skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm enjoying- http://noisetrade.com http://grooveshark.com
The Brain Unveiled: A new imaging method offers a spectacular view of neural structures
I just got an email this morning from a Google recruiter (I'm serious) asking if I was interested in a software position there. From that I would say that they are still actively hiring.
Someone needs to read, or re-read, "No Silver Bullet"
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
Why we chose Git, a rebuttal
Reddit’s Secret API
Thanks to the internet you can become an expert on any topic within a week or so.
I thought it was on the front page http://www.webguild.org/2008/11/google-layoffs-10000-workers...

Similar leaks are being posted every other day.
A hack? To the best of my knowledge, both providers allow users to install arbitrary Linux distributions. It's not against any rules, so I wouldn't consider this a hack.
"500 of them were recruiters for Google." (link above)
Hmmm not sure if it quite fits but SPSS for Statistical Analysis...
They're not putting things into the proper context: Sure, these chemicals probably are threats to human well-being, and figuring out how to remove them from our environment is worthwhile. However, the 20th century saw an unprecedented increase in life expectancy and quality of life, two great wars and god knows how many chemicals notwithstanding. I doubt many -- even those inflicted with the abnormalities mentioned in this documentary -- would choose to live in the world before synthetic materials were available, in 1908, say.

Also, it's totally one-sided and they lose a lot of credibility with the sensationalist tone of the piece -- ominous music, tableaux of helpless children next to deadly chemicals, mentions of human extinction... Please.
Would you rather be told:

"Listen bud, you're talented, but not quite right for us due to X, Y, and Z."

... or ...

"Sorry, we want to hire you, but our investors won't let us."

If that was the case (and I don't think it was), then the latter is a cop-out. You don't make up reasons not to hire someone, no matter how much you want to. You'd be doing a disservice both to the candidate and to yourself.

My single case is just that: a data point. Weigh it along with all your other data points before making your interview/no interview decision.
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It may be that refits require loans, and loans are hard to get now; moreover, the article may have been talking more about cafes in smaller, less busy towns, which banks may be less willing to lend to.
The cynic in me thinks you are expanding since you got that CNN mention recently.
I think our capacity has expanded also. Not nearly quickly enough, but we can learn more now than we ever did before (or at the very least, we can cut out a lot of the noise in our learning experience).
It depends on what you mean by "polymath" specifically, but I always think of the multi-talent programmers and artists. PG designed Viaweb and also is an essayist and breakthrough investor, for instance. One of my favorite authors, Daniel Handler, played accordion with the Magnetic Fields and he's a pretty excellent singer as well.
I recently discovered graphviz to layout my graphs. (Graphs as in graph theory.)
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Possibly make their point of contact an engineer rather than an HR person.

There are definitely benefits to this, as you mention, but taken to the extreme (all recruiting is done by engineers), it's a pretty high cost to the company's productivity.

Think about it from the other perspective: would you, as an engineer, want to work at a company where a significant portion of your job is recruiting? If you were the CEO, would you rather your engineers focus on recruiting or on engineering?
Heh, even though he stresses charging money for your product.
Thanks everyone for your comments, you've given me lots to think and talk about with my friend. Cheers!
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You have a liberal definition of expert.
This reminds me of the legend (even featured on car talk) where a guy's car will not start when he buys vanilla ice cream...

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
I had this idea too. I was going to build it until I looked for a good domain. In the process I ran into: http://www.ifidie.org/ -- which had already implemented it well enough.

Note the idea is applicable to far more than "relatives when I die".. e.g. root password for the server when you're sick in the hospital. Also, remember that many people don't want their estate documents to be viewed pre-death (e.g. don't want people to know how much they're getting), and letting people know where you put them / how to contact the lawyer in a reliable way is a hassle in and of itself.
Argh... it's not Gladwell's book that posits the 10000 hours bit -- it's from Ericsson's research!
You're right in that my original reasoning was wrong. Thank you for your comment.
Companies that have no revenue buying other companies that have no revenue and rejecting purchasing attempts from other companies who have no revenue

You're probably right about the first two, but not the third. Facebook brought in ~$150m in '07 and is projecting something like $300m this year.

(source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/facebook-finances-leake...)
The major benefits to me is that git is fast, branching is cheap (and yes, cheap branching does change how you approach a project; I never did figure out branching under cvs and apparently, it's just as easy under svn as it is under cvs) and the merging is incredible (I'm using it to maintain two versions of a PHP project, one for MySQL and one for PostgreSQL: http://boston.conman.org/2008/08/07.1 )

Granted, if you are used to a centralized workflow, then I can see where git might be different enough to cause some strain. But even on a one-person project (and I have plenty of those), I found git much easier to use than cvs (or svn for that matter) even though it took some time to get used to the decentralized nature of git.
BumpTop is hiring developers too, all the way up in Toronto, Canada! http://bumptop.com

C++, OpenGL or Flex. Email me if interested anand at bumptop.com
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A few of my favorites (not programmer specific):

A scientist is a machine that converts money into ideas while an engineer is a machine that converts ideas into money.

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An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. Fortunately for this joke, a small fire breaks out in each room.

The physicist awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on the back of the hotel's wine list does some quick calculations. Grabbing the fire extinguisher, he puts out the fire with one, short, well placed burst, and then crawls back into bed and goes back to sleep.

The engineer awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on the back of the hotel's room service list (pizza menu) does some quick calculations. Grabbing the fire extinguisher (and adding a factor of safety of 5), he puts out the fire by hosing down the entire room several times over, and then crawls into his soggy bed and goes back to sleep.

The mathematician awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on a blackboard installed in the room, does some quick calculations. Jubliant, he exclaims "A solution exists!", and crawls into his dry bed and goes back to sleep.

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better !pout !cry

better watch a.out

lpr why

santa claus < northpole > town

ypcat passwd > list

ncheck list

ncheck list

grep naughty < list > nogiftlist

grep nice < list > giftlist

santa claus < northpole > town

who | grep sleeping

who | grep awake

why | egrep "bad|good"

for i in goodness sake ;

do

be good

done
Sample output:

$ ./westley 5
./westley
loves me
./westley
loves me, not
./westley
loves me
./westley
loves me, not
./westley
loves me
It's ironic because the author makes the same kind of dismissal I just made. That's my point.
What are the dangers of a Meth Lab and how to decontaminate it?
We read about meth labs in the newspapers and hear about them in the television. What are they all about? A meth lab is place that is used to produce illegally meth, which is of addictive nature. Many things that we use in our day-to-day life contain meth. We can find most of these items at our supermarkets. During the illegal production of meth, a lot of chemical waste is generated. These are often cleared in the drainage or if there are no possibility of disposing it in to the drain it will be buried somewhere in the property.
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This document has been posted on HN now for the trillionth time
Plus, from what I've read of people around during the beginning of other major tech companies, I'm not sure Google's approach is all that unique. Their uniqueness may stem more from our short term memory.
How to sell an iPhone app for $9.99
Sounds like a freemium model for iPhone apps
On an entirely unrelated note, I just had a brilliant idea for a startup!
How about contacting appropriate departments at Universities directly?
Same question of always (because you are asking about startup, not website): What is your revenue model?
"I think I, and a lot of people, respond to ninja, etc., negatively"

Unfortunately words like that have become a bit "buzzy" with HR and management (non-techie) types: "Oh, so all we have to do is say 'ninja' or 'rockstar' and we're instantly cool and really talented people will want to work here. Can I be a rockstar too, pls?"
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Judging by my lifestyle, I'll be dead before any of those issues can kill me. So, basically, I'm impervious to this destruction!
OCaml usage at Citrix/XenSource
He's been doing great stuff for a while. I've been a big fan since I first installed Blosxom as my first Perl script on my first webserver with CGI scripting what seems like ages ago. It seems like he would be a great fit with the whole Twitter culture. I'm excited to see what comes out of this.
Your choices are many: R, Octave and Sage fit the bill, all are free and battle-proven.
Good arguments. I was wrong about homosexuality in animals, thanks.

that's one set of cousins you don't have to compete with for food and attention

In all situations except extreme crisis, having cousins is good for your inclusive genetic fitness because your cousins share a lot of your genes. That's why instinct generally tells us to help cousins, not compete with them. So having a gay uncle is bad for you, sorry :-)

I'm against the taxes that marriage provides breaks from.

Of course I'd agree to allow gay marriage if we abolish taxes at the same time - no argument here.
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Also, at least in math, while there is certainly more content than one can learn in a lifetime, with more content being created every day at an increasing rate, many different abstractions have been developed and clever analogies applied in order to simplify new learning.
VatorNews - Google's Marissa Mayer on search evolution
Python: How to wait until all threads finish
The article gives a reason:

Now, what are these operations that Alchemy does so well? Memory access and function calls. Alchemy compiled code utilizes new bytecodes added to FP10 for working with ByteArrays - which as you’ll remember are what make up the "RAM" in Alchemy. Function calls are faster because in ActionScript function calls require that their parameters be "boxed" and "unboxed" into and out of objects for each call. Alchemy code doesn’t have to do this.
Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
I've been lurking in #clojure lately.
The Ranting Rubyists
Blogs and press are great traffic drivers, but some have a more receptive audience then others.... with our experience here are the top blog traffic drivers.

1. Lifehacker
2. Engadget (1 & 2 tie each other)
3. TechCrunch

Asides from press the best thing has been StumbleUpon!

Though turning visitors into users is an entirely different story.
The Economist's predictions for 2009
Good point. And it seems like it's been very successful at doing that. It'd just be awesome if one (or more) of the startups made it big.
Also relevant - their predictions from last year for 2008 (subscription required to read the articles)
http://www.economist.com/TheWorldIn/index.cfm?d=2008
The file to print is nothing more than a music score the printer has to follow.

I'm wondering if there is a file that makes a specific printer play music, just like a virtual instrument following midi instructions... Oh, it's the Internet, there IS such a score.
Americans hugely addicted to TV, but money doesn't follow
I tried to setup a sourceforge project once & found it very complicated. Google only took me a few minutes & it's been working fine all this time.
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Amazon Kindle 2 Slated For “Early Q1″
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Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000
Customized Products for Pets
There are hundreds of pet care products available in the market. Most of us who love our pets are ready to spend lavishly for getting exclusive products for our pets. We spend a lot of time in selecting the right products for our pets, as they are part of our family. When our pets are so special to us, don’t you think that you should give your pet something more special than the regular pet products?
Addictionary.org defines Strawphylactic, Artifiction & Enterfear
EtherPad Temporarily Reverts to Closed Beta
Relational DBs are 'bad' because their design has to be fundamentally compromised to be distributed -- removing joins, sharding, denormalizing, etc. -- all of these manual optimizations remove all semblance of 'relational'-ness! Look at Stonebraker's recent publishings -- more restrictive designs are always faster by several orders of magnitude for their specific domains.

There is absolutely a theory behind objects, I urge you to read Luca Cardelli and Martin Abadi's monograph "A Theory of Objects", you'll find all the answers you're looking for there with both rigorous proofs and examples from languages (real and imagined).

OODBs did not fail because of a lack of theory, nearly all of the people writing and using RDBs have a poor grounding in the theory -- see Fabian Pascal's contention that all of the failings of extant RDBs are because they are not relational enough, that SQL is not relational.

OODBs failed because the commercial Smalltalk vendors who had quality products all faded from view, and the term was hijacked by marketing departments pushing bullshit.

The solution I see [Google, eBay, Amazon, etc.] using is to use the DB as raw simplistic storage with strong guarantees, and to push all of the joining and caching up into an application layer. There's no way to "tell the database more information" without using a programming language.
It has nothing to do with loans. Over the past few years, the French government has banned smoking in public places and virtually banned drinking as well. If you can't smoke nor drink, what's the point of going to such a place?
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An expert team of 70 Webdesigners can get this done in no time. Edit: this is actually an interesting demonstration of what happens if the sales people are disconnected from engineering. I've yet to see a big company that doesn't do the equivalent of this. Slightly more professional, but still the same thing.
World of Warcraft - 14 million subscribers - $15 monthly.
Can you do the math?
Meh, the problem and it's solution isn't that original so I wouldn't scream ripoff just yet. Also The other site want's you to install an extension. In my personal experience (a while back so don't know current situation) it was a bit buggy, and the offline reading thing didn't work very well.
With this you can have sort of the same (minus offline reading).
I still prefer delicious (tag: toread or towatch) though, have to admit I'm a bit of a fan of the delicious site, so I'm not that objective.

Edit: How do you plan to monetize this service? Or is this more for fun?
Cloud Computing: Vertical Scalability is Still Your Problem
And yet Google didn't hire this guy for a lowly SRE position... Clearly their process doesn't work or they are just bluffing on interviewing people to cover their stock from falling and losing mojo with techies.
i like the last post response:

As the superior German programmer I am I've already solved the problem in my head as per your specification. I'm able to deliver a solution in source code in any language that can print a line of text. If necessary, I can also provide flowcharts and a solution on solid German-made paper.
This is a good demonstration of why you should only outsource things that you could do yourself but don't have the time to do. Never outsource something you don't know how to do (at least not if it's a core competitive requirement).
As stated already - really great looking design. The idea looks good to me too. Are you thinking of travel based advertising for revenue?
This response must be from a HN user -- i guess the response is actually a pun. :)
Project Creator: Alan T. And the reply by K. Gödel. Made my day.
I feel that most of these responses were made by bots.
Total Fluff
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470460

Doom 1 ported using Alchemy!
Mine too. Geek humour at its best
the bid one before this guy is from Kurt Godel Himself !!
One time I outsourced the creation of a simple Wordpress template which I didn't have time to do. I paid $300. Despite being given a pre-cut Photoshop file, the people could not figure out simple CSS bugs or even create the CSS necessary for the tabs. I spent more time managing them (aka teaching) than it would have taken me to do it, in the end I had to do half of it anyway and this entire sick ordeal took nearly two weeks.

My new mantra is "Don't outsource anything the neighbors' 10 year old couldn't complete properly."
Ever thought of moving to India?

Directi ($300MM, Internet Products, DNS + Infrastructure) is looking for Tech Leads and Engineers.

See: http://careers.directi.com/
Hi, I like this.

+ Kudos for entering a market that already has leaders (delicious & instapaper for example)

+ I'd like to see some delicious integration, be it sending it to my delicious -- or the other way around (grabbing links tagged with "markitforlater"

+ the UI is gorgeous, the name is good.

- how do i remove links I accidently marked?

- when you first register, make it do something other than redirect you to /links/ -- I make a new account and the first thing I get is a blank page? whoop ... :) I want to know some good reading sources, I want to b taken back to the homepage for more instructions.

- the bookmarklet is a bit slow, the transparent thing takes a few seconds to appear causing me to think it didnt work.
oh and EXTRA MASSIVE KUDOS for not requiring an email.
When I think polymath, Ludwig Wittgenstein comes to mind. He was a successful mechanical engineer, received his PhD in philosophy based on the notebook he kept during World War I, taught philosophy, taught grammar school (though, admittedly, that didn't work out so well), and designed a house for his sister.

I'm not trying to belittle others, like PG, who clearly are knowledgeable (and skilled) at many things, but given the genesis of the term, I think the entry bar is pretty high.
The thing to note about the halting problem is that it's impossible to create a general solution that works for all the input programs. That said, one could create an approximative solution and even solve the halting problem for non-turning complete languages.

A lot of the time when we actually solve "hard" problems, we only find approximative solutions (this is for example true when doing static code analysis). Asking does program X have any non-trivial property G is impossible to do in the general case, so we find an approximative solution that can answer this in most of the cases.
That's a good point... I wouldn't consider it wise to try and outsource any complicated technology development to India/Pakistan/etc. However, I would consider doing so to an onshore firm that demonstrates to me that they have a clue. For instance, I know plenty of people who take on consulting work and could deal with your CSS without any problems. Depending on how much work was involved, they might even have been able to do it within $300.
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Paris, and the Parisian life-style are very different from the rest of France. The article was more about cafés in small towns/villages. I don't think parisians are going to replace their cafés by Starbucks within the next 20 or 30 years.
Why can't ms design anything properly?

.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeEnd", ...)

Using a string argument like that is just ridiculously ugly. Something you'd expect a junior programmer to do.
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Senior Web-developer - San Francisco, Netherlands, Stockholm, Sweden or London, UK.

We are looking for a really experienced HTML / CSS programmer/designer preferably with a background in Python and Django. Some PHP experience is of course useful. Provable work on open source code is a merit.

http://www.akvo.org/web/jobs

This is a fulltime position.
We aren't a start up but if you'd to do more low level programming work there is a Toshiba run shop in Nashville TN working on HDTV software (firmware up through GUI) and we are hiring. C and C++ - Real time programming experience a plus. Unix development - multi threaded - synchronization - blah blah blah, you get the idea.
Yes, as we all know it's the best health-care system that will ever be devised in the whole universe for the centuries to come. The only (minor) problem is that's it's slightly expensive (can you spot France on this graph? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotisations_sociales )

Actually, it's so good a system that a lot of young qualified workers like me left this paradise to work abroad, just to spread the word and tell other countries how wonderful it is!

You're right about the food, though.
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Not to skirt the question, but ten thousand dollars a month is not really ramen profitable. Your hard costs are server space and bandwidth, and whatever amount of food and shelter is necessary to keep both of you working.

A lot of subscription businesses are slow growth and high churn. Your market expands slowly as the people who will pay for your services find you and you get better at marketing to them. Unless you have a really killer service, large advertising budget or the media at your beck and call, I think it will be tough to grow to that subscriber level overnight.
"My employer (Guidewire Software) is hiring:"

Didn't Guidewire lay off some people a while ago? How is the funding at Guidewire? Did GW break even yet?
Randall Munroe at xkcd has a comment on that:

http://xkcd.com/451/
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here are the exact numbers:

1 ->	11177

2 ->	11172

3 ->	11158

4 ->	11144

5 ->	11144

6 ->	11158

7 ->	11172

...not quite
Right now, focusing on getting users. We do have some ads up, including:

1. adsense

2. affiliate marketing of airline and hotel credit cards (on your Delta "details" page, for example, you'll find a link to sign-up for the Delta amex card). A pretty relevant ad, given you're looking at the details of your delta miles and you're presented with an ad that allows you to earn 25,000 additional miles for signing up (or whatever the promo is).

3. Orbitz referrals on the "points or pay" page.
If I were looking for a job in the enterprise space (I am not), I'd take a serious look at Rentrak. Once of their ARchitects made a presentation at Google titled "Is your rdbms letting you down? Application on TV Viewing Behaviour" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4681632964554085715) which I found very interesting - terabytes of data, their own frontend data extraction language ...