skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't they talking about U+018F and U+0259?

Nowadays, adding that glyph to an existing font could be a very easy thing to do.
It depends a lot on the font design you're after...

Fonts released under a free license would have helped.

A nice font editor: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
Semi-related, but KOTOR and KOTOR II are my favorite games on Xbox (and probably of all time). Great job on the games. BioWare consistently releases excellent games.
When comedians go on late-night shows they work bits of their material into the interview. This is a bit -- he's said elsewhere that the guy in the story is him.
>> Comments disabled as I’m not interested in hearing from the Cupertino Comment SPAM bots.

> I also find this highly patronizing.

Patronizing? Sure... Incorrect? Probably not.
AppStoreHQ (http://www.appstorehq.com), a mobile app search and discovery site, are hiring a developer in Seattle, WA.

We're seed funded ($150K from Founder's Co-op) and approaching cash-flow breakeven.

Happy to discuss further with anyone interested, or read more here:
http://blog.appstorehq.com/post/482789903/appstorehq-is-look...
I tend to downvote posts if the author complains about being downvoted.

Also, not only were you "long on slogans and short on insight" but your argument doesn't fly. (IBM usually keeps the patents of the companies that it buys.)
We're always looking for awesome developers at myYearbook.com.

Here's a job posting: http://www.ventureloop.com/firstround/jobdetail.php?jobid=33...
We spend a lot of time sitting. I want myself and the people who work for me to be comfortable. $800 isn't much to spend on something you use all day, every day.
I like this. Looks and feels like Ruby, but it receiver patterns, instead of method_missing wonkiness. The arrow expression is cool as well.

http://wiki.github.com/marianoguerra/efene/languagereference
Yeah, looks like I missed the point.
Amazing Nature Photography is Actually of Miniatures
Um. Except maybe you can't use TorqueScript for your game logic.

Unity is almost surely written in C++, but game logic is done in Javascript and C#, on Mono.
I don't think you were down-modded because of hating BitTorrent, just your original comment could've used more... attention. Links & facts are great - vague statements aren't all that interested on HN and tend to be deloved.

But you're right that they're hiring - they've got 8 job openings and anyone interested can follow a RSS feed of their openings at http://bit.ly/torrentjobs
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> I think there's an idea where copyright extension fee grows exponentially, so free for first N, $1 for the next N, $10 for the next N..

There are lots of ideas. However, few of them can be realized.

If we can't enact Lessig's plan, what makes you think that an exponential fee schedule has any chance?

> but it'll be worth it for you (Mickey is worth quite a bit after all these years).

"Micky" isn't copyrighted. Mickey is trademarked. Things where Mickey makes an appearance are copyrighted. (Trademark is what keeps you from producing new works containing Mickey. Copyright keeps you from copying existing works and deriving new works from said existing works. For example, porn mickey need not have copyright problems.)

There are literally millions of such things. Do you really think that applying an exponential fee to them has a chance?
The introduction of HIV protease inhibitors in 1995-6 was pretty big.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/338/13/853

> Mortality among the patients declined from 29.4 per 100 person-years in 1995 to 8.8 per 100 person-years in the second quarter of 1997.
Funny, I thought that the technologies he (clearly) enjoys (and appreciates) today were built by people who were thinking along the lines of: oh shit, it takes 30 years to walk to California, why couldn't we just fly there?

It's ok to appreciate things, but it's also ok to expect (and ask for) the best possible service instead of settling for less.
This looks like a hobbyist effort built by somebody messing around with too big of a dataset. Anybody with even a smattering of NLP background could have predicted this quality of results. Computers are simply too stupid to assemble coherent narrative summaries on specific topics. They would require a true AI, and all of the major efforts that might build such a thing (Cyc, Semantic Web, etc.) have produced very little of value in the area.
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That's a great idea. Here's a suggestion for an extra feature: let me group search results by company. Then I can quickly get an idea for who's hiring without paging though hundreds of results.
TripIt is hiring. Located in the Mission in San Francisco.

http://tripit.jobscore.com/list
This is great - I would love to see Efene and Reia (to some extent, same language goals with ruby-esque syntax) take off, but the Erlang community is so small it's hard to see a critical mass for either developing. some reasons:

1. Erlang syntax really isn't that hard. As soon as you do a few real-world problems in it, you stop worrying about syntax and just focus on the solution.

2. Efene in particular doesn't make Erlang more 'scripty'.

3. Most people still need to learn Erlang fundamentals and they're going to have to do it in Erlang as that's all the documentation is written in. Until people start writing tutorials in Efene that teach the fundamentals of the Erlang Platform, thereby allowing a newbie to go from no knowledge of Erlang/OTP to being productive, they'll detour through "period/comma/semicolon alley" and probably won't come back.

Don't see this as negativity, i love what Mariano and Tony are doing with both languages...
Compatability layers specifically forbidden...
Somebody should build a mashup of the cpedia results with translation party.

http://translationparty.com/
... which he illustrates by taking three or four shots at a basketball hoop.
I guess I was half right. If you flip the silent switch it still goes off but it goes off at the level you have it at for your ringer.

Nope, never played that game.
A number of companies will be interviewing in New York City on 4/27 at Hirelite: Speed Dating for the Hiring Process.

Here's the current list of companies:

- ACL Systems - Software Developer

- IndustryNext - Software Engineer & ActionScript Developer

- Fantasy Interactive Inc - Senior Java Software Engineer-NYC

- LearnBat.com - Seeking talented developers on iPad, Flash, and LAMP

- Yodle - Software Engineer

- knowmore - R&D Hacker

- National Event Company - Senior Ruby Programmer

- TradeCard - Java Developer

- Arc90 - Web Application Developers, Designers, Engineers, and Sysadmins

See http://hirelite.com/companies for complete job descriptions.

Edit: formatting
Unity and the iPhone OS 4.0
"You need the Flash IDE to cross compile to ActionScript bytecode so your market is secured again."

No, no you don't. Adobe and many others have free AS compilers. Not to mention that this would require implementing a ton of APIs. It could work, but there's no way Adobe would go for this, or be able to keep up with Apple's development.

Edit: Missed the 'cross' part of the original statement. However, ignoring the first two sentences of my comment, the rest still stands.
Even the most cursory of testing reveals that the results of this are no good. I have no idea why they would pull the trigger and release this.
And pretty soon you're upstairs rollicking on the kitchen table. Who'd a thunk
it would've gone so far?

Apparently because salami tactics lead to salami action. I'm a bit surprised that he is using this imagery (and the imagery of border incursions) while he's presumably in the process of hiring people. Does he really want prospective hires to think in these terms?
Ask HN: Any idea's on how to implement this?
Hi,
I am developing an text-to-web advertising platform and I am stuck at a point.
Short description of how it works: Any one can text a 140 character message to a short code, and have it displayed on any website that is on the network of the advertising platform.
My Problem: How do I display the text ad on the websites that are on the platform? Iframes? Flash?

If you have ever implemented something like this, I would really like to have some tips from you.
I honestly can't believe the stupidity of the metaphors in this thread.

Cattle grazing on the commons?
Like Apple's telling you "Don't program in a functional style"?
It's a problem if the only store in town won't stock your goods?
Telling Leonardo da Vinci he can only use gummy?

Is Apple pissing in your freedom flakes? Really?

The iPhone is not a commons. It was never a commons. No smartphone device IS a commons.

Apple is not dictating your programming style. They are dictating that you do not run cross-compiled software, written in a non-native language, on their device. This is not unreasonable.

There is nothing illegal, or immoral, or even marginally unreasonable, with a store refusing to stock your goods. Even if it's the only store in town.

It's not like telling Leonardo he can only use one medium, because of course, the iPhone is not the whole world, where da Vinci lived.

If one customer of da Vinci's only wanted art done in gummy, that would be an accurate parallel.

Seriously, guys, this is HN. Let's see some of that logical thinking.
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Interesting the different characteristics in different communities. I've just spent three weeks with people who love solving puzzles, working out stuff, and don't like to be given answers. I guess that attitude has stuck, and I'd forgotten that here on HN people like comments to have all the information.
I agree with some things, I'm just trying to make more people come to the erlang platform :)

if this ends up with people starting with efene and ending coding erlang, then great, my job was done.

I know people that wont try python because it doesn't have curly brackets, if you give them a way to use curly brackets even if they end up coding python, then you reacehd your goal, the fundamentals aren't in the syntax but a lot of people give a huge importance to the syntax as the first thing to choose a language.
How exactly does this gratify our intellectual curiosity?
3015: Windmills do not work that way. Goodnight.
That idea is actually implemented - unfortunately you need to login to see it. Once you login (which supports OAuth & OpenID), under settings you can turn on the "Group By Company" feature.

Yes, it isn't intuitive. We're overhauling the search results and in the next release, slated for mid-June, these kinds of things won't be so buried.
The Apple Voodoo
Often inertia: moving internationally takes a lot of effort, and often money, and is disruptive to careers/schooling/etc. But a decent number of immigrants to the U.S. do leave again later. There's a particularly large number of Chinese immigrants who've returned to China in the past 10 years.

And in any case, not being "uniformly positive" doesn't require being uniformly negative. They may consider the U.S., overall, a better place to live, while on the whole still giving it very mixed scores.
Sadly, Bing's concept of search overload comes to mind on every page of cpedia.
Burlington is an awesome city too :) I did once try and contact you guys about an internship position but never got even the time of day back :(
> If a prospective MBA student thought about their 150K as seed capital

You can't get a student loan to start a biz. And many employers seem to think that a degree says something different than a failed biz. (The concerns are different wrt a successful biz.)
I wonder what the legal implications of this are. Here in the NL, downloading movies/music is legal, but uploading can cause you trouble. If put.io seeds a movie torrent for you, can you get into trouble?
That's why I've never understood the whole Silicon Valley thing. Who wants to go to the suburbs!?
Anyone hiring in Europe or remote?
But it wont be a compatibility layer, it would be no different than using a third party Objective C library. Apple cant really mandate all code for an app be written by the developer team itself. Basically its all Objective C code and some Adobe tool cross compiles it to bytecode that the Flash Player can play
I think this just shows that Apple is far ahead with the iPad. Two of those are just concepts, one is just a comment from a CEO and the third doesn't ship yet. This area might be more interesting in a year or 2/3, just like with the iPhone
> Even the poorest among us have electricity, running water,
> tv, computer, internet, etc.

Who could say such a thing when tens of thousands of Americans live in the streets? For many others who do have basic shelter, electricity and running water are not a sure thing, let alone digital entertainment.
How Apple Has Rethought a Gospel of the Web
Nixi tubes certainly bring memories. I remember my dad had made a nixie tube clock that used the oscillations of the AC power coming from the wall to count time. When I was a kid i discovered it somewhere in a closed, plugged it in, and promptly electrecuted myself.

But while nixie tubes are cool I don't know if you want to make a product with them. After all, they are no longer manufactured. Aren't you scared that your supply in eastern europe might run dry some day?
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IPhone Map Location/Business Query...
I'm writing a location-based iPhone app and wonder if there's a way to find a business name from a location (longitude/latitude, etc). For example:
At location x/y there is a Starbucks or Bank of America, etc.
There doesn't seem to be a way to do this in mapkit but is there a free api to get the information from?
Any article about how to have stuff made in the US?
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Erlgen — a erlang application generator.
It still has to be "originally written" in x.
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It's really up to you. If the websites on your network agree to add a component to their website you can technically implement this with an IFRAME or any component with JavaScript that references some JavaScript file of yours. You can even do it with an image URL, but the image URL won't cycle without the aid of a script. However, it's likely that your thinking of a page based solution, and not a dynamic solution for single page AJAX like websites.

All the above will work, now it's up to you which you prefer.
Turbulenz is hiring - http://www.turbulenz.com/. They're based in Guildford in the UK and looking for a range of engineers to work on their browser based game engine.
Anyone hiring in Canada ?
Ask YC foreign founders: How did you guys get setup?
As a follow-up to this Ask PG (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253547), what did you guys do to get setup once you got accepted to YC. From a company registration stand-point.

Which state did you register in, what company structure, what merchant did you use, which bank account, what type of company (i.e. web app, device like WakeMate, etc.), what type of revenue structure (recurring, one time, etc.)?

Any details you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Over half the APIs introduced in both 3.2 and 4.0 were formerly private APIs. We've been having a lot of fun with them in jailbreak-land :)
Congratulations, you just invented how public school teachers are paid (at least so long as unions remain in power). You have one extra measurement, it's true, but the system is still massively flawed.
Does the result of this research end up as products?

Microsoft Research is excellent as a research organization, but it seems that it's goal isn't to develop new products based on this research but rather to make sure that the scientists aren't developing products based on their research elsewhere.

Note: there's also lots of research work that needs to be done that isn't going to be applied immediately. That's certainly fine -- but there's been research that has went on at Sun that has been turned into industry changing products (from NFS to Java).
Certainly agreed. I could say "a modern day runner-up to Bell Labs". Nonetheless they employ actual Bell labs people (Rob Pike, Kernighan, etc...).
They already did it once (the first time they launched, and Cuil was a POS). Insane.
I was unaware of that. From what I gleaned using class-dump, it appeared that you were using a custom version of flixel that retargeted Objective-C. My mistake.

(also, nicely done. the iPhone port is very slick)
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Are cosmic rays causing Toyota's problems? (Ctrl-F for SEU in comment thread)
Wufoo is hiring someone for customer support. We're in Tampa, FL but we are accepting remote applicants.

More info here: http://wufoo.com/2010/04/07/wufoo-is-hiring-a-customer-suppo...
For those interested, the paper (at least I think): Klein, Gary. Naturalistic Decision Making. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50, no. 3 (June 1, 2008): 456-460. http://hfs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/3/456. PDF: http://hfs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/50/3/456.pdf
The language is mostly irrelevant. It's the framework that matters. You can't plop a gtk, MFC, Qt, or whatever app on an iPhone. You drop a UIKit app on the iPhone, and that's it.
Just want to let you know, that I've implemented this.
No...you originally write in Objective-C, using an Objective-C framework designed to make cross-compiling to Flash bytecode easier. I think Apple would be a-ok with its competing platforms getting filled with ported apps. You'll still need to program in Objective-C though, and it's hard to see what advantage Adobe's existing apps would bring to Objective-C development.
you don't enjoy biking, rolling hills and nice weather, year-round ?
Since when is some silly notion of "professionalism" an absolute measure of the worth of what people say?

Personally I'd prefer something profanity-laced that I can relate to (as long as it actually presents reasoned arguments!), over some artificial, self-censored PR-speak.
This would require some major development time and give devs another reason to work on the iPhone. IMO, they would be better off devoting the time in solidifying Flash 10.1 mobile and compatibility across non-iPhone devices.
This could be an interesting format for RAQ's & gotchas (Rarely Asked Questions). So straight to the point yet so memorable.
New York is great, and the high density is very invigorating, but there are problems. Number one among them is that NY is just too expensive. It is impossible to bootstrap anything there. There are just too many greedy landlords.

Even when the banking industry collapsed rents did not go down significantly.
The dicey assumption made in this piece is that most of the people who work in major Silicon Valley companies actually live in San Francisco.

I wouldn't know any statistics but, in general, Silicon Valley is much more centered in the South Bay and than it is in San Francisco and those who work at Adobe, Sun, Apple, Oracle, etc. would normally live either on the Peninsula or in the San Jose area.

Just to take Apple as an example, in general, it is pretty crazy for the thousands of people who work in Cupertino (which is immediately adjacent to San Jose and is some 50 miles from most points in San Francisco) to live somewhere other than the South Bay or at least the Peninsula - from which locations the commutes would be pretty modest (still likely 20 minutes or more for most people but not the hour-plus it would be from the City).

Some people undoubtedly live in San Francisco while working at Apple simply because they like the City so much and prefer to live there in spite of the long commute. But these would likely be unusual exceptions and not the rule.
Google needs to get serious in regards to shipping a ChromeOS tablet for cheap. They made the nexus one happen, so chromeos tablet is doable. They would need to do it far cheaper than the iPad too though and have 3G I believe.
Publishing console games isn't as simple as hosting a file on a server. There is significant testing and certification cost, assignment of liability, and much more. Are those costs worth it to Microsoft? Will they have to advertise the game themselves? Who handles the support calls (yes, there are support calls for games)?

It just seems like Microsoft said "Our personal pipes are full, but maybe one of our licensed partners has some bandwidth for this game." Extrapolating on the headline, it sounds like Microsoft's pipes are full of Xbox exclusive titles. Preferring exclusives seems like a reasonable general guideline when there are simply too many games worth investing in. This is especially true for simultaneous development of cross-platform games. Microsoft certainly wouldn't want to spend time and money waiting on or helping a studio finish up the Playstation 3 port of their game (PS3 development always takes longer).
It took me a very long time to realize this:

-Confidence is the defining quality in success.

Be confident at any cost. This will help you focus on what you want most right now in this moment, and moving towards what you want will lift your depression.
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I updated the article thanks to you..
Are VCs Too Smart For Their Own Good?
Looks like Efene is written mostly in Efene. Wonderful stuff:

http://github.com/marianoguerra/efene/blob/master/src/compil...

marianoguerra: You should consider attending the Emerging Languages Conference this summer.

http://emerginglangs.com/
Librato is looking for a lead designer to own UI/UX on http://silverline.librato.com

Brick/Mortar office is in Santa Clara, CA, but we offer part-time telecommuting e.g. I work from home in San Francisco 3 days a week.
Anyone hiring in UK?
Turbulenz - http://www.turbulenz.com/ - based in Guildford. Looking for engineers in the UK and throughout Europe.
oh the webs we weave, this is pretty hilarious
Imagine what would happen if Columbia or NYU were where Stanford is (not in the city i.e)...

Also, maybe some clean air and sunny weather can make for some good startup conditions (like sourdough bread :-)
TripAdvisor is looking for awesome people in the Boston area for both full-time and internships.

My team is PHP, the rest of the company is Java. Standard valley-style perks (free lunch 3 days a week, snacks/drinks, shiny hardware, etc) and a challenging work environment full of smart people.

Feel free to email bkrausz AT tripadvisor for more info or with a resume.
I think you'd be wise to talk to a lot of people that work at these companies. A huge portion of Apple/Yahoo/Google employees live in the city or some equally far-away place in the East Bay. Each of these companies (and others) send in free buses with Wi-Fi to various parts of the city several times a day.

So sure, they're "commuting" — but really they just walk a couple of blocks, hop on board a free bus and start working during their commute.
That may be, but all the specific shortcomings he mentioned in the article are definitely not there with CouchDB, which he specifically mentions. The futon (builtin) interface to Couch solves every one of the gripes he mentions with ZODB.

I feel like the author may have a point, somewhere, but not in this article, which feels off the cuff, and just isn't really a well constructed argument about anything.
Talks didn't break down, there were big anti-trust issues.
The post is focused on 20-somethings who want to live in an urban area. Manhattan is somewhat analogous to San Francisco; it tends to have a high concentration of young people who want to work in tech and startups.
This is a very interesting idea.

Look at item 3 at the end of this posting http://aitoehigie.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/building-a-world-... from the author's blog for one good application area.
yep, efene is written in efene since 0.3, the only non efene code is yecc (.yrl) and leex (.xrl).

but the code is not really representative of efene since it's almost all tree transversing and transformation (lot of pattern matching).

about emerginglangs, right now I'm in Argentina so a little far for me :D