skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used the Company Corporation without any problems in the past.

You don't really need these services at all. If you do use one, it's common knowledge that you need to re-file amended articles and bylaws. What they file for you is just a placeholder, and it's adequate for that purpose.

The only reason to use a third party service is: (a) to spare yourself the hassle of searching the name, and filing the initial paperwork and (b) to appoint them as registered agent on your company's behalf.

All of these services (LegalZoom, etc.) are trying to up-sell their registered agency and compliance services. If you don't want them, say so, and don't pay for them. In my experience, it's never been an issue, but you will receive junk mail from them for life. Let's face it: OP is just marketing his own services here, too.
The important thing to note is that it will still be available, just not through direct app store channels: http://mobile.grooveshark.com/android
What do you mean by that? Mass upvoting?
The Problem with Success
Very good point, I'm 34, and actually probably the average HNers is on average ten years younger than me, but well, it is pretty shocking that what you said is so true. No big shift in the latest 10/15 years, there were already good alternatives for all the higher level stuff. Thanks for opening my eyes about that!
I went to the Vienna University of Technology.

Applying and requirements differ from one university to the other, but you can find the highest ranked ones (by subject) in several places online and the unis' websites normally tell you how to apply.
Sorry, I should have added that it seems obvious the emphasis is on depth of knowledge and the frequency of usage parts are merely there as helpful tips. I personally hate modifying a survey once it's been deployed and suggest you leave it as is.
I'm going to post the same comment every time I see "How to find a technical co-founder?" or similar post, sorry: it's easier than you think: contact me and you might have just found one.
Nice job, works really well
Great idea, and nice execution.

Feature request: it would be great if not only it told you what would work well, but also what to avoid.
Inspiring innovation by swedish "3", live help taken to the next level
How does such a model work for tasks where you need to perform long term planning? Similar to national elections, such a model could result in policies being changed every time a new manager is in place.
This is true, but if you use C for the right use cases it is possible that actually higher level programming languages will not be a less time expensive pick, as if the use case is right you'll end spending a lot of time into optimizing performances, OS low level access, memory usage, ...
NuGet[1] is the package manager trezor is talking about.

[1]: http://nuget.codeplex.com/
Can we address the elephant in the room? All these windowed GUI's are just ripping directly off of Xerox PARC. It's shameful!
View source:
http://jeromeetienne.github.com/jquery-qrcode/examples/basic...

It creates a <canvas> element. Sweet.
Ubuntu 11.04 won't include much of GNOME 3 at all, and definitely not shipped or included by default.

Ubuntu 11.10 is likely to be built on the GTK+ 3 and GNOME 3 platform libraries, but will not include either the GNOME Shell or GNOME Classic* user experiences by default (in lieu of Canonical's own Unity).

Both Shell and Classic are likely to be available for installation in 11.10, but unlikely to receive the level of integration attention that Canonical/Ubuntu has previously given to the GNOME user experience.

The best way to experience GNOME 3 at this point is to download one of the openSUSE or Fedora based Live CD/USB images from the website: http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html

At least for the next six months, Fedora 15 will probably be the most popular distro built on GNOME 3 and featuring the GNOME Shell user experience.

* The 2.x style panels and so on, which are maintained by upstream but very much on ice in terms of new development.
Cool App! The only problem I see is with people who have bizarre taste. Other than that, good stuff!
Proposing Medathons, not Hackathons
Nit-picking time: there's probably a difference between the average age of a HNer and the average age of an HNer that knows C. Conditional probabilities and all that.

That being said, I'm an "average age" HNer that has worked with (and loved working with) C. I'm looking for excuses to work with it more, although it doesn't really intersect with my type of work (statistics).

Maybe I should contribute to Redis or other OSS...any suggestions?
In the example above, the ".password" field is the hashed password. I think 'tlrobinson' was trying to point out that sites only have to keep plaintext passwords if that's what they're given. If, when you first signed up for a site that uses tlrobinson's technique, you provided the hash of your password (instead of your password itself), then the site would never have access to the plaintext (but you'd be able to use the plaintext to log on at a later date since the SQL query checks the ".password" field against hash(input).)
Thanks! I have indexed about a million recipes with associated ingredients. When someone does a search it retrieves 500 recipes with associated ingredients, using the same algorithm I use for my ingredient search engine. It then counts the ingredient occurrence and factors in ingredient rarity.

I am not sure about the degree of the algorithm for the initial search(using sphinx and its fast enough for me not to care). I believe my algorithm is at worst n^2 because I have to sort the ingredients.
C, if you want, can run completely without a runtime. Few modern languages can claim that. It's what gives C both its notoriety and power.
Could probably just use Rainbows! to handle the "long" polling aspect but I think Rainbows! still assumes that the request will eventually end so I'm not sure if it will work for something like this.
My first time in IKEA I definitely got very lost. I think I went down one of the "shortcut paths" and ended up going back and forth between the beds and the office area trying to find the direction I was supposed to be going - and I was with a friend, so it wasn't just my crappy sense of direction.

So yes - IKEA newbs do not take the shortcut paths!
Yes: http://www.recipepuppy.com/about/api/ If that doesn't fit your requirements: http://www.recipepuppy.com/about/contact
Wallpaper FX – Excellent Collection of Wallpapers
When you turn on your computer you see a wallpaper on your desktop. I am sure you always want it to look good, clean and sometimes you spend more than a hour to find your next wallpaper! I’ am sure you want to save your time and you want to have the slickest looking desktop in the office all the time! For that you have now Wallpaperfx, the right place for Hd wallpapers 1080p!
I began working 2 years ago, landed a job where I almost only write C code (a huge codebase for scientific/high performance computing).
3Live Shop - live video online shop
Given the name of the contractor in this case, I think even though it may have been the cheapest, it also felt safe. "Nobody gets fired for choosing IBM", as the saying goes.
The problem I have with this, as a reviewer, is that an amazing amount of junk gets submitted to journals with no hope of passing peer review. With your standard, all this junk is merely things "hot off the press". As to whether this is "one of those scientists", I don't know (probably not). But the article hints that his idea has already been falsified, and yet it still goes through with publishing about it breathlessly!

Peer review is a more important standard than you take it to be. For every announced-but-not-yet-peer-reviewed revolutionary discovery -- Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem comes to mind -- there are a massive number of P!=NP papers "awaiting peer review", every one of which is dead wrong, but each of which will excite some moron in the press to write about it.

The press has such an incredibly bad track record at this that my personal estimate, based on the performance of similar breathless "hot off the presses" articles I have read, is that without reading the article there is over a 95% probability that this paper won't pass peer review. Once I read the article, based on the fact that half of it is a sheepish admission that there are problems with the theorem, I think that this prior probability was more than confirmed.

With a probability this low, I see no reason to waste my time reading breathless articles like this.
I was born and raised in Germany as well but am now in Dallas getting ready to move to Palo Alto.

Besides this digital Walz it might also be interesting to start a small network for "Global German Tech Talent" or something. I know there are a few germans in the Valley.
I agree, alot of new startups are working on using similar social media 'whoring' as you put it. It seems to be a great way to generate a bit of buzz. Connect.me used a similar technique and had thousands of registrations with in hours and a new startup for startups called Launchrock.com is essentially a holding page application designed for this exact role.
C-with-structures-and-function-pointers doesn't give you easy inheritance, polymorphism, etc. Now anthropomorphism ... that would be fun.
I have a lot of disjointed websites, because I like to make websites that do one thing. I need to do a better job of bringing it all together.

The android app came before this website. I just haven't switched the link over yet.
Don't Be Afraid to Let Fear Be a Motivator: Take Friends and Family Money
There's more info at B-Reel's site [1] and the shop itself [2] (in english using Google Translate [3])

[1] - http://www.b-reel.com/projects/3live-shop/

[2] - http://www.tre.se/Privat/Ovriga-sidor/3LiveShop/

[3] - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl...

Edited to add Google Translate link
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=s...

I couldn't find a date on the article, but it seems it's only web example is no longer valid.
Thunderbolt minus the "thunder" ;-)
Node Nerd - node.js links and tutorials
I've learned some C, but I wouldn't be able to write a program in it without a lot of documentation. I can read it, but I don't use it or use it once or twice a year.

but i know objective-c pretty well.
I end up spending 20 minutes walking in circles trying to
find the route back to children’s furniture (or some other
designated meeting spot). I wind up passing the same mock
studio apartment half a dozen times, blood pressure rising
with each new sighting.

Is that just hyperbole or is the author really that unable to navigate?

It's easy to bypass the showroom areas if you pay any attention at all to any of the maps.

Sure, every Ikea has a route they prefer you to take... but there are frequent "Shortcut to ____" signs to allow you to move quickly between departments and maps with "you are here" on them showing where all the departments are.

What exactly is the problem?

[edit] Interesting video. According to the presenter, people generally only look forwards and thus miss the shortcuts located at the side (or behind as he claims) of the walkway.

Do people really not look all around when they enter a room? That seems so strange to me.

Also, what area of study do you need to be in to do a Phd in how people maneuver through a shopping centre? Sociology? Psychology? That seems really cool and I'd like to learn more about it
FYI - if you're listening, you'll need your left speaker/ear plug working, as it's only playing in the left channel.
Having worked as a CSR for three separate telco's, two car companies and an electricity provider, this would be a far slower system to access information than anything I've used.

Someone working a job full-time, 40 hours a week doesn't need a shiny interface, they need a fast interface. That means menus with up to fifty items, memorised TLA's and keyboard short-cuts. It's not pretty, but it get's the job done, and for a CSR that's really all that matters.
The Hackers Who Keep the Washington Post Running
Spike in web attacks
I was curious about this as well, as it looked to me like a ripoff of "The Flavor Bible", by Page and Dornenburg (Same method of using bold all caps, then bold, etc for showing the important ingredients). However, from the book link, apparently: The data for this book was obtained by programitally[SIC] examining just under a million publicly available recipes.

That method of acquiring the data shows in the less useful results. For example, with basil, it includes in the top pairings SALT, GARLIC, ONIONS, BLACK PEPPER. Which, of course, would be found in pretty much any recipe involving basil. Yet, it misses the more classic pairings like mozzarella cheese, eggs, lamb, pizza, etc.

My recommendation -- buy "The Flavor Bible".
Why do they need the password when they can request the data out of the company's database? What are they gaining with the plaintext password?
What would be the advantage of doing that?
WTF was with the Mad Men reference right at the end?
Microsoft Executives In A Heated Battle Over Opening More Retail Stores
i do not really think so, programming in C is very different.
Rules From a User to Software Developers
Please tell us about your work environment (thanks)
If you're a C purist (or just a purist in general) then of course you're right, but I personally think that C-with-classes is clearer, easier for a layman to understand (many people who call themselves C programmers still get nervous when function pointers come out to play), and is usually worth the trade-offs. You can write a lot of very decent code this way and have a little bit of "the best of both worlds", and avoid getting into a lot of the admittedly very dark corners and nasty surprises that C++ has to offer...
I don't think they consider doing this on a global scale. Probably much more like a flagship store kind of approach. If it is true (the jury is still out on that although Teenage Engineering is involved)
Startup Quote: David Heinemeier Hansson, creator, Ruby on Rails
Showed it to a non techie friend who loves to cook. Here's his amusing feedback...

foodnetwork has an app where u can search a recipe then make a shopping list
that's useful
an app that spits out random ingredients based on a search term does not impress me so much
search the term 'poo' in this amazing app then 'pee'
then 'shit'
no i know that bacon goes well with everything....but c'mon now
Again no receipt, this time because the person
selling it was avoiding tax...

You should always insist on getting a receipt, so the shop owner has to pay taxes. Withholding taxes hurts the country's economy and only plays in the hands of corrupt regimes.
Wkhtmltopdf - Shell utility to convert html to PDF using webkit.
If you’re not working on your best idea right now, you’re doing it wrong.

- David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh)

http://startupquote.com/post/4415767423
I've been programming in C for longer than my current manager has been alive. :-)
No exceptions to deal with: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/020163371x/supplements...

That's probably a really big one in terms of reliability.

Also, the weird C++ behavior of calling copy constructors in the most unexpected places can have a very detrimental effect on performance.

Personally, I think the nature of C++ class definition leads people down the primrose path of trying to provide all potentially useful methods, of which only a tiny fraction get used. Tons of dead code appears in most C++ projects.
C is the only language that I use at work (along some basic scripting). Due to work that is mainly firmware, device drivers etc. Honestly at times, I do feel that embedded engineers are odd persons out here at HN.
I don't ordinarily sleep a lot, so I doubt that I could be getting too much sleep on a regular basis. And my mood doesn't ordinarily seem to be affected by how much I sleep or when I go to sleep.

The best way I can describe the effect is that for me it's like hitting a "reset" button in my brain. At first there's the tiredness and irritability that always go with not sleeping, but eventually I get a "second wind" and I feel normal, calm, and content. This generally lasts the whole rest of the day, until I fall asleep again.

The sleep deprivation treatment for depression used by some doctors in the '70s involved either total deprivation or waking the patients up around midnight, so that they slept only a few hours. I think I read that both worked equally well, but I have only tried the former. And as far as I know, nobody has figured out why it works for so many people.
Yes, a gift implies that you lose the instance you owned. I see that as a problem. But what if it were solved? If someone could duplicate your meal, or your master paintings, or any good you own, how could you deny her without being immoral? How would you justify exclusivity?

It happens we do have a True Duplicator: the internet. It only works on digital goods, but it already matters a lot. The lack of exclusivity makes anyone lucky enough to be connected wealthier, at very little cost. Again, how can we justify the exclusivity?

My conclusion is that the illegality of the copies only proves the immorality of the law. We ought to find better solutions.
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In what way was he condescending? To me it sounds like the area could use a higher quantity of and more experienced seed/venture funding.
See I don't even dare _search_ for that.
Faster compilation, more flexibility, less dependencies in code base (you don't have to define struct fields in headers), no problems with incompatible ABI, interface that can be directly called from almost any other programing language...
Data Science Hand Tools: Unix Power tools Revisited
HTC's market capitalization reaches $33.8b, overshadows Nokia and RIM
Here's my sad Chinese sd card experience. The state of things there depresses me:

When I was in Beijing I went to a regular store to buy an SD card for my camera. I asked them to let me try the cards in my camera before purchasing, so I did that. As I put a card in, all looked well, however when I proceeded to format the card, the issues arose. Regardless of the size of the card, 2, 4, or 8gb, the card would then instead read as 128mb. I mentioned this fact to them and they said sorry and let me try a new card. About 4 cards later the owner was nearly in tears and I was very frustrated. At that point the owner went to the back stockroom and gave me yet another card. This time it formatted fine and I purchased that one.

It was such a sad experience. I felt very embarrassed and sorry for this owner. I don't know if the owner knew that they were scamming people, or if they were just being scammed themselves.
First, you should reread what I said -- no, you don't pick an idea at random, and ideas can have a negative impact on your product (it's right there, in my comment).

'good ideas are worthless' doublespeak which
butchers logic and the English language.

The article says:

People have to realise that an idea is worth
nothing. A good idea with great execution has
value, but without this execution, it’s worthless.

And it is the truth, simply because ideas cannot be classified as good or bad until the implementation happens. You can't call someone out for stealing your idea, if you're sitting on in from 2009, and not doing anything about -- in this context, the idea is worthless.

If you don't think it is -- try having a "good idea" and then sell it.
Meta-threads like this are a perfect illustration of how HN is declining. It does nothing to motivate/inspire hackers and startups. Instead we waste time up-voting/discussing things that have no relevance to real life. If someone wants to waste money buying an account based on "Karma", let them. Karma = nothing in real life
Did he just forget about Nagasaki when talking about nukes?
Here's something that's not a myth or legend: if I live in Europe I pay ~€150 more for the professional version than I would if I lived in the US. (http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-1c.html vs http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-2c.html)
Looks like it uses canvas to draw the qr. Using something like http://raphaeljs.com/ would have made it even better for backwards compatibility. Awesome job though!
this one.
Don't know about broadcast.com, but Myspace had great value in the beginning. They were fast to market and definitely delivered something people wanted.

Their problem was and is their inability to evolve.
My lecturer in my basic introduction to C class once said to me that he had been a professional C programmer for the past 10 years, and still considered himself a C novice.

I think how "knowing C" is defined is key in this question, yes I can write my fair share of C, but I still don't think I could class myself as a C programmer.
Coffeescript SubReddit
RSpec is for the literate
Dell Plans $1 Billion Push into Cloud Hosting
If anyone knows of any large centrally located venue in New York that would like to donate space for next year's NYC Startup Job Fair please let us know. We would love to be able to accommodate more than 40 companies. We like startups hiring smart people, it’s good for everyone.
Most people are not learning that anymore. I see most universities moving those courses to choice instead of mandatory courses. When I talk to 'young programmers' it always scares me that most don't even know how a computer works at a low level. Which is reflected by the weird things they try to do with Java etc.
There was no cheapest bidder in this case - Siemens got the job without competition, likely as part of the BBC's questionable 10 year contract to outsource pretty much everything to Siemens.
I've known some C for long enough, but only recently dived really deep into it, it was Apple and Objective-C that brought back my interest in the language. Writing some forensics and data restore tools as a project to learn the language, progress is slow, but I'm loving it.

One thing I've noticed is how focused you have to be when working with C vs for example python/php - everything is very error prone mostly due to manual memory management. You also need good visualization and some basic math skills.
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I had honestly considered writing my website in common lisp, but discarded that idea because I couldn't find good documentation for the RESTAS web framework.
While probably the right move (no need to take responsibility for an app that is going to anger labels when your platform allows sideload), it is funny to see Google kicking out a company that is following the YouTube playbook word for word.
Time is relative, not absolute
Combining named scopes in rails 2.3 (and before?)
I think that CLIPS (a tool for building expert systems) needs an update, including a shift to a more Redis-like interface and philosophy. The core of CLIPS is still pretty nice, but the project seems to have grown well beyond its natural borders.

http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/
SICP in ePub format on Github
I really don't understand what all the fuzz is about. I really like the new interface and I have hundreds of contacts on my list and use it often.

The very fact that it surfaces those I have recently been interacting with instead of having to go down the list as I used to have to is IMHO such a waste improvement from previous.

But then again I am biased.

Also the fact that everything is in one window makes my day.
Woohoo - not. Think of how better off we'd be if all of the effort that went into cloning an old OS went into creating a modern one. :(
Yeah, writing Lisp is the most detached I ever feel when I'm coding. I have never been able to get into the Zen of it like so many others do.
I'm from the "Modern C++" school. I learned C++ without first learning C. I don't consider myself a C programmer. Of course, I can read and write C code, but I would consider it a burden to code without smart pointers, templates and exceptions. How should I answer this poll?
There's a typo in the title of the second 'chapter'.

"That’s great. But wa/s/ has all this got to do with web design?"