skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't. My industry is driven by one thing only, money.

Recruiters get paid incredible bonuses for placing candidates and are less interested in how you feel and more interested in ticking off keywords fed to them by their client.

Example: One role I have on my books right now is for a 3rd line support analyst. My colleague, a guy who makes about £50k to £60k, submitted a candidate who he listed out the tech requirements to and asked the candidate to answer 'Yes' or 'No' if he had exposure to those systems/languages. No probing questions, no challenge of his competencies, no understanding of what the various languages were but purely and simply ticked the boxes.

People like him are the norm so when I get on the phone and ask the same guy to explain the difference between powershell and the command prompt and why the powershell is more advanced, a straightforward question for a techie but not what you expect from a recruiter, it throws him for six and those who know what they are talking about stand out from that point forward.
Quova Providing Free IP Geolocation Data for Developers
Looks like the pimps are fighting over the data again.
Ask HN: What language will be most useful in 5 years?
If you had to pick a language and learn the living hell out of it so that 4-5 years from now you'd be extremely in demand, what would that language be? Why do you think so?
> I could easily describe other scenarios which favored S3, MongoDB, CouchDB, or offline Hadoop/Hive queries of S3 buckets. And that's just the systems I've used. We need much better NoSQL comparisons, ...

Please do - that would be VERY useful.

kb
How Allie Osmar Siarto Grew Her Photography Hobby Into A Profitable Business
Nice timely release! I've been using Fedora 13 for a while and was interested to give Fedora 14 a whirl. I've just signed up for your free trial so I'm interested to see how it compares to version 13 but also how it performs on a cloud infrastructure.
As long as I can stand in the back an throw fireballs, I am okay with that.
Other than administering client macs, there really wasn't any benefit to running a cluster of mac servers. Apple's game has always been getting the difficulty threshold low enough that mom and pop can do whizzy things. In terms of servers, anybody running that type of hardware will probably have the expertise to do it from scratch, cobble together a solution, or outsource it to a contractor.

While there could be something in enterprise iPhone management, I think they play well enough with exchange's provisioning.
It's amazing how brutal most programming tools are to install. I feel like I am alone amongst all the people I know in being the only one who doesn't have a clue about *nix's underpinnings, about what /etc/local is for, and so on.

I feel like a charlatan some days. On the other hand... I certainly can tell you if your "how to install" instructions are actually any good for reaching new programmers.
Bringing back arcades..
Hi guys!

I recently created a Arcade game website which is pretty basic, however, it's basic for a reason. For ages now, the internet has been full of bandwidth consuming giant arcade websites. This, is not how arcades should be! I created http://www.concavestudios.com/
to show everybody how it should be done, and yes it never will be as big as Miniclip or some of the other sites, but at least I'll prove a point.

Besides all that, just thought i'd ask you guys to try it out, I'll upload some more games later on! :)

Thanks,

Alex

alex@concavestudios.com
"If Apple wants to be taken seriously as a server software vendor'

I really think they don't want to. They've never cared about anything related to businesses using OS X for servers or even good desktop management.
If it's your own work, it's unethical to charge for fixing them, it's like doing bad work and getting paid for it, and then asking money to do what you actually receive money to do. Just do it right in he first place.

Your client can't really test your work like a pro (I guess if he could, he won't hire you in the first place), and that's not his task. to compare it: When an Automaker mess up, they recall all the cars, they won't ask you to pay for that. Everything else is greedy and unethical IMHO.

Of course, if the bugs are from someone else's work, you should charge to fix them.
Finally! The Chrome team seems to be making every good decision out there.

PDF's are everywhere, but browser support--especially in Chrome--has been crap.
I'm getting the impression you don't know C++ that well. A "member" function or "method" in C++ is just a function that has access to other members of its class. If you don't add the virtual keyword there doesn't have to be any difference between it and a normal function (besides the mentioned scoping rules) and it could even be inlined. Overloaded operators aren't any faster than functions.
It would be similar if crappytire sued Canadian Tire.
I generally like the style of this and "Learn You a Haskell..." which it is styled after. I was thinking of using the style for Python, Perl, or Tcl version.
Not surprising that they got no traction.

We got one 6 years ago on the theory that one could have the same desktop/laptop vs. server experience, and then ran into the cold hard reality that running server software is just plain different than desktop (GUI) software. Plus, their GUI was just scratching the surface of what one needs, and even got in the way some of the time (by clobbering command-line work).

Linux/Windows have won for servers (we're using Rackspace/Ubuntu now), so it's good they recognize that and move on.
Right. The server software will live on, but it's more for small-mac-based offices and administering those macs. I've never seen anyone outside of 40-man design companies with an xserve. Nowadays a mac mini can handle that load fairly well.
It's about confidence and internal strength (I know that sounds kind of fuzzy). I don't take Systema so I can go around murdering people - I take it because I feel great knowing that I'm more in control of my body than I was before. One of the drills in Systema is having your partner hit you for 5 minutes straight and learning how to breathe through this and take the blows. At first you're afraid and tense up which is what leads to bruising and pain, but as you learn the system, you get more relaxed and don't bruise anymore. I used to come home looking like an abuse victim but now I don't.

I really, really recommend that you read up on Systema and try to find a local chapter. Or if you're in Toronto, come by for a free lesson. Vlad (the head instructor worldwide) will be more than happy to show you the ropes.
I think only Windows gets the GPU acceleration, so far.
I appreciate the good news from Google, but I've often wondered why PDFs are so important in 'academic and scientific circles'. It seems that some sort of HTML solution would ultimately work better. It's certainly a very flexible format, easy to annotate, and easy to search. I'm often frustrated by the the difficulty of searching a large collection of PDFs or providing clean annotations when I'm reading papers. I still looking for tools that are good at both of these things.

Why don't we use HTML or something similar for making papers available?

In any case, thanks Google.
Just because you used it as an example here are a few quick resources to help understand filesystem layouts a bit better.

A real quick overview:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

More in depth:

* http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
I'm a contractor in the UK and I get the "references first" request very often. I always say no. As far as I can tell this only happens when the agency doesn't have a real job and is just looking for corporate contacts to add to their rolodex.

My real beef with agencies is that they are yet another lossy filter in the process that goes:

Manager with role <-> HR Department <-> Agency <-> Jobserve <-> Me.

Neither the HR department nor the agency knows that Sybase and SQL Server are profoundly similar databases. The manager doesn't care - he wants a Java dev with some basic DB skills. But the hiring spec says "Sybase" so Sybase it must be.
As the OP points out, FB have already sent a cease-and-desist letter, so the pre-emptory lawsuit is simply a legal wrangle to get the case argued in Texas. the case itself is still going to be argued on the question of whether Lamebook's name and logo infringe on FB's trademarks.

So technically, the two cases are dissimilar in that CanT sued CrapT in the usual order, but the cases are essentially the same.
Great practical advices, thanks! I have most of this developed already or planned in my roadmap.

What do you mean by:

>Reach out to me if you have a viable business and want to sell.
If the niche is too narrow, can you adapt the software to target the broader diet/nutrition market?

I agree with silverlight that "pawn" doesn't have the greatest connotation in the U.S. (your company's "Ltd"; are you in the U.K.?).

If that's a concern, and you're committed to the company name, one option would be to build a product-based site targeting your market with the appropriate keywords/content, while pushing the company name into the background.
This could very much be a personal preference issue, but the scrolling steps on the right hand side just bugs me. I expect new steps to be below their predecessors, so when the slide scrolls up to the next step, it's a bit jarring to me.
I read a few articles yesterday regarding WPF/Silverlight and politics inside Microsoft written by ex-Silverlight Product Manager:

http://www.riagenic.com/

(Check the blog section)

Hopefully that can give you some idea what the future will hold for WPF.
That must be why XMonad has funky artifacting on window borders when a monitor is rotated under the Nvidia drivers. I could never understand that (as it works fine when the monitors aren't rotated 90deg).
22 for women, 25 for men (since we don't really listen to advice until later on, if at all).

awesome advice!
Miami Airport Screener Accused of Attack After Jeers at Genitals
Wrong mentality: you want to be able to able to pick up whatever's current or interesting or required, and do so easily because you have the experience and flexibility to do so. This means you should probably learn C, Java, some functional language, and one of Ruby or Python. Extra points for assembler, as well as Forth, Lisp, Prolog or other 'mind benders'.

That said, you can bet there will still be Java and Cobol jobs in 5 years.

In terms of more "fun" things... Ruby and Python will still be around, so will Javascript. Likewise PHP but I don't consider it much fun.
There's no mention of a DVD release date on any of the pages I can find, anyone know if it's in the works? Having to fly to the UK to watch it is a bit of a non-starter.
Yes. Recruiters are incentivized only to listen to Managers. They are the ones with the money.

Oh I feel dirty... I really don't think incentivize is a word.
Ask HN: Msc. In Internet Systems? Does such a Degree exist?
Does anyone here have a degree as such? I've never really heard of something like this, but recently when looking into applying to the University of Liverpool through Laurate, this was an option ... anybody else done this program?
Video Review of new Skype 5.0 Beta for MacOS X
Top Customer management solutions hosted in the Cloud
I agree and disagree. I'm not a developer, and I know that it's not worth for me at the time trying to become a good developers, that's why I try to hire great developers or partner with them. But at the same time, I wanted (and I did) learn the basics of PHP first and Ruby/RoR later, not because I plan to build things on my own, but because even if you just collaborate with developers (I'm a designer/front-end guy), it's really important to understand the technology and the logic behind it. Sure, to drive a car you don't need to know how the engine works, but if you do, you'll immediately know when something is wrong so that you can take it to shop to get it checked.
It's much better, but doesn't deal with the excess of whitespace in the contact list. That's what bothers me most at the moment -- my (not huge) contact list is 5 screens long.
thx, will take care of it
I saw this headline and deduced a different metaphor:

Your career is not a straight line of promotions (pauper-> land owner-> landlord-> mogul), it is a series of challenges from which you equip yourself with new tools and more experience. As you personally grow, your career grows, and the rest follows from there.
"NVIDIA made the decision to fully support linux a long time ago."

NVIDIA is not legally obligated to support Linux; are they?
I go to pricing and then go to every learn more and it doesn't work. Fix it.
The fountain part of the video didn't make sense to me. I suspect the salt that would be added to the water in the fountain would have a corrosive effect on it.
If you want to get rich, write a book entitled How to Get Rich with only one line in it: "Write a book entitled How to Get Rich"

Wisdom from my dad.
Very clever move. Of these recent lawsuits lamebook seems to be the only one that visually dilutes the trademark, but I'm very glad they pulled out the freedom of speech card. IANAL, but I think this could work.

Obviously, the site points out in thousands of examples how uneducated users can run into the previously mentioned Gay Bar Problem[1], and tucking that problem under a trademark lawsuit would be a superficial, corporate, PR way of solving the issue.

However, the outcome of this lawsuit will probably have little influence on the way the TeachBook issue is resolved. They're in hot water because of the fact that they're also a social network.

It would really suck for them to have to succumb to the $$$ threat like TripTrace (previously PlaceBook) did. Although, differentiation is one of the most important brand strategies, so TripTrace is actually a better name in that respect.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
I find this hard to believe. Maybe if one is still living in the mainframe era and doesn't have a truly personal computer at all. Do you have any real examples of this?
It would be really cool to have it for Javascript+WebGL... hrm, I think I just found a side project for myself :)
Yes. Figure out how you got those two customers and try to repeat the process. Also figure out the right keywords for your business and submit your site to a bunch of directories for SEO. Here is a good list: http://blog.traindom.com/places-where-to-submit-your-startup...
My comment was about the fact that I'd like to commit to it (for production work), but as a player not getting much love from devs, I cannot bring myself to do that... yet.

Fantom would bring _me_ most of jRuby's benefits, but with familiar syntax for non-Ruby devs, with the addition of optional JavaScript runtimes; thus providing one language for front and back ends. I also simply like the "feel" of Fantom.

It kind of melds the best bits of Java, Ruby, Scala, and C#, I guess. And it rejects the bad.

The fact that Stephen Colebourne likes it is a plus, as I trust his judgement in such matters.

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2010_the_next_...

For ref, here's the Why Fantom? page http://fantom.org/doc/docIntro/WhyFantom.html

Without using it in full fury, I can't argue a defensible "must try" validation, but there's more to like in Fantom, for me, than anything else I see at the moment.
I'll accept that addition to the metaphor!
The Mac Pro uses ECC RAM (http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html), the Mac Mini doesn't and can't since it has a Core 2 chip and Intel only supports ECC w/ its Xeon chips.
I can do it for you if you like. Email me (in profile) or give me your email address. I'd also like to discuss some collaboration with my startup if you're interested.

Please put your email address in your profile. You never know who might want to get in touch!
You are welcome. There is plenty going on in the area, you just have to find it.
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I read the linked article and was immediately turned off the by narrowed minded comment under cons. Just because someone disagrees with the authors personal political ideology does not necessarily make them narrow minded. If he was simply talking about racists, bigots, and the like then you can find those in any city as large as Atlanta.

This author based his idea on the post here:

http://stu.mp/2010/11/your-city-sucks-and-so-does-mine.html

I disagree with a lot of what the author said were cons of Boulder. In a pro he says good ski slopes are 3 hours away, but a con is Denver is too far. Huh? Denver is plenty close enough to Boulder to drive to for a concert or to see a professional sporting event if that's your thing.

The cold really isn't that bad here either. Does it get cold in the winter? Yes, but it's not unbearable like Chicago or any other mid-western city. When the sun comes out it really does feel much warmer here. I was in Oregon not long ago and I had forgotten how miserable the wet cold feels even when the thermometer says it's not that cold.

Now I gotta jet because I only live 1:30 away from good snow and it's opening day at Keystone :D
"Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products"
Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps
Flexible Office Assessment: Location - East Midlands Q3 10
Is SE-Over?
Review my .NET-based scripting environment
I have just released version 1.0 of DataVoila, a scripting tool specifically designed for automating data processing chores like extracting information from text files, performing search-and-replace operations on CSV documents, and much more.

DataVoila uses C# as its scripting language, providing access to the richness of the .NET Framework.

The software's website is here:

http://www.datavoila.com/

Please let me know what you think. Any comments, suggestions, or advice are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Like Canadian tire money? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire_money
Interesting, I took the OP's question to mean spoken language rather than programming language. Looks like it could be either.

I'd go for Swedish, as Sweden is a really cool place I'd dearly love to spend more time in (if I could afford it :))
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872306

also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872990

and: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872289
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Hey, let's be fair, Fourth Edition can be a lot of fun. The graphics were better when it was called WoW, but losing Barrens chat makes up for it entirely.
It's going to be difficult to do a MITM attack because iirc, the 360 encrypts the data going over USB so that 3rd-party peripheral makers have to get a license from Microsoft to make a supported peripheral. Of course there always seems to be some sort of chink in the armor like with Wii. But I'm sure Microsoft is probably a lot better at writing operating systems compared to someone like Nintendo.

(To those who are interested in this type of thing: In the Wii's case it was using a pair of tweezers to glitch the memory chip into spewing Wii OS code that revealed that Nintendo was using strncmp to compare SHA1 hashes instead of memcmp which rendered the entire authentication system open to attack because if you can create a hash that has a leading null-byte then it will not be compared. So even though all games and firmware updates were RSA signed, this exploit bypassed everything. )
Would you say that you're the exception in posting them for the public? If so, would it be worth while for someone to try to get at these non-final but still perfectly useful papers?
I agree. If HR won't even accept PDFs that's a very bad sign!
Set-top media player for parents: Roku, AppleTV, Boxee...
Hello HN... I am planning on buying my parents a set-top media player for christmas and can't decide which way to go, and thought the community might be able to give me some good feedback. Requirements are: at least 1 usb port, built in wifi, analog & hdmi output, and netflix support. So far Roku is looking the best at $99, but appleTV and Boxee look damn good too..

I know there are a plethora of articles comparing these products on different gadget blogs, but I'm hoping I can get some insights here that I couldn't find elsewhere!
When faced with such nonsense, hack the system.

Invent a couple "companies." Give them a web site and an important gloss of Serious Business. Have a couple friends or clients act as the contact point for the reference. Even more amusing: hire an offshore outsourcing company to act as the "human resources" department of your reference company. They should be under strict instructions to act very haughty with the recruiter, and tell them that "Mr. X" is far too busy to take their call, and to then sing your praises to the sky. Most recruiting drones will be quite satisfied with this encounter.

Recognize that they are only jumping through the hoops of their own corporate policy. Your hack is to grease this path for them and get that sweet, sweet money you desire.
> I was in Oregon not long ago and I had forgotten how miserable the wet cold feels even when the thermometer says it's not that cold.

Precisely. It's the same here in Padova, where it gets humid and foggy in the winter. It usually doesn't dip too far below freezing, but the humidity chills you to the bone. Where we lived in Innsbruck, Austria was much colder, but it was less humid so it didn't sink in the way the wet cold does.

And as a native of Oregon... yeah, rain and 5 C is about the worst thing out there. You simply can't do stuff outdoors in that kind of weather and stay warm for very long, no matter how much fancy technical gear you pile on: the rain eventually soaks in and you start getting cold. Bleagh....
NVIDIA kind of supports Linux as a family of distro. There is only one driver for ALL the Linux distros out there, which is nice, keeps things simple for them.

If they need to wrap out a second series of drivers just for Ubuntu and Wayland, I'm not sure it's going to be quality material. Anyway, anything would be better than the current NVIDIA drivers, which are crappy as hell in my book. Now is this because X is also crappy, I can't tell.
The one that drives me crazy is when I do something and then close the GMail tab and it tells me that an operation is in progress. By the time I see and read the message, I'm sure the operation is finished, so what option am I supposed to choose?
I'm not sure what you think your problem is. When someone asks you for reference you don't have, whether it's a landlord or a new employer, and you don't have the kind of references he wants, call up your best friends, and tell them that today, they're senior developers at this big company, they've worked with you and they love and respect you.

You're a freelancer. Nobody's gonna do this shit for you.
Thanks! I believe I can. So far i have like 0.5% conversion (and i can improve that rate). I am not looking to grow traffic right now as I want focus on my initial users and improve product a bit (like fix obvious typos on site), experiment with pricing etc...
And all I'm trying to draw a line between, is the way the shops were the target for the IRA as opposed to the civilians, themselves.

It's a lot easier to talk someone into leaving a bomb next to a boiler than to pick up an assault rifle and fire indiscriminately into a crowd of civilians.
I stopped reading at "Do not read."