skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want things contained just there. Come on guys, this isn't a special forces mission where following strict rules and regulations is the name of the game. It's life, it's fun, and people can submit what they want.
"Ask anyone who has had to lay off someone they recruited and brought into the company - it's miserably awful." - In particular, I recall when Ben Horowitz had to do that to about 200+ people in 2001, some of whom he had hired away from other jobs to come work at Loudcloud just a few months earlier. I'm trying to recall if I've ever seen anyone suffer as much as he did when he met with the employees to explain what was happening, and why he had to do it.

It was a case of survival, and I did not envy him for a second. I think he probably carries the emotional scars of that moment to this day.
It was actually a good bit of work to pull this off, replacing the color in everything site wide... We may write it up in case it is actually useful to somebody out there.
+1 for me. A couple of calls a week.
Ba humbug.
The uniform bit was great.
It would be bearable if more than 0.1% of the submissions weren't inane rubbish.

I always like those years when April 1 falls on a weekend. And, to paraphrase Homer, what's the chances of April 1 being on a Saturday? Must be 1 in 1000.
James, I hope you'll consider the negative impact this could have on Allan's perception in the community. Most will find it at least partially humorous, but others (see some of the comments below) won't recognize that it's not actually Allan making the joke.

With all the discomfort present in the TM community associated with the long wait for TM2, there will be a fair number of people who will come to believe that Allan used April 1st as an opportunity to give his user base the finger. They'll carry this feeling forward, never realizing that this was a spoof.
The movie featured was an actual production - see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352388/ - plus the story seems plausible - i doubt its a joke.
Can we capture all of the world's carbon emissions?
You may have just made it worse :)
IOS (almost) on the Motorola Xoom
More. See the reason I despise April Fools nowadays isn't because of the day itself... the problem is that the "pranks" aren't pranks any more, it is just people doing silly or stupid things for the lulz.

That was a proper "prank", if a simple one.
And does "support" include bug fixes in your own code? Not asking to be snide; I really want to understand how most people approach this.
I am not an expert in the matter but here is what I have learnt/heard about it:

- There are costs involved in the whole process, I usually hear 15K-20K (could be more)

- Committing ~20K upfront for an employee who you don't know much about involves risk. Hiring & firing becomes complicated and involves attorneys.

- Depending on what country the employee is in, there are different quotas for visas and they fill up very quickly. I know this is the case for India, not sure about other countries.

- Another potential problem I can think of is what percent of your workforce is non-US. I believe there are laws around that too.

All this being said, I have thought about this and a few of my founder friends. Most of the H1B hires I have seen is students who come to US for MS and get the visas. I don't know anyone who was hired from their native country and relocated to US. There might be some cases though.
Is it just me, or is the "forward" gesture doing the L-forehead=>loser gesture?
Meta-discussions can be tiresome

Why? Let's talk about this.

EDIT: I wonder if there's an analogy here for democracies and recent US legislation: the most important things to moderate are the things that are popular but subtly undermine the site's purpose.

(Oh noes! I've added politics to a meta-discussion! [dons asbestos long johns and ducks])
7/10. Got me for a split second as I was moving my cursor to highlight the text
I dropped a mail to GoDaddy regarding this. Here's the response from their side:

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Our Office of the President has responded to your request, details of which are described below:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for taking the time to express your opinion about Mr. Parsons' recent trip to Zimbabwe.

As you may be aware Mr. Parsons has also made several comments regarding this on his Vlog at BobParsons.me which you may wish to review. We hope this information will be of assistance to you in making any final determination about your relationship with GoDaddy.com.

We thank you again for your time and feedback.

Regards,

The Office of the President

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In particular, ask them if they can/want to lead a funding round (that other angels participate in). If that's what you want.
we'll laugh now but eventually it might happen haha
I guess april fool's comments are okay.
Unbelievably high quality video Daniel.
> I would hope you will have some respect for other peoples' beliefs in the future.

Some beliefs don't deserve respect.
I did not deny that there is a difference. All I was saying is that this is also a real game. (I also think that more complex games are possible on tablets. Carcasonne is more fun on a tablet than on a computer, for example.)
EDIT;

I didnt read the full article!

>“This is a blanket $1 million investment offer to virtually any new technology startup,”

Clearly, this is a 4/1 article.... :(

Damn! I was so ready to be righteously indignant!
Well, for it to work, you also have to skip commenting.
Great idea. I like that it includes a reasonable amount of support, but also puts a cap on things. I wish I had thought of that ahead of time. Also encourages the customer to test things out in their environment early, rather than assuming it'll just work fine under any circumstances.
I guess I could ask a HiPPO and then validate the answer with A/B testing.

OTOH, if I am the highest paid person present, do I just guess, or do I guess and validate it with A/B testing?
just to be clear, I had nothing to do with this! :)

- THE REAL JOEL.

Sent from my Babbage Difference Engine(TM)
You can do the same thing with the local or aggregation tier syslog daemon if desired.
Yet another sign of a bubble.
Let's assume equity amounts to nothing (you're not getting much).

75K * 4 years = 300K

If you work somewhere else (Goog, FB, ...) for 4 years, would you learn more, make more money, be more content?

4 years is a looong time, they really locked you in there.
I am an Israeli fellow, perhaps even a Zionist, yet cannot understand this for several reasons:

1. What this has to do with Zuckerberg himself. Does he * personally* suppose to moderate all activity generated by his 500+ million users?

2. Not removing fast enough? How fast this can be done? What is the rush? Can't a company complete its own internal processes and consulting before making a decision?

3. What does this man plan to do with $1 Billion? Donate it to the victims of previous intifada (x2)?
I am so pissed about that. After years of waiting and now a prank. Thanks for the Finger TM. i'm done. Welcome to TextWrangler.

EDIT: I see what you did there with the URL. Funny.
April fools right?, this looks more complicated than using a mouse
Suppose we could resolve (conclusively prove one way or the other) whether P=NP. Then we could also prove that we could resolve whether P=NP. Thus, if we can prove that you cannot prove that you can resolve P=NP, then we have also proven that we cannot resolve P=NP, a contradiction. Thus proving that we cannot prove that we cannot prove that we cannot resolve whether P=NP. This proves that we cannot prove that we cannot prove that we cannot prove that we cannot resolve whether P=NP. etc.
The piece is either funny or sad depending on what lens you view it through. At a company level, it's one company giving another one their just deserts.

On a personal level for the sales guy involved, it's a waste of his time (and possibly income) when he's not necessarily the one who decides the policy of spammy calling. A better prank might have been on the other company's CEO or someone more responsible.
Yes, support includes bug fixes.

If you want to put bug fixes into the price of the contract, you need to also put the cost of proper QA, test plans, and defining correct behavior, which often means a spec. How do you know the calculation is wrong if you don't have it on a piece of paper?

This all costs money.

Otherwise, you need to be paid. Now, many times you will make a small change for a good customer that takes a trivial amount of time, but this should be priced into the long term value of the customer.
Interesting concept, more of a PR ploy probably. Actually this is a good thing, will show the ridiculousness of such tactics.

On another note, "Openmind Solutions Does 1-2925" would make an interesting adult film title.
Entertainment Weekly's Top Villains
Compare with numbers:

A "real" game like you say costs around 40$. It is a very well known gameplay (RTS,FPS,RPG,MMORPG,etc.) but in different clothing. You might play with it for 2-3 months.

Slice HD is a unique gameply, a new experience. You will have a heck lot of fun playing it because it is something fresh that you interact with. I may not be an iPad fan, but the thing is that your 1 month with this whole new game and experience only costs 3$.

For 40$ you can buy multiple amazing games with new dynamics while supporting some indie developpers. It sure wont replace those "big game" but for the price and the fun, it can't be matched!
I'm glad you changed what you originally wrote - Seriously. After PGs bad car accident last night - this is no time to joke, especially on HN.

That was just wrong and the opposite of funny.
+1.

I'm just going to start replying to the April Fool's articles as though they are serious, annoying the submitters who will have to reply to me. Someone is wrong on the Internet!

(Wow, xkcd is 3d today!)
Awesome. Testing spam filter. :)
The way to deal with it is to allow legal consenting adults to take any drugs they want to - provided they sign a contract saying they understand the drug is not approved by the FDA.

But if a drug is approved by the FDA, then the drug company is inured against liability for that drug.
No, but thanks for asking.
You tweeted it. That makes it yours according to the rules of my tribe.
Original source seems to be http://www.calormen.com/logo/
this is against some kind of EOE type thing right? to make fake job listings?
Even before I clicked on it, it sounded too stupid to be true
The irony is that the number one comment on the number one article is taking the opposite viewpoint.

I think we have a few years left before HN becomes Reddit.
Pulse is hiring for our Palo Alto, CA office. We're looking for full-time in-office iOS and Android engineers as well as interns and part-time folks. We make a news reading app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Check out our jobs page here: http://www.alphonsolabs.com/jobs
This reminds me of something a friend's game development company did in the 90s. They kept getting fax spam from some local print shop, and after calling them back repeatedly asking them to stop, they decided enough was enough.

So at about 9pm, when they figured everyone would have gone home, they taped together two or three bits of paper to make a loop inside the fax machine, and faxed it back to the company - it went all night.

I have visions of mountains of paper strewn across the floor, but more likely the other fax machine would have had a couple hundred sheets loaded at most and probably quite a bit less.

Still, apparently the print shop was annoyed enough to call the cops, but as you'd expect, nothing ever came of it.
You're complaining that the submissions are 10x better on 1 April than on every other day? :)

(/classic vs. /new is such a shock)
This book says lots: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relations...
Sure. Except that the community just decided that this post should be the top story on the site right now.
FeeFighters raises $41mil, acquires Foo Fighters, rebrands as FoeFighters.com
:(

I changed it because, even thoug hthe original was a joke, I in no way want to put it out there into the universe that physical harm would have come to PG... and while that was funny - still - I dont want that thought in peoples heads.

So, I pull my april fools statement just because I simply can stomach that type of thought being had about PG in the HN community.

Besides, much better if they thought their apps were deleted! teehee!
Design Guru? NearYu is Hiring (Ex-YC/Google team)
I was thinking that you could just install a couple of scissor jacks in the middle and you'd be able to do it yourself as well.
Google's aiming for the social game, and has been hosting, indexing, and correlating it for a long time. They have blogger, buzz, gmail, people's names, credit cards, links to and searching of your twitter account, your blog, your friends, your x, your y, even your z. Why can't they infer popularity that way, identically to how PageRank works?

And people do see who +1d something, it requires a public account - it's visible on the link (as displayed in the video, and implied by the same behavior with tweeted links) and on your profile page.

If a nobody from nowhere +1s a link, their friends will see it, but it's unlikely to affect the world at-large. Similarly, trust-metric wise, if a cluster of nobodies +1s a thousand pages, the impact will be restricted to their cluster. If an extremely-highly-connected person, who many people follow on Twitter / Reader / etc, +1s something, it'll have more impact simply by being visible to more people and because their "importance" can be inferred by those connections.
What Calacanis's Launch Team thinks of Receivd
On the web server scalability and speed are almost the same thing
sounds like an April fool joke
Do You Think Your Love Is Cheating? RFID Let’s You Wonder No More.
I have hired UX people in the past. Skills I'd look for in a programmer/usability person:

- You know jQuery and can mockup things easily. Mocking things up with an eye towards usability is a great skill.

- You can make wireframes fairly fast, in OmniGraffle or Dreamweaver. You have something to show.

- You have designed and run usability tests yourself. At least a few times. (You can easily learn this and just practice it yourself.) This is a biggie.

- You've created an open source UI element in jQUery. (For example, a dropdown that lets you also add items to it, or a multi-part button, or something like that). You've written up the tech process and the user experience aspects of it.

- You're familiar with UX design patterns (Yahoo's are a good start, search for them), and you've written a critique of them.

If you have a few of the above, you're doing great. And things to show. For example, when I was a programmer and starting out in UX, I wrote a script to test 2 versions of a footer for a webpage, wrote up some theory around how they might differ and why in actual usage, and then measured the actual usage. (That was in 2001).

Show an interest, and show that you've done stuff.
I didn't even have to click through to realize this is an April Fool's joke.
I was interested in seeing what the colour palettes might look like in the real world. Here's are the some multicolr searches for the 5-colour palettes:

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,586e75,8394...;
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...;
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,93a1a1,eee8...;
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,839496,93a1...;
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,93a1a1,eee8...;

A search with just the base colours:

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...;
Don't get worked up over this. Today is April 1st remember!
Infographic: International Migration of the Young and Educated
"What this has to do with Zuckerberg himself." because Zuckerberg is a Zionist too and he did not act quickly to protect Jews people. [Sarcasm]
Cluster SSH (OSX)
Why I worked at a startup as a Harvard grad
This is more exciting for me than 3d. I remember thinking this when I first noticed that counterstrike didn't feel right at <60fps while watching action films with 24fps
Sent, from the same email address as the one in my profile.

Thanks :-)
What do you do for international payments?
"I would but you'd sue me if you lost."
if they wisht to log to syslog, each program needs to implement the syslog protocol internally

This is simply not true. I changed the logging method of a C program recently from timestamped text file to syslog in about 10 lines... Utterly trivial in any language.
San Francisco, CA

www.focus.com is hiring another senior Django developer. What you should be: smart, use Python, Javascript (jQuery) and CSS (Blueprint/sass) or some combination of these things.
Must be willing to work on-site in San Francisco. Our offices are about a block from BART's Embarcadero stop.

Contact info is in my profile.
Ask HN: Your thoughts on a "Who's Looking” thread?
Since we have “Who's Hiring” & “Who's Freelancing”, what are your thoughts on a "Who's Looking” thread?

Specifically, this would be a thread where people looking for full time employment could post to advertise themselves.

Pro: It would round out the selection of "hirers", free lancers and job seekers.

Con: Is it a slippery slope? Will it open the floodgate for a disorganized slew of further threads?

Your thoughts?
Paul Graham and Dave McClure want to help new incubators incubate
How can hird-party applications help?
Wouldn't it be great if some (smart, enterprising, generous) person could produce a browser extension to leverage these approaches for those that might find typing "openssl s_client -connect..." into a UNIX prompt a little bit much?

Another idea: Schneier writes: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_i...

"The safest thing for us users to do would be to remove the Comodo root certificate from our browsers so that none of their certificates work, but we don't have the capability to do that."

You certainly can do it manually (as one of the comments explains) but a sweet program that targets system keystores (Windows, Java, Mozilla, Chrome, Safari, any more?) might be a nice little project.

List of configurable CA DNs to remove? Regexes? Whitelist? Zap that "unknown origin" mozilla cert whilst you're there perhaps?

I don't have bandwidth, these thoughts are free to steal :)
Interesting. I actually appreciate the low standing keyboard height in my setup. My setup is far from ideal, but does have some advantages.

META: why is my 5 ranked post at the top? There's more interesting posts more highly ranked further down. Because it has more comments? To those who care, I think `javan`'s post is the most relevant for somebody looking to make a cheap & easy desk.
The assumption "Lots of people want to see it, therefore it is worthy" is false on its face. Lots of people want to see "Barney & Friends," but it is not appropriate for must venues — the people who want to see it are almost exclusively children. If your postulate were correct, we would all just be on Slashdot and Digg, since people have always been able to vote there and thus the exact same content would be on top in a pure and open democracy.

Solving the problem of users voting up stupid stories and ruining the S:N ratio was one of the founding goals of HN. It is supposed to be a different kind of content, not just whatever the masses think is funny — and we need to try to ensure that or the site will become no better than Slashdot.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is nothing wrong with submitting really well played April Fools stories (IMO). But we don't need to see EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM posted here, just like we don't expect to see EVERY SINGLE startup news blog story posted here.

Curate things a little bit, don't just post-flood and expect it all to be sorted out with votes.
Google & CIRA: Free Websites for Canucks
Get a sense of humor man.
Happy April Fools! :)
This is a joke now.. but give it a few more years of crazy valuations and this could be eerily accurate..
Relentless profit-seeking tendencies combined with monopolies are fundamentally toxic. Which is why we (generally) outlaw monopolies. The ones we do grant have (in theory) provisions that favor the public interest.

In other words, if your business operates a monopoly granted by the state, you DO have a special set of legal, moral, and ethical obligations that don't apply to less privileged organizations. If a protected company DOES start to behave in an anti-social fashion, opting for pure profit-maximization and short-term shareholder gains, then it's the JOB of the government to attack them, rescind their monopoly, and generally punish the hell out of them for violating the basic contract that accompanied the initial grant.

If they don't like that possibility - or realize that they're just not up to the (admittedly challenging) task of administering an public trust along side a commercial business - then they can retreat to the less complicated, less ethically demanding, and more mercenary ranks of those operating in the free market - which has it's own set of mechanisms from weeding out the truly dishonest and abusive.
Ask HN: Automated trading on April 1
Would love to hear from folks who build automated trading systems based on Semantic analysis about how they handle the goofy stories on April 1.
CoffeeScript is great -- it's (arguably) what JavaScript should have been, syntactically. We're really interested in finding new ways to use it, Node.JS being one of them.
I used to alternate between sitting and standing. I don't need to any more. The trick for me, figured out by a therapist, was to build the proper muscles, and to always hold proper posture. I find that I can sit anywhere with comfort now, even on the crappiest chairs, because I use my muscles to support me, not the chair. When you stand, you do the same. I've come to appreciate the importance of our muscles and how they contribute to one's quality of life.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-2011-the-big-li... - Good list there.
He says Facebook is a New York corporation. Aren't they a Deleware corporation?
I am one of the guys who got hired at Monetate via HN. It has been a great experience so far. I applied/interviewed with Monetate after seeing the post in the January thread.

I would be glad to answer any questions about Monetate, the work that i am doing etc. Email is in profile.

Also, i graduated from Virginia Tech recently and this is my first job right out of college. If any new grads want to know about working at a startup i would be glad to share my experiences.
"Hello World" isn't a decision problem, but I see your point. However NP-Complete (and by extension NP-Hard) and P are distinct classes of problems, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete so my statement that factorization is not an NP-Hard problem is true (unless, of course, P=NP).

Either way, my point was that there are systems (i.e. quantum computers) that can factor numbers efficiently, but it is still widely believed that true NP-Complete and NP-Hard problems cannot be solved efficiently even with such systems.
5 great mobile payment tools for businesses and startups
joeloncoke.com would be even better. the contents could stay the same.
Oops... should be in my profile now
Come on, one day without rules why the heck not? We're coding, hacking, reading and informing ourselves all year long. There isn't something bad with Google dancing to write an email or TechCrunch giving false hopes to startups! And if you do not like April Fools day, no problem; don't open your browser and continue coding :)
Where is wired getting the list of IP addresses they're using for their "IP detective" app?

http://admintools.wired.com:8080/lawsuit_app/

EDIT: Oh, it's from this PDF:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/03/openmind.pdf
> Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things

No. See: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html. In particular "The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting."