skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize there was a trend. I didn't want to choose India, because that really is a stereotype. I thought of going with Poland, but we Brits and Poland have a lengthy history of allegiance, so heck, why not go a bit further south?

Seriously though, Romania is great, but it is definitely a popular place for crazy quotes on eLance.com to come from, along with India, the Philippines, and the Ukraine. This isn't any sort of xenophobia or racism - just reality.

Imi pare foarte rau!
if you can wait it out a bit, USB 3

yum!

[edit] aww crap, now it's saying i have to wait till 2010 till USB 3 hits. that... that's longer than Longhorn 7!
I don't see this working.

The idea, from my understanding is: (1) Make a contract with yourself on the site and back it with your own cash, (2) If you satisfy the contract you keep your money or lose it to a charity etc if you don't, (3) You are trusted to decide whether or not you have satisfied the terms of the contract unless you optionally select a referee (friend etc) to monitor you and report back to the site separately.

If you do not select a referee the contracts are meaningless as you can lie to keep your money if you fail to meet the terms laid out. If you do have a referee then you are probably lucky enough that you would not need this site anyway - just give your friend the money and tell them to donate it to charity if you don't do X, Y and Z.
Introducing Gmail for mobile 2.0
It is overwhelmingly unproductive profit. Which really isn't profit in the long run. A few great boosts to our general standard of living have come from military research during wars and arms races, but most of the money is spent foolishly. Eventually everyone pays the piper for that kind of mis-allocation, so in a way it is anti-profit.
Emergency Microsoft Patch Issued, Exploit code in wild
What is an “unauthenticated user”?
Umm its on T-Mobile and their 3G coverage pales in comparison to Verizon and At&T.

Definitely want one, but am waiting!
Private Access seeks to share health data for patients without giving up privacy
"How can I make something impractical and expensive, yet very tantalizing for the poor this time, instead of geeks?"
If the Coalition had just been after the oil, the Iraq situation would look very different. The oilfields aren't in Baghdad or Sadr City, after all. It would have been straightforward enough to seize the oilfields, staff them with Western engineers, patrol just the pipelines and leave the rest of the country completely alone. That scenario is a perfectly plausible one. So the age of economic war is not over per se, it just doesn't happen to be en vogue right now.
NICE! Had no idea it's that easy! I'll do it soon :)

Thanks a million vlad!
Indexhibit: bare-bones CMS displays HTML pages, a navigation bar, and that's it.
The major defense contractors all serve in the field. Boeing has loads of people in Iraq. There's no conflation. All the big defense tech players have seen big increases in profitability since the war.
I was tempted to buy a imac too. but new ones are $1300 and up.

How much did you pay for yours and where did you buy it?
Well, yes and no. Has anyone ever added up radar, jet engines, satellite communications (etc etc etc - all the technologies rooted in military applications) and is it more or less than the defence budget?
might not be as sexy as slinging Java

...
My sample size is much smaller, (I quit a few months after I started getting involved with hiring at my last job) but they sound about right.

It's pretty amazing how easy it is to get a degree in compsci or game development and have no programming competence whatsoever. What amazed me too was the astounding quantity of terrible CVs, even among people who supposedly have a substantial amount of experience. I used to laugh at articles telling you to spell check your application and give other, seemingly extremely basic advice, but I swear about 80-90% of applications have glaring spelling, grammar and semantic mistakes and no discernible logical structure. Come on, how hard is it to assemble a chronological list of things you've done?
Try and look into where the pirate bay is hosted. They seem to have balls of steel.
I think that some of the best products will come from programmers who find audiences with whom to coevolve the product: getting into a tight feedback loop with a bright bunch of alpha or beta testers.
I was recommended Gandi, NameSecure and Moniker.
"PRQ has gone out of its way to host sites that other companies would not touch. It is perhaps the worlds least lawyer-friendly hosting company" - NYT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRQ
Yeah, but it sort of depends on what kind of troubles he's having. He says it's not music business problems, so perhaps the protection they get wouldn't be worth much to him.
Our economies are much more interconnected than in the 1910's, and we have the bomb.
IPhones Help Airlines Get a Little Greener
FogBugz integrates with VSS, SVN, Mercurial, CVS, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Perforce, Vault and SnagIt.

No Git support makes it unusable for me.
I completely agree.

It's only "entitlement" if you think your employer owes you a job on your terms. It's hardly entitlement if you are simply willing to shop around for a better deal.

Yes, I want a job where I am treated more like a colleague than a subordinate, where I have access to upper management to express my ideas, where I have flexibility in how and where I work, and where I have wide autonomy over my projects. Yep, I'd also like the work to be meaningful.

But do I think my employer owes me this? Nope. I fully accept that absolutely nobody owes me this arrangement. But if one company does offer it, and another doesn't, well duh!

It seems to me that the feelings of entitlement here are coming from the managers and corporations employing the Millennials. They seem to think that they "should" get talented employees who are just gushing for an opportunity to accept an unpleasant hierarchical environment with set hours, scheduled breaks and lunchtimes, a lame-o cubicle, limited personal autonomy, and a long, slogging climb up the ladder.

In short - all the patronizing crap without the job security and pensions that used to come along with it. A patronizing environment, but certainly no patron saint to go along with it.

Nobody owes me anything. Ok, I said it first. Now let's hear them say it.
Gigapan Goes Commercial - Low-Cost Gigapixel+ photos
First time I've heard of it. Where I come from it's the other way around. Salting before tasting just means you generally like more salt than most and the host couldn't have predicted that. Salting afterwards is a (faux pas) critique.
Google deal blocked in Russia: cannot buy the contextual advertising company Begun yet
Steve Jobs emphasized the same 1-2-3 in that NeXT pitch that floated around HN and VentureHacks recently: http://venturehacks.com/articles/steve-jobs-pitch

At Stormpulse we created an embeddable version of our Stormpulse map and got it on The Palm Beach Post and a bunch of other news outlets that no one in Silicon Valley cares about before we ever made it to TC.

But those 'unknown to the world at large' news channels are where people go to find our content, so they were the right places to distribute. Target customers first, buzz second. In our experience, if your product is solid, eventually you'll get noticed by someone that really needs to write a tech story (that's what happened for us); and once you're in to the stream, other, larger press (TC, etc.) will tend to follow.
We've been using http://Acunote.com for agile issue tracking and it's been performing well. But going forward we're looking at Mantis (http://www.mantisbt.org/) and Jira. Jira's very expensive and Mantis is GPL and does most of what Jira does.

Could someone, in a sentence or two, explain how FogBugz compares to Mantis or Bugzilla?
50 Worst Albumn Covers
By "multicore behemoths" I mean hundreds of processing cores like the Java compute appliances Azul Systems sells.
> Our economies are much more interconnected than in the 1910

I wouldn't overstate that point. Global trade was huge and economies were highly inter-dependent in 1910. Arguably more-so than for rest of the century up until the 1990s.
A new imaging method offers a novel view of neural structures
WSGR Lawyer Strikes Gold with iPhone Apps
Ask HN: Google Phone/T-mobile in SF Bay Area
I'm thinking of buying a G1 and was wondering how well T-mobile's voice and 3G coverage is in the SF Bay Area?

I honestly don't know many people who have T-mobile. Those who have had it in the past complained that cell coverage was lousy.
Just thought I'd mention that I saw some guys wearing appjet T-shirts volunteering at a homeless shelter a few weeks ago.
The sad truth about marketing shortcuts
That would actually be an interesting idea for a social news site, partnering with companies to give away schwag to users who hit certain karma thresholds. I wonder what would happen.
Smashing the Clock (BestBuy's "location and hours do not matter" work style and an increase in productivity it caused)
Originally submitted as a comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340905) in the "Trophy Kids" story. Apologies if this is old, but it warrants discussion on its own. Thanks to Anthony Rubin for the link!
I would choose an open source product, but trac and bugzilla are both terrible. hopefully some better options emerge (or I become aware of them).
Debian's Vim maintainer switches to Emacs
I was using the dichotomy between physical and mental in this context. Perhaps I didn't make that clear but it seems you are just being difficult for the sake of...well...being difficult. Was my point really that difficult to understand?

I am asking honestly, not to be condescending.
Ask HN: What are your favorite idea pitches?
I'm looking to sharpen my pitching skills, mostly by studying people who have been there, done that. Who does the community think has the best pitching method? Single best pitch?

Any commentary, links to videos/articles, and general information about the topic is greatly appreciated!

(If you want to know why...I'm planning on participating in the Entrepreneur Idol competition http://entidol.com/ and would like to set myself up for victory. 3 parts practice + 1 part knowledge = success)
Thanks for info.

I have some adult art drawn by myself that just sit there; there should be a way to share it with a real world... I've never even thought about do it with normal hosting company or, "God have mercy", do it on my own servers...

We have dark sides -- we need dark sites. Long Live PRQ!

Edit: please comment if you downmod it, I really want to know what do you think about it.
Please don't tell me he just called XML a language.
I'm using this for my main site, now: http://unalone.net

For people who like simple design, this is a godsend.
I tend to "agree" with you here. ;-) I read it as a subtle pun on the normal usage of underwater as it pertains to startups - that is to say, using the term underwater to mean the company is losing money.
"Schneider's latest invention -- dubbed Touch Type -- allows iPhone users to compose e-mails by holding the device horizontally in order to easily type messages on a wider screen."

Genius! It's like... the MobileSafari keyboard... but for email!

Why hasn't Apple added a landscape keyboard to mail yet!?
Except that advertising isn't marketing: It's advertising. They're different things related to your business and should be handled differently.

I've run into a few companies who have painfully put an 'advertising guy' in charge of their marketing department and it's not worked well (in my limited sample). People are often great at advertising but couldn't put a decent product strategy together to save their life (or job!).

You wouldn't put your web developer or icon designer in charge of system administration or database scaling, right? Just like non-coders tend to lump everything technical together as 'computer stuff', technical folks can fall into the trap of lumping accounting, marketing, advertising, etc. into the same batch as 'business stuff'. That path leads to madness.
Originally submitted as a comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340905) in the "Trophy Kids" story. Apologies if this is old, but it warrants discussion on its own. Thanks to anthonyrubin for the link!
http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/blog/post/Git-Integration.as...
I would love to be introduced to your crowd, maybe I would not stand out so much if I hung out with people like that.
the move towards ever larger wars has gone hand in hand with the populist movements of the 20th century.
GM Volt to use high-tech li-ion batteries by LG Chem
This is something I've noticed across all mobile phone ads, not just Android/G1.

- iPhone ads show a giant iPhone and a hand using it.

- Blackberry ads show flying beachballs and photos of puppies and people eating cake and whatnot, with meaningless voiceovers like "Your life! To go!"

As somebody who doesn't even own a cell phone, the message is crystal clear: other phones suck compared to the iPhone, but they feel the need to run ads.
I wonder if "it's open source, this will go on irrespective of corporate situation" is a powerful retention/new acquisition argument for Sun (for Java and OpenSolaris) -- and could ultimately what keeps them alive amidst fears.
More "Make Karma Fast" schemes?
I agree. I have a condition which technically should restrict me from doing anything interesting and/or exciting but I long ago decided that it's better to live a full life and do what makes you happy than it is to attempt to mitigate every single risk that the world may present you with.
I looked up US defense spending since WWII, adjusted for inflation: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904490.html

One the one hand, you're right in that the spending never really dips below $250 billion, except from 1945-1950. On the other hand, defense spending has doubled in recent years, and there is noticeable growth historically whenever we actually used our military.

War isn't necessary for the military-industrial complex to get rich, but it helps. I don't think the logistical complications of war are a very meaningful deterrence for the people who stand to profit from it.
I never call people in for interviews without a phone screening. It's a waste of their time and mine.
Ask HN: How to find the best buyers for your website/app
I own a semi-popular webapp in a particular, highly-targeted, niche/industry. I'm considering selling it to move on to another project. How would you suggest the best way to find great, targeted buyers? I don't want to post on eBay or forums like Sitepoint because I don't want to reach people sitting at home with a few bucks to spare.

Thanks
"eXtensible Markup ___"?
D.J. Bernstein (yes, "that" djb) has a fairly good recommendation page, albeit out dated:

http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20071203.html
http://cr.yp.to/hardware/advice.html

My advise is build your own: the price may actually be higher, but the upside is being able to select your own components (for better performance, Linux compatibility and an upgrade-ability route for the future - so you won't need to replace the entire computer in two years).
This article is shortsighted. Google is attempting to change the business model and standard closed practices that plague the mobile market. Only time will tell if they are successful or not, but lack of a flash-in-the-pan beginning is hardly a bad sign for something that's geared more towards long-term industry wide change.
5. Write unit tests.

6. Refactor mercilessly.
From The Economist article:

All this means that hedge funds have been unable to ride to the rescue of global markets. According to the IMF, the average cash balance of hedge funds has risen from 14% last year to 22%, while the amount of leverage (borrowed money) they use has fallen from 70% of capital to 40%. In theory, that gives them the firepower to buy now that prices have fallen; in practice, they may need their cash to repay clients that want to redeem their holdings.

You are only as smart as your dumbest investor is.
In case you thought peace studies was just a “Western” thing…
Am I the only one who is offended (but slightly amused) by this test? I would never work for a place that would play games like this. Are they also going to send undercover employees to talk to you about the company over lunch break as your annual review?

What's wrong with presenting the problem in a straightforward manner and see if the applicant can debug the steps, telling the interviewer what he's trying and why at each step? For starters you'd get way more out of his think flow. For "authenticity" you can add that this was a real problem that Cindy faced the other day and you may ask her questions.

People tend to try what they know first (ie: pounding ctrl-p or ubuntu), and if it happened to be the issue, they were merely lucky and may not be competent at all either.

How hard is it to ask them "What else haven't you tried? What would you have tried next if this didn't fix it? Why did you try those steps in that order?"
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

Here is where you put all the stuff that goes without saying.

ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.

More stuff that goes without saying but takes a long time to type.
Or cut and paste.

DATA DIVISION.

Don't need no stinkin' schema.
It all goes here anyway.

WORKING STORAGE SECTION.

77 Sunset Strip.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.

Here is your logic (if you're still awake).

(30 pages later...) More logic (if you're still awake).

Programming in COBOL doesn't make your career last longer. It just seems that way.
From the LTCM history When Genius Fails, I gather they wait for prices of equivalent bonds,stocks etc, to converge to the same value.

Okay, so a US treasury bond is equivalent to a UK treasury bond, except it's off by 0.0005%. So you buy billions/trillions of each and the price converges, and you make millions.
Could it be good programmers are worse resume writers?

Perhaps if you had a different way of pre-screening candidates, something besides resumes.

Perhaps even if the pre-screening itself took much more time then scanning a resume - overall it might end up saving time?
no. was interested to read there is no headphone jack. imagine watching YouTube on the bus without headphones! you either can't hear any sound, or bother everyone around you! bzzt - wrong answer, try again Google!
Can you at least name the company that's bullying you so we can go out of our way not to do business with them?
10 things your IT guy wants you to know.
the sla only covers network connectivity, not hardware/systems problems? I guess that makes sense, but three and a half nines is a lot easier to get on a network than on PC hardware.
why not post it on here or on your blog? i mean, i'm not looking to buy something, but if it looks like a good thing to invest in, i'd give it some thought.

techcrunch just posted up a for-sale type section, that might be a decent place, too.
CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport.
Or "buy my karma" offers on ebay...
I've heard NearlyFreeSpeech.net is good. No colo or dedicated, tho.
Rails Rumble '08 Voting opens
Cobol is like assembly language, but without all the fancy add-ons.
Signup (to be a judge) requires OpenID—there are some really good apps in this batch (and hey, I wrote one, too: http://foreverhome.r08.railsrumble.com/ </shameless_plug>)
Their parent company (Server Central) might be good to talk to as well, if you want something other than dedicated servers (colo and whatnot).
If mobile devices are the same as MP3 players in the minds of consumers, then that's a great argument. I don't think they are, though. I think mobile devices are going to be a replay of PC history: Specific applications will drive adoption of specific products. The iPhone and the G1 are both vastly more powerful than the first six personal computers I owned, and have better network bandwidth than several subsequent PCs. I think they will continue to get more interesting, and the application selection will become more important. If Apple continues to treat developers as competitors to be occasionally shut out if they get too uppity or too close to competing with Apple in some space, they won't keep those developers. Without the developers, the apps won't exist...without the apps, users will choose an alternative.

Others have mentioned that iPhone was "first" in this particular market (the market for "Buck Rogers magical computing devices that fit in your pocket"), and that has definite value (the PC was on the market for a couple of years before Macintosh), but I don't think it can beat openness in the long run.
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The convergence of open source and SaaS
How to Ride the Recession the Steve Jobs Way
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers that the iPhone will take over Windows mobile within another quarter. From what I've found, Apple currently has a 2.8% market share in terms of OS use on smartphones and Windows Mobile is up at 12%. Not to mention how far back they all are from Symbian with it's 57.1%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Operating_systems
Great, now you can fumble around with your phone trying to get them to scan it, then find somewhere to cram it so you can go through the metal detector.
Yup. More details here: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse
We've been giving away our software to YC startups for nearly two years now. I never thought to make a website about it, though. I guess that's what sets the folks like Joel apart from the rest of us. That's a guy who knows how to give away software with style.

Seriously, though, it's cool and really good marketing. I've only seen Fogbugz in passing (it was trialed at a Python shop I worked in a few years back, but wasn't adopted), but I've heard good things.
This needs to be a Facebook app.
Tomboy now in Mac and Windows
Do you have competitors? Large customers? Know any experts in this area? Those are the people I would look into first.
More tedious than bugzilla? Or were you just expecting more because it is not free.
but the black parts of a phone screen reflect as much light as the bright parts, so I don't see how this makes sense, unless we transition to optical bar code readers, which are much less reliable
+1 here.

See https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/belief2005.php etc.
Seems to me they're doing it on purpose to make it harder to send emails :). The iPhone is actually a pretty terrible device for doing any serious typing, even in wide screen mode.

Yes, it's possible to type which is important for short messages and the times you have to write something, but 90% of the time I just put it off until I get to my desktop. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since it means no longer sending lengthy emails over dinner like I used to on the blackberry.
In the long run, Apple found that they could get away with "just enough" openness in favor of a highly polished end-user experience. They could just as easily do that with the iPhone and make it the "high-end" choice.
I never thought reading barcodes from an LCD display would work, but some people are claiming success. I tried once at the airport with my iPhone but I had no luck in getting that thing to recognize the barcode. I'm guessing something like the Kindle should work pretty well though.
This leapt out at me:

[Javascript] engines are being overhauled and souped up and tuned and re-tuned to the point that performance is improving by orders of magnitude. Scanning the DOM tree and doing things to it, which used to be slow and difficult, is becoming lightning-fast and easy.

This is not only a non sequitur, it's false. Making JS faster doesn't imply making DOM manipulation faster: they are two different things. Moreover, DOM manipulation is not becoming "lightning-fast and easy". In some cases it's getting slower and harder. (This is sort of my bête noire right now.)

It may be that Meyer doesn't write applications. That's fine; I don't pay much attention to CSS.