skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WOTI (Washington, DC; on site)

Ours is a small team of 3 in a company of about 150, on a small but involved ground-up project that's just starting to take on beta users. It's a web app that pulls together data from many sources and presents an easy-to-navigate graphical summary. We use mostly Python (2.7) in a Unix environment. On the back end, we munge a few TB of data using Python, Hadoop and Pig, and some in-house distributed Unix tools. The processed data goes into Solr/Lucene, is served up by CherryPy and Genshi, and presented by jQuery in IE7, IE8, Firefox 3.5+ and some COTS viz software. A lot of the job is extracting the juicy bits from various data sources -- e.g., personnel databases and news articles -- then normalizing, aggregating, and indexing it. The challenge is that it's way too much data for a single system, so we need to parallelize the process on dozens of systems. We also need to think about how the data is organized to keep search and retrieval fast. And of course you want an intuitive, powerful front end for all that functionality.

A bit about the work environment: we heart open source. We have nice dual-monitor workstations running RHEL 5 with root; you're free to set up your dev environment how you like (as long as it's secure). You can be as back-end or front-end as you like, or mix it up. We all try to do a bit of everything. We have proper sysadmins to help, but end up doing a lot of the server and network configuration ourselves; that way we get it right, plus we kinda like it. We take security seriously. Mercurial for version control; Jira for project management; just starting with Scrum for process. You get a real office with a real window, shared with one person. The job is a government contract, but in a fairly agile R&D environment (though a startup it ain't).

Eight-hour days with a half hour for lunch, whatever hours work for you as long as you're in between 10-3. Overtime is very rare; no comp time. There's a basic but serviceable gym and a good walking loop. It's South of the beltway on the Maryland side, a short commute with no traffic from Alexandria, Arlington, Suitland, or Southeast D.C. Unfortunately there is no public transportation that comes this way. Occasional local travel. Pay is about average for the area. Benefits and vacation are pretty good. There are opportunities to move to other projects within the company if you get bored with this one. And if this particular job ain't your cuppa but you like what you hear generally, drop us a resume anyway; we have several locations in the metro area and are always looking for good people.

http://woti.com/jobs.cfm (The "Scripting Genius" posting)
From the Chicago School of Economics, there is David Friedman with "The machinery of freedom". [1]

A large part of the Austrian school of economics is also ancap. A great overview of the insights today can be found in "Libertarianism today" by Jacob Huebert. [2]

[1] www.voluntaryistpunk.com/ebooks/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
[2] http://mises.org/store/Libertarianism-Today-P10394.aspx

Edit: You talked about money in a free market. For that topic I recommend "What has government done to our money?" by Murray Rothbard. [3]

[3] mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf
Well true, but the end result is the same. First two (IKEA & Homebase) are flatpack. The local shop & second hand are pre-assembled (the second hand is real wood construction so was never flat pack), but it makes little difference.

Self build, sure, there is a labour "cost" - but you're looking at a couple of weekends max construction, so if you have the interest it's no biggie :) I only included it because I thought it would be interesting to encourage people to consider it as an option.
MBA Mondays Everywhere
I very much hope so, and I understand that it takes much more than writing software — it's also promotion, maintenance and so on; also integration with existing tools (like rebar).
I wanted to try Solve360 at my company but we can't use things no one else uses.
Yeah, I mean without the other info and the payment logos, just the extra email info would be interesting.
One thought.. is it really necessary to create separate repository just for holding agner.config file? Can't author just add this file to his original repo and move on?
Whoops, i mistyped and accidentally deleted my comment.

Anyway, good luck!
It's not that important in comparison with one simple act ... start!

Find something you're truly passionate about, and make up a project that you'll learn something from. If it's something you'd do as a hobby but it can be made into a business, you win twice.
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New term: double vendor lock-in (AWS and Oracle)?
I'm a bit disappointed not to receive a reply to this.
Latest Movie Utt Pataang Wallpapers, Mahie Gill Utt Pataang Movie Photos Gallery
Upcoming movie Utt Pataang movie is a comedy thriller of happenings of one night that finds a simpleton Vinay Pathak who is on the brink of a break up, caught in a dangerous money deal gone horribly wrong. The Movie is Written and Directed by Srikanth V. Velagaleti, the film stars Vinay Pathak (in double role), Mahie Gill, Mona Singh, Saurabh Shukla, Sanjay Mishra, Brijendra Kala, Delnaz Paul and Govind Namdeo. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (India) Pvt. Limited in India.
The first sentence caught my attention - this looks like an interesting product.

What technology stack did he use? (Just out of curiousity).

The preview should be on-site instead of a downloadable document and it's far too verbose. Use pictures instead.
I need more of analysis than fancy realtime stuff, so Google Analytics works really well for me. I analyze traffic results of my clients' (restaurants etc.) marketing campaigns.
I'm from Tunisia and in the Tunisian revolution When I asked some of my friends if they don't fear being caught for sharing sensitive materials and photos, they told me: Really? The government can know what you are doing on Facebook? May be these were just my friends...

But here is a more amusing story: A boy has a group in Facebook and shared some photos of the interior minister. He left his information out. The cops caught him and brought him to the ministry and abused him. When he was kicked out of the ministry, he met with a TV reporter and told his story and in the end he said that he's going to start a page where he'll put all of the government abuses and funny pictures about the government. The story made my day.
One of the strongest memories I have regarding IBM is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I visited it on a school trip to Washington years ago, I took with me quite a few very strong memories, and one, was of a machine used by the Germans to help produce the Jewish Registry. It was sat behind some glass, with the easy to recognise IBM logo stamped proudly in the corner.

As I say it was a fair few years ago and I was quite young, but it made me start to realise that business has basically no morals. It's probably shaped the way I view business today. Not super dramatically, don't get me wrong, but this video reminded me of that.

You can Google for IBMs involvement with the holocaust, it's quite interesting.
Seesmic Raises From $4 Million in Funding From Salesforce
The title of the link (unlike the linked page) suggests that Linux is somehow to blame here... Why? Using RAM for disk caching is a good thing.

Besides, this technique is employed by Windows as well. It's just that the average Windows user probably doesn't know how much free RAM his PC has (well, the really average user doesn't know how much total RAM it has). My Windows 7 box takes at least 2GB of memory to itself for disk caching, AFAIU.
There are multiple reasons for this architecture:

1. central index/indices

2. granular overlaying (you can overlay specific packages and don't have to maintain your fork of a global repo)

3. granular permissions, allowing maintainers to work on their packages without going through the hassle of pull requests and associated bottleneck problems (the "homebrew problem")

4. usage of tags and branches for versioning primitives

5. independence from original repository

6. ability to use multiple repositories

7. (in the future) ability to use non-SCM fetching methods (aka "tarball")

That's for starters. Good enough? :)
In that case, this still applies: http://zenebo.com/cmc/1/
I didn't mention spaces here. Did you read a different comment?
My old bookmarklets still work and the old site still seems to work fine (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/). It would be pretty foolish of them to break everyone's existing endpoints like that.
The new medium is us; we are the medium
Agreed. The thorough support for hierarchical queries is quite tasty, though.
The ideal tablet form factor
I dropped out, too (it was to a programming job). This was quite some time ago (1982).

I tried to finish school later, but work always won. I never had the discipline to do both.

To keep up:

1. Read CS textbooks and do small projects to make sure you understand the material at a practical level.

2. Join the ACM and keep up with interesting publications from their electronic library. (The Usenix papers are free, but more limited in scope).

3. Learn a new programming language, server technology or OS environment at least every year. Keep your level of exposure to new things high and don't get too comfortable in one thing. Don't be a zealot and don't get stuck.

4. Read a LOT of code. (I read through the Unix sources, the source for TeX and a bunch of other largish packages just because they were there).

More recent things that I didn't have access to: Publically available course videos and material. My guess is that these are as good as the amount of time you put into them.
Damn Lobbyists! It's a matter of public safety and agree it should be available only via prescription IMO.
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Thanks for the feedback. The site is running on .NET 4, SQL Server 2008 back end and Amazon S3 for the image storage.

Good idea about the document - I will include it in site as HTML with links from the relevant section.
Future transistors may replace silicon with molybdenite
Nice to see some hardware hacking :)
I'm not, by any means, suggesting bubbles are a good thing. I'm saying they're a fact of life in this field, so people working in startups should know how to deal with them.

If you can maintain a level head in a bubble (ie, the opposite of the approach you heard in Ireland - and I often heard in Tel Aviv) you can survive it, and even gain from it. I'm talking about the startup engineer case, I don't know anything about the investor's case.
The Wu-Tang Clan, Hitler, and Surviving Your First Year as an Entrepreneur
The linked Translation Experiment article was fascinating - thanks :)
There is no outsourcing, and everything is done by clerks and secretaries. Every real employee probably has 5 or more support folks behind them.
First Impressions Matter 26% of Apps Downloaded in 2010 Were Used Just Once
> I must be missing something here.

Perhaps -- you will be able to run Oracle on RDS and pay for it by the hour. I think that's a pretty big deal.
If you're disciplined about it, English teaching in Japan / Korea is also a decent option, depending on whether you end up with better deals. (Humming a few bars: JET salaries in this prefecture are $45k per year post-tax, rents are subsidized in this town to $80 a month, and the Japanese equivalent of the social security tax which your employer is paying ~10% of your salary to is 100% yours when you leave.)

That said: generic non-JET English teachers have it kind of rough (worse salaries and conditions), people's enjoyment of their time is all over the map (depends on who you are and where you end up), and English teaching is notorious for having few forward paths out of it.
They did fix it in 4.5 by having you to pass

-fexcess-precision=standard

Which apparently defaults to not being standard compliant.
I hear this a lot: "learn functional programming", so I did a Haskell module and I still don't understand what all of the fuss is about.

Can you attempt to explain it to me?
His example app is running Rails 2.3.8, and also includes this little option that's important:

ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = false

If that's not in your environment, it changes the JSON from {"id":n, ... to {"doument":{"id":n,..., which is kind of a big difference.

James, I'd consider adding a note about this to your tutorial. Also, the link to your GitHub is a fake one; I managed to guess it properly though. Oh, and all of your commits show you as both the committer and the author, I think your git config is wrong. Make sure git config --global author.email is your github email.
One of the best video players there is! I think over the years I've only had 1 file it couldn't play.
I think prepaid mobile phones are much more widespread in countries like Egypt than they are in the US or Europe.
A few constructive comments on the marketing side of the site. The product itself looks well-thought-out in a good market niche.

- General look and feel

It's professional but a little lacking in whitespace, especially since you've chosen such heavily saturated colours.

- Home page

The three key points at the top aren't as eyecatching as they ought to be. Oddly, they work better in IE without the drop shadow (which appears to shift the block visually upwards away from the dynamic content and into the header). shifting it ~10-20px down the page might help a bit, as might rollovers if you want most users to click to learn more.

My attention gets drawn away from the text on the left. Possibly a box (with curved edges and ideally vertical dimensions to match the slides might help) and/or a pastel background colour might help here.

The animated slides are effective, but possibly a slightly reduced size would give you the scope to make other changes
(most of the graphs would still be clear at much smaller resolutions)

I'd revise the "Secure" text - developers might be interested in knowing that passwords are securely hashed, but Joe Manager just wants to know that it's "password protected and private" and even more importantly "you decide who can see what level of feedback". Customer permissions sound like they could be an important feature depending on the level of openness within the company. Some companies might be comfortable with everyone knowing exactly how each colleague voted for each peer, whilst others might want to anonymise all the votes even to management analysing the results.

Minor point, but there should be an apostrophe in the possessive "each other's" (there seems to be some consensus amongst pedants that each others' is incorrect as both "each" and "other" are singular")

- About Peerleaf page.

Text is a little overwhelming. Stick "Security", "Requirements" and "Privacy" at the bottom of the sidebar (or on a separate FAQ page) to keep the flow of the page about the core benefits and use cases of the product. Your flowchart looks better above the fold too
Midem 2011, How Music is Changing: Long live the Hackers
It could make sense in a Brave New World scenario.
My apologies, that's certainly not what I meant to imply (and hence the use of the word seemingly). The point I was coming from was with regards to the number of times I've had to explain these concepts to an exasperated friend or cow-orker, when they've exclaimed something along the lines of "I've just looked at `top` and there's no free memory!".
I tried to dig up a list of websites with a java-backend but my google-fu is not strong enough. I don't think that there are actually many big sites running on java.
A direct link for the video : http://blog.midem.com/2011/01/meet-a-hacker-martyn-davies-un...
NYTimes does have journalism standards. It's not a blog.
So in other words the entire article could just be FUD? (from an disinterested party)
Salesforce invests $4 Million in Seesmic
NYTimes isn't a pay wall, it's a registration wall.

Like it has been for the last 10 years or so. Welcome to the internet.
I'm sure it's the icons from Iconfinder which increased sales :-D
To be fair, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad just recently admitted (2011) to the existence of the ownership foundation.

> In an email from Ikea sent to the TT news agency, Kamprad admits that the Interogo Foundation in Liechtenstein exists and that it owns Inter Ikea Holding SA, which in turn owns Inter Ikea.

"Interogo Foundation is a company foundation whose only goal is to invest in the expansion of the company business and secure its long-term survival. In other words, the assets of the Interogo Foundation are held as financial security and are only used if Inter Ikea has financial difficulties," wrote Kamprad.

"The assets can also be used to support individual Ikea dealers who have financial difficulties or for philanthropic purposes. Interogo Foundation is controlled by my family and is administered by a board of directors consisting only of outside representatives." he added.

http://www.thelocal.se/31650/20110126/
To be fair, the older cr3wzorz as you call them are probably either of the same calibre or having a great deal of fun at the poor kid's expense. Either way, it made me chuckle!
iSchadenfreude
These faux rebuttals seem to intentionally miss the point Mark was making:

Doing a startup, the kind that Mark means, the kind that he sees -- specifically those with a story about how they're going to become billion dollar company -- works best with some specific personality traits. Is that really that hard to swallow?

Does it mean people without those can't start businesses? Heavens no.

These arguments are effectively a straw-man -- the point of contention is on the definition of a startup, not on who's fit to do one. They seem to redefine "startup" as "business doing something with the internet" and then proceed to debunk Mark's argument about who's well suited for those. But again, that's completely (intentionally?) missing the point.

Also the "lottery" hooky from DHH is dumb. Nobody compares getting to the top of other fields as pure chance -- why would it be different with startups? Did Michael Jordan and Zuck have a string of lucky breaks along the way? No doubt. But do you really think hard work had no more to do with it than it did for the person scratching the foil off of a lotto scratch-card? Do you really think there aren't recognizable personality patterns in top athletes? Really?
First impressions definitely do matter … not just for mobile apps, but for webapps and standard websites as well. Hey, they matter for your social media profiles too; if someone’s recent tweets or anything else aren’t interesting/useful, I’m far less likely to follow them.
All I needed was the source to see what changes were made :)
Question: can I, in turn, download and read iBooks on my Kindle or my Sony Reader?
I usually agree with MG, at least in principal. Apple has been consistent on the buying in app means using in app purchase rule. That is why Amazon went to the browser to purchase altogether. But if Apple cracks down on all purchases made from the device have to be through Apple then that is a different issue. That means I can't get access to my Highrise data because I subscribed outside the app store? Seems like a slippery slope and also seems unlikely that that was what the rejection was for.
Who says the person who shouts the loudest doesn't get heard? The benefit and downfall with having such transparency is that consumer errors could break confidence in a service. Glad the retraction made it to the top of the pile today. I heard this story from a co-worker the other day, basically presented as "github was down and in fact losing commits".
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
I feel that linux has reached parity with other OS's in all ways but these:

1 - Continuity of applications. For example, in updating Ubuntu on a laptop I use for compiling embedded kernels, I lost the swanky power management window that could tell me things about battery charge/discharge rates. No idea where it went. Then the next version changed the interface again. Adding and removing apps between versions causes problems, if only from jarring users from how things used to work. This is the main reason that I don't support Linux on the desktop as much as I could - I can't more than a few versions of "how the GUI works for program X" when X seems to be replaced frequently.

2 - Hardware compatibility at the edges. The core works great - the problem is with weird/proprietary things (binary drivers, etc...). I don't have a solution for this, other than proper hardware choices at purchase, which is harder than you think.

3 - Microsoft specific formats. I'm talking .doc/.xls/etc. These are the biggest reason people "can't" switch - they have too much rolled up in these old crappy formats that don't convert perfectly to OO.org. 90% of those problems are formatting/fonts/printing/interchange related. The BIGGEST win Microsoft ever had was getting their XML formats (.docx/.xlsx/etc.) approved - had the standards bodies and governments rejected them, everyone, on all platforms (Windows included), would be in a much better place now.
This reminds me of the post about the site for apartment managers a couple of days ago, where it was designed to meet the needs of the end users - who aren't the actual purchasers.
There are still many people who believe there is a defect in the iPhone 4's antenna, for instance.

You should have quit while you were ahead. The antenna fails, but the problem is fixed with a case. Furthermore , here's something else that I never saw anyone mention: The receiver has a terrible echo in some locations. Possibly because there is a rock cliff behind my house (I live on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, so the rocks are, shall we say, moist). I imagine that has something to do with the origin of the echo, but it's awfully close (the round-trip time for the radio signal would be imperceptible, so something else must be going on; if it was a tower problem I would think others would have mentioned it). I can fix the echo, sometimes by moving and other times by simply turning the phone.

I have an iphone 4. The others in my family have had or currently have iphones 1, 2, and 3. The iphones area all lousy as phones (my circa 2006 motorola Razr was a much better phone). The iphone rocks in many ways, but as a phone, no.
This is pretty basic math. A fun puzzle for high school students maybe, but anyone remembering any of their comp sci or engineering courses should be able to solve this very quickly.
For people that don't actually have their own allocation from a RIR, the price will likely go up. It's a matter of supply and demand, their provider is going to have a shrinking pool of IP addresses from which to assign new ones to servers. It seems likely to me they will start charging additional fees for more IP addresses.
Turning numbers into names: how IP address lookups are done
I know that some people will disagree with me violently, but you can self-learn pretty much any topic in CS as long as you are willing to put in the effort (any topic in any subject, really, the main factor is motivation). As someone who skipped straight to a masters, I know it is certainly doable to self educate.

MIT open courseware might be a good place to start, although I've never used it myself.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

I would personally focus on topics that are either historically difficult, or pragmatic.

So stuff like compilers, computability and complexity, operating systems, database systems, cryptography, machine learning, web applications, linear programming, networking. Learning the basics of hardware is important too, although it is more electrical engineering and math theory.
In the old days of computing people used to talk about "tackie" or "sneaker" networks. Meaning put the data onto a disk and physically move it to another machine. Looks like we are back to that again!
What's next, blocking paid websites?

I fear this.