skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing happened in Montana; a lot of big Cali money tried moving into Bozeman. That was OK with the locals, but what wasn't OK was that after buying up some ranchland and putting up a few McMansions and Olympic-sized pools, they put a bunch of spotlights up (on poles) to illuminate their spreads 24/7. That pissed the locals off, and the lights mysteriously got the shotgun treatment. I think the Californians got the picture ;-)

I think that as long as you're respectful of local mores and customs, you'll be OK.
The thing I got from it, is that he seems to emphasizing that Apple works the same way to almost every other company.

Every company releases a product, and some time later, releases an upgrade with new features. I can't think of a single major product that doesn't, from mobiles, cameras, laptops, walkmans, minidisc, cd walkmans, ghetto blasters, cars, stereos. (this is my mind wandering)

The important point, that Apple adds, is what it doesn't put in. It simplifies the device, to the point that it is a pleasure to use, and very easy to use.
Me too. That's because CS is a narrow branch of applied math. Programming is a totally separate thing.

One that the human race is not really good at yet, unfortunately.

I code a lot in Ruby and suck less every day.
People in lower income brackets pay very little of their income in actual income tax, and while being paid under the table also keeps them from contributing to payroll taxes, the fact that they aren't going to be claiming the benefits FICA allegedly pays for mitigates that. Meanwhile, they continue to drive whatever consumption taxes we set up --- and again, being in a lower income bracket, they pay disproportionately more in those taxes than we do.

I wouldn't be surprised to see reasonable arguments in either direction (positive or negative) about the economic impact of illegal immigration. I bet it's fuzzier than you think it is.
Interestingly, most of the results of "playing hooky" are females. If I were a psychologist, I'd be thrilled about Facebook's idiotic privacy breeches.
The allegation would be that most illegal immigrants are not getting W2 deductions on their wages --- that being part of the point of hiring them.
Biking is good exercise but is quite efficient so you have to do a lot of it to get the same effect as running or even walking. For instance, it takes me about 1.5 hours to walk to work and I burn about 600 calories. The same distance on a bike, even going pretty fast, I only burn about 350 calories. And that's going flat out the whole way... in reality there are many opportunities to coast.

I've found that walking is underrated as an exercise. If you live in a suitable area (like NYC) it's easy to walk 2 hours a day, and you can also use the time to talk on the phone, listen to podcasts or books on tape, or just be outdoors.
http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html

this group collects hair donations to be used for exactly that purpose.
The conclusion is not really valid though, given the rest of the article, because it is really a big iPod Touch. It's got all of the iterations of the iPhone OS (including app store and 3g) baked in from the start. It's hard to argue they started with some minimal core when it's got a 3 year old OS.

This time Apple "rolled" (what a hipster dufus term btw) much differently.
There IS no substantial difference when you're sitting in jail.
I wouldn't say it's common but it certainly isn't uncommon. I have basically the same view.

I like to code and I'm not big on risk but I hate bureaucracy and bullshit even more. So startups are a great fit. They're generally places where people get things done.
No one's brought up special sauce. The trick to getting hired to do interesting software engineering work when you're not a brilliant programmer is to bring more than just programming skills to the table. I didn't start programming seriously until I was in college (TI-89s, LOGO and ActionScript don't really count). And I didn't even major in CS. But I took CS classes, and I learned some Bayesian statistics and some natural language processing and a little machine learning stuff, and I got hired right out of school as a software engineer doing analytics for a company with an information retrieval focus. And I realized that for most of the really interesting problems, just being a good programmer isn't enough. I have coworkers who are more talented programmers than I am. Some of them can code faster, or with fewer bugs or less thought. And I'm grateful to learn from them, and to become a better programmer fostered by an environment with some really good programmers. But the very best projects and problems need some additional creative spark, or mathy trick, or UI magic, or something beyond just the code itself, and sometimes, I get to contribute that something.

So if I was in the OP's shoes (and I almost was, although I wasn't a bad programmer when I left school, just green), yes, learn to program and work on projects on your own. But also learn some stuff that your coworkers aren't likely to know. For me, it was just enough Bayesian stats and applications thereof to have insights that others wouldn't. For someone else, it might be distributed systems, or computer vision, or physical simulations, or information design, or algorithmic game theory, or fancy math, or any corner of the CS or math or statistics literature that has a pratical application but which most programmers don't know. I found that even good programmers won't generally know how to take the KL divergence between two distributions, or write the EM algorithm or put take the MAP estimate of a binomial rate parameter given a beta prior, but there are a lot of software applications for that kind of knowledge. And the world is full of cool problems waiting to be solved by someone who knows how to program, but also knows something else.
Recently Andrew Hyde from techstars dropped us a line at HN about boulder startup week, which just passed. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283461 (details here: http://boulderstartupweek.com/)

Techstars, courtesy of pivotal labs made good on their offer and they paid for my plane fare to and from Boulder. I am working on a blog post about my honest experiences there but since this thread is here I might as well post!

Boulder is a beautiful place. It is pristine, very nature-y and the people are quite friendly -- they smile as they yield to you crossing the street. There is no graffiti, no littering, and everything is in walkable distance.

I am from L.A. born and raised so going to Boulder was quite the experience. Everyone is white, white and tall! I am not white, and I am not tall. There are 3 trashcans most places; compost, recyclables, landfill. The "Trident" coffee shop is (from what I been told) the latest shop you can go to; it closes at 11pm.

Boulder is a bubble, and the boulderites know and are proud of their bubble. The people there love their lifestyle and many are quick to say how much "they aren't like L.A. or S.F.". It's not disdain so much as it is pride in their town -- I like that.

Above all I think it is correct to say that everyone in Boulder is open to helping out. I mean that as generally as that sounds. Sure people in tech get all happy when they talk to other people in tech, but when we were holding a meeting at "Atlas" coffee shop, the manager of the store joined in on the conversation. I asked her some follow up questions as a "local small business" and we now follow eachother on twitter. At "The Cup" I talked to a worker that that had a lot of tattoos about my ideas regarding tattoos and tech ... it was nice.

I think in Boulder.... people are on the same team, they like to think of it like that.

I love L.A. though, I have been to S.F. and aside from it having to deal with a lot of tourism, it is a great place as well. S.F. is big so naturally the bar is high. I think it is wrong to say just because Boulder is so helpful that SF is not helpful. YC is very helpful, I enjoyed startupschool and YC alumni are some of the most proactive and helpful people I've met.

Boulder is great, but all places have their worth. Boulder is a bubble, and some people like that - nothing wrong there. I would work in Boulder for a startup. I love the friends I've made there. Boulder is authentic in its specific and niche way.
But there is no denying that in bigger cities, you've got to deal with a much larger sampling of "authenticity" - L.A. may be dirty, but it's more indicative of a wide range of the world than Boulder is. There is no correct lens to view the world through though.

Maybe I'm not making sense. Boulder is a great startup scene. But in the end, a real entrepreneur is going to make the best with what he's got. Don't get the impression that because you are not in xyz town you are handicapped.

Thanks for reading.
>Not to mention, if your employees are in committed relationships you're also subjecting them to a month without sex.

Dude, they went to Bangkok.
They're also good for writing notes for people, such as a web site to visit or a map or some book title or whatever. And now the recipient has something with your name on it so they can recall where they got some useful info.

I always make sure my cards have plenty of white space and no gloss to impede writing.
"The ones you can’t ignore?

The common feeling that we can’t trust Facebook anymore."

This logic cracks me up. Maybe that feeling is common among Scoble readers, but I'd be surprised if my dad (who certainly far more closely resembles Facebook's 400 million users than anyone reading that post does) even knows anything changed.

Facebook is smart enough to ignore this because they know 99% of their users will be apathetic if they even find out.
Publishers need to stop hogging the eBook pudding
I flew out to the Hackers and Founders meetup in NYC, and I talked with a number of founders. Rhey all complained about not being able to find talent. Specifically, I heard complaints about not being able to find PHP and .NET talent. :|
Social Media Parenting: Raising the Digital Generation
Threatening can erode the relationship.
If you want people to be able to electronically import your data, why not stick an artful qrcode on your card?
Practically speaking, he is not in the wrong at all. What exactly do you think Simon&Schuster can do, sue him? Can you imagine going up to a federal judge and seeking an injunction for infringement for a guy who posted excerpts of a book that were already online? What exactly are the damages?
Eat less than you feel like and get 30 minutes- 1 hour of exercise per day.

The health and productivity benefits will outweight the lost time in food preparation and exercise.
College Inc. PBS documentary
Not everyone scans cards. Most of these are only issues for people like that author that scan business cards and then destroy them.

That said, it's important to have a blank back you can write on if you need to.
Our goal is to draw attention to this so that people become outraged and Facebook changes their privacy settings.

Your link to your project is the most fascinating thread I have seen on HN since the thread about how HN was hacked, one of the all-time top karma submissions. But, amazingly, after playing around with your tool for about half the three hours that have elapsed since you posted it, I'm LESS worried about Facebook than I was before. Pretty much since I joined Facebook I have been posting links (including yours today) to my profile about Facebook privacy. Among my circle of Facebook friends, it is cool to have carefully considered privacy settings, and to be circumspect in what to post online. I have good conversations about interesting links on my profile and on my feed (much like HN), and didn't turn up ANYTHING by searching on my own name, my son's name, keywords strongly associated with my friends' interests, or anything else likely to turn up something we wrote out of turn. Now I'm actually beginning to trust Facebook privacy settings again--at least for smart users--after using your tool and the new Give Me My Data app

http://givememydata.com/

to see what can be seen about me on Facebook.

Great work to make such an interesting tool. And, yes, putting the "rectal surgery" example on your webpage is funny and gets the point across very well.
It does give some idea how susceptible they are to random web request rejections when people drop common words into their communications though.
There's a good article by Tolmasky addressing this here: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/11/04/mockingbird-cappucc...

Bottom line is that the scrolling is beautiful and works well, why would users not like it?
Aren’t they pushing Google Apps for Business?

There’s a fine line between “cute” and “unprofessional,” and I think the messaging on this page is the latter.
Do we know when? It says invitations will be issued June 1, but not (that I saw) when the event actually occurs.
Expecting immediate action at six AM is a bit silly, as is calling three times at that hour especially when you know the guy was up as late as 2 AM. I realize it's a priority, but expecting 24-7 service when someone's doing you a favor is a bit unreasonable.
I noticed that too. I don't think it's necessarily a sign that females are more likely to shirk responsibility. Maybe just that guys are less likely to call it "playing hooky".
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The New Tech Conference Model: "Community Driven."
Disappointingly, the animated waves are just <div>s with .gif backgrounds, not any fancy canvas or otherwise cutting-edge stuff; in fact, the <div>s are positioned with in-line CSS.

Edit: Shockingly, <style> tags appear as children of <html> instead of <head> or even <body>. (This is in addition to the sprinkling of in-line CSS.)
Horse shit.

If the spec forbade "the" codec, the offending vendors will simply violate the spec and claim some kind of justification for it.

Yes, we're complaining to the wrong people. No, going to the W3C is not the answer.

I tend to think that if we can get people to stop using h.264 for anything, then freer codecs could gain traction - particularly On2's (now Google's) VP8.

Or, taking the bigger perspective, we should be complaining to the US Congress: patents are the problem, not Microsoft's choice in codecs. If there were no patents to license, this wouldn't be an issue at all.
Of course I agree with that.
Yeah, pretty much. There's a lot of interesting companies being built here and they're all looking for smart hackers. Feel free to drop me an email (in profile) if you have any questions!
I think we should take the annual salary of the managers who engineered, inspected and owned and operated the rig, convert it into dollar bills and use that to soak it up.

I'd like to see this work but seriously this demo is far too simple, show me a demo with a few hundred square feet with very light oil densities and much less hay available.
What I take away from this is that we can waste too much time focusing on lots of WCS, and a WCS we didn't think of comes along.

So we would be better on focusing on the core, rather than the edges.
I admire so many of those companies listed that I'd highly consider applying.

Problem is, I'm in Toronto and only through a NAFTA VISA I can work there. I highly doubt many of the jobs are open to this Visa. That's frustrating.
Good write up on why the hay might not work:
http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2010/05/hay-for-oil-spill-...
More people scan cards than write on the back of them, but then, maybe I'm just saying that because there are ASCII charts on the backs of our cards.
According to the text under the heading, "June 17 2010, 6:00-7:30 pm | Y Combinator, 320 Pioneer Way, Mountain View"
An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009)
The reality is that TC posts 30+ articles per day. Articles from may 6 are now part of a very, very long tail of TC articles that will barely dribble in pageviews.
Unless we assume that these people are completely ignorant of the public nature of their status updates, then this isn't a privacy violation.

But that's exactly the point. Normal's don't get it.

Behavioral Economics studies show that when something is made a default, about 90-95% of people will keep that default. So, when something is made "Opt out" by default vs "Opt in", the vast majority of people won't bother to change things.

So, when Facebook changes this behavior, you can assume that going forward 90-95% of their content is going to go public.

Most normals that use Facebook aren't going to care until it starts biting them in the ass. While, many geeks instinctively understand the huge implications of everyone's status updates being made public.

Granted, you may not care, and I certainly respect that. But, at the same time, I have a hunch that many Normals, if they truly understood the full ramifications of what may happen might substantially change their behavior, or choose not to use Facebook at all.

Another issue, is this: Does making users Facebook posts public by default benefit the users? I think it benefits Facebook tremendously, but I'm doubtful how many users it's going to benefit to have their "rectal surgery" posts made public.
Some quitting Facebook as privacy concerns escalate
Huh? I can't find that anywhere. I can only find that it's traveling beneath the booms put in place to contain the oil (probably due to waves/volume).

Oil is low density and by nature floats. Oil is non-polar while water is polar (so they naturally separate). This isn't some magical oil spill - it has the same rules as pouring vegetable oil into a glass of water and stirring it.

I'm interested in what could cause oil to be suspended beneath something more dense (water). Perhaps it is just taking longer to reach the surface due to currents?
Er, that's not an excerpt, that's like 4 (book) pages of text there.

Someone screwed up at Fortune and tried to backpedal.
In India, Hitching Hopes on a Subway
From underneath the big bold "Work at a Startup" text:
June 17 2010, 6:00-7:30 pm | Y Combinator, 320 Pioneer Way, Mountain View
NPR: Oil Spill 10x worse than expected (70k bb/day)
I am in the online-advertising business, and I know them from the "scene"; usually what you wanna look out for are "analyst" titles advertised by marketing and PR agencies. Wherever you see an ad for programmer, ring up the hiring person and inquire about analyst positions (you might actually have to explain the need and create your own position, possibly starting as a consultant.)

I know these guys, like I said, from the "scene", but two of them I ran into responding to their ad; it was a badly phrased ad for a "developer" position, but after a 30 minute conversation it was apparent they wanted someone with machine-learning and distributed computing background who could scale their spreadsheets :-)

If there is demand, I am more than happy to get into the head-hunting business as a side-gig ;-)
The way I deal with this is to first decide if it's something fairly important to me, and if it passes that test, I'll do some physical chores on the side while listening to the video.

Since you'll need to 'waste' time cleaning or cutting your fingernails anyway, if you're not watching physics lectures you can probably clear up those chores without getting bored and learn new things at the same time.
The test results may not be completely definitive, but I think they they bring up an interesting point: now that Apple is getting what it wants (large-scale adoption), how is it going to handle relations with third-parties in a rapidly moving industry such as gaming? As the article points out, the fastest Apple-sanctioned GPU you can buy is a GTX 285. At nearly a year and a half old, that card is ancient from that industry's perspective. OpenGL 3.0? NVIDIA released their 4.0 drivers for Windows / Linux a month ago. As much as we all may recognize that Microsoft has issues, their third party device / driver support is something that Apple could learn from.
Well, thank you for responding anyway. I knew I was going to get downvoted for that comment, I just felt I needed to say it. To be honest I have no idea who Fortune are or what any of this is about really, so I was never in a position to comment on whether or not this is interesting. Fair enough if it is actually something interesting.

I just find linkbait headlines like that in really bad taste and it disappoints me when I see a lot of them on the frontpage.
The companies reading the resumes will be able to contact the people submitting them if the people submitting them say they can. There's a field for specifying that on the resume.
Just out of curiosity, I had a look at the parent website (learnboost.com).

A tip for anyone who provides an online demo of their app: either don't make me log in, or provide credentials I can use on the login page (such as: 'Ordinary user? Login: user Password: user', 'Administrator? Login: admin Password: admin').

Their 'demo' presented a plain login page that rejected whatever I typed into it. It makes me think they either have not thought about providing a decent demo, or they didn't QA it. Either way, it reflects poorly.
Space shuttle Atlantis to launch its final mission Friday
What's a typical salary for the same person?

(Obviously this affects the risk/reward trade-off)
Graph DB Sharding Strategies: Gravity
See slides 4-6 in Ryan's presentation (http://nodejs.org/cinco_de_node.pdf). He caveated the comparison heavily, and also took pains to note the vast differential in memory consumption.
18 Tools for Scheduling Future Tweets
Want to tweet day and night without touching the computer? Well now you can. Its a good thing to tweet at least once every hour. This will keep your followers happy and informed. Keep two things in mind, your followers are all in different time zones, and your tweets get replaced by others almost instantly.
Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm
Why Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Come Clean About his Views on Privacy
It looks like it is just a place holder for a future release of the demo? That'd be my guess
The Gold Bullion vending machine
Wait a second, how are we to clean up the hay?
You could post this on the jobs page.
Has Facebook's Active User Growth Dropped 25% to 50%?
Someone that early would probably get the same deal as the founders, which would vary depending on how much funding the company had. If the company only had a small amount of angel funding, they'd be paying themselves no more than living expenses. If they had more substantial funding they might get 50-70% of market rate.
Ask HN: Will folks getting hired at Twitter right now "get rich"?
Assuming they ultimately end up a success, at this point Twitter will either have a colossal exit or IPO. When a growing company has a valuation in billions, does employee #200 get rich? There are many variables, but I'd love to understand how equity is distributed in a fast growing startup and what kind of value it ends up having.
I live in Colorado and visit Boulder about once a week for one reason or another. I also attend most of their tech/startup meetups and events. (Returned home just an hour ago from the Colorado Green Tech Meetup, for example.) One of the great things about Boulder compared to the rest of Colorado is that it is the closest thing we have to a community built around ideas, innovation, education, science, progress, justice, health and sustainability. And therefore draws and keeps people who care about these things. Sounds like great stuff to me. How could one not like those things?

The negative stereotypes are also true, in some ways, (ex-60's-hippies, trustafarians, spoiled university kids, so-called-environmentalists-driving-huge-ass-SUV's-with-black-windows-talking-on-cellphones-while-driving-in-the-rain, etc.) but I think the positive aspects of the town far outweigh the negative. You go to Boulder, you can mentally mask out the occasional dreadlock. You go to Colorado Springs or Federal Heights, you are not going to simply mentally will into existence a coffee house or auditorium full of techies, progressives, investors, serial entrepreneurs, or scientists. Because they are just not there. Not enough anyway.