skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Happy New Year folks!
Shutting Down My Site
Real controller for iPad
* TapCanvas, a venture-funded startup, is seeking a Founding Engineer in Silicon Valley or San Francisco *

In 2012, TapCanvas will bring mobile apps to everyone. We're creating a brand new market for mobile apps, and we have a chance to write the rules in this space.

TapCanvas has some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, including K9 Ventures and 500 Startups. So far, the "team" consists of one serial entrepreneur, Joshua Merrill (learn more about Josh at http://josh.io). This is a unique, full-time opportunity for a Founding Engineer who wants a fast-track into the world of startups.

Responsibilities:

- Work side-by-side with TapCanvas founder—a designer—to implement new features

- Solve technical challenges that would baffle lesser programmers

- Create and improve processes for developing and shipping code

- Help to recruit and train an awe-inspiring technical team

Requirements:

- Expert in Rails 3.1 and Backbone.js

- Familiar with jQuery Mobile framework

- An insatiable love of all things mobile

Desired:

- Experience building consumer and/or small business-facing web apps

- Willingness to wear many hats, and generally perform acts of superhuman strength—this is a startup, after all

Why you'll love this gig:

- Take pride in building a product that will touch millions of users

- Work with smart, capable people who get things done

- Competitive salary, and generous stock options

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I still experience the drive to "over-architect" a solution every so often, especially when starting a new project. For me, it tends to be a result of thinking, "oh, I can add that additional feature with little impact to the timeline of the project." I have to force myself to remember the mantra: You're Not Gonna Need It. More often than not it ends up being right.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouArentGonnaNeedIt
Party as Samoa loses Friday in time zone jump
Want to learn to code in 2012? Here's how to get started.
Three months of free rent and utilities certainly helped.

That's a huge understatement! What have we learned from this post? If you don't pay rent and eat all your meals in the office, you can live in Silicon Valley (or, for that matter, anywhere that biking is an option) cheaply. This doesn't seem groundbreaking, or even interesting.
One million pages infected by Lilupophilupop SQL injection
"At 43 millihedbergs, this work falls short of the legal minimum of 50 millihedbergs, and therefore is not protected."
Just because children and adults are both part of superclass 'human' doesn't mean there aren't extremely important differences between subclass 'child' and subclass 'adult'.

Also I don't seem to understand what that has to do with 'think less and do more' -- which I patently disagree with. While we can get in analysis paralysis, so many of the problems I observe from big systems, whether they be digital or social come from improper decomposition of problems due to not enough thinking and a whole lot of rushed doing.
Actually, it slipped my first reading of this and probably yours too. The wording is so 'big government' that we don't even see it: If you don't pay the financial penalties your assets are seized and you go bankrupt.

Seizure of assets is violence. You can be sure I would not like my assets to be seized because I have to follow some dumb, overreaching law. But I don't have the guns.
Do you sponser visas
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Google does that to protect user's privacy. Search url may have private information about user. Facebook does the same thing. So webmasters can not track who clicked the url
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I was confused about your point until I clicked the first reference. You made a slight misquote that change the whole quote.

Good enough is the enemy of at all.
Reino Unido - Pelos caminhos do rei Artur
Using Taxi Drivers as Traffic Rhythm Sensors
60beat iPad Gaming Accessory Could Be The iOS Missing Link
Thank you for the post. This stuck out at me:

> but I have moved into self-publishing.

As near as I can tell, publishers have one and only one purpose in the modern world: Publicity. They might as well change the name of the biz to reflect this, because it is the only differentiator they have.
A Toast To Technology
The Internet Is People
Google, in tiny incremental steps, are slowly destroying what I loved about their search engine when I first started using it. So sad.
I'm currently interviewing at Amazon for a different department. Do you know if I can "make a switch" mid-interview, or do I need to start interviewing all over again?
Looks like Bing fires an AJAX call on the onmousedown, instead of rewriting the URL.

What are the benefits of the two solutions, given that both rely on Javascript? Maybe an AJAX call could be cancelled when browser follows the link?

P.S. I believe Google has been doing rewriting since long before 2011, IIRC.
"If you need to meet people, the first thing to do is make sure you can be where they are."

Or, you can work to put the right people where you need them to be. I recall an interview, from long ago, with Peter Sellers, the actor who played Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series. I don't remember the exact words, but he said something to the effect that when he needed a job, he didn't go about finding one in the usual manner. Instead, he would manipulate events such that an opportunity would spring into existence, one which would be made just for him.

EDIT: I note that this is my first HN comment of the new year. I should take this as a sign, and maybe try to be more like Peter Sellers, at least in regard to what I said above.

EDIT: I also note that he has a website, even though he's been dead for more than three decades.

http://PeterSellers.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers

EDIT: "I feel ghostly unreal until I become someone else again on the screen."

This quote, from his website, makes me wonder if that's one of the things which is at the root of an entrepreneur, because it's almost as if many of the people who create startups do it partly for the purpose of becoming someone or something else, as an actor would in a new role, especially if, like Peter Sellers, they tailor the role to themselves, rather than stepping into one which is prêt-à-porter.
Cisco’s CTO Padmasree Warrior: Advocate for Women in Tech, 2012
I'm quite skeptical they can do this with a redirect. How would it work?
I totally agree with you about the need for better drivers' training, especially in the United States. Quite frankly, my "driving exam" was a joke - a 5 minute drive around the courthouse square (again, I lived in a small town - cows outnumbered people where I grew up). Fortunately, my parents spent a lot of time teaching me how to handle the responsibility of driving a car.

Driving is a responsibility, just like owning a firearm or having root on all your company's servers. With great power comes great responsibility.

However, many of the items the parent mentioned, short of having an accident, are not even concerns for me and I would classify as minor inconveniences. Running out of gas is a minor inconvenience. A flat tire is a minor inconvenience (assuming you know how to change a flat, and even more minor if you don't). The others, again short of an accident, are things that are not likely to happen assuming you are aware of your surroundings. Don't park where you aren't supposed to. Don't leave valuables in plain sight - pretty much the same precautions you would take on public transit to avoid becoming a victim of crime.

I don't want to seem as though I'm opposed to public transit. I think it's great where it works and, if it were an option where I lived, I would probably use it when it made sense to. I was thinking about this last night and I've noticed I tend to use it more on the west coast than on the east coast. I actually like TriMet in Portland, and I've used Caltrain, VTA and BART when I'm in the Bay Area with little to no issues. But I would probably avoid the subway in NYC again and MARTA in Atlanta was one of the more terrifying experiences I've ever had as far as feeling unsafe.

The thing is, a large percentage of the population of the US lives in areas that have no public transit at all. Articles heralding the death of the car (like the link) tend to focus on cities, and suburban areas near them, that have adequate public transit while completely ignoring the remaining segments of the population that live in areas where public transit is not, and probably never will be, a viable option. For these areas there are simply no other options other than cars.
I switched away from Google on my iPad and iPhone particularly because of this reason. The redirection sometimes can incur unbearable latency - with no feedback whatsoever - after I click on the result I want. Mobile internet has (much) longer latency, and every extra one level of redirection hurts badly.
half the world uses the word "xerox" for a copy machine, "pampers" for diapers, and "jeep" for an offroader. So, google as verb is now completely natural
Having just spent a week with my parents, the biggest hurdle in the 65+ mobile space is overcoming, "Why on earth would I want to do that?"
Plastic cups and plastic knives don't break like your fine china though. At parties, this is a good thing.
unfortunately a low quality article and framework promoted with some strong language, swear and some principles which do not have any coherence. Weak critics of other frameworks without knowledge and substance. The list of principles he counts are non-well-thought selection of random things. the guy seems confused, but needs to talk; he is an enemy of inheritance, and claims such things like "This is only possible with static typing because you can’t get the level of introspection and reflection necessary to pull this off with dynamic typing and string-only reflection."

this is not the mvc, OO or rails critic you are looking for. Expect better to come in 2012.
I am sure it doesn't.
They do provide other useful services, like copy-editing and tech review. However, they don't provide these very well, and the amount of money they take in exchange is huge.

They also provide a bit of financing, sort of like how movie studios are basically banks who specialize in investing in one particular area. But with the typical tech book advance coming in under five figures, this isn't very big.
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- define and take ownership over your projects
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Or the zeroth month.
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Is this a java applet? Because I can't see anything on iPad. It'll be much more impressive if it is HTML5
As mentioned in the article, Google's solution causes an inability to "right click"->"copy link address"; it also makes going to the result by clicking on it much slower (as you must synchronously go through Google's servers, causing multiple packet round trips).
I always thought it was be interesting to start an online collection project to get modern day authors to contribute just one item each to the public domain. It could be anything, a novel, a short story, a poem, or even a vignette; whatever they felt comfortable with.

But it probably wouldn't work. Modern authors don't seem to appreciate how important the public domain is to society.
Great post. Actually got me to thinking about my own upbringing. My parents were either brilliant or lucky (probably somewhere in between).

I was brought up in a style when people were expected to "do their best", regardless of age. I walked a mile to school at age 5, did my own laundry at age 7, cooked for my mother and younger siblings at age 9, and starting working at age 12. I didn't think much about it until I went to college and realized how helpless most people my age were.

Sometimes I think that this upbringing, more than anything else, has been most responsible for my success. To this day, when I'm debating whether or not to do something, I imagine my father saying, "That code isn't going to write itself." He treated me like that at a very early age and I continue to treat myself that way now.

The concept of "there are no children" is just another way of looking at the same thing. Thanks, OP, for the new perspective.
Sorry, the title was censored.
You can let the recruiting coordinator know about your interest in a second position and they'll do their best to help.
I landed an interview with a company from one of these threads for an internship they were not advertising. It was a good experience, but in the end I was told that they did not have anything for me. It would have been my first development job and I suspect that they were too early stage to take on someone that was completely entry level like me. And it appears that they're still looking.
Yes I understand that, I was wondering if Google's solution has any benefits.

Otherwise the onmousedown solution (which Google abandoned) would be strictly superior.
12 must-see skywatching events in 2012
Too bad. I liked the Simpledesks site.
Well since it paid, why not sell it, or give it to someone who will run it. I check Freshome almost daily. You can say looking at other people's home is pointless specially expensive ones because most readers will never live in such a house. However some people may just find it joyful. Just check your logs and see the ten most frequent visitors, ask a couple of them to run it.
You don't seem to have any contact details in your profile. I've got over 5 years experience in php, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. My email's in my profile, drop me a line if you're interested.
I do searches for a lot of obscure stuff that only Google seems capable of finding right now (well, I haven't used Bing much, but I've been comparing the Google results to DDG, because people keep talking about it).

Here's an example. I remember reading a few months ago about how to do a hexdump on /dev/urandom to create a Matrix-style scroll, and to "look busy in front of your boss". So I did a Google search for "look busy with /dev/urandom" and sure enough the blog post I was looking for is the first result:

http://jeromenicholas.blogspot.com/2011/03/look-busy-when-yo...

Now, I don't know if it's just the first result for me (I'd like to hear what others get), but that post doesn't come up in the first 50 results on DDG, using the same search string. Whether Google's algorithms are better overall or they have been trained better by me after years of searching, the results for obscure searches are simply better 95% of the time.

Of course, there are still the 5% of searches that end in frustration. Example: there's an email product called Prayer. That's all I'm going to tell you. Go ahead, try to find it. The correct result is #1 for me right now, but that may be because I clicked through dozens of results before I found the right one. It wasn't on the front page the first time I searched for it.
In fact be proud of code that is good enough.
IIRC, expanding with programming languages (PLDI, CGO, ISMM, OOPSLA, etc.) was already discussed when this link was first mentioned on HN. Unfortunately, it seems to not have been done yet...

Anyways, PLDI has the "Best of PLDI" papers from 1979 to 1999 (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/pldi/pldi200...) and they establish the most important paper 10 after its publication. AFAIK/IIRC OOPSLA/SPLASH does this now as well. I think it's good, but it would also be very interesting to know, whether there is an intersection between the set of "Best Paper" awards and the set of "Most important/impact" awards.
Has Randy Bachman Solved a Decades-Old Guitar Mystery?
I always wanted to become a scientist or a film director.

My Graduate degree is "Electronic Media" (kinda film studies). I quit pursing my film career for now, as the signal to noise ratio is not favorable for me here (India). Then, I bought my first computer to kill some time, to pirate some movies etc. Then I thought, I should learn web design, So, I made a decision to learn Photoshop, HTML/CSS and build cool orkut like websites in 6 months (yea I know, what a dumbass). I got upto speed in Photoshop, HTML/CSS in 6 months, (I realized, I can't make dynamic websites with HTML/CSS), then learned PHP, PHP was a mess. By, this time, I had a few clients through referrals from friends, after successfully completing the job, I thought, "hey may be we can start a web design business". So, Me and a friend agreed, we should start a business, so we rented the cheapest place you could find for an office space ($50 a month), and started our gig.

Since then, we are only 2 people, I was kind of demoralized, when I saw PHP frameworks and ugly OOPs syntax. It seemed like a lot of work. Then, I stumbled upon Ruby on Rails, I learned enough Ruby and Rails, Last year. RoR reinstated my confidence, now we are building two consumer apps, while doing client work. I'm hopeful, I'm on the right path,

Even more awesome thing is movie and entertainment industry is going to go through disruption, so I have an instinct that, I may make a few movies. (Like everybody is a photographer today, because of digital cameras).

Funny thing is internet has helped me more in the past 4 years, than my 17 years of schooling.
probably the dumbest post I have ever read on Hacker News
That blog post really resonated with me. Thanks for writing it.
2012's first Google doodle
Google starts off the year with the new pompous doodle.
Compiling Doom3 in powerpc (in spanish)
i have compiled the source code in a macbook g4 with powerpc running debian 6.0.3
The closer you work with kids (or have kids) the more you will realize it is not as simple as you portray. Hmm, another parallel with people who talk vs people who do.
from the article: "presumptively illegal"

Who wrote this?

Do they mean "presumptively infringement"?

My understanding is that copyright is enforced by the copyright holder, not the state (unless of course they are the copyright holder).

As such, infringement is not a "crime". Hence it is not "illegal". There is no violation of copyright "law". Infringement is a violation of someone's copyright, a right to sue granted by the government. A private right of action is created.

Simply put, the copyright holder can sue for damages. They may or may not choose to do so.

Is this incorrect?

Is there a criminal statute covering such copyrighted works as discussed in the article?

Apologies for my ignorance.
Any theories as to why Google decided to put the indirection in place? Too many NoScript users? A patent pressure?
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Well, I have no idea who you are and what pages you are shutting down. Of course I wish you the best for your future. That being said:

"The real question is, who gives a fuck?"
I'm in the midlands and no I haven't. But then the midlands is not so much a 'new media' place like London / Brighton are.
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