skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, AWS doesn't have the best speed to drive, though if you have money, you can specify how many IOPS you want... you just have to pay for your declared use every hour whether you're using it or not. It's also kinda hard to predict if you're not familiar with that kind of thing.

Note that on AWS your hard drive isn't on the machine running your VM. If you want to test local disk speed, do it in /mnt, where local disk storage is mounted... but remember that data stored there won't persist if you turn your instance off.
Wow that's a lot.
I've got ~3000 hours of TF2 (and a couple hundred hours in other games) but I've been playing TF2 since early 2008 and it never affected my grades at school or my work.

I agree that time I enjoyed is definitely not time wasted. Playing with friends is just as good as programming to me. It's 100% unproductive though.
Just wanted to clarify that these were fish stem cells. It's not ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny or anything.
Reminds me of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CCTV_Beijing_April_2008.jp...

I'm sure the CCTV building is safe, but I get a small panic attack just thinking about walking or jumping up and down in that overhanging corner of the building.

How did they fix it? The article says they "welded" but doesn't say what was added to increase the strength of the building.
Just because CMU does it too doesn't mean that it's reasonable. Students who are stressed out and sleep-deprived aren't going to be learning effectively - there's lots of research that indicates that sleep is necessary for forming long-term memories.[1] Better to split the course into two semesters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_and_Memory
Note how Football Manager 2014 dominates both the Mean/Median "number of hours played per owner" charts, but doesn't register on the "Most played games" charts. This seems to indicate this game is the most successful at hooking it's players, but not the most successful at reaching large numbers of players. Not really surprising, but I find the implications interesting: A game such as this (and perhaps this can be applied to non-game contexts) is going to benefit mostly from some way of deriving revenue per time spent, rather than revenue per unit sold. Put another way, player reach is low but player investment is high. Golden opportunity for microtransactions? How about something radical, like the game is free for the first 20 hours, but each hour played after that costs $0.01 (pulling numbers out of my ass here, but you get the concept)
It is funny how people downvote facts
NASA discovers Earth-sized planet that may sustain life
"I think this is worth reading" seems like a high enough bar for endorsement. I guess it is at least a higher bar than is used for many of the votes for stories that already end up on the front page.
I've got my own stuff I want to do. I shouldn't have to fix them - they should have regression tests.
This article is not signed. It is wrong. Bertrand Meyer is right. Advising to beware of a category of people is not overgeneralizing. It is good advice: beware, observe and decide for yourself in each individual case.

You can compare two language specifications, ANSI C and ANSI Common Lisp: they BOTH leave out-of-bound array accesses UNSPECIFIED.

However, Lisp programmers who write Lisp implementations all include RUN-TIME bound checking (in addition to compilation time checks when possible), in most implementations, even with the lowest safety level!

On the other hand, C programmers who write C implementations never include any run-time bound checking (and seldom include compilation time checks, and at most issue warnings, not errors). There's no notion of safety level in C.

We could also make the comparison with other languages and their programmers and implementers.

C is not a high level programming language. It's a high level assembler language, designed to program small system kernels when resources are constrained.

Nowadays, we develop system kernels with automatic proof checkers, with with resource constraints, and we should use high level programming language for applications, not horrors like C or C++.
collapsing/folding would solve the 'rich get richer' problem as well

the reason comments at the top stay at the top is because of scrolling attrition -- the more you make people scroll to see more comments, the less they're likely to do it.

if comment threads collapsed like reddit (for example) then they'd be much easier to read through -- giving more exposure to new / low voted comments near the bottom
I would love an option somewhere between a downvote and a flag. I like to be able to use downvotes almost casually, to signal that someone is wrong or even that they presented their idea poorly and should be knocked down the page. I reserve flags for serious offenses that should result in moderator action. I don't currently have a way to mark a comment as "terrible comment but is not a ban-worthy offense".
Please see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606587
Seen.co’s Lean Story
I considered both when I first got started. Django was just too hard for me. When I read code using a framework I've never seen before, usually I can still kind of tell what it does. It might be my own stupidity, but when I read Django code I have no clue what it does.

I did consider Flask, which is much more similar to web.py, but eventually chose web.py because I was a fan of Aaron Swartz' work at the time.
Pitching with Plato: Why the Socratic method can help get your startup funded
The original idea: http://iwbyp.chris-granger.com/
Wow ... apparently I'm ignorant twice with this comment (at least the last one I made was well-received):

a) Culturally ignorant - I had no idea that "explainer" was in common use in the UK. I would have called the rest of the article "an explanation".

b) Literally ignorant - How did I miss that this wasn't an Economist article?

Sorry!
Wrong, The Guardian couldn't estimate anything because the court documents didn't were about what The Guardian made up.

Past damages were not a royalty percentage, 2.5 billion were not mobile revenue.

So, they made up their figures with wrong assumptions, wrong revenues and wrong damages
Selfhosting isn't out of the question.

Maybe there's a middle ground? If someone provided me with a VPS but made it really easy to self-host applications from a curated list, I'd be all over that.
This is a really popular belief with understandable roots in human nature, but it simply isn't true. It's not hard to be skeptical of the things the echo-chamber (which definitely exists) values. In fact, assuming a skeptical pose is a karma-positive strategy for HN.

The problem isn't contrarianism; it's banal meanness. Hackpad sells to Dropbox and the top of the thread is, for a time, somebody talking about how the acquisition is a sign that the whole startup house of cards is falling. A markov HN cynic could write that comment; it's boring, it's distracting, and it's mean-spirited: some of the people who worked on Hackpad also read HN.

If you're going to be contrary, don't be boring and don't be mean. You'll be fine.

Signed,

Longtime YC Cynic
I've only seen bug fixes in LTS releases, not changes in functionality that would address significant issues (at least under 10.04 and 12.04). Any significant change would be in a point release (e.g. 14.10) which is not LTS - so you can't have your cake and eat it too under this model.
I agred this translation gives a better idea of how old timer sounds the original.
This is something I've been thinking about as well. Whenever I meet someone who doesn't play videogames, I ask them what they do in their spare time (because it's an idea I can't comprehend). It's always "watch tv" or "facebook" or "reddit" or something equally mundane. I'd rather be engaging my brain, thinking spatially, and solving interesting problems.
Maybe you can roll the numbers up a digit for each successive job…

Having done "MVP" work before, I wouldn't undervalue your work like this for to long or you'll be facing burnout quickly.
Well, all of the egg donors are adults with (presumably) the ability to make rational decisions. They should of course give proper informed consent and potentially be given due compensation, but in that case I don't think it's fair to call it exploitation.

e: I hate to complain about downvotes, but did totally miss your point here or something? I think this is a good conversation to have, and I was replying in good faith.
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Something that I've been finding lately is that replies to my posts have been downvoted when to me they're fairly reasonable disagreements with what I said. I've actually taken to upvoting replies to me that go grey a lot of the time, even though I don't particularly agree with what they're saying.

To me it seems like a lot more stuff is getting downvoted than used to, and I'm not sure I see a meaningful pattern in the places I see it happening.
It's a problem with unnecessarily monolithic SaaS, where everyone reinvents e.g. the storage piece of it.

You should be able to tell XYZ service to work with your photos as stored on Amazon S3. Or stored on, what's that other company, starts with a D...?
Out of curiosity, do you (personally) downvote either comments that you disagree with (e.g. "We should all be using DNSSEC for better security"), or comments that are factually incorrect (e.g. "Heartbleed was caused by incorrect use of null-terminated strings in C")?

(I assume neither of these are inherently flag-worthy assuming they're made in earnest and not egregious).
What most people have with Lisp syntax, I have with Objective-c. I am mostly blind to syntax (I skip from language to language fast reading/writing) except for some esoteric languages (like http://www.hakank.org/k/) AND Objective-c. I find it extremely annoying to read while I do it every day. Writing is better for some reason, but far removed from other languages. So I see why some people would not like Lisp syntax while I find it very pleasant/enjoyable to read.
It's tempting to imagine the "what might have been" had the first Win1 APIs been delivered on Xenix rather than DOS.
> I'll get half the site working, demo it to you, give you all the code thus far, and you'll pay me $1,172.50.

You should ask for 1/4 up-front, before you write any code.
For a company like Yahoo top talent is a seller's market. They have to vest the compensation if they want to have a chance at getting the talent in the first place.

Note that for example there's serious danger of reputational damage; someone who joins such a company at such a high level is in danger of getting their career derailed or worse.

As for the CEO, we can stick to straight observables: a number of people joined the company under the condition they'd work off-site, often in roles where that's just fine like customer support (easy metrics), and plenty of them were nowhere near a Yahoo office.

One day she declares that if you don't start working in a Yahoo office, you'll lose your job. As e.g. Maggie Lange at Gawker puts it:

"Mayer famously took her position at Yahoo while six months pregnant and had her baby last fall. However, unlike other Yahoo employees, she is able to bring her child to work to the nursery she paid to have built in her office."

(http://gawker.com/5987043/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-installed-...)

That's just the most notorious I can remember, there are as I recall a number of others.
FOBO (YC S11) – Growth Engineer Wanted, local marketplace for used goods (SF)
Fobo, a local marketplace undergoing rapid-growth, is looking to hire a dedicated growth engineer.

Sound interesting? Reach out. Would love to chat about:

- Objective-C

- Javascript, and, optionally, Typescript/Haskell

- Leveraging mobile measurement partners (we're using AppsFlyer)

- Small-scale, targeted ad buys on Facebook

- Retargeting across the web

- Mixpanel

Just shoot me a quick note at ed@fobo.net

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We're well on our way to profitability (10% WoW growth leading to $1M run-rate, in just 6 weeks).

This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

FOBO has raised $1.6M from a number of top-tier investors such as YC, Kevin Rose, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Chris Sacca, Tim Ferris, Index, Greylock, et al. Visit us at http://www.fobo.net

We're located in San Francisco's mission district, just blocks from BART.

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FOBO - The Fastest, Easiest Way To Sell Your Consumer Electronics

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/fobo/

Gadget Marketplace App FOBO Has Hit A Million-Dollar Run Rate

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/16/fobo-video/
And Netscape, Microsoft, Apple and Google.... why do you think it would not have happened in the absence of a bloated government?
Hm, I'm hearing that a lot. Is $2,345 really that little? I've been living near the poverty line by choice, and $2,345 lasts me about two months.

In either case, I guess it would turn off half the visitors if I just changed the price right now.
I worked for a company, around 2002, that offered a managed billing platform for small mobile-phone operators.

That platform was largely built around microfocus COBOL.
Hehe, you got me. That actually is where I first got the idea.
I can't seem to find the link that said this, but I believe the 1700's-1800's version of our modern use of the word "literally" was "veritably". They used it in the same ways we do when we use it the incorrect (non-literal) form.
That's usually how it works.
As someone who isn't used to taking upfront payments, my question is, are people actually willing to do that?
>Comparing the civil rights movement to taxi regulations is ridiculous.

In the context of this argument, they're logically isomorphic. The fact that the civil rights movement has more emotional significance is irrelevant.

You said "you don't get to break the law because you disagree with it". That's clearly bullshit if you believe that what MLK or any other law-breaking activist did was right.

>It means: "based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system." If there is a reason it is not arbitrary.

Emphasis mine. Your definition matched what I said exactly.
This is a very old hoax, and is not the work of Marquez. Your first clue is that it was published in issue 8 of the review you linked to, in 2008. Here are some others:

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_news.html#Anchor-4957...
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27332&s...
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/marquez.html
I discovered HN Special for Chrome a week or two ago, and I'll never go back. It adds every feature I've ever wanted (better, higher-contrast design; foldable comments; user info hovers, etc).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-special-an-addi...
Don't feel guilty. If you're price is too high you simply won't get leads. Better 3 high-paying customers than 10 low-paying customers: less support time.
See also: Reddit's "best" ranking for comments: http://www.redditblog.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sortin...
I didn't actually go ahead and implement it - I just couldn't make the math work. In my opinion, there are too many unknowns with this model - you're quoting the price of a project without knowing all features, talking about design iterations, supported browsers, and a million other things. And if you substantially increase the price after getting the requirements, clients won't like that, because the most important number for them is the first number you tell them - in this case, $2,345.

I could go on, but I don't want to discourage you. You should try it, just be careful not to lose money. Also, if you're in the western world, make it $10,000 or $20,000, that's a more realistic number :)
I agree. But it is possible that a 3 choice downvote would increase the number of downvotes. Many people do not downvote at the moment, but they might if they had the option to say "abusive/insulting" or "incorrect".
Yeah, I wasn't being critical. It's a fun/great idea. Seems like a fast way to broaden your portfolio; both intellectually and on paper.
Interesting. Does that decrease its value? Does it make the words less true? Less useful?

Should we discard it all as a lie, and not try to find the truth within it?
Oh no... GGM was an underappreciated author in non-spanish speaking world (in spite of wonderful, gift translators... he was just an intrinsically difficult author to translate because of the poetic quality of his writing IMHO). Cien Anos de Soledad was one of the first non-trivial, non-english books I read. RIP.

edit: okay, removed 'really'.. I think he was underappreciated on a popular level, even though he was very well appreciated on a critical level.
I'm trying to parse exactly what happened here. The way I understand it is that forks of private repos stay private. So did the contractor fork, clone, and then push it to a separate public repo? That has lawsuit written all over it...
I actually think DB should be the webserver in this case.

Why can't I just make a "web-server" folder in my dropbox, drop a bunch of html, js and css and a few image files in there, get a URL and voila, instant website?

You sorta can already in truth, but they don't like it and the bandwidth is pretty severely capped on these kinds of sites. Make it part of the paid account (with x-fer up to 1GB/mo or whatever) and have high bandwidth users pay more?
Yes, definitely. I just did that for two projects in the past week; but it was 1/2 up-front. Albeit, they were close referrals. YMMV if it's potential customers who don't know you.
Scientists discover the animal kingdom’s first 'female pe*is'
It would be a neat thing to test for DH1 and above comments. But do you really want to have to comment on "The author is a self-important dilettante" or "u r a fag!!!!!" However maybe I should be flagging these comments instead of downvoting them?
Think of it this way- you're either paying them up-front with your time and work or they're paying you up front with some cash.

As somebody who has been burned badly by somebody who didn't pay up after work was delivered I can tell you do not ever work before getting some fee up-front (preferably the entire amount). If the person can't afford to pay you before you start, you probably don't want them as a customer.

Conversely, those who are ready, willing, and able to pay are the best and most lucrative customers to have (and you can charge a lot more than $2300 for your services).
I am very circumspect about downvoting, and rarely do it as I am still unsure of the criteria. I rarely have the opportunity to downvote vitriol and trolls, as others have usually done that and there seems little point in piling on.

I personally have a much higher threshold for comments which are worded aggressively, sarcastically, or humorously. I occasionally find myself upvoting comments which have been downvoted by the community due to "tone," if I think the core statement has a bunch of validity.

Where I am most tempted to downvote is statements that repeat sticky memes that have been repeatedly disproven, but "sound true" within areas I have the most expertise, especially when they are presented as fact. Those kinds of comments lower the bar more than any other, IMO, by forcing a debate over whether the sky is in fact blue every single time the community attempts to discuss weather patterns and cloud formation. However, it is unclear to me whether that is valid criteria for downvoting, so I rarely even do that.

TL;DR I am unsure when to downvote so I mostly don't.
Yep. For sure. Just signed my first contract with an up-front. I took 10%, but I've heard of people doing 25% as standard.
Bytemark, based in the UK, with their cloud product Bigv (http://bigv.io/)
To me, the sets of "downvote-worthy" and "response-worthy" comments overlap very little. I downvote when a comment is not even wrong. When I comment in response to another comment, it's because I've seen some sign that the other person might be interesting, correct, amusing, curious, or any combination of those. A requirement to compose "justification" comments would just about end my downvoting.
How to make a Dropbox clone using git-annex.
I find the idea that commenters with higher karma having more powerful down-votes slightly disconcerting. My fear is that if people down-vote comments that are well meaning and relevant but they disagree content we will only ever see one train of thought rise to the top of comment threads.

This could start a vicious cycle where voting cabals of power-users form. For example if Idea X becomes popular among some members of HN they will be able to always steer the discussion to talk about Idea X or down-vote a competing valid Idea Y into oblivion. Comment readers could be converted to Idea X, as it is always appearing at the top of relevant comment threads. So now the voting cabal as even more members. Growing the dislike of Idea Y. The cycle then repeats. The discussion is then steered over time by the thoughts of a select few power-users.

Maybe this is just the natural order of things and I'm subconsciously afraid of change. Thoughts?
I try not to downvote disagreement, except when I feel like downvoting will keep me from writing a boring disagreeable comment.
I'm not so sure that it's searchable. 3^81 is quite a lot. I don't know of any solved game with that many. Tic-tac-toe, connect 4, checkers, etc all have less. I think 3^81 is comparable to 9x9-Go and Chess which are both unsolved. I suppose it depends how aggressive you can prune (which, admittedly, is probably pretty aggressively).
I guess we should give up on trying to keep the definition of the word "Hacker" as "brilliant programmer and technical expert".

We can't continue going around calling ourselves "Criminals", and that when we do a brilliant piece of work on an intractable software problem that we really "Hacked" it together, meaning we broke the law to steal it and kept all the money for ourselves.

The word "Hacker" has got to go, it is the same as the word "Criminal", "Burglar" or "Felon" now.
The code itself is hierarchical in nature.
"Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía habría de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo."

I think rjtavares' quote is more faithful. Except for "conocer", it should be "know ice" or maybe "know about ice", not "see" or "discover".

But the thing about translating poetic literature is that the translator also needs to be a poet.
One of the things I love about HN is the lack of people trying to be funny. Between Twitter, Facebook, G+, <insert social media outlet>, there are plenty of places I can go to laugh. But HN is one of the few places where I can get top-notch news with input from a lot of smart people, as well as intelligent, civil discussions even when people disagree. I'm happier without the witty comments.