skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is that [..] that we draw on the meaning provided by others

The reality is that that is the prime cause of suffering. People are unhappy because they cannot possibly live up to all the different expectations different people have of them.

For many, the assertion that the "universe looks on with indifference" is
strictly worse than irrelevant.

Which is sad, because that truth can result in the most complete sense of freedom one can possibly get. Contemplating how 'Nothing matters' sends shivers down my spine.

trying to re-make yourself all at once

There is no need to do it all at once. There is no need to invent everything from scratch. A true nihilist won't stay alive for long, so that's not the goal. We can choose not to be a slave of society, culture and morals. That doesn't mean we can't also choose to accept parts of them, and live in full acceptance of their positive and negative aspects. The point of remaking yourself is choosing how you wish to live your life, instead of mindlessly doing what others expect.

The philosophy kashif describes can be considered to be Buddhist, Existentialist, Nihilist and probably many other things, in nature. Your interpretation and rejection of it as Nietzschean nihilism says more about how you view these things than about what kashif's quote means.
Only if you're trying to sell cloud storage on price.
Even if it was GPL, it doesn't mean they would have to give anyone the source code.
Looking for a Product Manager position.
Relocation is a plus. Great travel domain experience as a PM and Founder. Geeky stats oriented companies are preferred. Resume criticism is welcomed.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/48388609/James-Shamenski-Resume-...
Great service. It's next feature should be auto-IE compatibility.
New York, NY

SpaFinder.com

We're hiring a software developer. We work mostly in Java. We're also looking for a QA Engineer.
Your argument assumes that you need language-enforced mechanisms in order to define a well-encapsulated API. That is simply not that case, as the many well designed APIs in Python, Ruby, and Lisp can attest (and many poorly designed APIs in Java as well). You can use documentation, conventions, and other mechanisms to define the publicly exposed API so one doesn't have to know the guts.

But when I need to deviate from that API, for whatever reason is important to me but not to the library designer (from a bug to a weird environmental issue specific to me), if I can't get done what I need to, the language is getting in my way instead of helping me.
A little humour can always make a bad situation a lot better.

Best example is something that happened last year that I don't think I'll ever forget. I was in China (Chengdu to be more specific) with a few friends, working for an IPTV company broadcasting from a big event out there. Everything that could possibly go accidentally wrong did. First our connecting flight in the UK was an hour delayed meaning we had to run to catch the flight to Asia. On arrival in Chengdu three of us were quarantined by the government for swine flu (which we didn't have, and were released an hour later). Having got outside the airport and tasted the smog one of our taxi drivers proceeded to drive a few of us to the wrong hotel on the wrong side of the city (small thing but.. it all adds up). This went on for the few days before the event, including half our team getting really nasty food poisening, and 95% of our video equipement (worth six figures) getting lost by the airline we shipped it with. Anyway, it was all pretty tough with seemingly everything going against us for no reason, but the turning point was the most insignificant thing that happend that trip. A few of us were walking back to the hotel the night before the event was starting, going through a large open space, not many people around, and after a few seconds of discussion about its appropriateness... Iain just shouts "CxxT" at the top of his voice. It broke the tension so easily and from then on we really did find it much easier to look on the bright side...

Humour can help defuse problems so often, that example just happens to be my favourite (from what was probably the most eventful trip I've ever been on).
Salt Lake City, Utah

Network Security startup with 31m of funding, just closed a 15m round this month.

Looking for linux geeks.
Types of jobs open:
System Developers
Kernel Developers
Web Interface Developers

Email me for more info.
Yep very scrummy! And its also been available (for methods) in Perl5 for a while as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1040614

Here is the perl6 example using MooseX::Declare (http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Declare/) in perl5:

use 5.012;
use MooseX::Declare;

class Foo {
use MooseX::Types -declare => [ qw(Even) ];
use MooseX::Types::Moose qw(Int);

BEGIN {
subtype Even, as Int, where { $_ % 2 == 0 };
}

method bar ( Even $a ) { say $a }
}

my $foo = Foo->new;

$foo->bar( 2 ); # => prints 2
$foo->bar( 3 ); # => throws error
just like Vimeo, we are trying to target at the "indie" and more serious group of video makers than YouTube, by providing them lots more room of customization and personal branding.

the focus is very different: Vimeo and YouTube are more like a hub, while we try to be a service.
Gmap-pedometer was definitely one of the better tools I had used before I started building this one and I like their simplicity as well.

I have a slightly different vision of where I'd like to take it and that's kind of why I built my own.
In case there are others like me who were confused - this David Hanson ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hanson_(computer_scientis... ) is not the same person as DHH of RoR fame.
You can still get hanged for stealing somebody's horse from where it is tied-up outside of a saloon in New Hampshire.
Thanks, that's a good question.

We are more targeted towards small-time content producers than the major movie production companies. Think mom and pop store selling custom bags vs Nike bags sold at Walmart.

We run on Google Appengine & Amazon Cloudfront, so there shouldn't be any problem with scaling. We also use http://zencoder.com/ (ycombinator '10) for video encoding, and they've been great!
Clearing the map is kind of annoying since it reloads the page yet I can clear the markers by clicking clear last marker multiple times without the page reloading. Plus the clear option resets my map selection and I really only want to clear the markers.

I'd like to be able to draw my route with the mouse.

The elevation chart is nice. How about an estimated travel time?

How come the elevation limits are different for terrain and the others?

Nice page. Goes in my Interesting Sites folder.
Is there an example page where we can test the accuracy of the eye tracking software?

I like the idea, but for $490, I'd like some assurance that the eye tracking technology actually works and that it's not just tracking the mouse or something else.
Can you elaborate? what disadvantages do you see in running this way?
New York, NY

NEWCO is a super-early stage startup that needs UI direction. Think recommendation engine meets database with a focus on finding new “media products”. You will drive the look, feel, and flow of the application from start to finish, working hand in hand with the Senior Product Manager and the CTO.

We expect you to build quickly, fail often, and take risks.
Our team embraces lean startup methodology and data driven design. We also practice tons of customer development. Insert other startup buzzwords here.

We’re looking for a UX Designer with demonstrable experience developing high-performance dynamic user interfaces for consumer-facing web sites.

Requirements:
•	Create low-fi mockups
•	Turn low-fi mockups into hi-fi sketches and prototypes very quickly
•	Design and slice efficient, sprite-able CSS (we support the IE Death March)
•	Understand AJAX, JQuery, and page flow
•	Usability test customers, test designs, and iterate based on a combination of both.

This project is awesome. Your friends will use it (we hope)!

Contact: plemgruber@gmail.com
My book, Ruby Best Practices is listed here, but you can download a free PDF copy instead: http://rubybestpractices.com
It's not just the bar codes, though. The devices I'm talking about simply don't work very well. They complain about unexpected items in the bagging area because their weight checks aren't configured with sensible tolerances. (This is so irritating that it is now routinely parodied on satirical TV and radio shows.) They fail to scan credit/debit cards with annoying frequency. There is little space, so if you've brought some decent bags to put your shopping in but they've been buried at the bottom of your basket as you went around the store, you have to try and unpack everything to reach them but have nowhere to put it. None of these things is a problem on the staffed tills right next door.

I went over to the shop this afternoon, and while I was there, no more than three of the six self-service counters were in use at any given time, even though there were something like half a dozen people queueing for the one remaining manned basket-only aisle right next door, and despite the efforts of a staff member whose only purpose seemed to be trying (and failing) to convince people that the self-service counters really were worth the hassle.
As a Perl 5 developer I'm really excited about Perl 6. But the reason I won't use Perl 6 for at least the next 3 years is the same reason Ruby isn't my core language for production apps: I'm waiting for it to get really fast and really stable. Ruby is just about there, so I'll probably switch to Ruby in the next year or so. Then 3 to 6 years from now I'll switch to some incarnation of Perl 6 assuming it maintains its momentum and has tangible benefits over Ruby.

I'm not an early adopter. I think startups are risky enough and technology choices are but one point of differentiation in business.
Are you open to bartering? I'd trade a year's service for a pre-release of Jade Empire 2...
From Early history of UNIX: "When asked what that funny name meant, Ken said it was obvious. It stood for the editor command that it simulated, g/re/p (global regular expression print)."

http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/early.history.of....
A lot of problems can be rephrased as an equivalent problem with a known solution.

If you're completely stumped, take a break. Go for a walk / bike ride / whatever. The context change can help you see approaches you've overlooked.

Get enough sleep, or you'll be too tired to realize you're not thinking clearly.
>"It's really amazing how decisively Microsoft is beating Google in world-mapping, despite being second or third to market."

Bing's mapping tools are built on/what were Multimap aren't they? AFAIK multimap preceded Google Maps and had aerial imagery - a mix between satellite and street view - before Google and before it was handed over to Bing? (This has been my perception, could well be wrong).

Doesn't this mean that Microsoft is beating Google in mapping because they bought the leader in mapping at the time and have [amazingly] built on that?? Slightly less glorious.
Will these talks be available online?
But GNU is not Unix.
Really? Why would wikileaks care about the source to open-source java applications
Speeding Up Diagnosis of Infectious Disease
I'm semi-looking. Based in Annapolis, MD. Not willing to relocate.

Currently entering my last year of a JD/MBA program. Prior to grad school, wrote code professionally for 7+ years, mostly in startup orgs of one shape or another (some that were pre-launch, others that were post-IPO). These days, prefer Rails, but looking forward to Perl 6.

I don't have anything in particular in mind, I'm just curious to see who/what might be interested.
If anyone in New York City/NYC is willing to hire an experienced web developer for a part-time position (I'm a student), I'd definitely be up for it.

My Github profile: http://github.com/scriptor/

Email: historium@gmail.com

Let me know if you'd like to see my resume.
When Snickers started in Britain everyone expressed the idea that it sounded stupid and Mars Co used this as part of the advertising angle ("[corny French accent]'av' you got the snickers?"). Was/Is it a better name than Marathon? Don't know.

Also are you really claiming that you're the only person able to avoid post hoc analysis? Or indeed that you're immune to it. Perhaps you only think it sounds stupid because you think the product is stupid or because of the style they use to market it.
As long as "open democratic" doesn't mean anti free-market (as it seems to in the political world), great job on the quick launch :)
Very cool software and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to use this, HOWEVER we make a hardware appliance and we can't let people on it (via web access) to do testing. I'd rather pay like $5k for a webcam and a software package to install and run tests with my customers (which are NOT normal web users, they are security experts) to see how they view our interface.
What interests you? Start big and work your way down. Do you want to disrupt the Enterprise? Or social? What your personality? Do you hate an industry and want to take it down? Or do you care about something so much you want to bring attention to it? Funnel down from there. Let me know what interests you and I can give you 5 ideas.
Redwood Shores, CA / San Francisco, CA

(relocation available)

EA2D is a new studio of EA created to bring big-title games to the web. Our first game is still months from launch, so much of the work is greenfield projects. We have ~25 people now, and are hiring aggressively.

We're an autonomous group, so we have free reign over our tools and processes. This means we can go nuts with EC2, GitHub, Google Apps, continuous deployment, whatever we want -- all the while enjoying big-company perks like an on-site gym, food, Caltrain shuttle, and, of course, free games.

We're looking for extremely sharp engineers (Java, Flash, test, and operations), artists, marketing, and more. Don't worry too much about the exact job descriptions - if you're a badass developer, we'll find a place for you.

Here's the full list: http://www.ea2d.com/jobs/

Contact me directly, mikeb@ea2d.com
The best part about Vim is that I can take Vim with me when I use both Eclipse and Visual Studio; there are great projects available for implementing the true, modal Vi editing model for both IDEs.

ViEmu, although not free, is a first class Vi mode for Visual Studio, so good that there's barely anything I use in Vim that isn't available in ViEmu.

For Eclipse, Vrapper is an excellent newcomer that implements a pretty large portion of the Vi command set. It's not as complete as some of the other Vi modes for Eclipse, but it's definitely the best integration I've found, and hasn't fallen done in edge cases like the others have.
A nice feature (compared to codepad) is the ability to specify input.
Thanks! We didn't even realize this was one of the extra benefits of our technology, but it seems to be a pretty important one: people have reported completely forgetting that they're being tracked when using our early prototypes.
I think I saw or read about this too. I remember they did the same experiment with foxes.... and rats. Imagine walking into a room full of hundreds of rats bred for generations to be as vicious as possible.
ajuc's argument isn't that theft is more evil than piracy, it's that it is dishonest to call piracy theft.

I would say that piracy is, in general, less evil than theft. Imagine that you are a master forger, and can make a perfect copy of a work of art. Clearly it is both a worse, and a different sort of harm for you to steal a painting than it would be to make a copy of that painting.

This is why the law distinguishes infringement from stealing, and I would argue that conflating the two is poisoning the well. Just because it is impractical in most cases to steal digital works doesn't mean that infringement upon them is stealing.
Looking for any kind freelancing jobs, just damn bored of the current job I am in. http://www.icarusone.com - the site and its product are what I made alone as side projects.
Steve Yegge is an idiot
Actually non-AMOLED screens take more power to display black than white. And anyway the difference is very very small, far from waste.
They have an API! http://ideone.com/api

I'd have to learn SOAP first, but I've been meaning to do a website similar to tryruby.com for one of my projects. This looks like it could definitely help.
I need a partner to create the next big thing.
>Not saying that it is a bad investment, just that ignoring the problem because it's owned by a rich person who could easily bail it out ignores the way rich people think.

I don't want to argue that at all. I'd argue that bailing them out as if they're a charity is wrong given that supporting it would be pocket change for the owners - less than they'd pay for a painting that they probably don't even bother to look at (I know that these paintings are not to look at, humour me).
The Next Social Winter 
There was an AI winter, then a financial winter. Next one will be an educational and social winter. What is the core of the problem? The answer lies in great false expectations and removing regulations. How to avoid this? I think the solution lies in understanding layers of complexity.

Education is the next big topic, if we are not able to understand the complexity involved in education we are going to fail miserable and this could be the first step in the social winter forecast. I could construct and de-construct history and education, but we really need to understand the complexity involved and never accept a single test to measure what is non easily mensurable. There is no clear scale for intelligence, a 1$ calculator can beat any man in computations, so don't think education is easy to measure. Our education is shaped by our expectations, but false expectations and measures can ruin education and open the door to the social fall.
You can do it with a registry hack, but I didn't/wouldn't go down that road.
Haha, a reasonable request. We're working on a good way to let people demo our technology. Part of the problem is that this is computationally intensive, and we didn't want all of TC killing our processing servers.

The other part is we found that people demoing the software are less likely to follow the instructions (since they're not getting paid) and we worried about having a lot of poor tracks that would look bad. Our testers have been amazingly good at following instructions :).
Seconded, though I'm more interested in Canonical's commitment to Ubuntu LTS releases: at work I don't want to have to upgrade distributions every two years (or six months: Fedora, Ubuntu non-LTS). The same goes for RHEL/CentOS. These distributions are attractive to me in a small business because of the support commitment of the organizations behind them.
One perl6 project that looks very interesting is http://github.com/krunen/xml/

XML parser defined using perl6 grammar rules: http://github.com/krunen/xml/blob/master/lib/XML/Grammar/Doc...
I'm in the UK, and interested in graphics, image processing and vision. If you're working in anything related, UK or not, I'd love to talk. Get in touch at my.hn.address at gmail.com
He has ended up at Google:

"Bio Google::Software Engineer"

http://twitter.com/ggaurav
We have a nifty feature that let's you replay someone's gaze in a dot that moves around the screen. In the near future we'll have more quantitative things like how gaze order and fixation time.
- 403 is fixed. Yikes
- Totally agree, it's a placeholder for now. We'll need a much better find and browse functionality.
Ask HN:Getting a client to pay for their site?
Three months ago I began a project for two guys(them US me China), who wanted a webapp.

I have no portfolio so they wouldn't make any down payment, fine I thought, and told them they can pay when it's done(stupid, slightly desperate me).

Everythings done except the style, it does everything they want and more(they seem genuinely happy with this).

Now they're taking ages to decide, I sent them logo's and templates to choose from (in their prefered choice of colour) a week ago and have heard nothing since.

This was to be done by the start of July, and the only reason it's not is because they're stalling.

I think because they haven't had to pay for it yet then they feel they have no reason to hurry.

It's only $3000, how can I get them to pay, or what are my options to monetise the site(ebay?) if they don't want to pay?
Do your toughest thinking, try to solve your hardest problems, and envision your biggest dreams while on the toilet doing a number 2.

Something about it just works.
Wait, what? As a non-native speaker of English, I've always assumed that "grep" is a normal English verb.
They added a feature about a year or two ago that will lock your routes to roads so you don't have to create little vertices around curves. This would be a helpful feature.
Depends on the carrier. Verizon took cash from Microsoft to set the default search on all their BlackBerries (and maybe other phones?) to Bing.
I must admit I wasn't programming anything useful as a kid. I was more into graphical effects and games.
That's very funny. It's actually starting to be now.
Awesome, I've been looking for something like this as well. Thanks for sharing it!
I would try your service in a heartbeat, but the pricing seems quite high. There's a big disconnect between charging $49 per user and paying them $5- couldn't you significantly lower pricing and still be profitable?
Please let me drag existing markers to move them.
You can reply to people by clicking on the reply below their comment, like this.
I was hacking since before I was 8, and my family wasn't well off back then (although my dad's computer skills did get us to that point many years later). Of course, that young hacking still hasn't gotten me anywhere special yet at the age of 27.

If you read the article though, it's more directly addressing the issue that computing as a male geeky hobby at a young age has shaped and defined the current computing culture, and that is undeniably true.

Changing, yes, but not changed enough, yet.
Previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828539

Also see:

http://davidmdelaney.com/knot-pages.html

and:

http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?board=6.0
Nope. Not anti free-market. Just pro transparency, and meritocracy.
I think you've misread the article. You have worked hard, which is great. Other people have also worked hard, but they started later and had fewer opportunities in this field. Does this mean you should feel guilty? No. It means that you should try to treat everyone with respect, not just the lucky ones who had the right kind of access to the right kind of tools as children. It means sneering at that person in class who doesn't know what a for-loop is is unhelpful and jerky. If you don't behave that way, you have nothing to be ashamed of.
As a corollary, on the same lines of thinking,

If the co-efficients of the odd powers and the even powers are equal, then (x+1) is a factor.
the kindle offers a fairly straightforward utility. if you don't grasp the utility of the kindle (or see only marginal utility in a dedicated reading device) it isn't for you.
I'm definitely looking—though also still going to school (so I'm not looking to move, or take any full-time positions, just yet.)

I'm a web (and desktop) developer in Vancouver, BC, willing to freelance or work part-time. I mostly have experience in Ruby and PHP, but dabble in pretty much everything.

Here's a CV/portfolio, which goes on at much greater length: http://derefr.co.cc/work
Not looking for a job, but looking for an Internship for the Winter or next Summer.

I'm a student studying Comp Sci and Econ, entering my third year now. A fan of PHP & Python, but am experienced with HTML/CSS, C, C++ and a little Javascript.

Email's in profile.
There's also the Google Tech Talk from the author:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook