skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 25 and didn't go to school, but I spend most of my time around those who did. I have many, many friends who are unemployed artists or are business types working less than full-time who would kill for a decent full-time position.

That said, I cannot understand how a young, motivated programmer has trouble finding a job. The company I work for in Denver has been looking for Ruby and front-end web developers of all levels, and from all over the country, for months.

First priority: make writing code a lifestyle choice. Need a better resume? Write some code -- anything -- and put it on Github. Bored? Write some code and put it on Github. Sick of sending out resumes? Write some code and... you get the idea. Strong candidates love the craft, not just the paycheck. Show pride in your code and prove you'll want to write code at work and at home.

Programmers who work at companies that you should actually want to work for are not hired because they have great resumes or went to great colleges. They are hired because they are capable of solving real problems while writing maintainable code. If you can do that, you're an easy hire.

This goes for anyone. Want a serious, no-bullshit interview for a job in beautiful Denver (we can help relocate) with fantastic benefits and doing work for amazing clients? Write some decent code (Ruby or Javascript), put it on Github, and comment with a link.
Nope. Python3 is now default python in the regular repos. It was in the testing for a while and has been approved.

Didn't like the move myself. pygtk broke for me and with it a small bunch of other softwares.
Hacking on mrdoob's Three.js / WebGL:

http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/three/three-obj-3.png

http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/three/examples/obj_convert_test...

http://github.com/alteredq/three.js
Apple could be much more open with iOS and at the same time be not less integrated. How does the whole AppStore policy make iOS more integrated?

When I am criticizing Apple for iOS not being open I mean it is not open to run any application that works on the device.

The Problem with iOS is that only Apple-Signed applications are allowed. Because of that, Apple has the power to keep the competition and the content they do not approve of out.
http://Spojit.com
We're trying to make it easier to create and share your online business card/identity when you meet people at events. We want to make it more seamless than the two-handed exchanges of business cards that happen at events - and you gotta do it and repeat with so many people !
Spojit is about to go into alpha very soon. Do sign up for an invite if you wish to help us test out the alpha version.
> Developers want a well engineered, single platform with excellent development tools and support, so that their code can target hundreds of millions of devices without any customization

My hope is that that ends up being "the web", because if we're all stuck with Apple and only Apple, it would be a pretty scary place in terms of having absolute control in the hands of one company.

> Apple has never told me what to think.

I bet Apple told you to say that :-)
Even if that happened to work correctly (which I don't believe), you would still be missing a bunch of macro-related stuff that makes CL the programmable programming language it is, and Python isn't:

-reader-macros

-symbol-macros

-compiler-macros

-macrolet

-symbol-macrolet

EDIT: Fixed layout
Still:

http://getmetricmail.com - An easy way to receive Google Analytics reports.
> "you are never too old to learn"

I take my hat off to this man.
Ask HN: If I update my application and re-submit it, is it a late application
May sound silly, but I thought I should confirm it. The wording on the apply page kind of got me worried.

If we update our application and re-submit it, will it count as a late application? We had submitted it once before the deadline.
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YouTube has HD Videos for quite some time now, to most people watching Youtube videos in high definition is always fun, be it watching movie trailers or full flicks, whats more

YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI and .MOV. Again, you may get the best results from converting your file to MPEG4 video with MP3 audio.
Another somewhat high profile of completing a PhD later than most is Brian May, guitarist for Queen, who completed his PhD in astrophysics more than 30 years after starting graduate studies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#As_an_astrophysicist
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You could as well charcterize it a social-issues debate and therefore claim that the "pro-life" side is more accurately pro-coat-hangers-and-septic-wards.
Yes.

Last example: Angry Birds

It wasn't in the Market at first. And many seem to do it since getjar.com was down some hours after Rovio announced via twitter that you could get it there.

I host pre-beta versions of my Apps on my own servers and give friends (and their friends) access to it. This would be impossible with iOS. I would have to know and register the hardware IDs of all devices in advance.
VS.NET is something of a special case, since Microsoft would like nothing more than to give it away for free. They don't, because if they did it would make toolmakers like ReSharper and CodeSmith seem unjustifiably expensive.

If you're a small shop, you can get in thru BizSpark and get a pack of MSDN licenses big enough for your whole team for something like $400, all in.

So sure, you can pay $2500/copy retail if you're big enough to do so. Or if you're small, you can pay peanuts. Say what you want about Microsoft, but they go out of their way to take care of their developers.
It's not 100% clear what TheFridge is to me, and I would prefer not to create an account up front unless I have a better understanding of the services it provides and the purpose of this YC "fridge".

How does this differ from the Hacker News Facebook group? And what value does a fridge provide over a group?

On the home page, it says "Just for your friends". Facebook is just for my friends. Sure, I have some people that I no longer keep in touch with, but I would not post anything on FB that I wouldn't feel comfortable with whether they are my closest friends or not. Putting content online is like peeing in a pool, once you let it out there you can't take it back.

"Safe from my mom and boss." I block content from co-workers and family members using Facebook's privacy controls.

"Share photos, videos, and status updates only with your friends." I do this with Facebook already.

Also, I don't understand what "Keeping your friends fresher" means. Doesn't really explain the service.

I tried parsing every part of the homepage to understand why I should create an account. Maybe I'm just not in the target market. Is this targeted for people that don't have Facebook? I'm sure there is some value to this service, but it might be good to put a video demo somewhere.
That's kind of what happened in the plot of Sagan's book(and film) Contact.
The smartest people I know have the following in common:

- They are the most knowledgeable person in the room in their topic of interest. That takes obsession.

- They surround themselves by other smart people constantly

- In large groups of smart people they are perfectly happy to ask questions even if they are wrong. E.g in a maths seminar will debate, and often get beaten by the subject expert.

I often wonder if the latter - asking "stupid" questions to experts in a field - is something that was there before they were at the top. Anyone else noticed this?
Not exactly. Keep in mind that the movie "The Social Network" is not a 100% accurate telling of history. In the movie Eduardo (a co-founder of Facebook and initial source of funding) has his shares diluted from 30% down to a fraction of a percent. In reality Eduardo's shares were diluted (by issuance of new stock) from about 1/4 of the company to less than 10%. And it was probably a necessary move as well, seeing as Eduardo was no longer very connected with the company (it took him some time to even discover that his share of the company had been diluted, despite having been the CFO of the company on paper. In the end he ended up realizing something like a 6 million percent return on his initial investments (according to the value of his share of Facebook at the moment).
Most of those are not mined in China, but in Africa.
We use google analytics, if you know of a way for me to do that I'd be happy to, it does sound like an interesting idea!
Reminds me of Zeds rant 'Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions'.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734936
This would be fine, except that the short, rare, unpredictable spikes are overall responsible for as much variation in value as the "predictable" movements, which more or less makes all the exercise quite pointless.
I have an alternative dialler and an Opera browser on my iphone which I downloaded from the App Store.

Quite a few rules have changed on iOS, so both the examples you gave are allowed and available.
that doesn't say anything about continuation of the trend
Yes, they influenced the design of the cities to bring about exactly that effect. It was not something that just happened. Once everyone lived at last 5 miles from work and there was no reasonable public transportation, having a car, and consuming a disproportionate amount of fuel, became a necessity.
It's kind of ridiculous to think that having an imaginary friend somehow uniquely qualifies you to be moral as opposed to someone who looks at the world rationally and acts according to their nature.

What's even more ridiculous is that you could start your definition on the presumption of guilt and depravity (aka Original Sin) and say you're offering a helpful code for living life.
Agreed. And finance was never the primary objective of Mandelbrot's development of fractals anyway, just a side effect of varying degrees of interest.

Elliot Wave appears to be an attempt to back fit a rather simplistic theory to patterns in financial time series data. Fractals are so much more.
This is good. Can you make it configurable, so one may choose the language of translation?
So Linux is not considered open anymore because you cannot install your own modified version on your Tivo?
Hey, I looked at http://verbapp.com and couldn't help but notice the text is generally a little small. I initially was struggling to read it. I opened up inspector and started fiddling. Would you ever consider doing it a bit more like this - http://i.imgur.com/ic5F8.png - or is it intentionally neat?
Listening to podcasts or thinking about projects when eating seems rather opposed to being mindful of the moment and not multitasking.
I think it's a bad example. More clothes mean you will do laundry less often but have bigger loads when you eventually do, while having fewer clothes means doing laundry more often.
http://safariextendr.com Working on polishing a safari extension community site and attempting to draw traffic in between studying for my software engineering uni exams. It's tough (on both fronts!) but I'm getting there.
I'm not really familiar with what Arch package maintainers do but aren't package maintainer mainly packager and not coders ?

I imagine that someone could easily be packaging 10 Python apps or libraries. He can't be upgrading all that code to Python 3 as it is not always a trivial task and would require a lot of work and constant patching if the developing team keeps working with Python 2.X

But overall, I think this is a good way to push developers to upgrade or at least prepare more to move to Python 3.
The "real" real problem is not the carriers. Its the way the government manages the spectrum.

We could have a dynamic marketplace where devices, users, networks could buy spectrum in advance or real time and even resell it.

We need incentives for making the most use of spectrum, for making more spectrum with faster clocks. Seems we have incentives for controlling and inhibiting innovation.

Instead we've sold spectrum to the highest bidder who can then control access to it and have no real open competition. Maybe Google's bid last year will change that a bit (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9910932-7.html).

You ought to be able to create your own network by buying spectrum in a fluid marketplace. Or just be one guy buying spectrum as you need it for some device you made yourself.

Don't if that all makes sense, but I think you may at least see what I mean by the problem behind the problem.
Note also that 450k download number for the free version is now > 1 million!

From its App Store description: Downloaded over a million times, woah!

[Edit: make that 2 million now http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810010]
I'm working on growing the customer base for my company, http://dnsimple.com/ while at the same time servicing multiple development contracts that I have open and also maintaining the dotMP registry, registrar and chi.mp services. Sometimes I also get out of the house. :-)
Completely agree, but we aren't about to develop our own. I just find it interesting that there isn't a solution to fits even most people's needs.
The reason you're being downvoted isn't that you're "biting the hand that feeds", but rather that you're being both pedantic and inaccurate.

Pedantic because your point on the name certainly didn't deserve the belaboring you gave it.

And inaccurate because, well, you're just wrong. The people being called "Super Angels" today are the same people that invested more money than your average angel, and in more startups than your average angel. For example: Ron Conway, Mike Maples, Aydin, Steve Anderson, Dave McClure, etc.

They were all pretty much considered to be in a different class before, but ever since some started investing others' money, they've now earned a new name.
Isn't it obvious in this example that selling the hat is a waste of time and potentially money? Much better to tell the well-dressed guy to go and haggle himself, so HE's the one taking on the risk of not getting the price down to $10 again, and HE's the one spending his time. I mean, you just bought a hat, why sell it for no profit?
Thats a philosophical question.

Which is more open? GPLv3 or Apache/BSD license?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_and_GPL_licensing#Permissiv...
I'd like to see the defenders of dynamic linking who claimed that it's good for security step up now :-)
If facebook had used the verb 'follow' or 'subscribe' to friends, it would be nowhere the size it is now. People would not get it.
The Nexus One is a consumer product. You do not have to be a developer to buy it nor is it special developer hardware.

Those other devices are still closed because people still buy them. Vote with your wallets and you will have freedom.
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>I want the old Google back.

How does old Google differ from new Google?
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The most interesting thing to me is that the app sat in relative obscurity for 4 months before being featured by Apple, at which point sales exploded.

And judging by the App Store, being 'featured' only meant that the app icon was added to the New & Noteworthy section....not the giant banner you get for being App of the Week (currently Nike GPS) or Game of the Week (currently Cut the Rope)...unless I missed it earlier in the month?
I would totally use that as a plugin. Why do you think that couldn't/wouldn't take off?
An old favorite:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1165722

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=856118

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786740

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786187

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140721
a: it's in PHP

b: the overall skill level of programmers ranges across several orders of magnitude, amongst the group of folks who are "programmers" or software engineers by job description only a small fraction of them are capable of socket programming without getting well in over their head quickly.
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Ask HN: is "The Social Network" motivating entrepreneurs?
Do you think there would be an increase in number of startup's, people moving to the valley, college dropout's after watching "The Social Network"?

Beyond the fact that it is a movie and that part of it is fiction. I think it will inspire potential entrepreneurs to start coding their ideas and probably move to SFO. Don't you think so?
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This man is trully an inspiration! I'm a developer but I dropped out of college (Finance and Banking) because of great work opportunities a few years ago. I should really go back and get my degree so I can finish before I'm 30. Great article!
I am amazed that people say Lisp is about macros. I think it's about being homoiconic. You can make some ugly form of macros in ANY language. Homoiconic-ness is what makes you want to make macros with Lisp. But it is much more than just about macros. Language REBOL is for example fully homoiconic.

>> a: [ 300 3 ]
>> insert a 'add
>> probe a
[ add 1 2 ]
>> print first a
add
>> do first a 100 1
== 101
>> do a
== 303
>> f: func [] a
>> f
== 3
>> change second :f 'subtract
>> f
== 297

all code is data (blocks of words and values).

From * Io * example below I would say it's a little different. It's more like it has a runtime api to change/generate it's runtime. I think SmallTalk has something similar to this.

* Factor * has compile time macros. At runtime it has quotations, which are blocks of code (separate from it's other data strucures I think, but don't shoot me if I'm wrong) that can be modified and executed by your code with few specific words like curry and compose. This means you have a little less freedom than in rebol where block of code is in no way different than a block of data. What is awesome about factor is that it also compiles quotations at runtime.

Otherwise Factor is very very cool, and I envy some runtime features of Io a lot.

And Python has as little to do with lisp as Visual Basic. Python is the world's best dynamic Imperative lang IMHO :)
This is what I don't get about Americans - they have no toasting tradition. I grew up in Ukraine, and I remember being required to give toasts at dinners ever since I was a little kid. They didn't have to be long or complex, but original and from the heart. This taught you to speak in public in front of groups.

I also sat at the table with the adults (there never really was a separate kiddie table) and I learned to behave myself and talk like an adult.
You're misunderstanding. Arch is still shipping Python 2.7 with the python2 package.

So package maintainers don't need to rewrite upstream code if it's not compatible with Python 3; they just need to update dependencies and set paths to point to the /usr/bin/python2 binary.
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There are commits from a couple of hours ago:

http://android.git.kernel.org/?o=age

What am I missing?
Similar to a person maxim I've come upon recently: Everything is always more expensive than you think it is. Yes, even more expensive than that.
Looks like the discussion here is focused on the desktop, but I'm more interested in what does this mean for the mobile world. Since the original iPhone announcements we were told that web applications are going to be treated as first class citizens, but it didn't really happen on any of the leading mobile platforms.

I really hope that the work Mozilla is doing will help move the state of web applications on mobile forward in a way that is portable across all platforms.
One thing about it: you wouldn't be able to downscale nearly as much without a laptop/tablet/iPad and a smartphone. Those two items, which of course are still stuff, can take over what a dozen different things used to be used for. That's maybe one of the most significant changes of our decade.
That's a bit like saying that the defenders of SSH who claimed it's good for security should step up when there's a vulnerability.

I'm not quite sure what benefits dynamic linking is supposed to offer by way of security over static, other than when you upgrade a library due to a security weakness you don't have to relink everything.

Static linking would protect against attacks on linkers but dynamic linking offers so many non-security benefits that it's hard to ignore.

Having said that, I always keep a statically compiled busybox on any Linux host I run in case something goes wrong with glibc. Too many bad memories from broken RedHat upgrades from years back.
it is better, on average.

having 20 random-version-bundled copies of libxml2 for example would make upgrading it a massive pain.

i think this actually a better example of setuid binaries burning you more so than dynamic linkers.
Or a combination that is very heavily weighted to cash. Instead of $120 an hour, $100 an hour and 1% of the company. That way, if it becomes Google, your (eventual 0.01%) stake is worth something.
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Never seriously…

It would be to close to hubris? An early indication of loosing touch with reality? Perhaps indicating the onset of psychosis?

Maybe ironically, especially after a less-then-perfect performance ;)

Better to let others do the praising?

Q: How many people where (by others, not family/friends) publicly described as a "genius"?
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This seems to be where the action is! Come jump in the pool.
Shouldn't you have a ticket system/todo-list/... for the whole team?
As for the last paragraph - whether they understand your mission or not depends IMO again largely on yourself.
I think it should be obvious that you use programming constructs only when difficulty of understanding it is less than the difficulty of understanding code without it (over the whole program). This applies to functions, classes, macros, frameworks etc.

Full macros (like in CL where they are just functions that don't evaluate their arguments) give the programmer same power as compiler writer or programming language designer.

ps. To really get benefit from Lisp macros, you would need to standardize code walker. Without code walker, macros can't reach their full potential.
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I was being pretty rhetorical ;)
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For something as generic as a law enforcement job or civil servant job, I don't see the potential for the problems you mention.

Instead of two or three contractors and a murky selection process subject to under-the-table payments, you have a large selection of very similar candidates, and the selection process is as simple as "how much will you be willing to do job X for" with the low bid winning.

Somewhere, some economist professor has to have named and analyzed this type approach.