skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Taker!?! Fired!"

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
Yeah, that occurred to me as I pressed Send.

But assuming you can afford employee #1 (making cost somewhat moot), why otherwise might you decide to go in either direction?
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/%5Ccng-conversio...

CNG conversion kits costs about Rs 20000 (approx $400) according to the above article
Not spam.

His comment and website appear very relevant to the radio program, which talks about real-time information from iPhone users suppressing the ski resorts' false reports (say that five times fast).

I would consider it spam if he copied his comment text and pasted it in every NPR summary page that mentioned skiing or snowboarding.
Why don't you hit the books? College can be a little expensive. Why lose 5 or 4 years of study? why not just try to do something with what you previously learnt using Information Technology?

My Question: What if IT wipe out after 5 years? Will you consider another career change.

Since you are interested in IT, learn it yourself, it's not hard and all the resources are available on the internet. And then try to do something using your previous and your new knowledge.

Note that my advice is Startup-Oriented. If you want to become an employee and working as a developer, then you may consider a career change. However, try to answer the question! (Just imagine the situation)
It makes a lot of sense for a site of facebook's size to do away with most of the dynamic language coded stuff on the backend.

In terms of identity, this is facebook, I'm sure they could work out what employee it was (if it was an employee) without the office visit details.
Good list.
Based on the default settings, I'm up there with PG and Patio11. I like your algorithm ;)
We definitely have a long way to go in terms of new-user flow. This should be dead simple, and give some positive reinforcement to get people to cross the chasm.

I think once someone uploads 3 receipts to this thing they are going to be hooked, but that is a big jump.
Yay for OSX, with nearly every app using your keychain (TDES encryption). Centrally integrated, secure password storage should be standard in OSes by now, as trusting every app (or website, without something like OpenID) to store your password securely is ludicrous. That's like expecting every programmer to be a security expert, and to make bug-free software (hint: HAHAHAHAH).

"Having our passwords in plaintext is more secure than obfuscating them precisely because, when a user is not misled by a false sense of security, he is likely to use the software in a more secure manner."...

...is completely laughable. I'd be willing to bet that the VAST majority of Pidgin users have no idea that their passwords aren't stored securely. To make matters worse, I don't recall Pidgin ever warning me that its storage was insecure, so they're not even trying to educate their users.

And TrueCrypt is an awesome concept + tool. Gotta love the ability to have an entire hard drive look like it's just random data. You can't get much better security than that, as you can deny there's anything there, and "they" don't even know where to begin.
I doubt that people use Google Street View a lot to view billboard ads. Cool concept though.
Many SaaS products, especially enterprise software, have a "login as a different user" feature that engineers use for debugging. It's good that non tech savvy users aren't always aware of the amount of information leakage that happens in situations where privacy is important. It would lead to a mega freak out.

For example, if you receive SMS alerts from your bank about transactions, account balance etc. there are multiple engineers in the chain who have access to the information, but should not -

* At the SMS gateway company to which the bank has outsourced the services

* Your mobile service provider

* People who run the SMSC (if the mobile operator has outsourced that)

Unfortunately, there is no way to secure it end to end in its current form. The same is applicable to a lot of services.
while the measurement may read "inches" it's actually on an arbitrary scale. in other words, to a skier, "14 inches" means compare-the-conditions-to-the-last-time-you-went-and-we-said-14-inches.

not to mention the obvious fact that measurements done in different places with different methods will differ.
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It's a web poll, hardly the most accurate or fair system anyway. It's also a poll about the career choice of the next Barbie doll, hardly earth shatteringly important (although I am glad to see the choices their considering). What do you think would be the real benefit here of using something other than the simple system that everyone understands?
I think you taking the examples more literally than the author intended (NB. the authors mothers tongue isn't english).

Some of the points I believe the author is trying to get across:

* Always have "use strict;" (and declare variables scope)

* Make use of CPAN (eg. Term::Readline)

* Don't use indirect object syntax

* And use Moose if doing OO

These are all good modern perl practices.
Another attempt at humor fails on the internet. You've never seen "Animal House", really?
Well I was going to write something reminiscent to 'bird words' but while refreshing my memory of The First Circle, Google was completely washed out with links to "the bird is the word". wtf.
Japan's capsule hotels
> although the HPHP thing certainly is an interesting piece of information

Except that the employees description of the differences between "scripted" and compiled languages leads me to think that this person doesn't really know much about programming languages.
Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate Publicly Available
That's certainly a possibility, that programming accomplishment and musical accomplishment don't correlate at all and it's just sampling error. However, I experience both and I was trying to identify the commonality, in answer to a question that has been discussed ad infinitum. It would be interesting to me if the question applied to people in general. At the moment I'm glad to have made my world slightly more understandable.
This implies that Cameron was in a position where could say no to them. Was he? Just because he had free rein to do as he wished with the actual film does not mean he had control over merchandising and tie-ins.
Why? What makes this framework better to do penetration testing on than other frameworks?
I'm amazed it was an actual choice and not a write in. I didn't expect to put a big pink check mark next to "computer engineer" when I woke up today.
Awesome! I knew SwellJoe and I seemed to end up in the same threads, and IIRC, agree on things. Even though I'm a relative neophyte. I love it!
I've certainly seen that kind of argument. What makes me think I haven't fallen into that fallacy (although it is a possibility) is that I freely admit that I'm terrible at lots of things (like reading people) and that I'm good at other things (like baking or cheesemaking) that have nothing in common with my experience of programming and music.
Trumpet, baritone, keys, and a little guitar.
Oh, the list is pretty good, I've read/recognized a lot of the pieces in it and they're mostly all extremely useful reads. I'm just annoyed by the exceptionally poor job done by the organizer(s), nominators, and judges in encouraging people to use their list.

It strikes me as something that was never intended for outsiders to see / use, in which case what's the point of its existence? Stroking their own egos because they can make a list, and feel important that they've read some / all of them?
Well I know you're not mentally challenged, or crazy, so I'm going to guess that you're in one of those "everyone-is-wrong-no-one-can-change-my-opinion" mindsets.

Ruby as easy to read as Java and C, bwHA.
...while plenty of people have met their future spouses on dating sites, they don't meet, talk a few times, and then get hitched.

This is true only of American dating sites. A number of Indian dating sites are based on that exact model.

I guess the lesson to take from that is this: if your expectations are low enough, and social pressures not to quit are strong enough, any reasonable pairing can be made to work.
Interestingly, there seems to be a local minimum (or maximum) in your algorithm that I found when searching for myself:

Start here:
http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/hnusers/?user=profquail...

The next two 'clicks' to the left (towards co-commenting) don't have 'spolsky' in my list:
http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/hnusers/?user=profquail...

But one more click to the left, and he reappears in the list:
http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/hnusers/?user=profquail...
Southwest Airlines has started doing optional callbacks. I hope it spreads.
I recently changed my user name from antiismist to idoh. When I moved the karma setting to Diamonds in the Rough, it listed idoh as the #2 most similar user to antiismist. Nice!

http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/hnusers/?user=antiismis...
If they wanted an Objective-C web framework it seems like they would have been better off improving GNUstep Web. From looking at the site I don't see what makes this special other than using Cocoa. It might have some compelling features that GNUstep Web doesn't, but they don't make it easy to find out what they are.
Don't worry. We aren't storing anything in plaintext. SHA-1 with a 256-bit salt.

Sorry, I was a little confused about the password-via-email comment. No, it doesn't shorten your reg. Only the share. We include the password for easy record-keeping for users. Also, we don't keep anything of value on JTB. It is just receipts. No bank account numbers or CC numbers. Just like a paper receipt.
I had the same reaction. A little flattering, but I think it has to do with brevity more than anything.

edit: just realized that by default it's only returning the rockstars of the site (e.g. people high up on the leaderboard).
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Goldman Sachs: Android OS will grow fastest in 2010
Cello, turntables (vinyl and a digital system like Serato), dabble a little on piano, sang in a choir
There are pluses and minuses.

I think emotional stability is the most important personality prerequisite.

Some advantages:

- Zero communication overhead so you're more efficient.

- Huge incentive to automate daily maintenance tasks.

- You know the codebase inside out and can make massive changes (you understand the entire system). But that kind of thinking has also led me to screw up spectacularly so be careful.
I checked a few people, and it seems like patio11 is in all of their results. I wonder why?
Aww, I was hoping to get amichail.
So, uh, how are they going to make a Computer Engineer Barbie? I mean, seriously, it's going to be Barbie in... some slacks and a golf shirt, at best. Maybe she'll have a laptop.
HNN was a news portal and text-zine release perhaps 12-15 years ago, founded by Space Rogue from L0pht and a few others. They've been doing occasional Video podcasts over the last year or so. Today was their official launch, which I assume means a more stable release schedule, with lots more hacker news, mostly of the security variety.
Thank you! Can you recommend any good case study collections on web security?
Harrison Ford: "No Limit for Better"
> Asynchronous, callback-based code is frequently more difficult to write, harder to reason with, more inflexible, and buggier than similar synchronous code.

That is an excellent point that is usually ignored. Thread per request is much easier to understand and work with. Of course, thread per request is simply not a good choice in cases like a server with support for web sockets, but it is good enough in many cases. My experience has mainly been with Java (NIO vs. simple threads and Executors). Paul Tyma has made a more convincing argument than me about this -

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/02/kill-myth-please-nio-...

http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2008/03/writing-java-multithrea...

http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_i...
>What if IT wipe out after 5 years?

That's a good question. I'm just really stuck on what to do, I have no guidance and I dont want to waste my life.

I like the idea of setting up start companies, but I dont know what the ratio is on those being successful or not.

To answer your question, another career I was thinking of was medicine, that would take even longer that CS and would way be way tougher, but it would be a great career.

The idea of learning CS on my own sounds good, but if I did it on my own I'd feel like I was rowing a boat with one paddle. I might end up wasting time that way too.
Consider the following hypothetical: 33% vote for computer engineer, 33% vote for software developer, and 34% vote for international spy. But yeah, I agree that those aren't the options presented and it doesn't matter too much in this case.

The only real concern I have here is that it reinforces the notion that voting is equivalent to selecting a single candidate.
A big part of it is that the default settings reward comment karma fairly heavily. Try moving the sliders around. For example, with the defaults, patio11 is the top result for your username, but at the karma slider midpoint he's out of the top 12.
It is written in Objective-C, which is not a type-safe language.
I would consider defining the BlackBerry requirement immediately. Yes, I see the image, but why wouldn't I think you're just using that as a default phone image? You're risking high frustration if they don't catch the supported platforms note.

As far MVP, if it works and you can start exploring product/market fit with rapid iterations (add more lean buzzwords here)...then of course!
Everybody here has somewhat similar interests to pg. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. ;)
Since you already have a degree, if you are interested in learning PHP, Zend offers training. When you finish the training you can test for certification from ZEND. As far as PHP goes, this is probably much more in-depth than you will get from a university course.

Here is a link if you are interested: http://www.zend.com/en/services/training/

One thing that has helped me in the past is studying existing code and then making modifications to it.
What ails business journalism?
One other note- I know you are going for MVP, but don't completely through branding out the window.

Where's the logo? Even if you don't have one, let's at least get the name somewhere above the fold. And it's a good name.
I'd be willing to bet that if you geeked-out on 'business' you'd find it's a much deeper subject than it appears to be from the perspective of a tech guy alone.
I approve of all the people I've been grouped with, except that bizarre swombat fellow.
"That is, if you even knew there was an update. Unlike Windows, your router isn't going to keep popping up little bubbles to tell you to update."

And if your company values its security at all, they should be certain that their IT people are checking for such things. They know the hardware, so they know the websites where exploits / updates are listed. Have a folder of bookmarks, and check it once a week, and you wouldn't be caught off-guard by (relatively) ancient exploits. The alternative is equivalent to a company using the oldest version of XP, expecting there to be no security problems because they aren't looking, and don't want to risk updating to a more secure system. Bring on the viruses / script kiddies!

I'll agree that upgrades can cause troubles, sometimes extreme, but they should be expected at some point in the future. Expecting otherwise is expecting your hardware / software to be eternally flawless, which is ludicrous. Even something as simple as a light switch sometimes needs to be repaired / replaced, and that's just a physical switch, almost literally as simple as it can be. If you continued using a light switch that sparked and smoked every time you switched it for a year, and your house burns down, you really only have yourself to blame. Sure, replacing it means calling in an electrician, or doing it yourself, both of which bring their own dangers, but when the alternative is relatively likely catastrophic failure eventually, it's probably worth it.
Bizarre! I guess it could be tempting for long time Cocoa developers who don't already know Rails or PHP? Though if they're building a basic website, rudimentary PHP would be less hassle, and if they're building a web app and want familiar territory, Cappuccino would be a better choice.

The trend in web apps is to do more of the work client side through Javascript (see GWT, SproutCore and Cappuccino) so a new server side framework seems a bit late to the party.

Performance as a result of compiled code seems to be the only real selling point, and in my experience, server-side code performance is not a widespread problem...

I don't begrudge someone hacking together something new for the fun of it, but this comes across as a real company trying to make a profit.

Who's going to actually use this?
Shaw (Canadian cable) does csr callbacks too. The software must be out there somewhere.
What an incredibly good idea, I really hope they or someone else does this for the UK at some point!
Running on Mac OS X with the newer, shinier ObjC 2.0 runtime is greatly preferred to running on GNUstep. Not to mention GCD or Core Data (GNUstep Core Data is primitive in comparison. Not to mention, you know, basically a dead project).

Of course, I'm more likely to just use Ruby or Cappuccino if I need to make something more complicated than a basic website. But I can see the appeal in this sort of framework.
Can't you find another job in this economy?

Though times always come. What about doing some microISV at night? If done correctly this should make you a living.
I'm up there with patio11, but not pg. (I get nostradeamous)

Not sure what that means though.
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Cool. Now we can play six degrees of hn.
Google wants to do even earlier exits than I wrote about in Early Exits
I don't think that linking to a PG article somehow makes the issue 'settled'. This isn't a religion you know.

To truly escape the realms of relativism the article should have included 'Good Design is Measurable'. In many ways of course it is measurable - you can ask people to rate their experience or measure how long they take to learn to perform various tasks. These measurements would not necessarily be universal though for the following reasons

* They would apply only to the segment of the population being measured (may not generalise to other populations such as Chinese nationals)

* Within the measured populations there will be differences in preference. If a particular subgroup or individual exhibits different preferences does that make them 'wrong'.

* Different UI's might serve different purposes better. One may be easier to learn but another more powerful once learned.

There would be chefs, movie makers, authors, musicians who would argue even more strongly that there is a definite 'good and bad' in their fields as well. To me there argument is just as valid as for UIs.
The Climate Killers
BETTER INTERNET BUREAU WEBSITES & BUSINESS FOR SALE ON EBAY
The Better Internet Bureau has been online sence 1998 and is #1 in Google "Better Internet Bureau".The owner is retiring and is auctioning the business and domain names on eBay.com. The sale ends in 4 days. Item number 160392524783
Very interesting. Depending on how I adjusted it I was judged similar to pg, unalone, and a couple other people on the leaderboard. I guess that means my comments are on the right track....

Are there any other details about the algorithm or how it works. I'm curious about what exactly the different weightings mean.
You forgot consultant.
got swombat. lame. :)
Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls.
>I have no guidance and I dont want to waste my life

You should learn to guide yourself and take responsibility of the consequences.

>I like the idea of setting up start companies, but I dont know what the ratio is on those being successful or not

Imagine a startup founder who work 5 hours a day and another who work 12 hours a day. The first is lazy, uneducated... and the other is smart, hardworking, do lot of networking... Who has a higher ratio for success??? It's you who change the ratio; sure the luck will play a lot in your journey, but if it doesn't come you can create it.

>I was thinking of was medicine

I study medicine (because my parents want me too and I have no other choices). As someone who study medicine, I'll advice you: DON'T FOLLOW THIS CAREER.

>I'd feel like I was rowing a boat with one paddle

The same problem, you are lacking confidence. You should believe you can do it your own. Try to find another paddle to the boat, can't you?
Awesome, thanks for the clarification.
+1

I have a lot of time for Objective-C and Cocoa for desktop and mobile development. I'd go so far as to say it's a huge factor in the success of the Mac and iPhone platforms. It's pretty unique in supporting AOT, compiled-to-native executables while offering dynamic language and runtime features.

However the reasons it works so well for those purposes (low memory footprint, fast application startup time) don't seem very relevant for server development - and the downsides (#1 being the ability of coding mistakes to corrupt memory and/or abort the process) become huge liabilities for a server. So my guess is that this framework is going to come out on the wrong side of any cost/benefit analysis.
Please don't editorialize in the titles. Let people make their own choice on what to vote for.

This is not reddit or digg.
Why was this downvoted other than the fact that he suggested pursuing a PHP certification? His answer was perfectly relevant and doesn't seem to serve any self interest that I can tell...
Hmm, small bug(?) When I typed my name in all lowercase it didn't come up. That might be by design though. Cool tool ;-)
The only problem is that many browsers (or is it the server I'm requesting from?) don't allow javascript to access something on a different server. So this type of thing doesn't work:
window.frames['craigslist_iframe_id'].document.getElementById('something_on_craigslist').innertHTML

The firefox javascript console says "Permission denied" for accessing window.frames['craigslist_iframe_id'].document

Is there something I'm misunderstanding that could help me overcome this hurdle? Is the only solution to have the user copy and paste what they already wrote?
If you're a single founder, chances are the co-founder you'd take on most readily is another single founder.
>Imagine a startup founder who work 5 hours a day and another who work 12 hours a day. The first is lazy, uneducated... and the other is smart, hardworking, do lot of networking... Who has a higher ratio for success??? It's you who change the ratio; sure the luck will play a lot in your journey, but if it doesn't come you can create it.

Sure, but where do I start? Do I start making Iphone apps, or become a freelance coder, or try to invent the next twitter? Or do all 3 at once? I'm at the start of the learning curve here.

>I study medicine (because my parents want me too and I have no other choices). As someone who study medicine, I'll advice you: DON'T FOLLOW THIS CAREER.

Why dont you like it?
Who Googles for "Better Internet Bureau"? I've never even heard of this. The Better Business Bureau is pretty much a joke for most cases, and this seems even less likely to make any profit. Sounds like someone trying to dump a lemon.