skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know whether Nokia's Ovi Maps will allow to build something nice but it's a best GPS s/w i've ever used, it is based on vector technology and doesn't need Data plan so any app developed on the top of this platform would be very interesting ...
Came here to say this but you said it before! ;-)

Also, "crowd-sourced curated lists of websites" sound like the old Yahoo directory of yore. They will either become obsolete very quickly or spammers will find a way to penetrate and dominate them.
IMDb didn't magically start making money when they sold to Amazon.
[OT] Wouldn't "ps aux | grep -c [a]pache" work the same way? Everyone seems to put "| wc -l|" but I have used the -c option to do that directly.
Learning Programming Languages with Koans
"Google does provide an option to search within a date range, but these are the dates when website was indexed rather than created; which means the results are practically useless."

I believe the author is mistaken on this point. Quick proof is to do a search for [matt cutts] and you'll see the root page of my blog. Click "More search tools" on the left and click the "Past week" link. Now you'll only see pages created the last week, even though lots of pages on my site were indexed in the last week.
The link is for a perl script which is effectively a frontend for 'losetup', whose manpage describes how to create and mount images.
It would be interesting if domains could be bought and owned (instead of being rented like today) by means of cryptographic certificates. This would allow anonymous ownership as well.
Not to detract from your point, but it's definitely possible to work on a software project while washing dishes :)

Devoting thought, or focus, might be a better qualifier for boredom than just having to devote time.
I'm not looking for a co-founder per se but the first person I hire will be the second person in the company and have a similar level of influence that a co-founder would, with the additional benefit of coming into a company that already has product, customers and cash flow.

http://ginzametrics.com/ginzametrics-is-hiring-two-engineers...
ps ax|grep -Ei '(apache|httpd)'|grep Ss|wc -l

lsof|grep TCP|grep -Ei '(apache|httpd)|cut -f 1 -d ' '|sort|uniq|wc -l

apache -S 2>&1|grep server|wc -l

apache2ctl -S 2>&1|grep server|wc -l

are processes/threads really servers? His question was a bit ambiguous. I wouldn't have accepted that job position either. :)
My 2010
I just got mail from someone in 2060 saying "Scroomz is ignoring zork like Yooka ignored mulk"
OK, I was confused by the word "adventure". I assumed that if you said this, then "death" must be… something. I thought we were disagreeing on facts. And of course I can't prove that death is less "meaningful" than life: that's a moral judgement, not a factual belief.
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NYC metro preferred but remote positions for social media is possible. See http://www.scoopst.com/jobs or email dave@scoopst.com
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I think Net Neutrality is a complicated debate and this depresses me because it's obvious the pro-net neutrality side is avoiding the counter argument by assuming the other side is just stupid.

Just to state it outright that counter argument is: The FCC regulates TV and Radio to keep it from "harming" the consumer. The FCC would be doing the same with net neutrality. But once you establish a precedent of "the FCC can regulate internet providers to prevent what they perceive as harm to the consumer" you open the floodgates.

We saw this just recently with Wikileaks. The only difference was the Federal Government went after hosts because they couldn't legally demand ISP's block the traffic. But the government clearly felt Wikileaks was harmful to the nation (many senators said that outright).

Once you establish the FCC as the arbiter of "harm" on the Internet they are free to block whatever they need to. Wikileaks, Porn, whatever.

Now of course there is a valid counter argument that almost everyone on HN knows. The above theory revolves around the free market being able to regulate itself and that's hard to do when there's very little competition. How can the free market regulate itself with competition if the only competition is a phone monopoly and a cable monopoly?.

But the debate is weighing the ineffectiveness of competition vs the danger of regulation and that's not a no-brainer question. The lack of support for net neutrality in that poll is, IMHO, a direct result of those in favor of it assuming people who don't immediately agree with them are stupid and not bothering to make the case to them.
Copenhagen, Denmark. Remote not possible and we can't help with relocation.

I've just been hired as CTO for a well-funded startup, Greenwire. We recycle used consumer electronics (Primarily mobile phones) and send them for refurbishment and resale.

I'm looking for a developer to help me build the IT infrastructure. We'll be working on LAMP technology, probably PHP.

Have a read at http://greenwiregroup.com/
It would all depend on how you frame and present it. Your target audience is an intelligent one and I think would pick up fairly quickly that CV is representing more than just their resume.

Probably the best idea though is to take some of the ideas that you have and do some A/B testing. That way it's what can empirically be proven to work the best.
Berlin, Germany. No telecommuting but we can help with relocation. At IPTEGO we're a bunch of HNers that would like to meet you.

We're a well funded company doing an analytics and troubleshooting product for next generation networks (NGNs). We use C/C++, python and javascript. Please email jobs@iptego.com and mention HN somewhere.
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This has become quite a fruitless endeavor. WIPO and other domain arbitrators will swiftly hand domains over to their rightful owners if there is a trademark or history of trading under a particular name.
I'm hiring Rails programmers in Shanghai.. Also looking for interns.

Email is in my profile
The article calls out two specific companies as "landfill in the garbage websites that you find all over the web." Reasonable people can disagree over whether such content is truly spam or low-quality content, and thus how to respond.
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> scale is about the first derivative, not the absolute site; going from 20,000 machines to 25,000 machines (not real numbers, just an example) is simpler than going from 1000 to 2000 machines.

I've never worked on anything bigger than 10 machines or so, but is this really true? I would think the difficulty of scaling is not any kind of smooth function, but very easy or very hard depending on the bottlenecks you hit at any particular point.

lemma: doesn't every application have some theoretical limit about how big it can scale within the limitations of current network and computation hardware?
We need a save option, elsewise I have to make a worthless comment just to flag the story!
Show HN: Typeroulette, a typing test with a Twitter twist
Here is the website: http://typeroulette.com

Typeroulette is just my second programming project I am shipping and I would love some feedback from the HN community. It is a simple typing battle against the people you follow on Twitter and a fun way to practice your typing.

Everything is not quite right yet, but it would be useful to get early feedback.

Thanks
I believe the Yahoo lists were actually centralized. Hypothetically a fully-distributed approach could work better, in the style of Wikipedia. Realistically, well, I have no idea but it's worth a try.
How my iPhone made me miss my first flight of the year
Working on it - http://jellly.com/

Also, just got a Firefox addon working that provides automatic related links to most web pages. Unfortunately, it relies on search now.

But I'm sure that any sufficiently popular content-discovery tool will have a lot of spammers trying to game it. It's not easy to fight that.
Please mention if you're interested in hiring a remote intern.
> Maybe even for the rest of the world except the US?

No, Canada is pretty bad too. I don't know anyone under the age of 30 who cooks, all they do is eat out every single day for every meal.

If they do cook at home it's a frozen pizza or a packaged pasta such as Kraft Dinner.

You're right it's very expensive, I don't know where they get the money. That $10 burger and fries could buy enough food for a few days such as rice, potatoes, pasta.
No, but Colin Needham did.
Oops. Somehow missed that link at the bottom.
IMDB has become so ad and video ridden over the years that I've stopped using it for the most part. Their recent redesign of the detail pages has made it even less useful. There is a open project at http://tmdb.org which is more like what imdb used to be, and it has an API allowing you to integrate it into your own projects.
Headline should perhaps read:

"Reddit incredulity at LACK of Net Neutrality support by Americans"

(Given that only 1 in 5 Americans do support it, according to the linked page.)
BTW, why is it that Google has not opened up its core search engine to third party developers so that their code can be used to bring up some of the search results by default (without requiring the user to subscribe to third party features)?

Most people have never used Google's Subscribed Links feature because it is not enabled by default.

User feedback can be used to determine which third party code to use in which contexts. Spam/unhelpful features would be detected quickly. There would be intense competition among third party developers for highly desired features.

Something like this could give you Wolfram Alpha like features among other things such as custom UIs for various searches (e.g., travel).

The Google App Engine could be used for computation. You could pay third party developers by how often their code is used in search results.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057896
This is exactly what blogger Paul Kedrosky found when trying to buy a dishwasher. He wrote about how he began Googleing for information…and Googleing…and Googleing. He couldn’t make head or tail of the results. Paul concluded that the “the entire web is spam when it comes to major appliance reviews”.

So I happen to know somebody who is taking a small section of the home appliance market and creating content around it -- reviews, news, advice, a place for other consumers to talk to each other.

Of course to do this you need to have income, so they are going to use some sort of ad-supported model.

My question is very simple: is their project a spam site or not? To some, I guess it would qualify. To others, not.

You see, there are two questions when it comes to search results: 1) Am I being presented results that match the query I entered? and 2) Am I being presented results that match what I want to know?

These are two entirely different things. A third-grader looking for information on a movie star might find a games page with all sorts of information on that star -- all sponsored by some kind of adsensey stuff. And he's very happy. A researcher typing in the same question gets the same page? He's pissed.

There is no universal answer for any one question. It's all dependent on the culture, education, and intent of the user -- all of which are not easily communicated to a search engine.

Look -- this is a real problem. I hate it. Sucks to go to pages you don't like. All I'm saying is that it's more complicated than "we need a new Google" Finding what you want exactly when you want it is a difficult and non-trivial problem. We just got lucky in that Google found a simple algorithm that can be helpful in some situations. It may be that we're seeing the natural end of the usefulness of that algorithm.

</soapbox>
Just a bit of feedback here: When you can't help with relocation (which definitely can be costly, don't get me wrong) you contradict the notion that you're a well-funded startup.
The project manager from hell (integrates with Git)
"Having said that though, I feel that the situation is slowly changing in recent years"

You have to be careful when comparing the US to the rest of the world, because the US is the one breaking the ground of new levels of relatively-well-distributed wealth. (Put aside the question of how well for a moment, please.) For instance, it turns out that the US did not have uniquely bad dietary habits around flour and sugar, it's just that the US was the first to discover people really like to eat that crap and could afford the infrastructure to deploy it; now the bad diets and the consequences are spreading like wildfire as the requisite level of wealth is spreading. (dhughes says Canada is there too, certainly they have that level of wealth too.)

Correspondingly, it is hard to know whether the rest of the world cooks their own meals and don't eat out much because of some sort of intrinsic betterness or culture, or because they simply can't afford it yet. Once people can afford it in more places they may be more inclined to eat out. And if they do, they'll start losing the ability to cook overall. Culture may induce some lag but there's no particularly compelling reason to think that more countries won't follow along.
We're hiring Java wizards to work on the core of Tropo. http://tropo.com/

Bay Area preferred, but we'd also love to talk to you if you're located near any other large US city or technology hub (Seattle, Boulder, Austin, Chicago, Boston, NYC, Philly, etc). We're already a distributed team (China, London, Orlando, Philly, Phoenix, and Bay Area) so we're adept at working remotely.

Job description at http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?...

We're also looking for a NOC engineer in Las Vegas. http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?...
Jinx can help verify mutex implementations themselves, although the example code that ships with the product is a little more advanced (lock-free stack). Some of the underlying technology is described here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/corensic/whitepapers/DeterministicSh... and here: http://www.corensic.com/WhyYouNeedJinx/CorensicHasaUniqueTec.... Because it's a hypervisor, it can aid in verifying synchronization primitives that are a mix of userspace and kernel code.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA / Austin, TX / San Antonio, TX

I'm hiring devops integration consultants that want to work on OpenStack helping enterprises and service providers deploy solutions based on it (it is posted as only San Antonio on the job listing but all 3 locations are great, Bay Area would actually be ideal).

http://jobs.rackspace.com/job/San-Antonio-Linux-Cloud-Integr...

Rackspace is also hiring for many positions: http://jobs.rackspace.com/content/map/
I'd rather build one than become one.

http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2010/10/21/tum-rosie-and-pr...
Writing Novel Analysis Term Papers
Analyzing novels can be a tough task for most students. There is much information which needs to be comprehended and this is a task which challenges the students. However, knowing how to write a novel analysis term paper will be greatly beneficial to receive a good grade.
My sample of the US is not large, say between 50 and 100 households in a country of 300 million persons. It tends to be skewed towards the more educated middle to upper middle class. (That is, towards more or less the NY Times demographic.) But the great majority of those households have at least one adult who cooks decently. The person I can think of who goes through the most carry-out lives the sort of frazzled suburban life where the kids have lessons, practices, etc. at frequent intervals, requiring a lot of driving.

And somebody seems to be cooking in the poorer neighborhood a short walk away. The grocery stores have fresh vegetables, meat, 10-pound bags of rice, and so on, along with the canned stuff.

I wonder whether the article isn't aimed at readers in their 20s, on their own for a little while, but not really accustomed to a settled life.

(After looking at dhughes's post: my sample is also skewed toward the baby boomers. Caveat lector.)
Furthermore, I'd love to see a simple thumbs up or thumbs down system integrated into the browser or Google search.

Did this page help you find what you were looking for?
Was this page useful?

etc
People making passing references to Zen as a mental stance, if not a religion. Like I said in my essay, sites like http://cultofless are basically publicity stunts and personality cults. They're out there more to get attention for the authors than to provide any real advice.

As for Everett Bogue, for someone espousing minimalism he sure has a lot of books to sell you.
The official iPhone and iPad applications are nice though. My biggest use of IMDb is while I am watching TV or movies and it's more likely I'll have my phone or iPad than my laptop.

http://thetvdb.com/ is another open project (the data is CC and the software is GPL) that's used by XBMC, Plex and others. It's aimed at software, not people, but it's good for episode listings.
I wouldn't generalize so fast. I live in a student dorm in Quebec where everyone is under 30, and everybody I know cooks themselves. At least basic stuff like toasts or pasta. It's not really practical to eat out every meal in the first place, given the walking distance to the nearest restaurant. Every young adult (~20 years) in my family cooks and owns a set of pots and pans. YMMV.
We're hiring Java wizards to work on the core of Tropo. http://tropo.com/

We're a distributed team (China, London, Orlando, Philly, Phoenix, and Bay Area) so we're adept at working remotely.

Somewhere in the Bay Area preferred, but we'd also love to talk to you if you're located near any other large US city or technology hub (Seattle, Boulder, Austin, Chicago, Boston, NYC, Philly, etc).

Job description at http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?...
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I agree. One particular try failed [1], but that doesn't mean it can't work.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia_Search
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The problem with that, is again, spam. How do you differentiate fake votes from real ones? You can do per-IP limiting, and probably other things I'm not aware of (please comment about them), but it's still pretty open to abuse I'd say.
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[off-topic]

Seriously? x-small?! No matter how pretty you think your site looks if people can't read the fucking text it doesn't matter. On top of that the contrast is terrible making it even worse.

font: x-small "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, Sans-serif;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;

Sorry for the tangent I'm just tired of having to bump up the font size 2-5 times on every damn site I visit. And now I feel old. Shit.

(If you reply mentioning readability I will punch you :p Readability is not a cure-all and messes up some pages)
It seems to me that this particular counter-argument fails, because the floodgates are already open. We've seen this with recent federal action to shut down various domains, without a warrant, and certainly without any kind of due process.

If the gov't is going to nuke domains on a whim anyway, I don't think that some general fantasy about preventing general gov't interference with the net is a good reason to oppose net neutrality. At all.

Nor do I find the argument about "free markets" compelling. In this case, I suspect the free market is likely to find ways to take more money from consumers, rather than protecting consumers by maintaining the net the way it's been for the last couple decades.
How would it be possible to discover content without searching? If I want to discover content about something I have to tell the computer what that something is about, that would be searching. If you are talking about directories, then I wouldn't use that.
In the U.S.A. entire generations have given up on cooking (mainly for apparent comfort), and therefore have forgotten about it. Literally. Even worse, they are therefore incapable of passing on this cultural "rule" either. These kinds of articles are weak window-dressing attempts. Processed food lobby is far more powerful[1,2] (though I suspect Dutch know about industrialized food), so the NYT article is somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jamie_oliver.html

And the tragedy is, that Jamie Oliver has failed to bring in change in schools in in the U.K., so he went off for a larger market (U.S.A.). It is a niche area.

[1] http://www.foodincmovie.com/

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/panorama/2010/12/supermarkets_wha...
Net neutrality debates always seem like epic battles of slippery slopes to me.
Thanks too! I felt I spent too much time reading junk before and now I am really careful in selecting what to read. I have looked at your list briefly and it is great that someone has taken the efforts to pick the gold from huge pile of rubbish. :)
lol fail =)
Thanks for the reference, I wasn't aware some one had already already reported the issue.
You'll find a bunch of remote hiring folks at outsourcing websites.
They have an office in the Sherman Oaks Galleria, though I don't know what they do there. I suspect it's probably people who process the submitted information and work with the studios on ad sales and so on.
That can be easily gamed. We already see this with online marketing/pr companies that try to game other sites such as digg/reddit/etc.
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It's often difficult to hire a remote intern as so much of the benefit from both parties comes from working alongside the other. That's hard to replicate remotely, and you often (but not always) end up as nothing more than less expensive labor.
You think it's a slippery slope that if net providers are allowed to selectively charge more for certain kinds of traffic, they with then proceed to find more ways to implement such charges in order to make more profit?

If so, I would say you might want to read up more on the recent history of corporate America.
It appears to involve a pop-up offering to let me download Google Chrome. I should have known the Googlers would be in on this...
Sure, it's an arms race. The issue is that Google hasn't been trying to keep up.
You wrote it wrong, the date doesn't come first, it is 1/1/11.
nibble would max at 15, byte is 255. But good thinking. :)
Open to exploitation theoretically, or open to exploitation practically? Can we really know this until we try?

I think something like this would be a cool thing for Google to test for a year (a voting system might take a while to set up properly)
Location: Mountain View, CA (a couple blocks from 101)

Remote: Sorry, no remote work

Raptr is hiring for frontend web, backend web, and desktop client application software engineer positions.

http://raptr.com/

We help people get more out of their (video) games. (Finding games, tracking playtime & achievements across multiple platforms, etc.)

We're looking for folks with a solid CS background, and a good top to bottom understanding of large scale web applications.

Backend web positions work on scaling, data, and providing apis to the frontend team (80% PHP, some Python, a tiny bit of legacy Perl).
Frontend web team writes html, javascript, and view layer php code using backend apis.
Client Application team writes a python + QT application for chat + friends + gameplay tracking.

Take a look at the job descriptions at http://raptr.com/info/jobs, and email me (chris-jobs@raptr.com) with resume for quick consideration if you're interested.
Thanks for that, a movie database with an API is a god send for anyone who's had to deal with IMDB's text files.
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Is anyone looking for Erlang developer?