skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unethical? Seriously?

1. Could you back up your claim by linking to someone who you feel speaks for the designer community on the subject?

2. If you need a CRM or SCM other than one of the existing projects, then you clearly have very specialized needs and need to hire a contractor; no one is going to go to all the work of creating a custom CRM (and, presumably, providing future support and maintenance) just for a shot at winning a contest.

I think it's great that we live in a web where there's an abundance of free designs, in part thanks to contests like this one. There will always be demand for truly talented designers for the small fraction of websites that need (and can afford) that level of customization. That's not Weebly's target market.
Geek Humor: Because No One Else Gets It
I like their API - been using it in http://tweetbe.at/ to bulk follow or list everyone who references a url
Information in the ultimate weapon and the internet is the ideal vector for attack.
Why you should attract "the Normals"
Their iPod touches often are.
Whoops, I got beat by wallflower. Should've refreshed the comment page before posting...
If you allow people to contact you on your off day (and it could Sat/Sun too, not just Friday), people will contact you... but if set the precedence that you won't reply/answer then those same things will be asked on Thursday. I've worked a 4/40 for three years now and never had this issue.

In regards to being productive, that really depends the person and the work they do. I tend to do half development and a mixture of sysadmin and PM work the other half, so the day flies by. Plus, how I see it a lot of people work 9-10+ hour days on a regular schedule. I use to do that and I still do, but now I get an extra day off.
There's some validity in a company sueing an employee because they're not getting enough sleep to perform appropriately at work. However, this is normally cause for warnings + termination. It's unusual for a company to link this with potential unrealized income and therefore try and acquire ip.
Yes, but it wasn't meant to be current information about how race admissions are done. If a 1600 was indistinguishable from a 1360 in 1999, I doubt it's much more significant now, considering that schools have been moving away from using the SAT more and more.
Not graphics designers.

The hours graphic designers have do spend one something they hate so much has been replaced by a machine. And for that we are very grateful.
How much wiggle room is built into the law? As mentioned in the article, portioning varies by location and chef. What happens if a chef adds an extra tablespoon of ranch dressing or gets a shipment of slightly larger chickens? The US is such a litigious society that it's a question of when, not if, lawsuits will be filed. I'd like to think provisions for this are built into the law but I doubt it.

Also, what about specials? Have some fish left over from the weekend and want to run a special? Well figure out your exact portions, calculate calories, and reprint your menus. Oh wait, the fish went bad while you were doing all of that. Sorry. Try again next week.
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That will mirror the whole site. If you are going to mirror a single page, a more sane command would be:

wget -r -l 1 -Ppath/to/folder --convert-links http://www.example.com/
I can't leave instapaper
Fluther (http://fluther.com/) is hiring an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/fy2tOt/

We're building something brand new, incredibly challenging, and very exciting and this is your chance take something complex and setup the perfect environment for it (if you've ever wanted to do try that…). We're a Python/Django shop, we're in San Francisco and this isn't a remote job.

Fluther is funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, and Dave McClure, and we're advised by Biz Stone (Twitter) and Leonard Speiser (Bix).
Here's an interview with Rob Janoff, the designer of the original Apple logo, in which he debunks this and other stories about its design: http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desig...
The American poor overeat, work very little (80% of the poor have no job and are not looking for one, only 10% work full time), and still have all their material needs met.

A lot of them aren't working "full time" because, in retail, it's common to have people working 39-hour weeks so they don't receive benefits and can have their hours cut without paperwork.

Their "material needs" aren't met. They can't get education or jobs that will put them forward in society. They can't get health care. If they choose to be lazy and do nothing, that's regrettable but also rational on their part. Since they have no hope of advancement, why should they work?

Their life is not "of leisure" but of despair and barriers.
Do you mean the fact that it seems to load in two parts? That's quite normal behaviour, as the images that are used probably have quite a high resolution and the downscaling takes some time. Just try taking any picture with a nice big resolution and then applying an effect. It will load gradually and not at once.

If you meant something else, could you explain it a bit clearer?
Call me a cynic but this is based on just the Twitter feed. Let's not get too excited till something more concrete appears.

(unless of course your suggesting we should believe everything posted on Twitter as gospel without verification.........)
The mark of a successful person is how they deal with rejection, not that they've never been rejected.

As long as you keep trying and learn from your failures, chances are you will succeed in the long run.
RMIT? Really? Whilst researching things for work, I tend to run into more references to papers from UNSW than RMIT, although I tend only to see IT-related papers, not general technology. I know that RMIT is the best for Aeronautics.
a) This lets you batch your downloads, so you get it all done, and later reading is more pleasurable.

b) If you want something to read on the plane, you could load it all up at the gate and then enjoy it later.

Looks great - just bought it. :)
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Apple may join the social networking and geolocation craze
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Internet-obsessed Aussies at 'infostress' risk
This dovetails almost exactly into that "psychopaths among us" piece on here about a week ago.

This is a guy that needs to stay in jail.
This works surprisingly well and takes very little effort. Great job Vlad!

My only recommendation is that in your blog post, put the download link higher up also.
European privacy battle looms for Facebook, Google
Which is essentially their most important form of communication, with the website only being used to host documents these days.
It is great to see you backup the companies you have funded. Any entrepreneur would love to see their investor fight for them in public. Respect.

However going back and forth about his opinion seems unnecessary. Even if all these companies became successful it does not take away from the fact that he and some other people were not impressed with it. His opinion is just that, an opinion.

Actually I would go further and say, you guys should chat privately. I am sure you have lots of people agreeing with you, so someone saying "Nah PG" could be helpful if he cared to elaborate. "When two people always agree, one of them is not needed in the room".

Cheers.
Indeed, this is the bane of my existence. I've found that vitamin D helps a little, as does melatonin (though you have to take it at the right time of the evening.) And mostly, having a very consistent schedule. The problem with the 5am thing, for me, would be that I'd blow the schedule every weekend when I stay up till 2am socializing or whatnot.
Kansas City:

River City Studio is looking for a LAMP developer. We were a design studio, are currently a web studio, are now evolving into a web app studio.

http://www.rivercitystudio.com/who/jobs.php
Just thinking out loud here but I wonder if the longevity of online content has been factored into these analyses? It might take a longer ramp-up but theoretically at least an article published online exists longer than an article in print. So the time revenue is earned on an article is also longer than revenue earned on an article in print. It's not entirely unreasonable to think that there might continual revenue per article earned for online content so as more content is created it snowballs.
The no-spec team is one of the most vocal anti design contest groups: http://www.no-spec.com/articles/design-contests/

Here's another: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/position-spec-work
in MySQL at least, you can add an ORDER BY FIELD ID (4, 3, 6) to guarantee they are returned in that order.
My touch is often, and it also runs apps from the app store.

I won't be installing this tool though, since almost all the interesting pages on the web are split between multiple pages.

In addition, it misses the discussions, which are the best feature of HN
Most groups would designate anyone outside as Others. In this case, because hackers seem to enjoy thinking of themselves as the outsiders, we're calling anyone else Normals. All well and good for us, but within the Normals there are incredible numbers of groups with their own preferences. To target the Normal is to disregard that it only exists from your perspective.
This is absolutely amazing. The PS guys are really pushing the envelope of image editing. I think it's really cool that the editing process is more structural, more high-level, than working with the basic tools. The lens flare removal, especially, is an incredibly common and tricky problem.

At the same time, I am glad that the effects are still immediately visible, even in a low-res youtube video. It's nice to have hints of what the original actually looked like, some times.
Yes. At first I thought he was italicizing each mention of a programming language, which is a nice idea. Then python was bold and not italic, and I lost the thread.
Some time in the fall, but beyond that it's hard to say. Depends when we can get a venue. We'll start working on this in April.
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The Irony of WikiLeaks
IANAL, but I think there's pretty strong precedent that the employer can't assume ownership over any non-proprietary information you learn (languages, design patterns) at work.

Of course, we live in a proto-fascist state where legal combat is often won by those with the most money, so it'd be dangerous to assume that past sane decisions will carry into the future.
Know what I do?

Pay the fuck attention to and consider my actions prior to performing them. And don't sloppily click wherever on the screen.
Speak for yourself. I'm cognitively useless until at least two--four hours into my day. Best work happens right around 5pm.
Mixpanel (YCS09) is hiring developers and enterprise sales/biz dev. We're based in Mountain View, CA.

Further info: http://mixpanel.com/jobs, jobs@mixpanel.com
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Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon (Video)
hope they do away with the buggy/frustrating flash panels
You don't mention it, but Dell puts the service manuals for their laptops online, which can really help. For example: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins5100/en/sm/

I had to replace the keyboard on one of my Dell laptops, and while I would have been able to do it without the manual, it was very nice to be able to just follow instructions and know I was following the minimal path, rather than disassembling everything, with the attendant screw-loss risks.
I agree but let's not get too complacent either.
What kind of internet service do you have in Yellowknife itself?
LShift in London is always looking for talents! (and interns)

http://www.lshift.net/recruitment.html http://www.lshift.net/blog

What we value above everything else is the right combination of skill, enthusiasm and imagination. Generally speaking, programming is something you either enjoy or you don't. There are people who program because they find it stimulating and intellectually challenging, and then there are those who program only because they have worked out that it pays well. The former are the ones we want to hire.

Location: Europe/London/Hoxton

Remote: no
Yes, you want a different type of description for investors: you want to err on the side of explaining it in terms of stuff they already know.

In fact, I explicitly tell YC startups to explain themselves to investors as "the x of y" whenever possible. See point 14:

http://www.paulgraham.com/investors.html

The reason I've been so contemptuous of some of the comments on this thread is that I've been seeing the identical comments on web forums for 5 years. That's how I can be sure they're not a sign of a problem. They're just the same type of people making the same type of comments that always get made about newly launched startups.
A Google term you could use is "ruggedized laptops", that will lead you to some other terms. Prepare to pay. But if you need it, it's worth it. (In general, you don't need it.)
I meant the Huffington Post is a good example to make/use 'celebrities' in their 'Featured Blog Posts' section.
Let me tell you something about college admissions. I felt a lot of pressure to apply to elite schools, and I was rejected by all but one of them. I also got into a well-respected "party school" which would have been perfect for me; besides being tons of fun, on the beach, where one of my best friends from high school was going, plus it had some kick ass programs where you worked closely with professors. I ended up attending the "elite school" so my ego could get some validation of its "Youuuu're smart!!" narrative. It's the only decision I could have made at the time so I try not to beat myself up over it but four years later I know that I would have done things differently.

Let me tell you this, you may find yourself more motivated to do excellent work and learn amazing things if you are a big fish in a small pond.
I would say start of with the finishing chapter. This way you get a fairly good idea of how you want the story to end. You can then shape the previous chapters to work towards that end. Ofcourse, you will probably have to rewrite the finishing chapter at the end.
Peter Norvig said that he was excited about Google because that's where the biggest data is. TripAdvisor's got a billion points of data about where people travel, and it's growing crazy fast, and it's really exciting to work with.
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Still think people will continue to be willing to pay for editors, artists, photographers, page designers, researchers and all the other jobs news orgs have besides journo and ad sales.
Ugh. Yes, 10-20-30 is what most VCs ask for. However, it's not what works in a first meeting. You can't demo a product and sell a dream with 10/20/30.

http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2009/12/pitching.ht...

http://www.kartme.com/blog/pitching-without-powerpoint-8-tip...
I live in DC and ride the metro, most of which lacks AT&T service (for now).

The NYT app is a life saver for this, I just download the morning's news on my way into the station, and then can read it on my commute.
There's some validity in a company sueing an employee because they're not getting enough sleep to perform appropriately at work.

First, no there isn't. You can fire someone because he's incompetent because he gets too little sleep to do his job, but suing is ridiculous. What if he just has insomnia?

Second, my assumption was that getting up at 5 am implied going to bed earlier. If you're sleeping 1 to 5 and have normal sleep needs, doing this for any length of time will ruin both the side project and the day job.

Most people would be more productive on their side project and at work if they got up at 5:00 am to pursue some kind of passion.
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Microsoft says it is business as usual in China
[Boston, MA] Delsys, Inc is hiring Win32 desktop application developers. http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6580
MathJax: Math display for all browsers
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I guess it wont work with complexity behind complexity.

Two people, one in front of the other for instance.

But it's damn nice for most situations.
Ask PG: Undo upvote/downvote
The upvote/downvote buttons are tiny and right next to each other. Several times I've mistakenly cast an upvote instead of a downvote (and vice versa).

On a site with a community of this size each individual vote often makes a fairly significant impact.

It would be great to have an undo vote feature.
Wow - that sounds like a mistake on the state's part to me so I second the suggestion to get an accountant there.

And to answer your question: I just do. Barely. Enough. I think. However, I've done it for 15 years and I learn a bit more and become a bit more efficient each year.
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What if I am a developer in the day job, but I don't code for the the startup, and the technology we use is totally different from my employer, will there be a IP concern?
Top things you should never say to a customer
I like the flash presentation on the site, I'm doing an iPhone app right now and am wondering what's the best way to put together a similar flash video of a screen capture of a iPhone app along with the touch indicator?

Anyone have any suggestions?
WikiLeaks getting in trouble is nothing new. The US Army has admitted to planning attacks on WikiLeaks in the past ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/ ), So far they have always managed to survice - even against damning odds.

If some major press picks up this news, then it will certainly help WikiLeaks. I pushed it through at http://techie-buzz.com/latest-news/wikileaks-pentagon-murder...

I just hope that the information they are sitting on is indeed significant.Though, to be honest it probably is, since WikiLeaks is already popular (too popular for their own good).
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Yeah, I read that in a wired article. It makes sense, and if one press organisation is going to put the time in to comb over the data then they usually need an incentive, like getting the exclusive.
I've been using Ubuntu and bash for several years now, and never knew until today that Bash had a Vi mode. I'm ashamed.
So, in summary, loads of famous and successful people got rejected from various Harvard, Duke, and Stanford schools, yet attended still attended top-tier universities and had a great experience. Not getting into your top choice for school? Hardly rejection...
The difference is, I wasn't using it as the basis of a judgment about the company.
> PDF. It's the way to go.

Seems 5 out of 10 malware writers agree ;-) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/adobe_reader_attacks...

OK, I also prefer PDF, and I know the problem is the Adobe Reader (and the scripting added back in 2003 or so). I try to stick to the OSS readers.

But I would think that web-bugs are also possible in modern PDFs (with web links and js). No ?
It used to be that kind of forum.
Their browsers have to be as broken as to make companies dismiss web applicatios as immature and unfit for the enterprise, but not broken enough as to make companies ditch IE in favor of other browsers.

It also has to be broken enough so that stuff built with their development tools work better with IE and developers have to choose between supporting IE and supporting other browsers.

To be fair, it's a very difficult task to maintain IE in the just enough broken zone.
Puh-lease! Considering that the US Government has tried to shut down WikiLeaks and that Google censors some content (such as, for example, a depiction of two 17.5 year olds having sex), I think it's far more useful to look at China as being a bit more inclined to censor but not really much different than the US.

After all, the US Government censors information about the Kennedy assassination for no good reason... it's utterly hypocritical for any Amnerican to criticize the Chinese government without first criticizing the US government for censoring the Kennedy stuff and for trying to shut down WikiLeaks.

edit: I can't believe how many social conservatives appear to be downvoting this. Do you really have a problem with 17.5 year olds having consensual sex?
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>Mark 8:36 (The Message)
What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?

There is wealth in being able to be yourself (which might be an abstraction of your 2 wealths?). Also, to love and be loved.
Boston, MA: Zazu (http://getzazu.com) -- in the middle of rebranding. We're looking for a few full time developers and dev interns.

We do mobile stuff (we're working on an android app now, but we've got iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, etc in the pipes), really cool NLP stuff with RSS feeds, and fantastically awesome database stuff.

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I'd guess that most people using IE6 at home don't know what a web browser is. A chain e-mail to enable Windows Update would be more likely to work, I'd guess, and would have benefits beyond killing off IE6.

I thought the main reason IE6 was still in use so much was intranet sites requiring it? So I'm not actually sure this would do much to kill off IE6.
It won't take much to turn this into a headline like "Wikileaks detained by US" (this is the first step...[1]). When all it is so far is unverified postings on the Wikileaks Twitter feed. Is it a publicity stunt? Paranoia? Or the real thing?

We dont know yet. My guess is somewhere between the real thing and publicity - but we should avoid jumping on bandwagons.

I might be slightly more cynical this week because of their last piece of paranoia the other week ;)

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1216034
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