skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the risk of sounding redundant: I would never wish to reverse the job seeking process for myself. I prefer to keep my destiny in my own hands and seek out the job I feel best fits my skills and interests. I don't trust potential employers to just magically find me, a single person, and appreciate me for what I am worth. Too many times already I have been approached by recruiters that get triggered by a line in my CV stating that I can do X or have experience using Y and want to hire me to do that for the rest of my life.

To all the good recruiters and intermediaries out there, I apologize. I have lost all faith in your profession and feel you treat the companies you represent as the customer and me as the product. Quite frankly, I'd rather pass and take my chances on my own.
Although it's safe to assume you won't have scalability problems right out of the gate either.

Once you have tens of thousands of hits a week presumably you can port to HipHop yourself ( http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php ). Needing to scale is a great problem to have.
I'm sure you'll have Mozilla pushing their web app store, officially sanctioned. However, you'll be able to setup your own store as well, and sell directly from your web site if you want.
Ask HN: So what if Ooyala does that?
Hi guys,

Need some fresh advices here. Ystd I posted that we lauched a public alfa of our product here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804028 And today we got this http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/19/ooyala-launches-video-paywall-powered-by-paypal/
We know all our competitors and their products quite well( including ooyala) but still it was a bit stressful for us to get that in news.

Our strong points: 1) Much more solid platform for paid premium video content (they have like 10% of it so far) 2) Its not a feature in $2k+/month product its a core of our business model with $0-50/month subscription. 3) WE TRY HARDER.

Their strong point 1)$22m investment is enough to copy all our features(we are small team of bootstrapping hackers) 2)Well-known company vs startup that launched recently(they have clients, traction etc)

Any strategy advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance!
If you can't see how choice and a competitive ecosystem benefits consumers, then I don't think you're really looking.
I've moved on from Opera. It took them forever to implement basic usability features such as text box spell-check, and inline password remember/find in page. They also removed great features such as one click bookmarking. Their widgets used to be great, one hot-key and they'd all pop-up on screen like on OSX. Now you have to basically manage each one individually with multiple clicks and they clutter your taskbar like crazy. Meanwhile they focus on low value features like Unite. In the default install, it takes several clicks just to get to your list of bookmarks (ignoring hotkeys or custimization, from a business perspective this is bad.)

These aren't just flukes, it seems to be a pattern in their priorities that has shifted in the past few years. Away from low friction usability and innovative features to something a bit more convoluted. Opera used to be top of the pack in usability, even for non-power users. But now for some reason they lost their edge. And aside from this reddit AMA, it seems to be very difficult to have a discussion with them about changes to the browser. They have a suggestions forum but it seems to be mostly ignored, at least in terms of feedback.

How about a UserVoice for Opera?

(just my analysis/opinion)
That's how I'm viewing it. If I get rejected, that should be motivation to build the company I want and prove them wrong. The odds of being selected are low. That shouldn't be considered a test of you or your idea.
I meant how does it advance JavaScript? How does it make JS developers look to the outside world? Is it really cool to laugh at people who don't know better?
I’m not worried about Android. That’s why I keep talking about it all the time.
This isn't a series, but a set of fiction that I think fits the bill. Conveniently all of these works are available free online:

After Life: http://sifter.org/~simon/AfterLife
Blindsight: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
Passages in the Void: http://localroger.com/

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (from localroger.com) is also pretty good in the imagination expanding department but be forewarned: parts of it are very hard to read (quite gruesome).
Well, while they were showing an idea, Apple was selling 5 million tablets. I don't see why the idea is impractical, though - it was basically two iPads stuck together with a hinge.

They have done well with their version of Java. It's generally well regarded.
In the past when someone had a challenge, they would pull out their sliderule. Now when someone claims something is impossible they pull out their wallet.
There are already Lego-compatible designs on Thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:591), and the RepRap community is working on the recycling aspect (http://www.3dreplicators.com/cgi-bin/cblog/index.php?/archiv...)

We'll be there before you know it.
My brain just shifted paradigms without a clutch.
I know it as hindsight bias: http://lesswrong.com/lw/il/hindsight_bias/

And, http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/
As Mozailla defines it, an open web app works in all modern browsers across the desktop and mobile. That idea thrills me as a user but gives me a sick feeling as a developer. Unless your app is fairly simple, that's a lot of platforms to target. What happens as the apps get more complex? I wonder how many companies will start with one or two platforms and then add support for more, once their code is tested and refined to enable "each browser to compete on app presentation, organization and management user interfaces."

I can't help but dream about an alternate universe where browser vendors standardized on one common, open source rendering engine and one javascript engine.
You're right about the commas, we should use them as little as possible as they break the flow of reading for no purpose most of the time.
Ask HN: Who is hiring in Europe, specifically Germany?
We hadn't one of those in a while.

(I'm a web dev living in Berlin and I'm looking if there a any opportunities out there.)
So true on all accounts. I really enjoy hiking and in particular high altitude hikes. I get asked why all the time and my standard joke come back is "because it's there."

But in reality I also enjoy the suffering. There have been many hard hikes where I could simply turn around and the only person who would know is me, but I kept going anyways. You're someone who can understand the feeling of simply focusing on your next step and having the rest of the world melt away. After dealing with complexities all day at work it's nice to do something so...simple. Climb this mountain or lift this weight (I also love powerlifting with deadlifts being my absolute favorite).

When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath...I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. -Messner talking about his first solo ascent of Everest
How do you do refactoring in vi? Do you really search and replace?
The other way to think of emails is as datagrams. Sometimes you'll get a reply, sometimes you won't. Or, from the other side: sometimes you'll be able to answer, sometime you won't. Don't feel bad about the latter case. If you don't hear back after a while and you really really need an answer, simply resend.

People go through email bankruptcies a few times a year. It's safer to assume it is an unreliable channel.
Even if someone has split-tested, the specifics of how much the product costs, what it provides, how much time it saves the user, and its perceived value all make a huge difference on where the split-testing ends up. Apples and oranges.
Aaron Sorkin was interviewed on CNN because he replied to a blog post on the site this links to.

Here's the direct link to CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/10/17/...
I respect almost every working person. That does not mean I should remember names of all of them. Even if I wanted -- I cannot -- there are more than a billion such people.
I'm not sure most jobs work on a fixed amount of work to be done. If you're ridiculously productive in your 8 hours at work, never take coffee breaks, etc., a common result is that you'll just end up with more stuff to do, not that you'll get all your responsibilities out of the way earlier and free up time for side projects.
Ridiculous-Sounding Math Classes Currently Offered at Liberal-Arts Colleges
Run somewhere you may enjoy it. Running on the streets is an abomination. I know not everyone can live less than 1 km away from a forest, but...
I think that even with something for a general audience, sometimes to choose between spending time trying to support everyone or spend the time building something really good for most people.
At least that how I see it.

Thanks for finding it interesting.I'd like to show this app around cause it's so much fun even with no knowledge of the science. A few things need to be resolved before the data set is completely open.
So, removal of a toolbar and a quick launch icon is all this is? Woweee if so.. (web apps can already run locally if programmed to do so)
I think this is the opposite of what we need. Twitter and other things that encourage us to consume only bite-sized information (like http://tldr.it/) are basically making everyone dumb (or at least giving us ADD). The skill of articulating a complete and well supported or explained thought is critical in almost every line of work, but following things like this we train our own mental bandwidth for long-form stuff out of existence.

Detail is critical for understanding, analysis, and response. Teaching people to operate without it is dangerous.
"Ernest Hemingway than Kurt Vonnegut"

I think you're trying to make a 'smart' reference but are confused. Overall, Vonnegut was generally at least as, or more concise; there is an entire page in _For Whom the Bell Tolls_ dwelling on the sweat on someone's brow.
Just because you legally can, doesn't make it right.

There is no good excuse for maximizing your profits by suddenly changing the ownership structure of the company to your direct financial benefit. Doing so is wrong.
Agreed. Having experience with frameworks and languages will give you a headstart in being able to produce something quickly and might even provide some insight on the pros and cons of the said framework or language.
Free trial.

If I'm interested and there's a free trial, I'll always sign up.

If I'm interested and I have to give a credit card to try it, even if there's a money back guarantee, I usually look at other options.
They use 'trial periods' as selling point number two on their list of features:

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/services/recurring-...

Does what they claim to offer and what they actually offer differ massively then?
Think I could find that in say... Seattle? Who should I talk to then?

I'm not ready to pick up and move to the Valley. Yet.
All serious athletes are used to withstanding high amounts of pain. When I was a serious runner, I think that was the thing the most people didn't understand -- as you get better at running, the pain doesn't stop. You just get better at pushing through it.

In any case, if you find this sort of thing inspiring, check out a documentary called Running on the Sun (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-e4bOLAuXg ). It's about the badwater ultra -- a 135 mile road race through death valley to Mount Whitney, including 13000 ft of vertical ascent. Featuring air temps up to 130F and ground temps around 200F -- people have sneakers melt. Race by application only; you have to have completed a bunch of ultras so hopefully you won't die trying. The men's record is something like 22.5 hours and the women's is I think slightly over 25 hours.
Matt, you completely rock. Those are fine examples. :)
I cannot explain how much you have hit the nail on the head. I graduated from college in May and have been having the exact experience you describe.

My generation has been described as entitled. Quite frankly, I do feel as if I am owed something, and that society at large has failed to keep its end of the bargain. For my entire life, I was told that if I work hard in school, bust my ass to go to a good university and graduate with quantitative degree, I should have no trouble finding work. Now, half a year out of school, I find myself rotting away at my parents house, sending applications to any organization that might conceivably hire me, with no prospects and with no illusions that I'll find work that is fulfilling or properly matches my skill set.

The grandparent's post is condescending and presumptuous. My generation seems entitled because the reality we are now confronting does not match up with the fantasy world that adults have been preparing us for for our entire lives.
We tried both ways, and the free trial was a clear winner. I think this could depend on your service, however.

Something else to consider: even though we had more people sign up and pay, we also had far more people sign up and try without paying. Several of those users also gave us free, insightful feedback. Especially if you are starting a new service, this is worth more than the paying customers who give no feedback.
Rent/Hire Friends Online, Get Paid For Your Friendship
Frently.com allows users to be rented/hired as a friend and make money just for hanging out with someone. It also allows users to search the database of friends and pick friends to hire for any activity or event they would like.

The website allows for webcam chat, live chat, contact via email, phone, and more forms of contact between Friend and Renter. There is no reason anyone should do anything alone anymore since you can find a friend to join you in just about anything. It also help those who want to offer their friendship get out of the house and do something fun while also making some quick cash. This service can be useful for just about anyone who has ever been bored or just wanted to do something new and out of the ordinary. You can hire friends to teach you new skills, show you around an unfamiliar town, give you unbiased advice, or just have someone to talk to on a lonely day. The website allows users to list any and all things they want to be rented for and even charge separate fees for different activities. Therefore, the website can be used for just about anything. It allows users to be creative and compete for a good rating on their profile and bring themselves more business as a friend.
Indeed, MS are trying to encourage this with the new WPF-based editor in VS2010. The developer's examples are all about graphical overlays replacing certain types of code. It will be interesting to see if ISVs take this forward.
I would assume the intent would be the diversification of risk/reward. Since most startups don't make it to worthwhile profitability you are hedging your bet on other startups.
I completely agree with the fact that we're becoming more dumb or increasing in incident of ADD; however that doesn't make a case for writing effective emails. In that case you should blog to practice your thought articulation and critical thinking.... However, I think writing concise emails, direct to the point, sans fluff is good for effective communication.
I completely agree, the best problem in the web world. That's why I'm trying to think of it now because I open the doors to a project I'm developing for myself.

What about the projects that use PHP extensions in the .ini to speed things up (such as http://pecl.php.net/package/APC)
I know a page that already does reverse job applications, it's called LinkedIn.
I think it's important to acknowledge that the first few miles of a run are the worst. If you think 3-5 miles is an exceptional distance you've probably never run long enough to really get into an enjoyable state. For me, it's around 7-10 miles.

Where you run matters too. I enjoy running near water - Fresh Pond or the Charles River. I'd suggest running daily, following Hal Higdon's marathon training guide wherever it's most beautiful. http://www.halhigdon.com/marathon/Mar00index.htm
The short answer is that Internet Explorer since IE 6 represents the opposite of everything a modern web developer works towards: constant development, quick releases, and always, always improving. Just look at Chrome, it's become the poster child for how to do a web browser right. They are on version 6 (release) and 7 (development) and no-one would even know. You install Chrome and THAT'S IT. There's no "upgrading" there's no worrying about supporting old versions, you ALWAYS have the most up-to-date version and if it works on Chrome for you it will work for everyone else.

Even Firefox and Safari get this wrong. Does it work on FF3? What about FF2 or (god forbid) FF1? Safari 4? 5?

IE has taken this to the far, far extreme. Years between product releases, and nothing but security fixes between that. No features, no polishing, nothing.

This article is good but the conclusion is wrong. As long as Microsoft continues to do this "release a browser version every 3-4 years" us web developers will have to deal with this hell. I now refuse to support IE 6 in anything I do, and I'm very VERY close to adding 7 to that list, but 50% of our users still use 7!!!

10 years from now, we will still have to support the god awful mess that is IE 8! And IE 9 will be the same thing 5 years down the road as Webkit and Firefox push the boundary of what's possible in web development. IE will always, always lag behind.

And that is why we hate IE. It's not about the past, it's about the future as well.
Obama Administration Sets IPv6 Deadline: End of 2012
This is better than the 'regular' lorum ipsum site if only because you don't have to enter how many paragraphs you want.

I wish it was a bit more gangsta and a bit less ipsum, though.
Sex At Dawn Is Right
Launchism: A Product Developmental Condition
I think that this is great... except that TechCrunch just reported the IPv4 addresses would run out in early 2011. :(
vi was released in, apparently, 1976. http://www.linfo.org/vi/history.html
> And not some bullshit where he interviews the company.

A good candidate does that during any job interview. Two-way filtering helps all parties find better matches faster.
I wish that more people understood how unreliable the whole system is.
I think it's good to do a free trial if you have a polished product, and do the money back guarantee if you are still in the minimum viable product phase.
It's probably because the point makes no sense. There's no reason to go back to desktop apps, we were moving away from that and making lots of progress and now all of a sudden many are eager to return back to local desktop, but this time running inside a browser, doesn't make any sense at all.

We should be moving forward, rather than going backwards.
somehow reading that, i'm more and more sure that i'll be Branson not Worden who gets us to Mars. I'm not a "free market" zealot, and it isn't about how Branson is good, it is more about how Worden is bad.

There is also Musk, whose drive to change things makes me awe in respect (while his technical decisions may be debatable, the most important thing here is that he actually DOES things). Google guys got the money, and
if they still have the same drive...
concepts that don't map to the domain ... there are ... a couple of levels down ... concepts that have no obvious connection to the domain

There always are. I took it to mean that dirty code has concepts that don't map properly to the domain, i.e.:

1) Objects that claim to map to the domain, but do so badly, or do so partly but fail at this in obvious and subtle ways.

2) Leaky abstractions

A huge problem with dirty code is that it is permanently owned by the author

Or worse, nobody will go near it. Coders move on or forget the hack that they did in the crunch, so the author may be absent or disavow it. As commented elsewhere, he meant to say "Dirty code inhibits the formation of a good, collective ownership culture"
Hindsight bias is when you think something is more predictable (after it happens) than it actually was. It's slightly different.
Apple changes words in order to change the debate
I think his short bio at the top explains how this is achieved.
"My generation seems entitled because the reality we are now confronting does not match up with the fantasy world that adults have been preparing us for for our entire lives."

I couldn't agree more. I can't help but feel the generation our generation spawns will be a really cynical bunch ;)
My first position during high school (1.5 yr fast food), only recieved feedback during promotions. Jumped to the Marines and recieved a mega-ton of feedback. Fastforward to now, I've been in my current technology position for a year-and-a-half and the only time I heard feedback for my work was when a promotion came. I recently took on some telecommute contract work saving a product from failure and I receieved quite a bit of positive feedback (phone have something to do with it?).

So yeah, sounds about right. I would attribute it to a lot of people in leadership positions not really having training as to the processes of actual leading people. They may know how to make a phenominal gantt chart, but most of all flounder when it comes to maintaining interpersonal relationships.

The bottom line is that you have direct influence into a persons attitude, good or bad. If you completely lash out against somebody, that will produce negative results. If you praise and talk about what you liked about something, that will be a motivational nudge. Find a good middle ground where you can provide feedback both good/bad for somebody. Feedback is hugely important otherwise the person is just lost/assuming their own way.
You will tear noscript from my cold, dead hands.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada - Google broke privacy laws
That is why I prefaced my question, because it could be viewed as not motivated...I just thought it would be fun thats all.
If you do option 2, you will have to eat the transaction costs with most credit card processors.
> Mozilla's Raskin says product placement is coming soon to Facebook photos

No he doesn't. He says that if product placement starts appearing in people's Facebook photos then it may mess with people's memories.

"What I think is going to start happening is ..."

ReadWriteWeb is up to its usual standards here. Bah.
Chrome Web Store Nears Launch
Channeling our inner Tyler Durden this morning?
hey..has it got to do with fractal geometry? just curious.
If you know it's tongue in cheek, why not call it a creative humorous expression of frustration instead of being angry at the kid? Frankly, I'd consider hiring him for being bold and thinking outside the box - if I had any position he was qualified for...

Indeed, this stunt DID distinguish himself. He's here on the top of hacker news. Clever stunt if you ask me.
I think this statistic is neither surprising nor problematic. Would you really expect more than 36% of the workforce to be frequently deserving of recognition? The job of management is not to give lip-service praise to all their employees.
I really hope the recommended method of suggesting tips (fork, modify, pull request) and the overcomplicated backend (complete with four dependencies!) is an attempt at meta-humor. Maybe we need an opensource-js.com.
I feel good if the card reader at the door recognizes me!
I don't know why I wouldn't just choose app engine, gwt, and chrome's web store.
Initial comma actually is a good idea. It means that when you edit the list and add another on the end, you're less likely to forget the comma.
What has the writer been doing for two years?

He should focus on making something worthwhile. He will gain experience and maybe a little bit of real world knowledge that employers look for.
No. You aren't even trying to read, or understand.