skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My past several jobs I have delayed salary negotiations until they have essentially decided to hire me and I have decided I want to work for them. Why talk salary if the relationship isn't going to work anyway?

Once both sides know what they want to do, finding a number to make it work seems pretty easy. Put yourself in the manager's position: you've weeded through a big stack of resumes, interviewed some candidates who obviously aren't qualified, and made a decision about who to hire. At this point you can play salary hardball and risk losing the person you want, or you can pay toward the upper range. They picked you, and they will pay to hire you.
I know of three ATT lines that will port over to Verizon in February. :-)

Two out of contract, the third has a $105 ETF. Cheap enough.

Even a Microcell (I own two) isn't enough to stay with ATT.
Requires all selection to be synchronized - may be difficult to implement in a dynamic evolving network e.g. the internet.
Perl! It's so nice that so useful site is written in Perl. By the way, I like Mojolicious (since 1.0 version) too.
> I wonder if my user experience is living up to their intentions

I think this a lot, actually.

> Hooray, we fall into the correct segment

If segment means target demographic, then I think this a lot too.
The issue isn't lobbying per se. After all, you can't have a viable representative government if you're not allowed to talk to your representatives (or petition them, as the Constitution puts it).

At the same time, you can't expect those same lawmakers to govern effectively if they feel their re-election prospects hinge less on the will of the voters, and more on the value of campaign donations provided by the very industries they're supposed to govern.

A lot of people dislike the idea of public election finance, since they don't want 'their' tax dollars going towards 'candidates they don't like' (as if taxation depends on liking each and every thing the government does). But as sharper wits have observed, you pay no matter what.

Moreover, you pay a lot more for the corrupt alternative. Exhibit A is the bazillions of dollars spent bailing out the most politically influential banks, while protecting their shareholders from any major losses and shielding fraudulent managers from richly deserved criminal investigations.

In retrospect, a few publicly-financed elections for one-one thousandth the cost of 2008/09 would have been an exceptionally good value. Extra added bonus: not cratering the global economy. Extra extra bonus: Patent Reform that doesn't die every time it hits the Senate floor.

It's one thing for third-world kleptocracies to run themselves into the ground (see Tunisia). But when the largest, most consequential economy on the planet starts operating in the same way, it's a serious problem.
I thought () was used for function applications and [] for those that weren't. For example (let [x 3] ... )
Google Apps Bug Lets You Make Free Voice Calls To the US
I had an interview once where I successfully dodged the question asking how much I wanted, so the interviewer moved on to his next logical question: how much are you making right now? I refused to answer that one as well, and he got completely flustered, finally saying "If I don't know how much you're making right now, how do I figure out what to offer you?" When I wouldn't give that up, he decided that in order to figure out what I'm worth, he needed to know if I was married or had kids, since "people without a family seem to stay later and work harder." At that point, I gave up and walked out.

Not surprisingly, when I spoke to my recruiter after the fact, she admitted that he had been unprofessional in other interviews as well, but sent me on the interview anyway. Lesson #542 on why never to work with recruiters.
Here you go

Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/uniteda...

HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/abu-dhabi-rainstorm...

Arabian Business: http://www.arabianbusiness.com/abu-dhabi-backed-scientists-c...

LiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/environment/rain-makers-ionizatio...

Blog Post: http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/01/ionizers-b...

Company: http://www.meteo-systems.com
The captions are hyperbolic and quite funny, but perhaps funnier is the fact that our unconscious brains do have these kinds of reactions (though muted, of course).

From an article I read the other day:

"The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason, social connections over individual choice, moral intuition over abstract logic, perceptiveness over I.Q."

- http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/17/110117fa_fact_...
Transgenic chickens glow green, block spread of bird flu
> I think this a lot, actually.

By "real people" they mean "people who don't read HN".
Did China's economy overtake the U.S. in 2010?
The Lambda Lambada: Y Dance?
Yes, and I thank you for linking the way you did! I was mostly commenting on djb's reputation for creating extremely robust software, and that it's difficult to refer to this without implying that djb implemented it. However, I'm sure that apenwarr is also an excellent programmer, and as a regular abuser of Make, I'm going to give his redo implementation a shot, especially since djb's design fits my use case much better.
I'm seeing a pattern.
From a brief history of programming languages:

'1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk."'
The three previous Meulebrouck articles mentioned in this article:

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.08/08.01/DazeY/

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.07/07.06/ChurchN...

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.07/07.05/LambdaC...
Coding for a cause: Microsoft hosting 'GiveCamp' this weekend
The numerical data to which you have access is not necessarily accurate. Corruption, bribery, fabricated numerical data are par for the course here.

He was talking about China as a country and as an economy. If you come and visit, it is immediately obvious that there are problems.
I was all set to read this but then the article got covered up by some lightbox crap on which I couldn't find a close button (not that I tried very hard).
Agreed. I never talk salary or details about benefits until I'm 100% sure I'm interested in the job. Optimize your (and the interviewer's) time, and stay on topics that either help you figure out if this is the job for you or help them figure out if you're the right candidate.
Why Tablet Publishing Is Transforming The Way We Consume Media
Untrue. They represent only a part of the talented people. I know, we constantly hear about the quirkiness of people at the freelance sites and forums. Perhaps, that's not the best place to look.

If you're not looking for an overtly complicated project, try hiring undergraduate students. Not from any university though. Try the students IIT's and BITS Pilani. These are the foremost technical institute in the country.
So, how do get in contact with them? Visit their Computer Science Association websites, contact their student president to help you out. More often than not, you will find brilliant programming talent this way. Some of them will value a letter of recommendation (that may help in their MS or PhD) very highly.

If not that way, always insist on seeing the portfolio/previous work of the guy you'll be outsourcing too. Else chances are you might end up outsourcing, say a e-commerce implementation, to someone just learnt how to echo in php.
If anyone wants to see an incredible look into how Sigmund Freud's research was turned around to manipulate people into consuming more, then Adam Curtis' excellent The Century of The Self is available to watch here: http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/the-century-of-the-self

If you've never seen an Adam Curtis documentary before, this is a good one to start with. His style and delivery is unique among documentary filmmakers and is definitely worth a watch.
http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/post/2724755436/submitted-by-tomheg

By far the best.
They ARE hiring (even in the SLC (Salt Lake City, UT) market), which probably equates somewhat to Groupon's high operating costs: the Sales team. B2B, cold calling, etc. That was at least the advertisement that played for months around here for Local.com and affiliates. Hard sell, cold-calling, feet to the pavement walk-in's. Entry level as well (crap salary) which could indicate a poor sales strategy as a whole (vs hiring experienced Sales / Bus Dev folks who know the local market).

Edit for SLC:
While your second statement is true, uptime percentage remains the best way until somebody suggests a new (feasible) method.
And maybe they don't have a car to get to work, or shiny shoes to match their suit, or a dozen other things which cost more than the computer they probably already have.
Slave labor is cheap, of course they do well.
AFAIK, my plan options will be the same price whether I have a contract or not

The "Even More Plus" from T-Mobile are contract-free and $20/month cheaper than their on-contract equivalents. You save $480 over 2 years, well above the difference in purchase price, and have no ETF issues if you need to cancel.

if I choose not to use T-Mobile, won't I be stuck with edge?

Unfortunately yes.
Yes, that's why many SLAs do not count short outages.
I'm not entirely certain that this was the first use of the phrase, but the "War on Drugs" started before I was even born (the seventies). To say it is "beginning" to get annoying is to say that my avocado colored bathroom is beginning to look a little dated.
Older than Lisp: 34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive
I think the new organism must be using parenthesis for living (()).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110113/sc_livescience/34000yearoldorganismsfoundburiedalive
MarketScope for Vulnerability Assessment
It's amusing that they're releasing a box set for Volumes 1-4A, although I suppose it took longer to get Volume 4A to press than the entirety of the Harry Potter series (and they released a boxed set after pretty much every volume of HP).

That's by far the best price I've seen for the collected volumes though.
Are you saying Safari doesn't count as a "major browser"?
"or whether or not they'll be consistent across their platforms"

Are you referring to other devices running Android? I don't think Google's stance is anti-h.264, it's anti anything that isn't royalty-free (forever) in the web stack. And I agree with that.
For the scenario described this is a security nightmare. Instead of having to expend a lot of effort targeting your organisation, profiling your defences and attempting to bypass your security (doable but will require some effort in many cases) I now just have to attack your personal email, get you to click on a link to my attack, compromise your box, install a keylogger then route my terminal services/citrix ica connection through your desktop and logon with your credentials to get in.

Nice try, Citrix PR Company.
"Of course, hardware adoption is still a huge question mark which I noticed Google also failed to discuss further in this post."

This has been discussed on the WebM blog:

"The WebM/VP8 hardware decoder implementation has already been licensed to over twenty partners and is proven in silicon. We expect the first commercial chips to integrate our VP8 decoder IP to be available in the first quarter of 2011."

http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/01/availability-of-webm-vp8...

"They don't address why they're removing it, why they chose to do it now, or whether or not they'll be consistent across their platforms."

Incidentally, months ago they've also blogged about why they'll keep YouTube using Flash, rather than HTML5:
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
Is there anyplace online people in the MFi program hang out (forums, usenet, mail lists, etc.)? I've got some very basic questions about the whole process, but it seems like such a black hole (from the outside looking in).

It would be great to use the ipods or ipads for industrial data collection, but we'll need IR and a way to get data on/off without network connectivity.
What’s in Your iOS Image Cache?
T-Mobile plans are actually about $20 cheaper without a contract. (They're pretty quiet about this.) Also, there's value in being able to switch carriers without penalty at any time if, say, you decide to get a different phone a year from now.
I really don't feel like we need these articles on HN. It perpetuates the HN meme that "hackers" are always coders and "fakers" are the business people. The truth is that a hacker can have many different skill sets, and this craigslist ad is clearly from some faker, regardless of whether he needs a coder to implement his idea, or had instead posted as "needing some guy to sell this web app I totally made this weekend!"
In case you're wondering -- yes, the non-real people in the ad world say this shit -- all. the. time. And without irony.
But I suspect less so in china than the US. I doubt that a major part of the Chinese diet is exotic fruit flown half way around the world out of season.

China does have oil reserves and could always 'spread democracy' to some 3rd world country if it needed more.
>Work with Scheme and Haskell enough and you'll find yourself writing some convoluted things to maintain purity.

I don't think you can lump all the Scheme languages into one umbrella and more importantly lump Scheme and Haskell in that context.

For example, Racket has really good constructs that lets me "drop 'purity'", control side-effects, build sequences, control the flow, build classes, manage complexity while at the same time giving me the power to build higher levels of abstractions, express my thoughts and reason with my program.

Reference:

0. Racket Guide: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/index.html

1. System Programming with Racket : http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/
Free yourself from money if you want.
How children perceive vintage technology
The phantom fifth freedom
Your points suggest that it's not the technical skill of CS graduates that are lacking rather, the mental attitudes and mindsets are not there. While school can be an amazing resource, I'm not sure that any university is structured to teach its students to be passionate or to consistantly over-deliver on quality.
What do you mean "nope", you just repeated what I said!
Browser wars go back to future over video formats
I seem to remember some controversy as to the authenticity of this site.
I don't understand your point: 10 x 10s outages = 100s downtime. One 4h outage = 14000s downtime. Uptime percentage agrees with you that the former is better.
This happens in the US as well. China and India do it although using different techniques. But I'm wary of using chemicals/technology to induce rainfall (I'm no scientist but is the water safe then?). Also imagine the resource wars that will start once countries start using this regularly.
Before you can master something you have to get the basic skills down. One way to look at this is you've developed a very effective style which others can use as the starting point, initially through imitation, to help them get to a place where they can start adding their own style to the mix.
What they haven't published is their definition of downtime. With close to 200 million users globally, how many have to be affected and for how long before it's considered an outage? If you're a business customer with 20,000 users and you regularly have one or two suffering the 24hr account outage for maintenance, it's a tiny percentage of Google's population but if it's the wrong individuals it can wreak havoc.
Five Guys has been around for 25 years with that same color scheme.
It's feasible but it not productive, what you do in 11hours can be be done in 8. Unless you are very enthousiast about what you are doing there is no way you start don't loosing productivity after 8 hours being focused.
Wasn't offered at Verizon, but it could have been an unhelpful salesperson. If not them I can probably find a 3rd party repair. Don't know why I wasn't considering this, thanks for pointing it out.

I wasn't trying to trash android, just annoyed at the whole lock-in/upgrade scheme.
It makes perfect sense if your carrier agrees to charge you a lower rate in exchange for not taking the subsidy. Otherwise you're just paying twice.

T-Mobile is the only major US carrier I'm aware of to offer this, (though it's kinda buried on their site): http://www.t-mobile.com/templates/generic.aspx?PAsset=Pro_Pr...
A lot of borderline junk books on the list. But it's true, these are the books that people buy the most.
Android, YouTube, etc. I suppose the distinction of it being the "web stack" is one thing, but doesn't it seem that YouTube should fall in line with their WebM-friendly stance? I can certainly get behind it, and despite my cynicism in regards to timing, etc, I'm behind the 1000lb gorilla using their weight to bring attention and popularity to freedom.
And your comment for more information leaves me wishing for more time to gather and share just the kind of thing you're asking for :)
Hmm, the chapter index uses the information (i) icon. Bizarre choice, but useful menu.
Don't most statistics put it at about 5%?

I don't know if it's "major" but it's probably worthy of consideration.
http://i.imgur.com/6BSYe.jpg

;)
That's a very nice discovery from A|B Testing.

Trying to figure out more about Kajabi, I started watching your "getting started in 5 minutes video" and see that you e-mail your users their password. I feel pretty strongly that websites should never do this... I'm wondering what the rationale is?
Yes it is... more so when you try to play it, which I did just now. It isn't bad, but I also wouldn't call it a great game. I just don't understand the popularity...
Given that that it has 5-6% of market share, I think it is fair to leave it out of the major browsers. Not ignorable, but hardly major. It is iffy to even place Chrome as one, even though it seems like it will be in the future.
Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my pet project, "CubeScrewed"
Found here: http://www.cubescrewed.com

Hi all! As a hopelessly bored corporate desk jockey, I made CubeScrewed as a place for people to vent/rant/share their office misfortunes anonymously. It's driven by user submissions and runs on Tumblr since I don't have the technical know-how to implement something more custom.

I started this to learn about user-driven sites and to see how the whole viral content industry works. It's a personal project and I haven't put much time/money into it because of this.

I thought I'd share it with everyone to get some feedback as I'm completely new to the whole internet business game. Let me know what you think, thanks!

PS: Oh and submissions gladly accepted. :)
Pheh, they forgot the best application ever: iPhone-controlled vibrator:

http://www.ohmibod.com/bodyheat/

I was at a presentation by the app's creator, apparently the hardware was already available through some company, so you could theoretically do it with any device that outputs to a headphone jack. The iPhone's touch interface simply provided a ... unique and apparently (don't ask me!) expressive method of control.
I discuss a huge variety of things, and certainly wouldn't want to limit blog entries to the topics of "dialogue" and "building." I think a blog title that listed all possible topics that may be discussed would be a tad bland. This entry in particular is about how I built a residual income business.
It was much better before
Did it offend you?
So what's your stand on this kind of inspiration? Do you condone it? Encourage it?
I love the repeated use of "...will benefit from coverage under the AVC License." I haven't seen careful dancing like that since the last time Riverdance was in town.
That is absolutely amazing. I struggle to get hundreds of downloads each day of my free apps...
Also worth reading is The Last Psychiatrist's response to the Chinese mothers article: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/01/why_chinese_mothers_a...
I am making assumptions. So are you, of course.

I am assuming that the University did provide a means of centralized backup, and she failed to avail herself of it. This is based on the assumption that it is more likely that one researcher screwed up, than that the entire University is woefully incompetent.

Also, note that you assumed that I meant "firing" when I said "disciplinary action." I was thinking more along the lines of a note in her file, and a stern talking-to.
Geohot safe from Temporary Restraining Order
is it just me or is there a huge gap between the security apps that handle vulnerability assessment, penetration and intrusion, remediation et al and the bigger "security suites" usually made by bigger firms? i mean some of these apps seem as if they couldn't stop, identify, or track a 10 year old who has breached security. and most of these apps are restricted by domain, making them even less effective. please, someone smarter than me, please jump in!
Sorta (I didn't realize how much higher their share was than Opera's). If they choose not to implement a free, open source, easily available codec because they're Apple... then they can get lumped in with Internet Explorer and enjoy the fallback to Flash. I know Jobs is a big fan.
> After attaching to that protein, the virus performs a very biochemically specific action to inject its payload into the cell.

So? If a simple misconfigured protein can enter the cell without the complicated and specifically tuned machinery and is able to proliferate that way, isn't it more advanced. I would say so

I presume you are an engineer, so I'll make the assumption that you are quite fond of "complciated" things and assume them to be supperior to simpler things. But if both accomplish the same thing, should you consider the simpler thing to be supperior? I do.

> Er, not really.

I think we can agree as to what prions are -- misconfigured proteins. If we can agree that there is nothing more besides that, how is the folding state _not_ the infection mechanism. I am not talking about what the cell does, just what what is considered the transmitted -- the prion itself.

> ...that's what nobody knows.

Er, not really. They have some pretty good guesses.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

"""
How, then, does prion protein enter cells? It turns out to be by a mechanism called macropinocytosis. This involves the invagination and pinching off of a segment of cell membrane, and is used by cells to take up small amounts of liquids (macropinocytosis means "big cell drinking").
"""

Also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC165614/

"""
While still on the cell surface, prion protein leaves lipid ‘raft’ domains to enter non-raft membrane, from which it enters coated pits. The N-terminal domain (residues 23–107) of prion protein is sufficient to direct internalization, an activity dependent upon its initial basic residues (NH2-KKRPKP).
"""
I make 13K USD, and I took 2 holidays abroad :)

(where abroad is Brazil and Argentina, since I live in Uruguay)

I know that people in the US have half the holiday time that I have, but they should be able to have the money to enjoy what time they do have.
Listening to music doesn't drive a constant 22 kHz tone.

[Edit] I really don't understand -- why was I downvoted here? Can someone explain why they think I'm wrong? Isn't a constant, high-frequency tone going to draw more power than variable output with significant larger gaps (and a likely lower peak voltage difference?)
Oh I saw that, I meant more that there are millions of mobile (and non-mobile) devices that have hardware decoding that won't be able to play WebM video anywhere near as well as H.264.
Taken from the same thread, I loved this response, from Stefan Scholl:

>There seems to be a great deal of interest
>from the functional programming community
>in benchmarking. Is there enough interest
>to create a new computer language shootout
>that showcases more relevant/suitable tasks
>for FP?

Does this sell books? Should I write one?