skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, software firms are also overwhelmingly in favor of each Fortune 500 being liquidated, and the proceeds being evenly distributed to the remaining software firms.
Pretty cool. I've basically been using an etherpad to keep track for my job search but this wouldve be so much better.
I do need a job.
I am interested to join a startup whether as an entry level software engineer or an intern.
I am comfortable with C, Python, Java, C++ and C#.
Unfortunately, I lack the experiences with frameworks, APIs and libraries such as RoR, Django, Hadoop, Scala, etc but I am willing to catch up.
I am an F-1 student with an OPT work authorization for a year.
I love solving algorithm problems and security issues.
I do not mind smaller compensation as long as I can pay my rent and I can eat.
I am currently based on Indiana but I am willing to relocate.

Some small codes written for references: http://github.com/genkiro/Quora1/downloads

Resume: http://github.com/downloads/genkiro/Quora1/Ronny_Wijaya_2010...

I can be reached at rwijaya@purdue.edu
> 30. Remember, 97% of all advice is worthless. Take what you can use, and trash the rest.

I took this 3% as the take away from the entire post :)
Right, and apropos is drastically faster than menus once you know what things are called.
Some random web app ideas
A Startup Runs on Morale
yes

(This post was made at: 7:05 AM 30th July 2010 Sydney)
Except it does nothing to protect Oracle. The cost is so inconsequential somebody is going to provide hosting. All they achieved was a couple days (hours?) of hassle for the pgsql people and pissing off some devs. Zero competitive advantage was achieved while confirming to developers they can't be trusted. If it was an accident, Oracle employs humans. If this was purposeful, Oracle employs idiots.
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Great how-to! I didn't know about sendgrid. It looks like a nice service.
PvZ helps everything with the exception of my marriage.

I play "We Rule" with my wife so it's fun because of that. You need to have friends in the game to make it fun. If you get into it again email me (from my contact info) and I'll add you.
Sadly no Micro$oft though.
Well, can you reasonably expect much else? It's a backported feature from perl6, constrained by the existing syntax of perl5. Of course it won't have the syntatic sugar.

One of the other cool capabilities of perl6 is the rules system, expanding on regexs so you can work with full on grammars. The perl6 grammar, written in perl6:

http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/src/perl6/STD.pm6
I can't say about the Kindle, but I have a Sony PRS and it's pretty good. PDF are usually better seen in landscape.
However you may want to convert them to ePub for better readability.

BTW, I won't EVER buy any DRM-laden book, music or anything else. It seems that the Kindle pretty much propose only that...
I have a Ph.D. in Math and CS, but never worked in IT. I like to think about problems and how to solve them. I like to learn and enjoy hobby programming and coding in Python, Ruby or Lisp. I think I don't really need a job, just some challenge to solve.
I believe on launching on day 1 of a project, and then just incrementally improving it afterward. Start with nothing, add something, add something else, repeat.
Reminds me of the bengali (I think) newspaper that took the article on Armstrong becoming a moon hoax believer seriously.
I'm looking for a full-time position (consumer web startups) in either Product Management, UX Design or Front-End Development. I'm located in Toronto but actively looking everywhere and would love to relocate to somewhere new.

I'm experienced with both the LAMP stack and the design stack (especially napkins). I cofounded and was CTO of a startup for 1.5 years, http://thinkpanda.com, and am currently freelancing.

Check out my portfolio website: http://fahdoo.com
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/fahdb

Or if someone wants to angel fund me so I can work on a few new startup ideas, then that would be swell :)
Mountain View, CA (walking distance from CalTrain)

Bump Technologies

We make phones a better tool for interacting with other people in the real world. The Bump app is one of the most popular mobile apps with >13M iPhone and >2M Android downloads, and our API is used by >100 iPhone apps including PayPal's. Our team (so far) is 14 people and we are backed by YC, Sequoia, and Ron Conway.

We are most looking for an Android lead, but are always interested in great iPhone and backend people as well. Full job descriptions and application instructions are at http://bu.mp/jobs (mention HN if submitting). Feel free to email me with questions: jake (at) bu (dot) mp.
It's having problems with Opera. The text is really huge.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, both grep and grok are English verbs. I'm happy about this, since the OED is about as official as you can get.
Ask HN: Companies that ask for sample code before interview
I like to get opinions on what people think when companies they are interviewing asks for sample code for screening candidates.

Is this normal practice these days ? Does this tell anything about the company? I don't know what to make of this, but
I tend to get a negative impression about such companies.
A Real Web Design Framework
It's not unreasonable.

The [I Do Foundation](http://www.idofoundation.org/about/faq/) charges 8%, and they are a 501(c)3 nonprofit. A lot of that is credit card processing fees.

That said, I won't encourage charitable donations through a for-profit company whose business is charitable donations.
Could do eventually, but happy within the ivory tower for now. Would only be tempted out by the big face money.
This is true for almost everything. In poor households, the children are generally required to perform more work to help support the household. For example, the cleaning lady at my work brings her son with her to help... can't be more than 14. Even if he had a computer, thats 2-3 hours everyday that he can't be using it, or practicing basketball, or whatever else he might succeed in. Poor parents also can't pay for coaching, etc.

This article boils down to: privileged people are privileged. True, by definition, but also meaningless.
Paul Wilson worked on compressed paging at the turn of the century [1] and tried to address this by introducing specialized compression algorithms for different kinds of pages (e.g., x86 instructions, pointer-filled data structures). Interesting stuff, but I don't think I've ever seen it commercialized, except in Newton OS where we used compressed code pages in binaries (read-only, not swap).

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.26.7...
Ask HN: Efficient HTML Text Replace, RegEx? jQuery?
[disclaimer]
I understand the risk in using a framework, but I also understand the benefits. I was only using jQuery to see if it was a fast enough approach.

So, the other day, i wrote a line of jQuery like so to find all elements that contained the word 'apple'. the idea was that i could do the find/replace faster than doing it via a regex over the whole doc, which requires a redraw.

$("*:contains['apple']").each(
function(){
//do something
});

the result was that i was processing iteratively on every item in the DOM that had a descendant which contained the word 'apple', rather than just the child objects.

I ended up using some code from Johann Burkard
http://johannburkard.de/blog/programming/javascript/highlight-javascript-text-higlighting-jquery-plugin.html

Johann's approach iterates through the text using a string.indexOf(pat) pattern. i was wondering if any of you had any better ideas?

In the ideal situation, i would use a jQuery selector to select only child nodes that contained 'apple', but there is no such selector 'isChild' that can be paired with :contains as far as i know.

I would like to replace all instances of 'apple' with '<span class="highlight">apple</span>" with the lowest impact to the dom possible.
There's a reason the "command and control" model has evolved. The history of mankind has shown an increasing tendency toward specialization of expertise in our daily jobs. One of the risks of doing things this way is that people that aren't specialists in a field and have no context about how a proposed decision came about will start dragging down the group like lead weights. Think about the kinds of comments you see in newspaper articles. It's lowest common denominator for a reason. Everybody there is commenting on stories that are, at best, second-hand information (not to mention whether the information is even accurate to begin with).

I wish you the best of luck, but I have to admit I don't think I would find your tool to be very useful. If people working for me are that unhappy that they feel the need to resort to anarchism, then maybe they should question whether working for the company is something that they should even be doing. Put another way, if I were working for somebody and felt like a pawn, I'd choose to work elsewhere if trying to engage the leadership and persuade them on issues failed.
In response to software which requires a lot of development time to create, specifically tax software or games, RMS says:

> The reason I don't use nonfree software is that it would take away my freedom. I don't want to let that happen. So I don't consider installing nonfree program, even as an possible option. I treat them as poison. I hope that you will too.

This man lives in an imaginary world where no one has to make any money (or if they do, they are evil) or deserves to live a comfortable lifestyle by receiving monetary rewards for good and hard work.

Frankly, I believe that this tone and rhetoric devalues some of the great things he has done.

EDIT: clarification where I say (or if they do) I mean if they want to.

EDIT 2: I don't understand why I'm being downvoted for expressing my opinion...
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My dad started his own company that does physics simulations. Most of his customers are labs and universities. I don't think he's hiring (he's the only employee), but if you shoot him an email, he might be able to give you some advice.

His name is Jon. Email: larsen@casinc.com
Thanks! guys for helping me understand a lil bit more.

We are currently in the YouTube Rentals program, may have to test it out and see how some of our content performs on your platform. Once we finish, off course.

Keep coding!
Sheffield, UK - in office.

Localphone Ltd. - http://www.localphone.com/

We’re a VoIP and telephony start-up based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK.

Looking for a PHP developer and a mobile apps developer.

It really is a great place to work. Laid back and plenty of opportunities to learn new stuff. Experiencing strong growth and lots of plans for new products, hence expanding the development team.

http://www.localphone.com/about/careers for job descriptions, contact details.
I lost patience with RMS years ago. The problem with Free Software is a marketing problem. If you have to keep explaining things over and over again, saying "Free as in Freedom", or trying to get GNU/Linux to take hold instead of just Linux, you're doing it wrong.

Richard is a tremendous hacker, but he's a lousy salesman. I'm not a big fan of salespeople in general, but guys like DHH have proved that it's not enough to be a great hacker if you want your code and ideas to flourish. You need to understand that marketing really does matter.

Glad to hear he's lightened up a bit over the years, though. Maybe GNU will finally see a rebranding. GNU is such an ugly logo.
I don't think that is really their concern. Even if Oracle comes out on top in benchmarks they lose. "We're spending how much to get a x% performance increase?" Once numbers are attached a rational decision can be made come buying decision time. Oracle wants/needs that decision to be based on qualitative arguments, "our space unicorn is better than they're blue elephant."
Austin, TX

Involver http://involver.com

Based in San Francisco, but has a new Austin office. They want RoR devs. Im just a dev myself, but I want to help build an awesome work atmosphere.
Mixpanel (San Francisco, CA)

http://mixpanel.com/jobs (email us info at jobs@mixpanel.com)

Real-time Analytics (large scale data problem solving). Recently did over a billion actions a month from real people and angel backed.

If you're awesome at Python / Javascript / MySQL you should email us.
Wow. doing a search for "designer" found no entries, and one entry only for "css". Is everyone on HN a programmer or business type?
I decided that I would rather do something good with no monetary reward than profit by mistreating people

A $1M grant from the MacArthur foundation and another $1M from the Takeda foundation tends to skew one's view of economics somewhat.
I'd see it as a great chance to show the interviewer in the most concrete way possible that you really know your stuff.

Far from it giving me a negative impression, it gives me a positive one, far more positive than trick interview questions or aptitude tests or other nonsense like that.

Take them up on it, and take the chance to perform a reverse evaluation on how well your interviewer knows his stuff, it's a two way street!
I haven't thought about the Sony readers, although I also don't want DRMed books.

How would you compare the ease of getting content on the Sony reader vs the Kindle (given that I have the PDF already on my desktop).
Without addressing your points specifically, you sound angry about the situation of race in America. Many people of all races have issues with the status quo. Some people express it directly, like for example taking longer to get your food. In America, it's safe to say that if you cross racial boundaries enough, you'll eventually run into some racism no matter what race you are. So yes, there is much racism in America, and you've seen it yourself.

Only problem is, it's asymmetrical. You experienced it at a restaurant. Other likely places for someone like you might be at the laundromat, at school, at a party, at the post office. But it's unlikely at places like, at the bank, at a job interview (for a good job - not McDonalds), driving down the highway, etc. Because even though in America anyone can be racist, the people in positions that matter are more often white.
http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
It might depend on your domain. These are what mariners call them.
Mixpanel - Looking for Python / Javascript hackers
Agree about an option to have routes following the street.

Also, when you clear the map, it jogs you out of whatever view you were in (eg. if you were looking in hybrid mode, it dumps you back into map mode).

But really, it's very nice!
Wow, that would be an amazing job. If it were more solid than 1 year of contract work, I might even be willing to relocate for it. What are the chances a job like this turns into a permanent position, assuming I worked hard and did a great job?
Sure. I'm going to simplify things just because of space constraints, but I'll highlight what I think are the biggest differences.

- browsershots.org: Free option (go to the back of the line), paid option (priority), but ultimately screenshots only.

- Adobe Browserlab: Pricing not defined? It will be pay, but I don't think they've announced pricing. Single page only results. Just does screenshot comparisons.

- Litmus App: I'm not sure if they're completely out of the space. They've been focusing on email render testing. Single page only results, but pretty slick UI.

- browsera: Does some of the cross-browser issue detection (we'll be adding this soon, but it's not there yet), but feels clunky to use. Limited browser selection, but they said they're working on that. Doesn't do the general site issue detection we do.

Sorry if that was an oversimplification. I'm not trying to misrepresent what the others are doing. Some do some things better than us now, but we're moving pretty quickly on our product, which we think is better in other ways. Primarily, we're amongst the fastest and easiest to set up & use.
I agree that it's dishonest to call piracy theft in the truest sense of the word, but I feel like the primary reason that most people rail against the terms being conflated is because theft is a more familiar criminal concept to most people and thus has a stronger connotation, and pirates would prefer it if piracy wasn't actually a crime.

I strongly disagree that it is worse to steal something than it is to make a copy of it (EDIT: when doing so is a violation of someone else's right to sell it), especially when the "something" in question is digital data. Unlike a painting, a copy of digital data is functionally equivalent to the master - neither of them can be called a forgery, nor does one have more or less value than the other. Additionally, the ability to produce copies of data is not a talent or a skill. It is available to everyone.

This brings us to the center of the "information is free" argument: digital data is essentially worthless, because it can be copied infinitely for essentially no cost. The only way to associate value with it is to make it artifically scarce, i.e. control copying.

Information may want to be free, but the people who produce it want to be paid. The people who take the time and expend the effort to arrange or gather data often do so with the intention of selling copies for money, or with the intention of keeping one or a very limited number of copies for themselves (such as the source code for your new startup. If piracy's OK, I hope you don't mind me grabbing a copy and starting my own business.)

TL;DR: Piracy is theft of the author's ability to sell and protect their work. Some may argue that works that can be replicated for free should not be able to be sold, but I disagree. I like commercial software in addition to free software, and I like being paid to be a software developer.
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I noticed it this week. I wish the lines hugged a little closer to the building and on the sidewalk though. I use it to measure my jogging distance and having it measure the street instead of the sidewalk can add a mile to my routine, which is usually around a big block. I just do it manually now. I can't complain, the site have been really usefully over the last few years.
It doesn't look like he said nobody should make any money. He said that nobody should install non-free software, which if everyone did as RMS wanted (they won't) would imply that one couldn't make money selling non-free software.

Why is it that so many people believe they have a God-given right to make money by doing a certain activity? I see this same thinking all the time in arguments about the future of newspapers. Programmers are generally smart people. I'm sure most of them could find a way to make money if everyone stopped buying proprietary software.
Contextual refactoring isn't present in vi because vi was meant to be used in conjunction with the Unix shell, pipes, and so on. It's not a full environment unto itself the way Emacs is. Search, refactoring, and the like would be handled by shell scripts, awk, perl, parsers made with lex & yacc, etc. Unix itself IS an integrated development environment!

There are lots of plugins for vim, but I'm not up on what would be specifically relevant because I do major editing in Emacs. (Also, I think when most developers need that kind of tool support to use a language it speaks volumes about it, but that's me.)

I like Emacs's extensibility and multi-buffer design, but prefer vi's modal keyboard interface. I like its brevity and orthogonality. Number of commands is less important when each combines cleanly with the others. I would love to see a synthesis of the strong parts of vi and Emacs, though I don't expect it to ever happen - Emacs's giant bundle of elisp has way too much inertia for a full rewrite.

How useful are IntelliJ and Resharper for (say) Erlang, by the way? While I haven't used either, those editors look like they're more tightly focused on Java and C#, whereas vi is for editing any kind of text, and Emacs has had at least passible support for every language I've ever used (except Joy). Comparing vi to an editor specifically designed for Java is a bit misleading.
Lavine's "Introduction to Statistical Thought" provided me with a great introduction to using R. The free text is available on his website: http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html
GNU is such an ugly logo.

A few years ago I asked Duane Bibby to do some artwork for The GNU C Reference Manual. I rather like his whimsical approach on the gnu...

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/gnu-db-1.jpg
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I did eye tracking in college. I was told the usability lab cost in the millions, and the eye tracking stuff was a sizable portion of that.

Granted, this was many years ago, but the bottom line is still true: $50 is cheap cheap cheap compared to your other options.
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You have a right to try to start a business around a given activity.

You do not have the right to succeed.
Maybe I attribute too much cleverness to Southwest's motives but taking the post's points 1 and 2, could it be possible that Southwest is doing this to gain a further competitive advantage in the marketplace? As in, if it's true that this will eventually be replicated by other airlines and it's also true that this will seep into policy, if SWA can keep it out of their policy, their customer service will look at least slightly better than their competitors over time.

Normally, I'd think this was a huge stretch but SWA has always been well run and managed. They have excellent customer friendly policies and they market them well. It doesn't seem that crazy to think that the smart people at SWA are taking a small PR gamble now in hopes of a big customer service win later.
Ask HN: What are the best tech conferences?
What do you think are the best tech conferences and why?

Feel free to list any cool tech conference but I am particularly interested in conferences about downloadable software.
Even public libraries have Safari subscriptions, e.g. Harris County Public Library (Houston area). There are different versions of Safari, so some things are missing from this more public subscription, but there is a lot of stuff in there for free, after logging in with a library card.
Graduating in September with a MS in computer science.

I'm looking for a software development position. My research area was computer networks, but interested in other areas as well. More interested in working on back-end type of stuff than front-end/UI. In Boston area, but willing to relocate.

http://nealc.com
He elaborates on that argument in Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People: http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_peo...
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Frankly, I believe that this tone and rhetoric devalues some of the great things he has done.

I completely disagree. He has certain values and political goals which he believes very strongly in -- and espouses them aggressively. This is true for all of us. I personally disagree with him (I am willing to give up some of my freedom for money), but I would never say that that diminishes his accomplishments and contributions.