skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zimbra threads messages and offers the best webmail I've found outside of Gmail. Definitely feels more sluggish than Gmail though.
Ditto. Unless you're looking for bar work, or something where job seeking involves actively canvassing locations, then even if you did move to city XYZ your job seeking would largely still be performed online.

It would also be foolish to move to somewhere like the Bay area or Los Angeles where the location of your new job could result in a 90 minute commute both way. (e.g. you move to North Beach and land a job in Palo Alto). Moving sucks. Moving twice sucks more :)

What you must be prepared to do however is fly to city XYZ at a few days notice, and potentially on your own dime, for one or more interviews. And if you do land that job, be prepared to start the next week.
from google io
Would he ever consider angel investing? Or in any way connecting startups to money?
The New York Times has something similar, where they look up any word you highlight in a dictionary.
If I recall correctly, this used to be worse, but is still around in some form.
Used to drive me nuts, because I neurotically highlight text all the time.
"Setting up/using version control wasn't worth the frustration and time."

I think the onslaught of very usable distributed source control systems with cheap and easy local repositories should make this a non-issue. I wish I had known about hg or git when I was in school - a simple repository per class/project would have alleviated a few pain points that weren't severe enough to be worth with the hassle of setting up a subversion repository.
The copy-paste thing bugs me, but what really drives me insane is the highlight 3-words or less functionality. When I spot a word or thing that I want to know more about, I usually highlight, right click, and choose search. This works in both Chrome and IE8+. Firefox may even do it too, I don't use it.

With Tynt, it cancels the right-click menu and pops up a search bubble.

Mucking around with browser behaviour is not cool. Usually I try 3 or 4 times in confusion until I realise and promptly close the website in disgust.
Something I learned from working at a large competitor at Zynga (where there was some employee cross-pollenation): A/B test the hell out of your ideas. Going from "making my app more social" to "Put vacant lots on users' farms to get them to add friends" means playing with lots of different ideas. What exactly clicks depends heavily and all the myriad details of your app and userbase.
I think you've got to see this video really:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtEQB-9tvk&feature=relat...

I think gmail is a fabulous product (imagine emails before gmail) and like every other agile product, it has its problems. The fact that we don't have to spend "any" money for storing gigs of our data on a secure and safe platform is probably enough for me to use it.
The story that I've heard about the name is very different. I've heard that Jobs loved the Beatles and named Apple after Apple Corp, which was founded by the Beatles. Unfortunately the love was not reciprocated, and multiple trademark lawsuits have ensued.
The one with the dual colour/sunlight readable screen, clockwork power, mesh networking and introspectable software?

Where?
For fuck's sake, take the bag!

There's no way at all that you can imagine what you might do with your life, what you might experience, what you might give other people.

I'm not religious at all, but if there's anything in the universe that qualifies as a miraculous gift, it's your (you, I'm talking to you, dmc) life.

The universe would be a lesser place without you.

See what happens.
I suppose, but many of my friends completing their MBA's at the time had the exact same experience going into executive positions. I guess those people would still be "young executives", so they don't fit your argument either. Is this just applicable to a very small audience?
Save the money, you are not doing anything different than what a lawyer would do (and you would have to explain to a lawyer lengthily what your app/business is all about before he/she can custom-tailor your agreements).

The fee quoted by your lawyer represents a couple of hours of work, which includes at least two hours, understanding what your business is all about.

From a business perspective, do a risk/reward analysis. How likely is it to get sued for having TOS that are not fine tuned ? I consider the risk very low and you can reduce your personal liability further by incorporating (which I always suggest).

Having said that, I am a lawyer, but this does not constitute legal advice.
At the core of the "problem", we have a fractured marketplace ever since the death of radio and MTV as popular methods for young people to discover music, replaced with social internet services catering to increasingly diverse tastes. There are fewer focal points where an artist can hope to reach such a wide audience as Madonna or Michael Jackson were able to exploit. Sure, you can pay CNN or Fox to do a "news" story on you and get some media coverage, or you can pay Clear Channel to get some FM radio play, but that's not exactly reaching the right demographic, and they're simply not trusted sources of information for current music trends. The old model of pumping up super stars by buying exposure is pretty much bust.
Apple "worlds biggest tech firm" and surprising infographic
you cant, these things employ tricks like a hidden textarea that gets focused and selected when ctrl+c gets keyed down (safari does have a copy / paste events), the same can happen on paste, flash also has access to write to the clipboard, sometimes. its buggy and annoying though.

but it means 1. applications cant have copy paste buttons 2. if you have a special clipboard (googles cloud clipboard), you have 2 clipboards that can very easily become out of sync.

preventing abuse of the clipboard by completely killing its functionality is like banning apples because someone chocked on one once, there are much simpler solutions (like firefoxs geolocation permission dialog)
I really dislike that quote too, it's a tautology along the lines of "You keep losing until you win". If you haven't won yet it's because it's just around the corner -- just put up with the ignoring, laughing, fighting a bit longer. Never mind the fact that innumerable technologies were ignored, laughed at, and fought and never won.
Probably best to comment here (instead of my site): my list is: Excel, git, GnuPG, Latex, Papers, R, TrueCrypt.
wow, that's awesome. how long would it take to walk across?
Consider this bit of 'cleverness:" Encode music CDs with a Windows rootkit that prevents copying of unencrypted music from said CDs, phones home, and otherwise helps 'protect music owner's IP from piracy.'

Do we not fault the creator and instead fault the companies that buy it?

Here's a horse I have been beating for several decades: "Fault" or "Blame" does not obey the laws of conservation. Just because we blame Alice for failing to check her blind spot before making a lane change doesn't mean we absolve Bob of fault for ignoring her turn signal.

It's reprehensible to make and sell this stuff. It's also self-defeating to buy and deploy it.
People still write desktop apps?
well, it took him 14 years.
There are websites that cater to people that have various conditions. Here's a great article on one:

http://www.newsweek.com/2007/07/22/sick-single-seeking-same....

The site mentioned is http://prescription4love.com/. Incidentally, this seems like a lucrative yet underserved niche in the dating market.
I'm just finishing up the process of getting a job in Hong Kong from east-coast North America.

It was a successful process for the two most often cited reasons: timing and connections.

I was specifically targeted by someone who followed my work (blog/twitter/github)..which means I didn't have to work so hard to sell myself on technical merits to people half-way around the world.

Also, personal changes in my life suddenly made me mobile for the first time since graduating (a decade ago). Had the recruiting happened a few weeks earlier, I would have said no.
The New Yorker is a high caliber publication?
Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Diaspora project
In ecology and the environmental sciences we often talk about ecosystem managment, how to manage large complex systems that we know we don't fully understand, for instance Chesapeake Bay, or the Florida Everglades. The best approach people have come up with is to 1) do a tremendous amount of monitoring and 2) when introducing change into the system, do it in small increments and check after each introduction to make sure it is having the desired effect. The disadvantage is that to do it correctly you have to move very slowly and cautiously.
It's fascinating that the common response between these comments and those on the blog basically boil down to "product development is marketing too" and "every activity with the customer is marketing".

If that's the case, then let's throw out the word marketing and talk about the real issue because debating what that word means misses the point.

At some point, after your developers have built your shiznit you have to find some customers. You have to take your widget and get it in front of a person who will pay for it. You have to get customers.

Call this marketing, call it sales, call it advertising...call it whatever the heck you want to call it. The point is...it's not easy. All of us jerks in product development think that the idiots in marketing just spend money and ads and the magic happens, but it's not so simple.

We could sit around the campfire for hours and tell stories of great products that didn't make it because they couldn't get enough customers. Because there was a failure of the <insert what you want to call it here>.
This stinks of Enterprise Software, the alternate reality where a salesman sells something that doesn't work to an executive that doesn't really care because there is no objective metric of success applied to the purchase, just the question of whether it can be 'spun' into something that makes the purchaser look good.

I'd like to see any of Tynt's customers weigh in and explain how they are measuring Tynt's effectiveness. Are any of them using A/B testing or otherwise quantifying the costs and benefits?
I find it a bit odd that Gruber fails to mention the obvious motivation behind this: to get people to click on the links and increase their traffic. It's not about SEO black magic or increasing their ability to track links, it's including an attribution with copied material in order to increase page views and visibility.

Now, I don't like that they use javascript to break your copy-paste functionality. It's unexpected and unrequested, so we are annoyed and confused by it. I wouldn't use Tynt.

Still, it's worth remembering that citations are a good thing. How many times have we on HN lambasted a site for not including proper attribute to copy and pasted text? How many times have we complained when someone pasted a quote or data in a comment here with no citation?

As unsavory and anti-usability as it is, I can understand the motivations behind Techcrunch and NYT. They're tired of their material being spread around without the courtesy of a backlink, and hope that by making it easier to cite than not to cite, they can encourage links.

In an ideal world, I can imagine that copy-paste would include metadata in some less obtrusive and more user-dictated manner. Tynt isn't doing it right, but attribution and links are a good thing to encourage.
I think an MS is the way to go. You may even meet a cofounder in the program and drop out. Just getting books is not going to give you the same experience and education level as a year or more on a campus with labs, peers, and mentorship.
For more fiction by Eliezer, you probably want http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction

For what many think is his most evocative writing, see http://yudkowsky.net/other/yehuda
I think it would be beneficial to mention that context more clearly in the article. As it is written the advice seems to be very generic which is why many people here are disagreeing with it.
Jon Favreau:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1...

I don't really see it myself, but I don't know much about Elon Musk. If I had to guess, I would've said Sir Richard Branson.
Use the HTML version
Oh I missed that session (had wanted to attend but got sidetracked in the app engine chat area upstairs)
Just joining the chorus of "me toos"... Didn't think it was that prevalent, I wonder where the instinct comes from? Anyone have any fun pseudo-scientific theories?
It's also true that we (humans) are terrible at self-reporting information like this. Not that you are lying, simply that you are most likely incorrect.
DropZap 2.2 videos and promo codes (puzzle game for iPhone and iPad)
There are other browsers besides Opera? No....
Putting a lid on the pot won't speed things along, as long as the water was boiling anyway. Boiling water is around 100 C, with or without lid.

Chopping them smaller make a bit of difference, but not that much - again most of the flesh will be at 100 C for the duration of the cooking. I've tried these things.
At the moment I wanted to keep it screen friendly for all devices and a left/right frame probably won't fit/look so great on an iphone for example. Maybe I can add some custom view options depending on the device you're using.

Thanks for the suggestion and comments!
web demo:
http://dropzap.com

iPad mode video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sovfv6zUUGs

iPhone mode video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDIBisib-Zc

promo codes (please post which one you took on the thread at Touch Arcade):
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=56080
Quite surprising: spam bot store
This is cool.

But it looks like it has too many degrees of freedom to make such fast/complicated manoeuvres steered by human.
Yeah, I remember thinking about Branson during the film (if you haven't read Branson's autobiography, it's a blast - definition of a 'page-turner').
Pollomacho is a MeFite who works at State in the human trafficking department. He was involved in the case as soon as he heard about it, and stated quite clearly that it was nice to be able to help somebody in this situation before two or three months had passed. Bingo omits this entirely, because Bingo thought it would be cool to visit this club and come back and say how histrionic MeFites were being.

Now, from what Pollomacho said later, he talked to the girls and there was information he didn't feel free to share (personal in nature) that indicated very, very strongly to him that this was in fact a human trafficking case, and as he is not known to be a twit in other instances, I'm inclined to take him at his word.
Ask HN: startup jobs for the experienced, non-technical?
I have a friend who has worked in financial services and management consulting for 8 years. He's got a lot of really valuable skills and experience in running quantitative analysis, building presentations, and managing teams, but now he's looking for something more interesting.

It seems to me that there are a bunch of early to mid-stage startups in financial services (e.g., banksimple, LendingClub, Mint before it was acquired) that probably have a need for somebody with his skills. Are you one of those startups? Or, if you had those kind of skills, what sort of companies would you be looking at?

I figure this is worthy of being an Ask HN as there are lots of non-technical types who read HN these days and are interested in breaking into startupland, but might not be aware that there's a need for people with more than just coding skills.
GNU Go is probably not the only app on the app store that makes use of GPL code. In particular, Doom Classic is also based on a GPL fork of Doom called PrBoom.
Exactly. I'm happy he went to the club, because I think real-world triangulation makes this a better story. But I get the impression he expected to see women in chains right in front of him there, and when he didn't, he said, "Ha, those silly MeFites!" The fact that he really wanted to feel like it was all blown out of proportion surely had nothing to do with his rational take on it.

I am rolling my eyes.
Thanks for the feedback.

The $5/day the led to that $60 didn't result in any paying customers, so I stopped. Blog reviews and word of mouth are much more effective.

As far as usability goes, it should be pretty easy to use. There are advanced features, but for a simple timeline, you should be off and running in minutes.

Hope you like it.
I was specifically referring to the 24-hour news networks, and NPR is not a 24-hour news service (heck, there is no local NPR station). So, I will continue to believe those networks don't provide history / context or for that matter, know what will have the largest effect on the listener.
As I understood it, this pertains to a specific implementation of a time machine i.e., the Gott time machine.

The jury is still out on other implementations, though of course everything seems to point towards them being impossible.
Intel to hardware accelerate WebM—if it becomes popular
Yeah. The parsing works for websites that are 'monitored' by organizemysearch.com (and more will be added as the website grows). So if you paste in a car ad url from cars.com it will parse the basic info for you (eg. mileage, price, make, model, etc).

The advantage here is the user can add their own fields which they think are relevant to a car search. So someone could add something like "my comfort level in the backseat" and anytime they add another car ad they could specify something like 'good','average','bad' which will be associated with that car ad so in the end they can sort things very easily and weigh their options better.

As for your alert idea, I can see that being an add-on product perhaps. However I know that most of the major new/used car websites provide alerting capabilities based on certain criteria, so that functionality may already exist.
size 14? holy canoli. whoever takes over from him when he retires will have some big shoes to fill.
"what if some influential genius had recognized the threat and stood up and yelled Stop?"

I guess influential is defined by impact, so no influential genius could do so. But the warnings were there, and are here. And have been here. It's been a long time coming, but Nietzsche wrote a century ago, "The massive influx of impressions is so great; surprising, barbaric, and violent things press so overpoweringly--'balled up into hideous clumps'--in the youthful soul; that it can save itself only by taking recourse in premeditated stupidity."

I've long liked that term, 'premeditated stupidity'. It certainly seems to fill the bill for most games. And why not, if one looks for refuge in their games? A moment of solace, of control (however illusory), where everything can once again make sense.

Did some digging and found what has been, for me, an influential essay on this topic. In "Harper's" April, 2002, Thomas de Zengotita writes, "To get relief, you have to stumble into the Greyhound bus station in Albany, or some old side0street barbershop that time forgot, into someplace not yet subjected to the renovating ministrations of the International Red Brick and Iron Filigree Restoration Corporation. And 'stumble' is the key concept here. Accidental places are the only real places left."

Sounds a bit like the meadow, except it becomes The Meadow, itself succumbing (at least in the minds of others) to the simple category fetishism that seems insurmountable.

"It would be irrelevant to object by asking, 'Well, how else are we supposed to do it?' There isn't any other way to do it. That's the point. This isn't a consultant's memo. This is a serious diagnosis of a serious condition. Would we rather not know about it because it happens to be incurable? This goes much deeper than subject matter, or political bias, the usual fodder. It determines the way we frame everything. Like all that is most profound in human custom, this agreement is almost physical, an attunement, more music than semantics. It instills and expresses, moment by moment, the attitude we bring to living in this world of surfaces."
2 or 4 sound like your best options, more likely 4. Remember, you don't have to do everything yourself; maybe a year or two spent learning the basics would give you both a good foundation for the project, and the opportunity to meet, evaluate and recruit other people who may have better ME/EE skills than you, but not your clinical expertise.

Or as you say it's 'basically a solved problem', maybe you can just find someone and work together. Just lsat week I was recommending HN to someone with a Mech eng degree and who has family manufacturing contacts in Asia to get on HN because he's a great hardware hacker but doesn't enjoy programming so much. Depending on your location, I bet you could assemble a small research team here on HN fairly easily. I wish you good luck with it, as giving mobility to people who've lost limbs or similar is a very worthy pursuit.

As for the headline question of 'college in 30s' I say sure. I turn 40 this year and am returning to study, which will be a 4-5 year process.
It doesn't matter at all if the safety system has any effect. The point is entirely that safety systems (functional or not) apparently make people more reckless. Examples of this are crosswalks (not effective), and the oil rig safety thing (which in this case was also not effective).

<<That’s because they have a false sense of security in crosswalks and are less likely to look both ways. >>

<<Transocean official apparently tried to close off a safety debate by reminding everybody the blowout preventer would save them if something went wrong. The illusion of the safety system encouraged the crew to behave in more reckless ways. >>
It's still very fast here.
Opera Mini for iPhone Finds 2.6 Million Users In 2 weeks
The guy from the State Department is a long-time member of Metafilter in good standing, and got involved quite early on of his own volition.

In his own words, "For future reference in situations exactly like this please contact the US State Department at jvisas at state dot gov. We (and by that I me my coworkers and I) will get this situatuation rectified imediately upon learning of such situations. We cannot take action to ensure that women like fake's friend here are not exploited unless we know about these situations!" and "Usually I get these cases weeks or months after they've stepped off that bus."

While it is plausible that the involvement was for PR reasons, I think it's unlikely. Media coverage didn't really kick in until well after we had the "happy ending" of IFDSS#9 picking up K and S.
Version numbering is killing IE and web development
Oh, come on, they're like 18 years old and are going to the United States! They still think they're immortal, and even if they anticipate that there might be some sex involved, they think they'd be glamor stars.

Instead, they'd be crack junkies for a couple of years, and thrown out into the alley when they were used up, and there is no way in hell that any 18-year-old - or 30-year-old - would "know what they were getting themselves into". If that were the case, this would never happen to anybody. That's the pernicious nature of human trafficking in the first place.
Maybe it's the equivalent of sliding your finger under the line of text you are reading? Like they teach small kids in school.
I'm rooting for Opera as an underdog, but I can't honestly say I'd ever choose to use it over Chrome (or even Firefox).
Please ask him to disclose some of his financials on mixergy and how it is doing. I've stopped watching as much because of the paywall.