skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a somewhat related note , this talk from defcon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEmO7wQKCMw

Is actually pretty cool, albeit a little far fetched in parts.
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Recruiters typically get 20-25% of first year salary, if their candidate is hired. If you're getting recruiters calling you, go ahead and ask them what their fee is. I've done it, and they do give you an answer.

That said, given such a high % fee, you also get an idea of how often they are actually successful.
Mountain View is cheaper and has quite a lot of startups.

Palo Alto is a nicer area, still destraction free and full of great startups. (Flipboard, Quora, Pinterest, Stripe, Color, Shazam, etc).

You'll still be traveling to SF quite a lot most likely so The Mission and SoMa are places to look in that direction. A lot more startups are here.
I'm right there with you in looking for solutions. As owner and lead developer for nitrotype.com (competitive real time online typing) and funtotype.com (soon there will be a real time scoreboard for competing).

At the moment we do all development in flash, not only because it allows for old IE support, but because I am able to salt+hash the scores sent to the server to verify the data but this is all done in flash.

In JS I'm stymied. Every scheme I can come up with I could easily defeat. No level of obfuscation is really that difficult to reverse. Hopefully somebody else has better input!
Similar to the "I am rich." app released on the app store so long ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich was art. I'm not sure if I think your site is imitation or art as well.
Think about the phrase "do we allow". I ask, what right do "you" have to stop me from investing my money wherever I like?

I could go to a casino and blow $20,000 in a weekend. You're telling me that I can't put it into a startup that takes 2 years to fail? Hell, even if I know its going to fail, getting a board seat there and doing my darndest to help it not fail might be worth $20k for me. Or, say its my best friend from high school, whose always had this crazy idea, he's been plugging away for a decade at it, and he wants to make it happen... I believe in him and want to put up my $50k, $500k, $1M, $5M, whatever. We both know that its a longshot, but if it works, its worth $5B. Who are "you" to say that I can't spend my money that way?

The fundamental problem is not risk. Its this idea that government gets to decide who gets to invest.

They don't do this to protect people from risk, but to keep small investors out of these types of investment. All of this kind of regulation is not to protect people-- that's just the pitch. "won't anyone think about the children?"

Like all regulation the real purpose of this is to protect the larger entities-- the Venture Capital firms and the angels, from competition. And of course, politicians get money by threatening to change the regulations-- I'm sure this crowd funding bill has already raised a great deal of funds for the politicians who are using its passage as a threat against those who would lose the protection from competition.

Imagine if I could be an angel!

I have enough from a previous exit to have put small amounts-- YC level seed funding-- into 10-20 startups. Assuming one of them was successful, I'd have a sustainable seed fund there.

But I'm not able to be accredited given the way the law is written, and I know there are a lot of other people in my position.

Also, for what its worth, I am able to deal with extremely risky investments-- Well out of the money stock option spreads where the upside is %500 and the downside is a %100 loss. I've done this for years, and have consistently made money at it. I'm pretty sure picking startups would be easier, but even if I'm wrong....

Isn't it MY money to risk?

(not attacking you, just using your choice of phrase as a springboard-- people think this is something legitimate to regulate, but it is not. There are casinos across the country. This regulation is nonsense, and its immoral. Who is the government to tell me how I can spend my money? By what right?)
Very good points. This is also why traditional economists (while having their own reasons to struggle with being called scientists, at least have theories) complain about behavioral economists. They say, "You point out exceptions to our theories, but what's your counter-theory?" In general the behavioralists are content to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
I remember that as the best news story when the app store launched.
Out of interest, what's the data source? US only?
The euro benefited Germany immensely because weaker nations basically hindered the appreciation of the common currency.
I would accept regulation protecting naive people against bad bets if we didn't have state-sponsored lotteries. No investment is going to be riskier than the Pick-6.
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Someone wrote a little app that toggles it, but honestly, if you care that much about it to ask, just leave the hidden files visible all the time. I've found it to be the path of least confusion.
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I agree, most suck. The only ones who don't are ones with many years in the industry they services. There are ex-engineers that make good engineering headhunters. There are ex-brand managers that make good marketing brand managers. Even still, the good ones still have minions running around getting meetings for them, and having lunch, and cold calling, and generally being worthless. The lackeys are in the same league as used car salesmen.

One subtle point the writer may have missed:
- I can’t really source candidates from agencies that are not on the vendor list. You have to go to HR first.
- Okay… in that case why don’t we have coffee or lunch next week?

The second line wasn't ignoring an exception. It was a subtle was of saying, "If you're not hiring, perhaps I can find you a job."
The background is funky in the top 20 pixels or so. Also, this is a really unattractive idea.
I agree, but putting the U.S. on there would involve North America and, to be accurate, Asia too.
And Xmonad and the like seem primitive compared to just adding
tiling goodies (Divvy, SizeUp) to a standard WM to get the best
of both worlds.

I don't use Xmonad and I don't know what you meant by "the like", but Awesome WM is vastly more powerful[1] than the OS X WM with any add-ons that I've encountered.

[1] http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/
What countries are running surpluses?
Just to add, holding down the Option key while pressing it alters it behavior to be a maximize button in most apps. Some apps (like Chrome) use the Shift key to get this behavior instead.

I would like things to be more consistent. In fact, if I were in charge, I would want this button to be a maximize button by default, while using the Option (i.e. Alt) key should alter the behavior to the second option which is to resize to the best fit for window content.

But this may need debate since now we have fullscreen mode for apps in Lion.
2nd Life caught my eye - as did the absence of many winners since then. :-)
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From the book Woz's dad didn't like the idea of Apple until Jobs pretty much showed him that it was a viable opportunity to make a living. Woz then listened to his dad...
There is a lot of fat in the brain. I realize it was targeting adipose fat, but that is still disconcerting until proven otherwise.
If Stage3D is stillborn, I won't know how to react. As an old OpenGL guy with no Flash experience, I'd personally much prefer to work in WebGL and JS (or even better, NaCl). But, it was looking like Stage3D was going to win. I was expecting WebGL to be the right "open standards" choice, but Stage3D would have better compatibility and security in practice.

Also, with Unreal running on Flash, it's become clear that Alchemy has quietly matured into something serious. I was expecting to see everyone argue endlessly about NaCl's "open standards" issues while watching Alchemy charge ahead to take over without asking for anyone's backing.
I don't mean to be critical, but your idea doesn't have any real point. It isn't selling a service or a product, which is a requirement of a startup company, especially in technology sectors. So I'm not saying it has no point, but what do you intend to do with the website? Where is it going?
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Can you add support for multiple URLs?
That doesn't sound right, Batman: Arkham City isn't out on PC yet. Do you mean the old one, Arkham Asylum?
It's certainly not dumbed down compared to Windows. Shoot, you've got a full bash shell included out of the box! It only felt dumbed down (or maybe I should say "locked down, and candy coated") when compared to my Linux desktop, which gives me a huge amount of customization freedom and built in power tools. I went from Windows to Linux, then to OSX, and I missed a lot of things about Linux while not feeling like I gained anything extra. I'd take OSX over Windows any day, but at the end of the day I want to be working in Linux.
Why is that good for Germany?
He seems to have a WP plugin allowing site.com/ac* to forward to /acoustic-ruler/. I'm not sure whether to consider that smart for allowing typos, or evil for allowing this type of behavior.
Well, it wasn't Germany and France alone who created the Euro zone...
"A lot of people are going to get hurt just to teach a few Greeks a lesson."

What is happening now that you object to, and what solution do you propose?
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There are a lot of options that are modified by the plist mechanism ("defaults write ..."). They tend to be little things of a very unixy character that serious nerds would like.

It makes about as much sense as changing a .login or .profile or .ssh/config or .emacs or .exrc or .Xdefaults or ... . At least it's always the same tools and the same file format.

Like you, I don't remember the screenshot shortcuts. I know vi and emacs bindings backwards and forwards, but I don't much like remembering special-purpose bindings. So I just use "Grab", the screenshot app (comes standard with OS X).

Grab saves in .tiff. If you want .png, just use:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png

;-)
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And solving lung cancer is simply a matter of getting people to not smoke. Having tried and failed for 15 years to just "eat sensibly", I can promise you there is a whole lot more than just wanting to be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

And lest you think it's just a will-power thing, I spent years on narcotics for pain management and had few problems getting off those.

The deck is stacked incredibly against obese people. To wave it off like that is to vastly underestimate the root causes.
I didn't make this site, but this is something whipped up for a hackathon, not a real attempt at a company.
I'll go with "not" when it comes to the recruiters in the Chicago area. I regularly get contacted for roles I have no measurable experience in, such as Django jobs, or really anything web related. While I have extensive Python knowledge, I haven't touched Django outside of a tutorial or two on a rainy day.

They seem to want to extrapolate Python expertise to cover everything that uses Python, but it doesn't work like that. I'd love to talk to a recruiter who understands this.
I think you should visit china sometime. You'll probably realize that the working conditions at Foxconn are like working conditions at Google after visting a few of the smaller crappier factories. My grandfather owned a toy company (they do anything plastic injection molding) and the workers there had 20hr shifts -- although that has probably changed for the better now.

Locals there are probably applying to Foxconn the same way we apply to plush companies like Google/Facebook. And if Foxconn turns them down, they're forced to work at factories with far worser conditions.
Lower value boosts manufacturing and export. Germany's unemployment levels are astoundingly low at the moment.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/unemployment-rate
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It was. France and Germany have historically been the driving political forces behind the European bodies. This is why now there is a leadership crisis in Europe: those two countries are still filling a leadership gap and thus criticized by other countries for taking decisions.
Yeah, I scraped it from the social security website, so US only for right now.
Try this:

http://babynamegraphs.com/female/multipleNamesGraph?names%5B...

and double click to show the "all time" graph.

Note this shows _females_.

And, of course, you have to see what this returns:

http://babynamegraphs.com/male/multipleNamesGraph?names%5B%5...
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I actually made myself a Broadcom airport card, for less than $20 and it's faultless. Atheros cards have always worked great for me too.

The only time I've ever had WiFi problems is under really really old versions of Ubuntu on a ThinkPad.

I suspect a lot of problems are caused by interference, or really densely populated areas. Even out here in the boonies of North Houston, there are 8 - 10 WiFi networks visible, neighbors etc.
It's a good question. Right now I'm not sure. I hadn't seen the babynameclusters guy down below :)
Anonymous submissions are allowed... so it could be you hit the nail on the head and they are doing this right now (and simply publicly denying for obvious reasons).
Cool idea! It's fun to guess the reasons for spikes and dips:

http://babynamegraphs.com/male/multipleNamesGraph?names[]=le...

Titanic with Leo DiCaprio came out in 1997..

http://babynamegraphs.com/female/multipleNamesGraph?names[]=...

Popularized by Tyra Banks? The biggest spike was when she Wikipedia says she was on the cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue.

http://babynamegraphs.com/male/multipleNamesGraph?names[]=wi...

Related to Winston Churchill? Goes up until WW2, then spikes up, then slowly goes down until 1965 when there's a small spike (Churchill died that year).

My comments are very speculative, but it's fun to think about.
"I'm really disappointed that Adobe didn't even provide some sort of gradual migration strategy". This might not be much of a consolation, but I'm sure they'll be offering a solution in the form of an alternative product that will be familiar to Flex developers.
Think it through. It's a good sales technique.

There are broadly speaking two kinds of sales. There is the kind of sales that takes months -- eg flogging SAP to a sap -- and there are the kinds that take minutes.

Recruiting falls into the second category, along with second-hand cars, door to door encyclopaedias, life insurance and so on.

In the short-sale field, when is the salesman ever going to see you again? If he can help it, never. There is no incentive to favour the long term. The sale is made now or not at all.

Hence high pressure sales tactics like "never take no for an answer".

When you recognise a short-sales technique, the only winning move is not to play. As logical types we want to appear fair and rational and the salesman will use that against us. Stick to your guns. Decide what you want in advance and refuse to negotiate.
For exporter nations, a weaker currency means that they don't need to charge as much in foreign nations for the equivalent value in the local currency.

Let's take porsche cars as an example. Porsche pegs a price in euros, and the price that US customers pays is the equivalent price in dollars (plus some extra fees, but those are generally negligible). A weaker euro means that 1 dollar is worth more euros, so that the dollar cost of the porsche to US customers is lower than it would have been otherwise.

On the other side, US exporters are hurt because the stronger dollar means that they have to charge more euros for items.

A similar issue exists between US and china
pfft... Kiva doesn't tell me I'm rich! For only a buck and a quarter, I can get my name on the site!
And those commands have to be interpreted by the shell (e.g., bash) and not by the terminal emulator, because power users expect the shell to jump in, in the middle of a line, and provide information -- such as in-place file globbing or variable expansion, or command completion.

The parent comment must not be used to this standard capability.
Lots of huge businesses are based on irrationality. Cigarettes, gambling, etc. A fool and their money are easily parted.
yes, until your boss finds out that you code in this weird language that "average joe java programmer" can't read.
Yeah, I actually have them separated this way because I couldn't think of a great way to label/display male + female names for the same graph at the same time. I've thought of only showing the predominant gender for each name, but then doozies like the female John http://babynamegraphs.com/female/multipleNamesGraph?names[]=... would be unavailable :)
Germany is actually in a difficult position. Most of Germany's current growth is driven by exports to industrializing countries. As we know it, those country's growth is largely tied to Europe (the biggest consumer market in the world). Therefore, if Europe was to collapse, it would affect industrializing nations and Germany would be hit both through Europe and through industrializing countries.
It is not limited to just creation, we seem to be giving up easily the ability to grasp that not everything is black or white. There was much to admire and like about the man, there was much that was flawed about him. But, for most, it is either fully angelic or 100% the devil's cohort that they work overtime to fit him into.
It has been quite the eye opener to watch France and Germany drive the proceedings. I was quite supportive of the EU and the Euro, but now I'm glad we (the UK) stayed out of the Euro. It would appear that this crisis is being used to move power away from the "weaker" countries.
I'm not hating on your preferences, but mac laptops
are competitively priced. There's no way you got
equivalent hardware for $1k less.

Lenovo offers sales, coupons, and other deals. Signing up for deal alerts at sites like SlickDeals and FatWallet can result in huge savings. The last ThinkPad I bought was nearly 60% under retail.

Many Mac users seem to be unaware that products can be sold for less than retail price. I can understand not wanting to waste time searching for deals, but signing up for a deal alert for the words "Lenovo", "ThinkPad" or whatever takes mere seconds.
"Raising big money = big PR ("social proof")."

And of course the mafia always needs to be cut into any good deal and requires a "taste" and to dip their beak.
Ed Catmull is anything but an asshole and he's run Pixar brilliantly. It's also possible to get people do what you want just because they respect the hell out of you.
I didn't say "ineffective"; I have no doubt it works for people with zero ethics, intent on barraging as many people as possible until they find a sucker. As you suggest, that tactic has no place in a rational discussion. It also seems like yet another indicator of someone entirely too clueless to provide what they claim to provide, as suggested in the original article. So, like I said, try it on me and I'll end the conversation, permanently.

Recruiting, however, shouldn't fall into the short-sales category you described. Personally, I hope I never need recruiters; ideally I'd love to go directly from "exhausted the network of smart people I know and smart people they know" to "no shortage of smart people and no problem enticing them". However, if I ever do need a recruiter, I'd like to have one that I can count on to deliver world-class people that fit perfectly, and who I'll remember for the next dozen hires I need to make. I'd like somebody who I always remember when thinking about how I ended up working with the awesome person they found.
I agree, it's a perilous situation.
Human communication is a funny thing.

We possess fragile egos and staggering amounts of pride. Consequently, we take great offense if even the simplest of statements are misworded (regardless of intention). Consider the difference between, "Give me the salt", and "Hey, would you mind passing me the salt? Thanks." We constantly pollute our speech by adding phrases whose only purpose is to prevent offense. And anyone who doesn't is an asshole. An arrogant jerk.

You've heard the advice, common in books on communication or leadership, that the best way to persuade another is to avoid harming his ego. Allow that person to save face at whatever cost. Lie if you have to. Suggest that your idea is really his idea, and that it's brilliant.

Is this type of manipulation (and let's be honest -- this is manipulation) really so much better than blunt honesty? It's more effective, to be sure. If you don't already command the respect of a deity, you have to play this game. But for a Gates or a Jobs, is bluntness really such a travesty? Is it really the end of the world because Steve Jobs told you that your shitty design was shitty?
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> That 68030/optical disk/40MB swap drive era didn't last very long.

And rightly so. But given that the hardware was built (at great expense!) specifically to run that OS, I think it's fair to consider their performance together.

Certainly the gap between "the hardware the OS needs" and "what is readily available" shrunk as time went on. The slabs with more RAM were substantially better than the cubes had been. I think calling NeXTstep with 16MB "quite nice" is still being generous though - my recollections of 16MB NeXTstep was "swaps less". With 32MB it started to get pretty reasonable but, gosh, that was $1000+ of RAM back then.

I knew people who ran NeXTstep on Intel but they tended to turn into early linux adopters. X11+fvwm (or, later, AfterStep) was more responsive on their hardware.

By the time NeXTSTEP 3.3 came out (and NeXT basically left the OS game, instead focusing on OpenStep and WebObjects) the performance gap was a lot smaller, at least if you could afford a really nice computer. When it reemerged as a product 5 years later as OS/X 10.0 that gap had evaporated. Suddenly it was living in its moment, 12 years after its debut.

And hell, now the OS that I used to curse for its unreasonable hardware demands comfortably runs on my cell phone. Technology is funny that way.
I can't find that article anymore but a few days ago I read an article showing that since August, French banks have largely reduced their exposure to other European countries' debt. By largely I'm speaking of figures ranging from 40% to 80%, depending on the Bank.

What was more disturbing in that article is that it clearly shows that the activity of those banks is still very sane and that they made profits and all indicators are green even through the last few months. In other words, besides market speculation, nothing justifies the 20% drop of the CAC40 or 50% drop for certain groups (Carrefour is now worth less on the market than their assets).

I'll reach back when I find the article.

Edit: I believe it's this article, but it's now behind a paywall:

http://lecrible.lesechos.fr/?Assurance-vie-transparence-et