skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you forgot to mention that the vast majority of international borders don't include philosophical loyalty tests or religious screening. It's not a club I think America should belong to. Do you?
Ok, here's mine, and since it's November now (already, screams)

http://www.ZoomRead.com
THe Al-Qaeda that we have any reason to fear are often using idiots to carry out attacks. Most of them screw up and get caught, or blow themselves up, or chicken out. It's a volume game, and it's very hard to fight.
"web oriented" doesn't give nearly enough detail to answer the question. The CEO must understand, in excruciating detail, how his company earns a living. If the differentiating factor is that the company earns a living because their technology is superior (see pg's many early writings on this topic) then the CEO better be technical.
Clojure at BackType
Keyboard choice is a whole other conversation. :) By all means, get a nice keyboard, but you don't need a new keyboard (or labels) just for Dvorak.

I didn't have a hard time finding a keyboard I liked, but it took me a while to find a mouse - I eventually settled on the "Kensington Expert Mouse" trackball (http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Expert-Optical-Trackball-64...). There aren't a whole lot of left-handed trackballs, and none I've seen have mouse wheels. This one is ambidextrous, the ring around the ball is also a wheel, and it's got four buttons.
Announcing Jody, another BDD framework for node
Only problem with this is that I while I know several wealthy but less than handsome men, none of them have any trouble getting laid.
What's the reasoning for this policy?

I always find it frustrating when I visit the US dealing with pre-tax price stickers. Thank you Oregon for not doing this. :)
it is simple logic - if it was a cartridge, he would still be writing this from inside a prison.

While you can't do much with a bare bullet itself (may be you can try to throw it hard), the cartridge can very easily be put to use - you don't need 900m/s muzzle velocity at close range really.
There's also a bunch of us that are building November Apps that are using Alex Muir's kickuptheass.com. It's also for daily reminders and group status sharing. Hard to say yet if this is a complementary service or in competition. In the mean time, I plan to use both :-)
I think the objections are not to every aspect of this story. For instance, the bullet is definitely a problem that they needed to address. The OBL candy is perhaps... iffy. However, things like carrying a burqa and especially carrying books about various religions should not be---and a questioning that starts with screaming about Muslims is seriously not "real security". That's what we're complaining about.
>I guess you could possibly launch one satellite and see if people would subscribe

For that, though, you'd need to put the satellite in geosync (nobody is going to subscribe to a phone service that's usable only every 100 minutes), which costs more to launch and requires the phones to have stronger transmitters. Thuraya uses geosync, but they started out as a regional carrier, so they could cover their region with one satellite.

Iridium went with polar LEO--I suspect that was partly because their goal was global coverage. Without a polar orbit, you can't get coverage at the poles. Insert cynical laughter about the profitability of such coverage here.
Are you sure?

Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium show post-tax prices.
Right, confidence has a lot to do with the mating game. Which brings up the grandparent posters comment about being ugly. The fact is for him it does not matter for a woman looks are far down on the totum poll whereas for men conversely they are far up. A good deal of men don't understand this because we as human reason from our perspective. We tend to project, so unattractive men tend to project that women think they are unattractive and given that attractiveness is such a high weight for them they obviously do not have a shot.

The thing is just as a beautiful woman sets of a chain of bio-chemical reactions in a mans brain, a alpha male does the same for women. So being a strong (not just physically) man is far more important than looks. It is the reason women are attracted to older men, they generally exhibit more of the Alpha traits.

The best advice I can offer someone who feels that they cannot get a beautiful woman is to work on their confidence. Just as a woman can augment herself to be more attractive so can a man augment himself to be more dominate, not in a beat you wife tell her what to do way, But in a win friends and influence people kind of way.

Tip #1 is dress sharp, the cloths really do make the man. You don't have to dress up but dress sharp. It is a male boob job, women don't look at a mans face they look at his cloths, his shoes. How many times have you heard a woman say they love a man in uniform, there is a reason? You would be surprised what looking good with a little bit of style can do for your confidence. It makes you walk different, it makes you talk different and women have years of adaptation that pick up on these little nuances.
If you're interested in systems programming, I'd learn Go (http://golang.org). The team behind Go (which includes Ken Thompson and Rob Pike) is very strong technically, and there's a lot to learn about programming style and techniques for any language by reading the source code to the standard Go packages (http://golang.org/pkg/).

However, Go is still very young and being actively developed so it's probably premature to add as a marketable skill to your resume.
Some days, I feel like this represents 95% of Silicon Valley right now.
What rough percentage is 33 developers from the Open Office project?
There's a difference between "it's reasonable to expect fresh grads to know X" and "there might be a few fresh grads who happen to know X".
"Either this is not true, or it is true and our enemy is inept. If we had a competent enemy who was trying to kill us, then there would be a lot more of us dead."

I don't think we all need to live in fear, but I don't think we should live oblivious to threats just because things don't blow up more often.
There is an "etc" there. I mean it isn't like he wants to cloud the message with "transgenderism" or stuff that doesn't impact a large portion of the application base.
I just searched in that page about Lisp and there are only two books, On Lisp and Lisp in small pieces. The most recommended book is Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, this book is not on that page, so version 1.0 is very weak, there is not land of lisp (new book), nothing about clojure, etc.
Do we put @ in front of all proper nouns now?
At US schools, being up for tenure is a function of how long you've had a tenure-track position at the school. It has nothing to do with how young you are. (And that would run afoul of age discrimination regulations.) I would be surprised if it was different in Canada.
StillTasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide
Interesting idea, instead of a free for all forum format, Q&A takes the form of book lists. Look forward to seeing how it works out.
Cartridges[1] are prohibited on planes for good reason, I think. It is possible to set them off accidentally, and once you have a cartridge, building a one-time use zipgun is relatively simple, so if you want to keep firearms out of an area, you really need to keep cartridges out of that area.

Of course, if the bullet was really just the bullet without the propellant (that was not clear to me) then yeah, I agree with you.

[1] I think It's the explosive powder that matters here. A bullet with no propellant is just a lump of lead, which I think would be okay.
I don't know if you live in the US or not, but this is basically impossible. First of all some jurisdictions make that illegal. Second of all, large businesses then can't have advertising campaigns that advertise the price due to differing sales-tax rates. Even small differences matter in high-volume low-margin businesses.

Even local businesses can have this problem. The city I live in imposes a small (like .25%) sales tax on top of the state sales tax, so that if you are outside city limits, you pay a different tax rate than if you are inside city limits.
Those private health problems are bullshit. He made it through years of school all the way to the PhD final exam which he fails twice before contracting the ridiculous "exam anxiety" disease? Now everybody has to treat this cheat with kid gloves because he is "disabled"?
AirBnB's Brian Chesky is a damn good story. I'd make every aspiring entrepreneur watch his Startup School talk if I could.
The Right Tool for the Job (Silverlight and HTML5)
similar thread is already open

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855691
There is really no reason to get an MBA coming straight out of school, the benefits do not justify the expenses. It's not an automatic pass to a position in a company, especially if you have little to no work experience.

If you have the passion to work for a startup that is absolutely what you should strive for. Many entrepreneurial projects are looking for people with that drive to work because it definitely isn't cut out for everyone. I'd say that you should keep applying and your time would be 100% better spent learning directly from someone or a company.

Take a look at job openings at a company like AirBnB. http://www.airbnb.com/jobs Not all of them require coding experience and none of them require an MBA. Just figure out how you can creatively show some of the companies you're interested in that you have a 1) willingness and drive to work and 2) can get shit done, and hopefully you'll land a job you enjoy.
If after a terrorist attack, it emerged that the attacker had recently returned from Afghanistan to have a friendly chat with security officers about his Osama Bin Laden candy box, his book on Mohammed, the live round in his pocket and the notes in his diary about how to renounce citizenship everyone would be appalled.

This is an interesting article but the fact that the author is in any way surprised by what happened to him is astonishing. Whilst it would be nice to live in a world where this wasn't necessary we don't and I'm reassured that the security response was what it was.
Interesting Reflections of an 18 year old Programmer
Apple's explanation of why a touch UI would be horrible on an iMac or MacBook suggests strongly that they are not interested in moving to a touch screen and touch pads with gestures are the future.

vertical touch = bad : horizontal touch = good
Dipity: A tool for creating and sharing timelines
One person has the bullet, another the firing mechanism, etc. Seriously, why does someone need to have a bullet in their pocket to travel on an airplane? They don't, so when an agent sees one, it's suspicious. It doesn't belong and raises a flag, just like some of the other articles in his possession. Enough flags and the agent needs to investigate.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16412292?source=rss_viewed

excerpt:

"Coroner: Aragon High School student took LSD before falling to death in Canada"

10/23/2010 12:01:00 AM PDT

"A 17-year-old Aragon High School student was under the influence of LSD when he plunged to his death during a trip to Canada in June with teachers and fellow classmates, according to a British Columbia coroner's report.

"Daniel Cho and two friends took the drug while they were on a bus headed from Seattle to Vancouver, British Columbia, according to the coroner. The boys were with more than 100 other Aragon students headed to Canada as part of a musical exchange program.

"When the group made a stop at a popular tourist spot called the Capilano Suspension Bridge on the evening of June 6, Cho climbed over a 4-foot-high fence and fell 100 feet into a ravine below.

"The coroner has ruled his death an accident, and Canadian police won't file any criminal charges in connection with the case."
File->Print->PDFCreator. Takes like two seconds. Maybe 20 seconds if you don't already have PDFCreator installed.
9 Erlang pitfalls you should know about
I think it's important to note this report only covers "smartphones", not all mobile devices.

But a bigger question is: So what?

Wouldn't you say that in the age of the App Store, "revenue per user" seems a much more important statistic than "units shipped"?

Even with Android, it doesn't seem the carriers are evolving their business model much. Apple's the only one seriously carving out new territory in its customers' wallets (and raking in cash because of it).
There are plenty of skills that startups need that are not coding or business; there's design, UX, support, marketing, sales, etc. Pick one, get good at it, and get good at explaining why you're good at it.
IE9 adds support for CSS3's 2D transforms
I think for someone like yourself it is all about fit. What type of work are you looking to contribute to the start up? Can you contribute to some or all of project management, marketing, design, strategic planning, or even basic coding?

Taking the time to understand how you can make a team better and then articulating that first to yourself (be honest about what you really have to offer) and then to a start up is in my opinion the best way to go.

If you want to work for a tech start up and have the personality to mesh with the team and the drive to contribute meaningfully even in the smallest ways (ego can often get in the way), then keep looking. Go to start up events, meet as many people as you can and eventually a relationship with click.

It is hard to be patient, however if you really want it then just keep going. Finding the work you may discover was the easy part, even if it wasn't so easy.

I wish you the best of luck.
Or $182,940 per year. Depending on benefits and payroll taxes, that's somewhere between one and two very qualified engineering hires right there, for free.
I worked at a movie theater in college, they had it set up so that the post-tax prices for tickets and concessions always came out to an even quarter. Made it a lot faster for the cashiers, since they only ever had to have quarters in their drawer.
Note to self: never bring a bullet back with me when traveling back from a country known for training and funding anti-american terrorists.
Not only did we miss all those "obvious red flags", but we missed the much bigger ones. His own father had reported him to the CIA. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was banned from entering the UK. British intelligence had informed the US authorities that an Umar Farouk had consorted with a known extremist and that he was intent on jihad.

The fact that he didn't have a warm coat is absolutely irrelevant. We had high-quality intelligence against him but failed to act upon it in any way. We need to worry less about whether someone looks shifty at an airport and worry more about keeping tabs on people who we have strong intelligence on.

It is also worth stating that his attack failed and he was unable to damage anything other than his own groin.
> Do you really think the terrorists that pose a real danger to the U.S. are so inept that they'd carry a burqa, "Osama bin Laden" candy, and a round of live ammunition on a plane?

Well, the ones inept enough to do that are only not a threat if we stop them when they do inept stuff like that.
Paperhater | http://www.paperhater.com (Early November) | Take a picture of a receipt, biz card or diagram from your smart phone and we will create an accounting entry, contact or visio diagram from it.

Would like to know what accounting system / contact manager / drawing program you use.
Wow, you travelled to a warzone and you dealt with weaponry. Clearly you're interested in expanding the warzone.
(from the wikipedia entry on inflation) most mainstream economists favor a low steady rate of inflation.

Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers. "Death and Taxes, Including Inflation: the Public versus Economists" (January 2007).[1] p.56
Noted mathematician Ken Perlin has done quite a bit of tinkering in this space on similar systems. In the right column, in the second row, check out the "pen input" experiments http://cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/
Maybe, it will save licensing costs, but it will not save on support costs. Contracting companies are not going to lessen their support bids for Linux compared to Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if the bid for support was higher to compensate for the lesser number of Linux-trained support people. It will probably be a wash.
> The article mentions that the waterfall model was a bad
> development model to follow

I'm pretty sure the waterfall model is the only game in town when you're developing satellite systems...
I stumbled on your project (randomly) awhile ago, did you end up getting into the winter session?
Demand Media squats on KhanAcademy's domain name, to make a measly $2K (after asking for 6-figures!) -- another reason to root against the Demand Media IPO.
TL;DR go work at a startup to get great, broad exposure. Consider looking for a product development role.

Two things to consider:

1. A degree in CS does not, per se, qualify you to be a startup technologist. An MBA does not by itself qualify you to run a business. If you go back to school, you'll probably be asking yourself the same question in 2 years. Going to a startup will expose you to things that you wouldn't ordinarily see if you were at a larger organization. You burden later on will be paring down your resume to look like you have considerable expertise in something instead of everything, and that's probably a better place to be.

2. Psychology is great. I don't know your concentration, but I'm sure you're aware of the deep connections to making things, especially if you want to get involved in software design or industrial design. The disciplines of human factors, HCI, etc., come to mind. I'm not very familiar with the myriad programs, but I've hired psychology majors from a few different unis as technologists and product devs, and they all have a reasonable grounding in the scientific method. Get involved in product development, design, marketing--anything that deals with the consumer side--and you'll probably find a useful role very quickly.

Also, if you're interested in people management and happen to have a knack for leadership, consider doing an MBA in management down the line. Real interpersonal skills are hard to come by.
If the Republicans continue to stonewall, I'd expect the filibuster to be abolished. The inaction is getting poisonous.
I can actually code JS fine without a framework. However do I want to keep up to date with all the idiosyncrasies of a growing number of browsers? Do I want to rewrite every function that exists in a framework, such as getting the height of an element or the viewport? No.

The speedups in frameworks are realizations of better ways to do things that a group of programmers came up with - which is almost definitely going to be a better way of doing things outside of a community. That argument would only work if your functions were always as fast as possible at start. Don't forget Chrome was already the fastest browser out there for JS, and they still have improvements of 50%+ in updates.
Touch is only part of what makes the iOS devices different from OS X. The other half is direct manipulation — you touch the very thing you want to manipulate. On OS X, there is a pointer between you and the things you want to manipulate.

That pointer gives you increased accuracy, speed, etc. But it also means your hands and fingers don't block your view of the screen. All things put together you end up with a drastically different way of interacting with your computer.

People who aren't UI or UX designers may gloss over these things. But Apple is obsessive about this stuff.
I just played with it for a few minutes so far, and my medical background consists of 7 seasons of House on Fox, so take this feedback with that in mind.

Some fit/finish things:

1) The Main Menu lets you scroll, but doesn't do the "iOS bounce" when you get to the top or bottom. If you're not sure of the effect I am talking about, you already use it on the "Discuss" screen.

2) When you tap "Finish" and get the "Are you really finished" dialog, the "No, not yet!" button is black on a black background. Perhaps you can go with a red button with white text, or something else that conveys "Cancel" and stands out against the background.

3) When you are on the "Manage" screen, the "on/off" buttons would be better as "Yes/No" buttons. "Urgent Surgey ON" isn't as nice as "Urgent Surgery YES".

4) The app is totally silent, which isn't bad but it feels kind of "eerie" to me. Maybe some background music of some kind, and key click sounds as you toggle things and change screens? Perhaps a little jingle at the end that changes based on how well you did? Like a "patient flat line" sound if you do badly, or a "da dah trumpet" if you ace it?
While I think it was a definitely a little bit of a snub, I'm not entirely convinced it was as much of a 'attack' as it's being portrayed here.
BPOS is a Microsoft-hosted cloud service. There are various "Qualified Microsoft partners" who will essentially act as consultants to asses your needs and point you at the right Microsoft plan, but the per-user-month pricing is the same whether or not you go through any of those or direct to Microsoft, and the fee is always paid to Microsoft. The business model for the partners is just a time-and-materials on the consulting bit; they aren't true vendors who can compete on service price.

Their requirement is a single-vendor, single-source service that can only be obtained from Microsoft. That's naming the winner before you hold the contest.
Certainly, but we as a society are clearly not anywhere near a healthy attitude towards these things.
RentMineOnline, San Francisco (we're in the presidio).

We were in SeedCamp in '08, part of the FbFund '09 class, and we're currently profitable.

We would consider back-end (rails) or front-end (javascript/html/css) interns, with the possibility of a full-time job if you're good.

email kevin at rentmineonline
Just a couple of days ago I was watching various new videos on YouTube and found several new artists that I absolutely loved and went and bought their albums.

And now I find that this project is unfortunately offline. I understand it was just a proof of concept but honestly I was looking forward to using it to find more artists that I like.

I would like to thank you for your project, even-though it didn't last that long. It was a cool concept, and I definitely think it has potential.
Sight v0.6.1 - Syntax Highlighter for Chrome
Truly wonderful. It's already been a valuable resource for me.

Feature request for those of us who may be checking in from time to time: is there a way to see books recently added to the list? Would be really useful.
Tower, a promising Git client for Mac
For what it's worth, stupider things have happened. Here's a story (also 2002) of an octogenarian war-hero ex-governor detained because he was carrying a nail file, a dummy bullet, and -- the most suspicious item -- a Congressional Medal of Honor:

http://www.snopes.com/military/medal.asp
I think the "uniformed," implies policy.
Having only looked at the pictures, it reminds me of GNOME's Dasher, which I have never really had trouble with on the few occasions I've played with it. So that's good because on-screen keyboards are pretty sucky at the moment.
Sounds like there is a useful set of books that you'd like to suggest -- suggest it on the (HN Books) site!
Why do we believe this "friend" actually exists?
I'm not downvoting the post, but the service does sound kind of gimmicky. And also, more than a bit off-topic, in that most of the job offerings posted here are far above internship or entry-level.
I really love that HN is working on a NaNoWriMo for software this month. I had been planning on doing this all last month in conjunction with my room mate and calling it NaSoWriMo while he worked on his novel.

Personally, I am starting out on two small projects that are being built quickly and will hopefully have reasonable traffic by the end of the month as the goal. This is in preparation for larger projects down the road.