skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many companies find ways to stay small. Take Lego for example. Making little plastic blocks is a pretty trivial thing, something that can be outsourced. So they have. Lego is now an IP/creative company with production of coloured blocks outsourced.

Or take vans aircraft, a small company that's been around 30 successful years. Or look at any number of small ISV's that's been around for ages. All it takes is willpower.

Interview with lego ceo:
http://www.monocle.com/sections/business/Web-Articles/QA-wit...
Every new idea has to start somewhere. What is complete nonsense to your mother makes perfect sense to the next generation. Eventually somebody will re-invent Wave when the time is right, and then it will be the metaphor for future products.
Hmmm I had a go at "error 1356" in both Google and this... Google comes back with the MySQL error I would expect to get. This one comes back with nothing about MySQL.

Odd because its powered by Google. I imagine that whatever phrase weighting that should be applied in this case isn't being applied.

An interesting idea though... perhaps its needs a narrower focus?
Wait, where are there backscatter scanners in the UK? I've never seen one, unless I was scanned without my consent?
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I think the first sentence is important enough to pull out on its own:

Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853688

An experimental average according to the above thread.
RubyUnderscore: A bit of Arc and Scala in Ruby
The Julian and Gregorian calendar reforms did not change the day of the week. As a calibrating norm, you can use the Hebrew calendar, which maintained a 7-day week as long as the calendar has existed. The 7-day week of the Hebrews remained in sync with the calendars of Babylon and Rome, and continues to remain in sync the modern calendars today. While there were at times questions regarding which day of the month any given day was, especially during the Babylonian Captivity, there was never a question regarding what day of the week it was. When the Jews in Babylon returned to Israel, they found their calendar to still be in sync with the Jews who were left behind in Israel. Therefore, it is safe to say that in the modern era, the day of the week has always been consistent, and seems to be consistent as far back as we have any records.
Yeah I have a ways to go but a good amount of time to get there. If you aid the harder parts of it then it's not insurmountable. It's really getting over the 3000' of air below you, coming to terms with sleeping on the side of a sheer cliff, and pushing on huge pieces of granite that are not attached to the wall anymore(see texas flake).

Gonna be fun though. It is amazing how addicting climbing is though.
Ah, patched versions of OpenSSL. Those never cause problems...
I agree that the minimal intelligence is going to be lower, but I also don't think it matters as much as you think. Consider the extreme: say Google has 24,999 really smart people and one dumb person, do you really think that one person is going to have that much of an impact?

there are recent, fairly inexperienced hires doing amazing things

Maybe, but is that true of the average new hire? I'm sure Google is still hiring a fair number of smart people who will do amazing things; my argument is that the average has dropped. You can cite individual examples of smart people but those aren't a counter-argument unless you have a statistically significant number of them.

Remember, if you're going to use free food and candy stations as hiring tools, don't be surprised when the type of people you hire are more interested in eating free food and candy than building something awesome.
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I hope you realize that this is an actual experiment and that the language usage isn't just being used as a way to diffuse criticism.
What technology do you use in your startup?
What technology do you use in your startup?

(Programming language? Libraries? OS? Chair/desk setup? Editors (No religious war between vim and emacs please.. as we all know vim win :p) etc.)
It's not an experimental average, it's the average comment karma that has been on your profile page all along, it has just been experimentally added to the page header.
I work on decade old aluminum ladders on a daily basis, I fail to see how wooden ladders last longer under regular conditions.

An aluminum ladder conducts electricity, but also conducts heat. I let a ladder on a black shingle roof one day in the middle of summer and I had to get gloves to hold it long enough to literally throw it off the roof.

> "You don't want to use a 50-foot lightweight aluminum ladder in heavy winds -- it's too dangerous," Cohane said.

Can and do, but fixing the feet and using tie-offs isn't exactly practical for firefighters.

> The largest ladder they make is 50 feet, weighs 350 pounds and takes six firefighters to lift.

Compare this to the largest ladder we use, which is IIRC 40 feet and is easily moved by one man if done properly (we've had guys fall with them before).
Generally, this model is evolved from something tighter niche and targetted towards the consumer audience first.

I think AirBNB and early Ebay might be good cases to look at? Neither of them really started out the way they are now, they grew into and actually created the marketplace themselves.
We're trying not to go down on launch day like cuil.com did. It's not an exclusionary thing, it's trying to keep the site up & responsive despite a flood of traffic. WolframAlpha hit >2000qps at launch, which would kill us.

Nevertheless, blekko should be open for everyone now...we'll keep it open if we can.
Ask Career HN: Go back to employer or start fresh?
Dear Hackernews, I need some career advice from people that would know: After High School I interned at a small startup, at that time it was just me and the three founders. About a year later I went to College, but continued to do work for them, mostly dumb copy&paste HTML stuff, rarely more complex and time sensitive design work.

Fast forward six years: I am about to finish my M.Sc., I am still with the company (doing the same work at the same low rate, gotta pay the rent), the company now has more than 20 employees and was bought for a considerable amount by one of the largest media companies of the country/world. The founders are leaving the company (and while the company will stay independent, suits will be taking over) and approached me about a "frontend and usability" position at the company on pretty short notice: They liked how versatile and loyal I was, how I know the company, know the processes, etc

I was flattered, but also alarm bells went off: It's great to be offered a job without even applying for one, however, I am afraid that if I go back, I will continue doing the same stupid work I have done before, even though I now have Masters Degree and shifted my focus considerably (from design to development, which was advice from one of the founders, and I am really thankful for that). The company will definitely undergo some restructuring with interesting opportunities (and I think it will be interesting to experience a company transitioning from a small startup to something bigger), however there are enough people at the company that know I was the "HTML guy".

I was always quite busy with school so in terms of internships, my CV is lacking (just a couple of side-projects and freelance jobs). On the one hand, it has always been a dream of mine to go startup hopping and learn from many different experiences, but I am afraid that I won't even be considered for something remotely interesting and will become and stay unemployed. On the other hand is my current employer (with a very large parent company) offering a position that has the potential to open many doors (maybe some I would never get to otherwise) and would be a big name on my CV, potentially making getting internships later easier.

I am wondering what to do: Should I ask for an rather high salary to see if they really consider me an asset to the company? How can I make sure I will not be treated as an intern anymore? What looks better on a CV, many Startups or one large corporation? What would you do if you were 26 and broke? Any advice is truly appreciated. Thanks.
Anybody know how much these things cost once you order them in bulk?

Apparently you can get those business-card CDs for under a buck each if you order over a thousand. More sane quantities will probably run you $3/each.
A lot of traders work long hours to feel better about themselves. Usually the ones who consistently stay late are either using inappropriate technology or are compensating for some other inadequacy. They also tend to have the worst performance in the end and ultimately leave (not always voluntarily).
Ha. Quite a few people getting upset about my post. <yawn>
'huge stream-of consciousness ascii list', etc. Ha ha ha!
Points:

* It's TWO lists. Pay attention.

* They're not 'stream of consciousness', they're chronological archives of links to AGW related articles, posts, papers, documentaries, etc.

* They're ascii because that works best for maintaining such a record. Deal with it.

* They're 'huge' because there's been so much going on in the AGW discussion, especially since the CRU emails story broke. I'm not in any way trying to present a convenient summary, but an archive of events. Deal with that too.

Also,can't help laughing at the poor sods who still believe (or pretend) that '95% of climate scientists agree AGW exists and is due to CO2' twaddle. Yeah, if they did I'd have been wasting my time keeping such lists.

However,there's no such consensus, only a small number of individuals pretending they represent a near-universal consensus. And being supported in that effort by various media and journals. As becomes clear to anyone who actually looks into the matter. Which could involve reading through a 'huge list of references'- heaven forbid that it might require actual effort. Or that anyone would dare to subvert the 'consensus' by providing a convenient list of dissenting resources.
Wired wrote about the so-called death of Apple back in the 90s. History, it seems, sure did show Wired. In all respect, I have only seen iOS and Droid apps supplement or complement the actual Web apps. Facebook for iPhone hasn't really been a replacement for the Web app.

If anything, nobody likes dealing with the logistics of pushing client-side updates to users, especially with Web-based apps that to deal with multiple versions of REST/SOAP APIs (most hated is graceful degradation for older apps). My App Store icon already shows that 8 apps need updating. Goodness.

So I think the Web is safe. Because then you only need to update the browser, from the user perspective to take advantage of most functionality updates.
I would create a vision of who and where I would want to be in 5 years, however I would focus on the next few months on creating solid goals and plan on achieving them.

I believe goals are powerful as they do help you set a target for where and who you want to become. But you really need a good plan on achieving those goals, because without a solid route it's harder to get from point A to point B.
This is Monday press... The press was supposed to go live at midnight on Nov 1 (so you can be in the papers on Monday). The Wall Street Journal broke our embargo by 5 hours.
C. OpenSSL (grudgingly), zlib, and libarchive. FreeBSD and Ubuntu (grudgingly). Mostly kwrite, sometimes nano.
Yes, and what should we do if someone posts something that is not constructive or that cannot otherwise be built upon?
Facebook is the new AOL - but this time could work.
If you only message friends through facebook, only share photos and video in facebook and only read blogs in facebook - then what else on the net do you need?

Google can dominate the rest of the net, but if your net only means facebook then the chocolate factory just got made irrelevent.

Now imaging facebook does a deal with a phone maker to only connect to facebook, or to only have free data to facebook then Google's ad revenue goes down
Its possible that it may be more frequent :)
Achieving something by accident feels like failure in comparison to achieving something on purpose.

A sense of purpose is integral to your sense of worth, your self-esteem and fuels your ambition.

Goals are useless if you don't have any ambition. Ambition is absent when you have no goals.

You should never measure yourself with someone else's measuring stick. You should always establish your own measuring stick. So that you will always know what you have achieved and what you believe is success.

Leaving yourself open to being measured by others is an invitation to be controlled by others. Once you give up that control, you will never be happy with the direction they push you. You will never truly believe in what you do and you will lose your sense of purpose and feel like a puppet.

People who say their don't believe in goals are lying or aimlessly floating through life achieving nothing.

A goal is not a plan, it is an end result. A successful person will constantly assess and alter their plan to meet their goal.

Sometimes setting a goal is the quickest way to find out you aren't really interested in that goal and you are lead to what your really believe to be important.
Apparently, Lars Rasmussen is NOT a pirate. he isn't even in the club. http://tcrn.ch/acPtMa
OK, we can see where you are going. Where is it stated driving a car is a fundamental right?
I use Thunderbird which also doesn't render the smiley face - even on Windows where Wingdings is installed. It doesn't seem to want to let me choose that as a font in e-mails - no great loss I'd say.

Didn't take me all that long to figure out that it was supposed to be a smiley face though - seemed pretty obvious from context?
Since I was a kid I have been thinking of what is my mission here on Earth. Today I got a pretty good idea of what I want to do in this world, so after I've decided that, I have now been struggling to set goals in the short/mid/long term till I reach that ultimate goal.

One might say plans are useless, but that isn't true. I find myself changing them from time to time, but they are the best tool I have to manage my time and life and check on my progress to reach the dream I have.

All I do is keep checking on them and constantly thinking if they need change or what progress I am having. Everyday I spend at least a few minutes reflecting on them.

This is a good example of goals: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=84
2010 Election Watch: Security of Your Electronic Voting Machine
Looks pretty sparse and as everyone has said, not the best out there. MDC probably still has the best 'official' documentation thus far.
My girlfriend had lost contact with her mother for over 6 years and recently found each other on Facebook. They reunited a couple of weeks ago and have been communicating ever since. They are both so happy.

That's pretty world changing for her.
You don't necessarily know what it did even after you plugged it in.

What You Saw Is (not necessary) What You Got.
Pirates: they're not ninjas.
Nice app! Any plans for an iPad version?
Language: PHP;
Framework: CodeIgniter;
OS: Linux / Windows;
Editor: PhpED
We have a designer (Dan) and a front end team (the Three Musketeers!) in-house. We use Perl+XS for all of the back-end stuff: our NoSQL data store (multiple petabytes of data), crawling, indexing, and serving queries.
$10 for a diet-coke. I noticed that all right. The cheese-burger wasn't the cheapest burger in the world either :) I thought the exchange at the end was nice. I really like this side of Bill Gates, kind of self-deprecating. His TED Talk where he let mosquitoes out into the auditorium and half-joked that he was pretty sure they weren't malaria carrying ones was an eye-opener as well. This article didn't tell me much that was new but I was surprised to learn about how much he worked and little he vacationed at the start of Microsoft. Credit where it is due.
"In my opinion the hard problem in machine learning has moved from prediction to characterization."

Is this because prediction has been "solved" or because characterization is currently more commercially useful?
Laptop Driven Development
Higher Expectations: What are colleges for?
I wouldnt want to go the mono way either.. That would mean coding everything to .NET?
I did a search and it says "1 to 20 /yahoo results for (query)"

Does that mean Blekko is just a nice-looking front end for the yahoo API?

I'm guessing the answer is no and the technology goes far deeper than that, but as an average user with an attention span nearing zero, it might be wise to make all this terminology a bit clearer. I don't want to have to distinguish between slashtag results, yahoo results, web results etc (and learn what they all mean) - why can't I just have results?
First off, I think this is super cool. It's a novel and interesting take on a very boring but necessary concept, and he's taken the time to get the design looking nice as well -- he could easily have just soldered an attiny to a USB connector, and that wouldn't have had the same charm.

Secondly, it seems the security implications are very slightly more severe than one might think. The card only activates when you press caps lock three times. This means it must be able to receive key presses, as well as to send them. From my understanding of his description, keyboard HID devices which support the boot protocol profile also receive notification of key presses (http://frank.circleofcurrent.com/cache/usbbusinesscard_detai... and search 'boot protocol'). So in theory this could record everything you typed, as well as do destructive things to your computer. And of course storage is not an issue as it's likely that the host is connected to the Internet.

It seems borderline paranoid to think like this w.r.t. someone's business card, though.
I hadn't heard of jMockups before. Thanks for sharing, it looks nifty!
When you look at it zoomed out, Facebook combined disparate web avenues (chat, contacts, forums, game portals, bboards, adspace) into one place and added a thick air of mass adoption. This is hardly world-changing innovation-wise but it is game-changing in making the web more usable and understandable. Facebook is a fork of the whole web (Open web vs Facebook Web). I am betting the farm that this is what internally facebook is running with. This is a powerful motivator because they can justify to themselves and to everyone in the company the act of copying>improving elements of the open web into it. This is why a Facebook email, search, OS is inevitable.

In short - my definition of Facebook. its the web in the CONTEXT of your social circle and that has changed the web biz game, it has only begun to change the world 'proper' and thats what i think excites people like Lars.
> ... and whatever other inappropriate question floats through his brain

That gives me an idea: demanding that every TSA employee that views backscatter imagery or who does a pat down must first be castrated.
Looks like a great tutorial. Covers a lot of ground that others don't (such as the star command, windowing commands, ctags use, etc.).

Vim certainly has a lot of ninja editing moves (however, I don't think my development speed is particularly limited by my raw text editing speed).
You are correct, I didn't explain it in a coherent way that made it come out sounding really weird.
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This kind of market is usually called Multi-Sided Markets. It is hard to help without knowing more details about the product, but Harvard Business Review has a great article on it, which should help you with your issue: http://hbr.org/2006/10/strategies-for-two-sided-markets/ar/1

Here is another article that might be useful: http://www.strategy-business.com/article/03301?gko=16442
Amazon Instant
Hey Everyone! A couple friends of mine made an Amazon Instant website. Seeing the number of web services out there offering the same thing, do you have any advice on how to distinguish ourselves? i.e. Something feature that you want to see on the website that is missing.
Oops, sorry about the triple post. Not sure what happened there.
Putting 2GB on a USB drive and handing it to someone else is easy. Uploading 2GB to dropbox... not really.

Re. transmitting viruses: if you believe in corporate espionage happening these days, this is a great vector of attack. Hand a card like that to a middle level manager who knows little about technology but has relatively broad access rights and you're in.
I'm talking about the software behind HN, not the community.
According to a comment on the parent article, all USB keyboards receive the standard 3 lock keys so they can toggle state (think LED lights): Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock

If true, this is why the author chose to use Caps Lock over a different key. I can't claim whether that is true or not but it puts a damper on the USB keyboard security concerns.
Come on google, need this site up and seoed again
Startup Quote: Greg McAdoo, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Going to the leader board and sorting the first 20 by average:

Order	Who	Total	Ave

2	edw519	44607	22.29

39	grellas	11208	19

45	wheels	10752	12.15

4	patio11	37809	11.23

42	mixmax	11064	10.45

66	timr	8632	9.78

78	chaosmachine	7829	8.8

93	niyazpk	6885	8.28

70	alexandros	8353	7.98

53	jerf	9873	7.8

1	tptacek	45718	7.49

16	mechanical_fish	16598	7.4

17	raganwald	16421	7.27

97	maxklein	6751	6.68

34	ryanwaggoner	11976	6.63

76	_delirium	7895	6.56

49	lionhearted	10137	6.49

87	acangiano	7001	6.39

22	Anon84	14263	6.24

9	swombat	21933	6.09

75	abstractbill	7910	6.09
This has been making the rounds and in every discussion I've seen about it so far, someone (or multiple people) have brought up security implications.

Obviously it would be possible to use a device like this to do some nefarious stuff, but the same goes for any random no-name USB flash drive (for that matter there've been instances of name brand ones inadvertently shipping with viruses on them) or USB "toy" (keystroke logging coffee cup warmer, anyone?).

I have to wonder why this thing is garnering such a reaction whereas it's not something that's brought up very often w.r.t. other USB products. Are people subconsciously afraid of it because it doesn't have a cute plastic enclosure?
Lets compare the constructor:

function A () {
this.helloWorld = function () {return 'hello world'};
};
a = new A();

vs.

function B () {};
B.prototype.helloWorld = function () {return 'hello world'};
b = new B();

Both constructors achieve the same result - their instances a and b both have the methods helloWorld.

Some of the differences are:

1. With constructor A, whenever you create a new instance, you create a new function, hence you have both performance and memory inefficiencies. With Constructor B, the helloWorld function is created just once, and every instance of B automatically inherits this single instance of the function helloWorld, hence we have performance and memory efficiency.

2. Using inheritance through the prototype of the constructor functions also gives more flexibility and simplicity in sharing common functions and modules.
This was going on at least back in 2000-2001; I still have a "poisonous non-consumables" catalog in my basement somewhere (I have friends who are into this kind of thing).

Read the forum posts about this stuff online; it's funny, there's a backlash of enthusiasts calling vendors like this guy "slash and burn" outfits for popularizing chemicals and getting them banned.