skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you used Amarok 2.x? It's different than Amarok 1.x. Lots of people don't like it. There are a few projects out there whose purpose is to clone Amarok 1.x and continue development (Clementine is one). Not sure why people didn't just fork it, but whatever.

The Mono thing is tricky because MS could at the very least drag it through a hellish tangle in the court system with all the MS-held .NET oriented patents out there. MS doesn't have Sun to keep them in check anymore and as Windows declines they'll get increasingly desperate and start targeting open systems. They snuggle up to de Icaza and Novell now when they don't think they're a threat, but if that situation changes MS and Mono will be mortal enemies, technically and legally.

MS's whole life is about promoting Windows. At the moment Mono is seen as a way to get more people into C# dev, because MS believe they have the best tools for C#/.NET dev (Visual Studio) and you need Windows to run them. If you get a bunch of OSS hackers on C# and .NET, when they need some extra cash they'll take a freelance job and use/buy Visual Studio and/or C#. Things won't always be that way, though.

Mono is kind of a wildcard because everyone knows subconsciously that when MS gets desperate enough they'll be out to squeeze as much blood as possible from patent infringement suits, etc. related to Mono. They may seize the opportunity to try to kill Canonical or other relevant players in the not-Windows market.

That said, I think it's fine to use it for now. :)
What are the specific laws relating to non-violent protest at this kind of event?
With electronic resumes the number of pages is less relevant, but I agree that you should limit the content to what's relevant and can be read quickly. I review a lot of resumes and two is about my limit before I give up. If I can't tell by then if you're qualified for a phone screen then it's not usually worth reading pages 3-6 (yes I've seen those, even up to 12!)

Honestly, you shouldn't really need a second page unless all your Nobel Prizes don't fit on the first.
Thanks. I think I have about 5-8 "I'm in love" ideas though! Entrepreneur ADD is a fair description of it.
"Nice guy I don't give a f&k. Good father, f&k you, go home and play with your kids. You want to work here close!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

Probably not the best "formal warning", but fun all the same.
And even if they were that silly, I'd be pretty confident that a fair use defense (parody) would hold up here, if something so ridiculous were actually to go to court.
This is awesome, but there is one thing I wish could be changed.

I currently host my (Jekyll-powered) site with S3/CloudFront. The error pages is awesome, but it only works if accessed through S3, not CloudFront.
Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
By siloed I was referring to all the VB-style apps that predated widespread use of the Web. You had to use a single mediocre client app because it was the only piece of code in existence that could support the proprietary protocol for the matching server. Lock-in was rampant and building a better client or repurposing the data in any way was almost impossible.

Now we have servers that may technically still be talking XML or JSON or something over HTTP, but it might as well be an opaque proprietary protocol, because there's only one piece of code in existence (the javascript embedded in some page) that knows how to send meaningful requests to the server or decode its responses. The protocol isn't even stable enough to reverse-engineer because the author can make arbitrary changes to it and migrate everyone to an updated version of their client code at any moment. I find this vastly inferior to query strings, multipart/form-data, and scrapable semantic HTML, which a growing number of web devs completely neglect (none of whom I'd ever hire).

> should browsers not support JavaScript?

They shouldn't run it by default without asking whether the user trusts the author. Privacy violations are rampant and even malicious scripts have become a recurring problem. I don't see why a sandbox that works shouldn't be possible, but it hasn't happened yet.
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The length of the common prefix generally grows linearly from 1 to O(log(n)) on randomly distributed values (and worse on less-randomly distributed values) -- if you follow a given value, it starts off being compared against another random value, then against a value with probably one bit in common, then against a value with probably two bits in common, and so on, until O(log(n)) comparisons have been done.
Back when I still deigned to work for other people, I had an extensive and successful resume. I started out with a one page resume, and kept it that way for the first 5 years of my career. Then at some point, I kept getting asked silly questions by recruiters (not in house but the independent agencies) and they'd often say "you should put this on your resume. You should list every language you've worked with, all your skills. And tells us more about each company you worked for.

I was able to hold the line at a 2 page resume, but I optimized the hell out of it.

Finally, I got really irritated and re-worked it again to be a single page.

The resume looked something like this-
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MYNAME@gmail.com -- huge letters across the top. the only contact info on the resume

Summary
18+ years of software development experience.... going on for about a paragraph, that really gives my "value offered" rather than "this is what I'm looking for". This was succinct and compelling and I think many people never read further.

Then a cronological list of jobs in this format:

JOB TITLE @companydomian.name date-now
Patent #444,444,444 "Title of Patent", sole inventor
One-two sentences highlighting significant accomplishments there.
Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Perl exit: need more challenge

and at the bottom:
copyright - do not forward or alter this resume, no agency may represent me.
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This worked really well. Let people see the tech I used, why I left each position, what I did there, and what my title was.

That last line was because I was constantly finding my resume retyped (very poorly) by agencies that wished to send it out, often who got it under fraudulent terms (they made a job posting pretending to be the company rather than an agency). They'd do this just to remove my contact info at the top lest the company contact me directly.

Eventually I stopped dealing with agencies.

In fact, don't give your resume or even talk to anyone who isn't a hiring manager, or a friend of yours at the company. HR people are just going to prevent you from getting a job. Agencies are just going to say things like "You built a search engine? that's nice. Were you using Oracle 15?" "No, I was working in Java, and some SQL, I think the backend was Oracle 14" "Oh, sorry, they really want Oracle 15 experience".

And of course, when a bimbo airhead (often male with some sort of ego involvement) has decided that you're not qualified because your buzzword compliance is 6 months out of date, there is no convincing them.

So, I decided they just got in the way, and started networking.

This was so much better-- stopped getting jobs and job offers, but opportunities. Started interviewing for CTO positions rather than "Sr. Developer".

YMMV.
...or you have your domain registrar doing the redirection for you automatically when setting up the DNS for S3:

http://iwantmyname.com/services/developer/setup-custom-domai...
Every candidate thinks their resume format is superior, every company thinks their job posting is perfectly clear, and every screener thinks they have the one true resume format figured it.
I agree with you, particularly about interviewing - that the hirer will often have arbitrary beliefs and standards. But I'm not so sure about resumes. While inevitably there is some arbitrary nit-picking and subjective preferences, I would be willing to bet that there are a good few universals. For a business resume, I think no more than a page is one of them. I've edited many resumes and there's a number of guidelines for success that I make sure people follow.

Also, I bet if you were to take a large number of different recruiters for the same type of position and hand them a stack of resumes, they would mostly pick out the same few as stand-outs.
Is there anyone currently giving the sort of advice that motley fool used to give before they changed for the worse?
Great questions.

Our thesis here is that Twitter is a major channel for businesses to interact with existing and potential customers and is only going to get bigger.

Big companies are already deploying lots of resources in an attempt to find high quality engagement opportunities on Twitter. For example Microsoft employs a whole team of support folks looking for xbox related questions and making sure they get satisfactory answers.

Most companies aren't Microsoft and can't afford that type of resource outlay, but will also want to take advantage of this channel. We hope that InboxQ will be a tool that helps them do that efficiently.

Ultimately, our goal is to help reduce the transactional friction on the channel as a whole (ie the funnel you detailed above). This is the first step towards that goal.

Hope this helps answer some of your questions.
I wonder what Google thinks about my searches for shoes :)
I'm a programmer and a designer! And I'm not on Facebook! If Chicago wasn't so far for me, I'd send you my resume ;)
Well, in the purest sense of Capitalism, the government's sole role is to enforce private property rights for property owners. That's it. It does not have to, for example, determine equality or "justice", unless and only unless, justice is meted only in the context of property right enforcement. Notions of constitutionality, "natural" or "human" rights, "general welfare" -- hell even "common defense" -- are simply theft by government gunpoint.

That's the leanest, strictest, "aspie"-est role of government that I've seen. We don't need anything: An army, navy, NIH, IRS, Student Aid, welfare, SS, Medicare. We need nothing but the government to ensure that what I make I can keep and what I do with it is my business. Everything else, and I mean all of it, as cute and as cuddly and toothless and gross and poor and pathetic, can fall where it may.

In this situation, "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" is tantamount to treason, if and only if we lived in a pure capitalistic society.

Any disputes to the above are the very first that I've heard of and is not pure capitalism.
This is from the school of economics commonly taught at any university that can get past the free market love fest that so many business economics courses focus on. I believe the technical term for externalities and such is "market imperfection".
Can't beat a major corporation already spending money doing what your tool makes easy for validation. Glad to hear.

I think that there's an opportunity for the response to have a tiny URL that leads the customer to a site which might make tracking their process thru the funnel easier.

And of course, it is probably a very different experience for an online retailer (Even someone like microsoft or apple who sells online) and I was just getting hung up on best buy (being bricks and mortar oriented... though they do sell online too.)

Anyway, thanks for answering!
As others have said, the Amazon referrals would compete directly with Ubuntu One, meaning they would lose money if they left it in place. Canonical still needs money to function, just like everyone else. Their offer was to either disable the Amazon links by default, driving people to use Ubuntu One, or to enable them by default and take a big cut.

Not that unreasonable at all.
Ask HN: MacRumors Buyer's Guide for all gadgets?
I bought my dad a Kindle for Father's Day last year. One week later, the Kindle 3 comes out. Needless to say, I'm unhappy about this. But instead of getting mad I decided to get even: my best friend and I have been working nights on a MacRumors Buyer's Guide for ALL gadgets these past couple weeks [1]. (It's almost ready to open up to private-beta http://isitnewyet.com)

The idea is what if you could see into the future and know in advance when gadgets were going to be updated and released?

Would a MacRumors Buyer's Guide for all gadgets be useful to you? We would love all the feedback and insight we can get. Thanks HN!

[1] buyersguide.macrumors.com—The key to the MRBG is their product cycle-based buying recommendation. For example, say you want to buy an iMac. As of today, the iMac has not been updated in 206 days. The iMac's average refresh cycle is 226 days, so MRBG recommends "Buy only if you need it - Approaching the end of a cycle." It's not perfect, but now you've got a more complete picture before you make you make the purchase.
After I posted this, I did some googling and noticed that people have been using it for a while - but the new menu suddenly appeared above my gmail inbox for the first time this afternoon. Strange.
I'm getting tired of this constant back and forth about "ideas vs. execution." It seems plain as day to me that you need both a good idea and good execution to have the best chance of success. And a healthy dose of good luck probably doesn't hurt either.

Sure, the world's best idea, with no execution, is worthless. And sure lots of people have "great ideas" that are just pie in the sky fairytales that aren't implementable. But look at the flip-side... how many hackers are there in the world, who - in 2003/2004 or so - were talented enough to build, say, Facebook? I'd venture the number is on the order of "a metric shit-ton." Now how many had the idea of building something like Facebook? And then the flip-side to the flip-side is to ask "how many had the idea and the talent, but not the initiative?" And we could keep going back and forth... the point being, you need both the idea and the execution.

And executing a bad idea well isn't necessarily going to lead you to any success. What if I invented the world's most amazingly advanced and mondo righteous new model of buggy-whip, tomorrow? I could setup a factory, produce them, source the components at a great price, use six sigma and all sorts of fancy statistical process control and empower my employees and use the kaizen approach and churn out a constant supply of really high-quality (but inexpensive!), super advanced mondo righteous buggy-whips... which would all promptly collect dust until my factory went out of business, I went bankrupt, and I had to burn them as firewood.
I third this. The way you have that slide written is misleading, and frankly, lame. You don't need to make it appear like you "worked at/for Apple" and that is the way it is written. Reshoot that slide.

Otherwise, I like the FB resume deal, this one time. If I ever see anyone else do this, that is a different story.
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To be fair, the percentage can be a pretty fuzzy number for a young startup in the middle of raising money.
Caveat: I am not a tax lawyer, nor accountant. Moreover, I am writing this from Canada so your local tax law might be different.

It sounds like you have already created a non-zero valuation for your equity (a fair market value established by your funding round). So that creates a corresponding tax liability if you just award equity to your new co-founders (without liquidity).

Option A: If the share value is still fairly low and the amount of equity that you want to award is modest then I would just take the tax hit. The company could cover the employee via an interest free loan that is offset by any future liquidity gains.

Option B: If we are talking about a huge equity/value piece but an early stage company then you might consider setting up a new company, assigning founder equity at near zero valuation and then transfering all assets of the old company to the new one. This creates some accounting and legal work but might be worth it if you are early stage and are looking at major equity changes. Just watch out that previously accummulated tax liabilities, tax credits and subsidies of the old/current company get captured properly.

Option C: Issue stock options at fair market value instead of equity. This is probably the simplest option but won't give your new co-founders as much control (which might or might not be a good thing).

Definitely best to spend a bit of money with a small business tax guy though.
the only piece of solid, indisputable resume advice i've heard is to never, ever send it to anybody in MS Word .doc format. only in pdf. otherwise all sorts of recruiting agencies will add and subtract things before sending it out, which typically results in the whole thing being a huge waste of time for you.

even better advice is to avoid agencies all together.
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While this is pretty impressive, in the same vein I have to give Dyson (as in the vacuum cleaner guy and inventor of other things) huge respect for re-creating an Escher uphill waterfall as a garden piece, one that I would gladly display.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3046791.stm

Better hi-res pic here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/james-dysons-uphill...
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The US is far from a pure capitalist society. Between 1800-1900, despite a civil war and the massive economic damage involved in such things, we went from being a backwards third world country to being a world power in a nearly pure-capitalist society. We were well on our way to eliminating poverty.

Uh, US poverty in 1900 was immense. This was the era of the Wobblies, The Jungle and the Robber Barons. Yes, a variety of radical ideas appeared about then. Why?? Look at the conditions...

It seems like length abuse is creeping into HN...
The repeat has different granularity. I prefer Emacs's, but, matter of taste I guess.

"Super"-f/b are free on my keyboard, where "super" is the button with the Windows logo on it. I don't really miss the E/B functionality, though, and I used vim for about five years before I started using Emacs.
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Can't say I always read NFOs, esp. for regularly scheduled broadcasts, but they do lend some confidence and credibility. If I see a bunch of search results, I'll check the one with the NFO first.

NFOs are useful for lesser known, possibly out-of-distribution foreign downloads, telling you about audio & subtitle languages. Sometimes bitrate and IMDB links.

And they can be funny. I hope NFOs never die.
When their service becomes unacceptable. It has nothing to do do with "bigness." We all use Google, after all.
This probably deserves a separate discussion.

As an entrepreneur do you also use other entrepreneur's/start-up's services or just rely on the big (market share) players in the market? A startup is hard so do you go out of your way to help support other smaller service providers?

If you have an opportunity to support competition in the marketplace by not flocking to the lowest price(Walmart) but paying a bit more for a smaller service, do you make that sacrifice?

Knowing that NearlyFreeSpeech.Net appears to offer similar functionality, why choose a larger provider like Amazon if you have the mindset of a founder?
I believe the concept of "externalities" is well established in the field of economics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Externalities.html
No use in complaining, this was a cool PR stunt. You don't hear the Washington Generals bitching about the Globetrotters.
Thanks for asking!

I agree with you. I think there will ultimately be different variations of the product based on the goals/objectives of the business.

Our goal at this stage was to put enough structure around the product that it would be useful, but also make it accessible enough that lots of different types of users could get value out of it. We'll move in the direction(s) that users point us in.
If you look at what they actually have in AdWords, it's not easy to see how it could be seriously disrupted. You're right that Google's real monopoly is not on search but on their immense network of advertisers and content sites, which has economies of scale built in that benefit everyone involved. Simply by being the biggest, Google's network is the best. The only thing that has come close to challenging that is the walled garden of Facebook, because of its unprecedented scale. Now Facebook surely has some growing left to do but even they would still need to pretty much cannibalise over half of the web's pageviews to have a shot at usurping Google's ad network.

Compare Microsoft, whose monopoly positions are relatively brittle. As we see with IE9, if Microsoft slips to even 66% market share (that's the current US market share for Google Search[1]), they need to start thinking seriously about interoperability. An advertising monopoly is something much more fluid. I think Google would have to majorly drop the ball to get toppled in the medium term (maybe failing to respond to an extreme price challenge over several years from a large rival network, or some really catastrophic privacy blunder).

[1] http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/2/comSc...
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Going against the trend here, but I would suggest finishing the degree. Yes, some drop-outs are successful (and we love to focus on those - American Dream and all that nonsense). But stastically speaking you are much much better off with a degree. Being a drop-out will put a damper on his whole life unless he just happens to be one of that tiny percentange of geniuses that we love to read out.

Maybe an internship in the summer can cure the "start-up experience" itch.
If anyone's having trouble picturing what this will look like from another camera angle, there was a relevant link on HN recently: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/01/19/133017843/your-...

HN comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2137152
Nothing would be overvalued. Consider it worth a negative amount because of the opportunity cost.
I am not an Amazon supporter but come on, do you think if you were hosted on any other US service, rackspace or what have you, that they would keep hosting you while the us govt was pressuring them to shut you down?
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Like I said, it doesn't magically make all nuances go away all by itself, it may make the programmer's job a lot easier but it does not directly impact user experience.

That's why it's not appropriate to compare browsers based on whether they implement this or not.

Last time I checked if I crashed one instance of Flash player in one tab, all instances crashed in all tabs.
It pissed me off when they did that in Inception. The whole point was that should be possible in a dream.
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Ask HN: do you like rating your friend's personality?
Do you like the idea of rating your friends on basis of their personality?

If you have to rate your friends, colleagues, etc on basis of some personality traits, which 5 will you choose and why?

Examples - Trustworthy, Friendly, Looks, Intelligence, Smartness, caring, enthusiastic etc.

A list to choose from -

http://www.gurusoftware.com/gurunet/personal/factors.htm