skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found his web site is interesting, including this "guide to conceptual illustration":
http://christophniemann.com/man/bpages/gallery6.html
Your proposed pay rate definitely has the "hungry" aspect covered.
ebay's paper on BASE: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1394128

(I believe this is where the term originated)
The proper solution would be

1. Standardize the package format (say, a directory containing this-and-that).

2. Standardize where the packages go for personal and root installation.

3. Have an emacs package manager, that deliberately does not use its own metadata, but always uses the implied metadata of the packages in their locations.

4. Therefore, it doesn't matter what tool put the packages in place, so long as they are in place.

5. So use the built in package manager, or apt, or rpm, or whatever you prefer.
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In other news: Coke runs advertising without mentioning Pepsi. Sports coming up next.

Honestly, is this really news? Company X writes an article and fails to mention a competitor? Where's the conspiracy?
This barely passed my HN threshold. I hovered over delete after I posted it. I agree with you entirely, but ultimately reached the same conclusion as you - that it was geeky and original enough. It also helped that it was the only thing interesting to me in this morning's paper.

To be honest, I'm worried more about videos like John Stewart. But it hasn't happened enough to be truly worried.
Today, I found something I didn't know, which actually existed on iPhone
You don't find the execution clever? Is it original at least?
Edit: I replied to the wrong comment somehow - my apologies, I meant to reply to the person who was talking about marriage=prison.
Same here. I caught myself drifting off to personal experiences with scrum meetings that take over an hour and unnecessary management speeches, stalling tactics, the constant interruptions, etc.

If you read SvN you have already seen all the material, it's more of a refresher course and a motivational push to GTFO of here and start something.
Well, I hand code ActionScript using a vanilla editor and use the command line compiler and I still find Flex/Flash easier to use than Canvas.
I personally like these posts occasionally because sometimes seeing how someone can create an interesting and/or different type of visualization - makes you think more about how people perceive things and how you can change the way you present to improve perception and possibly be fun or entertaining.

I'm sure it violates the Google Map TOS to modify their maps so it would be an interesting two-weekend project to create a mashup of OpenStreetMaps and phrases/sets of concepts/questions to generate these automatically. It could go viral.

First step would be calculating intersections and the angle of intersection for a limited geographic area. Then build a UI that lets users rate the "divergence" of the statements or entities they want to visualize. Then map the set of user input to your intersection db. It might be hard to teach an algorithm how to make it visually appealing but that Words app did it.

Word cloud: http://neoformix.com
Never used it but might help? collabfinder.com
My first internship had 6 of us sitting around a table, churning out code, just after my freshman year. Best thing I've done for my programming, easily. The supervisor did a good job bringing us all up to speed, and we ended up picking up C# and their framework in about a week and a half (they had a huge codebase already), and some of us learned Progress in the same time period (old english-like query & character-UI language).

The important parts for us to being up and running quickly, and being productive? Nearly full-time access to one of their main developers for the first two weeks, they knew precisely what was needed (lots of similar code, but not similar enough to DRY up), and we were in the same room. For at least half the summer, we were throwing questions back and forth every couple minutes when we couldn't remember something, and the vast majority of the time one of us would remember. Immediate question & response was absolutely invaluable, and I think was the single most important tool to speed-learning what we needed to know. As time went on our tasks diverged and we knew more, so we didn't need questions answered as often, but it was massively useful at the beginning.

Of course, it didn't hurt that they paid quite well. Motivation is always useful.
Investors usually don't start big projects using all of their own coin. THey'll usually put something like 30-40% to get the ball rolling. It acts as a catalyst for other investors to join in. They'll probably get the remaining 60% through private investors, hedge funds, and the government.

Between the 2 of them they have more than enough money to see this project through. Since there is only one other competitor and plenty of demand this is as sure a bet as you're going to get.
This is a list of the mostly modest startups created by ex-Googlers. Look for the "View As One Page"link at the bottom.
My experience is that different personalities stay stressed in different ways. E.g., I very much tend to do the former, and have repeatedly picked partners who tended to do the latter. It sure makes for dysfunctional relationships.
I look at "this whole thread," look at the orange bar at the top of the page and think, "no, wait this isn't reddit!"
Crowded offices can be good for climbing a learning curve.

Exactly my experience for my first internship, though it was far from that crowded. We picked up C# and a large framework (and some, a second language) well enough to be productive in a week and a half. (my top-level comment has more details)
I've seen Niemann's work before and am always happy to find out when he does something new. What I find remarkable is how his style is so identifiable and consistent while each individual piece maintains a high degree of originality and surprise. Thanks for posting.
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I've pondered the same thing and ended up going with Founder. Sometimes I'll use Developer or "Developer Founder". Tried out Creator for a bit but I thought that sounded uppity.
> Most of your time is still spent editing text. Or if it isn't, you're not getting enough done.

Are you sure? I would expect that the process of physically typing in the changes you want to make takes only a fairly small amount of time, certainly much less than understanding the code that will be changed or designing the new part.

However, the typing is just mechanical grunt-work that tends to distract from other areas. If it can be automated with good refactoring tools and the like and so minimize the distraction to the developer's thought process then so much the better.
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thanks for pointing this out. email is now in about section.
Take a look at Code Browser: http://code-browser.sf.net too - it does outlining in a minimalistic way that I really like.
Quote about current situation:

Typical consumer grade hard drives have a target of one unreadable bit for every 10^14 read from disk (10^14 bits is about 12 TB, so if you have six 2 TB disks in an array, that array probably has an error on it);

That's an error unrecoverable by the hardware, passed to the system software - if it hits an encrypted or compressed archive, with no ECC itself, the whole bundle of data is corrupted. Photos, music, movies, etc. probably fare better.

The article does not specify if the 10^14 number is going up in the new hardware. If not ...
However, those internships are so highly battled over, the majority of those students won't get one, and don't even expect to. The miniscule percentage that does? They're out of the pool anyway. The remainder? Still interested in anything that pays.

And keep in mind that if you offer that much for a CS intern, you'll have serious competition on your hands. Yes, you'll likely get excellent students, but you'll need to hire a small army of people to weed them out effectively if you want "the best".
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Sorry, I don't have the time to expand and, ultimately, we're talking about two different things.

If you like, you may do further reading on singularities. Not the black hole kind.

I'll see you around.
Overdoing the interface metaphor
>Or a better major. Perhaps you're making the mistake of letting your chosen career dictate your choice of classes. The universal secret to school is: Take the best classes you can find, from the best people, regardless of subject.

I think this is great advice. If I had the opportunity to do college now I would probably try to major in my second (or third!) career choice. Having mobility in where you could have a career could turn out important.
Actually a lot of Flash apps are mainly code + assets now, that's certainly the way we make things.

I've tried using canvas to replicate some things that we've made in Flash, and quickly ran into some problems:

1) There is no way of interacting with elements drawn to canvas, as it's just a flat image (as someone else mentioned in the comments here, canvas is just a way of drawing bitmaps). You could obviously write your code to deal with mouse and keyboard interaction, but it's even more overhead on something that is already quite slow, and even if you could interact with individual elements it brings me to the other thing...

2) Flash has everything in layers that can be updated independently, when it comes to canvas if you want to change something you have to redraw that section of the image entirely, something that isn't always practical which means you end up redrawing the whole canvas. Essentially Flash does the same thing, but as the compositing is handled by the plugin it is far faster than anything you can do in Javascript at the moment.

Also related to the above, the drawImage method that draws bitmap data to the canvas is painfully slow at the moment, so compositing using that is out of the question. If that can be optimised significantly it will certainly help.

Basically canvas is too low level to duplicate the kind of functionality Flash offers at the moment. Until manipulating the canvas and Javascript is optimised further it's not possible to layer in the interaction or flexibility of rendering that Flash has. I'm sure a framework offering this will happen one day, but it won't be any time soon.
As a die-hard boot-strapper I am bothered by those who think seed capital is big a component of a technology business. If you can afford your hosting bill and can build the app what else is there? If you need help paying for hosting then your business is going well enough that you should really think hard about taking money for equity.
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And the first part looks suspiciously like a timestamp...

Edit:

In [4]: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1267675073)

Out[4]: datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 4, 0, 57, 53)
Upvoted because it's interesting that they're thinking like this, and relevant to HN. But it's still a horrible thought.

He says internet service providers (ISP) should have the power to sever internet connections if they detect a subscriber has infected computers

They have that potential now. They just need a service contract that allows them to do so, and it's as good as done. I can only interpret the fact that they're not doing so to mean that ISPs believe the cost of doing so exceeds the costs of dealing with spam, etc.

When an ISP detects that traffic flowing across its infrastructure bears the hallmark of a botnet - such as data being directed to a blacklisted address or sudden torrents of email traffic from a single machine - they would be empowered to quarantine their subscriber, destroy any malware found on the user's machine, and vaccinate it by installing the latest security software.

What a horrible idea. Cutting the user off is one thing. Forcibly applying security software is something else entirely.

Without a knowledge of how my system is set up, they're as likely to destroy it as to fix it.

For them to do this in the first place, they'd need root access to my system. I can't even begin to enumerate the ways this is bad.

And it's probably not effective anyway. If there's an official security software, or even a small list of them, it creates an easy target for the bad guys to work around. They'll build their attack code with the knowledge of what they need to avoid.
If you use GWT integrate it nicely into your build process. Worked at a place where it was a bit klunky whenever you made a change to the GWT code and subsequently GWT has left a bad taste in my mouth but I think that's probably unfair.

If we'd taken the time, we could have ironed out the klunkiness.

Might be worth building a vertical slice of you app, first with jquery (or another JS library) and then with GWT and see which one suits it better.
is this type of interface on its way to becoming a standard? is passive viewing making a comeback, is this human nature?
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http://wsl.xqoob.com is what I have open sourced.

Also look at http://xqoob.com/scrumboard/ScrumBoard.html for one piece work in progress to scratch my own itch. This is a virtual sprint backlog, that I would ultimately like to get working in conjunction with the wiimote hack (look at the "sprint backlog" tab).

if anyone is going to email please put "HN" in the subject.

cheers
It's funny that the record industry argues that their rights with respect to digital recordings must exactly mirror those they enjoyed with old technology. Yet they argue that their contractual obligations for the old media shouldn't have to apply to the new digital world.
Essays and research – that’s what scholars’ lives are made of
Partying and hanging out with friends go right out of the window, when you are asked to focus on the essays and research that you have to do at college or university.
Mine had rockets... Propellers are so 20th century...
Nice. I haven't done much AS, and I'm really not too surprised. Since you've done both, I'll definitely keep your view in mind; many haven't. Is the main part of the ease due to the language / core API though, or ActionScript's libraries? Canvas has effectively no mature libraries as far as I can tell, though there are some impressive ones.

You're rather hardcore compared to most Flash developers I've run across, though. I'd wonder if most are just using whichever one has bigger / better tools. (not that this implies anything about the language, of course)
Too much money in very early stages is definitly a problem. I am experiencing this at my current job. The company grows very fast and you soon have a lot of people with a lot of different ideas. Problems are solved by getting more employees.
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Agreed. I feel the author conned me while reading it, when all the while it was a pitch for his own product.
Wish I could make that too, but Ottawa is a little out of my travel budget this year. Also, I'm only going to get to goto one or two conferences this year and I'm not that interested in BSDCan since I don't use free BSD beyond my wireless router. I enjoy reading your writings, so I'm looking forward to your video/slides. =)
Vancouver panoramic view (well it has to be seen)
OpenGL 4.0 released
I just checked the design and I do think that it needs improvement. For instance, the navigation at the left is quite old-fashioned and also not good for usability. It should ideally be pushed on the top.

The edges and border radius of certain elements is just not complementing well enough with the rest of the page.

Now coming to your problem, I think you can take the help of http://sortfolio.com/ which has listing of really good web designers.

On a sidenote, I am a designer myself. Just in case if you need any help you can reach me at sushaantum@gmail.com
build it and they will come?

- you do need money to advertise, unless your app is really viral, and a lot of apps aren't.

- you need money to pay people that have skills that you do not, such as design, or tech, or marketing.
If you want to be a really incredible programmer you need to spend time programming, but that isn't remotely required to be successful, even in programming. For example, I wouldn't consider any of the creators of the top 3 scripting languages good programmers. They're known, I'm not.
Commercial Gaming, Coming Soon to Linux?
Do Scientists Really Need Ph.D.s?
Oh, I dig the "trust 100%" part. When I act like a sociopath and dump a job or a woman, trust issues are always a big part of it.

I don't trust my boss/girlfriend enough to talk to him/her about what makes me uneasy, and/or do anything to improve things. So I just cut it off.

I am lucky enough right now to have a woman that I trust 99%. I'm still unsure about moving in and marriage, but you made me realize how important she is in my life. She is a friend and a teammate that I can bounce anything off of. I don't always love what she tells me but it feels better than keeping secrets.

I'm going to do my best to get that to 100%, and make sure she feels the same way about me.
This article claims that 3 out of the 4 datasets available, the ones from the CRU, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and National Climate Data Center Global Historical Climate Network (NCDC GHCN), are not independent and that the latter two were felt by NASA to be inferior to the CRU's. The article doesn't have anything on the raw data, however.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-stunner-nasa-heads-...
How so? How could there be - marriage can be created by two people to their liking? OK, that is a presupposition, that the rules are not fixed. Is it wrong? If it fails, there is even the possibility of divorce.
I'm very interested in setting up a small workspace myself and playing around, but being a resident alien in the US I think I'll encounter the "guys in bio-hazard suits appearing with guns drawn" phenomenon sooner or later.
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Seems to me that the author has tried to break it down into six groups of actions a person will do to keep themselves stressed — a kind of "personality type," if you will. He simply left out any sort of naming/header for each group.
Windows is Posix compliant.
But how would that solve the problem of automatic cross-platform installation of a tool required by the emacs package? As I see it, the problem is in automating step 5. I guess you can find out the installed package manager in linux somehow and then call it, but how are you going to do that in windows?
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I expect "POSIX-compatible" is just a way to avoid saying "GNU/Linux- and FreeBSD-compatible" everywhere.
I think a better option would be mandatory training before being allowed to use a computer. Just like we certify you to be able to drive, you should be technically competent enough to use a computer. Taking the driving metaphor further, the gov't could enforce the use of security products to protect yourself much like we enforce the use of seat belts here in the US. We don't force you to wear seatbelts but if you're caught without one you get a ticket. No antivirus and running Windows? That'll be a ticket and a fine. Oh yes, I said "fine". Never underestimate the governments willingness to "tax" it's citizens.
I briefly considered writing some kind of framework for Canvas that would emulate the Flex DisplayObject and related container classes together with some useful behaviors.

I gave up when I realized how big a task this would be and that the result would probably be slow and almost surely superseded in some future release of Canvas.
I'm also a die-hard boot-strapper, but your chances for success can be improved by additional people being invested in the business. The idea is to be successful by helping others succeed. For example, the $5-$15k YC provides is not the main benefit of YC.
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OnLive to launch in June, $15 / month.
If it was more profitable, EMI probably wouldn't have fought Pink Floyd's decision to sell their music as complete albums only.

My guess is selling individual tracks is more profitable, because a) cost per track is usually higher when purchased separately and b) only allowing complete album downloads likely results in lost sales from those who are only willing to pay for a single track.

Pink Floyd apparently has enough money and doesn't really have to worry about this, and is primarily concerned with the artistic aspect.
The year Apple lost its mojo
Ask HN: Your Soundtrack?
Most of us here are all in the same game. The game of "Contra Wok Force: The Entrepreneur & Startup", released on a golden cartridge and played on the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console.

"up up down down left right left right B A (select) start" is not our cheat code, rather the craziness of how the game is played out.

It's almost a masochistic game--especially as seen by those on the outside who don't understand: a self-inflicted choice to seek gratification achieved through the pain of breaking away from lemming life; deprivation of sleep, personal life; and degradation of sanity--but you weren't really sane to begin with, were you?

Many scholars have proven the influential role music plays in psychology, sociology and entertainment, among other things. I believe that music has a most important role as the soundtrack to the "Contra Work Force" for those wearing out the controller buttons while feverishly trying to master the gameplay.

After a lengthy induction, I will introduce the question(s): What songs, symphonies, musicians, composers are your soundtrack? What music do you turn to when you need motivation, inspiration, a pick-me-up, or to find your groove?

It was watching a live performance by OK GO! on YouTube--when preparing to write--that served as the inspiration to pry into your minds and see if music plays as big of a role for you as it does me.
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1) I'll seriously disagree with you on this. Flash is likely much easier, because it's designed around doing this, but it's easily possible in Canvas too. Just maybe not currently. An OpenGL-like pipeline to help figure out what you clicked on, combined with JavaScript objects that can draw themselves, allows identical behavior. I don't know about interaction speed, can't comment on that. And I'm only using OpenGL as an example because I have some idea of how it works, there are other ways to detect what was clicked.

Heck, if you wanted, you could literally duplicate OpenGL in its entirety in JS for Canvas. There's nothing preventing this, except lack of threading / parallel processing, though I admit it'd be ungodly slow.

2) Also primarily a problem currently, and likely due mostly to the lack of mature libraries to do just this. With compositing rules (source-over, source-atop, etc) and masks for objects, you can re-render only the displayed portion of any object on a Canvas as well.

Low level: well yeah, it's a thin layer over a bitmap surface. Libraries are needed to abstract away from that. It's kind of like saying that OpenGL isn't fast because it's core is low-level. That low-level feature-set Canvas has will be wrapped in libraries to make specific uses simpler, I guarantee it. Speed will come, especially as Canvas gains focus. It's still very new. Was Flash this fast/capable in pre-1.0 days? I have no idea if it'll catch up / surpass Flash, but it's far from its optimum right now.

I'm not calling for the death of Flash, and I seriously doubt it'll ever supersede Flash on everything, so Flash has it's uses and will continue to do so. Just pointing out that they're not on equal playing grounds in terms of development.
I know a couple Brazilian ones that are quite frustrated too.