skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of the story is true and how much is fabricated by the ego of this guy. It would be all the more believable to the cops interviewing him, they want to believe that they caught the ultimate criminal mastermind.

Of course bits of it must be true, the bits with solid corroborating evidence, but I wonder if the truth is quite so cool and impressive?
"What is the purpose of educational institutions? Are we placement agencies or are we educational institutions?" he asks angrily when asked how the ISB, Hyderabad, will place its students given the grim global economic conditions.

http://getahead.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/jun/03/slide-show...
Microsoft will not change China operations, official says
ClipR - bookmarklet for better Internet reading
Would you mind sharing the strategy you took to storing the sites offline?

I assume you grepped through the HTML source for external references (stylesheet, image, etc), downloaded each one of those, and then re-wrote the link before saving to disk?
I think this is the third HN app so far. Is this because people who read this site and want to try writing an iPhone app immediately think about writing an HN reader? I know I did. :-)

We need a comparative review of all the HN iPhone readers!
It's not that the employer cares about your failure to get into Harvard; it's that they may be impressed with the Harvard grad more.

I have seen cases where, given a choice between candidates, an Ivy-leaguer picked another Ivy-leaguer solely on that basis. You could argue that such a manager would be an idiot (and you'd be right) but the brand-name-school phenomenon affects even smart employers like Google and Microsoft. Someone with MIT, Stanford, or Waterloo credentials rises to the top of the resume pile more often.
.xxx domain scares adult industry (and others)
VoIP Touch Tone Dialing makes customer service more efficient
Tell Brian Carney I said hi :)
7 Tips To Follow When Exercising Outdoors
If they really have something that important, why would they drum up attention and wait like sitting ducks, instead of publishing it ASAP?
You can take over my current position in Minneapolis working on ASP.NET MVC for a startup project within the company: http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6506

Or you can come work with me at my new job at Twilio in Downtown San Fran, which has some amazing things coming out soon: http://twilio.jobscore.com/list (not listed yet is a Product/Project Manager position)
Yell Labs in London, UK are hiring.

We're going to be based on Grays Inn Road just up from Chancery Lane (Central Line). Future-tense as we get the building on April 16th. No remote working initially, not closed to it permanently though.

It's a R&D lab and we are looking for quite a few people. JVM is dominant and whilst Java and Spring are likely to form the basis of any web service platform we're open to clojure, groovy and other stuff elsewhere and of course various devices mean that there will be other stuff around (for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, TV widgets, etc).

We are really looking for talented people with a lot of potential and passion for what they do... but then I guess everyone is.

Ping a gmail to david.kitchen and I'll put you in touch with the hiring people.
Stupid question: if your startup gets sued over something like this, why not have the company declare bankruptcy, dissolve it, and start a new company in the same idea with some of the same employees? (If you have investors who'd get burned in this process, tell them that they can avoid this fate if they commit sufficient resources to win the lawsuit; if they do, then this is the best possibility.)

It seems like it wouldn't be that hard to hide enough in the way of resources (relationships, ideas) to get a good start on Act 2. You'd lose your office and a few months of salary, and need to find new investors, but this doesn't seem as severe as "game over".

It seems like 85% of startup time is figuring out what works and what doesn't, so you can "kill" the code (i.e. shunt it out of view, and then use it as a reference in a comprehensive rewrite, possibly in a different language so there's no doubt as to your new code being yours) and your cost is only the 15% of the time necessary to implement the ideas that you now know will work.
I'd like to see this kind of post every month, how about the first monday of every month?

A lot of hackers are looking for jobs and a lot of entrepreneurs are also hiring.

Perfect match!
Cool, really close to us! Silicon Roundabout is crawling westwards.
Because publishing something takes time and computer access, both of which they may not have had.
That's a very good reason. Thanks for replying!
I know I shouldn't be reviving a deleted post, but I'm actually curious about how people get caught doing this (crediting an untethered co-founder for their work). It seems like, if you use resources that are unambiguously possessed by him, it would be impossible to prove that you wrote the code.
Wikileaks publishes memos, reports, that sort of concrete evidence. I don't think they would officially publish their first hand reports without first trying to get some kind of confirmation through a leaked government file on them, for example.
Nasuni - Natick, MA (boston area) is hiring a business development person, as well as sales.

http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/
(1) Would you rather be poor in the US or somewhere else?
(2) Which way do people want to move (on average)?

Any ordering that is inconsistent with both of those is clearly wrong.
The tweets mention a video, not an observer report.
Bill Gates goes nuclear in Toshiba mini-reactor JV - Computerworld Blogs
Having a "delete all my work" button and doing datamining are not mutually exclusive...

The "delete all my work" button might mean "make my stuff inaccessible for me and all normal users".
The attention they claim they're getting seems proof enough.
These agreements are pretty normal. As others have already pointed out, suggest your friend talk to a lawyer. And don't sign any fresh agreements prior to that conversation.

Quite a few states have laws limiting the scope in both time and 'intellectual space' over which your employer may claim rights. In Washington (I'm not a lawyer, but I have recent experience with this), the law limits PIAAs to development using company resources, in the same or prospective market, and term of employment +6 months -- and burden of proof is on the employee. From what I researched at the time, this seemed to be about the middle of the road for employee-cum-entrepreneur legal protections. I'm not sure it matters in the end...if you can't afford to leave your job, can you really afford a legal battle with your behemoth ex-employer? The best way to avoid needing the legal protections is to be open, transparent, and avoid conflicts of interest.
Dolby in Santa Clara needs an erlanger/javascripter/mongodb type who's also not afraid of perl either:

http://careers.dolby.com/detail.asp?jobid=dolby1610

For fastest service, DM me @f00biebletch or email f00biebletch@gmail.com.
I think it's pretty clear that being a science nerd did make you popular with your peers:

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/01/how-i-got-50000-page-views-b...

Greenspun's claim is that you probably overvalue this popularity, whereas women disproportionately would not.
Microsoft turns 35
Pick your battles [software projects]
That's exactly what I did for about 9 months to start my first start-up - except I woke up at 4am, so I could fit in a one-hour nap before going to work (I was still inexperienced at napping back then).

It worked really well. I don't think I could have finished the product without working in the morning.
Just from that brief bit of information, I'll venture to say congratulation are in order!
This is at it's core the classic government vs. personal responsibility issue.

This is already required in NYC for chains. It's kind of nice to know that the Five Guys burger and fries I'm about to throw down for lunch satisfies all of the calorie and fat limits recommended for the day in just one meal. At the same time, is there a need for government to mandate this?

I think it's a good tool for people who are looking to be a bit smarter about their consumption habits. Most people understand that the food they're eating isn't good, but I think the problem is that few understand just how bad it actually is. High fat/calorie restaurant chains have little incentive to do something like this, so maybe the .gov getting involved is needed.
Two reasons:

First, the "confession" -- whosever they are trying to elicit -- has more value if given out of paranoia.

Think about it this way: you have a brief glimpse into something wrong that happened, but you don't know the full story. Let's say you know 10% of the full story.

If you come forward with the evidence, the accused party need only acknowledge or refute the 10% that you've divulged.

However if you make them think you know a whole lot more than 10%, you might end up pressuring them to give a confession that will reveal a much larger amount of the wrong deed.

Second, pressuring a government to admit wrongdoing is better PR for Wikileaks than disclosing leaked information. Wikileaks is treading on delicate territory already with their mission statement. When classified information becomes whistleblower-deserving information is a debatable topic. Because of this, Wikileaks has to manage their PR very carefully, lest they be viewed as the enemy-to-all, friend-to-none. By pressuring organizations to admit wrongdoing rather than publicly accusing them of it, it's a win-win: the information gets out, and WikiLeaks doesn't have to be in the press again for leaking "stolen" information.
Because the lawsuit would include you, the defendant, personally, and not just your shell company?

[quick legal advice: if a trick sounds too easy, it probably won't hold in court]
The Next Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
It's firmly on the hipster highway already. I suspect the Golden Mile is defined from Condor Cycles to Hoxton Square... so we're both at one end, and people like Songkick are at the other end.

We should all set up a permanent residence at the end of the week somewhere like the Slaughtered Lamb (neutral ground, half way betwix everyone). Would be good to really feed off each other in that way.
The Democratic National Committee / Organizing for America is looking for paid summer Innovation Lab Fellows to work on software for political organizing and realizing President Obama's vision for change.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/devjobapp

Summer positions are in Washington, DC
"Our understanding is that the video didn’t violate any copyrights; instead, there were likely privacy issued involved, as most of the people in the video didn’t know that they were becoming part of a viral video."

http://mashable.com/2010/03/22/merton-removed-youtube/
Possibly to draw more attention and support.

They've been having funding issues lately; they might think this is a good way to get out from under that. Of course, it'll backfire if this turns out to be insignificant, a la the recent documents that they claimed were evidence of the U.S. trying to "shut them down".
Tweetmeme has been doing that for eons. You can even include it as a chicklet on your article, to encourage more retweets.

See, for example, http://tweetmeme.com/story/767267088/danieltennercom-how-to-...
If you have RoR experience and a head for design - drop me an email. (In NYC)
It's pretty much how it happens in the real world. Remember how facebook started with the connectu code base?
IANAL, but afaik this is wrong:
"The only catch is that the other project must also be released under the GPL."

You can use GPL-code freely in your own projects, but if you distribute, then it must be under GPL compatible terms. This is especially important in web applications and maybe other SaaS type solutions, where you don't actually distribute the software, but allow users to use it from your servers.
the disadvantages are clear, and I won't discuss about them or cry out for help. What we mean is that we must work double hard to earn what we deserve, maybe you're lucky to live in a country with not-so-harsh startup culture, we're unlucky, we live in Vietnam, and Thailand, and it's harsh here, (I think maybe because you heard the word "harsh" so often in your startup life that now you see it as an everyday word) we have the same dream with the guys in Silicon Valley to build our own startups and be a success, we hope we could make an impact with this project by supporting people like us to continue with their dreams, just by sharing stuffs and experience that helped us survive til this day
Still, I think the idea of a small amateur (as far as spycraft is concerned) organization pressuring the DoD like this is insane. They're risking their own wellbeing.
They do understand how to market themselves. They try to appear more competitive than they really are.
The post is basically suggesting you take your unproductive time (at the end of your day when you are tired) and shift it on to your employer while taking your most productive time (when you first wake up) and keeping it for yourself.

I'm not coming out for or against that I'm just making the point.
i think they talked about this in the past. they thought it was a problem that almost nobody picked the storys up in depth so they thought about changing the release model. they talked about releasing stuff a few days earlier for the press so that they can have people digging through the (often enormous amounts of) releases to prepare articles.
Investors most probably won't invest in your company at all if they know you probably will have significant IP trouble. Law suits are money-dumps, which is why the small guy never seems to win. They drop out earlier or stop from the beginning because they just don't have the funds. No investor will invest in you if e.g. 50% of his funds are going to be used for law suits.

Also, if your employer has IP over your idea/process/whatever, he will sue your next company as well.
Motion Control: A Powder Keg in the Mobile Patent War?
As compared to a 'Enterprise' e-mail system, where I can retract any e-mail that has not yet been read by the recipient, even if it's hours later, without leaving bread crumbs in the recipients mailbox(s).

That's a real nice feature that I'll sorely miss if I end up at an 'Enterprise' that uses a web based mail system.
What works for me: playing solitaire on my phone. The act of concentrating on that single thing (when I'm tired, which I always am at the end of the day) for 5 minutes never ceases to put me to sleep.
Not exactly. It comes down to the other party not being able to prove that it was their code or that they were in violation of the other party's IP. The longer the other party waits with suing you, the more chances you have of getting off the hook. It happened with the German (code+design) clone of Facebook as well. FB waited for far too long before suing, now they basically lost the case.
You have got to be kidding me. Amazing. Every photograph will have at most 50% original area after this gets into the average photographer's hands.
Thanks! Can't wait to start.
I've found the 10 hour day concept (or 4/40 as it's called in HR circles) to have unintended negative consequences for both sides of the equation. On the side of the employer it's just as you say: employees who are less productive because those last 2 hours are almost worthless. On the employee side you end up doing 2 hours or so of additional work on your "off day" because everyone else is still in the office and they tend to need things from you.

The idea that I've found is better is the "Friday Meeting Day". Schedule all your meetings on Fridays and if the meetings progress quicker than expected give your employees the rest of the day off. It speeds up meetings (which is where employees tend to screw around) and ends up giving the staff an early weekend almost every week.
When you submit something to Wikileaks, you can set an embargo date.

But this current stream of tweets is a bit dramatic. If it's just some random infrared kill shot like that old Apache hit ( http://www.globalresearch.ca/audiovideo/apachehit.mpg ), then it'll hurt Wikileaks' credibility to some degree.
This is what tipped me off (due to its attractiveness -- making me think "wow, this fits TOO well"):

Initially, Udo's aim was to devise a method for determining who would reach heaven. He assumed each person's soul was composed of independent parts he called "profanus" (profane) and "animi" (spiritual), and represented these parts by a pair of numbers. Then he devised rules for drawing and manipulating these number pairs. In effect, he devised the rules for complex arithmetic, the spiritual and profane parts corresponding to the real and imaginary numbers of modern mathematics.
mncaudill,

If you're wanting someone to drop you a line, perhaps putting some contact information up would help?
I've woken up early on a regular basis before. In the morning I could get more stuff done, possibly due to these factors:

- Fewer distractions. It's generally quieter in the morning.

- Less chance to procrastinate.

If I'm awake and it's an hour or two before I have to go to work, what else am I going to do besides something productive? The start of work is a built in deadline.
Because the lawsuit would include you, the defendant, personally, and not just your shell company?

I don't know if this would work, having never had to do it, and it's extremely unlikely that I ever will, but then I'd hire someone to put severe pressure on decision-makers at the plantiff and make it very clear that they don't want to dance this way. Hiring a "pro negotiator" of this sort is expensive, but cheaper than losing a company, a livelihood, and having future wages garnished.

When legal action becomes unaffordable and favors the rich, people will resort to illegal action. And I don't fear death enough that I'd let someone disrespect me in such a way without taking his own fall.

[quick legal advice: if a trick sounds too easy, it probably won't hold in court]

This I doubt, given that the vast majority of white-collar crime never leads to an indictment, and the penalties are so minor relative to the rewards that it persists in spades. (This is not to say I'd advise white-collar crime, the vast majority of which is utterly unethical and dishonorable scumbaggery. I'm only saying that the vast majority of criminals in our society get away with it.)
Fantastic skills? He kept documentation of his false identities and jobs. He filmed his heists. He carelessly used names on the phone. He was sloppy, and he paid for it.
Mozilla Toronto! We have an office with about 20-30 people there. Great place to work and you'll visit HQ in Mountain View, CA once or twice a year.

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa
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.

This is not a life of poverty, it is a life of leisure.

Fun fact: the term "ennui" historically described the boredom suffered by idle women from rich families during Victorian times.
Hey guys, we're looking for a PHP developer.

Work from anywhere: Yes (Provided you're willing and able to connect with the rest of the team during daylight hours (we're sprinkled all over the place in Canada and the USA.

To apply, send me an email at aaronwondermill.com (you put in the @, my name is Aaron) or solve the puzzle at http://www.wondermill.com/developer.html ;)
T's time employers embraced social networking
Mandalorian is looking for Penetration Testers and Reverse Engineers (http://www.mandalorian.com/) in the UK. The office is based in Reading, but remote working is an option for the right people.
But those people weren't my peers at the time.
It doesn't really matter what proof you have. If your employer is suspicious and takes you to court, you've already lost. If you have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on legal fees in order to prove your point, then I guess this advice doesn't apply to you.
You apparently share something in common with my boss, and I share something in common with your employees.

A conversation that I've wanted to have a few times with my boss: Boss, I understand that you think me taking two weeks off at Christmas is difficult to schedule. If I can direct you to the calendar, boss, you will see that Christmas is clearly marked on it in red ink. You see, it happens at the same time of year... every year. Sort of like, I don't know, Chinese New Year, Divali, etc etc. As you might recall, I was gone last year, and the year before, too, always at roughly the same time. You might remember that in those years, too, I sent you emails six months and six weeks in advance. You might also recall that, when you asked me if there was anything I wanted added to my employment contract at our first meeting two and a half years ago, I said "Yes, I want it explicitly understood that I return home for two weeks every year at Christmas."

So now it is three days before my annual vacation, the one time per year that I see my family, and you believe you have discovered an urgent problem in the schedule... to whit, that you have scheduled a project such that it cannot possibly be completed without my presence these next two weeks. Ah hah. Well, best of luck with that. I'll see you in the New Year.
Is there a Ranorex developer here who takes freelance work? I'd be interested, contact me.
I also think the future value of news is in the relationship to journalists and reporters. They need to become 'celebrities' to a certain degree. The Huffington Post is a good example.

However, I think the transaction costs of crowd-sourcing articles are too high. People have better things to do then finding topics to fund. It already didn't work for open source projects.

My favorite solution is still the club model as described here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678801
Simplified, I think it has to do with the burden of proof (may depend on jurisdiction). So your employer tells the court that he can prove (logs) that you developed some code at your workplace, then 'stole' that code, which is your employer's intellectual property, and went ahead with your own startup, doing suspiciously similar things. Now it's basically your problem of how to prove that it's not like that.
Wouldn't the adversary need a patent first to own a process?

Code can be re-written, and I'd argue that it absolutely should be in such a case.

And obviously, using company resources for the side project is both idiotic and unethical. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the case where someone writes something entirely on his own time and gets sued because of a coves-all-hours contract that effectively placed him in indentured servitude (and that shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place).
That made my day. I'm kind of worried though that the examples are hand-picked, and by default it doesn't look so nice. I would love, though, to know the algorithm behind this.
I'd feel a lot more inclined to donate if they were clearer about where the money went and why they need so much for what amounts to a moderated and anonymized public file share.
Perhaps more women than men have the (good) instinct that making concrete things with your hands is better than making abstract things in your mind?
Great. And its just as slow as the original :-(
Nothing in Seattle or vicinity?
Wiki page of Gerald Blanchard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Blanchard
Mozilla is hiring! Hard core C++, webdev, IT, QA, marketing, internships, you name it.

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

HQ in downtown Mountain View, CA, but we have offices in Toronto, New Zealand, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. Great benefits, extremely challenging projects (scaling web services to 350+ million users, optimizing our JS engine, making Firefox mobile fast on phones).

We're even getting telepresence robots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seannyelite/4458404134/in/photo...