skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've heard, iTunes is super crufty and has it's own dedicated team, separate from the apps team. There's a lot of baggage to carry with iTunes, especially with legacy support. (I can stil sync my 1st generation 5GB iPod over Firewire.)
Advanced Bionics in Valencia, CA is hiring a web designer/ UX/IA person.

Looking for someone to help lead the charge in improving our web presence. The right person will be able to have a huge impact in pulling our web presence out of mediocrity. Our company is a good one to work for. We make cochlear implants.

DLarsen@advancedbionics.com
Did you really read the links? I can't do your homework for you.

"I'm not even a Flash developer, so please forgive me if I am not understanding properly."

Me neither I am just an average guy that likes computers. I am not even a developer of anything. But it is very clear to me that flash is not open and Adobe does not intent for it to be other than for PR. So far I haven't seen evidence to the contrary.

If Adobe would open source (GPLv2/BSD/Apache, etc) flash and would give the future development and implementation to an independent party (W3C?) made of various corporations, organizations and individuals that have stakes at flash I'd be all for flash.

P.S. I think a BSD/MIT/Apache license would be better.
It makes sense for CSS to remain a static language and for the dynamic logic to stay in preprocessors like Sass and LessCSS, for the same reason that HTML itself is a static language for which the dynamic logic goes into preprocessors (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.).
Jury Convicts Man of Palin E-mail Hack
This bookmarklet's been around for ages. Odds are you've upvoted tons of stories submitted using it. The quality of the linked content is what matters, not whether the submitter took the extra 30 seconds to copy and paste the title.
Simple math … and improvised flame throwers
It's an edge case. No one is going to be deploying a Hello World App to the App Store. Try comparing code size for similar applications and then we might have something to talk about. Otherwise, this is poor argument.
Meet the Average American Family (Infographic)
As a guy who runs a reddit install, I am pleased to hear that we'll be getting updates soon. : )

Is github going to be kept in sync with reddit's copy now? Is that the idea there?
You're right. My mistake.
If you live in Boston, and Python, Javascript and dealing with seriously big datasets is your thing, we are hiring a few engineers at Compete (for compete.com).

email me at fchamut@compete.com
the $ is perhaps my favorite feature. I love being able to easily scan the code which parts are variables, and which parts are strings. This comes in really handy when your page has php, js, and html hacked together because you can more easily tell what language the code you are reading is in.
A moronic statement indeed, you "try learning something yourself," and you stop with "absolutist proclamations."

Tip: you end a war by winning, not losing. Loser.
Has the font rendering improved on 10.04? I had to do quite a bit of tweaking on 9.04 to get Firefox fonts to looks close Windows/Mac. Regardless, this upgrade looks great!
I have a book light for my kindle, it works really well. There are numerous teeny lamps meant for attaching to dead tree books that attach to the kindle as well.
Are you saying the crackdown is yet to come? Ie on things that are being approved right now, even after accepting the new ToS?
Making Hello World apps is an edge case for commerical software development frameworks. They're not optimized for it and there is no reason for them to be.
Yes, I was being sarcastic. That's Haskell.
STELLA: Lisp-style Symbolic Programming with Delivery in Common-Lisp, C++, Java
Carbonmade http://carbonmade.com is hiring a lead designer in NYC.
Perhaps they aren't publishing non-anonymized data. But the fact that they are collecting and analyzing these data without any kind of opt-in system is a little disturbing. If they're willing to do that, how willing will they be to protect these data from falling into the wrong hands, especially if the "wrong hands" are holding a warrant or a court order? I'm sure glad I don't have a highlighted e-copy of, say, the Communist Manifesto or the Anarchist's Cookbook. I wouldn't know who to expect knocking at my door.
my pleasure :-) mine too!
tldr: What if we could open a bunch of listening sockets and start services in parrallel instead of serializing them the way that sysvinit does? That'd be neat. And faster. Oh yeah, we're doing that.
I think the idea of the psych tests was that they might be used as a tool for the prosecution and defense to exclude members from the jury pool. Today, potential jurors can be asked to fill out surveys with questions like, "Have you ever been the victim of a violent crime?" So, asking "Do you make decisions based on your emotions?" isn't too big of a step.

In the US judicial system, N potential jurors are made available to the prosecution and defense, and each side takes a turn excluding a person until the number of jurors required is reached. I think the idea is that those on the ends of the normal distribution (in terms of biases relevant to the trial at hand) will be removed so that the jury is more fair than if N jurors were selected at random.
Web Designers: Not Everyone Uses A Mac
Web app developer for www.jibe.com; expertise with Rails stack and JavaScript is desired. Problem space is combining social networks and employment. It's a small team, so your input means a lot. We're based in NYC. E-mail hacker@jibe.com
FathomDB is hiring engineers to work on our new scalable relational database: if you'd rather solve 'impossible' problems than work on yet another database-driven website where your biggest problem is going to dealing with bugs in the Facebook API; if you'd prefer to build something that will power real businesses for the next 20 years instead of building a Twitter add-on that'll be obsoleted when they launch their own version in a few months; if you'd rather invent the future than read about it; then email jobs @ fathomdb.com
Justin.TV’s new Android app in beta next week;  iPhone app hits 1.5M downloads
Flash means that a killer app/sitethat got famous on the back of iPhone/iPad sales would next year be available on any phone.

Apple aren't in the business of letting other people into their market - it's exactly the same reason MS tried to replace Java with an MS-only C#
You are right, I don't think it was an ad hominem, besides you made a valid point about Posterous. I just read the wiki stuff today and couldn't resist.
Jason Calacanis Talks to Penn State (including story of selling Weblogsinc)
It seems to me that the post I was replying to was making more of a general point of encouraging piracy, not just as a solution to the lala.com streaming purchase problem.
FSF responds to Jobs's "Thoughts on Flash"
Searching and replacing Job's Flash statement
Interesting. Digg could be really develop some excellent discovery and sharing functionality... the product management opportunities could be great.
Next Generation of Car Sharing: You Rent Your Car to a Complete Stranger
Anyone in London town?
By "the call" are you referring to: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq210/ ?
I've read the whole thing, and while it is kind of light on the science, it is well written and fun to read.
Love the TLDR summary at the bottom. That should become more of a trend.
You'd be mobbed in the street here in Uruguay if wearing the wrong t-shirt too... I'd be mobbed in Gualeguaychu, Argentina if I wore a "viva Botnia!" T-shirt, for example(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_mill_dispute_between_Argen... )
It can be used as a distributed lock or distributed metadata system. A lot of places hack the same functionality on top of memcache (or some other centralized store with atomic primitives).

Zookeeper feels like they spent a lot of time re-implementing Erlang's node and communication system in Java. In their design doc, they talk at length about how messages are guaranteed to be delivered in-order (and they seem very proud of this fact).

I think Zookeeper could be implemented in Erlang with 1/5th the code and 5x the reliability of what they have now.
I know it syncs but I'm pretty sure that I didn't agree to crowd-sourcing my highlights. I probably did, but it wasn't made clear to me that I would be.

Bad-form Amazon.
That's because Microsoft has the resources (both the money and the talent) to reinvent everything ... how many other companies can claim to have developed an OS (mostly) from scratch, or a VM + a language + an IDE + an ecosystem (mostly) from scratch, or a Flash-competitor or something like Bing, again, mostly from scratch.

Yeah, they clone or buy ideas and are known to beat their competition through illegal practices ... but no other company I know can be so infected with the NIH syndrome and get away with it.

"far more open standards" is really subjective. Microsoft invented Ajax. And before IE 6, when they've stopped caring, IExplorer kicked Netscape's ass.

And to me, standards are also relevant for hardware ... Microsoft is know to favor standards and openness in hardware. That's how they've beat both IBM and Apple.

So in the grander scheme of things, we don't know which company served a greater good. From my perspective computing wouldn't be as ubiquitous as it is today without someone like Microsoft.
Except it's what came with my full-size 27'' beast of an iMac. That sort of thing should come with a full keyboard or something that's supposed to be a substitute for it.
If I'd gotten it with a laptop purchase, then yeah, I wouldn't be complaining. It would be pretty cool for that.
It works fine with Vim, but not XCode or Visual Studio, which are my two primary uses for the iMac purchase.
Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: A (free) Mactastic experience
Middleware and Section 3.3.1
Msgpush.com launch
Just wanted to get the word out that that msgpush.com officially launched last month after a successful public beta.

msgpush is a service for iPhone users that offers near-real time notifications when new email has been received into any mail service that supports IMAP IDLE.

Here's how it works:

1. Our msgpush.com server logs into your e-mail account to watch for incoming e-mail messages. We do NOT read your messages, we just watch for new ones to arrive.

2. Your iPhone or iPod Touch keeps a connection open to our msgpush.com server. It uses the "Microsoft Exchange" connection type, because that's how we can send you notifications.

3. When a new message arrives in your e-mail account, the msgpush.com server notices and sends your device a true push notification. Your device buzzes (or dings) and the Mail badge on your home screen updates to show the new message.

4. To read the message, just open the Mail app. Mail downloads the new message from your own mail server.

5. Once your email has been accessed, the msgpush notifications get removed to ensure that your Mail badge count is accurate as possible. There is never any need to open, read or touch the msgpush account on your phone again.

We have had excellent feedback from our users and we think its a nice add-on for anyone who has not yet found a push option that works for them.

We are offering free 2-week trial subscriptions for anyone who wants to give it a try. After the initial trial, it works out to $1 a month.

Cheers,

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http://msgpush.com
I never got why its standard practice to put it after the "too long" part? Shouldn't it be before?

I guess semantically using "didn't" is past tense, implying some type of initial attempt to read it and then because it's too long, you didn't. But nevertheless it would more helpful at the top?
Google Ventures' Investment Team
Enthusiastic Hackers? Zazu is hiring
Google’s Project X
If you're just looking to run existing php faster, then check out facebook's HipHop: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358
FreshBooks in Toronto is hiring a whole slew of people.

http://www.freshbooks.com/careers
Theory of everything
Sorenson Spark == H.263 (not a typo), which is documented. The problem with Flash is VP6, although FFMPEG reverse engineered it.
This seems to be going on forever. Are we going to be getting the story of how they tracked down the guy who found the guy who found the iPhone prototype?
That's a symptom, not a cause. MySpace saw Facebook coming. I remember a quote from Rupert Murdoch in 2006-2007 saying that MySpace was losing to Facebook.

There are a million ways they could have used their position to crush Facebook, but they (a) didn't have a strong engineering culture and (b) were focused strongly on revenue over growth and product.

I remember a "joking" quote from a MySpace exec where he said they don't mind error pages, because it gives them the chance to serve more ad impressions!

No intelligent person I know would want to work at MySpace, while Facebook successfully overcame its early stigma as a "toy website" and is now one of the best places for engineers in Silicon Valley.

MySpace's stupid product decisions were a consequence of these underlying problems.
Wow this is impressive. Any idea how long this effort took?
The Digital Imprimatur [2003]
I'm not 100% sure, but you can find some information about sex offenders on http://www.dirtyphonebook.com I know that
There is so many frameworks trying to circumvent css, may be css is crap ? Better than nothing but crappy still.

Adding extra layers is ok when we get more benefits than we loose in view. I'd like to have a better css too or a more programmable browser. May be will be able to rebuild a virtual browser within the canvas ... ?
What does IA mean in this context? Interface architect?
Wow. This is kinda... woah. I recently began an overhaul of my financial situation, because I thought I could be doing better. I am way better off then the best possible combination from this sheet -- I can't imagine being in that situation. :-/
Having participated on the researcher end of fMRI stuff, I am impressed if they can get a lot of women to actually climax in there. You really need to be focused on what you're doing, because there are a multitude of distractions. fMRI is significantly louder than a typical MRI exam, for example.

On a side not. You can bring metal stuff into the MRI room. It just can't be ferromagnetic. It's fun to play with sheets of aluminum and coins in the high field area. The metal will resist movement due to eddy current effects.
As long as people care there will always be PCs(PERSONAL COMPUTERS) and OSS for them even if proprietary software becomes tied to hardware.

And I don't really see this happening in much of the developing world (most of the world/fastest growing markets) in the coming decades.
The Euro Trap
I have a harder time finding languages that only have a single implementation.

C++, C, Basic (numerous implementations), Python, Cobol, you already mentioned lisp. There's lots more but I think that suffices.
I love how when you click the image, it takes you to a smaller version!

Here is a link to a much bigger and more readable version: http://c1334262.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/average-am...
Writer Jeffrey Lewis: A site by someone who won't have one
> HipHop isn't exactly advancing the state of the art wrt computer systems.

HipHop advances the state of the art in the same way that a faster JVM does, or a new VM for that matter.

The claim was that Google was advancing the state of the art and Facebook wasn't.

If you exclude the application of known techniques to new problems or in new situations, Google hasn't advanced the state of the art, so the claim is false.

If you allow the application of known techniques to new problems or in new situations, then Google has advanced the state of the art. However, so has Facebook. (Thrift counts too.)

No, Facebook hasn't done as much, but it's younger.
I swore off that sh-t ten years ago. I just got too worried about lawsuits, hit men (some toughs show up and you've got 30 seconds to decide how badly you want to mess them up to minimize your risk of future problems), wondering which people on the mailing lists and IRC channels I was on were spooks... and then there was the time that I got the FBI to investigate Japan's #1 superheroine.

I decided it was much better to build things that people want after all.
I figured it was the soft keyboard on the iPad, forcing the author to be as concise as possible since it is such a pain to type on.
We're looking for a software developer at Xtify, Inc. The position is in New York City.
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I'd like to add 'we like braces'.

Braces are explicit, and guard against dropped lines.
Good news but I rather have an ARM-based desktop that can compete with x86/64 machines.
Apple gets major patent for a large set of multitouch gestures
Linkbait title much? Comparing a js framework w/ the Flash platform is apples and oranges. Any decent web dev could port the API over to actionscript.

Also, re: LOC, fwiw, you can do position/dimension .morph()'s w/ zero lines of code in Flash.
That's like saying it gives you an approach to running that you can use even if you're still sketchy on walking.

There's only one proven way to teach arithmetic, and that's drill and repetition of the basic number facts and the standard algorithms. It's worked for centuries.
Jurors are also more likely to convict men than women. And give them harsher sentences for the same crimes.
The effect of intelligence may be even harder to assess reliably - are smarter people simply committing less crimes or are they just harder to be found / convicted?
Maybe I'm missing something here...

The big problem with CSS without variables is the time and effort it takes to make changes. If you only have to change the declarations once, at the top of the file, well it doesn't get much easier.
Not a very attractive infographic. For relief, see http://feltron.com.
Positive attributes tend to build on one another. The attractive are more likely to be wealthy because the wealthy are more likely to be healthy, and the healthy, to be attractive. The wealthy also tend to be better-educated, and the better-educated are less likely to turn to a life of crime--and so on. It is known in social psychology as the Matthew effect, and it explains why there are those among us who seemingly have it all (wealth, intelligence, beauty, happiness) and so many others who don't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
I have a desktop and don't want to leave it running all the time. Besides the power, the fact that the fan is running means that friction is slowly killing my moving parts. What's the point? I'll turn it on when I want to use it.
IIRC, it was the Pentium M that came from the Israel branch. The first Celerons (again, IIRC) were common Pentium IIs without cache in the processor cartridge.
mFoundry is hiring engineers and project managers:
http://mfoundry.com/company_jobs.html
Larkspur, CA

In addition to the listed positions we are also looking for Silverlight and Android developers.
email: hr@mfoundry.com
Perhaps, but that policy would be forward-looking. Current there's no charge for web delivered content if you don't charge for access.
Goddammit ... somehow I couldn't express in words what you just said in only 2 phrases.
I would like to mention to you that this is really just another way to visualize traditional multiplication. 999 x 999 results in adding stacks of 81's but with this method you add vertically then horizontally where the traditional method does horizontal then vertical.
aka

vertical then horizontal:
(81 + 81 * 2 * 10 + 81 * 3 * 100 + 81* 2 *1000 + 81 * 1 *10000)

Horizontal then vertical:
999 * 9 + 999 * 90 + 999 * 900 = (81 + 810 + 8100) + (81 + 810 + 8100) *10 + (81 + 810 + 8100) * 100

If you chose diffrent groupings you can merge the two.
Agreed. memprof is going to be pretty kick-ass, can't wait for it to come out of beta so that they stop exposing all the data ;-)
I'm very interested in working on a Scala open source project this summer. But I'm still pretty new to the language.
I'm talking low-level in terms of design and page manipulation, not architecture. CSS is the lowest level available for formatting websites. For formatting desktop apps, you can go straight to the graphics card and paint individual pixels on the screen. There is simply no equivalent in the browser. I suppose you can, strictly speaking, paint individual pixels in the browser with absolute-positioned divs, but this is clearly impractical.
It may be buried under layer upon layer of runtime code, but I know it's there.

Oh boy... Now I'm getting depressed I have to use a PC... Just thinking it probably has a complete IBM 5150 in its chipset makes me want to wash my hands.
If 'used properly' in this context, it is likely even louder! :)
I think they have got very efficiently implemented streaming video app. I have hardly noticed any buffering even over AT&T's 3G! Congrats to the JTV team!
A rebuttal of Roger Ebert’s diatribe against 3D cinema
Thanks, that one worked.
What a boring way to study it... :-)
We are trying to be a lot better about keeping everything in sync.

Our goal right now is to publish weekly, but we'll see how that actually works out.
See http://phpwithjava.appspot.com/info.php
There have been attendees from three other startups, at some phase in development (one just started, one company supports its founders, and one person sold a company and is working on their second).
Very satisfied leaseweb customer here. Leaseweb.com is their website.

Large volume about E1450 / gigabit including server, OVH is cheaper but has a bit of a bad rep.
Just wait until 4chan starts highlighting things.
Omnidirectional Segway, anyone?
I am curious why don't they keep the defendants and jury in a seperate room. They can let the jury hear all the arguments etc. I suppose the voice would still be a concern, but it should take care of the unattractive problem for the most part.
Just because somebody hasn't mastered step A yet doesn't mean they won't occasionally need/want step B.
No, fuck you. The rules aren't just "the rules". They are directly derivable from the property of distributivity of multiplication over addition. E.g., 12 * 39 = 12 * (30 + 9) by the property of place value, and hence 12 * 39 = (12 * 30) + (12 * 9) by distributivity. Then you do the same thing again with the 12s to get the two subresults, and... well, you get the idea. This is the basis of the standard algorithm, and it is derived directly from the properties of multiplication itself.

But this line thing... this is a trick. And, might I add, a trick that may actually cause more work and use up more scratch-paper space for the figurer. Using a "visual framework" without meaning is no way to teach math. The point is that the standard algorithm is the shortest path from point A to point B, and that is why it should be taught first and foremost.
Some people here really make me laugh. Hating business for what business do is silly. As the saying goes vote with your dollars and convince family/friends to vote with you. If you really feel laws should be changed write to your congressman and/or vote a different congressmen next election.
Does the household debt include the debt to the bank on the house?

I can't stand infographics btw.