skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related note, is it okay to pick up skills related to your side project at work? For example, if my side project is building a application in Clojure, is it okay to learn about Clojure at work? Of course, not at the expense of getting actual work work done, but there's always time between builds, etc. So instead of playing Foosball or surfing the internet, can one actually do something more productive, even though it's unrelated to the current work you are doing?
Sounds like a plan. Who's around here? Songkick, Timetric, Smarkets, Picklive, rjdj, Rummble, Technovated, you guys at Yell Labs, BERG, RIG/Newspaper Club, Trampoline Systems, Resolver Systems... sure there are loads I'm forgetting too.
This policy move is completely misguided and paradoxically almost guaranteed to make people more overweight.

Anyone who thinks this is a good idea should read Gary Taubes's review of the obesity literature in Good Calorie, Bad Calorie.

Our society appears to have become obese in large part from gorging ourselves on nutrient-depleted carbs (sugar, flour). This is just going to encourage people eat even less fat and more carbohydrates because of the calorie difference between fat and carbohydrate.
I would say reading this article was a good exercise in testing my critical thinking, because I could feel all the warning red lights flashing one by one while reading it: even though it would have been a marvelous discovery, I was really not ready to accept it without questioning it a bit further. An interesting hoax idea nevertheless!
Habits tend to carry over into dreams. Just make a habit of testing for reality every once in a while (or when something looks remotely fishy). E.g. I found that I can not read in dreams--or at least everything longer than a few letters changes when I read it twice. (Jumping also works different in dreams, but that's too geeky to do while you are awake.)
Hacked? Google Corporate Pages Temporarily Switch to Chinese
Yes, I knew that my comment outed me as a smug European.
For at least 10 years I've wanted to have a GUI version of this switch:

http://awaregeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/panikknap.jp...

(This is the best picture I could find, ideally I'd want the switch to be facing the person.)

I think it'll be possible to do something like this in-browser, with an animation that shows the plastic cover opening.
Keep it for yourself. Your own happiness, enlightenment etc is your own. Don't sell it to the lowest bidder. =) (re: waking up at 4:30 am is something I've recently done and it's nothing short of amazing)
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Honest question: would tech-savvy investors' opinions of a short blurb really be that different from other technical businesspeople? Or, to put it another way: would it really require two completely different statements to appear attractive to both groups?

And more critically: I realize that this is your baby, and you have had a large amount of involvement and personal investment in these projects over the last several months. However, you're coming off as both very defensive, and very dismissive of the criticism so far.

It's surprising to me that YC would unveil its next batch of startups, and get such a "meh" reaction from the audience. That indicates a problem worth investigating, either in the community here, or in the specific projects that were funded this time 'round, or in YC's goals (specifically whether those goals might be diverging from those of the HN community).
One way to do your best to "underail" it would be to NOT post a startup by startup list of why you think they are unimpressive.

IMO, the three major problems I have with your opinion are:

1) You assume startups should be tackling new problems. I don't know if you noticed, but "me too" companies win more often than grand new ideas with deep technical problems on the web. Google, Facebook, Zynga, YouTube, Groupon and the iPod were me-too plays.

2) You assume startups should be (or look) technically impressive. There are plenty of great startups that aren't really deep technology problems (until they need to scale).

3) You're looking at 3-5 month old companies, for the most part. Craigslist at that age was a mailing list in SFO. You'd look smarter if you were talking about things like "total addressable market" and "scalability of customer acquisition" than how impressive the companies look right now. Startups of this age are still mostly just potential.

The amount of time you invested in this screams "Troll" to me. The fact that you have had this happen enough that you say, "Usually, at this point, people tell me to just shut up, so that's what I'll do" seems to support that assessment. PG shouldn't be feeding you and neither should I, I guess. I'm mostly disappointed that your initial comment (devoid of any actual content) was upvoted by as many people as it was.
Depressing, but seems accurate. Only a corporatist society, flirting with fascism, would place burden-of-proof on the employee-- what ever happened to presumed innocence?-- but I guess that's what we've come to.

Don't get me wrong. I'd never advise anyone to write side-project code at work. In addition to being unethical, it's also patently idiotic. I'm talking about the case where someone gets up at 5:00 am to write the side-project code on his own resources and then gets sued because his former company decides to be a scumbag.
Need some hardcore data people at Sunlight Labs in DC. If you're a data scientist, we need you. If you want to free the world from Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann, drop me a line.
Ask HN: How to make home users ditch IE6?
There are a whole lot of chain-emails circling around the internet. We tech savvy people ignore them as they are full of BS. But your regular user (who is probably still using IE6 at home) takes them very seriously and almost always forwards them.
So I was thinking, what if we would use chain-emails for something good for a change? If we would write-up a email saying that IE6 will get you a broken internet and a handful of viruses, accompanied with simple instructions on how to upgrade/switch, maybe we could make a change in the browser statistics.

What do you think? At the very least we can't do any harm this way.
Whenever I read one of these 'x iterations of y' emails, I always find myself thinking how obviously stupid some of the earlier iterations are. I mean, of course an actual check box in an email is confusing, why would you ever do that? And then they go back to a checkbox graphic, but this time it is ticked!

Is this a case of hindsight is 20-20, or something else?
C/Assembler/Linux kernel expert on hardcore low-level concurrent stuff? I would be interested to talk. We work remotely.
Proliferation of wrong papers at 95% confidence level
[Cambridge, MA] Demiurge Studios is where I work. We're a 40-man game development shop working on some well-known titles as well as some new ones. We have some really good people, and lots of C++ work to be done. (We're also hiring designers and artists)

No remote, I don't think, but commute by public transport (Boston T) is easy.

http://www.demiurgestudios.com/?jobs
Ping me if you apply.
Ask HN: When is Startup School pencilled in for this year ?
Startup School 2007 looked to be in March, 2008 was in April and 2009 (because of the birth of Jessica and Paul's baby) was in October. I'm based out of the UK and attended the 2008 Startup School, it was a fantastic experience and would love the opportunity to go again. Any ideas when this year's event is pencilled in for ?
There is a company named WeatherBill which I personally know is interested in hiring Clojure users. (I think the only online advertising they did was a tweet which was maybe picked on disclojure.org.) One person there recently told me that they're very friendly to telecommuting -- but only within the US.

(This telecommuting thing probably doesn't matter much to you, given they're IIRC in SF, but others might like to know that...)

BTW, have you tried going to Clojure meetings, if there are any in your area? Some people prefer to go to them to find coworkers.
how often are people's iphones offline?
There is an awesome show that aired on A&E (I think) called "Masterminds", it only ran for a couple of years, but you can still catch re-runs of it.

Most of the criminals they profile are like Blanchard - they steal a lot of money and get away with it for a long time. About half they criminals they profile never even get caught. It is a really good show, I highly recommend it.

One thing I learned from the show: Crime pays. As long as you're not using weapons to steal the goods, you'll very rarely get more than a few more years in prison, even if you're stealing hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.
SSi Micro is hiring great hackers. Know C pretty well, be great at one high-level language (Python, PHP, whatever), be a quick learner (and we mean quick), and then come and be a propellerhead at our awesome, small company.

www.ssimicro.com/jobs

We're a little company based in Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories. We deliver broadband satellite internet to 61 of the most remote communities on earth, and now that our network's up and running (although we're investing heavily in upgrading it), we're busy building great software for our customers, optimized specifically for our unique network.

Yellowknife's not as cold as you think, and the 24-hours-of-daylight summers are not to be missed.

If you're interested and game, we'll make an offer really easy to accept: We'll get and pay for your apartment, a car if you need it, and pay you atop that. We'll do all that for up to three months while you evaluate us and the north, so that it's risk- and hassle-free for you to come to a really great, unique company in an awesome little city.

Email: stephenw@ssimicro.com
I think you very much misunderstand me. If I was someone who would ask them to cancel their trip, then the scheduling would be easy.

I like to think that my staff thinks that this is a good place to work, and that I'm somebody good to work for. I've never asked somebody to cancel a vacation; the farthest I go is to make sure everyone is aware of when deadline pressure is going to occur, and let them make their own decisions about their own priorities. I fully subscribe to the idea "work to live, not live to work".

And darn it, that's hard for me to do. The real world doesn't observe someone's wedding on the other side of the planet, so our customers still have needs, as does the rest of our company.

I make sure my people get their lives, but it costs me headaches and I get flack when I have to tell others in the company that something will take more time than they think is reasonable.
No, I wasn't referencing that. I was talking about the Gazelle project[1], which if I remember correctly came about a very long time after Netscape's death.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79655/gazelle.pdf
I agree with your point the law is the law but in my mind this refers to someone getting college credit for working at X company. If someone chooses to work in their spare time at X company for experience and nothing else I doubt the law applies.
The demo is totally mind blowing. It's so good it almost seem fake (not saying it is).
The landing on the rooftop with a parachute and almost falling off - if it weren't for his lucky last second grab, is pretty intense. I wondered the same thing - why not just hide behind a curtain?
Funny, Philip Greenspun has exactly the opposite take from you: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
Gilt Groupe in New York City is hiring. Remote working is a possibility.

We host daily sales of heavily discounted designer fashion and luxury goods, which presents a unique set of technical challenges: hundreds of thousands of customers competing for a very limited selection of inventory at the same time.

We have specific openings for interns, UI/UX designers, sysadmins, DBAs, senior QA, and platform engineers listed at gilt.com/company/careers, but we're always interested in hearing from great people regardless of the position.

We have scaled a base of Rails + Postgres using heavy caching and a services layer written in Java. A major focus in upcoming months will be individual personalization. The team is fun, dedicated, and capable.

Feel free to email me with questions: amanfredi@gilt.com

Sign up to check out the site at http://www.gilt.com/amanfredi
I would object against naming HuffPo as a good example.

1) They are not profitable.

2) Quite a few of their articles are just rewrites of other journalists work. They read article in other media, and then re-tell it in their own words. Which of course is much cheaper than to really report. So they are dependent on other media in their operation, and also the point 1) applies.

p.s: I don't have anything personal against HP, I just think they didn't prove anything yet.
Need a RoR developer in South Africa, preferably Johannesburg. Remote work may be possible if you're elsewhere in the country. E-mail is in my profile.

You'd be working on http://www.simplepay.co.za - South African online payroll system. Equity possibilities depend on salary.
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My co is hiring soon. C/C++ in Richardson, TX
"PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing"

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.p...
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Ask HN: How is Buxfer doing?
I really like the personal online accounting system, buxfer ( www.buxfer.com) which was founded by Y-incubator so much that I recently upgraded my PLUS account.

But how is it doing lately? Is it a successful startup by any measurement?

P/S: I've a problem with my American Express account synchronization and the issue I raised was dead in water for 4 days already (http://getsatisfaction.com/buxfer/topics/cannot_synchronize_my_american_express_with_buxfer). Hmm....
Microsoft can build better browser. But it will be zero-sum for them.
If you're in Texas, we're hiring another software developer here at MileMeter. See http://milemeter.com/jobs
At least you've offered up an idea for debate. I don't have an opinion as to its efficacy, but it addresses an annoying problem. Last I checked our user base has been hovering at about 10% IE6 for at least the last 4 months. It seems the decline in use has leveled off.
I've always been a morning person, so I regularly wake up between 330 and 430. To me, I'd much rather wake up early than stay up late. I can wake up early and be fine the entire day, and then sleep at 9-10. I get solid sleep and very rarely wake up.

Waking up early is great: I can get uninterrupted work done, head to the gym, make all my food for the day, and make sure I eat breakfast.

Also, if you have a flexible employer, you could work from say 430 to about 10 or 11 and then have the rest of the day to do what you wish.
I wonder why he never tried to sell the Star of Empress Sisi. Seems he had enough connections that someone could find a buyer on the black market no?
I don't know for sure if you are wrong. Just that according to this article[1], our circadian rhythm makes us sleepy twice a day: at night, and, to a lesser extent, around midday. So it make sense to sleep at both times. Real polyphasic sleep goes again that cycle, and that makes it fundamentally different from biphasic sleep.

Now, real polyphasic sleepers don't agree "real" polyphasic sleep is actually harmful. At this point, I am not so sure, and therefore tend to be conservative. I would love to see systematic, long experiments (not just experiences) about polyphasic sleep.

[1]: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
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The bottom right area of the last image example makes me wonder...
Nope, sometimes I think they make these mockups just so they can write blog posts about them. A lot of design is about eliminating bad directions so you don't waste time making a million mockups.
The elephant in the room here, and one that is completely ignored by this article (AFAICT) is corporate web apps.

A constantly moving target, which auto-updates silently, is anathema to the average half-baked corporate web app. They're half-baked for a reason: they have a limited budget, a limited customer set whom they mostly trust, and need to be maintained in parallel with lots of other apps by understaffed development teams working in companies whose main business is not software.

Perhaps MS needs two browsers, or some other solution. But I can't see them moving to a fast-iterating model without a radical shift in where they make their money - i.e. their business model.
I do this on occasion. I totally agree about getting things done before work rather than after. It sometimes wears me down though, and I'd rather sleep in and do things after work. I like to switch back and forth.
It's not so much about whether they're right or whether they'd be likely to win a lawsuit on merit, more about whether they're likely to sue.
I suppose they are trying to appeal to a younger audience, but I couldn't agree with you more. I find the new skins distracting and far away from the core value that I've come to expect and enjoy from the talented folks at FF.
Invite Media is hiring in Philadelphia and NYC (http://www.invitemedia.com/careers/open_positions.shtml)
so did you start (actual) hiring yet?
Newslab is going to see a big pivot down the road. They want to build several complex structures simultaneously: an advertising network, a syndication network, and a content network. Technical innovation in any one of these areas will determine the path of the company and whether yahoo news buys them or not. It is highly unlikely they will succeed in all areas, especially content, but since they are smart they may be able to build a tool the big media sites want.
I don't see anything special in that area?
Outstanding! On a quick look back when it came out, I didn't see anything in CS4 to get me to upgrade from CS3.

I'm thinking I need to reevaluate with CS5. If nothing else, perhaps the total diff from CS3 -> CS5 will now be worth the upgrade.
I think there are several tools and libraries available for this job. E.g.:

wget --mirror -p --convert-links http://www.example.com
Picking on Google Mail is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. I use Gmail, and I like many of it's qualities, but it has a UI that seems to have been designed by a 9 year old boy on his first experiment. It's laughably random, or perhaps 'eccentric'.
It seems quite likely that they have extraordinary legal costs and that they can't afford to release new info without the safe funds for their their legal defense.
> men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"

That's not just a male problem, it's just a different set of peer groups.
Like I said, if nobody fell for it then it wouldn't work so, no, thinking it's immoral is not the same as blaming them.
One wonders why the major news/media corporations haven't simply cartelized their ad space. If NYTimes, News Corp, Knight-Ridder, and Conde Nast got together and decided the ad space in their properties would cost $X, where X is enough to sustain good journalism, people would probably pay X in order to advertise in those websites, because they have large prestigious markets.
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And remember to bring a small screwdriver, since Apple no longer feels that a battery should be changeable without tools.
Thinking how many so called "graphics designer"s have just been replaced by a machine makes me smile and shudder at the same time.
TripAdvisor is hiring in Newton (near Boston). We have interviews that make people either sad (because they're hard) or very, very happy (because it is fun to be challenged).

My team is working on making money using social apps in a real, sustainable way. It's way, way cool. And you get to walk around saying things like "a billion pins" and "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you want to see?"

ps. no remote, sorry.
Right on. The problem is the advertisements. Someone needs to figure out how to charge print CPMs for online content. It means thinking beyond banner ads--maybe even the whole CPM model.

Meanwhile, the calculations in this post are very conservative. Lots of journalists make more than $300 for a 1000 word article. The financial situation for working online journalists is even more difficult than suggested by the post.
NYC - Onsite

We are a pre-launch mobile payments startup with a unique twist on how we think payments should work.

iPhone/Android developers - looking for people with experience shipping products on these platforms. Familiarity with crypto/networking/sqlite would be awesome.

Systems Architects/App Developers - building high availability backend applications, integrations with financial institutions, messaging backends, etc.

We are very early stage, if you want to have a significant impact in the place where you work and you think banking/payment is broken, please get in touch.

Email: jake@zipmark.com
I don't understand. In your off day, you are not in the office, are you?
" If someone chooses to work in their spare time at X company for experience and nothing else I doubt the law applies."

Not the way law works. That someone accepted a position without pay does not preclude you from following the law. In the worst case scenario, the person leaves unhappily and they have a means to make your life miserable.
> They're risking their own wellbeing.

For a good cause, that is. One that benefits us all.
there's no earthly way that the employer has any rights over your work in this manner, assuming you can prove it's never opened during business hours. They may, however, have a claim against you for the cost of the electricity. :)
I've also noticed that % is no longer dropping as it used to :\
kaChing is hiring in Palo Alto, CA (on-site only). Looking for backend, frontend, and interns. We're extremely engineering-driven and have a 5-minute commit-to-production cycle. Our CEO says it well:

"[We're disrupting] the mutual fund market, a $10-Trillion industry that has seen no innovation in the past 25 years. The only way to disrupt an industry is to break with conventional wisdom, so we specifically are not looking for people with financial backgrounds. That's why we're the first company to apply an open-source philosophy to improve the process of choosing an investment manager."

By open-source philosophy he means radical transparency and pay-for-convenience; think about if any investments you have come anywhere close to this.
Have you heard the saying that a "bad idea is better than no idea"? If you self-censor, it's easier to end up just coming up with nothing. Better throw it out there even if you know it's bad, because the feedback will likely give you new ideas anyway.
Sure, assuming that the recipient is on the same system as you. Good luck picking out the breadcrumbs from a contact outside the company.
Oh, yeah.
I should do that.

But I figured people working on web stuff can be found here.
So...
I think I just lost my jaw!
Yeah, I used Firebug to disable that.
At 4:44 it just looks like they masked off an area and then switch off the mask. Looks fake because it's so good - without actually using it one couldn't tell.
Bluekai (http://www.bluekai.com) is hiring distributed systems, UI and general web dev - C++ and java, hadoop, cassandra. We're in the south bay next to apple, no remote. ping me - dk at bluekai
Raising Seed Funds in NYC: Where Startups Should Start
I updated the post to mention 2 more angels in NYC by name.

Also, you can find a list of the 10 seed funds in NYC here: http://www.kartme.com/phil/seed-funds-nyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKjs8ZjQNg
Simple suggestions for implementing passwords correctly