skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did bribe him.

There are 2 components for a bribe: One party bringing it up, and one party paying another.

If the person with the power brings it up, it's called "Asking for a bribe". If the other party brings it up, it's called "offering a bribe". In either case, the actual paying the money is called bribery (and the act "accepting a bribe"). The offering is only attempted bribery.

The companies definitely bribed him, and possibly face criminal culpability if anyone gives a crap to prosecute them.
Accoring to this article, the income/home price ratio has gone

1950 -> 2.21

1960 -> 2.11

1975 -> 3.15

2008 -> 4.40

With housing bubble and all, it seems that this is part of a long-term trend. Choosing 1975 as the hypothetical standard of where the ratio might return seems completely arbitrary.
Isn't every language "made up"? Whether you sit down and invent it all at once, or it naturally evolves from an existing language, someone had to be the first to "know the language when no one else" did.
I don't think 200k will be enough for that number of people over that period of time. You'll be cash strapped.
The part about this that I find the most interesting is the way it explains how a differential can be thought up, rather than presenting it as some bolt from the blue.
What's missing from this article: a correction for the quality of the housing. That houses are 40% more expensive is hardly surprising when they are also 40% larger.
Interview with Don Syme, the inventor of F#
I really don't think it has anything at all to do with the App Store. I really think it is all about control of the base code for the OS. The performance issues are real, but looking at the Flash problem Snow Leopard had (old flash with security holes), I get the strong feeling that Apple seriously wants to control all the iPhone OS source code.
Yes. Let me make it personal. Why have I not invented cold fusion, written an operating system, or cured cancer? Answer: because I'm not smart enough.

OK, I don't want to be too defeatist - I should try my best to do what I can. But I realize I have limits, and that I am more able than some and less able than others.

Does that make me unhappy? No. And if it did, I think the fault would be mine. Like everyone else, I try to look on the bright side of things. Nobody is perfectly happy, and studies show that beyond the point where you have enough not to worry all the time, more money doesn't make you happier.

We don't need to stop telling people 'you should try to excel.' But it would be good to add 'in whatever makes you happy.' If you love cars, be a great mechanic, not a sullen one who wishes he was an executive. And if you want to be a scientist but don't have what it takes, well, learning to be happy in something else is part of life. We all have to deal with that sort of thing.
Justin.tv is looking for a data engineer (analyst) and a mobile products engineer (iPhone/Android hacker).

( http://www.justin.tv/p/jobs )
Is this a US only job? Seeing as you would be writing code that runs on a vehicle on Mars, maybe you could accept code from a different part of the Earth? ;-)
Can you link this?

I mean the reason they deleted all the posts was to hide who paid I assumed.
You think people really make more money than they did in 2001? That's one of the things that is fueling the populist anger we see in the Tea Party movement. People want to know where their money has gone.

Of course, the major exception is that the rich have made staggering gains in income (compared to the working class, when adjusted for inflation) over the last few decades. You can't tell me that they're just working that much harder than they were 30 years ago.
Came into this thread to recommend this book and upvoted here.

This is an older book, the 3rd edition is from 2008, but the first edition is a few years older I think. The most surprising thing (for me) was that design principles have not changed much in the past 100 years or so. This book is geared more towards print design (newsletters, fliers, business cards, etc) but the concepts translate really well to the web.

Another point is TYPOGRAPHY! This shouldn't be overlooked and is easily the best way to improve the design of your site. Color schemes, graphics, and ornaments are secondary to getting the typography (font choice and style, layout, colors, pairing, etc.). Please do yourself a favor and read this article from the world-renowned web designers at Information Architects: http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typogra... -- be sure to read the resources at the end of that article. It's s a great place to get started.

Good luck!!
the deal would be much higher than the low millions.
The alternative is punishing those who made good choices, by taxing them to pay for the others. And it's not like those choices are even hard to make: ask any 10-year-old if he thinks he might need his education to get a job. People know this. But they know they get a free ride too. That's got to change.
> Choosing 1975 as the hypothetical standard of where the ratio might return seems completely arbitrary.

My guess is that it's based on the notion that wages (for the average person, not for the rich) have been stagnant since about that time.
Not disputing your basic fact, I just want to point out that size != quality.
This is quite possibly the first job posting I've ever seen that has made me want to write C++.
Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Documentation
I updated the form:

--I had figured traction would be included in status, but I just explicitly added help text to that effect.

--Added team question with your help text.

--Added 'How big is it?' as help text to idea question.

I didn't want to scare off any people, however, so left off who vouches for you for now.
+1 Blueprint has good typographic defaults. Adjust for color and you can basically roll with it.
Coax:

Created 100 days ago, karma 41.
We're hiring Frontend and Backend engineers with varying range of experience from fresh-grads to experienced. We're a LAMP shop (P is for PHP). We're doing a lot of interesting technical projects that are bridging the print (physical) and social gap. Send your resumes to BeAStar@tinyprints.com and put [HN] in your subject line.
Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO
I've thought about doing that myself. I've been thinking about what it means to bring in users 0-100,100-500,500-1000 and so forth... I guess I would like to try bringing in non-technical people as users first.
"This is quite possibly the first job posting I've ever seen that has made me want to write C++."

yeah me too. And I am not even looking for a job! But it is probably US only. And I have no intention of traveling. Going through the degrading visa app process is not worth it.
Django will get JavaScript "helpers" over my dead body.
Modern COBOL (It's time to take the gloves off)
Make it :). Contact info could be the same through HN username; people can decide what to put in their HN profile.
> The funny thing is that many people were sympathetic with Chavez just because he was critical of George Bush.

That's not all of it. Many in the US just seem to like South American populists. Che, Castro, the Sandinistas, Shining Path (until well after it was clear that they were murderous thugs) - If you're a South American collectivist, you're popular with US "internationalists" until well after you've proven to be a murderous thug, and sometimes not even then.
Commute times have also risen greatly, that's a negative change in quality.
Is that coming from HN users or is there some sort of public search for public documents on Google that funnels trolls to it?
3 Books To Understand Social Media Even If They Dont Talk About Social Media
Strange choice. I only know him from his column (http://news.cnet.com/openroad/) but on that evidence I've always thought he was a complete idiot.
He states all numbers are inflation adjusted to the same year.
Meanwhile, reporters who sleep with the people who they cover are A-Okay. So are reporters who trade access for coverage.

Govt - solving the wrong problem, and badly.
get a freelancer to do this at $10/hour?
Kiha in Seattle is still hiring people, especially if you have experience with Android (or other mobile development), NLP, data mining, or web services. http://www.kiha.com/
Before&After Magazine is my design How-To favorite.

http://www.bamagazine.com/

I am not a design professional, so not all of their stuff is useful to me. But their typography and layout advice is excellent.

Some of the content of their back issues has been reworked into a couple of books. One of those might be a good starting point.
I sorta like this idea. Job boards are nice, but a HN "Job Fair" post sounds better.
As argued in, for instance, Hardcore Java[1], 'final' should definitely have been the default for variables in Java. My Eclipse 'on save' actions include making every possible local variable, parameter and field final. If I'm reading the code and one of them is not final, I know it requires some extra attention.

[1] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005689
I thought it was interesting too. I would sum it up as "local culture and equality are important, and are being destroyed by an ideal of individual aspiration. Current policies push us toward the latter; they should be made neutral or to favor the former."

An interesting point. It's true that our scholarship system tends to pull talent from small towns to large ones, and maybe that has negative implications. But to actively discourage people from their ambition seems wrong. Let THEM decide whether local culture, traditional community, etc, are valuable to them.

Another point: is a government-enforced local culture as good as a naturally developed one? Can you ever regain the attitude "that's the way life is around here, just like in great-grandpa's day" by making policies? Or will you just have festering resentment by those with stunted talent? To me, this is part of the inherent flaw of communism.
Account creation dates are just that, when the account was created. Personally, I was reading the site for a while before I ever created an account.
Yeah, unfortunately. The job requires either US citizenship or permanent residency. If you're interested in the reasons, google ITAR.
So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Microsoft.
I disagree, respectfully.

Typography is more important than color and shouldn't be overlooked. That 'nitty gritty crap' is actually very subtle differences between typefaces and styles that can't be easily detected and shouldn't be discarded.

Here's a great passage from Jason Santa Maria:

"Beyond the question of readability, much of typography comes down to contrast and form. The details of a typeface can inject meaning into a design: Soft lines and stroke weights, for example, can be useful for delicate material or to give an air of elegance and dignity. Those same attributes can be juxtaposed with unexpected content to produce an ironic effect. "

tl;dr - typography is meaningful
Would this be considered a public stock offering? I remember learning in class that this sort of stuff (seeking funding publicly on the web) may result in some legal trouble. I may be wrong though.
Developing on HEAD scales to Google
This kind of bribe is not technically a crime, it's just a violation of journalistic ethics. The way I see it, even if the company had offered the compensation, there's nothing wrong with the company doing everything it can to get itself coverage and press attention. It's on the journalist to uphold their own ethical standards.
Try:

Weave
Cython
SIP

Python is really easy to tie into other languages for the slow parts.
I recommend the Non-Designer's Design Book too.

Also, I recommend Don't Make Me Think, by Steve Krug.

I'm a terrible designer, but have learned a few simple things from these books and other great designers.

First, here's what's most important:

- Copy (most important!)
- Size/Shape/Position

Much further down:

- Font and colors

Second(paraphrased from Krug's book):

1. Does this site offer something of value that I want?
2. How hard is it to extract that value?
Please open a Belgian office :-)
How is he not "left leaning"? Is this a case of no true scotsman?
A single person as an individual doesn't choose to live in more expensive houses necessarily, but we as a society do: take a look at the graph attached to Virginia Postrel's "A Tale of Two Houses:" http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/housing . Notice how much it costs to build in many of America's most expensive cities. If you take a desirable, urban place to live and slap extensive controls on building height and the like, you get expensive housing. Much of our housing problem is self-made.

This has been chronicled extensively by urban planners, economists, and on blogs like The Bellows: http://www.ryanavent.com/blog . But relatively few people trace the cost of houses back to the fundamental issue of land controls.
Dear HN folks, Marshall Kirkpatrick, lead writer at RWW here. Just wanted to let you know that we're reading your thoughts here and looking into this situation. We like HN not just for the readership it has sent us over the years but also for the quality content from other sites that we find here and the good discussion in comments. I just woke up and don't know what more to say about this right now, but please do know that the integrity of the collective news discovery and promotion process is something we think is important.
4 years of design school left me with 2 words: Simple contrasts.

Design, particularly typography, is all about the relationships between elements. Contrast defines those relationships. For type, contrast is usually created by size, position, color, weight (sometimes called typographic color, just to confuse things), face, and variant (eg: oblique). Use as few of those to achieve contrast as possible. Thus, simple contrasts.

The Elements of Typographic Style will efficiently rock your world: http://amzn.com/0881792063
Your dollar goes farther in Atlanta than the Valley.
... and all methods must be static with no side effects. Additionally, use functors to simulate crippled closures and you have a broken FP paradigm embedded in you cup of Java.
Too bad! Ah well, hopefully someone else will compete with the United States for Space Exploration in our life time. Nothing like fierce competition to stimulate making things easier for people trying to work for you!

ok so I scanned through ITAR and it has 20 categories of items on the "Munitions List". If any non US hackers want to be "Munitions Expert"s, keep reading.

(1) Firearms, Close Assult Weapons and Combat Shotguns (2) Guns and Armaments (3) Ammunition/Ordnance (4) Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Rockets Torpedoes, Bombs and mines (5)Explosives and Energetic Materials, propellants,Incendiary Agents and their constituents (6) vesels of War and Special Naval Equipment (7) Tanks and Military Equipment (8) Aircraft and Associated Equipment (9) Military Equipment and Training (10) Protective Personnel Equipment and Shelters (11) Military Electronics (12) Fire Control, Range Finder Optical guidance and Control Equipment and (13) Auxiliary Military Equipment, (14) Toxicological Agents (15) SpaceCraft systems and Associated Equipment (16) Nuclear Weapons (17) Classified Articles, technical Data and Services not otherwise enumerated (!!!) (18) Directed Energy Weapons (19) Reserved(??) (20)Submersible Vessels and Oceanographic Equipment (21) Miscellaneous Articles

with lots of items under each heading.

And here's the bit that most affects hackers.

Section 121.8

(e) Firmware and any related uniques support tools such as computers, linkers, editors, testcase generators, diagnostic checkers, libraries of functions and system test diagnostics specifically designed for equipment or systems covered under any category of the US Munitions List is considered part of the end item or component. Firmware includes but is not limited to circuits into which the software has been programmed.

(f) Software includes but is not limited to the system functional design, logic flow, algorithms, application programs operating systems and support software, for design , implementation, test, operation, diagnosis and repair.

Hey, on second thought I think I like being an "International Munitions Expert" Better title than "Code Monkey"!
Squarespace (NYC) is looking for developers. We're building some cool new stuff and we have a good time doing it. Drop me a line at pdedios@squarespace.com if you're interested.
Doesn't matter when you're talking about sustainable debt-to-income ratios. Can't afford it == Can't afford it, no matter the quality.
Mistake in the article. The hole was not discovered last month, it was announced last month. It was actually discovered and reported in June, 2009. See http://jordanopensource.org/freeplanet/article/microsoft-con... for confirmation of that.
I think this is a lot more common than folks realize. Links = SEO win. Links from important sites = lots more SEO win. With my tiny little blog I (weekly) get people emailing me offering to pay me small sums for a review or link.

edit: I want to make it clear right here and now that I will write about any company for a MacBook Air. :-)
drop.io, Brooklyn, NY.

Most of our stack is in Ruby - always looking for good front-end hackers as well. Especially if you like clouds, you might be into what we're cooking up. Check out http://drop.io/jobs, http://dev.drop.io, or stalk us here: http://twitter.com/ChrisRicca/drop-io
> Is it more tragic that a bright, smart, knowledgeable person not be able to fully exercise those properties, or for a slow, unintelligent, uninformed person to not be able to have a dignified place in society?

Those aren't mutually exclusive and neither is their inverse.

Also, the first one is wrong in a subtle way. We want people to exercise their capabilities to the fullest - bright and smart are merely two kinds of capabilities, two that are far less important than bright and smart people think.

In summary, we want all people going at full tilt and we want dignity regardless of what their "full tilt" is.

The author's mistake is in thinking that you can give someone dignity by treating them as more capable than they actually are.
Google is hiring for positions everywhere.
Spot on. I would like to specifically emphasize bokonist's "b)" - I only made real progress with design when I started consciously seeking out design that looked amazing- even taking photographs occasionally of billboards etc., and then trying to recreate it. Otherwise you're doing the programming equivalent of reading about languages without even bothering to type out examples- let alone composing your own.
Never mind. I was thinking of a diffrent chip then.
Yeah, I'm only a yellow belt at my school (Krav Maga Canada has a belt system even though the international org. doesn't) so we haven't gotten into weapon disarms much yet, but I think the general idea is it's easier to give up your wallet than successfully perform a gun disarm or redirect a knife.

Either way, it's a hell of a work out.
you're ignoring the risk involved in loaning money. government effectively removed this risk for the lending institutions. therefore, moral hazard.
Cisco's Backdoor For Hackers
Grant Skinner on the future of Flash
Just what the world needs, another smarmy tech blogger who feels their limited experience in standing on the shoulders of giants grants them license to dictate to the rest of us.
These guides are being updated for Rails 3:

http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html
Erm, Chrome supports Theora in HTML5 video. I just played a few of the examples from http://double.co.nz/video_test/ as well as the Opera page linked from there to test, and they worked fine.
In response to one rather trollish comment, John Nack says:

====

[Way to parrot Welch. Anyway, you're of course right that Flash should never crash. My beef is that suddenly we hear this HUGE groundswell of people saying that Flash is bringing them to ruin. Could it be that maybe--just maybe--some of these claims are overstated out of some tribalism (a desire to be close to Apple)? I mean, people identify with groups of multimillionaires who theoretically represent some nearby city in sports, so it's not hard to see why they want to identify with the people who make the devices they use all day.

I'm not saying that Flash never crashes. I'm saying that a certain corps of people are eagerly overstating the problem out of some desire to bond with Apple, to be part of something bigger and shinier than themselves.

The beauty part for them is that the claims are unquantifiable and unfalsifiable: I guarantee you're not seeing crash log data from Apple, so unless we go to your house and watch all day to see whether your browser ever crashes (and if then the problem is actually due to Flash & not, say, Saft, Glims, Inquisitor, etc.), we're talking about impressions, not real data. --J.]

====

So if you're having Flash issues in OSX, odds are you're just a lying fanboy.

[edit an hour later: that's how I read it, and I could of course be off base. I mean, he isn't calling everyone a liar but you can't really look at a large group of people and say "50% of you are full of shit" without casting aspersions on all of them. Also, as someone who has been bitching about Flash on Linux and OSX for most of this century, I take offense to the idea that "everything was peachy keen until Apple whipped up a fuss over nothing" (again, I paraphrase from my own perspective).]
The point of failing is to aim for failure by always challenging yourself and expecting that you will "fail" and learn from said failure. The reason why this isn't as bad as it sounds is because quite often when we push ourselves for failure we find that we really succeeded at every goal we had.

Failure stops looking personal and starts looking like feedback, like variables in an equation that you're trying to reverse engineer.

Don't avoid failure is the theme. Embrace it and use it in the feedback system that is your learning process to fine tune your velocity towards your goals.
Microsoft has no part in this. Highgate Media Suite is creating the Ogg Decoder as a Silverlight library.
What about loop variables?
Want to re-allocate them at each step?
as a region becomes denser and zoning laws limit the speed at which the housing market reacts to changes in housing demand you'll see a rise in price vs other goods. this is normal.
Gravity Mobile (http://gravitymobile.com) is looking for smart, experienced, engineers with J2ME/BREW/iPhone/Android/WinMo/Blackberry skills. Email to haseman at gravitymobile dot com.
What is wrong with loops?
WTF 1500??? a day?
Rumors of pascal's demise are greatly exaggerated. I still end up doing an awful lot of coding/maintaining in object pascal. A royal ton of old process management and accounting systems seem to run on it. There was this little patch of time starting in the mid 80s and extending all the way through the 90's where it seems like a lot of stuff was done in pascal.

Just when I think I can finally ditch that windows 2000 VM with Delphi 7 on it, another project dinosaur comes stomping out of the mist.
Want to succeed? Try failing...

SCNR...

Seriously, though, I've come to think of Java as "fear driven development".
Failure is a given in any innovation industry, therefore to be successful you have to be able to tolerate failure, learn from it and move on - not have it be the end of one's career- otherwise nobody will be willing to take on the risk of failure required for success. You can learn from the failures of others, but you never learn as much as from the failures you experience personally.