skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need a recruiter rating site -- some kind of effort to gather reviews of recruiters, name and shame the bad ones, and give an edge to the few who are genuinely adding value.

I find it hard to believe that every recruiter is an arsehole, but it must be difficult for the good ones to differentiate themselves from the bad.

http://ratemyrecruiter.com/ exists, but seems to have no useful content. Is there anything similar out there somewhere?
In a couple years we'll all be saying that 2 + 2 = 5.
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@gorkemcetin, I would probably pay an arm and a leg for cross-platform API for mobile for access to audio/video recorders. Like what Flash does for desktops' webcam.
Well shoot. I didn't get a "stop spamming" message.

For what it's worth, the video is called "The Kepler Orrery" and it's an animation showing all the multi-planet systems discovered by the Kepler mission so far, side by side, with the same length and time scale. It's pretty awesome.
From which all browsers?
lol, f*ckups don't get any bigger than this
Rationality can only be meaningfully defined as an optimizing behavior over ones preferences. If these are to not do any extra work unless fined the neighbors were plenty rational before.

The author is yearning for morally decent people. I guess Kant would have called this rational but as an economist I am forever doomed to accept peoples immoral behavior as the expression of their immoral preferences.
Well said, and I'm seeing the same behavior and attitudes with friends and acquaintances. The high school and college students I've talked to recently have similar feelings about Facebook as well.

There are a lot of emerging social networks (Hibe, Pidder, Necter) who emphasize privacy a lot more than Facebook and don't have the baggage -- as well as the whole open source Diaspora/AppleSeed/OneSocialWeb/etc. distributed social network movement. True, right now none of them have Facebook's "everybody's there" advantage. But people's dislike for Facebook is so pervasive that I really wonder how much longer they'll continue to be so successful.
They invest in automation instead of pushing for what is close to indentured servitude

Actually we prefer servitude over automation, too. Our harvesters come from Poland, Hungary and Romania. Much cheaper than expensive machines.
Perhaps I've misunderstood the question but surely most people who have a normal job e.g. software development make $100 every day? For example I am self-employed and my hourly rate is $91/hr so today after 8 hrs I'll have made $728 which after the 50% tax in my country is $364. And today wasn't even a very stressful day.
Using Chrome 13 (dev) on Windows 7, font smoothing is working OK on my PC.
As an experiment (and I wouldn't normally advocate this) try submitting it again, see if you get the message this time.

EDIT: Actually, having gone and found it, don't. It doesn't really contain any seinsible information that I can see - it just appears to be a lot of spinning circles, some music, and no real information about what you're actually looking at. It might be great, but it's impossible for me to see why.
You can't remove all the craziness in JSLint. The warnings about using == instead of === and not having your var statements at the top of the function, for example.
And no doubt they'll be easier to arrest if they take up residence in mansions on the US side.
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Namesake is indeed kinda cool. I created an entry for a separate discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661165
Tapjoy launches $5M fund to port apps to Android
Google makes separate products. They're well integrated, but you can use gmail without ever seeing maps, and vice-versa.

Facebook on the other hand is monolithic, and that gives it a much greater appearance of omnipresent intrusiveness.
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Interesting, although seems specific to games.

I am currently looking for a framework to write a relatively simple CRUD type application.

Ideally, one could deploy it on pad type devices (iPad AND Android tablets)and phones( iPhone and Android) phones. Bonus, also would work on a regular desktop (x86 Win or Linux).

Requirements: sockets, vector graphics (although I suppose, I could make sprites for each platform).

Of course, perfect write once - deploy everywhere tool does not exist.
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Nanotechnology makes inroads in the construction industry
Ask HN: Please review my startup, www.cloudorado.com
Hi Everyone,

Over last several months I’ve been developing a cloud computing (IaaS) comparison engine. I’ve reached a state where it achieved some usefulness. Therefore I would like to share it with you and get some feedback before I go any further with it.

http://www.cloudorado.com/ (it may not work without www yet).

The service is something like pricegrabber.com for cloud computing – you specify resources you need for cloud servers and it will present offers from multiple providers.

It is done in GWT + SmartGWT. I’ve chosen this technology, since it allows client side calculations, without network and server delays. Therefore you can use sliders and see how prices change without any delay. There is one side effect though – it is quite big to load. So to minimize the negative effect of loading at start I present a static version (widgets does not work at all), which is replaced with actual interactive version as soon as it loads up. You shouldn’t even notice it, unless you try using sliders or links before it actually boots up. Probably this is a good subject for another article.

Going back to the feedback I have several areas that bothers me, so I would really appreciate if you could take them into account.

1. Usefulness: Would the site be useful for you if you planned to buy cloud server? What should be added, what is irrelevant? Is the missing thing crucial enough to prevent me from going further?

2. Ease of use: Is it simple enough to understand it without explanation?

3. Name: I’m not a native English speaker, so it is difficult for me to judge how a name sounds for natives and if it easy to remember. The other top candidates were cloudcruncher.com and cloudcomparator.com . Huge advantage for cloudorado.com is that there are virtually no results in Google for that. Which would you choose?

4. Business model – I mostly plan to earn on cloud providers’ affiliate programs or charge per click. Which of those you think would be better? Any other ideas?

Obviously I don’t think the service is done now, but hopefully something like alpha would apply. Therefore feedback is really critical at this point and I really appreciate any comments. I hope it will save me some dead ends.

Thank you!

Marcin
Make sure the name of the employer AND the location of the job is a required field.

Give it a try. Worse case scenario is loss of face.
Google knows where you've been and they might be holding your encryption keys
Bitcoin is fairly predictable.

As something with no value behind it except that which we have attributed to it, all of it's value comes directly from that. With things like oil or stocks, they make profits or they are used some how.

Bitcoin is similar to gold, in that it's worth the demand and the hype.

Consider these two charts (set both to 30 days)

https://www.bitcoinmarket.com/market/charts/

http://www.google.com/trends?q=bitcoin&ctab=0&geo=al...

The value of BC grows when the volume of news grows, the volume of BC trade grows when the volume of BC searches grow.

High volume can sometimes indicate the value of something. Right now, I'm hedging that BC will reach 40 in the next week or sooner. Highly volatile market.
MongoDB and Node.js, on Cloud Foundry
This is a cool UI for doing search, really inspiring!

I hope you won't mind me using this concept for my next app creations.
How effective is are rating websites antispam?
(Note: I won't name any website here, as I have no time to deal with people suing me, but it pretty much applies to any rating based website).

Just wondering as I am traveling in Vietnam and I had the following conversation with an hotel owner (HO):

HO: I want to create an hotel reservation website as my friend makes 30.000 U$ a month with hers.
ME: cool, how good are you with computers?
HO: I'm very good. I can change IP
ME: what do you change IP for?
HO: I can leave good ratings about my hotel.
ME: ????
HO: Yes, I do this a lot.

I always wondered how they dealt with it.
It seems it's not that easy.
Android, forking, and control
Hi all, thank you for the reception.

To let you know, I wanted to build the simplest thing that could possibly work at first, but everything is feasible in the future. Blacklists, better browser support (I've tested it only on the newest of the five most used, sorry about that), and to provide more options.

I'll work on all that as soon as my college exams are over.
Wait, wasn't Microsoft's OpenCL alternative DirectCompute?
yeah, our traffic is very low :( We're doing 1200 uniques per month right now so it will be a long road :D
Solar-powered flight - The green machine flies in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_cut-off_filter
I thought the same thing. Perhaps "lazy" or "inconsiderate" are better words to describe people's behavior before the sign went up.

Given the option to do the easiest thing possible, many people will do just that, especially in the absence of punitive measures.
Why are you simulating stock charts? Use real companies. What a company is doing is vitally important to almost everyone except day-traders, and even then it's still kind of important.
Clickable link: http://www.cloudorado.com/
The Hidden Cost of Letting Workers Telecommute
Its an interesting comparison, but I think at least part of the difference lies in the fact many of google's main services -- search, maps, shopping, news -- are about getting you what you want and away from google. The faster you're done using google, the less time you spend there, the better they're doing. Gmail and apps are more time consuming but I think a certain level of "well, I have no choice to do the this work or not, I might as well have a nice interface" comes into play when using those.

Google's tools seem more about facilitating accomplishing something else as fast as possible, while facebook is the ends in and of itself. How long you spend on facebook is the metric of how well facebook is doing.

At least thats my take on it.
Using Chrome 12 on Windows and it looks exactly like the Mac screenshot for me.
Because you can still do just plain search.

Google makes lots of products that you can use however you please. Facebook makes one product, and when you want to use one aspect of it, you get lots of baggage that you don't necessarily care about.
I still don't have a clue as to your price. What's your minimum subscription period? If I have 10 people in my company, what's the price for a minimum subscription? If I have a hundred people, what's the price for a year? Should I just go away if I don't have a thousand people to test?

If you put some of this information on your website, you could get some of the prequalification done for free.
You can also tack on a +<anything> to your gmail. So if you have example@gmail, you also own example+foo@gmail, example+bar@gmail, and so on.
In the grand scheme of things, why on Earth do you care if an account was down-voted?

Personally, I see this as a bad sign that people in general are very immature and do not have an adult grasp on reality. People who care about getting 'down-voted' frighten me.

Comment trolled perhaps? It's hard to say. ColinWright: are you really this bored with life?

I like to contribute, but really.. I don't care what people thing of my comments, they are just comments on a random website.
Surveillance Programs Must Not Be Kept Secret
Code for America on diversity in recruiting
The native americans would object to your theory.
I think the only difference was that America was plenty big and the people killed there didn't survive in significant enough numbers in America today so their view of the whole affair doesn't concern many people nowadays.
Flask Extensions For Authorization with Examples 
In my opinion, there is one serious omission to Flask at the moment and that is that there is no authoritative method for authorizing users.

In a way this goes with the general ethos of micro frameworks - it isn't being forced down your throat unless you want it.

However in this case I think that at least some structured 'recipes' are required to provide peer guidance, best practice or whatever you want to call it. Too often the advice is "roll your own", but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable recommending that to the inexperienced.
I see lots of successful youtube.com submissions.

According to SearchYC[1], the most recent successful posting of a youtube link was 2 months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417032

According to HNSearch[2] it was 2 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651680

[1] http://searchyc.com/submissions/youtube.com?only=domain&...

[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=you...
Engineers can't do that. You have to give them a goal and then you have to decide whether you like their plan for achieving the goal. The political process becomes important before engineers spring into action.
That's one way to stop outsourcing...
When can you have it done by?
Education should be regarded as an investment. It has to be paid for, but we have 'nationalized' school as a strategic measure, intended to optimize the next generation's opportunities. Regardless of who's children they are, the 'cost' of not educating them will, over their lifetimes, be much greater than $8268.
http://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/75763219536429056
I've been hanging around the site for a long time, but I haven't been here for over two years. Is it really necessary to have that long of an account to stop spam? I believe 1 year should at least be fine.
Just my opinion, but I think I would consider using historical data, perhaps munged by a coefficient to make it harder for a player to identify the historical basis using a few trades. Market psychology is notoriously finicky and feels like it would be poorly represented by an algorithm to me. This would have the added advantage of simulating some price action based on things like news, earnings, current events etc. I think I would tend to pick gentle bull market period, or perhaps concatenate a couple of cycles to make a bull market->correction->recovery cycle. It all depends on what your goals are of course, but one bonus is that unlimited historical data is all out there and easy to get (so you could pick many periods or even have the computer pick them). A long time ago I participated in a stock market simulation that was run this way, at the end it was revealed what the actual stock basis was for the tickers and it was pretty interesting to be able to go back and look at some of the news around those stocks from the time period.
I swear, one of these days I'm going to write an IDE that doesn't look like it was made in 1992. I may be a techie, but gosh darnit, I'm spoiled by iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. I want the stuff I'm using every day to LOOK nice.

(No offense intended, I just looked at the screenshots and my first reaction was "oh no, not again!")
Since there's enthusiasm for this I will set the site up and submit it here. Unless PG cries foul and says he doesn't like me hijacking the HN karma for this purpose.

OK. I built it. Here's the announcement: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/06/usethesource-job-board-for-hacke...
Have a field for telecommuting as well. I wouldn't mind switching in to web dev, but I don't want to leave Toronto to do it. Places that would accept telecommuting would make that easier.
You can buy citizenship (or at least residency), but the cost is astronomical. $500,000 to be exact.
http://www.legalusvisa.com/permanentvisas/greencardsforinves...
I like this line in the submitted article: "But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble." I think there is insight in that. Not every big new online service can have the long-term revenue growth and user engagement that Google has managed to achieve. (Some of the stories about Groupon point out aptly that Groupon spends much of its revenue on Google promotions, so who is the winner when Google, a profitable company, is paid by Groupon, a company that is losing money on every sale?)

That said, Facebook is the one online service that gets more engagement from me, by far, even than HN or all the Google properties other than Gmail. Facebook's algorithm for prioritizing posts from friends into my home page works amazingly well at showing me the content I want to see. The Facebook secret groups feature works well for me at forming more tightly knit communities. All in all, what's cool about Facebook is that I see FRIENDS there, people I'm glad to see in real life or online.

Back when nobody needed to buy floppy disks, because AOL was endlessly mailing those out to everyone in America, I was subscribed to AOL for a while. I couldn't understand why people preferred the chat-like user discussion interface of AOL to the more threaded discussions available on other online services at the same time. I found AOL rather tedious, and eventually unsubscribed, but millions of users stayed on AOL long after I thought it had lost all of its competitive advantage over other ways of getting on the Internet. AOL had the financial strength and reputation to take over (and drain of value) Time Warner, and it still hasn't completely disappeared. I think Facebook will do at least that well for at least that long. Maybe Facebook is already in a long decline, but it will be a long, slow decline.
This happens when you submit a link to a spam site. When it happens to innocent people it's usually because some site has been mistakenly classified as a spam site, e.g. by an admin fat-fingering something on an iPhone.
The rational thing would be, if they were lazy, to ignore this sign. This sign is almost completely unenforceable. If the chute is clogged with garbage I'll be fined? Do you have a video camera watching me put garbage in the chute? If not it's impossible to determine who left which garbage bag and/or who clogged the chute*1.

Not to mention the problem where in I'm a good resident... I've brought my garbage down, but someone else has clogged the chute and suddenly it becomes my job to either A) unclog the chute [managements job]; B) take my trash back upstairs; c) leave it and suffer a 50$ penalty

Frankly, this is a bad policy and the people writing the sign have shown themselves to not be very rational.
Hasn't Firefox 1.5 lacked security updates since it was discontinued ~4 years ago? Why not Chrome or something?
As somebody whose last startup had people working remotely from four different states ... yikes!

With state budgets as tight as they are, it's no surprise to see them looking for reasons to tax out-of-state companies. And it sounds like it's still not clear just how much tax liability this will lead to. But wow, it sure sounds like a minefield for startups.
LulzSec Leaks 62,000 Email/Passwords of writerspace.com
I'm planning on building the reverse soon. Hacker Resumes I guess. If you're looking for a job, you post info about yourself, location, links to all of your relevant info, and select from a few categories. Companies can then browse and see if anyone meets their needs.
Could we see a screencast?
I'd really like to see both links, as well.
Ludicrous! Imagine an employee living out of state doing work at home, like preparing slides for a presentation. No telecommuting, just doing work at a desk. And that's "doing business"?
My github account didn't let me in, but then again I only have one repo that I use to store my vim dotfiles and suchlike. So, job done on Forrst's part, I suppose.

I am a developer though, for my sins, and would appreciate a vote or two. Or, ideally, three.

(removed the link to my profile, as some of you very kindly voted me in)
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Very interesting to see how this kind of thing is done on Android. GCD makes this pretty easy on the iOS side.
Now that's an idea. Good job. (Not that the other one is bad. This is just my preference)
I wonder if you're referring to the Stack Overflow decision to do this. They've made several strange modifications to their reputation system since the beginning, and I'm not sure any of them have really added value: paying for downvotes, daily reputation caps, etc.

All of these tweaks to the reputation system are to encourage a certain kind of behaviour, but I'm not sure it's the right kind of behaviour. Does it make sense to stop someone from providing answers when they are clearly good at it?

I find that, for myself, when I cast a downvote on Stack Overflow, I see an opportunity for 9 more free downvotes. (I'm a little OCD about having a score that's divisible by 10.)
Entrepreneurs Need Self-Discipline and Real Goals
No because your one successful essay is the only one that your audience will ever read. The others are just read by your friends and coworkers or your hardcore fans, if you have any.
JumboTask
Freelancers keep track of a gazillion different things at once. JumboTask eases this burden by getting you organized and online!

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We know this all too well. We were freelancers too at one point. The trickiest thing was to keep track of everything... People calling and asking about your services, referrals from friends, existing clients and their needs, projects, deadlines, suppliers, and on and on.

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I'd definitely use this.
Meh, I'd rather have my kids(if I had any) create something of value, not just be on top of the latest web fad. Will a collection of tweets be worth keeping in 10 years?

Of course, the argument could be made that Twitter/Tumblr are the modern day journal, but I'm not really buying that, primarily because there is no privacy.
I think you could go one of two ways with this:

1. Consume live market data and use an exchange simulator that always gives you back a fill.
2. Use a true exchange simulator, which you will have to seed with orders to provide liquidity and generate real quotes (with a proper spread and not locked or crossed).

With the second approach, you get a more accurate representation of how markets work, but the exercises will have to be more planned out and directed.

Just my $0.02.
This comment would be more persuasive if it weren't coming from a newly-created account.
The article neglects that facebook is always looking to expand its feature set, with things like email (on top of existing chat) and music [1].

Also neglected are statistics pertaining to new account activations and account reactivations (secondary and post-secondary students make up a giant portion of the user base, and many make it a habit to deactivate temporarily during exam time).

This article just feels overly sensational, giving no credence to counter-arguments.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2584712
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