skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is still run by YC and the jobs postings are from YC companies. The most recent change is roughly a month old and has actually made it more apparent that job postings are not regular stories.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html :

"I've just released a new version that fixes much of the brokenness of the way job listings used to be handled. When I first added jobs, to save time I reused as much of the code for stories as possible. This worked well enough when HN was a small community, but it has been working less well now that HN has grown.

A lot of the newly arrived users seem not to have realized that job listings are the ads here-- that while they look like stories, they're not. The new code makes this more evident. Jobs no longer have points or submitters, and in fact the ranking algorithm for jobs is now completely different. Now instead of being ranked by points, jobs simply start at position 4 and slide down the page at 4 positions per hour. To prevent the frontpage from being overloaded with jobs, no one can post a new job when there is still one in the top half of the page.

I still have to make jobs persist longer on the jobs page. I may also have to add a job posting queue. For now it's first come first served."
Perhaps, but at least proportionally water vapor significantly outweighs carbon dioxide, even more so when you just look at man-made greenhouse gases:

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

When you take water vapor into account, man-made greenhouse gases only account for 0.28% of all the greenhouse gas in our atmosphere.
I don't think they're 15, they're to articulate for that age. But I don't think they above 30 either.
It's a small price to pay for the service we're getting. tbh I think it's completely fair that they should put ads in.
Fair enough, thanks for the info.
The story is a bit too self-involved, there's no need to write about it. They should sort these issues in the background and maintain a professional image.
Consider me enlightened. Thanks.
How Photos Lie
I wish I could download this video to my iPad to see it later, while on a couch. The flash player turned up my MBP fan :S
> I don't understand the push that's been made on the web wherein content that would be perfectly usable as normal plaintext & images becomes videos.

My guess is that it's better for advertising because they can show you ads that cannot be skipped before getting to the content.
... and the french
And why is Postgres tuned by default for a 486? I face this with databases as small as 2 to 5GB; Postgres needs its parameters tuned to do the correct join procedures using indexes.

How is PG going to compete with mySQL in the basic webapp market when mySQL is download-and-run ready? Or does PG always want to be a niche player? I'd rather see it grow because if your app ever grows, you'll be happy to have a real full-featured relational database someday.
"The real "defaulting" in this case means they will restructure the debt."

So far, all proposals to do that have been shot down by the ECB b/c even with longer and more generous terms, Greece is not in a position to service the debt, let alone repay it.
It's better of society if people do the right things for the right reasons, not because there's a threat of the law hanging over their heads.

It might be better, but it's not realistic. You might be surprised at the amount of violent crime that doesn't happen because of the law.

And the free market dynamics are just not effective in cases such as for the disabled. It may not be financially possible for a small company to cater to disabled customers -- this is why the law usually requires a business of a certain size. But once you hit a certain size you can afford to accomodate the disabled.

Now you're saying that a big company can say, "We don't allow disabled access", but small companies who may want to target them may not be able to afford it at all. So now you have a situation where the disabled aren't served at all because the big companies won't do it, and the small companies can't afford to.
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
Right, OIN only captures patents covering Linux technology. We were really inspired by OIN, and the idea with The IP Collective (TIPC) is to make that framework available to anyone who believes his/her industry would benefit from a defensive patent pool.
Could someone sue Comcast so that I can turn on closed captions, without having to completely turn off the box, go to the offline menue, change to closed captions -- and then have to reverse the process to turn them off!?
A while ago I read that the Huffington Post AB tests headline titles, presumably other big publishers do the same thing:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/how-the-huffington-post-use...
Nope, this way, your photo app would be dependent on the internet, wich is a really stupid idea Apple would never do. In other words, what if I switched off the internet from my iPhone before the organizer applies for the "event store", do you think my photo app will tell me : "Oops no internet connection, you can't take photos, we don't know if this place has applied or not for the block"
I would say startups in Europe feel more like a sub-culture than an appreciated part of the eco-system: they are common but the local media is not picking them up as much as in the US.

To get you started, you could look at SeedCamp (http://seedcamp.com) or TechCrunch's European site (http://eu.techcrunch.com).

Once you go through the articles and posts there, you might start to believe that Berlin is the epicenter of attention right now. However, the culture to embrace failure as well as the VC money aren't there (yet?).
This turned out well for everyone.

The only unfortunate part for Twilio is they can't expect to repeat the process and still grow their revenue, since now they're down to 1 cent per SMS. (Unless they move to fractions of a cent...)
The video should be iPad-enabled. Is that not working for you?

If you absolutely need an offline copy, see http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/files/video/patrick-mcke... It is 400 MB and not set up for streaming, so I'd strongly suggest using the one on the blog, but if you need to download it go ahead.
I actually think MG went really out of his way to look for a controversial reason for Facebook's choice of platform for Project Spartan. And I think he is wrong, this time.

Facebook could have gone with a native iOS app, granted that's what most companies do who are specifically trying to target iOS.

But is it really necessary to reach for far fetched reasons why they'd want to go with the web app approach instead? I mean, Facebook is a web app. Their developers are web developers, the vast majority of their developers are hired for their skills and penchant for web development.

As is evident from the regular Facebook.com, they have some pretty great web developers on board as well, knee deep in javascript, css and stuff like that every day, I'm sure. Wouldn't it be really practical to just leverage that expertise for Project Spartan as well, rather than have some other team work with some other code base for some other platform?

Then of course we have the slew of other good attributes of web development, to which Facebook are already accustomed. Like being able to update the app several times a day if they so choose, without Apple's adult supervision and delay.

Do we really need to look any further than that for reasons why Facebook went with the web as their chosen platform? I don't think so, I think it makes a lot of sense for Facebook to go with the web app approach. That Project Spartan uses mobile Safari, not webkit in general, as their target platform kind of shows that there isn't a hell of a lot of anger towards Apple anyways.
You can already do this with the Canned Responses Gmail labs plugin. Just set up a canned response and then set up a filter.
I still believe famfamfam (http://www.famfamfam.com) is pretty good.
Sort of surprised they aren't covered by some variation of the "safe harbor" clause in ISP laws. They are not creating the content, they are making existing content created by others available over the Web.

It's sort of like suing Blockbusters because they carry DVDs that do not come with closed captions.

In any event their current captioning needs work. I tried watching "Stone of Destiny", which takes place in Scotland, and these American ears could not understand all it. I tried using the captioning but it had a very peculiar glitch: every so often I would see a rush of captions for the next few minutes of audio. It would vanish, and then I'd hear the audio it was meant for. So I gave up.

I assumed their streaming was pulling the captions from whatever was provided on the corresponding DVD.

I have a heard-of-hearing friend and when we watch DVDs together we almost always turn on captions. However, some TV shows, such as from the BBC some years back (e.g The Poirot series) have no captions. Are the American distributors of these DVDs open to a lawsuit as well? What about my local library, where I got them?
Yeah, fractions of cents are impossible.
Square to Investors: $1 Billion Valuation? Make It $2 Billion.
Getting frothy!
Yes. They're not targeting you.

Every major label has a deal with them, nearly every hit on the top 50 for the last 5+ years was pre-screened by management. The last numbers I heard were $1m/year for the service with a $20k/song screening charge.
We agree to disagree.

But even according to the article you posted, bank balance sheets are still weak.

Losing $41 billion (or more, possibly, given the nature of these derivatives) is not going to be good news for them.

While technically not in recession, the economy is not thriving, either, and so one blow like this may indeed push it back into recession.
I was shocked that it was MG was writing it, since I scrolled up to the top about halfway through the article to check out who wrote it. There weren't any rabid apple fanboy comments, and it was somewhat well-written, and usually it's Michael Arrington that writes the anti-PR articles. Maybe he will be more of a journalist in the future, and my unsubscription from techcrunch in my rss reader will have been wrong.
It is interesting how the title makes you think that mutations are more frequent(that is at least what I thought), but in the article they go about how they thought mutations were about 200 in each person. The fact of how genetic mutations are not just from the father, as previously thought, but it is just as likely to happen because of the mother.
It's strange to me that you're not a "big deal" anymore unless you have a valuation in the Billions of dollars.

Not saying square isn't valuable (they're my favorite new company, and the one that I think will go the farthest), just making an observation.
Should Apple buy the mobile phone industry in cash?
Tasks API on Google App Engine [tutorial]
All complex ecosystems have parasites, and success breeds imitators. No news here.
Actually, no they can't. At a quantum level things do not have definitive sizes. They have sort of "clouds", where the center of the cloud is more likely to be their size, and the edges are less likely - but still possible.
Arg, I hate that phrase. It may cost you something to protect your freedom from those who would take it, but the freedom itself does not have any inherent cost. Secondly, I hear that phrase being used to justify all sorts of things that I consider to be impinging on my freedom rather than increasing it, such as using my tax dollars to wage wars against countries that are not actually threatening my freedom at all.
I wish articles on HN showed author, like:

The New Silicon Valley Douchebag (Sarah Lacy @ techcrunch.com)
______________________________________________________

That way I'd know not to click 90% of TC articles. I hate giving them page views for crappy/link bait articles.
Why would they do anything else? I imagine the pay and perks are great.

Besides, after a career in Congress reading bills that were written by lobbyists, a lot of the new lobbyists are probably looking forward to get a chance to actually write some bills.
Yeah I gotta think about that one. If we assume that there is some smallest discrete base unit of space (which I think is plausible), then all string lengths could only be some integer multiple of that base unit. Therefore length pi is out of the question.

Now presumably 1 meter will be equivalent to some integer multiple of base units, though that may turn out not to be the case. Perhaps the current definition of a meter in terms of certain wavelengths of light will turn out to have a remainder of 1/7 of a base unit. ;) In that case you'd just define a slightly adjusted meter as a whole number of base units. So for simplicity let's assume that a meter is a whole number of base units.

Then it's clear that a string of any integer meter length would be possible. A string of length 1/3 meters might be possible, assuming that the number of base units in a meter was divisible by 3. But a string of length pi meters would be impossible.

As a computer programmer I tend to think of transcendental numbers in terms of processes which relentlessly converge, and that of course is the theory of limits. But I also recognize the financial constraints on running processes. So there will always be a "good enough" aspect to any physical measurement.
Sandboxing builds on top of existing OS functionality to give each sandbox a separate address space and to guarantee freeing of resources on process exit.

The sandboxing code would have to rely on the video drivers ("the OS running on the card") to similarly manage resources on a video card.

Problem with that is that the video card may not support some required functionality or that the driver may be buggy. Top of the line video hardware has a shelf life of say a year. That puts serious pressure on producing drivers fast. In addition, there is pressure to produce fast drivers, as that is what reviewers look at. You cannot get fast reliable drivers soon, so drivers will be buggy, incomplete, etc.

You cannot build reliable sandboxing on top of buggy drivers.
Skype charges fractions of cents on some of their rates.

For example, 2.3¢/min is currently listed at http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/prices/payg-rates/
Yeah, I find that strange too. I think some startups are getting bloated valuations which could cause people to think that a billion dollars is not a "big deal".
Agreed -- is this something that would benefit from writing LDAP/AD integration for? If so, how much does that boost the sale price to all the other potential customers you could get from it. Do his requirements actually fit in line with the general 'enterprization' of the software? Is writing him a one-off, multi-user/single-password authentication scheme help or hinder that enterprization?

Price accordingly.
Under-funded, over-loaded, filled with hyper-critical users and entire armies of abusers. Sounds like a great job!

Anyone who's stuck that out for years is a hero.
That's an interesting take on this. I would certainly be happy to pay to avoid having to wade through all the garbage that's on the internet now. Now, that doesn't just apply to journalism, it's all content really.

To take this a step further, for me, the only reason I'm ever exposed to garbage content is from google results. I'm not sure google will be able to solve this problem, or if they do, it won't be from taking the same approach that's made them successful. I expect that some sort of curated search engine(s) will be the solution in the future. What exactly this will look like, I have no idea... if I did know I would be trying to build it.
Ebay's painful UI
Except that the length of a real objects can never be defined exactly. You can only give probabilities, eg. it has an 80% chance of being X or more units long, a 5% chance of being X or more etc, etc. At an extremely (an I mean very very extremely) low probability an atom is the size of the sun.

When things interact they also do it by probabilities. The lower the probability, the longer it takes to interact. (i.e. bring two deuterium nuclei near each other - will they fuse? Well, it depends on how close they are, the closer they are the less time it takes, since there is a greater chance that they are in the same spot at the same time.)

So in some sense, that's what time is.
2 Reasons Why Google Should Buy Ubuntu
See my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2667461

There is no discrete base unit of space, and on top of that objects do not have determinate sizes.
If my data was stolen, I'd be annoyed, not dead. And the law, and enforcement priorities, reflect that.
It's a high stress low pay job
Thanks for clarifying that. By the time I got to it, it was already fixed. :)
Yes I am very serious.
In other news today: Italy's credit rating was downgraded by Moody's.
I agree that it is very neat and could be used for students that just can't quite grasp the concept of what pi really means. One of my teachers used something very similar to this to explain pi to students that did not quite understand the textbook definition.
We all got along very well and I'm confident that they will be able to handle it. Also, I'm not dropping off the face of the planet -- they can still ask me questions. :)
It took a hell of a long time to fill that thing up with torrents. For one, there weren't many seeders...
The founder was formerly CTO of Facebook and close friends with Mark Zuckerberg. During his tenure at Facebook, he made lots of valuable connections. I am sure it greatly contribute to what you're asking.
There is a new OT editor called ShareJS for plain text and JSON built in Node, by Joseph from the Google Wave team:

https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS

http://sharejs.org:8000/ (examples)

JSON OT is particularly neat for developing unique interactive applications, such as this board game:

http://sharejs.org:8000/hex.html#9gBIACm3su
Chp salaries
I know first hand the ins and outs of the chp. Just to clear things up, our overtime isn't factored into retirement. Check all your facts before you make misinformed statements.
I think you overestimate the difficulty in "automating" education and providing it in india. children can learn pretty well using online video - khan academy has proven that, and khan academy is even building a complete interactive educational framework.

The high cost of bandwidth can be probably solved pretty inexpensively using caching at the village level. caching is a well proven technology and is a big part of the backbone of the internet.

When you say "fix the damn schools first" you underestimate the size of the problem. this is a huge huge problem, very difficult one , maybe even unsolvable at the scale and the conditions india has. see , even rich countries that had decades to build an education system are struggling with building a high quality education system using teachers. and mostly they're not doing very well.

I think india has no choice. it has to invent a new, high quality and huge scale education system. and giving each student a tablet is a good first step to get there.
As long it was read/write only for me I'd be ok with it. The last thing I need is someone to mess with my memory of where I put the car keys.

From the paper the device is relatively large (compared the brain structure its stimulating) so I'm guessing there is a pretty good sized engineering problem in there too.
Perceptions (and valuations) have shifted a lot in recent years, and, as the article points out, the "Billion dollar club" is getting crowded.

YouTube was bought for $1.6B after all. That was a huge deal then. When Zuckerberg refused the $1B offer from Yahoo!, that was also a pretty big deal. Now we see a few young companies at these valuations, so, the perception is different.
IMHO Patrick is the smartest guy in software at the moment. I can think of any number of bigger, more profitable and more exciting software businesses, but none that make the owner quite as radiantly happy as BCC makes Patrick. I feel slightly uncomfortable talking in such a hippyish manner, but there's a certain Zen quality to the way Patrick does business; Like a rock garden, BCC is at once a metaphor for life and something purely abstract. His way of doing things seems as much about being a better person as it is about running a better business.

If you desperately want a squillion dollars, read PG.
If your idea of fun is running a big office, read Spolsky.
If you have other priorities, I can't think of a wiser voice than patio11.
Recetas de Cocina: Juanes de Gallina (6 Porciones)
have you considered that Apple files patents defensively i.e. to make sure no one makes a product which hinders the vision of their ecosystem?
No Knock Raid - Fantastic Music Video on The Drug War by Reason.tv
A journalist arrogates to himself the right to take your confidential code and splatter it on the internet in return for advertising pageviews.

Siegler profits directly from leaks. Do you deny this?

And FB does not profit from leaks.

So this has nothing to do with integrity. What does printing something marked "confidential" have to do with integrity? Siegler is just mad that FB got someone to post their side of the story.
Bitcoin's Value is Decentralization
Maybe people like this exist, but I have never worked with anyone like this before. The ones actually building startups and raising VC money are better than this... I hope
I think I need to write a metal riff generator called The Mark Of Chain
It's important to learn to say no to a lot of things. Opportunities will always present themselves overtime and it's just as important if not more important to learn to say no just as it is to focus on doing a few things well.

Certain sites that are producing passive income at a certain point, I leave them be. If I got something with potential, I focus my time on that.

EDIT: See this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dqG9m9d44&feature=playe...
You can only have in-app payment inside a native iOS app if the payment goes through the appstore, or Apple rejects the app.
Webkit has 3D CSS transforms
Meeting and talking earnestly with lots of people, being out in the field chasing something, the thrill of knowing first..
I'll be sure to walk into the Creamery and start talking about how my company will make (hundreds of) billions of dollars when Sarah Lacy is there. It'll be a fun hobby and retribution for having clicked on this linkbait.
Woot, patio11 is engaged! Congrats.
Does this mean domains like http://snort.coke are going to be available? Rock on!
You can also calculate pi by throwing frozen hot dogs: http://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Pi-by-Throwing-Frozen-Hot-D...
The sad reality is that if it wasn't Dorsey behind this it would have to prove itself like any other business.

My guess is that you haven't solved payment if you have to get additional hardware. and even if that get solved what is to hinder Apple and Google from offering it natively which it should be.
Code is patentable, but articles are not

No actually code, on its own is not patentable, systems and algorithms are. All those cool Apache and BSD licenses are about copyright which apply equally to code and a news article.
Hey Mike -

Good point about the video demos.

If you have your own version of jQuery running on your site, you can have Optimizely exclude jQuery from the project bundle. Check out this for more info:

http://support.optimizely.com/kb/advanced/does-optimizely-co...

If you have any other questions, you can contact us through support.

- Jeff (with Optimizely)
Here's a nicely done comparable: http://json-ld.org/
Compatible with RDF while keeping it simple.
about that bubble ...
I'll get down-voted -- correctly -- for saying something that adds nothing to the conversation, but YES! I think spending my childhood watching Lucas Walencheck was part of my inspiration to learn programming.
WebKit has had 3D CSS transformation for some time now: that example is linked from http://www.webkit.org/blog/386/3d-transforms/ from two years ago.

Title here ("is that 3d css?") is a bit linkbait: "3d css transform [demo]" would be more descriptive, IMHO.