skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a few points

* that does not look like a best fit line, more like a curve

* maybe the curve should slope up more at the end?

* if the curve slopes up more at the end, maybe as you spend more you reach an asymptote. it would make sense if being the best at something requires more than a linear energy increase than being 2nd or 3rd best at something.

* doesn't John Nash's work explain this?
London (UK) and Boston (US) - youDevise, Ltd.

We're a 60-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We're hiring developers and other smart folks of many kinds. See http://www.youdevise.com/careers and https://dev.youdevise.com.

No remote working, but we do help successful candidates relocate to London or Boston. (Our first HN hire has been here for over a month and is having a great time.)
Teuxdeux is definitely inspirational, and does a great job at what it sets out to accomplish. I still see it as a personal task management app (like things, omnifocus, rememberthemilk, even basecamp's to-dos, etc).

These apps are great for tracking big, permanent projects in your life, but they're not suited for planning what you'd like to do in a day and then accomplishing it.

I just see this approach as falling into a different category altogether, something that I haven't found the right words for yet.
Understood, but probably would have been better posed as an Ask HN submission.
By comparison, Firefox 4.0 beta is 0.26% in the same survey.
Geotagging. EXIF info. Creative Commons licensing options. Traffic stats. Slidshows. Downloads of the original file.
"More Sex is Safer Sex" Paradox (Python)
The federal government actually only has about 58-59 cents of revenue for each dollar it spends. It would be slightly more accurate (if extremely inflammatory) to make an applet that generates a receipt for only entitlement spending, as entitlement spending has come within 2% of revenue recently.
Patents are a big deal at Microsoft. They are highly encouraged. Employees who succeed in securing a patent receive a plaque that is proudly displayed in their office as well as a nice bonus.
Tsunami Rips Through VC industry. First Wave Complete, Second Wave Approaching
"--smarter --wealthier --better educated "

You're talking about legal immigrants, right? Because I would think it's the opposite with illegals.

If you don't have much education or status in Mexico, for example, you might be tempted to cross the border to the US; if you're rich and established, probably not. I spent a semester studying in Guadalajara and was shocked at the snooty attitudes of students at the private Mexican college I attended, and the Porche and Lexus dealerships nearby.

Of course, a short bus ride away, I met kids who went hungry and lived in concrete houses with dirt floors.

We definitely get a biased sample of the Mexican population in our immigrants, but I think it's biased away from education and money.

On the other hand, if those first-generation kids are in school, it's because they WANT to be there. It's hard, and they could be making money working. Whereas the next generation may take things for granted, like the rest of us Americans.

I dunno - you can explain anything after the fact, so it's hard to say what the reason is for this finding.
Okay, somebody here must have some ideas... this has got to mean something...he is connected to Waterloo/RIM.
Bonn, Darmstadt (Germany)
Hatfield (UK)

T-Mobile Product Design is looking for talented individuals as they are expanding their product design division.

Interface designers, UX, Interaction Designers, Hardware Managers.

The cool thing about this product group is that it's run without the usual big corp politics. There are hard problems to work on and you will have the opportunity to bring your own product ideas into life.

I am helping them finding talented people.

PM me for details.
I have obviously not had the time to read that report (thanks for the link) but you seem to have left an important word out of your broad assessment about America's alleged "low social mobility record": intergenerational.
This is the first sentence of the summary (p. 4): "This report surveys the research in OECD countries on intergenerational mobility – i.e. the extent to which key characteristics and life experiences of individuals differ from those of their parents."

You may have wrongly assumed that my observation about the ladder was comparing one's social achievement to one's parents but that was not the point I was trying to make. It was a more general point about how who/what you are has less of an impact than anywhere else on your chances to succeed.
Compression artifacts add noise via coefficient rounding, just like audio codecs add noise instead of "removing sound you can't hear". However, encoders with poor psy-optimization (i.e. not x264) usually choose blurry quantizations that don't add much noise but also remove the original detail.

Also, the deblocking filter in VP8/H264 is nothing but a selectively applied blur that hides previous compression steps. It works pretty well.
Actually, while applying a blur does obviously eliminate detail, you can retain most of the important detail with a selective blur. Give it a try in gimp and see for yourself. The default selective gaussian settings work pretty well for de-artifacting, and the loss of detail arguably isn't much worse that that in webp compression. Some of the commercial de-artifacting tools use different techniques (I don't know what they are) that result in even less loss of detail.
Space Tweet: Twitter visualization using node.js and Space Invaders game
wtf are "Miscellaneous mandatory programs" that cost almost as much as social security?
HTC reached a deal to license MS patents shortly after being sued by Apple. Presumable there were negotiations that included the threat of litigation.
Thanks for the feedback.

There are other services, but honestly, GoGo was the easiest to get out there. They're also the most forthcoming with what carriers they're working with and adding equipment to. I would love to add more carriers and International stuff, I just need more information on what international carriers have signed up with which providers.

I fixed the MySQL issue :)
Brooklyn, NY || telecommuting for the right person

We're looking for PHP/MySQL/Drupal and/or HTML/JS/CSS hackers to evolve our local news platform. You can see our product & network here: http://www.thedailynorwalk.com

tdonia (at) MainStreetConnect (.us) - mention hn, please
Microsoft already got an agreement with HTC, looks like Motorola is next.
Eclipse JDT for Java/Android/GWT

Eclipse CDT for C

Eclipse PDT for PHP

Eclipse + PyDev for Python

hmm <3 Eclipse. :)
You could sue GOOG (market cap: 167.66B); or, you could sue MOT (19.91B). Which one's a softer target?
Agreed. I wasn't aware this was around since 2008 when I initially posted as I hadn't heard of it before. I figured this had already gotten a fair bit of interest so I would just let it go rather than changing it after the fact to an Ask HN post.
All social security revenue that is not paid out in benefits is replaced with unmarketable treasury securities and spent as part of the general fund. When social security ceases to run a nominal surplus, the money to pay for those securities will come out of the general fund. As you can see, social security is essentially part of the broader budget, and the divide between its budget and the broader budget is strictly imaginary.

As such I think it is appropriate to calculate FICA spending exactly as the author has.
Someone should throw some CSS3 rotation and drop-shadow on this thing.
It's been awhile since I checked, but there was also a limitation that meant you could only associate a DevPay ID with an S3-backed AMI, ruling out the more useful EBS-backed AMIs.
Vim for all languages. Not an IDE, just text editor.
That's not too accurately summarized. In the linked text they promise to not sue individuals participating noncommercial open source development related to certain covered techologies, which are protocols, languages, file formats and standards. A huge amount of stuff, both technologies and contexts, is left outside the pledge.

Thanks for linking, though; I never bothered to familiarize myself with this before.
All recent IBM x86 servers use UEFI.
Seattle, WA

Security Innovation is hiring some great Software Security Engineers. We help our customers find security issues before for they ship by reviewing code, finding vulnerabilities in their software manually, writing tools, reverse engineering, and analyzing their architecture and design. We get to work on all kinds of different projects: Web, Mobile, Firmware, Desktop Apps, and much more.

We're looking for a couple of great engineers to start soon. The ideal candidate would posses strong development skills, both in standard application development languages (C/C++, Java, C#, etc.) and a scripting language (python, perl, ruby, etc.) They'd also be passionate and knowledgeable about existing security vulnerabilities, attacks and threats (XSS, SQL injection, Buffer Overflows, CSRF, etc.).

Security Innovation is a really cool place to work, we're constantly challenged to learn new things and given the opportunity to grow. (Annual Conference budget, Take Friday afternoons off to work on professional development projects, and lots more). Our open layout office is located just two blocks away from Pike Place Market.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please drop me a line with your resume. (jbasirico@securityinnovation.com - please put "hacker news job posting" in the subject line) or check out our "official" job posting at http://securityinnovation.com/company/careers/job-security-e...
I fell in love with a raindrop ("true" story)
This is actually pretty good data to tie to a given IP address.
Hi all. The original blog post on this topic is mine.

Let's assume you're a very "privacy conscious" person who only accepts cookies for sites where you feel they are necessary -- say ones where you're going to login, or you really want to read articles there and you can't without the cookies, or whatever. Under Firefox (and Chrome under the old modality) your cookie setting choice was "Block but notify on new cookies."

Under the old model, when you first tried to access that site, create an account, login, register, etc., you'd get the initial pop-ups that you needed to respond to, that made it very clear that there were cookies involved now that you might want to accept. This is in fact a modal decision, because not accepting those cookies at that point will have consequences (like registration sequences that keep repeating, login prompts that won't accept your input, and so on).

Now the new model. As you browse the Web the little cookie icon is constantly popping up in the bar. Sometimes it shows clear and sometimes it shows blocked -- but after a while you're just going to ignore it as you go flying from page to page. There's nothing in that icon to alert the user that they've reached an important decision point about an initial cookie from a site. Even if they think to click that icon at the right moment on a new site, they have
to do more clicking to dig down into the cookie management system to accept it if they wish to.

Old model: You're on a page where you want to login. You get a pop-up that there's a cookie. One click on Yes. Finished. Easy to do, and impossible to miss that there's a key decision point.

You really do want people to make a go/no-go decision on initial cookies from sites, and not create a situation where they can easily go winging by those initial cookies and have them fall into a default blocked state -- since the consequences of doing this are a mess and require going in and deleting cookie blocks manually.

It's really initial presentation of first cookies on a new site (when the user is defaulting to blocking cookies) that is the major concern. In that situation, the user should be presented with a modal choice so that they cannot easily miss the fact that they are at an important "exception" decision point -- that is, accepting a cookie when their
default is not to accept all cookies.

And remember, by not choosing the simpler "accept all cookies" option, the user has already demonstrated that they have concerns in this area, and are likely to be very accepting of UI sequences that make it easier for them to function within that choice with a minimum of confusion or
risk of not noticing new initial cookie decisions for a site.

Sorry about any formatting nasties in this response -- I copied most of it in from a text-based e-mail.

Thanks.

--Lauren--
lauren@vortex.com
http://lauren.vortex.com
Said seller did 2.5% of daily average, and did it slowly.

That triggers a crash all on its own. And we're supposed to believe that the SEC has any idea what's happening.
So why did Microsoft's blogging platform never get the traction that Wordpress.com did? Any big obvious errors?
You get the one-two of potential insight into the particular workings and potential 'unintended cool thing'.
I like basic editors so on a Mac TextMate and Linux gEdit.

For quick Java and C tests and all Android work I use Eclipse which is available on all major platforms of course. IntelliJ is on my list to try out but I have no real reason just yet
Go Leafs!
It seems you misunderstood my statement. I never called your post irrelevant. In fact, it is relevant for this site. --I should have made it a bit more clear.

On this site, "hackers as founders" is a strongly expressed correlation, and hence, all of the wonderful startup, business and entrepreneur postings. None the less, the original definition of "hacker" was someone good at solving problems through programming computers. The term was later redefined as someone who breaks into computer systems, and redefined again as someone who breaks into computer systems for profit, or steals via computer systems.

If one did not know the "hackers as founders" idea/definition here on HN, then a post about "entrepreneurs" would seem out of place with any of the more common definitions.
Oh so the pledge was always worthless. You are right.
Thanks to everybody for the comments.

Few points:
=>I have been heads down buried in my startup and not done any contracting or any other external work.

=>I have already incorporated my company and the initial investment in the company + other investors takes care of the company expenses/losses i.e. my costs & the company's are different.

Which comes to an interesting point? Do I need to even file taxes since I made no income?
Jor from MediaPiston here. We recently AB tested with a daily deals provider to compare email open rate and click rate of deal descriptions, and beat the internal team to win their business. Not all online services that involve copy writing have to be crud quality just because the writers happen to be working from home.
The rich at the time might very well have opposed having to pay the 1% social security tax.

The inception of the program was based on a variety of too good to be true premises, the 1% payroll tax being the most notable, so I interpret the cap more as a symptom of this fantasy... and possibly a consideration of the stigma attached to welfare programs in those days.
The article you cited is nonsense. Quantization which causes one of the color channels to get darker is called a "DC shift" and encoders try very hard not to introduce it.
I use both Eclipse (Java) and Visual Studio 2010 (C#). If I have a choice, I usually prefer to work with C# in Visual Studio because its much easier to step through your code than any other IDE I have tried. Also, intellisense is AWESOME!
I came looking forward to a rant about people using text-shadow for body text on the web. I left mildly amused, but ultimately disappointed.
San Francisco, SA. Blurb (http://www.blurb.com/join_us)

We're looking for Rails developers to help us help people tell their story - with books!
If the IPO is not till 2012 then why split it now when the price could simply go back up to current levels in the mean time.
I'm sorry that you don't have an app for that ... I have an app called Quickmark on my iPhone that allows me save the image to my "library" and then select it within the app to decode QR codes.
Addendum -- I was unable to see any change from adding the specified command line argument, at least with 7.0.517.24

Any contradictory reports? Thanks.
That star is my everything. My life revolves around it.
Threw me for a minute, too. Suggesting that you regex this field to chop off anything that isn't a period.
Vancouver, BC. Telecommuting is an option.

Clio (http://www.goclio.com) is hiring talented Ruby on Rails developers. We are a fast-growing provider of practice management software for lawyers in small firms. Think of Clio as a mashup of Highrise, FreshBooks, Basecamp, and Harvest tailored to the specific project management needs of lawyers that practice as solos or in small firms (which is, by the way, 80% of lawyers in North America).

We're a small, fun-loving and tight-knit team with team members spread across North America. We're looking for team players that also know how to work independently. If you're located in Vancouver, great, but if not please still apply.

If you're interested please e-mail jobs@goclio.com.
Agreed 100%, that's why my favorite redis abstraction is http://github.com/nateware/redis-objects, maps the awesomeness of redis in clean and atomic way.
Try out DragonRAD - its cross-platform (write once, run anywhere) and its essentially a 'codeless' drag & drop design tool. You don't need to be a programmer to use it. No HTML, CSS, Javascript...if you know what you want your app to look like and how it functions, you're good to go.

It's mainly focused on enterprise application development (backend integration and synchronization) and the pricing model is dead simple - for $4,900/year you can build as many apps as you want and deploy them to an unlimited number of users. No $/user/month/app model. You can try it out for free too. www.dragonrad.com
> Allow any doctor in a country with reasonably competent medical standards to practice in the United States.

The malpractice lawyers will love this one.

But put another way, is there any country that claims it has a surplus of doctors? I'm skeptical of claims that there is a "shortage of doctors" in the US and other developed countries when you compare rates to third world countries. FWIW Canada has long claimed it has a shortage of doctors too. In practice that means there's a shortage of doctors in rural Manitoba and Saskatchewan which is why such a high proportion of doctors in Saskatchewan are from South Africa.

I don't think there is so much a shortage of doctors as a lack of nurse practitioners etc. who have the legal authority to treat the medically trivial ailments (e.g., coughs, colds) that most of the time is why we go see a doctor.

Since the medical profession is self governing, it is a cartel and therefore it is in the interests of doctors to control supply to keep prices high.
Ask HN:Who's Looking For a Cofounder? (October 2010 Edition)
We get a lot of "Who's hiring" threads on HN, but I bet many people are looking to join an early stage startup as a cofounder. In your comment, you should probably mention where you're located, what stage your startup/idea is at, who you're looking for, what you can bring to the table, and your contact info.

I'm posting this because I'm working on a startup solo, and I think finding a good cofounder is harder than it needs to be.

I'll start:

I'm working on a SaaS product to automate buying advertising online, everything from keyword/competitor research to optimization, and I'm looking for a technical cofounder in San Francisco. Think easy to use enterprise-class PPC management for small businesses.
I've built a prototype MVP which got very positive early feedback from potential customers. I can code if I have to, but my strengths are in marketing, optimizing, and the business side. I'm currently bootstrapping the startup, and plan to continue to do so until ramen profitability is reached.
If you're excited about making sense of massive datasets using technology like MongoDB and node.js, designing the architecture and technical vision of the company, and building the startup from the ground up, I want to talk to you. Python hackers who are amazing with regular expressions preferred.

Email me at ilya [at] unviral.com.
Thank you for pointing that out. tltrbc (to long to read between compiles. And why too long? Coding in a Java framework.)

Which goes back to my original question: What are these "extra expenses".
Adding multi-touch to the trackpad is one thing, assuming OS X will become touch-oriented is quite another.

iOS isn't just about touch, it's first and foremost about direct manipulation — touching the very thing you want to interact with. This paradigm does not translate well to OS X, which is mouse driven — there's a pointer between you and the thing you want to manipulate.

As for patterns, well, most of the stuff they patent never sees the light of day. Some of them are probably just red herrings, Apple prefers when nobody knows what they're doing.

But hey, let's check back in June of 2011. Looking forward to it!
Don't think so, if they decided to sue it's because Motorola refused such agreement and because they believe they have a pretty strong case against MS patents.
is it possible that the faulty image was saved as a 256 color png by accident? That would for sure explain the look of the gradient
A system that crashes from such a small trade is broken. Any foreign government could easily pull this trigger. Or how about another big fund triggering a crash to make a buck?
Interesting point. For most startups though the opportunity cost of having that cash tied up is a problem.
Future iMac convertible tablet design
via the google: http://useconomy.about.com/od/fiscalpolicy/p/Mandatory.htm

"These programs include Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation, Child Nutrition and Tax Credits, Supplemental Security for the Disabled and Student Loans."
I tend to find that most of my programming professors use outdated IDEs or really bad ones . . .
Vim + tabbed terminals and you're golden.
I agree. I lived for a year at Geary and Taylor (technically Tendernob) and the rent was great ($2k for a 2-story apartment) and I had no problems whatsoever.
Eclipse is always my choice for java.

All other projects I use TextMate.
Whoa. I have 3. Long way to go before I can be negative. :)
Even current macs use EFI 1.1. UEFI 2.3 is the current version of the standard, and as yet no macs are even using 2.0 to my knowledge.

That said, there is a huge difference between any version of EFI and BIOS boot times. But keep in mind, we are not talking about the time to boot the OS, but the time it takes for the OS to start booting. Think all the time wasted in your typical BIOS-based boot on hardware checks, post screens, etc.
Rather our oligarchical market system, where regulation is for the benefit of the regulated not the consumer. Bring back Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party.
Replying to a (very good) counter argument with your original argument does not make your argument better nor does it bring the discussion forward. For my part, I'm very grateful to Marc for sharing his experience and thereby providing us with knowledge.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746724

Also, it's a peer-reviewed paper in OSDI (a top OS conference), not a white paper.
I think the only reason we're using Crowd now is to map LDAP groups into Jira.
The front page could have some more sample data to help the user understand what they are getting into. Maybe a recent gainers/losers of stocks that are defined as "value". Or, since there is a good amount of research/literature/blogs that focus solely on value investing, it might be useful to add these as a supplement to the statistics you are planning on showing. I feel like people want to have as much information at there disposal when making investment decisions, and the mockups seem a little sparse to me as an individual investor.
Errors at the edge cases are usually the hardest to detect.