skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't just think of compensation in terms of dollars and equity today.

Also consider:
- What are the benefits implications?
- How much will this increase your future marketability through connections and learning?
- How will this impact your ability to do things outside of work? (10 hour workday? 12? 16?)
- What will the work environment do to your mental health?

As items with current and future $ implications, this is part of the compensation discussion.
I had a bad experience working with someone out of area (if you check my posting history here, you'll be able to find more information on the issue) and so I would greatly prefer working with someone in the bay area in order to meet in person. However, I suppose someone with great references/other forms of credibility could be considered.
A: That is not true. Which I know first hand, since I worked with someone who was in a very long dispute with the patent office on the patentability of something.

B: That is the only solution? You can not think of any other possible solution?
So the progress bar is the main point of difference?
Challenges?
Since recently when I'm asked to do Facebook apps I explain to my clients I need to charge them a Facebook tax. I can easily spend 50% of my time building a Facebook app on dealing with Facebook API issues.
That feature is actually broken on Ubuntu 10.10 / standard Gnome with multiple desktops - it tries to switch you to the appropriate tab but can't switch you to the appropriate desktop.

And I'm not sure I really like it anyway - when I re-type a URL I'm usually looking to reload it to grab a fresh copy. I tab-complete the address of my development server and Hacker News very often; anything else I don't usually know the URL off the top of my head, I just remember that I have such and such doc on such and such desktop.
Making Apps on Facebook more engaging and social
To us, Libya protesters are freedom fighters, to the Libian government they are criminals.

No surprise that when the protests happen here, governments swap position right away.
Point noted - we've added a work item to support new users on the mobile version.

You'll find us very different from Nozbe. Nozbe follows Getting Things Done, while we have developed a totally new workflow. LazyMeter isn't just a tool, it's an alternative to GTD. Our workflow is intended to be much closer to how the mind naturally processes tasks.
"Education Management, which is based in Pittsburgh and is 41 percent owned by Goldman Sachs"

Excuse my french but holy fucking shit. Is there anything these scumbags DON'T have their hands in? Energy, Finance, Housing, now we find out about Education.

What's it going to take to arrest these people already? How many people have they screwed over in their never ending quest for pure profits?
It's really not that clear cut. To do what you propose, you either have to set up an identical staging environment, or you have to set up a local environment that mimics (and stays in sync with!) the production environment. For a tiny site that sees <100 people a day, where the potential damage of a mistake is absurdly low (so what if 5 people see the broken version while you make corrections?) it's not necessarily worth the additional hassle.

This all depends on what kind of site it is, of course, but in the context of what he's saying, it makes sense.
wouldn't this be cliche biting the hand that feeds? Seems to me motorola owes some of its recent success (or just the fact its remained in business, and not become another nokia) to its android devices? does google not have any recourse if moto decides to pull this crap? i guess worse thing google could do is leave motorola with the open source bits, and not provide any support/co-branding or whatever goes along with the current arrangement.
When there is an "official" company email signature.
It's a bad sign when the five star reviews are sarcastic.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color/id427763573?mt=8&ls... (bottom of page)
So you want to be a programmer...
Ask HN: Interviewer/advising tips for undergraduate interviewees?
I'm going to be interviewing undergraduates soon for a position which involves writing a mobile phone application. These students are primarily first and second year students, so I don't expect them to have much experience under their belts. What kind of things should I be looking for/asking about?

Also, how should I go about advising such a student? Meetings would be weekly or bi-weekly.
Food prices were increased prior to the financial crisis, dropped during it and during 2011 have returned to roughly 2008 levels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_pr...

There is a range of causes blamed:

Initial causes of the late 2006 price spikes included droughts in grain-producing nations and rising oil prices.[4] Oil price increases also caused general escalations in the costs of fertilizers, food transportation, and industrial agriculture. Root causes may be the increasing use of biofuels in developed countries (see also food vs fuel),[5] and an increasing demand for a more varied diet across the expanding middle-class populations of Asia

Oil is down in price since 2008, not up.

Increases in the Gold price isn't a measure of inflation, it's a measure of the lack of confidence in other investments.
Is GPS System common? That looks and sounds weird to me.
After graduation from university and entering the work force I came to the conclusion that it is not what you know but your ability to learn, and more so your ability to complete things.

Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister did a study awhile ago, I don't have a link to it, but as I understand it, all things equal a programmer that has been working for 6 months can perform equally as well as one that has been at it for years or decades.

The biggest thing that experienced programmers have is a proven track record. This is why I believe that the university system is the first credential employers look for, graduation means that you can solve problems and you are able to manage yourself, when nobody is there holding your hand.

That said there is a back door for computer programming that lots of other fields don't have, that being, you can get very good in your mothers basement. You don't need access to expensive equipment like oscilloscopes and function generators like you for EE or access the hospital if you are training to be a doctor.

But form what I understand you if you go this way you will need to be really good, and have a lots of experience or get lucky and land a job where your can apply your skills and build on them.

From my generalist view point here, if you want to be a player in the tech industry you need to be doing it as your hobby too, and further look at every opportunity you get to push to learn more, expecially off hours, when you are not getting paid.

With respect to making money doing something the wordpress thing is really easy to do, once you get an understanding of html, css, and programming in php you can do some pretty powerful stuff. This is a valuable for lots of companies that don't have a web presence. So if you are going to do it then, build your own site, and use it a testing ground for new things that you see as neat and find on the web.

And finally, whenever you get the chance help others do it! Open source your projects, let others build off your projects, help them when they ask you about it, understand other peoples projects and add value where you can. You will learn a ton and get the chance to provide knowledge to others.

Good luck!
This is a slightly tired and broadly awful analogy. The rioters this week haven't shared the same motivations, determination or moral conviction of "rebel" (but now recognised) Libyan Government. If I were Libyan, this comparison would be frankly insulting.
I don't think evade as in tax evasion is the right word nor circumvent more like bypass.

Honestly, Apple should come to their senses on subscription content and just lower their take to something like 10% because they have make no significant contributions to facilitate the sale. They clearly don't get publishing as well as Amazon.
My understanding of liquidity in the stock market is that it refers to being able to quickly sell stock, and minimally affect the price of said stock by the sale.

I see the value of the former, having an asset you can't sell means its value is rather pointless, but I'm not sure I seed the point of the latter. Isn't money made in the stock market by price volatility? Doesn't algorithmic trading simply smooth out price fluctuations to the point that individual traders receive nothing, while HFT houses skim immense numbers of tiny slivers?

It seems to me that we're moving toward the future that some people want: that we only invest in companies which we believe have real growth or dividend payout potential over the long term. Meanwhile, money will continue to be made by "gambling" on price fluctuations, but only by high frequency traders.

I can't help thinking that liquidity has diminishing returns, and I definitely think that claims of HFT value are heavily undermined by their tendency to drop out of the market during crashes.

If I'm wrong in these views, I would love to be enlightened.
are you manufacturing shoes or just selling them like zappos?
If you reread what I typed I did, and then after I quit I was still getting them.
So? It is better, cheaper and safer than the alternative. 10k is an absolute bargin.

But yeah, lots of politicians will complain.
To paraphrase one of the Great Ones, "They're Not Dead Yet!"
Yep, I've learned a lot by failing - I don't regret those failures (the paradox), I think I've ended up in a better position now as a cause of those failures too. Trial-n-error is the best way to learn as they say. I mentioned previous failures in a startup competition and we still won, I think it's important to mention failures.
Facebook and Zynga are pretty much symbiotic now so Zynga has serious leverage, but any chance Facebook will start locking up smaller developers with exclusive deals?
Why is everyone so worried?
While it may be possible in theory to patch/fix the cancer cells, you'd need a virus that can target them specifically. In the case of using HIV here, it's because it's so efficient at getting into the immune system that it can be used as a vector to reprogram it. I've got to imagine that other "super viruses" could be used in a similar manner if they also target things so well.
>The rioters this week haven't shared the same determination

Are you saying you'd have liked the rioters better if they didn't give up so "quickly"?
I'm a little confused by how this works. The introduction just confuses me more - http://blog.lazymeter.com/tour/introduction/

The stop sign stands for "save" and "unscheduled"? Pause is "planned" and "scheduled"? Huh?

I just need a simple daily to-do list, and http://teuxdeux.com works for me because it is really simple and clear. I like the direction LazyMeter is going in, but I don't like having to learn and remember all sorts of symbols and what they do.
I wonder if this new activity of the weighting algo noticed all the rapid upvotes for new posts originating from #startups on freenode? That place is a regular source of 'please upvote my story here guys: <link>' even from the channel ops, two well-known HN-ers.
I am hopeful but also reminded of the opening of 'I am Legend':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aouT6EMJh8#t=00m21s

(The distracting leading quote and music has been added by the uploader... but I can't find an alternate clip of this set-up scene that also includes the important cut to 'three years later' at the end.)
Wow, and that worked so well in North Africa!
>In this way a computer with a big enough look up table can always have a conversation that is essentially indistinguishable from one that humans would have

correct me if i'm wrong but:
what if i asked such machine anything about specific situation where me and machine are now. it won't be able to find it in database. like : "what is the question that i asked it before this question?", or am i missing something here? i don't say that Computational Complexity will not "revolutionize" philosophy , but am questioning premise to that conclusion.
It couldn't average in the middle, right? You're guaranteed one in the first 27(alphabet+1) characters, so just do it on that substring
Misquoting to make your point is antithetical to honest debate. Flagged.
I have used todoist for a while and really like it, and just started using http://tomorrow.do/ and love how simple it is. However with both of them I've had issues of downtime and/or the app crashing... so it makes me wonder if trusting someone else with my task lists really even makes sense.
He should team up with Jim Cramer so you can get your daily fix of "opposite news". If Cramer's pitching you better be ditching.
When someone you don't know adds you to one of their circles, that just means they found your public posts interesting. It doesn't mean they want to be your friend. They're just following you, like on Twitter.
> by far the least stable component at least on my install

This is often the result of bad graphics drivers. Would you like to share your setup?

My laptop has that ACPI bug (in that the BIOS enables ACPI on peripherals and reports they don't support it back to the OS which then makes terrible decisions). I had to change my screensaver to a non-3D one to prevent the machine from seizing when entering low-power mode.
I like the idea of LazyMeter but for me personally, you can't beat the simplicity of http://workflowy.com
Because if $42 million in credible VC's money consistently gets toileted on things like this, it bodes poorly for all of us who are looking for funding.
Data Scientist In Residence = $42 million
Xkcd Password Generator (with visual mnemonics)
Apple Patents Hint At Multi-Part Gestures, Touchable OS X
Added a work item to.. your own LazyMeter account? Now anyone here with a smartphone can see just how effective your service is!
Who is worried? Seems like a valid question.
It will be hilarious if you can prove the answer to the P-NP problem can't be proven to be P or NP.
Twitter's a public medium, I don't really see how anyone could object to a government monitoring it, given any individual could do the same thing.
What if most of the strings look like:

"abcabcabcabc....abcabcxabcabcabcabc...abcabc"
Same, SuS 2008 was one of the most memorable days of my life, and one of the things that really steeled my resolve to start something. The presentation by DHH that year is probably #1 or 2 on my all-time list.
definition for protester:
"dissenter: a person who dissents from some established policy."

definition for rioter:
"troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority."
> Does anybody not see Apple eventually releasing an iPad with a 30 inch screen?

I think they have a partial product in that direction. Tt's called AppleTV and runs iOS, but it doesn't come with the screen.

A 30 inch touchscreen doesn't make that much sense anyway.
Kind of already happened to me. I was on before a lot of my good friends. Now they have finally got on and everyone has already moved on.

I don't know, I'm just not that excited about it. I have more acquaintances than I do on Facebook, making it feel more like Twitter.
RSS is a way of consuming news information. The FB News Feed was novel in its approach of presenting other peoples' social actions as news.
From what I've seen in other places what was done is, they took some of the patients T-Cells, and altered them. They did this by taking the RNA out of some HIVs and replaced it instead with a sequence to look for a specific antigen on the cancer cells. Then they took the HIVs and introduced them to the T-Cells and let them get infected. Since the original nasty RNA wasn't present, it won't replicate, but it will make some T-Cells that target the antigen on the cancer cells. After reintroducing to the patient, their immune systems then pick up from other signals that we don't full understand that some T-Cells are attacking this antigen, so it should make more of them.
I am firmly against blocking any communication tool on the internet, though I am all for prosecuting those that incite violence and illegal activities should they be dumb enough to use a website that can be linked back to them.
bleh, missread the non part
Writing functions inline is a huge win, not just because of the number of characters you have to type.

It creates less noise and busy work in your code.

Explicitly specifying functions like having to pre-declare all your variables at the top of your scope.
WonderProxy provides HTTP proxies around the world
Twitter has both public and private messages. If anyone is taking about monitoring communications on it, I would assume they're talking about the private ones.
Ask HN: How to get a job after you have been a CTO?
Hoping some of you can give some me some insight into my situation. I am currently a CTO looking to get back into an individual technical contributor role.

I had 7 years of technical experience as a programmer and unix admin. Then I got a chance to work as a project manager where I was quickly promoted to VP Technical Operations and then Chief Technology Officer for the last 3 years. As CTO I recruited a team of around 10 developers and lead product development for company with around 200 employees. We were very successful and the company is being sold.

I have recently applied for systems administration, product manager, project management, and developer positions at larger companies and have been told that I am not a good fit for those roles by the HR recruiters.

Is it true that someone is no longer a good fit in an individual contributor role once they have moved into C-level management? If so, why?
150 Google+ Invites, Get One Now
There's an HNSearch API (you know, the thing that powers the search bar at the bottom of each page). See http://www.hnsearch.com/api
I've been fantasizing for months (if not years) about a wall-sized display that I could sync with my digital todo list. I don't care if it's monochrome, if it takes 5 seconds to refresh, or has pixels you can see from across the room. It just needs to be big and legible. Anyone have any clever ideas for building such a display?
Develop your own alternate english alphabet and change all system fonts to a custom font that has that alphabet, it is a brutal learning curve to be reading fluently again... but I did this in highschool... can freely open news articles and read them, he can't tell the difference
I don't buy that at all. "Look -- prior art in Kleinberg!" is your opinion, not some kind of objective truth that was nefariously "slipped past" the patent office. The differences between PageRank and that prior work are crucial--they are what the patent actually covers.
Good points all around, but any government that wants to maintain it's rule will portray freedom fighters as unruly rioters. Sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren't, but giving the government the ability to restrict communication if it says they are is a dangerous precedent.
That was not hate, that was opinion. Maybe it depends on your own mental state (bad day) when you read that, read it again some other day. If you get the same feeling, then I would say we bring our opinions in different ways. Don't pain me as a wanna be saviour please, I've been doing Ruby since 2005 - I got right to tell what I believe in for Ruby community.
I like the look of the site! Good job.

QQ .. In the very first video on Linked Lists, is the Node type defined correctly? Shouldn't next be a pointer to Node?
Projects that integrate with Facebook API: 10,000?

Average dev hours to integrate with a typical API: 10?

Hours spent dealing with various Facebook API problems for every hour of real work: 1?

So figure... order of 100,000 dev hours? Adjust according to whatever you think those orders should be.
Can't really comment, but this blog post may point you in the right direction.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sittin...
This is completely ignoring the potentially positive effects of social media during the riots. @metpoliceuk was helpful in spreading news and tamping down false rumors.
So how does something like this patent on multiply-linked lists happen, if the USPTO does even the most cursory prior art search on its own? The rules say one thing, the reality says another.

That is the only solution? You can not think of any other possible solution?

Law is the code we live by. You don't fix code this broken. You rewrite it.
Would someone over 40 be out of place at this event?
It's a good idea, and would work well, if only websites would let me choose passwords longer than 12 characters!
This looks very, very promising. Great work.

I've never liked how RVM overrides shell commands.
I'm sure that Google could turn RIM into Google North and do quite well with the people alone. The patent portfolio and the technology wouldn't hurt either.
I'm not OP but I'm finding it hard to follow what's going on as well.

The primary reason is that my "following" circle is completely overwhelming my friends, family, etc, circles. I'd love to be able to look at all my circles except Following (or rather, to be able to view some subset of my circles at a time). Clicking to view "Family", scrolling down and reading, then back to the top and clicking "Friends", and then "Acquaintances" is tedious.

In addition, an option to view more condensed posts would be helpful for viewing my Following deluge. As it is, each post gets a few paragraphs and a handful of comments. This is often nice, but sometimes I'd like to scan it more quickly, and if it could be just the person who posted it and the first few sentences, I'd love it.
Mark Zuckerberg should seriously see this :P
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> having an asset you can't sell means its value is rather pointless

Not completely. There are still dividends. (Or being able to live in a house, or rent it out, if we are talking about real estate assets.)
I might give it a try, it genuinely sounds awesome.

My problem is just that if my todo isn't Right Up In My Face (tm) I forget about it.

That is to say, I need triggers. If your app can provide those (like sending me a notification every time it notices I'm moving around the room to get tea or whatever) that would be bloody epic.
Yeah, I didn't think of that but it's very true as well. I have very sensitive -something- so can't enjoy smoking myself. I can relate to it very well however when I think of alcohol usage. While not widely considered as much of an issue, alcohol is very unhealthy too but it's hard not to enjoy. That said I wouldn't ban it or make it illegal. It is poison but in the end you can say a lot of things are poisonous. I wouldn't want to live in a world that didn't have any poison.
README of the ftp server where Linux was first uploaded
since apparently we can't post ftp links directly: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/README
Or this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14475741

(twitter tag #riotcleanup)
Someone need to write a scanner that compare Unicode fonts visually and list the most alike characters.
as embarrassing as it may seem, although having read the good part of this thread, i still don't understand why a four word password, can be more random than something i would get like this:

~$ pwgen -s 8 C0olz5KM

Would anybody care to explain this to me, or at least point me to a good place where i can read up on this?