skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also examples of commercial software distributed free of charge with no license agreement whatsoever. I sincerely hope that the decision that using software is a "copy" right not implicitly granted by its distribution is overturned, as the notion is truly ludicrous.

That doesn't necessarily mean that EULAs would be unenforcable; one could still argue that the license page of the installer is an effective access control mechanism between the user and the software, possibly invoking some twisted interpretation of the DMCA.

...and I hate that I feel like I have to put this, but as I mentioned elsewhere, IANAL.
Couldn't have found a more linkbait title if I tried.
It's quick and dirty and manual right now. But if you've heard of us at this stage you'd probably make a pretty good alpha user.
Does "being the Quora of something" mean that you get hyped up a lot but ultimately are beaten out by a more focused (albeit less hyped) competitor?
Schemes that avoid users like you may be good business, similar to the way that fine-grained low pricing invites pathological users.
Except when the device makers mount them vertically or upside down.
ECalico: a TweetWall on a huge mobile screen for demonstrations 2.0
Too impatient to unit test
Not sure they like it, I think they just don't mnid and its the only "less formal" option there is on a typical user's font list.
You might have tried something like http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=theinvisibl.co...

But I don't think that works here either.

It looks like they changed the page name from "http://www.theinvisibl.com/news/2009/12/08/a-piece-with-a-lo... as that is the name cached by Google. Perhaps some clever cloaking for SEO purposes ...?

Ordinarily a Google search for "link:http://www.theinvisibl.com/news/2009/12/08/a-piece-with-a-lo... site:ycombinator.com" would do it I think.
Does anyone know what a senior dev @ google w/a Masters degree in CS could expect to earn a year?
Here's screenshot of how it looks: http://developer.linkedin.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadIm...

However the reason LinkedIn does it is probably because the nature of information accessed is very fragile.

Similar, but slightly different solution, I'd suggest, would be to track by provider if application is actively used and perhaps revoke token after some period of time (or at least present user with that data on their profile settings page).
OAuth is powerful and awesome because even when people hand over full control they can revoke that access at any time they want.

Previous to OAuth people would hand over their credentials to third party apps. That's what sucking looks like.
Landing page is a general term which people use to mean a coming soon page or home page. It's best to take its literal meaning - a page where a potential user lands.

Did you see this http://soonhere.com? It was on HN in the last few days. It is again just a "coming soon" page tool, but a 1000 times easier to use than anything else I've seen.

Basically, your concept is good but your site is a bit too abstract. Usually programmers are guilty of talking too much about features and not enough about benefits.

You can keep the abstract part as long as you add more substance. Instead of a sign up button, link to a live demo or trial. Or at least put up a video.
> The reduction comes a month after the Web portal let around 600 workers go as part of a strategy by Carol A. Bartz, the chief executive, to pare costs and reinvigorate a stagnant business. Previous rounds of layoffs took place in 2009 and 2008.

Huge mistake - pretty much all the literature on the topic agrees that slow trickles of layoffs are disastrously bad for morale.

If you have to make cuts, you really want do it once, all at the same time, and then put it behind you.
The place has a grim fascination for me as somewhere that was obviously a planned ground-zero for a Soviet nuke - probably a ground burst.

(NB I live between central Edinburgh and Corstorphine Hill).
What the?!

Can you at least give notice that it's an auto-playing video. Some of us are on dialup out here... and can use a cell phone for high speed every so often.
Extra option: I never applied and was hired. Believe it or not we have recruiters out there sourcing candidates. I have personally interviewed people who were asked to apply by recruiters but who did not apply on their own.
I'd argue this Twitter item is cute but a bad example:

http://littlebigdetails.com/post/2922618704/offcial-twitter-...

There's absolutely no indication that doing this is possible. Clever UI is neat but if your users never know it's there, you're wasting your time. A little handle, some sort of visual indicator that an action is possible would make for a better interface. Twitter (neé Tweetie) is my favorite Twitter app for iPhone or OS X, but this kind of easter egg functionality is sprinkled throughout and it just makes me sigh.
I tend to think that Google really suffers when smart people like you don't even try to apply.

I think the typical awesome engineer is just a shade too self-deprecating to even think it possible to get hired there.
This sounds like feedback roulette only with a manual vetting process instead of feedback points. I enjoy doing good reviews for feedback roulette but I get lots of feedback points for it. What do Alpha users get? Paid?
Yeah, but it works because a.) Zach follows through with the metaphor throughout the article and b.) it isn't slimy self promotion.
Her strategy is to focus on Yahoo’s strengths like display advertising and editorial content

So... old media?

Feel sorry for yahoo, this is what happens when you have incorrect leadership.
I also never understood this design decision. I can't count how many times I struggled to plug something in at the back of a PC in a poorly lit room. They should really start making this and it should become the standard.
To be honest I don't really think Stack Exchange and Quora are the same thing. Or, to be jargonny, "we're not in the same space."

Quora is Yahoo!Answers done really well... it's more social and bloggy, and it's for chat and subjective questions. It's kind of like Twitter in a Q&A format with long, blog-type answers. It's full of VCs and tech journalists, unlike Yahoo!Answers which is full of teenagers asking questions about reproduction in mammals.

Stack Exchange is more a reference tool... something you use when you NEED a specific answer to an actual question that actually has an answer. We're the reference section of the library, they're an awesome salon where smart people are shootin' the shit.
(Rare?) I never applied, but was hired anyway!
Anyone knows where I can find a clean version of the picture that is on their front page ?
The three reasons I see are speed, security, and workflow. A static site will generally be faster (although with good caching and configuration, you can generally make Wordpress pretty fast). Also nice to not have to worry about any potential WordPress exploits. Finally, since WP entries are stored in a database, the most common way to create and edit them is through the browser. Lots of folks are more productive with the editors they are already using for coding websites.

That said, WordPress successfully powers millions of sites and certainly isn't going away. And since it is dynamic, you get some nice features that would be difficult to replicate with the static site approach. If it works for you, I'd stick with it without worry.

Finally, you can always publish a static clone of a blog created in Wordpress. I've done this before on production sites and it worked well. An extra step, but I got the speed I was after without having to migrate or recreate the site.
a. Open ID is a protocol not an api ... I'm talking about something more akin to the old way twitter used to verify twitter logins in their api
b. Open ID deals mainly with authentication ... I'm talking about both authenticating and providing access to limited user information ... email, name, phone ... that sort of thing.

I just think Open ID was over elaborate, I'm hoping something simpler could succeed where it has failed.
Hope that makes sense.
Small thing: I think having the name be the first item in the title is much better as far as tab navigation:

"SnapBill - Online Invoicing and Billing System" as opposed to the current "Online Invoicing and Billing System - SnapBill"
I would love to do this as a weekend project, although I don't have the first clue as to what fonts should be recommended based on what uses are intended. Anyone interested in collaborating? I'll do the backend and you develop the questions and font recommendations.
I picked up one of these from IKEA, it took me over 2 weeks to put together.
Deliver an Experience, not just a Benefit
Ask HN: Anybody on Forrst?
I'd love to get an invite. I applied for one on the site but am not holding my breath :(
USB ports are probably current limited, so it's unlikely that a momentary short will burn them out. However, dissipating 2.5-4W (depending on the port's power capability) through a few small components will cause them to heat up over time, which may burn out the port.
I guess we do.
Google wants to hire more than 6,000 workers in 2011
Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
I setup a poll to see how many of you won't ever apply to Google simply because you don't think you have a snowball's chance.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140822
Like it generally. Reminds me of brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ in form.

Typo: "a landing page for each of your idea to test" s/idea/ideas

Also, hate the logo. Not overawed with the name (ugly to me) but could settle with it.
FTFY: A USB plug that goes both ways

A word gets the 'an' article based on pronunciation, not the mere fact that it starts with a vowel. Say it: "a you es bee"

See? It has a consonant sound so 'a' sounds better.
Stack Exchange is mostly Questions & Answers

Quora is mostly Questions & Opinions
For now, the thanks of grateful founders. (/West Wing'd!)

Over time, yeah, we've considered ways to help them get paid for feedback. Note how one-on-one conversations are opt-in for alpha users, for instance. If they don't want to be bothered, but they want to give feedback, AlphaList is great for that.

Again, we're trying to optimize for the lowest barriers possible for those who are willing and able to help others out.
Google is probably the highest paying large software company at the moment. Their base pay is very much above market at the moment due to its recent across the board 35ish% raises. It will be interesting to see how large companies like Microsoft will respond when their recruiting numbers drop.

Your master's degree does not have much of an impact, but I know personally of strong performers at Google with 3-4 years of experience who are receiving 135k-150k in base salary + other goodies such as their obscene bonus scheme and stock grants.
It's really easy to get customer service from G. They provide, free, to each customer their famous "fuck off and die while we totally ignore you" brand of customer service that has propelled them to the very bottom of JD Power Customer Service Surveys.

Or, you can have a blog with huge reach and bitch on that, whence Matt Cutts will swoop out of the sky to cover up their fuckups. viz slow email and Gabriel Weinberg.

So the real question is if you complain on the internet, how many people hear you?

Honestly, letting G get their hands on anything that's critical to your life seems an enormous mistake, unless it wouldn't be a big problem for you if your phone stops working.
Presumably following the right topics and people will allow you to filter out the senseless and inane questions. They also are trying to do a better job of monitoring them than many other Q&A sites, incorporating also crowd monitoring.
I suspect that any crack site worth its salt is hosted in one of the 300-odd nations of the world where the DMCA doesn't apply (and, specifically, in the subset of those that don't have anything similar).
I switched Midgard Create, our CMS UI to use it instead of our custom persistence system. Cleaned the code a lot, and opened quite a few new possibilities.

Here is the client end:
https://github.com/bergie/midgardmvc_ui_create/blob/master/s...
And the server end:
https://github.com/bergie/midgardmvc_ui_create/blob/master/c...

...and the concept explained:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/using_rdfa_to_make_a_web_page_edit...
Pretty excited for this idea. Feels like the type of thing that could really explode.
All power meters work by measuring both voltage and current and multiplying. Even without local generation, power periodically (60/50Hz) flows back into the grid (except when the load is purely resistive aka power factor of 1).

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

The mechanisms in old meters were just designed with the assumption that the net flow was always into the house (perhaps in response to the various tricks people would use to artificially slow their meters). A modern digital meter doesn't have to do anything special to measure the direction for net metering.
"Nothing like this will be built again": a tour of a working nuclear reactor
I don't know, it's got a nice "As Seen on TV" feel.
It's kind of you to say but the reason our sales and marketing was poor was that we couldn't figure out what we were selling or marketing. Try as we might we couldn't figure out who really wanted it and where to make money.

Most websites simply can't see enough of a bang for an engineering buck they could be spending on something else (i.e. they don't even want to install it, never mind pay for it) and if it's done well consumers don't even see it so there's no money to be had from them either.

I'm sure we could have made it all slicker still but even Facebook login takes some justification and Clickpass didn't deliver anything like the value that that does.
The Right Way to Order Your Navigation Links
Oh wow, this is spectacular. I can't tell you how many times I've done this:

- USB plug doesn't fit. Must be wrong way. Switch!
- Still doesn't fit. REALLY doesn't fit.
Must have been the other way around. Switch again!
- Finagle it a bit more than the first try. OK, fits now.
I don't think developers get that users simply don't care about this kind of stuff.

There's a reason Steve Krug titled his book on good UI design 'Don't make me think'. We should be trying to make things simpler (from the User's POV) not more complex.
There are some subtle effects with Comic Sans that don't get considered, even by big companies.

For example, my old phone was a Samsung Blackjack II running Windows Mobile. Ignoring the hassle of having to download the upgrade to WM as a zip file and read the instructions in some poorly written txt file, the installer on the actual phone used multicolored comic sans. It was displaying hex digits all over the place and pretty much providing me, the user with all kinds of information I didn't understand or need to know. I'm a technical person so I'm not as put off by this at most but the instant I saw 3 different colored bits of Comic Sans text, I worried about the trustworthiness of this upgrade system. It turned out to be right as it took me several hours to get working properly after nearly bricking my phone.
This has been posted here before, about two years ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564 -- but (1) it's very good and (2) the old URL no longer works.

It's by Charlie Stross, a science fiction author and former hacker. It describes a lengthy tour of the nuclear reactor complex at Torness in Scotland.
Argh it went from free to paywalled. Deleting.
Are you sure? I'd love to see a citation.
I use visited links to personalize my site.

There are definitely privacy implications when doing it on a large scale, but I wish there was a middle ground.
This seems like a good short-term solution. But it seems like its effect would be reduced if thinking of violent things every time you set your keys down becomes a habit.
looks like some people here walk around and downvote anything they dont like.
Sequoia Capital raises more than $1.3 billion
Smart, but I wonder how robust it is. With a sliding mechanism that small that's going to be constantly barraged with fumbling fingers, will it be able to stand the test of time? Something tells me it'll go the way of floppy disks - accidentally mangled springs, which will make the user have to toss it and get a new one. The major difference being that USB cables don't come in packs of 10.
its on the page i linked.

> GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google Wave and the new version of AdWords.
Yahoo is pretty much done (from an ex-Yahoo)
You might argue that Yahoo's marketing department has the hardest job in the company.
Amazon's IP's have terrible email reputations and are blocked by lots of services. Unless they are opening up a new block of IP's, I'd be very concerned about my deliverability rates. SendGrid give me a dedicated IP which helps a lot over time.
Beware, it tends to burn up your battery a bit quicker as well.
So, at least one person said they were hired by Google. I have a question for those folks...

When you applied, did you have any reasonable expectation that you would actually be hired to work there, or was it just on a whim... like a lottery ticket?
it has a good 'instant-alpha' feature for getting rid of the background of images
+1 for blogofile, I've been redoing all my sites in it, including http://www.sqlalchemy.org
There are addons to most advanced editors to publish WordPress-posts directly from the editor (vimpress, wp-emacs).
Writing the posts in Markdown or similar is also trivial to do with WordPress.

Mind you, I'm not trying to advocate WordPress, but when I say WordPress you can substitute it with any simple, easy to install CMS.

I used to create my own CMS just for my blog. But then I needed some new features, but didn't have time to write them. So I just switched to WP, where most features are just an addon away. The only problem I have is that I need to update it whenever a security bug is discovered. For that security I see the advantage of Jekyll.
To tell the truth, you don't know that they are still exaggerations.

It is a fact that the NRO has been working on optical interferometers, and deployable reflectors, and probably has launched at least one.
Working for Internet.com as, bizarrely, one of two editors-in-chief of WebDeveloper.com (along with David Fiedler). I quit sometime in 2000 but then, unfortunately, Internet.com turned it into a forum instead of a news site not long after.

I learnt a lot about how to write, how to get content out quick (mine or edit someone else's), how to stick to a style guide, and pretty much everything about running a high octane content site. Skills that have proven useful right up to the current day.
Interesting tale of the development of Kod, the Mac OS X code editor.
I can't accurately use any of the options. I got an email from Google suggesting that I apply -- I think they found my name on a mailing list somewhere; at the time I had a job I didn't want to leave, but later on I got in touch, only to decide after getting through the initial phone screen that I didn't actually want to work there. (It would have meant either moving house or a lengthy commute; I'd just moved house and had a new baby.)

I don't know how common a story that is. There are probably quite a lot of people who've been contacted by Google recruiters but decided not to apply at all.
it makes no sense applying since i wont get hired anyway xDD

its a dream job anyways for all
I like cargo pants with the zippered lower pockets for keys, and a front pocket for my wallet.
I'm pretty sure I know why it's happened to him:

Basically micro instances are ESB-only and if you select distro intended for instance storage the first option on the list in the wizard is "Small instance."
Oh I see, my account's comments dont show up for anyone else. Nice!
And Bell's theorem (in itself) isn't all that exciting. There's no contradiction or paradox here, except for people who don't believe in what the quantum mechanical equations say. It's only profound if you insist on believing that the world is classical.

That said, interest has increased in that sort of thing because of quantum information theory, because it is necessary to draw a line between the behavior of classical information and quantum information.
Sure, but in case of Perl the shady code is on a big pile with the good code.

Does Java have anything comparable to CPAN Testers? http://www.cpantesters.org/

Note that commits to Perl 5 get tested against the whole of CPAN for unintentional breakage.
A price should either be "cheap and cheerful" or "real and worthwhile". $60/year for a single company is cheap and cheerful, $228/year is very much "Real and Worthwhile".

$228/year may be reasonable for a "limited" piece of software but it is too much for crippled software. Make it $60, make it work or take it away, it's an unnecessarily irritating package.
Who owns student-created intellectual property?
http://www.gandi.net/hosting
Before, all you needed to do to revoke access to all those crazy 3rd parties you gave your password to was: change your password.
Now, you need to figure out where to go to revoke permissions, figure out what 3rd party app you no longer want, and figure out exactly what permission (in Facebook's case, but not Twitter's). It's confusing even for technical people because it's nonstandard and different on every OAuth provider's site.
Yahoo Is Firing Again, While Google is Hiring More Than Ever
I'd love to see a more natural feeling interface. Why, for instance, can't we have magsafe-esque connector for USB? Or hell, maybe even a TRS connector (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS_connector) with 2 or 3 additional ring contacts? Seems like both would be much more user friendly.
I work at Google and I am an engineering-degree dropout who was referred by a music-degree dropout; we both now report to a VP who was a mathematics-degree dropout.

That's not to say it won't be harder to get past resume screens and such, and a referral does help in these cases. Thetrumanshow is right that Google suffers when people like you don't apply.
FireWire plugs only fit one way, just like USB. Yet, one of FireWire's advantages is that the connector doesn't have a fully symmetrical shape, that makes it more obvious how to insert the plug. Users don't even have to look, they can feel which side is narrowest or has a dent on one side (depending on the type of FireWire plug).

http://pinouts.ru/connector/4_pin,_6_pin_or_9_pin_IEEE1394_F...
Appcelerator IDC Mobile Developer Report, January 2011
…and there you go, it's now on the first page of the Google results:

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=firefox+acid3
Gracias! This explains a bit.
While I'm still a big fan of Stack Overflow (and a couple others), I find Quora to be more... friendly, useful, and usable.

Usable in the overall layout is cleaner, less cluttered, more intuitive. Also, the question suggestions are incredibly accurate and prevent me from asking duplicates (many will inevitably ignore them). However, if someone asks a duplicate question it usually is given a friendly response, recommended to the previous question, and probably closed.

Stack Exchange sites tend to crucify people for asking a duplicate. Their recommendations aren't as useful in my experience. However, when dealing with programming it's possibly harder from the questioner's point of view to tell a duplicate (they may not know what they're trying to ask, hence going there instead of searching). Their rules just seem so punitive and stringent that every time I go to ask a question I feel like I'm going to get slapped on the hand.

Finally, I seem to get more responses on Quora right now. This is just an observation, not based on quantitative data. Likely this will change as people get sick of it or it's swarmed with more takers and less givers.
I don't think Google (or really any large company) is a good place to work for autodidacts.