skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm still unclear what this has to do with Assanage personally? Wikileaks is an organization of people who publish (given enough time) just about everything given to them. It's one thing to call wikileaks reckless and another to call Assanage reckless.
They do, of course. There's the GmbH ("Corporation with limited liability"), which is pretty much exactly like a LLC. Recently, they also added the UG ("Unternehmergesellschaft") which is the same thing save for less statutory base capital.

But, as seems to be usual in Germany, everything is more complicated here. To found a GmbH, you basically need a lawyer and a notary. Oh, and 25k€. AFAIR founding a LLC is easier. However, thanks to the EU, you can of course found a UK Limited (Ltd.) with relatively little trouble.
Since Chrome uses sqlite to store data, you can use something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/ to poke around in those databases if you're curious.
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I'm looking for a Senior Graphics Game Programmer.
I would love to have it as an option.

Large arm movements tend to cause considerably less RSI than mouse/keyboard. They are tiring when you start, but eventually you build up enough endurance, and you can do them all day.
Direct link: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/01/rims_blackberr...
I think that energy costs (heating and cooling) also had a hand in the search for smaller homes.
Very simple productivity trick (mac os)
Auto-hide dock and set the position onto the right side of your screen.

Makes you think twice before switching context. I guess the effect should wear out after a week or so, but that's still something :)
"In Germany, for example, company founders are held personally liable for unpaid debt for up to 30 years—even after they declare bankruptcy."

As far as I know, this is not true and hasn't been true in many years (since 1999). You can declare "private bankruptcy" and basically get clear of debt after six years. The German Wikipedia article might be of help, using Translate: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatinsolvenz
Opinions on distribution of software via virtual appliance.
Get 75% instead of 70% from the App Store
We're hiring a part time (up to 20hr/wk), remote web application developer to support a BPM project for one of our clients, a high technology manufacturing firm in Sunnyvale, CA. The platform is Intalio BPMS (http://intalio.com) and skillsets required include building AJAX user interfaces (we are using Tibco GI), web service implementation and testing (XSLT, Xpath, SoapUI), MySQL, Tomcat. Small team, good rate, interesting technology. Contact: info@innovelocity.com
How cool is that! I'm studying Computer Science at the University that makes Orange (the first on the list). And the professor who originally came up with it is an advisor for my startup.
Hi Kelly,
I've got some questions about the Director of Finance position. Can I get in touch w/ you via email?
Your second point is one of the original criticisms of the monoculture idea: Macs are both safer and less secure because they're a low-profile target. Give them 50% of the desktop market share and they'll be as bad as WinAPI.

There will never be enough operating environments to provide true diversity. Say there are ten end-user platforms (there are 5-6 now, including iOS and Android) each with a roughly comparable share. Each platform now has 3MM units --- a totally viable susceptible population for malware --- but only 1/10th as much security attention.

It may actually be the case that the opposite of the monoculture paper is true, and that we made it through the 2000's without melting down completely because we basically delegated software security to Microsoft, which stepped up to handle it.
I don't think that this should be about women flirting or not. It's more about women not behaving like feminine behavior is something to frown upon and the fact that men are generally cautious around 'prudish' women because they tend to attract harassment lawsuits like bees to pollen.

Let's be real, men will always congregate around the water cooler to talk about life, work, vices, and women. The woman that can integrate into the "workplace community" is generally of the more liberal type and come's of as friendly toward the male population. What the feminist girl-power types don't get is that a smile, a high five, and jokes of the 'horse walks into a jewish bar' kind get you a lot farther down the road of being likable by your male peers. This also has the effect of toning down our male tendency of vile language when referring to women, which is off course a plus.
North American competitions usually allow C/C++/Java and sometimes Pascal.

Good books on these are:

* Programming Challenges by Skiena and Revilla

* Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena

* Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen

The biggest trouble of these competitions is being able to recognize what you're trying to solve. If you can say 'THIS IS DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING', you'll be a lot closer than someone who writes a backtracking solution and times out. From there, knowing what kind of problem (or combination of them) within the domain will help you design the proper algorithm.

Number theory, graph theory, geometry and combinatorics based problems appear often. There is sometimes some necessary knowledge required to be able to solve problems altogether. For example, if the problem makes reference to Catalan numbers and you don't know what they are - you won't be getting very far.

The UVa website (http://uva.onlinejudge.org/) offers a pretty horrible experience but an unforgiving judge which will help you practice a lot. It also has a judge for every book in the above text, Programming Challenges. There are also judges for live contests which you can participate in.

The Algorithmist (www.algorithmist.com) gives you some good test data and hints along the way if you get stuck on any of the UVa problems.

Project Euler is fun but it is slightly more algebraic and you do not (often) run into these kind of problems in these sort of competitions. It's still a good idea to try them out though.
If the Japanese market for start up companies is open, but the culture is a problem, there could be an opportunity to run a start up from Silicon Valley but targeted at Japanese market. Especially if it is an internet service start up with minimal physical presence. I understand not being immediately present in the target market means that you can become out of touch with it; also some legal issues might arise, but an opportunity is there.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me
would have been good to post this as well
Does anyone know of startups that put this advice into practice?
I don't get it. I switch context using Cmd-Tab or Ctrl-Cursors (Spaces). My dock is always hidden. What exactly is this supposed to do?
Great advice :)
I will never buy a product from RIM now.
Ask HN: Resources for getting started with NoSQL / Big Data
I've read quite a few articles posted here and else where about Data startups and some tools to work with such data.

Are there good resources out there for beginners to learn more about NoSQL data stores and use case scenarios for each solution (case studies and what not) and for data analysis using the same.

Any blogs that are recommended? I tried taking a look at MyNoSQL blog (mynosql.mypopescu.com) but that blog is nothing more than a copy=paste archive without any insight at all to justify the solutions and what not. Not really useful for someone who wants to get started with such solutions and look beyond RDBMSes ..

Thanks..
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Not really, js is an open standard with many competing and free implementations.

In fact I can't think of any reason how the two cases are in any way the same (I could see your point if we were talking about something like activex).
why is directedge a better alternative to hunch?
97% of Internet now full up
Demdex was a running joke among NY Hadoop developers earlier this year. Every Hadoop developer would get around a dozen e-mails about Demdex. Demdex was using TONS of external recruiting companies. Everyone was being bombarded about Demdex. Much of the local community grew tired of them and wanted to know why everyone was ignoring them.
Thanks for the pointers, I found some stuff on their wiki with these keywords and it looks like some interesting reading.

However, from a quick look through this interpretation makes it an even worse analogy, even if you overlook not flagging it up as an unconventional take on PD for outsiders.
Cloudant has a very cool couchdb fork that uses a dynamo style k/v layer that then uses couchdb as its storage engine. They implement chained map/reduce with the caveats that A) the chained m/r is generated async, so it is always out of data a bit and B) I never got it working in their hosted product. I checked them out for the chained M/R but was really wowed by the scale out capable with their system. The dynamo layer takes care of sharding, migrating shards, re-reducing parallel queries etc.
That quip is pretty much why I don't subscribe to wired anymore. Showing contempt for the audience is not a good thing.
Wow this is huge. They could have just removed them from the store. Instead they start a patent suit to basically kill the company.

Interesting strategy. RIM can't do much directly about the iOS and Android competition. But they can sue popular cross-platforms apps. Evil evil evil.
I don't know.

Actually thinking about it, viewed in terms of quantum mechanics the universe from our scale looks more like a bitmap image than a vector image. (Note that I have no actual knowledge of quantum physics for the purposes of this meandering nonsense of a comment.)
I would just like to say thanks! Without the Algorithmist, I would have pulled my hair out more than once.
Lack of buzz on WP7 raises questions about sales
This comment seems wrong to me. What if Einstein had said, "sorry, General Relativity is a mathematical fact; observation is unnecessary for confirmation" instead of proposing tests!

Edit: Also, I think it would be just plain cool to observe natural selection in life that arose completely independently of our own. I don't think any reasonable person seriously doubts that natural selection is necessary for life.
I would downvote if I could even though it's now at 5 points. Topical or not, it's still a content-free post.
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Probably the first thing to understand about nosql is that there is no standard, there are multiple paradigms to chose from.

Broad differences in storage models:

* Column Oriented Storage (e.g. HBase)

* Document Store (e.g. CouchDB, MongoDB)

* Key-Value (e.g. BerkeleyDB, TokyoCabinet, REDIS)

* Graph DB (Neo4J)

Furthermore each will have their own consistency, replication & availability models, as well as read/write optimisations.

Before choosing one you need to ensure it is adapted to your usage pattern. Here are some links that go into more detail:

A visual comparison, comparing trade-offs of each type of nosql db: http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems

Article on appropriate use-cases for each type of nosql:
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/7/20/nosql/

NoSQL - the 'definitive guide' (apparently):
http://nosql-berlinbuzzwords2010.heroku.com/#1

Further resources:
http://nosql-database.org/

And here's a link on data from the top of HN today: http://www.junauza.com/2010/11/free-data-mining-software.htm...
Did you just show this app off on HN the other day?

(Just installed it. Was this supposed to be only for doctors...or?)
Because using code plus data where just data can be used introduces security risks and limits what people can do with the document. I would have hoped that the industry would have learned that already from PostScript, PDF, COM and the Microsoft Office formats.
The most interesting aspect of this deal is that even though Google is today's most engineering-focused major corporation and the biggest advertising company in the world, a consensus is emerging that they're incapable of successfully developing new products or expanding into new advertising markets on their own.
I believe it may be due in part to valuing the channels of communication. A lot of social politics / etc. muddy the waters, because being to the point is socially disadvantageous so often.
Opera Gets 150 Million Users: Celebrates with Hat-tip to Reddit and others
I would love to see the specific patent(s) Kik is infringing upon. It's a pretty standard IM client, if as the article says it is for: "sent, delivered, read, and even when a user is typing a message." then RIM has a lot of apps to go after.

Could be something more than that, as the CEO was a RIM employee at one point.
But how long will it be until some savvy internet user successfully riles people up against an innocent competitor or a personal enemy?

Remember John Engle vs Stockart?

http://blog.iso50.com/5778/save-jon-engle/
Use Tree Style Tabs for a week and I guarantee you will never go back to top style tabs. I have about 40 tabs open right now and it feels completely organized (I am obsessive about minimizing clutter).
When you spent a lot of time in the lab working on new hardware designs, you quickly begin to tell the difference between a blown capacitor versus say a burnt resistor.

As you follow our comic RTZ, you'll notice that Bert the lab technician tends to think of everything in terms of food!
Fcgi vs. gunicorn vs. uWSGI
This looks like some kind of beta release. Presumably the people who are interested in it are those who already use Reeder on the iPhone or iPad (Reeder is generally considered the best RSS client on those platforms) so I wouldn't be too harsh on the author.
I think you should add an old-fashioned victrola underneath the paintings, constantly playing 4'33".
It seems as if the lesson here is to finesse the mob and don't fight it.
Ooops. That's what I get for cutting out before the end.
He is not talking about non-native look and feel, but about image-based development. That is: you directly modify running state of VM and then save all of this state into giant file. Source code is often contained only in this giant binary file, or produced by some specialized tool later. This breaks many common development workflows, for example it is hard to integrate with common (file-based) version control systems.
sweet... reminds me days when i spend hours practicing simple algorithms on pascal. I bet very few ppl could type something like "for i:=1 to n do begin end;" faster back in that time...
I'm sorry but how is this patentable : "I haven't read the Statement of Claim outlining RIM's allegations against Kik yet, but I suspect that the patent at issue covers a messaging platform that provides sent, delivered, read, and typing indicators."

Having family work at their Waterloo head office leaves me torn and full of questions. Even though I don't own a RIM phone, I handled their Storm and it's rock solid. The feel is much better my 3G test phone or couple of Android phones, but as a developer I choose to support companies based on merit. RIM just came down a notch in my book.

I compared Kik on my Android and the BBM on the Storm. I would be flabbergasted to find out the Canadian courts would allow this claim to play out.
I agree with your assesment that banks and speculators are equally to blame, but it is easy to label people who got screwed by this as being irresponsible and or stupid. I don't think that is true (and for alot of people, irresponsible moves might have actually been economically rational)

So lets say I bought a house during part of the bubble well within my means at the time. I put 20% down, and then had a fixed rate mortgage. I had 6 months to a year of living expenses in cash in my bank on top of the cash I had to put down on the house.

I lose my job, 1 year goes by, 18 months goes by. I have no more emergency fund, and the house is now worth less than I bought it. I'm fucked. I have no money left and I owe a huge amount, my mortgage is under water, and up until that moment I made completely responsible decisions except that I bought the house at the top of a bubble that I didn't know existed. I hypothetically had not only 20% down, but an emergency fund equal to 2 years mortgage payments plus food and utilities (which at that point you have close to 40% of the value of the house in cash, who had that?)

Compare that to somebody who had no money in the bank, put no money down, lost their job, but the house had appreciated in value. You sell the house quickly, net about no money gained or lost, and move back into a rental apartment. Really its not that big a deal. I could even move in with a friend for free while I find a job.

The big assumption that screwed so many people was that house prices always rise. You can be perfectly responsible on every move, assume house prices always rise and don't realize there is a bubble, and be completely screwed.

You can also be completely irresonsible, luck out on your timing of when you buy and when you sell, and come out ahead like a bandit.

Actually the conclusion I come to from that is the "safest" option is to put nothing down, take the longest mortgage you can at the lowest rate, and have heaps and heaps of cash in the bank. Take the 20% you could have put down on the house and just keep it safe. You will pay more money over the life of your mortgage but if shit hits the fan you can survive for months or years without going bankrupt, which is counter to the advice of minimizing the cost of your mortgage over the lifetime of it (i.e. lots of cash down, shorter term)
If you have a valid point against the article please put it forward in more coherent terms.
From this, it would seem that Kik violated both Apple and RIM store guidelines: http://getsatisfaction.com/kik/topics/serious_privacy_flaw_w...

My take: RIM saw the violations and the threat to BBM and decided to ban Kik. Apple saw the violations and the threat to BBM and decided to leave them alone. Makes sense in both cases
I'm in Canada, but my blog-that-nobody-reads is hosted in the US, as likely will be another site going live soon. Wouldn't they be subject to the DMCA since the host is in the States? Should I be looking into a new datacenter for the new site?
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I click on the HTML5 winner and I am presented with a Flash square. How is that HTML5?
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Yup, if your blog is hosted in the USA, your hosting provider would be subject to DMCA takedown notices. The solution is to find hosting elsewhere -- ideally by shopping for a favourable jurisdiction.

Anyone got any good suggestions?
I agree with this - the two corporate "cultures" (not sure if that's the right word) don't seem like a good fit and Google is going to absorb a lot of headcount at a much lower revenue / employee ratio than what they're used to. It's a great deal for Groupon though!
Something funny about them being literally a block away from each other.

RIM could have walked over to their office and had been like, "hey, can yous guys stop the messenger app. k thx. bai".

Google Map: http://bit.ly/ftLWro
Very cool! I read through the Mercury mission.

I noticed a few spelling errors (OCR gone wrong?), and a couple of times when I clicked on a link to the Glossary, instead the current 'post' would be highlighted.
I believe the saying goes "Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning"

Certainly holds true here, but I think the real value from things like these is beating the task.
How else would you expect RIM to react to a product that infringes on one its core features? It's been pushing BBM heavily in its marketing campaigns, and can't afford to have that exclusivity taken away.

Doesn't seem evil to me.
Why create a competing product from scratch when you can afford to buy the proven product? And don't forget about all of the existing Groupon employees you could hire.
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On a side note, does it make sense to implement a custom timer for the Pomodoro / Breaks?!
Can anybody recommend a good 3rd party WP hosting service that lets you run your own custom plugins? I'm tired of spending engineering resources managing our own WP instance.
Rand's blog post demonstrates that there's now a pretty big disconnect between anchor text keywords and actual link quality - he makes an excellent point that natural links aren't likely to put the keywords directly into the anchor.

It's such an interesting problem - on one hand, you have autoblogs populating the internet with Made-For-Adsense keyword-stuffed content that would soak up long tail search results, so Google can't just ignore inbound links as a measure of relevance, and on the other, you have keyword-stuffed anchor text links that aren't particularly relevant to the content of the page they're on.

What other page metrics would one use to measure relevancy today that wouldn't be as susceptible to SEO gaming?
It gets more costly over time. There's not much that can be done to increase the efficiency of building a stone wall, except for prefab when it's possible. All other goods become cheaper to produce so the stone mason becomes more and more expensive in comparison. At least to some degree, the same principle applies to education and health care.

I find it fascinating that the result of this effect is that it's unlikely to be able to build a high quality brick house ever again. Most brick houses today are just wood frames with prefab brick cladding. The brick row house tenements of 1910 are now the million dollar condos of 2010.
I highly recommend solving problems on spoj.pl (http://www.spoj.pl/). It has a HUGE collection of problems from various competitions, supports a plethora of languages for coding and the forums are an excellent resource.
lol! I guess it's official. RIM has decided they're a has been.
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This article title is missing a question mark.
OT, but did anyone else feel surprise and nerdjoy to read that this actually exists on Earth:

a deadly poisonous lake... Mono Lake, in California’s Yosemite National Park... one of the highest natural concentrations of arsenic

I thought forbidden lakes whose inky waters are death to mortals were the stuff of fantasy novels. (In fact, any Terry Brooks fans think this was the inspiration for the Hadeshorn?)

(After a bit of further reading, it seems the article overplayed the "deadly" aspect, since fish live in the lake, birds eat there, and humans have dived in it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_lake)