skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. There is alot of work being done in this space to my knowledge. I know pg has mentioned that there at least a couple YC startups working on this problem and there is already a contingent of sites out there.

There are many different problems in the hiring process and thus opportunity to attack it from many different angles. See some of these:

http://www.simplicant.com/
http://www.iapplicants.com/
http://www.applicantstack.com/
http://www.theresumator.com/ (sexy!)

I've never met anyone that was perfectly content with the way they find and hire people. Not that my experience is huge in this area, but I think there is plenty of room for disruption. And with that comes plenty of room for competition.

2. I've never heard of anything like this, but it sounds like a useful tool. From my anecdotal experience with translators, it seems most of them are in such high demand that they don't need a marketplace (I know 1 in Chinese, 2 in Arabic). Then again, these are full time jobs for the people I know, it might be different for those who work as contractors on shorter projects. The bottom line is that this idea seems like it will require heavy networking effort and may not work out; I'd want to do some market testing really early to test the viability of it.

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If I had to choose between one of these, I'd probably pick #1 and tightly focus on a very specific problem. If you could make an elegant solution for just one piece of the hiring puzzle, you get two outs: a standalone product or a potential acquisition target as this space develops over the coming years. A translation marketplace sounds interesting but building the network/community will be challenging and time-consuming; regardless of your technical solution, you could still fail at creating critical mass. This adds risk of spending much time before you know it will fail; without market validation, I'd be hesitant.

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(shameless plug) If you'd like to discuss your ideas more, I've got an invitation to http://www.sparkmuse.com with your name on it. Sparkmuse is a community site I'm building where internet entrepreneurs can gather to get feedback, refine, and act on their ideas. We just started the alpha last week~
I've used Dolphin on my Android G1 running version 1.6 since they announced the flaw in the standard browser that allows websites to read your SD card. I'm assuming the default browser on my phone is still vulnerable to that and will be for some time to come.
Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Great community. Membership is $100 per month. Around the corner from YC.
What the price of oil does and what you think it will do are often two completely separate things.

One quick point-- Argentina might have more reserves than Saudi, but how much does it cost to pull it out of the ground? 60 years ago Saudi just stuck a straw in the ground to pull out its resources, but now most extractions require the equivalent of a small space station just to get started. Brazil is facing the same issue with its deepwater reserves, and I'd expect Argentina to have similar obstacles.
They can submit their schedule data to Google but not let anyone else see it. AC Transit is another agency that is in Google Transit but does not give the general public access to their GTFS schedule data.
FUD and more FUD. Desktop Linux will never die, because the people who use it are die-hard themselves. Contrary to what many think, the open source desktop is here to stay.
No I didn't miss the point. My point is that you don't need to fiddle with Linux. You can, but you don't have to. You don't need to spend hours configuring anything.

Why worry about drivers? In Linux, all drivers come bundled with the operating system. On Windows or a Mac you have to install them yourself.

As for your App Store argument: what percentage of Mac applications are available on the App store. Adobe apps are the reason many people run Macs -- what are the chances we'll ever see those there?
Fair enough. I agree with you that "the main reason to stay in college" should not be to meet women, but I do think it's a valuable benefit of the college experience. Especially in such a male-dominated industry, having females in my social circle is an important consideration.
Review my startup: RegistryStop, a centralized wedding registry
Registry Stop grew out of my frustrations with the wedding registry process. During the process managing multiple in store registries, getting duplicate items, and just the problem of dealing with sales people became quickly frustrating. We created Registry Stop to allow couples to not worry about which stores they registered at, instead they only have to focus on the products they want. As a result we let users register anywhere, meanwhile we show their guests where they can find the best price.

http://www.registrystop.com

Our goal was to make adoption and use as simple as possible for users. Whether they started with us, or used us later into the process we wanted it to take no more than a few seconds for them to be fully ramped up on us. If they start with us, they have the ability to download an iPhone app and begin scanning barcodes immediately. If they've already registered at an existing store we search and find their registry for them, then import all of that data.

We'd love any feedback on any areas people are willing to offer up. In particular:
- If the message is clear
- If the signup and adding process is clear
- Styling for the target market (weddings)
> The question didn't ask for an example where attack advertising directly led to growth.

I think that's an awfully pedantic interpretation of the original question. To me, 'Can you give some examples of companies that have successfully "smeared" the market leader with FUD and ended up ahead?' very clearly implies just that.
Ask HN: How would YOU hack Chromium's Omnibar?
An interesting issue. Chrome/Chromium allows practically any search site to be the default for the Omnibar. However, going through the normal routine of tools>>preferences>>manage search engines, and attempting to put in https://encrypted.google.com, results in a search option added that is not allowed as a default search engine. How would you hack it?
Fedora 15 Changing The Network Device Naming Scheme
I was a C++ developer at Be, that made an alternative OS called BeOS. Perhaps a few of you have heard of it (heh).

Unfortunately, I started too late, after the company had more or less given up trying to market BeOS as a standalone product. They had shifted their focus to internet appliances. We were working on the Sony eVilla at the time, which proved to be a huge disaster.

The company had been managing to get investments for 11 years, based on their excellent tech demos. But when the dot-com bust happened, the funding dried up. The company was acquired by Palm, and all but the 50 most valuable employees were laid off. I definitely wasn't in that elite group, so I was out the door.

That was the one and only time I've managed to get hired at an A-level tech company. I suck at marketing myself.
Define "logical internal structure"? Most code in a library won't be differentiated by use unless you can provide WPO or PGO-based feedback that you trust as representative. As for the next obvious question ("why not just read in the whole thing?"), I think you can probably guess.

I'm not sure how yucky this is. The world is analog. MSFT made things go faster without asking developers to change anything they were doing. I wish more OSes showed more of this sort of user-centric, data-driven prioritization of feature development.
Yeah, I'm not sure the analogy is a great one.
580 and 570 are actually based on the GF110 chip.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580
Is this really a hackspace? I know it's a woolly word, but a hackspace seems like a different thing to a coworking space - less focused on building businesses, and more on making cool shit and the sense of community.

Sure there's overlap, but it seems to me the ideal time at a coworking space would be quiet crunching on your business, with some interesting people to chat to in the kitchen. The best times at a hackspace are when someone gets an idea, and someone else gets excited, and before you know it you're learning how to cast something in resin. The hackspace is the ideal "Third Space", whereas a coworking space is still ... work. Cool work, and hopefully pleasant and fulfilling to be at, but still work.
Elad's articles are always insightful. I had a similar discussion recently with a friend of mine, and here is what we came up with from our point of view:

Layers of valuation -
Level 1: Talent,
Level 2: IP,
Level 3: Product,
Level 4: Market Validation,
Level 5: Profits,
Level 6: Branding

Level 1 can be multiplied by connections to people with influence and deep pockets. Level 2 can be multiplied by a proven, protectable technology that speculatively can solve a very big product problem. Level 3 can be multiplied if it addresses a very large market. Level 4 can be multiplied based on traction - users / revenue. Level 5 can be multiplied based expected growth rate of profits. Level 6 can be multiplied based on the businesses presence in the industry, and/or with its customers.

For me, its useful to look at the valuation as a function of risk mitigation based on asset class. For instance, where Elad points to 'Team Hire' and 'Team Buy', in both cases I think risk mitigation is largely a function of the talent reputation of the team in the eyes of the potential buyer. In this sense (reputation-based), any valuation of talent acquisition can be viewed as the net social capital of that team. However, this valuation basis become irrelevant with the presence of a solid product or intellectual property.
AFAIK the "drop-in" membership isn't full yet, just the dedicated desks. The common space is beautiful and well-designed; there are details that aren't finished (I think more couches are going in soon) but the vibe is nice and I've already met some nice NYC folks there.
In other words, the volatility of oil prices can kill your leveraged investment even if your long term bet on rising oil prices is correct
MapBox: Creating custom maps in the cloud
idle curiosity; anyone know if Adam Pritzker is one of the Pritzkers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_family
NYTimes Emphasis Update and Source - JS hotlinking to paragraphs / sentences
Ask HN: any contract draft before beginning a startup
A friend of mine and me (both early 20s) are teaming up with a seasoned professional person who owns a PR agency. We are jointly developing an Internet marketing idea that could turn out profitable.
Me and my friend are the technical people, and the older person is bringing some connections to the table.

Before any money comes in I thought of drafting up a contract to define our exact roles, responsibilities and shares.

Do you have any such a draft document?
Any remarks or suggestions?
Yep, my bad. So they went from ~86K in August 2009 to ~250K in September 2010. That's impressive! I didn't realize SO had that many members.
You might be right about standpoint epistemiology, I can't say I understand it well enough to comment.

But intersectionality is merely the hypothesis that the dimensionality of experiencing oppression is O(a^n) rather than
merely O(n). I.e., discrimination(black woman) != discrimination(black) `simple operation` discrimination(woman). Similarly, as you note, oppression theory is a hypothesis + moral conclusions narrowly restricted to a particular type of social science.

Probability and the concept of "Garbage In, Garbage Out" are useful to all fields. The CAP theorem, the schrodinger equation and oppression theory are pretty narrow in their scope.
Which sites would break, and why? (genuine question, not contrariness) I've always assumed that cross-site Referer is sufficiently brittle that one cannot depend on it, since it's isn't there if one enters a URL by hand or arrives via a redirect. And while I like it for use within a site, it seems that Cookies have taken over for most uses.

Sorry about the sloppiness with HTTP_REFERER vs Referer. You are correct --- I tend to think of it from the CGI point of view rather than browser. Browser sends Referer as an HTTP header, which web servers commonly set in the environment as HTTP_REFERER. Thus the question should be "Why not have browsers default to not sending the HTTP Referer header?"
Not exactly a bubble; just because a few people give a startup money, doesn't mean every or any startup is getting money.
Please send me a pull request if you're able to figure out what is going on :(
More Developers for Co-founderdatingSF Lunchbunch
Iphone, Web, Android...come join a forming group of web designers and entrepreneurs for a casual twice a week lunchbunch to find your next project/start-up.
Meets in San Francisco, tuesday and thursday lunches.
email me the event organizer, Tricia Rampe, triciarampe@gmail.com and see my personal business website. www.artcrush.me
Mendeley to organize, Xournal to read + annotate, git to store, share, sync.

The git part somewhat laborious, but until SparkleShare gets released officially that's what I'll work with.

I should add that I arrived at Mendeley after Bibdesk, after Zotero.
Why not just block all 3rd party cookies in your browser config? That easily possible with Firefox and Chrome and almost all sites work fine without 3rd party cookies. Seems that 99% of the use-cases are tracking related anyway.
I agree. I hope that more journals adopt the JMLR model. The university system is already paying for all the editors we need. No need to pay twice now that distribution costs are near zero.
Testing with Scala for Fun and Profit
So? REST does not limit the amount of operations you can do on resources.
No! You don't get off so easily - you have publicly recommended an investment strategy that allocates 15% (15%!) to a vehicle that you didn't understand and was completely innappropriate.

"switch your recommendation" ??? This is like suggesting a bank use memcached for transactional data, and when called on it, just casually walking it back and saying that maybe Oracle is more appropriate.

It's fantastic that you are getting involved with planning your finances, but you have a lot to learn before giving advice.

:EDIT - This may seem harsh, but I don't believe you have gone through the pain of giving someone investing advice and having it really substantially costing them. I have, and it's very painful. And it could have been worse for me because in that situation the person was young enough to recover and it wasn't a substantial amount of money. Imagine losing an older, retired person a substantial portion of their nest egg with bad advice and consigning them to a lower standard of living for the rest of their life.

I have been investing my own money in stocks, funds, and to a small extent, options for about a decade. I participate of message boards, read books, and participate in stock picking competitions. I still don't feel qualified to give good financial advice. YMMV.
It's possible that they raised the money to pursue some significant tech behind a portion of their product; it could be possible that they are on the cusp of making vast advances in text-to-speech synthesis, and they needed more funds to see it through. (Possible, but not probable.)
"in other words"
Javascript API for  SlideShare
I wonder if any Qwiki people read HN would like to respond to this outpouring of negativity directed at them around here. Not saying I disagree with the criticism, just would like to get their point of view.
Ask HN: How to write a good product requirements doc / specification?
What resources do you suggest for learning how to write a good PRD or spec for an application one wants to build?
If the author is correct and all Qwiki is doing is reading wikipedia and maybe some of the related sources then yes it is unbelievable that they have gotten funding.

It also makes me realize that most of my business ideas are way too complex in an effort to provide real value. I throw away ideas like Qwiki because I wouldn't feel like I'm providing much value. I need to shift my focus to creating dead simple, but very pretty websites and see what sticks. :)
English is my second language, but I'll take that question.

I believe is a matter of politeness and being helpful. You could have asked the author if English was his second language and sent him an email with a list of typos. Instead you chose to state publicly what you found wrong with the form of the post offering no possible solutions for the author and adding nothing to the discussion. Also, because you didn't write much, it looks like you are dismissing the blog post because of a few typos.

I get what you where trying to convey: typos are annoying, and sometimes they make consuming the content really difficult. However, to say that the concept was overwhelmed by typos is a big overstatement. I had no problems reading and understanding what Spyou was talking about, and for the looks of it the mayority of the readers did not either.

Don't mean to offend you nor make you angry, I'm sorry if it comes out that way.
>Rather, it's that the data you gave to Google is now being given to other sites without your knowledge

That is a completely unsubstantiated claim. Given to who?

>Maybe you didn't hear about the case about the school district spying on students by accessing their web cams in their laptops?

I did hear about that. It was a huge controversy and when people found out about what the school district was doing people got in trouble. That wasn't ok and people were up in arms about it. That still isn't even an example of what you were stating because it was a one-off thing that people weren't aware of and when they became aware of it the problem was fixed.

>You think people are aware that they are sending the resulting site specific data about their searches?

Perhaps not, but I did clarify in the following sentence my exact meaning of "opt-in" in this case, which you seem to be ignoring. So what if sites get the search queries? I have sites too and my Google Analytics shows what people are searching for to reach my site. Do I know who those people are? Not at all, not in any way shape or form.

>But being tracked by businesses you never knew existed without every visiting their site isn't a far leap.

Yes it is. Some Website knowing that some browser searched for some keyword is still an incredibly far leap from being tracked in your home by video cameras.

>Finally, stop being antagonistic. Your insults are childish. You can disagree, but you can do so being less rude.

I have not insulted you once. Telling you to get real is not an insult, not under any stretch of the imagination. Especially given the context of the remark. Perhaps I am being a little harsh, but only because your argument went from worthy of a response to completely off-the-wall.
Is this that moment in time where because popular opinion says we're in a bubble, we're actually NOT in a bubble?

Just food for thought - check out http://www.qwiki.com/for-publishers.

Let's say that they pick up a reasonable number of tier-1 publishers into this format.

Heck maybe they already have commitments and that was part of their pitch in raising the additional $8m.

How would that change your perception of their valuation?

Beyond that, look at the "team" page.

Content monetization is a HUGE area of opportunity online and that's one heck of a team they've compiled - would you rather give those guys $8m and bet on a huge one or throw your money into the stack at AOL's public offering?
Witchcraft is drawing large conclusions from statistically insignificant data.
How Facebook Could Reach $100+ Billion 
NYT article based off of Trefis Facebook analysis. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/how-facebook-could-reach-125-billion/
For .NET devs: Always use something that implements IList instead of a primitive array. As Eric points out, you can make it read-only and avoid the malloc frenzy that occurs under the hood when you work with methods that return primitive arrays.

You can also inherit from any of the IList / IEnumerable / ICollection types and make customizations to better support parallelism, memory usage, etc... I've done implementations on top of IQueue (a cousin of IList) before to support custom Reader/Writer scenarios for a parallelized polling service (in-memory job queue) and it worked well.
Precisely. Persistent Data Structures are the future.
I disagree. I think the "us vs them" mentality will exist in many people, and sports fanaticism creates a harmless outlet for it. If we deprive the "us vs them" minded people of harmless outlets like team sports, they may instead focus their attention on political or ethnic teams.

If there is any substitution affect at all, I suspect sports fanaticism is highly beneficial - compare the damage done by rampaging celtics fans to the damage done by rampaging communism fans or rampaging hutu fans.
I see sports fanaticism as an extension, or an abstraction, of a hard-wired tribalism that I expect was a defining feature of social life for pre-modern humans and probably pretty useful in that environment. (In much the way allenp notes below.)

I try to avoid loutish public expression of it as much as possible. But I still find myself impulsively taking sides in sports contests whether it's Packers vs. Bears on tv, or Android vs iPhone in my favorite online forum, with all the attendant assignments of good and evil.

It's hard in my experience to avoid tribalism but easier to hide. I like people who take a side (well, my side, anyway) where it counts and I recognize that where it counts is a slippery matter. Being able to suppress the expression of gratuitous tribalism is, for me, one of the markers of a cultivated mind.
Citizen Space: http://citizenspace.us/
New Google App Engine Developer Meetup at Google Cambridge
Sandbox Suites: http://sandboxsuites.com/
Yes, it's a code signing cert.

If you have access to a Windows machine, visit http://bit.ly/eWYRbA in IE then check your personal cert store for Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique
There is no way you can know if the content of the article will actually be useful - there goes $15 down the drain. if my local library has ACM access, yay... but it doesn't. So they get content for free from academics, sell it at a profit, while the academics get nothing for their work and have their content limited to an audience that might not be the one they actually want to reach - it could be, but they've just signed away their content for nothing and have no control on who can can see it, not even they can see it... Some academics publish just because they have to, so ACM is fine for them, but a lot are not like that, and ACM is taking advantage of the situation.

The only reason I would pay for content is to give back to the author for taking the time to commit to paper the information that was useful to me. Paying to some organization that's taking advantage of people for profit... no, thank you.
"I have never felt at home in their UI"

To me their UI is just plain awkward. I use a Mac at work so most of my days are spend working on a Mac desktop. Frustration would be a good way to describe it, but of course you can't say that since it's supposed to be perfect.

At home I've been running my Ubuntu desktop for over 5 years now. It's great. Especially when you compare Finder to Nautilus.
What's concerning is that people conflate the science that the earth is warming with the "non-science" that some catastrophic event is looming on the horizon if we don't stop that warming. The first is a testable hypothesis. The latter, when you consider the complexity of modeling climate and ecology, is at best no different than stock picking. That's why I disagree with the notion that climate skeptics are intellectually insincere in questioning climate change; whether they are right or not, there is a possibility this could be the next eugenics-like pop junk science where we are told we should make sacrifices because of some purported "theory".
The difference between programming and software development