skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A hidden[0] GitHub feature I accidentially stumbled upon is autogenerated resume from public repos:

http://resume.github.com/?senko

Not a complete resume, to be sure, but a very decent start.

[0] well, to me; I didn't see it advertised much
Good riddance. I haven't had cable TV since 1993, and haven't watched TV since 2007. I used to miss it, but with shows on DVD and the internet, I don't any more.
This is a better attempt to describe the ideal internship from both sides:

http://stream.thisisapipe.com/post/5786867144/unclaimed-inte...

http://stream.thisisapipe.com/post/6740079459/internships-pa...
Marc Benioff and Eric Schmidt Keynote, Dreamforce 2011
I would love to know them too.
>This is definitely _not_ a technical issue.

Are there any ideas with a TRL>napkin?
This may include it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955153

[edit:] Actually it does, you can skip to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDl5hb0XbfY#t=41m38s
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I'm sure you're already aware of this, but just in case:

http://incanter.org/
Can you explain? I didn't understand this part of the conversation.
An alternate perspective: Google App Engine is still a fine platform even with the new price increases. (Which they told us were coming by the way)

And by the time the pricing takes effect the updated python runtime should bring costs down even more.

The instance costs are comperable to Heroku AND you get a high availability data store AND the ability to store really huge amounts of data in the blobstore AND a CDN for serving images from said blobstore. Not to mention background processes, task queue, XMPP, memcache, Multitenancy and multiple versions of apps so you can easily roll things back or test out updates painlessly.

Try and replicate that setup on Heroku or AWS for anywhere near the costs and time that you can get there with app engine.

While you're fighting with AWS and playing sysadmin or trying to think of ways to bring down the costs of Heroku's database services by using RDS instead or being nickel and dimed by add-on fees I'll be shipping code. Code that actually takes advantage of the platforms strengths.
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It was just a few weeks ago I was watching Steve Jobs give his pitch for Apple's new campus in California -- at one point Jobs broke out the idea that the benefit to the state was Apple paying their taxes. In other words the way a company is a good corporate citizen is by increasing the tax base. What's sad here is that Jobs was talking about payroll tax, not even sales tax. The right thing for Amazon to do is to collect that tax instead of cheating the kids of California. Also special deals for big companies (be it Amazon or Walmart) are always unfair to small companies that don't get the same breaks. If you're going to give a sales tax holiday to anyone it should be startup companies in California that can use the boost.
The media needs the sports-like entertainment that lives inside startups to sell their stories, don't get upset because these other successful businesses are not talked about all the time, they just are not that mainstream and IMO some people don't like the attention, so they go low profile and still are extremely successful, just like you know someone did something great at some point that changed your life, and you never got to know who did it.
This is where we started: http://37signals.com/manifesto
Shell as in a pe[a]rl oyster.
Your auto generated resume looks good. I tried with mine, it looks more like a same resume template parsed over & over again, not much of logic there. Yeah, but we can say a decent start.

Good to know you enjoy C.
For the record: That money wasn't used to fund operations. 100% of operations have always been funded by customer-generate revenues.
I don't think you should ever let the "possible 'follower' perception" hold you back, especially if you have a legitimate claim to the idea and think you can execute well. Don't let yourself trip over the starting line!
Cant say that I'm a fan of his tactics, but the Man's seemingly omnipresent influence on the tech world is undeniable.
See also the intuitive explanation:

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes

Hilarious blurb about priors about 1/3rd of the way in.

Q. How can I find the priors for a problem?
A. Many commonly used priors are listed in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

Q. Where do priors originally come from?
A. Never ask that question.

Q. Uh huh. Then where do scientists get their priors?
A. Priors for scientific problems are established by annual vote of the AAAS. In recent years the vote has become fractious and controversial, with widespread acrimony, factional polarization, and several outright assassinations. This may be a front for infighting within the Bayes Council, or it may be that the disputants have too much spare time. No one is really sure.

Q. I see. And where does everyone else get their priors?
A. They download their priors from Kazaa.

Q. What if the priors I want aren't available on Kazaa?
A. There's a small, cluttered antique shop in a back alley of San Francisco's Chinatown. Don't ask about the bronze rat.
Seashell > Computing Shell

Pearl > Perl
I'm a big fan of Apple tech, but if this turns out to be true, I hope they throw the book at Apple.
Exactly, drawing/layout is cheap, cheap, cheap on iOS devices.
PERL is something you use for scripting inside of a SHELL.

The name comes from the fact that pearls are formed within a creature that has a shell.

Ruby is another precious stone like a pearl.
You realize that you're looking at a 399 line script, right? A couple of globals are perfectly reasonable at that scale.

Also note that checking for "x is not None" is the recommended, idiomatic Python style (see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ for reference).

More importantly, the script works, and was apparently used by quite a few people. Rewriting something that is already known to work, just because you don't like its style, is generally a bad idea.
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Fair advice I suppose. Ideally I'd like to never have it happen though. :P
State governments do not have the right to collect sales tax from companies that have no presence in their state.
Bono defends Steve Jobs, calls him 'poetic' and 'invaluable'
I agree, it would make weeding through the threads easier for all involved. While the two are related, the consumers of each are wholly independent in their pursuits. I vote for splitting them.
I predict that in 6 months to a year, Starz will come crawling back to Netflix, begging for reinstatement in Netflix's lineup. With that Netflix can offer a much lower rate, leading to a win-win for us consumers.

Personally, if some movies disappear from Netflix that I want to watch, I'll just wait to watch them later. There's no way in hell I'd pay for the Starz channel (ignoring the fact that I dropped my cable tv entirely a year ago now, don't miss it at all).
Edit: sounds intriguing, especially if it doesn't require any kind of vendor support and I can forward it anything.

I would love to beta-test, if anyone's listening.
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Thanks for the feedback! You're not missing it, we haven't quite built browse-by-genre yet. Early users didn't mention it, but just recently we've heard this feedback from quite a few people, so it's definitely on the list.
Wow, So Ruby was almost named Coral. Imagine programming in Coral on curtails.

Incidentally, there is actually a language named Coral ( a general purpose programming language based on ALGOL-60 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_66 )
First off, thanks for writing Design for Hackers.

What distracted me when I was reading this post is that many parts of the page appear to be improperly aligned: http://i.imgur.com/77bVj.png
Yep, I was at Convore, but left that company to start this one.
Another terribly interesting sci-fi author was Jules Verne. He made many predictions about the future in several of his works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century#...
For a website that is concerned with design matters, it is odd that it uses @font-face typeface that makes it virtually unreadable on Windows.

http://i51.tinypic.com/1jusfs.png
How much capital do you need (roughly) ?

If you've got customers willing to pay for it why not get a loan/investment from them ?
Correlate is great, but the hand-drawn year-by-year search is really not all that useful - wither you have something in mind and prime your graph, or you get the obvious things.

Monthly correlations, however, would be tremendously useful. Every industry has its own calendar, conference season, and economic 'tides', and understanding these is a key marketing task.
I find this to be an even better explanation: http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theorem/
I shouldn't have lumped Iran with the rest of them, you are right about that -- it is a completely different story. I stand corrected.

But I don't think I was overstating when I claimed

> Israel was the ONLY dependably-US friendly country in the middle east

Look at your own dates: that's 30 years (1948 till 1978) in which Israel was almost the only middle eastern country WITHOUT soviet influence -- and one that's strategically positioned near the Suez canal.

We are not in disagreement about the reasons, only about the magnitude.

Re: training experience - I've heard differently from people who were involved. "Conventional war" is still not a standard thing, and knowledge of your enemies' doctrine is golden. From what I heard, the whole Iraqi doctrine in '91 (where you put your defense tanks, how you back out when outnumbered, how you plan your battlefield supply chain, how you plan ambushes, etc) was almost exactly the same as Syria's '67, and getting all that info from the Israeli army made life much easier for the US Army.

(For all I know, this was self-glorification and/or disinformation from the Israeli side, but it was supported by supposedly knowledgeable US people I inquired with)
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A company you've never heard of is #1 in BI's top tech company list
Pricey? It's $5 for gmail.com, $15 for Google Apps. If it generates one extra sale, it's paid for itself.

I do understand that if you're using this for personal communications, that might feel pricey.
neither is objectively "better". Try them both out and use what you prefer personally.
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I found this article really interesting, Read all the way through it on my phone and made sure to come online to comment.

I have to find myself agreeing that the competency based off of actual employers is one of the best way to get stuff done. And now if KA can get actual teachers and setup actual accreditation systems then all these for-profit groups will be under even more pressure. As people that want these services to thrive I feel the best way for us to allow this to happen is to help them market their schools. Blog posts etc etc that link to the site will hopefully make a google search for "online college" send WGU and Khan to the top.

I for one may be signing up. (I already attend Khan to learn about linear algebra.) Having a business degree from WGU would round out my current repertoire rather nicely I think.
DonorsChoose, Skillshare, Tutorspree, General Assembly... are these not useful businesses? This list could go on.

If anything this article should be more of a critique of the list Business Insider put together than the NYC startup scene. Just because Business Insider isn't writing about "useful" businesses doesn't mean they don't exist.
A few months ago we launched a service called http://Songtrust.com, we are helping bring music publishing to songwriters of all levels. Our aim is to be as songwriter friendly as possible, we only charge a subscription and we do not take any % of royalties. We also let our songwriters opt out of the 'deal' with us at any time. That way if a traditional publisher comes knocking with a big advance check(which often is just a really bad bank loan at usurious rates - another one of the reasons publishing gets such a bad rap) or if a publisher with Sync expertise in your genre offers to better exploit (which is the technical term) your music. We also offer sync opportunities through a partnership with dms.fm on a non-exclusive basis (meaning our customers can go shop their syncs other places)

We help songwriters get affiliated with a PRO(like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC), register all their songs and help them collect their royalties just like any other publisher. We also register their songs with The Harry Fox Agency(HFA) which will be collecting mechanicals from record sales and also from Youtube and Spotify. All of this you could do yourself but it's a huge pain in the neck involving a lot of paperwork and a ton of time. We like to think of it like having a professional do your taxes for you.

Soon we will be coming out with a product aimed at Bands instead of individual songwriters, which we hope will be a huge hit for the giant group of indie bands who will never get a publishing deal but will be owed publishing monies.We were spun out of a traditional publishing company called Downtown Music Publishing, we are well funded, have paying customers, and since this is HN I can’t help but plug that we are hiring folks who want to come help change get songwriters paid: (http://blog.songtrust.com/jobs/front-end-developer-ux-design...)
I have stated several times in the past that by the time Netflix has the selection that cable does it will cost about the same price. If people were upset by the recent price increases they should prepare themselves for the future.
I totally agree with you. As a small business I would not want to share those types of messages with a third party especially when they have no monetization strategy defined on their web site. I don't want my customers ending up with better "offers" from my competitors in the next 6 months. Maybe I am too cautious and paranoid, but to me using a local system seems the only sane way to address the follow up reminder need.
Google replies to Oracle: "No, APIs are not protected by copyright"
Wow, so agreed, accessing the DOM each time data() is called would be slower. There is a bigger problem though, they have created a situation where a person would reasonably think that it works in a certain way, but it doesn't work that way at all.

This is the first place I have seen this behavior documented. Luckily, I have not ran into problems because of the weird behavior, but this could clearly cause a developer some confusion.
Interesting that you think it's Amazon that is cheating the kids in CA and not the politicians (or other huge lobby siphoning money from the CA tax payers).

With that said, state sales tax has always been about collecting tax if the business has a presence in the state. This works for Amazon all the way down to the mom and pop that sells across the internet to people in another state.

Most (all?) states have a line item on their tax forms where the tax payer can write in a value on items they purchased out of state and need to pay taxes on. I'm guessing very few people fill that line in. It touches on another problem that no one wants to pay taxes (they always want someone else to pay), yet they want more and more services from the government.
This is a summary of tips from TapJoy's webinar from last Wednesday. They did a great job of outlining a lot of different monetization tips, but their free-to-play tips were the best.
meta hockeystick, anyone?

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:OLR9M7vEA...
Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our undergrad internship earnings
Yahoo Maps API shutting down Sept 13
the resulting C code is unreadable, which turns maintenance into a nightmare.

I've been doing embedded development for a few years and I love our state machines, they're a pleasure to work with. Maybe yours just sucked.
due to some OO reason or other

Overloading would be that reason.
I do not know if wakemate made any improvements lately but after giving it a try several times after I got it, I gave up. It sits in a box alongside old power adapters and other cables.

The main problem for me was when I toss and turn at night, it loses contact with the phone (sitting on the end table) and starts screaming 'Lost contact, lost contact'.

If I continued to use it, my wife would have thrown me out onto the patio to sleep.

There were several other occasions where wakemate never woke me up.

I would have loved to see wakemate work, I wanted to root for a startup, see them succeed. You only get so many chances with a single customer. In my books, they failed badly on their promise. continuously. starting with their delivery of the product and then later with the product itself.
Economic history ignored leads to the inevitable
My point that I try to make is that "Advertising works" is nonsense statement (that statement is attempt to advertise itself), and proof given in article therefore also nonsense,
Advertising is not true and false kind of thing. (works or doesn't work) Nature of advertising is like tricks . it can be revealed in some moment in time. so advertising must adapt. and it wont work in 100% of cases and all the time.(Proof: go look at advertisments in 50s and look them today, notice any difference?) so it is not 1 or 0 like in computers , but is in scales and dynamic.
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anyone have experience with node on heroku, with all the jazz (mongo, redis, socket.io)?
It appears that the chart is being misinterpreted. The cost per hour is less under the new pricing and I believe the total hours is calculated for the month.
Do you like whitespace? ;)
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This is not entirely related, but Lewis and Tolkien belonged to an interesting group of authors who often held discussions at pubs near Oxford.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inklings
Personal cloud-server gizmo goes mobile
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I broadly agree - lots of hype and a bewildering array of features, but no reason to use it unless you are some kind of academic or lucky enough to be in the right kind of job for playing with general purpose high level languages.

In my world (job) you either have to squeeze every possible cycle out of the innermost loops or get new hardware land on your desk which has an assembler and C compiler, maybe even a buggy, unfinished C++ compiler if you are super lucky. This probably sways me heavily against having an especially deep interest in all of these newer languages... I guess there might be some appeal if you are stuck with having to write code which targets JVM.

Real programmers write Fortran anyway, right? (j/k obviously they write C++ [j/k]) :)
Maybe. There are more things in a large city than jobs that can move anywhere. Friends. Potential new friends. Entertainment. Recreation. Concentration of goods and their presumably cheaper prices. Scenery. Yes, all of those things can be had elsewhere, but each individual has his own mix of things for which nothing will do but the specific instance available in a specific location.
Lots of people happily live in cities that aren't Detroit. Lots of people even prefer to live in cities over suburbs.
It's still half an hour, whether or not you're able to do something else during that period of time. I think the cost of oil and, in time, energy in general will work to increase rather than decrease population density in the long run.
I'm not related to YC in any way, but why would they take you and tie you down in the Valley when you have so much running around left to do? On the other hand, they might call the banks for you and get you in where you couldn't have. But again you're focusing on Latin America, so I am not sure how much pull they have in that region.

On one hand it seems like you have a very strong application, on the other hand I see them passing on you by saying "they need some more time out there in the wild, we will take them in the next cycle or the one after."

However, they have stated in the past they don't care that much for ideas, they invest in people not any other thing, so I guess if you show to them that you're the right team for this project then they might talk to you.

Either way, nothing is the end, except death or disease, and you seem to be onto something great, so use phones and emails when you can't travel, or just work locally. Grow organically by narrowing your scope and then fueling growth with the cash flows. Easier said than done, I know.

Good luck my friends!
All the services mentioned charge per month, but FollowUp.cc also has a Free plan, not sure about the others.
Nope, Google doesn't work that way. No business units get P&L's, it's part of their overall financial strategy.
I once, as a manager, had the most brilliant employee, who did not shower regularly. Others didn't want to work with him. When all development could go through version control, it worked fine; When there was need for interactive team work, it didn't work at all.

Depends on how work flows in your organization, I guess.
Yes, I take exception to my statement also. I did not actually mean anti-depressives, I was thinking of harder stuff: cocaine, heroine, meth. Very poorly worded on my part.
Agreed, and we're also just at the beginning of teleconferencing. Once teleconferencing can approximate more of the nuances of being in a room or building with a group or people (Google Huddle's automatic focusing on the speaker in a group chat is a nice example), it will become increasingly possible to run an organization of remotely connected workers.
OK! Well, check this out:

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/63010/Raising-Money-On-...

If you can get 1 key investor or endorser, you're pretty much in. How do you get that key? Usually from networking in person, or by having stellar metrics that people can't turn down at least talking to you.
The AWS APIs are a twisty maze of passages, all [nearly] alike.

The management console is okay if you just want an instance or two, but it still strikes me that AWS is best when you want (or need) to automate allocation of cloud services. Libraries like Python's Boto are great way to get the basics taken care of, like working with S3 and spinning up/shutting down EC2 instances, without having to fret too much about the raw AWS APIs.

Beyond the basics, it's quite common to want to spin up a web of resources (EBS, load balancers, security groups, elastic IPs) along with new EC2 instances. The console isn't ideal for that, but Cloud Formation is fairly good: CFN allows you declare the resources you want and their relationship to one other. Construction is transactional, so you either get a working web or you get nothing. The Cloud Formation syntax is JSON and a little wonky -- there are things like functions to do table lookups so you have some semblance of making choices -- but it's serviceable.

(For sanity we use YAML for Cloud Formation and convert to JSON before sending it up to AWS. JSON lacks comments and sucks to hand-edit on deeply nested structures. Some of our YAML is hand-written; some of it generated by our Fabric scripts.)
Agreed. The number of instance hours is vastly different on the two charts; the price seems to be going from .10 / hr to .08 per hour (currently .04).
Mixpanel and KISSMetrics are both on to the right idea I think, but neither of them are hitting it out of the park as far as I'm concerned.

I've used both, but just rolled my own system.
It's a unique place and I'm proud to work there. Pretty much defies all the conventional SV wisdom and hype, but is creating something much more enduring that 99% of start-ups.