skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Anyone have a FFFFound.com invite?
I am getting frustrated looking for a ffffound.com invite, it's been over a year now searching on Reddit, inviteshare, and other dead ends. I can trade a Spotify invite if anyone wants one? Other than that...I'm still looking for a Demonoid invite also. Thanks
Im from Europe and not used to miles so I would also appreciate a button to toggle between miles and kilometers!
Advice on getting a job in venture capital
Perhaps you should submit your business as story instead of cluttering up the thread for hackers looking for jobs.
The "follow road" feature of Daily Mile's route creator is a time-saver. Check it out.
I have a desktop PC left over that would probably even be good for gaming (Athlon 64 3000+) but I have been unable to find anybody who wants it (Berlin, Germany). It's low on RAM but I would be willing to stock up if anybody wants it. I don't have a Windows license left over, so it currently runs Ubuntu.
I'm interested in a $99 e-reader not just for the reader itself but for the fact that high market penetration will speed up the process of getting more books into digital format.
This is a cool capability. But I have to admit, it's lacking in the syntactic sugar that made the previous example look so appealing. I just simply read the code out loud in English and immediately knew what it meant. This is a bit more of a tongue twister. This notion of defining subsets of symbols like this could make code correctness for many cases a trivial thing.
IPhone Jailbreaking Decision Is Temporary Relief
The art of startup names
At non-software companies, programmers are often treated like expenses or even overhead, like HR. So naturally the goal is to try to spend the minimal amount of money possible. Often they are put under someone who doesn't understand technology or the way programmers work, like a CIO (rather than a CTO) and demands things like formal clothes and many layers of management.

Most people hate those things, but programmers don't (feel the) need to put up with them. Software companies are typically founded and run by past-programmers and at least they understand the landscape, even if they tend to morph into the pointy-haired boss to some extent.

If a non-software company wanted to attract the best talent:

1) Hire a strong technical leader:

This is sort of a chicken and egg problem, but smart programmers don't want to work for dumb ones that are old/lucky enough to get pushed into management. The "head" of the programmers needs to be smart enough to make the right decisions and humble enough to learn from his subordinates. They exist but they're rare.

2) No salary brackets

Of course the department will need a budget, but let the most competent people make the most instead of relying on age or I, II, III numbers. This is VITAL to being able to recruit top talent. They will be paid substantially above market 99% of the time, and even if you find that underpaid 1% and steal him away, he may just leave and make more money. The fact is, if you want top talent, be prepared to pay way above market, but the value you will get per programmer will be so much more. If you don't believe that, then don't even waste time looking for top talent.
Absolutely, I will get that in there ASAP!
I disagree that anything you list is a niche feature. As for the standard lib - I'm interested to hear what you think has been added recently which are "crap".

Given the amount of debate, discussion, and work that goes into every single language change we make, I'm rather proud that we've largely avoided making a complete mess of things.
Is the code out there somewhere? Do you want help?
In certain circles. Probably the same that would also recognize "grok".
Ok, I'll add my anecdote too. Hacking != Having a personal computer. I started programming on my 3rd grade (required-to-have) programmable calculator (that had 10 steps & comparison to 0 only). Then, my father showed me Pascal on his computer at work (and programmers in the 1980s Soviet Union did not upper middle class make; plumbers made more), and I started programming on paper, and bringing in my paper programs to my father's work to "check". Then, the school I went to was a special math school (merit, not privilege) and they got computers (the only school computers in our city then) in my 4th grade. When we came to the United States, we were on welfare, so, no personal computer till I was in college. And yet, the schools had computers, you know. Granted, old macs, but computers.

The reason the "anecdote" is relevant is that the article doesn't state any probabilities or historical context here, it's just "If A, then B". There were plenty of periods in America when that couldn't have been true even for most people. E.g., in 1970s, if you were hacking, it didn't mean privilege, just luck in having access somehow. If you're learning to hack _now_ as a child... Come on, pretty much anyone can get access to some type of device now, even if it's just in the library.
I like it. The elevation graph is great. Needs a 'Complete there and back route' option. and saving seems pretty slow to me.

http://sketchroute.com/routes/4c51da384790ce3314000025
Not looking for a job either but definitely looking for an internship for the coming winter or next summer. I am a student studying Information and Communication Technology, entering my third year. I have experience in working with C/C++, Python , Java, Qt4 bindings for python.

I have just started my blog:
http://www.zarthon.wordpress.com
http://forre.st/storage#sata says you can get 1.5TB (new) for $80. That's a significant percentage lower than $120.

(And $53 (!) if you don't mind used.)
There's a significant overhead to eye tracking in terms of computation, so our costs aren't just paying testers. We wanted to price ourselves competitively compared to sites like UserTesting.com, but of course pricing was/is something we've discussed a lot.
Downtown San Francisco, CA

Credit Karma is a venture-backed startup in the financial services industry. We are committed to providing free credit scores and are very pro-consumer.

We're mostly looking for saavy operations, UX / Design, product development, and customer service folks, although there is occasional overlap between some roles.

Here's a full list of jobs: www.creditkarma.com/about/careers

careers@creditkarma.com
Chief Architect Inc., Coeur d'Alene Idaho.
Always looking for good C++ programmers to work on our 3D Home Design / CAD software.
http://www.chiefarchitect.com/company/employment.html
I'm perfectly ok with you integrating religion in to your rules to live by. But you don't have to and it is nonsense that you can't find 'meaning' in life without that.
Hey - Our FAQ states our fees as well: http://mydunktank.com/pages/faq#transactionfees

That said, good feedback about making it clearer.
Oracle will support Solaris on Dell and HP hardware
Well, the author clearly understands best practices much, much, better than he understands satire.
Those feminist brains are so warped: "There is a subset of boys and men who burn with a passion for computers and computing. Through the intensity of their interest, they both mark the field as male and enshrine in its culture their preference for single-minded intensity and focus on technology."

I am supposed to feel guilty for what? Being intensely interested? Because that is something girls can't do?
I used modal editors for a couple of decades['72-late 80s], and still haven't managed to become proficient with either vi or emacs (or variants or descendants thereof). Currently just use TextMate or PLT or CCL editors.
Initial TechCrunch Coverage of Hacker News (2008)
Amman, Jordan (Middle East)

Looking for .NET or C++ hackers, graphics designers, tech support, or web designers (css, html).

Contact me: mqudsi@gmail.com or +962796178096
All the radar and sonar in the world won't do the aircraft carrier any good if Captain Balmer ignores them and steers based on where he thinks the island ought to be instead of where it actually is.
Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Europe.

We are searching at least 3 more developers in the fields of search & automatic content/site extraction, crawling, duplicate content, news/spam detection.

We do content fetching and aggregation (news,message boards, blogs, ...) for market research institutes, media analytics companies, etc...

We are still relative small (mostly Harvard, ETH Zurich, and TU Munich graduates), so you are still able to actively shape our company.

If you are from abroad, and want to experience a different culture for a few months/years (some even stayed here their entire life ;)) in a small french/german/english speaking country, why not join?

We can also offer internships for a few months (probably 6).

http://blog.trendiction.com/tag/jobs

Just drop me (thibaut) a mail (or call) if you are interested or need more information!
Isomorphic Visualizations (ggplot2)
“… it’s just that in C++ and the like, you don’t trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. the practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.”
I'm now out of my comfort zone, as I'm unemployed.
I see it as a beneficial period because it has taught me again how to sell myself and hunt for a job.

regarding your original question, I have written a blog entry:

http://design-to-last.com/Technical/the-dangerous-comfort-zo...

Daniel
I like to alias commands and put them in ~/.bash_profile for the ones that are useful. Then to see what you have saved you just type alias to get the list of all the current aliases. if there is one that could possibly do harm to your system and you dont want it to run you could do a alias possiblyBadCommand="0 && whatever command you want to save but never run." If you accidentally run possiblyBadCommand it will just exit out saying -bash: 0: command not found
I've always connected it with "grip" (and the Norwegian translation: "gripe"). /usr/bin/grep runs through STDIN and "grips" the matching lines, while everything else flows through and disappear. That totally made sense in my head…

EDIT:

In December 2003, the Oxford English Dictionary Online added draft entries for "grep" as both a noun and a verb. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep#Usage_as_a_conversational_...
I'm looking - currently in SF bay area physics PhD program, working on computational condensed matter physics. Physics&Math degree, good CS background as well (mostly python, also C, C++, others in passing) as part of undergrad studies/current research/current side projects but no 'official' dev/work experience, if you get what I mean. Planning to take a year or more off from degree program to work on a startup or similar - I kind of imagine myself coming in somewhere between an intern and and engineer. Hoping to stay in SF area for now. I'd be happy to send a resume, too. email: renwar11@gmail.com
Thanks for the feedback. Right now we're targeting web-based interfaces, but expanding into different products is definitely something we're considering. It depends on what kind of demand we see for it.
That's the high road to trusted computing, but that doesn't mean the destination is any better. Think the 'ministry of automation' giving you a license to develop or something like that.
My only recommendation wrt Safari Books is that you use the download tokens in a timely manner. A while back I lost something like 20-30 of them because the subscription lapsed, and unless they've changed it, once you lose them, they're gone forever.

And that sucks IMHO.
I'm not really looking for a job currently, but I'm interested in who would find someone with my skill set useful: Ph.D. in astrophysics, 15yr research experience, lots of coding in C++ and Python (mostly numerical, Monte Carlo, parallel computation, radiation transfer stuff). In general a pretty all-round kind of guy.

If an opportunity came along, I would be interested in something where I could use my knowledge of physics and coding for something more "applied" and immediately useful to humanity than astrophysics. Ring any bells?
If A and B are two rivals that are the same modulo one factor, but A has worse odds than B, then we must conclude that the system has a bias against subjects with that particular set of properties. You may justify it as an attempt to cancel out some other bias, but it seems mathematically incontrovertible that a negative bias exists with a set of numbers like that.
Was this back when users with high karma were rewarded by having their name in gold?
He suggests creating a persona in your mind that bears the brunt of the pointlessly cruel emails, the adamant, but content-free bug reports, etc, etc. If these prickly letters in your inbox stop affecting you personally, you can be the calm mediator between your customer and said hapless persona. What's the kindest way we can elicit this web-illiterate customer's underlying problem? This other raving lunatic clearly wants an apology before we can address his issue. No sweat!
This is also true on the iPad and it's way cheaper. I could never quite stomach the Kindle delivery fees.
About 2 years ago an acquaintance of mine suddenly had a stroke. When she came to she was conscious but completely paralyzed. The only way could communicate was with her eyes [1].

She's since recovered and is able to talk. But she describes an intense loneliness and frustration at being a prisoner in her own body. When she was finally able to use an expensive, specialized computer to communicate by slightly moving her fingers, it was an amazing encouragement.

Part of the problem right now is that these input systems are extremely expensive and specialized. Even if the family can afford to pay for one, they still have to spend time researching which system is the best.

I imagine a free, open-source system that will allow for rapid eyetracking-based writing. Say, a live cd that contains many commercial webcam drivers and boots into a system like Dasher (http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.htm...).

This would provide instant communication, however crude, to a person who has recently been through a tragic experience.

Is webcam eye-tracking imperfect? Yes. Do commercial systems exist that solve this problem better? Yes. But the idea here is to have something someone could put into hardware they already have to get _something_ working right away.

OpenGazer: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/
A nice list of eye trackers: http://www.cogain.org/wiki/Eye_Trackers#Open_source_gaze_tra...

*Yes, someone would have to help the paralyzed put the cd into the tray and boot the computer

[1]: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/conniemchaddad/mystory
Cool site but I was expecting to see a screenshot of my page in each browser. Besides validation errors I also care about layout.

http://www.webpagetest.org/ provides that feature (for IE 7/8), I have been using it frequently.

EDIT: Found the right link, sorry for the confusion.
Reverse flips
But you're ignoring the part about people using it in racist ways already. That's the rub here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=niggle
Google's results for telephone number search used to be a lot better than they are now.
Great, merit based compensation could be a powerful way to run a company. I sincerely agree with your belief that purpose-driven enterprises are more successful, especially when that purpose is to produce a fantastic product.

I read a bit of your "open enterprise manifesto" (which is way too long to read in my opinion, but that may not be your goal), and found conflict with this statement:

"We made our government democratic, and our corporations everything but..."

Actually, we made our government a Republic, with a set of laws and inalienable rights. The process for changing those laws was made democratic, but the system was created as a Republic to protect the rights of individuals from the arbitrary force of government.

I don't understand why so many people focus on the "greed" and "corruption" inherent in "top-down" corporations, but ignore the greed and corruption inherent in centralized government. Those who operate the government are no different than those who operate corporations. They're all human.

If you can't trust corporations, then you DEFINITELY can't trust government, because they are all run by humans of the same nature.
Backups, A Success Story
I just sold my Kindle DX, and while I really liked it I find having a single unified device much more convenient.

I tried to read my iPad on a beach and it sucked, but frankly, I do most of my readings in bed, on planes or indoors.

Reading on the Kindle is definitely easier on the eyes, but the iPad handles technical books much better, even with the Kindle PDF support.
If this is a joke too, then.. I don't get it.

If not, it looks like its not Steve Yegge who's the idiot.. time for somebody to look in the mirror perhaps?
Those Nighttime iPhone Downloads Are Actually Not Downloads
The code is in a private github repo
I would LOVE help.

If you're willing to please check this out, and shoot me an email

http://bettermeans.org/front/?page_id=253

We're an open enterprise, so everyone who asks, and agrees to our governance model can join.

All dev worked is tracked here:
http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/platform/
I am a fun and outgoing guy looking for a strategist or community management type position. I've got some dev experience (LAMP, JS, ~python, working on jquery) and a minor in CS, but coding full-time gives me cabin fever of the brain.

I'm super curious, intellectually fearless, and willing to relocate (currently in Chicago; would prefer SF.) Contact info is in my profile.
Looks confusingly close to freshbooks.com in design (and logo)
More about ed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)

It was one of the first end-user programs hosted on the system and has been standard in Unix-based systems ever since. ed was originally written by Ken Thompson and contains one of the first implementations of regular expressions.
...
Famous for its terseness, ed gives almost no visual feedback. For example, the message that ed will produce in case of error, or when it wants to make sure the user wishes to quit without saving, is "?". It does not report the current filename or line number, or even display the results of a change to the text, unless requested.
BSCS grad looking for an entry-level backend webdevelopment type position. Main experience with python/django but willing to learn ruby/rails or even PHP for the right position. Willing to relocate to a major population center - not a fan of the middle of nowhere :)

Contact is in profile if you'd like my resume/site.
Yes the article is a bit blinkered especially when Perl, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell are already available options on Android (along with Python & JRuby): http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
I'm happily using MooseX::Declare for when I want better OO - and given Moose is a full metaprotocol with appropriate, extensible objects for everything (ruby has nothing like attributes, let alone extensible meta-attributes, sadly) it's a hugely powerful tool.

Piers Cawley happily gave up on ruby and came back to perl5 as a result of it - you should give it a play before looking at a more drastic switch.
The scary thing (for me) is that I suspect the answer for a very large number of people is 'yes'. With setting your own rules comes the added burden of being responsible for the results, and plenty of people would like to be able to point to some third party when things go bad.
What other competitors does Mogo have?

I don't ask to go elsewhere, I ask because coincidentally I decided this morning was the day for me to find a better solution to all the crap I've been tolerating for so long in my cross-browser compatibility work. Mogo was the absolute quickest to impress me and I'm curious if I've misevaluated the lot of them, or if I'm so trained to adore anything referred from HN. I need some perspective.

nirvdrum, care to compare lists of "Web Testing" tools?
Guess they thought of that...

http://ideone.com/Xm7TK
Personally, when I read, I read for hours. The vast majority of the time I read, it is in my house, where my Kindle always is, so it is always 'with me'.
here's your reminder to double check every email you send out to your users. there is no undo button on email, but adding a delay between when you click "send" and when it actually goes out can save you a lot of embarrassment when you have your own "oh shit" moment.
What are Tags in the context used in the article?
Get a keyboard with USB connection to your computer, this will allow you to use it as a controller (a piece of hardware that can send input to software). Download some software like Logic Studio or FL Studio (John Boswell uses FL Studio, http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/, he's the one who did the Symphony of Science videos). Begin playing. You can easily create patterns to repeat, record yourself playing, record audio, compose visually and use any instruments and effects that you want. Even just Garage Band would be enough to get you started :)

You don't need a lot more than that. If you need any help setting it up, let me know.
And, I should add, the difference between corporations and government is that corporations are not able to apply arbitrary force (rightfully) while the government can.

Therefore government actions are much more dangerous that corporate actions, and they are far less often held accountable for the results of their actions.
The goal of this trick is to reduce the memory required when the argument to the count function is a lazy sequence. When iterating through a lazy sequence, the items in the sequence are realized and retained by the sequence.

The code clears the stack slot for the count method argument. If the object referenced by the argument is not referenced elsewhere, then the object is eligible for gc during the execution of the count method. In the case where the argument is a lazy sequence, this changes the memory requirement from the entire realized sequence to a single item in the sequence.

This trick is employed everywhere in the Clojure implementation where a lazy sequence might be retained. It's not specific to the count function.
Wow. I'd be perfect! Can I also do it for free!
I love that idea and it would be very useful for me as well so I'll do some digging and find out!
Elon Musk: Your Help Urgently Needed to Save the Future of Human Spaceflight
I'm looking for something interesting.

Me: just graduated from university; I'm good at engineering big things, backend development (python and some C/C#), data analytics, and predictive models. I like the type of challenges that keep you up thinking. I gained a fair bit of startup experience for the past few years in undergrad.

Feel free to shoot me a message: alex.harrower@hotmail.com. (no, thats not my real name. I just started f/t with a big company, so sorry for the anonymity. :)
If you click on the URL in the test results, you'll see a grid of your screenshots in each browser. If you hover each thumbnail, you can see a full resolution version or a full canvas version (shows all scrollable content). There's a set of image comparison tools there, too.
Meet Twitter’s New Real-time Architecture
Life will teach you, one way or another. Better take the easy way if you can.

the easy way is learning from others mistakes
As I posted in The Next Social Winter, measuring is difficult and learning to measure complexity is a key factor to avoid catastrophe, from the New Science of Morality Pannel:

Harvard cognitive neuroscientist and philosopher Joshua D. Greene sees our biggest social problems — war, terrorism, the destruction of the environment, etc. — arising from our unwitting tendency to apply paleolithic moral thinking (also known as "common sense") to the complex problems of modern life. Our brains trick us into thinking that we have Moral Truth on our side when in fact we don't, and blind us to important truths that our brains were not designed to appreciate.

Summarizing: we are using Paleolithic moral thinking, that is we are not addressing the real complexity of moral thinking.