skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to use Objective-c so I can leverage most of the iPhone code and libraries I have. I know it's looked down upon but I have become productive in objective-c.
New York, NY

Track.com is looking for a Django dev, mostly front-end work but knowing a bit of everything is always valuable on a small team. Contact rich@ for details.
Has Paul Graham ever addressed in writing the disconnect between the amount of hype Arc got before it was released versus nearly instantly vanishing almost completely from public mind-share?
Cute.

d = new Date()
>> 07/29/2010
d.setMonth(1)
>> 02/29/2010 is invalid date, normalize to 03/01/2010
Manila, Philippines

3 engineers: client, web and mobile

http://insync.theresumator.com
US food waste worth more than offshore drilling
It's in my profile if anyone else is curious, but I'll email you directly.
Well, the fact that it's a conservative thinktank doesn't mean that they're necessarily wrong.

But it does mean that anything that the publish on race will be feeding into the idea of white victimhood at the hands of minorities. You just have to look at the party registration by race -- obviously that's what they have to publish, whether it's correct or not.
Speaking at a developer conference.

I've always been a natural on stage - as a dancer (as a child, through highschool, and in college (although that was a different kind of dancing)), as an actor (drag king, burlesque), and as a musician (in a band). I've always been terrified to go on stage, but I know once I get there, I'm fine and the fear melts away. But when the organizers of 360iDev asked me to speak at their iPhone developer conference in Denver last year, everything in my body wanted me to say "no way, no, I don't really feel like I know anything about programming". So I said "yes, I'll do it." I knew this would be great for my career - to get more recognition in my field, if I could pull it off.

I spent months researching and preparing my talk. I did okay - not great, but okay. There were several people in the audience who thanked me afterwards and told me they learned a lot. Other people, in reviews they submitted to the organizers, said I could definitely use more practice developing more comprehensible and cohesive slides, and that a lot of my content was obvious and unhelpful. Oh well. I'm glad I did it because it really was a valuable learning experience. A few months later, I was asked to speak at another conference. I declined - the first experience was enough for me.
After re-reading the article I wonder if it is really coherent to have a category called "elite schools" to which one can apply these blanket observations.

I think you are right, an agriculturally inclined student probably would not feel like they fit in at Yale. However, Cornell is also an Ivy, and they have a serious agricultural sciences program.

The article also mentions ROTC. I was once a TA at MIT, and there were many ROTC students at MIT. I believe MIT is now not just considered an elite engineering school, but just an "elite" school like the Ivies. And, I don't think they discriminate against ROTC students.

Furthermore, if they aren't already, the elite American universities of the future are Stanford and NYU, which seem to have much different student preferences than the Ivies or even hardcore engineering schools like MIT and Harvard, even though they are all lumped in together.
Ask HN: Convincing someone that constraints are useful?
Some people don't believe in the idea that putting pressure/constraints on yourself can be helpful.

That raising $500k can be better for you than raising $2 million.

Or that paying yourself $75k can be better for you than paying yourself $150k (even assuming the money came out of thin air).

Or that having a bare-bones office can be better for you than a luxurious one.

I think it's a rare kind of person that doesn't benefit from these (and other similar) constraints. I know I'm not one of them. I think I do my best work when I'm really excited and a little bit uncomfortable.

How can I make this argument as effectively as possible? Are there any good texts on the subject?

How can I convince someone that thinks "maybe some people are like that, but not me"?
Another of his, "To know what you do not know is the best."
I agree with you. I also think that the Robotics 4H club is great, and wanted to share the link...
is this it? http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/bm
You can buy 3 for the same price and always have 2 spare ones?
One of my favorite examples of cool Perl 6 code right now is Perl 6 in Perl 6: http://github.com/masak/yapsi/blob/master/lib/Yapsi.pm
What edw519 is saying here doesn't require creativity though. It's pretty much what I did in my first side business: I could see the problem customers at my day job were trying to solve by combining some products we sold, and I realized that they would happily buy a single product that did what they were trying to get done. No thought required, just implementation and marketing.

The owners of the company thought my idea was dumb, so I built it myself and sold it into a completely different market.
I've been working on a web app for over a year now.

...I've been procrastinating launching trying to get things perfect.

If you're the only one who has used the site, you'll see both of these as mistakes in about 37 days. Just launch.
Not just for cleanliness but more importantly change protection: denying direct access to the internals assures that you can rewrite those internals and not break any external dependencies.
Huh? Pilots are already not necessarily shown to the general public via broadcast television. Making them more easily available via the internet can only serve to increase their exposure. No one is requiring anyone to watch these like "homework", just like consuming any possible entertainment isn't "homework". If they are available via On Demand for free, then people can watch them just like they watch other shows.
Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents
Talk about DRM - they are neutered!
While this is interesting for a scientific point of view, I really hope these don't become popular in the US. The last thing we need is another "cute" animal that gets over-bred. Visit your local humane society and see how well thats working out for cats and dogs.
It's neither - it's wishful thinking. They hope if they say it people will believe them.
Complex Probability Calculations
related question for those who have experience: what do you think is the best phone and carrier combo on the market right now (or that will be on the market soon)? i'm about to be a free agent and i want to get myself into the best of whatever is out there.
A couple examples that come to mind are being referred to as a "white bastard" by a black woman on the street in Philly, simply for walking past her; and various anti-Semitism from black people preaching on the street in New York. I haven't personally interacted with any members of the Nation of Islam, but they're also racists.

Also, my experience has been that Asian immigrants often dislike black people.
You're on the frontpage of HN, where is your landing page that explains what your app is about and captures our e-mail adresses? You don't have long before you lose your frontpage position!
As always, please be sure to include your location and whether or not telecommuting is possible.
Google Philosophy: The Scale of Evil
We're a 60-person financial-software firm in London, England committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We're hiring developers and other smart folks of many kinds. See http://www.youdevise.com/careers and https://dev.youdevise.com.

No remote working, but we do help the right people move to London. (I made an offer to such a person just today - he found us through Hacker News!)
I'm hand-waving at it because this industry has had 40-50 years of high technology at its beck and call and has done little or nothing with it. This is an engineering problem, and making excuses for them ("Failing open is of course a bit of a problem, too") does not change the reality. They have failed to innovate, and the world is going to pay for that. The power problem? So don't use traditional power: experiment with something else. Try. They've had half a century, at least. If that industry had tried at all, it would've come up with more than this.
"Having received a number of queries about our evil scale, we present an explanation here": http://www.lot49.com/evil_scale.html
Yes! How did you find it?
Uh. You just paste back and save again, no?
The only thing I used the 3G in my Kindle for was when I was in Egypt. Rather than hunt down a wifi signal for our netbook, I could check my gmail and post to twitter from my Kindle. I was on a train between Cairo and Luxor and posting to Twitter about how I'm on a train in BFE. I was telling friends about camping in the white desert from my Kindle.

Completely free of charge, in the middle of the Egyptian desert. That was definitely worth it.

If you don't travel so much, save $50 and get the wifi-only version.
GNOME 3 Slips to 2011
Don't listen to people telling you something is hard or that you need to study some amount of theory before getting started. Find an instrument you like the sound of and play it.

Focus less on the tools and more on enjoying yourself.
I second this. Strongly.

I had 2 amazing mentors in high school who supported me in rather extreme ways. After college I had started a company making high end stereo equipment, using a lot of what I had learned from them.
10 years after I graduated high school I had dinner with them and gave them each one of my products, telling them how much they had influenced my life and how thankful I was.

A week later one of them died suddenly. So don't waste time in doing this.
In my experience, non-white vs. non-white racism is the most popular form of racism in the world today. It's long been uncouth for whites to hate blacks, but it's ok for blacks to hate mexicans, or chinese to hate koreans, or koreans to hate everybody.
It's not just the one that comes up with a concept like sanitation that creates value. It's also those in the government that have it implemented that create value. The garbage man that executes the work also creates value, by reducing others of the burden of having to worry about garbage.

A great many people contribute a little, so a few can excel. There wouldn't be universities if everyone had to hunt for their own food. Most people create value and asserting that this person doesn't is shortsighted, especially since this job enabled him to start a PhD... who knows what wonders may come out of that.
Boston, MA

My company is always looking for talented devs. We work primarily on mobile heath (sms, android, j2me) apps and server backends (mostly python/django) in the developing world. Small startup environment, international travel opportunities.

http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/
doubleTwist is hirinig. http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Jobs.dt

It's not listed but we're looking for Mobile folks too. (Android experience is a plus)

SF or NYC
GNOME 3 delayed again
One way to avoid kindle fees is to use USB to sync. If you're on Mac, use Ephemera (http://goephemera.com/), or if you're on Windows, use Wordcycler (http://www.wordcycler.com/). (I'm the developer of Wordcycler.)

Another great benefit of these programs is that you can sync individual articles, not just the pre-made bundles that Instapaper provides. You can plug in your device, have the program download the articles, and automatically eject it. Later, when you finish reading an article on your device, delete it, and it will be archived on Instapaper the next time you sync.
I wrote up my ideal Dropbox configuration:
http://giantrobotlasers.com/post/684259169/the-ideal-desktop...

I'm told the symlinks should go in opposite directions, but generally this setup is very clean.
It's really not even safe to have an app without strong credentials and audit trail bringing in ads. There's no protection against objectionable ads, or those doing things like taking advantage of Flash vulnerabilities etc.

Isn't the Apple approach to host the ads themselves? While app developers still get data access, at least there's a healthy isolation between the client and the advertiser. Apple can certainly provide things like basic client stats and direct ads appropriately based on location.

The Windows anti-virus / anti-spyware model is too flawed to be trusted. It's like having a bouncer at the door of a party that keeps out offenders from previous parties. The default is to trust everything else, so every zero day attack can get through. Defaulting to not trusting things and only allowing what's known okay would be far more effective. If apps had to request all net connections through IPs stored at Apple/Google etc, the potential to direct to some hostile developer or botnet would be greatly reduced. Although the plans may be for video and other high bandwidth content streaming, that huge server city Apple is building could certainly host any static non-generic content apps need, and perhaps be a proxy for much of the rest (news sites etc). Google certainly has the infrastructure to do something similar. Granted Google is better set to do that on a global level.

Even advanced users can be tricked if granting access for something trivial opens the gates to something nasty.
At least on a consumer device it makes sense to protect users from themselves. Limiting hosts and local directories is certainly prudent.
Unless you're looking at your web browser more often that your wall.
The biggest issue is making sure resources are allocated to the best developers. If some games are easy to steal and others are not, it may end up just rewarding those that make the games hard to steal. I don't know what the solution is.
I'm not hiring, but I figure that this a reasonable opportunity to plug my site.

http://www.onedayonejob.com/

The focus is on entry level jobs, but the content consists of company profiles, so it's useful to pretty much anyone looking for a job.

Here are all of the companies that we've featured with positions in Web Development: http://www.onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/web-development...

And in Software Development (lots of overlap): http://www.onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/software-develo...

Tons of non-technical stuff too.
I often wonder how many people are actually spending much time reading outdoors in bright/direct sunlight, versus just regurgitating that well-known point in favor of eInk.

I find my iPad quite a bit more readable than the Kindle or Sony reader indoors, which is where I do nearly all of my reading. It's nice not needing to find a light source too.
Times change, 50,000Hz Computers used to be top of the line and cost thousands of dollars, but try selling such things today at those prices.

The value of electricity produced over a modern solar cell’s lifetime > cost of that solar cell today so clearly they take less energy to produce than it takes to make. However, ROI is more than just getting more money back than something costs the payback time is important.

PS: Granted, Ultra high efficiency solar cells built for the space program still cost a lot. However, they are producing energy in space so the incentives change.
A Lesson in School Violence
Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO) - no telecommuting available

Technologists wanted. Web/Mobile engineers needed to help build out future properties. iPhone, Android knowledge is a big plus, as is optimization skills. (aka Page Speed nerds) Technologies include jQuery, HTML 5, CakePHP, Rails 3.

http://www.ad60.com/jobs/

Mid to senior level is ideal, but the right entry level person will be considered. There's always more to learn.
You can launch 30 days later, sure. But if you put up a coming soon page now, today, it will be really great.
New York, NY

Quirky.com

Quirky is a social product development company. We harness the ideas of our community to create great consumer products.

For an example of one of our community created gadgets, check out the Pivot Power:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/community-developed-pivot...

We are looking for a rails developer to join our small team. Want to work at a place where the business model is a little more solid than "code and hope"? Email us at techjobs at quirky dot com.
That kind of thing only works for some jobs, though. I don't think it would have been applicable in any of the jobs I had so far.
Nice slow reveal.
I don't know about marathons since I'm not much of a runner. But I have thought for a while that a spontaneous "meetup" site for normally solo sports would be a great idea.

e.g., say I like kayaking but normally prefer to do it alone. Today I'd really like to do it with someone else maybe for company or because I want backup on a tricky part of the river but none of my friends like kayaks. Go online and find 2-3 people in the area who are free and want to do it.

There are times I'd pay for something like this.
Sorry I replied to the wrong comment, check one child later please ;) The best representation in memory and on disk are usually completely different, while VM will force you to use the same for both the worlds.
Odd ratio. I hazard it's inverted for the Javas and C/C++s of the world.
The kindlegen command-line program from Amazon is pretty easy to use, and supports ePub and HTML: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...

Works on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
And after finding the tool, is a teacher worthwhile or should I rely on self-teaching?
I switched away from vim when I switched from qwerty to dvorak because I didn't want to relearn all the commands.
The aircraft carrier has advanced radar and sonar to avoid that situation :p
I have a kindle and buy most of my books through the local used bookstore but the kindle is great for all those free classics that I haven't read.
Heh, I guess you can't direct-link to them either. (Need to click the aerial button once you follow the link, which I assume only shows up if you have the Labs feature turned on.)

Microsoft has really good coverage for theirs, and I find it very useful to actually find places, since it's not as low-level as street view.
We don't yet have a landing page.
Bettermeans is an open democratic project management tool.

It allows people to work together on a project with a meritocratic governance as opposed to command and control.
in NYC (with remote possibilities)

http://getglue.com

is looking for a java engineer (http://bit.ly/ctyPA2) as well as a sysadmin (http://bit.ly/c5XJsC)
Agreed. It's definitely not a zero-sum game. Most of the time I read my kindle books on the kindle, but at night in bed it's great to be able to read on my iPod touch without any light.
Google is hiring for a lot of different jobs. Telecommute is difficult but we have offices in lots of places. See http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html for a list.
"Birds fly; fish swim; deals fall through." http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
It sounds good, but please put this on the landing page and elaborate a bit more, as well as explain how hackers might find your service interesting.

I think the HN community just launched your service for you :~).
Ummm. It seems like I just inadvertently launched!
"open democratic project management tool" sounds pretty bad ass sir :-)
Auto & Trucks: Your Own Best Choose - Ford F Series Body Kits
I wonder if there's a correlation. If you don't get a good response here, check out a pysch forum. Sounds like something that would have been researched.

Anecdotally (which may be better than research for convincing someone): I agree. I feel smarter and more energetic when there's something at risk. When I had a couch, a beautiful view, and bottle of whiskey in the office, nothing seemed too important.
I didn't realize Cornell is a Ivy. Great school, but I'll bet it wasn't what the author's were referring to as elite. And I agree, the term elite in this sense is sort of meaningless.
Sunnyvale, CA

Palm, now a subsidiary of HP, is hiring about 70 positions in our engineering group to work on the next versions of webOS and our future hardware.

http://www.palm.com/us/company/careers.html
Show HN: Vittyo, Roll your own video store
> 27. If your gay

28. Whether you're gay or not, learn to use apostrophes correctly. Ditto for other common spelling and grammatical errors. There are plenty of pedants out there, and if one reads your application and it's full of mistakes, you won't get the job.
Quickly make a form on your website to gather our email addresses. Email all of us in a month and we'll make great beta users for you.

Do this very quickly so that you can get as many email addresses as possible from the many people that will see you on the home page. You're the top story right now.
Southwest is still head and shoulders above everyone else, although I had one flight a few years ago were the crew was so rude to the passengers that I thought I'd accidentally boarded a U.S. Airways flight. Thankfully that's been an infrequency rather than a regularity like it is with other airways.
stockholm syndrome
Accept the defaults. Or, at least, get so that you can use a computer within 5 minutes of being given the default configuration. It makes your life so much easier. A more general form of this is: choose your battles.
This one is super important. I just got burned by this a couple of days ago. Sometimes I blow by the WHERE clause because I have a happy Enter finger.

It's also not a bad idea to do a quick mysqldump of the database you are working on, just in case.
Do you need help?
I totally agree. These are both mistakes. Which is why I posted this so that I have a fire under my ass. I know that being witnessed by people I respect is a motivator for me. I wish I did this 6 months ago.
Hey BetterMeans... Alain here. I sure hope you will launch soon. You still owe me coffee :-)

To everyone: Shereef is cooking something great. Make sure he ships in 30 days!
Would you argue that this is worse than the historical or societal norm? If not, it is a mere property of policing actions, not an indication of "totalitarianism" unless you would argue that virtually all societies are "totalitarianism," in which case your definition of "totalitarianism" is virtually worthless.

I know that there are abuses of policing power but have no indication that they are, today, any worse than the American norm.
UI comments -

If I press enter on title, don't create, move me to the first item.
If I press enter/tab on items and I'm on the last one, give me an extra one. I shouldn't need to click a mouse button to add more tasks to the list.
let's take the dollar figures, multiply by about a million (literally), and there you are with the defense contractors.

A quick googling shows that military and educational spending are on par with each other (about $500B). [edit: circa 2004-2005]

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html#not...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Defense_Spending_Tren...

But I guess the department of education is lying just like the BLS?

I'll go for the higher dollar figures for things that don't provide anything for the country first, and get to small dollar figures in the education system about 10th.

Really? It looks to me as if you are defending wasteful spending on education rather than simply criticizing it less than other wasteful spending: "...as long as the teachers' unions are the only ones sticking up for teachers...they're doing more good than harm."

I don't care what the study says...

That seems to be the trend here.
That's the spirit. :-) You just launched. Congratulations!
Pittsburgh, PA

What we do? Social Mobile Gaming

Profitable? Yes!

Looking for:

1) Web engineer - Ruby, Rails, NodeJS, jQuery

2) iPhone/Mobile Developer - Objective-C, OpenGL ES, Unity3D

Apply Where? http://leftrightstudios.theresumator.com
Hey HN,

My co-founder and I have recently launched our project which lets people build stores to sell their streaming video content. We've been working on it for almost 5 months now.

Let us know what you think!

Sincerely,

Chris & Ivan
Drink a lot of water while you read and learn something.