skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't mind a general NYC one.
What's funny is that it reads a lot like COBOL.
just drop the word entrepreneur, and this claim is very plausible

i hate it when a shop owner calls herself CEO, CEO should only be used for very large organizations

yet even if you own a miserably failing business (success is in the eye of the beholder), you can still call yourself entrepreneur, i think keith just overestimate the term entrepreneur
Previous discussion about acoustic gun detection systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034528
The art of teaching - what distinguishes the best teachers?
squirrely and oscillatey (are those even words?)

Well, "chaotic" is what you'll read in textbooks, but that's just because they couldn't come up with "squirrely and oscillatey", I assume.
there's a nice chapter on breaking down Fantasy Football performance between the two skills of drafting and and line up setting in Kaiser Fung's book Numbersense

http://www.amazon.com/Numbersense-How-Data-Your-Advantage/dp...
Another thing that needs to be said, is that the existence of proprietary software on Android doesn't make Android any less 'free'. Just like the existence of proprietary software like Chrome, Flash, Steam, etc... doesn't make my openSUSE system any less free...
Recently SEC approved Twitter for disclosing material information. I wonder how many CEOs etc will use it.
My startup ( codedoor.com ) is based around freelancers' open source contributions.

For now, even clients have to log in using GitHub, as the freelancers I have talked to prefer technical clients.
National Tragedy Can Cause Heart Failure Or A Firestorm Of Change
Very cool. We built an internal "competitive intelligence" tool a while back for keeping track of this sort of stuff. I've actually been toying with the idea of releasing it as Open Source and/or making a SaaS product out of it, but it hasn't really been a priority.

I definitely see this kind of thing as being useful in the general sense. Keeping tabs on the competition is important and if tools can make it easier, so much the better.
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An app for Santa to track gifts and children's associated good deeds to earn them. And this guy is quibbling over being asked to leave a developer a 5-star review and $800. Sure, you shouldn't hassle clients for good reviews, but maybe you also shouldn't expect people half way around the world to have perfect business etiquette. Besides, every time I go to a store or call a customer service line, plenty of Americans ask me to fill out a review and also often ask if I'm totally happy with their service. This isn't much different.
The EFF'S HTTPS Everywhere plugin (available for Chrome and Firefox) works similarly and for a much greater number of sites:

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Yodlee gave them their initial connections and I assume many of them were built as one-offs afterwards.

I'm looking forward to seeing what companies like Standard Treasury (http://standardtreasury.com/) can do to modernize this area.
I think it is sad that our some of our brightest minds are hard at work trying to get people to click on advertising links.
I think you got the Cause-Effect process backwards; when you are successful you will be too busy to blog, but to be successful, initially, you need to market yourself and your products through blogs...
Many thanks for the analysis. Now it makes more sense. Also well done by the Inkpad developer. Reminds me of how Id open source old engines to the delight of aspiring game programmers, I'm sure aspiring iOS developers will feel the same about this.
"Hey we have an app we want you to build, it should be super simple and take you no time at all" says the guy who has written code exactly never, but is a pro with powerpoint.
> Ever try to get from Brooklyn to Queens, two of the most populated boroughs of New York City? Without a car, it's nearly impossible, as most subway lines require one to go through Manhattan first.

Could someone explain this to those of us who have never been to New York and whose only knowledge of its subways comes from TV and movies?

The impression I get from subway travel as depicted on TV and in movies is that trains run frequently enough that trips requiring changing trains aren't a big deal. So what's the problem is you have to go to Manhattan then change trains to go to Queens?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
Because it's amusing
I'm saddened that you can't look over your dogma.
Have you considered switching boroughs?
Very well then, how about http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html ?
I like it. And I always wondered why a programming language couldn't exist to work as follows:

Start

Run at 60 frames per second and do

Clear the screen

Draw a rectangle at (10,10) with size (100,50) and rotate it 20 degrees

Repeat

End

Or something along those lines - hopefully you get my point.

This would be fun for prototyping. I could just speak to my computer and have it translate my plain english into a working program :)
Well, you made me smile :)
I agree. I use it for the same reasons. To give me a simple bird's eye view of my finances and to watch out for fraud.

It's even more helpful with my grandmother's finances. My grandfather had handled their finances all his life. After his death, I set up a Mint account for her and it has been invaluable in both its convenience and in helping me contain various crises: overdrafts, missed bills, fraud, bad spending habits. Unfortunately, when it comes to money, seniors are sitting targets.

Not to say there aren't things that could be improved. But it's a long way from suck.
Clones always seem to get through. The open source Hacker News client news:yc[1] has had a lot of problems with this in the past. In chronological order:

https://twitter.com/newsyc_/status/291380036269899776

https://twitter.com/newsyc_/status/291385819799896064

https://twitter.com/newsyc_/status/303371858340884480

https://twitter.com/newsyc_/status/308312460551651328

https://twitter.com/newsyc_/status/315522279519961089

[1] http://newsyc.me
False Dichotomy.

Bright people should start their own companies.
We're almost neighbors! Sort of. I live about 15 streets up.
UTA Flight 772 Memorial seen from Google Maps
Reasons that I did not blog when I ran a company:

1) I'm a poor writer
2) Any insights that I shared would benefit my competitors and would be insignificant for customers

37signals is an outlier because their readers are potential customers
Ah Pelco where 3.5" floppy is still required for updates, still, in 2013.
> Second, if a client is going to withhold final payment based on Apple acceptance, there is no way I would work for them

But that was the requirement of the project, which the developer agreed to.

What enraged me is the behaviour of the developer.
Tobi Lütke of Spotify - http://tobi.lutke.com/

Dalton Caldwell of App.net - http://daltoncaldwell.com/

Suhail Doshi of Mixpanel - http://sufficientlyadvanced.net/

Jack Groetzinger of SeatGeek - http://jackg.org/

Eric Koester of Zaarly - http://ekoester.com/
The nice thing about DDG is it is built around competition, because of its emphasis on redirection. In theory, DDG can become the hub around which we access a whole variety of niche search engines, each time choosing which one is best suited to the task at hand. I think that encourages a fundamentally healthy ecosystem.

It would be even better if they could play up that element a bit more, if they could make the different search options in a particular area more discoverable. You want a better way to search for search engines.
$ man ascii | cat | lp -
Yeah, compare a java vulnerability with a sexy chick, that's totally it.

If the trick worked, it was because java had vulnerabilities and because they were male, so how should it be fixed ?

DUH
but I can't recall a single finance giant acting for the good of ANY community.

Consider another interpretation. I don't think Shiller is saying that finance acts altruistically. I think that Shiller is claiming that finance does add intrinsic value to world.

personally, I think that most banking professionals can't clearly articulate the value of finance. But there is clearly huge value to society of having skilled financial professionals.

The trouble is its usually intangible. The invisible hand and all.

To think up one hypothetical example ... say we had ethical and talented bankers who foresaw the housing bubble and therefore steered their banks away from financing home development in the Nevada desert. That could be immensely valuable and could have saved society billions of dollars that was wasted on homes no one wants.
It's been a while since I visited elance, but I think that's exactly how it is supposed to work. Freelancer.com is a weird experiment in gamification, feels like a scam from the start.
To be fair if they did say that, they were right. It wasn't until 1981 that the PC market started to take off.
What if he doesn't want to leave a 5-star review?

He paid for the project, which included the source code. The source code needs to be delivered.
"Don’t replace in-person community bank tellers with impersonal video screens"
Psychographic Targeting Unhinged
When I grew up, "searching for information" meant thumbing through boxes of index cards at the library, scribbling down book titles and Dewey decimal codes, going on a hike down the dusty shelves to hunt down the books (half of which would usually be on loan, in the wrong place or just lost), and then sitting down and flipping through your meager find page by page, hoping that you could find something relevant somewhere in there.

The fact that this alone has changed into "type something into Google, get back relevant results in milliseconds" has already changed the world. (And yes, I know there was Altavista etc as well; but there's a reason Google won the search wars.)

Also, compare these two for kicks:

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Goldman Sachs: Our goal is to provide superior returns to our shareholders. (http://manonamission.blogspot.com.au/2005/07/goldman-sachs-g...)
This is a bit late, but my 2c - make sure you want this kind of role. Line management in companies with good engineers is more facilitation and people management than anything else.

Have a frank conversation with your boss and tell him you want to make the move in to management. Tell him you would consider leaving to make the move. Don't let him sit on his laurels - get him to talk to his boss about what positions there might be. If you get no luck there, talk to other folks in senior / management positions within the company.

That same conversation should be a frank discussion about you as a potential manager. There are lots of things you can take responsibility for without being a manager, so ask your manager in the mean time can you take on these extra duties without relieving you of any of your current duties.

The first promotion in to management is the difficult one and is typically filled by need. If you're in a growing company, there will be a need at some point, you just may have to accept moving out of your comfort zone.

By far and away your best chance is getting a position in your current workplace, so try and do everything in your power to make that happen. If you don't see any light or movement within 6 months, move on.
Make Your Own AngularJS, Part 1: Scopes And Digest
The closest site to what you're talking about is ooomf.com (They don't have reviews, though)

I'm building a site (CodeDoor) which uses open source contributions as the sole barrier to entry- a nice thing about that is that it self-selects for technical clients.
But adding this as a requirement is perfectly reasonable? How about the fact that this is completely out of the developer's control (apps are sometimes rejected for no reason whatsoever)? Let's hold out on payment until someone at Apple says it's alright.

Next time I buy some bananas at the supermarket, I'm going to tell the cashier that if my clients don't like them, they won't get paid and that they have to come with me to convince my clients that the bananas are perfectly fine.
I'd prefer to see armed citizens myself.
> Second, if a client is going to withhold final payment based on Apple acceptance, there is no way I would work for them

It sounds from the article that payment terms were agreed upon before commencement of the work.
Why did developer accept that contract if he thought it was wrong or unfair? Walk away / ask to change that bit / extra payment, etc.
But renegotiating payment schedule half way through the project, really? That's poor work ethics.

And, BTW, I don't think it's a dumb app - it is actually quite smart, main risk was apple finding technical issues like "you are using wrong api / it crashes on iphone 3g". Customer wanted protection against issues like that.

Rephrase it in a way "you build app, I pay you. If you help me get it approved I give you $200 more". What is wrong with that?
The OP is more about which is socially more useful. Fuck that. It's not an individually relevant discussion. It's for people who are comfortable, and that's not our generation, not yet. People in their early 20s need to concentrate on things like getting paid, making contacts, what they'll learn, and building the credibility necessary to do what you really want to do, as soon as you can get there. If you're not at the point of being able to change the world for real and on your terms, then don't settle for the indirect substitute of working for a macroscopically "world-changing" company (but likely in a subordinate role). Instead, go and get what's right for you. No one should feel ashamed just because he works in finance-- this is especially true for the young, who have no real influence anyway.

Who wins between Google and Goldman? If you're coming into Google without any contacts or a pre-established national reputation, you better head to Mt. View. Anything else is like working in Goldman's Atlanta office (if they have one). Also, get your project allocation before you sign the offer letter. If you land on the right project-- one with new development (not legacy maintenance) and interesting work where promo every 2 years (up to Staff) is common-- then Google's a pretty good option for people who know they want to be in tech. It will set you up very well to have 4-5 years at Google with good projects and promotions.

On the whole, though-- taking this discussion away from company specifics-- I'd advise young people to go with finance if they can get it, at least in their early 20s. Why? If you do tech, you only gain credibility if you work on the interesting projects. If you do bottom-half crap work in technology, you're a nobody, and after 10 years, you'll be shat out. On the other hand, if you have Goldman or RenTech on your resume, you have a credibility that can't be taken away. (In New York, at least, most startup founders did their 20s in finance.) If you got assigned crap work, you can say "that's why they pay so well." You aren't seen as a loser if you were assigned crap work in finance, because you can blame the industry; whereas if you worked at a software firm and were assigned junk-pile work and never got beyond a junior role after 4 years, you're cooked. Relatedly, everyone will assume you made a lot more money than you actually did.

Working in finance builds credibility, and that's really fucking important when you're starting out.
Which of those two mission statements are more honest? I'm genuinely interested - I can consider it from both sides.
I think points #2 and #3 are the most important thing. Even if are a great writer, if your potential customers aren't going to be reading your blog, the only person you are helping is your competitors. It just doesn't make sense to blog, you are putting your own ego ahead of the success of your company. If writing helps you do your job better, write to a journal.

And if you think little bits of information can't help competitors, I strongly disagree. A little perspective (like where a company is focusing or where growth is coming from or whatever) can go a long way, and when you blog you are just leaking those things to everybody else.
Such a journey would take a very long time, between 50 and 90 minutes depending on the time of the day and the exact starting point / destination.
As far as I can tell, they're joined at the hip.

You /could/ redo one without redoing the other. No problem. But the result would be poor. :-/
HN is solely for venture capitalism via phone and webapps, thanks.

And maybe Gladwell-esque light stories suitable for our Powerpoint pitch.
What a terrible idea. If you know it exists and want to shoot someone, just get a bunch of random people to shoot in the air all over town. Or even better get a few speakers and some youtube videos of people shooting. Audio is so easy to fake.
All around the world, labour is losing out to capital
Then don't agree to the terms, simple. You're a big boy, you're responsible for your decisions.
Bright people should start their own companies.

Yeah, I'm a real fan of that search fund made available to everyone with a 140+ IQ at age 23. I would have taken part, but I was too busy shitting golden unicorns that weekend.
Just to echo this, I've hired folks in who were team leads / senior engineers in other companies who wanted to get in to management but their companies were too small and not growing. So we hired them as individual contributors and promoted them as the team got bigger.
There is in fact such "French Mafia" inside Apple, it was in fact started at NeXT and it did continue internally at Apple. The NeXT French mafia was a lot smaller back then.
Yeah, except for the fact that the developer is the one who sent the quote.
What is Enlightenment?
Huge spike in Litecoin trading volume today (Sunday). Highest volume to date.
> Some queries aren't always on par yet with Google

I don't think google search is that great anymore. It's way too fuzzy of a match. If you're trying to remember an actor's name or find some reference with a vague query, it works ok. But google takes way too many liberties with search results and is super focused on showing maps, reviews, and youtube videos, and then results to alternate searches. Bing and DDG are better IMHO.
For most of human history, the brightest minds were hard at work coming up with new ways to kill people. (No, I'm not trolling you. For every brilliant mind in science, there were scores in warfare.) Advertising and finance are progress.

I agree that it would be better if those people were working on clean energy and cancer research, but I don't think the situation is that bad, compared to the historical norm.
almost all software requires more additional development after its done.
To add on to DrJokepu, while trains depart frequently it can take quite a long time to get from the middle of Brooklyn/Queens, loop through Manhattan, and then go back out to the middle of the other, especially if it's a local train that stops at every station (versus express trains which only stop at select stations).

As someone who had no idea how huge New York really is until I visited for my first time, Google Maps shows the center of Queens and center of Brooklyn being a 12.7 mile drive apart. If you have to loop through Manhattan that turns into a nearly 30 mile loop.
It does. Popular opinion is wrong. Only feminists believe that stuff, and their propaganda is everywhere, so a lot of normal people end up believing it too because the other side completely lacks political clout.

Women are vastly more attractive applicants than men, due to sex based discrimination policies, higher college graduation rates, gender roles for men that demand they treat women better than men, and also just general curiosity garnered by an atypical applicant. Women stand out from the crowd in IT because there are so few of them. As a result, it's far easier to be noticed.
I was hoping this would happen when I read the comments on this post on /r/entrepreneur. Compare the comments there and the comments here. Fascinating case study:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1pp2bg/i_hired...
Anti-poachers have also used microchips, anti-robbery dye, and apparently poison.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/09/dy...

http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/turni...
I agree with you, but this is a bit much:

"Oh but it's a simple app" - Well, so is the electrical grid! I delivers power to your house, simple right? Oh wait. NOPE.

Really? Comparing a trivial iOS app to the electrical infrastructure, a huge engineering task (sorry, Santa's List iOS isn't engineering). Please.
Seems similar to Processing (http://processing.org/)
This seems strictly worse than a job at Google, Facebook or Twitter assuming the same 40 hour week. Are there lifestyle advantages?
This is great! It would be cool to view all the styles in one page but I guess that would cause performance issues? Anyway it's nice that the map location is persisted through all the pages :)
This is what Saskatchewan did when they got rid of DST.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_programming
Plenty of things already work like this. For example, check out Inform 7 http://inform7.com/ or the Robot C natural language module http://www.robotc.net/NaturalLanguage/. Or, more generally, LOGO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%2...
If GS does more harm that Google, perhaps that is a reason to go work for, and try to fix, GS?
Absolutely disgusting, may I request that you reddit/manchild honeypot users please refrain from posting your degenerate garbage on here.
I don't believe the maths for this story fully adds up.

Back of envelope calculation: prison population of Oklahoma:25000. Cost of meals per prisoner per day: $10. (UK hospitals budget £5 per patient per day so $10 per day is probably accurate to the nearest power of 10...). Days in year: 365.

Hence, it should come to ~$91 million if all prisoners are getting all their meals.

So we have $20 million saved by removing the greedy ones, greedy ones defined as stealing an extra meal for brekkie, din-dins and tea. So $111 million is my guestimate of how much the food bill comes to because of them scoffing their way to add $20 million on top. That would be equivalent to ~30.5k prisoners, therefore one in five of the in-mates is massively stealing extra portions every mealtime, every day.

Realistically is $10 spent per day per prisoner in Oklahoma? Sounds high to me. Would a prisoner that steals take 2 * of everything all the time, at every opportunity? They could steal more or they might steal less. So there may be more than 20% on the take for it to come to $20 million. A third of them could be habitually getting more than their allowed mealings.

Articles like this with lofty claims should have some numbers on there, rather than just pure story-interpretation. I suspect that Sysco charge a lot more than UK hospital contractors do and that they deliver a lot less. Numbers please!
Would pg really consider himself a CEO now? Also, if we're considering pg's essays to be different than blogs, then I generally dislike blogs. Essays are way better.
I had a girlfriend in college who couldn't wait to put on the pants suit and become a money manager. Whenever I get
nostalgic I check out her corporate picture, and cringe.
She used to say if she was a man, "people would encourage
my desire to rise to the Top!" Yes dear, but don't expect me to be hang around. On the other hand at least she didn't
wear emo glasses and hide behind some phony non-profit.
Yes--how you make your wad does matter. Just because it's
legal doesn't make it copacetic.
Ask HN: Building a blog
I’m looking to take my existing blog (brandonpindulic.wordpress.com) which sucks, to say the least, and ramp it up with higher quality posts and some guest posts by individuals who I respect. Is it worth it to buy a Wordpress blog for $100/year? Or should I stick with the free blog/look for a Wordpress alternative?
you aren't going to make a speaker generate the sharp pressure rise the devices are listening for over any significant distance.

Fire crackers are a better bet.