skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This just means you're constantly asking people to give you things."

Not necessarily. How often have we seen people not offer assistance to a needy stranger? Or pay someone a compliment? Or say hello to a complete stranger? We don't because we might not get a response we expect.

Rejection attempts should always be a win/win, or at the very least completely harmless, and Jason demonstrated that.
Great offer. Perhaps a small idea for those looking to put an original element in their CV that I used successfully:

Put your Skills in as a Tagcloud. Strong skills get a bigger fontsize than minor skills. Additionally I used grey tones to indicate which skills have been used more recently and which are older (more grey than black, paling so to speak.)

It is somewhat daring, because not necessarily everyone gets tagclouds yet - but I was invited quite a few times for the tag cloud to interviews.
I had a lot of fun writing some MIPS assembly last night (I'm a sophomore in CS).
30k underpaid for your location or the location of the employer? If it is for the location of the employer, then you are "right-sourced" and being paid "fairly".

Honestly, i think telecommuting-only jobs make such a minority of jobs that gathering real data on their pay would be difficult.
Oh, I see. That's potentially very interesting (and I have a masters in machine learning, so it shouldn't be too hard to pull off). Send me an email and let's see if we can whip something up quickly?
If nothing else, the new semantic article/header/nav etc. tags will make it easier for search engines to deliver good results to users.
Right around half of "all threats" are only found on one machine. I'm assuming that's one Windows machine. What's the point of a signature-based detector again?

Also, I'd like to see the same kind of figures for Linux.
Mission that will take astronauts to Mars and leave them there forever
We could use something like that for historious, but we aren't the richest company in the hood. Do you have experience with tiny budgets?
Who else was reminded of the classic Drug Dealers versus Software Developers? See http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/DrugSoftware.html.
I agree without irony.
Same story from three weeks ago with many, many comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760700

It's very likely that any comments here will cover the same ground, so if you're interested in might be worth reading the comments there first.
That's very interesting and shouldn't be too hard to make, send me an email and we can discuss it further!
Yeah, you're right there.

Basically, Google is saying that if you build amazing content, and structure your website accordingly, you will get high quality backlinks.

If you've spent one day trying to get your site a better rank you know that it's almost impossible.
Especially if you're a nobody.

You should be careful recommending books on SEO.

Google and other search engines tweak their algorithms daily, and many things can be outdated.

Join IRC-channels and forums - learn from others mistakes (know where it went wrong), and simply put - just do it.

The worst thing that could happen is if you get sandboxed (removed.)
Mine is 9 months today. The first six months, he slept a lot and I actually got a lot of side projects worked on (I'm the dad). But, now he sleeps less and is much more active, so when I'm watching him it is all hands on deck. But, it is really awesome ditching the computer and just hanging out and playing with him. I have a whole life to hack on projects, but the time with him now is priceless.
[B] - Definitely some good resources I've used in the past (being a developer wanting some inspiration) - one more I'd add to the list is http://sixrevisions.com - I like to pop in there every few weeks to see what's new - they typically have articles similar to Smashing in topic
Ad agencies rarely do self-serve media buying

And why is that, one might ask?

I'll take a guess: Companies hire ad agencies to pursue advertising strategies that go well beyond what's possible with self-serve media buys. It's not that you can't do a lot with self-serve media, or that there's not a huge business for such media. It's that ad agencies serve a different class of clientele, one that has bigger scope and bigger budgets. And, once the budget and scope grow beyond a certain point, it becomes worthwhile to have actual humans negotiate the deals. After all, negotiation is pretty difficult to automate, and most ads are not commodity products.
Up for comments: https://crocodoc.com/gYIcAa
Who knows what he does have in that hard drive. Maybe 4 months in prison is significantly better to what might happen if they do get to his data. Hell 4 months in jail because he refused to give a password sounds a lot better than a sexual offender conviction for 4 years.

In any case, if I was him I wouldn't worry about them decrypting the data in my lifetime. Do you know how many millions of years would it take to decrypt a 50 random char pass phrase decent encryption. Lots of those. So unless there is a breakthrough on computing power several magnitudes bigger than what we have experienced and the money to dedicate millions of computers to the cause, or someone finds a loophole in the encryption algorithm (highly unlikely if using any type of military grade encryption), his data won't be decrypted.
The place where I start to get leery is when Microsoft take a product like Live Messenger, which had finally become a near-perfect product, and bloat it into a dreadful "social media" whizbang media applet interface aeroplane control panel. I later found out (after copious reinstallations and attempts at finding an earlier version at oldversions.com) that there's a tiny icon, of which the chance to find is several orders of magnitude smaller than that of the Higgs boson - that restores the bloated piece of crap to a an actual IM-only client.

Of course, Microsoft also made the effort of cramming in more awful toolbars (that can't be removed) and replacing all the emoticons with a new suite of something even worse than what you would expect to find in a ten-year-old version of ICQ.

This may sound silly, but all chat clients on- and offline have dreadful emoticons; emoticons are meant to disambiguate and diffuse in favour of the sender and represent their mood and tone. That is their purpose. It really makes interaction with friends and acquaintances much easier and joyous. There's a limit to how you can stand out from other IM clients, and this is perhaps the biggest yard stick.

Live Messenger had the best (the only good) set of emoticons, and now Windows have thrown it all away while bloating the client even more.

I am fine with them throwing billions at something that may or may not work, but why the hell are they destroying their biggest brand products in this futile attempt to becoming relevant and cool?

I shudder at the thought at what Windows 8 will be like. Will they implement Clippy in the terminal to compete with Mac OS?
Wow, this is fantastic. I wish I had an application ready, but I will apply next year.

I do have couple of questions though.

a. Does work experience help (or deter) admissions?

b. How often colleges give admissions on graduate seats when the undergraduate studies have been in different discipline? (I am an electrical engineering graduate, hoping to get admit in a CS course next year.)
It's worse to complain. Just point to the original thread and everyone will be happy.
It would be great to see this visualized in a scalable fashion.
I did, I used Chrome and Chromium since it came out, until I discovered Vimperator a few months ago. Something about that plugin made FF a brand new browser that's just a joy to use, snappy enough that I don't notice the difference b/t it and Chrome/ium anymore, even tab switching, and even more stable with lots of tabs open (like ~45).
Hide CSS and Javascript from 'View Source'
> I lack the technical skill and experience to make them look beautiful.

It's called practice. I've known designers who have each won handfuls of AIGA awards. The common thread was that they never stopped designing things. Talent is a leg up only for the first few steps.

HN people have weekend programming projects; these designers had daily side design projects, in addition to their daily design duties. The amount of time dedicated to this was staggering. I think their only real talent was being able to self-immerse themselves so deeply in the subject without burnout.
People don't come to facebook to post photos. The right thing to compare posting photos on facebook would be, maybe editing your user profile in stackoverflow.

Also, posting on stackoverflow requires you to be familiar with Markdown, an obscure markup language based on conventions used by geeks on mailing lists.

On facebook, the first thing you do is look at other people's posts and statuses. And that's incredibly easy; you don't even do anything, facebook just shows it to you.
> become a target for cyber attacks.

This, this, a million times this.
I don't know about down the toilet, but they are definitely settling in the bowl.
I think your site is great, but I'd like to share a frustration that I have with EVERY recipe site:

I can't find "connected" recipes that use common ingredients. Sure, there are sites where I can enter my ingredients and get recipes, but for a guy like me (single, 28, lives alone, professional job) I'd rather be told what to buy that will make N dishes.

In short, I want to buy the fewest ingredients (without having to research and crossreference) that will make a variety of delicious dishes.

Something like this may exist. If so, please point me towards it.
Hi. I am a designer that is trying without too much zeal to learn to program. Here go some advice, no idea whether it helps.

First, i believe that "looking great" and "being good user experience" are actually very, very different things. Designers are good just at the first. The second remains a dark art for programmer and designer alike.

For example, thinking about which user input you need or could do without, which order to ask for them and so on, falls i believe neither there nor here. Which effect you should apply to the input box is utterly immaterial, and i would venture that a competent designer can make any kind of use-process beautiful to look at.

As for making beautiful, i have found no way to develop this except by endless boring practice. The best illustrator is generally the one who has done more illustrations. Rules or techniques (as in crutches) tend to give good results in the very short term and become stifling very quickly.

If you lack the stamina or interest to simply draw, i guess this is not a bad thing. The other way to see the thing is that you'll eventually get better at it.

That said, designers do tend to develop a variety of manias and sensibilities that, well, seem to be related, vaguely, to their craft. If you're willing to try to get that, i would recommend a very, very old book. I know this goes directly against what you were looking for, but, again, that is my opinion: Symbols and Signs, by Adrian Frutiger. (Amazon has it, not sure if it is bad form to put an amazon link here... Also, i do only know the Brazilian edition so i can give no advice about that...). Maybe this book can come out sounding like full of rules, but that is not the point.

Another, more recent book that is also incredible, but even more paranoid (the guy goes pages and pages discussing commas, then semi commas, then colons, and i just love it!) is The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst.

Finally, designers always do end up getting a bit of cognitive psychology, and it is a good thing, but no self-respecting psychologist could purport to understand the human cognitive system, so i would say avoid the ones who are too sure of themselves like how-to guides to Gestalt, those are just gimmics. Find something that is serious about cognitive science, but not serious enough that you'll sleep, and that is it. You can always go back for more...
I wonder if those surveyed realized that this would cut off their access to Facebook, Twitter, etc, or if many were too clueless to realize that.
No. And boy did we find every picture and fact ever. I wish it was.
"Just like you should not run untrusted software, you should not install hardware provided by untrusted sources."

This is harder than it sounds. Remember when it came out that secret service had a secret deal with printer manufacturers to print identifiable small dots? Consumer level home routers or wifi APs should be approached with the same level or trust. And the vulnerability does not have to be necessarily intentional.
Thanks for the offer, I'll email you in a minute!
Offer HN: LAMP Performance/Scaling Help
I have extensive experience with high traffic LAMP applications and infrastructure. If anyone is having issues with performance and scaling their application I can take a look and offer some ideas.

I can also help with multi-server deployment processes, and front-end performance optimization.

Email: lamp.performance@gmail.com
"Much like a warrant for a home or business premises, why should it not be enforceable for digital things too?"

In most (democratic) countries you do not have to cooperate with the police if they have a warrant. So they are allowed to search your house, they are allowed to break your lock/door, but you are not obligated to give them the key to your house.

It's already the same with digital things: The police can get a warrant and is then allowed to try to crack my password. But I'm not obligated to give them the key.
That was one of the jokes with the original wording.
To cover encrypted, as well as enciphered, text it said something like "any clear text that has a hidden meaning".

Which immediately made most of literature and theology illegal. You couldn't posses a poem or a bible unless you could explain to the police any hidden symbolism!

Pictures of the police kicking down doors and shouting "you're nicked - now explain what the poet really meant by a host of yellow daffodils"
Cross-reference. Same topic, more in the article, many HN comments already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591218
TransGaming’s SwiftShader 3D Technology Licensed for Adobe Flash Platform
A) I start with mockups, then the polished design and at last the programming. For users, the interface is all that they have, then the UX stuff needs to be defined very early (in my case). I like 37signals "epicenter design" approach. Start with the more important pages and with the more important information chunks of these pages.

B) useit.com and my collection maybe http://www.delicious.com/egogol/ui

C) have someone good for design in your team. If you can't, exchange your programming hours vs design hours. Ideally it should be a collaborative process.

D) The important thing is that the user gets the things done. The UX determine how the programming process should work.

BONUS) Test a lot. Test your mockups, test your design, test your running app. Every step will reveal different problems.
> But it lacks Office

Chrome OS will open Office files using Office Live, online. That seems like an excellent solution to me, and given that the service is provided by Microsoft I assume it works well with Microsoft documents.

> Lacks a decent gaming ecosystem -- does it even have the Sims? And is missing a lot of applications that users use along the long tail... such as CS5 and iTunes.

That is not the target market for Chrome OS. Google has said many times that Chrome OS should not be your primary operating system; if you buy a machine with Chrome OS you should use it as a portable, small machine to quickly access the web with. There's still a place for full-blown operating systems outside of Chrome OS.

The vast majority of users don't run CS5.

> Chrome is a non-player IMO.

Chrome hasn't hit the market yet. I think it's a big mistake to take something that Google is developing and say, "nah, won't work" before release.
I hope so, that would be great.
you can't have a modern Web experience using only Microsoft products

How soon we forget! There would be no AJAX today had Microsoft not introduced XMLHttpRequest to make Outlook Web Access work...
Offer HN: Twitter API Help
I will answer any burning questions about the Twitter API. Issues you might be having, OAuth, rate limiting, you name it I can probably answer it.

What makes me qualified to answer Twitter API questions? I am the all time top poster on the developer group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/about and my TwitterOAuth library is the 4th most watched PHP repo on GitHub: https://github.com/languages/PHP

Edit: Feel free to contact me through other means as well: the@abrah.am or @abraham
Excel => Access => SQL Server / Oracle.
Michael Arrington's coverage of AngelGate came off to me as 'you're on notice' - a warning against colluding, etc more than anything else.
This is talking about the Color of Bits, to quote a famous article on the subject of computer programmers discussing law about computers.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php

Computer programmers think, aha, I can apply an arbitrary algorithmic translation to input A and get output B, and applying the law to B would be absurd, so therefore applying the law to A is also absurd. What they fail to realize is that bits have color -- a type of metadata that law algorithms can see and operate on which your computer algorithms are ignorant of.

You think that encrypted contents of a computer harddrive is a logically equivalent operation to writing things in a form only comprehensible to oneself. This is only true if you're Colorblind.
I believe this is an offer.
Because it's more like the police being given a warrant for you to tell them everything you know.

In most countries the police don't get a search warrant for your head - except where you are wearing an orange jumpsuit and having water poured down your throat.
Completely intentional.
also from Argentina, but can't go :(

(I'm from Rafaela, Santa Fe)
Already covered, with comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831471
New Features in Cassandra 0.7
A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation convinces me that it should be roughly applicable to western Europe. Example :

US$100000 convert to 72000 €
Depending upon the country, divide by 1.0 (GB) to 1.4 (France) or maybe 1.5 (Denmark) for charges, you get a somewhat realistic value.
Americans support a lot of crap they probably shouldn't and don't know a whole lot about. This is why we have a Republic, not a Democracy.

Edit: To put this a bit less glibly, there's a whole range of things that the "average American" doesn't know enough about to make a fully qualified decision. That's not to trash "average Americans" - I wouldn't do a whole lot better at making coherent, well-thought-out policies which take all available information into account if put on the spot - but it is to say that just because something polls well doesn't mean it should be policy. Our government is supposed to represent the best interests of the people, not blindly enact their will.
Ability to delete my goals would be nice.
I agree with you, but I fear that the internal politics with Microsoft have been absolutely stifling!

Let's take smartphones for instance - look at the Kin. From all reports, killed b/c of politics, in favor of Windows 7. Why not have both and see what the market decides?

The Courier. Killed - who knows why? Most likely politics.

Microsoft has so many innovative ideas that we see in Research - but we never see them in products! It always feels like the right hand is slapping the left hand. Competing fiefdoms are fighting over resources, over pub, and over power.

Microsoft needs to empower it's best leaders to make a product, from start to completion - much like Jobs does with Apple. At the end of the day, the buck stops with Jobs, and his vision goes. What happens at Microsoft? You have 100 PM's working on one project. You work diligently. Your design is "design by committee" but hey, it looks like it's going well.

Then some jealous VP of some other division has a beer with Ballmer expressing some concerns and the project gets killed. This needs to stop. There was no reason that the Kin/Courier should have been killed. If it flops, let it flop. If you don't take chances, you'll never grow.

Microsoft right now is afraid of its own shadow.
How is that man not dead yet?
And yet, I'm surprised by technological advancement every day. If you'd asked me several years ago if I thought we'd have artificial limbs controlled by thoughts, I'd have said it was far far away.

It's a race between the statute of limitations and encryption/computing technology. (I do agree it seems unlikely).
How much money should I raise?
> That you can have video (just like Flash, except slower)?

Actually HTML5 is faster, and Flash is slower [for me]. So video on the web is a big deal with HTML5.

> HTML5 is one more step in the direction of web pages pretending to be applications.

No, it is one more step in the direction of web pages becoming applications. You can't possibly tell me that Gmail isn't a full application! It's much faster and more responsive than any desktop mail client I've ever seen: searching mail takes < 1 second vs 1-2 minutes in Outlook. It's better in every way. And it's on the web.

Why are you opposed to web applications?
Url:http://tabtrick.com/

Keywords: Custom Facebook Page, Facebook Business Page, Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Template, Welcome Tab

Description of my site: I have Facebook Page creator that allows user to easily customize their Facebook Page.
DAE Generally resolve site performance issues by bouncing the servers.
I ask because I see a lot of that here. Seems like the defacto mechanism to resolve issues of all kinds.
I have to wonder if the head of this thread is actually a rejection that counts. They're rejecting your use of rejection therapy.
I agree with you - I wouldn't use a webbrowser on a games console. But the population disagrees - they do :/
Oh here we go again.
"bad programming would make a mockery of quite a few escrow arrangements"
Wouldn't a nationally competitive gymnast think rejection as being old-hat by now? Gymnastics is reputedly one of the harshest sports.
It's fun reading, but to make it really interesting I think you would need to go really far outside your comfort zone.

Real rejection is hard. Find out, by going to Facebook, and send a really heartfelt message to that girl you always had feelings for but never told. Find out what real rejection is.
Ubiquitous web means fewer end-user sales of Windows and Office. End-users don't buy Windows, it just happens to come with their computer.

End-user sales of Office may well decline, but if there were a good online version, Microsoft could sell two versions. A cloud-based, subscription version for smaller businesses, hosted by Microsoft. The second version would be a for larger corporations that want to host their own.

For a large corporation, licensing could then be simplified to some fashion of a site-license; the cost of upgrading ALL computers would be simplified.

Note that I'm NOT suggesting that Microsoft give up on a fat client for office, just that there's room for Microsoft needs to pivot if they wanted to, but that's easier said than done.