skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Icelander here.

This endeavor started out as a constitutional congress, members having been elected in a low turnout election in late 2010. For some legal-technical reason the election was illegal and therefore the powers that be decided to appoint the congress elects to a committee instead.

True.

The reason the election was disqualified was debatable at best, but it was due to a lawsuit by some IMO rather slimy true-blood partisans of the highly corrupt opposition party Sjálfstæðisflokkur; The lawsuit involved technicalities in the voting process. The courts are appointed by congress representatives - very many from Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn. The judiciary appointment process here is IMO ethically problematic, to say the least.

All this was done as an appeasement response to public anger following the economic downturn in 2008.

Interpretation, not fact.

A clever, if expensive, political ploy as it made the government look like it was making an effort.

Interpretation, not fact.

The reality is that it makes no difference whether or not this committee makes any changes, anything they decide will be non-binding and advisory only.

Not strictly false, but is very difficult for the current govermnent to totally ignore the results of the committee; The election may have been low-turnout for example, but the committee process has been high-profile.

Most people in this country think the whole thing is monumentally pointless,

Interpretation, not fact; IMO even a rather biased interpretation.

... being as there aren't many contentious issues in the current constitution to begin with.

And this is where you go to far IMO. You cannot state that as fact. There exist in fact long-standing and very public arguments here about: The separation of powers, judiciary appointment, a highly disputed clause about the president's power to impede legislation (it's very fuzzy and highly open to interpretation - this MUST be clarified), human rights, media, etc. etc. etc.
IBuyWeSell is a new digital social classifieds marketplace.
Through ad space in the mobile, web and social media like Facebook the opportunity to find prospects is maximized. Advertising space is free for both consumers and businesses. Founded in April 2010 by entrepreneur Bob Ilievski, iBuyWeSell is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

iBuyWeSell's Mission: is to help enable consumers to earn money from their mobile phones and enhance their mobile value, consumers and business can sell their unwanted or un-used items risk free to their social networks, like ( Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc..) as well as their local community using our location based technology, Around me.

Mobiles have become an integral part of our daily lives, we forget our keys our wallets but not our phones however, today they are seen as a big cost to us the consumers, everything we do with the phones cost money, you call, you text, you play games you entertain, everything cost money, iBuyWeSell philosophy is to turn your ordinary phone into a tool which help you earn money by de-clutteing things which you no longer need, which may be taking up space in your draws, closet or even garage, don't just dump it sell it on iBuyWeSell for FREE.

iBuyWeSell allows you to simply inform your friends that you are selling certain items for example that old bike, or old iPhone in addition it informs people within your local community with the Around me function to know that you have things for Sale or you're looking to Buy.
With just a few clicks and in less than a minute your items are posted and for sale on the iBuyWeSell portal.
I have this a try last night, very nice. The process completed much quicker than I thought it would; and the concept is great. I think fleshing out the ways you can receive the data (PDF/Word etc) would be very helpful, other than that I was surprised at the ease of use.
The downvote was probably because there's no way to contact this person.
You have no contact info in your profile. How should people contact you?
Google's New Patents
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote
We're a startup looking for a designer. Looking for someone to create our main website and a web-based mobile app (potentially iOS and Android in the future). Prefer someone who can also code up their design (not hand off a psd). Please send an intro and your portfolio to dlauer [a][t] gmail
IBuyWeSell allows publishing of Ads/Classifieds for FREE 
iBuyWeSell is a new generation digital marketplace bringing the best of mobile & web 2.0 technology together in a smart, fun and innovative way. iBuyWeSell allows publishing of Ads/Classifieds for FREE both for Consumers and Enterprise.
iBuyWeSell is the only company globally which is available on almost all mobile platforms, Java, Android, Apple, Bada. Only recently iBuyWeSell was awarded a Special prize from Samsung as part of Samsung Global developer challenge for it Simple is Best category.
iBuyWeSell mobile allows user’s to buy, sell, manage and watch for items of interest on the move anywhere anytime, with only a few clicks, to learn more visit us at www.ibuywesell.com/mobile_downloads
Our purpose is two fold, firstly to enable users, mobile devices to become money generating tool, by selling all their unwanted or old things around the home and two giving someone privilege to those items.
With just a few clicks and in seconds users can sell anything and everything from unused mobile phones, games, to old computers, furniture, cars, sporting goods and much much more, we have a category to fit.
The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
Boston, MA - Ginkgo BioWorks is a synthetic biology startup out of MIT that is offering programming internships to develop CAD tools and software to support our platform for genetic engineering of organisms for use in fuels, medicine, and foods. If you want to work on something other than photo-sharing, this might be for you:
http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html
https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/84
keywords: INTERN, DNA hacker, biotech
Maybe, but at the time I made the comment, 75% of the posts had been downvoted.
Funny thing, his site looks broken in Firefox - top menu is out of the screen and page has a horizontal scroll
"The owner of the house, who we reached for comment, had been residing in the UK, and was not aware of current events, and was distraught to discover the state of the home on his return. 'Between the crashed helicopter, burned animal stalls, and bullet marks everywhere, I can safely say I will not be utilizing AirBnB again - the place is completely trashed', Haddad told us"
Is one sentance supposed to make it easier to understand? Because, for example the "explain programming"-answers made it more abstract and I guess people who does not know it would not understand it after "bla bla set of instructions bla bla".

Making explanations smaller means higer abstractions which means it is often harder to understand.

Edit: I do like small explanations. Like simple-wikipedia small.
yes lately it does but xterm (or any pure xlib term) are def the fastest ones!
Thank you so much. I literally put this together in a few days and didn't think much of it so I am happy it's been received so well.

The simplicity is what makes this work, and all your points are spot on.

In terms of the deletion, that was a pure human error - apologies.

I am surprised that even with open posting that most of the sentences were actually quite genuine. I am also surprised to see the responses are equally as genuine: http://1sentence.com/in-one-sentence-explain-programming/

There are some brilliant explanations on the website, and moving forward into a 'logged in' posting model would be the next step if I were to take it further - not sure as of yet.

The users are definitely leading the way, and it's impressive to see - I will be watching closely the next few days to see where to take it.

Thanks again for your great insight and activity on 1Sentence - very much appreciated.

Diesel
Apple Suit Puts Samsung Tablet Sales in Australia on Hold
Many soldiers (and their commanders) are highly superstitious and/or turn to a higher power. This dates back centuries, if not millennia:
http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Superstitions/Sup...

A number of athletes are the same way:
http://paneech.com/2009/05/5-athletes-who-took-superstitions...

When your life and/or livelihood regularly depends on factors that you don't control, it's not uncommon to engage in dealmaking with a higher power in order to develop a sense of control over the unknown.
more on wingspan: Kickass sw egrs for enterprise pharma webapps. small software shop, work with smart people, ship a lot of code.

Java web service built on Documentum
Java middle tier talking to Oracle and Documentum
Ext JS web client supporting IE7+ and Firefox
Fair enough.

Postive reactions: 9

Negative: 2
Thanks. That's really interesting, did s/he release an update to fix the crack issue or was it some kind of a server-side activation check that the changes caused software to disable itself?
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Gazaro is hiring 2 full-time Python developers and a QA Engineer. (http://www.gazaro.com/careers)

Gazaro specializes in gathering prices from retail products, matching products from different retailers, compiling the data and performing statistical analysis. We have a consumer based website and an b2b product.

Drop me an email careers@gazaro.com attention "Dominic" if you're interested.
It's weird Microsoft seems OK with the brand overlap...
San Francisco, CA (H1B friendly, entry-level OK)

ThoughtLeadr (www.thoughtleadr.com) is an angel-funded early stage B2B startup. We're building social media analytics, ad targeting and engagement solutions for content-generation sites (think reddit, not facebook).

We're looking to hire a very smart engineer to help build and support our back-end systems. Be prepared to deal with BIG data.

Be very comfortable on a linux command line and have a deep understanding of programming concepts.

email your resume & sample code to jobs@thoughtleadr.com
> 2. Be willing to do something that's deadly boring to most smart people

... And work really hard at it.
Isn't everything that comes out of the government in the last few years, regarless of Labour or Conservative rule?

Same agenda, different face.
San Francisco, CA -- InternMatch

InternMatch is looking to hire a software developer as employee #1. We are looking for an entrepreneurial developer whose next job description will likely read "Founder." More details at: http://www.internmatch.com/about/jobs

Contact us at jobs@internmatch.com
There is no part of the budget that can't be cut except perhaps for interest payments on the debt. If we imagine that it's impossible to cut entitlement spending then we might as well go home right now and declare that the US has had a good run, because the math on that spending does not add up.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Funda is looking for a full-time User Experience Designer and Front-end Developer. Both positions will be in our current User Experience team, where we already have three designers.

Especially for the front-end developer we are looking for someone to head our front-end code, take responsibility and take the quality of the code to the next level. Feeling for interaction design would be an added bonus, as part of your time you'll be working along with our designers.

All design (3 people) and development (12 developers) is done in-house. The company itself counts about 50-55 employees.

More information: www.funda.nl/vacatures (Dutch)

--

Funda Real Estate B.V. is the company behind the leading real estate listing website of The Netherlands: funda.nl. We also maintain fundainbusiness.nl for commercial properties, fundalandelijk.nl for agricultural properties, and fundadesk.nl as a back office for Dutch real estate agents.

Just for funda.nl we currently average 420,000 unique visits a day, serving about 10 million page views a day. It sure is a challenge with big impact -- working at funda always gives you something to talk about at birthday parties.
"Is one sentence supposed to make it easier to understand?" - To many = yes.

In my eyes, this would be perfect to get an explanation of new trends (e.g. a year ago it may have been this: http://1sentence.com/in-one-sentence-explain-social-media/)

But overall it's an experiment, and I didn't think many would use it (Until I posted it here: Thanks HN community).

So I will be seeing how it goes over the next few weeks, and see what the data suggests - but so far, I would say many love the simplicity of one sentence explanations.

Cheers for your feedback!
Picklive - Real-time fantasy sports gambling, London, UK, in White Bear Yard, funded. Looking for anyone interested in writing Javascript with all the toys (Backbone, Coffee-script, JsTestDriver etc). We use Ruby for our simulation and Rails for our web stuff.

Not worried about experience/pieces of paper - come in and we'll write some code together.

http://picklive.com or get in touch via my profile.
Thank you. I like it too. However credit goes to Posterous team, since its one of the default themes.

Thank you for reminding me about it. Must add more content.
OT (and I'm sorry), but I couldn't resist when I saw this requirement:

> Candidates should hold a PhD or equivalent and have successfully engineered an organism -- plants, fish, microbes, worms, fungi, it doesn't matter, as long as it worked.

Are there that many people who've actually done this? It makes me wish I could apply for this job :)
The Echo Nest in Somerville, MA (Davis Square) and London

Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that powers music apps with our API, including apps for the BBC and MTV. We've got a killer engineering culture, well-stocked beer fridge and you'll be able to shape the future of music. It's my 4th week here and I love it.

App Systems Engineer - London Office

Engineer

Junior Engineering Intern

Music Information Retrieval Scientist

QA Manager

Senior Engineer

Web Developer

Web Developer - London Office

http://the.echonest.com/company/jobs/
Making The Internet Greener, By Dunking Servers In Mineral Oil
SEEKING WORK -- Boston (or remote)

I am a Ruby on Rails freelancer with some newfound availability. I can develop the whole stack, from database/system administration up to the front-end/design. My email is here: http://techiferous.com/about
I've been through the same stuff including a failed company and burn out. You need to do something else for a bit and determine your realistic priorities rather than ambitions. Get a stable job, get paid, go on holiday and get some hobbies - it'll all come back to you when you are ready.
Ask HN: Could you please evaluate my idea - tinytool.net
I'd appreciate any constructive feedback from the community. I am a software developer and like we all do, I like to automate things by writing some scripts. I am 100% percent sure that most of them were already written by some other developers.

Sometimes you may have and idea for very cool script/tool but you would not bother creating a separate webapp just for it.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a website were you can easily create such a script in a language of your choice, with some GUI generated automatically and share it with the world.
This way we would have a growing catalogue of useful tools, all in one place.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a place when you can catalogue your own private tools and be able to access them on any computer.

This is what tinytool.net tries to achieve.
Of course it dose not have to be all about tools for developers.

What do you think? Any comments about the idea itself as well as the way it has been implemented will be valuable. And of course if anyone would like to participate in the project, let me know.

Again the project is locate at : tinytool.net

Thanks in advance.

Tomek
Helsinki, Finland

Tinkercad is hiring for a number of technical positions (frontend, application, systems programmers, computational geometry, ops): http://dev.tinkercad.com/jobs/

We are a small team building a cloud based solid CAD for 3D printers. The team has written a bespoke cluster distributed geometry kernel and is looking for people to build the editor as well as the site. I'm an ex-Googler from Mountain View, here is a Tech Talk I did on the core tech a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aY4a9QnLhw

You can try the product at: http://tinkercad.com

The work is very intensive so we like people to be local. However, if you are a good fit and willing to move I'm happy to get you relocated.

If you are interested get in touch with kai@tinkercad.com
PyCodeConf, PyOhio, and Airbnb -- "Don't Forget the Humans"
It's a damn shame that people can't trust people.
That's how I felt in the last election: Which middle-class twat do I vote for...
IE6 is a necessary evil in some circumstances. You're young - you need to be flexible. Complaining won't help.

--

Practical steps that could help:

Produce your standards compliant site. Then, to deal with IE quirks:

1. Ensure you've used a resets CSS script - level the ground before you start to build.

2. Serve separate CSS files for IE6/7/8 using conditional comments, which overrides any styling that requires IE specific workarounds.

3. Learn a handful of workarounds to deal with problems you might encounter.

--

If you follow these three points, IE really won't be so much of a headache.

--

And remember: [1]

(Follow the principles of progressive enhancement: [2])

[1] http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
> Using copyright law to force corporations and developers to become contributors and active participants in your software project is, to me, a ridiculous notion.

I don't really understand this sentence. No one is forcing anyone to do anything. There is code, and it has a license, and if you don't like the terms of the license, you don't use the code. Is it also ridiculous that that most software/movie/music/book creators use copyright law to "force" consumers to pay for their output?
.net magazine first launched in 1994 - well before Microsoft even dreamed up the .NET framework, hence nothing Microsoft can do anyway
UXHero's headlines are so sensational.
The article does not say the Saudis weren't offered the body. In fact it implies they were:

Did the Saudi government have any interest in taking the body? “Your plan sounds like a good one,” the Saudi replied.
the US military invades Bin Laden's compound, calmly shoots him, searches the place, takes his body, disposes it at sea, whilst america's top brass follows... and the only recording of any of this is two DNA shots and a video taken from a drone 5km above it all - not even one photo of the face? He's not even recognisable to the soldiers sent in on the mission, so one has to lie down next to him as a human ruler (yep - about 4 inches bigger than your are, Joe!)

Bollocks. Pics or it didn't happen.

Also: this article is gloating, snuff pornography that betrays a total lack of journalistic instinct. When a journalist explicitly makes excuses for discrepancies in the story he is reporting, rather than examining them, you know that an article was not worth your time and attention.
20+ Stunning Free Apple Files & Icons
uh, so how do i fix the typo in the title of this submissjon?
We will never know what really happened, just what people want us to know.
> It can help for git bisect

Not if the first commit doesn't compile.

Indelible history is good for public projects (and no one is arguing about that) and for change control systems but less good, in my estimation, in cases where mistakes are easily made, have small to non-existent consequenses, and serve no historic purpose.
Our government pretended to listen to us while it decided with business, behind closed doors, what law to pass.
Then it ignored what the public said.
Then it passed the bill at the very last minute, without any real debate, and without even pretending that most MPs had read it.

But the most worrying thing is that nobody thinks this is unusual. Apparently this is just the way things have to be.
Given that Hacker News weights posts with comments higher than other comments, you are doing exactly the wrong thing if you do not want to draw attention to recruiters.
MBA or PhD – Picking the right degree as a University Entrepreneur
I immediately closed the window. I spent a few seconds looking for a "skip" link though.
TL:DR; Added value (DLC, IAP, Ad-free, etc) over-time would increase sales, and a longer stay in the Top 10 charts.

99cents is nothing to an American, or an European, but to a Vietnamese, Chinese or an Indian those are not "Nothing". Also, the concept of credit cards hasn't quite been established in these still developing countries. Carrier billing, or other alternate mode of payments would help (Nokia had done some pioneering phone-wallet system) which could mitigate some of the problems which push a prospective buyer to piracy. Also, as shpoonj had said, apps can have various revenue streams, ads, IAP, dlc, etc. Also, including a free stripped down ad-supported variant of the app on the AppStore would discourage pirates as the same game would be available for free, literally at ones fingertip.

Most developers view the AppStore as a "Write-once, Get rich" platform. Games don't sell themselves, marketing, positive reviews, word-of-mouth, virality, etc make an app to sell. The concept of sleeper hits doesn't exist in the AppStore, where a flood of new apps appear each day. The conventional methods of sustaining a product still hold key to success or failure. If you are looking to launch a 99cents app with no support, your best efforts will land you _upto_ 2-grand through a period of 3-4 months.

Again piracy will always exist as long as digital media exists. The only way to beat them is to provide value which those pirates can't use, like multiplayer, group-sharing, social features, access to dlcs, etc. The pirates would tire after pirating an app once, the wouldn't possibly put in their efforts to "crack" apps for each possible update you did. And pirate himself would resort to just buying the game rather than pirate it to gain access to any product with great updates, value. Eg: "The mighty eagle" from Angry Birds.

And to those pushing for a jailbreak check to disable Game center access, would only kill some sales. All pirates are jail-breakers, but not all Jail-breakers are pirates! Most hackers jailbreak their iPhones to do much more than Apple intended their h/w to do. Most prolific app developers come from the jailbreak community.
This debate is getting really thin. It seems we all live in a world where 5-6% of users are on IE 6. Yet we give this percentage huge leverage in our development efforts. Arguments that "clients are using it on sites/services they pay for" are misguided. What everyone should be doing is developing against forward looking APIs (HTML 5) and shimming to the non-compliant browsers. And for IE 6 in particular we should develop UX that let's the user know they are missing out, with instructions on how to update. It's not about ignoring them or leaving them in the dark - it's about educating them on what they are missing. Just the security aspects alone could prompt a user to update.

For the corporations who still image the desktops and/or make IE 6 standard: stop buying vendor products that require it. Easier said than done I know. But if serious IT groups were serious about saving money and/or standards they'd simply admit that IE 6 is costing them more than an update to their "standard browser".
SEEKING WORK - preferably in Sydney or Australia but open to remote work also. RoR, JS, web site design and graphic design jobs are our favorite right now yet we also have iOS app development skills in house. http://semblancesystems.com.
do you want to come to berlin? :)
I find that people with very high IQs tend to care less about practical computer usage skills. Anyone noticed that Math (or even CS theory) professors are terrible with computers?
The Google products that failed.