skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn if I had a startup right now I would hire you as you are close to me geo-location :)

BTW, how is the startup scene in your area of Michigan?
The Debt We Owe to Apple & Smartphone Bliss
Per a recent interview[1]: "I promised my wife that I would take a few months off from work before I began looking for a job. That time is now at an end, so it’s basically time for me to start shoving my resume out there and seeing what my next chapter looks like."

[1] http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2011/rob-cmdrtaco-malda-inte...
Which has some truth in it. Our world is already struggling to keep people employed despite continuous productivity gains. As developers, we know the next 20 years will probably be low risk for us, but many professions are endangered. Who will be a truck or taxi driver when the Google car will work fine? Who will need secretaries when Siri will be evolved? New technologies are just not creating that much jobs.

Note that I am not disagreeing with you, I just suppose that RMS may not be completely wrong.
"It's equivalent to arguing that any increase in productivity (which is precisely what this is: less effort expended to develop software) is bad."

RMS is not proposing an increase in productivity, he's proposing a massive disincentive to engaging in one of the most productive, highest growth industries in the world's history.

"Over time, those freed from obsolete jobs are employed by society to do new stuff ...and we all benefit."

These jobs aren't obsolete. It's not like the same software will get done if all these people stop working and go do "new stuff". We just wouldn't get those advancements and would suffer greatly not benefit.
My version would just be "wrote slashdot".
Great!
Just what I need
Thanks
Security Systems – The Four Main Criteria
Indeed; and I tend to think of visiting HN, Reddit etc as like going to visit my kids/grandkids. They've grown so much!
What I learned from the Darpa Shredder Challenge.
Maybe we should implement a PGP-style circle of trust on HN... =D
I am not sure if i should rate you 5 informative, 5 insightful, or 5 funny!

Definitely no -1 overrated though.

Alas - I have but only one mod point to give on this den of iniquity!
American/british music is an "external interest" for most of european countries (music is net import).

Still they combat piracy as if they are gaining money on IP, not bleeding.

While USA is known for pirating like crazy and defending it at law level until they became net exporter in the first half of XX century. Then they started evolving towards IP protection, while ensuring they would not have to pay for older works but they would be paid for newer works.
> I don't see them actually charging for anything on the site.

I don't know what you mean. Its a straight up ecommerce site where you can buy cards. http://www.cardpool.com/buy-gift-cards
No, that's not what I meant. It's an analogy - if sites shouldn't store their own passwords in plaintext or reversibly encrypted (which everyone here agrees on - "use BCrypt", etc), then they shouldn't store other passwords in plaintext or reversibly encrypted. They should use something like OAuth instead.
Git is very, VERY commonly used in a "centralised" manner, so don't worry about that. Once you're used to git, the overhead of having to commit and push whenever you would have just commited in svn is minimal. Still, it will always exist - so the question is "what do you get in exchange"? There's two major things:

First, the two step process lets you perform commits CONSTANTLY on your local repo. Coming from svn, it may take a little bit to figure out why this is good, but trust me, it is. In svn you (typically) are careful about checking in half working code into the central repo. And rightly so; people are (often) relying on the trunk code to be working. You don't want to break the build, right? But anyone who has done non-trivial work with svn will, sooner or later, lose some work that wasn't "ready" to check in. In retrospect, it feels kind of weird to have source control that you aren't supposed to use...

Second, everyone knows that git has strong support for branching. But developers used to svn don't always "get" is that git has REALLY strong support for branching. As in, you should be using it. Right now. Constantly. Are you about to start work on a new issue? Branch. Got a new idea on how to solve that problem? Branch. Unsure if you should branch? Branch. Feeling bored? Branch twice. Okay, I'm exaggerating a little, but only a little. You really should be doing everything in branch, because it's very VERY easy to merge, swap branches, pull changes between branches, shelve a branch and start over, stop working on a branch, restart work on a branch, and generally do whatever you want. Again, anyone who has done non-trivial work with svn will have probably learned that branches are a cunning trap for the unwary - you need to unlearn that. :)

I'm sure there are teams out there using git in a "truly" decentralised manner, but in my experience the point of git (and any other dvcs) is actually that it makes a centralised workflow much less painful for the individual devs.
No, it's that simple on iOS too if you pick a sane OAuth library.
Everyone chiming in here is just blatantly, blatantly wrong. OAuth is a solid solution to a very real set of problems.

The fact that you are unaware of the potential problems does not make those problems any less valid.

As someone who has implemented an OAuth flow on Android and iOS, I can agree that it's not easy. But it does solve a serious set of security issues which are raised by having a third party act on behalf of a user. Not only does it permit more fine grained grants to applications that the user trusts to varying levels, it allows a compromised application to have all of its keys invalidated at once. It allows a user to disable a single misbehaving application's access to their account. These are prices worth paying.

Learn what you're whining about. Then deal with it.
Huh - you're comparing a restaurant chain to Zynga because they both sell to women? Sorry, that makes no sense to me.

I think other game companies are a much closer match.
Thanks man, I did not know that info of his story, my knowledge of his adventures stopped when I left /.
Verizon purchases spectrum from Comcast, Time Warner for $3.6B
Yahoo Messenger 0-Day Exploit allow status message hijacking
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Thanks, apparently I missed some news.
> entangled photons of light have been used to transmit information in such a way that any interception is detectable

Wrong. Information is not transmitted via the entangled photons. They're used to build up random data, which is guaranteed to correspond between the two endpoints and thus can be used as an encryption key (for a one-time pad, etc). Entanglement can certainly not be used to transmit information.
My bad, we agree on this. But there are a whole bunch of other great things that OAuth brings.
I dont think you understand the issues. The article and the other posters are talking about the ability of a small company to issue publicly traded shares via an IPO.

2. The internet is not a capital market. If you try to issues shares in the US or to make a market in them you will quickly be visited by the SEC.

3. No. I worked for a $35m revenue company a few years ago which wanted to go public. The cost of preparing for the offering would have been in excess of $3 million. That pretty much eliminates IPOs for small companies.

4. ???

Once a company goes public, it is subject to the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley which entails costs of $3 million and up per year.

Sure, simplification of the IPO process for smaller companies entails more risk, but the trade off is a more vigorous startup arena. I once did some back of the envelope calculations that convinced me that the yearly cost of SQ exceeds all the losses from Enron.
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Ask HN: Thoughts on the Bay Area versus other locations?
I know this has been discussed a lot in the past, and I'm not trying to beat a dead horse... but I'd like to get the input of people who have lived both in SF and other locations (assuming that you were involved with startups while in both locations). What are the advantages and disadvantages of both? I'm very seriously considering moving to SF from LA for better opportunities within the startup world.

Also, if you know of any good posts that discuss this topic, please share!

Many thanks!
Rob -- you're like Superman. Could Superman have a resume? Seems like you'd just give them a card that said "I'm f*cking CmdrTaco, damnit!"

(The reference here is to a famous fake letter said to be from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs http://www.exophrine.com/2011/06/sean-connery-to-steve-jobs-...)

Seriously, it brings up a good point. If you have lots of name recognition, what's the best way to look for work? I'd suggest networking, but it's entirely possible to be hugely famous without a deep contact list. I'm not sure Rob has this problem, but if he did, it would be a difficult one to address.
If I hire you, can I get a 3 digit slashdot id?
My joke resume that I made a month ago:
http://cmdrtaco.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Joke-Resume.p...
>Please don't lump me into that category.

It's quite possible that I'm wrong, of course.
The obsolete jobs are those which depend on re-inventing the wheel, because some company needs to add a new feature or fix a bug in software X and they can't, because it's proprietary.

If every software was Free we'd eliminate plenty of redundant work.
Right, I get the irony of trusting the guy that says the other guy is the guy. I just though, I either missed something and a few people would pipe up. It's not scientific sure but suffices for my, "well maybe it's him, filter"
Coworking: the pivot in today’s transformation of work?
Because the phonon was initiated by a single photon, which, until observed, cannot be said to have traveled to one diamond or the other. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment .
No indent below Education is killing me!
They don't even let me post stories any more, you think they let me re-assign UIDs?
Strange business. Professional encoding tools are about $5-6K, so they cater to folks who have large needs, but not large enough to warrant a $6K investment.
We had an entire orgs source-code in one SVN repository. It was useful for moving files from one project to the next to keep history and enabled anyone in the org to easily commit to any project.

Obviously that wasn't scalable. (My inbox of commit log emails was insane.) So we transitioned to git. Plus, most of the engineers were already using git-svn. It just took someone who had a free weekend to "git svn clone" and move everyone over to that.

It was PAINFUL at first. I was one of the grumpy people, but after I got the hang of git, I am so glad we just ripped the bandaid off.
College is left leaning.
San Francisco & the Bay Area exist at the center of the Startup universe. It's just the way it is.

I have lived in San Francisco and now live in Chicago and run my own startup- but NorCal is definitely the best place on Earth to be. There are other great places- but IMO the best is still Northern California
Seriously, why not create a GPG web of trust?
Fabrice Bellard is an extraordinary human. I know about his work since 1990 when he wrote the LZEXE self-unpacking executable utility for DOS.
Managed teams for 13 of the 14 years ;)
This is such a ridiculous post from someone who got frustrated because they didn't understand OAuth. Nothing more. They will get it soon, and they will feel bad for attempting to write something that makes OAuth look bad. Give it time.
When you say you are considering moving, "for better opportunities in the startup world," what opportunities? Are you looking for a job? Starting your own company?
That is a great blog posting.

However, I don't know why the author would even suggest that annotations are innocent looking. They aren't any more 'innocent' than an if statement. Something like: 'if (myMethod())' could easily be a long running database query or call out to a fibonacci solver. Should we all be afraid of using if statements too?

I'm sorry, but there is really nothing 'magical' about annotations. It is simply a marker on a class, property or method that other code can read from and do things with. Prior to annotations, apps were processing Javadoc (@see early versions of GWT), which was an even more terrible idea since you didn't know if it was Javadoc or an annotation.

The summary is that a) software engineering is not easy and it does involve knowing what you are doing in order for things to not appear 'magical'. b) If you are going to put an annotation on something, then you should know what code is going to read that annotation and what effects it might have. That said, that isn't the fault of the annotation language feature.
No, but you can sell your posessions, your labor, your ideas, your likeness, and numerous other rights and privileges. Why the arbitrary comparison between organs and slavery?
Let's say that there are 100s of unique 'traits' that correlate with talent at a complicated skill, like piano playing. And, the authors have correlated one of those traits, working memory, with better piano playing.

That's great. Does that mean I will be a great pianist if I have awesome working memory? No - I still need to practice and lots of other traits that make up that talent.

I will hypothesize that every complicated skill requires 100s of unique traits to perform that skill well. I will also hypothesize that each of us Humans have 1000s or 10000s of unique traits, and for each of these we fit onto some Normal curve.

Does that mean that we wait around to discover that we are two standard deviations from the mean on every trait that is required to accomplish a complex skill? Hell no. We try to identify the few or several traits for which we excel for that task, we emphasize those traits, and we practice.

Yes - there's no question that we are all made differently. Does that matter? It's hard to say, until we try.

Things like aptitude tests seem to test for a very narrow range of traits. And, all they do is discourage those that score poorly from pursuing skills, even if those who score poorly may have other traits that more than make up the difference.
Reading this resume is like having the resume for Michael Jordan hit your desk. You're so impressed that you don't know what to do at it, other than stare.
I did try and build your code to run the test (I've no idea where the CsvParam and DateParam classes come from) but I think that the following will give you what you want without throwing the exception.

@DELETE
@Path("{uid: [0-9]+}")
public Response deleteStudent(@PathParam("uid") int uid) {
final Student deletedStudent = STUDENTS.remove(uid);

if (deletedStudent == null) {
return Response.status(Response.Status.NOT_FOUND).build();
} else {
return Response.ok().entity(true).build();
}
}
I must not have been very clear, because I'm being pro-OAuth here :)
Why is it marked scribd?
See this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_3i7ZX_Gvk "Copyright vs Community".

Text: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.htm...

Search for "I distinguish three broad categories of works".
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Xeni Jardin Live-Tweets Her First Mammogram, Is Diagnosed With Cancer
Neurotic, obsessive contemplation of worst-case scenarios. Useful trait in a software developer, and it tends to make me conservative financially. But in many other aspects of life I don't recommend it. Also, angel investing doesn't appeal to me.

I bought some toys, but mostly a comfy life and peace of mind.
LIAR!
You're confusing me Rob. You want to be someone's employee, follow someone else's vision, get a regular paycheck, dental plan yada yada - and yet you want to change the world. Again.

It's definitely possible to do, but not as likely, and resumes are a bit played out, esp. for someone with your credentials.

Yep. Totally confused.
Der Onkelseoserbe Fight: Ist Content C(K)acke und Backlinks King?
For the record, I like this one better.
You don't just eliminate the wasteful jobs; you eliminate the productive ones as well.
"I once did some back of the envelope calculations that convinced me that the yearly cost of SQ exceeds all the losses from Enron"

But without the trust that the regulation adds, there would be the potential for more Enrons and less people willing to invest in the market.
This article seems to pretty well refute the arguments presented in the paper: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8of/ray_kurzweil_and_up.... I would like to see a response by the author to the counterarguments presented therein.
Right- an anonymous HN user squatted the nick, and handed it over to me when I resigned from Slashdot in august.
I'm speaking in terms of founding and growing a startup.
I absolutely love Zencoder! Highly recommended.

I wanted to encourage our customers to upload screencast style video demos of their apps to be presented within a product shot of an iPhone or iPad on their website (e.g. http://aeirtalk.com/ and http://homemarks.limelightapp.com/). In order to present the videos using HTML 5, it turned out we must encode the videos into three different formats (H.264, Ogg Theora, WebM.) Zencoder's API request builder made this a total breeze! I don't think I ever read the API documentation. Furthermore, I never have to worry about what format our customers are uploading.

We don't do a ton of video encoding, so our bill is never more than a few bucks a month. It's better than free when you consider how much time we didn't waste maintaining a server with ffmpeg on it. :)
Here is my experience:

• I took my family to see the Incredibles - cost $7.50 x $5.00 = $37.50

• I like it so much we purchased the DVD - cost $19.50

• Somehow the DVD broke, so in a fit I purchased it through iTunes - $14.95

• Lost that hard drive and had no back up - torrents save the day.

My philosophy is pixar has already made their mint on me. This one movie cost my family $71.95, and I'm not about to pay for it again.
Someone else can link the joke version and try to get HN karma... I felt dirty just posting the first one.
(Note: the letter is fake http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/23/connery-jobs)
If music was manufactured good, we'd be buying cheap Chinese knockoffs.
I for one have always known that I am, in an irreducible way, smarter and indeed _better_ than everyone around me. I am gratified to see this empirical reality reflected in scientific literature, and see no reason to question these findings.
To continue the analogy...do you feel that /. is wasting away, or is it just attracting a different demographic these days?
The costs of an IPO and the costs of complying with Sarbanes Oxley are so high that no company with revenue less than $100m can afford to go public. I would like to see changes so that smaller companies can afford to go public.
Whatever resume gets me the best job is my favorite.
If enough people did that where it would matter, Google would probably notice and patch the code to stop executing it.
If you own the copyright over your GPL'd code, you can do a multi-license business model and sell/build proprietary stuff on top of the open core. (Or open stuff on a proprietary core, or a mixed core, etc.) When other people do the same thing, suddenly you have even more open cores out there (besides the ones done without profit motive) to build stuff on that you'd otherwise have to reinvent at a negative cost factor.

Mixing open and proprietary, while perhaps not in line with RMS's views, is still a great way to make money, and you can even do it with the GPL in many circumstances. (Not always though.) In the gaming industry, I find philosophically pleasing the approach of Carmack and some indie companies who make a credible commitment to open sourcing the software (not necessarily the art assets) at a certain date in the future while making money on it at release.

Edit: I also want to add that copycat fears are generally out of proportion. Copycats usually don't win, as in displace the original's dominance. (What usually happens though is the original starts copycatting others to keep a safe, steady income flow, and possibly to crush newcomers if the thing being copycatted isn't sufficiently novel. You're not going to get big by copycatting, though you might get a modest sustaining profit.)
Why did you leave then? I'm always curious as to why some people move away from SF if they want to run a startup.
Does this mean Werkzeug (and thus flask) will be ported in the foreseeable future?
Edited to fix. Damn it, I rather liked the thought that Connery would write that. It fits the legend of both men very well. My comment works either way, fortunately.
I've heard that Swiss Google takes people in without much problems. Obviously they've figured it out.
> I am not saying all the bots are smart, but my mantra since then has been that "if there is value for the bots to be smart, they can get very smart".

I was once actually on the other side of the fence as you were, around 5-6 years ago (in a different industry, though). You're right, if there's value to be gained by scrapping other people's pages there's almost always a way round the obstacles.

I remember the day when my boss presented me a link to a strange-named FF extension, called Chickenfoot (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/faq.html). It allowed one to very easily write FF extensions that would programatically click on whatever links you wanted to be scrapped, all this from inside the browser, like a normal user would have done. I used to run FF with this extension installed on a dedicated cheap PC, saving the data to our servers, and from time to time automatically restarting FF because the machine was running out of memory. Fun times :)
I've just realised that my question was kind of ambiguous and could be interpreted to make me look like a dick.

As I can't edit it any longer, I'll clarify here: I was asking from an "I wonder if SV people have the balls to give the zynga lot flack for making those shitty games?" point of view, not an "I want to go and work for this company now it's worth $7B but I'm worried that nerds might be mean to me in bars" point of view.

Just for the record.
Would $6k include hardware, or just a software license?
But doesn't the carrier see

"1-555-123-4567"
"Rebecca S. Name"
"facebook.com"
"123 Fake St, Springfield Ohiyamaude"
"Visa XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"

?

Wouldn't they be able to put 2 and 2 (and 2 and 2 and 2 and 2) together to know who the traffic is coming from anyway?
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Since practically there are a finite number of domain names available, wouldn't every registration increase the scarcity in the market, and thus raise prices?

At least in my own experiences, I've never seen a domain sold by a private party for less than 5x the typical price from a registrar. This would raise the average price of domains, not lower them as you suggest.
Isn't it easier for a company < 100m to get money from private investors?
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There's a big difference between creating something that looks like a Swiss watch and selling it to someone who wants a Swiss watch, and creating something that looks like a Swiss watch and selling it to someone who wants something that looks like a Swiss watch. The first is fraud against the end purchaser, whereas the second is at most possible trademark infringement.

It seems to me that those pressing for "anti-counterfeiting" laws are trying to conjure up the spectre of the first case, to get popular support without giving people the chance to think too hard about what would be fair legislation for the second case.
What is the deal with Green jobs and the Tech Industry? [Infographic]
I don't know about that. Hitching a ride onto Android is a way to immediately make yourself look like everyone else- and Android tablets do not have a fantastic reputation.