skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's especially depressing is how many people let Eclipse support determine their source control strategy. IDE FTL.
The commenter was probably talking about moving images, not still ones. That is, the strobing effect is due to inadequate temporal resolution, not optical resolution.
Indeed. This is exactly why they're unlikely go as "open" as, e.g. Windows with OS X, or Android with iOS. Once they start damaging the "premium" experience they're selling, they lose a key differentiator and will, eventually, slide off into nothing.
White House Startup America Partnership Looks To Foster Innovation
I agree recruiters are a waste of time and money for startups, and it is particularly annoying if you write on your job listings "no recruiters please" and they still contact you.

But there is definitely a need for recruiters in the wider industry (especially to help big firms that are not in the technology industry but need programmers, eg finance, insurance, healthcare etc. Good programmers are hardly banging on their door and usually the firms have to chase the talent.)

My point is, sure, send pesky recruiters who bother about positions that clearly state "no recruiters" to that form. But don't try to waste their time just because they contacted you out of the blue. There's nothing wrong or illegal about a company to cold-calling/emailing another about potential services and so just politely say "no thank you, we don't pay recruiter fees" and move on.
And anyone coming from Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aft.com+%22Android+over...
43 and a woman
AlchemyAPI (Denver, CO) is hiring C++ developers, front-end developers, and a community manager.

We do natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and semantic web stuff. Growing rapidly, profitable, w/ an amazing team. Our platform uses semantic technology to analyze hundreds of millions of documents monthly for customers across multiple industry verticals.

http://www.alchemyapi.com/company/jobs.html

Highly creative work environment employing big data analysis, advanced AI research, and fun 20% time projects (Kinect-powered 3d visualization apps, mobile OCR+NLP tech, robots, etc).
Wizdrop from Paris
Hello guys:
We are Wizdrop from Paris.(Wizdrop.com) We just launched our beta version today. And we want to invite all the people to try, have fun and give us some comments. Basically the concept is simple, we provide a platform to let users can drop any type of media to your smartphone or PC. All you need to do is to type your name, choose the media and type the telephone number from all over the world or Email that you want to drop.
You can visit our website http://www.wizdrop.com
And I made a short intro video. You can download it and drop to your smartphone.
http://www.wizdrop.com/5371_10490i.html

Feel free to give us some comments.
Or leave the message on our forum or fanpage.(You will found the link in the end of wizdrop.com)
Nice dropping !!!!
I agree with this especially if you're trying to get jobs.

You will inevitably have to learn some javascript at some point though so you might also want to look at node.js (awesome but not as many jobs yet).
Food Inc. - "An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry."
It says a lot about me that I thought that MBA meant "MacBook Air" in this context.
I have an Android, and my sister uses the iPhone. Android definitely has a much larger "drag distance" required to initiate the scrolling process. I'd estimate it's about a quarter to half of an inch before it will pass the scroll event to the software. I'm assuming this is by design and not a limitation of the hardware, because it has no problem getting pin-point accuracy and instantaneous response from when I tap something. I definitely prefer the iPhone's instant scrolling response though: I think it just feels more polished.

I still prefer Android for reasons unmentioned, but if there's anything it should be taking from Apple's play book right now, it's smoothing out what they have and polishing the rough edges.
We're hiring at Hashrocket.

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Ruby, Agile, Pair Programming (all the time!), open source time, benefits, a team of super smart and quite enjoyable people to be around, and a pretty office at the beach to boot.

We're also open to apprentices/internships, if you're interested feel free to email jobs@hashrocket.com and if you have any questions you can contact me personally robert@hashrocket.com or @rbxbx on twitter.

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I think it's a 4chan meme.
http://allmyapps.com is looking for a VP of Marketing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Not sure a lot of marketing guys hang out there but who knows... let's say that if someone responds here, I'll take it as a good point :)
Allmyapps is the first independent application store for Windows. Job desc can be found here:
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=1332191
iOS/Mac Developer (Remote Possible, but London preferred)
£30k plus possible stock options

We're a profitable & fast growing mobile app startup. 2 hires this month already. Well known in London / mainstream press exposure / our apps are adding 500k to 1M new users each month.

http://www.fiplab.com/aboutus/careers/
good point, I was confused by the 'custom' recommendation too.
ugh what a waste of money, LinkedIn has never once been useful to me.. I actually deleted my account the other day...and they continue to spam me, and to unsubscribe i need my account. AWESOME GUYS! This is the next myspace not fazebooks
Well don't despair too much, there's still plenty of good reasons to avoid the heavily processed organic matter that is "breakfast cereal"
Totally agreed. I used to be annoyed by the absence of SMS support in one of the previous versions. I havent bothered checking whether it is present now, since I no longer need that feature anyway.
"Now this is what I call a thousand years of progress: A Bavarian cream dog that's also self-microwaving!"
That's certainly some serious evidence in support of his addictive nature. How much time each day would you have to spend on HN to get 50K in karma, even allowing for a person who has a high level of quality submissions and comments? Seems like it would take up a significant chunk of one's life and I could see why he might want to quit cold turkey.
He literally rides giraffes.
... unless "lack of proof" is a common phrase in his native language. He may of meant something closer to "has no basis" for all we know. Nuances shouldn't be analyzed with English this bad.
The One Thing Programmers and Musicians Have In Common
Well see, in my opinion being on the left of the -3 is somewhat a tradeoff. Of course there are plenty of within +- standard deviation folks who goes past the +3.

It's definitely not an overnight process, it's hard and difficult. Consists countless nights of unpraised hard work all just for a belief. There's no one there to give you a pat on the back. The journey gets really lonely.

As for the praised for effort, I definitely agree with that because usually people who work harder are those who achieve and improve faster because there is a learning curve and when a person learns a lot, he/she becomes a learning sponge and retain more info in less period of time. The best example I could think of is Michael Jordan.
thanks for the advice.. the blog will suffer some deep changes in a near future
It seems fairly obvious to me that if Android wasn't free and open source, it wouldn't have grown big and there wouldn't have been much money in license fee revenue in the first place.

Same goes for stuff like Wikipedia and such. If it wasn't free, we wouldn't be talking about how big it is today, and the potential revenue would have been minimal.
What would be an interesting and insightful stat is to see what AT&T's handset breakdown is because you can expect that Verizon will follow a similar trend.

Why would you expect that?

AT&T not only was late to the Android party, they sacrificed the few meager offerings they had because the iPhone was their smartphone of choice.

If you were drawn to an Android device, it was unlikely it was at AT&T because even once they started carrying them, they carried the dregs like the Backflip. Instead you were choosing from every other carrier. If you wanted an iPhone, on the other hand, you were going to AT&T (hence why AT&T paid big dollars for the exclusivity, and it showed in their subscribership numbers).

Verizon's breakdown will be nothing like AT&T's.

Further, AT&T is suddenly in the Android game in a big, big way. I hear there's something like 20 top-flight 4G Android devices hitting AT&T in the next few months, including the leader of the pack Motorola Atrix. So from being the iPhone place, AT&T is almost switching to be an Android-dominated carrier.

I think this whole "iPhone was only on a single carrier, let's see how things change now!" thing is going to turn out quite unlike how many so desperately hope.
Fortunately, it prompts interesting discussion, which I enjoy seeing on the front page.
Clickable: http://gtardini.com/wwwhoelse

Lovely idea, but ...

Color me suspicious, but this could simply be a way of harvesting potential ideas for exploitation by the site owner.

How can you convince people otherwise?

(I'm in a nasty mood today - I've been dealing with threat-mode analyses ...)
Incidentally, their notification emails routinely contain your password in cleartext as a "reminder". I signed up for an account several years ago but was put off by the incredibly ugly design. Here's an excerpt from an old email from them (note, redacted by me!) This one is from a few months ago:

--
Hello REDACTED,

Thank you for signing up on 10/12/REDACTED 4:08:52 PM.
Remember your password is REDACTED.
--

The most recent one from had an empty string as my password, as in "Remember your password is ."
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I think AtomPub suffers from the same problems that SOAP does. It's too complex for what it does, or at least it feels that way. The fact that major player have adopted it doesn't change things, as many major players adopted SOAP.

I don't think it (or SOAP) will just vanish though, it just isn't having the impact its creators had hoped it would.
Interviews with Fibonacci
Santa Monica, CA (next to the beach) - TrueCar/Zag - not remote

Profitable company still in startup phase: doubling revenue every year and need to scale like crazy.

Looking for full-time Rails, Django and Java (Spring) developers. Also looking for System Engineers (must be able to script).

leaderswanted@zag.com
Where can I find the requirements and the apply form/page/address?
High School Computer Science Education
They should have mentioned FidoNet(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet): email, file transfer, newsgroups -- over telephone.
On my laptop, there’s a light that goes on whenever the camera is activated. Perhaps she was looking at that.
Ottawa, ON - Shopify

http://www.shopify.com/careers

We're hiring for a ton of positions including Developer Advocate and Software Engineer (Core, Data, QA, Tools, UI).

We have a great work environment, love open source, and are profitable and growing really fast (fastest in Ottawa, in fact).
"Beom Soo Park added a comment - 31/Jan/11 2:21 PM
I have to rectify the term I used before, this issue found to be a "bug", not "by design", We are working on the issue and will be fixed in future updates. Sorry for making confusions.

Thank you"
>>but I'm one of those people who constantly notices flicker at 24 fps.

I'm sorry, but I find that hard to believe

Personally, while I can't see it in movie projection equipment, but 10 years ago when CRTs and stegosaurus roamed the land, I could identify a monitor set to 30Hz refresh at the briefest glance, and could not stand to sit in front of one -- I got headaches from it quickly.

That said, I cannot sense the flicker in TVs (presumably their phosphor holds the image longer than a monitor), nor in movie projection.
Yup. I have a giraffe, and I ride it. In suitable circumstances I also ride giraffes that belong to other people.

Email me if you really, really need to know more.
Sociable Labs is hiring several positions including sysadmins, front-end developers, and back-end developers.

I work on the front end, we do a lot of cross-domain ajax and work with the FaceBook JS SDK. I'm looking for at least one more front-end developer who knows JS inside and out. Experience with FB's new JS SDK is, obviously, a benefit.

Our back-end is Java / Jetty / PostgreSQL running on Amazon EC2.

We do basically a more advanced version of Facebook's Social Plugins for a number of large websites.

We're located in the San Francisco area. Remote work is an option; I work remote from Ohio right now.

Everyone works from home on Fridays, and the office is generally a pretty fun place every time I've been out to visit.

http://www.sociablelabs.com/

Contact nathan @ above website if you're interested.
Earlier Ebert rants against 3D sound just like the studios when sound was being proposed. Lots of rationalizations.

Young moviegoers learn to like 3D. Never mind what the scientists say. They adapt. Similar to playing 3D video games - weird at first, then you get it.

Ebert felt ill watching 3D movies. Probably can't play immersive video games either. No surprise he predicts the demise of 3D movies.

48FPS? Never mind theatres - when netflix can sell it, it may happen.
I know your question was rhetorical, but I'll give an answer anyway. Because unfortunately (in my opinion) news has become as much about whos delivering the information as what's being said. And I use the word "said" because many times whats written or spoken isn't even what I'd call reporting. Take Wikileaks for example ... much of the main stream media reporting on Wikileaks has placed as much prominence (or more) on Julian Assange as they have on the trove of information thats been exposed. Cable-"news" has built brands around their personalities that pass off editorializing as reporting. This has resulted in viewer loyalty to the point where many of their viewers threaten to go elsewhere if their favorite newsreader isn't retained. This "story" has all the ingredients to fit into that model ... two prominent internet personalities (Arrington & Scoble) without enough followers, fans and haters to ensure that there'll be people on either side to fuel the fire using their platforms to promote their opinions about stuff.

Is it news? I guess about as much as what you see presented as news elsewhere.
Ajax URLs and breaking the back button
What's up with named-anchor URLs breaking the back button?

I was reading a different thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161405), and when I followed it, I was taken through a series of redirects: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues#issue/201 -> https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues/201/find -> https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues/issue/201

The redirect form the URL with the named anchor redirects to the find URL via JavaScript's window.location property, and the find URL redirects to the final URL via a HTTP Location header.

When I reach the final page and click my back button, I'm taken to the named-anchor URL, which initiates the series of redirects, taking me back to the final page.

I know the named-anchor URLs are used so that Ajax interactions are reflected in the address bar, but it's annoying when they break expected behavior when used to link directly to a page. (In fairness, this doesn't appear to be a problem in Chrome; I'm using FF)

Twitter's also been bad about this recently. (Their URLs look like they're tailored for Google, to me: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling)

Companies should make sure their code doesn't end up trapping users in a redirect loop.

In GitHub's case, I believe using location.replace instead of window.location for the first redirect would solve the problem, although I'm not sure because I haven't tried it.

Is it possible to have these types of redirects without breaking the back button? If so, why are large sites making this mistake?
Sociable Labs is, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161716

(Technically we're in San Mateo)
The title should be "Android is now the most common operating system for heavily subsidized/free phones". I know the debate is tired, but it you measured popularity by brand recognition, NPS, # of apps on the platform, developer enthusiasm, or any meaningful metric iOS would win hands down. Not to say Android isn't important or a force to think about, but its kind of a silly thing to measure.

The other hackneyed point is that iOS crushes Android when you factor in iPod touch and iPad sales. Old news, but never seems to register with reporters.

EDIT: Why did this comment warrant negative votes? Not inflammatory, not inaccurate, just a critique of the way info is presented.
Classy exit. Should you find cold turkey not working for you, let me suggest this might be an opportunity to hack yourself and figure out how to participate in a non-addictive manner, which could be a profound positive change in how you operate generally (since you indicate you have "an addictive personality").

Peace and good journey.
AIB claim for €84m against Oracle Financial Services Software
Debunked reasoning: You still eat X calories per day, you still use Y calories per day, storing or using fat depending (mostly) on the difference between X and Y. The relative timing of consumption and use have a demonstrably negligible effect.
If Apple's profits were insane, and Microsoft's higher -- what does that make Microsoft's revenue? How about when MS had even higher profits last year... MG had no article about the "insane" MS profits.

And he NEVER says that revenue don't count. When Apple surpassed MS in revenue he says, and I quote, "Naturally, it’s important to note that Microsoft still has a lead in profit, $5.41 billion to $4.31 billion, but that’s because one is mainly a software maker (huge margins), while the other is mainly a hardware maker (lower margins)."

So lets be clear, he's saying that earnings need a qualifier due to margins (which is absurd in itself), but he NEVER NEVER says anything about revenue models not being comparable given that Apple is a hardware company and MS is a software company. Do you know who makes more revenue than Apple -- HP, yet MG has never mentioned another hardware company in his revenue posts.

I think you'd have to blind to see how MG selectively omits certain key facts from his "articles", in order to create a specific pro-Apple anti-MS spin.
Dancing Makes You Smarter
Let's also not forget the fact that Norway is a very oil-rich country which brings a huge degree of wealth into the economy, and this skews the image considerably. You might have noticed that the guy the article talks about got rich selling stuff to -- guess who? -- the Norwegian oil industry.

The number of startups in a given community doesn't causate a great entrepreneurship scene. By that metric Norway could just give every team that's interested 50k dollars from their oil, call them a startup and automatically have a more vibrant startup scene than Silicon Valley. Troll economics, anyone?

People also overestimate the degree to which the US is capitalistic. Government spending in the US is now around 40%, with the free-market days of the pre-WWII era long replaced by a heavy-handed state that has never shrunk meaningfully. Maybe we Scandinavians run our bloated government bureaucracies more efficiently in our comparatively small, historically homogenous societies, but they're certainly not the reason we're rich. We're rich because we've been relatively free and capitalistic for a long time, also historically enjoying relatively low political corruption and a strong rule of law. At least that's the picture as I see it, being an Icelander that has lived and worked in Denmark I feel I grok the way these relatively small communities of my kinsmen work on a gut level.

One more thing: New Hampshire is one of the richest states in the USA, has about the same population as Norway and has a higher GDP per capita. If we're going to compare the US to Norway (one of the richest European countries) while excluding other much poorer countries from the equation, we should also compare New Hampshire to Europe to put things in proper perspective.
I am pretty sure that Google's agenda was simply one of trying to ensure that the maximum number of mobile devices had unfettered access to the Internet - which is where they make their advertising dollars. If that meant building the new "windows" (but for mobile not desktop) then they are more than happy to pay the price.
It's the people and the software.

Great points by Erik. I quoted this exchange at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=2374&cpage=1#comment-...
You could just use the Origin header from CORS: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/#origin-request-header
After they remove the dvd drive the tallest port will be the ethernet port. Moving it to a external USB adaptor like they have already done on the air is logical.
Wikipedia CLI
Drakim is right. The question is, once it hits a critical point (arguably, it's already there with only Apple as a serious competitor) when will they decide to further monetize it?
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If your front-end dev work includes JS experience and you're interested in/passionate about math, our part-time contributors are currently focused on building out our JS-powered library of math practice exercises, and we would love help.
Well here in the UK, BT are rolling out FTTC (Fiber to the Cabinet). Third Party ISPs can install their min-DSLAMs into the cabinet, which is usually not very far away in an urban or semi-urban environment. This will be VDSL, delivering 50mbps!

If I were Teksavvy I'd be doing a projection on the costs of rolling out my own DSLAMs, and the value of reselling that on to other customers, really really fast. Probably approaching some UK companies like TalkTalk to buy in their experience for 2 weeks of consultation and costing models. Then contacting Huawei, and getting their army of Chinese engineers to come out and install these DSLAMs, or train Canadian engineers how to do it.
Good point. Initially, what I'm looking to do is to learn enough to put together, at least in a rudimentary fashion, the ideas that I have for apps or startups. Right now I'm one of those people with ideas and no ability to execute, and I realize how pretty much useless that is.
very useful tool, thanks for this!

One suggestion: It would be great if you could improve color scheme overall.. espcially on the result page, its difficult to read with dark grey bg and blue fonts.
Right, it doesn't help for individual plans. It does allow you to string together group plans you might be able to get into otherwise though.

Our plan for this is basically: COBRA -> Student health insurance (wife's school) -> ???
Ask HN: The real story behind your first startup?
Hi.
I know this might seem close to stupid, but I would like to submit one of my ideas to YC this year, and I would like to know from others that have been there how is it like?
What do you do when you get the email that says your good to go? (if you are not in USA - we need to plan our trip some time before in order to get flight tickets)
I have read on YC that you can stay there in the YC campus (or what was the name), do you have to pay anything for accommodation?
We have a limited budged that's way we would like to know what kinds of expenses we should take in consideration?
We are 2 members, if this helps in any way.

I am asking this in order for us to have this little things (that usually can become frustrating) out of our way so that we can focus on the real issue, the project.

Thank you very much