skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sort of service providers aren't allowed? Are you talking about SaaS providers? Do you mean EMT dispatchers aren't allowed? Maybe Comcast has to keep out?

This ad could do with a little more verbosity.

Incidentally, why isn't the "rockstar" fad dead yet?
What Australian startups are hiring American developers, and taking care of the work visa?
I understand Google has reasons why they might want to NDA their process, but from the perspective of a potential employee, being asked to sign an NDA for the interview is only a liability. Interviews can be unreasonable (and sometimes even abusive) environments, and I want to know about that before walking into that. Barring that, I want to warn people about bad interview experiences.

If people cannot talk about their interview experiences, there's no opportunity for employers to receive censure for bad interview practices.

Besides, an interview is not the SATs. If this really is the logic for the interview process, then Google interviews are even more broken than I thought.
The entire "Leak" isn't exactly that bad. In some ways it almost looks like it was deliberate. Most of the stuff leaked so far isn't that different from what you hear talking to different consular people.

I can't see Hillary Clinton falling on her sword over this.
Telomerase reverses ageing process : Nature News
Wordy, an autocompleting domain hack finder.
My evening project last night - combines /usr/dict/words with all the possible TLDs, with a google-instant-style UI.
That's a great priority, and I applaud it. On the other hand, I'd have extreme apprehension of subscribing to any ISP with a webpage that loaded slowly - it would make me very concerned about their competence.
Just to be clear, they knowingly granted him full access to all of this data (ergo, all of these PSTs). This falls completely under the auspices of "user error", and PST is no more to blame than if they granted administrator access to every user.

This is a boring argument that only takes place because people can throw down the tired, unsupported "damn that Microsoft!" card. Sorry, but the reality is more correctly "Damn the intelligence community and inept safeguards and data controls."
The Product Group & Talking to the Tech-side
I'm having a hard time imagining what could be more scandalous than enriching the super-rich, looting the middle class and leaving the US economy in the shitter for years to come. That's old news.
"We are talking about maybe 2 or 3 years of your life, or maybe 4 at a stretch."

I'm on startup #4 in 8 years. Every entrepreneur that I know is as hopelessly addicted to startups as I am. (Granted, there may be self-selection at work.)

Remember: Groupon going from $0 - $3B in two years is the exception. For every Andrew Mason, there are 10,000 chumps like me who spend 10 or 15 or 20 years at a startup. And the very nature of a startup means that you don't know when the "uniquely stressful" period is going to be over.

So the advice to have kids before or after some special 2-year Goldilocks zone strikes me as very naive. Your average startup is far too messy for that kind of precision life planning.
This also makes great fodder for tech news outlets.
If you want a super simple way to require SSL in Rails 3, you can use route constraints: http://kyleslattery.com/entries/requiring-ssl-using-route-co...
Note, I wasn't criticizing the python implementation. It's a perfectly reasonable way to model the problem.

You brought up list comprehensions, and something about being "blasé about using map". I wanted to show how a different way of modeling the problem yields a different structure to the code (namely, as a chain of transformations on sequences).

One is not better or worse than another. One of the things I enjoyed most about learning clojure was forcing myself to think in these different ways.
agreed, here's a direct link

http://ben.casnocha.com/2010/11/how-to-draw-an-owl.html#comm...
ICANN is dead.
Aparently this isn't the only $999.99 app out there. There's an app called iVIP for the same price that helps millionaires in the UK find exclusive services.

There's also an $899.99 app for remotely monitoring security cameras called iRa pro.
Doesn't it tell something about the interview itself? Canned questions in an interview are at best for filtering really bad candidates, and not that effective there either, precisely because of what you said.
Agreed. They may as well just have me take the Mensa test and send them my verified score along with my cover letter and resume, and add that to their initial resume screening. Save us both some time and me some annoyance.
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I watch 1 hr of Netflix every evening in Seattle with Qwest and it is very reliable.
Best blog name ever.
So interesting that you created a second account just to post this comment!
Nook Color rooted, is it better as an eReader or Android tablet now?
Yeah the real question is if this will deliver enough benefit to justify the costs, it's mostly sold to the public as improving medical services and businesses in rural areas. To look at it from the point of view of Melbourne though, if willing to pay for it we can already get 100mpbs net, something I'm sure will be available to everyone who can get cable currently before the NBN is done.

It's worrying that they are avoiding releasing any type of business plan or cost benefit analysis. Also it was strange that the plan was out for a long time before they mentioned anything about the fact that the network would be able to deliver far more than 100mbps over time to the home. Makes me think many in the government didn't really understand what they are actually rolling out.
I like the concept, good luck fleshing it out and adding content & dealing with the storage, etc.

If you aren't already, you can use the visual metaphor and farm data from here : http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html
Comcast and Level 3 were already free peering before this dispute; now they're paid peering.
Duplicate:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952218
The author of "Crack the Coding Interview" and careercup.com claims[1] this list is very, very fake (for "software engineer" questions). She claims to have served on Google's hiring committees for over 3 years, so I would take her word over this blog's author.

In my own experience Google does not ask these types of questions.

If you do your own research on glassdoor.com and other sites where candidates self-report their interviewing experience, you will find almost no reports of candidates for SE positions being asked these types of "brainteasers".

1: http://www.technologywoman.com/2010/05/17/debunking-the-goog...
"What do you think they'll do ?"

That's a hypothetical.

It should be "what do you think they'd do?"

I'd expect that they would act in a way likely to attract additional investment from others in the industry.
Kinect is Selling 2X as Fast as the iPad
How do I build DSLs with yield and instance_eval?
If you eliminate the ability of a principal to fire teachers, you destroy the principal's ability to apply their professional judgement on educational staffing matters in a uniform manner.

I'm not sure why you put your faith in the professional judgement of the teacher rather than the school principal.
Texas has two of America's six largest cities in addition to all of its agricultural land. North Dakota has a city of less than 100,000. So its hinterland is a little more important.
Hmm, probably. Doesn't sound like a bad idea. Still, if the proxied request takes a long time, you might be locking out other requests from hitting the real app.
It's useful as a user interface experiment. Most blogs require signing up before posting. This lets people post first, maybe get some traffic, then you can gradually suggest new features based on how each user uses it.

I doubt you'll get enough users though.
Recovering data from inaccessible Windows 7 when the Startup Repair tool fails
If by the source you mean another page, then what's the point? Besides, scraping capabilities should be in place for some kind of text-import functionality to work.
Used FY9JLX9PR6H6. Thanks. I take it you've read Makers by Cory Doctorow?
Looks really awesome. I dig the clean interface/presentation.

The app is done well enough where nothing is overtly bad or glaring. That being said, I do have a few light thoughts & suggestions.

- I agree a source textbox for citations would be nice, but it's not too pressing considering you can include it at the end. In a similar vein, an author box would be nice too.

- Any reason why the URLs are 5 letters long? Not to undervalue the popularity of the service, but you could easily start out with 3 letter abbreviations, which would give you ~150k URLs.

- For that matter, what is your character set? Are you using just letters, or alphanumeric characters? Again, I'd prefer the former since you aren't going to get a significant boost from the extra choices. You might also want to take out 'O', 'o', and 'l' so its unambiguous when written out.

- Finally, although I'd be weary of allowing crazy markup systems, it might be good to implement a lightweight format such as Markdown. Nothing too fancy, but it's nice to be able to add emphasis without having to SHOUT.

For fun, my comment on tidypub: http://tidypub.org/moAbu
An NDA would not and could not cover abuse, and I highly doubt it covers your impressions either (e.g. "it was terrible and the interviewers were all rude!"), so I don't really agree with your first point. For your second I can see where you're coming from, although at least in this case I don't see droves of people interviewing and then saying the process was terrible. But there should be (and perhaps is?) an easy way to complain about bad interview practices companies have without running afoul of their NDAs.

For your third point, I don't understand what you're getting at. What logic are you referring to that is broken?
Is there any text lenght limitation?
I fixed the bug that was stealing focus. In case your curious the problem was that the code would always think the word had changed due to trying to select the current anagram with the wrong jquery selector (div instead of span).

As to allowing multiple words for the same anagram. Umm.. that not a bug that is a feature! It uhh.. it helps you to be more.. creative.. year that is what it does. More seriously though, I'm busy right now and don't think it really ruins the experience like the focus bug does, so I'm going to hold off on implementing that till I'm finished with my previously mentioned 'interesting project.

Oh and one more thing, thanks for playing!
I accidentally downvoted, but I have to agree.
Metaprogramming isn't free. Trivial conversion from lang A to lang B, even less so.

I dare you to write a program that compiles arbitrary Java code to awk. They're both Turing-complete, so it's guaranteed to be possible! Cheers!
No, the sky is still falling for the music industry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_in_the_music_industry

"Total revenues for CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads in the U.S. dropped from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $9 billion in 2008."

I imagine iTunes barely converted anyone who used napster, limewire, etc. back in the day. And now with streaming services like Grooveshark that are far easier than iTunes, the industry has another worry..
Couldn't you just use protocol-relative URLs in your CSS files? (Or for that matter, absolute paths.)
A coding comment could say why 250 was chosen, and not 256, or Scala's 22 for max tuple sizes.
How to avoid losing a unused terminal command line
The minimizing is good, but doesn't using a path like //example.com/my-image.jpg instead of http://example.com/my-image.jpg fix the issue with http/https?
Could you tell us something about how it was built?
Please review my HN November app
Their NDA does not state that the interview process itself is "confidential". It only states that as a part of the hiring process Google may disclose certain information to the candidate that it considers "confidential", and that you as the receiver are only to use this information for the purpose that Google disclosed it to you (i.e., your hiring).

It would be quite a stretch to interpret this as meaning that the questions asked as a part of the interview, or Google's process itself, is "confidential".

At the rate Google interviews, it'd be quite an effort to make sure that no candidate shared information about their interview questions, the format, etc.

Also, this type of agreement during the hiring process is pretty standard for medium-to-large size companies.
See Infogami. It's not available anymore, but maybe some use ideas there. http://web.archive.org/web/20061107190837/http://infogami.co...
Pretty cool. Lots of features (including intellisense style completion, TextMate style tabbing through placeholders), sensible menus and shortcuts, integration with GAE and Django and VCS etc. Seemed to go through some slowdown at first but I think it's because I opened a project directory that was, well, my entire DropBox. My only complaint is the interface could be more Mac-like, but for a cross-platform effort it's decent. Impressed (could be a godsend actually, since the education licence is free, and I can't affort TextMate, and hate Eclipse).
I mean controversial on the world stage. And I would be happy with it being debated, pity the opposition is too busy trying to scuttle the government to actually provide a cohesive argument and analysis.
very neat.. nice work!
OTOH, 18-year olds are not renowned for their sound judgement.
My money says it's not from piracy but from falling quality of music sold by the major record labels.

I spend more money on music purchased online now than I ever did on CDs but it's going to independent and foreign artists who produce a much better product.
Where's Waldo? - The Hacker Factor Blog
> it's an anomaly of our voting system (proportional representation in the Senate on a per-state basis) that sometimes leads to bad policy.

The unusual aspect of Australia's voting system causing such bad policy is compulsory voting, rather than proportional representation. The people who wouldn't bother voting in other democracies need to toddle down to the booth in Australia to avoid a fine, resulting in a higher percentage of those unclued in tech matters being voted in. (Also explains why such things don't happen in NZ:)
I thought it was a case of referenda being used to demand things be done but the voters not actually wanting to have to pay for them.
Actually I do remember it (and thanks for making feel old now...) and I still use Coda sharing features that is build on them... but they weren't heavily advertised on TV as Apple's Facetime.
Google Interview: AdWords Associate

• How would you deal with an angry or frustrated advertisers on the phone?

And this would be important to google how? Since when did they have telephones installed for customers?
Service providers in this context are people who are lawyers, accountants, headhunters, consultants, etc. Sorry for the lack of clarity. That said, these folks can come if they are sponsors but other than that - no entry for them. And this year we'll have an EMT on site. Not that I wanted it but the venue requires it - go figure.

Re: rockstar - we're at a venue that normally has shows for real rockstars so I kinda feel like it's justified. :-)
Keep in mind that "agriculture" includes livestock. Also, the climate of the southern US is well suited for cotton. Beyond that, corn is grown pretty much everywhere.
You people do understand that no one should ever ask the manhole question, right?
Because the presentations are fast paced. Each presenter has 3 minutes, 4 slides. It's fast. And it's about changing things compared to "normal" events. To attend it's cheap ($30 to $70) and everyone is pre-screened so we can make sure the right people are in the room (not an army of lawyers, accountants, headhunters, consultants, etc.). It's all about helping entrepreneurs succeed. That shouldn't be different than "normal" events but unfortunately, it is.
Idea giveaway: Browsershots for iOS devices
Was using http://browsershots.org the other day, and then this idea flashed in my mind just then.

Browsershots doesn't do iOS devices and I'm not aware of any other service which does. Does someone want to go create an app which takes screenshots of webpages as seen from iPad, iPhone etc?

Or if a service like this already exists, can someone please point me to it so I file away for reference?

Thanks,
I'd like to buy enough upvotes to make this comment appear forever.

This is a fantastic post. I have found that at moments with friends and family when the happy platitudes are stripped away, whether through drunkenness, circumstance, or just plain frank discussion - this is the sentiment that often shows itself.

Kudos and thank you for this, lkrubner.
First Look at the “Git Tower” GUI
that is an awesome way to look back on past post on HN. I will use. Thanks
The point about the State of California heading towards bankruptcy is not affected by either its tax rate compared to other states or the amount of venture capital dollars it sucks up. The primary driver for the state going bankrupt is its expected income vs. its expected expenses. Venture funding in California has little affect on its tax base as most profitable startups are incorporated in Delaware or have their revenue generators incorporated offshore.

Yes, they'll be good revenues from the employees but no windfall should be expected. (i.e. the state should not expect abnormal returns because of in state venture capital investment)

My point is that when you take look at expected income vs. expected expenditures you can expect to see the state go further and further into debt. It's anyone guess as to whether that will lead to filing for bankruptcy or not, but the direction the state's fiscal health is heading is clear.

Regarding the state's fiscal picture this article largely addresses a straw man. No one is arguing that the state will go bankrupt because it's tax rate is wildly out of whack, or because it is not getting enough venture capital funding.

People are arguing that the state will go bankrupt because the state already has a fair amount of debt relative to GDP, it runs large current accounts deficits relative to GDP, and has large unfunded pension mandates. This article addresses none of these points.
We've been using Localytics for almost a year and a half now and have been super happy with it. They're positioning themselves as high quality mobile analytics and it shows. We personally use them for BlackBerry analytics but would easily go to them for our upcoming Android and iPhone apps. Plus the fact that their mobile libraries are open source is pretty cool too.
People seem to be getting a bit heated on this topic. I was just trying to point out that the number was an estimate, and that it was for a two year period. If we take a low-high range of $23 - 27B, then that is $11.5 - 13.5B/year, which is significantly different than the $25B that is being implied for a one year budget.

Personally, I think all the California vs. Texas debates are a childish extension of blue state vs. red state political bickering. Nobody in the US is better off if either state has financial problems.
Sensational, non-accurate title.

Please stop it, a person merely suggested that he would like to create an alternative to ICANN.
Synchronicity. In the last few weeks I've been thinking about getting rid of most of my books, for two reasons:

1. They make moving much harder. I'm young and I would be interested in working in different places. Owning too much stuff can tie me down to one city.

2. Before long it won't be possible to unload my second-hand books at the book exchange. Kindles are taken up mostly by hardcore readers and they will probably drive a lot of book exchanges out of businesses. I need to act now before other Kindle owners come to the same realisation and flood the market with their paperbacks.
Anything less vague.
What Businesses Need to Know About Chrome OS
There are also a couple of very small providers who provide really cheap fast connections. If you have access to one of them you can get either 30Mbps symmetric for $40/month or 100Mbps symmetric for $60/month. Hopefully more of these will spring up if the bigger players don't change their ways.
Lon Harris new Youtube videocast
Nice to see. enjoy his work on this Week in.
This is something I've been thinking about for awhile now that I'm pursuing my own startup. Coming from a background in HPC, my papers were published using prototypes and proof-of-concepts. On the other hand, a product needs to work at all times. Hence, the idea of an MVP from a systems standpoint is rather fanciful -- if an MVP works for 1TB of data (or worse, 5TB of data), but doesn't work for 10TB or 100TB, then re-normalizing after the fact is a huge issue.

As a question to other startups based on novel systems, did you feel that an MVP was the right way to go? If not, what did you do differently so as to not labor in "almost, but not quite ready" limbo.
Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani | The Japan Times Online
> I mean controversial on the world stage.

Why would it be controversial on the world stage? It largely only affects us, it's too small an amount to place our government bonds under serious pressure and Australia's economy is only 1/50th of the world economy.

While it is very important for Australians to debate the issue, I don't see why anyone else would need to care. To be honest, arguments about port development in the Pilbara region are far more important to the world economy than FTTH.
Create Your Own Recipes: Brilliant UI for a viral cooking website
Good catch. I do listen to a lot of those podcasts, more than I read his name.
I guess it helps people get the fact that they can use multiple links.
I interviewed at Google today and I recall their documents specifically saying that they would appreciate my not disclosing their questions.
Michael S Malone: How Silicon Valley got its name.
I don't know, it seems like a lot of applications are requesting to post to my wall. It freaks me out as well. I wonder how many people decline the Facebook Connect login when they see applications requesting that permission.
Wil Shipley's Q&A with TSA Chairman John Pistole
I agree with the points here. Markdown seems like a great idea. Maybe have a toggle for what the post is in (Markdown / Plain text)?

Also I'd like to see a post date on the page.

Finally is it open source?
I was being sarcastic. I hate all these "x is dead." titles. :)
At least linkify urls. It's trivial; use http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching...

Interestingly I chose 5 letters as well for my url shortener. e.g. http://twitter.com/akkartik/status/7915316453580803
The tone of your comment got you downvoted into oblivion but that was my reaction too. Just seems like whining about image.
It's a transcript, an official record, of a diplomatic communication. The communication itself might have been by email, voice or anything. A cable is its official transcript.

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010112519014...
The growth of collaborative consumption
How much of your startup is subsidized by all the open source software that many engineers work on for free?

Your subsidy argument cuts both ways.
An alternative to a kettle with temperature control is to use a little math to find dilution ratios. It's quick, easy, and works with any kettle to give water of any temperature. See:

http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2005/07/11/math-makes-tea-t...
Ask HN: How does Basecamp accept CCs without billing address?
Example: https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Premium/signup/new?source=basecamphq.com

I thought the customer ALWAYS had to give a billing address on top of their Credit Card to prevent fraud charges.

How does Basecamp charge with no address?
any word from XML people?
A Greener Way to Make Plastic
TC's constant appraisal of Facebook is annoying. They most likely have a deal of some sort.