skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know of any service that does that, but I've been toying around with a similar idea for some time - a service that helps students rent textbooks from others, make deposits, track who's renting my books, etc. Students would then compete on their rental fees. I figured it'd be a good way for students to make some side cash, seeing as how a lot of the times, students have a hard time selling their texts at the end of the term, and the buy-back programs set up by the schools themselves can give you something like only 30% of what you originally paid to purchase the text, which is really nothing at all.
Maybe you're right, but upper management knows what are the critical applications and those who deliver fixes and improvements to those apps, will shine. This happens at big companies too (at least it does in AutoZone, my current work place), perhaps this is the exception to the rule, but it's what I've experienced.
For people like me, who get a Firefox security error message, try the links without the s in https:

http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabota...
My grandmother had to work in factories under the Nazis toward the end of WWII, and anyone doing this sort of thing would have been taken outside and shot.

She says they were told not to work too slow, because that was sabotage, and not too fast, because that was bad for the morale of the others. Her main problems were with the POW workers (slaves), who tried to kill all the Germans they could. Several times, heavy weights were dropped off railings just above her, etc.
a) Why? (PR Stunt?)
b) Is anyone truly happy with WebMynd's plugin?
Tell them "I'll get back to you in a week." You aren't required to accept offers on the spot.
My experience differs. I found it much easier to pair with poor/inexperienced programmers than to encounter their code later without having paired. By letting such a programmer do the driving and critiquing as they went, I felt like they were learning useful things and I was saving myself a lot of trouble in the future.
Work on the UI...and you need to simplify the language in some sort of Elevator style pitch. No one would spend time in looking for what it does...and how it stands I had to spend a bit of time. So, Kaizan
The article didn't mention this, but in my experience, the person who most negatively affects the team's chemistry is the first one out. Producing bad code (or not enough/none at all) or breaking things is sure to destroy your connection to the team, but so is being overly negative, distracting or intrusive.
See, there is a fundamental problem with this. You, as a non coder, will NEVER be able to tell who is and who isn't a "rock star". And odds are, your dream coder will probably not want to work with you. Unless of course you're working on something really cool with a bunch of other really smart coders.
"Scrolls must be read like the Torah from one end to the other." - Associating Islam with being outdated can be good for your demographic I guess.
Darcs advanced revision control system: darcs 2.3.1: faster, better, easier
Your results should speak for themselves but not in the way an engineer might think. Your technical expertise or the virtuosity of your software is not relevant to the business at large (though it is relevant to the business at hand).

What matters is the value that your work delivers to the business. If you write software that consistently delivers value and has significantly positive impact, it should speak for you. If you work on unimportant projects with little or no benefit or impact to the company, it will not help you, and you should also wonder why you're wasting your time on it anyways. Certainly when it comes time for the business to execute cost-cutting measures like in times like these, they will wonder why.

Then there's politics which can render all of the above moot. It's unfortunate, but that's how humanity rolls. If you work in a large company and wonder how some totally useless and unimportant projects that cost the business money hand over fist manage to survive even during tough times like these, well, now you know why.
Unless I'm crazy, we still do. These guides differ from the internal guides in various strange ways.

I'm pretty sure these are the coding standards for code released outside of Google. For various disgusting historical reasons Python written internally spits in the face of PEP8 naming conventions. (And other weird niggles.)
3K a month is going is chew through seed funding pretty quick. If most of that isn't student debt, you need to figure out a way to lower that number. If it is, you should probably get a job first so you can payoff a good chunk of your debt. A happy medium for now would be to get a job and work on a side project. After you have your expenses down, take that side project and try to get funding.
Foursquare: will it be bigger than Twitter?
The PDF certainly seems authentic to me. The language and technology seems correct for the period. I was surprised that some of the units were mixed standard/metric, such as "75-100 grams for each 10 gallons of gasoline".
I use webmynd and love it. The only reason I don't use it more is because of the awful Firefox UX on Mac.

When and if Chrome supports extensions and Webmynd has one, it's search heaven.
I fail to see either how these two things are related or how either one could make my wallet lighter.
Ask HN: Do you create music? Let's hear it!
I've noticed that many of the hackers I've spoken to create their own music. I myself dabble in digital music, hip hop beats and what not, and know that others in this community do as well. I thought it'd be interesting to see the musical productions of hackers here. Maybe we'll see some patterns, who knows. So if you're a musician, pro or amateur, let's hear it.

Also, please specify what software you use, if any, in creating your music, for recording/mixing/mastering/etc.

I'll start with myself - http://www.virb.com/kyro - nothing terribly impressive. I have gotten much better since, I will tell you! I use Logic Pro 8 mainly now, but have also used Reason 4. Notes are entered in using a MIDI keyboard.
At the University of Waterloo, a lot of people this year seem to be using http://moarbooks.ca/
There is a Google-specific guide. Its mostly of the form "go read the Sun style guide", with some specific clarifications of things the Sun style guide is quiet on.
That was a very good watch.

Part II

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3759901256066398161#
I think this is brilliant, and kudos on 1) getting the http://www.RedesignGoogle.com domain name and 2) getting TC on board as a judge.

I do wish I could test redesigns without having to install another plugin (I already have WebMynd installed), but hey, the screenshots are pretty good, since you can't really change too much about the mechanics of the site. It'll be interesting to see which ones make it into the main WebMynd plugin.
ArsDigita was acquired by Red Hat. It was never shut down.
I mess about with Reason 4 and a MIDI keyboard, but I'm pretty bad at it and have nothing worth sharing ;-)

My little brother is pretty good at it though and has just started studying sound engineering.
It's definitely an interesting idea and solves a couple problems, but I'd be worried to have the stability of my system depend on the stability of x-windows.

It scares me the same way windows' http.sys does.
one of the most effective pieces of feedback I've seen in a long time!!
Sounds like what we need is venture capital securitization!

(I accept no responsibility if this HN comment causes the downfall of America in 20 years.)
I use FL Studio myself. http://thesixtyone.com/abledanger

I've also recorded some vocals using Adobe Audition and the USB Rock Band microphone. Not too shabby.
Dear Paul Graham,

We can argue about whose got better content all night long.

However,the value of the content to the consumer is worth more than the words themselves. How does the content improve their lives - look smarter at a cocktail party, transform an otherwise mind-numbing train ride, decide what stock to buy, pick up a girl at a bar, break the ice at the beginning of a cold call with a sales prospect. What is all that worth?

Have publishers charged enough? Has publisher marketing take advantage of this added value to generate more subscriptions? How much more value can be added with the interactivity and immediacy of new technologies and how publishers harvest and use this information to convince consumers to pay more.

By the way, I wonder how many people told Steve Jobs that no one would pay for I-Tunes? I'd bet it was many.

Katherine Warman Kern
@comradity
Well now I know who webmynd is.

Nice stunt with some big names in the mix.
Time is More Valuable than Money
Neat thread, I'm keen to see what comes out of it.

I've since moved away, but I was in a band called Dynamo Go back in New Zealand. We released an album for free in April this year:

http://www.dynamo-go.com/

Drums were tracked in a pro studio using protools, then the rest of the album was recorded using Ardour and UbuntuStudio with LADSPA plugins. The final master was done by somebody else using some other software.

We had done a couple of EPs and had been pretty unimpressed by the immense financial risks we had to take in order to get a distributor on board - having gone down that path previously and having had to work exceptionally hard just to recoup our investment, we released the full album for free, based on the fact that it involved zero upfront investment and lots more people would hear it. It worked out pretty well. It still gets half a dozen downloads a week, last time I checked my webserver stats.
If you had an algorithm to define the solution set of future successful startups, then you could just hire employees to implement the ideas and make yourself filthy rich.
I don't. I just questioned whether they actually do provide more value by trading or if it just appears that way during a financial bubble.

Don't forget that the sole purpose of trading is to finance making. Trading has no intrinsic value. It's the bureaucracy of capitalism ;-)
in my past experience, those linger on for veeeery long time. The first ones out are usually the ones who speak up when things are wrong, and the ones who get involved in too many aspects/things (the Rule of Visibility applies: first seen, first fired!)
The meter is still off... as well as the rhyme.
Great stuff. That's the kind of stuff I'd love to be able to make. I just really haven't gotten a hang of things that well yet. How long have you been doing this for? Do you have any resources that helped you along the way, other than just trial and error?
A decent long-range offer should have a signing bonus for quick acceptance, that you lose if you take your time accepting it.
Me too. I built a x0xb0x (http://www.ladyada.net/make/x0xb0x/ - it's a pretty impressive project, Ladyada does great stuff) a few years ago and play around with it occasionally, but I've realized I'm much better at enjoying other people's music than creating my own.
I used to write summaries for all study materials as I was reading. It helps get a better broad view, I think, and it also encourages writing down any related thoughts that come to your head.

I have found that it is best to summarize in a question-answer format, much like a FAQ. Having questions separated from the answers is useful later when revising and the questions are more open-ended than a straight summary.

There's a website that a friend and I set up to store exactly such question lists (with answers): http://www.problemata.com . It's rough, but already usable.
Yeah, using Twitter is such an incredibly weird rare fringe thing these days. Next you'll tell me that this "web" thing isn't just a fad...
http://myspace.com/motion

two of us, both in chicago. npr says we "reinvent phil spectors wall of sound as a 50 foot tall electric fence." software-wise, we use ableton live for loop control.

will be headlining our label showacse @ midpoint music fest (cincinnati, oh) on sept. 27, then pop montreal (montreal, quebec, canada) on oct. 3, if anyone wants to swing in and geek out!
I mostly just mess around with Korg DS-10 for the Nintendo DS. I'm very much an amateur so it takes me a long time to create anything listenable with it...
Cover Your Ass Folder - If you need one of these, you need to quit. If there are issues, man up and get them resolved. Don't just hide away the details until some big angry manager knocks on your door.

Need to Brag - Work for a company that does code reviews/inspection. It's a) great for the quality of the code and b) great for assigning merit to the people who've earned it, do that.
I uninstalled their plugin after a few minutes.

Covering Googles advertising seems a bit unethical to me. At least have an option to put it somewhere else like above in a toolbar.
"To paraphrase Steve Weinberg, 'For a smart person to do something truly stupid, they need a theory.' Actually, I could have quoted him directly--'stupid' is just a lighter shade of 'evil.' Communism and fascism both begin by exercising complete control over the memetic environment, in order to create a new man stripped of cultural immunity, who will do whatever they tell him to.)"

That's an interesting idea. There is considerable research support

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001238...

for the idea that people can be smart in the IQ test sense and just end up using their smartness to elaborate and make more rigid ideas that are just plain wrong.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805070893/

So reason has to be checked both substantively and procedurally to offer improvement in human thinking. Reasoning from irrational premises can often result in tightly developed delusions rather than better recognition of reality.
The article shows an Amazon which is exactly the opposite of what I experienced 3 weeks ago. I needed several items for my wife's birthday. We are on extended stay in the U.S., away from our home in Shanghai. I wanted some Chinese comforts for my wife: tea, chopsticks, chinese cooking spices, rice noodles. After some searching on the web, it looked like I could buy all these through Amazon. I picked 4 different items from 4 different suppliers. All items showed "in stock, ships immediately". So I added them to my shopping cart and went to checkout. I see a whopping and opaque 50% charge over the costs of goods for shipping, no shipping breakdown. I decided to go ahead and do it, its my wife's birthday after all. In the days following the purchase, I receive 4 different emails from each supplier, not Amazon, telling me various things about the item's true availability and when it should ship. It took 3 weeks to get all the times in individually. It is clear Amazon was just operating as a sales affiliate for these other providers which is far cry from what they portray on their site.

Amazon lost a lot of credibility in my eyes. Next time, I'll go to each supplier and make separate purchases and skip the middleman that is adding so little value.
ds-10 rules!
I've been a musician for about 12 years. Lost focus recently; too busy concentrating on programming projects, and much of the work is remarkably similar.

Mostly I've used Cubase for sequencing and audio (although I've used Pro Tools, Sonar, and Logic too). Kontakt and the now-defunct Gigasampler for sampling. I mostly use samples, but a few synth engines are great, like the Albino series and some sample-based hybrids like Atmosphere. Waves collection for most DSP. I could go on and on here.

After all that, there's nothing recent to show off. Time to haul out some of the old equipment.
Thanks. I'm worried what if the next offer shows up after a month - then I guess it would be too late to decline a prior offer.
Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM in Objective Caml
GrownUpGeek.com Now With Billy The Billboard - Inviting Others
It doesn't cover the advertising; it just pushes it down. There isn't enough room to go three wide (Google, WebMynd, and ads), so it's clearly the best balance of user experience/not being evil I can think of.
If you want to read something interesting regarding sponsored subversion, I recommend 'Legacy of Ashes' by Tim Weiner. Fantastic hacks and incredible, yet true and widely uncredited events in US and world history executed by the OSS and CIA.
Awesome. I've tried getting into Live before, but the interface was a bit too different for my tastes. Everyone I speak to says great things about it though, and how it handles sampling/audio really well. I should give it another go.

Congrats on the shows!
Oh, totally: the VCs were smart enough to see that Google was different enough that both KPCB and Sequoia went in 50/50 on the first $25MM round. And Google had a totally failed monetization strategy (their intranet search appliances, of which they sold a single one, to RedHat) before Sergey and Larry capitulated to allow advertising on SERPs. Google needed the VC money to survive until AdWords finally delivered a coherent monetization strategy.

It's a little sad that someone with so much good analysis of the NVCA's overreaching had to throw in a jab so easily refutable.
/dev/hda > /dev/audio
Thanks++ for the 61 link! Great stuff (and your's was pretty good too).
Here's a couple... first one I composed, and played with numerous others (I'm on electric piano here):

http://www.atmospherecontrolmusic.com/free/bsol_a-merry-hear...

This one was improvised with another keyboard player:

http://www.atmospherecontrolmusic.com/free/flow_part-one.mp3

I mostly use Tracktion for recording software, though this first track was recorded in multiple takes at several studios, and the latter was initially recorded on ProTools.
I ♥ Unix.
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/speakers

Cakewalk Express on a ten-year-old SoundBlaster Live! MP3 5.1+.
Logic Audio

http://alonetone.com/licoresse
Er... what? Are you perhaps confusing the Torah (Jewish scripture) with the Koran (Islamic scripture)?
Ugh. I severely dislike articles like this, because they lend legitimacy to a pay-by-politics form of reward and punishment.

Each of the three reasons he lists can be traced back to manipulation of one's political image: you fail to take the absolute most cynical view that everyone's failures from above will come crashing down on you, and cover your ass accordingly; you fail to wave your achievements around, because you believe someone is actively paying attention or gives a crap about anything you're doing; or you fail to appropriately hide your boredom and lack of motivation by plodding on at the same rate as everyone else like the good cog that you are.

None of these have anything to do with actually doing anything. You could be accomplishing next to nothing, and still be able to hit all of these points; you could be working miracles in code, and manage to flunk all three and get thrown out on your ass. They are all the departmental equivalent of spin control, and are the sign of a broken department and quite possibly a broken company. It is a sign that people have stopped caring about doing things in favor of appearing as though they are doing things. This sort of thing is a slow death of a thousand cuts to an organization, and will result in people getting fired anyway, when the lack of revenues from people not getting anything done force staffing cuts anyway.

I understand that a lot of companies are run like this; I don't need to be reminded about how the real world works, and especially not with the usual condescension. I'm not trying to convince myself or anyone else that the corporate world is not stacked this way; what I am doing is yelling in the same way Dan Pink did about motivation by incentive that this sort of ass-covering doesn't work. It results in an organization that will steadily decay from the inside, and will ultimately end up shafting the same people who thought they could save themselves by just hunkering down and playing the political game. All these people bought was a little more time cower in fear, and convince themselves this will all blow over if they just behave. It doesn't work, and people need to stop convincing themselves, for the sake of themselves, their coworkers, and the organizations they purport to work for, that it does.

Life is too short, peoples' time and effort is too valuable, to put up with asinine wealth tarpits like this. No one, not even the person cowering, is benefited in the long-term in any way by this sort of attitude.

Ugh, I need to go take a walk to unwind.
Jazzy, funky, socially conscious hip hop

http://www.myspace.com/themetaboogie
> Do folks use vacation (or unpaid) time to see if you'll take them on?

Yes, which also serves as near-concrete proof that a candidate _really_ wants to work with us.
Does ‘microlending’ actually fight poverty?
Doesn't seem to support Windows (doesn't build, not even with mingw32+boost)
I agree, it's superfluous and undermines his case.

This is interesting:

their intranet search appliances, of which they sold a single one, to RedHat

I knew their appliance business wasn't that big, but is that really true? How do you know it?
I started the first part of 2008. I don't have any musical training other than playing saxophone for a year in the 6th grade.

It's all been trial and error for me. Youtube has actually been very helpful in learning FL Studio. There are a lot of great howto videos out there. I also try to imitate parts of songs I really like. A drum loop, a melody, or a particular effect.

I also think one of the biggest factors is thesixtyone.com itself. The people on there are so helpful and encouraging you can't help but make better music.
Scrolling actually does what you think it would do. Yeah, that's really nice. I like it a lot. Thanks for the link, hadn't heard about Seadragon before. I was also alluding to the fact that you can't text search the visualization for movies ie "New York, NY" ~ "Better Luck Tomorrow", both points on an image. Maybe easier said than done, but the whole point of the visualization is to give people a better understanding of the information.
If you're working for a small company where the CEO sifts through source control to see what's changing, producing good code will certainly suffice, but if you work in a large company with a multi-tiered management structure, keeping quiet only pushes the responsibility to promote your work to someone else - and you can't always rely on that happening.

In the cases where you can't rely on that happening, then that means no one else gives a damn about what you are doing. This would be very odd in a multi-tiered organization, since often times development projects are decreed onto the programming staff by strategic direction committees. If no one cares, the project is make-work; warning. Either it is going to contribute next to no value to the organization, or no one has a clue what value it is going to contribute. Either way, you'll be hard pressed to convince everyone who needs to be convinced what you are doing is that valuable.

To borrow a PG idea, to everyone above you in the management hierarchy, you are represented -- as an aggregate of the rest of your group -- by either your lead or manager. A lot of the interaction between your group and the rest of the company will be done by them. They need to be your advocate; if they're not doing that, then your entire group is getting shafted, and need to find a better advocate.
I too have noticed a rather obvious connection between hacking and music. Perhaps it has something to do with the parts of the brain that both require (I'm no neuroscientist though).

As for me, playing music was a big part of my life growing up but I simply couldn't muster the discipline to keep practicing. My love for music is still strong though and my ultimate goal is to help those more disciplined than I succeed. And here's the shameless plug...

My project is currently a very minimum viable product (hopefully) to replace record companies. If you're interested, check out http://beatnex.com