skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody please help poor pg and design him some prettier buttons than those purple beveled monstrosities..
There is an option to not send an email. And it's not a request - once you share it, the recipient doesn't need to accept. The users can see them in their GDocs list though. But if you quickly unshare them and they're not currently viewing their list, they'll be unaware of it.
On the bitcoin forum, I started a thread to donate bitcoins, which is a kind of cryptocurrency, to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

This is because the technology and the concept behind bitcoins is probably something that the Electronic Frontier Foundation would probably have to defend in the future.
How to make Internet money even if you're underaged
Destress: Fuzzy Time
The question is whether the connections to investors and the advice is worth it, not whether the investment itself is worth it. In most cases, it's probably a resounding yes.
And the nice thing about the iTV is that it can play anything it (or Jobs) wants before playing your movie.

Mandatory 15min previews of new Pixar movies before you can watch your download? No roblem.
Unfortunately, for many reasons, that talent has slowly bled out

This reverts back to the original article. Poor strategic leadership.
But for all that, I don't think Apple's ever found themselves with the reputation of the type of single-minded overarching elitist snobbery as the backbone of the hiring process in the same way Google has.

"...but they didn't have the kind of single-minded, almost obnoxiously elitist focus on hiring..."

Apple seems to want to hire the best, but the best being based on actual capability instead of the school you went to.
Is this like http://covestor.com/?
Or, more likely, there are lots of good ideas that can be applied to other difficult problems.
Don't Hire That Developer
Heh, those guys are not too stingy wit the titles. The three founders are "CEO, COO and President".
Too much math in engineering education and not enough art.
> I am not buying that college must be expensive

That was my whole point. College doesn't have to be expensive, in fact it can be free or nearly so.

> I had absolutely no trouble finding a job. Not having a degree has not come up at all, even when working for a big corporation that does extensive background checks.

That's good :) My impression from friends is that having a degree would have been a big plus, not just for getting the job but also for the compensation.

> Overspending on college is no different than overspending on anything else.

That's true too. But we - TrueTech Canada Inc - spent a good bit of money getting some our employees that were seriously in debt out of it, and we helped a few that were still in school to avoid going in to debt. I was quite surprised to see kids that young saddled with such huge debts, $35K in one case.

> (Example: I just bought a $900 vacuum cleaner. That doesn't mean that if you don't have $900 you can't clean your house. It just means that I overspent.)

Sounds like you have some industrial cleaning power there :)
Ask HN: Tips for Hackers having Kids?
In about 6 months I've got a lovely bundle of joy coming into the world, needless to say I'm extremely excited.

Like many Hackers I work fairly long hours, especially weekends (sometimes when I get my best work done).

I'd love to hear some tips from fellow hackers who have had kids & some tips on managing the transition to a more family focused life, without losing sight of goals & milestones that you have for your startup.
I find it interesting that Yahoo is considered not to have a "hacker" culture when they produce things such as YUI, YQL and YSlow which seem to have no reason to be there other than that they think of themselves as a company that has hackers and coding in their DNA. I guess these are small examples in the large scheme of things but it still seems odd that there is this disconnect - at the high level, they are just media company, at the low level they are right there in the hacker community producing, I would say, above their weight.
And Russian.
It probably doesn't hurt to look at one of Yahoo's contemporaries along the same metrics, AOL.
Great post. This left me wondering -- what do you think would have happened if Yahoo had been successful in their $1b bid for Facebook? Would FB have turned the company around by instilling a start-up/hacker culture. Or would it have just died there, infected by Yahoo?
The danger of LaTeX is you end up in the thrall of its beauty, forgetting your quest.
The similarities are more important than the differences. Apple and Google both want to hire the best damn people they can, Google just values academic background a little more.
engineers/hackers don't usually focus on doing academic research and writing academic papers targeted to top-tier academic conferences.

I am in total agreement with this. These days anything targeted towards top-tier conferences typically has a sales-marketing slant wrapped around it.
ASPCA and my local SPCA

Nothing but nets

I want to start with charity:water soon too.

The "why" is that these causes touch my heart and the organizations are responsible. No pet deserves cruelty or starvation. Every child deserves to live with clean water and not die of malaria. But so many causes are worthy so it's more a matter of what problem breaks your heart.
Yes, should probably clear that up, sorry. Interested?
WYSIWYGWYLEAFTS
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Seo outsource
Isn't that the same thing?
Every time you roll a DSL you're doing bottom-up design. The real problem underlying all of this is that our DSL of choice (HTML) sucks at being used to build user interfaces with.

I'm not sure if it is possible to extend HTML to the point where you could do what you can do with javascript (or even if that would be desirable) though.
Australia's broadband network upgraded to deliver 1Gbps connections
The term "hacker," if this discussion provides the definition, seems more and more nebulous to me. Next we'll start hearing about "rockstars" (god forbid).
consider the privacy implications of sharing your "social status" with sharing where you are at any given point in time..
Social Bicycles bike sharing system
You had a subsidized education. The cost of the education was not $700 a quarter, that was just the share of it that you paid.
Gemcutter is the best open source Rails app to learn from that I'm aware of: http://github.com/rubygems/gemcutter
"Start thinking about whether their interests are aligned with yours."

You're definitely right about that. That's why I commented on Microsoft's attempt to play nice. It's also why I'm concerned about the new face of Google. The more we punish/reward companies based on their actions the more their actions will begin to suit us.

"Stop thinking about corporations in terms of 'evil' and 'good'"

No. If enough people start "thinking about corporations in terms of 'evil' and 'good'" then evil will fail. Capitalism is about getting people what they want and rewarding the people who made it happen. We just need to make sure that less technically inclined people also want "good".
I had an Atari ST while growing up, she had an Amiga 500, and yet we're still together.
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vim > emacs?
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thanks for the codes .. really appreciate the gesture!
But this is not a sure point; the ideas may be fresh, but it's too early to tell whether it's useful for other problems in computer science.
Same question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192246
I just wanted to double-check your comment about "ten seconds" - really that much? As in, timed with a watch, or it "feels like" ten seconds?

I'm only asking because ten seconds is actually quite a long time at an intersection, and it fascinates me that such a concession to bike safety would be made - and work.
I go out of my way to avoid charities. I'd rather build up wealth and dispense it Bill Gates style than give out a slow trickle over the course of my life. That way I can personally make sure my money is being spent properly and be hands on with it, rather than trust some far away bureaucracy to not waste it.
What do I have to climb to understand what that means?
solid citizens i guess or well-rounded people. I wonder what was lost in the guild / mentorship / apprenticeship system of old where it produced people like Da Vinci and michelangelo.
They've been messing with site design for a month or two. I think they are doing some A/B testing, I've seen several different designs but then it's back to the normal design when I check later.
Betting market for the next Clay Prize winner
http://sites.google.com/site/gamegripper/

mine is still in the mail, so cant really vouch for it.
And a few more for those late to the game

Thank you!
I would love this if it were an Outlook plugin (or even better, a BlackBerry app) - but I'm guessing that the Enterprise market will come much later, if at all.

In the meantime - or if you don't use Gmail - I find hitmelater.com is good for something like this, although I'm not crazy about their lack of timing granularity.
...and nothing has changed in a decade+, right?
Bah. Doesn't work in Google apps. Shame, it looks really useful.
Brief history of the hacker underground
My impression is that while the proof may have issues that are unfixable that the approach taken in the proof is one that's novel and could still have interesting implications in the theory of computational complexity.
that comic is priceless!
Why I'm Canceling my Cable
Keep it that way. I run Apps, Voice, Adwords, Analytics, and soon Checkout and the inference API.

I absolutely don't want any of it fucked with.
The online judges I'm talking about are like UVa. http://uva.onlinejudge.org/ People usually use it for ACM-ICPC training. Every Oj I know of can fulfill 1 and 2.

For 3, the innovation is the badge system.

No.4 is nice, it closes the gap between OJ users and employers. That's something OJ's lack.

Topcoder does all of what you told, except a badge system. That's just a small difference. You need something better to compete with Topcoder.

Maybe your platform support more languages? One can't hope to hire lisp programmers from looking though Topcoder's competitions records.

I hope this site become successful. I really don't like Topcoder's interface. xD
Apology of the NULL pointer
Aside: sorting advertisements by bids originated with goto.com in Feb 1998 (from Idealab), years before Google started using it.

It was a great idea, original and effective, though I'm not how to feel about their patenting it. If they hadn't, they would have been copied and crushed without credit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto.com#Origins_of_Goto.com

As it was, they got 2.7 million shares from Google's infringement, and later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion.
I think that's acceptable for video games, especially the sort of video games that Nintendo makes. For video content I don't think so. I'll watch upscaled DVDs for certain types of content (e.g. don't really care if episodes of Big Bang Theory are in 1080p), but for movies with great cinematography I want as much resolution as possible.
Just out of curiosity what content would you be watching on an appple itv device that's at 1080p? The vast majority of its content is delivered via IP and 1080p video which streams at about 45Mbps isn't really realistic to be moving around on most networks. Most 1080p video is still going to be distributed the old fashioned way... On blu-Ray.
I like it. Then if they're abrupt, I know it's to avoid typing not anger.
Disclaimer #1: My job is technology evangelist for Yahoo! So refuting this is probably the definition of my job.

Disclaimer #2: This is my own completely unsanctioned opinion and does not necessarily represent Yahoo!'s views or opinions.

I'm obviously biased here, but I have a great respect for HN and PG so I wanted to talk about this.

PG accuses Yahoo! of two things right at the very top of the article and the rest of the article is more details on those things. They are a) access to easy money removed Yahoo!'s desire to find the next big thing b) ambivalence about being a technology company.

I'm not going to substantially repute a) because I think it is true. However, I think it's a pretty big ask to expect someone being successful to see past the current success to the next big win. PG admit's neither he nor Larry and Sergey really understood how big search was. As such I feel it's a slightly ad-homonym attack to blame Yahoo! for not being Google. We didn't win the big prize, but we also aren't AOL, Lycos or Ask.com either. Just because we didn't become Google doesn't mean Yahoo! has failed.

As an engineer though PG's second point strikes me as deeply unfair. I joined Yahoo! in 2004 in the UK. The team I joined was exceptional. For a team of 30 people there were about 15 book authored by the team. I personally had written W3C standards and multi Web Standards Project founders littered the team. The rest of the team were coders, much better than I.

Now I work in US for the developer network and I get to see the vast range of technologies that Yahoo! does from Y! Research through to the engineering teams. There is a reason 'Hack Days' started here, because the engineers here are passionate about those technologies and playing with them.

I'm also on the Yahoo! Open Source Working Group and I see all the open source we put out of the door. We should probably do a better job of telling people how much, but it's a lot more than you think. I find it troubling that PG who left the company 10 years ago, can now, accuse me and my colleagues of apathy about technology when it's so fundamental to what Yahoo! does.

I think what PG is really talking to is two things. Firstly, it's important for a company to have a 'core competency'. Describing ourselves as a media company makes it clear to our investors and our employees the field of play. Secondly, the ease at which a cash-cow, such as Google's search war chest, allows them to make their presence felt in the technology community reminds people about all the things they touch. I am both proud an envious that Google have the freedom to do that, but again, it doesn't mean Yahoo! failed because we don't.
Ask HN: App Developer looking 4 biz partner/VC, interested?
Greetings:

I am a seasoned app/game/web developer looking for a biz partner to startup dev studio.

You can read more about me at
http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/inode-interview-mobile-more

This is round 2 of my startup process, last year I started but ran out of money, went back to work and ready for next round!!

Apps on App Store

http://itunes.apple.com/es/artist/inode-entertainment/id320825751

Also have some content on Nokia OVI.

Contracts to distribute content: Wallpaper/Games/App in several distribution chanels.

Developed own tools for easy game creation.

More info@ jimmy@inodesoft.com
with subject: Biz Partner

Thanx
I think there's some meta-worry that if all attempts to prove P=NP are treated as kookery, nobody serious will dare circulate any work on it, and so nobody will actually end up proving it. So there seems to be some going out of their way to treat a serious good-faith effort with respect.
It's Yahoo Store. Those buttons were slick in 1996.
After entering code: "We've heard things like 'this has totally changed my work life' about Boomerang for Outlook, and we hope you'll have the same experience with Boomerang for Gmail!"

For Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010 it's a 14-day Trial ($14.95 purchase) at http://www.baydin.com/boomerang/

So, not free, but it's available.
This reminds me of the kinds of things Stephen Wolfram talks about ("A New Kind of Science"). Here we have fractal structure somehow influencing the superconductivity in materials, and the article says it appears that we need new physical laws to explain it. Maybe theoretical computer science will have an explanation for it. There is already known to be a link between thermodynamic entropy and information; maybe there are many more links between (supposedly) theoretical computer science constructs and actual physical events.
> get things like bulletproof Oracle drivers, Hadoop, Netty, Mina

No, that means sharing libraries. You're using Java libraries now. The JVM has nothing to do with Oracle.

> read lots of posts talking about problems with high memory load

Look at the shootout stats. The JVM is a memory hog in comparison.
Would love an email once you're ready... zackster@gmail. Thanks!
I had to deal with this a while ago. Scripts resulting from my troubles are at http://github.com/mattsta/git-shrink
Where's the fun in sarcasm if you have to point it out?
That's what I get for simply reading the article, as opposed to clicking through - thanks!

Now to begin the crusade to get IT to let me install this...
I founded Teleku (http://teleku.com) on January 1, 2010 and wrote the technology myself using Ruby on Rails. Launched the service as a private beta in February and then later opened it to the public in March. We were TechCrunch'ed in April and my company was acquired today by Voxeo (http://voxeo.com) actually by my competitor Tropo (http://tropo.com).

It goes to show what a single man working in the garage without funding can do in a trillion dollar telecom industry. Actually this was my second telecom acquisition...

More exciting news to come!

Cheers,
@ChrisMatthieu
Cheers Tom.

I agree on finding other people and hanging/hacking out as much as possible.

There is lots of activity in this area in Australia and expect a few bits of news soon.
Congrats Chris!
Doesn’t really matter because if they never care to look they will never find out.
I love the japanese.
You're comparing apples vs. oranges. I suspect a competent hacker can do a lot of things not related to coding. Per the original comment, a hacker created the most social network of the decade. I think a hacker can manage the demands of a team internally.
Coding might not be the be-all end-all competence, but technical "maturity" is essential for communication with programmers. And the appropriate designation of developers, as such, is very important.

I consult with businesses for software development, and it's crap like this that wastes 10-20 minutes of my time on every conference call.

There is a whole layer-cake of bureaucracy around titles and how they're tossed around, and I have to spend that time figuring out which of these analysts/developers/leads/specialists/architects can actually code or admin. It sucks to be in mid deliberation, stream-of-consciousness reporting about what you have done, giving a sermon without shell-completion .. when you get this faint suspicion that the audience doesn't know what you're talking about. When you tell me you have your three developers on the line, I am gonna talk to them like developers.

It might sound patronizing, but I am very close to just starting each call with "so, which one of you guys can code?".
That is definitely true. The startups help one another a lot, and I find myself spending an increasing amount of time encouraging that.
Where do you see 4 bits? I only see him mention 3 bits:

The old jsval representation fit in a 32 bit value, using the 3 lowest bits as a way to tag the value as a particular type. These were called type tags.

In the examples given, the lowest three bits are masked to 0s when determining the address. That's a loss of precision, meaning there's no way to represent a pointer to an address that's not modulo 8 == 0. Another way of saying this is that objects must be aligned to 8 byte boundaries.

Isn't this a waste of space? Probably not. My guess is very few objects are less than 8 bytes in length, so that space is not really wasted. Even if objects ARE shorter, this is a dynamically typed language, we probably want to keep spare memory anyway, to reduce the chance that adding values to an object will require costly memory allocation.
1. Your priorities will change. You're not the same person after you have had a kid. But, you will find that the pressure on your available hours will help you figure out how to work smarter and triage your worklist better. You will have to work fewer hours, but your productivity will adjust to compensate to a large degree.

2. Hack when they sleep. Pray to any gods you may have that the one you get does that plentifully and regularly :-)

Good luck!
This is an excellent point. For me, the word change on your first line is what really demonstrates it: many people conflate TeX and LaTeX, because LaTeX is TeX; or, to put it less controversially, LaTeX is written in TeX (rather than other (wonderful) extensions, like PDFTeX, XeTeX, or LuaTeX, all of which require source-level changes). LaTeX 3 (http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html) takes this even further—and all this drives home the point (which I hope I may safely assert here as fact) that it's often much better to start with a simple programming language and customise it to your need, than to have a high-level programming language painstakingly customised and tuned for an application that turns out to be two millimetres to the left of the one that you actually want.
Why is Vint Cerf father of Internet and GOOG VP silent on net neutrality issue?
What's wrong with a truck? Would you not consider that an approach to mvp cooking? In Austin (for which Anthony Bourdain complimented us about), the trailor-park restaurants expressed magnificent culinary arts. In fact I know one that started as a trailer until their demand proved significant enough for a bank loan to expand. Considering the failure rate for restaurants is not too dissimilar from that of startups, I think it's perfectly acceptable to start small and grow until the pompous diners accept you... at which point, you've sold out.
Yeah, I donate to charity. I also donate to open source projects. I give to bloggers. I buy freemium-service subscriptions even if I don't need the features. I give to buskers.

Why? Because it feels right.
Kids come first!

Spouses second.

Computers third.

I'm sure you already figured that one out but I still have to remind myself periodically when I'm in to something interesting so I figured it wouldn't hurt to repeat it.

Get up an hour or two before your kids do so you can get some work done when you're still fresh (assuming your kids don't get up at 6 am :) ).
This is, of course, why it hasn't caught on in the ~400+ years since it was originally proposed.

Also, many of those who have at some point proposed it may or may not have been doing so ironically, so at some point it gets pretty confusing.
My wife and I give. I think it is one of the most positive things you can do. We give to several faith-connected charities, children's hospitals, etc. My new "favorite" charity is charitywater.org. They have a lot of good things going for it not the least of which is that they are about as close as it comes to a "startup" charity in terms of innovation, marketing, etc.
How you are able to use Bing API? I actually asked about it before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1501701) but I guess you might have missed it. I'm not trying to be cocky — I'm just very curious.
Umm - I assume you know this, but inserting the analytics code only when the UNIX time is divisible by 5 isn't the same as every 5th pageview.

(Also, doing it on a pageview basis instead of visitor basis means you lose all the nice visit path tracking Analytics does)
P = NP for Non-Math Majors
You married up ;-)
That's a really good question. I think I should, but I find the concept somewhat disconcerting.

There are a fairly large number of single vehicle accidents so I don't think that it really would lead to a measurable decrease though.

Alternatives: everybody should drive cars with bodies made of hardened but very thin glass (I'd support that one).

Maximum weight of a personal car 750 Kg.
Just two random thoughts.

* Data mining, data analysis, predictive analysis, etc. applied to absolutely everything.

* Health care management and all of the related sciences/technologies.
Nice paper. what is Atof, Inc.?
People are interested because there is still hope that the proof is not unfixable.