skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't object to the name on cutesy grounds, but I do feel it's a bit long for a search engine . Hope if they hit the big time they can buy ddg.com or something :-)

[Before anybody asks why am I typing URLs in the first place - I was prompted by HN to switch my searching to DuckDuckGo as an experiment (see what I mean! I had to type it right there!) and so if I am sitting in somebody else's browser and need to search, I need to type it in - it's not in anybody's search history, sadly].

Short names are not necessary for everything, but for search engines I think they are a good idea.
Here's a good list of Jailbreak applications that are compatible with iOS4 and iPhone4.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tz1lkTAAwtDi_7HJxef0V...
I had thought about all of that pedoh...but to be quite honest, I have so many other stuff on my head - just trying to finish up everything for the launch - that I really wanted to at least get that onto a service that does it full-time.

I have dealt with forms before, and they can be a real PAIN. I also don't want to have to deal with any issues of mishandling data because it wasn't done properly, etc.

So it looks like Campaign Monitor might be the way to go.
... wow, I haven't been paying close attention to the web development community. CSS frameworks are really considered an essential building block now?
i agree the prospect of filming yourself is somewhat uncomfortable but i've been stunned during the YC application review process by just how much a video adds to the application. it's actually, for me, the most important part of the application while reviewing it.

i believe employers will realize this too and once they do, they'll insist on having video as standard in applications. once that happens, uploading videos of yourself will become more commonplace and eventually feel less alien.
note, the following is from the curmudgeonly/cynical side of my personality.

Gridlock is a feature not a defect. Gridlock is what keeps politicians from running roughshod over the public. Have you really considered how much damage a government unhampered by gridlock could do? I mean yes, they might slip something good in there once in a while but really...

ask not what your country can do for you

nor ask what can you do for your country

ask instead what can you do to keep your country from "doing" to you.

vote gridlock!
I think you're right to want people to be off the cuff, and also relaxed. I would personally try to emulate the traditional phone interview, optionally with video -- start off with some chitchat and background on the company to get candidates comfortable, and then ask questions which demand immediate and realtime, unrehearsed responses.

You have the chance of making the process more efficient, especially when there are hundreds or thousands of applicants. Maybe use a video pitch by the interviewer, clip about the company, etc. to set the setting and make the candidate comfortable, and then do instant-response questions with video response.

I might also start the interview with some super-softball questions, to get the user familiar with the system. "What's your name?" isn't really good, but some really easy tech questions or even general knowledge questions might be good.

The main benefits to me in having a bunch of recorded interviews is that I can instantly drop one if the candidate is obviously a reject. It took me a few years of hiring responsibility before I got to the point of "I'm sorry, I have to end this now" if someone is obviously unacceptable 5-10 minutes in. A problem with doing that in real life is that you need to block out the whole interview on your schedule, and it's harder to fit other things back in once that is freed.

Being able to outsource reviewing answers to other people in your organization would also be great -- e.g. sending the database question to your database guys. If you are really interviewing 1k people, you can have your database guy look at 10, grade those, and then have a junior person, based on those, grade any which pattern-match well, and refer the others back to the expert.

I'd still prefer a written or executable test for most technical jobs, at least as my initial screen, and an IM or phone chat, but I could see the value of this for some roles.
This has not changed.
What the bug-eyed rock stars with the big heart for Africa don't tell you

http://www.ted.com/talks/bono_s_call_to_action_for_africa.ht...

All the Chinese want is a stable enough environment for doing business and allowing their million+ workers living there live and work safely.

And the Chinese are widely hated by the native people because none of the jobs, and none of the money goes to the Africans. There's no meaningful economic development because the chinese money goes to the chinese workers, who shop at chinese stores that employ more chinese people.

Your fiction is lovely... but it's fiction. It shows only that you've never been to Africa.

but like most of the unsuccessful wantrepreneurs on HN, you're never one to let a total and complete lack of knowledge or understanding prevent you from having strong opinions.
...and even easier is to learn more about your local issues/candidates and show up to vote. Your single vote can make a big difference on significant local issues in an off-off-election-year nationally.
Guy Kawasaki's first book "The Macintosh Way" is now free
Someone who understands normal flow and positioning, how elements interact with each other, and minimizes the amount of code for each part of the design will be much more effective than someone who knows all the short cut css hacks.

Also, a bunch of these questions were far more relevant during the IE6 era which is now finally at a decline. I would care that someone knows how to code for IE6, but that requires one question since all IE6 bugs are very well documented, just make sure the person is aware.
I get your point. The people I work with who know about "obscure techniques" are sometimes better UX designers than the people who don't know. That is because they actually know the barriers of what's doable in the browser. Living on this edge is not easy as all techniques evolve all the time.

When I talk with people I don't want them to recite these solutions. I want to see if they know their ressources.
Google Android phone shipments increase by 886%
Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes
Looks like a nice list of things for Google management to improve about their promotion process.
If you have the gaming mechanics down right, I'm pretty sure the dogs will submit reviews. You could also throw parties like Yelp! did for the "top dogs". You should probably trademark that term right now- top dogs.

An iPad app might make sense too, but why not just do it HTML5 based? Gartner did a random report a few weeks ago that showed a magic quadrant where dogs use the browser more than native apps.
How to educate kids about good health & Teach Kids to Help Stop Spread of Germs
I would figure that any woman that is applying for funding knows which side her bread is buttered on. And there is nothing wrong with a stay-at-home-dad while mom brings home the bacon.
Big Data For Science 2010, course presentations (pdfs)
What would be wrong, in your eyes, to trust in Google and word of mouth to steer readers to your blog by issue instead.

Aside from the odd blog linked to from HN, the vast majority of blogs I most engage in are the ones to whose RSS feeds I subscribe and that regularly tick over. I can't remember ever getting to a blog as a result of a google search.

I much prefer single-topic blogs - unless you are Roger Ebert and can turn anything into a great essay, the reality is that most people only shine in their area of expertise, and when they stray it usually falls flat. Not saying that it applies to the OP, but it is my general experience.
Great job on charging for service right out of the gate.

My assumption would be that someone with a flair for showmanship can excel at this even if they are a mediocre performer. However, I could see this being useful for real time.
That must be the most depressing thing I read in quite a while.
Bad discrimination will cost the company lot of money. Good discrimination will make the company lot of money.

If a company discriminate based on race, they will get the kind of performance they deserve.
Pragmatic Software tells me a company does software and thinks they're pragmatic. "Smart Bear Software" is memorable and I still know they make software. :)

And to be honest, pragmatism isn't exactly requirement #1 when I want software. Sure it's good, but I don't care if I have pragmatic software as much as I care if I have software that does what I need.
There's just too much semantic overload on those two operators. I myself have misread these before. When I use these operators, I always follow with "raise" or "begin". This customary usage is not going to cause confusion and covers 99% of their usage anyways.
I wonder how many of these comments are based on experience hiring. The challenge isn't from the applicant's standpoint but from the other end. Certainly video can be used for discrimination. But that is absolutely not the only use case.
A thing is what it does. What you label it with isn't anywhere near as important as what it does.

In practice, these "nations" appear to be nothing more than special interest groups. Special interest groups already tend to expand well beyond their original goals in the political arena. That doesn't work because the active leadership takes over and speaks for the public; why these would avoid that, I don't know. So, the solution to too many special interest groups is more special interest groups.

Also, I think he uses "Tea Party" like bogeymen. To the extent the movement involves cutting government down, it will actually increase the scope of agreement within the government by cutting down the number of domains in which there is disagreement. In fact, my personal prescription for where we are right now is for a significant return of power to the states. Some things have to be national-scale policy, but the list is much shorter than you think. We don't need a national-scale health care plan. Many of our states are larger than European countries that manage. State plans already exist. We don't need national agreement on any given social issue. If we weren't centralizing all our power, we wouldn't have to spend so much time arguing what the central policy should be.

The other major problem these sort of idealistic ideas have is that it basically promises everybody that it will bring the world closer to their viewpoint, but that can't actually happen. Right now, for better or worse, our government is more liberal than our population, so if your plan is to push our government yet more liberal by empowering the population, err, well, you might want to rethink that plan.
Discrimination can be done by employees even if it's not a company-wide policy.
> I didn't realize this was underground mining. So, you're really working on driverless trains, not cars or trucks, correct?

Why would one think that "underground" implies trains?

Trains require tracks. Roads are less precise and have cheaper intersections.
Your first source painted a compelling picture that (prior to 1995) hedonic adjustments were overstating inflation. Your second source does nothing but claim that Boskin was a political hack and blames him for cutting social security, and criticizes
him for not believing Obama's "jobs created or saved" numbers. (It provides little evidence of anything, however.)

I'm still waiting for you to provide evidence that hedonic adjustments are being deliberately manipulated.
I love the ending line:

> Finally, if you get fed up of working for a big company, consider joining a startup.

This one posting probably did more damage to google hiring from the HN ranks than all the others that I've seen to date. With friends like that who needs enemies.
I actually that's a pretty nice list of quirks that only an experienced developer would know. I learned quite a few things from that list.

I would add: When all else fails, use a table. Ha!
I think your approach to motivation is flawed. You're throwing yourself into a situation where you require an external motivator in order to get things done. Even if that works, you still haven't fixed the root problem, that you lack the internal motivation to pursue your goals. The best you can do under this system is to jump from one external motivator to the other.

To develop internal motivation, force yourself to work on your projects a little bit each day. You're not going to go from zero hours to five hours a day in the space of a week. Internal motivation is like a muscle you have to develop over long periods of time. Resign yourself to the fact that you don't have the discipline to live up to your expectations right now, but eventually you will if you push yourself a tiny bit more each day. As Epictetus once said, nothing great is produced suddenly.

To actually answer your question, no you shouldn't go for a PhD, since it's not an external motivator, it's an anti-motivator. When I started my doctorate I wanted nothing more than to be in graduate school doing research. I would have been satisfied to spend the rest of my life being a graduate student, if only I could continue my work. By the time I finished I was drinking three nights a week, and wanted nothing more than a chance to go back in time and convince myself not to go to graduate school.
Hey thanks, flattr seems to be pretty much the content micropayment system I have been wishing for (being one of those people who actually want to give money for content I love).
Interesting that Symbian is still on top.
That's probably all I'm going to do this year, but the read I'm getting from my friends is that you can actually get directly involved just as easily. One friend of mine was on the online/telecom planning committee; another gave a single speech to get elected to parks commission.
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Sure, if it's a one-person shop, I agree (to some extent). Really, the big issue is developing a reusable content template, testing that single template extensively, then you can put a much lower amount of effort as time goes by.
I'd recommend a lot more than those, and even made a summary for the best parts, which I pratically made my co-founders read (http://bit.ly/b7R7nQ)
I believe that this is a new form of attack by spammers. So far I have observed this only with hotmail accounts and it has happened to two people I know.

I received an email from my neighbor the other day with the title EMERGENCY. The email is below:

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This had to come in a hurry and it has left me in a devastating state, it's an EMERGENCY. I'm in some terrible situation and I'm really going to need your help now. Few days ago, unannounced, I went on a trip to Glassglow, Scotland (United Kingdom) and unfortunately for me I got robbed by thieves, Everything I had on me were stolen, including my phone, credit card and cash and now I'm stranded right now.My return flight leaves in few hours time but I need some money to clear some bills, I didn't bring my cell phone along since I didn't get to roam them before coming over. So all I can do now is pay cash and get out of here quickly.

I do not want to make a scene of this that is why I did not call my house, this is embarrassing enough. I was wondering if you could loan me some cash, I'll refund it to you as soon as I arrive home just need to clear my hotel bills and get the next flight home, As soon as I get home I'll def refund it immediately.

Write me if you are willing to help so I can let you know how to get the money to me here.

Angela.

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I thought that there was something wrong with it but as a matter of courtesy I was not going to contact her family - in the case it was a legitimate email. Instead I decided to walk my dog and go over to her house to check if she was indeed in Scotland. As it turned out she was oblivious to what had happened and yes she was in the US not in Scotland.

It appears that the spammers/crooks (whatever you want to call them) hijacked her email address, changed her security question, changed her secondary email address so that the password reminder is routed to them, wiped all the contact information after they sent the email above to everyone.

She also told me that a lot of people called her phone offering to give her money to help with the situation.

A similar email was received by my boss from one of our common acquaintances. Needless to say that she did not send that email either.

Is this the new "Nigerian" scam? I don't know, but it would not hurt to employ an aggressive password changing policy.

As for your last point - solving the spam startup - yeah it would be great if we could do that, or even easier it would be to convince every company that holds a mail server to not allow any email unless the domain has SPF records. This way spoofing will cease to exist (people impersonating email identities). Once spoofing is gone, spam mail server IPs can easily be blocked.

/0.02 USD
It would be hard for me to suggest a less appropriate format for an article than a slide-show of marginally related images.
I did it because I had a degree aged 20, and my options were a PhD including international travel, freedom and the chance to stay (nominally) at Uni - or take a general management job or jump into a consultancy. I lacked imagination ;-)

If I could go back in time, I would...hah! So I just sat here for 5 minutes. I honestly don't know. I jumped in head-first and gave up everything at home for my PhD. Doing my PhD allowed me to live in three different countries, meet a whole load of new people, live through some intense experiences (30 hour 'days', travelling and working through 8 countries in 8 days, become an expert in subject X and give a presentation on it to world experts in 3 days etc. ;-) and grow up. I learned a lot about myself. The physics and computing and mathematics were incidental, almost. But I gave up a huge opportunity cost in going into finance or starting a company. But who knows what I would have amounted to, otherwise?

From what you're saying, none of those experiences would apply to you. You're not used to living on $15k per year, and would be working a day job along side the studies. Since you'd hold onto your regular life, you wouldn't travel for renumeration amounting to just under the cost of living and you're probably too experienced to tolerate the amount of crap a grad student gets on a daily basis.

I'm not negative about doing a PhD, I think. I'd recommend it to you heartily if you were in your early twenties and wanted to go do something unique, exciting and demanding. But from your post, you're not talking about going all-in. You're talking about doing it as a hobby, almost - a help to what you really want to do. It doesn't (or shouldn't) work like that. My advice would be to do what you really want to do, and not worry about getting an external boost or credit - which is what a qualification is about, I guess.

In fact, from what you've written, it sounds to me like you don't enjoy getting your own projects done because you are busy achieving stuff during the day. I don't think that anyone can be focused and productive 15 hours a day. Try changing jobs, taking a less intense day job to concentrate at home or finding some way to roll your own projects into your day job properly.

A word of caution: I don't know anyone who did a PhD part-time. My advice is worth what you paid for it ;-) You may get lucky and have an awesome advisor who cares about your topic. You might have some incredible idea that needs academic help to bring to fruition. If you know exactly what you want to do and can find an advisor who is as enthusiastic as you, go for it! But from your post, I guess that's not the case.
Thanks, Patrick. Your suggestion is perfect.
I think we are speaking past each other. You are talking about the problems that arise from crappy meters. I don't deny this. Further, the security needs in those meters is high. I say this from a consumer protection and a grid protection point of view (as in part of a larger defense in depth framework). And, the meters should be as secure as possible from general principle too.

However, my point is that the doom-and-gloom type scenarios, of "OMG the meters are insecure, now they own the power grid" is not realistic. There are other systems on other networks that can isolate and/or shut down places that have misbehaving meters. This is a result of grid operators being very paranoid about malfunction -- and at the level you are talking about, this looks to the grid like a malfunction. There are billions of dollars of infrastructure to protect, and from that point of view, they have already made some good moves from security standpoint -- a coordinated effort on many levels is required to get the grid to a failure state.

Again, I agree that security must be part of the entire process, however there is the other, equally valid point, which says "at some point, there will be always cheaters, and as a result this must be dealt with in a cost/benefit context". In many ways it could be cheaper to go with a fairly insecure smart-meter and just look for evidence of tampering with statistical comparisons and the occasional man in the field to look for physical evidence of tampering. I think this is particularly notable, as there is no good way to prevent people from getting physical access (security kiss of death) to the meters anyway.
The idea is actually a good one, but there is much talk of "killing" Monster.com - what's to stop Monster.com from developing a similar scheme and piloting it to its massive user base as soon as this idea catches on?
Exactly, it's a language feature. That would be similar to calling the conditional assignment (||=) operator obscure.
It really just means Akamai's expensive and you should find someone else to do CDN stuff. :)
This seems like a kind of hack-y laziness, specifically in the form of a poor man's exception. It's no more "magic" than an if statement or any other kind of block. I would probably use this plenty if I were to use Ruby (Haskell has spoiled me for strict evaluation forever), but it definitely smells like language bloat -- you wouldn't need to tell me it's Perl-inspired for me to strongly suspect it.
So far, to fight "Special Interest Groups" we have:

The Bulldawg Nation.

The No Kill Nation (human treatment of pets)

Drunk Nation

LGBTQ Nation

Netroorts Nation

Outdoor Nation

A Woman's Nation

Elevation Nation

Basically Sean has created Facebook, but you give him money for his political campaign fund first.

That said, at least he's trying something.
I have hired for or at 5 companies so far.

I've never used video, and I have hired people based solely on phone conversations, or IRC conversations -- but usually phone/irc followed by an in-person interview.

I can't think of any value of recorded video over realtime chat for anything except "create a video clip for me!" For a sales job involving in-person meetings with clients, a realtime video chat might be a bit better than realtime audio, but the difference is much less than the value of an in-person meeting.

For a developer job, I would consider this totally without value. "IM presence" and "how well can he explain something in words" (voice or text) would be worth vastly more, and "sit next to me and do this task and explain it to me" would be the ultimate test.
Animation of the first 100 days of the gulf oil spill
Regardless of where you decide to build your start up there will be local dangers. Not sure of the stats but you are probably more likely to get taken out by a drive-by in California, or a mugging/beating in New York than a terrorist in Israel. The stress of knowing there are terror attacks is probably what will get to you first. I don't think the OP mentioned stress/crime free environment as one of his pre-requisites, but if that place exists, please let me know about it.