skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has gotten a lot worse over the years. I think part of the problem has to do with HR taking over the hiring process whereas traditionally the actual managers that the candidate would work for would have a much more active role in the process. The problem with HR departments is that they are, in my experience, completely unqualified to do hiring and often act more effectively to keep good candidates away rather than get them face time with prospective employers. The whole hiring process has devolved in so many ways, but then management in general is becoming a lost art. As a society, we are collectively losing our ability to organize and manage ourselves.
To be clear: I'm not saying the original design was a scam. Only its realization as a real system people can interact with and spend money on.

This whole system is morally no different than Zynga tomorrow setting up a system to trade options on Farmville tomatoes.
> The opposite, libertarian answer (and the way we seem to be going right now) would be to let those who can't capitalize on the bounty simply suffer. Cut social services along with their jobs, and hope they fade into the distance.

This is a gross mischaracterization of the libertarian answer. But it's easier to make powerful-sounding arguments when you first set up strawmen to burn.
Network Solutions Reveals Identities of Domain Owners Despite Whois Privacy
Does SimpleDB come with native SDKs for iPhone and Android that provide a simple-to-use ORM? Does AWS offer Android/iOS push notification support? Do they offer a built-in user management system?

I mean, really. Read what they offer before commenting.
I see your point about Facebook ads. In fact, a lot of the ads I see are just linking to brand pages on Facebook itself.

But then you say that there's a problem if Facebook's main revenue comes from virtual goods. That doesn't make sense.

If people are spending most of their time doing fun stuff on Facebook, then virtual goods are probably their biggest profitable business model. And if people get in the habit of spending money on fake stuff, they could soon start buying physical goods too. That won't be intent just based on needs, it will be shopping driven by social pressure and entertainment value.
$55 million (Tepper) in 2003 was the previous price...
Your Platform Must be Compelling
wccrawford who says that enterprise=big? Yes, that's the old way of doing things but I am with you (and Matt): we need to have small, to the point solutions to solve enterprise problems.

jmgtan rightfully points out that the companies to deliver these innovative small enterprise solutions may be small themselves (so there is no red tape to hinder creativity).

He who succeeds can make a big impact: very many happy enterprise customers (and riches in the process). Question remains: why is this not interesting to many young engineers?
That would solve one problem, although it seems impossible to pick the right level of inflation. Then we could get on to discussing Bitcoin's other problems, such as slow transaction clearing and poor usability.
how about whitehouse.com? Quite a few kids stumbled into the world of porn through that domain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com
Well-explained service.

http://tarpipe.com/ is a similar tool that's been around for a while; I think the HN crowd will like the fine-grain detail of it more.

And it works with a much larger number of services.
This is way to much simplification. The problem with STM is that it is very hard to integrate in classical languages. In Clojure and Haskell STM works really well and STM is just in production.
Bridging the gap between good data and good UI is a massive challenge. I'm genuinely impressed by what they built here.
> The problem with property-taxes-fund-education is that in poor areas, the funds derived from property taxes are much much lower than in a more well off area.

I don't know if you're old enough to remember busing [1]. I don't think you are, because if you were you'd know that your point isn't right.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_Uni...
I hope you add it! I think KISSmetrics has it (which I don't like for other reasons).
Five Skills You Need for Startup Success, According to Bob Metcalfe
Just checked, and you can't use Guest accounts if FileVault is on (makes sense of course).
I'm envious of any space startup that actually has working hardware. Scaled Composites, SpaceX, Armadillo, and Blue Origin are all super exciting.
Yeah - it always amuses me to read these long detailed arguments on these threads from people who seem to not have understood basic macroeconomics.
Thats it? Your big punch on deflation is the "psychological effect"? You seem to fundamentally not understanding math and have an emotional attachment to a particular scale of measurement.
It only "messes up revision history" if you do your development on your remote tracking branch that multiple people are pushing to. If you keep your remote tracking branch clean (e.g. master), you can pull into master whenever you want, merge your changes from a local branch, and push it right back out. Done this way, you never have to use pull --rebase (which will rewrite local history).

This workflow actually works pretty well with your desired outcome as well - you can rebase your local branch against newly pulled changes on master. This will make all of your local branch merges look like fast forward merges on master (i.e. no merge commit, linear history).
Bird flu spreads among Java's pigs
though pleasant, I didn't think he was that attractive...
Regardless of your opinion of adult content, this stuff makes far less practical sense than things like RTA labeling http://www.rtalabel.org/. All that RTA requires is a simple meta tag, and it's free.

Content filters abide by it, and it doesn't disrupt existing business.

.xxx is just an effort to make money with another new TLD. It doesn't make the web safer and it doesn't make content-filters simpler or more accurate.

Since no one is proposing forcing sites to use .xxx, those concerned with truly making the web safer should really be looking for the most effective way to get wide penetration of a labeling solution, and a meta tag is about as simple as simple gets.
Namecheap as well. I used to be on GoDaddy and sure, everything they do is spelled out but why do they have to make every transaction so annoying and difficult? So many screwy add-on options. Namecheap just keeps it simple to me.

The only thing with Namecheap is that I got a little confused when the whois guard stuff (or whatever they call it) didn't apply like it expected. My memory is a little fuzzy about the scenario right now but I bought three whois guards, applied one and then the other two couldn't be applied to my other domains. I ended up having to get support involved but they cleared it up within an hour. A little confusing? yeah. Annoying? no.
I've been using this for about 6 months in beta and I really like it - I wrote a mini-review on my blog back in March: http://willgrant.org/if-this-then-that/
Thanks for the feedback, agree that the type may be a tad too big, going for something a little different. Will see what we can do about adding more Weather triggers, just scratching the surface!
I know! The iPad is going to be so much cheaper in 10 years. Im waiting.
Exactly who would this be good for besides the other publications?

If it's not Techcrunch that you have to cold email then it will be Venturebeat, AllThingsD, Forbes, CNN, etc.

Startups need PR (just like most other companies), so removing TC from the equation will only push that energy elsewhere.
Thanks for the feedback, will work on tightening the UI a bit and getting a bit more on the screen.
But it's easier to pronounce.
A slow, predictable devaluation in the currency encourages individuals not to store large amounts of value in the currency. It doesn't simply encourage people to spend; it also encourages people to allow better-positioned entities to allocate capital, which is why new business ventures don't need to go door-to-door to fund new factories. Individuals are crappy at allocating capital, because they have small amounts of it and are too busy mastering Dentistry or Architecture to build expertise in risk management.

Unsustainable debt is an orthogonal issue. We've encouraged unsustainable debt not by allowing our currency to inflate, but by failing to regulate lenders and by offering them incentives to ignore risk management.

Again, though: this "is a little inflation good, and is a little deflation bad?" thing is a fake controversy that dignifies Bitcoin. Bitcoin isn't a currency; it's a gambling game powered by a distributed transaction system that may or may not on any day function well enough for two parties to exchange dollars for off-label hosting services without either one losing their shirt.
Coffee & Power: Buy and Sell Small Jobs
Just Say No To Capped Convertible Notes
Oh wow, how could I miss that? Well, now it comes out that I've never seen Goldfinger. And I've listened to all the Bond discussions with John Gruber on The Talk Show. Shame on me!
All there theives seem to just open it up and start using it.

Every missing/recovered laptop story I've ever seen on HN has a screenshot of the thief on Facebook. I imagine there is some degree of selection bias. The story about the recovered laptop (with pictures of the thief) is much more interesting than the one about the laptop that disappeared forever. Plus, it's much easier to catch a thief when you have access to their Facebook profile. Still, it's funny to think about all these thieves running off with laptops just so they can get their Facebook fix.
I love the idea but I have been trouble actually getting the software working (network issues connecting to server during install and now also their control panel):

Says 'down for everyone'.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://control.preypr...
I actually really like the size of the UI - it's a site that will get used infrequently to set up and change settings, so it needs to be instantly obvious.

If you were to spend all day in it, yes it would drive me insane, but that's not the likely use.
Couldn't get it to work even after I stopped blocking it with noscript.
> This would lead to factories reducing their production and laying off employees

Trade imbalances resulting from an economy run on bitcoins would also decimate most domestic production, so sethg's statement is doubly true. It's the same reason you hear members of congress railing against China's currency peg that artificially deflates the yuan; it makes Chinese exports cheaper to the rest of the world.
I don't really buy this argument. People invest to increase their capital, not to stop it from decreasing. When inflationary pressure is actually tangible, money becomes a hot potato that no one wants, and poof, there goes the economy in a blaze of hyperinflation.

Arguing that inflation is good is tantamount to arguing that illiquidity is good. If I were to argue for inflation, I would go with some other angle, like that capital should evaporate after a lifetime.
IF t-shirt is less than <$20 THEN send me a text message.

Instead of signing up for tons of email lists and notification systems you are creating your own. You only get contacted when you WANT to be contacted.

Love it.
I'm having this issue as well, it's not just you.
I don't have good data on this but a lot of the Facebook ads I myself see are just linking to brand pages on Facebook itself. So the Like game is not free for advertisers, just like SEO is not free, only more so.
Only about 4% of the AI class expressed interest in Facebook profile support
I'm not so sure about this. Many platforms attract developers without being compelling.
Few people know this, but you don't have to pick it up off your lap to trigger the redo action. There's a redo key on the #+= page of the iPad's keyboard.

I know that this isn't particularly great design on Apple's part because it's not intuitive or easily discoverable, but once you know it it's quite handy and better than nothing.
:( 3d.xxx is already taken. Definately skin games are going to be popular there.
7. You can buy coins temporarily just so you can buy something...

This is so kludgey that I don't see it as a benefit, and IMO touting it as a benefit just makes Bitcoin look worse.

8. all the properties of Bitcoin can be adjusted if the majority of the network clients agrees with this fork

I suspect that there will be many Bitcoin forks, and none of them will take off due to a combination of path dependence (i.e. kooks sticking with "the true Bitcoin") and the paradox of choice.
Do you have a source for LinkedIn's popularity being greater than Amazon or eBay? compete.com (not always the most reliable source, I'll admit) lists both sites as being more than 3 times as popular.
> a disproportionate percentage of MY salary is used to support the poor relative to rich people.

The operative word there is "salary". Buffet had such a low (as a %) tax bill because most of his income isn't salary but cap gains.

Let's raise cap gains tax to 50% you say? Sounds great until you sell your house in a few years.
All business employees are redundant.
I recently heard from two companies (WhatsApp and Palantir Tech) which believe it is 100% redundant to hire business employees. No sales. No marketing. No business development. No customer support (though that's done by engineers). Just product engineers (and maybe an outside lawyer). A good product sells itself. Do you agree? For what type of companies does this hold true? And for how long? When (if ever) will this model bread down?
For that to be effective, any and all pornographic content in every other TLD will have to be banned. I don't see that happening...
As an aside, the Virtual-PC of 2007 or so could run Linux, and the one distributed (in a somewhat hard to find page) in 2010 can't.
It reminds me of the .mobi silliness. Why would a TLD, meant for the mobile devices, require one more keystroke, AND for the unfortunate people stuck using old phones with telephone keypads, require hitting 6 twice?
Mail Delivery May Stop in 2012 Unless Congress Frees Up Cash
Or you could just C-u M-x eshell.
Well previous hacks had the goal apparently of elevating malware to the top of the 'paid' app category. This might be similar, but it might just be a penny pinching campaign not unlike a fractional cent interest sweep or a stored value card chargeback scheme.

The address change is probably the 'verification' step to be sure they have the correct password.
I think we need it but its just like with GC. You cant just not worry about it any more. Developers need to learn about STMs. How the work, what there problems are and they need to learn programming with these implementations STMs.
As hated as Wal-Mart is, they have cut the cost of living for people with low wages. The after effects are up for debate.
What really needs to happen now is for lots of people to start registering domains for (preferably high profile) non-adult content websites.

Water down the domain so it no longer means much, so filtering by it becomes destructive.
My apologies, it appears I was looking at an outdated fork on GitHub. Off-topic, but I've always found that Google's rankings of GitHub repos to be complete garbage. It rarely shows the original or most active repo, and when it does instead of the link being to the top-level GitHub page for the project, it's some random issue or wiki page from the project. Endrant.

The architectural differences are still a huge concern, and why I never pursued collaboration back when I started it 6 months or so ago. Pinax is great at what it does, but to expand it into what I want a real startproject replacement to be I'd have to tear out way too much. It'd barely resemble Pinax anymore, which would just serve to confuse users.
To be clear: I think that some people really do believe that Bitcoin is going to overthrow the monetary system and free us all from the evil government. I also think that quite a few more people believe that Bitcoin can only go up (designed for deflation, right?)

"Bitcoin is a scam" is simply not enough to explain stuff from the Bitcoin bulletin to open source GPU mining software - hard work by obviously capable people, and not even remotely the most effective way to become rich.

Mind you, I think the "true believers" are incorrect, sometimes naive and occasionally downright stupid; but declaring them "evil" leaves quite a few unanswered questions. [EDIT: Even if the speculators are probably in the majority.]

(Also, I wouldn't be surprised if EVE had a foostone contract future market...)

EDIT: also, there was nothing wrong with the system design. A bit uninspired, maybe; current research involves zero-knowledge exchanges and the like.
> Proof that God exists: everyone in the world wakes up with a plate of cheesecake next to them and a note saying "I'm sorry for all the stuff that's messed up. I'm trying my best. -Yahweh" Done. Just an example.

You think that would work? I don't think it would. It'd be the talked-about event of the century for sure, but I don't think it would make any difference whatsoever in which people believed in God.

Think seriously about it. What would it be like if that actually happened? That and nothing else. If the church still had all the problems it does today. The Bible still had all the problems you perceive. The philosophical arguments against God's existence still apply. He still didn't save your mother/dog/goldfish back in 1998. Just . . . everyone has cheesecake and a note.

You'd credit God with having done that?

Instead of, say . . .
- Some really organized followers of his

- Someone who invented a new, let's say, matter/energy
conversion technology and wanted to play a prank on
the world

- Aliens approximately as advanced as Star Trek

- Mass delusion (everyone made their own cheesecakes
and notes -- maybe it's something in the water?)

- Some extradimensional powerful being that
nonetheless isn't Yahweh. More like Loki.

- Mass hallucination (mind control?) -- it didn't
happen but we all think it did.

- Proof positive that you are, in fact, a brain
in a vat.

- Some unexplained phenomenon that, whatever it might
be, sure as heck ain't God because of all the
problems with that

I mean, weren't you the one earlier in this thread telling lotharbot his mystical experiences could be explained by ghosts?

You know who would interpret it as evidence for God's existence? People who already believe in him. Miracles are like that. They are just another class of evidence; if the other classes aren't persuasive to you, they won't even rock your boat.

There is no such thing as proof in reality. No such thing at all. Philosophers will tell you that you can't prove your mother exists, and they're right.

Proof is too high a standard for real things. In the real world, all we have is evidence.
Ask HN: Validate idea - Twitter client that filters your stream
Hello HN,

Help me decide about my product idea. I'd like to make a twitter client that is able to do two things:

- filter stream noise "I waked, I ate" etc based on ML methods

- show you most popular discussions that your followed people are carrying (by means of my super secret algorithm), popular discussions based on topic etc. that you normally loose in a sea of noise

- maybe even organize your tweeted links under some taxonomy, or the tweets themselves, make graphs about what you tweet, etc.

Are these ideas on par with twitter client development laws? Should it better be a plugin to a popular client (which?, I never used any!)? Would you find it useful? How should I monetize it? Should I make it a web service? Anyone doing the same? Are these things profitable? Can twitter cut my string afterwards?
What about it indeed? .xxx doesn't solve that problem unless you forbid porn on every other domain.

In other words: .xxx really is a solution only for wannabe-censors.
So, who's gonna get lambdax.xxx ;-) ?
> > I know what the voice of God sounds like.

> And you are certain that it isn't from another agent like the devil?

Yeah, pretty sure. Experience. When your mother talks to you, are you sure it's her?

> I kind of wonder how you evaluate someone else as having that ability

They describe a similar experience. It's not all that different from determing that you and someone else know the same person.

> You don't accept that the Oracle of Delphi was legitimate right?

No, of course not. Just because I think there were legitmate prophets, and are people God chooses to speak to today, that doesn't mean I think all such claims are legitimate. In fact, most are bogus. A lot of the Christian ones, even, are bogus.

The existence of pseudoscience in no way leads me to doubt real science, and the existence of pseudoreligion has nothing to do with the reliability of real religion.

> Anyway, I think you are right that your claim is closer to out of body experience claims than other unfalsifiable ones.

Indeed. That's why I don't usually bring it up in apologetics. Sometimes I do, as it gives you an interesting dilemma -- I'm lying, confused, or . . . maybe telepathic space aliens? It's actually a tougher dilemma than it looks like. But I agree, it isn't really accessible evidence to other people. That's not what it's for, anyway.

> Still though if your claim proves to be false, that doesn't mean that God doesn't talk to humans. That claim is still unfalsifiable.

Well, it would mean that God doesn't talk to humans in the way I thought he did. It doesn't falsify the idea that he could sometime, somewhere, I suppose, but it does reduce it to zero evidence. I would have to change my answer from "of course" to "I don't know" plus a reasonable level of skepticism. Practically, I think that's about as good.

> I also have to ask if people can communicate with God then why don't people use that to finally solve all of the differences between the different denominations?

It doesn't work like that. God chooses when, where, and how to speak to us, and what he's going to say. We don't control him; he's the soverign one in the relationship.

Remember what I said earlier, about how faith doesn't revolve around miracles and personal revelation? It doesn't. We are intended to work things out, to work with evidence and history and reason. This is an age of scripture and faith, not prophets and temples. What God does supernaturally in people's lives . . . believe or not, that's at the fringe of modern Christian experience. It's not the core. And that's by his choice.

> Is Jesus really against minimum wage?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. I never claimed to know. You mean, would I ask him for you? No. It doesn't work that way.
This is working fine for me. I'm very impressed. Looks amazing and so much more to this than many apps that people put out.
Eric Schmidt Pegs Ice Cream Sandwich For Mid-Fall Release
yes, my last two posts have been about ice cream. What can I say, it's hot out in LA.
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Ask HN: YCombinator Term Sheet - Protective Provisions
I want to learn more about Angel and VC Terms Sheets and general investing legal documents and thought that the YCombinator Term Sheet (found here http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html) would be a great place to start. Everything in there I understand and seems to make sense. But, I have one question:
In the Protective provisions section, it states:

"So long as any of the Preferred is outstanding, consent of the holders of at least 50% of the Preferred will be required for any action that:"...
"(iii) approves any merger, sale of assets or other corporate reorganization or acquisition"

Because Preferred stock can be converted to common stock at any time surely this means that the owners of Preferred stock can convert 99.9% of their Preferred stock to common stock, and keep the 0.1% of Preferred stock through all rounds of funding and have final say on all matters mentioned in (iii) above?

Is this done in practice, what am I missing? (and thanks in advanced)