skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of the Django admin and I'm curious to know how life in Rails-land compares. Anyone with experience of both care to comment?
Definitely take your point to heart. We've bootstrapped this thing so far, but have recently started seed rounds to find money to pay the talent.

What's the going SV rate? including some equity/title included?
Holey crap, that is a lot of mturk!
neat, but SFDC alone is unbelievable ... as in i do not believe it. API limits, governors, etc. will all kill your fancy meta-api. working a lot with SFDC, an API on top of an API is simply performance hell.
Could be why so many Groovy shops switch to Scala.
Recall that today's dominant notion that the only startups worth f(o)unding are cynically-leveraged, hockey stick Internet frivolities is a relatively recent development [1] --blame pmarca et al. for that.

It isn't inconceivable, then, that today there ought to be enough liquidity and appetite for riskier, much less leveraged, longer-term growth modalities, as in the past.

[1] http://www.foundersfund.com/the-future
I know far more about scripting linux/unix than Powershell, so I can't really speak directly to Powershell's strengths and weaknesses. But there's reason to be skeptical that Powershell has actually blown bash out of the water, I think. If it made that much difference, linux/unix would have adopted Powershell's object paradigm for itself.

I'm not sold on Ruby gems. I haven't learned Ruby yet. Shell scripting to me means bash (or /bin/sh) + whatever utilities come standard on a unix system: sed, awk, etc.

The goals may be slightly different, reflecting the different cultures using the shells. What I think is cool about bash scripting is that I use bash constantly, anyway, which makes it easy to test small script fragments before including them in a full-on script, and even though, e.g., some things are nasty to do syntactically in bash, I get lots of practice.
Show HN: sshrc – source your local bashrc, .vimrc, etc. as you ssh
I was being a bit stronger to make a point about corporations and their relationship with open source.

There was a time I was one of such engineers that you mention, but eventually came to realize how company boards see open source and how little we could get in return.
I hate to be a Negative Nancy, but wouldn't it be easier to Just Fix NuGet? I don't think that any of the problems being solved here are fundamentally incompatible with being fixed in NuGet (though I could be wrong).
> a movie advocating for or against a candidate!

And you've just gotten to the heart of why it's different from Brown. Money corrupts politics and threatens democracy. There is no such problem with violent video games.

If you think it's "insane" that we make this distinction, all I can say is that I think you're insane for not making it.
but no mention of photosharing? videosharing? the current YC batch had this smuggling startup, where is the black market stuff?

great marketing, kudos.
Just because the owner has a legal right to keep tabs on people, and that doing so doesn't infringe on constitutionally protected rights, doesn't mean privacy isn't being violated or that (s)he is above criticism.

You do not get to enter a building that someone else owns while keeping that fact secret from the building owner. That's a crime.

Nobody is saying that it should be "kept a secret". Only that it shouldn't be on record, especially electronically. You know, like people do everywhere buildings have regular keys.
I was in that boat, but now if I was really motivated I could leave the family home for 3 months to do YC. The problem now is that everyone I know is in that same situation, so I've got NO co-founders to bring along. PG wrote a whole essay about why middle-aged guys don't do startups, but he also wrote one about the importance of cofounders. You solve one and end up not having the other...
I majored in Spanish literature and philosophy. I wrote quite a bit on Borges and wanted to write my thesis on him (more specifically, how translation affected his work and views--translation as art, if you will).

I never went to graduate school, but I continued writing what was going to be my thesis.

It's nowhere near finished but if I can make one book recommendation I would say read Ficciones.

There are different layers to Borges and many, many, many ways to read him, but if I can give you one single reason why this writer is one of the greatest figures of all time, it is because he traces how a concept or thought was developed or created with the help of different minds (writers, philosophers, historical figures, literary figures, etc.). He doesn't always explicitly indicate who, but, as the article says, everything he wrote (and sometimes said) was a clue to what he was thinking. He was trying to make sense of an entire history and an entire world by organising how a particular concept was handed down from author to author and how it was mutated.

Why is this of value to us? Because the act of developing a thought or a concept teaches us how to think critically and coherently, looking for how mistakes were done and seeing the bigger picture when linking two general thoughts together.

Or it could all have been in jest.
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."

God that makes me rage. It's even worse than a paywall as it's completely nonsensical.
This looks interesting, and seems surprisingly similar to http://noflojs.org/ (at least at a first glance).
Of course, but that kind of shift isn't going to happen within 6 years (as parent comment suggests)
Anyone have success running that? All I get is a black page.
I just think there are limits and for me they probably kick in around the point a sixth digit gets added to the price.

To clarify, 6 digits including or excluding cents?
For the programs you describe to be a subsidy for Homejoy/Taskrabbit, then those companies need to actually be benefiting from them. From your description, it seems to be a subsidy for the workers, not Homejoy/Taskrabbet.
> Sadly, one of the biggest hurdles is self preservation because software developers don't want "software development accessible to the widest part of our society". I hate to say it, but there are Luddites among us.

It's a strange form of Luddism that seeks to limit opportunities to integrate the existing skills of the labor force into the structure of production. We don't have much in the way of unions or guilds, so perhaps the only effective way to restrict the labor supply is to keep the tools user-unfriendly.
Most uses of that kind of data are confidential and exactly the kind of thing you would expect campus police or IT to refuse to disclose any details about.
great insights, much appreciated.

We're happy to talk to your recruitment team. My email is eli(at)arbibo.com
I think the idea is that in a capitalist competition we should assume all actors are trying to monopolize the industry and really only follow laws to avoid harming their bottom line. The same way you'd design any system by assuming any user might be malicious. The way to manage this is to eliminate corruption and strictly scrutinize the relationships between businesses and gov't entities.
Al Jazeera Investigates – Broken Dreams: The Boeing 787
This isn't a question of whether they should be allowed to log. This is a request to them to not log. By making it public, more people may back the request and the university can make a decision keeping in mind the opinions of students and scholars.

Again, because you seem to misunderstand this piece in many comments, this isn't about whether MIT can legally log. It's about whether they should. RMS is telling them they shouldn't not that they are legally constrained to not do so.
It's worth noting that Peter Thiel himself uses these two companies as examples of what he's talking about.
For me, László Krasznahorkai, Carsten Jensen, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Roberto Bolaño are some of the best recent non-English writers around.
This is some pretty shocking stuff.
Even some people close to the project openly saying that they would not fly the B787.

Boeing's full responses to AJ's inquiries about the 787 "Dreamliner"
http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/2014/09/br...
It depends on the school. A university near me has people watching this data or some sort of anomaly detector running over it in real-time to try to catch parties in dorms. I think that's more than a little Orwellian.

Also yes, it eliminates the possibility of dragnet searching. This is by design. Dragnet searches go against the principles on which the United States was founded. If I am not personally suspected of a crime, my data must be sacrosanct or I have been demeaned as an individual. Innocent until proven guilty and unspied-upon until suspected personally.
Or in the extreme heat you can get during the summer. Not fun showing up to work drenched in sweat because you biked in.
This is a great list! Our startup, Glassbreakers, is focused on diversity and enterprise software to help women within organizations find mentors- applying for YC's winter batch!
oh to live in a world with which those relationships can't exist because the entities can't exist. But that might be too radical.
I was shocked to read the original article. I can't believe that such overarching conclusions about human nature were drawn from a little toy box computational experiment. You might as well publish a psychology paper after a weekend playing The Sims.

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~spage/pnas.pdf
Thiel is playing fast and loose with the definition of profit here. While it's true that "economic profit" will go to zero under perfect competition, that only means that the company's accounting profit is the same as the discount rate in the economy generally. It doesn't mean that there's zero accounting profit on the company's books.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economicprofit.asp
He means a very particular type of monopolist

To an economist, every monopoly looks the same, whether it deviously eliminates rivals, secures a license from the state or innovates its way to the top. I'm not interested in illegal bullies or government favorites: By "monopoly," I mean the kind of company that is so good at what it does that no other firm can offer a close substitute.

which is simillar to Robin Hanson's "manic" monopolist

One simple robust solution to the innovation problem would seem to be manic monopolists: one aggressively-profit-maximizing firm per industry. Such a firm would internalize the entire innovation problem within that industry, all the way from designers to suppliers to producers to customers – it would have full incentives to encourage all of those parties to put nearly the right amount and type of efforts into innovation.

It's not about rent seeking, or some silly brand recognition narcissism, but about being able to coordinate and do stuff that would be widely beneficial but unprofitable for any of the participants on their own.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/04/rah-manic-monopolists....
We currently employe a remote developer. Good talent, its a bit hard to manage when you're not in the same room. We're strong believers in remote workstations. My #1 priority is getting the work done. I don't care where or how you do it, as long as it gets completed in a timely and efficient manner.
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I think an implicit point that Thiel is trying to make is that there are enough untapped opportunities out there that there is no point to compete. The startup world is not a zero-sum game. We can all win.
> They're upset about sometimes getting trips from uberx (and apparently making more doing so), so they're going to a place that pays less per trip and per hour?

They're trying to convince Uber to stop doing what they don't want (according to them, they do not make more by accepting UberX fares, no matter what the company says) by denying them labour. In the meantime, they're doing work elsewhere, although are hoping not to permanently work there; they're hoping that Uber will cave in.

Denial of labour ("striking") is a tried-and-tested approach to persuading companies to do what the labourers want. They can't operate without labour, so labourers organise to deny them that until they get better working conditions/better pay/etc.

Assuming enough labourers agree to deny labour, this will work unless (a) what the labourers want, the company literally cannot provide without going bust, or (b) there are enough people looking for jobs and willing to put up with the bad terms that the company can hire them to replace the striking labourers.

This is a relatively simple idea, and has been a thing since the Industrial Revolution; I'm not really sure what you're not getting.
When you restart a visualization, it automatically switches back to 'continuous' even if you had single-step selected. Making it easier to start from the very beginning would be beneficial I think. Just a suggestion.
Similarly, Mcdonalds is fighting a case that it doesnt control or influence how franchises pay the workers. Its the whole minimum wage issue being fought out by workers vs Mcds.
I've scowered linkedin and it's not as easy as you say. Any suggestions on how to utilize the tool in a more efficient way?

I haven't tried to search by groups, so we'll see what I come up with.
It's true that large firms and NPEs hold the patents and can better enforce their patents, but "patent trolls" (aka patent license companies that specialize in holding and enforcing patent rights as a business model) can be in some ways a benefit to smaller firms for a couple of reasons:

1) The smaller firms don't have the ability to aggressively defend their patents against larger competitors (and would simply have their invention used by the big players without a patent). Instead, the smaller firm can essentially outsource this to a patent licensing firm that specializes in it (standard division of labor), for example selling the patent while maintaining a license to use it themselves (or any other of a multitude of arrangements that essentially let them fight the big players).

2) If the smaller firm doesn't have the resources to actually introduce and sell their invention in the marketplace, they can sell it to a patent licensing firm that can use the patent within their portfolio to license to the main players in the market. This could arise when, for example, the small company comes up with an important new innovation in smartphones, but the small company lacks the resources to actually create a viable physical product on its own.
Are there any translations of Borges that our local aficionados would recommend over others?
You do have two wrists, right?
Thanks for the luck. We might be in violent agreement or disagreement depending on what code you consider aesthetically pleasant. Everyone can agree on the crap, but can you share examples of code that you liked that might help me triangulate on your aesthetics. Alternatively, I'd be interested to hear if my published projects are pleasant or not. To help you triangulate on mine: http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad.

To reiterate, you're responding to things I didn't say. Code shouldn't have to be perfectly designed to be readable, and nobody should have to wade through utter crap either. Very often code starts out nice when it has one author or three, and gradually turns to crap as more cooks are added. I want to eliminate that dependency on author churn, to have it be beautiful or ugly based on the capabilities of the programmers involved, not on the difficulty they had understanding those who came before. To make progress on this project, I find it most valuable to utterly ignore aesthetics.
This reminds me of the concept of cities renting out internet infrastructure to providers.
Alternative way to see thumbnails of photos in Google Drive.

https://hiroshi.github.io/PhotoHistoryCloud/

https://hiroshi.github.io/PhotoHistoryCloud/about
You're arguing that it's legal but immoral. I'm saying it's both legal and moral.
I think pg has written about this a couple times. Checking...

Yep. In order from oldest to most recent:

http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html

http://paulgraham.com/revolution.html

http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html
Getting a scrollbar for the content under "cracker" in Ubuntu firefox 30.0
The scroll hijacking of course breaks the scrollbar there :D
The FCC is currently taking public comments about net neutrality and whether ISPs are "common carriers" of content, which would subject them to certain rules of peering and content availability. It would also prevent them from charging more to allow "faster access".
co-founder here. it's a good point. yes the Salesforce API limits are still there, and you still need to work around them, but we don't make it worse.

you also get the advantage of having a datastore to conveniently persist data that you extract from Salesforce and other data sources, so that you can process data in batches easily.
For co-founder caliber talent? $100/hr or equivalent. Minimum.
Off-topic: Why do these kind of websites always have a stock price next to brand names? Is this useful Information? It looks a little bit scammy.
Sooo... you want a world without business or government entities? What?
I would never trust campus police with that access data. Police officers are under-educated, often predjudiced, and operate under a shield of un-prosecutability that makes them rouge agents. Further, on college campuses, students frequently are employed within campus police/public safety in ways that would make it very easy for them to grab the data.

Were that system implemented (which it should never be, because I thought of it in 10 seconds for a hacker news comment and anything real would need to be much more thought out), the list of card IDs should exist only on paper, in a locked file cabinet, controlled by someone whose job it is specifically to safeguard the privacy of students. Maybe the existing roles that manage grade privacy.

IT is even worse. I'd hate for a creepy sysadmin intern I declined to go on a date with to know where I lived or if I was alone in an academic building at night.
Like Thiel, you're attempting to redefine the word competition. Facebook destroyed MySpace by competing with them. They competed by offering a superior service that attracted customers away. Amazon competed with book stores by offering a superior service.

They competed by innovating but that doesn't change the fact that they had to compete.
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Why do you consider the fact that you're entering a building to be private? Why do you consider it a violation?
This is really cool. Is there a reason it looks a bit out of focus, even with millions of particles? Some kind of blurring effect, maybe?
Hey, software makers: Skip the sales team. Go freemium to build a $1B business
Certainly ActiveAdmin has given me a share of headaches as I built my website. That being said - it works, and I'm familiar with it(and Arbre) now. How do you plan to get established sites like mine to switch to Upmin with such a high upfront cost(namely, reconfiguring Upmin to have all the same functionality I bled for for ActiveAdmin?) Any kind of migration plan?
4 Things to Keep in Mind Building Your ECommerce Site
Interesting idea for a hoax; it's like a modern day, racist "War of the Worlds".
One of the better scrollbar hijacking pages I've seen but it's still pretty jerky and it's really hard for me to get it to land on the sign up part.

Im using Chrome Canary on a Macbook Pro, scrolling with the two finger gesture on the trackpad.
> Ruby and Python developers are a pain to find. A lot of the "Good" developers are not even proficient in the language/tools.

Care to elaborate on this? I used to live in San Diego and didn't experience this. Is it that much different in OC/LA?
The people and equipment have to be ready in case of a large emergency. In the absence of one, sending them along on an easy call is practically free.
Thwart innovation?

The only true change had been low cost carriers, who can use their late entry to the market to avoid things like collective bargaining and route networks.

So now we have a dreadful airline industry that only survives by grace of the occasional direct investment by the government.
Looks really cool! Just a small note that I'm having some weird font issues on Windows using Chrome. (not really obvious until you download and view the full size)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fokwygisejzzk4m/Screenshot%202014-...
This website is the website for the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street is pretty much used to describe the financial markets of the US as a whole. If you are reading an article about finance it's useful for the reader to have instant access to the stock price information.

How anyone would find this to seem scammy I wouldn't understand.
I took a class called "The Foundations of Great Ideas" my freshman year of college where we got to read The Library of Babel. I wrote a paper arguing the Internet was The Library of Babel. I firmly stand behind this.
Many times the articles reference some new, meaningful information about the respective company and seeing the change in stock price adds merit to the story.
"these kind"? You mean news sources with a focus on the financial? (a few financial blogs do the same thing too).

It's an automated parsing script(either client or server side). For mentioned companies that are publicly traded and named in a story, the script looks up their stock listing and adds it and a hyperlink to the story for context. In most cases, though, it's not very helpful. But easier just to have the script run on every story than to do the linking by hand for a few stories.
Apple is a counter example. They have stiff competition, control a minority of the market, but make more than all the other players combined.
How is a greater variety of operating systems, with much less in common than even Unix and Windows, more pleasant? I figured the situation in the 80s and early 90s would be less pleasant for developers, since targeting multiple platforms would be more difficult.
Another use for logging would be to account for people during emergencies. Firefighters, for instance, would probably find it useful to know that three people are apparently still in the building.
Did rails development for 6ish years full time, about 6 months ago I joined a startup using Django. The admin is QUITE nice, its very flexible in terms of models but as well as templates, allowing you to override specific blocks from a standard template, rather than copying a template.

This looks like the very beginning of the Django admin, something that Rails could seriously use. Admin functionality isn't meant to be user friendly, its essentially a CRUD system that mimics your schema.. something that would be quite handy in Rails. While I've always painfully just created my own admin for every project, I've used https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin a few times, and known others who have as well. It's great, but again not nearly as simple as Django.

Personally I would love to see a Django Admin style tool for Rails.

Of course, you do kind of get this with Rails Scaffold, but its not admin, its all user facing as its produced with the model and controller, far from ideal.
"You didn't look, apparently"? Come on, don't be a jerk. I had the same question. A well written piece doesn't force you to read the references for the actual thesis. How do I know that link on the side isn't one of the pointless arguments the author quoted?

Maybe it makes sense upon first read to someone with a lot of context, but as a home page of an initiative (movement? project?) it doesn't do a very good job of explaining what it's advocating for.
His comparison of Googles high margins to those of a monopoly seems wrong to me, because Google doesn't actually set any prices for advertisement.

Its customers set those prices by bidding on keywords. Not the other way around.