skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a journalist who has ben taught to always attribute quotations and sources, I agree with Gruber. Ina's attribution to "an enthusiast site" is disingenuous, like those non-apology apologies that say "I am sorry you felt insulted" instead of "I am sorry I insulted you". His criticism of Fried for referencing the URL instead of the name of the blog is also spot on.

Gruber also is right to make a distinction between writing that pretty much "consume(s) the story", and for that reason requires full attribution, as it will be read by many as a piece of text with no links, and his own teasers that give nothing away but a link to the real story, so attribution is less important.

His "order of preference" listing of how to give attribution is an object lesson in digital journalism. I have forwarded this piece to my friends who teach in J-schools.
I can vouch for Daniel and the above. This could also be done remotely during the first few months.
Eugene, Oregon - fulltime - noremote - H1B applicants welcome

On Time Systems is a small company that specializes in solving large-scale search and optimization problems. We used to be a research lab at the University of Oregon, but we are now more focused on writing software than writing grant proposals. We're currently looking for software engineers to work on Green Driver (a smartphone app that uses real-time data from traffic signals to help drivers find the fastest route (http://imagreendriver.com)) and ACFP (Advanced Computer Flight Planning), the flight planning system used by the US Air Force for routing cargo planes and tankers worldwide.

Although our core IP is in optimization, bringing these solutions to market requires complex client-server applications with challenging network, user interface, and database components. We have code written in Python, Java, C, C++, Objective-C, and other languages. An ideal candidate will have a strong background in algorithms and will be comfortable writing both high-level and low-level code.

Benefits include: medical and disability insurance, 401Ks with matching, sabbaticals, massages, a game room (ping pong, billiards, DDR, etc.), relocation package, pick your own hardware, your own office with a window, tuition reimbursement (including flight school if you work on our flight planning software), exercise equipment and locker room, and his and hers company bikes.

The work environment is friendly, informal, and intellectual.

Send your resume to jobs+hackernews@otsys.com
Easy Target: HP addresses app discovery with webOS Pivot
On being a mad scientist
I think it's great that there more end-to-end JS options emerging. JS is in many ways just as sane and capable to write server-side code as Python, Ruby, or PHP. It is obviously capable client side because it's basically the language that powers Adobe AIR apps. Funny enough, Javascript is about the only common language that every major tech company can get behind.
I realise that it's mandated by law, but... damn that's some refreshing honesty. I feel cleansed just by reading it.
Seattle (or San Francisco) - Product/UX Designer

Picture of Health makes tools that help people take care of their loved ones. We are well-funded, self-funded, pre-launch, and small (4 in Seattle, 2 in SF). This is an opportunity to be in the first wave and help define how we do things.

We're looking for a product designer who will own design for our web and device software products. We're building consumer services, and having the right design will be critical to our success. This person needs to make sure our products are simple, usable, and successful at solving problems for people. We're primarily looking for interaction design skills, but visual design ability and/or front-end prototyping ability would of course be a plus.

The current dev team is me plus three former Hashrocketeers in downtown Seattle. Our stack is Rails; our process is story-based, test-driven, and design-respectful. (We'd love to hear from great developers as well if you're interested -- see http://vurl.me/AZHL)

We'd prefer to keep the dev/design team in Seattle for now, but we could bend this rule for an exceptional person who wants to be in SF.

Misc. company facts: My co-founder used to be CEO of Sun Microsystems. We have competitive salary, equity, and benefits. Our Seattle office is in the South Lake Union area. Dogs are welcome. (More facts on request.)

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Yup. As seen on my calendar: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3118244/2011-07-01_1853.png

Ridiculous.
Form a business in a state that does business with amazon legally. Then do contracting work for said business.

Talk to your lawyer/accountant and make it work. Plenty of people have done this from the start.
They're working on the issue of popular posts getting more or less "pinned" to the top of your stream.

Google Software Engineer Kelly Ellis on the subject...
https://plus.google.com/108159551615224338529/posts/hrCkgmko...
Update: I'd appreciate if anyone thanks me with a dollar for the invite. Email for details :)
What to Do When the Police Want to Search Your Digital Devices
Don't discount yourself for not being "technical enough". A lot of technical people get caught up in the shiny neat-o technology and forget to build a business.

It sounds like you're profitable and have a business so they're nothing to be embarrassed about.
There is a clear difference between Gruber and a "news site" which embeds links.

I follow Gruber on RSS, and 90% of the feed items, clicking on the RSS header takes me directly to the attributed article. No landing page with ads or ability to mis-attribute the target.

Very few other feeds behave this way.
Targeted Attacks 10 Times More Profitable Than Mass Campaigns
Whenever the topic of video chat turns up, I am reminded of an aside in Infinite Jest[0].

> WHY [VIDEOPHONY FAILED]

> The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutshell, is: (1) emotional stress, (2) physical vanity, (3) a certain queer kind of self-obliterating logic in the microeconomics of consumer high-tech.

[0] http://books.google.com/books?id=Nhe2yvx6hP8C&lpg=PP1...
Or everyone gets Apple products.
No, I have no problem with any of that. The author seemed to be proposing that the government should get out completely, and there would be no standards X, Y, and Z.
That does seem simpler, but I guess a 4GB recovery partition on a 64GB SSD would be pretty wasteful.
Law requires changes to policy to be notified, but doesn't require diffs.

Diffs would be very nice, as would some way of tracking those changes over time.

Opportunity for useful service?
To answer questions about stock - most employees won't care. As far as I know - the last time they were planning to go public only the senior executives were issued any options/stock grants. There was no standard practice of issuing stock to 'regular' engineers.

Congrats to Bob Parsons, GoDaddy is pretty much the poster boy for bootstrapping (although Bob was already quite wealthy from a previous business). Apparently many people don't agree with how he ran the business and you are free to have your opinion, but I think most of the controversy at the end of the day was isolated to a few legally pressured decisions (regarding shutting down web sites, such as rate a cop) and a few bad apple executives (buying/selling domains at their own auctions). On the whole, I've been a happy Go Daddy customer for 10 years now and haven't had a single issue.
this feels like it might be fueling the flame war from the below post. Even though I work with Node all day.
It's hard to see which one is highlighted. They need more contrast.
So Google's facebook-beater is a product that appeals only to hardcore geeks and not "yo momma"? I doubt it. Maybe for now, but not for long.

Anyway, if it's that important to dodge your mother online, there's always Orkut.
the big web show

the dev show

the changelog

the pipeline

gitcasts

vimcasts

linux outlaws

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start cooking video

everyday drinkers

tedTALKS
If I worked on static code analysis tools for a living, this would make me cry.
Automatoon.com, an Online HTML5 Animation Tool (we finally launched :-)
The story I've heard to explain this is that it isn't the growth rate so much as the turnover. I have friends who joined Zynga straight out of college (Berkeley) and are looking around for something new a year later, now that they have some vesting in their options. It really doesn't sound like a pleasant place to work -- I was told eighty-hour weeks are the norm.

That said, Groupon has something like 8,000 employees, most of whom were hired in the last two years.
I'm a founder and technical lead- Feel free to ask me any questions!
Cool idea. Time to guess on how the app will work:

-> Download the app.

-> Log in to one or more social networks, or create a contact-profile. Allow anyone who is your friend on a social network or already has your contact to stay up-to-date on changes to your contact information.

-> Check to see if existing contacts also have the app, and if so, then the two can now stay in sync forever! =)

-> Added bonus feature - all phone numbers will be stored with correct international extensions for easy international dialing.
Actually, this arcane styling might make a lot of sense to non-geeks (even mothers!) who used a word processor in the early 1990s.
Some fantasy unicorn of a product that I pulled out of a hat. I mean to say I'd pay $5 a month for something substantial. The product discussed is better suited to being part of a larger suite than sold ala carte for that price.
Sublime Text 2 is not open source and will never be included in Ubuntu or (likely) any other Linux distro. However, I will say that it is one of the very few software packages I have ever purchased. That's saying quite a bit coming from a dyed in the wool GPL guy like myself. :)
Google bid pi billion dollars for Nortel patents (and lost)
Antisec's third attack on Arizona law enforcement
>Feels like it came from humans.

Agreed. This is a hard thing to get right, especially with these kind of 'inhuman' legal/procedural issues.
Google Chrome’s amazing growth spurt. The top web browser by June 2012?
>The fact I have numerous contacts of the same people, each with different details

Why? Can't you simply add all the details in the same contact?
The History of NASA's Space Shuttle [video]
Reasons to Switch from Facebook to Google+
50 Wonderful Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography
Ask HN: Startup records local HDTV, offers online DVR. I forget the name?
And I completely forgot the name. Sorry to turn to HN for something like this, but for the LIFE of me, my Google-fu is failing.

The gist is that you pay them, and they DVR your local over-the-air programming, and let you access it online. The name was very soft-sounding, and not a word. Akin to "Hulu" in that regard.

I first found mention of it here, and now I'm blanking. Anyone recall it offhand?
The EFF diffs some, e.g. http://www.tosback.org/diff.php?vid=1736. That one actually suggests an improvement: You have to strain your eyes to find the difference. In other pairs, the differences stand out better.
Sync is a tremendously difficult problem for contacts
It's always boring when a blogger writes a blog post about his own blog ('Hey guys, been meaning to blog more, but I've been busy with midterms...'). This is basically the same kind of thing, writ large, and also boring.

For my part at least, I know I don't read Daring Fireball every workday in order to read about the minutiae of operating a high-traffic tech blog and the etiquette of attribution and linking.

(I read it for the high-grade industrial snark, of course!)
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I would recommend you get the DMG inside the Lion installer app and put it on some bootable medium (DVD, USB drive, …), that way you don’t have to worry about it.

Here is where you can find it:

Open up the Lion installer app bundle and go to Contents ▸ SharedSupport. InstallESD.dmg is what you want. Copy it somewhere. You can create a bootable install partition with Disk Utility.

I’m also gonna do that, if only to have my peace of mind. I guess I would prefer it if Apple gave us some way to just download the DMG but what they have done is pretty much the next best thing. (The whole installer app is, in fact, only a thin wrapper around the DMG.)
Pokki: Serving the Web like bite-sized candy
DDG has been around for more than a year or two...
Is video chat really popular? Other than for porn and families - sorry for the disturbing examples.

I remember when Yahoo! IM chat had video chat and it was all porn and even then only the really outgoing and pervs seemed to use it. This was in the days of Connectix quick cam "eyeball cam" and it was that was b&w, or at least the first ones were.

For some reason live video hasn't really caught on and even now it's not used that much at least by people I know. Is Facetime or Skype video used much?
In re the Passing of a Skadden Associate
Searching for Professional Significance
Show HN: Facebook Photo Evac
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/msg/37bf75...

has a list - just eyeballing it, it seems like about half of the major javascript apps from google are GWT. (the other half would likely be closure)
The less any one company controls the direction of the Internet, the better off Google is. Firefox fights Internet hegemony just as well as Chrome does.
Highly interested in the position. Email sent.
Sad to say, I read a better article on being a mad scientist today, and it was just reviewing an anime: https://2dteleidoscope.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/the-post-cyb...
Hook.io - A full featured i/o framework for node.js
Imagine if Sun had stayed in the openstep project. You'd have gotten osx in 1996 rather than 2001. and it'd have the lighthouse apps to go with it.

That would have been power.
I have not used Google's hangouts. I'm on Arch Linux, so it'd be some work to do so; I cannot hazard opinions on it, but I was implying that competition is good.

My parents use Skype to talk to my grandparents in Russia weekly; I use it at times as well. I'm grateful for the technology. That said, it's not nearly as seemless (for me) as the phone, even beyond issues of finicky hardware (I'm on Linux, I don't expect much there): phone calls drop, frames stutter or disjoin from the audio, sound might warp, and so on. These are all things that sound like software issues (yeah, my pipe is only so big, but one could degrade more gracefully). I'm just hoping competition can improve things a bit, in a way that giving Skype even more of a stranglehold on the market would not.
Ah, I missed your pesky double negative. Guess I'm back to feeling like a twenty-year-old again. :)

Now, if you ask about the founders' previews venture, Kazaa ...
I-V Tracing: Key to successful solar car raycing
GoDaddy Sold for $2.2bn to private investment firm
Lawyer to Judge: I Swear My Browser Ate My Homework
Very cool. I challenge the overachieving Clojurian to port it to core.logic :D
I still want to see a workweek view (five columns), but with the current day wider so that you can more easily read what is going on. Especially with so many simultaneous events, like the author of the OP has.
For April Fools this year, Blizzard announced the Starcraft II Patch 1.4.11 patch notes and the World of Warcraft Patch 4.1.11 patch notes. I thought that was clever, and a great way to take advantage of a coincidence in the release schedule. In fact, given Blizzard's love of April Fools it wouldn't surprise me if they shifted some patches around in order to set up that joke.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2325614706
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2325684862

However, I don't expect Apple cares at all about this potential coincidence. They certainly wouldn't target a release date around it.
Air Jordan 5 Wolf Grey
Screens are already big enough where it would be nice to run some small things side-by-side. On very large tablets it will be crucial to have "app management" (sort of like window management).

It's not only for usability, but for the software market. Most developers will be stuck at their assumed resolutions for awhile. And initially, no one will want to run an iPhone app at "10x" size, but people would probably be happy if they could at least run 4 iPhone-sized apps on the screen at once.

And this would go a long way toward true multitasking, because a tablet could present the illusion of a large-screen integrated app that is in reality a collection of small utilities from more than one developer. That could make a truly valuable tablet, since at all times you could display exactly what you want to use (e.g. a stupid drawing pad app in one corner, an SSH session in another, heck a VNC session in a 3rd corner and your E-mail in the 4th).
Well the answer is "InvokeDynamic" of course :) FWIW I've heard that term brandied around for 3-4 years at this point, and I still have no idea what it means, and I'm a VM implementer. Personally, my feeling is that implementing a language on the JVM basically involves learning far too much about the JVM internals, and then changing your language significantly to optimize for that. But then, I have a competing horse in the race :)
I'm really glad to see a site, in YC, trying to tackle the problem of contacts. A particular problem I always see is that when people lose their phone, or lose all their numbers, they create groups or events on Facebook and spam their whole friend's list for numbers. Also, if people on my contact list change their number then all of a sudden I no longer have it. (emails, twitter accounts, etc too)

I'm happy for Everyme, but this really serves as more of a reminder to myself to follow my gut instinct. I had been working on my own version of a service that aimed to solve these exact problems that I felt like I had, myself. I had worked on it for about a month and had it working with full-text search on various info fields for each contact. I kind of wanted it to be a Quora (the find/ask a person feature) meets a cloud sync'd contacts service. Time to apply for YC S11 rolled around and I had planned on applying with this site, but at the last minute I switched to a location-based chat website, Geohello, which I posted on here. I spent a brief week or two on Geohello before switching to yet another site, which was a dumb location-based Groupon clone, for your iPhone, called Ayowe. I ended up applying to YC with both Geohello and Ayowe, instead of my contact info website, called Tactifo. Neither of the two sites I applied with got in. (I applied with two because I had a co-founder)

Just goes to show that I should have stuck with my gut and focused on the original site. Anyways, best of luck to Everyme! :)
IANAL. There's absolutely nothing illegal about being a CA-based affiliate of Amazon. Amazon simply doesn't allow it anymore. If you're CA based and you trick Amazon into letting you be an affiliate that might cause problem between you and Amazon.

They might accuse you of fraud and/or of violating their Terms of Service or something. Most likely they'd kick you out of the program and possibly go after the money you earned.

You would not be in violation of any state of federal tax laws. The new laws only apply to stores themselves.

My guess is that it would be legal to setup an out of state LLC that was owned by your CA C-Corp/individual and let that company be the affiliate. Again, worst case is you violated your agreement with Amazon, not any tax laws.
"The evidence that Google+ wasn't ready to be a Facebook killer is that it is invitation only."

Google knows the best way to release a product - especially one in unfamiliar territory like the social space - is not to flip a giant switch and hope that when the whole world starts using it, nothing goes wrong. For one, the scalability issues when you're Google are enormous: they know they'll have tens of millions of 7-day users the first 7 days. You don't want to screw that up. That doesn't even touch on product design.
How would you check the nonce? All your server gets is a black box hash.
omnigraffle
hook.io is very interesting to me. The idea of being able to easily have a lot of nodes communicating to each other over any device seems like where node.js should be going.

I've been watching the progress of this project for a while now. The codebase and Hook APIs are a bit immature ( and still in flux ), but I have high hopes for this project's future and the Evented Web in general.
As much as this phrase is a cliché on the internet, I believe it is entirely justified in this case: well played.

More seriously, I think the fact that the person high up enough to lay three billion dollars on the table was also the kind of person who knows about Meissel–Mertens constant says a lot about google's structure. Either that or the whole thing was a whimsical piece of obtuse preplanned PR, which still says a lot.
Ask HN: Suggestions for people to "follow" on Google+?
Hi - anyone have suggestions for people to add to our "following" circle on Google+? Anyone notable posting there?
Games in Google+?
FTA:

I also have a mad science project, Meta-Modular. Meta-Modular is based on the idea that version numbers are wrong, and are not the way your dependencies should be specified. Instead, you should declare your dependencies by specifying what tests a dependency should pass.

That's crazy enough it just might work. In the degenerate/transitional case, the test a dependency must pass is a version-number check, but over time that could be replaced with functional tests, and dependency-by-contract.
seriously cool, I'll have to give it a try!
a good litmus test: if nobody would read your article without a sensationalist title, maybe you shouldn't write the article.
I agree. At least on the Mac client, there's already an "Advanced" preference pane. Why not create an option there for the user to manage their own encryption key, and possibly what folders it applies to? (For example, they could exempt shared and public folders but encrypt everything else.)
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RIM forgot it's target market. Their ads are showing too many teens/family - gotta focus on their business market, and be the best at that.
LucidChart (http://www.lucidchart.com)

I love being able to use it anywhere, and they just updated it to work on the iPad which is nice. It's got a few issues to iron out, nothing that's kept me from getting things done, and I like supporting these guys.
I'm fairly sure that the percentages in the second chart add up to about 110...
Firefox greener than chromium
Should have gone with Tau
I think a "geek" and a "non geek" view privacy differently

a geek is concerned with their privacy in regards to how a company uses their data, they want it stored in a secure way, deleted when they tell them to etc.

a non technical person is concerned with privacy in regards to who else can run across their data, they want to know that content they intend to be private isn't accessible to the general public.
anywhere - any level of commitment : discopedia

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