skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problems with any useful laundry automation schemes I've seen thus far is that they tend to have some real-estate specific requirements (laundry chute, for example) and also tend to require that you own your own home, or at least rent an apartment with a washer/dryer inside, which is not feasible in San Francisco by any means.

An awesome "laundry bot" would:

- Retrieve items from a laundry bin
- Scan the fabric to determine color and type for sorting (knowing to have a dry-clean bin, a woolens bin, a whites bin, a color cottons bin, etc)
- Transport the dirty garments to the cleaning facility
- Perform proper cleaning operations (washing, folding drying)
- Return the laundered garment

The act itself might be triggered by scales or pressure sensors in laundry bins.

It just doesn't seem like it should be that hard. I'm surprised that industrious tinkerers haven't already automated the repetitive, thankless tasks in our lives that we tend to hate like laundry, vacuuming, window washing, (lawn maintenance for you suburbanites, etc.
...In SF in the 80s if you had outstanding parking tickets on your current car (car A) and then sold car A and bought a new car (car B), car A's tickets were no longer tied to you via the city's database. ...I had a friend who knew he was going to get a new car within a year, so he parked where ever he wanted (right on the sidewalks at times) and had a stack of tickets a foot tall within 10 months. He bought a new car and drove happily ever after!
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The torque will be equal but will be equal to that of the spinning wheel, which does not help much.

And it's worse than dynamic vs static friction, in cases where you really need it it's likely the wheels are on different surfaces (one in snow, the other on pavement, for example) and then both wheels will have the torque equivalent of being on snow...
awesome. i have this problem all the time. does this include daly city all the way through to the south bay?
As far as citing the research, I'm not an academic. There's literally tons, measured in paper. I'm not digging through it to prove points, I'll just say that while I'm sure that there are people who don't climb the financial ladder because they're lazy, it's about #10 on the list of factors that negatively impact income mobility. Give or take.

Regarding what feels good to say.. my reasoning signals an appreciation for all the advantages I've had, and an acknowledgement that I'm really not that special, I only had to be moderately smart and hard-working given the opportunities I've had. Take my deviation from the mean and put me in the ghetto, I'm not "climbing the ladder through free enterprise and hard work". You might be more special than me, I don't know.
Please come to Phoenix, Arizona also...
To be fair I'm not sure that's possible. I doubt any company that bribed him is going to admit it and the kid's dishonest so there's no telling how true what he says is. If Techcrunch posts who they think offered a bribe and are wrong that's even worse (not to mention being liable)

I think Techcrunch has done all they can do by deleting every post this guy wrote
> "That's one of the things that is fueling the populist anger we see in the Tea Party movement"

...And simultaneously one of the most ironic things about the Tea Party movement.

While legitimately wondering where their money has gone, they're giving tacit support to policies that would only exacerbate the divide. (lowered taxes, increased selective deregulation, etc)
Well, I guess for their scale, CPU-limiting factors would make compression not worthwhile.

That said, for more common scaling issues, I think compression would be a huge win, especially with Redis-style backends.
I suggest a need for rapid, engineered weight loss systems that don't involve scam artists or guilt, and what do you do, you try to make me feel guilty?

As for anonymous coward, if you're ever in San Francisco, or I'm ever in the netherlands, I will gladly put your dutch ass in a hospital, douchebag.
Every time I go to New York, I’m reminded how lucky I am to live in California
This is quite possibly the first job offering that has made me want to move to LA.
Also for the YouTube deprived, but not the headphone deprived, I've uploaded the audio to my site so you can listen to it, at least.

http://tuneto.us/track/play/15
Think you’re customer obsessed?
Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

But it just feels weird to have that shadow hang over the rest of those companies, they obviously didn't do anything wrong.
Probably the first post that has legitimately made me interested in what a Mac may have to offer. That said, the ergonomics of the iPad look haphazard to me.
Let the VC’s Pitch You at SXSW
I'd be more relieved than pissed. I'd be more pissed off if it was an actual ticket I had to pay!

Edit: I do agree that it could possibly be a bit misleading, but the idea of putting a flyer on cars in areas where there is notorious ticketing could potentially get your product in front of real customers.
Verizon and the Atomic Bomb
For Search: It depends on what you want. If you want a "human powered" real time search, use Twitter. e.g finding out if where a live stream of an event is showing. Or Facebook ad coupon. Something that would more likely be put out there by a human.

For Tweeting, I use it more like a public chat system
This article fails to mention the main benefit of final - it gives you much stricter guarantees for concurrency under the Java Memory Model. If you create an immutable object and the fields are final, you can immediately pass the object to another thread without synchronisation - this is not safe if the fields are not final but are otherwise immutable.

For this reason we enforce that all object member fields must be final if possible, but we don't enforce it for local variables or method parameters. There are benefits to be had by doing that as well but IMO the benefit outweighs the return (and our IDE, IntelliJ, warns us if we reuse a local variable or method parameter).
I think he believes that the lack of new homes is evidence that people don't expect prices to go up in the future.

It is a "good thing" for home prices, but it is also evidence of a much larger "bad thing".
Agree with the author, but not yet willing to substitute it for my iPod touch (which fits into my pocket) or my laptop (which I believe is better for entering text, which is still my primary means of communication and work on the Web).

Curious to see what kind of apps and interfaces are built for the platform in the years to come. That could make me change my mind for future versions.
It's easy to prove as well - meritocratic societies seem to have survived and won over communal societies.
Extended families get a little more hip now that banks aren't giving out money for nothing any more.
Do modern cars no longer lower the drive shaft as in this video? I haven't really seen a sedan with a flat floor in the rear for some time (ever, in my lifetime anyway). Is it just that the floors have been lowered so much that you can't really lower the drive shaft any further?
Hi Pieter, thanks a lot fot GitX! Really nice git tool.
IBM demonstrates manufacturing process for creating 100GHZ graphene transistors
Trulia is looking for a few good search engineers. In SF, good culture, not too big, not too small. Java but not enterprise java, hadoop, solr, lucene. Great place to work.
http://www.trulia.com/jobs
Facebook is always hiring, check them out @ http://www.facebook.com/careers/?ref=pf
Reminds me of the importance of a good product manager. So many big software shops develop product today on the "feature level". As a result, developers and "managers" lose sight of the customer's workflow. Understanding the product from entry to exit and seeing how all of the pieces fit together is critical to creating a good product.
Maybe you had to be in the right mood for it. I found it very entertaining, though long. I liked the neophilia vs neophobia with mushrooms. Referring back to the white-on-yellow highlighting several paragraphs along is a clever way to unify the piece. I suspect the author spent quite some time writing this -- it only appears to be a disorganized rambling rant.
"Gordon Ramsey, in his auto-biography, defended his obsessive perfectionist nature..."

Ramsay! It's Gordon Ramsay!
Ok, it's the third time in less than two weeks that I'm going to pitch it, but I think it's for good reason: I think that a good solution to all of these "who's hiring" threads is on the website that I'm working on.

Please take a look at http://job4dev.com. We want to make it more than a simple job board. Our goal with this site is to make it a tool where people can do research about the job market on their own. A "wikipedia of the tech market", if you will.

Things that are relevant to recruiters: posting jobs is free, provided there is enough information about the company and the nature of the project.

Things that relevant for job seekers: you can get custom RSS feeds, based on location (you can filter by country or state), type of job (part-time, contract...) or by tags. So if you are a Python programmer in Boston, you might be interested in this: http://job4dev.com/jobs/feed?province=MA&country=USA&...

Just for now, you don't need even to create an account to use the website.

I added myself some companies: I got listings from Mixpanel (http://job4dev.com/company/mixpanel) and AdMob (http://job4dev.com/company/admob).

Please, take a look and help me help you to find a job. :)
i live right by there. i like the 4 lane wide exit to shoreline... totally unnecessary except when there's concerts at the amphitheater.
I'm impressed with the amount of venom that you can muster for something that I simply did not understand properly, and that you apparently do not seem to want to elaborate on.

Also the fact that you are not prepared to accept an apology and simply clear up the misunderstanding but instead prefer a fight is quite unlike what is usual on HN.

I'm posting here under my own name, my email address is in my profile and all my domains are linked to my business addresses, I couldn't possibly be less anonymous than that.

You on the other hand are 'someone in San Francisco', last I checked there were quite a few people living there so I hope you don't mind my still calling you an AC.

This is not the 'ok corral' and we're not going to shoot it out at noon. Try to be a little bit more reasonable and put your question in to perspective if you want to be understood.
It's not a substitute - It's another device with different use cases. Reminds me of the part of the Stevenote where he was talking about the iPhone and MacBook and then talked about where the iPad fit in. For me it's for casual couch/bedside computing. I always tinker around with my iPhone, read HN, etc before going to bed, so the iPad would fit in perfectly there for me. (P.S. - hey ian!)
What Kind of Tax Relief Would Create the Most Jobs?
IMFT is hiring.

http://www.imftech.com

https://imflash.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobsearch.ftl?...

Electrical/Computer Engineers with strong programming (C/C++) skills are welcome to apply for the Probe Test Engineer position.
It's people like that who make reasonable people (who are capable of following basic societal rules) want to smash things.
Roach Post: Working With The Tech/Biz Elite And What I Learned
tl;dr: When judged on their merit stupid people get upset. However if wealth and status are allocated randomly every loser has an excuses in randomness of luck. Author believes the latter is a better world.
The issue there is that unless you're posting a link to a blog entry you wrote (that allows you to make that such a disclaimer), HN will only display the link. I don't think we should start encouraging content-less blog entries that allow us to fully disclose that we're being told to post something. Just post it if it's worth posting, don't if it's not.
This post makes an interesting point about the nature of co-operation in competition. It sounds very much like the Nash equilibrium in game theory.
My name is Michael T. Halligan. My email address is michael@halligan.org. I am very easy to find, and will happily teach you the consequences for trying to make people feel bad about their bodies.
AboutUs is hiring: http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs

We have a lot of interesting challenges--if you want to deal with tons of data and pretty high traffic this is a pretty great place to be.

We're primarily Ruby/Rails. A new project features HAML, SASS, and well-factored javascript. We use Scala for some heavy lifting. We use MySQL, Memcached, Tokyo Cabinet, and are evaluating Cassandra for our backend. It's a challenging place to work.
While I'm sure you're right that stupider things are done by 17 year old kids everyday, the same thing could be said about 25 year olds...
I must admit I hadn't considered people actually pay attention to who submits stuff. I don't. The HN interface makes it too painful to do so.. no avatars for quick visual scanning, etc. It sounds like work.
It's the normal evolution of a community website - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433896
Panjiva, a NYC/Boston startup I worked for last summer, is hiring (http://panjiva.com/jobs). Their web app uses Rails and they're looking for a web app engineer and an information retrieval engineer.
There's a benefit from a publisher's view point to focusing on a single standard.

If HTML5 gets similar market share to Flash, I imagine in the long run most content publisher will choose the one that's better supported and easier to implement rather than maintain support for both - for the same reason that many now choose only Flash, rather than Flash+Silverlight+whatever.
Robert May favorably mentioned this on his blog here: http://coconutheadsets.com/2010/01/27/the-first-hand-experie...

They received some funding for http://www.backupify.com/, which allows you to backup/restore data from social websites (Facebook, Twitter, etc...).
Yea, I think you are right that that is his thinking, but I still think the logic is flawed.

Sales of homes by homebuilders are under a much different dynamic than existing homes sold by homeowners. Homebuilders can and will reduce supply while they wait for the prospect of better profit margins even while existing home sales are showing increased demand.
I actually just bought a Mac two days ago for the first time (to do iPad development :-). I had always resisted because I thought "Windows and Linux were such an effort to learn, why would I want to learn another OS?"

Suffice to say, I haven't spent a second so far trying to figure something out in OSX that wasn't immediately obvious. Part of this is because I already have a background in other OSes, part of it is because it really is cleanly designed.

Bottom line, if you're a hacker and have been avoiding Macs because of the effort of learning another OS, I can tell you it'll be a piece of cake for you- Take the leap.
I don't know why this was downvoted, I disagree with you, but this does show reasoning.

I do not think I am in a mono-culture though. I am rather focused on few subsets that share some interests with me. That interest is what makes them important to me, but within those communities of importance I am exposed to a variety of viewpoints outside that particular interest.

I do not think that this leads to political polarization. Now, if the only "interest communities" were by political party this may be true, but for someone with non-political party "interest communities" you are likely to be exposed to a wide variety of politicals views. I have both major parties and some independents in my workplace for instance.

A relative handful of people taking society's spoils for itself and isolating themselves from the rest of society.

This is a non-sequitor from your other points. Greater political polarization does not imply a greater divide between rich or poor.

As for how it ends, that depends on how people get their wealth. If they get it by creating new wealth and innovation, then yes it will end well. Yes, there will then be enormous division between the wealthy and the poor, but the wealthy will become wealthy precisely by improving the world for everyone, including the poorest. Also in such a society the poor have at least a chance to become wealthy (perhaps not a statistically good one, but a genuince chance).

If they become wealthy through taking of taxes, wealth redistribution, or outright theft, then the end will be predictably horrible.

One place to look for a well thought out reasoning of this is http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html .
If Flash opens, HTML5 adoption won't matter as much. It would still be a nice goal, but its urgency would be greatly diminished.

Flash already meets a large portion of the needs addressed by HTML5 but Adobe's blobs are almost universally inadequate. HTML5 immediately becomes less attractive in the face of an open Flash, as Flash has a huge library of existing content, a huge base of existing developers, and Flash does much of what HTML5 does, but Flash is ill-favored right now because Adobe holds it far too close to chest.

An open Flash would mean implementation on the iPhone and other important platforms.

Some might say it's too late for that, but I don't agree. Flash is on the brink right now; if it opens, it can have a place forever. If it stays closed, it will die away forever in favor of HTML5.

What if Adobe acted more like an ActionScript standardization committee than the exclusive Flash vendor? Leave the implementation to groups who can customize it according to their needs (like, maybe they need Flash to work on a capacitive multi-touch device, or maybe they need it to work well on a non-Windows OS or non-x86 platform).

Flash wants to play as an integral part of the web, but it will never be able to last if it doesn't get free. The internet was able to grow to what it is today because it is built on free techs.

Flash is at the point where it has outgrown single-entity control and needs to be opened if it is to retain its ubiquity. The web runs on all kinds of devices and platforms and they all have special needs -- if you want to play here, you can't expect everyone to conform to your single distributed blob. Openness is the only way to keep prominence as a widespread web technology.

It's a little late, but I think Flash could still be saved if Adobe opened it now. Otherwise, it will shortly be killed by open alternatives like HTML5.
well sure. you can always phrase making something more accessible as "for dumb people". I doubt this kind of dim view of your customer base is highly correlated with successful business though.
This is the first posting I've agreed with on the iPad however my issue is that the title is misleading. A better title would be,"The iPad is for people who know what they want."

It doesn't multitask. It doesn't let you install whatever you want. It doesn't do 1080p. It will potentially deliver a browsing, music and video experience that is good enough at 1.6lbs.

Of course this isn't everything, there is the crucial fact that it doesn't matter if you hate or love it, or if you are some world class tech blogger. People buy stuff they want.
It matters, because if you're spending more time in your house, you're likely spending less money outside your house.

A fancy kitchen might correlate to fewer restaurant meals and less prepared food purchases.

A media room might correlate to less money spent on theater or movie tickets.

Sure, there needs to be a budget, but your post denies that household spending can be reallocated from one column to another.
Ask HN: Who is hiring (entry level)
This is not a post for companies looking for star hackers/ninjas who have years of working experience. This is also not a post for summer interns. This is a post for companies that are offering interesting and challenging entry level jobs to recent graduates.
End the Ice Age
Another interesting thing is that birds represent an evolutionary road not taken. All modern birds are descended from a small theropod dinosaur, possibly _Velociraptor deinonychus_ itself -- a more plausible candidate for the star of "Jurassic Park" than _V. mongoliensis_, although it was only re-classified as a velociraptor in the late 1990s. It probably ran, fought, and foraged like a crane (although this is convergent evolution, as cranes probably evolved from small shorebirds called rails), and may have looked like something halfway between a crane and an eagle.

Of course, no intelligent birds exist, but we can see enough of the personalities of some species to get a sense of how an intelligent bird might act. They'd probably be less tribal, less extended-family-oriented, less self-serving than humans, more aloof and self-reliant, more like a startup founder... but also much more violent and warlike, as no avian however large has the same instinctive reluctance to kill a member of its own species that all large mammals share.

I don't know nearly as much about the _other_ path not taken, the cephalopods -- but I've read enough about the behavior of Humboldt's and giant squid when confronted by an unfamiliar sight to get the impression that there is a reason why nature didn't manage to take it. Unlike squid, octopodes are not psychotic, but they're easily bored and they have a malicious sense of humor. The urban legend of the octopus who waits until the lights are out and the aquarium-keepers have left, then crawls out of the water and goes over to the neighboring fish tank to have a snack before slipping back to his own tank before the morning, has happened any number of times.

Little-known medieval trivia point: if St. Thomas Aquinas was right about a certain speculation, the study of avian and cephalopod behaviors is probably a prudent one. Aquinas believed that if other worlds capable of supporting intelligent life exist, they _would_ be populated by intelligent beings, since God wouldn't let a perfectly good dwelling-place for souls go to waste. The only question, to the medieval mind, was whether such worlds existed (and, secondarily, whether Christ would have come to them separately had they fallen, or whether it would have been necessary to convert them to Catholicism; for more on this mindset, read C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy and perhaps Poul Anderson's _The High Crusade_).
you clearly didn't RTFA.
Linode Manager for iPhone
I don't want to imagine a person so wretched they would prefer to ruin the world rather than understand their position in it as below average. I can think of little more depressing.

You setup a straw man by simplifying their grievance to an abstract understanding of ones position. People who are below average live genuinely miserable lives in a meritocracy. WHY shouldn't they ruin the world? It was cruel of the world to create them (never mind fooling them into becoming attached to being alive). HOW is randomly allocating power and privilege any different than the random allocation of cognitive abilities?
thanks for the tip. Ill be there
it's just the beta version people! Eventually, it'll have a camera and multi-tasking. For crying out loud!

In a forum full of entrepreneurs, it seems no one has any empathy for a company releasing a new product without all the bells and whistles. There's a huge amount of hypocrisy here from a group that espouses "Release early, release often."
"If we capture only 1% of this market... we'll be rich!"
On http://www.sticket.net/request/ if I type "denver, co" in the first field and hit tab, the field gets blanked out. Safari 4 on OSX 10.5.
It's not a substitute - It's another device with different use cases.

Most people have a resistance to having to own too many devices though. If the iPad doesn't get at least one killer app that really doesn't work as well on an iPhone or a laptop, then it won't go anywhere.
Eventbrite is hiring a frontend dev, a serious python backend engineer, and a UX expert.

If that's you, email me at luke at eventbrite. Awesome, profitable, growing, Sequoia-backed company.
Posterous is hiring frontend engineers, designers, and Rails hackers!

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