skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely. If my kid grows up to be a garbageman, it will not bother me, if that's what he wants to do. (I pick that as a stereotypical low status job.)

I mean, as much as I love my programming job, if you don't want your job to be your life, something like a garbageman has some advantages. The job doesn't come home with you, it's outdoors, physical, you can make a living. None of this particularly appeals to me (other than the "make a living" part which I'm fine with :) ), but it takes all kinds. (Given that my kid is under two years old, the only consideration I'd have is the relatively high risk of automation, but that's not something we can easily predict now.)

And I do agree with your counterargument on the topic of "women in computer science", for what it's worth. I think it's actually both issues in play, which makes it more complicated.
It seems largely self-serving, since VCs want companies to shoot for big payoffs, and therefore having one individual company fail doesn't really cause them any pain. They're not the ones losing their jobs.
We have a problem because we allow this to happen. The system doesn't exist as an independent entity. The system, however constituted, is a reflection upon those upon whom it operates. We choose what we allow to fly, and our generations are stuck with the responsibility, however you slice it.

For instance, people could look at a 50yr/0% loan and say, "There's no way I am going to wager on something for 50 years, that is crazy, also 0% APR means a tricky, tricky bank". Instead, we eat that kind of stuff up, because all we think about is getting what we want and getting it now. People are too excited to think ahead.

Same goes for government. You can wax on about corruption in politics all the day long, but as long as you're propping up the same institutions by electing the same incumbents or their alter-egos in the two main parties or patronizing major media corporations, you're a part of the cause. If the people were unwilling to accept corruption, there wouldn't be any.

The solution is to change the system by the individual action and perspective that will diminish the entrenched badness, and to spread these philosophies among friends. Alteration by artifice as government intervention is not effective -- whatever laws you pass, the same practices will resurface in new robes because the population can still be exploited. The population will remain exploitable until they change their conceptions and actions, no matter what you do with the government.

The reaction to the housing crisis is a dog and pony show meant to appease populist fervor without causing significant disruption in "business as usual" for either the consumer or its providers.

It has done no good, and it could not have done any good. We need an ideological shift, not band-aids, talking points, or press releases.
Hi Noah!
Neat idea - how do you organize the payment of those tickets?
It's about the 150th article to appear on this particular theme here.
Me and a friend have a running joke/friendly rivalry about how I started coding when I was 7, and he started when he was 6... but he's a year younger than me, so we have the same number of years of experience.
AdMob is still hiring software and operations engineers for a variety of different roles. E-mail jobs@, visit http://www.admob.com/home/jobs, or e-mail me directly at kevin@admob.com.
nearly forgot - I'm chris@dropio.com
Except newbie programmers should keep in mind that final is not simply synonymous with immutability.

final ArrayList x = new ArrayList(); // x is final, so it can't be reassigned
x.add( "foo" ); // but we can still modify its contents
For your information, Grant Skinner has been one of the most well known Flash developer and entrepreneur for the last decade. This post brings a very interesting and down to earth perspective on the current Flash debate.
Except this is not just a rookie mistake. Turning something in late because you're still getting your bearings is a mistake. He knowingly misled anyone who read his posts. Maybe if he was offered a bribe it would be more understandable, he could have just thought of it as an extra gift and not be completely familiar with the legal implications.

But he knowingly asked for a bribe in return for writing a post. His actions shows an actual personality flaw, not inexperience.

I think it's a fair trade-off, a young person is given the chance to take on an important role while being expected to show a certain level of maturity.
If you do, I suggest checking out the Open Angel Forum. We just had the boulder event on Wednesday night and it went really well.

We are going to expand to 10 cities this year, including SF, Palo Alto, NY, Boston, Shanghai, Seattle and Atlanta.

-- 100 folks apply for five slots.
-- 20 uber-angels in the room (at least four investments in the past year)
-- no fees to startups or angels

best jason
www.twitter.com/openangelforum
Many cities have online parking ticket payment systems, so paying for the tickets can be easily done with a credit card.
We are at Performable. We're located in the Boston area and open to telecommuters for the right person.

More details here: http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Software_Developer_1984_1.aspx
I will take full responsibility for this. I felt weird submitting my own content, so I asked my friend to submit it on my behalf, which is obviously much worse. I have since learned that submitting your own content is encouraged, so I am basically a dumb ass and humbly apologize to the HN community and to zitterbewegung for asking him in the first place.

-Jeff from Wolfire
Apple Takes the Word Android Out of iTunes App Description - Apple - Gizmodo
The background image is a jpg with compression artifacts. Use PNG, and if you can, a different font.
Uh, no, this subject is a tangent and we shouldn't really get into it here.

However, a couple of general statements: There are reams of genetic and psychometric data available. More than enough to develop pretty good idea when and where the most probable selection events for good brain genes occurred and how fast they spread. Your word 'premature' tells me something about your acquaintance with that data.

Also, there is one very simple rule: totally genetically isolated communities only have access to their own mutations. Their population is small, so the number of mutations is also small. Non-isolated communities get swept by every positive selection event that comes along.
Why the down-vote?
Blue Frog Gaming is always looking for hackers to help us make social games. Experience with RoR or Actionscript is a plus but not mandatory.
My employer, Liaison International is looking for web developers, preferably Perl hackers but anyone good who can pick up Perl is welcome too. We're in Watertown, MA and our customers are higher education boards. Email me (my username, google's email service) or visit http://www.liaison-intl.com/careers/.
That claim is utterly bogus. There's no indication that the languages have anything in particular to do with Africa, and indeed, no evidence that the language has 'evolved' more or less than any other. There is nothing unique to Andamanese languages to support the rapidly multiplying claims that they're 'ancient' or 'neolithic'. They're just isolated.
It doesn't like you want to spend a lot of time trying to become a premiere designer, but you are sick of hearing about how your sites look like they were designed by a programmer. Why don't you trade services with a kick ass designer and finally give your sites the makeover they deserve?
Yes, please!

Signed,
foldl
Webs.com, right outside Washington DC (Silver Spring, MD).

Looking for a front-end developer (HTML/CSS/JS) - email me if you're interested: ryan@webs.com
CitrixOnline (makers of GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToMyPC, etc.) has a number of positions in the Santa Barbara / San Francisco area for software engineers, primarily using Java.

http://www.citrixonline.com/careers.tmpl
>In Venezuela, Chavez is nationalizing everything that shows a dissent voice.

Although, one has to wonder how (say) CNN would be treated in the US if it openly supported a coup against Obama.
Sure, I couldn't afford a NeXTCube in 1990. But by 1993 I was running NeXTstep on my generic intel hardware, a full two years prior to the release of Windows 95. (Incidentally, I also had the pleasure of running it on a SPARC laptop made by Tadpole, and on one of the HP PA-RISC "gecko" machines, but those were owned by employers. I could afford to run it on a PC, though.) But, you're right, people continued to believe that NeXTstep required a $10000 machine long after it did not.
mapreduce vs dbms (Hadoop, Vertica, DBMS−X performance)
comparison results are at the end of the PDF:
http://database.cs.brown.edu/sigmod09/benchmarks-sigmod09.pdf
thanks. Yeah, graphics are definitely not my forte. I'm going to have a designer-friend make me a new image. Do you think poor logos/images detract substantially from a site's credibility/first impression?
Yeah, I think the frustrating thing about angel fundraising is that it isn't really fair. You're smart, you've got a good idea, but no one really wants to invest in you unless you've already succeeded with a previous idea/company OR your current idea is already succeeding.

In other words, they are looking for a small-but-growing fire in a huge/dry forest they can throw gasoline on. Most people on that list are a little pile of wood that needs a spark. And they are in a foggy stand of trees that MIGHT be a forest, but might just be a few trees on a hillside. Vast majority of investors aren't in the spark business, they are in the gasoline business.

http://twitter.com/joshk/statuses/8034018934
Bizo is looking for a UI/UX person in the SF/Bay Area. We are a good group of people and the company is growing fast. We recently came in second place in the Amazon Web Services Challenge and also raised about 6M from Bessemer Venture Partners.

Most of the eng team are HN lurkers and/or commenters...

Drop me a line: donnie at bizo
Thanks! Now I know what to look for. It seems the "electronic limited slip differential system" is what I want, as my main trouble is getting out of icy parking spots.
/s/because they chose homes they couldn't afford/because the banks approved mortgages they couldn't afford/
Toppcloud and Django
NASA’s new generation of robots can go to space and build cars
Improving Usability: Heinz Revamps Ketchup Packets
Have you looked at http://thecrucible.org/ ? Perhaps they could put you in touch with someone.
:). I didn't mean it like that. I meant that when I'm reading code, I know to pay extra attention when something is not final. There will always be non-final variables around, for instance 'previousItem' to track the previous item through a loop. Added some words to the parent to clarify.
Yeah. They don't even start with rails 3 installed with an error of missing required files. I even tried reinstalling mongrel/thin. No luck. Why was that original post voted down?
YHP Interviews Online Guru - Raj Lahoti
We're looking for Rails and Flex developers: http://www.blurb.com/join_us

edit: And helping people make books is cool! :)
Just get those ads out of there. Other than that it's fine. A little plain, but not bad at all. I'm also a fan of the minimalist web.
They have a page with their history (http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoHistoria.aspx) that says that they started in 1946 aiming to "create a new independent magazine with no political colours, in order to fill the analysis void left by the newspapers, which are too busy with the day-to-day news".

They were closed in 1961 because they put Fidel Castro on the cover, and reopened in 1983.

I'll stay neutral on this one and let you decide what they are...
Please include Philly. I can help organize if needed.
Because the 2 hours per day of exercise and 1800 calorie diet I'm on clearly states that I'm a glutton? How about this, the next time I'm in the Netherlands to ride with my friends in the Grandfathers, I'll teach you some self control. Jerk.
Ah! Who else is better than Gmail creator to kill Gmail? Provided Paul Buchheit is still with Facebook after their acquisition of FriendFeed.
I'm looking for a freelance developer to build against a business plan. I have a $15K budget at present. Selling tickets and downloads. adrian at bopgig dot com for further info.

I might do front-end work.
If I had to chose between my tax money going towards letting people sit at home and watch day time TV or letting them get an education, I'll happily choose the latter every time.

Secondly, we're talking about 16 year old kids here. If there is one thing that is pretty much universally true about teenagers it's that they're not very smart. Ask your avg. 16-18 year old high school dropout about the connection between education and jobs and they'll no doubt give you a long list of people who did perfectly fine without a high school diploma. They turn on their TVs and see people making millions without any education at all. Those are their role models. Then they look out their window and see college educated people just as unemployed as they are. Many kids don't see the connection between education as jobs. Telling people who later in life realized they might have made the wrong choice "hey you had a chance when you where a kid, too bad if you missed it", is not doing anyone any favours.
Generally speaking, it matters a lot. The idea behind your project is pretty cool and useful. A more attractive design will definitely help you acquire new customers.
LinkedIn is hiring across all our groups. Mostly a java shop, we are also working with Scala (and, semi-covertly, Clojure (at least I am at any rate)). http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobs_open
Yahoo! is hiring
Here's a calculator that I came up with that will "appraise" a house based on inflation normalized Case-Shiller home value data.

It also spits out a couple of nice graphs so you can compare against historical values.

http://homepricer.appspot.com/
RDocs should still work if you generate them.
I recommend Mark Boulton's book, Designing for the Web:
http://www.fivesimplesteps.co.uk/
Just to entertain the idea. Let's say that if you want to go to college you get the money at 18. If you want to buy a house you get the money at 20. If you want to start a business; you get 100k at 22, and 150k at 26. To ensure that you are mature enough, and have a chance to fail(and learn) once.

I know that adding rules makes things more complicated and can have unintended consequences.
Gestalt Principles of Perception: Figure Ground Relationships
Well I was referring to the incident we have been told about: where the company did not resort to bribery.

Also I'd point out that really if the way it goes down is "give me a laptop if you want a [good] review" and they pay up that is actually racketeering :)
Hm, you're probably right. The assumption of monogamy is a lot more prevalent and consequential than the assumption of heterosexuality as far as our marriage laws and customs go.
I had a chance to chat with them - I honestly think lunascript and its platform is the core product. The productivity app they're building is a first show case (and in-house infrastructure)
I'm working (slowly) on the iPhone and Android Augmented Reality kits (open source). We could always use help, check it here

http://github.com/haseman/Android-AR-Kit/

and here

http://github.com/zac/iphonearkit/
Thanks! Since I run http://statsheet.com http://embed.statsheet.com http://statplot.com http://stat.us and http://statfix.com I guess I'd say I'm interested in sports analytics ;-)
You're right, but perhaps it is slowly changing. YC et al. have shown funding sparks in small amounts makes sense. That should trickle down eventually.

For me personally, I could see investing in sparks if the teams were right. At that level, you need to really believe in the people.

It's hard when they have no history, but I think connections are possible. In particular, as a hacker entrepreneur, I think I can decently spot other people with that mentality.
I'd put a big disclaimer in there somewhere that you're absolutely not responsible for late fees or anything else if your service fails. Not just for legal reasons, but because there are many non-technical people that don't understand the possibility that a service like this could fail (not to mention the small group of dummies who will undoubtedly think that your website is sanctioned by the state of CA).
In particular, Yahoo Mail is hiring top Javascript and front-end programmers. We have wicked smart people working on one of the most popular apps on the web, and we're looking for more. Drop me a line; my email is in my profile.
You are right about Halo, but it is Microsoft's only RoK exclusive franchise so far IMO. I.e. if both Microsoft and Sony were to launch a new system with a new iteration of one of their best franchises, Halo is the only weapon in Microsoft's arsenal that would enable them to sell more systems than Sony. Gears of War and Mass Effect are great, but they won't individually beat MGS, God of War, Uncharted or Gran Turismo.

During the previous generation of consoles, exclusives were a huge reason why the PS2 ended up on top I think. Its line-up in 2001 alone was incredible: Gran Turismo 3, GTA 3 , MGS2, Twisted Metal: Black, Devil May Cry, Onimusha Warlords, etc.
Ask HN: What to do when friends of friends seek "hookups" for jobs at my org?
Social networks have made it easy for people whom I don't know to find out that I work at a well-known design agency. Friends of Facebook friends, connections of LinkedIn connections, and other distant acquaintances occasionally contact me to help them avoid having their resume lost in the shuffle.

I don't mind helping very close friends or other people I would feel comfortable vouching for. But I do mind advancing someone's resume if I've only met them once and/or they weren't particularly impressive.

It'd be nice to say, "Sure, here's the email of our HR guy. Good luck." - but people will always start the email to the HR guy with, "I'm a friend of [My Name], and he told me to send you my resume for the so-and-so position." I want to avoid this implied endorsement, because my professional reputation suffers when sub-par applicants don't get the job.

I also don't want to have to tell people not to use my name, because it comes off as rude or unwilling to help.

Maybe I'm hoping for too perfect a solution or trying to avoid the natural complexities of human interaction. If so, I can make a decision and deal with the consequences. But I wanted to check if anyone here has experience or advice in handling situations like this.

Thanks.
52 Weeks of UX
US government auto holdings plus pressure for Toyota recall: a sensitive issue
I'm pretty positive it was from HN users. I've shared other spreadsheets in the past publicly and never seen random people on them beyond the community with which I shared them.
Hachette Joins Macmillan in E-Book War Against Amazon
So maybe I shouldn't buy this $200K foreclosure?

Some actual actionable advice from a comment there:

""
If you are agonizing about whether to buy real estate now or later, maybe you'd better define "real estate"

It's hard to see the value in buying a "suburban middle class home in CT" right now, or a year or three down the line if/when prices dive again. You may as well rent it and save a lot of money (and headaches) if all you are gonna do is park your car, watch TV and sleep there. Call that "fake estate"

If you want your real property to produce anything of real value, the best time to buy was yesterday, and you could already be at work building the soil, planting fruit trees and garden beds, installing some distributed energy source like solar or wind, and improving the structure. It takes a few years at least to get this sort of thing going, especially if you are doing it after work and on weekends. Invest in infrastructure during this so-called "deflationary period" and take advantage of gov't subsidies and tax breaks for energy efficient appliances, insulation, solar panels, whatever.

If things really are gonna be so grim, you are probably soon going to be at best "underemployed" and maybe even a little hungry...

Here's another idea - rent your house, and buy some cheap agricultural land within an hour's drive or less (go in with your friends and/or family maybe and it'll be even cheaper) and lease it to an organic farmer. That property may actually appreciate quite a bit in the coming years.

Or if you are not cut out to be a farmer, buy a multi-unit that you can fix up, live in and rent out the other units.

The whole point of real estate ownership used to be that it was a factor of production, not a financial abstraction that magically provides some rate of return while you rent it from the bank. If you are not going to improve the property in some way, and realize some income from it, don't bother buying it. If all you are willing to invest in life is fiat currency, you may eventually get lucky and get it back by the wheelbarrow full, with many more zeroes on it.
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San Diego tech startup mixer (Tech Cocktail) next week
Tech Cocktail, San Diego CA
Siri Assistant Turns Your iPhone into a Personal Assistant
Actually, the US civilian market is very big (heck, consumption of ammo is above 5 billion rounds a year). Enough that FN has been pleasantly surprised by demand for the PS90, civilians are snapping up SCARs as fast as FN can make civilian models above the demands of the military (they made lemonade out of a batch of aluminum receiver parts that had been anodized to the wrong shade and sold them as a special edition).

The nationwide sweep of shall issue concealed carry licensing has sharply increased demand for carry handguns. While people like me are happy with modernized M1911s for full sized guns, others aren't and new popular models are still coming out. Probably the biggest explosion is in "mouseguns", small .380 or 9mm handguns that are easier to conceal, especially in the summer. Many new models have come out recently.

I'd say the area of "black guns" (widely construed, not just AR-15 derived) is pretty healthy. Lots of stuff happening with AR-15 pattern guns (including driving them with pistons), lots of people looking for alternatives and various companies are delivering in one way or another.

Compared to aerospace, there's got to be hundreds more companies that someone could go to work for. Aerospace went bust in the early '70s and never recovered. The US civilian firearms market may be iffy as the economy continues to sour and the Democrats continue to treat gun control like a new third rail, but I'd sure pick firearms over aerospace, if for no other reason than there being such a range of OEMs (in sizes, from garage sized outfits to giants like FN, S&W and Ruger).
You should stick Arial at the bottom if your first-choice font is something similar in x-height and design sensibility, because it will make your site stay more consistent in design. If your first-choice font is a completely unrelated sans-serif, then there's no reason to put Arial at the end.

Thus, you’ll notice that in this particular article, Arial is at the end of the “Helvetica” stack, but not at the end of the “Gill Sans” stack.

Also, DejaVu Sans Mono is never going to keep design continuity with the site’s intended sans-serif font, because it’s monospace.
It's a 21+ only event (since there is alcohol), and the ticket is $10.

I'll be going, looking forward to see the SD tech startup community
Feynman has a way of doing that. I'm about 6 years into a Tuvan Throat Singing Obsession because of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1pcEtHI_w

Wait till about 20seconds in before you hear the most amazing thing in the history of music.
The fact is that men like both women/men targeted designs, while women don't like men targeted designs. (I can't find the source, but it's in the sources of an A List apart article[1])

[1] Related: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/wiwa/