing the service.

I mean, what business can the state have in dictating what two consenting adults do without disturbing others.
I loved this first comment on the linked post...

"It seems to me that Fred and others are nuts and totally out of touch with reality. This is a great example of what happens when you live in an isolated bubble of the rich and crazy. Luckily I don't see much chance of these ideas surviving for long if/when they escape this echo chamber."

I think that's a bit harsh but I have to agree with the sentiment. I used to go to a lot of conferences that had discussions like this and then I realized the whole point of brainstorming is to solve a problem. So if you don't start out with the problem at hand and address it specifically you don't get anyhwere.

These folks started out with a vague "hacking education" and came up with a bunch of ideas that are either (a) impractical or (b) impossible to implement without blowing up the whole education system as we know it.

Bottom line (for me anyway) is that ideas don't mean anything if the person put no realistic thought into how they'll be implemented and that's exactly the category these ideas fit in to.
That's a rather loaded read. I read it as a guy going to give a presentation and finding out that he was going to be protested against. He was nervous about a confrontation, but the GNU folks were polite, attentive, and didn't disrupt his talk.

If someone wanted to portray that sequence of events in a hostile way, the usual course would be to not admit any trepidation and mention dismissively that some fanatics held up signs.

He might be bitter on the subject elsewhere, but casting that blog post as such seems to be reaching.
The article isn't exactly an AMA shill insisting we don't need more doctors. Rather, it's a guy pointing out that we have a shortage of medical services, and suggesting that non-doctors (e.g. nurse practitioners) can provide some of them.

"Rather than calling for more doctors, which would have been difficult for the government to impact anyway, what the country really needs are policies that pave the way to more avenues of care, which is well within the government's control."
To be honest, I don't know if it spins up or not. I'll tell you what it sounds like though. It sounds like a helicopter when the pilot turns on the engine and it starts revving up - for maybe half a second - then a loud Click!

Yeah, I've heard that sound. It's usually followed immediately by a "CLUNK" as I toss the disk in the trash.

If the disk shows up in the BIOS disk scan, or when Linux detects the disks, you might still be able to get some data off of it with dd. That'd be my first plan, if I were in your shoes.

If that doesn't work, you might have some luck with the logic assembly replacement idea. If it's the controller circuitry that's out of whack, it might be fixed by a new board. If the motor or head are actually sticking and unable to do their job, it's a more dramatic situation. And, I'm not sure what the mechanics of such things look like these days. This might be one of those situations where putting the platters in another identical drive is the only option.

Did you say "recent backups"? Ha. That's funny.

Yes. You'll learn. Someday. The cost of not learning is infrequent, but can be very, very, high.
@pg: I understand the need for this.

But here's my standing.I have been "loitering" here since the early days. I must have registered with atleast four userids..AND used always mess up my password.

Most recent one - even the openid auth - didn't work for a while(it works now!). I created the one I am using now couple of months back only to be treated as an outcast.

Is there a way to synch my accounts? (even a forget password feature would be helpful)
This wouldn't happen if you'd paid your gravity bill, Steve.
"Also effective today for all US sites, a new category entitled 'adult services' will be opened for postings by legal adult service providers," it added.
There are almost certainly not 600,000 paying iPhone developers. I'm guessing that number is people who have downloaded the SDK (which is available for free).

There are only about 35,000 apps, and the average number of apps per developer (who has an app on the store at all) is probably closer to 2 than 1. Even with twice as many paid developers as people who have shipped apps, you're talking about a maximum of 75,000 devs.
First, the emphasis was on the lack of a basis for the comment. But to answer your question, it depends on whether you think something that may be borderline absurdity adds some kind of value to others:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=567298

I knew when I wrote that it would probably be received poorly; indeed, it was volatile. But it was creative, and there was some truth to it.

HN is too simplistic. I would venture to say it ultimately doesn't work, with evidence in responses like "Pot, socially" being #2 in the top comments under lists. HN is fun to experiment with, though.
to sign up to post on this section, you already have to confirm a phone number that can be used to reach you, which is very likely tied to some sort of information about you already (and if you can fake a phone application, why not a credit card application?)
Study finds surprising new pathway for North Atlantic circulation
Maybe, although the quality of some of the reviewing indicates to me they have a lot of automation involved. But who knows? :)
The "classic SV" along the south-western corner of the bay (Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park) dates from the old days (the '60s to the late '80s). Back then, all the VCs lived up north in urban San Francisco, and all the startup employees lived in auto-oriented suburbs down there.

Eventually many VCs moved their offices south, but nowadays more and more of the startups are actually in San Francisco. The SF lifestyle of easy walkability, little dependence on cars, vastly better restaurants, bars, shops, and entertainment, and all the other advantages of a dense city, appeal more to many of the current generation of hackers, and make SF more characteristic of contemporary startups than the old historic corridor located an hour south.

One of the interesting sights every morning now in San Francisco are all the private wifi-equipped coaches picking up employees for their free hour ride down to Google, Microsoft SVC, and other mega-employers located on large campuses in SV. Those employees, like startup founders, increasingly prefer to live in SF (and refuse to commute by car for two hours a day).

The "valley advantage" is much the same in both areas, and there's a fair amount of interchange, but the two areas are very different, and they are far enough apart to discourage casual traveling between them. Lots of people who live down in the suburbs of the old SV don't really feel comfortable anywhere in SF except Moscone Center for WWDC (and may only come up to the city once a year). Lots of people who live in SF can't imagine living in the upscale suburbs down south where you have to get in a car to go anywhere at all (and they may only go down to Stanford a few times a year).

But both are very interesting areas, and both have good people. For the "classic SV", look in the towns along the western hills from Cupertino up to Menlo Park; for the "contemporary SV" look around SF.
> Did you say "recent backups"? Ha. That's funny.

The easy way: Buy a duplicate hard drive, and use cron[1] and rsync[2] to schedule an automatic nightly backup. If you have stuff that cannot be backed up directly by file copying (such as live SQL databases), use their dump procedures, which are specifically for safe copying. When your hard drive dies, just switch to the other, and buy a replacement backup drive. It doesn't need to be local, either - rsync is quite bandwidth-efficient. Also: Test the backup now and then!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
[2]: http://www.samba.org/rsync/

If your data is worth asking strangers on the internet for recovery advice, it's worth spending an hour to set up a backup system.

This has saved me from drive crashes twice, so far.
'The interviewer wanted him to give a technical answer to a technical question, not enter into a discussion about what "The ten thousand most-used words in the English language" actually means or whether it's feasible to collect a corpus of such words.'

Is it not technical to consider the sample size of your data? It's not even interesting how you do the +1 to the frequency count of a given word if the # of words get huge - nobody has any business talking about hash table collisions blah, it's too low level. I'll estimate a half million english words and use the Java hash table or a database with a words table, now I will setup my web crawler to get data... but how do I know what text is a word and is not? That is actually the only interesting bit of that question! So first I need to scrape dictionary.com and then start spidering say livejournal vs msnbc vs whatever.

If someone talks about hash table collisions for this problem, they are likely to suffer from "not invented here".
The same name he submitted this one under. See his response below. He also didn't mention that he'd already posted it previously until after I had submitted my response. Or I missed it because of the blind rage I felt when he posted it the third time. Just kidding.

I do doubt that he is asking the wrong crowd -- at least, at first. "Would anyone be interested in me building this?" vs "Hey, I built this. Anyone have a use for it?" are two very different questions. Since there are already people with working solutions in place, and they're easy enough to find, your first initiative should be to either a) build it for yourself or b) find out what problems they already have and how to eloquently solve them.

In short, he needs to find people that already have a need for it. As to whether or not they read HN, who knows. A direct email is a much better method of contact, though.
Ruby 1.8 implements threads in userspace, so if a native extension is blocked on I/O then no context switching is possible in the first place (unless the native extension is using Ruby's own I/O functions, in which case Ruby will relinquish control to another Ruby thread).

Ruby 1.9 implements native threads, so a native extension blocked on I/O will be rescheduled by the kernel, assuming that the native extension unlocks the GIL before performing the I/O operation.