skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Job details page.

First thoughts, its very white with a lot of text. Can some colors be added to differentiate sections? This could be in the form of background colors for different sections, perhaps borders. There's multiple ways to do this, but basically something that draws my eye to the most important points, such as job description and job details.

Google map on page doesnt seem to serve a real purpose and just takes up space. Is it really necessary?

Posted date seems to list a date range. This is confusing as I'm not sure how old this job posting is.

Posted by is highlighted but this seems to be rather insignificant info. There are more important things on the page to highlight. When I look for a job, I care about job description, salary, location and job type.

On the apply for job page, the subject is prefilled but it makes no mention of the specific job posting. What happens if I have multiple postings? How can I tell which emails are for which posting? This page should restate some of the info from the previous page. At a minimum it should include company name.

Rather than having a text field for resume, you should offer option to upload a resume. I would be wary of putting my resume in there as I will lose all formatting and it'll look terrible.

Resume details page

Same advice as job details page. Contact info links are confusing and really dont tell me what is supposed to happen. Can the call to action be improved with an image perhaps or more descriptive text? For the free send message, is login or registration really required? Not sure if I would send a message due to the inconvenience of having to register. If this can be dropped, great. if not, think about offering something that lets people login using a google acct or facebook, etc...
I research and analyze distressed companies for investment purposes. I spend a lot of time looking at restaurant businesses and they tend to have managers that make the same mistakes over and over.

Here's one of my favorite restaurant turnaround stories. This is probably not applicable to your problem, but I like telling it:

A couple of years ago Steak N Shake (a fast food hamburger chain) was on the brink of bankruptcy because starting in 2002 or so, the management team decided to take on debt and rapidly expand their store-base. So they entered into markets where there was not enough demand for their products and in order to keep up with interest payments, they began raising the prices on all their menu items.

When the recession hit, the sales volume plummeted (for good reason - even though people liked the food, it was costing too much for them). The management team was in a tough spot because if the company could not pay, they would have to file for bankruptcy.

So they allowed a guy named Sardar Biglari (30 year old from San Antonio, TX) to take control of the company. He started a hedge fund right after graduating from undergrad (sold an ISP he founded back then near the top of the dot com bubble).

Biglari came in and tried to find ways to lower the prices of the menu items in order to increase sales volume and store traffic.

He changed a lot of little things which had inconsequential impacts on taste. He opted for a different kind of styrofoam cup which cost less money, switched from grape to sliced tomatoes in salads (salad sales were very low anyway), picked a different (cheaper) type of napkin they gave, and was able to reduce expenses overall by cutting costs in areas where most people didn't notice. Then he lowered prices a little bit and used coupons to increase traffic, while reminding people why they like the brand so much.

In addition he reduced management salaries and paired the menu down to items where they felt they had an advantage and sold well (do less, but make it your best).

They sold off some of their unprofitable locations and redirected cash flow to completely pay off their debt. The company never had to file for bankruptcy and performs well now.
I cannot find the piece you mention, if you could point me to it, that d be great.
Mobile Ad industry to reach $24B by 2015
It is unethical to use this software on one’s children without letting them know. Not to mention hypocritical if one’s purpose is moral instruction (in giving them a phone, its implied purpose is communication to parties of their choosing, not to someone and mom/dad; installing this software is deceitful).

Some consider communication technology almost like “soft cybernetics.” By that line if thinking, secretly reading every SMS is like tapping into your children’s mind. This may be desirable but I would consider that a violation of their own right to privacy and personhood, and (mild) psychological abuse.

But this whole discussion is on the usefulness of SMS forwarding, which is orthogonal to the security & privacy issues of the original article, and the implied endorsement of a quality App Store.
The Importance of Engaging Your Twitter Followers and Facebook Fans
I wouldn't challenge your general advice, as I am just one data point... but just to underscore what a crapshoot this all is, I actually got into to college on the basis of an interview in which my primary schtick concerned why Dungeons and Dragons made me smart.

(How do I know? The head of admissions, who interviewed me, told me so a year later. It was a small school, I was applying for January admission, and she basically made the decision herself. I had nothing on paper to recommend me above anyone else -- she just loved the interview.)
Are you the person with the technical capability to swiftly remove content when notified by a content holder? That's what they are looking for here. A blog owner could register their own blog but the hosting service is really the more likely target for a DMCA takedown regardless.
Chrome Web Store Could be Delayed Until December
Microsoft is rich enough to be able to pour billions of dollars and millions of engineer-hours into a project without seriously committing to it (Kin).

Throwing crap against a wall and hoping it sticks, even if you spend billions, isn't innovation, that's flailing.
I'd get rid of the dog.

:)
I am of the same opinion. I always thought that the board had lost it's way and Fiorina / Hurd were just the consequences. It is not like the board didn't know what they were getting.
How would it be... impractical? That means light goes ~ 7,000 times further than the width of the gate (140 nanometer ones have been made) in the same time span. They're hardly pushing any theoretical limits as pertain to the speed of light.

(light speed / 300 billion hertz) * (1 billion nanometers per meter / 140nm) = 7,137.91567 , according to Google's calculator.
Ask HN: RSS feed for user comments?
There's a handful of commentors that I deeply respect and enjoy reading. (Not that I don't respect and enjoy everyone else, just not quite so much.)

Is there any type of RSS feed for a user's comments?
App Store Semantic Search Preview
The Story of the Biggest Computer Game of All Time
Internet Finds Time Traveler With Cell Phone in 1928 Charlie Chaplin Film
Just added to my profile.
There is no BSD kernel in OS X. The entire OS is Darwin running an XNU kernel that has a BSD layer within it. There is no way to remove the BSD layer without removing the entire OS.
Cassandra Investment from Lightspeed, Sequoia
My idea is better than me. I'm just trying not to mess it up. I don't have all the answers and I need a lot of help. I think San Francisco is the best place for me to find a lot of help. Unless someone reading this is from Milwaukee and wants to help. The Cubs suck! Hit me up!
If you know what I mean.
There is an awful lot of enterprise software that is built on Java, and security vulnerabilities are going to happen, be it in Java or in Safari or any other piece of software you happen to use.
Maybe, but this article isn't really a look at Foursquare's problem; it's looking at these other databases, using Foursquare's problem as a lens. Not so useful for Foursquare, but useful for people who are considering which database to use.
Ebay Fees take 80% of Seller Profits
This video demo isn't very compelling. Typing the phrase about wanting to take one's girlfriend to a dance club returns a health club locator. Doesn't actually seem very semantic.
Ahhhhh... much appreciated.
It's a problem because in chip therms that is tiny, and you still need to interface to the outside world, using regular wiring you're much slower than 300GHz, and using optics you have a pretty serious interfacing issue.

Of course even a 10-fold practical increase would be an amazing thing, but I just can't see the 300GHz ever becoming a reality given the constraints that physics imposes on this.
Animal style fries, for starters.
Asking relevant questions at an interview is a good idea, but I've noticed that a lot of technical interviewers ask questions it took them weeks to understand and fix when they use this approach. Understanding a problem is often more difficult than solving it ... knowing that the interviewer understands the problem and constraints is even more of a challenge.

I once had an interviewer give me the kobayashi maru without telling me. I thought the guy was a jerk. He could just have pulled a gun on me and demanded my wallet if he wanted to judge my personality. I declined the second round.
Diaspora Security - will this work?
I could say something immature about your mother but I'm sure she's a great lady and I can't afford to lose any karma points because I barely have any to start with.
New York Times Knowledge Network
Of course it's evolving; it's always evolving. Read a 100-year-old newspaper and observe the differences. You cannot stop it from evolving.
something has to pay for those four day work weeks and Isilon storage
> Actually scratch that this is simply like copying others blog posts on a massive scale.

No, this is saving those blog posts from extinction.
IIS: internet information Services. It IS services for internet information.

COM: component object model. It IS an object model for components.

Sharepoint: a shared point for sharing information.

BizTalk: communication between enterprise (buisness) software.

Doesn't seem like disconnected marketing names to me. Zune, Bing, Silverlight, yeah point taken. Still not much more disconnected than "iPod", "yahoo" or "flash".
Mozilla delays Firefox 4 release until 2011
Kevin Fox: For the good of all mankind, I’m joining Mozilla Labs
Hard to say if it was the first or not. It may have been "Here's my list of interesting web pages (most of them were probably links to other peoples lists of interesting pages, very recursive.)" I don't think the word meme existed then either.
"8:13 p.m. | Updated Adding that the app was pulled from the Android Market."
The network is decentralized and cannot be shut down. The RIAA would need to sue other websites that offer Gnutella clients. But people can always get the clients from somewhere else.

Anyway, is there anything worth it in Gnutella? It's full of viruses.
Move to IPv6
In the process of trying to formulate a witty response to your comment, the song "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani popped into my head. I think that's a sign that I should just move on.
Yes it's high but it also has to cover the cost of all the work the recruiter did on candidates he didn't place, and the time spent cold calling, the money spent placing ads on job boards etc. to find candidates.
Bad enough if he'd said "make sure you trust the people who handle your phone", but he went full-bore, saying "make sure people trust you." He's preemptively blaming the victim — the person on whose phone his software runs.

The lede for the article softpedals the degree of scumbaggery involved with the sale and use of this product. It's software for the domestic-abuser demographic.
I think it's interesting that in the grand scheme of languages, Python has one of the gentlest learning curves. (I'd say as a general-purpose language rather than a web language, it's even gentler than PHP)
New site lists California City and County salaries
(IANAL)

1 - Posterous, if you're on their subdomain

2 - The business, e.g., Posterous, Inc.

3 - An employee who takes on this responsibility. Posterous' is Sachin Agarwal, their CEO.

Here's Posterous' completed form:

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/p/poste.pdf
Sorry, I can't give any credibility to a list that doesn't include Legend of Zelda in any form. That game always brought a tremendous sense of adventure to gaming in general
I have to agree with the others about bandwidth. I run a high-traffic gallery that hosts user-generated images. Our gallery has about 300 GB of images, but we move over 130 TB of bandwidth per month. If I moved my site to your service would you still be making a profit at $30/month?
New Math (e.g., Placebo = Pill - Medicine)
GOP Bill Would Label WikiLeaks a 'Transnational Threat'
Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us
Windows users might not consider a new trojan as noteworthy news ;)
> utterly hated the experience

I understand you hated the whole experience, but what specifically made you feel that way?
Too bad they don't invest more resources in GXT.
Your biggest problem right now is you don’t know where you want to go. Until you can figure that out you’re better off dragging yourself through school so you have some kind of credential to live off of. You can always chase your passion once you find it.

Also, for what it’s worth, you might want to look into counseling for depression. From the description of your life it seems like you’re a likely candidate (unhappy except when you workout and have endorphins racing through your body). Depression can make you lose interest in even stuff are interested in so before you decide your previously chosen major is not interesting you should make sure it isn’t depression talking.
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Let's keep down-voting for inappropriateness, not for when we disagree with someone.

While it's clear many of us disagree with matt, it's a perfectly legitimate opinion, and we shouldn't downvote someone for that.
Search for HackerFollow.
Who am I to question the Dropbox CEO, but... Even if the solution is new, if you're solving a real problem that people have (and if you're not, what's wrong?), can't you use the search terms around that? E.g., "how to recover lost files", or "increase disk space", or "share files", or whatnot... Just get people at the point at which they're experiencing the pain you're addressing... No?
Note that just because someone's invented transistors that can switch at 300 GHz, doesn't mean that you can make a processor which will be able to run with a 300 GHz clock speed. These are two completely different issues, and articles with things like "300 GHZ!" in the headlines often play off this confusion to get page views.

There are already transistors which can switch at much higher frequencies. They're mainly used in radio communications. The promise of graphene semiconductors is that they may be a way of replacing or supplementing silicon, so it's nice that graphene transistors are turning out to have good performance, but the really big issue continues to be figuring out how to mass-produce non-trivial devices. Or even trivial ones.
It says that we have conflicting, emotionally-driven interests.
Were I asked this, my general approach would be: (1) Given the available building blocks (disks, ram, cpus, etc) what strategies are workable? An example of a strategy would be "store it in a btree and keep all but the last two levels in ram; therefore we'll need enough ram for the top of the tree and 2x seeks for each lookup." (2) Find existing software that implements a workable strategy if at all possible, or at least the complicated components of it and code the rest yourself.

You can think of two extreme answers to this as "buy oracle" and "buy some transistors". Those are both bad answers. The first is a bad answer because, unless the candidate can answer the follow-up question "how does oracle work?" it probably just amounts to wishful thinking and they almost certainly won't be able to say when it will fail. The second is a bad answer because you can't do that in two weeks by yourself.

Take for example, Foursquare's recent outage. From what I read online, it seems like they went with "use MongoDB" as a strategy without actually understanding what Mongo was doing under the hood. Presumably they didn't figure out how it would fail (the author's follow-up question, natch) and thus they discovered that the hard way. So they chose bad answer one. On the other hand, had they decided to implement their own database, they'd know all about its characteristics, but they wouldn't have launched yet.
Its both business and consumer sales. Around 90% of the market share.

The large amounts of apple machines in colleges is probably more an indication of students wanting to be fashionably correct, than it is microsofts brand being tarnished in the general population.
This may come as a shock, but you can put more than one SSD in a server :-P
My understanding is Twitter has basically stopped approving whitelistings. Unless you are in the 1% that has a genuine need they won't give it to you. Have you looked into using the Streaming API? http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
Sounds like you need to fall in love. With a girl.

Note: This will solve none of you problems. But it certainly won't be boring either.

Additional note: Whoever convinced you that your life has a track and you need to figure it out did you a serious disservice. It is your life. Loving and serving those dear to you can be an amazing thing. You'll be no help to them if you are miserable.
Very cool! First impression is the site is great. I think you've hit everything with this site. Unfortunately, I can't use your product because there is no equivalent chrome extension. Is this on the dev roadmap? if it is, make mention of it, as I would definitely bookmark this page and come back.

Love the bring a video with you option. Some thoughts on additional features, can you add a compare to other sites besides Amazon? Perhaps newegg.com for electronics. just some more choices would be great.

What about send a web page thru gmail? I haven't found a really good extension for this. Something that sends the whole article rather than just a link and keeps the formatting.
Disagree, Python and Ruby have no better chance of killing PHP than they have of killing Perl. Neither language offers enough benefits to cause such a massive shift.
I copied my content from Geocities to another provider and then on to my own site (eventually). I'm sure I'm not alone. Very little of that content is still live anywhere but there is a little I think.

Also, why do you get to be the arbiter of whether others content can be allowed to disappear or not? If I own the copyright then it's within my rights to have all copies destroyed, for example, you secretly (as you've not notified copyright holders AFAICT) keeping a copy is infringing my moral right to control that work.
I would imagine that for a certain number of candidates, they answer with a custom solution because they believe this is what the interviewer is expecting to hear (and asking for) when the question contains "you need to design, build, and deploy...". I think to some people, the immediate thought is that the interviewer would deduct points for originality if you said "well let's just use this tool off of the shelf".

This is why interviews are so tricky - it's hard as a candidate to juggle answering the question and trying to decipher what traits the interviewer is really trying to expose with this question.

For example with this one: is the interviewer trying to see if I understand my data structures and the size of this data to the point where I could design such a system from the ground up? Or are they trying to see how practical I can be given real-world time constraints?
New Macs’ resolutions: The wide range of Mac Display DPI
I signed up for an invite; I like the idea of FFFFOUND + Flickr galleries.

(Also, the word "pinboard" keeps reminding me of my friend's text-based bookmarking site that's been around for a little while now, http://pinboard.in/ - you guys probably know about it already though.)
Can you describe your kobayashi maru question? I'm curious.
Thanks for your offer!
Beautiful troll! I almost bust a gut laughing.
No.

Think of it like this: if your dog bites someone today, keeping the dog on a leash in the future won't help you now.
Why Can't Chuck Get His Business Off the Ground?
Nice to meet you, netcan. I'm in Melbourne, started my online toy store venture 2 years ago for about 1 year and half, did alot of web site development back there and it failed. still following up my dream to be a great entrepreneur. Keep your spirit up, you will get there. :)
You start. That's all. Just... start.

Is one unit test doing anything? Yes. Absolutely. It's giving you 1 more unit test then you had to begin with.

Once you have a test, you can write another test. You can refactor a method (And write tests). You can then refactor the calling methods. And so on.

"It will be a mammoth task" is only a good reason not to do something when it's either discardable in the near future (And not "When we start on V2!"), or if it's the canonical 9-woman-1-baby situation. If partial improvements give value, do them.
The word was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, but I don't know when it became well known.
> And MUMPS

I just have to respond to the MUMPS bit, I thought I was the only person here that actually remembers the thing, let alone worked with.

The clearest experiences from my MUMPS days are the ones where I inadvertently wiped some string containing crucial functionality.
Check out http://www.metafilter.com/85695/Please-Be-Patient-This-Page-... for a person's story of how he made the first animated GIFs.
If a file is modified at a dropzone, it will be overwritten with the latest release (if that file is modified in the package). So, if I have an index.php file that is never updated, then a dropzone modification of index.php will live forever because a new index.php will not be uploaded. Otherwise, if the index.php in the package is updated, it will be overwritten.
I was able to learn Python in 2 weeks (lazily) using just Byte of Python. Of course I can't build something clean and "Pythonic" with that kind of knowledge, but I managed to build a simple CRUD selling books online app using SQLAlchemy, CherryPy, and Genshi in 4 days (I need to build something for a scheduled interview).

I'm not sure if I can do the same with PHP and some of the PHP libraries (like, for an example, using Smarty, PHP, and a whatever-lightweight-ORM in PHP).
Windows Nest Users and Groups for Permissions
Git/SVN imports, and SFTP are the top 2 features on the roadmap.
Hack is of course applied by practically everyone who uses it to things other than code. The word we're talking about here though is hacker. Which is not just hack with er on the end of it any more than robber is just rob with er on the end of it.
New Place Search Shows Google’s Commitment To Local
ENOENT

(I don't have a mouse on my laptop. I have a touchpad, and it is able to scroll by swiping or circular motions, but that didn't work on the page when I tried it.)
Maybe the test was how you react on this.
You don't have to agree with it, you just have to read it.
Sigh, I'd rather start my own business than run the gauntlet of interview questions again.
I am not sure if badge calculation is the bottleneck. Foursquare did say the calculation is why they have to keep everything in memory though. I just assumed that they sharded by user to keep all of the user's check-ins in the user document and that they are doing calculation with that set of data.