skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's surprising. He seems like such a nice chap.
Anyone we hire will be compensated properly.

The descriptions on the pages are fairly specific about the difference in responsibility for local vs remote.

The remote work is admittedly more straightforward, cut-and-dry programming. It's suitable for a student or freelancer looking for some entry-level experience or extra work.

Anyone that works locally will be exposed to some of the more complicated tasks we have and take on more responsibility.

We would really prefer to have someone local, but we have to be realistic about our potential candidate pool in Houston.
Sure they did, as they almost always do.
Let's use the app:// protocol to deploy native C++ apps over the web with full access (in a non linkable way, so grannies don't get their computers pwned). Just drag and drop app://myfunnycat to your toolbar and run it from there.

Just a thought

PS. hmm, let's drop the double slash and the TLD, just the app name will suffice, and make the DNS understand it.
How much time did you spent on it? I mean, daily, or weekly? I'm starting to work on the same direction, but I work a lot during the day as a developer, so I'm rather exhaust when I'm over with it, and usually don't have more than 1 hour a day or little more to spend on learning maths. I guess it's too little?

I'm serious though, I'm learning with textbooks, etc.. and I'm a dropout so I have some of the basics already.
List comprehensions or map are the way that a Pythonista would do this:

[transform(x) for x in my_list]

map(transform, my_list)
I would imagine the demand is going to go up because it only really shines in hands-on use. The Apple Store strategy seems to be working fairly well with this type of product.
Java is the only language we can use on the JVMs that run on the nodes in our grid computing system.

Other languages (Jython, JRuby) require techniques that break the security sandbox used by the JVMs.
And I guarantee, that SteveB would have specific, detailed answers about each of those - even though he often doesn't come off great in the press, in person he's an extremely sharp individual, and the depth to which he could tell you about each of those pillars is far more than he shows in a press conference.
Usually. 10k is when it feels more speculative. But often it is because I got cut down.
Google launches Google TV
I occasionally use it to cheat in math homework. Sometimes to figure out the way to reduce a function or to verify my answers.
InsideTrip Holds Broad Lessons for Online Travel Startups
That's actually on par with the iPhone 3GS.

Let's look at some numbers!

FTA: "As I surfed a number of Flash-heavy websites, played movie trailers and little video clips on and off for about two hours the battery level on my phone was down to about 61 percent from a fully charged battery"

So, 2 hours of heavy web usage on flash-heavy websites, at about 20% of battery life per hour. So, that's 5 hours of heavy web usage on flash-heavy websites doing a mix of things.

Compare that to the iPhone:

From the Apple website: http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
Under the Battery life sidebar: "5 hours of Internet use on 3G"

So, the author experienced the same level of battery use as a user would experience on an iPhone 3GS doing a comparable task.

Edit: I should point out that the it appears the Wired author was using an internal network, which, for the iPhone is: "9 hours of Internet use on Wi-Fi". However, I still feel as if this doesn't change the results much.
Thanks - that's exactly my issue. I have compiling which takes up most of the CPU, but the amalgamation of all the other software each taking up to 10% in the background is what kills.
what's LOB?
Addendum -- look at the current issue with Facebook and ConnectU. Know who you are sharing with if you plan to do something with an idea.
If companies are acting in their own interest, then there's no reason for them to do this unless it's a law. I believe there is legislation being drafted regarding how people's information can be handled on social networks.

How would it help though? Sites are still caching old versions of pages. You can annotate that you don't want to share it anymore, but a copy still exists and can be found.
No Hulu? ... Then what's the point?
Google Launches Google TV
It's not clear from the article, though, whether the Android device was on 3G or WiFi... WiFi uses considerably less power.
The implementation is completely unimportant.

For as long as there has existed youthful exuberance (read: stupidity - we are all young or once were), there exists the risk and responsibility to own up to the consequences of ones actions. If you're caught on video or film or soundclip or with your own words, doing or voicing something stupid, then the onus is on you to explain that if and when the situation warrants.

The more I read over your post, the more I get a sense that what you're suggesting is a means by which to automatically explain (or errata) your data you put out there on the web. Is this the case?
Maybe just to be devils advocate, but:

1) It sounds like the CEO did in fact build a company that could go public and result in a cash-out for you, putting some of the cash you felt you deserved as a founder to good use and returning it to you many-fold.

2) You were in fact lucky to be making a "founder's salary." Many founder's don't make anything.

While you may have been handled badly by a gruff VC, you also ended up with a smashing multi-million dollar exit, at least to a significant extent because of him and the CEO he brought in. I should think you would be at least a little grateful. To me it sounds like whining.

Bottom line is, you were either naive enough to hire someone you didn't need for more than you needed to, or you were knowledgeable of critical deficits in your execution capabilities and you filled those, and gave up what it took to get there. Either way, the VC may have been right.
Cool. I personally dislike it when freelancers don't _spell out_ what you're looking for: eg contract work, 6 month full time work, etc. And note your availability - today, this month, this quarter, etc.

And ideally a previous project that I can see online, and what the budget & time frame was.
I'm not surprised by some of the observations. Windows software, being mainly closed source, has forced the platform to address compatibility and exotic configuration problems more thoroughly -- even sometimes to its detriment. First thought is that if game studios are serious about stepping up OSS support, a lot of effort could be saved by building a compatibility layer -- DirectX on steroids -- that can be targeted by the devs and left to the distros to properly support.

Actually, this seems a better idea than I first thought: done properly, it could also work as a standalone platform for consoles/handhelds, as a browser plugin for easy web gaming and as an open source flash replacement.
This is a lot of text and boilerplate for a very, very simple idea:

>> x = [1,2,3]
=> [1, 2, 3]
>> def go(z); z[1] = 0; end
=> nil
>> go(x)
=> 0
>> x
=> [1, 0, 3]

Mutable objects in Ruby are passed by reference, not value.
Google shows off Android 2.2
I honestly wish. But I'm using 160GB of my MacBook's 250GB (I got the plus model). The only option is therefore the 256GB Corsair for 700 bucks. I don't mind shelling out 700 for such a great upgrade, but I'm not convinced that this generation of SSDs is completely up to snuff, either. I'm probably going to want the next generation to come out, I feel the current tech isn't yet ready for prime-time. Makes it less feasible >.<
Two hours of Flash = 40% battery drain. That's still a bit high. Watch a movie on the plane, play a game or two, and you land with a halfway drained battery.

Understandable why Flash might be excluded. This level of performance is "acceptable" for most of the industry but not up to the seamless level Apple strives for.
From the FAQ: "Durability: VoltDB provides both replication of partitions (known as K-safety) and periodic database snapshots to ensure the availability of the data."
it does seem a little high but so many other protocols also require a dns lookup. sometimes more than one
> that we can grow our own food, make and trade and share everything we need

Grow our own food? I don't want to be a farmer. It's hard. Division of labor is awesome.

As for sharing, how do you rationally decide who to give something to? The idea of "whoever needs X should have it" sounds nice, but the tricky part is figuring out who needs X. Prices have information about that, and we need information to make a rational decision. Also prices have information about when you shouldn't use X (because it's too hard to make) and should substitute Y instead.

And as for trade, it's basically the same thing as buying except if you take away money you have to find someone who wants your stuff, and has stuff you want, instead of only one or the other, so it's harder to trade.
Businesses need a consistent content strategy
I wouldn't be surprised if this held true for particular subjects that are generally thought of as "hard" as well. My favorite is mathematics.

A new favorite quotation of mine about mathematics learning:

"Mathematics must be written into the mind, not read into it. 'No head for mathematics' nearly always means 'Will not use a pencil.'" Arthur Latham Baker, Elements of Solid Geometry (1894), page ix.

Hat tip to the Bay Area Math Circle for the quotation reference.
Their FAQ states:
Durability: VoltDB provides both replication of partitions (known as K-safety) and periodic database snapshots to ensure the availability of the data.

I suppose it depends on your definition of "D". Seems like this might be acceptable if you had different replicas on different power sources, etc.
At one startup we had a similar setup but using perl and a serial-controlled power switch.
It began with a stoplight but in december we brought in an xmas tree and put on strings of green, yellow, and flashing red lights. For a while "the tree is green" was pleasingly literal.
I think he was trying to get us to focus on not being called consumers first. Personally, I agree, it's an assumption that puts too much power in corporate hands.
I agree with you as well, though, that it would require quite a large change for us to stop being consumers.
Froyo announced - Flash, Perf improvements, WiFi Tethering and more
What Google is not addressing is why, as a developer, would I want to host my applications on Google's Web App store if it's essentially the same under any WebKit-based browser. i.e. What is the business case for it?
8 web sites you need to stop building
That's what my university has (Carleton in Ottawa).
I expect there is a persistent store of some sort, you'll have to register to find out. I'm also unable to find a license without registering.

It does appear from the FAQ that you build your transactions as Java stored procedures. Constraining a generic SQL database that way will make it much easier to distribute and scale.
Have been using it on firewalls for about 10 years. Wouldn't use anything else in that space, between the security, reliability, and usability of PF.

A couple of the current firewalls are on Soekris hardware, cheap little boxes that only draw a couple watts -- more at http://slagwerks.com/blog/?s=soekris
I've always preferred the term "citizen", myself.
Android 2.2 and developers goodies
Google data collection eyed by Congress, class action lawsuit
This is not a surprise. I have the same issues with Strings too.
A String is passed around your app and someone changes it - capitalizes/chomps etc. The String is changed throughout the app ! You have to dup() it, if you want to ensure no one changes it.

This means if you have classes returning Strings, such as first_name, last_name, address etc, your getter should return a dup() if you want to ensure no accidental change to it. That sucks, if you ask me.
Yeah, I noticed I hand't clarified that. Even still, 5 hours of browsing highly interactive content isn't bad. You get the added bonus of Flash, which for some sites, is critical.

FTA: "Our corporate Wi-Fi connection just didn’t seem good enough and most Flash-heavy sites took a while to load."

So I assume the testing with Wi-Fi, though again, this isn't completely clear. Even still, I think this demonstrates that mobile flash isn't the harbinger of death that Jobs was making it out to be, and demonstrates that the reaction to Flash is more than just for technical reasons.
Google TV turns on at I/O
Scalable Work Queues with Beanstalk
See Object#clone and Object#dup

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html#M000351
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html#M000352
From Apple on iPhone battery life: "5 hours of Internet use on 3G"

That level of performance is acceptable for Apple.
Apple selling iPads faster than Macs? than iPhone 3GS?
This article is a bit trite. What I thought it would be about is a different kind of upstart fear: fear that telling the world about your product will cause competitors to steal your idea or approach. I think that balancing act is more difficult than being afraid of failure.
Wolfram Alpha came out just before I started Calc II. I credit Wolfram Alpha as the reason I was able to go through Calc II, III, IV, and Differential Equations this year.

I'm able to grasp advanced math concepts, but I have trouble actually working math problems on paper as math classes are usually taught: I understand the concepts and why we're doing things but I accidently transpose symbols, make algebra mistakes, and write down arithmetic wrong. I get distracted so easily that I'll stop and start 10 times on one problem because I keep forgetting that I'm supposed to be working on a problem, when an idea about something unrelated pops into my head. It's just the way my brain is wired - I don't think linearly, my mind is constantly going down multiple parallel threads at once like a Best Buy full of TV's tuned to different channels. I think I have severe ADHD and a very mild form of dyslexia, but I've never been diagnosed - when I was in school, teachers didn't understand that you can be both gifted and impaired at the same time, just in different ways.

So throughout all my math courses it's been constantly frustrating to intuitively grasp the concept many times faster than the other students, and yet see them outpace me with rote mechanization while I struggle to not get the symbols in my equations mixed up.

That's why Wolfram Alpha has been a godsend - I can use it as a sort of "debugger" for my math work; it helps me figure out where I'm making mistakes in my mechanical manipulation of the symbols. It levels the playing field.
As someone who might hire, there should be a "hire me" link. Which explains what consulting you do.
Microsoft Shifts Robotics Strategy, Makes Robotics Studio Available Free
There is more to the internet then Hulu. In fact, the majority of the internet doesn't care about Hulu, because Hulu restricts access outside the US anyways. However, their are a far greater number of sites with Flash content that would benefit from this.
I remember being excited about Longhorn. Had they launched a RC like they did for Windows 7, they might have avoided the debacle that was Vista.
Live Blogging the Google TV and Android Announcements
Markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are.

Perhaps this bodes well for the Diaspora team. The donations they've received indicates that there's a demand out there.

It just occurred to me, that an App could provide a seamless front for combined access to Facebook and whatever Diaspora comes up with. What are the barriers to social network aggregation?
Have to fill in a form to see a whitepaper. Yeah whatever.
whatever you might say about the man, this seems more like an honest mistake.
Red leader reporting in--I'm no tptacek or cperciva, but my day job is securing a large network, and metasploit is relevant to my interests.
Haha, that one. I thought it was the title of a slide and didn't even give it a second thought because the video was not playing. Funny how attention works.
About twice as long as that in WiFi. How long would Flash 10.1 play over WiFi?
James Kunstler said it best:

“Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as ‘Consumers.’ OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, rights, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.”

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_howard_kunstler_diss...
full time or part time contract work? I've got a good amount of experience working on web crawlers/ data aggregation for SaaS based architectures.
Tech support truths, this doesn't suond like the realm of what I'd consider system administration.
I'm a criminal and so are you
If you value your time, then it really pays to investigate the ways in which you spend money, and the system that is in place to encourage that spending and even make it seem normal.

There are questions you can ask, for instance, if you are an employee of someone else:

How much do I get paid per hour?

How much money do I need to sustain my lifestyle?

How many hours per week do I need to work to sustain my lifestyle?

What if it's only 25 hours?

Are there full-time professional jobs out there which only require 25 hours of work per week?

Why not?

Is it because we're supposed to spend the money earned in the other 15 hours on stuff we don't need?

When did I make the decision to work 15 more hours to buy stuff I don't really need, and could I be enjoying my life more by having those 15 hours instead of the stuff?
Great read, although I've never been bitten by this particular "bug".
I was an OpenBSD fanboi for a while. It was not a terrible desktop OS, but Linux is just so much easier to deal with. apt-get blows ports (and pkg-add, hahaha) out of the water.

I also used it for my mail/web server, and it didn't seem to be the path of least resistance. With Debian, I spent about 10 minutes configuring Apache + fastcgi and exim + spamassassin + clamav. With OpenBSD, I spent days setting it up (I felt like the first person in the world to ever deploy a FastCGI app on OpenBSD), but the result was much more secure. Each web app ran as its own user in a chroot with no view of the shared filesystem beyond /tmp, and the webserver ran as its own user, also in a chroot. Very secure, but still felt flaky to me. My mailserver never worked right. (The "world's most secure operating system" uses sendmail!?)

pf is just wonderful compared to iptables, though, so I would definitely use OpenBSD for anything routing-related. (But Linux has better hardware support, so I am stuck with that for now. Need to get a Soekris router!)
>Getting Flash to run flawlessly on competing smartphones would have made it far harder to Jobs to claim that Flash wasn't technically up to it.

But Android is the only smartphone in direct competition with the iPhone, and Android only really picked up steam in the past 8 months or so.
Interesting. Will change the description to address some of your comments. The position is definitely paid (in salary, not stock).
He referenced not being alone in his assumptions, but this is basic ruby:

>> a = b = [1,2]
=> [1, 2]
>> c = a.dup
=> [1, 2]
>> a==b
=> true
>> a==c
=> true
>> a.equal?(b)
=> true
>> a.equal?(c)
=> false

Here's a better post on the topic:
http://kentreis.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/identity-and-equali...
I think this article is a little propagandaish for hn. It really feels like a giant misrepresentation of the truth.

Berkshire was not hiding the fact they owned these derivatives. Buffett has talked about thm many times and defends purchasing this specific set of derivatives as having been "mispriced at inception" which I think is the most basic plan of all investing, right. Buy low, sell high.

As to the lobbying of congress, I would do the same thing, and you would too. When the derivitives contracts were drawn up Berkshire offered both a collatoralized and uncollatoralized option for the contract. The other parties would have paid a higher premium to Berkshire for the collatoralized contract, so they selected to forgo collatoral. Now, after the fact congress is going to step in and demand the contract have collatoral?

If I borrow money unsecured, I'm going to pay a higher interest rate. It would be extremely crappy to come in half way through the loan and demand that I put my house up ad collatoral. Now I have all the risk, and didn't even get to benefit from the lower I intrest rate at inception.

THAT'S what he's lobbying against.

And ontop of all of that, Buffett has said that if congress does include retroactive collatoralization, he will just pay it and his business will still be fine. So where's the fall from grace?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aZcI...
Love the new layout, but was disappointed when I couldn't comment; Is this on purpose, al3x.net style?
Nice counterpoints, but I think #2 isn't quite the whole story.

Economically it makes sense for an investor to minimize expenditures. If the founders are willing to work for peanuts, then it's the investors prerogative to keep them that way. No foul there.

However for any VC to ever utter the words "just the founder" in the founder's presence is a massive managerial fail. Founders are not the people who you want to "put in their place", they are the ones who make the company succeed. Even if you think you don't need them anymore, why would so blithely burn a connection with a talented entrepreneur?
I have the same experience, my major is filled with statistics and math and coming out of high school I didn't have the right prerequisites. Nonetheless, a decent amount of interest and some hard work and I got up to speed in no time. Calculus was a breeze after that. It goes for a lot of things really, when you're interested in the subject and willing to work for it, it becomes so much easier. I now just have a "How hard can it be?" attitude towards stuff.
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At the heart of this is a simple question: once the great singularity comes, are we going to evolve into a thinking machines that will live forever? Or are we evolving into some kind of hive mind where everything is shared and processed in parallel?

Hive mind. We are becoming neurons in a big, amorphous brain. Like neurons, we often don't really comprehend the signals though we might filter and process them in some way.
You miss the point. I am a person, then a customer if I buy from you, a client if subscribe to your service. This is not an argument about economics, but instead the framing of who we are in the economic system.
I think he has conflated two words: "consumer" and "buyer" - he doesn't seem too concerned with consumption as he is with buying things.

We are all consumers - I eat 3 square meals a day, I burn some amount of fuel to keep myself warm, and I breathe an awfully large amount of air. The author here doesn't seem too concerned with whether this consumption is excessive, though.

Whether or not we start producing more of what we consume, or we go back to a barter economy (which, if you'd pardon the bluntness, is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard recently) doesn't change our level of consumption, so his real problem is with buying crap.

So let's not confuse the two terms.
CouchIO rap (literally) about CouchDB
Skype - new tool to manage Skype in your business
How Facebook Could Make More Money By Protecting Our Privacy
Your contention was 2 hours and 40% was outside Apple's standards. I merely demonstrated that it was, in fact, within Apple's standards, as demonstrated by their own stats.

More importantly, this demonstrates that Flash doesn't kill battery life as propose by Jobs. 5 hours of heavy web usage of heavy flash sites doesn't sound unreasonable.
What? So? The ecommerce site is public for any user .. don't see the issue :-)
I thought it sums up the article pretty well. I was expecting much more based on the title.

A better title: "Amateur high-level wireless traffic analysis of 21 consenting students during a 45 minute class"