skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gut feeling is the only real way of separating things out.

Asking huge numbers of questions can be a sign of a customer support nightmare or a person/company/entity doing their homework. Following up can be a sign of high expectations or them being keen to make a decision asap.
Asking for a discount is sometimes a buying signal. Conversely, whilst rudeness isn't a good thing, some of the customers that will be a really bad fit are the ones who are really making the effort to be polite and charming.

The one almost universal red flag would be constant inappropriate reference to price. Asking for discounts is to be expected. Asking if there are cheaper, slimmed-down alternatives, or freebies for volume purchases is reasonable. Constantly referencing the price whilst raising unrelated issues or requests is a sign that something's amiss.
Whenever you hear something like "I'm surprised to hear you haven't added xyz considering you're charging £xxx" or "so before I starting paying £xxx, would you...?"
it's a pretty good sign that they're either rationalisig a decision to not spend the money with you or have an inflated sense of how far up your priority queue their spending pushes you. Then again, you can suspend that rule for businesses that are likely to pay enough to push themselves up your priority queue too..
EDIT deleted stuff which was in the linked article. Leaving ..

Of course the real product might be iPhone app marketing services.
do you mind linking to the QR code?
Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
Looks like they got as far as ripping the Mac keyboard/mousepad and went down bland-ville after that.
I'm a big fan of http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ (The Elements of Computing Systems) It takes you from logic gates all the way up, showing just enough at each level to give you a real view into what's going on there.

I think once you've got through this book, you'll have a great base for anywhere you want to go, including OS programming.
That entirely depends on the purpose of the software that's being written.

If you're writing, say, the Amiga Boing Ball demo, or Dali Clock, you might be leaning more towards art.

But if you're writing software that controls transactions for a bank, you're definitely more an engineer.

What does it matter anyway? In my rather short career so far, I've been an artist and an engineer, a scientist and a craftsman. Sometimes all in the same day.
I was bored, so made this real-time geo-location boredom scanner using node.js
My, perhaps naive, question is: will there now be a bifurcation of the Java community? Specifically, will there be an open community with its own standards and implementations, and the Oracle community with theirs.
He was clear about what he bought though, or is it that you don't believe him?

edit: I shouldn't have been so oblique.
How Repurpose Articles From Your Blog
Time is money, and that’s why if you sit down to write a fantastic article for your blog, or someone else’s blog, you want to see more than a few visits to your site and retweets for the day
Google Wave Finds A Home With The Apache Software Foundation
BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on video demo
I have no connection to this job, but I noticed it:

http://www.alphabuyer.com/devops_job.html
Dutch Arrest Teen for Pro-Wikileaks Attack on Visa and Mastercard Websites
Ask HN: Getting started with markerless motion capture
Collective HN Brain,

I want to start a project, but I'd like to see if there's any advice from the people with experience. I could've sworn there was something about this recently non-Kinect related, but I couldn't find it. And finding good information on this seems difficult (or I'm terrible at searching).

I'm looking to do some motion tracking and/or analysis. Where is the best place to start from scratch, today? I did some motion tracking with C + a webcam in college, and it was unpleasant. Is Python + Kinect the way to go? Or is there a more established/efficient path? Or some startup solving this problem?

Doesn't have to be real-time, but real-time is an option.

Thanks.
I saw the "$795/" part and was like no way for $800/month. It seems I skipped over the "year" part.
"If Chatroulette Had Facebook Connect, People Would Keep Their Pants On."

They also wouldn't use it.
Is this a good thing? People getting a sense of safety from an app made by people who this article mentions don't care very much about security?
I have to say that I was surprised by the number of Acers in their laptops category. I don't know a great deal about that space, but I wouldn't have expected that brand to dominate the top 10 so heavily.

I just want one of these: http://www.reevoo.com/p/newbright-1-10-jeep
Could the vice-grip idea be applied to this anti-cam, to make it easier to place one-handed?
The tactless tosser in purchasing that quite possibly has been told to get some pricing options by his management by the end of the day really shouldn't cloud your judgement of the entire institution.

Even in the example blog, the problem person was eventually bypassed and the sale went ahead.
Nowmov (YC 2010W) - The Oracle
Did you know that people spend more time watching video than they spend
on all other media, combined? Yet watching online video accounts for
less than a tenth of the total -- why? Because the current online video
discovery experience is terrible. Bad as discovery is now, it's only
going to get worse; every minute, more than a day's worth of video is
uploaded to Youtube alone.

Nowmov is dedicated to solving this problem. Our current product is an
endless stream videos, ordered by instantaneous popularity; we have big
plans to become an automatic TV guide for online videos -- the only place
people will go to find the video they want to watch.

Our founders -- all engineers -- are David, a serial entrepreneur and
web expert, and two ex Apple employees: Thomas, who was responsible for
Apple's H.264 implementation; and James, who built the video processing
systems for the iTunes Store. We are Y-Combinator graduates (Winter
2010) and angel funded. Our seed round was lead by SV Angel.

You would be leading our personalization effort -- finding the needles
in the haystack, using MATH, if necessary. Pick your technology; our
backend stack is Rails, Postgres and Redis, but we're not dogmatic about
it. We have hard problems, and we're more interested in getting things
done than anything else.

Here are some of the questions we need your help answering:

- the majority of our users and videos are new; what can we do to minimize the cold start problem?

- is there anything specific about video that would help?

- if we had a user's social graph, how might that help in generating a
personalized stream of video?

You are:

- experienced in the creation of machine learning/personalization systems;

- comfortable with teaching your coworkers stuff they don't know;

- familiar with if not expert in modern web frameworks (Django, Rails, &c.);

- unafraid of pushing your code to the live server. On a Friday afternoon.

We are:

- generous with compensation and benefits, including early-employee equity;

- flexible about work hours;

- happy to buy you whatever equipment you need to get your job done;

- working in a great loft-style office in SOMA, a block from CalTrain;

- right upstairs from the best fried chicken and coffee in San Francisco.

It'd help if:

- you've been frustrated by video discovery;

- you want to take over the world;

- we hear from you soon.

Please email us at jobs+hn@nowmov.com with an intro about yourself and a list of cool stuff you have built.
1500 Lego Technic parts, 110 gears ....

There was a great Scientific American article on this last year -- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=decoding-an...
This is just another way of saying you will probably never climb anything yourself, as well as that you prefer publicity stunts to authenticity.

Free soloing is not a publicity stunt, but 99.9% of the time, free soloing with a camera crew is.

I'm not a big fan of people who do that, since it encourages people to stupidly emulate what ought to be a deeply personal (spiritual, even) choice made by someone with the experience to choose wisely. "Coolness" only enters the picture if you're an idiot.
I've been thinking about something like this for a while.
What I picture is something like elance or rentacoder with a mix of sourceforge (or the like).

Projects could advertise for members, and use the site for hosting the source, bug tracking, wiki, etc. Plus, the site could, if it were a commercial product, act as a payment processor and distribute collected funds according to some set of percentages or rules.
It's a test machine.
By the type of engineering you're talking about (the kind that doesn't require professional certification), I'd say the equation is

Engineering = f(Science) + f(Experimentation) + f(Product Re-evaluation) + f(Specification)

Another type is:

Engineering = f(Science) + f(Laws) + f(Standards) + f(Inspections) + f(Accreditation)

Yet another type is:

Engineering = f(choo) + f(choo)
A friend and I built this over the weekend while we were playing around with node.js. Would be fun if lots of people actually stumbled on it at the same time and pressed the "I am bored" button, so thought I could ask you guys for some help with that and in the process, see who else is bored around the world! :)
But even if you made the book available for free, you'd have a hard time getting colleges to use it.
Why my 3y-old thinks "hackers are the bad guys of cyberspace"
Should Accountants Be Required to Code
Thanks! I'll definitely look into it and see if there's something I can do for FBML.
16-year-old boy arrested in the Netherlands over pro-WikiLeaks attacks
I thought there was already a subset of users who could go over the 15 minute limit. Is there anything new here? I can see this being cool once they no longer have the limit; and I think that is where they are going based on this article, but I can't really tell you.
Yes, but no Android market.

I've been waiting for this for a while, but without the market place I'm not sure if I'll jump on it. They screwed up getting me a reasonable expectation of when it'd ship long enough. I made the plunge. I bought an iPad. And, you know what, I like it.

I really wanted Android, Pixel Qi, etc. But Notion has been (possibly for reasons out of their control) doing a horrible job setting expectations.

http://androidandme.com/2010/11/news/notion-ink-adam-sets-a-...
This strikes me more as a Woot for entrepreneurs instead of hackers.

What would be cool, personally, is have the site feature products which for one reason or another are known to be hackable.

Things such as the Girltech IM-Me which can be flashed into a spectrum analyzer, Open-WRT compatible routers, KisMac compatible wifi cards, the Breville BKE820XL hot water kettle which has a non-mechanical switch so it can be hacked to be controlled from your phone and send you push notifications when the water is boiled, remote control power outlets from AliBaba, Hot Air reflow stations, Emotiv's EEG, Quadrocopter kits to deploy some of the UPenn GRASP code, and so on.

++EDIT++

What I realize now, thinking about it some more, is a site like this might actually be ideal for hacker ore. Apple would never think to let their merchandise go on Woot, but something like a Samsung TS-H943 as shipped is in every sense of the word, mediocre - the one special thing about it is it let's one install custom firmware to read non-standard DVD's - it's only a matter of selection for digging up more deals like this that manufacturers would be happy to let go on bantler.com like sites...
The Day I Bought $15,000 From the US Mint
Good questions, and I don't know the answer.

My general feeling is that there are many ways to be a dick which aren't illegal, only because nobody has thought of them yet. If you pulled this stunt one day you'd get away with it. But if people started doing it on a regular basis then either somebody would find a way to punish it using existing law or they'd pass a new law to deal with it. Because that's what we have laws for; to stop people from hurting others by being dicks.

DDosing is a brand new (on certain timescales anyway) way of hurting other people by being a dick. If it's not illegal then it should be.
Oh and you can zoom in/out with your scroll wheel.
And why not? My girlfriend got a low-end Android phone (Samsung Galaxy 3) for 220 eur (cheaper than most dumbphones) and it's amazing. Fast, responsive, capable. I don't think it'll be long before Android is what Symbian was three years ago...
Ask HN: Quotes you re-read for motivation/inspiration?
Just curious whether anyone has any favorite quotes that give them a boost of motivation/inspiration when creative energies are flagging?
Dell Lures Compellent for a $1 Billion Merger
Done, version 1.1 has hackerne.ws support.
Technically speaking, an escalator wouldn't be moving up under your own power, would it? But: if you walk up ten flights of stairs, have you not climbed ten stories?

It's important to read carefully, especially definitions. Giving a list of commonly accepted definitions is not attacking you.

Edit: The beginning of this video has some nice ladder building for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1lNAEzZP0
I figured as much. Was just playing out the scenario.
Yes, in fact that should also be illegal, and in most jurisdictions it is.

You're allowed to form a picket line, but you're not allowed to physically prevent people from crossing it. And that's the way it should be -- if I feel like going to Wal-Mart then the opinion of fifty (or fifty thousand) random people on whether I should be allowed to do so or not really doesn't enter into it.
Dealing with WikiLeaks: The right reaction
Ambimation
Operation Payback Targets Amazon.com
Anonymous is peacefully campaigning for Freedom
of Speech everywhere in all forms. Freedom of
Speech for: The Internet, for journalism and
journalists, and citizens of the world at large.
Regardless of what you think or have to say;
Anonymous is campaigning for you.

...unless you are Gene Simmons or Sarah Palin, both of whom Anonymous has DDoS'ed for saying things Anonymous did not like.
One of my favorite aspects of climbing is that it's impromptu vertical engineering.

Other favorite aspects: it's incredibly meditative as it more or less demands complete mindfulness; the kinesthetics are incredible -- simply doing the motion successfully is like a dance with nature* -- the payoff is huge and obvious (you get up or you don't) with constant new challenges as you grow your ability; there's a long gradation of risk, allowing you to stretch your mental comfort zones (or stay in them)... hell, I love everything about it.

* Edited to footnote: with more cursing, in my case.
None of these solutions allows me to scribble notes on my graphic tablet, OCR my lousy handwriting, and make it searchable on my phone.
Level 3 Vs Comcast: The Free Market System at Work
Also, please. You may have read in the past that hackers have a sharp, cold, swift tone, and that it's okay in that culture to be rude when you're voicing your opinion in brief, but please read what you say and lose the edge to your talking. Every sentence I've read from you in this thread has been drenched in a generally aggressive and rude tone, as many other people have pointed out. It's not just one or two people that see your responses as such, it's a lot of people. I use the down-voting of your comments as evidence, and if that's not enough, the up-voting of the comments of those who have responded to you.

Even look at your most recent response. Mentally, I can see you saying with this greater-than-thou smug look on your face, "Request Denied."

I encourage you to, before you respond to someone, read what you wrote to them as though it were being said to you. Do you seem heartless, rude, a jerk? Write it again without the insulting tone. You don't get points for being mean. In fact, in the real world, you lose them; and you're not Dijkstra. You're not allowed to be rude and continue to earn favor anyway, yet.
I wonder if this has anything to do with server resources; IE is 1 30-minute video less intensive and take up less space than 3 10-minute videos? (Considering that most long videos are just cut into parts.)

If so, I'd imagine it would have an impact, considering the sheer size of YouTube's userbase.
Computer science is about what information can be expressed with a computing device.

This kind of proves the point that the name is not adequate. Let's pick an example. Kolmogorov complexity is a tool used to discuss randomness and the limits of data compression. It cannot be calculated on a computing device. So let's kick it out of CS. Meanwhile all the javascript programmers who are diligently engineering the next banking application UX can call themselves computer scientists instead of engineers if they want to. And maybe there is a whiff of science in A/B testing.

My point is that the name of the field shows its immaturity. Hooke wasn't looking for chromosomes and DNA through the microscope. So at that stage the game his field would have been limited to "Stuff that can be seen with a microscope". The stuff we are going to discover with computers has only been glimpsed. And, as you say, it won't be about computers.
key word left out of HN title: "some"
In particular, x86 or ARM?
If two files uploaded by different users used the same key (ie the server stores the key) then you have no security anyway.

If you can detect that two files encrypted with different secure keys are the same then you are similarly screwed.
Engadget has a more competent photographer: http://www.engadget.com/photos/google-cr-48-chrome-laptop-pr...

I think the hardware looks absolutely beautiful. I have never seen a Netbook I would consider to be adequate, optically speaking, but this one definitely looks like it absolutely is.
It shows they do a very substantial amount of cable and fiber installations. That packet, being confidential, is submitted when they bid on work and attempt to get large projects.

The words of the installer were "Yeah" to my question about the install being for Google.

If this were some po-dunk little company, and they did not have such a strong sales sheet - I would be less-inclined to think that installer was telling me the truth.

The fact is that I didnt reveal all info about myself - I asked him if he was installing for the [google code name for the FIOS project] and he said yes....

so - all the information that I have, leads me to believe them - though, obviously it is circumstantial.
Operation Payback: 'Twitter will fall next'
I consider potential clients who bring their personal software needs into the equation to be "difficult." Educational discounts mean and are used for a very specific purpose and typically have tax implications for the vendor, and a dad teaching his daughter is not part of it. Naturally, a retort would be that he doesn't think enough of his daughter's education to pay whatever it takes to get the tools to do so. You aren't a school and it's crazy to ask for an "educational discount" from a businessperson who is otherwise perfectly accomodating.

My general take from the approach you describe, paying attention to the "smallest" detail of a deal (and/or bringing ever-smaller details into the deal) is reaching for more and more tenuous reasons to neg the vendor. It's analogous to reducing your tip at a restaurant because your water glass was not promptly refilled, and then further when the silverware is not perfectly parallel..
My greatest joy in that article was reading that the machine is 12.1 inches. I was afraid that it would have the same netbook sized build as all the others and that that would make it unusable for me (my fingers ache on 10 inches or smaller). Knowing this, I'm going to have to attempt to get in the runnings when I'm finished with my move! (a month from now)
I don't think you'll find many folks on the right supporting Wikileaks on the grounds that they're attacking the Obama administration. But you'll probably find some supporting them on the grounds of radical libertarianism.

It is very much an us-and-them-ism issue though. I find that to a great extent it breaks down upon whom you consider to be "us"; a funny-looking geek with bad hair and some kooky political ideas, or the United States Government.

It's a sad reflection on my own consistency that I'd be much more inclined to support Wikileaks if Assange weren't so damn creepy-looking. Something about him just makes me want to flush his head in a toilet.
One of Anonymous' focuses at the time was copyright crap. They are not the same conciousness right now. Right now it's about freedom of speech.
If you are close enough behind to really tell the difference you are probably already too close.
anybody in the UK get one?
In his assessment of the risks involved, the author didn't mention the possibility that purchasing coins from the mint could be considered a cash advance, which is like taking a 15% APY loan with interest accruing immediately after you take the advance.

EDIT: Also, looks like the mint has caught on to this guy (http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductD...):

The immediate bank deposit of $1 coins ordered through this Program does not result in their introduction into circulation and, therefore, does not comply with the intended purpose of the Program.

Not sure that's legally binding, but it's at least a dishonest thing to do.
Hmm. I left a comment in the survey but I figure I'd chime in here as well.

AppSumo can definitely move into this space as it's related.

There should be plenty of room in this niche as they seem to be the only player.

Would love to see what you can do in terms of defensibility and innovation.
Subversive...I like it :)
Another possibility is buying US dollar coins at the US Mint website for face value.
Even if it doesn't live up to expectations of the cartoon, I can guarantee more people will download this app than would have without that promotion. How would that be a failure? Unless they spent a ton of time making the cartoon, which they don't mention doing.
http://cowbirdsinlove.com/46
The process of science and engineering is art too. They both are "writing books" in their own way. Engineers write bridges, electrical circuits, environmentally friendly housing, etc. Scientists write new paradigms to understand the world with.
That helps, but can someone provide a babblefish translation of what this means for those of us who don't live in the Java world? Is it basically...

Dear Java,

We remember when you used to be cool. Now you spend all of your time drinking and hanging out with lawyers. We are leaving and taking the dog and all of the CDs with us.

Love,
Apache
Guys, he's a troll. Stop feeding the troll. His profile claims he's 13 years old, whether that's true or just part of the trolling I don't know or care, just beware you're getting pulled into someone who is trying to have an argument for the sake of having an argument.
Yes - the accepted my "fallback" personal card no problem at all. One was Visa the other MC.
Wow, that looks great. Totally missed it when searching for precedents.

I can still see myself using a preprocessor when dealing with small-to-moderate chunks of JavaScript, since it's so easy to drop into an existing framework, but I'll definitely be checking out Coffeescript for any larger JS applications.
What are they going to do, hit command-r really fast? That would about do it...
In most other fields I would agree but CS is a combination.
Uninformed question: How does this affect Apache projects and their further development?
Up, Up and Away - Long videos for more users
But it seems like they're continuing the build out in areas they've started. I see Verizon FIOS trucks rolling around LA almost every day.