skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second this. NewRelic rocks. My company spends around $700/mo on it, happily.
There's a history of well-respected companies that made cheap and inferior products with the honored brand label on them.

And guess what? People figure it out. Shall we build a list? I'll start: Cadillac Catera.
Well I would expect nothing less from Him!
I've found that Tor is a lot faster these days than it was a year or more ago. It's actually quite usable for general browsing.
I don't buy it. It's a barrier to entry, but is it one that correlates with better candidates? I find it hard to believe that there's a compelling correlation between people willing to pay to apply and people Google wants to hire.

If you're looking for a barrier to entry, makes more sense to look for one with likely correlations (has worked at companies whose employees tend to be a fit at Google, has authored a popular open source library, etc..)

But even then, these are all ways to cut costs and shrink the hiring funnel.. which seems like the exact opposite of what Google is trying to do. They're clearly pretty comfortable with the amount of money they spend per hire in recruiting, and I don't see any evidence they want to tighten-up the candidate pool at the risk of missing out on good hires.

[Edit]: On second thought, Google adopting this strategy does seem like a helpful solution to Facebook's hiring problem :)
Yes, but only because of gearings. There'll be a similar exertion limit. One of my old bosses was at one point a pro-cyclist, until he ruined his hips and knees. His doctor actually forbid him from cycling so that he would actually stay active into his later years.

All exercise will have a limit on how beneficial it will be to you. Ideally you would want to spread it out across as many joints and muscles as possible so you don't excessively wear on any of them.

I'd think the amount of calories you burn a day is likely to have a greater effect on your health than simply how much you walk/cycle or weight lift.

Burn the maximum calories you can but spread the exercise over as many muscle groups as you can and that will keep you feeling young.
Fair enough:) It sounded like he was assuming the prosecutor was from Goldman.
Sure, everyone has to trade time and energy to obtain their needs and wants. That doesn't mean that the details of the transaction as they stand now are justified.
Problem is that games like Machinarium are still just "hunt the live pixel". You have to hope you get close enough to the active object in order to notice it/grab it/operate it. On a larger resolution, this can be quite maddening.

Game Designers: How about making the useable objects more noticeable (like a glimmer or something). Also having the puzzles make sense goes a long way.
Seems like there is a lot of this going around. My technical co-founder quit and now we're facing the question of getting another one or learning to code myself, since my other co-founder can't/won't. I remember being interested in coding at age 13, but for whatever reason I never followed up with it. I literally remember sitting in front of my Performa 636 CD looking at a web page telling me "How to become a hacker" and thinking eh...

Now I wish I had taken the leap. python at age 29 is no fun. But I am looking forward to learning it and becoming comfortable, much like when you move to a new city...or at least I hope.
America's Largest Public Companies
Ask HN: Anyone has tried switching to a TN visa after filing a PERM application?
Wondering if somebody has been through this before.

I was on a TN, switched to an H1B and my employer is about to file a PERM application.

I want to bootstrap soon and this might need me switching to a TN, but seems like filing the PERM would prevent me to do this.

Anyone has any advice?
Reminded me of this story about the company that gave iPads away to applicants: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/7770520/Red-...
What's the point of 'Boston vs. Silicon Valley'?
Thanks for giving us a proper gander. I knew there was something different about it from what I remembered!
This post doesn't get it. Even the most desirable companies in the world are still under insane competitive pressure for the best candidates. What A-player would shell out even a pittance to apply for a role? Even among the majors (which isn't where all the action is at right now), there are many alternatives to Google.
that is one of them and he has some more in fact..
Seems like a lot of people are overlooking the Camera Connection Kit which gives the iPad USB. Works with MIDI too.
I had to turn that video off to maintain my personal pride.

I may be a nerd, but by gosh, I do NOT watch Windows installation retrospectives for entertainment! :)
Says right above... "850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz" for GSM/HSDPA. Previous iPad wasn't carrier locked and they'd be daft to lock this one.
I agree. The last thing I want is another set of hoops to jump through when applying for a job -- not to mention the fact that it's in Google's interest to find good employees, so they'll figure a way around this.

Question: Do highly selective companies hire as much through word-of-mouth/referrals, as less selective ones? I'm curious because referrals provide a modicum of pre-screening, but also introduce a lot of nepotism/bias into the overall hiring process vs. making everyone apply through the "front door".
In general, I agree. However, Grim Fandango (1998) was both 3D and brilliant.
Try running a 16-bit application on Windows x64...
Choose the more likely answer:

a) Apple is shipping, and loudly promoting, a feature that "doesn't work" because of a fundamental, immutable hardware deficiency.

b) The software implementation of an unsupported hack, used by an infinitesimal number of users, written by someone who is unpaid and not intimately familiar with the hardware stack and firmware, is inefficient.
In With A Bang, Out With A Whimper: Calacanis Walks From TechCrunch Lawsuit
I think the Romans largely managed it through building level roads to march on. Most pre-industrial armies were marching off-road. I would be saying walking 2 miles/hour on a tarmac road would be someone's maximum before causing damage. Offroad I'd be saying 1.5, maybe even 1 mile/hour depending on the terrain.
Redisfs - Replication-Friendly Redis-based filesystem
I don't agree that this addresses the problem of employees not having a say in the management of the company they work for, unless you are talking about early-stage employees who are actually likely to be able to obtain enough stock to have influence.
I understand what you're going through, and can relate with much of what you've said. I don't know what to do myself, or what advice to give. I would suggest disconnecting yourself from computers and the intenet for a whle though, and see if that improves your focus on other things.
Hi everyone, author here.

Thanks for all the comments. I love it here because HN is always so critical (but not in the hateful way that Reddit makes me sick). Keep the criticisms coming.
> Stallman supports the free market, he's just anti intellectual property.

Without property rights, I'm not sure what if anything -- except services, a.k.a. labor -- can be consistently monetized in a free market.

In other words, in a world without property rights, the only thing of (monetary) value is labor.

And if memory serves, the labor theory of value is the foundation of Marxian economics; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value.

Consequently, it's not clear to me how it's possible even to have a free market in intellectual work product, as opposed to a free market in labor, without some kind of legally-enforceable rights in intellectual property.

Bias disclosure: I'm an IP lawyer by background.

EDIT: The GPL couldn't exist without IP rights, that is, the right (under copyright law) to haul others into court to force them to comply with the GPL terms or to fine them for failing to do so.
#SecChat Highlights – Securing Mobile Devices
Program For Uses Natural Ingredients
You should look for the program which only uses natural ingredients. Some diet programs or system with medically approved therapies, but these should not guarantee efficacy. It is clear first with your doctor, before diving into these program.
Build a Temporary Computer Case Out of the Motherboard’s Cardboard Box
Is the 3G version factory-unlocked for USA? Such that, I can swap SIM cards from country to country (and not have to incur roaming charges from ATT)?
It's amazing how Apple can repackage technology that has been widely available in laptops for years and convince everyone that it's "going to be big."

And I'm sure it will be... Just makes me feel like I'm going crazy though (as I type this on a laptop connected to a 24" HD monitor via HDMI).
HTML5 sectioning elements, headings, and document outlines
Depends on the app, but for us one mobile app is more than enough to keep one of our folks busy full time. It takes a heck of a lot of work and dedication to make a solid app.

I really wish we had a few more folks hacking on Android! cough we're hiring cough :P
I have a palm pilot that used an SD slot and I thought they handled that very well. When you installed an app it installed to main memory. You could move it to the SD if you wanted to. And when you ejected the sd, the icons for the apps that were on the SD card on the home screen disappeared. They came back when you put the card back in.

I'm not saying I want that back, but I am saying that I thought it was a pretty nice easy way of making that work.
Simplicity mostly. People want to be abstracted away from the nitty gritty details. Open ID failed because you couldn't explain it to your grandmother. But you can explain, "oh yeah, you can just click this button and login with your facebook account" Maybe this is just marketing.

If individuals don't run their own server and hold control of their own data, then who does? Whoever is running the node.

I know as nerds, we like to get our geek boners over cool projects that aren't mainstream, and fight the man and all, but people on the street could give a crap less. It means that these are stillborn ideas. Does this mean you should stop fighting the good fight? No, but I wouldn't hold my breath for critical mass.
Ask HN: New Landing Page
We just put a new landing page up over at www.MakeVolu.me . We would love any feedback on the design.

Thanks, MakeVolume
He applauds MS for continually supporting their legacy software... my opinion is that such legacy support is what continually hampers their rapid development
Indeed. Thanks. The .333(repeating) should've given it away.
You can take a G3 from Mac OS 7.1.2 (version which added PowerPC support) all the way to 10.4, which would take you from 1997 to 2005. I haven't done it, but I've read that getting 10.4 requires some finagling to achieve, so the last supported install you could do would be 10.3.9
What tablet would a "power user" use then?
And what practical tablet is cheaper?
The Hedgehog Programming Language
Check your local Apple website.

In Germany it’s the same deal as before. UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, GSM/EDGE and unlocked. It will consequently, as before, work with every carrier.
I just found another way.. several of my Angel VC contacts are friendly with Google Android Dev Advocates..
Thanks for sharing about member blocks. I'll update our routes to use them.
That's pretty curious. Why would they keep that capability quiet for so long?
Burnout?

You must learn to forgive yourself for not doing enough, not being up to par to your past self, etc etc. Let your GF help you and be with you and take a break. a REAL brake. don't spend a week "resting" trying to cram in 20 books. There's no quick fixes.

Once you really rest. Once you find yourself calm again, let the drive and passion build up by itself once more, soon it will burn again even more . Start w/ small achievements, baby steps, you'll learn not to let yourself burnout again. Soon you'll be back on track.
They must use pointers to do it. :)
Agreed. I used ddg for a while just to try it out and to be honest I didn't see it improving my search experience at all and found some of its design quite distracting.

Highlight result on hover? Fixed header? Even the fonts throw me off. To each his own, I suppose.
I had Ethernet in my dorm room for a year with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and never did get it to connect to the interweb. (I had some pretty clever helpers from the Harvard Computer Society, too. Nobody could figure it out.) One of my greatest days as a computer user was the day I installed Windows 95 and got Internet Explorer to load playboy.com—oh, and also fas.harvard.edu. :-)

(Of course, all good things must come to and end, and after Windows 98 was through I switched to Linux/Firefox and then to OS X/Firefox/Chrome.)
Apple uses african american model for black iPad2
I suspect it's the SIM card cage + SIM card required for AT&T but not for Verizon.
> consistent, worldwide retail presence

You haven't actually tried being an Apple user outside of the first world, have you?

Apple's consistent, worldwide retail presence in Poland consists of two "Apple shops" in Warsaw [1]. Apple's consistent, worldwide retail presence in Trinidad and Tobago consists of not-officially-authorized resellers [2]. These are not the exceptions.

[1] http://www.apple.com/pl/buy/shop/
[2] http://latam.apple.com/lae/buy/index.php?ctry=TT
I don't get that impression from them at all.

They maintain a very comprehensive and useful listing[1] of 3rd party licenses which goes over their histories, tradeoffs, and whether they're compatible with the GPL.

And that compatibility is treated independently of whether they consider those licenses to be 'Free'.

Of course they'd prefer use of their own licenses, but this self-interest takes a back seat to helping the overall ecosystem.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Why Can't M.B.A. Students Write?
Nai: Congrats for taking the plunge. Getting a faux internship will be immensely helpful. 18 months ago I did the exact same thing, begged a startup to let me work for them for free. Having someone who is invested in your success, interested in making you better, available for you to turn around and ask questions makes the process way faster.

18 months later, I still suck, but most importantly, my mentors taught me how to learn on my own, where to look for documentation, what sorts of problems to look for. I'm definitely not a 'hacker' in the way you're talking about, and every time I think I know something, I get slapped back to reality, but the REAL satisfaction is being able to just keep making forward progress. To be able to sit at a terminal and feel like your startup's destiny, YOUR destiny is in your hands is immensely empowering and a far cry from waiting and hoping your developer is on the same page as you.

One piece of advice, which I still struggle with: don't try to bite off too much. There's a compulsion to understand the entire codebase before you commit to that host startup's project. Don't. Figure out heat you want to get done and just try to understand a tiny corner of that codebase in isolation, then fix it. Keep doing that and you'll eventually have covered the whole codebase.

It's a long journey going forwards, but you'll look back and it'll seem like time has blasted by. Having good mentors in your startup will make all the difference.
Oh god... as if configuring Apache for a non-trivial site wasn't complicated enough, now we'll have the full genius of those responsible for PHP's function naming conventions writing their own web server? Is this really necessary? Why not spend the time making PHP's namespace support not suck, or working on the SPL?
"What if I plug in another card?"

I think the autorun.inf standard could serve as a model.
Personally, I find cold-calling people out of the blue and trying to pitch them a product when you only have minimal indications of interest from them (if any) to be the sleaziest way to sell a product.
Frustration, thy name is trying to work on two projects
Marketing and Network Effects
He left out Windows ME. I guess that would be too much to ask.
I had no idea. We ought to set up a donation drive.

edit: I was not being sarcastic. I wouldn't mind chipping a few bucks if a hat is going around.
Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
At least the web server isn't written in php...
Really? You actually posted this?
The point of the video was chronicling Windows upgrades. ME wasn't an upgrade. :)
Ouroboros has bitten its tail.
Cost has nothing to do with the iPad's viability for power users.
Is Apple On a Mission to Destroy Optical Discs?
Viinyl Gives Every Song Its Own URL
Adsense and Indexing are separate services. One tracks you, the other tracks published sites.
I don't really see how this would help. Thats what FastCGI is for. You would have to be dumb to expose a php internal HTTP server to the world, and configuring a FastCGI backend is no harder than setting up a HTTP backend in apache/nigix/whatever. If its just for testing, most apache installs come with PHP by default, its just another command to learn.
A-players do not submit unsolicited resumes, and would never have to pay a fee. They would be head-hunted or introduced directly through colleagues. They get plane tickets, expensive dinners, and nice lodging. They are completely above this fray.

B-players -- those who are qualified, but without connections -- should be happy to pay $25 to know that a real person will actually read and categorize their application. I would personally find this more confidence-inspiring than just mailing off a resume into the void.

The millions of unqualified, hopeless candidates are the problem. The mountains of recycling they generate aren't just bad for Google, they're bad for the B-players as well, who literally get lost in the shuffle.
As I was reading this I, at first, didn't get it. I've never been a very active blogger or sharer.

But then it hit me: I realized I've been participating in forums, emailing, chatting, posting status updates, uploading photos to a dozen different services, created at least a dozen different versions of my portfolio, writing thoughts on myspace and friendster, and a hundred other services since my teen years. After a few moments, I realized I've probably easily created 200,000 - 300,000 pieces of data that are, at this point, kind of lost.

It'd be amazing to have a wayback machine for my online life.

The scope of a product like this, though, makes me balk: Cracking the egg of getting all of that data seems pretty daunting.

Edit: Just did a little bit of hard thinking about how many pieces of data I've created and it's probably closer to 100,000. Still a pretty incredible amount of data to create and never revisit.
720p is 1280*720; so the device can't display 720p. I think what the spec there is talking about is that it can decode video up to that resolution - it's more of a codec performance number.
> I have a feeling that all of these ideas that you and many others want to try have already been tried

Yes, of course. They're all around us. We focus on Googles, Facebooks, Chevrons, and so on, but there are examples to be found of more diverse ways of conducting business.

I would like to provide you an example I read about, perhaps a year ago, of a Midwest company where all of the employees gather with the directors to discuss and vote on important decisions. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to dig it up.

In Germany, as an another sort of example, it's (sometimes?) legally required to have employee representation on the supervisory board (http://www.biscayneconsulting.net/images/laborfuerst.pdf). Compare this with the common US system of the staff elite, conducting business decisions behind closed doors, leaving the employees wholly unaware of their own future.

> I don't like the idea of forcing others to my ideals.

It's not like I'm suggesting some sort of government mandate. Creating awareness and subsequent social pressure can cause tremendous change. While the definition of a corporation is generally static, trends in corporate behavior and general concepts of priorities change over time. Look at 'shareholder value' in Wikipedia, for example.

I do agree that this is up to the corporate founder(s). However, I think that Americans are generally unaware that there are other systems which may be perfectly viable, and yield a greater quality of life for everyone involved. I also think that current interpretation of laws has led to a rather odd system, where corporate directors make decisions which are distinctly bad for long-term business, for the sake of satisfying shareholders and securing short-term, personal gain.

As for starting a company to embody my beliefs, I have. Even if successful, though, I won't have enough capital and momentum to demonstrate any of this for some number of years. Until then, it's just small-business-as-usual. :-)
Nintendo CEO: Smartphone games are worthless
Why bother with the long tail when you've got the bulk of the distribution in your pocket already.
Or was the first version 33% thicker than it needed to be to give them an easy win in version 2?
IPad 2 Keynote video
Oh man I could make a really nasty joke about Steve Jobs and the iPad being 33% thinner. But I won't.

It does look like he's lost weight but Jobs has always been skinny, so I don't think it's fair to speculate on how healthy he really is. I really hope he's doing well.
It's too bad that no-one thought of all these sentiments before 1990, forcing this guy to break so much bold new ground in the critique of capitalism.

Some people are ragging on him here for being lazy in his career; I'm going to call him on being unbelievably lazy in running this whole spiel as if he just thought of all these ideas himself.

There isn't the slightest acknowledgement that there's huge branches of modern thought that deal with this very problem using countless different approaches and reaching countless different conclusions. This isn't to say that all that thought is useful or contains a helpful path to reform, but ignoring it completely is just dumb.

He's either atrociously undereducated or extremely disingenuous, take your pick.

-10 more points for talking about everything as if it's specific to America and the particular timeframe.
The interviewer, on the other hand, makes me want to claw my ears out. "Umm, that's great."
Starting the Monday after Superbowl I started walking to and from work (1.5 miles) and going on a 50-60 minute walk/jog every other day. I also revamped my diet. This is going from almost no fitness to moderate levels. I've lost 16 lbs. since then, and I'm up to 7km in that 60 minute evening walk/jog.

I really don't see a 9 minute mile (basically a 10k in 55 minutes) as incredibly out of reach. I've gone from a 17 minute mile to a 13:30 mile in less than a month, and that was with a week break from the evening exercise. A 9 minute mile is a decent jog for someone that's at a healthy point.

By the way: evening walks are a great time to listen to podcasts or lectures!
Apple Exec Paul Devine Pleads Guilty To Kickback
Site is Farked. Youtube direct link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14
Something in your remark just startled me.

Some men (I'll speak for myself here) associate marriage/family with risk. Others associate it with security. Could it be that those who perceive the risk are those who (more or less subconsciously) know that they have/will marry a variant of "trophy wife", beautiful but high maintenance, while those who perceive the security or comfort know they will/have chosen someone who will make things less bad for them if they go wrong?

What does it say about me that I only see risks and dangers in marriage/family ("I'll do it when I'm rich enough/have a comfortable cushion") while my friends are all getting married or starting families, money in the bank or not? Hmm...