skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's start with the critique, then move on to the compliments.

I'm not sure that the icons in your introductory statement help your cause. They look cool and professional, but make reading the statement a little disjointed. Sometimes you're using the icons like a noun ("Thumbs Up" is smart, and gets things done), while other times they seem to be just images off to the side. I would put one (1) icon per sentence, at the end of the sentence so as not to make the paragraph seem disjointed.

You should read your resume aloud so that you catch any typoes. For example, you say 'having wore multiple hats,' but that should really be having worn multiple hats.

You say 'he' a lot, while speaking about yourself in third person. If this is supposed to be an 'objective' statement, it's okay to actually make it about you.

I like the nice layout of skills and interests, but some of them seem totally pointless. Freenode does not need to be on your resume. Unless you're working on or with them, neither do the plethora of blogs and people you have listed (Joel on Software, Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Steve Jobs?!). Honestly, all of those things that aren't a skill you have or a tool you use shouldn't be there. A hiring manager does not care that you like xkcd or read How to Win Friends & Influence People.

The 'Experience' section, however, looks great! I love the little skill buttons that you put under each position: great call! It might not hurt to have a small blurb about what exactly you did there, but with the buttons I'm not even sure that that is necessary.

The tl;dr here is that you have way too many gimmicks and unnecessary information on the first page (although it does look pretty, you UX Engineer, you), but the second page is almost perfect.

Good luck in your job search!
Cappuccino Apps and the Web Store
After only a few hours eight Cappuccino apps have shown up on the Google web store!
Study: Android users are most aggressive when it comes to data consumption
High level languages require less boiler plate, news at 11.

You could probably replace it with 10k lines or Python or Ruby too, but it would run like shit compared to the C/C++ version, but because this is HN and they are using lisp, this is news.
Wow. Can't wait to see what you have to say about 2011. I hope they're all positive predictions, because everyone knows what is coming in 2012. :)
Git deployment workflow using tags
No no, "Nej" means no. :)
Not a bad idea if you can make the numbers work.

One variation would be to charge $15 per iteration. The first one might take you 2 hours, but each additional iteration might only take 15 minutes, in which case it becomes more economical.
> doing evil something behind the back of the electorate? How would we know about it?

I think the existence of an 'administration' and an 'electorate' pretty much guarantees that they are doing something evil behind your back.
UX TIP:

To scroll I have to go to the bottom of the page and click on the little arrow. Go to the other side if I want to go back.

The mouse solved that problem last millenia with the scroll wheel. Anywhere on the page, if I decide to scroll, it will scroll, right there, without moving the pointer or my eyes. Simple huh?.

If I want to scroll, just let me scroll. Don't impose restrictions on me.
Then let's talk about the specific case of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The negotiation was secure and done in secrecy. That secret wasn't made public until many years later.

The communications was secure. The information is no longer a secret. Is it still private?

If secure == private then do you consider legal document declassification the same as a security hole? A breaking of privacy?
Intermediate level front-end web developers are costly due to high demand and the work is arguably more difficult. I agree the $150 might be great for someone offshore though.

In any case I like the idea behind the $15 blind design since designers tend to suffer from "I like it but..." with indefinite tweaks and last minute changes. I wouldn't be surprised if customers end up going through several iterations...which would still be inexpensive in this case.
Apps accounts don't play well with a lot of google services. It's quite complicated to grant Google Analytics access to an Apps account.
I'd rather do something I enjoy for slightly less money than get an office job or flip burgers.
Will Stumble Upon Redefine Internet Advertising?
Are you trying to get FU money to quit everything, or FU money to reorganize and attempt something?

I've always called that a freedom number, $7m in the bank, live off the interest. Enough income that I would not be required to do anything to ensure a somewhat healthy survival. No having to worry about deadlines for projects, hustling to get a new contract from a client signed, etc. That doesn't mean I stop working on tech, it means that I start working on tech that I want to work on.

I'm sort of lucky in that my current job does include a lot of things I enjoy working on, but, does contain some drudgery that I don't enjoy. Is it worth 20x7? Maybe.

Or, are you looking for FU money to go out and start your own thing? In that case, 3x annual subsistance for you and a few partners, then budget 18 months to have a marketable product/service. You leave the current situation and take control of your own destiny.

There are ways to generate passive income if you have excess income from your current situation. You just need to define what type of FU money you're looking for.
Let's get this straight, Marc Benioff doesn't give a damn about startups. His clients are the Fortune 500. When he thinks about the current clients of Heroku, he gags (and sees how much money can be made by selling to CTO and CIOs at companies like Boeing, Dell, Starbucks, etc.).
Oracle has been quite clear that Java will continue as it always has for normal, non-paying customers

Not on mobile that have not, in fact they have stated quite the opposite. With mobile projected to surpass desktops in 18 months that is cause for concern. Make no mistake about it, the wranglings with Apache and the patent suit with Google are intricately related. This is all about ownership of mobile.
Yes, but who said they’d actually BUY it?
Congrats, guys! We'll see what comes from this.
Google Wants to Take Your Caps Lock Away
I bounced out immediately due to lack of Latest Design samples. I get the concept, like it, but gotta have examples.
Follow-up: Why there is no talent
Everyone's a Hacker
Here's the rest of top 22, from

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872237

objective-C, C#, emacs lisp

actionScript, haskell, lua

scala, clojure, ASP

erlang, common Lisp, groovy
How is it being a bully to deny service to a customer who may or may not be committing a crime? There is no inalienable right to have a credit card merchant account.
Not everything is binary. Other people have different motivations than you. Not everyone does an Ironman for bragging rights. Not everyone starts a company for bragging rights.
Uhm, how about you team up with one of the many PSD-to-HTML services and do it soup-to-nuts, or at least get referral compensation from said services?
The tension in the middle east dates back to when ug the cavemen decided the sun was god and zog the caveman decided the moon was god.

Take any news report about the middle east and replace the names with cananites, babylonians, persions, egyptians, romans, etc - the story doesn't change.

In fact if you read any books by Josephus - it sounds just like CNN (except better written)
Can we quantify "a bit"? How much further?
Works for me in 7.0.521.0 (r58939) - running OSX 10.6
The Kindle can already read DRM-free Mobipocket and PDF ebooks.
I don't know that it's so much about disdain for Salesforce -- I'm just a bit concerned about what a large company like that can and will do to Heroku.
Ah- of course I did see that- but I misinterpreted the rest as a "I agree, but you could consider it a requirement because...". Rereading it I realize that's not the case. Cheers!
They do. They are also paid extrememly well for that area.
So any acquisition of Heroku would've been "bad news"?
The Silicon Valley 100 -- the 100 people who did the coolest things this year
An Essay on How to Organise Hypertexts
TI Reveals OMAP4440
That's great, thanks for sharing.
How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition
If a foreign government had done this rather than a private US corporation it would be heralded as the start of that country's manned space program and receive far more coverage in the media.

As it stands this is probably much more significant than if a government had done it, it heralds a new era of private manned spaceflight. An era that may see space travel opened up not just to a handful of carefully selected astronauts but to the entire public at large.
Sphinx does not store data, so you have to get it from your database to display results, it doesn't have query auto-suggest, etc.

But most importantly, you don't have to deal with installing, configuring, managing and scaling a sphinx setup. IndexTank is cloud-based, you don't have to deal with servers, RT indexes, hadoop, and so on. We worry about all that.
It doesn't seem that odd to me.

I can see carrying around multiple phones to test the features and usability against each other.

I can see testing the GPS in multiple phones against one or more dedicated GPS units.
Also see his followup comments:

> I know, by the way, that this article says to abandon date based
> hierarchies. But that was based on the idea of having only a slim
> selection of the very best things online, whereas I think now that
> breadth is important. And in a breadthy system, you pretty much have
> to use W3C date style organisation.
>
> Perhaps I should write an update to the Organisation article. One of
> the main things worth saying more about is that much of this comes
> down to an attitude of looking at your old articles.
>
> When you look back at old articles, it's easy to see what dates and
> what doesn't. Then you have to start trying to use that mindset when
> you write new articles, though you shouldn't let that put you off of
> experimentation and the like.

(via <http://groups.google.com/group/whits/browse_thread/thread/14...)
i don't really want to give it an upvote because its unrelated and it has an affiliate tag. sets a precedent. i might be ok with one or the other, but not both.
You're pointing fingers in the wrong direction. You can hate PayPal all you want, but the government is taking every action imaginable to deny a press outlet it's constitutional right to free speech. Going so far as to intervene with the transactions of a third-party private business to cut off it's funding.

1984 should have been titled 2010.
I've been using OSX and Win 7 for the last several months but I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the experience in Ubuntu 10.10 has been.

On my laptop that runs it, I did not have to once manually configure anything. No command-line magic, no struggling to get random things working, zip. It all just worked.

The experience has been very fluid, with notifications floating down along the right side, update notifications from Synaptic, etc. I am not a Linux fanboy by any stretch, but for once it isn't completely off the mark to say that Linux is catching up in the consumer space.

I tested this notion out recently when a (non-tech) friend wanted to use my laptop for something and did not even realize that he was using Linux.
A comprehensive list of currently online WikiLeaks mirorrs
My sister works for a small company and dealt with the BBB. This article is on par with their experience. Because they were a small company, they decided not to get involved with the BBB. Only then did they realize that if you do not you start out with a bad mark if someone looks up your company. I believe she said a "C-" was given to them by not being a member of the BBB. The only way to resolve this was to become a member. Talk about racketeering.
Better attack: reduce the credit card usage, and try to pay more with cash. As both MasterCard and Visa (the ones against Wikileaks) take the gross of its revenue from retail and pay by credit, that could really hurt them... but without doing anything illegal. It's just business: you fuck Wikileaks, I reduce your profit, dear [put your favourite megacorp name here].

Boycott list:

* Amazon (Amazon stops hosting WikiLeaks website [Reuters, 20101202])
* Tableau Software (Another Falls: Tableau Software Drops Wikileaks Data Visualizations [20101202])
* Everydns.net (WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name [guardian.co.uk, 20101203])
* Paypal (WikiLeaks loses PayPal revenue service [cnn.com, 20101205])
* PostFinance (Swiss bank freezes WikiLeaks founder's legal defense fund [rawstory.com, 20101206])
* MasterCard (MasterCard pulls plug on WikiLeaks payments [cnet.com, 20101206]
* Visa (WikiLeaks loses PayPal revenue service [ibnlive.in.com, 20101207])
* Twitter??? (it was or it wasn't censorship?)
How can you tell if a person is a programmer? - Stack Overflow
I know you're not taking any more design requests at the moment - but could you put a reminder form on your site that emails when you are? By Monday I'll have forgotton all about you.
>At the end, improving the quality of comments doesn't depend on the caps lock key.

It was a joke.
On Those 'Stunning' Shangai Test Scores
iTunes sells AAC music files: music that you can listen to on any device that supports AAC, which is a part of the MPEG-4 standard (just like MP3 is a part of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards). This AAC music used to be sold with Apple DRM on it, but no longer does. And of course there is a technical advantage; AAC sounds better at low bit rates than MP3 does.
That's a CDC 6600 arm you're looking at, not a rack. They were limited by wire length (longer wires increased latency).
I don't believe in the possibility of an educated electorate or an electorate that can resist the temptation to vote itself money.
If you have an application built with Cappuccino on the Web Store it would be great if you added a line to the description to allow us to find all the Cappuccino apps, something like "Built with cappuccino.org" would be perfect.
Ask HN: Who's using Facebook login on their site? (Is it necessary now?)
Hi HN,

I'm thinking of adding Facebook logins to my site; however, they apparently require me to link it up to my personal FB account (or at least, want my credit card/mobile number).

Has anyone added FB logins to their site and tracked how many people use it? I'm trying to decide if this is something I need to do.
First Private Spacecraft in Orbit After Perfect Launch
Silicon Valley 100
This article in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981789
> Anon can hurt MasterCard without cost to himself (presumably)

Presumably getting caught and jailed/fined is a potential cost? So it's not an action without risk/cost.
Microsoft Introduce new anti-tracking feature in IE9
Nexus One gettin' GingerBread in few weeks
Define "run like shit". Would 1.5x - 3x the C++ speed be acceptable if your code was 70% more compact and proven secure, not to mention a joy to write?

Not everyone trades efficiency for reliability and comfort. Some people really get to have their cake and eat it too.
I absolutely agree with you, I can imagine the time I'd spend digging around on my own little VPS after a break-in... I really meant "How insane are the rules for sentencing based on arbitrary $$$ values."
F#, Haskell, Clojure

Chinese, Sanskrit, Spanish
You don't need to scale up to solve a problem of slow active connections. You just need to use a frontend web server that doesn't allocate a thread/process per connection.
I had this issue for weeks. I finally jokingly tried logging out and everything worked for me. Could try that...
Interesting, but specific to San Francisco.
Winners and Losers: Thoughts on the Heroku Aquisition
Another thing, the people who think that bringing down Mastercard is going to help Wikileaks in any way need a serious reality check.

Why would anyone do business with someone if there was even a tiny chance that they would get screwed over the next day to the tune of MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars. The fact that mastercard.com is down and their SecureCode service is offline has already cost thousands of small businesses millions of dollars. Do you think these companies are going to support something like Wikileaks after this event?
They closed it back in April, it's just another junky riff on "you might be a redneck..."
Ask HN: What gift to teach a 7 year-old programming?
When I was a kid I learned programming (in BASIC) by copying programs out of Creative Computing, or their books with collections of programs, and running them on whatever computer I could get my hands on.

My nephew is 7, and sharp as a tack, and I'd like to get him something for Christmas that he could use to at least find out if programming is something he'd be into. I don't think he's too young to get it, but I'm not sure what toys/gifts might be appropriate. He lives too far away, unfortunately, for one-on-one lessons or anything like that. Any suggestions from the HN community on good "gateway" toys or gifts to look into?
WorldWideWeb, the browser running on NeXTSTEP, was written in Objective C as most of GUI stuff on this platform.
Jobs available at European startups
Ah yes, but I think all other dictators be it China, Singapore, Iran or North Korea have learned from the Romanian/Yougoslavian/East German, etc. experience.

A successful mob revolution requires a huge mob that can spill over government opposition. Such a huge mob can be prevented in 2 main ways - $ and Fear:

1. The Chinese and Singaporean approach: The fascist state with a booming economy. Fear of punishment and desire to make money keeps the mob small.

2. The North Korean approach: Have such a huge military that the rest of the country can not overrun it ever. The downside is no state can support that kind of military and you get starvation.

Iran etc. are a mix of 1 & 2 with less prosperity then Singapore but more sate violence and spying then China.

I have absolutely no faith that a violent revolution can happen anywhere in today's Europe. We're too old and too rich.
Engineering grads taking the easy way out?
As I scour the landscape, I see some incredibly smart people who have toiled their way through competitive exams, secured admissions into some of the world’s prestigious universities and engineering programs, some even have enrolled into post-doc programs. I respect the commitment, dedication and their brilliance. I wish I did the same. I feel these people have traveled the farthest distance towards the horizons of knowledge in their areas of study.

Now, here is the unfortunate trend: these folks - after all that sweat and tears end up blogging or working in some stupid thought-leadership positions in some make-believe company creating the next web 2.0 application? Why? Why do folks who have toiled their way through Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science end up in some stupid shop “managing” web application developers? I don’t get it.

Why can’t these talented folks with so much knowledge work on harder problems? Why settle for stupid web 2.0 applications? They have the best opportunity to contribute and create a much larger impact as opposed to the creating the next forgettable web 2.0 application that sells movie tickets or detergent. It is not even an interesting algorithm, it is a web application!

One reason I can think of is that they have no genuine interest in their area of study and they probably continued with their Ph.D. just to get it out of the way and accumulate tenure in some university. Another reason could be that they want to cash-out on their credentials and join the web application herd.
I just tried it in Firefox, and it works fine. AFAICT, it's identical to what you see in Chrome... except it has -moz- prefixes everywhere in the CSS. :-p
Are you looking for an undergraduate program or grad program? I know more about the undergrad program (Integrated Design), but they also offer a Masters in European Design and a Masters in Integrated Design. The following info is for undergrad, Integrated Design. (Just to be clear, I don't actually attend this school (yet) and haven't visited.)

1. To enter: a 6-month internship in a design-related field. I believe that they also consider relevant work experience.

2. The program is a bit different than most schools; instead of classes, you work on projects. Any student can take any project (with some limitations) and students of all years work together.

Subjects: essentially, there are around 15 departments: audiovisual media, manufacturing, service design, typography, interface design, etc.

To graduate, one must take at least 1 project in 10 of the departments, and fulfill the certain amount of project points. There’s also some other “classes”, like seminars and workshops. Hence the name “integrated design” – you can, for the most part, “design” your study curriculum out of the offered projects.

3. Most classes are taught in English if requested, but I believe you have to still take a basic German test.

There’s a ton of information that I am leaving out, so I recommend you just browse the site for a while. Check out these pages, in particular:

Studies - http://kisd.de/studies.html?&lang=en

Study programs (notice the PDFs for each program) - http://kisd.de/studyprograms.html?&lang=en
Departments/Subjects -http://kisd.de/subjects.html?&lang=en
Applying - http://kisd.de/application.html?&lang=en
Applying FAQ - http://kisd.de/application_faq.html?&lang=en
International Students - http://kisd.de/1908.html?&lang=en

(all from the nav bar)

edit: sorry for the horrible formatting. And feel free to ask any other questions.
That's the same void argument some people make when some non-artist is critising their art: "Well, you make it better then!"

Criticism does not need to be made by someone participating (I can't think of a better word, hm) to be valid.
"Life, liberty, and a credit card merchant account" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Must they also offer service to companies with bad credit or a history of fraud?
Yelp: Naive Bayes Classifier Outperforms Mechanical Turk [pdf]
How to track #anchors in Google Analytics
Nope, that's exactly what I mean here. Now, we're talking about my own personal set of ethics here, but it's pretty straightforward:

* Your role is an employee is to help accomplish a corporation's objectives.

* (In this case) the corporation's objectives are unethical.

* You're contributing to something unethical.

That being said, nobody is perfectly ethical. But if I worked for Amazon or PayPal, I'd have quit by now, and I'd never have taken a job with MasterCard in the first place.

I also don't mean "held responsible" in a legal sense, either. They've done nothing wrong legally. Legality != morality, though.
Why did any of them take YC money? Seems silly.
It depends on the context; if you offered me 1 penny or 2 pennies, I really wouldn't care. (even though it's a 100% difference)
Cool! I'll setup a page for the service now.

Edit: http://staydecent.ca/markup
This, and also competent VC's (and Heroku's VCs are top-notch) don't want much more than a third of the company in a single round, as it makes it far too difficult for the company to raise capital that it may need in later rounds.
Bing is actually taking the time to map the insides of malls
Are mall maps going to make you jump from Google to Bing?
Chinese Hairstyles
Chinese Hairstyles for Girls. Hairstyles for Chinese girls should suit their generally delicate features and straight hair.
C, Standard ML, and Unix shell.

Lojban, Swedish, and Japanese.
Congrats. This is huge.

I hope Heroku's Node.JS beta does not suffer from this.
> "Are you still waiting for someone to put some food in your mouth too?"

This is not the level of discourse I've come to expect from HN. Please, lay off the ad hominem snarkiness.
Lego Mindstorm.
Indeed - it's starting a movement, and supporting the organization becomes part of your identity.
Sounds great. I would like to hear more. jasper dot internet at gmail, if you would like to email.