skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google: Googler. Microsoft: Microsoftie. Yahoo: Yahoo. Facebook: Bookie?
As far as Twitter employees are concerned, they're all twits to me.
Quora is hiring in Palo Alto, CA.

Quora is a question and answer site focused on really high quality, authoritative content. The service has a lot of traction and is growing very quickly, especially recently.
We are hiring software engineers and product designers.

http://www.quora.com/about/jobs

For software engineers, we are mostly looking for generalists--who will work on scaling the service as we grow, including work on our real time web framework LiveNode, building and improving rich web application itself, and building new tools and features.

Product designers design and implement the interactions and visuals for the site.

We are also planning on building out our mobile experience more, so anyone interested in iOS or Android should apply.

The company is well funded by Benchmark.

E-mail jobs@quora.com or if you want to get in touch with me directly ccheever@quora.com
One of the problems could be that remote work is not immersive enough.
Something like this?: http://lispgamesdev.blogspot.com/2010/12/iosketch-progress-r...
HubSpot is hiring in Cambridge, MA

We're a software company that delivers marketing software for small businesses. We reach millions of users every month.

We were voted one the best company to work for in the Boston area this year (Google was #2).

We use a combination of Java, Python and PHP. We're one of the top 1,000 most trafficed websites in the U.S. -- so we've got some interesting software challenges.

I'm the founder/CTO. You can email me directly at dshah {at} hubspot {dot} com.
So the goalposts have moved from "won't line up for an Android phone" to "most people won't line up for an Android phone." Progress. Duly noted.
Macbook 5,1 absolutely supports 6GB, NOT 8GB.

The best summary I've found: http://blog.macsales.com/3291-putting-a-rumor-to-rest-owc-su...
Baby Steps :)
I've checked out the Macbook Air at the Apple Store a few times and I'm so close to just selling my i5 MBP for a fully spec out 13" Air. I like the idea of having such a light and still powerful system for web and ios development. From the sounds of it I wouldn't be giving up to much going with the Air over the MBP.
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I think there's a tendency toward cynicism with Wikipedia precisely because it's an amazing idea that, in many ways, has been beautifully delivered on – but that where it falls short, it can be maddeningly frustrating.

It's not all that different from other bureaucracies. Like the bureaucracies responsible for administration in other spheres, the practical result is more than serviceable. Your city council, despite its backroom deals, manages to keep your town livable. Your insurance company, despite its shrewd actuarial restrictions, generally has your back. Wikipedia, despite its policy of deletionism, is a great first resource for a vast variety of subjects.

Every bureaucracy could do with a lot of improvement, and Wikipedia's no different. But we're still much better off with it and its imperfections than we'd be without it.
IQ + EQ + Credit Score + Past successes is about as close as you'll get.
They changed the rules when they published the App Store guidelines PDF.
I'm not sure those can be separated as easily as you point out: SMEs who buy some ads on Facebook, but spend far more by making their page active, headhunters who have a paying account on LinkedIn, can be both considered as models where basic usage is free while more expert features are paying or where network externalities are decisive, and agents pay to benefit from their centrality.
I've made half a dozen or so very detailed models for varying start-ups and therefore have gone through the process a quite a few times.

1) Please make sure you understand accounting/finance (Income, balance sheets, cash flow, inventory, etc).

2) Who is your target: this determines how detailed, modifiable, and annotated the model should be.

3) Don't worry about the assumptions at first, just get best guesses and build it. Then when done hunt through available financial models to find comparable values. (Have all assumptions on 1-2 pages/sheets and nothing else, I usually have 1 for revenue assumptions and 1 for cost assumptions)

4) Make sales targets/growth easy to modify (in a separate table/sheet) so a statistical analysis can be completed easily if needed or different revenue models can be tested.

5) After you've made the model check your calculations by hand and make sure the values make 'sense'.
Surprisingly enough, this paper was the first (that I read) to ever do it; I do spend most of my time categorizing different types of business models (and Freemium is too broad to be useful) and I usually read about the “FLOSS” environment.
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I wast thinking that interface such as Scratch [1] for kids
or BYOB[2] for adultus would be so fun on the ipad.

Scratch is an MIT project based on squeak that allows kids to program by dragging blocks in the screen.

And BYOB is an extension to scratch to use functional programming.

[1] http://scratch.mit.edu/
[2] http://byob.berkeley.edu/
You have hit my motives for the comment on the head, thank you for the elaboration for those who might mistake my intent.
Thinking ahead is good, but precluding a technology because a particular implementation would have to be changed in 5 years is just flat-out silly for tech. You couldn't ever buy a car with criteria like that. Grasping for straws.
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I'd say there's probably a bit of patriotism at work here.
First official 27c3 videos online
What sort of physical trauma causes 1k birds to die in flight?
Why change what works?
Ask HN: iPad + MBP13 vs. iPad + iMac
Which combination do you prefer and why?

If you chose the MBP13, do you/would you use an external monitor?
Event overview:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html

Links to unedited stream dumps:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Documentation
Funny, when Google and Verizon agree on a framework for net neutrality, everyone thinks they are being evil.

When the FTC issues a ruling that looks almost exactly the same, everyone lauds them for their forward thinking stance.

Can you explain what, exactly, you thought was so horrible about what Google and Verizon did?
That assumes the same group of people will be the early adopters for everything

Logically speaking, no it doesn't. Why couldn't a search engine be aware of topic/product areas? Many already are.
I had some fun, fun times attempting to address a wide variety of security issues in code from a partner company at, well, let's call them a popular outsourcing destination. It involved, at one point, having to explain to my management why their least senior engineer needed the webcasting room so that he could explain XSS to the ISO-certified 20+ years of experience blah blah blah project leads over there. "This is not Severity: Cosmetic. It lets anyone expose our corporation to End Of The World Nightmare PR, because they get to [predictable consequence of compromise of system, punchline is 'people die']." "But only if they find out about it, right?"

That was a very, very long 2.5 years.
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That's how YouTube does it, because YouTube is a channel for individuals to share their own content. Wikipedia, on the other hand, requires CC-BY-SA/GFDL licensing, because Wikipedia is a project to develop a knowledge base.

The question is whether StackOverflow is closer to YouTube or Wikipedia. I think it's closer to Wikipedia because it's a curated reference source, not just a medium for self-expression.
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Ask HN: What motivates you to do well in your career?
2011 has officially started and most people have to go back to their jobs in just a few days. What motivation, or even inspiration, do you have in your job or career? How can you find something new in the coming year to motivate you even more than you are currently?
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Submit an exploit anonymously somewhere where it will get published. Obviously, don't indicate that you're an employee. A big benefit of full disclosure is that it doesn't allow companies to sit around and ignore security problems without facing serious liability risks at the very least.
> Why are people so consistently negative about Wikipedia?

I am not negative about Wikipedia, but about its management. The add campaign was distasteful and I suspect just an ego trip for Jimmy Wales.

The real Wikipedia is the thousands of faceless people who write the articles.
This came up in our engineering ethics class in college. Suppose you said "No, that is unethical / professional irresponsible / etc." or its effective-but-weasley younger brother "Please document that request in writing."?
The whole point of the exercise is that people underestimate what is possible in any given situation and misjudge their opportunities.
Don't worry, I ignored his request. :)
I just logged in an it said it will text me at 8am tomorrow? How do you turn it off?
The best presentation is the one never shown
1999 would be MDCCCCLXXXXVIIII under the subtraction-less method. Ouch. Though it still ends up as MCMXCIX doing it the "proper" way despite IM being a cute workaround ;-)
http://shafiq.in/resume
A really easy way is to tell yourself that you'll write only one line of code. Go ahead and do that. Or that you'll do just one pushup or only one line of your blog... It works wonders.
I also fear, that I start working on a problem, give it my best and still fail. It's easier to explain why I failed if I've procrastinated.

I don't think that the pain of context switching explains procrastination fully...
Sweet, thanks for making this free! I actually have a bug report for you, though! ;)

To recreate:

- Add new folder

- In the new folder, add a new idea

- Select the idea to bring up the the data input view

- Make the text field become first responder

- Select the Recent History button to view Data Points

- Hit close

- App crashes

Tested on my iPhone 4/iOS 4.2.1
>Not to be confused with its capital form, ẞ, the Latin letter B, or the Greek letter β (beta).

I know I won't, now that I've been warned.
If you don't have a computer engineering degree I'd forget about trying to obtain a TN. I'm Canadian and was working in the US for many years as a web developer under the TN "scientific technologist" category. I don't have a CE degree, and it was generally very iffy whether they'd extend the TN each year, but they did... until 2008 when they started coming down really hard.

I don't know if they started cracking down on TN's in general, but long story short... even while working legally in the United States and holding a valid TN I ended up getting flagged in the US customs database as an illegal immigrant and will probably have trouble if I even try to visit the country again.
It's actually not easier to eliminate intellectual property altogether. IP laws haven't been enforceable for years, but so far that's resulted in revenues declining across certain industries rather than going away completely. Think of all the change in the past 15 years the entertainment industry has faced and imagine how much bigger in magnitude--and how utterly sudden and catastrophic--immediate IP repeal would end up being.
What I find most frustrating about online comments on Taubes work is the amount of people who assume that this is just another crank peddling nonsense.

I don't think he can complain about that. He takes his case straight to the public, and he uses rhetoric that is likely to be effectively with the public. That's what cranks peddling nonsense do, so by convergent evolution he sounds exactly like them, which makes it much less likely that people will take his ideas seriously enough to find out if he really is a crank.
I can't remember the lineup (where the ST fit in) but I learned how to program on an Atari 400. I'll never forget jamming my fingers into that terrible 'membrane keyboard'. I spent much more of my time playing Star Raiders though.

It does convert the polygons to Bezier curves in the last step, although you can turn that off by changing the 'Curve' parameter to zero.

Thanks, happy New Year
People shouldn't have to line up for any phone. I own an iphone but I'd never line up for it.
It does that and a lot more.

We do base our pricing off a few club-size factors, with ~$300 per club being the low end. If they wanted to pass the price off to members, they would see rates rise $0.50 per person per month.
This could be really interesting project, however using locally stored tasks for a project hosted in distributed VCS renders it pretty much useless.
Git from the Bottom-Up by John Wiegley [pdf]
The point is that if you have only x86 and ARM binaries, you can't run them directly on a new architecture. It isn't a matter of changing an implementation.

It's like trying to run a C64 binary today. The only practical way is emulation, which is slow - but thankfully fast enough in this case. In general though, it means new architectures will run more slowly than existing ones. That's not a good thing.
Simply regarding the pauseless GC aspect, what is preventing someone from adding an existing realtime garbage collector like Rollendurchmesserzeitsammler (hereinafter rdmzs) to OpenJDK? Obviously rdmzs is designed for audio processing, as it bases its heap size on the audio processing cycle time, but are these similar GC concepts, or is the "pauseless GC" mentioned here something completely different from what rdmzs does?
Online vimeo presentation here:

http://vimeo.com/18279777

It starts roughly 13 minutes before DJB actually begins to speak, and you can't fast forward unfortunately.
Your particular problem is most probably their policy of deleting all emails after a certain period of inactivity (90 days if I remember correctly), happened to me too once..
So this makes the Arduino act kind of like a USB bitwhacker? Or does it use a higher level of abstraction than that?

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/762
Ah, that sounds lousy. :( I wonder if it's a defective batch or something in my usage pattern that avoids this issue. Have you tried getting a replacement from a Genius bar? They are usually pretty helpful.
Let me just say that as an indie filmmaker, dealing with IMDB sucks. The submission and update process is terribly confusing and the criteria for what films (and attributes) are acceptable makes Apples App Store rules seem clear and open.

I was very pleased to find several alternatives listed in this thread, thank-you!
Let us know if they return!
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Don't know exactly which areas I just know I've been warned by a few attorneys I know that due to the changes in case law (not newly passed laws). That in some areas it can be argued and argued successfully that not hiring an individual based on their intelligence can be a discriminatory practice. If the test doesn't result in a nominal result between racial groups, in extension the intelligence test can be found racial discriminatory.
All I'm saying is that, even in 2001, it was difficult for a person to by just one or two Sun boxes. Sun didn't care about your business. They had salespeople to ahem qualify you. A hacker needing to get one or two unix boxes up and running was much more likely to buy an Intel-based machine and put Linux on it than buy a low-end Sparc from Sun. As a result, they lost mindshare.
I know this is blasphemy but is anyone running Win 7 on their 11" Air?
Well, what can I say, it turns out people like lining up.
my point exactly.

grid data structures in JS as already beaten to death. there's only the canvas that can be arguably be called new in that article.

But the final fact about JS performance is to understand/benchmark how every browser type/version will do something under the hood.
It doesn't seem like Facebook has much choice, really. Even Google had to take over an existing campus (SGI) that fit their requirements. Can you imagine the expense of building a completely new campus in Silicon Valley?

Apple's been planning to build a new campus for years. Even they had to buy an existing property (HP's old campus), and reportedly are planning to build an entirely new campus on the same land.

As successful and rich as Facebook is, they aren't Apple-rich. They probably aren't even Apple-picky about what their new campus is like--not that they don't care, but it's hard to imagine anyone else having the same level of perfectionism as Apple.
"come to the point"? Wasn't it just 10 years ago people were saying "Go big or go home"? It's not like this misconception is anything new.
I am shocked with Microsoft's abilities at ruining a product.
RAID-0 after having one die? RAID-1 would still get you double read speeds in the cases that tend to matter (small scattered reads), right? And is there a use-case for double write speeds on a non-server machine?
It's not just a phone, it's a classic case of people's need to separate themselves into groups (I am an x user, he is an y user) and then battle it out against those who pose a threat to our tribe, and to say negative things about those who are outsiders, while saying positive things about our fellow tribesmen.

It's the same thing that happens with football teams, rival schools, those who insist "in America, we speak English", etc.
Even they had to buy another company's old campus--even though they're rich and perfectionist enough to tear it down and build a new one on top of it. It doesn't sound like there's much room to develop new real estate in Silicon Valley.
My comment was not directed at you. I was simply stating a general fact. In this context it also took me a second to realize it was an ad.
Interesting observation. I've observed many times it's just about opening the appropriate file/IDE and the rest takes care of itself.
A good time to watch "Airport 79, the concorde" with Delon and crew. (available on Netflix Instant)
An oxyacetylene welding mask would probably work, since they are less opaque than an arc welding mask.
Is there any better metaphor for creative destruction than this? Google bought SGI's campus just as SGI died, and now Facebook is scavenging Sun's campus. The new rising from the ashes of the old, and so forth.
Compliance levels in studies aren't relevant to our individual choice of diet, though, because we can observe our own compliance for ourselves by recording our intake. Observing our own bodies' response to a diet takes a much bigger commitment, so it's nice to have some generalizations from science. For the public health debate, there's no reason to separate the two, but from an individual perspective it is unnatural not to.

It's one thing believe that the jury is still out on some of this; it's quite another to stick to preexisting beliefs on the grounds that virtually all recent studies have some flaw or other.

Interesting that you assume I have some particular opinion :-) I don't necessarily disagree with Taube, though I don't think it signifies much that he can persuasively make a point and disparage those who disagree with him when he's talking to lay people. I'm just tired of seeing studies discussed as if the results reflect what happens when people actually follow some particular diet, when that's not what researchers are really interested in. (I.e., researchers take compliance as part of the phenomenon being studied, but journalists and lay people reading and discussing the results assume that compliance is uniformly good or has been factored out somehow.)

Edit/PS: If you interpret studies as showing what happens when people actually eat a certain diet, then compliance _is_ a flaw -- a really big one! We don't know what people are actually eating, only that on average it's significantly more than they report. And there's no questions researchers would _like_ to know how actual intake relates to weight gain or loss. It's just rather inconvenient and expensive to find out, and it's arguably less important than the public health question of how instruction/exhortation relates to weight gain or loss.
I am curious about learning what it is like to work for Canonical. eg, Linking to some blogs of people already on the team would help.
My mind just tells me "one line of code doesn't matter, so you can skip it", which gets me nowhere.
Isn't there a procrastination option for your login in HN? I'm not sure what it does, though.

It'd be neat if you could create an account on HN that only allowed you to see the top 20 stories for yesterday and the associated comments, and that's it. If you wanted the normal view, you'd need to log out, and type in your normal account name + password. Thus, you get a small break from work, but the site limitations prevent you from wasting too much time. The pain of logging in/out prevents you from circumventing it (I mean, you could log in/out, but hopefully you don't for your own good).

IMO, putting sites into your hosts file is too draconian - when the mind starts to wander, it'll want to find a place to roost. If you deny it even a tiny perch (like a hobbled HN), it'll flitter to other, unprotected pastures (like slashdot or reddit).
The only winning move, is not to play. Facebook-free even in 2011, and I still have friends, a social life, and all the perks of 'being human', with none of the Facebook privacy problems. :-)
really, so you would be totally OK if someone copied your article and slapped their name on it, or took your fictional characters and wrote some stories where they are made to be the scum of the earth?
http://www.getaquirk.com/

And my Rate My post from ~August: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672140

I've moved away from it since, though.
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Success and happiness cause you to regain willpower

I discovered this a while ago and found a good hack for it. I created a fake index, and within this index, I listed companies. Each company means something: progress in work, proficiency in English, learning, reading, self-improvement...

The day opens at 10 A.M, when I wake up. The trade begins. If I work or make money, the index rise (one of the company indexes or more). If I procrastinate, I lower the index. This makes me uncomfortable, because I'm looking to grow the index and not actually lower it. So, I get back to work to get the index up or reduce loses.

Sometimes I'm very productive; I don't even check it out. I don't rise it a lot after that. But other times, I procrastinate a lot, so I return back to the index and drop it dramatically. I feel like I'm obliged to safe the situation, so I work to reduce the loses.

This also keeps me with all my goals, as I care about the global index and also companies indexes.

hint: You need to make this index a part of your life. That's necessary if you want that it forces you to work.
Wow, This was a pleaſure to read! This is the quinteſsential obſcure but captivating topic that nerds like us love. I'm impreſsed by the level of detail that was put into this.
FrozenCache - Mitigating cold-boot attacks for Full-Disk-Encryption software
Legal but unethical.
Apple vs. Android: The view from Google
Someone should just auto-vectorize them using something akin to

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_...
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How cool that they made their own art because they couldn't afford to buy any.
There used to be a help button next to the text box for replies. Where has it gone?!
Thank you.

It slightly reminds me of mercuryapp.com. That one asks you how you feel about stuff.

I didn't use it much, instead I wrote a diary where I rated my efforts every day and I added a little note.