skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain why they feel this should be on the front page? It's just a minor release fixing a few bugs.
I had one of those when I was a kid, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0UK4mTTRsw
Scientists Find New Type of Mineral in Historic Meteorite: Wassonite
Useless trick. If you want to include the period at the end of the URL, you just have to put another punctuation mark following the URL. Like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co., or (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.. (I figured this out from reading the source code after getting tripped up by wrong URLs when the URL finished the sentence in a parenthetical comment. I can't promise that it won't break at some point.)
Thank you, yes! The tool support for ^L is weak right now, but if the simplates concept is valid then one hopes the tool support will follow.
I don't know where those guys live, but on my planet all resumes are communicated as PDFs. Nearly all shown examples lose some or all of their power when not in physical form.

That said, it seems it's most designers' resumes so maybe that's why. I wonder what CVs could be cooked up for more technical and/or organisational positions. A github printout comes to mind.
SearchSpring is hiring Web Developers: http://jobsco.re/gwarZZ

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Come work with exciting consumer brands that have TONS of Facebook fans!

Transform our customers' consumer facing web, mobile and Facebook sites using the latest web-scale technology!

Lots of opportunity to work in different areas.
Props! Took me a moment to figure out why all the initial sites are in Hebrew ;)
Ask HN: How do you successfully work at home with a family?
Our first baby will be arriving sometime in the next few weeks. I primarily work at home (although I have access to shared office space as well), and I'm interested in hearing how others have been able to maintain productivity with that arrangement. I'm not expecting to be hugely productive for the first few weeks - I'm asking more about long-term strategies. I have some ideas of my own, but am open to hearing about anything that has worked for others.
We actually started using the Czech instantion of CKAN: http://cz.ckan.net/ to publish information about datasets of Government data that are available.
Call it a community
It's not just about time you can save right now, it is also about risk.

Depending on a 3rd party, proprietary solution may be considered a form of technical debt. If (or when) the 3rd party raises their prices, goes out of business or does something else unhelpful to your business, you'll have to replace them.

Depending on what it is, that kind of work can be far more costly late in the game than it is at the beginning.
It feels like the same is true for the UK and the USA – perhaps the whole western whole? That particular political situation doesn't sound ideal though.
Generally it is very easy to attack big companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.. However the recent change of direction[^1] that Google announced for Android (or, Android source), should make everyone agree with Marco when he says

>Sure. It’s in everyone’s best interest. Unless Google wants to sue you, or the vendor of a product you use, for patent infringement.

[^1]: Not that the change is bad per se: it could be very good for the end user, which is now subject to the carrier will more than what he should.
As another Indian who went through the above myself, I can vouch that srean's description is quite accurate.

The only thing I would like to add is w.r.t. to the teachers - apart from the IITs (and a few other select colleges), most of the teachers there are pretty pathetic, and I think the biggest reason is that the well-qualified people choose to rather work at a private company and earn 5-10x more rather than join a non-IIT college as a teacher. IITs are the exception because there is significant academic prestige to be a professor there, which most other colleges cannot claim.
No immigrant anywhere expects access to the social welfare system immediately. As an expat Dane I am not elligible to use the health system either for the first 6 months I'm in the country.

I doubt very much if any of the must immigrant friendly countries like Canada and Australia would be pushing a bunch of social services on their immigrants and they are considerably more popular with highly qualified people than Denmark.

When I went back to Denmark (I left again thank you very much) with my foreign wife, we had to go through the most ridiculous deceitful process of immigration I have ever seen.

Then they wanted my wife to take that start hjælp money and press her into a cleaning job. I told them to stick their integration process and starthjælp up where it belongs and not bother us anymore as we were not there permanently and were specifically not interested in integrating in a bull shit society.
Well, there's a class of people in the world that have sufficient agency they don't really care about the cost of the flight.

If it's a big VC firm that MIGHT end up negotiating terms with you, then just showing up at their office and not mentioning trivial amounts of money too early is a sign of strength.

if it's like a grand to get to them well fuck it but if you can do it for a few hundred bucks and meet with other people in sfbay or wherever too? That's probably what I'd do. Just turn up.
If C++ supported the backwards comment "\\" meaning "everything before this is a comment" described by Stroustrup in http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf, it could be compilable right out of Paint
San Francisco keeps Twitter
I don't get it - if there are 2 participants, you need N-1 == 2-1 == 1 game to determine the winner. The ah-ha answer still works.
"Here are some common misconceptions about the JVM and how it works, and a few interesting titbits. These are some things people want in, or to believe about the JVM. Here are some things which we would do to fix the odd bits, and make things a bit nicer."

The slides are here: http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2...
It doesnt get slow, it's just the guy pauses... (typing the filename outside of the frame, so we don't see it)
Linux 0.01 ported to gcc4
No SUN? Their logo would probably be the best seller.
Is it just me or does it seem like Node.js is taking off like wildfire?

I can't seem to wrap my head around it because there are alternatives that have been around longer and are more mature. Is it the excitement of building on top of Google's v8 engine, or the incredible ease of use (I've seen about 15 show HN: Node.js chat server in ____ lines of code), or what?

I'm not bashing node at all, I actually just started getting into it myself and I'm _really_ enjoying it. But within the past 6 months I feel like I can't go a day without hearing about it somewhere.
Yeah, that's what I thought of too. Has it been done yet?
Each pop up click results in another 'page', meaning I had to click back around 8 times to get back here. Just FYI :)
Depends upon the answer - too low, too high, exactly right? Then sure.

But if the answer is binary then the question is "is it larger than 500" and then no, you can't ever be right in one guess.
I think a point system is great for regular immigrants. But they have new rules about point system for bringing in a spouse. In that case they are just plain f-ing with our human rights as citizens, meaning that they are telling us that they can decide who we marry or not.
Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company
As part of a technical interview, then yes it can help determine if the credentials (college degree) actually taught you anything.
> To me it sounds like nativist BS. Anyone who wants to get ahead in the US learns English and learns it well, it's as simple as that.

On the contrary, many among these communities have been here 20 years, working as adults, and have no English at all. Are they getting ahead? They send money "back home" (they still call it home), so they feel they are ahead. But they want nothing to do with the melting pot culture. They subscribe to ethnic TV, shop in ethnic groceries, put kids in ethnic (native language) preschools. I regularly see grade school age children born in the United States who struggle with an English sentence, but speak fluent Russian or Spanish.

> In any case, I think it's good that people hang on to something. Interacting with various Italian groups in the past, when I was in the US, I'd meet middle aged people who spoke little or no Italian because their Italian parents or grandparents had not taught them. Many of them were sad that they'd never learned the language.

Hanging on to something is wonderful. That's the melting pot ethos -- a marvelous blend of the things worth hanging onto. Holidays, cooking, customs, cultural fairy tales -- I was raised with these almost to a fault. I think you see this approach to blending among Scandinavians in Minnesota, for example, and I applaud it.

> Forcing your kids to be monolingual is a travesty and something they can never get back as adults: only as a child will you really learn to speak several languages well.

On several of these points, you cite the opposite concept to an extreme, to more easily shoot that down. Well certainly, raising your kids monolingual would be a travesty -- and that's exactly what I'm decrying as well. If you moved to America then raise your kids to speak only your native tongue at the expense of any English, it's a problem.

I'm thrilled to have been raised among a smattering of languages and cultures. We'd listen to, and be spoken to, in the native languages of our grandparents. As a child, I understood several, improving my grasp of the mechanics of English. I'm also thankful to have lived my teens in Europe and Africa, with my folks putting us in local language schools instead of English language schools.

In short, I am not remotely "nativist". I encourage emigration and immigration alike, and do not believe immigrants "cannot be assimilated". That said, I believe if you move to a place, whether Denmark or America, "to make a better life" for yourself, it bears thinking that there's something about the way that place is that appeals to you more than the place you left, and it might be a good idea to be less hostile to adopting and adapting to a new way of life.

It seems to me the melting pot idea is: come to a country not to forget your roots or forgo your heritage (right of blood), but to make your new country your home (right of soil).
Not sure I'm getting what you mean? Do you mean that the coupons take you on a new page?
Good find. "Another important feature is the ability to mix several languages in one buffer and get the correct syntax highlighting and indentation for each of them." It looks like they're inferring mode blocks based on things like "<?php>".

http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/doc/nxhtml.html#php

What is wanted for Aspen simplates is to use Python for the first two pages, and use the file extension to determine the mode/highlighting for the third page. The first two pages are optional.
When to Pay a Premium for Your Company Domain Name
What is your best move. Depends upon the situation.
If you look at Facebook and Google's popularity throughout the world, I think it's obvious that language isn't really a barrier to their spread and popularity, outside of some Asian countries where politics are also a factor.

I guess I'm just not scared of there being people speaking Spanish in the US. Over time, they'll integrate, just like everyone else has in the past.
dotBen has it about right. It sounds like your startup operates in a specialized domain, so most investors won't have the expertise to understand it - which means they likely won't invest as you've discovered (and as hard as it is to believe, it turns out you don't want them to).

The startup I co-founded struggled with exactly this issue for the same reason - the company operates in a specialized domain. Just like you, customers got it but investors didn't. After about a year of fund raising (and working with customers) we found someone with the ability, desire, and domain knowledge to invest and we got a funding commit after a 1 hour first meeting. With the help of the lead/early followers, the round filled out shortly thereafter.

If you have something valuable as measured by customer interest and, ideally, adoption, hang in there and keep looking. Try to figure our quickly who will lead a round and who won't. Unfortunately, it is hard to tell the difference until you experience the process with someone who decides to lead.
You & Your Brand: What if It’s All Bullsh*t?
Sun didn't fail; it was acquired and the right to the logo are Oracle's.
The site must be using NoSQL, since it is down for me right now. I wish it would load, the article sounds interesting.
I think most people join with people they already know and trust. A business partner is just like a spouse except that there are way more challenges to a startup than a marriage.

You can avoid paying big $ by giving equity and selling the dream. Some of the initial founders dont have to quit their day jobs. If you do give equity make sure you can take it back if they arent able to really commit. read founders at work to get a bunch of examples of how people formed teams from some of the biggest name tech startups.
SFVentureSummit mashup video - brilliant speakers
Mozilla single-handedly destroyed any chance of cross-browser offline web apps when they turned down WebSQL for IndexedDB.

All because a bunch of people had a seriously bad case of NIH and decided they wanted to build a poorly performing KV store, because hey, there's not enough of those out there.

And now, web developers have to maintain to separate code paths, one for WebSQL and one for IndexedDB. Let's not mention that the IndexedDB-using code is about 10x as long because why not make everyone reinvent joins in code, and while we're at it, let everyone come up with novel concepts such as indexes, and I don't know, maybe a query language of some sort so we don't have to write the same stuff over and over again.

Sigh...
I'm shocked that Mozilla not only (seemingly) stores their mailing list passwords unhashed, but that they also email them out to each member every month in a reminder email.
Anyone knows if there's already a code to convert strings of code to images like this? It might be fun to make a few images like that.
Ilya Grigorik from PostRank on Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY
Selling to developers strikes me as mostly a bad idea. If you deal with non-technical people, being able to code up a solution to their problems, to save them pain and time, may seem like 'magic', and they'll love you for it, if you do things right.
I was hoping to see webvan in the mix. Guess their logo belongs to amazon?
Github project is here: https://github.com/peterbe/tornado_gists
Crossing Ladders - Puzzle solving with algorithms and tools
I'm a self-taught programmer without a degree of any kind. I also code PHP on a Windows box. As far as fellow developers are concerned, I'm lower than scum :)

I'm successful in the way that I'm now earning a good living working for myself, have happy clients and get lots of referrals. Let's just say it moved me... to a bigger house.
awk: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
For dealing with trees in Django, I recommend 'django-easytree'. I've beeng using it for almost 2 years and it's flawless.
I went with the "outside office space" solution. Even after I cashed out of my first start-up, and was in between things, I still maintained an office in town rather than working at home.

I can't speak for anyone else, but for my family, it's much clearer for everybody this way. When I'm at the office, I'm working. When I'm at home, I'm home. My wife doesn't mind my working long hours at the office, but when I'm home, she and the children get my complete attention.
Love the idea of rotating "managerial" or "lead" person in a small group.

I'm on a small team within a larger organization that we support (in dev and tool usage). A challenge for us is that people in the larger org are used to having a manager to route their requests to.

I may give a rotational approach a whirl. But right now, one of my primary roles is as s&!t umbrella and I don't want to overly burden my real producers.
-Other than leaving the company, what else would you suggest that I do to make upper level management see the insanity of having 1:1 manager to developer ratio?

Become an expert in your department in change management. This sounds like the biggest thing holding your teams back, just from what you've described. Mind your p's and q's with change management, adopt it at the core level and push for it as hard as you can without stepping on toes and I think you'll see that ratio start to widen.
Surprisingly not, mostly due to some very strange bits of the GSM protocol.

Basically, as long as you have enough signal such that the victims handset can hear your commands, you can tell it that you are stronger then any other signal, and the handset will instantly switch to your cell.

What's worse is that there exist secure GSM encryption/etc. standards, however as the cell tower chooses what encryption to use, it is mostly pointless. (I remember watching a video about this. Apparently your phone is meant to show a massive warning if they are using unencrypted GSM. None do).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXVHPNhsOzo is a good video about this.
Advanced Arduino Hacking
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Rosen
Sorry, I explained that badly. I'm running Chrome (10.0.648.204) and each coupon click is resulting in another entry in the browser back history.
>This is unbiased because all information is given.

In this case, though, it is biased because some people will have heard the puzzle before, and having heard it before is tied to culture rather than to intelligence.
Dish Buys Bankrupt Blockbuster
Detailed Tests Show How Not all Smartphones or Networks Are the Same
Want to try out Sproutcore? Have a read into TemplateView
Canonical Will No Longer Ship Free Ubuntu CDs - Softpedia
Bookmarks for locations
Location bookmark
Of course it will require some efforts. I think the iPhone App Store purchase process handle it very nice, it requires enought effort but still makes it smooth and easy.

Usability and the most simple solution will always win in the long run.
I honestly agree... better to take HN front page space for major releases and other important news about open source software, so that there is more space for all the rest.
So thanks for posting this on Hacker News, but probably who is interested in knowing about minor releases is already following me on twitter. Next time I'll try to be more informative writing a blog post that announces the new release with some fresh information about development or about what you can do with the new features (for instance the OBJECT command) so that it is more interesting to have it in the front page for some time.
And why should he mention Apple? It's not like he's making a pro-patent argument and just failing to address a huge counterexample. He's disagreeing with Google's behavior - should he take the chance to bash every large company other there?
Some other things to note:

He is filling in the image from left-to-right, bottom-to-top. That's the scanline order of the data in BMP files, which means he is entering the code in the order it appears in the file.

Also, the image he is filling in is eight pixels wide. This is important because the row data in BMP files must be padded to a multiple of four bytes. Each pixel in a 24-bit image takes three bytes. If he had picked a width that wasn't a multiple of four, he would have had garbage padding bytes in the middle of his code.
Sorry, lost me at "We will accelerate our leadership across our five priorities".

What the heck does that mean exactly?!!
Yeah, rather disappointing. It seems there's a text-only google cache of it.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Apple don't file patents, they file magic
I have two pre-K children. My wife and I both work FT. After each baby got to around 7 or 8 months, we used an outside-the-home daycare provider. We both work some from home.

This was critical at the time, as neither of us was in a position to provide primary care to the babies during the day. We were really happy with this and our kids have done well with daycare.
I took one java class in college, but that was about it when I started learning javascript 3 years ago (along with html, and css). I carried around the OReilly javascript book for the summer - read it on the bus, on the beach, wherever.

For the last couple years, I have worked as a freelance web designer and front-end developer. Now I'm pleased to have just gotten a job with the title webmaster (for a section of a major news organization.)

I wouldn't call myself a JS ninja, but I'd say I can make a browser do some cool stuff with some pretty clean code. And I'm getting paid pretty well for it. And 3 years ago, I didn't know HTML.
So, for anyone who wants to learn to code from scratch, Go for it! Go to your library's programming section, checkout something that looks 'elegant, yet friendly', and take it to the beach. Or if you want something right now, this should probably do nicely: http://jqfundamentals.com/book/index.html

Along the way: Listened to a couple podcast lectures, read a couple books, read hacker news every day (thank you!), fell in love with jQuery, picked up a little python, real a little about lisp, and found some start-up partners in New York to start hacking on some fun stuff.
How did I get 38 willing-to-pay customers before writing code?
Jared is here at Etsy right now. So, for no nefarious reasons that I can think of.
As a newbie, I wouldn't mind if submissions from high-karma users dropped off the new page a wee bit more slowly.
Perhaps not. I haven't been around HN for very long relative to a lot of contributors, so I wanted to make sure it was clear that my intent was to be helpful, and not to be malicious or rude in any way. I probably could have worded it better.
The problem with immigration reform is that the effects are very long term whereas politics operates on the 4-year electoral cycle. When it comes down to Denmark's basic problems with non-assimilating immigrants, you won't be able to see clear effects, beneficial or otherwise, until a full generation and a half has passed. But everyone wants to take credit here and now for what progress has been made since the last one or two elections while blaming the opposition for stagnancy or regressive tendencies.

In the areas you mentioned, I wouldn't be so quick to jump to easy conclusions about cause and effect. How much of the effect is due to Muslim women, many now third generation, having become more assimilated than their male counterparts, and so that's the larger part of the explanation for why they are entering higher education in increasing numbers? Besides, this fits the general emerging pattern in the modern world of male vs female skew in higher education.

I'm sure the 24-year rule had some positive effect. How much isn't clear, and it would have to be weighed against its negative effects, equally hard to measure.
> "I haven't developed on iOS but I remember reading someplace that when an app is loading it can display an image of what it looked like when the user most recently left it"

He noted that was a trick the built-in apps use, that third party apps cannot. IIRC it was in the context of wishing that third party developers were allowed to do the same thing.
Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets
New electric car may signal the end of the road for gas guzzlers
Not all Silicon Valley companies...

Commodore - Westchester, PA

Compuserve - Columbus, OH

Infocom - Cambridge, MA

DEC - Maynard, MA

Microsoft - Seattle, WA

Tandy - Fort Worth, TX