skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I can smell programmers."

Scoble would be useful in tech interviews. Like a drug-sniffing dog you could just sic him onto prospective programming candidates and have him bark twice if he smelled the pungent musk of programming talent.
"I think promoting the startup mentality is not really about the smaller details about the hardware. It is about giving people challenges and a good collaborative place to work. The hardware won't do that on its own."

You are right, and my point was not to say the hardware setup is the be-all and end-all. But the scope of my question for HN in this instance was hardware setup.

I actually very much disagree with your idea of building your own computer... the time it takes to order all the components, receive it, put it together, tinker with the setup, etc is going to be longer than an hour. And if something breaks/goes wrong with one of the components then it's a nightmare trying to get it fixed. With an iMac (for example) it's just a case of getting AppleCare and then if something goes wrong they come by the office the next day and repair it or replace it. It doesn't matter what is wrong with it, or which part is at fault

My team's velocity is important and making sure I can be certain their rigs are stable and can be quickly fixed/repaired is important. (Not every developer likes to put computers together either, some may not have even done it before)

I also disagree about the $500 idea - two screens would probably be $500 alone and then conceivably the developer might want to have windows on there, which is an extra $200 now (windows, {shudder}).
How many industries luminaries would be good contributors at Google? Wozniak, who prided himself on building circuits with fewer chips than anyone thought possible?

Would he be happy programming in Java?
I really wish people wouldn't include the name of the author in the title.

I think this should be banned and cleaned up by the moderators in the same way using numbers in the titles of submissions is, and the same way that moderators removed "Ohhhh snapppp" from the Go post about the author of Go!

Invariably, Paul Bucheit, Paul Graham, Bram Cohen, Guido van Rossum, Joel Spolsky, and other famous hackers get voted to the very top of the list. If these guys are great writers and great thinkers, then their articles will speak for themselves, and they usually do (but not always).

For the few people who have never heard of Bram Cohen or Joe Hewitt (currently 1 and 2 on HN), then their names are just noise. For those who have heard of them, it just biases their judgment in both clicking and voting.

In this case, Bram's blog even carries his name... so why make his name the first two words in the headline? Do we really need to make to use this kind of name-dropping to highlight content? That sounds like the opposite of content democratization to me.
Agree. Advertising networks are middle men. So, Google is one of the biggest, most successful, and most useful middle men in history.
Ford Fiesta 1.6 ZXI Special Edition Car Now in India
You might be able to choose the third option of studying part-time while staying with your comfortable job.
New jQuery book for seasoned hackers...
"... really wish people wouldn't include the name of the author in the title. ..."

I'd agree but only because the name is usually redundant when the domain name is shown.
NoSQL is not really one specific database type, quite a lot of very different apporaches fall under the label. Starting from Key/Value Stores like redis, over documentbased structures like couchdb and Column-oriented approaches like Google's BigTable and Apaches HBase to graph-Databases like neo4j. And these aren't even all types of NoSQL approaches.

Their use depends pretty much entirely on what you'd like to do. Network-Structures are naturally best suited for graphbased databases. For Scaling Issues and really fast access redis seems good (haven't used it) and if you are working on really, really large datasets Hbase combined with hadoop might be worth a look.

Here is a small overview presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/chrisbaglieri/non-relational-datab...
Why is biased judgement of voting and clicking bad? That should give a list of links that more closely reflects the likes of the readers of the site.

In this case, I agree it is unnecessary and redundant because the blog already carries the author's name.
I had no idea how much of today's code carries ALGOL DNA.
My excuses for not blogging about the Microsoft/Teamprise deal
Next time you want to reach me 'right now' best call, I'm probably not in the same timezone as you are. But sure, if it would help you sign me up! I only do fairly low key advertising though.

Both my email and my cell number are in my sig.

In the interest of not influencing the experiment with a bunch of traffic from HN I'm not posting the site here.
Congratulations and good luck on the new venture. Enjoy the process and stay persistent!
But it does rule the platform with an iron fist, and the rules and APIs drastically change every 4-6 months. Ask Zynga, Slide or RockYou.
Holy Kaw All the topics that interest us How to explain your product
The current review process offers nothing at all. Nothing.

If there had been a streamlined review process, and there should be, it'd need to be automated, running the program through a test to see if private APIs were being used or traces remained in the background, which is stuff Apple should really check about.
Hey Zavulon,

Congratulations. Everybody has been criticizing your site already so I won't add to that pile.

You've already clued in to one of the most important things in business, you need more than one revenue stream, so kudos for you on that one.
Cheap SEO
Totally provide Search Engine Optimisation or SEO. Search Engine Optimization is the art of getting to the top of the SER's we provide Cheap SEO or Cheap Search Engine Optimisation.
Congratulations! :D
The rhetoric is contradictory...

Yet I think that the direction he's pointing towards is the direction of being "at cause" in the situation. While he depends on his audience as a whole, each audience member depends on him much more than he depends on them. It's a lesson some people need.

It is interesting, though, that native people who depended much less on a vastly developed society actually placed considerable emphasis on being interdependent, on moving well within a whole. Course, they had perhaps more functional (or less competitive) whole than we do.
I think he's talking about independence and ownership, not isolation. Take that sentence in the context of the sentences before it:

* When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed... When it is yours, it is yours to lose -- you are more motivated, more creative, more alive.
Nice rant, however, I submitted this using the YC bookmarklet. :) No subtle manipulation of Hacker News intended. Hopefully democracy will still be intact after this serious infraction.
Farmed fish are sustainable - salmon, talapia...

Actually went to Hawaii for the first time last week caught and caught few Yellowtail and skipjack tuna of the Kona coast. They fight like hell. Ate it on the boat.
I didn't mean to impugn your motives... just saying I don't think it's a good thing to do in general.

Also, I'm not familiar with the bookmarklet. Does that auto-generate the titles or something?
i agree with most of that. apple wasn't an angel in this situation, but rogue amoeba made the whole thing far worse by being petulant.
As far as I know, Apple has yet to sue anyone for jailbreaking an iPhone, or for publishing information on how to do so. So it's not correct to say you don't have a choice of distribution channels.

I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, because I agree that as long as a device is marketed as a general-purpose computing platform, it needs to be open to succeed in the long term. Still, Apple is under no obligation to distribute anything and everything that people throw at them.
I realized that they could be used that way immediately. My excitement is over the potential for the approach becoming more mainstream, and not over being surprised that it was possible.
And should publishers also remove the names of the authors from the covers of their books, on the theory that they don't want to "bias" potential readers? How do you imagine this working out? In a bookstore, if books don't have the authors on the covers, then if I read a book I like, I will have trouble finding other books by the same author. This will doubtlessly counteract my "bias" in favor of that author, but is that a good thing? It's a good thing if your greatest desire is to dethrone Stephen King and Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling by making it hard for their fans to find their books, forcing them to read books by authors who may or may not be enjoyable for them to read. But if you care at all about maximizing the ability of people to find stuff they like to read, then the name of the author is an important bit of evidence that they can use for that purpose and you would be depriving them of it.
Challenges In Dealing With Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma can be a highly devastating condition not only for the individual that is suffering but also to the entire family. Unlike dealing with other illnesses, dealing with mesothelioma is much more complicated as it touches upon physical, psychological and legal aspects. The affected individual should make sure that he or she gets the best mesothelioma treatments and mesothelioma prognosis.
Competence is not a constant. Even if today you may not be as skilled as your potential indicates you could be there is a simple way to change that:

Do stuff! And learn while you're doing it. Spend time reading and really absorbing and integrating the stuff you read until it makes sense, then apply that knowledge, repeatedly.

Nobody was born competent.

So use your abilities as they are today as a starting point and build them up from there, and don't worry too much about where you are on the scale, as long as you keep moving up you'll be fine.

Interaction with other people (here on HN there are some pretty smart people and they're not at all scared to share their knowledge) can accelerate that process, both because you can learn from others and because you can test your knowledge.

The fact that you're posting this here would indicate that you already got that last point :)
Promotion at Google is based on peer feedback, so I'd guess that's what they use.
Facebook | بحث
I believe what he meant by "completely self-reliant" was more like "a work for your own dreams and ideas". Don't just work because you have to (of course everybody has to work, but 80-90% could also be entrepreneurs and wouldn't have to work for others and their dreams) for other people. And don't expect other people to always help you pursuing YOUR dreams.

Curtis Jackson was always self-reliant because he comes from a broken family (mother shot dead when he was 8, grandmother and grandfather had to take care of their own kids -> less attention on him -> more self-reliance and self-belief to actually make something of himself). If he expected to get help from other people or trust other people with his ideas and his dreams even with his work, his life would have been crushed badly. A natural self-belief is very important and should be carried by anyone trying to achieve big things.
Just so the record is correct we are not a Wholesale Internet reseller. We own and operate our own facility and own all of our own equipment.
No, you can edit the title of the submission like for a regular submission.
Top Free Online Backup
Ballroom and Latin Dance 
Ballroom and Latin Dance Lessons in Richmond Hill, Markham, Toronto. Wedding Dance Choreography, Shows, Performances by Professional Dancers.
You can still edit the title, it's easy.
In general I agree, but in this case it's really helpful for disambiguation from the dozens of other "what I think about Go" posts that people have been writing.

Incidentally, I agree with him w.r.t. lack of exceptions being a big barrier. Everything else is cool / live-withable.
On topic: I find it funny that someone of Bram Cohens' standing would miss the point of fast compilation.

If you're working in plenty of other languages compile time does not go up linear with code size, but much faster.

When you start out it zips right along, but as soon as you cross that 10,000 line mark the first bits of irritation set it in, and not much later than that you can go and get a cup of coffee and drink it while your code rebuilds. For really large projects an hour isn't much at all!

Fast compile time = I won't lose my train of thought while waiting for the compiler to finish. It's a 'tool' thing, and I think that such details make for much better tools.
If Apple has no intentions of changing the App Store model and will retain control indefinitely I think they need to monazite the App Store approval process to prioritize their resource and weed out some of the frivolous apps that clog up the que. There should be an option for a full level of support including an account manager who can intermediate disputes and work with developers throughout the whole process closely on approval issues and future maintenance releases. It would be good to offer a lower tier of support for indie/hobby developers for a much smaller premium. Something on a per app basis that would allow them to cut ahead of the pack.
I agree with what you said but a quick clarification. He was already known as 50 Cent before he met Eminem. He took the name from a famous "stick up" kid in NY from the past. He made an album on Columbia before he met Em but was dropped when he was shot.
This is silly. ALGOL did not have a garbage collector. Nor did it support threads as well as Go does. Nor did it have interfaces. I'd go on, but comparing Go to ALGOL 68 just isn't anything close to serious.
I think that placing it in github or something like it would suggest a continued involvement or a state of maintenance. This is a 'fire and forget' way of open sourcing something.

Takes 10 seconds and the effect is much the same, you get the source, what else could you ask for ? Nicer wrapping paper ?
That's just the point... it's not helpful for disambiguation.

If the article was great, then it would be disambiguated by votes!
Between Algol, Lisp and Prolog you've covered 95+% of all the 'DNA' in existence.
Yahoo Messenger 10 Released
I'm ok with it if the name of the author is not already in the domain name. It helps to spend your time useful.

Otherwise (like in this case) it is redundant.
Simple solution:

Start research and planning for your own business when you are at home. Sure, this is supposed to be "family time" but you'll still be near them and at the least, be building the exploratory building blocks for a potential business that, if successful, could give you a whole lot more time w/ your family than you can ever get with your present job.

You should set an income goal (how much you need per month to take care of your family comfortably) and then try and plan a business that can help you reach that goal quickly and consistently.

My guess is you already have a lot of skills you can bank on to start a number of profitable businesses. You only need one.
Your logic is flawed (as is nearly every "solution" to one of these problems I've seen). The question wasn't "How many barbers should there be?" It was "How many barbers are there?" This is an important distinction as your approach shows the appropriate number of barber shops that can reasonably be operated and have no shortage of customers due to hair growth speeds. I would approach the problem from the opposite direction. How many distinct professions are there in San Francisco? What is the current population? What are the percentage breakdowns of those professions? At that point, you can easily get the number of people employed as barbers. Now, did they want individual barbers, or the number of barber shops? You then only need to infer the number of barbers per shop, rather than estimating a lot of data that isn't readily available.
Oracle ejb cloud - omw
If you're interested in how the pros do it, about 5 years ago I temped at a bulk mailer--mostly medicare checks to doctors--using pitney bowes(IIRC) equipment. The machine I was running was organized in an L shape 20'x20'. One side would strip the letter off the continuous paper stack, collate it, fold it, and seal it in an envelope. The second side would stamp it and stack it in postal bins. A bad day I would do about 20,000 but if I had everything calibrated and the guy on the shift before didn't muck things up too bad I could get close to 50000 in an 8 hour shift. The system I was using rather old and temperamental, so I wouldn't be surprised if modern equipment is an order of magnitude faster.

Once the machine was running I didn't have to do much besides put envelopes in the hopper, but the noise, paper cuts, and opportunity to lose a finger while clearing a jam made it a horrible job.
Does your company have a product that it maintains ownership of, or are you basically a contractor / consultant?
Selling Your Innovation
Andrew Warner does posts transcripts for all of his videos by using Mechanical Turk.
"A generation looks for guidance to the nation's two greatest capitalists."

Oh please. Gag me with a spoon.

The whole thing reminds me of Oral Roberts back in his Heal! days. Is this a student body, or a cult?
One thing is for sure, if you don't go back to studying now chances are you never will.

And whether or not it will be useful to you is very much depending on your future career path, if you are looking forward to continued employment in that field than an extra degree certainly won't hurt, if you plan on going entrepreneur then it is of much less value (though for sure you'll benefit from the networking opportunities that come with a large university).

Five years of experience and already a third of your BSc in CS, you might be able to do it 'on the side' but that's really an exercise in self discipline.
Diamond Rings
Diamond rings and gemstone rings from our amazing collection are unique pieces of high craftsmanship. Browse our stunning compilation of Diamond right hand rings that women proudly wear to express their individuality.
Well, by that standard it seems that the majority of HN readers think it is great, it is currently #1 on the homepage.

If only the number of votes would be a true measure of 'greatness', then I could stop reading HN on the 'new' page. That's where the gems come by and plenty of them are lost.
The argument in that article can be applied to say that _all_ things are discovered and not invented, which doesn't correspond at all to how we used those words. I can enumerate all songs as easily as I can enumerate all programs.
Well, I guess I'll also jump on topic here :)

I used to primarily write Javascript and Python code, but then I moved into the world of Objective-C and compilation. I also think that compiling is a productivity and focus killer, and I think addressing this issue is a worthy goal.
"Go's speed of compilation is very nice, although I'm afraid I view that not so much as a strength of Go but as an awfulness of C++."

I think his point is that Go isn't special in this regard since many languages already compile much faster than C++. For example, Delphi/Free Pascal.
spammer buddy of yours ? or a sock puppet ?
Sure, but Go is aiming for the space that C/C++ occupy, not for the space that Delphi and Free Pascal occupy.

And neither Delphi nor Free Pascal look like they are going to be threatening C/C++ any time soon, this new language just might.
It loaded really quick for me, since I don't allow flash.

I am sorry, what sort of person quits there day job to start there own company, but hasn't learnt yet NOT TO USE FLASH. And certainly not if that is all someone sees. (unless of course you are a design company, but then you would probably find better resources than hacker news).

Are you sure you going out alone is for you?
The overall ocean ecosystem seems to be perilously closer to collapse:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sylvia_earle_s_ted_prize_w...
What happened to Larry Ellison and his recent cloud related statements ?

If it's the 'cloud' hosted by the competition it's bad but if it is Oracle and hosted on your own hardware it's good ?
By that logic then all VNC clients and webviews are in violation. I can use a VNC client to connect to my Mac, see the screen including Dock with Safari and other Apple icons. Any webview is capable of pulling over the network apple.com which contains a plethora of Apple icons, logos, screenshots and pictures of products.
what are the "other ways"?

no other app market has the audience that Apple has

So, I say, "I don't want to be a sharecropper", and you ask me where else you can be a sharecropper that treats you better.

I'm not talking about app markets, at all. I'm talking about being a software developer. As a software developer, you have damned near infinite options for making a living. And a lot of those options provide more dignity, and more money, than being Apple's bitch.

The notion that selling iPhone apps is a "gold mine" for developers is a bit like saying the lottery is a good investment strategy. Yes, some developers make a lot of money from iPhone applications. Most do not. I suspect that building products for the much wider general software market or the web market would be a much more profitable path for your efforts (at least, that's been where I've placed my bets, and where I plan to continue placing my bets in the future).
Oracle Weblogic Suite 11g, Identity Management 11g, Webcenter Suite 11g, JDeveloper, Fusion Middleware, Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition and SOA Cloud

Sucking all the joy out of the cloud experience(TM)
It would be a better article without the rackspace plugs.

Most of the rest of it is good though, especially the 'spend the money on the wrong things' bit, that's one plenty of companies (start-ups or not) fall for.

And spending your money on rackspace would be a nice example of spending your money on the right thing (hosting) but in the wrong way (wasteful).
unfortunately i think joe is underestimating the power of the carriers in this one. Look at how Verizon cripples devices, and how expensive unlimited data plans are. Native app that can work without connectivity are still a huge advantage. If you look at the top selling apps, most can work without data.
Free Pascal is almost identical to C++ apart from syntax; they're both compiled, statically typed Algol descendants with object orientation and generics bolted on.

Which is partly why Free Pascal use is still marginal - the only significant advantage is compilation speed, while lack of popularity is a major disadvantage in terms of libraries, quality of optimizing compilers, etc.
Long time listener, first time caller. Seems like my copy and paste from Google Docs generated an interesting horizontal scroll. For a slightly easier to read version, please check :

http://blog.webnet-it.co.jp/2009/11/14/im-looking-for-a-tech...
Funny how it is always "business guy looking for a coder" but never "coder looking for a business guy".

Probably your post will become much more readable if you drop the two leading spaces on your bullet points, that way they become inlined instead of in a scrolling div.

Another thing you could do is limit the line length with hard returns.
See above why, HN uses indentation as a 'sign' to switch to 'this is code' mode.
I see two drawbacks with 'Free Pascal', first the name (naming your language 'Pascal' is a surefire way of getting lots of people to turn off on the spot, even if it had lots of merits), secondly there does not seem to be any lively community around the language (but that may be related to the first item).
Jeez, I feel like I'm talking to a wall here. I'm arguing that the reason that it has so many votes could be because his name is in the title.

I bet if you showed 200 people the article, and told 100 of them Bram wrote it, then the 100 who knew would score the article higher. Is that a good thing?

Leave the names out, and let the content decide.