skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Usually the Jungian usage is written 'Self' with a capital 'S'.

I quite believe in it now and looking back, credit it as the source that allowed me to quit various dead-end jobs, even when they paid a lot and were held in high regard by everyone around me. My ego said, "Hey, be content this is a great job!" But the Self doesn't care how much money a job makes. It cares about 'individuation' and growth.
Fair point: they're cities of different sizes with different character. I like both, but they're different.

I was just using them as examples of beautiful cities with really interesting, vibrant cores but with depressing suburbs.
What’s wrong with an LLC?
Note that the 30-day trial is free ONLY if you give them your credit card number. Why should I worry about them having that information if I decide not to do it? Why shouldn't they do the work on their end of just killing my trial account if I don't sign up after 30 days? "Free" should be FREE. Not provisionally so.
I believe the Nobel laureate has the wrong title.

It is not as if there's no market efficiency, no collective pricing that occurs from the interaction of individual agents.

But individual, selfish agents do not always act in the public interest.

Some economists call the problem of externalized costs "the Tragedy of the Commons."

But a lot of commons aren't visible, which doesn't make for a great tragedy. So I (and some others) have taken to calling that problem "the Invisible Foot."
We, as a society, are paying dearly for the sin of forgetting that not everyone deserves to live in nice places, and that culture rather than money should be the deciding factor (the mortal enemy of the good are those who are both uncultured and wealthy, who are like blind, rampaging, destructive animals).

I would much rather deal with a bureaucratic inconvenience such as this than get robbed blind on rent, and have absolutely no recourse. In other words, my answer is yes, because that would be an absolute improvement over the current, disastrous arrangement.
UK sends in navy to help ash cloud crisis - CNN.com
I'm not saying anything about the usefulness of a CV in the hiring process, I'm saying that it's pretty uninspiring to suggest that the need to put one together is a great hurdle for the kind of developers you're hoping to hire.

It just hits me the wrong way that the traits of the developers you're saying you want are: bored, unhappy, unable to afford an iPad, and too lazy to type up a short description of themselves.
The only "advantages" here have nothing to do with wireframing, they're just the advantages of any hosted service. When it comes down to it, Omnigraffle is better than Drawings for doing wireframes, because that's what it's meant to do.

On the other hand, how about http://www.gomockingbird.com?
stats.pluginseo.com is murdering the performance of that page, for me at least. Took 21 seconds to load, as measured by FireBug; download of http://stats.pluginseo.com/132108.js timed out:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stats.pluginseo.com

Looks almost like DNS poisoning attack or something:

$ nslookup

Name: pluginseo.com
Address: 174.121.79.132

Name: stats.pluginseo.com.re.getclicky.com
Address: 204.13.8.76
Aliases: stats.pluginseo.com
Someone lost the Apple iPhone 4G in a bar - Screenshots + Video
Yeah, I was pretty sure that I played with it when I was doing .NET in school... Thought I was going crazy.
Citigroup Reports Profit of $4.4 Billion (After 2 Years of Losses)
Do expect lots of penis drawings...
Here's a different perspective: this gimmick raised the profile of this round of recruitment to the front page of HN.
Yep. jQuery does have .delay() now, though. You can use it like this:

$('#thing').fadeIn(300).delay(2000).fadeOut(300);
Dodd can write whatever legislation he wants, it's up to the rest of the senate to actually approve it. If he doesn't have the political clout to keep his seat I doubt any other senator is willing to follow his footsteps. Plus what is done by one can be undone by another; see the Glass-Steagal Act undone by Graham-Leach-Bliley.
I only notice it when I am using Chrome.
News Has Never Been a Commercially Viable Product
Ah, but the iPad made it a news story. Look, this story has 26 points and is currently at the top of the front page. How many extra programmers are going to hear about the opportunity that wouldn't have if it weren't attached to a free iPad?
I think Balsamiq saw this coming, in the past two months or so they've been publicly progressing with their development. Templates with inheritance, online saving, and components (so you can say design the footer and headers for several pages and have them be the same element reused.) are all on their way.

My point is, even if you're now competing with a team from Google, you're not over and out yet.
If the https would not redirect you to the http, it would at the very least be marginally(!) better...
There you have it. There are good arguments both ways, but I decided against allowing anonymous browsing for two reasons. First was to encourage sign-ups, second was laziness -- the list of other users is sorted by their relevance to you, and over half of the width of the user list is taken up by how closely they match your needs. I didn't want to take the time to think through how browsing that list should look if a user wasn't logged in.
Why should you "avoid leaderboards"? No explanation under that bullet point. I like leaderboards that let me see how I've done in real games against my friends (XBox Live Arcade has a great implementation of this). What's wrong with using them in an app?
FWIW - many programs use IE's layout engine for their display functionality. I don't know if it does any more, but Quickbooks used to. The only way I found this out is when I turned off images in IE Quickbooks failed to display about half of its UI.
Ah, but if I lived in LA I'd never need to catch public transit. SF has the unfortunate combination of no public transit _and_ no parking.

I have to admit I'm not sure how drunk people get home from bars in Los Angeles, though, since there also seem to be no taxis.
Discovered: The Great Atlantic (not to be confused with Pacific) Garbage Patch
Elitism in IRC
I'm glad I'll never have to run this.
Sunspots, volcanoes and risk
This article is completely content-free. The book is just a company (culture|inside-joke|aren't-we-awesome) thingy. Which is nice for them.

My recommendation: your time is better spent elsewhere.
It's not like it's seriously difficult to get something on the HN frontpage, and if it's at the cost of alienating the kind of developers you'd actually want to hire, so what?
Thanks to Red Gate for attracting people with a free iPad.

While you are in the area, you might also want to have a look at the Cambridge office of Citrix. We are currently around 50 people and look to add ca 20 new employees this year.

We are working on virtualization, e.g. XenServer. So a background in operating systems helps, but is not necessary. (I did not have one.) The infrastructure is closely aligned with Unix systems, but the guest systems our customers run are mostly Windows machines.

We don't offer free iPads for interviewees, but the software we write in Cambridge is open-sourced and you'll have the opportunity to hack in functional languages. (C, Python and friends are also helpful. I only mention FP because that's what drew me here in the first place.)

Benefits and pay seem similar to Red Gate (though as far as I know the high end may go higher here), only our kitchen isn't equipped to prepare lunch.

Please drop me an email if you want to learn more. You can find my email address in my profile.
Java library for data conversion, filtering, mapping...
If you look at the sidebar, you'll find links to other sections of the special report with far more detail.
How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers
Google Drawings have a long way to go. First, they need to add the ability to "connect" lines. This is a very basic ability and I was astonished when I discovered it was missing. Then they need to add some REAL way to make stencils and reuse them. Stencil gallery anyone?
I'd also add that it doesn't build good will. I did an unpaid internship in college. It was good experience, and I was doing real work (not just getting coffee), but I did resent not being paid. It sucks to be told, in essence, "we don't value you at all; we're doing you a favor. Now wear a tie to work and act like a professional, even though we're not treating you like one."

I did it because I needed to pad my resume. But it didn't make me want to come back and work for the company, or sing their praises to my classmates.
* it must be tough for a small company to operate in an area that intersects with areas google might be(come) active in*

That's getting to be more and more of us.
Right, and why is it full of converted warehouses instead of full of forty-storey skyscrapers? Because the city won't give the owners of the warehouses permission to knock them down and build something that makes economic sense.
Aren't unpaid internships illegal?

Updated: Yes, sometimes...i read the rest of the article.
The New Rules: Life, Death and the 20th Century
functional programming vs free lunch, free iPad and cool like this: http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2010/02/what-will-happen-...

:D (I upvoted you so)
It's a marketing campaign to raise recruitment awareness and not the sum of RG or its potential employees.
Thanks! That explains my reaction, as I'm closer to being in the later group than the former. This probably also explains the promotion. I imagine that the fresh-outta-college type is more likely to be impressed by a free iPad offer than a journeyman programmer would be.
Most are. There are six criteria an (unpaid) internship has to meet for it to not be illegal. Essentially, the company offering the internship has to be offering it solely for the benefit of the intern and can derive no real benefit from it themselves. (And a company can't offer an unpaid internship as a way to avoid paying employees for training.)

The full list (linked from the article) is here: http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/new-study-raises-qu...
YC Founders at Work Series: Wufoo's Kevin Hale today at 1pm PDT
.NET Rocks and Phil Haack show in the valley tonight
Renewable Energy in the United States (Infographic)
If you are conflicted about selling a dream to Yahoo for 80+ million you have too much careerism. Startups aren't children, it's either they die or you do.
Firebug cheat sheet
Gizmodo weighed in with a lot more info and pictures. It is looking like the real deal, although they didn't include any pictures of Apple branded chips, etc. that might really seal the deal.

http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone
Materials Science: The Future of Metals
Oh wow. That made me laugh as it caught me a bit by surprise since I expected yet another security blog.

Nice find and nice tip, I must say. :)
> "And no, I don't consider upgrades every 18 months a waste of money if your business depends on the productivity of engineers, but many companies do. I just don't understand it."

I'm currently using an almost 4 year old Macbook Pro for work. One the one hand I seem to be able to do my job 99% of the time just fine, but it can be slow. On the other hand it is an almost 4 year old computer. I haven't complained about it because it's a Macbook Pro and just about everyone else has Dells with Windows XP and I don't think I'd get another Macbook Pro.
Apparently this guy would agree:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1047633/one-writes-...

And you never know if something like that will contribute to the success of the project. It could be that a non-working webcam would be the straw that broke the camels back and sent a newb back to Windows. Lots of people have given up on linux because their hardware didn't work.
I feel so sorry for the guy that lost that device.
Until you reply to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1276179 I'm afraid I'm going to have to believe what everyone else is saying.

As well as note that the regulatory changes---registration, 120 days, throw it to the states---could easily be much worse than these changes. Which would indeed make the SEC and their equivalents in the states Death Panels for startups. They would decide which get a chance to live and which die stillborn.
Yep my thoughts entirely; this will be a swinger for graduates looking for a job.

When you pop above 45K here tax starts to get excruciating (40%) so that is probably why the upper limit is sat there (I get 8% year on year increase in my current job and it's barely noticeable due to tax...)
You may be right.

Though the Lisp on the Lisp machines wasn't very functional, yet. Or at least `less' functional by default than F# is. I am thinking mostly of static scoping.
Couldn't agree more. Why would facebook buy them? For their < 1million users that are already on facebook? The engineering could also be done internally for far cheaper.

Foursquare etc. find themselves in this position: the game mechanics they used led to explosive growth but also left them with a really low glass ceiling (think people don't get Twitter? ha.) They may have had a crazy hockey stick recently, but there is simply no way they will go main stream. It's got too MUCH personality: being mayor and getting badges will either REALLY resonate with someone or not at all.

I think the founders see $80mm+ valuations on a product with a very small, homogeneous demographic of users as far greater than they could ever dream of with their current stats, and they know FB could relatively easily enter the space with a far bigger and international crowd, as well as a household name that already does biz with f500 companies, and just crush them.

I think foursquare dies no matter what, if I were the founders I'd sell to the highest bidder and run.
Well that would explain some things...
I get into this in some level of detail in the presentation, but the PVP mechanic of leaderboards inhibits new players/users because it's another barrier to entry. Remember why Digg killed their leaderboard - you end up with a hypercompetitive top slice. Lastly, unlike with "real" games, there's not an easy way to cordon off and on-ramp newbies.
I suspect by "industrial-strength" what he actually means is "something you have to pay a lot of money for." rather than "is widely acknowledged as a useful and powerful tool by the industry."
Or pastie.org if you prefer:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3...
Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding
This Is Apple's Next iPhone
Ok, gotcha: it's not that you actually want to hire people who are bored, unhappy, lazy, and gadget-coveting, it's that you want to say you want to hire those people in a cynical attempt to game the media, so that the people who you really do want to hire will see said cynical manipulation, admire your cunning, and hop on board? Do they still get the free iPad?
The Future of Online Ads
I'm a web developer, and I'm a little confused on who the target audience is. Is this something that I would buy and then resell as a product to clients? Or is this something a mom-and-pop store would buy for themselves and hook into their hosting account? In general it looks cool, but I'm unsure what level of abstraction you're going for.

Also, your tagline "custom software solutions" is way too vague. Tighten that up to be more specific so that it's clear what you're offering. Also, your name Dokuments may be a cute domain name, but I'm not sure how documents are related to custom-built LAMP apps.

It looks like there's some really cool and easy to use technology there, and this is probably a really good area to target. I know a couple non-technical family and friends who could possibly need a couple of those applications. I would just work on some of the marketing copy to make it clear who your audience is. Good luck!
The critical issue to me is that my local government has granted a duopoly to my telephone and cable providers to provide broadband to my house. One could argue that I also get 3G coverage and the possibility of high latency satellite, but, for practical purposes, I have two options.

I'm a small L libertarian and would have no problem with network providers "innovating" by moving to a back-end revenue model except that this is not a free market situation. My local government has granted this companies near exclusive rights to shake me down. And now, thanks to this most recent court ruling, they can sell premium access to my house (Edit: meaning that they can sell others, like Disney, the semi-exclusive right to deliver high-bandwidth content).

I actually blame my local government for this. I believe the contracts with the phone/cable companies require local approval of rate plans, but I doubt they place stipulations on access discrimination as a revenue model. Perhaps I should lobby my local councilperson and not my congressman?
Droid Incredible Review
The reason that the first hit has "penis" embedded in the base64 is that I posted this to Reddit last night :-). I figured this sort of thing would be old news for HN, but judging by this having gotten 8 points in 12 minutes I guess I was wrong.
Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?
How much of this will the SF folk bring with them?
My first thought after seeing this is: I wonder if the person who lost it will be fired?

Secondly, he is toting that it has a plastic backing now - allegedly, for increase in reception range. Do you think that could be just for the purposes of the prototype?

To me, it really doesn't look like a polished piece of work that Apple normally puts out.
It seems terrible to me that users should even need tools like this. Why should they have to care about this stuff? Gone are the days when every computer user is a hobbyist.
That's pretty awesome, glad to hear such a great group of people got together. We had Peter Sunde the first day give a talk and he stayed for the pitches asking questions and giving feedback which was pretty fun to listen to.
I can't help but thinking that these changes seem fairly trivial. The article seems eager to claim that these are big deals. "The logo looks more modern"... Says who? The new-style buttons "[provide] more consistency between different browsers and operating systems". And less consistency between web pages on the same browser/system.

Anyway, it's confusing that the very first image, directly below the title, shows a search box that is tilted wrt its background. Now that would be innovate design... :-)
LLCs are useful entities that fit the needs of many startups.

The main limitations: (1) can't do the equivalent of ISOs and so the options you can grant will always be "non-qualified" (generating ordinary income on the "spread" at the time of exercise); (2) need to do custom drafting, with attendant expense, to mirror standard corporate tools in the LLC context (restricted unites in lieu of restricted stock, preferred units in lieu of preferred stock, etc.); (3) passive investors will wind up paying employment taxes on net income of the venture even though they are not employees (see the lively HN discussion comparing the LLC to the S Corp on this point, here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063516); and (4) for tax reasons related to their LPs, VCs can't invest in them.

Among the advantages: (1) more informality in management (normally by consensus among members, reflecting the LLC's strong partnership roots); (2) can get tax pass-through without needing to abide by S Corp limitations (with S, can have only one class of stock, can't have foreign shareholders, can't generally have entity shareholders - all of which you can have with an LLC and still get the tax pass-through); (3) can do specialized allocation of losses, which is an important factor for certain investors; (4) can grant profits-only interest to key founders who would otherwise take big tax hit in taking significant equity in an established, high-value startup.

The biggest practical advantage of an LLC is also its biggest practical limitation, and that is that it is like the siren song tempting founders to do quickie, online setups for their startups "just to get started." This is fine for some purposes but can lead to problems if founders use their startup kits to fill out standard templates without taking proper precautions to protect their IP (by failing to capture it for the company), to protect their equity structure (by making sure that founders have to earn their equity over time), etc. In my experience, most of these situations work out without problems but it is wise to get an initial legal consultation in such cases to make sure that, if you take the attendant risks, you do so with open eyes.
If something is interesting enough and if I like the people short internships (two months tops) close to the place where I live (I can drive there with my bike) are something I would most certainly do. (And they are legal in Germany. No minimum wage, either.) I don’t know whether I would be overly eager to work all that hard. Depends on the stuff I’m working on, I guess. Yet money – even if it’s only a little – shows me clearly that you care. I think it’s a important signal. I think many interns would be happy if you paid them only a little money.
I caught this via a friend of mine, and I tried it without a site: search and mostly came up with too much noise to signal in the results. I'd imagine that a lot of "paste over the Internet" sites have this problem, and I'd bet SSH keys aren't the only juicy bits you can find.

Another fun one to find Cisco VPN configuration files, many of which have an encoded (reversible) password within: http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Apcf+Main+Descripti...

headdesk
Using reflection really hamstrings the JVM JIT-
This stack overflow thread corroborates the "factor of ten" figure, in this case for object instantiation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/435553/java-reflection-pe...
Stiglitz gave a talk at Google on Feb 23 about his book Freefall. I really liked the talk -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_JlPCkQSs
ModSecurity: Allowing GoogleBot
Why not just show how you compare against your friends by default and have an option to change the filter to global?
We're using both on certain sites. It's certainly not a replacement for Analytics.

The most useful for us has been the page load time analysis, it's a great way to see exactly how long pages are taking to load for a user as opposed to measuring server response time.
I'm a physicist, I'm thinking of applying. I am not currently looking for a job, but the positions they are looking to fill seem like a good fit, and I have been considering a career change for a while now.

Without the news-worthiness of the offer of an iPad (which I don't really want), it's unlikely that I would be spurred into even considering looking at their advertisement. Programmers may not come for the free iPad, but people may be enticed to consider the advert just from the noise it makes.

That these are the same people who had their incubator posted on here already gives me the impression that they're enthusiastic and trying to think in new ways. I like their enthusiasm. If you look at what they say, it seems like they're willing to chat to you for 15 minutes just to explore things - I like that they are willing to invest a little time looking for someone and don't require a CV, two references and a covering letter just for an informal enquiry. That's pretty awesome, actually.