skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm new to Twitter. Like you, I couldn't understand it's purpose, but it was recommended that I learn how to tweet in order to make myself more current during a job hunt. Then, I started using Twitter. Wow...the value is it's flexibility. I can use it in so many different ways. I should note, I don't tweet personal info or tweet with any friends. My tweets help me create a professional online persona for my job search, customize and organize (through lists) valuable online resources (much like a digitial recipe card box), connect with the ideas of innovators and newsmakers in areas of interest specific to me. The list goes on and on...The imposed brevity of a tweet is also a plus for busy professionals trying to share, market or search for unique ideas. I'm a converted skeptic of Twitter. I look forward to hearing the thoughts of others on this topic. Regards, "katmeis" on Twitter
With the upcoming work on IE9 I'm inclined to disagree. I've bashed on Microsoft as much as anyone else but things are changing. They're in position to grab a lot of favor for their brand. I'd love to see the day when benevolent and Microsoft weren't antonyms.
Would you care to elaborate a bit? I don't see any conflict.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594227
I know at least one guy who is having trouble getting a job and he blames it on his PHD.
Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform & PSP Go-like smartphone
They could obviously make it happen for other platforms and the API could be monetized :)
For marketing your site, I think you could make a Firefox extension that gives in-browser suggestions for similar sites. That would be so useful. In fact, I believe a browser addon would be the "most convenient form" of this idea.

I played around with Firefox extensions three years ago and submitted a very niche addon for fun. Within the first week it received 10,000 downloads and ultimately downloads went up to 100,000. That was only possible because Mozilla would feature newest addons on the front page with no lobbying efforts required on the developer's side. Three years ago, there were a couple of links near the middle of the Mozilla page to the newest addons. Now, there is a link to sort by "recently added" near the top of the page, so visitors are one click away from seeing the most recent. Also, there is a sort by "recently updated" option. I remember people frequently updating and seeing their extensions remain in the "most recent" section.

For finding similar sites, I personally use xmarks and similarsites.com. (Fo)xmarks obviously has a firefox extension. Similarsites.com has an extension with around a million downloads; don't know if the chicken came before the egg, though.

You could bundle some functionality into your addon like quantcast/alexa/pagerank data push it as an SEO tool.

An ironic usage of your website just occurred to me:
1. Use google to find a couple of marketing/seo blogs/websites.
2. Input these websites into moreofit.com to find more marketing/seo sites.
3. Email list of found sites about moreofit.com and how useful it is for marketers. Describe how you found them using moreofit.com.
Yandex is popular and also Baidu (http://www.baidu.com/) - the Chinese search engine, no english version, but the search appears to work well regardless of language. You may see evidence of these two search engines crawling in your web server logs.
I'm just referring towards my experience: I ran it for about a week, saw that the majority of it was broken or the caching was completely insane, and then I was dropped from Questions. I figured it was a botched launch. No disrespect intended; I just had no visibility on any of the background with it.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one! It's the pitch and also the things I say... apparently a lot of it is very "cute". Needless to say, our sex life is in English.
!bang is the most useful search feature since I'm Feeling Lucky. I submitted this exact feature to Google years ago, and DuckDuckGo's implementation of it caused me to switch search engines.
I hate how well-designed your site is!

Congratulations and good luck!
So, you are essentially suggesting one of two things:

1. People are their professions, fundamentally.

2. You would have an issue with me not knowing the shoe answer if my wife worked for a shoe designer.

I take issue with both statements.
It's a signalling mechanism.
Since GMail released their small revision the other day that put a more "GMail-like" GUI on the Contacts section, I've been sorting and completing my list of contacts. I had 5 ambiguous e-mail addresses left that I couldn't pinpoint who they belonged to. After reading this article I decided to give this Facebook feature/vulnerability a try. 4 out of 5 previously anonymous e-mails are now verified with their first, last name, and photo (it turns out I know all 4 in person so in all likelihood the results are correct). Not too shabby, and a little bit scary.
Right on. And I am looking forward to what you do next.

Having said that though, what you have right now is a "nice to have" and it excites everyone for the soft value it adds. But I wonder if the current product can pass the Penny Gap. I know you don't think its meant to, but I am really not sure if the current users will be the ones who would pay for whatever it is that you will build in the future. Xobni is a good example of it. Dropbox on the other end is a great example of a free strategy that sold users on the same product that they expected users would pay for. Basically with a strategy where you acquire a lot of free users thinking they will pay for what they have not seen as yet, can be a dangerous one.
Except, this isn't just "any infraction". This is the Big One(TM). This is Google turning against the open internet.

I challenge you to find an example of any company making such a major, fundamental u-turn.
Perhaps the last picture in this series explains it...

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Google could do pretty much anything they desire in the mysterious future.
If they had contacted their patent lawyer earlier than they had, they might have avoided jumping the gun with their first blog post and their only blog post might have been explaining why the twittersphere and blogosphere were overreacting.
Works here with an alpha version of Firebug and the Compatiblity Reporter Addon.
How about 'Thinks Java is the same as Javascript' - never hire.

I helped with interviews when I used to work for a huge bank, and they'd interview any idiot who threw them a resume. I can't tell you how many times we would ask about Java experience and the person would start talking about Javascript and their cute Information Systems class project where they had to make a basic website...
Dropping 1080p is a mistake. Yeah, 1080p looks the same as 720p at normal viewing distances, but most consumers don't believe it. They got that 1080p TV and by god they want 1080p content. Even if it's highly-compressed artifact ridden video from their cable company.
Awesome point and I couldn't agree more. As usual your articulation of it is better than anything else I have read before.
Could you elaborate about the qualities that you look for in a founding team?
Scanning Electron Microscope Color Pictures of Insects and Spiders
Man grows pea plant inside lung
From the article: """A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung."""

Very often, as a kid, I used to be apprehensive of the seeds I would swallow in. What if it sprouted in my stomach?

Later on, I deduced that our stomach is not a place for plants to grow. It consists of an acidic medium. I'm sure that it is devoid of Oxygen as well.

And now this news of a pea plant growing in lungs! Are our lungs a habitable place for seeds to sprout and grow?
We see a constant source of oxygen. I guess that it won't grow "large" due to lack of sunlight.

It may be far-fetched but could this event be extended for a beneficial symbiosis between animals and plants?
@blakeross: SF. You can ping me as @holman over Twitter if you want to take this offline and not clutter up HN as much. ;)
This may be orthogonal to your point, but Clojure is not a purely functional language and Scala is not as functional as Clojure.

In regards to a VM, Haskell can compile to LLVM.
Kind of makes me sad that it still looks like crap on linux, turns me completely off of testing it.

Oh well, hopefully it is fixed by the time it is actually released.
Dead project. Design now for sale.
Help GazeHawk (YC S10) speak at SXSW '11
Rahul, awesome reply. Kudos to your team for a well executed product.

I am curious to know if you are using Rapleaf to get social profiles or if you are doing it yourself (which is tough/only partially possible). If you are using Rapleaf, aren't you loosing money with every lookup?
I own the design (and several other pages too). All of my own work (save the icons).

Contact me if you're interested. Questions? Ask away!
I'd second that request. It would be great if I could utilize the Rapportive engine to show all the juicy details you guys can grab on someone based on their email, within my app.
You haven't heard of the Magic Trackpad?

http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/

An iPod touch or an iPad would suffice as well.
This is funny and all, but any HR department worth its salt would know what it takes to get a job at its respective company. At the very very least, most HR departments these days will take a glance at Facebook.
I originally checked it out, but they apparently had some problems with Gmail addresses with + signs in them, which created an infinite loop of log-in prompts. The site looked great though, but I can't really check in every day to see if they fixed it.

I appreciate that I got a response about the nature of the problem after a while, though. (I imagine they had a lot on their plate after InDinero was unveiled.)

Best of luck, though.
It surprises me how the meaning of the word "compromise" is being devalued.

No net neutrality on wireless networks isn't a compromise.

Net neutrality with some exceptions would be a compromise.
Net neutrality with a ton of exceptions would be a compromise.
Hell, total freedom for carriers with merely the verbal promise to make a bit of an effort towards net neutrality could still qualify as a "compromise".

This proposal isn't a compromise. There's no "practical success" here. It's a complete and utter sell out. Having a "negotiation" about the terms of your surrender doesn't make it less of a surrender.
But pension problems are not just a legacy issue. Payments have increased recklessly in recent years. California's 3% at 50 law, which allows many public employees to retire with 3% of their final pay for every year worked at age 50, was passed in 1999. In 2005, BussinessWeek found that state and local pension obligations increased by 50% over the previous 5 years (source: http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/12/class-war).
I disagree with you entirely.

My wife has no real interest in programming, but is learning about it through conversations because she cares about me, and therefore cares about what I do. If I were to suddenly die or otherwise leave her life, she wouldn't continue any connection with programming.

I have no real interest in embroidery or painting, but I am learning about it as I talk with her about her loves and interests. If for some reason I were to lose her, embroidery and painting would cease to be part of my life.

I don't see the original author mocking anyone, I see her deploring the fact that so many people don't take a genuine interest in what their life partner does, and which is sometimes their passion.

I see the original author suggesting that a genuine effort to understand one's partner's interest will enrich both lives.

I've heard that Churchill once said: "If over dinner you find yourself seated next to a manufacturer of glass eyes, take the opportunity to learn about it - you will probably never get the chance again."

I've not been able to track down the definitive source, but I don't care - I believe the sentiment to be true, and by following that precept my life is much richer than it once was.
"Move fast and break things" is not the same ol'. I work at Facebook, and we really, really mean it, for better and for worse.
I wouldn't put it quite that strongly, but you're actually not far off.

I would say: If you were lucky enough to grow up with good enough opportunities (education particularly) that mean you don't have to take whatever job you can get, then you owe it to yourself to find a job that you can be passionate about - after all, you're probably going to spend at least 40 hours a week doing it!

Given the assumption that two people in a serious relationship are this lucky, and so have full time jobs that they are passionate about, then yes - I do think the relationship would be lacking something fundamental if one partner said "Uh, <job title>? I think my partner does something like that".
What's Google's plan for Android apps on Google TV?
Some context: SXSW takes public votes into account for picking their speakers/panels (it's 30% of the rating). Many potential speakers have huge communities to tap to get votes, but we're young and haven't built that yet.

If you like GazeHawk or eye tracking technology in general, please take a moment to register and vote for us. We'd really appreciate it!
Anything you say and write in public about a running partnership is going to be somewhat colored, regardless of venue. The real story - assuming there are significant enough differences for it to matter - usually only comes out long after the fact.

Business relationships are long-running affairs, and being too candid about them can hurt your current relationships and may cause future relationships to never get off the ground.

Even today I'd be fairly circumspect writing about experienced from over a decade ago. For one it is a small world, second there are many different viewpoints and what I think happened may not match someone else's recollection and that may cause ruffled feathers.
A meta-social network profile. In all seriousness this seems like an awesome tool for people in HR, PR, or anywhere you have to deal with unknown peoples. Integration with desktop email clients- OutLook, ThunderBird, Mail, ect- would also be nice. I see a bright future if they play their cards right.
Seems like increasingly you're an 'ecosystem manager' -- of HN, and of the broadening pool of YC-funded startups.
Why not cafepress?

(Knowing why not would guide suggestions.)
As a cyclist my feeling is that the risky situations are the ones were you cross into and out of traffic, or do anything unusual. So the cycling lane would be more risky than just driving straight on on the road. In the latter case, at least car drivers can see you from far away and prepare for overtaking you.

Maybe our streets are just not as big as yours in Philadelphia.
I wish the author would have read "How to be a programmer" book or atleast the motivation section in it.

It says to keep motivated:

1. Use the best language and tools to do the job.

2. Look for opportunities to apply new techniques, technology and languages.

3. Try to learn or teach something in every project.

It adds that each programmer has some other hidden factors which will motivate them, it could be as simple as knowing fixing this bug will result in a happy customer.

I just want a manager/org which will help enable me to do the above and ofcourse pay me enough that I don't have to worry about the money factor.

Btw... personally I would find it pretty cheap to use hand me down machines. If you are paying your programmers competitively, you should provide them with good machines to keep their productivity up. I don't want to take a 10 min break when its compiling and if I have to I will probably end up spending 15-20 mins on the pinball machine (or on HN).
Me too. And I'm an American. I should look into dat.
I use DuckDuckGo for pretty much all my day to day searching. Sometimes if I'm looking for a very specific page I still use Google - but just sticking !g on the end of your search makes that very easy.
Thx a bunch. It's been some time since I last tried to get it to work, but now it magically does (thanks to your blogpost^^).

Anyway, I'm not using the -f flag. If I do, MacVim won't push the data into the textarea. It works with :x Cmd+q, though.

Thanks again. That will be a great timesaver in the years to come(;
The thought process that programming requires is tiresome and tedious to my wife. The fact that her eyes glaze over when I talk about the details of my day does not mean that she doesn't care about what programming means to me in the greater human sense.

One of the reasons I married her is precisely because she is so different from me, and the fact that I must describe things to her as a layperson actually improves my communication skills greatly. I would never dream of being offended that she does not want to put forth the effort to grasp the gritty details of what I do.

That said, she does know what Ruby on Rails is :)
The key problem with the Apple TV is that it won't play the most common video formats. Opening it to 3rd-party apps that could support those formats would make a real difference. However, like other commenters I'm skeptical that Apple will just dump iOS as-is on a device incapable of touch. If it gets iOS, it will be in a heavily-modified form.
Well said.

Wages have flatlined over the past 30 years, partially because the higher cost of benefits has absorbed what would have been a pay raise.

I'm glad whenever someone, whether they are government workers or union workers (or both), can secure a living wage. It's a victory for the entire middle class.
Black Hat/Defcon Founder Jeff Moss: What Is the 'Hacker Mindset?'
Pew Report: U.S. Broadband Adoption Slows, but Blacks Gain Ground
My GF is in med school, so I now know why it's vastly smarter to go into nursing than medicine, why so many doctors are unhappy, and why Penelope Trunk is right when she says that medical and law school force you to overinvest: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/02/03/dont-try-to-dodge-t... .

In addition, I know that you don't want residents making major care decisions on their own.
20 Google JS APIs Added To Code Playground
LaTeX's default look is very tired, especially if you spent some time in academia. Every CV/paper/thesis looks the same.

LaTeX is a good crutch if you are complete design antitalent, but the same thing that prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot also prevents you from making something nicer.

My CV progression was:

HTML -> LaTeX (PDF) -> InDesign (PDF) -> OpenOffice (PDF) / ASCII text
Quite nice. I would be interested in seeing this in Thunderbird, though.
One thing that has bothered me about this article that has been floating around the web is that the data cited only says that iPhone users have more sexual partners. To put it vulgarly, it only says that iPhone users are more likely to be whores, not that they're more likely to have more sex.
Freakin' awesome!!!
Great observation.
That [lack of knowledge about husband's profession] reflects reality of most marriages.
I would change it to:

Rent/Lease in markets where prices are probably going down, buy in markets where prices are probably going up.

Of course, this rule has lots of exceptions, like computers.
I can't see how it could be any other way. If I get a girlfriend from a different country, I'll at least try to learn the basics of her language and be able to have some decent conversations. Anything else would be a conscious disinterest in your girlfriend and what makes her tick. It's almost a blessing to have such an glaring chance to learn more about your significant other.
I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment at all. As a curious learner it is most certainly something I employ myself.

I don't restrict that to my wife's passions however. I also don't insist on the behaviour from her towards my passions.

It should not be hard to be engaged in your partner’s interests. If it is that hard, you might want consider the possibility that you might be full of yourself

This is what I have an issue with. She says this, yet she herself "is interested" in a passion she shares.

It's disingenuous, and the only other examples she gives are that of her husband.
I hate to steal a format from Reddit (A Call to Facebook Employees on HN)
...well actually I'd love to.

You see, lately when a post comes up about Facebook I've noticed, with a remarkable amount of consistency that someone will come along and say "I work at Facebook, that's not the case" or something equally nonsubstancial to the conversation. Every now and then someone will maybe post something more, but usually it's an attempt to set some sort of record straight without actually saying why or how.

That said, I'm openly calling for any capable FB employee to rise to the ocassion and please indulge the HN community in an Reddit IAmA style QA session.

For those who don't know, the IAmA trend on Reddit is where someone who has extensive experience in something not as easily attainable (architects, civil engineers, surgeons, war veterans, etc) and the community basically launches questions at them.

Is anyone willing to do this?
Hey, I'm genuinely interested, not just trolling. I realize that the OP is talking about being OVERweight but you sound like you understand a thing or two about the diet, that's why I ask.
http://blogs.perl.org/users/cpan_testers/2010/01/msnbot-must...
I think there IS an apples/oranges comparison. Look at the salaries for PhD Chemists (published by ACS, as well as GS pay scales), private industry looks to be at least 10-20% higher than Govt grades. Google is your friend, albeit a wordy one...

And I think people forget that the GS retirement system changed for those hired in 1984 onwards. Before that, they had a pretty sweet system that didn't involve social security - so they could retire, work 10 years and double dip. For newer workers, they paid into and used the social security system from the start, making double dipping much much harder. Sorta sucked.

And the raises were terrible - in the mid 80's I saw 3%, 0%, 3% and 2% raises. No bonuses, stock options, etc.

So maybe the average private worker is paid less than the average government worker. But I venture to say that the average financial sector worker's doing well above any other-field worker you care to choose. Possibly including part-time bank tellers in with those trader types.
Why did this project die, I already see two features that would be a TREMENDOUS help to me, Embed Snippets and Exporting.
Testing should be done at the start of the term.

Teaching would then adapt to the shortcomings found in testing.
Same here (at least with other people not really caring too much about my own interests.) A lot of people I've talked to have even actively refuse to take interest.

My girlfriend is redoing her Java assignments and is going to do the OCW MIT course on Python very soon; I'm very very happy for her and she seems to really enjoy programming. Right now, I'm trying to get her to play a few of my computer games with me. :)
For a larger, more complex project, it's a godsend though. Not just in terms of saving time, but also in terms of preventing errors that happen when you do things manually.
I'm not an iPhone user myself, so I don't know the app store. Your David Barnard, whom I also don't know, at least seems to be a recognized name. It doesn't matter if it is Angst or something else, as long as you have decently sized exposure.
Some years ago I spent a few months in Brazil. My Portuguese was barely conversational, so I had to pay very close attention to vocabulary and usage to understand anything. I noticed that women had a distinctly different vocabulary from men. For example, men had one word for dog and women had an entirely different one, not just the "dog", "doggie" distinction. Talk only to women and you end up talking like a girl, :-)
In addition, Zoho mail is ad-free and has offline capability using, oops, Gears.
Deficits, explained.