skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a mark of respect for someone's death, in this case John McCarthy. It's also been used recently for Dennis Ritchie and Steve Jobs, and for other people in the past.
"Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'."

Larry Wall, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.misc/msg/1ebc89bbc0...
steve jobs death memorial.
It's to commemorate the passing of John McCarthy - father of AI and Lisp.
Does anyone know of any service providers which are friendly to Tor? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with running an exit node (yet), but I think I'm competent enough to run a secure relay node or two in various geographical locations.

Anyone here run a dedicated Tor node? I'm curious on bandwidth and horsepower required. I would imagine even a modest VPS could handle running the service.

I'd really like to support the Tor network on a technical level, to increase the size of the crowd as it were.
Quickly:

-CakePHP is atrociously slow, even when running with APC, and uses an alarming amount of memory for what you get. Symfony2 is neither slow nor particularly memory-hungry.

-CakePHP is inexpressive; it's very difficult to use it piecemeal. You either use the whole whomp of it or you don't use it at all. Symfony2 is modular and easily used for exactly what you need.

-CakePHP is stuck in the past; any framework that is intentionally made compatible with versions earlier than PHP 5.3 is short-changing its users by not taking advantage of exactly what the language is capable of doing.

It has no real redeeming features. (Note that I wouldn't recommend PHP in any greenfield development today, but if you have to do it, Symfony2, or at least the Silex core, are no-brainers.)
You can post in the monthly "Who's Hiring?" threads on Hacker News and let them come to you.
Yes but as a sibling comment notes they're hidden from everyone except the commenter. I can not tell if your comment is felt to be a worthy response by the HN crowd unless people note their assent or dissent in some way, "yes", "no".

I've harped on at this for a while. But I really want my HN back. It takes more time and provides less utility now.
So many. I have a programmer friend who saw that movie and became obsessed with going and working for some hip tech company (like Twitter). I can't say this from experience, but I imagine working for twitter (or any other sexy tech company) isn't a big party. It's hard work. It's seventy hour weeks and a ball-breaking boss.
The words were all about hard work, but the context was not. I bet the Zuckerberg character was drunk and/or at a party in a majority of the scenes he appeared in. Especially if we exclude the scenes where drinking would have resulted in punishment (e.g. during depositions.)
The GOAL compiler, yes. The GOAL runtime no. GOAL itself produced high performance code without arbitrary GC, with simple (semi-static) runtime type checking etc. It was designed for console runtimes. I didn't write Jak & Daxter in CL, but in this Scheme dialect language (the compiler was written in CL/CLOS).
Beyond the obvious point I submitted this because I think there's an important issue here. Google's way of software development relies heavily on analytics. So they look at how much feature #1 and feature #2 are used and make decisions based on that.

The problem with that is it doesn't tell you how important each feature is to the people using it. So while feature #2 might be used 20 times more than feature #1 it's possible feature #1 is life changingly important while feature #2 isn't something people would miss.
I need to check it out -- been busy :-)
Ask HN: Should I pivot?
My partner turned out to be greedy and jumped boat. My investors ditched me and my project has failed to gain traction yet, it has been over a year almost now. What should I do ? Should I pivot ? And if I pivot, how do i present this to investors ?
Torn,

The License is MIT based.
I wonder how difficult it would be to write an app that subtly distorts facial features in photographs, and pass every photo I upload through it.

Is there a point where I would be recognizable to friends and family, and yet make algorithms choke?

And if there is, I wonder what would happen when my grandchildren are looking through old photoalbums, and wondering why Grandpa looks a little weird in all of his photos.
And it's down.

This won't kill Facebook by any means. Terrible marketing, bad approach to social networking, and of course it won't make people stop using Facebook.
In the article the author claims the price reductions came from technology improvements. But some say they are caused by the entry of the Chinese on the market with heavy subsidies and dumping practices (http://www.grist.org/solar-power/2011-10-19-are-we-in-a-sola...).
I graduated with honors from a top 10% university and it cost a heck of a lot more than $25k AND I've now been working for 3.5 years and I haven't hit the $80k mark yet. Only a small subset of the skills that I'm marketing right now did I learn in college.

Furthermore, I'm doing better than a lot of my peers. Your numbers are suspect at best.

$25k x 4 = $100,000 opportunity cost for college.

$20k x 4 = $100,000 college debt load (if you're lucky).

8% over 10 years for interest payments = ~$45k.

$245,000 total cost to go to school.

If you figure a $55,000 starting salary after school and do $8,000 yearly increases because you're clever and smart, it will take you 4 complete years to make up the difference AND that's still assuming the same clever and smart person has been working without a degree for 8 years and is still only making $25k/year. (For the curious, the two cross path around $350k total salary earned)

ALSO, that same clever and smart person could have been accruing a whole host of assets with the money they were making every year and could be well north of net worth $250k by the time the college grad gets to net worth $0. That clever and smart person with 8 years experience in the real world could use those assets to do all sorts of things our college grad is still going to have to wait some years to do.

The financial benefit for a smart person going to school and not going to school, in my mind, is irrelevant. When you factor in opportunity cost and debt, that same smart person will have grayed the difference between a college grad and a non-college grad by the time the college grad gets to net worth $0.

And as college tuition inflation continues to outpace all other expenditures in society, I would move more firmly into the drop-out camp.
This is an editorial by Ed Quillen, a Colorado resident, and Denver Post editorial page regular. He usually writes little home-spun wisdom editorials about Colorado issues. Odd to read him doing homage to Dennis Ritchie, particularly because his editorial-page headshot bears a very strong likeness to Ritchie himself.
Start researching the technology it takes to run a site like Facebook. There's a reason companies of their size are looking for Masters/PHDs.
Hi Folks,

I maintain the Coordino project on GitHub located here: https://github.com/Datawalke/Coordino At the moment the project is somewhat stagnent as I work on some major improvements.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you.
I don't think it really matters much either way. I dropped out and spent a few years doing a couple startup type things that didn't end up going anywhere. I ran out of money and got a job. The stuff I had put together + my various online profiles (Stack Overflow, Hacker News, etc.) seemed to be enough to get employers interested. No regrets here. I think Jacques' advice may be somewhat outdated. There are better ways to get educated and prove your competence these days.
Sort of. Remember they have two sides of the database: positions need filling and candidates available. If you reply to whatever they send you, they can drop you into the second bucket. So there's benefit to them (maybe even to you) even if the position isn't a fit.
After reading Peroni's articles, I am thinking that recruiting firms need to hire great and talented recruiters instead of using incentives.
I've seen it done as a way to avoid openly age-discriminating candidates. You're not a long shot as long as you're young, regardless of experience.

I regret not saying anything. The company's idea was to disregard experience in favor of people who put in long hours. Unsurprisingly, the people in charge were young and inexperienced. The company no longer exists.
Sure: http://www.bbguard.com.ve (Site is in Spanish)
I stood up a few OSqa sites recently:

http://lostquery.com - Database FAQ

http://zealotrush.com - Starcraft FAQ (other games too)
Ask pg: can you make the black bar clickable?
Right now, the story about John McCarty isn't at the top and it took me a while to find out who had died by skimming the headlines. (Actually, I ^F'd for 'dead', 'passed' and then 'died' and then found it).

It would be nice if a click on the black bar could take you to the relevant news story.
Except large, established organizations usually have HR departments that perform the functions of recruiters anyway.

Or at least they do in my idealized fantasy world, where the role of HR is to acquire, foster, encourage, and compensate talent.
Less concerned about privacy. More concerned about what this sort of thing means to juries.

A lot of forensic "evidence" is not actually completely conclusive, but people seem to have a built-in notion of how solid, say, fingerprint and DNA analysis are. It's sometimes very hard to convince a jury that these things are not necessarily incriminating, which is very bad because on a surprisingly often basis they are not strong enough to warrant conviction.

Facial recognition is also not completely foolproof, and while I applaud the idea that we should leverage technology to catch criminals who would otherwise go free, I personally am not willing to do so at the cost of innocent convictions. I recommend proceeding down this path cautiously.
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Until they can demonstrate that their simulation in fact acts like a cat, then no, they have not simulated a cat brain. They have run a simulated neural network approximately the size of a cat brain. A child can simulate a race car with a couple of cardboard boxes, that hardly means he's going to win the Daytona 500 with it.
Marry your clients
I've used a couple of taps that actually have a nice, smooth gradient between cool and warm, though it would be fun to design a temperature-controlled tap that cranks open the hot water as the water heater tank is drained.
If this supported the Insteon protocol life would be really really good in my house. No word on their site if it does or not. Right now I have a Venstar thermostat that is hooked into Insteon on my MacMini server.
Gmail does something like that if emails include a List-Unsubscribe header: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126#un...
I'm not a LISP hater, far from it, I love the language.

In 2006 I wrote a complex multi-threaded socket and web server that talked to MySQL. I wrote it first in ACL, ported it to CMCL, then to Ruby, and then parts of it (with another programmer) to C (ultra high performance after that). So I got a head to head comparison for the same task.

As to libraries in 2006 (and Ruby libs are only better now). It was easy in Ruby to find libs to talk to third party APIs like Twitter, Facebook, Photobucket, etc. None of this existed in CL. They might be quirky, but they were there.

In ACL/CMCL "core" libraries like sockets and database access tended to be missing a lot of "fringe" (not really that fringe) features like transactions, multiple database support, enums, bigints, etc. But worse than that they tended to mysteriously hang under moderate volume. I found this true on both ACL and CMCL, different libs.

The equivalent Ruby libs, like ActiveRecord, had some SERIOUS quirks, and were missing some of those "fringe" features (I added a lot of them like multi-db, enums, and bigints). But fundamentally, they were more modern in design and reliable. ActiveRecord almost never crashed or hung. Yeah, it did some crazy and stupid things, and performance was a problem. But it didn't hang. When writing real production code mysterious hang/crash/corruption bugs are just a deal killer.
I have one idiot who made me an offer which might have been somewhat realistic: it was at a networking company, doing C++ for APs/controllers (5 years experience wanted). I told him something like "sorry, no, I'm just leaving that field (and that city) for a little startup, I was more of an NMS guy anyway, and I wasn't using C++ - you could do a better job of convincing me that you understand my background and skill-set; I see you even are advertising for NMS positions on your company's site." I also allude to his company's competence using abstruse engineering language: "I've worked with your products before, and already faced some of these 'unique challenges' you promise."

Three months later he contacts me about the same C++ positions, with the same language. After me telling him exactly how to do his job. This time I was a little more explicit, and asked him to keep contacting me so I could make fun of him and his company to my engineering buddies. :P

Probably a bridge burned, but one I'll never use, and I don' t make a habit of this.
I had a programmable in my last property. Didn't really use it much due to my erratic schedule. If I was a 9-5 it would be super handy though.
Coca-Cola is not launching a mobile payment system.
If you actually read the article, that distinction is completely irrelevant, since the proper title is more like "Recruiters are a waste of time for start-ups."
It's time for some tough love: If you're getting shot down repeatedly after technical interviews, then maybe you need to expand your search to other areas. That's not a process problem: you're not getting the jobs you want because they don't think you can do them. So the solution to avoid wasting time is not to apply to jobs for which you aren't qualified.
Ridiculous.

Depending on where you live you can save more money by simply using a good size fan blowing cold air into the house at night during the summer. We did just that this summer and did not have to use the air conditioner at all, even during days where daytime temperatures reached well over 100 degrees. On some nights we could get the house down to 65 degrees overnight.

The $250 fan paid for itself in less than a month! Total cost of running it 6 to 8 hours per day was less than $10 for the month.

This was an experiment to determine whether or not a whole house fan would be a worthwhile investment for next year. Obviously, it is.

Next on the list is converting the A/C and heating system to what's known as a "zone" system. Why heat or cool several thousand square feet of a home when you only need one or a few rooms to stay warm or cold?

Next would be what I would call "intelligent flow" management. This is of particular value if you live in a two story home. How is a single thermostat on a wall in the family room downstairs going to make decisions about what is best for heating or cooling the upstairs bedroom? Well, it can't.

What you can do is have sensors in every single room as well as a way to pump air to and from various locations. Cold air will accumulate downstairs. Hot air upstairs. When the downstairs is comfortable in the winter the upstairs is boiling hot. By using this "intelligent flow" concept the system would simply look for suitable sources of what it needs, say, hot air, and choose to use the least costly source before moving on to a more expensive solution.

If the upstairs has three really hot rooms and only one room is occupied, you can pump that hot air back downstairs rather than engaging the furnace. If the sun is keeping the solar collectors nice and hot, use that instead of burning fuel.

Following that is some combination of geothermal and solar assist. A simple $20 microprocessor board with some relays and a few sensors can easily manage a set of valves to select a heat source or sink that is more energy efficient than using a compressor or a furnace.

Granted, some of the above would cost far more than a $250 gadget to implement. However, it should be obvious that they would more than pay for themselves in relatively short order, particularly the first couple of options.

The greater point, I think, is that home energy efficiency is a much larger problem that cannot be addressed in an meaningful manner with a wifi-enabled gadget on a wall, no matter how cool it might look.

The good news is that, if we take a serious look at how we build our homes and change the approach the savings can be absolutely monumental.
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"He began his career at Bell Labs, and that's where he (along with Brian Kernighan) developed the C programming language"

This is false right? I thought Ritchie was the sole inventor of C.
I totally agree with Nate75Sanders. And to build on that, when creating your marketing plan, think about allocating a portion of that effort into recruiting and building a brand that's attractive to the people you seek.

Zappos has built a great brand that attracts candidates. I've known people who've read Tony Hsieh's book, then wanted to join them.

There are lots of startups that not only have some good buzz in the press, but also have outspoken founders & employees that - whether they've consciously thought about this or not - have crafted a desirable impression of their company. What attracts you doesn't necessary attract someone else, but I've heard colleagues saying they'd love to work for Justin.tv, Hipmunk, AirBnB, Quora, Codecademy, DuckDuckGo, etc.

Some of that is because they personally love & use those products. And some of that is because they love & follow the cofounders.

Share with the world your thoughts, your culture, and how your product is making the world (or at least, your industry) a better place, and you'll have a better shot at attracting great people.
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"That is the fault of our legislature and our presidents (former and current) for supporting them, not Wall Street."

Are you willfully ignoring the massive role that lobbying (and other forms of corporate money in politics) plays in all of this, or are you just that naive?
As a follow-up -- are there any of the authors here?

The implementation looks pretty good, but some questions.

It looks like you might be using -[NSRunLoop run] to spin a background runloop? That will return immediately if no sources are scheduled in the runloop, which will result in a CPU-heavy busy-waiting thread -- unless I'm missing something here?

I was also wondering about choices like the use of a single statically allocated serial dispatch queue for performing all JSON parsing, rather than using concurrent queues and letting GCD figure out how much concurrency to leverage given the application state and hardware available.

Also, it appears that all callbacks are directly dispatched onto the main thread. Is there any interest in adding support for allowing the caller to specify dispatch onto other queues, in the case that they don't want to hit the main queue for background processing?
If it's a designer you're looking for, skip recruiters and check out my project: http://folyo.me

It'll cost far less than a recruiter, and I'll refund you if you don't find someone.
Just finished it. What made me laugh was that early on he wasn't a fan of bathing...never bathed and never wore shoes. He thought that his vegan diet meant he didn't have to shower or use deodorant.
Show HN: Shape Type, bézier curves in your browser
Review of Lemon, Which Turns Paper Receipts Into Digital Versions
This is basically an argument that contingency recruiters are bad. You should differentiate this in the title from in-house or contract recruiters (retained search). Contingency recruiters, as you've noticed, have no incentive to filter out junk because they can just take a throw it at the wall and see what sticks approach.

Also, there are a ton of bad recruiters, just like there are a ton of bad engineers. There are awesome recruiters out there and the sample of those who have cold called you rather than going through trusted channels is likely strongly biased towards the bad.
I've gotten similar e-mails and calls recently, based on a resume I posted to a job site 5 years ago, trying to match me to positions with requirements I don't remotely match. Further, I'm now a full time stay-at-home parent, which is my dream career. What's sad is, when I tell recruiters this, on occasion they'll still try to convince me of what a great fit their position would be.
foannfeai: The "free money", awesome tax breaks and the basic free ride WS gets did not just happen, its the result of 30+ years of systematic lobbying and the actual embedding of WS types in government. The OWS protests are finally bringing attention to this issue.
Twitter Search Improving. Indexing Landing Page Content.
Amazon, Hot and Cold
I am definitely in that boat at the moment. I think the main problem is none of those side projects has a "customer" so there is no cost in killing them off. If someone was going to use it, it would be harder to kill. Even if it was free \ open source.
The first section of their information page (click "Meet the Nest..." in the middle of the landing page) suggests that an absolute min/max temperature range is programmed when the thermostat is first installed.
On the other hand, "CSI" has made juries expect hard scientific evidence of the sort presented on the show, which rarely if ever actually happens in real life. It's possible that juries will refuse to convict without a positive identification by this new system - which, like all projects, will probably be riddled with bugs, and be useless for awhile.

On the gripping hand, you've got your false positives.
Too strong. You've defined "GUI" as something that can include CLI elements, but then turned around and defined CLI as being unable to include GUI elements, so you end up in a tautological circle.

A "CLI app with a GUI" is something like emacs in X11 or gvim, where the GUI is clearly a second-class citizen/afterthought, but it is there. Alternatively, you can look at something like the various Linux apps for ripping DVDs, which are mostly nothing but GUI shells around various transcode and mplayer commands, and it shows. To the point that I once bashed one of them into doing what I wanted it to do, rather than what it wanted to do, by exploiting a command-line injection in the so-called "GUI" to inject a command-line parameter that superseded one of the earlier ones the program jammed in without asking me. (Subsequently I scripted up a simple rip that meets my usual use case, but the GUIs are nice when I want to save subtitles or something and it's harder than just one mencoder call.) Considered as a system, these are GUIs around underlying CLI apps that do the real work.
How to find popular web sites
Links to help you find existing popular web sites to borrow ideas from so you can clone them, get rich and live on the beach.
The Singularity is not near. :)
> Will the chrome web store _ever_ support other browsers?

It's very confusing.

On the one hand, it is the "Chrome Web Store". Not the "Google Web Store", which is what we can assume they would call it if it were meant for all browsers. Just like it isn't "Chrome Maps", it's "Google Maps". So the name implies it is Chrome-only.

On the other hand, it does say "we don't support your browser just yet", as you quote from there.

My bet is that they will never support other browsers, since apparently they allow applications into the Chrome store that use Chrome-specific technologies (NaCl, for example). So given that, the store's applications will not work in all browsers anyhow.

And that is kind of worrying. A chrome-only store for web apps is against the idea of an open web, where any website is accessible from any standards-compliant browser.