skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I was thinking that you'd still need to get a potential employer to click through (unless the message was HTML formatted), which they might not do if they're inundated with responses.

Maybe he or a friend should submit the cover letter and his story to the business press. Wouldn't they be interested in something like that (as a job-hunting innovation)?
I recently went with http://atlantic.net after a few weeks of researching. So far service has been top notch and I have no complaints. Feel free to email for details.
Founders Fund raises $107M third fund (SEC filing)
I remember that when Sweden ultimately voted to not get the Euro, this scenario was one that was discussed. It was claimed something to the effect that never in history has a situation where a sovereign country has control over economic policy but not monetary policy worked for more than a decade or so.
It's been filled, a few months back actually.
IBM Builds a Sand Castle (SandForce SSD)
Try the newspaper. What exactly do you expect on an open forum?
I am going to read this avidly. ZeroMQ's broker-less approach seemed like more work for me. This is an opportunity to reconsider my position.

We use an AMQP stack and the complexity seems somewhat unjustified. On the other hand, it's good to have a standard, even if it's not perfect. Django+celery is pretty kick-ass, and I would have to give it up if I moved away from AMQP.
Furthermore the real question is, could the market possibly be made more efficient if some "expert" were there deciding when a trade was a bad idea?
Really good read, i think i can agree to every point.

However, the most interesting sentence for me was "In fact, compared to the level of support and tooling you get from XCode on the Apple side or the various pieces of Android IDE-ware, HTML5 development is a major pain in the ass.".

This is exactly my experience, too, and it's why i find it sad to see that Air won't be supported on the iPad. Basically developers have the choice between developing for HTML5 and target a lot of platforms, which is a pain in the ass nowadays even if you are only targeting Desktops. The other choice is to develop almost painlessly but only target one platform and having to duplicate work for every platform. Air is for developing for every platform with presumably less pain then HTML. It's a way with its own drawbacks but also with benefits. Developers (and in the end also users and the market) should be able to decide what is the best for them on their own.

Nevertheless, i really hope that the situation with HTML will resolve in the near future, but it will certainly not this year.

Also, i am wondering, why we don't start targeting specific browsers.. i mean, of course i know. Because websites have to run on every browser, yes yes.
But: We install Flash to have Flash Apps, we install the Java VM for Java, .Net, Silverlight, a pdf reader to look at documents. Why don't websites say "The website was developed and tested for browser XXX. Please download browser XXX _here_ or continue on your own risk". Websites are developed for the least common denominator of a big variety of browsers which will only lead us to where we are now, although so much more could be possible..
Chrome has the option to add a website as programm link to your operating system. Taking this thought further, i could imagine to have Gmail as a full fledged replacement for Outlook/Thunderbird in my start menu, with all the latest and greatest that HTML5/Chrome has to offer. Gmail (or some other mail service) could provide a nearly 1:1 copy of a desktop mail client. Offline Storage, Web Notifications, Drag-n-Drop between browser and filesystem, etc. It's all there. And none of it will be used until every browser supports every feature :(

People will call me crazy now and this will most probably never happen, i know, but why not dream? ;)
Maybe there was an edit before but I had no problem downloading the linked pdf. [1]

Pretty interesting read, I have no real knowledge of Japan and I have to say I would've fallen into the category of people that assumed everything was miles ahead in Japan.

I've noticed a few people from HN living in Japan, I'd love to hear what their thoughts are on this.

[1] http://synaptify.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/An-Innovator...
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I was not able to create an account using Chrome, IE, or Firefox with or without Facebook.

Otherwise it looks like something I would signup for (obviously, since I tried so hard).
I really like the color change on the homepage. I've been on the beta for this for about a month and I've enjoyed it for the most part.
Because the Greek economy is tied to the Euro-zone, if Greece goes down it's a very serious problem for the other Euro nations as well.

This is where I got lost. Can somebody explain why the domino effect? I understand that other debtor nations hold some Greek debt, but that doesn't look to be significant enough...
we tried to take all the things we strive for at Google and make them better: powerful technology, snappy results, simplicity and a fun and quirky personality

Yes! This is totally what was missing for me. I had great search results from Google every time, but where was the fun? Where was the quirky personality damn it?
Well, here's a statement from the NYSE:

"There were a number of erroneous trades," said NYSE spokesman Rich Adamonis."Our guys just told me Nasdaq is investigating the erroneous trades. What happened today in P&G for instance, the bad print was on Nasdaq, not here," he said, referring to a 37 percent plunge in Procter & Gamble Co.

The Nasdaq said it is investigating the plunge.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQKb...

And more - including canceled trades of Accenture:

Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. said it’s investigating potentially erroneous trades involving multiple securities between 2:40 p.m. and 3 p.m. New York time, when the U.S. stock market tumbled.

Trades in Accenture Plc that drove the second-largest technology consulting company’s stock price down more than 99 percent to a penny were canceled by the CBOE Stock Exchange, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

A total of 19 trades of 100 shares each were executed at 1 cent in seven seconds from 2:47 p.m. to 2:48 p.m. in New York, a minute after the Dow average plunged by the most since the market crash of 1987, the data showed.

Eighteen of the trades were executed on the CBOE Stock Exchange and were canceled. The first trade that sent Accenture to a penny was executed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. That transaction has yet to be canceled, the data showed.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3ti...
For me it was when i discovered that my dvb-t usb stick just works out of the box and the tv application (me-tv) works just great.

One day before, i had tried to find drivers for the stick on Windows for 1 hour and figured that the TV-App is the worst piece of software i have used in a long time. Thanks Hauppauge for the great user experience, by the way....
This is probably Fed spin to calm the mark by providing a non-economic reason for the sell off. No surprise CitiGroup is involved -- the Fed's Plunge Protection Team is going to need to hide their tracks better if they hope to continue to perpetuate their fraud.
The dropbox link eventually worked, it showed me an error message the first few times I clicked on it. I would love to hear more about it too. I wish the author had included more of their personal context in terms of why and how they decided to leave.
I find the sidebar annoying, but perhaps more so because we have used google without it for so long. I tend to agree with techcrunch that there is redundancy in the side and top bar. New logo is good, search box is ok...but this modern style of it and the buttons seems out of place and more distracting then anything.

The search features on the side are nice...but I used them so rarely in the past and don't see myself using them any more now. It seems like google wants me to spend more time searching then clicking links, when in reality I usually use google as a quick 10 second shortcut to finding info. The last time I clicked "next" on a search was........a long time ago.
Move Fast, Break Trust
Yes - this still reveals that Facebook is tracking users' activity on third party sites without express permission.
Which programming language...?
"For example, it's easy to break up a project into code, css, html, javascript."

That sounds awful. That's three people who have to coordinate in order to display a new data element, and a fourth if the new data element has any kind of interactive functionality.

It's much better to break the project up into functionally independent pieces, and have developers who can work with all of the technologies each piece touches. You're much more likely to lower coordination overhead that way.
To put those data plans in perspective, I was just looking to see if my prepaid account with Telia in Sweden still was active, and I learned:

Data on prepaid accounts: 100MB/week at up to 6Mbit/s for ~$4.

Data on subscription account:

500MB/month at same speed, $10. (if you go over, you're throttled, but no extra charge)

5GB/month at same speed including WiFi hotspot access, $30.

So it looks like for heavy data use, it's about the same as the ipad plan. Prepaid, though, you can only get on AT&T in the US and then it's $20/100MB.
Of course. In this enlightened age we know that it's all driven by animal spirits.
I'm not even sure you should wait a week before moving on to the next one. In situations where you're going to get little courtesy (as in the majority of job hunting), you might as well blitz your way through as much as you can and then cherry pick from any positive responses.
Top Energy Ideas That Could Change The World
#3 - Minesto Tidal Energy - Minesto has created an underwater kite, that will allow for the utilization of low water speeds, making wave power a feasible solution in many new locations (with a small eco-footprint). Because water is 800 times more dense than air, it contains 800 times the energy of the air while in motion.
Even if it's not clever, it certainly illustrates the gist of the story in a succinct manner. I had an inkling of what the post was about from the headline alone, so knew I might enjoy reading it.
Oh, like every other gimmick, it will become the hot thing to do. When it is overused and burnt out, it will die and everyone will hate it. Until then, a well-executed one is still fairly standout.
GTC (good 'til canceled) are available to me (nobody special--just a margin account at Zecco) as nothing more than an option to change on a normal order. The only difference is that they stay open across the end of the day. (Supposedly they'll be canceled by something after 30-90 days if I don't cancel them and they don't execute.)
Of course there is. You can freely modify values received from other functions without fear of screwing things up further up the chain This is a fairly common idea - (C++ has const, Python tuples, Objective-C immutable collections, etc.)

The difference is that in Clojure they're really, really fast since they share structure, giving you ridiculously close to mutable performance in some cases. And you don't have to worry about expensive copy operations or things blowing up because you accidentally casted away from const, etc.

It's one of those features that once you're used to, you get a sad face when you look at everything else.
maybe so, but the fear has been building for some time now. Look at how much the yield on 30 yr. treasuries has dropped in the last month or so:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^TYX&t=3m&l=on&z...
Thanks for trying - can you share whether you got any error message?
Great degradation (meaning that the animation doesn't work in my current latest-but-non-beta FF 3.6.3, but the hard image switching still does).
First Preliminary Alpha Test Etc. Screencast at Software Carpentry
IPad Users Who Visit Yahoo Are 66% Male, 10% Foreign, And Love Flickr
I don't see what's so great about this comic. It's not funny, there's no perspective except an infatuation with PA, and a third of the comic is talking about what skills he doesn't have or other reasons to NOT hire him. I'm all for self-deprecation, but it should GO somewhere.
What’s Up With Google’s New Redundant UI?
The link still shows up in my browser as http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/

If I copy and paste http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر with or without http:// , though, it works fine.
Tim O’Reilly: Steve Jobs Is Trying To Build A Fundamental Challenge To The Web
VMware (SpringSource) is acquiring GemStone Systems
Here is who got the job, according to LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=7248250...

Here is her personal site for those w/o LI. http://www.erikagreco.com/
It seems they have already did something about Linux
(at least for the core part):

http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/BuildForLinux
This seems like a losing strategy: invest tens of hours in a single application for a highly visible opening with no expectation of a callback.

I'd think an applicant would want to cast a wider net and then escalate investment in individal openings as hiring companies signaled some mutual interest.

Maybe some rules of thumb are in order, i.e. x hours for an application, 2x hours for a first interview, etc.
It may be trendy, but I wouldn't call it a fad. The key to getting a job is demonstrating your skills. That's exactly what this comic does.
How could a separate species like the Neanderthals, who spent 200 thousand years in isolation in ice age Europe, contribute so little genetic diversity?

A single successful interbreeding incident would contribute some odd genes to the local gene pool, but wouldn't contribute much genetic diversity once it spread out through the local gene pool. Remember that the data suggests exactly 2 individuals dropped into human populations that were locally in the tens of thousands, and globally in the multiple hundreds of thousands. It would contribute some odd genes to the pool of genetic diversity, but wouldn't move the bar very much.

For those who think that species barriers are some sort of absolute barrier to what is hypothesized here, it is worth considering the case of donkeys, horses and mules. Donkeys and horses are estimated to have diverged a couple of million years ago, but routinely can breed. The result are mules, of which over time we've bred tens of millions.. Mules are almost invariably infertile. However according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule#Fertility there have been more than 60 documented cases of female mules successfully bred by stallions. The foals would be mostly horse, and the result of that is an animal that is 3/4 horse which therefore is likely to be able to breed with other horses.

It is not unreasonably by comparison that there could be a constant level of interbreeding between us and Neanderthals, with many infertile offspring, and by chance on 2 occasions fertile offspring who have descendants today. (The overall number of crossbreeds would be lower than the number of mules, but their odds of fertility would be much higher than for mules.)
Spending More Time on Startup Leadership
On the 'every browser' issue: there's always chrome-frame.
What it feels like to fail
Part summary, part prediction-- this is an attempt at capturing what's happening with the future of TV. An app store for your TV? Streaming live events online? Better UI? Smarter ads? Social integration? What're your ideas on how to disrupt TV?
I am so sick of seeing the turn of phrase "The <X> that is <Y>." Someone needs to come up with a new cliched crutch for posts like this.
Looks like they are attacking Robert Ebert: http://www.erikagreco.com/portfolio-web.html
cheers for the feedback.

* fair point on the signup/login area - need to work more on that
* good point on the different design issue for the landing & join pages too

BTW, what did you mean by "dont even know how to submit my email address?

thanks.
I also find the wording a bit strong, too: ”Shouldn’t you?” My snarky response is “Only if I wanted all my content to have an obnoxious yellow thing at the top that cheapens my personal brand.” Politely put, I find it offputting and presumptuous. “So can you” is a similar message that’s much less aggressive.
If you're an Android developer and looking for work, please e-mail me. aarong /at/ thinkcomputer.com
A little off topic, but say I want to experiment with algorithm trading, what kind of APIs are available for trading? I assume they are pretty expensive for access, correct?
Data Driven Application Deployment with Chef
If your ancestors originated from an area of the world where there were bananas and fish, and shared more genes with them than people from other areas of the world, it would indeed raise interesting questions.
It is easier for a user to push a button to install a plugin than to install a new browser, update the profile with bookmarks and so forth, and learn the new interface. We can trivialize these things, but I am sure we also have as many stories of trying to get someone to use Firefox (with noscript!) instead of IE and meeting significant resistance or eye rolling.

A plugin has the disadvantage and the advantage of supporting users' browser choices.

So basically, it looks petty and unprofessional to say on some minority of websites, "This website is developed and tested for" or "This website will only run on". In contrast, I have seen "Click here to upgrade your Flash Player", and moments later, things just work.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could have an HTML renderer plugin? And some kind of system where you could -- with some clear and dumbed-down descriptions of the differences/advantages -- choose between alternatives? And get upgrades?
I have more trust allowing Skype access my webcam and mic.
How often are these capabilities of Flash used (besides chatroulette)?
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Graduating in June. Perl developer for an ecommerce company in London.
24 Extra Hot Free Linux Games (Part 3 of 3)
CheckVantage offers a cost effective solution for electronic checks.
Listening for a click on the MX MenuBar control in Flex
> the last post [on the previous pitchfork.tumblr.com] that had been made was on November 18, 2009, and said, “This filter is obsolete.” The post before that was from March 21.

Sounds like a non-issue
As the old saying goes, "The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent"...
HTML5 experience on iPad Vs Nexus One
iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4

Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUw7RyBrZA
You're +3-3.5 sigma on big picture stuff???

LOL. How do you come to that conclusion?
FWIW, a 5 year Greek CDS currently sells for $925k/yr, and pays out $10m if the debt defaults in that time period.

Not exactly the bargain of the century at this point in time.

Edit: for context, that's roughly the same price as Venezuela and Argentina.
It’s Not About Greece Anymore
It is larger than Reddit. I'd guess around 25-30 engineers.
Magazines on the iPad
The potential dangers of Microsoft's secret patches
One more company joins the Openfund
For me eating alone is a special privilege of being an adult that I enjoy sometimes and has its benefits. Regular eating alone might actually make me a healthier eater in the long run.

I recommend both eating alone and also eating with company of course but pls. don't pity yourself. If you do then it will be easy for others to think there's something to pity about you.
I use the time-based filtering all the time now. I didn't really expect to when I first started in the beta. It's incredibly helpful when searching on topics that undergo wholesale changes often (e.g. the vast majority of technology). Without using the filtering I get frustrated with Google results with high PR that end up being horribly outdated.
New Record: 4,414 km Set on One Litre of Fuel
It would appear that "Recently Used" is a subset of "Authorized". In any case, they are being authorized without even notifying the user.
Not a data blip after all, but the trades where canceld. From Bloomberg ( http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3ti... ) :

A total of 19 trades of 100 shares each were executed at 1 cent in seven seconds from 2:47 p.m. to 2:48 p.m. in New York, a minute after the Dow average plunged by the most since the market crash of 1987, the data showed.

Eighteen of the trades were executed on the CBOE Stock Exchange and were canceled. The first trade that sent Accenture to a penny was executed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. That transaction has yet to be canceled, the data showed.
Intel also.
Yeah, which is kinda not a great metric - I'd be more interested in knowing what percentage of people watched the whole thing.
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The Facebook Privacy Wars Heat Up
James Hamilton on Clustrix Scalable Database
I'm not sure that's how designers think about things
I think the speculations and rumors are very interesting and relevant to learning more about how the market works (or doesn't work), a topic that no one is ever going to have enough "facts" to fully understand.
I hope HTML5 includes a shift key for this guy.
But they are also hiring for quite some time now, its not like they are laying of people because of money crunch.
That's also a great way to ensure that your employees never take risks, ever, and spend most of their time marketing their work rather than improving it.
Does any know if the job actually required Javascript? As cool as the comic was, it sounded like it was a must have.
Go long USD, short EUR.
I live here and think it is a fantastic place, a mecca for the romantical types.
My favorite quote, so far:

"I think the machines just took over," said Charlie Smith, chief investment officer at Fort Pitt Capital Group. "There's not a lot of human interaction. We've known that automated trading can run away from you, and I think that's what we saw happen today."

Welcome to the future?
When the news broke, our traffic doubled almost instantly.

Fortunately, our auto-scaling groups just fired up a bunch of new servers to compensate and our response time never took a hit. Chalk one up for EC2.
And all the Congressman and Federal Reserve who created the housing bubble in the first place. Thank god they've fired and prosecuted.

Those who exploited the bubble will always be ready to exploit government foolishness, so a new crop will sprout overnight.
Dow Jones Industrial average down 3.20%
S&P 500 down 3.24%

So, the Dow ended down about 350 points for the entire day. This happens sometimes. The world economy could crash triggered by problems in Greece, Spain, etc. Or, we could continue to be fine for decades. I think that it is impossible to predict.
heh cool the first image result in there was made with my software :)
thats why you want to be careful about letting the market set your selling price.
Yes. But that's not what the article was about. Modern humans and Neanderthalians share much more genetic material than the 4% the article talked about.

The 4% is the proportion of genetic material we inherited from them. And that's an interesting and non-trivial thing.

So Neanderthalians were some of our ancestors. But bananas weren't.
Citigroup may have caused 1000 point drop, probing rumor of erroneous trade
c'mon it's a much needed and a good redesign, I suppose the top navigation bar is kept unchanged for further testing, it might eventually include only non duplicate function; gmail, docs, calendar etc.
I read a few days back that the European Central Bank also owns a lot of Greek bonds. So it might have a big impact on the financial institutions in the EU.

Here's a google result from FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c60cba60-2246-11df-9a72-00144feab4...
40 useful and creative infographics [2009]
We're 11 people. Not too large, still it only takes 3 to hit the problem.
He is totally wrong, but I still get the point and found the post funny.
How did Newsweek end up in such a rotten situation?