skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public by default? Although Facebook is trying really hard to do away with private by default.
Did it help to move medicine science forward?
Ask HN: If you're a programmer, how do you find artists, and vice versa?
In my experience this is a common problem. Talented programmers that could code up just about anything, but lack design sensibilities, and vice versa. Obviously people surmount this obstacle, as many startups launch with beautiful websites. For those who have succeeded, or at least given this an honest shot, I have some questions for you:

* Where do you find artists/designers to work with?

* Do you guys work together at a partnership level or is the "opposite" work contracted out?

* Have you had success with sites like guru.com? ie, a site that pools together freelance artists for hire? If you are an artist, have you tried places like rentacoder/vworker?

* Have you created a lasting business relationship across the technical/artistic boundary from scratch? How?

* Have you succeeded in finding an artist/programmer who is physically local to you?

* Anyone have any horror stories to share here?

* Is there any interest in a service that attempts to bring together like minded programmers and artists?

EDIT: off topic meta question: This is my second submission to HN, and it completely disappears from the feed. It's not even on the first 10 pages or so. Why is that? My other submission did that too.
Didn't MS pledge not to use their patents offensively?

EDIT: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/osspatentpledge....
If only they launched a WinMo 7 device...

http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/362876/patent_protec...
I downloaded Eclipse and have been trying to work with NetBeans, too.

For some reason, my prof has us using JCreator, which no one yet has recommended. Any idea why?
NYC

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Looks beautiful, especially in such short time. I find the discretionary defense spending line item especially depressing compared to healthcare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem

How do you get around that? Inventions and creative works get around it with patents and copyrights, respectively. How does an efficacy-testing company protect its results, since as matters of fact, they aren't covered by copyright.
I know plenty of people are happy with Windows 7 and Vista but with me Windows has such a bad history of crashing/hanging while coming out of sleep/hibernation that I can't trust it.
I know the dude himself says it wasn't the domain name that killed it, but I was a wesabe user and I too can tell you the founder's assessment was spot on - financial data import was too tricky with wesabe. And I tell you as someone who did NOT jump to mint as a result - I admired the morals ("noble purpose") that wesabe had, and when I couldn't really get it to work for me, I just gave up on that kind of product.

The sad thing is, and I know this is easy to say in retrospect, was that if they had polled their users at the time, especially ones like me that spent some time on the system and then faded away, I would have told them that was my showstopper (though granted by that point it was probably too late to change their whole business approach).
So much for the "Microsoft doesn't have a history of patent lawsuit trolling. [...] At the end of the day MS is a developer centric company, they pride themselves on the ability to make things, and patents are an annoying side show to that." argument found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745932
I'm the author of the article. You make an excellent point here. It's very hard to quantify image quality. While true, you do need to have the lossless source files (http://jjcm.org:8081/webp) if you want to do a true comparison from the original, but in the real world I'd venture to guess you wont have those; that's why I felt it was unnecessary for most readers.
> (sorry to mmphosis if the list of links wasn't meant in that way).

the list of original articles is right here on the site in the table of contents. So i don't see how mmphosis reposting it here is sabotaging ..
Did anyone trust their word?

Seriously, Ballmer must do something for his bonus. Since selling desirable products is not their forte, patent trolling seems a nice business model.

Expect more of this.

Oh, and, BTW, Motorola was selling some WinMo 6 devices, at least here in Brazil.
In addition, let us remember that Google is a misspelling as well for "Googol".
People, please mention if remote working is an option or not.
Cloudera is hiring: http://www.cloudera.com/company/careers/

UX, UI, PM, distributed systems engineer, operations engineer and more. We're in the Bay Area, down in Palo Alto and are genuinely a great company for which to work.

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Attend meetups. Ask friends. Contact designers and developers of cool web and iOS apps. Always be ready to pitch your idea.

I've gotten hundreds of requests to both design and code, because I always link my personal site and twitter account from all of my projects. And some from HN, too!
Is it possible to move medicine forward without deliberately infecting people?
Mother Effing Text-shadow
Counterfeit goods often involve copyright violations.

OK, but that's just tangential.
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Right now, we're building a file sharing webapp called Qfile. (Check it out: http://qfile.ca -- Free 60 day trial!). Why not just use dropbox, you ask? Well, our network is pretty unique: all our traffic is bounced off a satellite, and round-trip latency of ~600ms (which is because of the horrible limitation of the speed of light, which we are constantly working to exceed) means that we have to do things a little differently. SSi is so cool that when we won a government contract to do "time-shifted file transfers", we decided that we /could/ meet our contractual obligations with a few weeks of work/testing, but instead we're building a wicked webapp that brings the functionality to everyone on our network, not just big clients with IT departments.

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In the industry algorithmic trading does not equal trading with algorithms.

Algorithmic trading is typically used by sell-side firms to place large orders into the market. The algorithmic part comes from how the computer places the orders. The algorithms are used to benchmark the order placement against some known value, for example two common algorithms are Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) and Time Weighted Average Price (TWAP). The sell side wants to get the order into the market and by using algorithms they want to reduce the impact that order has on the price. By doing this, they can fill the client order at a better average price than if they just simply placed a large market order to buy or sell.

Algorithmic trading, as described above, is not high-frequency trading. They are not remotely similar. Just because computers are used to manage the order flow into or out of the market does not mean they are related.

It is important to note that the conclusions here are very close to what the gut reaction of the market was the day of and after the event. A fat fingered order. This is the algorithmic execution equivalent of a fat fingered order. The order, which was huge, hit the market too quickly and didn't manage its impact. Whether there should be rules to stop this from happening again who knows, but the theories around computers fighting it out and high-frequency firms manipulating the market have been clearly deemed false.
That does help to explain things, but this statement is pretty broad:

"The patents at issue relate to a range of functionality embodied in Motorola’s Android smartphone devices that are essential to the smartphone user experience..."

So, um, why are they attacking only Motorola and not Apple, RIM, Samsung, or otherwise every single smart-phone manufacturer? Or even Google itself for Android? This seems to claim that Microsoft has a patent on "building a smart phone" which almost every single phone built in the last 5 years could fall under.
I don't think the developers of a personal finance app targeted at US consumers is too worried about UK consumers that don't monitor their finances in US$ and won't use any of the US financial services they profit from recommending. The cost of having to rebrand if they ever decide to launch localised versions for other countries is outweighed by the strength of the brand in the domestic market where the rich pickings are available.

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Despite it's huge popularity and domain mint.com is down on page four of a google.co.uk search for "mint" which suggests Google has done a good job of realising how useless it is for Brits. I suspect that UK service comparison site confused.com (another brilliant domain-based brand) doesn't rank too well in the US version of Google either...
Could you define server and operations?
Spray-on [aerosol-based] clothes to revolutionize fashion?
Immigrants are a biased sample + reversion to the mean?

I wonder how various generations do normalized to the baseline.
Toronto, Ontario. FreshBooks is hiring pretty much everything. Marketing, sales, product managers, support, developer community manager, system administrators and plenty of developers.

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US Navy bombs Guam with frozen, dead mice
The differences are huge. The motiviations behind each are entirely separate. They are used by different people for different things.

A day trader, slogging it out in front of their computer every day is very different from a floor broker trying to execute customer orders. That is the fundamental difference we're talking about here. Unfortunately, any time the markets are mentioned in connection with algorithm people instantly think "high-frequency trading", and most often they are wrong.
I don't know anything about the guy other than what I have read, but nothing I have read suggests to me that a) he started out rich or b) he had any sort of insider connection to Yodlee. (TFA plainly states that they could have gone the Yodlee route first, but chose not to.)

He just strikes me as someone who is a smart businessman, better at it than your average hacker.
perhaps first generation immigrants are mistaken about the value of what they struggle for
While intentionally infecting unknowing people with a disease is not cool, the motive of "we know this works, we just need an full effectiveness study" is very very very different from "they are not people, we can do random surgery on children to see what happens".

I think your reaction is quite dramatic, intellectually dishonest, and worthy of a lot of contempt.
Facebook Splits Stock, 5 to 1
What I don't understand is why this is strictly against Motorola. What does the Droid line do that others do not to warrant this?
> There is a huge difference in people's willingness to try a new search engine, compared to many other applications.

Sure people were willing to try new search engines... until Google came along and built a better one.

Point is, branding takes a back seat to product quality, and the companies in question were clearly leagues apart in terms of quality. If they were of a similar quality, or if instead of "Wesabe" it was called "xXxVirus39" you would have a point. But that's not the case, so you've got your work cut out for you if you want to make a convincing argument that the brand played a relatively significant role here.
I will share my minor horror story: I hired an artist off of guru.com to do the artwork for a game. He was a phenomenal artist, and his asking price was quite low. I paid him the first half of his price up front. He produced a few sketches intially, but then got hired by a big game company and that was the last I ever heard of him. In a sense, the price I paid for this was actually worth it as I learned a lot from this experience.
Everyone gets an email. We send them tonight.
The challenging thing about freelancing is trying to convince customers that they're solving the wrong problem. Companies generally don't need another flex/php/.net/python/ruby expert, they fail to understand that they need to adhere to software development standards. The old chestnut, "We're not a software shop" never gets old.

Once you actually define the problem enough to put it into a "challenging" category, it's already been solved. The challenging part anyway. The rest is just doing what's already been set out. Very rarely will you hit upon a company that admits, "you know, if we just scrapped everything and start over with TDD and CI we wouldn't have any problems."
My friend's desktop computer is halfway through bringing up Win 7 before the monitor even warms up... then again he boots off a PCI SSD.
As always, please let potential applicants know whether telecommuting is an option - if not, don't forget to include your location.
It's a problem on both the Android and the iPhone platforms. On an open platform we can make tools to fix problems, instead of waiting for Google or Apple to do it for us.
You made me laugh as I setup breadandcirc.us and had the same sort of issues you highlights. I also own the name ben.to - which I've been considering for use on a company I'm working on, but I have that same concern. Opinions?
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From the Wikipedia link the data's from it looks like "Healthcare" under discretionary spending means the budget of the Department of Health and Human Services. That includes a lot of healthcare research and public-health kinds of stuff, like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). Also includes some not-really-healthcare stuff, though, like the Office of Civil Rights, and the faith-based initiatives thing that Bush created. And some is more gray area, e.g. the FDA does drug approvals, which is clearly "healthcare", but it also inspects beef, which is good for health but not what people normally think of as healthcare.
In other words, this paradox is a special case of Regression Toward the Mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
Hummingbird doesn't look it supports going back in time well?

i.e. we'd want to ask "how many t-shirts did we sell yesterday".
Corrected "real world analysis of Google’s webp versus jpg"
# Is Your AJAX Being Indexed?
Plus I think we want something that doesn't require javascript.
Look at some of the comments in this thread, there seems to be a reference to a platform like that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719653
I don't know if he followed the formula exactly, but it roughly sounds like what Jeff Bezos did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

There. One down, four to go :)
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Update: Not hiring remote employees at this time.
Just checked my dictionary for the most rudimentary definition:

entrepreneur |ˌäntrəprəˈnoŏr; -ˈnər| noun

a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

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I think your article might be a bit narrow at least for how I read, hear, and associate meaning with the word.

That said, I respect your opinion.
Now you really have to come up with the rest of that joke, I'm dying to hear it! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_Un...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14...

I wish most of the incidents linked to primary sources, but assume X% are lies and it's still awful.
No, the links don't actually really sabotage the work; but I cannot help but interpreting the posting of the links that way. I mean, the site has a list of the articles, with links to the articles; why not post a link to that? From the comments to the list of links, I also derive that I'm not the only one seeing it that way. It's also why I put the up-front apology, since I couldn't tell for sure how it was meant...
I've used DevPay. My experiences were generally positive. My problems with it were as follows.

1) Amazon doesn't expect one user to buy your service more than one time. Frankly, I didn't expect it either when I started the service or I would have structured it differently. I ended up having to give people free 2nd accounts when they asked for them, since I had no way to bill them for a 2nd account. User would sign up for my service (twitter related), like it, and decide they wanted their other twitter account to also use my service. So they would come back to my site, sign up again with their other twitter user name, I'd send them to Amazon to pay, and they'd get an error, since they had "already purchased that item".

2) Ending the service. When I decided to end the service, I went to try to cancel my devpay billing, so they would just stop billing all my users. This was an email procedure, not a form, which was weird. The email response I got was unsatisfactory to me.

Per your request, we have denied your product. New customers will not be able
to sign up for your product any more. Please note, however, that your product
has customers who have signed up already. These customers will continue to get
billed for their use of your product. If you don?t want your customers to use
your application, please contact them and have them unsubscribe from your
application by going to http://www.amazon.com/dp-applications.

I still have customers paying, since I can't cancel them, all I can do is tell them to cancel themselves. I feel guilty when I see them continue to pay for a discontinued service.

3) I had a general feeling that I was losing some customers due to them not having an Amazon account. I have no actual data to back that up.

All in all, it worked as advertised, but I think I won't use it again.
It would be nice to compare the break-out to other countries. Perhaps you can finish this tonight?
San Francisco, no telecommuting atm

Mixpanel is a real-time analytics company. We're a small team working on fascinating technical problems.

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The left hand drag buttons are inverted (When you grip one and drag right, it slides left). And my curiousity involving what the []wtf control is supposed to do is overwhelming.

Interesting nonetheless, though.
Do the ends justify the means?

No.
I wonder how many phrases/icons are there that apply to obsolete technology?

One that I can think of off the top of my head: The phrase "you left your phone off the hook" to describe a phone that hasn't been turned off.
you wanna "sequitur". Be my guest. Lets follow you logic.

By definition:
children of the first generation = second generation
and children of the second generation= 3rd generation

So according to your logic "The study found that second immigrant generation often outperform 3rd and 4th generation in school" That is one heck of sequitur.

The actual meaning of the "first generation immigrant children" here isn't children parented by the first generation. It is children who are immigrants, ie. they are first generation themselves, whereis their children and grandchildren are second and third generation mentioned in the study.
An entrepreneur is someone who takes risks to start a company. That's the definition I've always used. If you assign more weight to the title than that, that's up to you, but I don't see anything wrong with someone calling themselves an entrepreneur because they start a company. There is risk, even small, in every venture. Failure, for one. Loss of time, for another.

More annoying to me are people who call themselves "President/CEO" when they have no employees or not enough employees to even have a corporate hierarchy where "President/CEO" would carry some swagger.
I thought BankSimple was its own online bank.

Yea, I imagine you could get away with a very hefty license fee. I know of one company that charges affiliate TV stations $5m a year license for essentially a glorified hosted CMS. If they can get that for something that doesn't even remotely require the kind of privacy a bank system needs, the price tag for an online banking tool should be pretty high. Even $500k-$1m+ a year seems reasonable by comparison. Its really all a matter of support and sales prowess
I'd contend they're trying to get people to make windows 7 phones (and gain licenses to the patents), not license the patent by themselves.
I can definitely work on it!
Holy crap...had no idea you guys were growing so fast. Congrats!

PS - Had a fantastic experience with AirBnB in London a few months ago when our hotel fell through at last minute. Posted emergency request and had a bunch of offers within an hour. Ended up staying with a very nice older British lady who made us breakfast and afternoon tea every day. Very fun.
Just so we're clear: not even close. The researchers who performed these syphilis experiments were profoundly misguided. But, ultimately they likely had good intentions at heart. Note that this in no way justifies their actions.

Mengele was so sick I won't even attempt to summarize what's written on that wikipedia page.

This is more than just a matter of degree. Please be more careful with your comparisons.
Thanks for the reply. Hoping for the best.
Will be applying soon. You guys sound like an awesome company and I'd love to join you and contribute my own awesomeness :)