skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have clarified that I meant a lot of the criticism sounds like sour grapes, not all. The point I want to make is that if it wasn't public knowledge how much money these guys took, I think the reaction on HN to these ideas would be very different. My guess is that the 40M scandal makes it pretty much impossible for these guys to get a fair shake in the developer community.
I laughed to think that HUMAN'S analysis of whether a dolphin is intelligent is whether WE can understand their language.

Using that logic, it seems my dog is more intelligent than me: He can understand some of my language as well as his own, whereas I can only understand my own.

I agree with your sentiment but your logic is backward. Substitute dog for dolphin in your first sentence:

[a] HUMAN'S analysis of whether a dog is intelligent is whether WE can understand their language.

Since you cannot (by your own admission) understand your dog's language, by the logic of that statement, the dog would not be intelligent.
To clarify this a bit for non-Emacs users (as I saw a comment), the tl;dr version is that jwz wants Mac to maintain the Emacs key bindings that essentially amount to a specialized set of copy, cut and paste functions in text editing.

This is not because Apple particularly sponsors Emacs, but because historically, Mac key bindings and Emacs key bindings were the same for those functions. So it's the same (roughly) as finding that Command-A, Command-C and Command-V no longer work the way they used to.
Founders Fund on Monday Meetings, Patience, and That New Fund
They have deals with lots of tiny independents. They do not have deals with the big boys. Guess whose music forms the bulk of their streams?
Is it just me, or does this smell like the perfect opportunity for Apple to enter into the "console" gaming arena. Provide a gaming controller and voila! They are competing with the likes of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Difference is, you release a game on the iTV, and its playable on your iPhone and your iPad. Oh man, talk about owning your entire stack...
I may have missed this, but I didn't get that the article talked about every company's core business now being software.

I understood his argument to be that software developers are becoming increasingly valuable, and outsized returns will go to firms that understand this and learn how to treat software developers well to leverage what they're able to do to any industry.
Computer Scientists May Have What It Takes to Help Cure Cancer
"This function may not be plotted correctly"
LOL it's okay Google, you're excused on this one.
From the readme:

"Similar Projects

https://github.com/rsms/cocui is probly better in every imaginable way."
web designers : rails :: sysadmins : perl

I don't like Python; I'm a Ruby developer (actually, I don't know why I stopped calling myself a C dev). But I'll freely admit: most Python programmers know Python because they spend their real day job programming.
I have heard that if you factor in the development costs, it was not profitable.
Funny, I was just going to learn Cocoa so I could do just this. I will try this out once finals are over :)
It has in my mind. I feel sorry for all the users who would still trust them.
I emailed the blogger and asked. I asked my wife to try the math test (since it's way too easy for me). She hasn't taken a math class since her junior year of high school, almost 30 years ago--she took symbolic logic in college to satisfy her math requirement.

In about an hour, she did the first 25 questions and got 80% of them right. (This is the 2006 10th grade math test.)

So, the test is just not that hard. Perhaps the school board member has had a stroke.
Entry-level CVs or Resumes
Why do we get so excited about another Earth? When we cant save this one
"The reason Verizon has chosen to kick Wallet out of the device is likely because of their recent creation of a new mobile payment project called ISIS. ISIS not only features Verizon, but also is a partnership with AT&T and T-mobile to build a new mobile payment network much like Wallet. It is supposed to roll out in 2012."

Surely the FTC won't let that stand on anticompetitive grounds?
They don't necessarily need electricity:

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/the_tribesman_who_facebook_f...
This is one upside to using trusted repositories with signed applications in the Linux Distribution model. It's not perfect but at least this kind of sadness doesn't happen. There's no good reason this couldn't be done for Windows as well; it's just that users are conditioned to download from assorted random sites to collect the apps they want.

Would be a good community project which would likely attract the kinds of people who use nmap anyway.
Forbes contributors (staff and outsiders) are generally copyedited for style but my understanding is that content is generally the responsibility of the author.

This model may not be for everyone but it allows us to bring in great non-staff writers like Timothy Lee (http://blogs.forbes.com/timothylee/).

While contributors can still pitch mag stories there's still a lot of editorial involvement in the print publication.
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Honestly, this tone is better. I downvoted you for suggesting an alternative because, honestly, parent is just as indignant as I am at this article's bullshit.

You generally don't get a job by just learning a language. That's no different than looking for a journalist gig after you've written for a few months. There's much more to do.
Take a look at the announcement of the iPad [1]. "You can browse the web on it. It's the best browsing experience you've ever had. To see a full web page you can manipulate with your fingers." "You can turn the iPad any way you want, it automatically adjusts." "You can see your photos and flip through them."

Note that I said they explicitly state that it's a tablet, a smartphone, an MP3 player, but they implicitly imply that every feature they have or device they've created has just been invented. The above quotes go a long way toward showing that. Touchscreens, even larger than the iPad, had been around for a long time. Gyroscopic screens had been around for a long time. I had one on my Lenovo tablet before the iPad was even announced. Job didn't announce it as a new tablet, he announced it as _the_ tablet, and described the features as if they were new. Looking back on the featureset he took pride in, no one would ever present something as mundane as a touchscreen picture slideshow unless they were, with a least some part of their conscious mind, trying to imply that it was a new thing.

And it was easy to believe, at every launch. Tablets, consumer smartphones, and MP3 players were not hugely popular, there was a huge consumer market that had not heard of them. Did Apple enlarge the market? Sure. But Jobs implied, with a straight face, that everything they were doing was new and original. It simply wasn't. It's akin to driving a truck into the jungle and showing the natives your four-wheel-drive invention.

Remember the classic Slashdot post about the announcement of the iPod in 2001. Even then, gadget-minded folks knew that the iPod was a flashy but ultimately unoriginal product.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PpeSbDoeAE
As mentioned in the link's comment thread, ^Y is broken for Webkit. I just tried this in Mail.app and it worked fine.
Startup Founder Founds Startup to Start Up Founders' Startups
New 2012 Cars
Google's user equation
Tell HN: You can have 80% of my startup for $1
I started classparrot.com after I won startup weekend about three months ago.

Site was up and running one week later. We got great press. And an average of 50 teachers signing up per day. Our customers love what we do, and we have several paying schools and teachers. We definitely made something that people want.

The code is built on rails 3.1. It's clean and readable, but no test coverage. We use twilio on the backend.

Even though there's tons of competition out there, and the space is getting crowded, I think classparrot has huge potential. It needs a good hacker who is willing to play around with the business model and payment plans to find a sweet spot. And continue to build out features and reach out to new customers.

I'm giving it away to the right person, because I want to focus 100% on devbootcamp.com and I want classparrot's customers to be taken care of.
More Paypal nonsense
Google loves its users and has an equation to prove it http://www.trendslate.com/2011/12/05/google-graphing-calcula...
Yes. Whoever blames the employees here is hiding their head in the sand. Same with blaming the climate or "entrepreneurial spirit" or whatever. There are good schools and talented people. As with any place there are the great and the mediocre. Offer the great $100k out of school and reasonably interesting work like they can get in Seattle or Mountain View and you will find that it is quite easy to get globally competitive talent.
The value shifts to the robot developers. They are the ones that capture more of the value originally pooled by the entire workforce.

The robot owners get value in that they can lower their prices because of the replacement of labour with robots, and overall, society benefits because whatever the robots are making is now less costly (ie, takes less of your own hours working to purchase).

The key to understanding all of this is productivity. Most people tend to think in terms of raw job numbers, rather than productivity numbers.

Employing robots results in a more productive economy because the same (or greater) amount of output is achieved with less human input. This does release labour from that activity, but it also creates opportunities in other areas, as the savings people make on purchasing the robot-cheaper goods can now spend in other areas, which should create jobs in other areas.

Of course rapidly advancing technology produces lumps of unemployed which take time to retrain and redeploy themselves elsewhere, and it sucks to be that person. But eventually they will find employment, assuming something else isn't working against that (like oversized debt accumulation, which works against new enterprise creation by causing a negative investment flow, but that's another story)
I would second this, you are going to have to go direct to niche sites that hold your target demographic and do deals directly with the site. Sites that revolve around social drinking and partying would be your prime advertisement venues, but the mainstream is not going to touch it and rightfully so. Even if it is not that offensive, it has the potential to turn off more individuals that view the advertisement, than the niche sales can replace. So it is a simple decision for them, they deal in the mainstream.

You may be able to target certain bars with a bulk deal, in which they purchase decks for patrons. As well, you may want to do demographic studies to find out which age, culture, gender are more apt to be consumers, then heavily target that market via campaigns directly to sites they hang out on.
NASA Files LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) Patent
Porque Utilizar Wordpress Para Su Negocio Por Internet
Actually it was probably this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454373 and I am remembering the amount of disdain wrong
So is this site like a TryRuby deal?
Rajini's path follows Ajith
Superstar Rajinikanth who impressedAjith in numerous ways has developed a special habit it seems. While Ajith has given statements in the recent like 'Rajinikanth sir is like a god to me' has created huge impact on his fans.
"I lived my life to its fullest."

That's the point he was trying to make. You can't live much when you're strapped to a bed on painkillers.
Nice, the prior HN post for DojoApp redirects here. I knew the UI looked familiar.

Check the first sentence for spelling: "The box below is an interactie Ruby console."
If you can't imagine a scenario where this is a Bad Thing, you aren't that imaginative. "Who cares?" is almost never the correct response to a bug report, especially a security-related one.
I don't think we've read the same article. It's not about money.
On the bottom right side there is a wrench icon. There you can reset the database. Unfortunately this seems to be the only way to do it at the moment.
I just get an interactive ruby and it wants me to move through a bunch of steps... Just visiting the page I have no idea where I am going and why I should invest my time. It looks like a site to teach absolutely new programmers how to code Ruby.
the original quote is explicit enough that I would trust the person saying it to know what they are talking about

Which is why (at least) some people do it.
I think you hit the nail on the head already with the first part of this paragraph:

>>While it's true that some of us are more likely to work for ourselves, or tend to be risk-averse, or desire long-term relationships with a company [...]

Basically, developers with more of a mercenary mindset are more willing to work for themselves, while developers with a more guild-like disposition tend to be more risk-averse and/or desire long(er) term relationships with a company.

Both groups definitely overlap in terms of their achievements and community involvement. But how they see themselves in the market, and more importantly how they react to changing conditions, seems to be the primary distinction between the two.

Being a Forbes article and the general audience that the author seems to be writing for, I doubt that much of this is anything new for a HN audience. However, it's probably a good radar ping/wake-up call for the more general audience.

tl;dr Polarizing divisions make it easier for people to retain information.
As a developer ages, and finds it harder and harder to switch technologies, at some point, he or she is considered hooked for the rest of their natural lives to some technology — Java or C++ or the Facebook API say — that they can be expected to grow old with.

Sigh. ::Closes eclipse. Googles "ruby tutorials"::
yeah except it also teaches you how to build apps and then lets you deploy them
Just to be clear, these are standard Shell keybindings that Emacs also uses—not 'Emacs keybindings'.
Thanks...I remember you mentioned some of this to me. My one thought was that there are some pretty cool applications courses in our department (distributed system design/AI). Out of the upper division classes, OS grabs my attention/interest less than others. But I was wrong to assume that learning about operating systems didn't have applications to what I want to do in the future with CS. The answers here cleared it up.
Not too much apart from some name calling. This was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution with the creation of the middle class and people had newspapers, travelled, and so on. IOW, beginning to be cosmopolitan. I think we might be surprised how much like us the mid to late 19th century people were.

If you want to change that to the mid 15th century with small villages, superstition and and witches, different story.
It's almost a shibboleth, these reverse abstractions into understandable English. The more I hear someone jargon it up, the more I think they don't understand what they're talking about. "I like big data!"
I should send this link to the client
Tab completion for tmux sessions
What is "CS" ?
Inertia, other life priorities, all types of things.

I think one of the things that's hard for people is that thinking along a particular type of technology for people creates a type of mental rut that means subsequent thinking tends to go down the same rut.

By this, I don't mean it so much as the 'stuck in a rut' sense of being unable to escape, but more of the fact that it's hard to approach a problem without using an existing mental pathway you've spent years using.

It's like trying to learn a new (spoken) language - you tend to try and think in your old language and do the conversion, rather than think in the new language. The people who can pick up new languages quickly apparnetly have a good ability to skip over these mental ruts and embrace new types of thinking quickly.

So people struggle initially to understand new technologies because it might require a different type of thinking. And they may also have no chance to practice these skills without leaving their existing job, which might involve a significant cut in income and/or a relocation.

Of course the end-run around this is to be involved in an open source project in the new technology, and try and pick up work through those avenues.

The other issue is that, as a technology gets mature, as long as it is still being used, the dollar rewards tend to go upwards as time goes by. I personally know of guys who still work on database systems written in the 1980s which predate relational databases. They are the only ones who know it, and are pretty much untouchable for both domain and technical knowledge. They get to work from home for large money and are off-limits as far as cutbacks and layoffs. Of course, this all happens up to the point a new system is put in place, but, as the article says, old systems are geographical layers, so businesses can tend to build on top of the old layer and glue it together with middleware, rather than do a bottom-up rebuild.

So if you're making big money doing something you can do with your eyes closed, and are indispensable, there's not a lot of incentive (beyond intellectual curiosity) to switch out into a new stream. The people I know are financially set anyway, and they just see it as a revenue stream that will one day dry up, but are happy to keep taking it while it comes in.
Well the guy is asking me if an integer is 32 bits .
For a Forbes article on developers, there sure are a lot of markup mistakes showing up throughout the text...
The Facebook "Hacquisition" Continued
I've totally heard people rattling off jargon where it didn't add anything. It didn't remove anything (save perhaps understanding by some within earshot), it's pointless complexity, and I'm a person who thinks pointless complexity should be eliminated.
Computer Technical Support: A Good Friend 
A good fortune stays for businesses and enterprises, as Computer Technical Support is now available on-demand for varied server and client edition of Windows and Mac platforms.
Two data points, yours and mine, are hardly enough to draw a lesson from. Lesson: Don't jump to conclusions and teach others lessons based on your hurt feelings.

The majority of the comment was praising my female math teachers for caring enough to go outside their comfort zone to foster a love of mathematics. If more teachers in general had the temerity to venture into the unknown when educating their students, especially in math and science, we might not have serious gender gaps in most professional fields.
Hashes are stored at the provider but the fact that they hashed is what I am referring to. Hashing itself only protects the user, there is little benefit to the providers security.
I'll post this for the new HN members, since I would've loved to hear this after joining: the companies you want to work for don't give a damn about what languages you know.

You want a job? Learn how a splay tree performs better than a binary search tree, and what that says about worst-case algorithmic complexity. Grok the difference between training versus inference, and how a well-trained model can completely fail in practice. Learn how programming can be functional, imperative, or logic-based, and then mess around with Haskell, C, and Prolog. Then use Python to see how all three can blend into one dialect (okay maybe not logic-based).

Good companies don't look for languages on your resume--they want people who know their stuff. List comprehensions or decorators don't matter--you have to demonstrate an ability to learn anything, whether it's syntactic sugar or obscure data structures with specific use cases.
Great comments thread on that post, including this gem after WebKit is fingered as the wrongdoer:

"Two different libraries to implement text-field editing -- because, you know, that's somewhere you might want to diverge and innovate."

LOL.
This is accurate. RIM used to be a hot place to go to until 2006 or 07 or so. It's not the first or the second choice for the good people these days.

I'm sure there's some talent left to be picked off though.
Is this what happens when a Metallica fanatic takes Adderall?
It's quite funny because a group of my friends used to call ourselves the mercenaries because we had no loyalty to any existing company, and would leave in a heartbeat if the project was doomed or a bad manager was drafted in.

But there was also an element of guild behaviour in that anyone who found themselves in a good project/company tended to bring in others.
Ask HN: What happens to acquired companies IP? 
After the recent acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, I began to wonder, what happens to all the great little logos that Gowalla has? When Gowalla gets shut down(which seems to be what is indicated is going to happen), do they just get buried? I wonder the same about all the startups Google has acquired. Where does all the graphic design and code go?
Shit. I just found that my application which was updated last week and is the 10th most popular system utility app on Download.com is also being similarly bundled [1]. This was not the case last week.

I think Softpedia and FileHippo are the only big sites left not doing this ridiculous practice. I'm debating whether or not to pull the application listing. What do you guys think?

[1]: http://download.cnet.com/EasyBCD/3000-2094_4-10556865.html

EDIT

The benefit of our freeware not being open source is that we retain full control over distribution and packaging. Unlike nmap and others, we actually have a legal right to demand that CNet, et. al. either host the unaltered EXE or pull their listing.

I have just sent CNet a "cease and desist"-ish open letter, which we've also published on our blog. We will be forwarding this to any and all download sites we find bundling EasyBCD with their intrusive downloaders and installers, as that goes explicitly against the products' licensing agreements, which are there to prevent exactly this type of behavior.

Link: http://neosmart.net/blog/2011/open-letter-to-cnet/

tl;dr of link: C&D bundling of EasyBCD with installers and downloaders or pull the listing.
Ask HN: Impossible to Write Good Software As a Service?
I currently work at a digital agency, we offer our services to build websites for clients.

Now to write good software you need to iterate over it. I think we can all agree that it's also impossible to write a perfect spec of a product before it's built. Too many unknowns, interactions and hearsay.

The problem that we have is when working with clients you either:

a. Have a super detailed plan that the client signs off on before you build. You then run into all sorts of unforeseen problems. The client either pays for changes to the spec or you build a bad product. Either way the client is unhappy.

b. Have an informal plan of what you're planning where the client will continue to gouge additional work from you wherever they can. The clients happy but your business is earning an average of $30 an hour and your going home at 3am every night.

So,

B is realistic if you're going to be working to an hourly rate but no client wants that, they want to know an upfront final cost before they start. A is also not good, if the client is not happy, they're not going to come back.

How do you solve this paradox and offer software writing services that don't suck?
i feel like i've seen this before... name change?
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Voice Search arrives in the Middle East
The VP article linked to this one as background material. That is where OP found this article to repost for karma.
We the People do not want to turn our devices off during takeoff/landing