skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have not added that yet, though we will figure out a way! Some of the problems we've encountered so far: indie artists don't upload to mainstream sites with complicated sign-ups.

This means it will be tough for us to use amazon affiliate
links for example. We are determined! We may even revenue share with artists, who knows.
Internet Explorer (even IE6) gains market share
Just curious, what would be your ideal job? Assuming you want to work for someone and not just on your own projects.
> When my daughter gets older (old enough to talk) and I ask her how her day was, does that somehow lower my intelligence and make my expertise suspect?

Of course not, when your daughter is young it is entirely appropriate to talk about things she and her friends of done, or what her favorite actress or pop star has done. I think the "small minds discuss people" was referring to older people with a potential for more important discussions, and what they do in fact discuss.

Then again, posting on this particular HN post doesn't say a lot about my large-mindedness either, so I'll just shut up now. :)
Also instead of "right wing" I should have said Republican Party. I think you can be "right" politically and not necessarily agree with everything the RP promotes. In the US they tend to get conflated however.

I'm going to shutup now in this thread area though. Way too political of a topic. Sorry, fellow HN readers. :(
Keep going! You can't sell something you don't believe in! But don't try to make the v2.0 version before launching. Make sure v1 is something your identified customers will want and shove it out the door.
The aforementioned to be read in the voice of Bender.
When I click the heart on "just listened" it is stateful, in that it turns red. Unless I'm interpreting that wrong.
Fake Steve was eerily prescient here. From June 24: "First of all, this is not a big issue. If you’re experiencing this, most likely it’s not the phone at all — most likely you’re just living in a place where there’s bad reception, in which case the solution is simple: you need to move." http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/you-assholes-need-to-stop-s...

Compare that to the real thing: "Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place."
Took me a sec but ? is the same as pressing shift+/
Sure hope Zed finishes http://learnpythonthehardway.com/ Such a great primer for pre-programmers.
I'm going to say no when it comes to limited skips. We don't want to force you to listen to bad music. As for the signup form, our css needs a bit of love. We appreciate the feedback!
I hope they be a lot clever and end up with something different than they are proposing, otherwise they will just burn cash and time.

The founders don't look any hacky.
To See Is To Conquer, Or Is It?
Good lucky with that and I hope you have success in it. I won't apply as I don't feel I'm hacky enoght :)
The other issue with not using a type="password" is that my phone puts caps lock on for filling out that field.

Also, on my iPhone the <3 for favoriting a song does not show up, however it is great that the music keeps playing in the background.
When you register at school, you're required to use your real name. It will always come up, one way or another.
My answer: monetize monetize monetize. No really we are thinking of some things, which I've alluded to in other comments.
Ask YC: How to hire a good virtual assistant for a startup?
I am looking to hire a virtual assistant or work with an outsourcing company like brickworkindia.com or getfriday.com. Does anybody have any particular suggestions? On either the best company to work with or the best manner to work with a virtual assistant? Thanks.
You're being obtuse. The quote is about discussion qua discussion, not caring about your kids or self-preservation. "Words of wisdom" are not usually to be taken absolutely literally.

There's no familial or social need, or any self-preservation need, to gossip about Zed Shaw.
"Thus most of blog posts which talk about management mismatch and shitty projects are working with bottom 30% of the talent pool."

This is complete nonsense (I speak as an Indian developer who lives in India). Multi billion dollar companies like TCS , Wipro etc are full of teams with low quality developers, "architects" who haven't coded in years but know all the buzzwords and many managers, and lots and lots of heavy processes (ISO CMM anyone?). They pay developers little and managers a lot so guess what the incentives are?

If you must outsource to India (and there are very very good reasons not to), the best option is to outsource to someone you know personally and you can handle the work. If you don't know anyone in India and must outsource anyway try someone small and (relatively) capable like ThoughtWorks.

Stay away from the TCS/Wipro/Infosys/Cognizant bodyshopper crowd. Those are for big corporations who have more money than sense.
This is not what TPB is doing though: they provide a .torrent file that someone else hosts that could potentially contain credit card numbers (for example).

Now, if TPB had things plastered everywhere saying "20th Century Fox Movies," "Paramount Movies," and "Warner Bros. Movies" and all of these linked to illegal movies that none of those companies agreed to have up there for free.... Yeah, that might be bad.

Go to their site and look for something pushing illegal content. Their name contains pirate - that's a stretch. The mention they have music, movies, games, and software but these are not illegal in themselves. That's about as far as the rabbit hole goes.
-there isn't enough contrast between #ddd and #fff

-Disable keyboard navigation while registering/logging in (I'm in Opera, so it could just be that)

Otherwise this is really great!
I like the minimalism.
Turns out <audio> elements work on the iPad: the music keeps playing when you've switched to other tabs (though the javascript to set up the next song doesn't fire until you switch back).

But, I'm finding starting a song buggy: I have to tap pause, then tap play for it to start playing.
My sense is that good products come out of groups where individuals are personally attached to them. Maybe in a large enough group of people it's impossible that a critical mass or at least the critical people are attached to the product.
This is very cool.
Interesting code too: http://github.com/harthur/brain/blob/gh-pages/examples/brain...
Google says something like that for every job. From what I know about SREs, the "programming" you do is basically shell scripts to automate sysadmin stuff. Programming, sure, but the most boring type possible.
I am checking it out now. I have had a Mint account for business too just because it is a better interface than my bank. InDinero looks great.

Unfortunately it pulled in my accounts and created a ton of notification messages. When I delete one it is a full page refresh. Might take a while for me to clean up my dashboard :(
Microsoft is a very different company depending on what division you're in and what you're working on. Sure, there are parts of the company that are less exciting for your typical just-out-of-college hire, but as someone who joined a little over a year ago in a similar situation, I can say I'm quite happy with what I do and with my experience so far. Don't paint the entire company with a single broad brush.
AVC?
Hi,

I'm David's friend and a dev for Mixest.

iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch's mobile Safari does not allow auto playing of music unless it's triggered from a user event (like clicking the Play button). That's why you have to click play you first load the page and when it loads the next song.

"But, I'm finding starting a song buggy: I have to tap pause, then tap play for it to start playing."

This was fixed for iPhone and iPod Touch. I forgot to include iPad into the mix!! Thanks for the bug find
Very naive post! Nudity != porn, in fact many porn sites have entire section devoted to acts performed by fully clothed women. Also museums do contain controversial art that most people would consider borderline porn, Marina Abramovics's recent exhibit at MoMA for example (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/arts/design/16public.html).

The question is nevertheless very interesting and, depending on your particular situation, could be more than an academic question: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/tag/anime-news-network/ .

I think the correct approach towards an answer is to be found using something similar to the "reader-response theory" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader-response_criticism), i.e. porn is not an inherent property of a document but rather how we (the society) interpret it.
In all honesty: do you feel the same anger about the Nexus One? If you feel Apple should recall or replace the iPhone 4, do you feel Google should do the same with the Nexus One?

I ask because -- per Anandtech's numbers -- the Nexus One can lose up to about 30% of signal strength depending on how you hold it. Which, while less than the iPhone 4 (which can lose up to about 38%), is still a rather large issue.
> "It made me want to look at income disparity, power and moral disengagement. Does this income gap help the leaders to feel comfortable setting up policies that hurt the people at the bottom?"

An alternative hypothesis: Higher compensation can instill a sense of pressure that makes a person more on edge, stressed, and curt with people, regardless if you're an engineer or a manager or something else.

I've got anecdotes both ways, but generally speaking, whenever I've been working on something with lots of pressure or higher compensation, I've noticed myself being unintentionally more on edge and a little shorter with people. The best example I can think of off the top of my head - I spoke at a few conferences from I think '06 to '08. I always tried to be really nice to all the staffers and volunteers there, assistants, everyone making it happen. I remember how when someone who was slightly important was nice to me I always remembered that and felt good, and made a big effort to do so.

Largest conference I ever spoke at my hands were shaking bad before I went to speak. Actually, my hands regularly shook before public speaking, I broke a water glass like this once. But this time it was bad. Someone came to chat with me, and I just said, "N-n-n-not now. Sorry. Later. Maybe later." I tried to mumble out something about having the shakes but it didn't come across really well.

Now I'm comfortable admitting I've got the shakes before speaking and I fight through it by acknowledging it and fighting through it. But how many people push that inwards? The result comes out, you get shorter with people.

So I think the author came in with a perceived notion - executive compensation might lead to meanness. Then she picked metrics that would indicate an atmosphere of intense pressure and labeled these signs of "meanness" - whereas maybe cause and effect runs the other way? Maybe people under pressure are more curt and "mean"?

Now, I might not want to work somewhere like that. Or, if that place did produce the best results and offered me the best mix of compensation, advancement, travel, and furthering my other goals - well, maybe I would want to work there for a little while. The more interesting question to me is how effective these cultures are at accomplishing their goals - I wouldn't mind spending time in a pressure cooker for a while if it furthered my goals. (But then, it might not - but it'd be interesting to see some results; I'm going to go off on a limb and guess Apple has a more intense culture than Yahoo, for instance, but also much more prestige and opportunity these days)
That's an excellent point. I know I tend to use Linked-In for professional networking, and FaceBook only for personal friends. I actually get rather annoyed when work contacts that I've never associated with in a social setting try to "friend" me on Facebook.
Zed, you totally have to write some great new rants now.

(Not related to Dropbox, not what I'm implying. Just that you should have more free time to write for a while, so we'd love to see the fruits of it.)
Not sure that I'm the right fit for you, but we should meet up. I left the game industry in November, and I'm about to launch a social/mobile web startup. Might just be good to trade stories/knowledge.
I like automating sysadmin stuff. :(
Every time I go to the business teller window at Wells Fargo, they ask me things like "How's the iPhone development business going?"

I know they're just reading it off of the screen, but it still makes me feel like a baller.
That's what public school is for, isn't it?
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I received the same email, and didn't even notice the personalized language. After reviewing it now though, it says:

Even if you don't want to talk about banking matters, I'd love to hear more about your own start up. (I'm sure that from that you also have some great suggestions for us!)
Steven Levy On The Hacker Spirit
I think that people's definitions of "quality" web programming vary a lot. Google's Web UI Engineer interviews do ask for C++/Java knowledge, how to design a programming language, and Big-O notation, for example. And then people complain about how Google's interviews have nothing to do with reality.

The thing is - they do. Everything I was tested on in my interview was pretty analogous to something I've faced in my job. If you don't know your server's language, how will you write code that interfaces with the client-side software you're writing? If you don't know how to design programming languages, how do you evaluate various templating systems on the server side or JS libraries on the client side? If you don't know Big-O notation, what'll you choose when faced with the choice of attaching event handlers to each child in a DOM tree vs. using event bubbling and dispatching on the particular target? (Never mind that most Google interview candidates don't know about event bubbling in the first place and wouldn't be able to write a tree-walk if their job depended upon it.)

I'm a web UI engineer. My last two days at work were spent writing a JIT with LLVM for a templating language. Google Wave is all based on implementing operational transforms (a grad-level CS concept) in JavaScript. Maps has a fair share of computer-graphics concepts embedded in it.

You don't need to understand CS to do a web UI, but that limits you to the same type of web UIs that other people have already done. Pulling JQuery or Prototype snippets off the web and sticking them together. There's a whole other level of performance and flexibility you get by understanding the fundamentals, which most web developers completely ignore, and then they wonder why they don't need CS concepts.
Indian IT companies are consulting companies.

Selling consulting != Selling software
When presented with unwelcome scientific evidence, it seems, in a desperate bid to retain some consistency in their world view, people would rather conclude that science in general is broken

That's not all that surprising if the sample group didn't feel very knowledgeable or comfortable about how science works to start with. For example, I'd wager a group of non-computer literate people would hold more favorable or less favorable views about the merits of computers if results for some computer experience gave them a very positive or negative experience. I mentally walked myself through that study, and presented myself with the "scientific results" that contradicted my existing view. My reaction was simply "are you sure?" I'd likely be skeptical of the testing/measurement methods, but not the merits of science itself.
just want to stress that api , and documentation, is the only way I would even consider signing up or using this. Sorry if I wasted another comment to reiterate this.
Those username/password forms were confusing
We've had reports of safari needing focus in order to continue playing. We're looking into a fix - this is safari correct?
Facebook Unveils One of History's Most Powerful Recommendation Engines
5 steps to making your first KDE Python Plasmoid
I've used several virtual assistants from oDesk in the past 3 months for time sensitive tasks and couldn't have been happier.

With oDesk the quality of VA is a lot more variable so I would make sure to check out their ratings and past reviews.

Also a quick hack I used is hire 10 VA's for 1 hours each to do a small project or piece of a larger project. Review their work and pick the one who did it the best with the least self direction.
This is AWESOME...small typo on: https://indinero.com/features/exporting

Support for your current systems.
Want to download your bank or credit card transactional data to you other data management systems? Easy - just click a link, and you can instantkly take your data with you to Microsoft Excel, Quickbooks, or any other application that takes .CSV files.

In the text above, 'instantly' is spelt wrong.
I got an email from them that was pretty much the same, minus the personalization.
Facebook does this.
Good idea... I am definitely planning on microtesting the different possibilities...

Do you think oDesk and the like is suitable for larger projects or would going with an agency?

Also, did you do anything on your end to ensure that you could get the best work out of them?
There is a paperless mGovernance initiative by a bank in India. Just SMS unhappy

http://www.eindia.net.in/2010/awards/details/eGov-mGov-G2B-D...
Could you explain a bit more? Our goal is for nothing to be confusing, so more information would be super helpful
The Amiga was so amazing. I truly wish that platform could have prospered instead of... DOS.
http://www.examiner.com/x-325-Global-Warming-Examiner~y2010m...

You can also Google "Jones Act".

Suppose that my original post hadclaimed that Obama was doing a great job and offered comparable support. Would you have asked for citations?
By doing this, you're probably filtering out many good employers. Just like the places that ask for degrees are probably filtering out many good candidates.

I just ignore the requirements - mostly - and if the job sounds interesting, I'll send them a note saying why it sounds interesting and why I believe I'm qualified. Let 'em reject me later, once they've got a bit more information, or vice versa.
It's radio performance, not antenna performance. The electronics attached to the antenna are more sensitive, so the SNR is better even though the total power delivered to the electronics by the antenna might not be.
This argument doesn't apply. The things that you listed all have legitimate, non lawbreaking uses. For instance, security books can help you keep your computer more secure, lockpicks can help you understand your house security, and so on.

A torrent containing a link to a file that is illegal to copy has no legitimate non lawbreaking use case. There is no legal way to use a torrent of Portal. I notice you mentioned in a separate comment that some items, like grenades, can only be used in illegal ways. This is true also of torrents that the Pirate Bay hosts.

Yes, it is true that legal torrents exist; however, the Pirate Bay distinguishes itself as having both legal and illegal torrents. That's what the difference is.
Maybe that's the definition of "art medium" - how well can it be used for porn.

Like I said, we're discussing Ebert's claims wrt art mediums.
That kind of programming to me is fun. The most boring type of programming possible in my opinion is front end web development.
Well, it's stupid but I learned the hard way if you don't shut down people who slander in the tech world then the rumor mongers take it to mean you're weak and the slanderers are right. Sucks, but the alternative is to give folks with no integrity a way to tear you down.

In other words, there really is no higher ground in tech unless you're already rich.
A dodgy bulletin board that provides what you are looking for.
So?

BTW - In the US, there's no law mandating a unique "real name".
> Facebook. A CEO that's proven that he understands technology. A team where every single engineer is brilliant. A company where every single person including sales, design, and business employees, can code.

Talk about putting Facebook on a pedestal. Especially that last sentence. Where the hell did that come from?
Freedom of the press is specifically intended to protect the ability of private citizens to document the actions of government. Freedom of speech protects the ability to publish those facts. In combination these rights are intended to hold government accountable to the citizens. The proceedings which take place in a courtroom are by definition actions of government, and should therefore be subject to whatever means of documentation members of the private press deem most effective for their ends.
Personally, I cannot stand the type of programming which is encapsulating a bunch of "BUSINESS LOGIC" in code. I.e. "apply this much tax unless we are in florida or new york, then apply this much. except on the day after christmas..." or even worse, "restrict these parts of the site to the accounting department, except for gary because he's in fiance, too" etc.
Obie, sorry to hear about this fiasco.

Do you by chance have an example of the solicitations in question? Showing that the solicitation was designed in good faith (and not to confuse people) can go a long way to quell the rumor mill.
A few thoughts:

* I don't think that they are outsourcing the coding to Pivotal. I got the impression that Pivotal liked their idea and offerend to give (rent?) them office space and monitors and give (probably not for money) them some high-level guidance on how to manage the project and the major implementation details. I didn't really get the impression that Pivotal was writing code for them, save maybe "can you help me with this bug?" or the like. If anyone knows that I'm wrong, please correct me.

* I agree that Diaspora is almost certainly not going to topple Facebook. I think what they meant when they said they'd probably succeed is that they'd probably meet the deadlines they have set for themselves and have a product to release at the end of summer that does all the major things they were planning to have it do.

* If Diaspora does have any chance of catching on (beyond "catching on" in the Quroa sense where a whole bunch of tech-savvy people from the Valley use it and not too many others do), I think some kind of "DiasporaHub" site will have to come around. Someone that basically says "for free, we'll host you a Diaspora node with a forked version of Diaspora that's only different in that there are ads on the side. We promise never to access your data or otherwise violate your privacy." If some viable free option comes along, it would at least have some chance.

* I highly doubt that every single Facebook employee can code.
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I do think the aggregated profile is important, but I don't think a universal reputation system type of score will work. Primarily because reputation is earned within a context. The web is just too big to provide that context. This is a point that is really hammered home in the new O'Reilly book Building Web Reputation Systems. Reputations (which this basically would be) are very powerful within context, but almost meaningless outside of it. It would also have to be quite bureaucratic to control how points are awarded, which I imagine many people would find onerous.