skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google buzz isn't going to be easy to lure people in to. The UI/UE isn't all that great. And I say this as a gmail user. I really think google needs to think about acquiring the next up and coming social service...whatever that may be...
They have that effect on you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
The Future of Advertising Isn't Banner Ads
Similar arguments go for using a distributed VCS.
VoltDB is looking for Summer 2011 interns in Boston area. We're small, so our interns basically become engineers for a few months, and have lots of flexibility on what they want to work on. Also, as an open source company, you can point people to actual shipping code you wrote in a future job interview.

http://voltdb.com
I go to coworkers when I think it's a problem they've dealt with before. Otherwise, it's much easier to just Google it.

I would put 'Think' first on my list though because I really enjoy it, and tend to do it whenever I can. Google comes in when I hit a dead end thinking.
We're focused on usability as our primary offering. Setting up phone systems is major pain point for a lot of businesses, esp kinds that can't host their own VBX :)
Heroku is now counting add-on resources instead of apps running
Heroku has changed their front page counter from showing the number of apps running to showing the number of add-on resources connected. Quite a big change as the app counter has been a prominent feature of the front page for as long as I can remember.

I wonder what the number includes? And whether it's only add-ons provided through the add-on provider program, or it also includes "internal" add-ons like shared databases?

If it does include shared databases the number is quite interesting, considering that a shared db is created along with an app. I'm guessing this isn't the case as there were some 130.000+ apps running last time I checked.
The surprising thing is what they totally got wrong.

1. For instance, the backdrop of trees and green at the railway station. The intensity of urbanisation over the century sees every piece of land getting built over.

2. The mass availability of high technology. For instance, we were shown imaginings of servants bringing musical pieces for the phonograph.

3. An unpredictable technology - the age of electronics - totally transforms machines.
Thanks for the shoutout! You can follow us @orionvm
We are online and available to answer questions both here and via twitter.
Is VoltDB really as scalable as they claim?
Heyzap is

www.heyzap.com/jobs
This article is from the fall. Is there an update?
What should be and what is are still unfortunately sometimes different things. Look at deadbeat parents, or worse, parents that just run off. Sad to say, there is such a thing as quit for families, even if it's not right.

Agreed that surviving anything painful/risky helps you to get through new pain; heart surgery must definitely rank up there.
The thread from last month is probably still relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2171315
I loved that book by Dennis! It's a very enjoyable read that I could not put down. Very inspiring.
Probably, but since there are similar commercial tools on the market (F5 WebAccelerator, for example), such a product is always welcomed.
Actually, DOJ recommended the law firm that ended up talking to HBGary and Palantir and ... whoever the third one was.

Not that it isn't egregious for the DOJ to recommend reputation fixup to Bank of America because BoA is presumably about to get hammered by Wikileaks disclosure.
that is the saddest looking screenshot.
Not go off topic...but that is actually a Wayne Gretzky quote...not Michael Jordan.

Also, building reusable code is a good way to get future projects done in a weekend!
Real life constraints cause this to occur every now and again and when it does, I'm just as tickled by the spectacle as you imagine.

An example I recall was in the bad old days of CD-ROM duplication (when even small orders were still replicated in big plants because CDR's were $40 each). Prices were set by the replicators based on how full their queues were and how fast you wanted the job done. That means prices changed daily. A not so savvy PM type spent three days making a general ass of himself waffling and niggling for an additional 10% discount (beyond our regular volume discount) only to find when the order was actually entered, the replication price had doubled.

I was privileged to deliver the news. I assure you it felt every bit as good as you'd imagine.
I chatted with their support, and out of the box(*) they don't allow you to call out from the company phone number. So if you make an outgoing call and the callee decides to return it, it will be returned to your personal cell phone during lunch time with the family, not to your business phone with voceimail etc. In detail, they said it's case by case, and that it might be illegal if not done right(!?), so they have to "handle it with care". Obviously, I wouldn't have the patience for it.

I actually do not mind the pricing that much, but they have to deliver on convenience 100%, and exposing a private phone numbers is an inconvenience.

Also, the additional external line pricing is not posted on the site - support said it will be about $8 in most cases.
If you tell someone to come in to your office 9-5 and tell them how to do the work, they're an employee. If you call them a contractor, and the IRS audits you and talks to that person, they're going to fine you for all the unpaid payroll taxes you'll owe. These are words with specific definitions in the tax code.
Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government MITM Attacks Against SSL
You forgot the step about luck! Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Ask HN: Angel Investment Pre-YC?
I might have applied for YC for Summer 2011, and my team may have been approached by another angel investor. Have any of you YC companies accepted investment before YC? It seems like I'd need to incorporate, hire lawyers, etc before YC (assuming I'd be accepted).

Any advice would be appreciated on the best way to proceed, assuming YC participation this summer.
Adobe is! My team in particular, too! http://blogs.adobe.com/charles/2010/11/wanted-computer-scien...
Bullhorn Reach is:

http://www.bullhornreach.com/careers
I was slightly unclear as to the circumstances, but basically I read you have an existing investor who is basically inactive in the business, but is being difficult during further acquisition.

You have 10 staff, and you're profitable. It sounds as though it might be best to try and sever ties with this investor if he's making things difficult for you.

One way of doing this would be to cut costs in order to offer to buy out this investor after some period of time, eg. you have 10 people, if you can redistribute the equity held by the current VC/Angel whatever to your employees as restricted stock with a vesting period of two years you may be able to save enough money to buy out the "toxic investor".

Taking this approach depends, of course, on your staff's ability/willingness to withstand a paycut for that, long, the ability to make that kind of decision independently of the existing VC and whether or not you could buy out this dude after some reasonable period of time (eg. 2 years).

The other thing I would point out is if you already have a profitable business and 10 employees, you really shouldn't need any new funding to build a new product. If you have half your team work Fridays on new product development you'll have something in 6 months or so that you can sell.
Ahh...seems I've been lied to my whole life. :). I grew up playing basketball, so I guess our coaches repurposed it for their use. Drat!
GPUs can't run arbitrary code. You have to code specifically for them. They don't run operating systems or web servers or whatever. These are for massively parallel mathematical computations, not for system calls and threads and stuff like that.
I wrote one of the books on the list, Foundations of Programming. It's a free ebook, largely focused at .NET developers. I'm also finishing off a more focused follow up (on github, https://github.com/karlseguin/Foundations-of-Programming-2).

The reception of the book, and the company people sometimes place it with, has always been humbling.

I'm generally not a huge tech-book reader. It isn't how I like to consume such material, but I see the value. To me, Peopleware was likely the most influential book. This is probably largely because I read it relatively young - when I was easier to influence. I also spent the first part of my career in a Microsoft world, where many, many tech books are (or at least were) little more than reference bibles - regurgitating content found on MSDN.

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I'd also like to point out that, as an amateur tech writer, The C Programming Language was very influential. Such a perfectly written, simple and useful book.I used to read it every year, and was amazed at how much content was contained within its pages, and how easy it was to understand.

I'd also be sad if I didn't mention some of _why's work, the most influential to me was his Shoes manual.
Looks like Mixpanel is. http://mixpanel.com/internships
Do you know if the dynamic allocation pool is per-SM or in global memory?
Morgan Stanley hit by same attackers that breached Google
Java is heavy, but there are ways to work around it.

The worst offender is the data access libraries. JPA is bad, JDP slightly better, but something like Objectify works really well.

Typically, Spring isn't the problem (I guess it could be if it is doing a lot of classpath scanning stuff or something though)
I'm pretty sure his hope is that with a well defined separation of UI and mechanics, it will be quicker to iterate and 'find the fun'.
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A better challenge would have been "a million dollars to the first person that points out a contradiction in my viewpoints".
Google is sunsetting Jambool Social Gold
Just got this email:

Hello,

Thank you for your use of the Jambool Social Gold platform. As you know, Jambool was acquired by Google last August. This acquisition meant that some changes to our business were inevitable, and we'd like to share them with you today.

First, the existing Jambool Social Gold product will be discontinued in favor of a new Google in-app payment product in May 2011. Rest assured that you will be able to sign in to the Jambool merchant console through September 2011, and you will receive year-end financial statements in February 2012.

Second, we'd like to invite you to participate in the pre-release beta of the Google in-app payment system. This system will enable developers to accept payments within an app, but it will not have the full functionality of Social Gold at launch. We understand that this will not meet the needs of all developers currently using Social Gold, but we highly encourage interested developers to join the Google in-app payments beta by submitting your information at http://google.com/checkout/inapp

Again, we thank you for your flexibility during this transition period. Please feel free to respond to this email with any questions about your Jambool account or the new Google in-app payment product.

Sincerely,
The Jambool Team
Quite a few of the companies we've funded have already raised some money. It's not a problem if you raise money on a convertible note that YC's investment doesn't trigger. You'd certainly need to incorporate and get a lawyer. Whether it would be worth the cost and distraction depends on the amount being invested, and the terms.
www.recojeans.com (site is getting a new skin right now and is a a little ugly)

We're a sustainable fashion start-up that has a full time developer but could use some tech help. Our fabric is made from denim factory scraps. It would be a good way for a programmer interested in business to learn marketing (I've learned a huge amount over the past 8 months).

Just shoot me a message at kevin@recojeans.com if you're interested.
unfortunately code complete is not available for kindle yet.
I think most of his fame came because he built an audience on the internet before anyone else really, before blogging was even a term. Since then he's just looked at ways to capitalise on his influence in the tech world.
This reminded me of a fact that astounded me when I first read it: Magenta is a colour created by our brain - there is no wavelength for it.
Who wrote the first version? I always assumed it was nvidia's version of Brook.
Hi, I handled your support question. Sorry for any confusion. Your specific question pertained to 'caller-id spoofing', which is where I believe the confusion occurred. Spoofing of a phone number which you do not own is illegal, which is the case I was referring to. Outbound calling from within the web application is not currently supported.
We are at thisorthat.com. We're helping users compare anything (and we're hosting the TechStars Startup Madness tournament) -- looking for developers and writers/editors
Changes for Social Gold
Bug erases 150k Gmail accounts; Google promises complete restoration
Speaking of 2) Tortious interference claims can go both ways, but I agree that it's not what a startup CEO needs.
Hack the tolls: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=I-9...

Get off the highway, take a break, get some cheap gas, and get on the highway after the tolls.
It sounds like the ROI on the investment didn't meet levels acceptable to the VC's portfolio requirements. If the rest of of the team is ready to walk, then it sounds like the best thing to do in this situation is to move on and take them with you.

Best of luck!
Some of the stuff he was doing was pretty clever, and he'll have no shortage of customers if he continues down that path. Taking on Anonymous for advertising purposes however has turned out to be not too bright. His former clients are distancing themselves as fast as possible, but next time they'll just make sure their payments can't be traced to them. "Oh, we didn't know he was doing such things". Bullshit....most companies don't care about ethics, and the US government certainly doesn't at a fundamental level either.

He'll do just fine.
Your saved stories show up on your profile page - but only for you. Nobody else sees that link.
IPhone5 Leak
Global memory.
And the answer is Sometimes - http://i53.tinypic.com/2vkhrt2.gif

That's a good one, W|A :)
Please don't post useless quotes from TC on here. That TC post has no actual content, discussion or information aside from a year-old quote.
Not quite like Google Voice as you can't make phone calls from your computer (Google Voice integrates nicely with Google Talk and you can make phone calls directly from the browser - but only for free Gmail for now)
more: http://blog.jambool.com/index.php/2011/02/28/changes-for-soc...

(and comments are closed)
Anyone got a link to the TED talk the post mentions?
We agree the integration of Google Voice and Google Talk is a great feature. As we are targeted more towards business users, we typically found people weren't as interested in talking into a 'machine' as we would have initially expected. We'd be interested to hear if more people than we realize are after this feature.
Ex-Apple employee pleads guilty in kickback scheme
Do we need an update? I'm not sure if the iOS app market has changed in just a few months. The Verizon iPhone seems to be making a small splash at best and selling mostly to existing iPhone owners.
Right, I do know that --

What Iam saying is that a system that uses both GPUs and the fusion IO cards would seem to provide a kickass platform for mass computation on lots of data in a small form factor.
great to know.. and yes it's terribly distracting. thanks for the heads up!
Looks like submitted = saved as well.
Upvoted because although the AIM study regrettably stoops to fearmongering and lurid prose, it does illustrate an important point about the value of Facebook's social graph.
The comments on here and the screenshots made me install it, although I don't have any interest in R.

Slick indeed and fast as well, kind of screams for a dedicated project/repo for the UI components, as a starting point for other IDEs.
CUDA and BrookGPU share the same creator, but there's not really anything else in common. The programming models are fundamentally different (multi-level memory hierarchy with sharing of local data with fast synchronization versus pure streaming).
It depends. Airlines distinguish on their waitlists between those who've been inconvenienced entirely outside their control (aircraft mechanical delay even weather) vs. those who've missed their flights because they were late. Sounds like you got lucky and were listed as the former. Sounds like the blog author was the former but was classified as the latter. Neither mis-classification is rare from what I've seen as a very frequent traveler.
"since geeks in general are seen as the crème de la crème of society"

He must be living on a different planet than mine.
Cryonics, incentives, and the way in which laws slay hope
Located in San Mateo, Hara.com is hiring. Our environment includes Java, Hudson/Jenkins, Ruby, Selenium, and Flex.
It does, I think. OpenCL's trump card is that it works on non-Nvidia devices as well. I believe that'll ultimately be enough for it to win out, despite the technical merit being in favour of CUDA right now.
This is like saying that there are also a ton of old, poor, ugly guys who lack a large network of beautiful 18-year-olds to have sex with.

Oddly, self-described "great ideas" are more common than people actually willing to do the work.
Wow, until now I had assumed upvotes/saved stories were public.
I've been using GoDaddy for quite some time now. Their user interface is atrocious, and much of their business model seems to be "let's hope they don't notice extra services we conveniently added." I put up with it for years, though, because of low prices.

Lately, though, I'm bothered in a different way. It seems like they want to create an image of celebrating empowered women. Their execution, however, revolves around turning them immediately into sex objects. My conclusion is that Bob Parsons has a fetish about putting women under his control, he made it his corporate image, and it creeps me out.
Let me second that! The book teaches it's reader to be a kind, polite, and considerate friend to people you meet every day. It's a life changer - especially if you're of the shy persuasion.
Actually as bitter as that sounds (does it?), to me it sounds like an active strategy. Perhaps blackberry does not want to get in the consumer space. Why else would they shoot themselves in the foot with a ridiculous $20/app publishing "fee"? Perhaps they just want enterprises that may actually be happy to fork out money to consultants and IT departments as somehow more money implies better quality!
Sounds like an Onion News item.
I've made 100K in the app store during my first 8 months. I agree that diversification is key. Don't go for a homerun, go for multiple singles. This is my strategy and has worked well so far:

1. Always release a free ad-supported version of the app. Advertising revenue has a much better "long tail" than paid apps. There is ~ 5% conversion rate, so your paid apps do better also.

2. Target a specific niche. There is far less competition and you can charge more money. My main apps go for $5 on iPhone and $8 on iPad. If you try to release a "Angry Birds" killer for 0.99c, you are seriously rolling the dice.

3. Re-use the same code base to make multiple apps. This should be done with caution, as there is a fine line between making the most from your work and spamming the app store (which can get you banned). Almost all of my apps share a common code base. This is a sure way to increase discoverability.

Anyway, that's been my experience. As full disclosure I HAVE been featured by Apple and reached the Top 60 top grossing on the app store, so my earnings are a bit distorted by that spike. But even in my lowest month, I have never dipped below $7500.
In the US you don't have to sign a contract or be part of an agreement to be bound by it. For example, if an MS exec has a noncompete and Google hires him, knowing about the contract, but not being party to it, Google can still be sued.
Care to share your pre+post drive checklists?
Ask HN: You have 8GB to store for the future. What do you keep?
You have an 8GB microsd to stash in an impervious time-capsule. What information will you put on it?
The Wristwatch Looks For a New Use
Random House switches to e-book agency model; little bookseller chagrined
Well, since they got caught trying to slip this through, I'm going to bet that it makes this and any other asset sale they are contemplating even more drawn out.
The Mere Existence of Whales
Well, I didn't ask you to spoof the number I don't own, I asked you to spoof the number I do own. It's the phone number you (would have) sold me! Wouldn't I own it after handing over the money and becoming able to receive calls on it?
JQuery plugin dynamically changes your images to placeholder kittens
The author basically described priceline...didn't he?
The english wikipedia (without edit history) is about 4 gigs, compressed. So, that.

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia

Not sure what I'd do with the other four gigs.
Ianal but afaik (TM) is by definition non-registered (or filed). (R) is. (That's why I (tm) my commercial stuff but I don't (R) any.)
Apparently that's the first and only blog post that Linus has given the label 'FULL RETARD'.
1) So is everyone and his brother. Like the Soros freak-out or the Tea Party, it's a fascinatingly manufactured meme with real legs.

2) This is not their discovery. Or, you know, particularly remarkable. No-bid contracts have a long and dirty history.

3) That's not "sharpness", that's just grandstanding by individuals in a community that values attention-seeking.

4) And? See #3.

You're rather clearly confusing political acumen with "can get attention".
The Receivables Exchange, a New Orleans based startup, is hiring interns all sorts of interns.

Go the bottom of the page: http://receivablesxchange.com/about_us/careers/index.html

The internships@ address goes directly to me, so if you mention HN, I'll be sure your resume gets to the right people.
Quizlet.com is hiring software engineers in San Francisco

http://quizlet.com/jobs/
I actually don't know if that's true or not - do businesses set the number of Groupons available by themselves? I doubt it.
Literate Programs: A Collection of Code Samples
Mozilla is (take a look at the College Recruiting section of our jobs page):

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=JobListin...
The Plastic Processor
Which, in retrospect, looks like it may have been smart enough to deserve the extra visibility.
Ask HN: How would you design/manufacture an Android tablet?
I am looking to design/manufacture a rugged, shock proof, water proof android tablet (think military use). it would only have one input that would supply data and power, a few buttons, including pwoer. no cameras or speakers. i am an android software developer... i am an EE, but have been doing web and mobile apps for 10 years. Where would you start?
Just out of curiosity, how did you manage to get a .edu domain for this startup?
Mac MySQL Madness
I’m So Relieved, The Atlas Shrugged Movie is Fantastic
Ultralights aren't very practical due to the government limitations placed upon them. There are few situations in which there's an advantage to flying an aircraft with a cruise speed lower than a freeway speed limit cross-country rather than driving.