skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dittoed. I haven't cooked a meal for myself in probably six months. That's not something I'm particularly proud of, and I kind of miss cooking, but its just not economically viable for how little time I have right now. I get in from work past 10 PM most nights, and would rather spend my hour or two of leisure working on my business rather than shopping, cooking, and cleaning.

That said, my bosses are of the opinion that providing food for their engineers is a waste of money, so we have to pay 100 yen a cup for coffee, and the tea is free but the cups were eliminated to save on expenses. (Because why pay for a paper cup when you could pay a senior engineer to wash out his reusable mug.)
There are 5 -$1's and a -$15,000, from self-employed, student, or small business mostly. More interesting to me are the number of people (211) making $0<$5,000, reported mostly as unemployed or student. I wonder what the breakdown is among unemployed. How many are discouraged, actively seeking, or even retired?
Aaaaand the first result is "Naked ladies". Welcome to the Internet...
The link here http://www.mogs.com/eve-isk/Tranquility (just the first google result i found that would quote me a price) sells 40000 Million Isk for $2,098 USD, so that puts the bank in the hole something on the order of $62,500 in actual dollar terms, assuming that I did the math right, and with that exchange rate/liquidity/market.

Not too shabby for an in-game private venture!
It's still rude to tell someone that they are wrong but refuse to tell them why.

I understand that the other side is not helping by consistently misunderstanding everything.

At some point, if I was representing the GPL side in the argument, I'd realize that my attitude is not helping the cause and I would either change my attitude or ask another supporter to take over in a more polite way.

It takes energy to remain polite and nice in such discussions, but that's the price for convincing people. Otherwise, you are just an arrogant brat, even if copyright law is on your side (think RIAA - technically, the law is on their side).
I thought it was well known that Amazon used mechanical turk for these tasks when the computer can't figure it out.
studying the history of the civil service's relationship to elected politicians as well as hunting down first hand accounts from people who have worked in the system for years.

also the fact that Yes, Minister is regarded as the most accurate show about politics ever made. My above mentioned study seems to confirm that it is indeed scarily accurate.
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The cell phone accessory market is worth $63B
1. I have introduced people to each other, often via requests. Just recently I used it to pass on a request from a former colleague inviting another former colleague (at different companies) to speak at a conference.

2. I have got at least one job where the hiring manager found me on LinkedIn

3. It's my rolodex

There are other uses. It's not a high touch service, but definitely very useful.
we have little empirical data to support either position. I strongly believe that the historical record, at the very least, shows that there isn't anything the government does besides invade enemy territory that people can't accomplish on their own.
Let's be honest here. Some of the blame goes back to the FFMPEG folks. They choose the LGPL which is certainly a less known/understood license and they tack on a bunch of extra requirements. I'm looking at their license policy page and I don't see any obvious link to a non-English version. If you're not a license expert and you happen to lookup LGPL on the wiki for some guidance you get:

The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter can be linked to (in the case of a library, 'used by') a non-(L)GPLed program, and regardless of whether it is free software or proprietary software.[1] This non-(L)GPLed program can then be distributed under any chosen terms if it is not a derivative work. If it is a derivative work, then the terms must allow "modification for the customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications."

I'm not arguing that the FFMPEG folks don't deserve respect and adherence to their license terms. Just seems like they aren't really helping themselves here either. If you make a situation confusing you cannot be angry when people get confused. My personal feeling is if you want to do "free software" you should remember the whole free part. The GPL and it's variants are too overtly political for my tastes. The BSD license seems a bit more intellectually honest.
I'd argue end-users barely use them anymore now.

And you'd get no argument from me.

I don't think enough people have come to terms with the fact that for the average Internet user, Google is the Internet.
O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
I'm not a shill. I promise.

Also has illustrations from _why, so could mean it's got some collectible status?

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I don’t write much about URL shorteners because frankly they are way over-hyped.

So you put the word "Powerful" in your title. Yeaah.
Am I the only one who thinks it's absolutely crazy that they have a kitchen staff of 50 people for only 800 employees? That means 1 for every 16 other employees. I actually completely agree with a lot of the other posters who are saying how important good food is to productivity, and 50 employees to produce the kind of food they're producing doesn't sound unreasonable. But given all that, thinking of the overhead and expense involved, that number still just strikes me as an incredibly massive proportion of their staff being devoted to foodservice.
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> I think if you wanted to get a better handle of how many women are in HN, a poll ...

You mean: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617 ? There, female was about 6%.
Based on:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/itunes-sells-6-billion-...

iTunes has sold 6 billion songs. That probably includes full album sales as well as singles. Guessing an average per-track price of 80 cents then, or 4.8 billion in revenue.

According to:
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:OuySBgKhHGIJ:www.applei...

It looks like they make about 10 cents per song, so they've earned about 400-600million from iTunes sales.

Other online stats point to about 220million iPod/iPhone devices sold, the vast majority of that number being iPods.

I am going to guess that they have a pretty decent margin on iPods, 50% at least. An average iPod is probably $200, figure $50-$100 in profit per iPod and they've easily made 10-20+ billion on iPod sales.

Even in the extreme best case/worst case scenario, they've earned at least 2x from hardware vs album sales.
If you believe that they make $200 per iPhone and have sold 35M iPhones, that'd be about 7 billion in earnings. It's a bit weird because they take the earnings over 2 years per device (or something close to that). Most estimates on profit per song sold are around 10 cents (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/23/itunes_store_a...), and they'd sold 6 billion songs by the beginning of this year. App Store sales are probably not significant here, although they're critical to why they sell so much hardware. I've read stuff that earnings to Apple are less than 100M.

So, say 7B for iPhone (alone, not counting iPods!!) earnings and 700M for iTunes.

EDIT: several people have suggested to me that in fact Apple makes closer to 400 than 200 per iPhone when you take into account revenue shares and all subsidies. strikes me as high.
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(note) I write MonteCarlo apps in Ruby. Does that make Ruby a "scientific language"?

(note (note)) What do they mean "scientific language"?
Living in the real world via a third person perspective
How would you use tech to give someone a real world third person perspective?

And how might this influence his/her behavior toward others?
I have and still write MonteCarlo/Bootstrapping apps in Ruby. Does that make Ruby a "scientific language"?

What do they mean "scientific language" anyways?
* It's a bit weird because they take the earnings over 2 years per device*

That's not really weird, it's standard accounting. iPhone sales are linked to two year contracts. The sale isn't "complete" legally until all contractual obligations are satisfied, thus the deferred revenue recognition.

I had a sales person give 2 extra "free" years of hardware warranty, which in short caused that revenue recognition to be deferred until all contract obligations were met.
I used ffmpeg for a project and their mailing list is the worst I've ever come across. Fantastic product once you get it dialed though.
I guess it won't ever be finished until chess is solved (like checkers). But it is finished in a way, because chess engines are much better than the best human players. It has ended an era in chess - there is less motivation to devote your life to a game that a computer will always be able to do better.
I use it as a personal resume archive. LinkedIn has a feature where your work and school experience will download as a nice PDF, but I really just use it to archive my work. Then, when I'm preparing a resume, I cherry pick the most relevant parts and edit them to fit 1 page. I also provide it to employers so they can take a look at other work (and more importantly, recommendations) I have done (or received).
For me it was simply getting out in the world at a relatively young age at a variety of levels.

I never really got any allowance, mostly just because my old man was a bit of a cheap-ass and a control freak. It was easier to earn my own money instead of having to be beholden to him and account for where my spendings went.

And I've always been rather enterprising, so I tried various forms of income multiplication like loansharking and other investments.

You learn how the world works much more quickly when you are on your own and interacting with various people at various levels in various ways. For me this started in earnest around age 10.

At some point I figured out early on that other people have only has much power as you give them, and that nobody else is ever going to be looking our for YOUR best interests, despite what they might say.
"The emphasis being, of course, that even a complete implementation of Scheme should remain as compact as possible."

I don't know. I like that fact that Scheme forces me to create everything. (R5RS) The end result is that I end up thinking long and hard before I write my first parenthesis. This is radically different from my Ruby approach which has a tendency to be "jot down as many functions and then find some way to organise them into a class".

My Ruby approach is probably not "best practices" but sometimes, as I learned in screenwriting class, you have to actually put something on the screen to start, otherwise you end up with...a blank screen.

Seriously, if I wanted modules or a larger ecosystem for my code I would have options to select such as PLT or Kawa.

I guess I'm still muddled about this whole agenda on a "Big" vs "small" Scheme.
I think Google in ASCII is 0x476f6f676c65.
"e.g. being reprogrammed between rounds"

e.g. learning
Is there a page that collects these easter eggs?
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Molecular absorption and emission of photons is one mechanism by which color is created. For example, the color of water is caused by molecular absorption.
I'm with you there! If the hackers who work there are anything like me, a fridge full of Mountain Dew and a cupboard full of Pop-Tarts would achieve the same effect. If I wanted to provide something more nutritious, given my penchant for outsourcing, I would lean toward hiring a catering company.
Thanks! Re: books - it's hard to break out of market pricing, since books are common and there's a comparable product sitting on the shelf next to it (or a click away). With value-based pricing, some books should sell for thousands of dollars, but they don't - market pricing is too easy, so the price of books stays low.

Information products, on the other hand, often cover the same information at 10-100x the price, since market comparison is much more difficult.
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True. The point was that parts 2 & 3 had no chance - the expectations were so high that almost nothing could exceed them.

If you like, substitute iPhone version 1 vs. version 2. Same idea. Over-inflated expectations = poor quality experience, regardless of actual performance.
> there is a known phenomenon in the literature on education of gifted students of high-IQ young people being bored with school because it is underchallenging and getting poor grades

Reminds me of some of the parenting books I've been reading since we had our first child. The advice is generally not to try to teach your children to read ahead of when they do it in school. The reason being that you will probably achieve at best mediocre results at the expense of completely ruining the novelty of it for your child, guaranteeing that when time does come to learn and they are fully developmentally receptive, they will be far less interested than otherwise. Studies have shown that there is (on average) no developmental benefit from early reading and a mild possibility of negative impact.
Omits foreach; regretful.
Not a biologist, but I've been in bio labs and it is _meticulous_ work. Very, very clever processes for detecting molecules as they pass through (or don't pass through) certain organelles, a good dose of math, some inference, and sometimes luck.

Not being able to see (and as the toothpick -> truck of floss poster mentioned above, this isn't going to help with biological systems much at this point) does mean there are significant gaps in what biologists know. On the other hand, biologists have been visualizing larger structures for some time (even proteins via xray etc.)
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I feel the same as when the black person was edited out...it wouldn't bother me either way. But I think that companies should realize that not everyone feels the way I do.
Technically, it's only a page within the site that's the first result.

But I guess not many people look at ascii art just to appreciate it's ascii-ness.
I don't. I'm saying, in the universe of things that could go wrong with commercial GSM deployments, this is not the worst likely thing.

If I remember right, even Applied Cryptography managed to call out A5 as bad.
I can never bring myself to buy ebooks it just isn't worth it to read on a screen I hate it. This is tempting but it still seems like a waste.

Print is always better than digital in my opinion though I haven't tried a kindle yet.
I think the idea is he loves cats, not women.
I know a couple of the ReadWriteWeb folks and I would never characterize them as "one big continuous press release." In fact, quite the opposite.
I thought this was satire at first.
Kerouac and traveling.
So if I'm a gold atom, and I absorb some photons, a bunch pass through me, and some get reflected - and the photons that are reflected from me over a period of time happen to be average out to something a cone cell in the retina would interpret as gold- couldn't I say that I'm gold-colored? In other words, replacing the billion-atom aggregation with a simple time series?

It seems to me it's an argument about semantics, not physics.
The company was in Malibu, a place known for fires and floods. Any disaster that would destroy the office would make the bank inaccessible. And the backups were done weekly because it wasn't convenient to drive to the bank in rush hour traffic. The biggest flaw in the plan: the one guy with the key was fired!
Pretty closely integrated, as I wanted a seamless experience as close to normal django auth in part. But talking to providers is generic. Let me know if you would need my help porting this to Pytlons.
Does it really? Or does it require some software on the recorder to say "Oh hey, this flag is set, I better not record it"... If it's the latter, then I can't really picture that standing in the way of anyone who really wants to record it
Reminds me of some of the parenting books I've been reading.... Studies have shown that there is (on average) no developmental benefit from early reading and a mild possibility of negative impact.

What books and studies suggest this?
Just think if AppJet were integrated into this!
I can't imagine this costs them that much per employee at their scale, esp. considering the likely considerable benefits to gains in productivity.
Comes off as a bit of a puff piece. It's interesting to contrast the perspective in this article with the employee reviews on Glassdoor.
Hmph, I'm teaching my kids to read as soon as I manage to interest them. But then I'm probably not going to send them the school till fourth or grade anyway.
Most of the them are probably only part time (i.e. 2-3 hours a day during peak hours and only 2-3 days a week) and they are probably counting the kitchen janitorial crew.

50 ends up just being a nice sweet marketing number (directed at both potential employees and for media hype).
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The first post says they modified MPlayer (not ffmpeg)
If you're asking me - I haven't hacked on MagLev for over a year, so I'm pretty out of the loop. From tracking http://twitter.com/MagLev, though, it sure looks like they're getting close.
New planet hints we're very lucky—or our models are wrong
This was mentioned by someone here a few years ago, but I still think it would be cool to see the karma/posts ratio for people. Just for kicks, not for voting (:

To be perfectly honest I never even notice the names on comments.

OK, not totally true, I notice pg and one or two other people that I know personally. I remember when hacker news started and pg would automatically get pretty much every member upvoting him (hence him not being in the leaders section- no one even comes close I assume).
Google has non-alcoholic imitation wine in most of their cafes.
No he isn't - he's shipping unpatched ffmpeg, compressed with UPX.
Lucidchart is awesome. Google would do well to make an acquisition there - I really feel the pain of not having any diagramming integrated with google docs.
Dark is also the primary and original dev for x264, IIRC. I remember talking with him last year on IRC when I was working on a little patch for ffmpeg (memory leaks). Very nice and helpful (especially since ffmpeg as a whole is very sloppy and disorganized). A++ would buy again.

Just to note, though, diego was really being an asshole in that thread. Yeah the guy was violating the license, but it's not like suing him is going to do anything other than make him comply with the license. Might as well take 10 seconds and type out what he needs to do and save some time and energy. That kind of rudeness makes me not want to work with the project again as I don't like people being needlessly aggressive over people who aren't actively being malicious. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
maybe HN people can track this guy?
I worked in a place that used the "inheritance by copying working code" technique. It was a web app in ASP; each page was basically a stand-alone mini-app that had been copied from some other working page and then modified. Since we had no unit tests, there was one benefit, and that was that you could change the code on a page and be fairly certain that you would not affect any other pages.
I'm currently using this tool for a web application setup. It's use is invaluable.
For that price you can usually just buy the real book brand new from the new & used section of amazon.com. I've been saving some good money with that. If you just be careful with the feedback ratings and not really trust the lowest price you will probably get a real new book as advertised and save some good money.
Looking at the karma there, it seems your explanation is exactly adequate.
Actually, they're being a little hypocritical too. They are very protective of their license, but I know for a fact that a number of developers work in the United States where large portions of the codec library violate US patent law. Can't have it both ways guys...
Coogle?

But seriously, what the hell is this doing on HN? Can't we leave this crap to reddit?
"In short, programmers may sometimes avoid the same features that make OCaml such a pleasant language to program with. It is possible to address this problem by using more aggressive optimization techniques (e.g., whole-program optimization as is used in the MLton Standard ML compiler (MLton, 2007)). Unfortunately, it does not seem likely that such optimization will be available any time soon for OCaml."

Then why OCaml over Standard ML using the MLton implementation?
I thought it was common knowledge that they were expecting a profit this year, on revenue in the hundreds of millions. I could be wrong though.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.00318+percent+of+1415...
Haven't tried many technical books yet, but the Kindle is incredible. Highly recommended if you read a lot.
For all that food, I didn't see anything that I would be excited about eating. Where's the pizza/pasta/sandwiches/food for real (hungry) people?
Javadoc on steroids: kiwidoc
Does anybody know about the commercial availability of such a system?
Go with the full size Kindle for comfortable reading of PDFs.
I propose a ban on such posts in the future. HN is becoming Reddit. If you really want to point out all the cool stuff in Google Search, create a list and submit that list.
You'd imagine that its just using a very simple minimax algorithm and not stepping a great deal of turns ahead? Can't imagine you could build to many rules into code of that length.
Or they don't need a framework as robust as Rails for a simple application
Cool. The naming conventions might get unruly for very tiny projects, but definitely an interesting piece of work.
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If that's true, IBM is probably making history (again)
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http://www.macworld.com/article/141886/2009/07/att_subsidy.h...

This says the subsidy is $300 per iPhone and that makes more sense to me than $200 per iPhone.
We have about 20 people and are profitable. All advertising driven.
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Ask HN: What is your favorite application of Graphviz?
How do you use Graphviz? What have you written that uses it on the backend? What is your favorite tool that you use that uses it? What are some ideas you haven't gotten around to implementing that would use it?
Those were my thoughts exactly. I'd buy this now and I'm sure other people would as well. The quicker they get this to the market, the better.
I actually found the use of pink lighting to deter drug addicts much more interesting...