skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that this guy has called me a number of times over the past couple years, and he pulls the same schtick on everyone: tries to hire you as an "unpaid intern" to do considerable amounts of work that he plans to profit from.

I normally wouldn't have too big of a problem with that, except that I don't believe he's actually hired or paid a single individual to work on "freezecrowd," ever.
The JooJoo is basically an Atom/Ion netbook with off-the-shelf parts.
> and don't have to do any housework-- a maid is assumed.

Except for the maid of course...

In Panama they say you either have a maid or you are a maid.
Has anybody here ever done this in the real world? Or had it done to them?
This is an insanely cool company to work for. Check out their hackathons on the weekends if you're just curious.

Note I work here too :)
He is just saying that existing mindshare and support tools matter a lot, and it's a week spot for NoSql.
Another embarrassingly bad article:

http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=United+States+of+America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique

http://cpedia.com/search?q=william+s+burroughs

Had they positioned this as an art project applying the cut-up technique to the Web as a whole, it would be seen as a real success.

cpedia itself speaks:

"Along with JG Ballard, Angela Carter and Anna Kavan, William S. Burroughs has probably done more to influence my writing, my reading, and my appreciation of literature than any other writer."

(No attribution in article. I like to think of this as the software's own appreciation showing through.)
yes.

(also, newdict = dict(data) seems more natural to me since the same idiom can be used for copying lists, which don't have a copy method).
For once a YouTube comment made me laugh rather than wish I had a YouTube comment blocker.

"You remind me of Michael Scott"

This really did sort of feel like one of the videos created by The Office writers for everyone's favorite manager.
Thanks, I'll try to get that fixed on Monday.
Yes, if you wanted to, you could stop by your offices today or tomorrow and meet the team or just hack on Twilio and Boxee http://twilio-boxee-hackathon.eventbrite.com/
Where exactly? Looking for a bright business person in Dublin, Ireland.
There seems to be some movement on high speed rail in the states.

It's funny, it's the one country on the planet that would really benefit from doing it and yet they're really late to the party.
Create a feature matrix of your site versus other debate sites. Show why yours is better. Do a screencast and show how easy it is to use.

Have you seen http://www.whitehouse2.org/ or http://www.allrise.com/ -- at least there is a focus. Yours has none.
I think the point is that Joel tackles the problem of assessing each employee's contribution straight on and unambiguously. I'm sure there is opportunity for negotiation if you believe you have made more contribution than your position on the ladder would suggest. Most other companies won't even attempt to explain how they determine salaries because they are not brave enough to tell their employees "you're good, but not great". Equally, most employees aren't willing to discuss it objectively - we all think we're above average, right? By attempting to put more structure around the process, Fog Creek are making it a lot easier for them and their employees to talk openly about their (and their colleagues') contributions.
"Because salary information is viewed as particularly sensitive, employers often go to great lengths to keep it under wraps."

In Norway, salary information is viewed as public information. Each year the government releases the income, assets and amount of payed tax of every citizen, so that the media can make it public. It is then made searchable online, for example here: http://skattelister.no/
> You can't deny that the technological advances in the last 15 years were bigger than than in the last 200.

I can and it's nonsense.

Nuclear power? The Electrical Grid? The Industrial revolution? The transportation revolution? Mass airtravel? Genetics? Electronics?

Versus what ? The internet? Cell phones? Sure it's great but it definitely isn't bigger by any yardstick than what preceded it, in fact plenty of those previous inventions were pre-requisites for those to be possible in the first place.

I'd bet you could live just fine in the world of 15 years ago, but I'd challenge you to live in the one from 200 years ago.
There's not a Hacker News meetup in Waterloo but there is Dev house run by the guys from Postrank.com - It's the last monday of every month and it's basically full of chit chat and presentations of the like you'd find on hacker news .. I'm sure some of the members visit here too. Check it out: http://devhouse.postrank.com/
Without some kind of encryption on the file being shared, what we be the basis for the assurance that the file is securely erased? A promise?
How many would actually go to this? I would argue most people don't want this. The perception for many people is still - be a lawyer or a doctor or go work at a big company. There's a reason that when my company goes recruiting at Northwestern U (we're a relatively small consulting company that gets pretty cool projects) nobody wants to work for us. Rather, they flock to the Accentures, IBMs and the GEs of the world.
Both sites have tons of pdfs for whatever you need.

Finally, a better way for me to download all those PDFs I'm looking for on Rapidshare.
nice article, I like the attention to details, but if you are looking for something nice and quick and easy, copied and pasted from gmail

http://pastebin.me/edc9b5fefc2cd756c7dd92452407a5b0
Peggle is published by PopCap. The other multi-platform example mentioned here, Battlefield 1943, is published by EA. Braid was an indie title that went straight through Microsoft.

I think it's the direct route that Microsoft are trying to cut down on. They'd prefer to deal with publishers, or at least to use publishers as a buffer between them and the developers.
Adding "Ninja" to the descriptors of the school isn't particularly useful or accurate. Certainly I'd never attend any ninja school that didn't provide me with an accreditation in ninjitsu at the end.

Also, we already have this. It's called Y Combinator.
Well, it does sound like the know it's more of a long-shot "weird" idea and they call it an "alpha". One quote from the blog:

> At other times it is weird — it does reflect the web after all.

I can see a lot of hackers wanting to try something like this and see if they can iteratively make it better and better and better.

Doesn't this sort of a site sound like something people here would love to toy with?

> For each query, Cpedia algorithmically summarizes and clusters the ideas on the web and uses this to generate a report. We do the heavy lifting of removing all the repetition, so that unique and novel content surfaces.

I personally think it's cool for people to try weird things like this-- even if the attempts fail.
http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs.mhtml We heart Perl developers.
How you get users depends on what your goal is. It looks like your site offers a free service and has advertising (AdWords and selling ads directly [hint: telling users to name a price is not a good idea.]) as it's only income source. This pretty much rules out paying for users unless it can be done very cheaply as you aren't going to make much per new user.

SEO is good. A properly configured site can work wonders, but beyond that, a good product will "SEO itself". Spending time on linkbuilding campaigns or blackhat SEO will not be efficient in the long run.

Buying ads could be expensive and wouldn't be worth it to me. That would depend on where you can advertise and the cost, but I wouldn't do it.

Spam is an obvious no.

So what can you do? Well, this post right here will more then likely get some visitors to check out your site (if that was your intent, +1 sneaky). I'd focus on creating the best product you can, including a better design, alternative monetization methods, and asking HN or current users for suggestions on improvement and implementing them.
[sidenote: I don't have many projects I consider finished, only paused if I'm not working on them. Stay open to future development. If you aren't adapting and improving, you're falling behind.]

You could contribute to debate forums or other relevant websites, posting genuinely helpful comments relevant to your site and harmlessly introducing it. I personally like to only use advertising methods that I would not be annoyed with, but if your only goal is to make money, just spam your site all over the place. You might make a little cash, but you'll get a bad reputation doing it.
As stated this is far too ambitious a goal. But let's say we don't worry about traffic analysis and just protect the content. What would a minimal "git with privacy" look like?
This kind of thread is exactly why I work at http://linkup.com/ - which is a job search engine that works by only including jobs found on company websites. Let me give a quick example of what that means:

Twitter has 34 job openings (http://twitter.com/positions.html). They, being Twitter, don't have a hard time finding people so their jobs aren't on CareerBuilder/Monster (http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?brd=1&cn=Twitte...). The other job aggregators, like Indeed or SimplyHired, only have the jobs that have been copied onto other sites (http://www.indeed.com/jobs?as_cmp=Twitter - note the links don't actually go to the company website). We (LinkUp) have all their jobs - http://www.linkup.com/results.php#c=Twitter. Another HN-worthy list is http://www.linkup.com/lists/Y_Combinator_Startups, but you'll have to guess what the link is...

The technology behind LinkUp takes a lot more work than your standard scrape because many companies make it difficult to get to a reusable link to an individual job, and there's no unified format to tell title from description from location. And right now we only have a hair over 20,000 companies, so I don't tell anyone that we're the only site a jobseeker should use - just the first;-)
I opened firebug and set the display to none but yeah there was no close button and it was annoying as hell.
Trust economics to give us a scientific name for flirting, but why "salami tactics"? :)
Academia.edu is hiring Rails engineers http://academia.edu/jobs
I don't have personal experience of it, but I believe BitTorrent is hiring.

ADDED IN EDIT:

OK, in response to getting downmodded I went to find where I saw it, and here's the reference:

http://www.bittorrent.com/company/jobs

So what's with the down-mods? Do you hate BitTorrent? Do you want me to do your work for you? I gave information that was asked for, and stated my lack of connection with the company, what more do you want?
Similar theme:

http://discovermagazine.com/2001/dec/featglad
An aperiodic hexagonal tile
hmm. Hadn't thought of the double-entaunte there. Nice.
It goes off when in silent mode, but not if you turn the ringer volume down ( this has happened to me a couple of times accidentally )
interesting that a SBA loan doesn't also require you to manufacture your products in the states - would be interesting to find out if he had to work around regulations or if they don't care what you do with the money once you have it.
As it happens the founding team are all ex-LoveFilm (the UK Netflix equivalent) employees. I guess they probably thought "why can't we do this for food".
Vladimir Putin will lead the investigation:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/10/2869413.htm?se...
The general consensus is that DRM cannot be made secure. Why? You are delivering content and the means of playing it to the user. If the user can play it, the user can copy it. Game over.

However, if the recipient of the shared document is also interested in the timed destruction of the document, you could encrypt the document and escrow the key on a web server. The host of the web server promises to erase the key after a certain time, and the recipient promises to delete all unencrypted copies of the document and temporary encryption keys.

What I have just described above is a much simpler way to implement Vanish (http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/) if you allow the use of a trusted web server. Note that the full Vanish implementation is insecure (http://z.cs.utexas.edu/users/osa/unvanish/papers/vanish-brok...).
With the new PDK you can use C/C++ (or any language that compiles with the same API) to develop your app and use SDL and OpenGL.

Which is awesome, if you're making a game. If you want to make any other kind of application with a Mojo UI and a C/C++ backend, you're still out of luck. Or if you want to access the microphone or camera directly, you're out of luck, regardless of if you use the SDK or PDK. Or… for a lot of other small things, that do make a difference.

Don't get me wrong; I have a Palm Pre with Verizon and love it. But, as far as their SDK and PDK goes, there is a long way to go. Especially if they're playing catch-up with Apple and Cocoa Touch.
I'm afraid I'd better not comment in public (yes, that darned NDA) since I've read some of the new API docs.

But I freely admit my original comment was pure speculation.
Well said, mkramlich!
I'm in the US now, going to Canada in a month, but likely to come back to US.
This game would be much more punishing if it did not keep repeating the same piece over and over again. The way that a piece would repeat itself until just before a line is cleared makes the game's AI way too obvious.
I understand spending time on deobsfucation. But what about assembly encryption ala http://www.eziriz.com/intellilock.htm
Clickable:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106386552725158
Try googling a journalist or someone with a byline that appears often. http://cpedia.com/search?q=Hilary%20Lehman
"I found a Seattle-area software-consulting firm called Construx that had published on its website the outline of a decent professional ladder system" It sounds like it is just another consulting firm. Construx founder and CEO is Steve McConnell, he wrote some great books about software development back in the day.
Re the Ruby Fanbois
Yes, next question?
Peter Sunde Keynote from Startup Weekend Lund, Sweden
Dealer.com is hiring. It's a great place to work for a developer, although there's openings in many positions. On-site gym and organic cafe

Check us out:
http://www.dealer.com/careers
"Use a “safe” encoding for your page (such as ISO-8859-1) or otherwise verify that the content of inputted data to see if it valid (including if you use UTF-8). This is because certain invalid character sequences can cause the next character(like < (!)) to be ignored in some encodings."

Could anyone elaborate on this? What are the 'dangers' of UTF-8 exactly? The author suggests that certain UTF-8 characters can mess with the markup. How?
Ohhh... So this isn't a joke?
For the first bullet, I usually just do the following:

dd if=/dev/urandom ibs=1000 count=1 2>/dev/null | tr -dc '0-9' | fold -w[number of digits you need]

For the fourth, I agree with wbond: use bcrypt when possible.

Also, slide 27 should probably say 'fingerprint' in the second section.
Efene 0.4 - a language for the erlang VM - released
Who writes the checks makes the rules, and ultimately, for apps, it's consumers that write the checks and consumers that benefit from this change.

Consumers don't write Facebook's checks, companies like Offerpal do: http://www.businessinsider.com/offerpal-coincidentally-repla...

So the differences between Apple's users' data policies and Facebook's become clearer.

Meanwhile, to receive the money, obey the rules. It's simple.
Python is unreadable.
If Silicon Valley Moved to New York
leave this crap off HN
2015: Ladies and Gentlemen, we can't contact ATC, could you please ease up on your torrents.
Utah. Property Solutions: http://propertysolutions.com
I don't disagree with any of your points in a fundamental sense: sure, Apple is well within their rights to set the policies they have set, and I understand that Apple believes that all this gives them a distinct market advantage (I won't try to pass judgment on whether or not that's correct; I don't think anyone here knows for a fact whether they'd be better off another way).

Development for a mobile device is different. If you were developing a Windows application, you'd be expected to own a Windows system. If you're developing a MacOS X application, you'd be expected to own a system that runs MacOS X.

But what about an iPhone application? By the above logic, you should only be expected to own an iPhone. Now, this analogy breaks down a bit, because I wouldn't expect anyone to actually develop a serious piece of software directly on an iPhone (at least not without an external monitor, mouse, and keyboard). So you need another platform to do your development on. Apple is requiring you to buy a Mac. Clearly they have development tools that work on Windows, otherwise Win Safari wouldn't be possible. A port of the iPhone SDK to Windows (or Linux, or whatever) is certainly not out of the question... it's just a matter of throwing resources and time at it. Now, again, I can certainly believe that Apple would think that restricting iPhone development to Macs is in their best interest, but it's ludicrous to suggest that this decision is also in their developers' best interests. I think that's what a lot of people are pissed off about.

Go to another mobile platform? Sure, you can do that, but then you're restricting your market. Yes, there are quite a few other lucrative mobile platforms (several of which have greater market share than the iPhone), but, as a developer, you end up with the unfortunate choice of having to either not develop for the iPhone, or buy an expensive piece of hardware that you only use for iPhone development. And by "expensive" I don't just mean the price tag. I also mean costs in training (even if it's self-training), maintenance (in 5 years your speedy Mac won't be so speedy anymore), and upgrades (IIRC you already can't install the latest version of Xcode on anything older than Snow Leopard; I imagine this trend will continue).

I know people like you seem to think that it's an easy binary decision: 1) don't buy a Mac and don't develop for the iPhone, or 2) buy a Mac and develop for the iPhone, but there's a lot that goes into that decision, including a judgment of whether or not developing an app that you may not be "allowed" to distribute is worthwhile.

It's not so cut and dried.
The OP's post was sort of dumb, but he has a more general point: there is a danger that the people who get involved will see it as a purely technical exercise, ignore the user component, and quite possibly magnify complexity when they should be choking complexity down as far as possible. We don't need a concept car (Gnu Hurd), we need a Datsun B210 (Linux).
Local only or remote?
Four Chrome OS Contenders that Could Take on Apple's iPad
When your Superbowl ad turns into an instant meme, surely you have achieved sainthood in the marketing community.
I'm going to write a flash app for the iPhone and the iPad  [comic]
While the style and content of complaining varies up and down the economic ladder, the proportion of people who whine incessantly about everyday inconveniences seems about the same.
Make sure to put your City and State in your job post - to make this thread more searchable.
The fact that Adobe has some editorial control of it (even after the fact) means that Adobe is concerned that the personal opinions of their official representative may reflect badly on Adobe. There's no absolute choice here between "official Adobe blog" and "personal blog" -- it's somewhere in the middle. The only way it could truly be one guy's personal opinion is if he remained completely anonymous.
Why would there be a need for a publisher? Where is the problem for Microsoft to just host the game on their servers, let people buy it off XBLA, keep a certain percentage of the money and forward the rest to the developers?
Peter Watts’s unwelcome encounter with US border guards
Take a look at Cappuccino. They claim to have reimplmented the Cocoa APIs in Javascript, arguably a language even more restrictive than Java. Java of course is a bit different language-wise than JS or ObjC, to be sure, but I'd imagine you could support a decent subset of UIKit in Java... though the method call syntax would of course be different.
The above post links out to http://autonomo.us/, where Stallman talks about Software as a Service and its anti freedom implications. It is interesting reading, but I think collective projects can be Free (as in freedom) when they are collectively controlled and open; this is the important difference between Wikipedia (Free) and Google Docs (not Free). I don't think the important difference is technical, as RMS seems to (whether or not an application "belongs" local or remote).

"Collectively controlled" is the hard problem. It is probably impossible to solve cleanly without hard tradeoffs, whether in a society (do we let people shout fire? consensus versus majority vote? one vote per share or one vote per person?) or in a computer project (do we sanction bad editors? Are certain topics off limits? etc).

So... I think a Gnu FB is actually an awesome challenge, both technically and socially.
He seems he would do well on a salesforce evangelizing things, but seriously, 10 years from having a vision and still no prototype site?
This is my favourite comic from that meme: http://browsertoolkit.com/fault-tolerance.png
Here's a demo on my blog: http://davidwparker.com/2010/04/10/any-metadata-bookmarklet/

note: I've only tested it on Ubuntu Chrome 5.0.342.7 as I know Chrome supports localStorage.
Yes, that was my inspiration :)
> If you ask immigrants who've lived in the U.S. ~10 years or so about the pros/cons of it, though, you get much more mixed answers. Some are still uniformly positive about how much better the U.S. is than where they came from, but many aren't.

Then why are they still here?

When someone says that things are better somewhere else, I always ask why they're not at that somewhere else. Almost all the time, it turns out that whatever it is that they're complaining about is less important to them than something that they get where they currently are. Often they're embarrassed by what that says about their priorities.
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He left Rivendell, sure, but maybe he's just moving to Lothlórien.
> Also, I think you need a import license from the govt. atleast for steel.

Why do you think that?
Skritter is hiring paid summer programmers. We create a web-based tool to help students of Chinese and Japanese better learn and remember their characters. We're based near Cleveland Ohio and we're hunting for motivated, smart applicants, preferably with experience with python, actionscript, or django. I'm the CEO of the company and you can get in touch with me either via the site (skritter.com/contact) or my HN profile contact info.
What you are describing is the digital equivalent of hiring out films from a store but trying to verify that they didn't tape a copy before returning it. I guess the answer is to be affordable and convenient enough that it makes economic sense to hire it from you.
Not really. It's his website, his soapbox. In his position, I wouldn't want to deal with all the unintelligible Apple fanboy posters either -- even at the expense of the likely-few reasonable, well thought-out posts.

Publishing on teh intarwebs is cheap and easy. If some potential commenters want their own soapbox, they can easily get one. I honestly don't understand why it's become "required" that readers of any site should be able to comment on what's written on that site. Let the content stand for itself. If you have an opposing viewpoint, use your own channel to promote that viewpoint; don't leech off of someone else's.
Adobe Vs. Apple War Generates Rage, Facebook Group
Because of course there won't be a shred of forensic evidence pointing clearly to exactly one of you.