skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who dislikes all the facebook posts and apple and whatnots that aren't really hacking, this is an amazingly awesome post and I wish there were more of these things on HN.

You can say the site is going downhill or that it is in a slump but this kind of post is exactly the opposite of the posts that I think are non-hacker news. I would much rather see 100 how to tie special knots, how to quickly repair an engine or something along those line posts over another facebook privacy post (though those are indeed almost non-existent now).
'Cryptography Engineering' by Ferguson & Schneier is the best.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html?pd=1&a=0470474246

^ I got that link using my BlacbBerry, apologies if it's the mobile version.
How many people who hit your landing page actually make it to the end of the 3:56 introductory video?
Top military official: WikiLeaks founder may have 'blood' on his hands
The only person I've ever heard use the word "niggle" to describe an african american baby was an african american adult. In fact the "n bomb" itself is now mostly used by black people, with guidos and rednecks following far behind.
To all those, who find RMS weird and eccentric :

PG > Sounds pretty eccentric, doesn't it? It always will when you're trying to solve problems where there are no customs yet to guide you. ... We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.
http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

RMS was the first to venture into the new world of OpenSource , software freedom .. and so he has all the traits of early explorer.
The Economics of Privacy Pricing
Champaign, IL. I have compelling personal reasons to stay here for about the next year, but would be happy to telecommute and willing to relocate afterwards.

I have a BS in Physics and am currently finishing a MS in Materials Science, but I'm looking to move into a more computational direction. I have a lot of experience with the analysis of large data sets, computer vision and image processing problems, and knowledge of cluster and cloud computing; and I've got a strong interest in machine learning and statistical analysis. Most of my programming experience has been in Matlab and Java, with a bit of Python, Fortran and R mixed in.
Philadelphia, PA

Around 10 years experience, mainly with java but also flex/actionscript, ruby, Objective-C. Unix experience as an admin at a few companies when I was in college/recent grad. Experience with both commercial and F/OSS tools/stacks.

Recent work: Building java/flex applications on a completely open-source stack (Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, BlazeDS).

Past work: Building enterpise-y systems on WebSphere and JBoss. Also spent a few years as a java application performance analyst and tuner.

http://www.github.com/mikereedell
The Road to Passenger 3: Adding new features and removing old limitations
The last line of the article says it all. How far will you go, just so your kids (20 years from now) can make an extra 20 bucks an hour?

Granted, I'm sure I'll want the best for my kids too, when I become a parent someday.
Bargained to irrelevance
You seem to be implying that the parent comment was an insult. RMS said he wanted a parrot:

> No. I spend most of my time travelling, so I could not have any pets.

> If it were possible, I would like to have a friendly parrot.
Talk about fear mongering...

They do not represent official positions or policy ... the battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous...

So.. they do represent the official positions and policy?
Yes, if it could actually be made to work accurately (down to the few-pixel level) and in real time then it would be a brilliant user interface element. Why should I click a mouse when I can just stare at the "reply" button for half a second?

(Yes, all sorts of potential badness which could happen if implemented unwisely.)
But at least you do agree and have heard it's used in this way. It's happening, though, for sure, and how we react is unclear.

I guess the interesting question raised here b/w me and Confuzatron is whether we should avoid certain words once racists appropriate them. I see his point that it's kinda like the tail wagging the dog if we go down that road.

But I do not think it's valid to say that the n-bomb is no longer used in a racist way by racists. And there's a lot of evidence everywhere that says otherwise.
Reasons why you want to tinker with the software? I can come up with plenty.

The point is not that the iPhone should be considered the same as a microwave, but that there is no hard line. If you are going to be a fundamentalist, like RMS, you need to carry it through to all things. There is no point where a microwave becomes definably different than an iPhone. Its a continuum.
An extra 20 bucks an hour is $120K instead of $80K, which is kind of a big deal. The last line of the article is actually:

"Even if the new study is right on the ball, it’s only an extra twenty bucks a week."
"context-free expression" = to context-free grammars as regular expression is to regular grammars
I haven't had a useful O'Reilly book since the Perl books came out about a decade ago.
send an email to jobs@boulder.me and I will pass it on.
Stallman's words are framed by his belief that freedom (as he defines it) is more important than doing the job. That is why he isn't giving proprietary vaccines to sick children.
all this time i never understood what FSF was about really.

in some ways, the guy is right. annoyingly, stubbornly, horribly-marketedly right.

to get people to really understand how freedom to modify software is important the way freedom of speech is important (i.e., it just saves time for everyone in the long run. take the gates-has-done-more-good-for-kids-in-africa argument. the counter argument is that those kids wouldn't have malaria if something more akin to the freedom to modify software were believed by more people. i.e., we did not excuse exploitation and we safeguarded against it heavily. against de beers. against remnants of colonial governments. against rebel armies. against anyone who takes advantage of other people.) -- anyway, to get people to see why it's important (and it took me -- what -- two decades of interaction with software as a user and now a developer?) -- this may sound lame, but i think there is a great character out there that could be part of some novel or screenplay.

it would be like sue sylvester as a team leader / tech lead. this incredibly uncompromising hardass who for some reason insists on free software. total jerk to new hires. rejects code left and right, almost arbitrarily (i'm reminded of the whole xemacs situation, but i suppose that's different.)

but then one day you'd have the sue sylvester's sister episode or whatever. maybe some unexpected vulnerable conversation with our once brow-beaten, junior-developer protagonist. and the glorious recognition scene would hit you and you'd realize -- f-, in some ways that dude is right.
Palo Alto, CA

Pinterest is a social catalog. http://www.pinterest.com/home

We are hiring a front-end engineer to join our 3 person team. We are founded by one ex-googler and one ex-vc.

ben (at) pinterest (dot) com
I don't think the software is Google's sole advantage.

The best people, an already massive and growing infrastructure, and a proven-successful platform are all things that can't be readily duplicated.
Perhaps if we'd have taught Africa how to make IE6 they'd not need our our code today. Ah, what a missed opportunity Bill Gates had to solve poverty.

Or your point is totally fucking retarded. One or the other...

I really can't make the distinction.
I am looking for a job in Toronto, ON. I am mostly comfortable with C/C++, but if the domain is interesting enough languages will be a small part of the whole piece so I am happy to jump on other technology stacks as required. My "anonymous" email is nickel-plate@hotmail.com .
You should check out the EyeWriter Initiaiative. I found the videos really inspirational.

http://www.eyewriter.org/
I thought the equivalent to the raw materials, factory, etc. was the computer.
I am generally a risk-taker, but having 5-10 years of nest egg is also a compelling idea. If it were my only 500K, it'd put 200K in CDs or something with limited downside (assuming such exists). I'd put 200K in something more liquid but not crazy risky (eg a spread of stocks), again assuming such exists.

The other 100K I'd use as runway to do my own startup, or the project (not startup!) of someone else I trust. From there, who knows?

I'm not convinced it's a good idea to jump into startup angel investing with such a small (!) amount of net worth. If you can't participate in follow-on rounds your 10% of the company gets diluted to 3%, then 0.5%, then nothing much at all.
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Another example would be Richard Feynman who was apparently a great teacher. He turned down an opportunity to work at the IAS because it didn't include teaching. He also won a Nobel Prize so he wasn't too bad as a researcher either.
Press Ctrl-R again.
Even Google's CEO agrees: in Wall Stree Journal article, Schmidt says, "the world doesn't need a copy of the same thing."

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703...
I did some work in Thomas' Chicago office with them this summer. If I were looking for a day job, I wouldn't be looking for a day job any more: they're friendly, happy people who get social license to join the Dark Side, do smart stuff all day, and then go home while it is still light out.
Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others.
I acknowledge that you aren't saying "people! stop using Buffie! It's racist!".

But it gets a bit silly when a random group of people, a very small socially marginalized one, can co-opt any random word for a stupid reason and then we all have to tip-toe around it because we might accidentally offend somebody who wears their "offend me" button on the outside.

Check out http://www.reference.com/browse/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethn...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racial_slurs

It's amazing the length of the list of words that have been historically used as ethnic slurs. If I had to keep a mental rolodex of these words around, I'd probably never be able to talk about pretty much anything. According to the list above, even some cherished dances from part of my cultural heritage are now considered racial epithets as is the first name of President Lincoln!

The reason newspapers and the like try and avoid these words has nothing to do with their usage by racist assholes. If that were the case, all you had to do force newspapers into all kinds of pretzels would be to just start using random verbiage as slurs. The reason they avoid those words is that people get offended by being called those random things. Offended readers can be vocal readers and vocal readers can cause trouble.

If "salad" suddenly started being used as a racial epithet for African-Americans tomorrow by the KKK, would newspapers the world over have to stop using it? That's silliness and that's the point we're collectively trying to make.

BTW http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=niggle&search... the etymology of "niggle" comes from the Norwegian "nigla" - "to be busy with trifles". Urban dictionary is probably the best place to go if all you're trying to be offended by a word.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=salad at least half a dozen uses of the term with a sexual connotation. I can just see my Mother the next time we go to the Country Kitchen Buffet. "'Salad' Bar?! Cover the children's eyes and ears, we're outa this place!!!!"
It looks like they just offer normal virtual servers with root access.

By looking at the supported OS images, you shouldn't have problems installing Cloudkick agent (https://support.cloudkick.com/Setting_up_Cloudkick_with_Phys...) on any of them.

Actually, the installation should be pretty simple, because we already offer pre-built packages for all of the systems currently supported at chunkhost - https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Installation.

If you do encounter a problem, feel free to stop at #cloudkick @ FreeNode and we will look into it.
AllFacebook.com/SocialTimes.com - Looking for PHP&Python developers who can build on Linux (also understanding of JQuery and other front-end javascript packages). We have 3 or 4 active projects that are all being developed in house but we're low on internal resources and need to hire developers! We'd be especially happy with contract developers and have a pretty sizeable budget to start immediately. If you're interested, email nick (at) socialtimes (dot) com.

There is plenty of work to be done which includes scaling large scale data tools, building service directories, and new consumer product ideas that we're working on!

You can view the stats tools here: http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications and http://statistics.allfacebook.com/pages

There are many more tools that we want to build, are currently building, and existing ones we wish to expand. I'm based in SF but we also have offices in NYC. Also fine with remote workers, although occasional meetings are valuable!
San Diego Hacker News Meetup is Tomorrow, 7/30 at 7:30 PM
Lol at an organization that terrorizes and murders people every day whining about a little sunlight shed on their activity.
Figured since I started the thread I should participate:

CS Degree (honors) from Duke, and Law(JD) and Business(cert) degree from UPenn. Don't want to be a lawyer, it really is soul sucking :) (no offense to you lawyers out there!). Have worked in both a startup environment and that of a large corporation. Comfortable in Java, Scala, Ruby, Javascript. Have built apps in Struts, Rails, Spring, Webwork, and Lift. Minimum competency in C++, Objective-C.

Would like to get in on the ground floor with an exciting startup that is doing challenging work.

Living in Philly. Willing to move anywhere (well, mostly). Email is in the profile.
Dunedin, New Zealand

9 years experience doing web development work, mostly with PHP and MySQL.
Looking for contract or freelance work.
Would prefer to telecommute (as I'm all the way down at the bottom of the world). Have plenty of experience working remotely.

http://karere.co.nz
Right.

But how, exactly, does it work? Can I use Thunderbird? Outlook Express? Gmail? Is mail, or anything else, stored on some other site? Does it work on all platforms? All browsers?
I'm sorry there's a misunderstanding. You must pay €10,000 if you want to do a 1 month service. Otherwise they treat you as a normal Bachelor's degree owner.
It should crunch doubles in a way typical to what a real-world program would. I'm fine with a ray tracer or something like that.

The point is I don't care about the performance of recursion for its own sake in a context for which there is no serious use. You might, but then you are disconnected from reality, as I said. That isn't an insult, it's just true from the definition.
The Chinese government is extremely sensitive to two things: 1) saving face and 2) maintaining control

What I'm saying is - you can affect change without violating those two things.
After more thoughts it seems that building an email newsletter about Android games might be the way to go. >10k is a good initial userbase. The newsletter could later become a promotion channel for developers and I can include that into the multiplayer framework package too.

Two main questions for me right now are the frequency (weekly or biweekly maybe(?)) and the content of the newsletter. Android games related topics is an interesting niche - and a heavily expanding one if the current growth of Android continues. Any suggestions what I could write about? Perhaps game reviews and what's going on in the Android game scene in general? I think there will be a couple of interesting things coming up with C2DM [1], where the private beta is currently starting (got an invite today - for the multiplayer engine! :).

Maybe I could also partner with existing Android app / game / review websites.

Ideas and advices are greatly appreciated!

[1] http://code.google.com/android/c2dm/index.html (Google's cloud-to-device messaging, introduced in Android 2.2)
Personally, I don't have a ton of code that isn't owned by someone -- either my current employer or a former employer (I delete all code from jobs I quit, but do have code left from consulting gigs). I obviously will not share any of the above. Other than that, I my personal projects tend towards the math heavy -- lots of R and matlab. Nothing like production code that I would write.

Also, I simply will not expend any effort on your company unless I really want to work there before at least a phone call. And not a phone call with your internal recruiters, but a phone call with my future boss. After that, sure, I'll solve a relatively simple problem for you -- I'll invest up to 4 hours. But after that? There's too many jobs around, and too many companies that treat candidates as if there time has no value for me to expend any more time.
I'm just amazed you did that whole site in one weekend.
I read about the etymology -- we concluded that early on in the discussion but the point was that there's a recent usage different from it's dictionary definition. I think urbandictionary is perfect to illustrate this sort of secondary usage.

Also, the salad example is a bit weird as sexual innuendo and racist slurs are beasts of a different kind as there's usually a specific target to ethnic slurs as opposed to innuendo like "laying pipe" or "tossing salad."

But I agree that there's a limit to such sort of political correctness. In this case, for example, it's clear that I'd never ever use "niggardly" in any context whatsoever (and I'd find a writer that does tremendously ignorant) but I can see that the word "niggle" is a bit more on the fence. And I've seen it used on Engadget & other blogs, even if magazines and newspapers won't do it.

Personally, I think it's wise to avoid it as I have heard it used in a tremendously racist way. And again, everyone has different experiences in this regard. I do think, however, that it's a bit odd to get offended when someone points out this kind of usage. At the very least, we know that it's happening.
Chicago, IL (Downtown)

BrightTag, a growing venture backed start-up focused on the data management space, is hiring. We are looking for a talented sr. Java software engineer to help create a robust, highly available, high-volume web application. Our solution will be usable by millions of websites and we want someone who is comfortable dealing with massive scale.

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So... CodeAnthem : BrainBench :: StackOverflow : ExpertSexChange?

I signed up for beta; cool concept! I'm interested to see how well it works in practice.
If I could make one point to everyone related to hiring, make sure that all the jobs you talk about are on your company's website and are in a search-engine-friendly format.

I hear that whenever Eric Schmidt sees a job posting that's buried behind a login form or within a PDF/DOC, he kills a puppy...
I'm unlikely to switch from Things to Taskforce, but I would pay for a Gmail->Things "Convert to Task" button.
You made Selenium, you're not too shabby yourself.

How does it feel to be the author of a goddamn resume requirement? :-P

http://jobsearch.monster.com/PowerSearch.aspx?q=selenium
I disagree with pretty much every position in this article as a matter of opinion. However, I disagree with this part as a matter of fact:

"Yet if you look at all those powerhouse [college football] programs across the country, only seven or eight actually rake in money."

I've now heard this point made by several individuals and it's simply not true. Purely in terms of revenues versus costs, the majority of division 1A programs in the country make money. For 76 of the 120 div 1A programs, revenues exceeded costs as reported to the government in 2008. In many cases (20+), the profits are significant -- 10's of millions of dollars. Football programs make it possible for other non-revenue generating sports to exist.

The raw data can be found here:
http://www.ope.ed.gov/athletics/

Also, I can anecdotally say that having gone to a school with a decent football team, it has kept me in touch with a number of my friends, provided a rallying point for alumni, and will play a role in my future giving to my alma mater.

Edit: For clarification...
"And Buffie has nothing to do with anything and isn't really a valid analogy though I appreciate the humor here. If you can show me actual usage of those words in the way you describe, then yeah I'd avoid those too. Again, go ahead and use them if you want."

I do hope you see the humor I'm trying to get across. I'd be hard pressed to find a current usage of the word used as a slur. I'm just as hard pressed to find one for "niggle" by that standard btw.

Believe it or not, I do understand where you are coming from, and trying to use humor to address it. But it is a real problem if we let the tail wag the dog (as you put it) with respect to language usage.
I don't understand then. :-(

Thanks for your time and responses.
How does this app scale to really big projects and team sizes? Is it for the 1-3 team size? Or can it work for the 20+ company?
I think all this shows is that designers need to take a leaf from successful developers books in terms of having a solid set of requirements and specifications in place before starting.

I find with blog posts by designers, there's often a strong undercurrent of dislike about having to be artistic for a living. I totally understand that - mixing a creative output with the very restrictive world of having to do something to a budget and timeline is a recipe for stress. I guess the only thing to do is scythe the worlds apart : one bucket for 'I do this for money' and another for 'I do this for fun'.
If Google devoted itself to the downfall of the CCP, then the CCP would quite naturally retaliate against Google.

Governments traditionally use deadly force to protect themselves from overthrow. It's one of the things that make them special compared to other corporations!

Are you suggesting Google field an armed military? Do you think Page/Brin/Schmidt can be the William Walker [1] of the 21st century? China may be harder to 'liberate' than 1856 Nicaragua.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_%28filibuster%29
My day job is Java and Bash with assorted UNIX utils.

One major side-project is C++ and Lua. The other is Python(GAE), Django, JavaScript and Awk.

The only problem is constantly switching Python and JavaScript code over several hours. I can't count how may times I get something as simple as an if statement syntax wrong.
I went to one of the small liberal arts schools the authors of the book favor.

Many of them have a 3-2 arrangement with an engineering school. You take the more general science and math courses at the liberal arts school, then 2 years of engineering classes at the engineering school.
Maybe you could offer to pay your testers more if they're willing to do the processing (which requires a download). Depending on how much your processing costs are you could even distribute it @home style.