skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing that, to some degree, for the last six months. When I decided I needed to get out, I started diverting as much money as possible to savings (~30% of my monthly, basically everything that isn't food/rent/utilities).

The real problem with my current job is that it's both time intensive (50-60 hours/week) and pays next to nothing ($32k pre-tax, living in Boston). I should probably be working in the evenings to save more money, but I'm trying to work on my coding skills so I can actually make the transition.

The job originally made perfect sense if I wanted to stay in academic biology, since I would now have a killer recommendation from MIT. Hell, the salary is better than grad students! But since I want to change careers, it is a complete dead end that I need to get out of.
Show HN: Teach fellow hackers your skill
Of late I’m seeing a lot of interest on HN for teaching each other coding, designing and other skills. I thought fellow hackers might be interested in a platform where we can easily set up online classes.

I have been working away at nights to get this site to a MVP state. Your feedback will help me make it better.
Right now I'm currently working at teambox.com, I just wanted to share my experience.
Government creates inefficiency and markets spring up (here, drive up) to take advantage. Classic lesson of economics.
I'd have a hard time believing that 'many' of these weekend projects go on to become a long-term project.

To me at least, they seem like people taking a shotgun approach to starting projects and hoping that one of them will stick and become popular without having had to expend much effort on it. Interesting problems take more than a weekend to solve.
FUD from a website that doesnt's even bothers to try and render well on the iPhone. Also isn't saying that it tries to achieve something in the middle of userfriendliness of the iPhone and ubiquity of the Android, and then say it has a marvelous user interface kinda of a contradiction?
Have no idea how this kind of spam got into HN.
In Java, LinkedHashMap[1] is well-suited to building LRU caches.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHas...
It is online, but embedded in my employers software. I could probably do some extraction of it, but not sure if it is worth the effort.
Interesting problems take more than a weekend to solve.

They take a weekend to discover.

Edit: For an example, see Gumroad, which was launched on HN as a weekend project[1], then improved and got Techcrunch coverage months later[2].
irony that his post is +1'ed 50 times (more than facebook shares)
It seems to me that measuring utilization is like measuring the coastline of Britain. The more accurately you try measure it, the more meaningless the question becomes.
Interesting points. As curation becomes simpler/easier/faster and the tools to do so become more ubiquitous, it will increasingly become a defining feature of our web experience.
CodeYear missed the boat
I'm willing to bet on-site engineers (especially those with H1B1s) are more loyal. It cuts both ways though - a freelancer knows they are first to go if they company needs to cut back.
"Reflections on the Jewish Question"
It's worth noting that the H1B is not the only type of visa that exists for hiring developers. Australians are able to use the E3, which is like a H1B but only available to Australians. Consequently it's easier to get, as long as you have a degree/work experience.
Recover password for a http://notepad.cc document
Forgot my password for a http://notepad.cc/ document. There is no option for password reset. Any suggestions appreciated.
This seems like a back-handed endorsement of Emacs ;-)
PragPub Jan '12 is out (Pragmatic Bookshelf magazine)
500+ hours.

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/guru.shtm...

*Lessons learned: R is a phenomenal language for statistical analysis. Do not underestimate the power of StackOverflow to help solve complex problems. The PostgreSQL database has superb language support. Integrating third-party data sources takes longer than you think; inserting 270 million records into a database takes a lot of preparation to execute correctly.
Yargh. OP searched on his name plus "jury duty" and is complaining because Google returns two G+ hits with his name in the title before getting to the article he wrote about jury duty?
I highly recommend autojump[1] as a simple way to jump to commonly-used working directories. It's saved me a lot of repetitive typing since I discovered it.

[1] https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump
He is one of the nicest people in the valley, unbelievably passionate and aware.

He used to be the CTO so he is also a strong technical person. It's a great fit.
On Windows I use MarkdownPad [1] which does exactly this. It also allows you to get read of needless UI elements which I very much appreciate.

I guess there is similar tools for Linux and Mac OS X.

[1] http://markdownpad.com/
Desperado actress Salma Hayek is honored with french knighthood
Yahoo's new CEO brings affable nature to big job
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company...

Who writes these PR releases?
Some humility should be in order here..

Yahoo Appoints Scott Thompson CEO [FIXED]
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company from April 1999 to February 2000 is desperately trying to become relevant again after a series of incomprehensible blunders. We are very hopeful that with the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive we will finally get things turned around because, quite frankly, the next stop for us is being Gecko'd - bought out for pennies on the dollar, broken apart and sold off to the highest bidders at auction.
Of late I’m seeing a lot of interest on HN for teaching each other coding, designing and other skills. I thought fellow hackers might be interested in a platform where we can easily set up online classes.

I have been working away at nights to get this site to a MVP state. Your feedback will help me make it better.
Will Amazon Offer Analytics as a Service?
Show HN: Neko.io - pretty secret sharing
Social network Care2 resets 18 million passwords following a security breach
TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore
I agree. All I'm trying to say as that blaming it on the 'Movie Industry' is not being able to see the real problem. Many independent and main stream movie industry workers don't support SOPA and don't feel the MPAA acts in their favor. We need to vote with our dollars and not support organizations that support the MPAA. And we need to vote with our mouthes and make it clear that as culture consuming citizens we feel an organization like the MPAA is more harmful to culture and business than it is beneficial.

Now I understand that rights protection organizations are useful and necessary in many cases, again all I'm saying is that if you feel that the MPAA is being abusive and of little value then you should speak up to free yourself from them.
Apple's Design God Jony Ive Has 'A Slick 50 Inch TV' In His Secret Apple Studio
Curious is this open source licensed (obviously the code is on the page)? I'd actually like to use it for something.
Surely that's trademark infringement, which is a variety of FRAUD, a completely different thing.

Stealing, for me, is taking someone else's _stuff_, and arguments about IP law come down to arguments over the definition of "stuff" and who "owns" it.
I hate to do a tl;dr, but here it is: Google has bought and/or acquired so many web properties that they all can't appear in their own little special spot in search results. If you type in the name of an article you wrote and it's the 3rd or 4th listing, below somebody just mentioning it on G+? It's broken. Like Facebook, but to a greater degree, Google is making the internet crap by putting it's own little frame around everything.

To me Google isn't evil by any means, but it has way too many smart people all trying to jump on whatever the latest popular bandwagon might be. It's definitely getting a "McGoogle" feel to it. Whatever is getting popular on the web, some little Googlite is busy working to assimilate it. I like Google a lot. The author has a point. At some point enough is enough. I think he exaggerates to a much greater degree than is necessary. So far.
Off the top of my head, Pinterest looks pretty interesting (no pun intended). I heard about it from my Mom a week ago, and then was told about it from my girlfriend, two different podcasts I listen to and a HN post.

Probably wouldn't give them the whole 100k, but it's definitely a startup I'm keeping my eye on.
Appears like it made a dent for a small period of time, then back to business as usual.

Also, as other state, this is an over-designed graph. There are much simpler ways to get this data across.
Ask one of your friends to flag your profile for having a non-you picture or a fake name. I will all but guarantee you get a g+-esque nastygram within 48 hours.

I think Facebook relies entirely on user flagging. Just because you haven't been caught breaking the ToS doesn't mean you're not breaking it.
Shouldn't an <enter> become a <br/>? It currently doesn't. But cool little tool, starts up faster than dreamweaver :)
Amen, In the UK the "Revenue" take a pretty dim view of those who only pay themselves dividends.

Take a proper salary and see how that changes things.
SEC releases select SEC and market data from FY2011 [PDF]
I think there's a huge market out there for beauracracy negotiation/consulting services. Every time I open up an insurance information packet, I am deluged with many options, all slightly different, all carrying different implications.

I want something simple.
Your comment makes two distinct points. The main point, an assertion of hypocrisy, is not a valid disagreement, it's simply ad hominem tu quoque (which reminds, me, what's the latin for "things said in Latin aren't nearly as important as they seem?").

The second point, that "users are the product" is not a novel insight, makes perfect sense.
Replying to myself. Using mkfifo is not necessary:

import os, sys, time, subprocess, fcntl
sys.stdout = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(), 'w', 0)
read_fd, write_fd = os.pipe()
fcntl.fcntl(read_fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NONBLOCK) # don't know of any windows equivalent for this line
proc = subprocess.Popen("ping www.google.com", cwd=sys.path[0], stdout=write_fd, stderr=write_fd, shell=True)
while 1:
try:
s = os.read(read_fd, 1024)
if s:
sys.stdout.write(s)
except OSError:
pass
time.sleep(0.1)
This doesn't seem like a huge advance from showdown's demo page.

http://softwaremaniacs.org/playground/showdown-highlight/
The reputation graph is here to stay. Witness Klout.
Apple is hijacking my texts
Not quite. It's like limiting the dashboard of a smaller car.

For instance, mobile users can do without the "Latest Posts" sidebar on a forum, but the users preferred it on the desktop. You'd probably remove most of the Twitter Bootstrap topbar links from the mobile version because they'd scrunch up and get in the way, but that doesn't mean having the "Quickstart Guide" link convenient on the desktop version.

There's nothing glorious about not taking advantage of larger screen real estate to make your website more usable, convenient, and feature-accessible to your users. It's the difference between good and bad design.
One request: unify it into a wysiwyg editor akin to IAWriter on Mac.

Outside that, nicely done :)
Google Holo theme required on Android 4.0
In markdown single line endings are ignored when the lines broken by them might be construed as forming a single paragraph. (It's actually one of the fiddliest bits of markdown.)

This rule is quirky -- sometimes you'll end up with (for example) bullet points merged into a paragraph through this quirk.
Not a good visualization. And it lacks some context too.

Three points
(1) tons of bulk-registered names are NOT hosted on GD's nameservers
(2) People complained that transfers were slow and cancelled some of them. (in the background, GD refused to do transfers or delayed it for days, gambling that people would get frustrated and blame the new registar).
(3) bulk-registered names (think of hundreds of marketers with 1000+ domains each) are usually split over numerous fake names to minimize their footprint and prevent wholesale site copying. GD allows fake name purchases. After the transfers started, GD began a policy of requiring a scanned drivers' licence for transfers. They also seize domains for themselves and resell them. So... many CAN'T transfer their domains out yet.

Cheers!
Very Interesting idea. Scrambling messages into web links which can be shared anywhere - but only selected friends can read them.
Your point-by-point answer focuses on the details of his post rather than his general point, and makes your answer both pedantic and accusatory. The way I read it, he only has a few main points:

1) Google+ makes it easy to unintentionally plagarize. Case in point, he wasn't able to easily get from a re-share to the original.

2) Google (the search engine) should NOT rank a Google+ post which is itself a clone of an actual article above the article itself. (Quote: 'But my query for "jon mitchell jury duty" didn't mean "Show me what my Friends+ are saying about 'jon mitchell jury duty.'" It meant "Show me Jon Mitchell's article about jury duty!"'.)

3) The Google+ web app is ugly.

4) Google (the company) is forcing you use your Google+ profile to identify yourself.

Summary) Google+ is a bad service.

You can disagree or agree with the above points, but simply quoting individual sentences doesn't lead to positive discussion.
> If you like, you can think of unwords . words as an orthogonal projection onto the subspace of strings on which unwords is a genuine left-inverse of words (cf. Moore-Penrose pseudoinverses).

It's even more like a reflector in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_subcategory.

(To make this analogy precise, you'd have to have some category structure where single-space is initial among all whitespace strings. Which is certainly possible; you just have to persuade yourself that that's a natural thing to do.)
Glassdoor can at least give you some insights.

I find media-bestowed "best places to work" awards tend to be greatly overstated.

Look for shops with people genuinely happy to do what they're doing, and sticking with it for a long time. Often out of the limelight. Attitude toward customers /end users is also key (it should be positive).

For a time Google seemed to have this, though I believe they're slipping.
Vote Socialize into Appcelerator's Titanium Framework
I would prefer if the back button only worked within one application only, and not across applications. That doesn't make much sense to me, and I do find it confusing to use.

That being said, I wish they just got rid of the buttons and implemented UI gestures so they don't have to waste screen space with the buttons and also to make it more intuitive. I like some of the ideas in the N9's UI, where a simple swipe of the screen can get you back to the homescreen, and so on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl3VOAf15BU&feature=relmf...
Why I moved to Calepin, the fall of Posterous and why you should blog.
The iPhone is a very powerful gaming device, hardware wise, for sure. But the real question is, how well do those games actually sell? I just don't think you can save a phone platform by making it a serious game platform.
The 100% utilization mentality comes from the factory assembly-line manufacturing process, where everyone is just a cog doing simple and repeatable thing. It's easy to get close to 100% utilization.

However, it fails miserably in the creative process of software development. But unfortunately many managers at all levels adhere to it and use it in planning and project management. It's one of the reasons software project is often over budget and late in delivery. Of course the developers are miserable, too.
For Mac there's actually Mou which is super pretty and just like this. It's in beta and free for now but it's Lion-only and one of the 2 reasons I upgraded. It's that good. It's at mouapp.com. Thanks for the Linux tip, I could use that one.
What an obscure reference to use. That show aired from 1991 to 1994, when I was a mere toddler.
How are the manufacturers distributing security updates, if not by updating the firmware? AFAIK they don't, correct me if I'm wrong.
Barack Obama joins Instagram
Yes, but as pointed out elsewhere, the "proof" is easily photoshopped.
I'm not too excited for this shift. Tumblr is terrible because it's just reblogging without any conversation or communication. Pinterest is just more of the same. I really dislike this kind of social media because it's really stepping away from socializing. Everyone I know on Tumblr just reblogs, it's like the FWD: from the past made into its own service and I'm not digging it.
It's actually more common for them to disappear quickly. I was extremely lucky the year I got mine- there were still some available around April. As I understand it, that's a rarity. Hooray for economic downturns?
Thanks for sharing the experience. I went through the H1B visa process a number of years ago. Although it's pretty tough being treated like you did, I think you and possibly the offering company went into the arrangement without enough information. I remember that the H1B pool is relatively small (in the 10's of thousands) per year. And that well connected immigration lawyers and sponsoring companies usually exhaust that pool within the first day they are released. After that, it's virtually impossible to get a H1B. And when you if you're lucky enough to be able to wrangle a H1B, it's a pretty convoluted and costly (for the sponsoring company) application process.
Good luck with the next round of H1Bs, the sponsoring company (and lawyers) need to get in quickly! You sound like a well qualified dev, and it's a shame that the US misses out on good talent because of an inadequate immigration system...
This graph is about daily domain changes. Maybe if you looked here, it would help (the four values in the four tab headings): http://www.dailychanges.com/domaincontrol.com/

I'm experimenting and leaning new ways to visualize the data. I think there are better ways of doing it than a bar graphs or line plots. Well, it seems it did not work that well. GitHub uses similar visualization technique, though. Maybe next time I get it right. Here is my inspiration:

http://raphaeljs.com/github/impact.html

EDIT: Initially I wanted to do Sankey diagram but that came out way too complicated and there wasn't a good way to show new and deleted domains.
Since when does a fun hack have to be an improvement on anything?
It looks like other 2.0 feeds work fine. I used http://searchenginewatch.com/rss as an example. The only difference is defining xmlns:atom and xmlns:dc.

Anyone else have any ideas as what could be causing this?
Thanks for the elaborations. It sounds like 10.7/iOS5 solves some of the issues brought up at <a href="http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/key-value-observing-done-right....
Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
Designing security into the user-experience
Belarus makes it a crime to visit foreign websites
The author's problem with G+ is not Google. His problem with G+ is bad curators who don't respect the creators of the content. As curation is my forte (I run a popular Tumblr news blog), Rohit Shrivastava's response really annoys me.

Tumblr, which shares a lot of cues with Google+ in terms of how content is shared publicly, has similar users to Rohit. I think it's bad form to post the entire contents of an article. Post small bits, the gist, but encourage people to keep reading if they like the basic idea. IMHO, Tumblr does a better job of encouraging users to respect content creators.

But the thing is, the problem is not unique to either of these platforms. How many random WordPress splogs steal RWW's content wholesale and just scrape the RSS feed? A lot. All the big tech sites have this problem. The difference with G+ is, Google seems to enable these copy-wholesale types better by giving them strong positions in search results. Tumblr is not as good at SEO (it makes up for it with design), so it's not as big an issue.

To users like Rohit, respect the content creators. It sucks when they get screwed because you couldn't stop after a single paragraph or rewrite the piece.
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love this! go Elad! go Pinterest! :-)
thanks! Very interesting. Looks like a non too small percentage of apps conquerer a pretty large user base...
I can't work out if that would be possible or not.

It might be possible to plot the location of a single point in 2D, but how would you differentiate for multitouch? If you have 2 microphones you might be able to calculate the distance from each microphone of a touch by timing how long it takes for the sound of the tap to reach each microphone. However, as the speed of sound in wood appears to be ~4000 m/s (http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sound-speed-solids-d_713.h...) you'd need to be "listening" at 400kHz to get centimetre accuracy over a 1m square area.

I can't see how it would be possible to then differentiate between two points moving at the same time (i.e. a pinch gesture). I'm just assuming regular microphones are used as the article suggests - I'm not an acoustic engineer so hopefully I've missed something.
Gaming killed them.

WoW has made more money than any movie ever will. As the top shelf creative types realize the winds have changed, you will see a brain drain. The next Spielberg or Lucas will work for a game studio, and the movie industry will never get them back.
Sadly, the drama doesn't even end after getting your visa. Over six months ago I applied for an H1B transfer to a new job- they replied requesting a confirmation letter from every employer I've had since college saying that I am, indeed, a developer, and not some sort of fraud. My transfer is still pending, making every return journey back into the US a stressful experience.

This, after I've already been working in the US for two years- you would have thought they'd have asked for the letters when I applied the first time.

My H1B three year limit is in November of this year. I can apply to extend for another three years, but I can't wait to see what nonsense they throw my way when I try.
Having remote workers requires a very different operation style and a lot of trust in yourself as a manager, trust in your workers, and trust in the technology you're leveraging to communicate. Can you as the manager lead from afar -- its harder than you might think. You can trust workers to actually work, you can just let them go for not doing so. But it's harder to trust your remote workers to engage with the company and their peers digitally. It's not easy. Also, the technology may be a pain to use, and kill any good intentions or habits you may have started.

The similar problem with remote is that the manager and their team must consciously prevent the "silence" the author alluded too. Likely, the silence was not intentional. People get distracted in "realspace" and easily can neglect remote worker. In order to have a remote team be viable, you have to overcome this barrier. That's where the trust/competence of all parties comes into play.
A close friend (in the UK) was approached by a company (In the US) this June with the offer of a job. The H1B process wasn't started until August and he picked up his successful application in mid October. The quota (55,000 or so) goes quickly, but varies by the year and can take several months to be filled completely
It wasn't that hard... didn't mean to imply it took five years.
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