skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all bills are periodic. For example, I've paid a lot of late parking ticket fees.
Here is the press release:
http://www.pandonetworks.com/Pando-Networks-Releases-Global-...
Is There More Actual hacking or More Reporting of Hacking?
Does that handle double detours, where two different programs each patch the same function?

That was the most entertaining/frustrating (depending on your world view; it made the journey way more interesting, but also a lot longer) part of hacking classic Mac OS.

You would have a zillion extensions (apple and third party) each patch tens of OS calls, both at startup and, in cases where the Finder reset patches, after the Finder launched, or even after every application launched (to get your code running at such times, you would have to patch another OS call). On PowerPC machines you would have the added fun of patching PPC code with 68k code and vice versa.

That that _sometimes_ worked was really mind boggling. Relative to that, patching your own libc seems easy.
If you write code that you give away, your project is technically open source. After all, you don't have the code that your CPU uses to translate x86 instructions into its internal opcodes, but you can still use an open-source operating system on top of it.

In this particular, an interested party would only have to rewrite one library, instead of one library and one application on top of it. So it's a win, even if it's not GNU-certified Free Software.
All I know is that at school when I'm on public computers, sometimes I'll accidentally use bing without noticing, do a couple queries, get frustrated by not finding the link that I'm looking for (often a course website), notice I'm using bing, and switch over.
The same argument really strikes both sides of the path. Avoiding the water because you can't swim seems reasonable, but no one has ever learned to swim without jumping in the water.

Speaking for myself, the only reason I can (appear to) pull prototypes out of thin air is that I've done it more times than I can keep track of. Even then, there are unique challenges almost every time.
Every time you make a PowerPoint Edward Tufte kills a kitten
Then use bitbucket, recently after they updated the website its actually really good service
Nintendo employees are apparently "losing hope"
It says they pay extra to compensate. This gives the employee to choose their own health care provider. I would think that is better than having it chosen for you buy your employer.
The words 'Software Developer' are in 260% type at the top of the page.

If they're looking to weed out unsuitable candidates, TLDR might be a feature rather than a bug.
A developer job? It sounds like support/sysadmin.

A pay pal transaction not completing due to a network outage is an ops issue not a dev issue.

Also, what's the pay? When you talk to actual developers the biggest issue is the problems finding out what the job actually pays. I hate talking to recruiters that won't tell me what it pays. When you don't tell me what it pays that clicking sound you hear is me clicking the back button. It's a job, I go there to get paid, not take shitty pay to hear platitudes about how we're doing what we love.

If I want to take a chunk of my salary to have people go blow smoke up my ass I'd rather see a professional of my choosing.

As far as the gerbil thing is concerned, it's called producer/consumer. You use a message queue (SQS?) to store the work and you use the gerbils to 'consume' it. You store the state of the books in something called a "database" and you store the "master book" encrypted publicly on a CDN. The server puts a message in the queue telling the gerbil how to customize the book along with the URL for the master and the key to decrypt it. For pragmatic programmers they sure go out of there way to obscure that it's a simple producer / consumer model using SVN and a bunch of caches as a message queue / database monstrosity.

As for the coderay thing I'd rather just use the F# syntax parser from F# and decorate the AST as F# is my favorite language and it would take a couple hours to do it that way. As a pragmatic programmer I don't much care to implement a half assed parser in another language.
Byty k pron�jmu Praha
> I like the transaction searching capabilities shown in the demo, but I was hoping to see more info on how to do actual "banking" tasks. Can I initiate a wire transfer from an internet cafe in Laos? Can people send a check to an address in the US that automatically gets deposited in my account? That sort of thing. When these guys came on the scene, I got the impression that that was the kind of thing they'd be doing better than other banks. Frankly, sorting my past transactions just isn't a problem I desperately need to have solved.

Did you watch the whole thing? They showed sending money through the website. You can deposit checks by mail or with your phone (take a picture).

https://banksimple.com/faq/
Thanks for the feedback. We agree about the pics and had been toying with the idea a little. We're working now on a way to integrate some into the landing page.
I couldn't agree more. After trying several other support platforms moving to Assistly drastically changed our process for the better. Good for them!
> I think Google is right here. If you mark something as a sequence, it is reasonable to presume that the start of the sequence is the normal entry point, in this case the front page of your blog.

Imagine applying your rule to Google Book Search. Google found the word "fizbit" on page 2031 of a book. I click on the link and Google takes me to the FIRST PAGE of the book. So I get to hunt through the book page by page until I find that word.

The same thing applies to web pages of all kinds. Here's my maxim: if Google has a result for your query to some term, then clicking on that result better take you to a page with the term on it. Otherwise Google's result was a waste of your time.
Not shocked, I was a little bummed.

Would you recommend just granting some equity to try and engender the "ownership" aspect?
Other things being equal, more choice might be better. But other things aren't equal, thanks to (a) economies of scale, which make insurance cheaper for larger pools, and (b) favorable tax treatment for health insurance when it's part of employee compensation.
I am excited by the 'how much can I spend' feature and NLP search. And this is the first bank that I would consider moving to. However, my current bank, rather a credit union is absolutely phenomenal in terms of online banking. I have had quite a few different banks accounts in my young life and am very impressed by the level of innovation from a relatively small institution.

My credit union is UW Credit Union. They have recently launched an updated version of their site as well as previously included Mint like features. It is great. I feel as though that as soon as UW Credit Union gets wind of BS, if they haven't already, will incorporate some of what BS is doing.

Banking is definitely an industry ready to be disrupted.
Raphael.js, in case you're wondering.
Google was once important for growth, now it's not just #2, but irrelevant.
And the team plans offer very little value for money vs the normal plans...

It'd be great if you could trade diskspace for # of repositories or something like that.
The Back button should never say "back"
I recently switched to Unfuddle for private repos. It's designed for small teams and freelancers.
I'm not sure what you mean. You can't try a new widget instead of the Google Search one? Or are you saying that widget should allow you to switch to Bing?
Shouldn't you name your package CODE instead of "MagicalCoderef" so that ref returns the "right" value? :)
Why Jive is a dinosaur & Dropbox is the future
Spotsi does look very cool...
I have missed paying a few parking tickets myself. I guess I don't think of non-recurring payments as bills. That is probably just due to the way the term is used in popular culture.
One thing I love is that I can have checks mailed to Bank Simple, and they'd automatically deposit the monies in my account.

I get quite a few checks, but not enough that I'd want to get a check scanning machine for.

I'm on the beta list, and hope for an invite.
The "next door" bit folds some interesting hits into your Google results.
PHP and its dangerous variable variables
Free wire transfers are great, but what does that do for you when you have a check in your hand? How about both?
such a coincidence that this happens the day I created a Bitbucket account :)
Looks like a job as a system administurbator cleaning digital bed pans, with occasional programming.
Does Your Chair Have Your Back?
Maybe this is too pessimistic, but perhaps the challenge is just serving to filter out people who don't know what version control, EC2, or caching are, or who can't form a mental model of the problem based on the short description provided.
Where Do Your Opinions Lay in the MLM Success Debate?
If you're asking if we favor our own maps properties, damn right we do.

That sound bite would be taken out of context, and the game would be over for Google.
It's not, because individual health insurance plans can basically drop you for any reason. Losing group health insurance is a horribly bad deal.
Eric Schmidt: I am not a cook.

So who cooks the algo Eric?
Overreaction: Al Gore Only Announced the Month of the Next iPhone
Anyone know what the legality of that is? What would my recourse be if someone forged an e-mail from me that caused me damages? Is it just a civil matter, or would this be criminal?
Skype CEO: Our Goal Is to Connect 1 Million Classrooms
They recently added a second lesson. But I agree, the level of content is not sufficient yet. I was more suggesting that they use it as a resource for learning the very basics and then move on.
CSSOff - Friendly Markup Fisticuffs
Good point. Schmidt mentioned that competitors have similar features, but I didn't connect the idea that they're all doing very similar things, which they probably are, with the idea that those features are part of any complete search product.

You could imagine Bing implementing a preference which will automatically swap in Google's Maps, News, etc. in place of home-grown versions whenever you search on Bing. If such a preference is feasible (leads to an okay user experience), it would help make the case that these ancillary features are in fact separable from basic search, and that Google ought to do the same. My guess is Google wouldn't mind that terribly.
True, but decoupling who performs surgery on you children and your current employer may be worth something.
Five Skills Entrepreneurs Need according to Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe.
Your reasoning is flawed!
have you used either one? because you'd understand why acquiring assistly is more attractive.
Google's Competitors Falsely Claim Google Dominates Because It Was 'First'
Get South Africa vs Namibia live streaming  (qq2011)
South Africa vs Namibia
Match schedule:
Date: September 2011 Thu 22
Rugby World Cup
Time: 20:00 local, 08:00 GMT
Venu: North Shore City
watch today South Africa vs Namibia live streaming and also you can
enjoy Rugby World Cup 2011 full season here.
The ad is pretty good but could be improved if they find they are not getting enough qualified candidates. Maybe they are getting plenty and there is no need for changes. But if so I recommend the following.

I would change "software developer" to "site administrator" given that the first example in a typical day's work deals with resolving web site issues.

With the F# syntax highlighter code required to apply, I'd feel more comfortable if I knew they already had one and this isn't an issue of trying to get free work out of people. Also, requiring it to be implemented a certain way is out of scope and unnecessarily narrows the field by rejecting qualified candidates who aren't going to learn their special tool.

The salary offered should be clearly listed.

And finally, the no health care provided is unacceptable, which seriously will restrict the caliber of candidates interested. If this was a contractor position, which would be reasonable given that it is remote and the contractor is expected to own, use and maintain all their own tools, then that would be perfectly fine, however the rate would of course reflect that of hiring a contractor/consultant. But as an employee, in 2011, there are plenty of software employee jobs that provide benefits and very few serious ones that don't. Because the rate is not quoted I am highly skeptical that the claim that the rate is higher to compensate for lack of benefits is correct.
such a good service - hope the project continues to receive the kind of stewardship it has gotten thus far.

if you haven't tried it, you're missing out.
When you say popular, you mean failure. It is the small form factor that has made the difference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Gorilla_arm
Redescoserra's Bookmarks on Delicious
But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).
The next generation resume for developers and geeks
This is the myopia of the affluent. Many people, not just 23 year olds, do live paycheck to paycheck, and need to know on any given day how much they can spend without overdrawing. The answer to this question is hard to find from most banks, who make money from fees and have an interest in their poorer customers overdrawing their accounts by a few bucks so they can charge an overdraft fee. This is a problem that, for instance, Elizabeth Warren has talked about a lot.

Banksimple is trying to build a bank that doesn't suck, and banks suck for a lot of reasons. These features will be helpful to anyone who is living on a low income, either due to misfortune or choice.
Client and Project Management in the Cloud
Rails in a week — day 0
Meg Whitman may replace HP CEO Leo Apotheker
be a US resident

Any particular reason? A lot of US companies are looking further afield because they can't find the talent in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa

Disclaimer: I don't qualify, I come from the land of potatoes, I just live in Sydney and get hounded by US recruiters for my troubles...
Who would want a job working for people like this?

How much does it pay? Assuming you are guaranteed a year's salary and that that salary is in the $millions range, it doesn't seem like a total waste of time.

I volunteer myself for this job.
Everyone wants to be a news filter now
Has anyone gone back and attempted to correlate these scores with ultimate success of the start-ups? Obviously there is the possibility (even probability) of self-fulfilling prophecy, but it would still be interesting to see if the scores have the potential for real predictive value, or are mere rationalization.
And that the first month of TechStars is a lot of back-and-forth, matching startups with mentors and mentors with startups. Where all three months of YC is build, build, build. (And getting ready to demo.) To stretch an academic metaphor, TechStars reminds me of a residential college (where you do everything with your cohort) and YC reminds me of the traditional Oxbridge model (some lectures, lots of independent study and regular one-on-one sessions).

Neither is particularly "right" or "wrong", they're just different models.
Perhaps the intent of my comment doesn't convey well. I'm not really trying to judge the quality of this challenge. Actually, I just thought it was interesting and was curious if my initial "obvious" solution would actually provide improvement. Ie, I was trying to ascertain if this was one of those the obvious idea is the worse idea scenarios.

Obviously the best solution would be to keep updating the base instance image with new books so it could start up up to date as was suggested in another comment below. But ignoring that possibility what other options can we explore to increase performance? I just genuinely wanted to discuss the problem and find out if its nature was one that got more interesting the harder you looked at it.
I believe their results page is largely automated based off of Crunchbase data. From what I understand it's not necessarily their metrics, but just the ones that people ask about and are fairly easy to access. (Particularly since what you're asking for is sensitive/confidential info!)
Bank of America seems to have some Mint-like thing that integrates your non-Bank accounts in their web interface. Theoretically it's some piece of packaged software that banks buy.
Yes, that is correct, rates are considerably cheaper per person in a group. But crucially, if you have preexisting conditions you can actually get covered. Insurance companies won't insure people with many preexisting conditions, and when they will insure them the rates can be completely impossible to swing. So let's say you have a stable job with insurance but you have diabetes, or perhaps you are a cancer survivor. If you switch to this job, you will have no insurance and you will not be able to get any. Or consider that you are unemployed. Now you might have state Medicaid insurance. Taking this job means you lose it AND you can't get insurance since they don't offer it.

Or something less serious. A developer who is pregnant for example is basically uninsurable as an individual except also by state Medicaid, which is available to the poor in the US. What if you have AIDS taking long term drug therapy, or you are a paraplegic developer? You will not be insurable as an individual. A disabled developer, or a pregnant one would not be able to take this job with no benefits. In some cases this sort of no insurance policy can work well as a way of screening out candidates that some software companies may consider undesirable, including women of child bearing age, the disabled, and other groups.
this is very cool, but it seems like you'd need to replace the liquid layer (globules) every now and then. the abstract says that it's "locked in place" by the teflon substrate, but the summary in the linked article characterizes the liquid as being "poured on". does anyone have more info? google isn't helping much ("SLIPS" is cute, but not so good for searching).
This is SERIOUSLY cool.

However: I really can't make out what people are saying on the radio. (Not just this one, in general.) Am I alone?
Hewlett-Packard: Worst Board Ever?
I can't speak for the down-voters, but I disagree with you on the grounds that Google is not free. You seem to be confusing its users with its customers. The advertisers are the customers. The have terrible customer service for people who don't spend a bundle, you can point out faults with their penalties and get a response of "meh" (when you eventually do get a response). In principle I can see great harm from a Google monopoly, not the least harmed being myself as a small G customer.

That said, I can't argue this article specifically because I didn't rtfa, and probably won't until much later if at all.
Startup offers autistics' skills for software testing
Things Apple is Worth More Than
Another new service on the scene, providing cheap unlimited git hosting repositories, is sourcehold.com specifically to help solve this problem.

Full Disclosure: I am writing it, and it is still in beta.
Code samples are something not enough places look at when reviewing people. Asking for this particular task doesn't bother me, it reduces the noise from people blasting resumes. Conversely a quick google search isn't far from finding a solution to that problem....

Agreed, on the health insurance angle, it'd be interesting to see what the compensation is, and if it increases at the rate of health care premiums. Lastly, until 2014 in the US, people with pre-existing conditions may simply not be able to obtain health insurance (one of the only advantages to work pooled health plans).

Conversely I think it's pretty progressive to not have health insurance, and allowing me to choose, but also as a result I can not apply for this position simply because I cannot insure my family outside a work plan until 2014.
It's more likely the recruiter just didn't realize that the employee had already been placed at WePay. For whatever reason, communication at recruiting firms is terrible. I suspect it has something to do with recruiters not wanting their coworkers to steal their commission.
Code availability from anywhere without having to manage your own repo server.

Even for a single dev it might be worth it to be able to check out to your normal dev workstation, your laptop, and even on a totally random pc when the need arises. It also allows you to checkup on things through the web when a pc to checkout on isn't available.
Gamers discover protein structure that could help in war on HIV
In theory this will improve in 2014, as long as Congress doesn't make another radical course shift (so yeah...)

http://www.healthcare.gov/blog/2011/01/preexisting.html
There's a popular series of Ruby on Rails tutorial videos called Railscasts. Someone decided to textualize all of them--Asciicasts--because text has the benefit of being easily searchable.

For me, I went straight for the doc so I could a quick scan. I just didn't have the time this morning to read or listen to all of it. If I could do a sped-up listen through, I might consider it.

I would say in general having both an audio and text format is more powerful than just having one or the other.
That's great in theory, but given the absurdities of my dealings with my insurance company for my individual plan, I sometimes long for the days when I had a group plan.

Example: I was recently informed that I'm now one mile outside of their coverage area. Getting them to initiate transfer of coverage to a new insurer is harder than pulling teeth. And they offered to do it. But I've had to spend several hours on the phone with them this week simply trying to find out if they did, in fact, contact the new insurer.

Edit: Of course, they hadn't, but by a cosmic coincidence the paperwork went out yesterday, the third day in a row of escalating frustrations. I think they just got sick (pun intended) of talking to me.
I'm almost scared to ask what you're finding. My searches aren't really returning anything too off topic as long as the word "soup" is also in there.
Well deserved. The team has consistently brought the kinds of functionality we need as developers since they launched the service. Kudos guys!
Why would you have a cheque in your hand if you and everyone else have the option of using wires?
This would be much better than face pixelation on Google street view.
One side-affect of having your projects on Github is that they are now backed up and you won't lose all your work if you drop your laptop or your drive goes kaboom.
Cutting it into tiles and creating a custom Google Maps view of it would have been nice. It looks[1] reasonably simple to do, and means your users don't need to try and render a 15kpixel wide image. Even with 4G (ok, that's not all that much these days, but I still consider it reasonable) of RAM, it took down my browser.

[1] https://webtide.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/adding-google-maps-...
"Google rigs its results," say critics at Senate antitrust hearing
How patent claims work
Chanel logo necklaces for sale
Proof again you can hit it big despite a stupid domain name.
How are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!
Biggest Gainers On The Forbes 400
So was the recruiter pulling a spam shotgun, or did that engineer just do a really great job of self-promotion?

Also, of the portfolio sites you linked, Sacha's seems to be the good one. The others make errors ranging from "dies with no JavaScript" (Alex, Zach) to "spends the whole page talking about their childhood" (Zach) to "what is this, I don't even" (Dustin). Alex and Zach pass if we're talking about a junior role, but I'd filter them if it was for a sole or senior role.
Google kicks off the social banner war