skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an owner at MyNewCompany.com. We have a page on our site that might be helpful with recurring costs: http://www.mynewcompany.com/annual-report.htm shows which states have an annual report, how often it's due and when it's due. Then visit https://www.mynewcompany.com/oms/annual_order_1.php to see the pricing for each state (ignore "Our Fee", that's what we charge our clients to file the report).
It looks like an alternative for DNS. ?

Kind of interesting, but I wonder how it works with security implications.
I suppose that's true, though if someone can intuit a crypto-strong PRNG then that's an interesting and significant result in itself.
AFAIK, he'll still accept paypal!

But, he had changed the paypal link on clojure.org/funding to go to clojure/core instead of himself. This was reflection of the changes to the clojure team, which seemed fair IMHO. I'm sad to see that pointing the donate link at clojure/core had unintended consequence of creating some sense of entitlement on the core group.
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In this case it's not just about inflicting punishment on the sibling; it's also about not admitting fault or showing weakness (which saying sorry, and especially agreeing to say sorry first) appears to do. From the view of an angry kid, this is quite possibly worse than the punishment itself so the incentives are quite different from the classic prisoner's dilemma.
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I'm a bit late to this game, but if you're looking to pick up a couple extra hours a week, and you know ruby, rails, javascript and css, I'd love to hear from you.

I need some help on a couple side projects that are taking up too much time. My email is in my profile. Send me some info and your rate. Your location irrelevant, but I'm based in SF.
That's been my experience as well. I had one phone-interview with a west coast firm looking for a local-to-my-area contractor that included coding. But as for every other interview I've done in and from the midwest, the closest they came to 'code' was one group asking obnoxious syntax questions.

From the other side of the table, the firm I'm with now only has a pseudo-code step in the interviewing process if and when I run it. The director for my group doesn't even put the question forward if I can't make an interview appointment. Even though he agreed that it was a great tool that did filter out a couple duds that might well have been hires without it, and likely would have filtered out the one spectacularly bad fit that made it through before my time.
That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.
I didn't know that. Wonder why? The idea is maybe in poor taste. I would also be concerned about the security of the site... Also not sure what sort of market there is for it either.. I thought the idea was kind of out there and thus interesting.
I think the idea is that on every OS you talk the talk. Windows uses backslashes instead of slashes. etc. You meld application to OS, not the other way around.

GEMs on Debian should follow Debian ideology, much like on windows they follow windows way.
If you can comment, I would be interested on the standard of coding that successful candidates exhibit once employed.

Personally, if I could only ask a candidate one question, it would be something that involved writing code. Too many times I've seen candidates with impressive resumes, technical knowledge, or conversation skills, fail miserably to implement trivial (e.g. stricmp) functions.
Nice writeup by Jonathan and he has offered useful comments to me in the past (on my blog). I have not yet used Cassandra on any customers' jobs but I experiment with it (mostly in Ruby). I found the book "Cassandra, The Definitive Guide" useful, BTW.
Where you're buying it might be a big factor. Single-serving Amy's frozen dishes cost $5 or less at my local Whole Foods.
Let me know when you find out how to do it. I have my www. subdomain pointing to Google Sites, and I'd love for the naked domain to go there too.
Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform
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probing you about stuff that even at Google's you won't be working on 5% of the time (if at all).

In any highly skilled profession, 95% of the time someone with very little of your skill could do your job. The valuable part is that you can also be counted on for that 5% as well.

Most of my time at Google hasn't involved any substantial theoretical work. One time though, I did have to come up with a algorithm for computing connected components that could run in reasonable parallel-time in mapreduce. The resulting algorithm ran in log n parallel time passing n log n messages over its lifetime. (This probably is in the literature somewhere considering that a coworker and I had to solve it for unrelated reasons and independently came up with the same thing.)

I'd like to expect my coworkers to be able to do that sort of work in a domain that they're familiar with, because it takes certain problems and moves them across the boundary from impossible to possible. Working at Google scale means that you'll inevitably have to solve some problems that have never been solved before, at least until a lot of universities find it worthwhile to build a thousand node cluster for research purposes.
Isn't there an OSX app that does this?

I remember people on an extremely distracting forum using it, ultimately it doesn't work. Those same people are still spending a lot of time on that forum, they've stopped turning it on.
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I can confirm that this method is a pretty effective method for getting me off Twitter and on TextMate.
Don't you think google threats porn/sex sites kinda different than others? I bet non-porn sites rank better for non-porn keywords than porn sites ('sex' is not necessarily porn keyword). And there is nothing porn SEO experts can do about it.
I wasn't arguing in favor of any of those 3 scenarios, I was simply pointing out that the very smart might be considering game moves that were non-obvious. I'm also keeping an open mind about the possibility that there is no reproductive advantage to limiting one's children. Richard Dawkins seems to believe that. In his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins writes: "We can rise above the influence of our genes, indeed, we do every time we use contraceptives."
Excellent comment. I fear the US is heading down a similar road...
The comment on FocusHelper's allowAllOutgoingExceptions is pretty amusing: https://github.com/benofsky/Focus.app/blob/master/FocusHelpe...
I wonder about the technical knowledge of this person who's writing articles about hiring technical people.

"Explain the significance of ‘dead beef'" is a perfectly valid, if somewhat unimaginative, technical question.
There are different things you can do to affect texture with the wrapping. For instance, some microwave paninis come with a special plastic-foil thing that helps crisp them (they're still inedible because of the sodium content but they are crisp). I imagine it'd be hard to make crispy and a steamed soft mushy food at the same time, which holds them back from using it in full meals.

Also some of the complicated steamed or crispy microwave meals produce so much garbage it's embarrassing to cook them.
Sure, but when it's only being used to pick from between to picture sets, maybe it's not as impossible as it would seem.
>Therefore you need to deliberately set up boundaries that you expect to be violated repeatedly.

I disagree with this but it is giving me pause for thought. It sounds like you're lying to them about what is acceptable behaviour?

Can you give examples of these sort of arbitrary limits that you put in place and expect to be broken? How do you punish them when you don't really consider the actions to be wrong?

>Just training kids with operant conditioning is not sufficient to be a decent parent.

I assume you mean parent in the limited sense of social educator else this is something of a truism; could you expand on this? Operant conditioning closely describes my behaviour in this area of parenting I think.
Yeah, I worked 6.5 - 7 hours a day at MSFT and got a full time offer as well [1], which is what made me think of pointing this out in the first place.

[1] And left my team happy, having finished my project beyond what they expected. Plus, those days were short largely because of all the entertainment stuff MSFT did for us interns. I don't want to give the impression I was slacking off for the sake of it.
Why Facebook Won't Go Public
Only when the fake female accounts upvote his real account in some way.
I got to the onsite, day-long, interview stage at Google (about a year ago). It's been awhile, but I do remember they asked some VERY real world questions, ranging from lists related traversal questions, to "how would you implement xyz." Some running times questions, etc. The questions were challenging, but do-able, I suppose. My biggest issue was not so much with the questions, but rather with 1 or 2 of the interviewers who felt it was more of a pissing competition, always trying to undermine the answer. The rest of the people were just phenomenal -- super professional and a pleasure to talk with. In retrospect, it was the younger interviewers who were "problematic." I suppose it has to do with insecurity (I later found out that they weren't at Google for that long, nor were they such hotshots).
Lastly, I believe that none of the interviewers asked for any particular coursework or GPA, but the internal Google recruiter asked for either a transcript or flat out GPA, to send to the committee (who reads the interviewers' comments and makes a decision whether to continue further with the interviewee, or not).
I met someone who complained about how he was required to write code to solve simple problems in an interview. He took that as an offense, saying that he was a websphere something something expert and shouldn't be bothered with little things like coding. I did waste my time trying to explain to him that small coding questions are often the easy way to weed out the people who pretend to have technical expertise and that these are more frequent that he'd think. I still think the coding questions are useful and I don't ind losing such a candidate.
SelfControl
> Is it unethical to look at someone's property from the street?

Not per se, but:

It's unethical to invade other people's privacy.

If you had a telescope with a special vision ray that could see behind walls, it would be unethical to use it to see inside people's homes and bedrooms.
So this could be summed up as "secure sexting"?
How about anonymous postings of sex encounters/sex fantasies?
Yes, top secret... lol

Here is a link to my prototype:
http://www.thesaverssecret.com/

One think I forgot to mention is that this website has very good rankings in google for the following terms:

online yard sale - #1
online garage sale - #3
online sale - #4
Yeah, sure. Coming from a somewhat over-nerdy background and being a bit of a late bloomer, I've read a lot of the stuff that you can find in the "pick-up community" and tried out some of it in practice. So this particular part is just the more sleazy parts of that; making fun of the girl in a charming way, using jealousy (acting actively uninterested if she shows interest, flirting with her friends) etc, making overtly sexual jokes etc. All this stuff is assuming that you have some semblance of rapport in the first place though, there is a lot of subtelty that's a bit hard to explain in three sentences ;)

The thing is, outside the limited context of completely no-strings flirting, it's really disappointing to see these things work. It's so phony. Maybe some girls feel the same thing the first time they dress up really revealing and all the guys treat them differently.
Even advanced UX designers seem to ignore abstraction
also called "chicken fried steak" - usually it's 'cube steak" which looks a lot more like ground meat than like actual steak, then it's breaded, deep fried and smothered in gravy. It's a very traditional dish in the south, though it doesn't taste very much at all like what most Americans would call a 'steak'
I can’t seem to add an exception.

Edit: Literally clicking [+] does nothing, so there’s nothing to save. I’m also not convinced 5 is enough: I want dropbox to be connected, github, our bug tracker, our team chat, my email, and basecamp — that’s 6 already.
First, great app.

I use SelfControl.app, because when I need to focus, I need internet access JUST to the sites/domains/IPs I work with.

Benofsky, is there a posibility to add a whitelist of IPs/domains to this app?
ifconfig down; sleep 100000; ifconfig up (add parameters as needed)
Does this need an app?
You have to press save or they won't be committed to the plist. Does that work for you?
You may add 5 in the settings. :)

EDIT: Thanks btw!
Ask HN: should I buy this company?
I have a friend who's been running this business for a while and has finished the technology and found a small user base. However, he's considering selling it and I'm wondering if people think there is a worthwhile space to pursue for these devices in the market place. IMO the business has a medium-level technology moat but it has a pretty impressive UI compared to alternatives.

Some ideas on where to take the business are:

- Selling/leasing to a national office supply chain for resell to small businesses
- Selling to music concerts (get a USB key of the concert as you walk out)
- Manufacturing (Apple's new Air USB key is kind of a hopeful sign that we're transitioning past the age of CD).

Any thoughts by people in this space or even if you can consider a use-case I'm ignoring would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. Apologies on the shortened link - wanted to hide the referrer to prevent him from getting offended by any responses.
And as a developer I understand that with the dynamic nature of Reddit that eventually throwing hardware at the problem won't fix it.

It still saddens me, and as a Reddit Gold member I hope that soon they are able to hire more people to more carefully look over the code and optimise it.
Not the same species, only the same genus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis

They are related. That does not mean they are the same species.
"heavyweight" was my opinion of him based on his education, demonstrated ability, and publications, not anything to do with his way of representing himself. I found his comments very interesting, informed as they were by his extensive work in other languages.
Sounds like you object to a variety of particulars that you just happen to disagree with. A fair bit shy of falling short of some kind of essential "spirit".

The OpenJDK CA process was put in place a long time ago by Sun, generally well-liked in open source circles last I knew. And I guess you've got the same problems with all of Apache, for example (which, BTW, requires a signed copy of their CA to be faxed, at a minimum -- and I suppose some would complain about the faxing). Rough spot, there.

IANAL, neither are you, and we weren't in the room when Rich talked to his. Even if those things weren't true, I'm pretty sure Rich (nor anyone else) would accede to derision by instead of nonspecific, unconstructive griping.
>The goal is not to raise good kids. The goal is to raise good adults.

This sounds like an empty aphorism to me. I don't want my kids to be just good adults I want them to be good kids too. I don't mean good in the sense of undemanding behaviourly or conforming or that sort of thing I mean I want them to be fulfilled as much as possible in their childhood too, happy.

Someone just accused me of being unnecessarily argumentative so I'm wary of that. But, really one does have to define what a good adult is and consider what you mean to obviate by "not [raising] good kids".
A New, Sanitized Version of Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
If you're running a top 1000 website you can probably afford to pay for real time analytics ;/
Hadn't seen that, only a pay for app (and I'm cheap :))! Anyway, Focus is tailored perfectly for me, hope some other people can find use out of it too.

Edit: Clarification (I'm sorry I can't reply to your comment, it won't let me), I meant I had only seen a pay for app and not this one.

Edit 2: (reply to comment also) also doesn't appear to have exceptions, maybe I'm wrong.
How about starting apps like your Facebook App, IM App or Google Mail App on iPhone/Smartphones. Does this require a warrant?
The use model.

Twitter works for many more people because there is One Place for those data streams. CNN, Comcast, Oprah they're all at and on "Twitter". If you want to subscribe to a Twitter stream there's a clear and unambiguous way to 'hook in' and the data stream is of a consistent form.

RSS, on the other hand, involves hunting about pages looking for feed streams that may not exist, possibly installing plugins to simplify the process of adding those streams (once found), getting a reader, having no idea what type of information you'll be getting back [1], nor the form of the posts [2], nor having any consistent method of feed interaction [3] and no easy way to delegate your list of sources to one or many friends who will then curate the source news for you.

Basically, RSS allows specific readers to suck, it allows specific feeds to suck and it allows the whole experience to suck. Twitter isn't the best, but the whole thing is easy-to-use, consistent and dependable. Similarly with the 'like' functionality of Facebook.

[1] filtered list of content? way more than you wanted? old? buggy and re-spamming you with old stories? buggy skipping stories?

[2] full content? abbreviation? uselessly-short abbreviation? sane links for sharing? short links? ads? obtrusive ads? poor formatting?

[3] Do I click the RSS headline to see the full post? The link the post referred to? Some lame on-site redisplay of what was already in my reader, because I was expected to click some image button in the summary?
We're a far cry from 10 years ago, and I salute all the work done by all the volunteers, hackers & enthusiasts but now that the corps are drinking the koolaid I hope they deliver on their promises :)
On the other hand, I don't understand how non-technical interviewers can tolerate not knowing how good a non-technical applicant is for the same reasons you mentioned. Do teams ever recruit athletes without watching them play?
Dropbox works offline, Git is a DVCS so you don't really need a connection for it (unless you're finding other projects), and if you're working you don't need email. This would work fantastically with the Pomodoro technique
I'm trying to figure out what the net neutrality reference was for, besides an attention-getting throwaway line.

In some hypothetical future inter-net that is truly decentralized and magically not subject to "lawmakers and lobbyists", there could be no neutrality, since the system would be (somehow) free from any authorities who could impose neutrality.
Superb, you should make this feature clear on the site
Why is the premise of the title and article that DMB makes money and other bands don't? Plenty of other groups are raking it in.

While record sales might be down, I bet the amount of musicians able to make a living wage today, solely from music, is much greater than it was in 1990. This is due to the same technology and disruptiveness that has shaved 10% off the earnings of the megastars.

The story should be about how smaller bands are now able to be much more successful, not that a mega-band can still pull $70 million while others have been reduced to (gasp) $50 million.
Related from a technology standpoint: CASH Music (http://cashmusic.org/) is a non profit dedicated to providing technology to enable a more direct musician to patron relationship. Lots of artists are going this route, which is really much more in line with how artists typically made a living up until the 20th century (i.e. patronage).
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Not to mention that these people have the chutzpah to get what they want. They're always successful in the short term, which means that they've already gained influence by the time anyone figures it out. And when they do, that person gets canned as an example to keep the others in line.
Good stuff. Sports like this are ripe for presenting their many statistics in interesting ways. I'm working on a hobby statistics/prediction site for Aussie Rules football at the moment and am having tremendous fun displaying interesting visualisations rather than the boring tables of data you find on most sites.
I was an early adopter of Facebook back in the day it was only open to a handful of school (VERY early 2004). It was nice and exciting and whatnot. But I've lost interest in it completely. I speculate that it's only newcomers that find it interesting. I now use FB only as a means of sending someone a quick note, getting invitations to events (a la evite -- remember that?), or maybe looking up a picture I was tagged in by a friend. If back in the day people put in their hobbies, activities, interests, and list of classes (yup, that was available. Great stalking tool...!), I find people's profiles completely empty.
Anybody with a different experience? Do you ACTUALLY use FB, or are you only drawn to it because of the reasons I outlined above?
Please note that I'm not hating on FB. They do what they do well. Just sharing my experience (and at this point, I will never ever be able to get a job at FB... ;-) ).
The child doing the hating has lost already, they didn't lose because they hated after the fact. They're children growing up in one of the most neglected public school systems in the country in one of the most segregated cities in the country. When I was growing up there, I feared and hated white people too, because my only experiences of them were negative ones. Sitting in that horribly overcrowded, neglected school with my decade old books faced with a teacher who would have much rather taught at the private school his/her kids went to, and who thought that my motivations were as simple as jealousy over his jeans wasn't an easy situation for a kid, and probably still isn't.

And why exactly would you ascribe a trait or "trend" that you notice in Guelo to the "less well off"? Do you have to be poor to be against bribery - or, rather - tipping for special treatment? Is the only possible motivation to be against the corrupt administration of services jealousy? These are not rhetorical questions.
That's the way it should be. It's a shame the www convention took hold.
Google AppEngine does not support naked domains unfortunately.

At least, that is what I use it for myself.
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Chef Wendy says it's absolutely possible to make a frozen meal that will knock you out of your chair with greatness. "But that entrée needs to cost $7 to $10. People are willing to spend that much in a restaurant for something mediocre but not for something fabulous from the grocery store."

I would pay that in a second. I cook for myself and it ends up costing around $7 a dinner.
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I watched the rest of the video on a normal windows machine, it didn't have any problems.
He's not wrong but I don't agree.

Advertising is a form of payment not an end in itself. People still pay Google they just do it in attention which Google than turns into money by selling that attention to someone else.

So to say Google isn't a platform company because they're really trying to control the ad market with their platform is like calling Microsoft a money company because they're trying to control the OS to sell Office.

Also I don't think Google's best interest is in pushing the market away from "paid for software". If you're giving something away for free it helps you to have someone trying to sell it because you can get away with more. Google Docs is missing a ton of Office features but people rarely mention them because...it's free. So it's in their best interest to keep paid options around. If everyone was free they'd have to really compete.