skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I understand what you're saying.

The thing is I've already got web development down well (few years experience) and my design skills are pretty solid. I'd just like to know what degree would look best to people hiring in case I ever end up needing it.

Appreciate the reply!
I don't think that's true. AFAIK, the anonymous listings are usually companies that haven't publicly launched yet and don't want to burn through their TechCrunch coverage early. It's PR, not HR. I do agree, though, that they're kind of annoying to read and I have trouble imagining what kind of desperate souls apply to these employment-roulette positions.
Very cool infographic guys! Looking forward to see if some of these predictions come true.
You're right. However, making the work environment fun is something that only benefits software engineers. Making it dry and serious doesn't help at all. Even pressuring them to get things done is a recipe for disaster. Having fun doesn't mean not being productive.
Sites like Monster are going the way of the yellow pages. And just like you could replace the yellow pages with asking neighbors who they recommend, there is a balance between finding good sources (using Google to find a plumber, using Indeed/LinkUp* to find jobs) and understanding the value of networking.

There is a reason CareerBuilder drops millions on a SuperBowl ad each year and Monster spent over $1.2M at an employer party in Las Vegas this last weekend. If all jobseekers knew what Nick discovered, there'd be no reason for these websites to exist!

Yes, I work at LinkUp - but since anyone would include it I figured I'd be forgiven for including it
Probably Google Instant, less than a year ago.
The VC Product Is Broken For 99% of Founders and I Want to Fix It
i was trying to figure out what the patents were for as well. i dug around a bit and found a description from when Microsoft was suing Motorola for using Android:

"...synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power."

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/01/android-lawsuits/
I think it's less popular than these stats might indicate.

1 Facebook user might click on 1 or 2 links per day.

1 SU user "stumbles" dozens or hundreds of times in a session.

A stumble nets a pageview, but obviously has considerably less value (no intent baked into the click).
Perfect! It just so happens that I am available for the newly-formed C3PO position at your company. My comment was actually BOTH a means of creating a position specifically tailored for myself, AND my application for said position. If you hire me, your proofs shall always be read, your pudding shall always be warm, and your panties shall always be clean and pressed.

I remember an interview, from long ago, with Peter Sellers, who played Chief Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther" film series. He said something to the effect (<--!!!) that he didn't wait around for jobs in Hollywood to become available. Instead, he created situations out of which roles tailor-made for him would come into existence. In other words, he did what it took to make jobs for which he was the best choice. From that, I now have the philosophy of "One Job, One Applicant".
Grooveshark allows you to build a library of music, favorites, playlists, follow friends, find and buy concert tickets from Artists page through SongKick (YC 07), listen on your mobile device if you have Grooveshark Anywhere. Their other paid plan, Grooveshark Plus gives you access to early features before they're rolled out to the normal users like their desktop client, visualizations, Last.fm scrobbling, no limits on library + fav size and more.

If they can find a way to fix their content quality problem and licensing issues with the RIAA, they have a really bright future. They're the most innovative company in the space right now and I think it would be a damn shame if they were forced to close due to different recording companies constantly suing them and turning back on their settlement deals. Having to deal with EMI, Sony Warner MG, Universal and their ilk separately is part of the problem as well. The reason their iPhone app got pulled from the App Store[1] was because UMG filed a new copyright infringement lawsuit against them Jan 2010.

You have to understand they function quite similarly to how Youtube works and is obligated to follow the DMCA.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark#Legal_issues
Earlier this year, Spotify put more restrictions on the services they offer to their non-paying users: http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2011/04/14/upcoming-cha... . For example, there is no more unlimited listening: each track can now be listened to only five times for free.

It might be that this tightening of free content was only a preparation for the U.S launch, i.e. the record labels would not let Spotify in to the U.S. market without Spotify changing its services to something more restricted.
Thanks, now mentioned.
I had searched for hackerspaces but found none. Now there is one, searching for members. I will sign up shortly!

Would you mind dropping me an email about the study group? We could start working on one, make that its first project.
Quoted Labels: A Reasonable Ruby Syntax Change
True -- the green lock itself wouldn't help here. I was thinking more along the lines of code signing certificates.

When I visited by bank's web site and drill into the certificate details I can at least establish that someone my browser vendors trusts (or someone they trust ...) issued the certificate to an _organization_ called 'Bank of Nova Scotia' in Toronto, not just the domain name.

If I was able to register micr0soft.com then hopefully I would have a hard time getting an SSL certificate issued for it. I know there have been a number of discussions on certificate infrastructure here that show how complex this can become.
I'm not sure if this is the case or not, and if it is then I don't have data to back it up, but a theory that, if correct, would mean you don't have to feel guilty: Just because you're giving less money for each song you listen to, you're also listening to many more songs, meaning more artists see your money. Add in many other people doing the same thing, and artists will be getting a smaller amount but from many more people, because of people who will listen to a song that they wouldn't have bothered paying to purchase.
Eastern Europeans strong social networkers, less concerned about privacy
Under wiretapping laws, yes. But unlike some search warrants, they don't have to be presented to the person under investigation nor do the warrants have to be confirmed to be in use by authorities because that would compromise the investigations.
Facebook's Three New Products
People will have a different opinion of you based on the order in which you tell them facts about yourself. Dan Ariely did some good research into this phenomenon on online dating sites.
If a company tells you "we have great pay!...but we sell cigarettes" you're going to have a better response than if the company tells you "we sell cigarettes...but hey, great pay!" That's life. Companies hide negative facts about themselves behind these sorts of ordering tricks because, well, they work.

Now, YC companies seem the least likely to have anything to hide about themselves. That said, when I see an ad like this, my first reaction is to shy away - because even if they do have some legit reason for staying stealth (competitiveness, hiding YC funding, etc), they could also be doing this just to hide some fact that I might find negative later in the interview process. I've been burned one too many times by non-YC companies doing this to me, that I'm concerned to see YC companies doing it too.
I've flown a few times since 9/11 without ID. In the smaller airport the TSA seem to not really care, basically asked me "really? no id? ok." The other times a credit card was good enough for them.
I have different kind of problem, but related to this one: Spotify is partly owned by major labels, so when I pay those 9.99€ I help those guys survive, whereas I'd prefer them to go bankrupt and have a totally different model of music industry, as I find the old/current one being seriously broken.

As for the artists, I don't know, Spotify (and Internet in general) helps all those little bands to get some listeners, as discovering new artists is much easier now thanks to technology (20 years ago it all depended on labels, MTV and music press). As for the "big" artists? I don't think they should have been earning as much as they were during the heydays of music industry, nor do I feel like helping Mick Jagger or Bono funding a new yach or private jet.
Facebook+Skype Video Calling
Seattle’s Startup Recipe
Yes, but a link to this discussion is showing up on HN, where much of the population is not paid to do so.
That's my prediction. I have a hard time believing it's a coincidence, but I could be wrong of course
A few of us at our office have had beta access for a few weeks, everyone with it (for some reason I got left off the invite list :/) likes it, but the one person I know who also has an rdio account prefers rdio.
Very timely article. I spoke to an entrepreneur couple of weeks ago and his view was that raising VC funding would validate his company and make sure its a viable business. I was surprised to hear that from him, especially when building a successful business should be about 'bootstrapping' and getting paying customers. It should not be about getting validation from 'group thinking'.

VCs have a place in the startup world, but they should only be used if and when needed...
They can easily verify your identity using official ID, even if you don't have it with you. I was chosen for screening when I entered the country after a trip to Mexico, at a border checkpoint in or near Brownsville, and the Border Patrol agent pulled my driver's license info up on his computer. He asked for my driver's license, he typed in the number, and all of the information popped right up on his screen, including the photo.

Assuming you have a driver's license and the TSA has access to the same technology the Border Patrol does, name and address and a five-second search ought to be sufficient. Any extra inconvenience or unpleasantness they inflict on you is probably only intended to make sure you don't make a habit of forgetting your ID.
If there is one thing I've learned about the public, it's that crazy scales superlinearly. I used to work for a people search engine called Spock. We curated hundreds of millions of profiles for people living and dead. We got howling crap for:

Adding the tag "pedophile" to a writer who crusades against the smearing of gays as pedophiles (Ouch. Term extraction fail.).

Adding the picture of Walter Gross, Nazi, to the profile of Walter Gross, journalist. (!!)

Using the tag "Jew" on profiles for people who are (can you guess?) Jewish.

Tagging a woman in (very Catholic) Spain as a priest because her last name was "Pastor". (NLP fail.)

Tagging Jesus as deceased.

Tagging Jesus as not deceased.

...and lots more. Some of these were genuine grievances. Some were driven by people with an axe to grind. In most cases, an honest answer would not have helped matters at all.

The honest answer was "Oops. We're trying the best we can with a very hard problem. We're not trying to piss you off. Your particular case is a rounding error. In some cases we think you are taking it way too seriously. Screaming bloody murder doesn't make it any easier."
Sounds exactly like the thing to submit to http://www.weekendhacker.net/
Difficulty meeting people is a major impediment to hiring anyone who will be part of a team. I don't know any jobs that don't require teamwork and human interaction.

You've gotten over many difficult things in life. This difficulty may require different skills to overcome, but you're probably capable of it. You'll probably find it rewarding.

I did.
That may be true, but it's obvious that recruiting has a problem if it's so hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in their own ranks. It's the same problem with realty and real estate agents.
Elaborate calendar display within Emacs
I always did prefer tulips.
How Tom Sawyer invented Web 2.0
Facebook's 'Awesome' Announcement: Video Calling
As far as I can tell, SU traffic is almost useless. I may get 1,000x as hits from SU, but I derive more value from some hole-in-the-wall site writing about me and sending 20 people.
Physicists: Universe Almost Certainly Not a Hologram
Whats the difference between Spotify and Rhapsody? I've been a subscriber to Rhapsody for years and it's been a terrific experience.
Great - I expect this will actually raise the bar for both groups and make for some great improvements in the social media space. I feel like Facebook has been the IE 4.0 of social media thus far; it soundly beat the early competitors and then has mostly added things I don't want.
Well, I'll be jiggered.
The group (user) consensus on music seems to be that it should be, for the most part, accessible for free, and that live shows are how music is expected to be monetized. That seems like pretty ridiculous and greedy reasoning on the behalf of consumers. You're essentially eliminating one large revenue stream, in hopes that it generates new business in another revenue stream. While labels certainly rake plenty of revenue away from the artists, I think people largely underestimate the amount of money recorded music brings in to musicians, producers, songwriters, etc. Many people who are either not part of the tour, or who cannot tour, are going to be adversely affected by the incorrect idea that the music industry is zero-sum and revenues will just shift accordingly for all. If that were the case, the labels would have been on board a long time ago and 360 deals would be significantly more prevalent than they are.

There are lots of revenues to be lost by reducing, or making free, the cost of recorded music. How much is the Beatles catalog worth (in terms of albums sales, not licensing) and what is the lifetime value of their album sales vs. their touring receipts?
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150223135777131
the gzip bug mentioned did not segfault. it simply corrupted the gzip file in memory. not that selective son.

imma talk the way i talk and dont give a fuck if you like it or not.
Give the music away for free and sell subscriptions like Angels & Airwaves are doing with www.modlife.com
I think that Facebook killed MySpace for one simple reason - tricking people into using their real name made it easy to find real life friends (and classmates, etc). IMO, this is what put it head and shoulders above all the other social networks. Nobody could copy it, because their existing users (the early adopters) had silly names like "wisty".

Existing users already have old habits, and existing data that they don't want to retype. Users aren't code - you can't just refactor them into something new, clean, and shiny.

Google+ users will build their networks afresh, focusing on privacy and groups. They will just maintain two accounts, and use Google+ when they want some level of privacy, and Facebook when they need to announce their wedding to the late adopters.
All source code can be express in plain text, so I guess what you're actually asking is what languages are significantly easier to understand with graphic representation as opposed to textual.

Circuit boards are a good example of this.
John's phone.

my friend has one. after about a year of it, I think he's getting tired of being a technology cripple (he can't text, tweet, fb, or email, which makes him basically unreachable in any multicast/logistics scenario. we have to rely on his gf to tell him everything).

more importantly, his girlfriend is getting tired of it :)
I decide for myself what is useful for me and what is not, thank you very much.
If you get a chance find a shaman and try Ayahuasca!!
I would have just typed in 'jquery.com' and then clicked the link for the download page.
Chinese planning to snatch enough Facebook shares "to matter"...
With the Facebook IPO looming, Chinese state controlled investors show an interest in the company shares. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes?
My take as a former professional classical musician is to say that your idea of PR boosting ticket sales is not valid for (at least most) classical music. That's not to say you're incorrect, just to add a different (hopefully slightly interesting) perspective from another genre with a very different audience.

One reason for this is that classical music is focussed much more on the music than the musician, when compared to "popular music" (what's the best term for non-classical music that doesn't sound patronising?). Sure, Yo-Yo Ma or the London Philharmonic can attract people based on who they are, but even then a lot of decisions to see them or buy their recordings will be based on what they are playing. If you're a Katy Perry fan, chances are slim that you really want to see her live, look up a concert, then say "ah, but I'm not a fan of those songs, I'll give it a miss".

Another reason is probably range of repertoire - again this comes down to caring more about the music, not having the piece tied directly to the person/group who always performs it. If you love Francois Couperin's music, you're going to find it a lot easier to buy recordings than find performances. I suppose the same is true for indie performers, but I think a classical listener is more likely to find a wider range of classical music that's hard to see live than the equivilent situation for indie music.

Probably plenty more reasons too, but not too much off the top of my head. Oh, and demand I guess. A classical music concert will typically either perform once, or perform a short run, or perform a few times in different cities (or countries). That's the case even for the very biggest performers. A big pop performer, on the other hand, can do a much longer tour, and can sell far more tickets for each.

As to recordings, I think classical recordings have a longer shelf life - sure, some people still buy music from the 80s, or whenever, but much less than around when it was released. Whereas classical music, all the music is so dated (not in a negative way, just literally) that who cares if it was recorded a month ago or thirty years ago, if it was originally written centuries ago. On top of that, I suspect classical music listeners are less likely to pirate music. Possibly that's a generic snobbish view, but I think it's accurate.
Find the Github account with the most forks and followers. That's probably the official repository and will link to the official website. They may not use Github of course, but there are other similar methods.

Other good signs are them being linked to from cdnjs, cached-commons or microjs. If I'm looking to solve a javascript itch I'll first browse these sites to see if there is a popular tool.

Also, if you're looking for jQuery then it's because you've read about it online somewhere. Simply go back and follow the links.
If we presume that the TSA wants to maximize actual passenger safety given certain budgetary and passenger annoyance constraints, most of its policies and procedures make little sense. When we add in the goal of making the public perceive that it is increasing safety levels and the resulting "security theater" tactics, they start to appear more rational. Does the general public believe that terrorists can't acquire fake ids and print out boarding passes to match? I suspect the majority of Americans don't think they are more secure because of id checking. So, why does the TSA do it? Perhaps the airlines have requested it as a way of circumventing ticket sharing, exchanges, etc.? Have they enlisted the government as the enforcer of their price discrimination model? When things don't make sense, I always presume there are some facts/circumstances of which I am unaware.
The "true value" of a Bitcoin is zero -- it's just some bits on a computer. In the same way, the "true value" of paper currency is very close to zero -- I guess you could use it for note-taking. The market value of Bitcoin will depend on the demand to own Bitcoin, as opposed to any competing commodity or currency.
Android Could be Vulnerable if HP Licenses WebOS
I'm failing to see the security threat here.
> look at IronRuby

There's now a working implementation of Ruby on Windows. Am i missing something?
Best Books On The Dotcom Crash?
I am reading "The Big Short" which is a great book by Michael Lewis about the subprime mortgage crash and those who bet against it. What are the best books on diagnosing the dotcom crash?
I can't view the talk right now... do you mean its own scripting language or the fact that PostScript is turing complete? Either way you could execute it in a sandboxed environment and be pretty damn confident there won't be any problems.
1 and 2 are true now and it seems they'll remain true for the foreseeable future. There may be bottomless demand in healthcare alone.
Facebook Friend Lists are far more powerful than Google Circles and Facebook Groups are an entirely different beast. At an architectural level Facebook Lists are a core feature. They even had them front and center for a few years as they asked you to populate them by "how do you know this person?" when you added them as a friend. The problem is that no one wanted to use them so they were gradually phased out of the UI.
I'm starting a new magazine about starting startup magazines.
As I said, it's not exactly the same thing, but I was responding more to the notion of the too-common extreme the poster above me seemed to elude to; not necessarily directly in response to your content. Other than perhaps this individual posting of yours, I don't think you're in the same ballpark as the more common and extreme examples I discussed. (I was going to post the URL of the most recent example of this game that we played, but it strikes me as bordering on mean-spirited.)

Also, I'm not sure why you would take particular note of the "whore" part of the phrase "attention whore". One who seeks attention through deliberately meaningless or provocative tactics. Meaningless seems inaccurate, but provocative is appropriate and clearly intentional. And, again, I'm talking more about the pattern in the industry of attention-whoring rather than your specific instance. You know, like someone who has a hundred thousand twitter followers and the first thing you find on google when searching on the name of these "journalists" are bikini photoshoots for men's magazines.
The Pragmatic Bookshelf's Online Magazine for July is the Clojure Issue
Given their social networking dominance, their swimming pools filled with vc money, and the top engineers working for them, does anyone else feel like Facebook are underachievers?

Considering they had to have known about G+ for a while before it launched, you would think they would really hit something out of the park in terms of competitive features. These are all pretty lackluster, imho.
Italian Universities dump database Leaked by LulzStorm
Time will tell, maybe we need a Blaster/Stuxnet like event on smartphones in order to realize what's really going on.

I think you're right. Most people who see what JailbreakMe is doing probably don't understand that you're not supposed to do be able to do that.
How Gojee Threw Away Its Entire Codebase and Got to a Better Product, Faster
A Good Driver is like a Well Designed Website
Great idea. Some nitpicking: your logo looks extremely reminiscent of the National Geographic logo. You might want to give some though to changing that.
I could see a whole range of useful applications for a tool like this. The first thing that comes to mind... stock picks. Looking forward to seeing the outcome of this Obama poll.
Is it me or does Zuckerberg really excel at being boring? I guess I don't watch many CEOs announce new products but that was painfully boring and pedantic.
Zynga Making 4.4 Cents per DAU
30 years ago that headline would have been about as startling as "Man drinks cup of coffee."