skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd pay $20 / month for it. More (up to $50) if I felt it improved my efficiency enough that I'm continually saving hours of time by using it compared to another service.

How many people subscribe to hundreds of feeds I don't know, but any modern journalist, industry analyst, political analyst, social media manager, or executive advisor tries to stay on top of many sources of information, and would find a tool that makes it easier to manage, optimize, & organize to be invaluable.
See also http://stealthmodewatch.com -- reported here a while ago but didn't get much attention.

Love the info and focus domain, not crazy about the map-based presentation. Except to the coarseness of metro-region, state, or region, the geography is the least interesting aspect of this info, so the click-one-pin-at-a-time presentation is very limiting.

More ways to group the info and show comparables over a longer period together would be very interesting.
I find it ironic that he's complaining about the relevancy of SEO companies on the first page.

After all, if they made it to Google's first page of results, so they have to be pretty good at SEO to get high results for the search for SEO... right?
Regardless of whether or not YouTube could build this with the team they have, it makes perfect sense to me that they'd want to hire a smart, self-motivated person who's passionate about their product.
having somebody who likes doing the type of work you're hiring them to do so much that they actually do it even when they don't have to is going to go a long way towards motivating them

I do pretty much the same thing at work and during the evenings but working on my own stuff, with me being the boss is just so much better for motivation that there is no comparison. I do perhaps twice as much during 4 hours in the evening than I do during my work day.
Phones are not a human right. If a phone is not jailbreakable, don't buy it!
Agreed. Counting on getting bought by Google as an exit strategy is like saying winning the lottery is the retirement plan.
Google's HTML Ball Logo: Now with images and custom text
The feed reader is my primary window into the web. I used to use Bloglines until they got unbearably unreliable some 2 years ago. I host my own Tiny Tiny RSS (http://tt-rss.org/redmine/) since then and can highly recommend it.
The Physics of a Fighter Jet Rainbow
He threw something together that people could get a feel for. I'll concede that it was hardly usable given the performance. But it was only a demo, enough of one to show just how usable the real thing could be.
I was an avid Bloglines user back in the early 2000s. I remember loving the product so much that I emailed them asking how I could pay for it. I got a reply saying they were still figuring out how to make money.

I wonder now if they ever did get around to charging for the service.
I most certainly will. :D
In his defense, he does provide all of the code for how he ultimately solved his problem.
I have to wonder - if the API was so bad, but he didn't have to do anything that isn't available from openssl "the tool"... why did he write the code at all? Excerpt from openssl x509 help:

usage: x509 args
-in arg - input file - default stdin
-out arg - output file - default stdout

It does reading / writing via std{in,out} pipes - why not just spawn openssl with the right options and interact with it?
Ask HN: How do I write a userscript?
I just want to add a simple userscript to apply some CSS for a fluid browser. Searching on Google didn't turn up much as far as step by step tutorials are concerned.

Thanks.
Fred Wilson Gives Blunt Answers to Your Questions
Any combination of actions that lets fraudsters get money from PayPal without in the end having to pay money out is going to lead to huge losses. One way or another that money will come from PayPal in the end.
Yes, it's new. As in an hour old!
It wasn't intended as a comment on anyone's personal worth as a human being, or what they're like in person. I have spent a good amount of time following OpenBSD-related mailing lists, though, and I'd say "polite and collegial" is not the prevailing tone--- hyperbolically trashing other people's work and calling them stupid monkeys is more par for the course. Admittedly, they don't have a monopoly on that; plenty of GNU mailing lists are similar (esp. anything RMS or Ulrich Drepper regularly posts to).
I've seen a number of articles on this topic recently, from several industries. The common story seems to be "we're hiring, and we're getting five times as many resumes per position as before, but only half as many qualified applicants."

Companies aren't looking to hire dead weight right now. In very good times, people with weak skills can get work just because whatever little thing they can do allows the stars freedom to work on bigger-money projects. But in a bad job market, you really have to boost your skills up to the level employers are still willing to spend money bringing in.
Social Skydiving: The Art of Talking to Strangers
I found this article a more lucid overview of the situation:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100831/full/467016a.html
like an iPod?
Kind of funny, but it gets to the point where everyone tries to throw in their own punchline.

(I'm sure the same would happen here...)
it was clearly hacked to show proof of concept. site is getting lots of traffic which would explain the slow results.
if someone like the DCFS wanted to take my kids, i'd get the urge to poke them off my property with a loaded gun. i mean, US citizens have the right to bear arms, for the exact purpose of defending themselves against the government, or what was that?
In grade school, I decided to learn the times table by just referring to one as needed while doing the exercises, and expecting it to soak in implicitly. Worked for me at least.
How do I become a self-sufficient old man in a shack?
Let's say i have $10000. Is it possible to build the following existence (for one person's lifetime)?

- Food/water (or equivalent), shelter from elements and predators, comfortable temperature, ability
to stay clean and free from disease.

- Upper limit for time spent on daily involuntary tasks (say 1hr/day) with definite certainty on ability to maintain existence. Assuming no outstanding terrestrial occurences, there should never be any stress from fluctuation of shelter or resource availability

- Visibility at night; fire/candles ok, i guess

- Bed, chair/desk, say 10 sheets of paper a day, writing utensil to fill 10 sheets a day

- Internet access, say 100 hours lifetime total, accessable at some definite rate, say at least once a month for an hour at a time max (Richard Stallman style is ok)

- Ability to receive shipment of goods whose requirement cannot be predetermined (such as books), with finite extra funds set aside for purchasing of said goods

- Ability to escape the system as i see fit
I actually think it's interface is vastly superior to Google, Facebook, and YouTube. Zero clutter. Entertaining (I lolled at much higher rate). No interface elements distracting from the content (video).

edit2: had mentioned an error the site was having, but it appears to be fixed now.
> I wouldn't want to contribute to copyright over-protectionism by arguing that he's violating copyright law in not doing so.

He is. He totally is. He is enclosing a public commons for his private gain.

In fact, asking only for citation is the absolute bare minimum that human decency suggests; a reasonable reading of http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode suggests that legally his whole novel ought to be under CC-BY-SA. (Look at the linked article: http://www.slate.fr/story/26745/wikipedia-plagiat-michel-hou... And this is only some of them.)

Personally, Houellebecq forfeited all my respect when he tried to cite Borges as a predecessor in plagiarism. Borges is one of my favorite authors and I have read everything he wrote time and again; Borges was scrupulous about his citation and quoting, as one would expect from a librarian.
As a Skins season ticket holder and now marketing dude at hipmunk, I'm doubleplus thrilled about this great site. Well done, Seat Geek. Such a universal problem across every single ticket site -- solved!
You can make the resque-web app available under /resque simply by:

require 'resque'

MyApp::Application.routes.draw do

mount Resque::Server.new, :at => "/resque"

end

Requires Rails 3.
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Not Go Public Anytime Soon
A classmate of mine wrote something similar in C++ a while ago:

if ( Foo( ) == true )
{
return false;
}
else
{
return true;
}

The comparison to true is what really had me laughing.
Microsoft workers celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM with iPhone hearses
Ask HN: Allow groups of businesses to create ad rings
Just wanted some opinions on this idea. Basically it's a web application that would allow two or more businesses to create a "ring" of ads, similar in style to The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/). The web app would take care of click tracking, displays and provide each business with several code snippets. A good example would be a gym and health restaurant partnership (maybe throwing in a fitness gear store). They would all display ads on each other's site.

I'm not sure on a revenue model, but it's definitely there if it takes off (a membership fee or a revenue share). Has anything similar been done before?
Ask HN: Best enterprise collaboration platform?
Hi,
I'm looking into:
Adobe Acrobat.com
IBM Lotus Live
Oracle BeeHive
Cisco Quad
MSFT Sharepoint
Does anyone have any experience with these? Is one better than the other? They all seem fairly similar from their websites, but I'm wondering if one UX is best or worst? Thanks
It was slow because he was going through his server to get the query suggestions from Youtube and lots of people were on it. It's been updated to get the suggestions directly from the source and it's significantly faster. Google's servers can handle the load better :)
I knew the iPhone well. We were great friends for a long time. This is absolutely terrible news -- has it been confirmed anywhere else?

The only reason I ask is because IE6 was supposed to have died last year but 11% of our users still use it.

http://ie6funeral.com/
That's not the terms that jrockway used though. He said:

Because 99% of people make more money collecting a salary than they do being bought by Google.

He directly compared collecting a salary to being bought by Google, he did not compare earning a salary to starting your own company. The latter would be a fair statement, but if you are going to get bought by Google, chances are you will make more money than by earning a salary (unless you're an investment banker).
That was seriously puzzling. Bad enough the site seemed to forget who I was (but only sometimes; seemed it depend on what URL I was using), but having to do that stupid captcha thing each time was tiresome.

Still, I really liked Bloglines. I've several hundred feeds there, mainly because it was so simple to add them and organize them. I tried Google Reader but something about it was just annoying and clunky and wrong.
Well crude oil is by definition unrefined, but it's safe to assume that most of it is the raw cost of the product since it was still profitable to sell crude oil at $10 a barrel a few years ago when supply and demand were a bit more out of wack.
It shows 11% of your users either don't know how or don't have the permission to change their browser (or install a good one).
Probably not. But when the CEO knows someone who he wants to hire, the rules can be bent.

Remember, a lot of people working at Google got there via acquisitions. And they are afforded all the rights of "normal" employees that had 10 weeks of interviews (including moving to a "normal" team).

I assume Google's official hiring process is mostly for recent college grads, because they don't have any experience (or code) to prove that they know anything. Once you are established, via reputation or open source or otherwise, I'm sure the rules are more flexible.

(I bet Guido didn't have to explain linked lists on a whiteboard.)
My cousin's daughter said some sexually explicit things in school, and the DCFS was called. They combed the entire house and computer, looking for pornography, sex toys, etc. My cousin came up clean, but how many people would? I certainly wouldn't.

Even nows my cousin is extremely paranoid about her daughter. At 14, this girl wasn't even allowed to read Twilight; a tragedy, because the girl otherwise refuses to read.
Must have been one of the most exciting days of his life. Not just the job, but the recognition for something cool he made!
"Maybe it's just me but I don't know I agree with the assumption that two individuals, one with a college degree and the other without, are really in the same peer group when it comes to salary."

I agree, the word "peer" is used very loosely here when comparing salaries. In fact, I wouldn't even say two individuals with the same "degree level" are necessarily in the same "peer group" when it comes to salary. A nurse practitioner has an MS, typically. So (often) does a social worker. Someone might have an MS in engineering or creative writing. No real point in grouping these all together.
Dude, Where's My Cash? How VCs Manage Reserve Startup Funds
Nothing matters more to employers than seeing that you actually have a passion for building things

This is as true outside of technical fields. I've been giving talks at Career Centers about communicating passion to find a job after college, and the thing that is most attractive to employers is creating something or communicating passion.

And Feross? Outstanding. In the next talk I give, you're in the spotlight. Congratulations!
I'm sorry but this simply sounds like you're searching for justification to yourself. I gained nearly no networking value from my time in post-secondary. I have gained far more from being capable of creating great interpersonal relationships and connections between people who could easily be perfect strangers only an hour ago.

No network is worth paying an administration and professor hundreds of thousands.

People are perfectly capable of having conversations outside of that setting, just look at this thread. We're not in a school, we're online, and all have different backgrounds and perspectives.

I have had more of a personal transformation over the past 8 years of my life with nearly none of that coming from my college experiences. Once upon a time I was as articulate as sum1 dat type lik diz yo. I learned about history, philosophy, religion, languages, cultures, foods, how to create inter-personal relationships, studying behaviour, some basic psychology, debate, frameworks of thought, and so much more. Did I learn any of this at post-secondary? Of course not.

So keep your IDE, I'll stick with EMACS and VIM.

Lastly, don't attribute success due to your own ambition to going to a school. Without your ambition you'd have a lovely job using a masters to deliver pizza, your success in school came along for the ride.
Also consider mixing tools together. Dropbox for file sharing, Google Apps for email and calendar, Harvest for time tracking etc.
The case was, as usual, a lot more complex and a lot narrower than what showed up in the Slashdot summary. It involved a user who sold copies that were contractually supposed to be destroyed (or at least not reinstalled) after an upgrade.
VERY related.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
But you learned a lot, and I'll bet your next estimate will be a lot closer to the mark. A lot of this stuff is experience, both technical knowledge and knowing how to interview your customer to get as much as possible on the same page with respect to what's going to be built.

I think that alone is a source of a large part of the trouble, customers and suppliers talking at cross purposes during the negotiation phase.

I've mostly done 'fixed price' work, and I like it a lot because both the customer and you know what is going to happen and when a job will be done. It also sets a very good barrier against scope creep, because it means they'll have to go back to get approval again, whereas if they stick to the deal as made it'll be delivered on time and within their original budget. On metered time there is no such barrier.

Fixed price is good, if you only do hourly jobs try doing a bunch of smaller jobs on a fixed price basis to get more experience with estimating and negotiating.
Exactly. When I was a kid my parents put a lot of emphasis on making sure I crossed the road safely. When I was slightly older they put a lot of emphasis on making sure I rode my bike safely. And when I got old enough to drive, they damn well put a lot of emphasis on making sure I drove safely.

As far as I know they never worried too much about me getting shot by a sniper.
Ah, yes. that's really useful:

Like the Woods Hole study it was published in Science, a notorious tool of the industrial establishment ^_^.

The "bugs" are of the the order Oceano­spirillales.

One item I was able to Google said they are facultatively anaerobic (http://www.springerlink.com/content/v46161x20k433868/), which would explain how they could feast without serious oxygen depletion and that the latter is not necessarily a good proxy for detecting oil.

This further explains how the two studies nicely mesh together (which their PIs agree upon). Woods Hole found oil but normal oxygen levels, LBNL found facultatively anaerobic "bugs" that were eating the oil without serious oxygen consumption.

(We can also assume that if these bugs can be cultured and kept viable, the basic metabolic details can be elucidated (assuming they haven't been already) and such in vitro results will further help confirm the LBNL study.)

And as it noted this is all months old data, but both studies will help guide further searches for BP oil source oil and these bugs.
Microsoft celebrates Win Phone 7 RTM with funeral parade for iPhone
>Credit card companies hold onto the payments for up to 60 days, meaning PayPal is holding onto absolutely nothing.

PayPal would absolutely tell the customer that "we can't do anything the CC company is holding the funds". They don't appear to be doing that.
Also note that this oil was light sweet (low sulfur) crude, something that is getting more and more rare. You wouldn't expect the same results from e.g. Venezuela's very heavy sour crude (to take a local and large example).
Likewise, times ten. As a parent of three small children, there are certain things I won't say or do around people I don't know very well for exactly this reason.

You also nailed the real issue on the head - it's not that we don't need some sort of child protection services; it's that "you are at their mercy with little to no oversight".
Well, I'm not one to jump to the infringement conclusion without thinking through the fair use question. Was what he did morally questionable? I think so. But I'm not yet sure I'd say illegal (but IANAL).
The majority of open source projects, OpenBSD included, have difficulty differentiating between attacking a problem and attacking a person.

If you read the recent HN article: "How to keep someone with you forever"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677013

And ponder it a bit, you'll see how it applies to open source projects, and interactions on mailing lists, or as the case may be, a homepage article by an open source developer.

For me at least, the more fascinating question is why open source projects eventually degrade into "sick systems" of interaction? --I wish I had an answer, but the only speculation I have is it's the result of frustration.
I like Google Apps - they provide easy tools for a geographically dispersed team. I also like Plone a lot and have deployed collaboration sites on it. Plone 4 rocks, but I am yet to do anything with it.

Avoid Sharepoint like the plague.
I would try to verify any of the above statements, but i'm not 100% sure where to begin.
BrainTree looks and sounds fantastic. I've just spent 5 minutes on their web site and understand more in that 5 minutes than in 3 months of poking around and reading about on-line payment systems.

But I'm in the UK.

Bother.
To be blunt, though, a lot of dead weight still isn't getting fired, either.

In a down market, companies should be hiring, even if they don't "need" the people. Great talent is not only more available now than before, but it's probably cheaper, too (after enough months of looking, people just want a job, and are less picky about salary and such). And since the job market isn't great, once your talent is in the door, they're not likely to leave anytime soon. It is the perfect time to build a dream team and actually get things done.
FUD.

In the US, the government doesn't even have to opportunity to prevent you from leaving the country.
Yep-that was awesome!!!!!
A point with which I strongly disagree is that some public businesses are profitable so we should leave them alone. First of all, it's trivial to be profitable if you control a monopoly. Also, being profitable doesn't mean you are efficient, some things could be done much more effectively in the private sector. Also, by being overstaffed, even if profitable, you are not allowing all these people working for you to do something more productive.

Beyond that, when talking about profitability, you should consider pension plans and future obligations. Some of these businesses might have a positive balance sheet for the year but what's going to happen if you consider their future, inflated, obligations. A good example are the pensions the Public Electric Company employees get. They are mostly funded by the government.

Let's see why it screws up incentives:
-- What do you think any of the people working in the public sector tries to optimize? Is it the successe of the business they are working on? Do they try to advance their careers? Or do they try to work as little as possible?
-- If an employee is not good, is a government controlled company ever going to fire them?
-- The guy who controls the supplies in the hospitals, does he ever have to report to somebody about that?
-- Do you know a single person in the public sector that he has ever been promoted or fired because of his skills or lack there of?
Standing-Room tickets coming to short flights?
Other articles:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680185 <- arstechnica

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679906 <- Wired
I don't think this was a technology acquisition. :)

I'm pretty sure they just want the person.
If you don't mind my asking, how do you get this type of thing across on a resume?

Some people have told me to wrap my personal projects up as a "company" and say that I am employed by myself, basically list it as a job.
He did rewrite it to be more flexible. So while you are right, I'm down-voting you for not reading the fucking article ;)
Godaddy.com up for sale. Could fetch $1 Billion
If you liked this look in to 'factor'.
Yes. It's called an A record.
I would shy away from this. For "enterprise collaboration," there's no way to have "enterprise management" with multiple, disparate tools.

That means no centralized access control, no fine-grained permissions, etc., across all the tools. A single service can be a big productivity, integration and custom-development win.
I disagree. Most HTTP configs I've seen use virtual hosts, which means that the correct Host header is the only way to get the server to send the request to the right site.

(When dealing with SSL, then things are different, because you can't authenticate the connection until you get the cert, you can't send data until the connection is authenticated, and the server can't give you the right cert until it gets the Host. Fundamental conflict, leading to one-IP-per-domain-name, or a pricey wildcard certificate. So in that case, the server doesn't care much about Host anymore, but you are still protected because the domain name that the browser sees has to match the one in the cert, or the browser gives you the OH NOES dialog. But I digress.)