skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Job Post Plagarism?
"We're building an engineering team that can produce what teams 10 times our size can do. We love what we're building. We talk about product daily and how we can enrich the experience of our users further. We love working on challenging problems and working with smart engineers that can help us grow individually too. Most of all, we value engineering."

1. http://www.airbnb.com/jobs/position?jvi=ofVOVfwD

2. http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/9169

3. http://startupers.com/jobs/mashape/8157/designerengineer-frontend

4. http://psu.getoneschool.com/backend.html

5. http://information-technology.thingamajob.com/jobs/California/Operations-and-Support-Specialist/2326910

In other news, I'm looking for a job.
Is a privacy economy on the horizon?
The problem with SVG was that it wasn't really designed as much as it was dreamed. And it was also dreamed up in the middle of the whole "all data must be shoe-horned into XML" collective nightmare, which makes it less than ideal as a scene graph.

It was also abandoned as soon as Adobe acquired Macromedia, and thus Flash, meaning that there was no longer any reason for Adobe to push for a Flash alternative. There have never really been any good implementations, and it seems as though the spec wasn't written by anybody who'd have to eventually write an implementation.
Everything to do with http://beerhallsofmunich.com/ is squatting. It could be a case study. Incidentally, I bought that to test a system and I will happily transfer it for free to anyone willing to blog/sell teeshirts/whatever about beerhalls in Muenchen.

(oh and the ads are default provided by the registrar - please don't click on them!)
Zed thank you, someone posted a link to your site last night and I think it is very right for me. I will use it.

As per the Windows vs Linux debate - I have found most physics labs use either various Linux distros (Red Hat is super popular) or OSX. I myself have a MacBook Pro running OSX and so I just downloaded and will be using TextWranger as an editor to complete the lessons.
There goes the arc forum search, until, maybe, we get our version of HNsearch.
"Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours."

The last part is awkwardly worded. It suggests the author may short the stock in 3 days. Not that it's possible on a public market, as Groupon hasn't IPO'd yet.

Is the 72 hour part standard disclosure? Not having a position in companies you write about is expected (unless you're Arrington).
I was interested a while back in finding short (5 or 6 letter) .com domains still available. Wrote a little script to do a bulk check at Godaddy.

There are a few variables you can alter in my script:

- pre: any text BEFORE the consonant-vowel-consonant string

- suf: any text AFTER the string

- ext: the domain name extension (defaults to .com if left blank)

- max: the maximum number of domain name results (starting at a random character)

Since GoDaddy limits the bulk check to 500, the quickest way to do a domain check is to run the script setting the max at 500, then just copy and paste the result in the bulk domain lookup.

Couple different examples:

http://tonycappaert.com/projects/domaingen.php?suf=it&ma...

http://tonycappaert.com/projects/domaingen.php?pre=go&su...

Paste the result in the Godaddy bulk check at http://www.godaddy.com/domains/searchbulk.aspx
A Tale Of Two iPhones
Apple's Final Cut Pro X alienates Final Cut Pro users.
Is he really named "Cockburn" ? geez... Maybe this is why he is out of his mind: it hurts.
Turn it into free software! It would be invaluable to the community and you would get a hell of a reputation for it I think, especially from hackernews users.
There are always new approaches and methods to find them.
I used to work in a spectrum research lab (http://www.ctvr.ie/). I didn't get the impression the auctioning was working all that well.
I've used this larger (3' x 5') one for over a year, usually with shoes but more recently in socks, and it's been great. It looks like the one in first picture but gray and only slightly glossy. Recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E6CURU
So the IPO would end up functioning as a wealth transfer mechanism?
KPN is now one of many ISPs in Holland. They were the former telco monopoly (think AT&T), and as such they still own a large share of the physical infrastructure.

They are also one of several Wireless providers in the country (along side T-Mobile, Vodafone, etc). Seeing this as the future they completely reshaped their business model behind 'mobile'. Trouble is, they based it all on the continued growth of SMS, talk-time minutes, and international calling (NL is small) with 'internet' as a cheap add-on. Oops.

WhatsApp and other chat programs are swiftly murdering SMS on mobiles here, and Skype and other VoIP usage is also picking up. KPN wanted to stop the bleeding by imposing a tax on these apps and accidentally leaked their Deep-Packet-Inspection plans. Other mobile providers admitted they also had similar plans.

The DPI plans probably would have failed in the long run anyway (SSL/VPN), but thankfully NL got a net neutrality law out of the whole fiasco.
Perhaps this is naive (and you may be doing it already), but do you provide different "QoS" for your paid/free users? Have 2 addresses/contact forms with specific promised return times?
I couldn't tell you directly, but it's the same format that the ExtJS docs themselves are in. I would guess that the ExtJS has some kind of documentation tool for this sort of thing.
I'm definitely torn on bootstrapping with consulting. On one hand, it's good to have money coming in until you can take your project full-time. On the other hand, it's really hard to focus on your project when you're at the mercy of clients.

Do any of you have any stories you can share about successes/failures in this area?
That you used GCC is irrelevant; other compilers would give pretty much the same result. GCC is not required by the program by any means. Nothing of GCC is part of the program itself due to the -nostartfiles flag. The program doesn't use GCC, you (the software developer) do :-)

For sake of example, consider Linux (the kernel); usually compiled with GCC -- but ICC works as well -- and distributed under GPL, yet is not part of GNU project.

Moreover, the program in question can be ran directly on bare Linux, with no GNU stuff present anywhere, if passed via `init=PATH_TO_THE_PROGRAM' boot param. Of course the kernel would panic right after the syscall(__NR_exit, 0)... so I'm bailing out of nitpick mode right now ;-)
It looks good, big improvement.

But how these elements respond is just as important as how they look. For example I hope the six main buttons give a nice depressed feel when touched, and not a crappy blue highlight.

Two things I feel are problems -

1) The settings icon at the top-right is too much towards being part of the surrounding image and not enough of a touch-target.

2) Both bump images suggest that you just hold the phones next to each other and they wirelessly communicate. There's no feeling of the movement or motion needed to start that process.
How long has it existed? How did I miss this?
Yes, that makes more sense. I will try something with host in it.
Feel free to contact me at chris@brixmark.com
How Capitalist is America?
This does effectively block the EU from going in the complete opposite direction (as in: explicitly granting ISP's the right to discriminate internet-traffic). It would mean invalidating Dutch net-neutrality law, which is politically virtually unthinkable.

This may not be a guarantee of future net-neutrality in the EU, but it is not insignificant. It for instance means that a backdoor approach like Googles deal-with-the-devil "net-neutrality" proposal (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/google-verizon-netneutr...) is something that is now very unlikely to happen on an EU-wide level.
Getting Past 'The Game' or Why we don't measure Influence
ShowHN: kindle notes as a Google calendar entries
sometimes you must do evil

Err, not when lots of people died fighting for those liberties, allowing you to prove someone wrong on the Internet from the comfort of your home.

Let's be honest here - 2000 people or so died in the 9/11 attacks. It's a great tragedy. But you know what's even a greater tragedy? That hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. die of heart disease each year and military spendings in your country is six times the health care budget.

When watching the news on Obama's death, seeing people dancing in the streets out of joy, I found myself thinking - look at those morons, they are happy that they've made a martyr out of an otherwise toothless old dog.

The 9/11 attacks did far more damage than those deaths.
wow that's an awesome find, good eye. that's just hilarious.
How China's Public Officials Stole $120 Billion and Fled
Can this idea ("hot fusion") be energy's holy grail?
I've been wanting to install an adjustable height desk at home to do just this. The problem is I can't find one for less than $600-800. I'm comfortable putting something together myself, but am not sure where to start. I'm open to any suggestions that would get me to a large sit/stand adjustable desk in the $200-400 range.
we did this at Visto corp a few years back. we wrote our own UDP based protocol that acknowledged every packet. it worked really well in horrible network conditions and was incredibly slow everywhere else. roughly speaking it was a bit like "TCP with no sliding window" and we had trouble w/proxies in the carrier networks. this was pre-3G.
With all these articles, I got large doses of Groupon S-1 wisdom from HN.

I recently had lunch with an ex-colleague who invariably dropped the idea of building a coupon site together. Everyone is doing so well, we could do even a smaller scale operation and do well.

I was surprised that my friend who is quite a bit into affiliate marketing, internet businesses is not even aware of anything wrong with Groupon. He thought they were a slam dunk investment.

Moral: There are lot more people who are not aware of the pitfalls and probably be hungry for the shares once Groupon goes public.
Any specific criticisms of SVG's design (or references to such), besides being built on top of XML (which is unfortunate, I agree)?

Also, what's wrong with the mainstream SVG implementations, like in WebKit and Gecko?
New Cross Platform Open Source Computer Vision Library
Yeah, I ran into the same thing. There was no way to force it to no longer be valid, even creating a new forgot PW request left the old link active.
You should never expect that the person has no position on what he's writing. It may be expected of journalists, but by explicitly stating it the author has provided a lot of clarity.

I assume the 72 hours is simply to give a boundary to statement
gTLD prices do go up yearly (7% for .com).

Who captures this extra money for doing nothing? VeriSign just gets this added to their bottom line with no competition in the contract. Is that fair? The fact is, the cost to provide this service is very low and going down, but prices are increasing. There will be economic surplus somewhere, the question is whether it's supply or demand side. I think demand side is far more appropriate. It also allows everyone access to the domain name system. $200 may seem like nothing to you, but in other countries that can be a lot of money. There isn't a shortage of domain names by any means, why create a higher barrier and who does it really benefit?
Asperger's: The New Insanity Defense for Hacking?
Just like rounds D-G!
"Patriot Act" lol, what a joke.
Another fun one is that if your file doesn't end in a newline, cron will silently ignore the last line! Lost a couple days of production data at my last job due to that "feature".
I fear the real issue is inaction, not position.
E-Reader ownership surges since last November
I generally find that being healthy in certain ways makes me enjoy the time I have more. Sugar or refined carbohydrates makes me tired and lethargic -- I never knew how much energy I could have until I gave them up. Standing at my Series 7 desk instead of sitting also gives me more energy, keeps me more focused, keeps me in better positions that reduce carpal tunnel, and I think helps me sleep better.

I do eat saturated fat, however, but I'm not convinced after reading Taubes's "Good Calories, Bad Calories" that it is unhealthy for me. So, I eat my vegetables sauteed in lard, bacon fat, or duck fat. It tastes great, and I wouldn't want to give them up for a chocolate bar.

Nobody should make health a top value above everything else, and I know some do -- health is a means to your life and I would sacrifice some of my health if it meant more enjoyment. But in most cases, I find better health means not just longevity, but enjoying the time I actually do have.
in India iphone 4 and iphone 3GS are available on shelf right now, 3GS has been priced such that it will affect nokia and samsung smartphone sales.
The Mona Raster, made with Paper.js

http://d.pr/Oa4n

[EDIT] Slightly sharper eyes.
Go Daddy and the Power of Uncloudy Infrastructure
Regarding consulting work: arrange your relationship clearly from day one. If you're doing 15 hours of work a week, then make sure you are working only M,Tu,W (or some combination thereof). It's a lot easier to be able to turn off your consulting work the other days of the week and focus on your own work rather than spending time throughout the day switching gears between multiple projects.
Actually, the domain market I would say is on the decline as PPC which has been fueling it for many years is spiraling down the drain. That business model will erode and become less and less profitable over time. As that happens, I suspect more domains will cross the margin of profitability and be dropped back into availability. It won't happen overnight or instantly, and the best stuff will not become available, but things at the margins will. I think some registries already manipulate renewal/registration costs to make sure there isn't a decline.
10 marketing lessons for tech startups
What people don't realize is that Perl means something. (And it doesn't mean specifically Perl 5.) I'd wager nobody advocating silly name changes (for either 5 or 6) had been writing Perl 10 years ago. In short: it's a marketing lie, and a poor one at that.

For the sake of (spiteful) example I submit Perl 4 should be now known as Perl, and Perl 5 should deal with succession syndrome. Oh but Perl 6 is disruptive and confusing because it's so different you might complain, adding that 5 wasn't so different from 4. You wouldn't have dealt with the frustratingly subtle differences between Perl 4 and Perl 5 then. Or reams of Perl 5 documentation written as Perl 4 code with errata.
One more reason why you shouldn't base your entire business on Twitter or Facebook. They have the power to shut you down in a second.
With a wee bit of armchair sleuthing it looks like Airbnb is the original poster. Clearly, you probably want to stay away from those other guys
Mobile also means "As in it's carried around as well as used in cars". It's a term for smartphone. They're using modern parlance to talk about smartphones, not radio parlance.
Spammers push cloned apps on Android Market
You need to look harder.
I've got a buddy who is a paid writer for AOL/HuffPost, and he writes great, originally researched articles. I was really sad to see recently through his author feed that he's now also churning out their signature content-less keyword articles and brief summaries that link to full blog posts on other sites. At least they're uncredited, but sad to see a good writer sell out like that.
It's considered in bad taste to comment that you upvoted; it's not particularly relevant. Please read the guidelines, and welcome to Hacker News: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How about the old standby: "Build something people want."
It's funny to me that we think nothing of stopping at the gas station and buying a diet coke for two bucks... But when we need to decide between healthy food and crap food all of the sudden that two dollars means so much. Oh How well we have been conditioned by advertising.
My point was, the research money for DARPA are well spent -- and probably increase human science and technology in better ways than most any other use of that money. Including e.g. emergency health care.

If you have that much trouble with weapon research I'm sorry, but don't throw out the advanced prosthetics with the water.

(Sorry for coming in late.)
Not everyone is using GMail. Lotus Notes searching is really fast even with a huge inbox. Maybe the choice of tools is the problem here?
Presuming the Glycemic Index of White Flour Bread is the same as White toast:

Glycemic Index Value: (from http://www.gilisting.com/glycemic-index)

Corn Flakes: 82
Froot Loops™: 69
White Flour Bread: 71
The flaws in that line of reasoning are

A) the notion that eating fatty food and sitting in a chair all day is the peak of "pleasure" or "satisfaction", which in my opinion is a very shallow viewpoint. The accomplishment of running a marathon or achieving a related athletic goal is much more satisfying than cheetos, to me at least.

B) the notion that every person's 60-80 years are equal regardless of health choices. Eating healthily and exercising make my life better now in ways that cheetos can't. Even if an unhealthy person and a healthy person both died at 60, the quality of life during those 60 years would no doubt be higher for the latter.
I disagree with the headline. It is not "spying" to record the police in public any more than it is spying for them to record you with a dashboard camera. Both recordings should serve the same purpose - to create a record of events that can be used to ensure the law is upheld. I don't see how any honest law enforcement professional could disagree with this.
I gave you exact numbers, not approximations from a small data set. Unless you match the numbers that I gave exactly, the numbers you give won't match what will be found in large datasets.
" I haven't eaten vegetables since I was 8 years old...I eat any junk food I want"

Ok, so most junk food uses some vegetables as a filler. Usually desiccated starch from potatoes & the like. So you are certainly eating vegetables, maybe not raw but cooked.

"I sit down in front of a computer screen for multiple hours a day"

Don't. The damage from laptop radiation is irreversible, unlike gaining 50 lbs on purpose and then reversing all of it by going on a crash diet like chuck noland.
Microsoft has a long history of being very unethical with its own employees. Look up permatemp and Vizcaino v. Microsoft.
It sure does, that's why I said it did.

Consider a sequence increasing by 1 each period. Now pick a random number between 1 and 10000. Generate the sequence between 1 and your random number. It will approximately conform to Benford's law, modulo your ending number.

Benford's law is a property of growing numbers, not of any particular kind of growth.
Not to mention the problem of who regulates and monitors. Conflicting interests in the same domain? It's such a complex mess, these simple solutions don't even begin to grasp at understanding the system.
I installed, SOLR, of course, but then ran into the challenge of figuring out how to automatically feed in the PDFs. I'll take a look at the Blaze implementation - perhaps they've packaged all the components and cookbooked the installation process. Thanks very much for the pointer.
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You don't think that raising the overall self-esteem of a population has a net positive effect on their society's condition?

I mean yes you could argue that it might contribute to a class divide, but I think orthodontic treatment is much more affordable for the middle class than it was 20 years ago.
We have a lower cost competitor, and I've never seen that factor into anyone's decision to go one way or the other. Well, maybe once or twice, but it's not a huge differentiator to most people.

By far, our biggest "competitor" is lack of knowledge. People don't know about us or our competitor. We're not trying to steal customers from each other. Instead, we just need to educate people that we exist at all. That's been my experience in most of these cases, especially for smaller apps that do one little thing. A huge amount of our effort in the beginning (and still to this day) involves letting people know we exist. Trust me, that takes a lot more work than just a weekend.

As for the "doubtful in a weekend" comment, I just find it highly doubtful that anyone can build a useful app that includes billing in a weekend. Payment systems are a real bitch. Plus, it's easy to gloss over the fact that "built in a weekend" usually means MVP, or even sub-MVP. From that point you have to keep building, market, promote and make sales. It's not like you just build it, flip the switch, and sit back collecting checks. It just doesn't work that way.
Can't thank you guys enough. If you have a paypal link where we can send you some beer money, I'm sure you'd collect a few rounds worth. Cheers!
It's pretty standard verbiage on Seeking Alpha. Almost all (if not all?) of the articles on the site have disclosures worded in that form. And a lot of people do have positions in the companies they write about. It's ethical to do so, so long as you disclose accurately and honestly. There is no client-service relationship between readers of SA and its contributors.
Building a good MVP takes practice. The minimum bar is going to be different on every app. It is confusing and tricky.

I think it makes more sense to figure out the one thing that your software needs to really nail to be the product that you are building.

For example, Dropbox is a fantastic example of this. They figured out the most simple way to sync files and nailed that. Put files in a folder and the machine syncs in the background. Want to share a file? Drop it in public or shared folder. It shares automatically.

I know Dropbox has a ton of other features that I never ever use. That's great for some people, but they nailed the core right away and built the rest around that.

Instead of building a "minimum" product that may or may not suck, build the absolute simplest version of that one core feature and polish it to a shine. Polish tends to mean fixing a lot of little bugs, UI issues, and UX issues like password resetting.

Simplicity is hard and making it beautiful is even harder.
I was born in the former Soviet Union and grew up listening to my parents and their friends discussing how corrupt communism was. This article doesn't bear any real surprise to me and let me explain why.

Any individuals first and only desire is to take care of himself and his family. Just about anyone will go to any means necessary, illegal means included. In the former USSR and even today a lot of people involved in government were using the government as a means to take care of them and their families. This is because prior to the 90's, there was no other way to achieve wealth. Secondly, once a system takes on characters that are willing to bend rules, everyone is involved. Those who are not willing to participate are thrown out, ignored or placed in positions that will make them re-think their approach to their career and their methods to take care of their family. Sure, there are ethical considerations here, but realistically, if everyone around you is making millions and living a great life, you will inevitably follow their path as well. 18,000!! 18,000 people participated here! I'm sure there are scores of others that have taken a little bit here and there as well. Maybe got by with only a few thousand vs. millions.

Communism is a horribly corrupt government form. It forces too much activity to flow through too few people. I would hope that China takes a stand against this, but my skepticism doesn't allow me to believe that the ones pursuing this investigation are any different than the culprits.