skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropcam, hiring SW engineers in Bay Area only (but we can help you relo). We make a wi-fi video/audio monitor with a cloud DVR so you never miss a moment. You can watch from the web, iPhone, iPad, Android, and soon on your TV. Currently our customers watch their homes, kids, pets, parents, businesses, vacation properties, and more.

Engineering is driven by a combination of features requested by our paying user base (all from suburban middle America) and holy-crap-how-do-we-scale-to-multi-Gbps-and-PB-of-storage.

We were recently covered on Good Morning America, we've also been reviewed on CNet, Engadget, Mashable, Techcrunch, TWiT, Anandtech and more.

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You had the right answer for one set of assumptions. But, at the extreme weight is important EX: if the numbers where solar masses then gravity would suck them into each other.

If they pulley’s had sufficient friction C may move first. Or if you pull a real rope fast enough C will also move first (think KM/s speeds). Etc.
Not from me.
And that's not even the worst of statistical illusions. After reading about, for example, Simpson's paradox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_paradox

I concluded I'll always be very wary of using statistics for anything. It's a powerful tool, but also very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with. (Or to get deceived by. And they don't even need to know statistics better than you in order to fool you with some reasonable-looking analysis!)
Congratulations! Swarmation [1] certainly is a deserved winner. The solo winner is also awesome [2].

[1] http://swarmation.com/

[2] http://rallarpojken.no.de/
No: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659676

(this comment assumes that the weights are unsupported).
Agree but it's a long way away from that. Imagine if Ping was built in to the AppleTV as well, and additionally being able to be set automatically (like a scrobble) so that you can have conversations going with others while watching/listening/etc.

We've seen how Twitter peaks during major events (like the Olympics or during major TV episodes). I can see Apple eventually wanting to be the source for that info. Then again, they'd have to open it up a lot more and get it on other systems. Ping for PC, Ping for Android (GoogleTV?), Ping plugins, and so on. Which would all eventually lead to the iTunes store...

And what if they then struck marketing deals with a place like Amazon or Zappos? Ping "I like her shoes" and it recognizes that with a "buy" button linking to Zappos and the same shoes.

We've seen how Apple starts small and grows features much bigger than the original intention. We've also see how Apple has transformed themselves from Apple Computer Inc to just Apple (and all that that means).

While Ping certainly sucks now I believe they are committed... and they have a plan.
Yes, of course. You can use the Recording tab to play back older visits at any time. Also, you can play a visit from the beginning and it will automatically switch to real-time mode if that user is still online.
Hi, I'm the CEO of ClearContext. We have focused the last couple of years on including this type of functionality as part of our project management product, but we plan to release a simple free product for Outlook users focused just on identifying your most important messages. We'll start beta-testing that product this month.
Fyi, there's an alternative available to JDEE for those doing Java work with emacs. malabar-mode drops some of the legacy stuff, but adds support for generics and uses Groovy in place of beanshell:

http://github.com/espenhw/malabar-mode

cscope is also incredibly useful for those doing Java and/or C++ with emacs.
Sokal is a hero for doing that.
> But if it doesn't, and I want to impress people by showing that I listen to it, and there's no way to do that on Ping except by buying it from iTunes.

Actually, there is. In my opinion it is a very bad way to do so, but you browse on the ITMS to the music you want, click on the down arrow and click on Post. Then you can add a message and it will be appear on your Profile.

But as I said in my comment[1], they should have made all that accessible from within my library!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659902
Why the carpets in Vegas are Ugly
My name is Steve and Windows was my idea.
One or two jobs ago this sort of policy was explained to me as: "If you are getting your work done we don't care how much time you take off. If you are not getting your work done we also don't care how much time you take off"
He's referring to Moose, which is an insanely good object system, which wasn't prevalent at all 18 months ago but is nearly de rigueur in all but a handful of cases today. It's a mashup of CLOS, Perl 6, Smalltalk and a few other things that remains consistent, Perlish and intuitive. It's also crazy extensible - just look at the MooseX namespace on CPAN to see what I mean.
Title should probably mention that this is Steve Yegge's .emacs, and not Joe Shmo Programmer's.
> Did this newspaper do any actual research before making those claims?

I wouldn't fault the newspaper as much as I would fault the original research.
Mint Data is live
Entry is from 2006.

Why isn't there a generic printer driver, like USB HID or USB Mass Storage?
My biggest takeway from this email is to write short paragraph s when writing a long email. Seems pretty simple but I had never thought about this. Write 2-3 lines per paragraph.
Photoduino: open hardware camera controller
Ubuntu isn't perfect. Of course not. But it changes and is improved with releases every six months. It keeps improving at a rate that I think MS will have a very hard time keeping up with.
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Just FYI Paula Radcliffe weighs 54 kg the cyclist Leonardo Piepoli who is a man and the same height as Radcliffe weighs 52 kg. I do think that cyclists are on average heavier than marathon runners, but the top climber cyclists are not. The advantage Cancellara has on flat terrain is much smaller than the advantage a climber has in the mountains.

In my personal experience with cycling and running I'd say that carrying 1kg of fat running is a smaller disadvantage than carrying 1kg of fat cycling in mountain terrain. This is reversed when you consider cycling on flat terrain.
For me it's more an example of poor management from the fact that he allowed development to become so fragmented that the end result was a convoluted mess.

I know if the the richest man in the world said he was disappointed with something I had, the implications of not fixing the problem would be very clear. :)
http://vimeo.com/13560319
We are hiring a senior ruby developer at www.xing.com for our development team in Barcelona, Spain. Fulltime only and preferably with a EU work permit (although it might be possible for non-EU citizen to apply depending on the complexity of getting a work permit for them)

We are a small team of 12 people total with HQ in Hamburg Germany. Very laid back and easy going environment. Lot's of exiting stuff going on in the next couple of years.

If you got a mixed background that's a plus to as we have a wide variety of challenges and opportunities to make a mark for yourself. And we also provide spanish classes :). You'll be working in one of our two product teams that practice Scrumm primarily on our rails application and helping to drive the product forward with the product manager.

I'm the team lead in Barcelona and have been with Xing for 12 months now. It's a great company to work for and a great gang of developers, frontend developer and qa people all working closely together.

Ping me if you are interested on

christian.kvalheim@xing.om

Sorry no telecommute
I think you missed his/her point though. Captchas should prevent spam, allowing a user to include an arbitrary link that will appear on any random site is not much of an improvement to the site owner.
There's some really interesting data in there. I am having trouble understanding what "Monthly Expenses" means. For San Francisco it's over $14K. Too much for an average person, too little to be the aggregate expenditure of all Mint users in SF.
Thanks for taking the time to explain Netflix's justification for choosing Silverlight. As a customer, I would still prefer a solution that doesn't require installing a plugin.

Let me rephrase my original question: is there any chance we'll see a native or browser-based application for the Mac that doesn't require Flash or Silverlight, ala the iPad app? Presumably whatever sort of DRM the iPad app is using could be implemented on the Mac, as well.

By the way, you could have skipped the patronizing bits in your response about HTML5 tags and the definition of the word "codec." The term "HTML5 video" is used colloquially to refer to native browser support for H.264 or WebM video. I thought that was clear enough, but perhaps I should have been more precise.
Thank you for your feedback!

Regarding the resolution, there is room for improvement as the server is currently located in Europe and the website visitor only sends new mouse positions when the previous request returns from the server (in order to avoid multiple requests that may be stuck).

oyoLive should not slow down the site, as it loads asynchronously, but tell me if you notice any slowdowns.

I'll contact you soon to hear more feedback from you. Thanks so far!
Amusingly, the obnoxiously long paths he calls out in passing (Documents and Settings etc.) were changed in Vista (to something shorter and more vaguely reminiscent of the Unix structure) ... which caused a lot of grumbling, since people didn't know where to find things. One man's long-overdue fix is another's gratuitous arbitrary change.
Amazon is not claiming to be a social network.

Social networks sell themselves to users based on what the users can share and display about themselves to their social network. The more that a user can shape his persona (by revealing different information) the more appealing a social network will be to users, a big reason why facebook is so popular is exactly for this reason: it allows you to shape your presence in a very varied way (this is why pages is a killer feature).

To describe ping, apple should have really said that its a social network for ITMS, not a social network for music.
Nextbee.com is hiring an online marketing manager in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (or otherwise someone who can telecommute from home office)
where do I email you? your profile does not seem to have your email address.
Ask HN: Review my first website design
http://csa.22web.net/

This is my first website design for the Computer Science Association, BITS-Pilani, India.
I have been learning HTML, CSS and jquery for a month now and this was the first actual work of mine. Please review it.
Consistency can be an issue, languages which break from standards, or even what you're used to can be difficult. I grew up on C/C++, and it was the first real language I learned, so anything in that realm (Java, PHP, Perl, etc) is like riding a bike. For that same reason, Ruby was kinda hard to grok for me.

But I think documentation (books, available source code, tutorials) is the biggest issue. Finding a practical PHP or Ruby tutorial is way easier than a Scala or LISP one. I'm the kind of person who learns by reading other people's code, so I've never been interested in the more obscure languages because of that.
Link. http://csa.22web.net/
Astronomy types.. how comes the Sun looks so smooth and simple in this picture whereas it looks almost "volcanic" and highly irregular in most other pictures I've seen? (Just do a Google Images search for "sun" to see loads of them.)
Some languages are closer to how you see a problem. Therefore they're going to be "easier" for you to program in.
Laboring Under a Delusion: Underemployment may be worse than you think
Winprinters are supposed to be as cheap as possible; adding a layer of abstraction would cost money. OTOH if you buy a printer with PostScript, Ethernet, and Bonjour it will likely just work with a generic driver.

It's not clear that ESR's problems had anything to do with drivers, though.
This looks like a nice project, but what's with all the 1-hour-old accounts leaving comments down below?
Personally, I would feel very uncomfortable having one application with vertical close/minimize buttons while others are horizontal. I wouldn't expect the introduction of this level of inconsistency from an Apple product.
I'm not sure if they qualify, but what about the gaming networks? Xbox Live and PSN are more content delivery, perhaps battle.net and Steam though?
Correction... Microsoft /has made/ some excellent products. Here are some more for the list:

Xbox

SharePoint

Sql Server

DirectX

Visual Studio

Expression Studio

Team Foundation

Team Viewer

Windows Server
They've used that same headline to describe that last 5 iTunes releases.

There is a big difference between usability and artistic sensibility. Ultimately, some people just have a difficult time reacting to change. iTunes 10 was released only two days ago. Why not let it sink in for a while?
About your f***ing website.
> from Perl to Python (it's a really easy jump)

I disagree. Python is incredibly restrictive when you're used to perl. I would be so frustrated if I went that direction.
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Interesting app! What's your data storage policy? Do you store recordings forever -- I am sure recording data eats up data at a breakneck speed. Also do you store recording data on an external site such as S3?
Realistically, sure, but if someone were really determined to carry this out in real life - let's say, the government of Thailand for no real reason - they'd be able to afford to feed 10,000 cats pretty easily.

Oh, and what if we assume that the cats can or will eat each other, or corpses of other cats?
OWA degrades to what I deem a much cleaner client than the version you get if you use IE. The OWA you get in IE7+ uses ActiveX or some sort of Windows-specific JavaScript trickery which is why they restrict it's access to a browser they know will be used on Windows.

I don't really know what WGA is but have seen logos for it in the computer info dialog. I regularly download things from MSDNAA in Chrome, haven't tried the full MSDN portal.
That's true, not a lot of that is Movie Maker's fault, the website team (bad search, slow loads) and the windows update team (maybe, or maybe the teams submitting the updates) were 95% of the fault.

That and none of this involved 'big ticket' teams, movie maker makes $0, so they get squeezed out at meetings.
Is your phone broadcasting your location without you even knowing it?
Source code would be cool. With some tweeking you could edit the source for other animals. Is there any other stats formula out there that does this kind of thing?
I had checked them out about a year ago and they couldn't even draw a line on the screen :\
I knew it! Duke Nukem forever couldn't really die. It must remain The Ultimate Vaporware for decades to come :)
FWIW I downloaded an ISO from MSDN yesterday in Firefox and checked my Exchange email in Firefox with the IEtab add-on.
Some of these tests seem backwards:

"10 years software development experience." is translated as

assert candidate.results['started_programming'] <= years_ago(10)

That reads like "10 years or less" rather than "10 years or more"; I'd be wary of applying to a place that can't even get that right (although maybe your first job can be fixing their ad).

Edit: Reading more closely, perhaps years_ago(10) returns the numeric year that was 10 years ago now, and 'started_programming' is an absolute year as well, in which case this test makes more sense. However, it's not intuitive to read this way...
I'm waiting for the fateful day when the virus makers see Apple OS' as a true target. Apple and Apple users have been living in a walled-garden and they don't know the difference between a grass snake, the game Snake and a cobra, because they're protected from the dangers of the open web by being a minority.

The bigger problem is that Apples exceedingly proprietary nature will likely lock-out any of the established or establishing anti-virus/trojan/malware/spyware companies from stepping in quickly when the flood occurs.
Apple is green
Bizarre and impressive YouTube ad campaign
No. I wrote the bulk of my intern project this summer in perl.
This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you.
Also opening a console and using "popcon-largest-unused" should give you a list of the largest packages that you have not yet used the binaries from. Mine doesn't seem to update properly but this might be because I'm using Kubuntu.

On my slimmed down system I use "sudo aptitude" type "/appname[Enter]", where appname is from the list popcon gives, then "n" to find the package and then try "_" (Shift+-) which purges the packages. If something will break you get a warning "e" shows what the suggested action is "," and "." scroll through options and "!" applies. When you're happy "g" will list the actions to be taken and "g" again will confirm. "q" at any time quits or moves to the previous menu or list. HTH.
Enough to make it very repetitive, too little that automation would make much sense, especially considering the abysmal automation tools Windows comes with cough shell cough

Hmm... I've been thinking about switching to Powershell. What do you find abysmal about it?
The Problem With Ping
I never gave up hope.
> really hate Python

Why?
Certainly, but "God created it" is the ultimate wild-card explanation. It's identical to saying "because." In what way is that simpler?

I can balance this equation: x = x + 1. The solution is to add God to both sides. Simple!

The quote is primarily meant to point out that we wouldn't likely exist in a location that isn't nigh-ideally suited for us, both because we require it to continue and because we adapt to match it. Using it to prove God exists strikes me as a greater misuse than using it to prove it's possible God doesn't, given any comprehension of large numbers and evolution.
BTW ... both "autoremove" and "dist-upgrade" made my system unusable a couple of times.

There's no software repository as properly maintained as Debian's ... but normal users can totally trash their systems and that is not OK.
If you go with the weights on the floor model, then barrkel's comment a few below is correct.
Please don't delay this product another 10 years... This should be a good one!
I think Twitter’s OAuth-only Access is a Waste of Time
Also, if you are interested in learning HFT without risking your own capital, my company is hiring. Instructions on how to apply are here (in encrypted form):

http://meshcapital.com/application.tar.gz
I was down until he got to what he wanted to call it. Really? Can we just choose something that isn't already tangled up in 50 pounds of sexual innuendo?
Java EE has something very similar to 0MQ in the form of JMS.

I'm just throwing out something random here, but I imagine the reason no one else really does this in standard libraries is because it's quite complicated and can easily lead to fragile protocols. Take AMQP, for example, it took something like 5 years to agree on their 1.0 standard.
> A YC founder rather than someone who combines snippets of PHP found on the web to make a site for a client.

You should consider your target audience carefully. For instance, a startup founder is very likely short of cash, so she will be more inclined to choose, if not a free implementation, a cheap one. Could that pay back your development efforts? Because your development efforts will be hefty. Remember that to be attractive to smart developers, your language will have to be better than the languages you have mentioned, and by a reasonable margin. Don't underestimate the difficulty of designing a good editor, either.

I'm saying this because you have said "not made it big". If you are after just making a living doing what you like, maybe the success of Clojure in that regard can be encouraging.

Have you considered tapping the non-technical audience? Maybe many non-technical users would be delighted to be able to customize their environment. If you are looking for a challenging intellectual task, don't underestimate the difficulty of designing simple tools.

I'd like to provide more creative suggestions, but that's all I can say.

EDIT: You know, we developers tend to think about other developers, and we forgot how our knowledge could be beneficial to "outsiders".
Thing is this: 1) not all survive out of a litter, even after several weeks, 2) if a cat has litters too close together, she will often refuse to nurse the second litter and they will all die. If everything that gave birth by litter survived, we humans wouldn't be here.
JDEE thwarted my first attempt at learning Emacs. I wanted to get into it for Java development.

>It's an absolutely unbelievable pain in the arse to

>install. And his website is buggy, and the code is often

>buggy, and I generally detest the application, and Paul

>K's no picnic himself. Other than that, it's great.

I felt the same exact way. And at that point I felt if I could not use emacs for Java, I might as well stick to Eclipse. Luckily I'm a python guy now, so I'm free to avoid JDEE.
Whenever someone wonders in conversation who won the Battle of Trafalgar or how to get to Safeco Field by bus, I always say the same thing:

"That's the kind of question I ask the magic box."

For me this thing means knowledge. It's the oracle, the multitool, the utility belt, the mystic key.

I suggest we all call it "the box".
This article disappointed me. I was expecting a good hacker's rant about /sbin/ping.
If perl is dead, could you please stop having threads about whether it's dead every month? TIA.
Membase and Open Source 4.0
>This is a replica of the Global Communicator link like they used on Earth Final Conflict .

Points to anyone who can use Google.
Post: "I've done a bit of X and my overall impression of Y in was..."
Reply: "References, sources, double blind studies please! Prove you know what you're talking about..."

It seems like asking for references has become a far too easy way to pull karma points, even against posts which make their sources fairly clear.
Atheists probably think you believe in things which require you to disbelieve in other things which appear to them to be identical. You believe in X, but not in Y where Y is isomorphic to X.
You can set it back to horizontal if you want: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
Our schools ran Windows 2000 Professional for years. Solid as a rock.
Because when I'm tired of looking at the iTunes Top 10/100 list and I want new music I tweet, "Any new music recommendations? I need something new!" Now I follow quite a few people that I follow on Twitter and can immediately see what they are enjoying. I would love to see this migrate into applications as well.

It's a social network for products. Help me find the good stuff in an oversaturated world.
Why link to the link? This is what you should have pointed to: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09...