skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "This is being a part of a community, bringing something to the table and sharing it without expecting anything in return."

this is also a good one. i think it's ok to expect community in return, and to try to engage (nicely) with others who want to be secretive.

the main point, though, is to see oneself in an ecosystem that benefits from exchanging knowledge and goods. far too many developers are afraid that their project will get swiped if they share their code. it is more likely that everyone else is already too busy. i would also like to think that by being open, others are more likely to collaborate with you, or bounce ideas off you, or learn from your code.

distrust results from fear, and most fears are irrational. the result of the desire for secrets and power is serious harm. there are many shining examples of open developers, companies and communities, so i know this can work in certain situations.

the thought that one defector can ruin it for everyone--other than some risks being worth taking purely to stand on principle and strive for goodness against the dark--i'm not sure how to handle. perhaps there is a middle ground. i don't have enough data to be rational here ;-)
I might just be dealing with a particularly bad commercial broker right now, but he is all about covering his behind and refusing to do anything beyond his bare minimum, that is to say, the only thing he's ever told me about phase 1 ESAs is a piece of paper detailing my responsibilities in general. Which, well, my lender and other people have already told me about. He also told me to go figure out all the other legal issues on my own with someone who specializes in commercial real estate law. I actually did do this with more than one lawyer prior to submitting an offer, and I ended up having a 4 hour long fight with the broker over changing some wording, only to get lectured at the end about how I need to learn to not change legal documents written by lawyers and how I should be leaving all the paperwork to the grownups because I was a 20 year old female sitting in front of him eating frozen yogurt...wait, we were having lunch and it is my corporation of which I have a controlling interest in that's buying this property and it is my bank accounts funding the majority of the purchase price, right?! I think I just stared at him and didn't sign anything until he conceded. He tried to lie his way into making me initial parts of the offer that were clearly voluntary as well. I'm extremely tempted to file some complaints...

So I honestly do see a market for a Redfin-esque service for commercial real estate and even buying/selling businesses. If only to get rid of that nonsense.
This reminds me of a great book, "Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation", by Lave and Wegner (an anthropologist and a computer scientist). This book deals with how newcomers to a community of practice interact with core practitioners to learn the central knowledge/beliefs of that community. As newcomers move from the periphery to the center of practice, their criticisms to the body of central knowledge become more acceptable to the community as a whole. This of course causes the "center" of the community to shift over time as new members cycle in to a community and old members exit.
"The authors of the policy forum also cite a study by the National Academies of Science that concluded reprocessing will be extremely expensive."

Won't storing it be extremely expensive for a lot longer? Is this a case of costs now versus 10, 100, or 1000 years from now?
FTA: Yahoo's Carol Bartz doesn't have any interest in Facebook or Twitter either. No money in it, and Yahoo's building its own communities without having to spend huge premiums on unproven, unprofitable assets.

Such as Flickr, or Del.icio.us?
Yeah, except he does the same thing in every language, even in written english.

I'm not criticizing it anyway. His K is very clean... usually.

edit: I do wish he'd be a little less terse in the code for interfacing with other C code. Just as a favor to us normal humans.
Furbo: Year Two
To the extent that HealthEdGov is a proxy for just Gov (considering the amount of government money spent on Health and Ed), I suppose that's true. But Health and Ed definitely contribute a lot to productivity, I think. Sick, injured and dead people do not produce as much value as healthy people, and well educated people tend to produce more value than under educated people.

Disclaimer: this is being typed by someone whose paycheck comes directly from the EdGov sector.
From the article:

"The authors of the policy forum also cite a study by the National Academies of Science that concluded reprocessing will be extremely expensive. The final concern with reprocessing is its ability to foster the spread of nuclear weapons capabilities. This isn't simply a hypothetical; the US had been reprocessing until some plutonium it had assisted in the purification of wound up being used for a nuclear test in the 1970s."
HN, Please Review My Startup: Stormweight.com
So true! I'm no Apple fanboy, but just to drive the point home, 99% of the time I can buy a brand new Apple product _cheaper_ from the online Apple store than I can from eBay! Where's the fun in that?
They aren't actually reviewing apps by hand, the reviewers aren't remotely competent enough to make any technical assessments at all. They don't even review obvious copyright / trademark infringement!

They don't do any basic static analysis of your object code, even to check for private symbols, and they don't have your source code. They don't even take the obvious step of having some APIs be mutually exclusive!

Their process is as immature as it could possibly be. I had assumed the reviewers were mouthbreathers from a temp agency, but apparently they are actual Apple employees! It's possible that they're just the low-skilled drones that were reviewing media submissions from the labels and studios.
It's an age-cession, too. Overall teenage (16-19) employment is something like 24% now. For white teenagers it's now 21% (compare with an unemployment rate in the low to mid teens over the past 10 years) and 39% (!) for black teenagers (compare with unemployment rates in the high 20% and low 30% range over the past 10 years).

One of the aggravating reasons those figures are so high is that US employers were forced last month to raise wages for their least skilled/valuable employees.
Darpa stops trying not to be terrifying.
I endorse everything nostrademons said, but I'd like to add some comparative programming languages course - which often is complementary to a compilers course.

My comparative course was my first exposure to functional and logic programming - it was, in fact, the first time that I was forced to consider the entire concept of a "programming paradigm." It transformed the way I think about programming.
Somehow the anecdotes of Ballmer throwing chairs and threatening to "fucking kill" Google run counter to your speculation. Either Microsoft is getting worked up over a non-threat or Google is more dangerous than you think.
I'm guessing this bug was fixed, but I applied to b-school this summer (starting part-time in the fall) and ApplyYourself was used for a few of the schools I applied to (NYU Stern, Fordham, NYU-Poly). From a front end/end user interaction point of view, it did not strike me as a well made system. I'm more an IT guy and not a programmer but I know a shoddy website when I use one. I applied to multiple programs at one school and the information could not be shared, it actually lost one of my applications at one point.
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How to build an Apple Push Notification provider server (tutorial)
For OS, I'd like to add that it's probably the first time you'll have to consider concurrency. It's easier to handle parallel programming after you've dealt with concurrency at the operating system level.
Yeah, I registered two years ago and clicked five times. After that I've been here just once. Then I started contributing a week ago. So I am indeed a newcomer.
Pandora raises $35 million
what is the meaning of the word "doign" in the website's logo?
It's really lacking in detail. For instance, are those Dogfish Head IPAs the 60 Minute or 90 Minute kind? Or even 120 Minute? That's the problem with all these "new Lisp" whippersnappers. They spend five years doing Lisp and think they have it all figured out. Once cruel experience forces them to chase down all the seemingly trivial details, like which Dogfish Head IPA they're really talking about, they'll have come full circle back to Common Lisp and be begging shamefacedly for forgiveness on comp.lang.lisp.
Hi! I've been working on this full time for the past three months and nights and weekends for three months before that, so your comments and honest criticism are deeply appreciated.

We'll be giving away five premium accounts the people with the highest rated comments on this thread. Thanks for being an awesome community, HN!
Even though I criticized them in another comment on this very thred, hell, maybe this stretagy is working better for them? Of course we as intelligent free-thinking HN readers might not agree with their curret strategy, but if it's making you megabucks, would you actually care?
I remember watching the documentary. In a lot of companies, the CEO's office is at the corner of some mid-rise or high-rise office building, overlooking New York or something. We all know the Sears Tower, and Woolworth had an innovative skyscraper in their day. Wal-Mart's Bentonville headquarters is a small, unremarkable office building, and their CEO has a small first floor office with a view of the parking lot.
The 'J-styled C' reminds me of how the original Bourne shell was written with ALGOL syntax in C using cpp macros, and implements a language with ALGOL-flavored syntax.
Thanks for the info guys. I should probably add that our school doesn't offer any sort of work-study credit in CS, so that's the reason I'm sticking around campus for the last semester (well, that and no desire to kill myself for my last "real semester" just to get out a semester early).
> The database does not need round-the-clock availability (middle-of-the-night maintenance windows are no problem).

Yeah, this is idiotic. This kind of thinking is why it sometimes took three days to register for classes in college, and why I couldn't check my account balance in the evening after I got home from work/class, why I sometimes couldn't search the library catalog... etc., etc.

I can think of perhaps one of our clients who would be fine with their database being down for hours at a time at night. Maybe.
Obese Exposed as Swine Flu Collides With Fat Epidemic
It's not off topic to speak out against militarism on a post that is cheerleading the military for being hilarious. I know people in the US love guns and are proud to "liberate" countries in the middle east but in Europe people think differently. I was surprised to see militarism being hailed in a tech and business oriented social news community. You don't want my political opinion stop promoting the army.
Skype won't run, but Gmail will, and it has video chat, too.
Congrats JR!

I know that many folks on HN much prefer raw pdf's to a flash viewer, but JR (sole programmer for iPaper) has done an amazing job single-handedly replacing a multi-billion dollar company's product: Macromedia's FlashPaper.

JR is a quiet, but very friendly french canadian, an avid roller-blader, and was previously one of the programmer's on the Assassin's Creed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed )

When I worked at Scribd, JR and I shared an office while he was writing the first version of iPaper. The sheer complexity of getting all the fonts worked out and embedded images and searching and compression and streaming in the document for faster load times etc etc was quite a feat for a single developer. He would come in early and leave late, all the day working with an amazing focus. He's a real work horse.

I remember when his Programming Erlang book arrived - he devoured it in a couple of days and re-architected the iPaper system to more efficiently stream the documents to the viewer. Despite the iPaper viewer being in flash, there are some very sexy technologies under the hood.

Anyway, just wanted to shed some light on the guy behind the product. It's not a team of highly paid flash code monkeys - just JR quietly working away to make billion dollar company's products obsolete.
The MS&E program I applied to at Stanford University also routed me through ApplyYourself, which I thought seemed like a really deprecated site. But hey, if it's an MS&E program and a bigwig Uni name, who was I to question?

https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=SU-GRAD

All in all, it was an awful, horrible experience (the website application). What a disgrace to supposed prestigious Universities. Not to mention a waste of pompous application fees for many hopefuls.
That's exactly what I thought: I want my keyring to work with _any_ keys. Further, this key makes the entire key-keychain apparatus uncomfortable. It holds fewer keys and they are likely to hang at an awkward angle.
Agreed. I think it's atrocious C style, it just makes sense for people who write J natively to style the C that way in a context where it will be understood.
hahaha this reminds me of a discussion I just had today with a student at the business school of my university. He was pissed off at the "IT people" because they know nothing about management and never finishes on time their projects. The way he talked to me was as if it was all our fault and that we were simply lazy. He was agressive to me even if he never worked with me and told me to check the "new york" methodology and the "ITIL" best practices for doing IT services. I haven't found them on google, does someone know anything about that?

It's great to live in a world where management loves and respect us! A world where they try to understand what is hard about software development instead of thinking about how much time it takes to "place a button there" :)
"Only problem: We may not have jobs for them all."

Bullshit. Engineers and programmers are among the few professions who can create their own jobs, plus some. Where do people think these employers came from in the first place? There's no shortage of opportunities for someone to invent a new product and build a company around it, and inventors are often engineers.
Do they offer some kind of numerical analysis class cross-listed with the mathematics department? This is a class I wish I would have picked up. I now have to teach myself numerical analysis, and there is so much material to choose from that I don't know what the correct sequence of learning things should be. My methodology is diving into GSL and picking things apart until I come to something I don't understand. Then I go and research that. Then I start picking more apart. I'm sure a lot of my headaches could be prevented if I were learning things in a "proper" order.
I too was annoyed with Squid. After looking around for something better, I found Varnish - http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/
Hi Matt, thanks but I wasn't directly involved with this new iteration of iPaper, it's the work of Ed, Michael and Barish at Scribd. Good to hear from you!, cheers :)
It seems business is very applicable in the real world, making relationships, making the most of them. Why do more academic courses like Economics or Political Science have such a better reputation?
This article solidifies something that's been rattling around in my head for a month or three.

It relates to a post on HN (which I can't find now) about job interviews. I think the article was written by an interviewer, who said he liked to hire someone who could offer a knowledgeable, well reasoned critique of his organization.

The implication is that, if you're looking for a job, you should aim at doing that kind of thing. I had a problem with that, but I could not articulate it very well. This article filled in the gaps in my thinking.

Wish I could find that old post ....
You should consider redesigning the landing page. There is way too much information crammed into one page. Also a screencast the application in action will help. The tour page http://www.stormweight.com/pages/tour asks me to signup I would rather see it action before I signup. You might also want to rethink about the color scheme.

The macbook screenshot is showing off the laptop more than your application.
"The History and the Status of the P versus NP Question"
Still, reprocessing seems a cheaper alternative than storing it forever or, at least, until the great garbage avalanche of 2505...
As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws.

How very true.
Chrome OS Will Not Be Anything Like Windows, OS X, or Ubuntu
Causes Raises $10,000,000
Doesn't that excuse sound fishy to you? I assume (thought I don't know for a fact) that every gram of weapons-grade fissionable material in this country is accounted for. How did it end up in a nuclear test? (Other than through bureaucratic incompetence, the likely culprit.) If we all agree that recycled nuclear fuel shall not be used for any purpose other than powering reactors, why can't we put systems in place to ensure this? How is this any harder than keeping _unrecycled_ nuclear fuel from becoming weapons? Finally, as with so much of the rationale for American public policy, the most glaring question is: France is doing it with no apparent ill effect. Why can't we?
This massively improves my opinion of what DARPA is spending my money on.
Article describes a DARPA robot that powers itself by gathering and fueling itself from biomass. This is apparently an approach to energy-autonomous recon robots (harvest grasses and plants where it goes) that has amusingly terrifying connotations when you consider the mental image of a chainsaw-wielding robot capturing and devouring, say, people.

It seems that DARPA, which once built things that seemed like the fevered imaginations of a 14 year old boy, is now building things that seem like the fevered imaginations of a 7 year old boy.
Decline of the Enterprise Data Warehouse - When Large Data is Cheap
Maybe something like this could be a big seller in Japan, where riders may want to conceal the fact that they're reading tentacle porn. (Or maybe at this point, they just don't care.)
That isn't so. You don't have to change anything, you just add some more names for the root level servers to resolve.

Everything will work just fine, with no changes at all on the client end, and no changes in the servers, except maybe you need a bit more hardware in the root servers.

I told you - there is nothing at all special about any of the levels. danthewelder is just a name for the .com server to resolve, it could resolve any names, and .com is just a name for the root server to resolve - it could resolve any names.

For example there is no reason at all you could not have email at ars@com - just com, with no other part to the name and http://com/ could work just fine. There is no address set up for com, but there could be - those layers are not specially singled out.
I meant pop. Oops myself :-)

Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue if Gmail minds the polling. I assumed that by the time we had enough mail traffic for it to be a problem, we'd be prepared to migrate to something like Lamson. Release early/often and all that jazz :-)
I joined the HN community because I was interested in the Ycombinator program- I imagine that most people joined for a similar reason originally.

I've remained a member of the community primarily because I enjoy the discussion. While I can find the links anywhere, I really enjoy discussing and debating issues in an intelligent and civilized manner, while learning what's interesting to my peers.
Wear whatever T-shirt you want. The more signifiers lose their meaning, the more we can get down to the business of being aware of culture directly.

I have a strangely immortal Jamaican Independence Day college party T-shirt (Bob Marley on it, of course) from 1982. Yes, it's real, yes it's that old, and yes, there's some sort of magic that keeps it young forever. It was already 10 years old when it was gifted to me.
It's an interesting idea, the first thing I noticed was that the design doesn't look very modern or professional, it gives a bad first impression.

The outer glow on the logo is kinda tacky. I can tell you've invested a lot of time into this, so investing in a really talented designer/brander might be something to look into.

Your mac screenshot image covers up half of the learn more and sign up buttons. It's an easy fix, give this selector ( body.brochure.new_index #landing.box #screenshot a )position: relative and give em a z-index:1000 or something.

Also, you have a lot of serif fonts, maybe you should consider making your menu and header text sans serif?
Touche! Didn't do my homework on this one.
Thanks for the reply! We're working on a screencast today, and /pages/tour is exactly where we plan to put it.

I'm not a designer, so I'm particularly interested in feedback about the colors. Are they too dark? We want to look professional without looking enterprise-ey; all of our competitors are mind-numbingly enterprise-oriented and look like Microsoft did their design. We were also hoping the macbook would polarize our audience (hackers and small companies).
Just read in your profile that you're at Wisconsin. Madison, I assume? I took a look at the schedule for next year, and it looks like the compilers course is a combo compilers and programming languages - which is excellent. I highly recommend it. Looking at that list, I also strongly recommend introduction to computer architecture. Having a solid grasp of what's actually going on in a processor will make you a better programmer.

Between architecture, programming languages/compilers and operating systems, you will have all of the concepts necessary to understand the semantics of the programs you write, what kind of code will actually be generated from those semantics, and a basic understanding of the entire system stack from your program, to the operating system, down to the processor.

Madison is an excellent school, take advantage of your time there.
The Learn More and Signup buttons don't seem to be working for me.
I guess you are more gentlemanly with your keyrings than I am.
please don't use so much capitalisation, for example "Deep Email Integration" as it makes the site appear cold

try and summarise what the purpose of the site in 20-30 words on the home page to de-clutter...more detail can be added in a FAQ type section
One of the more interesting parts of the college application process (there weren't many) was comparing the websites of top-tier schools. Echoing what the writer said - it's amazing how poor the structure, workflow, security and general design the web systems of these schools with $X-billion endowment are.

MIT stood out as an exception; the rest I dealt with were par at best. Fast forward two years - I now attend an ivy league school with what I would consider a laughable website and data storage system.

"You must close your browser to log out of the system" - I don't even have to probe to know it's bad.
I've always thought it would be a grand adventure to try to create a startup that could take over ebay. I was hoping Google would come up with a better model and put them out of their misery but I don't think that's going to happen.

Does anyone know if any up-and-coming startups that are trying to take ebay's market? I'd be glad to support them.
Why does everyone and they're extended family call themselves "rockstar" now?
I'd kill the "Rockstar" term in your copy. "Rockstar" is now a has-been...