skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An Easier Way for Startups to find Lawyers, Accountants or Consultants.
A new website, www.ExpertBids.com, recently launched and is an online professional services marketplace. The platform allows individuals and businesses to get free, personalized bids on any of their legal, accounting or consulting work.

The work these professionals do is very important to your startup, so clients should not choose a professional based solely on price. On ExpertBids.com, you can also look at the professional's profile (including license(s), personal websites like linkedin and facebook, and educational information) and also past client ratings to assist you in hiring the right person.

Being that startups often need either (or sometimes all three!) a lawyer, accountant, or consultant, and usually don't have the resources to do this work in-house, this site may be a great resource to find the right professional for your startup.

As with all websites, ExpertBids.com is still a work in progress and there is no guarantee you will find the right professional, but at the very least you should be able to get a few options on your legal, accounting, or consulting work at no cost to you. These options are very important when dealing with such critical and expensive areas of your startup.
Why Jakob Nielsen got his A-Z listings article (mostly) wrong
Is technology the doom of civilization?
> but they basically advertised, "If you become an informant, you risk getting a much much worse sentence."

Uh, you mean if you not only continue your crime, but escalate it to unprecedented levels after agreeing to be an informant? I think that pretty much goes without saying.
Sounds like a good Gov2.0 open data project.

This may be a good start for someone who finds time to build one =)
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/n1036.pdf
Congrats to the Heroku team, I know they labored over this with an incredible passion. They even put thought into the number of dashes/colons in the command line tools.

It was very interesting listening to the team talk about their development and release process, which they "formalized" and put in place for people developing addons for heroku.

I definitely recommend anyone curious about how heroku pulls off their image (and interested to do the same for their startup) look into it.
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It's a stronger bet than it first sounds, although probably not in the way the author intended. Russia doesn't actually have to be the world leader in software development, they just have to be referred to as such by a news organization. Considering the linkbait trends in modern journalism, the following headline wouldn't surprise me, regardless of what the ground truth is: "Russia: The World's New Leader in Software Development?"
No, it wasn't. I looked at the still frame for about 20 seconds and got it myself, before I saw the video.

It just took a little logic about what words could possibly be in certain places, and the rest was filled in by phrases I heard in the past.

Edit: Don't get me wrong! It took guts for her to do that. If she got it just a little wrong, she gave the next person a LOT of hints and it likely wouldn't get back to her.
Yes and no. About a year before I started this job, I founded a digital publishing company with a friend, so I was working this 40 hr/week job AND on my startup whenever I "got done" for the day.

It got to the point where I finally took a step back and realized that I was killing myself. My crappy work schedule mixed with late, late nights on my startup was a recipe for disaster. I also started having some RSI issues, which I'm still dealing with today (not being physically able to work another minute is a pretty strong motivator to stop for the day... <g>).

Just let go - I know it's hard to do if you're working for a startup, particularly if it's your startup. But you need to draw the line somewhere - work a set number of hours a day, or work until a set time and then clock out. Work hard/smart during those hours, and you'll get the satisfaction of knowing you did what you could that day and it's enough.

Co-workers/founders are a terrific source of motivation - especially if they're constantly committing quality code. But don't let that drive turn into something bad, or the guilt will get to you and destroy whatever motivation you had for the project. Programming because you feel you have to is no fun and is not sustainable - you will burn out.
After testing alternate versions of the three successes (to see if those were based on luck), only two remain to be successful; Changing "The 2nd colour in purple, yellow, arm, white and blue is?" to "The 2nd colour in purple, arm, yellow, house, white and blue is?" causes the question to fail.
This redirects to the lifehacker article...

What are you trying to pull?
Is the data dump available at http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics an option that might fit your needs? You might want to check it out unless you already did so.
Every other piece of information that Facebook has on me is allowed to be exposed to my friends' apps without me personally connecting with the app.

The motivation here is crystal clear: e-mail addresses function as (essentially) UIDs on the web as a whole, and someone like Google has billions of these e-mail addresses laying around. But since people started managing parts of their social graphs on Facebook instead of through (say) Gmail, Google's edge graph is starting to get stale. Facebook is terrified of the idea that Google could connect all the Gmail-to-Gmail edges without finding every one of those users.

In order for Google to refresh that graph without e-mail addresses, they'd need every involved user to export their Facebook UID out of Facebook - if I didn't do this myself, then despite the fact that (say) 30 of my Facebook friends are on Gmail, even if every one of them exported from Facebook to Google, Google could never match my Facebook UID to my Google account.

If they were able to match e-mail addresses, they could probably reconstruct a very healthy proportion of the edges (almost every edge that has a Gmail user at both vertices) even if only a small proportion of initial users seeded the graph by exporting their own data; further, when Google got an edge (suppose my friend exported his data, and my Gmail address matched), they could follow up with that edge, knowing that they are also Facebook users, and suggest that they export their data as well, which would lead to blisteringly fast filling out of that tree.

To anyone that doesn't already have a huge userbase, this is not a big deal, but to anyone that does, it's the difference between having effectively zero access to the social graph and being able to reconstruct your users intersection with it with almost perfect resolution.
Your FAQ and testimonials links do nothing. If you do have any testimonials, put one or more somewhere visible. Right now you have no social proof.
It is common courtesy to ask, if you provide a link to their homepage there is an added SEO benefit for them.

When you contact them you should request a proper size logo, be sure to uphold the image quality.

In my experience, companies are generally excited.
Get Tom Scott a slot at TED! He's a legend, and the same guy who ran as a pirate in the Westminster constituency at the last UK election.
Having only _visited_ there, I can concur.

If you do decide to date a Thai woman, be very careful, the culture of dating there is extremely different then the West. I would highly recommend research into how the culture works before you get into something you might end up regretting, it's certainly not for everyone. You will find it very difficult to find the difference between sincerity and gold digging. Also, be very careful of working girls.

Oh, and stay in the north for cheaper living, Chang Mai is awesome! Don't pay more then 70Baht for a Big Chang!
Good point. That gives a good indicator as to how the algorithm works. Not necessarily based on colors, but rather words in a list...? Maybe the construction of Text CAPTCHA sentences needs to be chosen carefully when thinking like an algorithm....
Neither. Facebook has consistently pushed the privacy (or lack thereof) envelope since they launched the newsfeed, and they have consistently profited from it. The regular press backlash hasn't done shit to their bottom line, so until the misstep that actually causes the general public to care (which could come shockingly fast), they are simply a brilliant company.
The point is that, individually, there are precedents for each part of the story, not that they have all been tied together before. One of the graphics near the end illustrates this.
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Please don't use URL shorteners on HN. The site handles full URLs just fine.
Apparently not, from what i've heard big VCs only hire experienced people, most firms prefer hiring ex investment bankers. There's really not many Entry level jobs in the VC industry (Source: wall street oasis forum)
Question for you -- is it a breach of etiquette to respond to something several days old? If so, I apologize, but I was away for a bit and I found your response interesting.

The reason I responded to your initial post is that it seemed to suggest you support Dawkins' ideas but not his methods. I was pointing out that his methods actually follow logically from his ideas. In your follow-up post, I realize that you weren't making an idea/method distinction -- you actually just disagree with him. So it turns out that this is really just a bog-standard debate about theism.

I was all fired up to post a response, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that a refutation would really just resemble a series of excerpts from Dawkins' book. In other words, I think he's already addressed your position quite convincingly. If you read it and didn't feel the same, I'm unlikely to do better.

But one last point. You've misattributed the "boil down" of the book. Dawkins is doing something like this:

1. Here's why it's illogical to be a fence-sitting agnostic
2. Here's why it's illogical to posit God as an explanatory philosophy of the universe
3. Here are some specific problems with common theist arguments
4. Okay, now that we've got all that out of the way, here are some interesting theories on how things got to be the way they are

In other words, the part of his book that you single out is the part that he attaches heavy disclaimers to. The fact that you chose to focus on it suggests to me that your belief that "it's impossible to know for sure one way or the other," is even more of a gut-feeling assertion that you're accusing him of.

My personal context: I'm also an agnostic, but I am what Dawkins would describe as a Temporary Agnostic in Practice, whereas you seem to be what he would describe as a Permanent Agnostic in Principle. I disagree with Dawkins on many things, but I found his arguments against fence-sitting agnosticism to be persuasive.
Also from the parent's comment.

"... Programming commentary. Protagonist proudly advocates against something he feels he's moved far beyond in favour of a solution which is exactly that thing in more obtuse terms."

Um, that is almost all a humorous instance of dramatic irony is.
You mean identical source code or identical assembly code?

I would expect that compiler strip away typdef'ing so unless Foo and Bar are really different, only one copy of the code should exist.

Yes, you can probably defeat this heuristic by doing a couple of pathalogical things, but I expect it work unless you're actively trying to defeat the system.
I second this. Reading the name for the first time, not knowing the concept, evoked thoughts of dropping one's job or similar.

I know how hard this is, but if still possible, I'd brainstorms for another name.
To me it sounds like you are looking to hire an employee who you plan to give some shares to.

Honestly I wouldn't bring on a co-founder unless the risk was equal. His payment for now should be the Shares that he will get for being the Co-Founder until the business starts bringing in Cash.
Amazon.com lets you self publish. You should look into getting it into the Kindle store. I'd love to get it streamed into my iPad and read it on the Kindle application.
Not much beats urxvt, but even gnome-terminal beats ansi-term.

urxvt:
real	0m0.314s
user	0m0.080s
sys	0m0.040s

gnome-terminal:
real	0m1.228s
user	0m0.090s
sys	0m0.040s

ansi-term:
real 0m6.493s
user 0m0.150s
sys 0m0.030s

Also, ls --color=auto really messes up ansi-term. It glitches all over the place and I think treats some color codes as carriage returns or other motion commands for some reason.
Its a flash mob, not a protest. The police would likely ask the mob to forest the area, as
OK, sorry, a generation out of date :-) Still, a 5mp lens/CCD/flash package, even allowing for miniaturisation, isn't more than a few tens of pounds at absolute maximum. There's still a hefty markup IMHO.
Why I don't cook at home [Comic]
Where a computer fails is when judgment is required. For example, you have an in-air emergency, and are going to have to crash land. What do you pick to crash land on to?

Consider Captain Sully's recent decisions in just such an emergency.
SkyFire Pulls In Nearly $1 Million In Its First Weekend On The App Store
not perfect but filter for /alumni/
Ken Jennings (the Jeopardy genius) has a blog post about this as well [1]. It seems to me once you start down the decision tree starting with "I'VE GOT" at the start, your average native English speaker should be able to get the right answer quite easily.

[1] http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=2250
That looks like a really good one. Do you know what's the license?
After lurking for 80 days, this is what you choose for your first comment?
SOX is the reason why pretty much everyone avoids going public in the US anymore. Many international companies that would have previously floated in NY now do so in London (which has now overtaken NY as the largest foreign equity market). The cost (typically in the couple of millions for a small company) is simply too high.
I think the problem statement means that each prisoner must find his name independently of one another. e.g. Prisoner 1 opens 50 boxes, finds his name, then the boxes are closed and Prisoner 2 must do the same without any help.
> " In a normal market, the renter should have more free cash flow over the first few years, and the buyer should have more free cash flow starting about 5-10 years in."

Agreed, except that AFAIK there hasn't been such a market in the US for years, if not decades, in any major city. Heck, I come from Canada where I know some people also buying their first home - housing up there in any major city is also as bubblicious as it is here, to varying degrees.

In just about any major city I've looked at, renting is massively cheaper than buying, which after the housing crash is very puzzling.
I think your confusing a copy shop with an actual printing shop with actual presses and people who understand colour separation and bleed. I'm talking about professional printing shops, not Kinkos.
I suppose this would be an argument in favor of the print industry not being dead.
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In the same kind of approach, you have 1% for the Planet. When you are part of the organization, like my company, you pay 1% of your turnover to one or more accredited environmental organizations each year. 1% for the Planet is not a middle man, they just control that you paid and allow you to use its label in your communication.

http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org
I don't know much about hiring, but my impression is that your tagline(s) also don't tell me much. "Dropjobs lets you hire better, faster, and easier." - that is the generic claim every software company has been making since the beginning of time.

Also I don't care that you are hosted in the cloud. Whatever - just provide a stable service, how you manage that is not my concern.

"Accept Word Doc, PDF, JPG, PNG, HTML, or XML Format Resumes"

Can't I do that with eMail already?
Two visible things to come out of logic programming are Erlang and constraint programming. Both are very significant, in their own niches.

I don't think Prolog is dead yet, either.
> The burden of proof should be on the mutable end, not of the applicative one.

On the contrary: the burden of proof is on the uncommon software development methodology, on the uncommon data structure, on the uncommon programming languages. Billions of lines of effective code have been written in imperative languages using mutable data structures. Such programs are what make entire industries possible today. Your love of abstract applicative elegance does not make up for the fact that in the world we live, imperative languages with mutable data structures rule. The burden of proof is not on the status quo, but on the challengers to the status quo.

As of yet, applicative programming has not borne that burden.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

In a previous job (security system tech), we could donate an install to charity - it would still show up in our numbers (for pay grades and bonuses and whatnot), but the money we would have made for that particular install would be donated. "Volunteering" had a fantastic effect in pulling the whole company together, and a lot of the time the money went toward somebody in the local community.

I would love to work for a company with a similar culture, where I could donate some number of hours per week/month to working on FOSS.
What? 7'' "APad" tablets are being sold even in Uruguay, at far less than U$ 350 (U$ 199), so they're probably closer to U$ 80 or so in another country:

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-20365527-tablet-pc-7...

Edit: here's an English post:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/the_apad_is_ano...

which says that it has a resistive touchscreen variety (instead of the capacitive multitouch like in the iPad) and thus much worse.
Yes, I shall clarify a few points in another comment.
It's not. In fact, it probably it might be the next big thing, again, if done right. To see another example other than HM, check out 8faces (http://8faces.com). They sold out their first issue within hours, and currently in the progress of selling out 2,500 copies of their second issue.
Right; there are practical usability problems with allowing willy-nilly access to your contact list. Some of your contacts have now given your email address to a company with which you never wanted to have a relationship.

This is a red herring. Facebook lets me choose whether my friends can give away literally anything else that's part of my Facebook presence to third party apps. In fact, there's a strong recommendation that I allow as much access to apps as possible, in the name of a "more social" experience. They let apps that I've never used spam me daily, I don't really get the sense that they care whether they force me into relationships with companies I have no interest in, as long as it happens within Facebook.

Why should I not get to decide whether to expose my e-mail address? If I want to, I'm allowed to set my e-mail address to "Everyone" visibility in my profile, literally the only thing I'm not allowed to do is expose it via the API.

That's a very deliberate choice, and maybe I'm a cynic, but it strikes me as mighty telling that the lack of API access to the e-mail part of the social graph is just about the only barrier in the way of Google being able to reconstitute the entire Gmail intersection of Facebook's social graph (Facebook UIDs don't suffice, because Google can't match these to e-mail addresses without the users explicitly doing so for them).
This is like saying you can be fluent in Japanese by learning the grammar and saying nothing about the vocabulary. Fluency with the libraries python offers is far more important than whether you express yourself imperatively or functionally.

That said, I'm off to the library to borrow a copy of Real World Haskell.
Gonzalez's actions as an informant still reduced the total amount of credit card fraud. If he hadn't informed, his associates would have committed more crime and the Secret Service probably wouldn't have caught as many of them as quickly as they did.

Assuming the Secret Service's goal is to reduce fraud, they should prefer informants who commit crimes to no informants at all.
The way I look at it, software 'engineering' is an apt term. When you look at, say, a suspension bridge, you can tell how it works in principle. But you also want to be confident of the standards to which it's engineered: that the bolts wont slip out, that the surfaces have been coated properly, that the stress factors have been calculated, that the blueprints are up to date, that the right metals were used, the right joints, etc. etc.. All the details which you don't care to understand but know that professionals have taken care of them. That's how I think of software engineering - applying all the tools of the trade, like unit testing, Big-O analysis, compatibility handling - ideas that are not central to any one implementation but common to all projects. Stuff you don't write about in the tour guide, but is pretty darn important all the same. Some of it industry standard practice, some of it unsung heroics.

(note: not that I think normal construction is comparable to software development. In a nutshell any computer system has an orders of magnitude more 'moving parts' (even if they only exist in the abstract) than any normal object or machine. Most programs are built on layer upon layer of supporting frameworks right down to the hardware. When you're at the top, things are inherently unstable)
Investing based purely on fundamentals works for value stocks held for very long periods of time. I would not consider GOOG a value stock, nor a good long term investment -- which was the point I was trying to make. On both the short, and long term Google stock isn't looking great, which makes options at today's prices unlikely to be worth much, if anything.
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Some clarification:

Each prisoner finds the room in the same state as each other. After opening the boxes they are subsequently closed again before the next prisoner. I believe this was intended to be inferred from:

... they will not know anything about the
previous prisoners' experiences ahead of time.

Hint - the probability of success is greater than 10%.

There is a modification of the "obvious" solution that even works if the warden knows the prisoners' strategy beforehand and behaves in a maximally pessimal (from the prisoners' point of view) manner.
I believe the statement as made is correct, although not necessarily as clear as it could be.

For example, your suggested "strategy" is wrong - the first prisoner as you've stated only has a 50% chance.

Further, after each prisoner the boxes are closed so that each prisoner finds the room is exactly the same state, with no communication between them.
Related:

Sabrina Rubin Erdely, "Hackers Gone Wild: The fast times & hard fall of the green hat gang," Rolling Stone, June 10, 2010, p. 64. http://sabrinaerdely.com/docs/HackersGoneWild.pdf
This is a very interesting application of WolframAlpha but it appears to be purely luck when "success" was the result. Using things such as "2nd item in a..." or "7th digit in..." work in a lot of cases but lets talk about a few.

"2nd fruit in bear apple goat orange" would result in apple because it is looking for second in a list and neglects context of fruit.

"7th digit in abc123def456ghi789 " would result in d when it should be 7. Again not understanding context and merely looking at logical construction.
I think the most telling part of that blog post is:

"Caitlin spins and guesses an ‘L’. Note that she has not yet solved the puzzle at this point…if she was sure, she would have guessed ‘T’, a safe guess worth three times the money. Why guess a second-tier letter like ‘L’? She’s probably assuming the first word (_ ‘ _ _), with its apostrophe, is “I’LL,” but can’t figure out what comes next. “I’ll put?” “I’ll say?”"