skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At last - a full, complete request for something concrete, outlining the whole deal. Kudos to you sir - I tips my hat.

I am not the droid[1] ahem person you're looking for, but I hope you find them, and subsequently (or otherwise!) success.

[1] Star Wars reference - I can see you're not looking for a droid.
Attacking the Internet's Core
I agree with you -- actually go a step further and replace "weird" with "irresponsible" and that's how I feel about the whole situation.

There are newer generations of nuclear reactors that don't suffer from this design flaw, but convincing the public that nuclear power can be done safely is going to get a lot more difficult. This incident is going to be a huge step backwards for public acceptance of nuclear power.
I never understood why MotionDSP ( http://www.motiondsp.com/products/ ) never marketed to consumers or consumer applications, and pigeonholed themselves as a law-enforcement- or intelligence-only product. Granted, I'm sure there's plenty of money in that niche, but it seems like B2B sales to people like Youtube, Vimeo, Zencoder, etc. would be a no-brainer.

Their CUDA product may not have been as attractive to businesses with existing server farms, because those server farms rarely include GPUs, but they have a multicore-optimized variant as well.

Anyway, I guess they're not too shaken up about it ( http://twitter.com/MotionDSP/status/47834266205306881 ), so maybe there's something I'm missing.
The issue with that is if your DB gets backed and starts queuing writes, the timestamps will be skewed. Obviously this isn't always a show stopper, but a caveat nonetheless.
The presumption here is that doing open source work does not open doors to employment – in fact, that's quite far from the truth.

If you're a contributor to a well known open source project there are lots of doors that are opened by being plugged into a network of other good developers that are often being pinged by people looking for work to be done. Prior to starting a startup virtually every job that I'd gotten had been either a result of or significantly influence by having done significant open source stuff and to this day, despite having been mostly inactive in open source stuff for about 4 years, I still regularly have people contact me asking if I'm available for contract work.
Facebook Comments and SEO
The 'Brave New World of Data' Isn’t Just About Consumers
Ask HN: is it fair to reject a designer for a job without an online portfolio?
Similar to rejecting developers because of bad writing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2245228, I think designers (for web/mobile) have to have an online portfolio. If they don't, I reject them out of hand. I just think there's no excuse. Designers who send me .rar files to extract on my harddrive are designers who make me work harder than I should to review their skills.

Fair/efficient/right thing to do?
That happened to me once from this site. It lead me to do the following (which also I happened to post today):
http://www.bootstrappingindependence.com/technology/how-to-i...

Can't see what your running, but if you use WordPress, just install WP Super Cache instead of (or in addition to) everything in my article ;)
Show HN: ducksboard, a real time dashboard using websockets
I agree about preferring the iPad to something like a Boss Micro.

What do you mean by "creating virtual instruments"? Do you mean presenting a virtual instrument interface on screen? If so, I do think the touch surface has some real advantages over a mouse.

I'm still not sold on virtual keyboards and drum surfaces on touch screens though. So far I haven't seen one I'd prefer to a real midi keyboard and drum pads.
Really???!!! And, there's no bubble?
One of my favorite Rails resources has been http://everydayrails.com/

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it has some great articles.
Check out our startup - a dashboard for your online apps. The difference we're trying to make is based on the following:

* strong emphasis on real time
* continuous data gathering, regardless of whether you're connected
* good visual design
* useful daily reporting over email
* a HTTP API for submitting your own data

To see the first two points in action, you need a browser with websockets or with Flash. As for visual design, decide yourself, but our designer will be very offended if you won't love it (just joking, criticism encouraged, feedback appreciated).

We're planning to launch a private beta in May, accepting invites now. Enjoy!
Actually, Netflix produced and distributed original content on a limited scale several years ago, through their Red Envelope Entertainment division. Then they shut it down "to avoid competing with their studio partners". :)
/dev/tty
This comes from the firm saying that programmers are lunatics. The founder wrote a book called "the lunatics are running the asylum"!

Lean is the opposite of what they preach. They are very much the big up front design. That is what pays their bills.
Ha...yes...thanks for the footnote clarification.
Oh, I don't dispute that whatsoever. I'm working on an open source project via a connection I made here on HackerNews. It's not an employment thing but I'm working with one of the (employed) team-leaders on the project. I know it looks great. But it would be nice programming to pay the bills in the meantime instead of whatever else I've got to do.

(edit: I should say I left a career in another industry to pursue programming full-time, so I'm not complaining about having to do other things. I knew it was a gamble, but it was and still is worth it.)
Wow, thank you. Elliott is a musical idol of mine so this is one of the nicest compliments I could receive.
Ask HN: interested in buying domain names? (raising money for my startup)
I’m selling a bunch of domains to raise money for my startup. Some of them are pretty good, so please take a look. All of them are priced at $60 (each).

You can view all of the domains here:
https://sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?showportfolio=d254bea7ce5e3851159b2a33a36f363994b7ca5d

Some of the better ones:

Learnweb.org | NYCvegans.com | 2Dartwork.com | 131k.com | LondonRedBus.com | LondonShoeStore.com | FitReply.com | OdinGod.com

Thanks!
Ok. Fair point.
Sedo clickable page:
https://sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?showportfolio=d254...
IPad 2 taken on by Comedians - U.S. versus British Humor [Videos] [partly NSFW]
Flex OSMF clean destruction after use
I looked at your first source, and immediately noticed that the 2001 death toll does not count those who died in the WTC collapse (article states for 2001, 200 accidents, 1534 dead, so it doesn't include ground zero casualties). In order to make an apples-to-apples comparison, you really need to include the deaths of those in the buildings, those in the planes, the rescue workers with respiratory problems, and anyone else exposed to pollutants at ground zero.

After all, we're counting the fallout from Chernobyl, so we have to count the fallout from 9/11. Both are huge, (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime occurrences with massive secondary casualty counts.

And as far as economic costs, I believe you have to address the 9/11 costs.
Blogger fined $60k for truthful posts
For those of us that don't do Erlang, is this a big deal?
I clear cookies/cache daily at the very least. After I created my third or fourth nytimes account I realized it's easier for me to use the Google workaround or Bugmenot than to retrieve my username and password every time I wanted to read an article.
Well, my conclusion was totally different - right after the first explosion.
Edit: I think you should really stop arguing this by now :)
Unfortunately, I can not give you a credit for that problem - there is no partial credit, the answer is wrong so it is an "F".
Nuclear reactors are not velociraptors.
I have worked with and known adennis4 for 4 years and want to vouch for him.

What he's leaving out is that he's incredibly motivated, hard working, and doesn't take no for an answer. He is one of the most outgoing and charismatic guys I know and I'd bet on him to succeed in his ventures through sheer force of will.

He isn't a programmer, but he's trying to learn the ropes. He's still no slouch. He is the "everything else" guy every startup should dream of having. If he doesn't know how to do it, he'll either find out how or find the person who does. This post is him trying to find the person who can propel him to the next level.

Not only is he a good startup bet, he's a guy you just want to be friends with. I cannot sing his praises enough. I would love to work with him, but I can't offer him what he needs. My best guess as a half-hacker is that he needs a guy somewhere between:
http://abstractnonsense.com/life-at-a-startup/ and http://startup-marketing.com/where-are-all-the-growth-hacker... (or patio11. that would do nicely.)

Best of luck Andrew.
I just tested it on my BB torch and its working fine except the font style is not getting applied properly.
Google Chrome Gets a Bold New Icon
I have yet to break into web development(and start a company etc. to make money online) but I finally finished an app for a local business that has started making payments to me. Getting checks feels nice. Congrats!! :)
From two of my own baby ventures. Defining success is only a tool to keep you temporarily focused because the more you grow the bigger your idea of success becomes and evolves. As Entrepreneurs we are driven people who always strive to get bigger and better as we improve.

It is those people that only see 12 months or 2 years through an idea that often fail. The realization that comes with experience is that if you want anything to be HUGE is takes more than 2 years. I'm really only coming to grips with that after 5-6 years on naively planning and following dreams.
Will it really work against the ISPs? I have three choices in my area: 768kbps - 1mbps adsl through Verizon, 15mbps (nominally, typically 3mbps during peak hours) cable through Cablevision, or 3-6mbps high latency Clear 4G.

Not sure how the third option would hold up for streaming netflix - the first definitely would not.

So really, I don't have any choice about it, so I have no leverage. So capping it won't work against my ISP until they cap it below the other options.
Maybe in this context it would be useful to reflect about time.

Our life is a continuous concatenating of present moments. And every present moment is new. But where do they come from? Nobody knows.

I see time as a continuous gift from Someone outside of our physical Universe. No other explanation is logically possible, because any explanation would come from inside our Universe -- but fresh new present moments can't be located inside, otherwise they would not be new.
Dropbox and Airbnb are two of the most revolutionary products (alongside the iPhone, 802.11b, etc) I have ever used.

I can't speak to Dropbox, but Airbnb isn't really a revolutionary idea from the user perspective (although they get a lot of play here for being a YC company).

http://www.vrbo.com/ has been around since 1995. They were purchased in 2006 by HomeAway, who just filed for a $230 million IPO.

VRBO's model is different, in that they provide a classifieds service rather than actually handling the transaction directly; on the other hand, I've had much better luck finding good temporary apartment rentals in NYC using VRBO.

I'm not saying that AirBNB isn't useful -- or that there isn't some value in them handling transaction directly, but rather, that they're not really that revolutionary, and should they succeed in bridging the gap from "rent an air mattress" to "rent unlicensed privately managed hotel rooms," they'll likely find themselves falling afoul of local regulations and the neighborhood's ire. The "Three Big Myths About Illegal Hotels" are a good read:

http://www.frommers.com/articles/6912.html
I shall post a non ajax version of this tomorrow
2 things:

* Contact information? The "email" field in your profile is not publicly visible. How should people get in touch with you?

* San Francisco, not San Fransisco.

Really good post though, I hope you have luck finding the perfect person!
Outright rejecting ideas because they're not part of your core competency is a growth-limiting position to take. Core competencies can get commoditized over time. If you don't skate to the next thing, you wither and die.
Don't donate money to Japan
I know you meant it jokingly but I come to Hacker News to find good technical/business posts like this one. Great thing about the internet is there are many old still valuable articles out there, many of which some people have not read yet. What might be an old article to you can still be new to other people.
Small UK company changes name after legal threats from The Cloud
Zediva Streams New Releases Through Copyright Loophole
Twitter common libraries for the JVM
good to see a business person that is willing to get is hands dirty with code. Too often I've met people who have great ideas but expect the engineer to do all the work building out the idea. There needs to be more business entrepreneurs like you!
I think this is a well balanced plan and would produce a rounded web developer, I've been doing php development part time since last September, but previous to that I was hacking on whatever idea I could come up with.

As the article implies, read some books, but once u get bored with literature, open up an IDE(or vim) and code any idea that springs to mind.

Doesn't really have to be useful( advantage if it is ), just something that you want.

Great article, some great resources which could take someone months to find on their own.
Unfortunately it is a problem with human psychology that we respond more strongly to a singular large event than to consistent low-level events.

I agree with that in general, although my opinion on this particular comparison differs.

we're comparing approx 60k deaths, over the course of approximately 60 years

Sorry to be nitpicking, but I'm not sure where the 60 years are coming from. However, since there's no hard data to rely on I'll even concede that plane accidents may have accounted for the same or slightly more "directly related" deaths in the same timeframe.

But: This is only a single datapoint. And a relatively "lucky" one.

The surrounding area around Chernobyl was sparsely populated and quickly evacuated. This is not representative for the locations of the majority of nuke plants, and certainly not for the Fukushima area.

If we imagine a worst-case scenario in Japan, with Tokyo right around the corner, then the second data-point could already change the equation in a drastic way.

This is why I think analogies to plane-crashes or traffic-accidents are invalid.
My experience was half-half. I got a pretty good place, but since I was new to the area (my first visit), I was displeased when I got there and found the surrounding neighborhood very sketchy. I mean, the host was nice but I didn't want to go out past 8pm for fear of my safety. Hopefully in addition to photos of the room, they will also encourage photos of surroundings at both night and day!
And once you've moved it with an arrow key, you can then move it freely with the mouse until clicking.
There is an alternative interpretation of this play, which is that it is primarily a chess move. Demonstrating that they have the capacity to route around the content providers if necessary means that the content provider's negotiation position is thereby weakened. It may be the case that if they even so much as put out a credible series this will easily be worth $100 million to Netflix just in reduced content-provider-negotiation-position. Of course, the content providers will see that as well and react in their own ways (as always), but it's an interesting play.
Japan quake map
You can play with image stabilization using VirtualDub and the Deshaker plugin. It's a PITA, though, so YouTube integration is great.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm
I find your objection quite strange. If it _is_ possible, and it _is_ dangerous, than it would be critical to understand how it works, lest it be abused.

That being said, understanding time travel (even if it's impossible) is very important for getting a better understanding by what we mean by 'time' in the first place.
I won't ever hire a developer to work for free - I remember being in this boat when I started as a self-educated programmer. The employers that you attract by saying you will work for free in exchange for possible future employment and experience are usually not that great.

The suggestion to contribute to an open-source project is, by far, the best advice. Open-source projects tend to be (but not all) meritocracies; you will learn far more by contributing to an open-source project because of the big-team culture...
Why NFC Chips Are Overhyped And Will Underdeliver
The CEO of Green Parrot gave a great TEDx Dublin Talk on Bullet time and interpolation. Well worth a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoQ5rdTa4Tg
>Look where the Manhattan project got us:

Oh, the irony!!!
If I had a single great idea, I would :P Best I've done is build a pinboard clone.
Work for full-price or free, never for cheap. Good luck!
I really enjoyed your posts on scheme iOS development, and was saddened when the Apple rejection came. Any further developments on that front? Are you using scheme in anything else interesting these days?

By the way, I noticed there's a scheme interpreter in the app store called iScheme. I guess it doesn't make API calls, so it's okay?
in that case (and obviously this will just be personal opinion but I would appreciate it anyway) do you guys think it would be best to make note of my currently limited skills somewhere on the application and explain that Id be willing to learn what I need to learn? or would you suggest not mentioning it unless asked?

currently on the application there is no space to explain these things, just a yes/no tab "if any of the following are true", nontech backgrounds being one of the characteristics mentioned within a group of criteria.
There are some situations where risk may be acceptable.

Would I accept a car that blows up when it runs out of gas? No, but things like airplanes can, and have, killed passengers when they run out of gas. The risk of that happening is offset by the need to occasionally travel faster or farther than a car can take you.

I still think nuclear power is worth the risks of accidents, but I don't think that the proponents of nuclear power have been entirely honest about its safety.

Up until a week ago I was one of those people who would swear up and down that the technology is safe and would shut itself down in the event of an accident, and that all the previous incidents were due to human error anyway. No more. I actually feel stupid for believing that stuff now.
It's WP - thanks for the tip, will investigate.
Sounds like I'm not the only one who's been very impressed with your recent output. How do you guys balance work and blogging? I'm starting a blog for my consulting outfit now, so any other tips you have, I'd greatly appreciate.
All items on the list sound reasonable, but I think it should be ordered the other way around. Begin with play and build.

If you spend to much time on reading and research on the beginning without actually getting your feet wet you might get overwhelmed.
My instructor in the introductory programming course informed us that yes, the grader did indeed read our source code, and check to make sure we'd commented it meaningfully.

I decided to test this assertion.

The program in question was trivial - it was one of those contrived examples of how OOP works, a "Kennel" which had "Dog" objects which possessed various traits, and would bark() or wag(), stuff like that.

I obfuscated the code as much as I could - indentation all over the place, line breaks in inappropriate places, code hidden inside multi-line comments, and multiple dummy variables named one character off from the useful variables. The useful variables had names like "satrtrek," "maryppopins" and "pizza." The dummies were "startrek" and "marypoppins."

This exercise taught me nothing about writing code, but because my code gave the expected output, I still got an A. Source code comments from then on were made only as needed.

The next semester, I got an email from a friend of mine who just couldn't get his head around what was supposed to be going on. He asked whether I'd kept the source to one particular program, so that he could review it and see if he couldn't make sense of the assignment.

I had indeed kept it, and just sent the .java files to him without opening them for review. By coincidence, the program he was stuck on was the one I'd obfuscated. He switched his major to Math and Spanish for what I believe to be unrelated reasons.
It's laid out pretty clearly in
http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japa...
which was posted to HN today as well.

In short, even after reactor shutdown, substantial heat is still produced, so some cooling is needed. Substantial as in, up to some 7% of normal output, early after the shutdown. That's mostly due to residue fissible elements -- byproduct of normal operation.

The explosion was not inside reactor pressure vessel, but in the housing. Top parts of fuel rods got exposed out of coolant water at some point and heated up considerably. When water level was raised back again, heat caused release hydrogen. Upon subsequent steam venting (necessary in case of overheating), the hydrogen combusted in the air in reactor housing (i.e., building, not the pressure vessel itself). The pressure vessel itself contains no air to avoid explosion.

Compare a very early mishap with a nuclear pile (not reactor): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire -- where the Brits tried to extinguish smoldering graphite & very hot fuel with water, and there was risk of hydrogen explosion (fortunately avoided).
A sidenote to the story, I find it funny that they sold the Obama O's easily but not the Captain McCain's.

Could selling themed cereal be an accurate predictor of an election's results?
I agree. I enjoy finding detailed articles like this when I come to Hacker News. Also, even though this article is old to a lot of people I have found a new blog to follow with what appears to be well written articles.
Noted. Edited. Updated.

andrew.dennis@spaciety.com
The History Of Major Web Browsers [Infographic]
I got a good job once by offering to trade 5 hours a week of work for desk space to (ostensibly) work on contracting. Within a couple weeks they were paying me full time. This is probably a better approach than offering half time for free.
Drizzle7 is the GA release of Drizzle
Whose idea was it to put the thing on the fucking coast? In Japan?
With InnoDB I believe that it stores the smaller int types as 4 byte anyway. But I am not an expert on this particular section code.
Every time I think of possible FTL travel now I remember that it takes light about 8 minutes to get from our sun to the earth. If we ever do get to FTL travel, we really need to figure out the FT part or we still aren't going to be going anywhere too quickly.

Edit: And as soon as I typed that out I remembered relativity effects, and my brain hurts.
I agree, this all seems like 10 year olds talking about sex to me.
I did something like this, though much less serious:

http://blog.miazmatic.com/post/3799771400/i-decided-to-test-...
Maybe I'm overestimating the learning capacity of two-year-olds, but isn't that something you'd learn after a few times?
This made me laugh out loud. Thanks :)