skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can listen to Ira Glass and John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants talk about it in the prologue: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/386/f...

"there's 30 people the promoter's going to hire on our behalf ... but in only half of them did we require that they be sober"
I think a number of people here may be misinterpreting what Thiel means by "monopoly". Here is the likely backbone of that chapter[0].

I personally believe each company should do one thing, and do that one thing better than anyone else in the world possibly could. Companies should therefore be constantly perfecting that one thing to the degree that no competitor could possibly catch up. I may be wrong, but I hope that's the kind of monopoly Thiel is talking about.

[0] http://blakemasters.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-...
Did he just post a screenshot of his bank account with the session key visible in the URL!?

(I know it's probably not too significant and there are other checks in place, but I found it rather ironic when the text right above it happens to be "I try to be VERY VERY careful".)
Hey HN,

Working on a new project that I'm really excited about! Would love your thoughts and feedback.
emacs'll do that to you.
It has for me. Doing deploys direct from source control implies you're doing other things in production you shouldn't be. Like a `bundle install`, or `rake assets:precompile`. Those are both slow and error-prone, neither of which is what you want when you're pushing a bug-fix out.
From what I've read, the brain develops until you're around 25. Does the environment influence how fast your brain fully matures to a large extent?
It actually does look pretty good, until you realize he doesn't list any real previous job experience anywhere.
Irrelevant how?

Is it irrelevant that the examples fail to back up the assertion because Peter Thiel is the one making it?

The 'big idea' expressed in this blurb is that it's 'easier to copy a model than to make something new.'

And the supporting arguments show off the opposite case just to associate the book with becoming the next industry defining billionaire.

Whoever wrote this blurb is either not thinking clearly, or is banking on readers to not think clearly.

There are much better example cases for that argument, but they aren't as flashy.
Stole my joke you &^*%$
$80
A Million Meals Free for Children
FCC makes lousy net neutrality decision
Uruguay Opens Access To Scientific Literature For All Citizens
Epoch – The Fastly Charting Library
Well just to clarify, I wasn't counting the 3rd Reich since it is "dead", similar for Ghengis Khan and the Romans.

To me, guilt is what you've done, innocence is what you haven't done. The British government has done pretty much everything.
18 Pieces of Sage Wisdom From Batman
Guide to Node.js Development with WebStorm and other JetBrains IDEs
Except that RFC 1149 specifies a single IP datagram per pigeon, which means it will be slower than even the slowest of dial-up connections.
My response to the email I received after this comment:

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The last house keeper did a terrible job and had a bad attitude. The house keeper we had before that left your company. We have to keep getting new maids. Each new one is an investment in a trust relationship. Having to go through that repetitively is a failure of your service.

By the looks of the comments on HN, a place where people are usually very supportive of services like homejoy, it's clear you have a systemic issue. Not to mention it costs more than a local maid. Why would I pay more to get a worse service?

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:59 PM, The Homejoy Solutions Team (Homejoy) <support@homejoy.com> wrote:

- Everyone Deserves a Happy Home -
The Homejoy Solutions Team (HOMEJOY)
May 15 14:58

Hi Luke,

My name is Kimberly and I am one of the Solutions Specialists of our client services team here at Homejoy. I saw your comment on Hacker News this afternoon and I wanted to follow up with you. On behalf of the entire team, I would like to apologize that your experience with us has been less-than-great and I wanted to get in touch with you to see how I can possibly remedy your concerns.

When I looked into your account, I was not able to find any mention of dissatisfaction. So, I would like to see if you would be able to provide me with you concerns, so that I may do my best to fix them.

I look forward to hearing from you and please let me know if there is anything else I can do to remedy this experience for you.

Best,

Kimberly E.
Solution Specialist

===
I didn't realize that ReFS in Win 8.1 had had a meaningful revision, but that's great to hear. And I wasn't saying that ADS or HFS+ ADS were new, but rather that they're barely used, and that the relative increase in usage in recent editions of OS X indicates a comparative uptick. I don't honestly know any common use of ADS on NTFS, although I think that the AppleShare implementation on WinNT 4 used them to preserve Mac OS resource forks, but I haven't looked too hard, either.

I disagree with you blowing off the significance of ADS support showing up in PowerShell. You could already access ADS in .NET, but PowerShell it's interesting to see native cmdlets in PowerShell for working with ADS because it's the shell. To me, this indicates that Microsoft is anticipating developers will want to directly work with ADS from PowerShell, and that is interesting to me.
According to his blog, the age wasn't a factor:

"why i didn't seek job all these years? well, i can only say i procrastinate and is ok living on a dime."
I've heard really good things about the Amazon Fire TV + XMBC (Gotham) from multiple sources at this point. Haven't tried it myself admittedly.
For such a model to work I believe you need a distributed replicated state machine, and the clients to be an active part of the distributed system (not just participating doing requests), being able to reply to pings. Yes, there is a safety advantage in the model you describe, as if the time taken to finish with an operation is larger than expected, the other clients may want to wait more, but in the practice:

1) What you do if the client replies to pings but takes an apparently never ending time to perform the operation on the shared resource?

2) What about if the client is correctly operating on the shared resource but the only component which is failing is the system you use to check its availability?
This sounds like a good thing to do. Many non-profits just want simpler projects like a website redesign done by someone capable, so those projects might be perfect for a developer and an intern to get done fairly quickly, while still being a learning experience for the intern. One group I know that does this is HandsOn Tech Boston. [1] They match volunteers with non-profits to do projects similar to what I described below. Another key component of what they do is technical training for non-profits. They teach fairly simple things like how to use the Wordpress Admin tool well that seem trivial to HN, but are extremely valuable to the non-profits as it means they can maintain their own website. The people there are very friendly, and would probably be up to chat about how to run a successful program.

I'm not totally sure what the demand is for writing other custom software for non-profits, but I'm sure there are plenty of groups who need stuff beyond websites. It would be great if some of the stuff as a result of this project ended up as open source. It would allow other people to continue building it, and would also give the interns experience with version control, and something an employer can look at in depth.

[1] http://www.handsontechboston.org/
What is compliance rate? x/100 ?
The majority of his debit acct # is also visible. But seeing as he hasn't been very careful with the rest of his life, why should his empty bank acct be any different?
Submitted in part because a Hacker News participant recently berated Americans on Hacker News for not being more aware of the election in India. (The person who wrote that comment is an American of Indian heritage, I'm pretty sure.) I was drawn to this article from the Google News news aggregator because it was listed as one of the "in-depth" articles. I was also startled by the title because until now I haven't heard most news reports as I have been following the election in India describing Modi as "pro-business." That's an issue I have no opinion about.

I will note for the record that I think a democratic election in a LARGE, multilingual country is an interesting process of human society. Participants here who dream of building startup businesses with truly worldwide reach will want to know how economic development is proceeding in the world's second-most-populous country. (Based on likely trends, India will eventually become the world's most populous country in my lifetime.) I think a free press and contested elections give India a lot of advantages over other countries and can serve as an example to China and other large countries still developing to higher living standards.

AFTER EDIT: Now that this is a breaking news story, I'll list a few other English-language reports on the election results here as I gather them from my usual news aggregator.

"Modi Brings India's Opposition Into Power at Last. Now What?" (BloombergBusinessweek)

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-16/modi-brings-...

"Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi claims victory as India's next prime minister" (CNN)

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/16/world/asia/india-election-...

"There are no enemies in democratic politics: Modi" (The Hindu, a newspaper from India)

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/there-are-no-enemies-i...

As before, I am not a voter in India, so I don't have a particular opinion about the voters' choice in the most recent national election in India.
Sacha Chua recently did one of her "Emacs Chats" with Xah Lee:

http://sachachua.com/blog/category/podcast/emacs-chat-podcas...
It is potentially relevant that Adobe are reportedly stopping selling traditional boxed versions of older CS versions in a few days, leaving CC the only option for new purchasers [but see edit below]. In the announcement, they claimed this was being done earlier than they had originally expected (implying in passing that they always intended to do this) and this was because CC had been so popular with their customers. However, they didn't seem to give any sort of data to back up that claim, which makes me rather skeptical about how much of this is driven by accounting and how much of it is driven by PR.

I agree CC is a sales experiment, and as both a user and a software developer it's an interesting one. I do wonder how much of any initial success has been a honeymoon period, though. Another interesting dichotomy was seeing that on the one hand there was a related statement from someone at Adobe about how customers had been worried that they would double their price once everyone is locked in but of course they'd never do that because it would be a betrayal of trust, while on the other hand anyone who signed up on the $30/month plan is about to hit the end of their first year's special offer and go up to the normal $50/month (but this is OK with Adobe because the offer was always advertised as limited up-front). That may all be true and legally above board, but I'm not sure how many people who did the maths at the $30 price point are still going to be as happy in their second year as they were in their first.

In other news, our existing installations of boxed CS products cost us nothing extra this month and didn't go down this week, and we're still waiting to meet either the client who we couldn't work with because we didn't have CC or the killer feature that Adobe have rolled out in a CC upgrade over the past year that would have made anything we do significantly more productive.

Ironically, there are plenty of ways Adobe could have got more money from us without going the subscription route. There are several features on our wish list that would have justified the cost of a traditional upgrade alone, even with no other changes. However, since Adobe don't seem to be going in any of those directions with CC, we're quite happy to exercise our choice not to pay them for the (worthless, to us) changes they are making instead.

Edit: It appears from other sources, including Adobe's own FAQ on their site, that CS6 will still be available to individual customers via download, just not in boxed media. It's the volume licensing programmes for perpetual purchases that are being discontinued on 30 May to push business and government users towards CC. There are some other interesting data points mentioned in this write-up:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/387724/adobe-to-halt-...
I don't think you read the whole thing.

Among minimum wage labor, he also mentioned impending homelessness, lack of private transportation (which, at least in the USA, is a huge impediment) and a total of $23 in life savings, which is pretty bad, even for a lot of people in rough situations.

I don't know if he's "as good as dead", but he's in a hard place, certainly. More than you're giving him credit for.
But at least democracy is working in the East, if not in the West (e.g. US).

This is a little snarky and off-hand for HN. There are threads seemingly daily to discuss how and why the fraction of the electorate represented by HN commenters is not getting its preferred policy outcomes. There's no need to pull threads on other topics into that morass.
Doesn't the Wii let you postpone firmware updates unless you're trying to play a game/app that demands firmware version X?
Net Neutrality, DRM, GNUnet, and your mom
Update:[6]

Plenty of people are already working on solutions to our various social problems, but lack resources. Some are capable of living off very little, but there's one recurring cost you can't escape... food.

There are several hackers focus on automated agriculture[1][2], but mostly as a business. Then there's Soylent.

If hackers could form a guild, and harvest crops or refine Soylent ingredients[3] collaboratively, to save on food costs and time spent on meal preparation, might we stand a better chance of getting important projects like gnunet and garage microchip printing[4] to a user friendly state?

In Vancouver BC, other community projects have had a lot of success:

http://freegeekvancouver.org

http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp

http://vancouvertoollibrary.com

http://vancommunitylab.com

The issue of "You need to eat" seems to me the biggest barrier in conquering the social problems of net neutrality, DRM, and independent microchip/circuit fabrication (as a hedge against backdoors). Tackle that problem, and every other difficulty becomes much more manageable. Within a century, this will probably become a municipal service like public libraries, given trends in automation eventually making it a predictable, low-risk technology.

[1] http://wiki.farmbot.it

[2] http://hortodomi.com

[3] http://blog.soylent.me/post/51243920779/whats-in-soylent

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcKwOo7dmM

[5] For bonus points, check out http://opensourceecology.org

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7755616
<- See this discussion for more reasons why local food supply (with user agency), automated production to reduce labour waste, and charity need to be solved together.
I received a job offer and was truly considering leaving my position. I received a good counteroffer that included increased vacation time and addressed some of the reasons why I wanted to leave the position to begin with. I was there for another 2 years before leaving on my own.

If his employer is going to look for another person to fill the position then this is not the right place to work and there was no point in staying. I don't think he loses either way, but that was just my experience.
How do you get it working? I've never been successful
nah, the saddest part is that old media doesn't realize why Huffington Post, Drudge, and others, are in and they are not.

that being people are no longer stuck with a news and opinion source which does not appeal to them, either intellectually or politically.

It doesn't matter how well you package it, if the customer doesn't like the message putting flowers on it won't make it more appealing to them
Point. At launch, the Nexus 7 included $25 of Play money.
News Worm 3.0 Beta 1 is out
I'm not quite sure what you're aiming for, but the Be Book is available online (https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/), and includes all the documentation for the API. I don't know that any of the internals stuff is online, though.

EDIT: Haiku also has the Be newsletters (https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/index.html) and "Programming the Be Operating System" (https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/programming_the_be_oper...), which actually does encompass everything I think you were looking for.
I wrote a very similar, Redis-based lock in Python a while ago, here it is:

https://gist.github.com/adewes/6103220

It uses Redis pipelines and watchers to make sure that no race conditions between two processes requiring the same lock occur, and uses "expire" keys to avoid deadlocks.
Here's a short summary to help others who haven't heard much about him.

Short background - Has been the Chief Minister (equivalent to Governer) of the Western Indian state of Gujarat for 14 years now.

The Good

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* Achieved a very high GDP growth rate for Gujarat

* Made Gujarat a preferred destination for big industrialists to set up their factories since he gives land & clearances very readily.

* Developed infrastructure in Gujarat - built roads, highways, flyovers.

* Known to rule with an iron fist - a "my way or the highway" style of politician.

The Bad

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* Accused of not practising all inclusive development. Critics point to poor performance of metrics such as child mortality rates, education, Human Development Index (HDI) etc.

* Many believe that he did not do enough to stop the Gujarat riots in 2001 where 1000 people were killed. After this incident, the governments of US and UK denied Modi a visa to enter their countries

* Describes himself as a "Hindu nationalist", has a history of making communally charged statements although seems to have cleaned up in recent years focusing on development.

The Ugly

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* Believes homosexuality is unnatural and is against repealing an 100+ year old law which makes gay sex a criminal offence.

* Formed political alliances with leaders such as Yeddyurappa who has many cases of corruption pending and parties such as Shiv Sena who are notorious for using violence to target ethnic groups.
As far as I can tell from their web site, the customer data doesn't leave the financial institution, and the ads appear only on communication from that institution (e.g. on the credit card statement).
> If you're going to host a talk from RMS, I'd presume you'd be aware that he has strong ethical views.

Not necessarily. Think about the White House Correspondents Dinner that invited Colbert as the host. Somehow they thought he'd pull his punches.
> Are there many here that were BeOS lovers?

I had two machines one my desk at one point, a NeXTSTEP box[1] and a box running BeOS. I loved them both. I spent a bit more time on NeXTSTEP because I took to Objective-C a bit better than C++. I didn't really like Mac OS at that point, but its "children" were a lot of fun.

1) we had a HP LaserJet 4 with the PS expansion and my boss ran the printer out of paper over the weekend. The NeXTSTEP box was on and announced in a very irritated female voice with a British accent "The Printer is out of Paper". This scared my boss and she had words on Monday.
Execution Trumps Everything In A Startup
Ruby on Rails Consultant vs. Full Time
Hello all!

As a web development consultancy mainly specializing in Ruby on Rails, & Angular.js. What is a way to find leads to companies that might need our services? I know there is a lack of developers all around the world, but companies usually try to hire full time workers. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you
Yup. The right thing for him to do would be to write a technical book and sell it. He has his emacs tutorial, but his website already has a bunch of poorly placed ad units on it.

He's literally competing with his own tutorial by selling other sections of his webpage at probably less than $2 cpm. If he optimized his page to sell the tutorial he would earn more than $2 cpm per unit on that. The 'around the web' units are probably not even being managed because it looks like they are set to the defaults for general audiences, which is inappropriate.

What I would do:

1. Redesign page

2. Kill ads
3. Raise price to $30 or more

4. Aim for 2% conversion (no clue how many of those numbers are unique sessions)

5. 2% x 240,000 = 4800 sales -- 4800 * $30 = $144k before fees and taxes

That's wildly optimistic given that a lot would have to be done to the site and that the people looking for free emacs tutorials may not line up perfectly with those willing to pay for it, but if it's legitimately a good tutorial there's an opportunity there. Even a more realistic .2% conversion would still be an OK living for the guy.

He could even get started by quoting one of the other dudes in this thread who said that it was good.

The ads that he has on the page are pennies and it's hard to actually find the tutorial that he charges for. That he might be a jerk is actually totally fine. You would just have to work it into the copy as him having a maverick attitude and being a no-nonsense technical guy, which works well for selling to people who are technical.
I've never used it, primarily because it is about twice the price of the local maids we get.

Is there an advantage of using Homejoy over a local cleaner who you know and trust?
Cute baby picture
Really nice and cute baby pic among a lot of toys!
I think you'll find that, when trying to get hired, being a dick is a bigger obstacle than advanced years
It is deplorable and a very tragic set of events. I wasn't there, so I had to depend on the media for my consumption of news.
The Supreme Court of India has declared Narendra Modi as legally not guilty of any crimes. From the news it certainly seems the Court has erred, although it is a constitutional body and as a citizen I need to abide by its judgement. There are of course Indian citizens who charge that the media is bought and paid for, just like other countries.
If you're asking why I voted for the BJP, in my city the local BJP leader is very good and the other party leaders are very corrupt.
Seeing so many web frameworks come in and mostly fail over the years makes me wonder if there isn't a inherent problem to the web development environment that is inherently harder than what we've dealt with native apps.

People have been able to be quite productive writing apps in all kinds of all frameworks: Visual Basic, Swing, Delphi... not every framework has been well regarded, but many allowed inexperienced developers to write very interactive applications successfully.

On the web, we have a whole lot more people, and they are not inherently worse than the ones that gave us those old frameworks. And yet, we have a billion little frameworks now that don't age very well, and don't really make us more productive than in the old days.

I can't blame the framework developers, or the new application developers, so the problem must be further down. Is it the DOM? Is it Javascript itself? Is it the lack of strong components? I am not sure, but I sure wonder what makes web development such a problem.
BeOS was great.

All the hard work put on the icons and the GUI. It was truly remarkable.

If i'm not mistaken, I compiled my first C program on that OS.

Reading the SDK documentation was also a great source of ideas for a newbie in C++. I remember that the idea of flattenable objects blow my mind :D

To this day I still wonder why it hasn't gained more adoption.

Mad respect at all those folks working on Haiku!
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