skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really liked Hulu when it was two or three ads per episode. Now I get two ads at a time, and a 30 minute episode of The Simpsons contains 4-5 ad breaks. It bothers me more than just watching it on TV.

Edit: The House episode I'm watching has 6 ad breaks, each of those have 1 or 2 ads.
But unless you've got evidence that we've started to 'turn the other corner', doesn't your graph suggest that the level of technology is going to increase by the same factor as it did since the (say) 1950s?

And even then, maybe the AI level of technology is below the level to which we might be tending towards?
Seriously though, you should come work for Adzerk

No, if you're in the Durham area, you should come co-found Fogbeam Labs with me! ;-)
use chrome extensions ghostery and widget block
only us map? come on!
Yes. It is the dirty not-so-secret that convinced me not to go into them. It is also true of nearly all "Free 2 Play" games, including ones off FB.
We're hiring for two teams at our office in SF:

TwitchTV: We're looking for engineers excited about building the future of gaming video and competitive esports. We have the largest platform for gaming video on the web and are rapidly growing in a new and exciting space. Read more here http://www.justin.tv/jobs/jobs

Socialcam: We're building apps that make it fast, easy and fun for everyday users to share video from their iPhone or Android. We think smartphones will displace all other devices as the dominant form of media creation, and Socialcam will be the app people use to create that video. Read more here: http://socialcam.com/jobs
Does Office for Mac not count?
Emeryville, CA (super short/BART ride from SF--No remotes)

Location Labs (http://www.locationlabs.com/jobs.php)

* Back-end devs (Python, Java, Ruby)
* Front-end devs (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5)
* Mobile devs (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, BREW)
* UX gurus (usability, designers, tech writers)

Company is growing very rapidly in an incredibly exciting space--heavy focus in mobile personal security.
Sorry, but the Android app market is practically insignificant compared to iOS.
Am I the only one that thought the screenshots looked almost identical? Reading the article led you to believe it was like stepping back into the 90's when in reality it looks like he just needs to turn off some calendar views since everything is repeated 4 or 5 times and looks like a mess. I'm all for dissension but angry tirades with no substance and all opinion is not something I'd come to expect to be on HN front page...
That's certainly not your normal startup fare. Where's the ramen or pizza?
Hear, hear! My mom single-handedly started her own local ISP back in the mid-90s, days of Mosaic. I was the lucky teenager with a T1 in the basement...You know how you have a swimming pool and people would stop by as they were 'in the neighborhood' and their bathing suits are conveniently under their clothes? People would stop by and just happen to have a Jaz disk (remember those?!?) in their purses. Yes, their purses! Ladies like to download giant files through a big pipe, too, and were doing plenty of it in the 90s.

She still runs her own network and servers and is known to curse politely about DNS, among her other 15 jobs in tech (she's a consultant, she works too much).

But I shouldn't have to mention any of this, that a woman excels technically and makes her living with computers is not exceptional, it's not a surprise, and she's not an anomaly (although, my Mom is exceptional, of course!).

Why is it that most of us work closely with women of all ages in a technical capacity every day in the real world, and yet we keep writing stuff like, "So easy your Mom could do it?" It's like we somehow forget how we've spent 3500 hours of our lives.

We could possibly say, instead, "Why your Grandma and Grandpa might like Google+," but that may not apply, either. My Grandma's been on Facebook for ages; she was a big AIM user, too, back in the late '90s, early '00s. But one thing is true - I'll play around with Google+, but I likely won't spend a lot of time on it until my Grandma's on it... :)
Just to pick on one piece of your argument : the difference between 1 sense organ and 5 is only a 5-fold increase. Even worst case it's like a 25-fold increase (network effect, etc). But a 25-fold increase should take less than a decade - as demonstrated by the power of the processor in your phone...

But I'll definitely agree that true AI is a difficult target to aim at, since AFAIK no-one knows what the important magical bit of intelligence is.
A lot of their growth is through acquisitions, so it's a little bit less crazy (the teams are intact and probably worked together for a bit before), but still crazy.
I wonder if all the Go Daddy employees with stock are fully vested; or maybe this will be Skype vs. Silver Lake, Round II.
Flipkart.com, Bangalore

In a nutshell, this is what we are currently working towards: US : Amazon.com :: India : Flipkart.com

http://www.flipkart.com/s/careers/tech
The Google+ Project - Content Policy
Why Is Zynga Rushing Towards Its IPO?
Chapel Hill / Research Triangle Park, NC

Fogbeam Labs

Seeking technical and/or non-technical co-founder(s).

At Fogbeam Labs, we like to think of ourselves as "The Next Great Open Source Software Company." We're building awesome information retrieval and knowledge management systems (all open-source, ALv2) using Groovy, Grails, Scala, Java, and many existing open-source tools and libraries: Lucene, Solr, Mahout, UIMA, OpenNLP, Jena, Droids, Roller, Camel, etc.

If you have a passion for open-source software, and are particularly interested in information retrieval, machine-learning, AI, and want to be part of a company that's pursuing a proven business model (selling software to other businesses, for, like, actual money), and want to get in early and become an actual co-founder (with a corresponding equity stake), ping me.

NOTE: Not funded yet, and the current founder (mindcrime) is still working a day job, so another co-founder would not be expected to commit any more than I am... So, basically, 20-30 hours a week (including weekends) until we reach a point where we can pay salaries. Yeah, we're talking about being a founder here, not an employee.

2nd NOTE: This is not just a pipe-dream or a hobby project, despite the day-job thing. I've just had an excellent customer discovery interview with a very large and well-known bank headquartered here in NC, and they were very responsive to what we're working on. This and the Customer Discovery we've been doing the past few months strongly suggests that there is real demand for the kind of stuff we'll be doing; and Red Hat (if not others) have proven the open source model. See, for reference:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-23/red-hat-sales-to-tr...

fogbeam (at) gmail (dot) com
hugo.peixoto
Mac OS X is based on BSD, not Linux.
I'm surprised at how straightforward this policy is. It's written in layman's terms, rather than legalese.

E.g.,
“Your Profile Picture cannot include mature or offensive content. For example, do not use a photo that is a close-up of a person’s buttocks or cleavage.”
If they're great at making money, they're great at making money, and they'll do a good job of overcoming roadblocks, especially those they see coming
Did you email them? I've had mine screwed up and they fixed and overnighted it to me no problem. =/
Alexa suggests otherwise: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tinychat.com# US traffic rank is >1400
Reminds me of something I once read that said "You can't make code run faster, you can only make it do fewer things"
"The same lesson is learned either way."

Not at all. Learning how to find the solutions to a problem is very different from learning the solution to your specific issue. I'm not saying its always worth your time, but there is a different lesson learned when you find the solution yourself.
I'm really tired of subjective words like "beautiful" in the title. What makes this particularly beautiful? It's a fake wood-grain background with a few buttons and randomly-indented gravitars.

Let's try and stay away from ad copy for showing off our projects on HN. "I made this" is enough reason to click the link.
And when the AI designs a machine that is superior to it, and superior to anything that man has designed - then what? Or are you suggesting that humans are 'by definition' the only beings that can be said to have created something?

The AI (or its progeny) might disagree - and be able to argue pretty convincingly... After all, somewhere down the line they'll be much smarter than any human.

Or are you also arguing that human intelligence is some kind of asymptotic limit? Tell that to a kid that's smarter than its parents, or teachers.
The Highest (and Lowest) Paid White House Employees
I'm not sure what that has to do with... anything?
Knewton. Engineers!! Kickass offices in Union Square. Company that's doing good in this world, working to revolutionize education.

jobs (at) knewton (dot) com
Why can't Californians lie about where they live to Amazon?
What's legally keeping us from giving Amazon a Nevada PO Box number and filing a Nevada tax return on just what we earn through the Amazon Affiliate program?
Rhino is About to Get a Lot Faster
Depends on what contracts they've signed, what their termination clauses are, and when they expire.

Most likely, the networks do have contracts such that they can jump ship at will.
Thinking about what a modern, compile-to-js Lisp might look like.
Right now I'm just brainstorming and don't really have any intention to implement it myself. I'd love any feedback.
Palo Alt0, CA (full-time): Pulse News

We make a news reading application for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets. We're at 4M users and just raised our Series A financing. We're hiring on our iOS, Android, Web, Backend & Business Development teams. For more about us and who we're looking for, see our hiring page: http://www.pulse.me/jobs/#/working-at-pulse

Feel free to shoot me an email at cc[at]alphonsolabs[dot]com if you have any questions about the positions or want to join us!
Looking for a good designer (one time gig)
Hi HN, we're looking for a designer to work part time with us for a few thousand bucks over the next month. If you're interested, please email lmsthrowaway@gmail.com

Thanks!
congrats david!
Talking to Teddy Bears
I agree. I would venture that a huge percentage of people don't use more than once calendar. However, if that is true, they re-design didn't solve the problem because its not as if they used the space more efficiently.
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And note if you already have this hash you can use it to login directly anyway as most Windows network protocols take this hash directly. The real important thing IMO is NTLM challenge/responses based on the hash, which unfortunately is not much better. In case of NTLMv1/MS-CHAP it is three 56-bit DES operations on separate parts of the 128-bit hash (the third being only 2^16 so it is easy to precompute, as shown by asleap). NTLMv2's HMAC-MD5 is fast too.
Don't wait for that time, enjoy it! After all it might be a few steps ahead.
I'd just like to see a little better documentation on this in the Backbone docs. The documentation you currently have says I'll need to alter the backend, but it's not exactly clear what the changes to the backend would need to be. Do I need to implement /new and /edit on my server to make Backbone's pushSate work, or do I need them implemented to provide for a graceful fallback? It's a little confusing as written so I had to just code something up to see what happened.
Even if your parents did get on Google+ you'll put them on a different circle from your college friends. Problem solved.

That's the brilliance of GPlus
Almost all my friends on G+ who got invites are in some sort of techie scene, the ratio is pretty normal in this area.

This talk is not useful until it is open for everyone.
Not sure if this is an appropriate place to ask, but here it is anyway. If anyone has an invite, please send me one. I really dislike Facebook and want to give this a whirl.
I joined youDevise in May in Boston, and have enjoyed it thus far. I'll be happy to answer any questions - contact info in my profile.
I've only seen 2 part time jobs here. Are part time positions that uncommon? I'd be interested working for some of these people, but I have another job.
Ask HN: What do you guys use for wireframing?
I want to draw out some ideas I have, but I'd prefer to do so without paying if possible.
Ruby Kickstart: free course with videos, quizzes, & challenges
Agreed, but an important part of the article was that even public salted md5 passwords are ineffective.
Read job descriptions, tons of them, go for positions that excite you, then after working a job for a year or two, rinse and repeat.
Unix v6 on a PDP 11 emulated in your Web browser
Why is my comment making everyone feel old or young or whatever it is? All I said is that teenagers have probably heard of Skype, what's the fuss?
It's much clearer, but I'm a bit confused - does "Stay in the loop without having to share an email address" explain what your app will do, or is it just your way of saying "hey, follow us on Twitter"? I'm expecting that sentence to be your service's pitch.
Just another instance of my computer working for anyone other than me.

They're right, it is a Post-PC era.

It's not a personal computer, it's anybodys computer handing over control to anyone and everyone and hiding or removing it from me.

I don't have a witty name for the Era yet.
tax fraud
"1.) Encryption keys" .. "would either be impossible or would be much more cumbersome for users without this capability."

Then make it optional and disable these services for people opt-in for managing their own private keys.
I'm sure they are doing usability testing on it and so your opinions that it is "bad" are really useless unless you have access to the same usability data
There were probably originally 10,000,000 or 100 million shares authorized. That would have been split several times before IPO.
How to schedule a Facebook status to be published at a future time
It's looks like VMWare might be a good place.

A few others: http://getvouched.com/jobs?term=&terms=%2C6d81ef86-fe56-...
How will it "magically" update a contacts information if that contact is not also a user of the service? Also, will you be able to change a contact's name or will it only be what their "profile" is? (ie. changing "John Smith" to "John Smith YC09") Otherwise sounds amazing.
Thanks for the tip. How does this look to you?

https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/commit/3a56d366865...
That list was actually not a bad read. I did love that he was selling a print of it. That seems like something that is very Godaddyish.

Also, "We aren't here for a long time, but we are here for a good time" has been one of my favorite quotes for awhile. Always makes me laugh.
Assuming you're not personal friends with pg, the "friend score" between you and pg should be low. This shouldn't be an "interest score," since presumably the goal is that Google+ users would establish strong 2-way relationships.
San Francisco, CA

Midokura

Join a small pre-series A company to develop disruptive networking technologies. We're a multi-national team on three continents. Help us build out our SF office.

We're looking for Front-end engineers, and Senior Engineers (backend).

http://midokura.com/careers.html

Hit me up if you have any questions or comments: adam@midokura.com
How to See Sydney on the Parramatta River Cat
In this particular case, while I happen to be biased and agree that it's beautiful, I think that it's added as a differentiator between something else.

If I'm looking for a lightweight Javascript framework for mobile platforms, then I really hope to see descriptors like 'small' and 'fast' in their descriptions.

In this case, I'd suggest that aesthetics are a feature, and certainly appropriate for the post.
That is what I meant by this post. This is a widget I would like the embed without having to think about it.
So what? Do I incorporate in Nevada? I can't believe there's no way around this.
Does your site dogfood? I don't see a widget, I want to use it - not watch a video about it.
/me rolls eyes

As didactic as that comment was, I suppose I could have said grandpa. I did use grandma, however, because I don't personally have any grandpas on my facebook, and in my own experience (and evidenced from this link) there are many more grandmas than grandpas on facebook:

http://www.kenburbary.com/2011/03/facebook-demographics-revi...

Even then, however, I disagree that saying "grandma" in such a context is really that damaging. Maybe there's some point to this, but it seems unnecessarily politically correct to me.
The Adverse Selection of Free
‪A clever device that helps people who stutter
I have to say I didn't enjoy it. The pops on the side are pointless and annoying and the ad placement on the side just helps show how poor the flow of the page is setup. The next arrow on the side feels like it was just tacked on like a sticker on some random stall. Comments themselves have some weird padding between the headshot and the text etc... Maybe some people like it but it's not how I would have done it.
WikiLeaks to sue Visa and MasterCard for financial blockade
Really?

If a million dollars is the target, just going through YC should do it for them. An acqui-hire deal generally nets more than $1M per founder.

If you'd like an example of how this can be at least a $150M business, check http://www.crunchbase.com/company/plaxo
Why the throwaway account? I think it repels good responses. I used to respond to such posts before, and quite often after some back and forths, and after the author has a better understanding of his needs at my time/effort/expense, they just disappear.

So i would advise newbie freelancers to ask for a more legitimate contact method and do needful research, like find the person on linkedin, twitter before putting in any effort.
10+ Free Resources for Learning Clojure
Did this startup started as a pain to validate all that by hand working for a security company?
Advanced terminal commands?
I'm looking to write an article called "An Advanced Terminal Guide" and would like to know what you all think some good candidates would be?
Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine?
Follow means "subscribe to our feed", Like means "subscribe and upvote", +1 just means "upvote". Google's had similar verbs in terms of interface (stars/bookmarks, SearchWiki voting, likes, etc.), but they weren't public. The SearchWiki announcement emphasized, "The changes you make only affect your own searches." [0]

reddit, HN, and StackOverflow have only scratched the surface of can be done with upvoting. I would very much like to see Google add a prominent "+ Average", like HN's comment score average. As we've seen here on HN, focusing on total upvotes (i.e. the now hidden Leaderboard) seems to encourage quantity of comments, while displaying one's average may encourage quality. Facebook and Twitter are clearly optimized for quantity; the best hope for Google+, hopelessly behind in terms of sheer content, may be to push users to generate/share more interesting content, rather than more.

[0] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...
Or you can use other products if you don't like their decisions.
They mention work on getting things inlined and generally making calls faster but the article is surprisingly free of any real information on what they are actually doing.

Try this, try that, [laundry list of VM techniques]. we'll make it faster somehow. Just wait!

(snooze)

I do find Charlie's jab at end-to-end JS apps amusing though. It's the kind of comment I'd expect flame wars to emerge from on most forums.
What's this in reference to?
>..I don’t really know how Apple should do it differently.

My preference would be to just stuff the other 3GB on the recovery partition.
If you look in the footnotes, it includes the shares his fund, Foundry, owns.
Ask HN: My Birthday's Tomorrow, I Need Book Recommendations
So, tomorrow I turn 20. My mom has been hounding me for gift ideas. I never ask for anything for my birthday, but for some reason she's particularly adamant this year.

I am a voracious reader, so I figured I'd just give her a list of books I'm interested in reading, so that she can go through 'em and buy whichever ones she pleases.

That being said, I'm turning to the smart and savvy users of HN for book recommendations. Lately, I've been on a non-fiction kick. I've been particularly interested in the biographies of the founders of major tech start-ups, or the history of how they got started. Broadly, however, I'm interested in stories about tech entrepreneurs (disruptive entrepreneurs, contrarian entrepreneurs) or the tech empires they've made.

I've also decided to start learning how to code in PHP. So, any good books on PHP are also recommended.

However, your recommendations don't have to be confined to those interests. If you read a book and were particularly floored by it, put it in your list!
I came to know of SETL much later in the (short) line of languages that I learned. What struck me immediately about SETL was that despite its age(quite ancient really) it has such an awesome modern feel to it. You can literally feel echoes of Python in everything.If I remember correctly Guido was influenced quite heavily by SETL when he was developing Python.

SETL I think originally lacked lambda but GnuSETL and SETL2 has it. This just an off the cuff recollection so I could be wrong.

While I am at it, could anyone archive/mirror Jacob Schwarz's Programming in SETL please. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
It's entirely fair, as these are the best options present on these two top mobile OS.

Since there is no idea if Apple will hold up the Google+ app like they did with Google Voice app, a side-by-side comparison of apps may never occur.
Indianapolis IN (full time, local)
Courseload http://courseload.com

We are a funded startup seeking our third software engineer. We deliver e-textbooks and digital course materials with the goal of reducing costs to students and improving educational outcomes.

We're ~80% front-end (JavaScript) and ~20% back-end (Python). We use fun tools like CoffeeScript, Mongo and Solr. We don't support IE<9. We iterate quickly and release often, and have a strong devops mentality.

We're looking for a professional with strong front-end skills, attention to detail, and the proven ability to ship. If you think you can help improve the educational experience for students and instructors then let's talk. matt @ courseload.com
Where are the 17 inch tablets??
Touch devices seem to be simillarly impaired. Seems like someone was being a little to clever.
UI expert needed for Social network and discovery site for music
Small team building a social network for music management and distribution (think IMDB meets facebook for songs). We have two backend engineers and a business major, and are looking for a forth technical co-founder (frontend) with experience creating sexy websites. We're working out of our dorm rooms, and understand that sometimes school work needs to take priority. If you're interested, please pop us an email at: sadhikab@berkeley.edu
Any jobs in Karlsruhe, Germany? I'm sure there are --- the question is, why aren't they reading Hacker News? Someone in Karlsruhe poke your entrepreneurial friends to post their jobs here.