skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great product idea, but the marketing/sales on the website needs a lot of improvement--and patio11's suggestions are a great start. Especially need better Call-to-Action elements.

I think a simplified value proposition as a tagline is a must. For instance: Square: Accept Payments Anywhere, Basecamp: The Better Way to Get Project Done, Grasshopper: Sound Professional & Stay Connected--The Virtual Phone System Designed for Entrepreneurs.

--Loyalty Space: The simple loyalty program for increasing sales...or..Real Easy, Real Results...or...(Customer) Loyalty Programs Made Easy..or..The Easiest Way to Build Relationships and Drive Results..etc., etc. Something along those lines, brainstorm a bunch. If you are going to do any advertising A/B test your top 5 in the copy. Check out what other successful companies are doing.

If possible show, don't tell. An awesome video would be great where that carousel currently is. Include some shots of the product actually being used. See Square's videos for definition of awesome videos.

Then I'd put a carousel type section below(but still above the fold if possible), with sections for the businesses in your "Consumer Facing Businesses". I'd list the businesses vertically on the left with icons plus text. Each section loads content to the right with (fictional or real if you got them)examples of problems/needs being solved by your service. Ex: Salons-->Meet Jane, Jane needed a way to fill empty seats in her salon on slow days. She uses her customer database to see which regulars are due for a new cut, and then sends them a custom/personalized discount offer via text message if they come in this afternoon. In no time at all, Jane's seats are booked for the rest of the day with customers grateful for a great deal.<---Copy should be a lot better, wrote this quick.

Customer Testimonials are huge too. Get some as soon as you can. If you know someone loves your product you can even write it yourself, let them have the chance to edit, and sign off on it. No more than two sentence.

About section could use a lot of improvement. In fact I'd pry call it "Why Loyalty Programs" Include some stats from respected sources on benefits of loyalty programs. Cut out as much copy as you can, and try to condense it all above the fold.

Check out Grasshopper for a great "how it works" section.

Include a clear CTA on almost every page.
Inactive since 1.5 years, deleted it last week.
Edinburgh is the centre of it all...
In computer architecture terms, the pub/sub system opens the door to more efficient communication in a multiprocessor system, since the data sharing is explicitly known by virtue of the subscriptions; furthermore, a sufficiently intelligent runtime, compiler, or partitioner can optimally (or close) map calculations to processors. How much of a win you get in practice depends on the actual intelligence of the tools and the hardware you're running on. If you're running on a multicore or SMP (e.g., a quad-socket box) hardware cache coherence will do the heavy lifting for you; each processor won't have its own copy of the data, it will be shuttled around to just the processors that need it. On larger-scale systems, a more message-passing approach is indeed the way to go; in fact, it is often the only way to go, since most large-scale machines outside of integrated supercomputers (Cray et al.) don't support shared memory.
Many have pointed out a number of implementations of the model you mentioned. This is generally known as the actor model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model) in which messages are passed between a number of distinct actors.

This is actually a fantastic model for distributed systems and was implemented in the Erlang programming language for that very purpose. It is the other major model of concurrent computing outside of having some kind of shared memory space (in a true actor model there is no shared mutable data).
Obscuris vera involvens.

Translation: Obscurity envelops truth (according to Virgil).
An online tutoring service/marketplace for connecting tutors and people would be a cool idea. Not just for offline tutoring either, develop tools to enable tutoring to be done online between anyone in the world.

Anyone know if something like this exists?
Yep, reactive programming. You can do this in JavaScript too: http://www.flapjax-lang.org/
Yes. But then you only require good English comprehension. The rest is pretty easy. And it gets easier if you become a reviewer/proof-reader.
Herschel finds a hole in space
Understood. But what I meant was that if someone was trying to create a startup in this space, they might use some of his ideas.
I think its great that he's doing it for philanthropic reasons but I think education businesses could definitely learn something from him.
You're making the fallacious argument that one developer can be easily substituted for another. That's just insulting to developers, and completely unrealistic. I mean, sure, if a developer comes out with something interesting on another platform, some guy will probably try to clone it on the App Store, granting the App Store policies even allow the type of app. It'll never be as good as the original, however. At some point, you do want the real app innovation taking place on your platform first, or you'll be missing out on a lot of critical media and social exposure to a competing platform.
He also gave a version of the talk linked here as a Google Tech Talk http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2139967204534450862#
The mock latin section at the bottom is amusing: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Latin_proverbs#Mock_Latin
I guess I have to put too fine a point on it, huh: the bit about the romans was incidental. I was using the character — "Reg" — as a parody of your criticism:

Reg: all right, but apart from originality, innovation, exclusivity, price-point, beauty, the possibility of being influenced by other software tycoons, and minimality of influence by developers, how was Doc Searls at all prescient here?
My feedback is all design related, but I like your idea.

Homepage Slideshow:

- The screenshots are hard to read. The perspective looks nice, but I'd prefer a straight on shot.

- Font used in captions is hard to read.

- Once a user interacts with the controls turn off the automatic transitions.

Subpages:

- Why is there a large empty space on the left? I would move the photos to the left side, and make the text column about 560px wide.

Misc:

- As Patrick pointed out, there's nothing to click on the homepage! Make a big, obvious call-to-action button.

- "Questions" is an odd thing to call the contact widget on the left side. I expected it to be an FAQ or some kind of help system. Perhaps labeling it "Contact Us", "Get In Touch", or "Inquiries" would be better.
Ask HN: Who's hiring in Switzerland?
I was reading through 'Who's hiring in Europe?', but wondering more about the neutral and non-EU Swiss.

From a cursory look at open vacancies, companies hiring in CH include: Google, Liip, Critical Path, Logica, ETHZ.

Who else?

I would really appreciate if you could point me at interesting companies from, or with offices in, Switzerland.

Many thanks!
How does email support work? Can I use any email address, or does my provider have to have OpenID support?
Poll: Getting to know you better ...
Just curious. Which of these matches you best?
Play piano, right handed, juggle
Play piano, right handed, don't juggle
Play piano, left handed, juggle
Play piano, left handed, don't juggle
Don't play piano, right handed, juggle
Don't play piano, right handed, don't juggle
Don't play piano, left handed, juggle
Don't play piano, left handed, don't juggle
Would love to trash it (got it way back, when it was Harvard-only), but it's how I keep track of my kids' online activities. (Though I admittedly only check once every month or so...)
Good timing!

I'm looking for a .Net developer to write a desktop app over the summer.

It's an "in-house" position in Lincolnshire, UK but if you need a [cheap] place to stay something could be worked out.

Ideally looking for a student or hacker with nothing to do for the summer :) wage should be decent (not actually got as far as a budget with my boss but certainly a lot better than working at McDonalds). Fun way to pay for next years tuition & get some experience.

Needed: .Net, SQL, experience using VCS/Bug tracking. If you can learn quickly you're fine.

Plus we're lots of fun, small firm, lunch provided every day, plenty of stuff going on etc.

And you get to work in a "classified" facility :)

Drop me an email (address on my profile) if you want to know more.
You know, ComicZeal on my iPad shows violence and adult situations just fine.

It also shows Tintin, which for some, could be even more disturbing.
> There are programming jobs with a lot of autonomy and control over the product you build.

can you name a few?
I don't have to know how something is done for it to be worth paying to have it done.

I'm not sure freedom is what one gives up in this situation. It seems more like giving up control. And one has to do that in life just to be able to delegate tasks to others.

Is it really freedom being given up or freedom obtained by freeing up one's time to do things you value more than examining the code for the microprocessor that makes your clock radio work?

And its freedom that makes it possible for one person to offer the work of their minds to others without having to disclose everything about how it is that they are capable of doing it.

We are free to make such a deal and then later if we choose another alternative. There is no loss of freedom at any point, just the exercise of one's freedom.
Be Grateful Of What You Have: "Coulda Been" ~ Lupe Fiasco
Found a paper http://www.jordansmind.com/files/Laughy-DBT.pdf last night titled "Implementation of a Dynamic Binary Translator for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console" Converting had a ten time speedup. Given that the js engines we have today determining the best way to convert the nes asm to js seems like it would be a very interesting project.
If this is true, it's a complete joke. When material that is designed for 12-13 year old boys is blocked for being too rough, you might have issues with your standards.
If you like this, try out the original Oblique Stratagies: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/
Tokyo couple married by robot
It happens all the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_escrow
applets don't work on [insert random browser on device]
There is one more category: right or left handed and learning to use the other hand in an attempt to become ambidextrous. It's the best use of boring meetings time.
I did not looked deep enough, but there's a swf file called jssound.swf in the codebase.

EDIT: Well, from the index.html:

"It has been in the pipeline for a while, but JSNES can now play sound! There is no way of playing dynamically generated sound in JavaScript, but I have created a tiny Flash application reads a buffer from JavaScript then writes it to the sound card."
To clear this up (and as I mentioned on the original article):

No, these images are not illegal.

IANAL - but I am one better, someone who grades such images for court.

[on the issue raised; clearly the foundation does have a right/obligation to remove illegal images. Indeed even if they suspect them to be illegal. However any expert they could have found would have told them they are fine. I think the uprising is more against the impression that the foundation has bowed to their sponsors rather than take a realist/rational approach]
The 4th comment reads: "That picture appeared in the May '22 NatGeo with the caption 'A Mongolian Woman Condemned to Die of Starvation'"
At the earliest stages, you should just be identifying the problem. Interview general folks in your industry and ask, 'would you like a simpler XXX'. 'what is the most painful ZZZ'. 'what would get you to try a new service'.

From that small set, draw up your idea and re-interview those folks. if they like it, you should present the same drawings to a wider scope and see if it still has gravity.

The next step is to test the market and publish your solution through adsense . I'm unaware of another method to test an idea as well as adsense. it would be great to hear some other ways of testing an audience before building.
Ask HN: New NoSQL blogging site looking for additional authors
Long time, first time so be gentle. I just started (4 days ago) a blog about NoSQL databases. The aim is to be a central location for various posts, articles and reference information about all of the various NoSQL technologies out there. Basically, like HighScalability except for NoSQL data stores instead of scalable architectures.

Now I am just a humble developer trying this out for the first time, but I'm wondering if anyone else is interested in blogging about the same stuff because it would be really cool to have another 2-3 authors writing posts.

My email is in my profile so drop me a line and I can point you to the site.
http://twitpic.com/8w3xr :)
Thanks!

Is that for the H1-B visa? Just to clarify: If a company wants to hire me on an H1-B visa starting Oct. 14 it is still possible and will cost upward of $2500 for the entire process?

What are my chances of getting a visa this way?
If you have some teaching ability, you can also teach homeschoolers through local homeschool co-ops. We have a guy at ours that's taught programming, game modding, stop-motion animation, photography, etc. to elementary / middle school kids.

I also know a number of guys that make acceptable money teaching chess at private schools, homeschool groups, etc.

Another friend does something similar teach biology to groups. He also does guided walks and field trips for groups at local parks. He has a collection of interesting animals and even does birthday parties on the weekends. I also know a guy that's an animal trainer that now makes all his income from school events and birthday parties.

Or you should read about The Great Zucchini, a birthday party clown making $300 a party. I'm sure the business has gone downhill since 2006, but it's still good money for a flexible, weekend-only job.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01...
> So his message to everybody was no different than it was at Day One: all I want from the rest of you is your money and your appreciation for my Art.

There's the conflict. Your art's success depends on the ability of others to say the same exact thing, in a symbiosis with your art.

Does it not go against the very spirit of art itself to tell other artists that they must paint your way?
I hope not. My visa lasted only 6 months and IIRC the 6 month J-1 doesn't have the home residency requirement.
I haven't found a way to extract google talk chat logs though.
And then the university will sponsor my visa? What kind of visa would that be then?

I have no problems trading capital for a visa :)
Actors are also a large part of Scala - see more details here http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
I know people at Google who have a significant amount of autonomy (they work (or worked last time I checked) in the guts of the search engine and Android and on Google Wave).

Also a couple of guys at Yahoo working on Hadoop. Lots of startup founders (of course) who completely decide what to do.

Even a couple of teams at Intuit (which has to be the most manager heavy company in the whole world).

And people paid to work on Open Source projects have significant amounts of autonomy. Now that I think of it almost every developer I know who is not working on outsourced enterprise software seems to have significant (but not absolute) autonomy.
You misunderstood the question completely.
simpler XXX, and painful ZZZ _presumes_ an existing problem hypothesis. However, past data points of both my own, and most startupers clearly shows, that our problem hypothesises generally suck at conceptual level.

This is what I mean by de-risking: I want to take out this unnecessary risk of blind guessing, and delegate hypothesis discovery to those _with the data_.
I'm confused. Exactly which images are at issue here?

It appears that the images originally complained about were the drawings of "child pornography" which were supposedly on Wikimedia Commons.But does it extend to the more encyclopaedically justifiable (though still occasionally somewhat gratuitous) photos which illustrate relevant articles on wikipedia?

Incidentally, I think wikipedia deserves credit for being one of the few places proudly exhibiting pictures of Muhammad.
This is too slow to play on my Dell i7 720, which I think says more about Dell's screwed up architecture causing horrible CPU performance than it does about this code.
But engineering is an art that makes extensive use of science.
guess this kills my nacl port.
I'd call it dataflow. It's also akin to what Excel does when solving a system. In a larger sense, you'd call it declarative (instead of imperative) programming - you're defining the system and an engine figures out how to make the system act like the definition - you're not giving step-by-step instructions.
If you do not agree with such a decision, there are several other competing platforms.

What makes it so frustrating, I think, is that most people like the Apple platform and experience. Giving it up and going somewhere else for ideological reasons sounds good until you're resetting your phone by pulling the battery, struggling to get hardware to work, asking why Linux still has no good mixed sound support layer, or other realities of less unified platforms.

We want Steve & his company to agree with us so that we can have our cake and also know that the cake is made according to our ideology.
I think that for the lazy viewer of the page it's not clear what your business actually does.

You use a lot of buzzwords and goal orientations but one has to dig around a bit to see what the actual product is.
Dodreams is looking for Ruby/Rails developers in Helsinki, Finland to work on an innovative gaming platform. Must be cool to hang out with. http://www.dodreams.com
This question constrains the possibility space by 2 factors:

-It has to tap into the "common headaches" of the target market (say, barbers, teachers, or small restaurant owners), so scalability is given

-It constrains the headaches to those, that are mallable to software solutions

Some early candidates:

"What aching problems do barbers have, that would be a computer's job?"

"In a futuristic society, what things would you except computers to do, that you're currently handling manually -but want to get rid of?"
It's Johny boy ;) I think internship visas (H3?) are a good way to get started because they're easier to get. I'm investigating doing freelance on an H1-B. Although it's clearly not allowed to freelance / work for another company that isn't sponsoring you in the US, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to work for a foreign company that does business in the US.
I wish there was some organized way for these kinds of threads on HN. I'm interested in them, but keeping track is getting to be a chore.

I also wish that such threads would say if remote work or international applicants are welcome to apply.
Wow, now that's cruel. I notice there's bowls around the ground -- did they place food where she couldn't reach it just for extra cruelty's sake?
>bdd

binary decision diagrams? Who wants to live with a static analysis researcher? They're not exactly the life of the CS party...
Not every number is an integer. Could be a char or a short too. The sizes of those depends on the platform and if it's signed or unsigned.
getting code to work is easy, getting the largest most influential tech companies to cooperate on building a platform for you to deliver applications that work on most devices in the world entirely for free with no real financial incentive.

thats a plain miracle.
Klaut, drop me a mail at: bastianlehmann@gmail.com. We're a small startup based in London & the North East. We have some seed funding, a kick-ass product and want the best people to work for with us and drive their ideas.
Paulie! HN unites the world :) (and you should move to San Francisco)
Glamour netbook VAIO P
Sony is ready to please those who do not mind to pay at least $ 800 for the device in practical use very little different from twice cheaper counterparts. The company unveiled on the eve of a new version of an ultra-compact netbook VAIO P.
customizing auth.User to accept an email based login

This app solves the problem by allowing users to log in using their email address.

It's not a bug that it doesn't deal with account creation - it's outside the scope of the app.

That said, it is fairly trivial to create a registration form that enforces the constraints you mentioned.
| how many autistic sociopaths have you ever met? Those two traits just don't go together.

Well more like, probably, that autism /neuters/ the sociopathy. You wouldn't have the skill to exploit people. Even more likely, they're both just rarities; someone with both would be rare^2.
You have no idea of what you're talking about.

You can get Linux distributions that are 100% Free Software nowadays. 8 years ago that was simply impossible.
You can be wholly productive on a FOSS system for a multitude of tasks.

Seriously, do you even go to FOSS conferences or meetings? If anything the number of participants has increased exponentially in the last few years. More people know and use Free Software right now than at any other point in history. And more governments and states look to Stallman for solutions on many technological issues (look it up; the Indian state of Kerala, several South American countries, etc).

FOSS has never been used as widely. Stallman's campaign is a resounding success in comparison to the way things were before.
Cybersecurity Act of 2010 is Bad Medicine
IANAL...

You could get an E2 visa and be self employed. You need to have funds invested in the start-up usually more than $50,000.

However, with Walsh and Pollard, (20 I. & N. Dec. 60, 63 (BIA 1988)), the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) held that substantial investment of $15,000 was sufficient.

An E2 visa has no route to a green card and usually needs renewed every two years.

You best bet would be to find employment in the US and have them sponsor your visa/GC.
If you're still at Cal then you should talk to international house, they would know lots of good visa consultants etc -- but on the other hand they have to play by the book as they could jeopardize their entire visa sponsorship programme if they do anything wrong... so you won't learn any dirty tricks from them. But maybe you could get work as a tutor etc which would let you stay in the country..?
What is this then? Romanes eunt domus, "People called Romanes they go the house"?
Sounds like you're using the "anything done well is an art" definition of art which is... uhh... bull. it just dilutes the term. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art. "programming" doesn't even make it as a "disputed category". sorry.
This is a good point, here in San Diego (Normal Heights) there is a coffee shop called "Lestats" and all of the employees are in the same band... They work there and play in their band - kind of cool actually.

Not a bad idea at all.