skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree working for yourself is a way to break through the ceiling... but it's largely irrelevant to what he should expect as "simply a developer." being a consultant involves more risk and requires more skills than being an employee. you have more risk and uncertainty about work. you have to sell yourself. you have more difficult access to health insurance. you usually get paid later than you would as an employee. you have more risk of not getting paid. you are responsible for collecting the money. you don't get any paid vacation. holidays means a lighter invoice. it's different. more risk = more potential reward
Rejection Therapy - The Real Life Game
This guy will probably spam Facebook feeds of 1 million users, and make more money than $3 per user.
Spotting vaporware: three follies of would-be technologists
Stackoverflow's stack is overflow
Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010 Opening Ceremony Photos
The Commonwealth Games 2010 is the nineteenth Commonwealth Games. The Games are being held in Delhi, India from 3 to 14 October 2010, the largest multi-sport event conducted to date in Delhi and India. At the opening ceremony of 19th Commonwealth Games 2010, songs were rehearsed and all the peoples were cheered across the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Bill Parcells always talks about determining where football ranks as a priority for his players.

It doesn't have to be the top priority but it better be near the very top (family, faith would be considered acceptable 'higher priorities'). He wants players with similar life priorities.

Bill Belichick has a special assistant (his name escapes me), a football lifer, that solely focuses on assessing the make up of players.

That said, the simple fact is that the very best GM's in pro sports know how to sort through the statistics and find the die-hard competitors. Statistics matter but only when coupled with the right make up.
HTML5 was never about designers. It's all about functional interfaces for web applications.

http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/opera.html

You won't find anything in there about facilitating graphic designers.
Well, people are more interested in themselves than Obama.
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Historic audio at risk, thanks to bad copyright laws
Indochino.com currently only offers email support and although we do get some requests (Very Few), we find people are very happy to work with us through email.

The key to email support is answering all questions and then from the questions they asked, figuring out what they subsequently might ask and answer those questions in the email as well, even if they didn't ask it.

We may do phone support in the future, but not until we have scaled our email support to the full extent and then need to speak to customers in real time and not have a 24 hour window for a reply.
Demo or Die! You're a teen hacker, you want to impress, you demo code (1995)
I have a very small library of about 150 books that I am really proud of. I'm proud of it because I started building it while still taking an allowance from my parents.

But I'm also running out of space and I find that technical books become obsolete in a matter of months. So I stopped buying books that talk about frameworks and such and now only stick to the classics that won't lose value unless the technology substantially changes. Others, I now purchase in a digital format.(I have a Sony ebook reader)

Digitization is one approach, but I am too attached to the books to destroy them. And I agree with the sentiment of the article, it's just not the same.
I was in Detroit a few weeks ago during the jazz festival, the first American city to be visited under my US visa (I'm permanent resident in Canada). It was beautiful and shocking in a very post-apocalyptic way every Fallout fan has dreamt of: at noon on a Saturday the streets were completely abandoned. We rode the People Mover with 2 other people, looking at gorgeous art-deco monuments to capitalism. At the shoreline we met visitors of the festival, most of whom were tourists.

The only busy areas of the city were the casinos where we almost suffocated from the ubiquitous fog of cigarette smoke. Overall it was very interesting but largely as abandoned as what you described.
Life After Microsoft: 15 Startups Founded By Ex-Employees
Not sure if the demo scene was ever discussed at length here on HN, but it was something I grew up with. I can't prove it, but I suspect the same personalities that were drawn to it in the 80s and 90s are now being attracted to the web startups and the like. Perhaps, sadly, with more commercial motivations.

This is an article from 1995. I think this sums it up well

Demos are the last bastion of passionate, crazed, enthusiast-only programming, crafted purely for the hell of it by inspired teenagers working entirely in their spare time. The teens create jaw-dropping audiovisual effects beyond the dreams of most multimedia designers. Constantly striving to better their rivals, devotees of the demo scene cram spectacular three- or four-minute presentations onto a single 800-Kbyte floppy disk, fitting them into tiny amounts of memory. Freely spread by disk-swapping over bulletin boards and other sites on the Internet, then replayed on home computers all over the planet, each demo becomes a piece of digital graffiti, proclaiming the superiority of the gang that created it. Demos are made by the rock-and-roll groups of code.
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Why Great Companies Die: Innovator's Dilemma
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Silicon Valley: You & some of your VC's have a gender problem
Are Netflix, the AppStore, and Kindle turning us into spoiled kids at Christmas?
I must admit, this is pretty shitty. However, as a former Microsoftie, it makes a sense to me.

Allow me to explain: YOU ARE NOT MICROSOFT'S CUSTOMER. OEMs are. Enterprises are. This is a serious financial advantage for Microsoft.

That said... YOU ARE APPLE'S CUSTOMER. And this is a serious competitive disadvantage for Microsoft.

That said... MICROSOFT WANTS TO BE IN THE CONSUMER MARKET. They have to be to compete with Apple long term.

So the way I see this is that Microsoft is opening their own retail stores and they are going to essentially be yet another OEM. They are going to compete with the likes of Dell on merit of quality. This "signature team" is the team responsible for setting that quality bar.

In true Microsoft fashion, "Windows Signature" is an internal name that is leaking externally. In this case, it appears to be intentionally. It seems like an odd choice because no one talks about "Windows Dell", why should Microsoft have a name for this? It's just plain silly, but I digress.

Since Microsoft doesn't need to pay for Windows licenses, they will have higher margins and will be able to muscle around the OEMs who depend on crapware for profits. If Microsoft simply started forcing rules down the throats of OEMs, the OEMs would retaliate by distributing Linux more widely, so it is wise for Microsoft to push a caliber of desktop experience that Linux can't quite deliver yet for the average user.

tldr: This is Microsoft changing OEM behavior passive aggressively.
I have the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner mentioned in this article. That thing is amazing and oddly addicting. It really makes you want to scan everything in site. I suspect that's what is really going on here. Professor Halavais has run out of loose papers and receipts to scan and has resorted to tearing pages out of his books. ;)
Cartoon shows are vividly pro-consumption: Simpsons has beer and crusty burgers; Futurama has alcohol; Spongebob has Krabby Patty burgers. Though often joked about, they are always seen being enjoyably consumed. This makes the shows very appealing to a TV network, because they are very appealing to advertisers of consumables.

When viewing your website, I couldn't help but think how delicious some cake would be right now. So. Let adsense do its work, showing local cake-delivery bakeries that provide a web-customizable text service (assuming they exist - if not, there's a business there too.)

Also, do support unicode, as someone suggested, also for reddit-inspired workplace friday cakes, such as: ಠ_ಠ
Netflix requires it last I checked -- that's the only reason I'm aware of for having it.
LeWeb ’10: Accepting submissions ala TechCrunch Disrupt
how technically strong is your CTO?
If it's less than $25 a month, I'd say "who cares".

I don't know the OP's financial situation, but I think the idea of cost recovery on two digits is so short-sighted. I shudder to think of all of the missed opportunity costs of not providing awesome things to people.

The majority of my "luck" in life has come from doing things just because I enjoy them.

The OP is already getting paid in reputation, whether he acknowledges it or not.
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Maybe it's not the technique but you, your company, your employees, your location, your pay that is turning off engineers.
I'm going to share it the entire HN community before the end of this week. You will see it then. Feel free to add any feedback when you see it.
Commonwealth Games India CWG Delhi
Commonwealth Games India CWG Delhi
I believe socioeconomic factors are at work. But it needs to be pointed out social and economic factors don't necessarily go hand in hand.

For instance, being a Chinese, I can tell you that no matter how poor a family is, education is looked upon as a way out. This might be in part due to the long standing importance of the Imperial Examinations as a way of securing a government position.

I'd say poverty is a problem, but it is a poverty of imagination. Gangsta Rap doesn't help, because it perpetuates the illusion that criminal activities are the only valid choice.
If you're average at Google, you probably were hot shit on those previous occasions.
The most clever I've seen so far is to start with this code:

http://github.com/mmcgrana/gitcred

and then work down the list looking for languages and frameworks of interest.
I'm a bit surprised to find that Uncle Bob is still writing installments of "Software Craftsman"-- I can't even remember how many different defunct software development magazines I used to follow the series in...
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I was about to answer no, but apparently I do:

http://www.silverlightversion.com/

Does it install with Windows Update automatically or something?
8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success
Same here. I honestly don't recall installing it, but apparently I must have at some point.
That's the reason why I don't want a full-time job while I'm working on my thing. Sooner or later it blows up your job, your project, your mind, your liver...

Get into something new. Learn how to cook or play an instrument. Whatever makes you meet people. Get laid. If your project is really what you want to do, it'll get back to you on its own. And then it's quality time as well.
perl cannot be parses at all; there are cases where you must run a program to find out whether x is an identifier or a [function] name.

Nonsense. A very small category of behavior exists where static parsing of Perl 5 cannot determine whether a given program is valid. That's all. It's possible to write a pathological program which has two valid and working parses, but I've never seen it and it's an intellectual game, not a trap waiting to snare an unwary programmer.

(I have no idea what "an identifier or a function name" means, as Perl uses sigils to distinguish between variables and function names.)

See http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/08/on-parsing-perl-5.... for details.
> It seems like an odd choice because no one talks about "Windows Dell", why should Microsoft have a name for this?

I think that's the point—they're making the market think about a point of differentiation that they weren't before, and so they want to give it a name. "If you buy your PC at [random shop], will you still be getting the Windows Signature Experience?"
How about job fairs? Social media?
Finding a business/marketing co-founder
I have built an advertising network which i believe would lead the way in advertising by providing publishers the ability to sell diretly to advertisers with little commission and ability for them to run backfill ads when their space has not been bought.The problem is i need someone with marketing skills because i hate marketing and dont have time to get the network off the ground. Any help with finding a marketing cofounder?
"I researched living in Seattle for a while, so I definitely know how steep the difference is in cost of living. Sometimes I feel like it is a little overstated though."

Well, let me put it this way: I lived in Seattle for nearly a decade, and while it was expensive, my rent was less than half of what I'm paying now. I could live in my own apartment on a graduate student stipend (~$30k), and still save a bit each month. There's no way I could do that here.

It's tough to overstate the cost of living adjustment that's necessary to move to the bay area. It's insanely expensive.
> Why are established computer scientists forced to take a week to study up for trivia-like interviews?

I don't ask anything in an interview that my colleagues didn't automatically learn long ago, just from being good at their jobs. Cram studying for an interview is a waste of time—unless you're trying to get a job you aren't qualified for.

> But, for more established professionals, it would seem that a "tell me about your achievements" discussion would be more applicable.

Once I had met an appalling number of candidates who are incapable of putting sensible pseudocode on a whiteboard, I stopped taking for granted that everyone actually can write what they claim to have written. I don't know where these people are coming from or why, but they're definitely out there, and over-represented in the candidate pool (because everyone is trying to avoid hiring them).
I can see that reasoning, but I probably frame it as "If you buy directly from us, we're give you the Microsoft Bonus Stuff Pack which is much better than the Dell Crapware Pack".
I can't help but notice the circles; they remind me of (the late) OpenSolaris logo.
It's very, very tempting to believe that this is true. However, the example picked - business process management - is such a spectacularly badly tooled, over-promising and under-delivering area that I don't think it's possible to draw conclusions that wide from it.

BPM has the potential to support some really agile business styles, but I just don't see (or hear - maybe I just haven't got my ear close enough to the ground) that it's being applied to the right businesses at the right time. The best time is right at the start, which means that the tools need to be small, simple and agile, not bloated and overweight.

Everyone deals in abstraction to some degree; business owners and managers are no different. We just need to find a way to map their abstractions to ours in a way that's easier for them to understand. I don't know what that would look like, but I also don't expect it to be a dumbing-down. I do know that BPEL and BPMN aren't it.
I'm flummoxed by this question. From what I see, AI is at the core of much of what's happening in Silicon Valley and in tech in general.

But then, I'm also using semantic web tools in building a search engine for financial news at http://Newsley.com. Right now we're indexing and automatically categorizing 500 financial news articles a day. And, I'm really looking forward to adding on recommender systems and use some machine learning with the scads of data we're collecting.

AI research and related topics and startups rarely make news. Is it really such a dead field? There's never any breakthroughs announced, and there's no grandiose research projects underway that I know of.

AI companies are all over the place. Any decent online ad platform is essentially a huge recommender system. Search and search quality are essentially problems that traditionally fit into a "AI" category. Have you shopped on Amazon recently? Where would they be without their recommendation system. Same with Netflix.

I just bought a $40 HD webcam that comes with software that can track points on my face in real time. It then drives a 3D puppet in sync with my facial expressions and movements. When I was studying animation 8 years ago, it took $500K worth of equipement to do motion capture. Gazehawk launched a few months ago, and are already profitable selling eye tracking tools: http://www.gazehawk.com/.

You can now buy a friggin robot to vacuum your living room for $150. The US airforce now considers commanding a wing of drones essential experience for Colonels interested in promotion. Most drone pilots in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars a pilot their aircraft from offices in Nevada. Robots are essential members of bomb and IED disposal teams. One of DailyBooth's founders was stuck in the UK because of visa problems, so last year he was attended invetsor meetings virtually by using an Anybot.

You can play virtual golf by swinging a controller in your living room if you own a Wii. The last RPG that I played was Oblivion and I was blown away by the character AI. That was years ago. I'm afraid to buy any new games because they'll suck up so much of my time.

Far from whithering away, just the opposite has happened. What used to be considered AI has now become so commonplace that we don't think twice about using it. If you don't believe me, just Google around for a while. You'll find the answer.
Oh, thanks for explaining. It just never occurred to me, definitely unexpected in this context.
Yah this is kinda cool, but hardly practical in terms of any real game play.

Also, I think the beauty of starcraft is that it is extremely hard to master due to the complexity involved. Like chess, there are standard opening moves but beyond the initial sequences, the possibilities are almost endless.

I would like to see someone program a computer who could beat the best starcraft player. I bet that would make the IBM Deep Blue seem like a joke.
You can go ahead and start calling me black, then.

Also, you have to accept that I identify as blind. Just because I am sighted doesn't mean I can't identify as blind. And deaf. Sign everything you say to me, because although I hear perfectly, I identify as deaf.

Fuck political correctness. That's for retards. Oops, did I just say retards? That's not very politically correct of me.

People can do whatever the hell they want, that's fine, but they have no right to expect me to change my behavior. They do what pleases them, I do what pleases me. Neither of us may please each other, and that should be fine. Why do you care so much?
Uh, this is flash.

The jQuery and JS parts play only minor roles.
The Steam hardware survey:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

now includes software, which includes Silverlight.
This already happens today. Rolex: handcrafted, expensive, not very accurate. Digital watch at Target: mass-produced, cheap, and very accurate.
Can Tech Blogs Transcend Their Founders?
Donno, it was pretty crazy around inauguration time :)
Google publishes blueprints for Liquid Galaxy
Why does your technically brilliant product suck? It has no soul.
I submitted this story because I have somewhere approaching 3000 books in a spare room that serves as my study, none of them scanned. Even though I enjoy having them displayed on shelves I've noticed lately that this may be the numeric point where being a bibliophile becomes painful; it's beginning to hurt my goals surrounding simplifying my ownership of dead tree pulp. The potential of having my library in digital format and searchable is pretty exciting. It is a major burden to move that number of books when necessary.

As for the Fujitsu ScanSnap, I saw it recommended by the folks at 37 Signals (DHH?) and looked it up and saw that it has 20ppm colour scanning and good document feeding.

Doing what is recommended in this article is very time consuming to begin with, but made even more difficult since you're depending on Adobe. Like the author, I cringe at the thought of destroying perfectly good out-of-print hardbacks.

I'd really love to start a business around electronic books and archiving.
"Ben Weber is a Ph.D. candidate working with Michael Mateas in the Expressive Intelligence Studio at the University of California, Santa Cruz."

Heh, small world. Michael Mateas was my CS2260 professor at Georgia Tech and I was in the last class he taught before Michael left for Santa Cruz. For those wondering, 2260 was Media Device Architectures, a class based around coding for the GameBoy Advance. Here was part of the game I made for our final project: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls/133005425/

course: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2006/cs2260_spring/
> Why would I want something produced by a human when I can instead get something produced by a robot to within 0.001" tolerances?

Because of social norms. Aren't you aware that a 5000$ swiss watch is always inferior to any 5$ chinese watch, from a precision point of view?

Why do you think that rich people assemble at Pebble Beach and buys 50 years old cars for 3 millions $? Because objectively, a Ferrari GTO sucks compared to anything made by volkswagen nowadays on almost any aspect but looks.
It's kind of like the online version of "Who's Who" that is sent to graduates, professionals, scholars, etc.
Yes, begrudgingly.
Only for netflix. I really wish they offered another option, as it is incredibly frustrating to run windows JUST for netflix.
Spending tine with my wife and son

Distance running (10-15 miles)

Research and planning

Hacking. Personal, work and home automation

And given my schedule, often doing nothing at all.
Maybe you need to put yourself on the other side of that interview.

* What is my favourite programming laguage...?

I don't hate anything about it because, you know, if I found it annoying then it wouldn't be my favourite language anymore. Maybe it's just a personality thing, but I personally don't settle just so I can say iI have a favourite.

Most of the time I would spend answering that question would be taken up by me thinking which language I liked the most and that'd (at the moment) be Lua and only because it's very small and I can feel like I understand most of it. The only thing I find annoying about it is that it's standard library is small which means I have to rely on third-party libraries but that I think is necessary for me to actually like it more than Python which is so huge that it just doesn't feel very fun to write anything in. Many people might say the fact that it doesn't have classes. It does however support OOP via prototyping, I just see it as different, not a disadvantage and it actually fits very nicely with the laguage, possibly better than classes would.

* I'd say write a couple short stories. I have enough unfinished projects, why would I want to waste a week either starting a new one that I won't finish in a week or continue on an old one that I also won't finish in a week.
The "dead field" you speak of is deterministic A.I. research. Statistical methods (read: machine learning) are doing extremely well these days, and only get more powerful the more data we get our hands on.
Ask HN: what would you ask Scott Cook, Intuit co-founder?
Mr. Cook's speaking at my school tomorrow and I'm eating lunch with him. I don't want to waste the opportunity; what should I ask about?
I've been looking for this article to come into existence for many years now. Puts so many of my complaints about science (from being in the trenches) to eloquence.