skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that were the case, I suppose his big mistake was specifically requesting the Mountain View campus. It looks like they asked that question up front so that they could figure out which teams he should interview with; he might have stood a better chance at another campus.
Motorola Razr V3
Motorola’s V3 epitomizes cellular technology with a phone that is ultra-thin and has incredible features. Upon first impression the phone might look like any other, but that is only because the V3 focuses on making the experience of using it as easy as possible.
Profitable in stealth mode? How did you manage that trick?
In LaTeX you'll spend your time learning how to get it to do the right thing.

In Word, you'll spend your time coercing word to do what you want.

The difference: you learn, Word doesn't.

Oh, and Word doesn't do emacs keybindings, which is ridiculous. LaTeX you can just edit in emacs, which is wonderful.
We're generally always interested in interns in Chicago and NYC; internships are paid positions, and the work involves application penetration testing, reverse engineering, and security tool development. Prefer but don't require students, willing to discuss part-time arrangements. careers@matasano.com.
I think we are talking about two different kinds of arguments. I think the Reason article is more expository than polemical, which is a major part of my problem with it.

Suppose I tell you instead at the top of my article that the following starts from the premise that rocks are alive. Then I proceed to argue that you should destroy your computer and throw it into the ocean to preserve the rights of the minerals therein. The logic is sound and it's written in a witty, convincing style.

Sure, that's only one article, and it sounds pretty novel. Now imagine there is a Rocks First! organization that puts out pamphlets, magazines, books, and press releases on rock rights and the mineral personhood amendment, and reinterprets recent history in terms of the silent rock genocides that humans have perpetrated against their inert brethren. You can be pretty sure of the position before you read the material; it is derived from their fundamental beliefs.

In such a case, an argument at the core of the fundamental beliefs might sway an organi-centrist to become rock-conscious, but not peripheral stuff about a recent amendment defining marriage as between a human and a human.

The Reason article, I think, is just what you would expect someone to say who believed dogmatically in the power of the free market. It doesn't take opposing viewpoints into account on market deregulation, nor does it attempt to address the core issues that convince them this is the proper interpretation of the Clinton years. It leaves a lot of important questions unmentioned and unanswered.
I think there is always a market for business apps that deliver value. We're a startup ourselves and pay for Basecamp and Highrise - sure there are free alternatives but BC and HR are intuitive and easy to setup and when you have non-techies included in your business those things are important.

Someone mentioned Salesforce - also check out Netsuite.

You should determine if you're 100% pay (with maybe a 30-day free trial) and primarily directed towards SMBs or freemium model directed to users and businesses. If freemium you can expect a 1-5% uptake on the paid services.

Cheers
Remove the valid XHTML image. It has no impact at your customers at all as long as you make sure that the layout is correct in every possible browsers.

Anyway, nice and clean layout.
I work at Rentrak Corporation, and we're rapidly growing. We're a stable, 20+ year-old company, and we're working on sexy, technically challenging problems. In particular, the group I work in is building a database that's expected to grow by more than eight terabytes per year.

More info here: http://rentrak.com/section/corporate/careers/software_develo...
On Firefox 1.5 on Linux (It's what they make us use at school), the "points or pay" text extends beyond the tab.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20k3o0z&s=4

But beyond that, I agree with the comments so far, excellent design and I wish you the best of luck.
huh. both use xen... you'd think you'd be able to put a 32-bit image on there (unless they are using some ancient version of Xen) 32 on 64 seems to work pretty well on Xen 3.3.

this reminds me, I need to start providing some 32-bit images.
I think I need a source for 'young idealistic guys'. What about Vint Cerf? Senior management? Stanford kids with dollars in their eyes?
"HN for music?" What does that mean?

Hacker News is a place for people who are passionate about a subject to talk. The equivalent would most likely be a forum discussing classical music, or a form of music that requires similar dedication.
If the circulation happens only for the brains in drain elsewhere and are looking for opportunities here with the key designation being an NRI - it doesn't help much!
Yes. That's mentioned in the article.
I'd love to take credit, but it's actually straight from Tim Ferriss. :-)
Guess I do need to read his book after all!
This was done to avoid a recession which would have likely reduced GDP by 5% or so for a year. Not smart, but that's political decision making for you. Politicians always benefit when they spend more money, so they do.

Edit: There has been no year of >2% GDP decline since the end of WWII. The Great Depression saw an annual drop in GDP of 13.0% in real dollars.

Just to let you know what we're risking 50% of GDP for (some portion of which will actually be spent).
I dunno-- I'm a big fan of "fire fast". If you can't detect a charming, conniving, free-riding bullshitter in 1-2 weeks of working with them, how are you going to detect 'em with 10 man-hours worth of interviews?
We've been generating revenue since we launched our first product. It's a lot easier to make money when it's been a part of the thought process all along.
Fascinating - really validates the whole premise behind LLVM.
Because an application with a complicated set of external dependencies was ported warning-free to the newest version of Rails in a matter of hours, within days of the new version's release?
Thanks for the detailed reply.

People with a background in non-brace-and-semicolon languages are more likely to feel the same way.

Yes, and most of them are off happily working with their Pythons, Rubys, Haskells and the like, staying well away from this sort of discussion. :^) I've been writing a lot of ActionScript lately (making games which target Flash), so I've been thinking about ECMAScript-style syntax a lot more than I have in the past.

Also on the topic of cargo-cult coding cruft...

I see "cargo-cult coding cruft" most often in languages which are parsed by a client (e.g. CSS, XHTML, JavaScript). I suspect that this is due to fear that some client, somewhere will choke on the actually-correct code. And whaddaya know - sometimes that client actually exists. It's called Internet Explorer 6. ;^)

Finally, never forget Wadler's Law

Yeah, I'm reminded of an old Python joke:

Question: Why is Python such a productive language?
Answer: You won't have to spend any time arguing about brace style.
I'm not sure I follow this, but it sounds more like they're releasing contractors, not firing full-time employees.
You're looking for I Love Music. Seriously. www.ilxor.com
the monthly plan for weebly is $3.99 I believe. They also very smartly push buying domain names, which they surely get a couple of bucks yearly on. 40k per month is quite nice.
It did double my memory usage from 1G to 2G. I'm using python. I was shocked that the increase would be so big. Most of this data is in dict's.

So now I run the memory intensive stuff in 32 bit chroots:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?pa...

I made a little script to make getting into the chroot environment easy:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

linux32 chroot /mnt/gentoo32 /bin/bash -c "source /etc/profile;env-update;bash"
There is also the question of how SaaS vs Outright affects businesses vs individuals. There are all sorts of aspects to it. You mention buyers remorse. That's a consumers trait. Anecdotally, it seems to me that consumers are less willing to take another regular expense on. I know I am.

It often seems that these regular expenses from magazine subscriptions to car loans are what get people into trouble, so they avoid them. Businesses on the other hand have different issues. Small businesses have cash flow issues & limited credit lines. These are (seem) easier to solve with payment products as services. larger ones have

Larger businesses have different issues. People within them may not want to be responsible for am irreversible mistake. Others may need SaaS to get around some budgeting issue, decision making process or department (bypassing IT seems fashionable).
I am ready to learn a new code set. Whats the best language to learn right now?
I want to learn a new code, and have heard lots about Ruby, Python, and Perl, but I want to be sure before I begin my endeavor. Familiar with HTML, XHTML, some Perl. Any ideas?
interesting info on Startup geography ~ http://statestats.appspot.com/?q=startups
This article is not worth reading.

Re: comment--I have many friends at Google who I talk to pretty much everyday. It IS a great place to work. It all depends on the person though. Many people love it, some probably wouldn't enjoy it.

This article is rubbish though. Like, if this were an essay and I was grading it I'd give it a D-. Where are the sources? Is the author an employment lawyer, because he seems to be pretty confident in his assertions.

"that is why you probably have never spoken to the same person twice at Google and that is also why there is somebody new on the job and most times you know more about their job than they do."

This "quote" is from another flimsy blog and makes no sense.
Yes.

"Merb has an API. You might be wondering why having an API is awesome. Well, the truth is that the Merb Team spent time marking methods public, which are guaranteed to not break until the next major release (any change to the public API will be well documented). There is also a plugin API meaning that plugin developers won’t have to worry about upgrades if they stick to the plugin API."

From: http://merbist.com/2008/11/09/merb-1-0-released/
Ask YC: WoW items commodity exchange, why wouldn't it work?
The cost of goods and services offered by cybercriminals
Twitter rebuffs Facebook's advances
Many of us believe it is more than incrementally better. That's what all the DVCS fuss is about.
On a similar note, can you folks offer advice on how to "form" a team and apply for the summer round of YC if you are applying from overseas? I am from Sydney and am looking to form/join a team with those in the valley or otherwise (as long as they are willing to move to YC ofcourse).

I know it sounds silly and absurd. I have been desperate to apply to YC for ages. Only thing that has stopped me were my studies (which I am almost done with) and my mortgage (I can still take a few months for something as challenging and important as YC).

In case I wasnt clear, I am keen to jump across the ocean for YC.

Any advice? Any takers? Please contact me for more details if you would like to gauge my experience and skills.
Exciting Features For Ubuntu 9.04
I like the idea.

You may want to let users know on the front page which rewards programs you support. I see that it's in the FAQ, but to see that information instantly might be more reassuring to the user (especially, the one that isn't going to look at the FAQ before leaving).

Personally, I would never trust your website with my reward site password (I think that's how the site works). I'm not picking on you, I simply don't trust any website with another website's password. This doesn't seem to be a hindrance to sites like Facebook that ask for your Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo password, although, unlike your site, they don't store the password (or so they claim). I don't know how you would possibly get around this limitation or whether you should bother trying, as you may get more users from the convenience of storing passwords.
I had to downgrade my hosting service from Mosso ($100/mo) because my dad is out of a job.
asp? interesting. (i'm not judging at all, just curious as to your reasons for using it)

i like the design. the messaging isn't that compelling for me however "track your balances".

when i sign up for something i like to think "what am i going to get?" tracking balances isn't something that i get. could it be something like "see where you can go [with your current points]"?

that would make me want to sign up.
"... Then I found all the other blog posts about interviews and interview questions at Google ... She told me she was working at Google for two years and was very happy about it ... We went to Asian food restaurant (located in Googleplex) and I had all kinds of delicious foods. All free! ..."

I'm still wondering, who's trying to game who?
How active is BR Ventures up in Ithaca for seeding new startups? I know they are connected with Cornell - maybe they could help you.

Anyway, I'm a recent grad and my partner is graduating in spring 09. We are starting something up in NYC. We may be looking to add one more guys on the technical side. Shoot me an email if you want to talk (address in profile). I was personally in a similar boat as yourself.
Very beautiful design. Great idea as well. I have worked for 4 years with frequent fliers and they all experience headaches with their miles and rewards....
I know a lot of people are pretty upset about this new functionality, but I kinda like it. Now if they'll just let me filter entire domains (I'm looking at you Expert sex change!) from all my searches, I'll be soooo happy.
The Federal Reserve (NYSE: FED) is becoming highly leveraged. They may be next in line for a bailout, hopefully Bernanke will know to sell the jet before the congressional hearing.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/17/halliburton-tries-to.ht...
Good start. Have you looked at apps that do somewhat similar things? You might find improvements and/or inspiration to do something better or different.

Also, your site is simple enough that you might consider doing progressive signup. Don't require an account to start marking things. If they like it, they can create one later and it will save things into a unique account for them specifically.
Possibly meaningless anecdotal evidence: I know a number of people who have had internship offers from Google in the last couple months. I don't think any of them accepted though, so maybe they aren't paying as well as they used to. Also, I don't know what hiring interns says about hiring regular employees.
Besides only lasting a week, what benefit does this have over clicking on the star in Firefox 3?

Edit: I like the design.
Philip K.Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
Just an idea, if the 1 Gbps limit is a problem for your load balancer, you could just start serving static files through a CDN, therefore freeing up quite a bit of bandwidth for dynamically generated stuff.

It's a good problem to have, though!
We are hiring excellent Objective-C / Cocoa devs at Kodu (http://www.kodu.co.uk), to work on some upcoming iPhone applications. Don't let the uk domain throw you, it's a per-project position and we are fully open to remote working.

See http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/4634 for more info.
context

It may help to think of SaaS as a part of a larger context. Over the past 20 years or so, many 'product companies' have become 'service companies.' Aircraft tyres is a popular business school case study. In many countries where company owned cars are the norm, leasing companies are the primary providers of cars (+ petrol + insurance + washing + servicing + all other issues). Office hardware is another good example.

If it helps, those are all X as a Service business models & I believe they do quite well compared to their industries. But note that most of them targeted mature customers.

There are quite a few software segments where SaaS is or is becoming the norm: Live chat customer support, Web Analytics, CRM.
Ive always wondered, how would this be better/faster than the flex compiler directly outputing AS bytecode or hand-coding the AS bytecode (if that were easy/possible).

The only reason I can think of is that Adobe's compiler does a lousy job and that Adobe would rather focus on the tools and frameworks component and let the guys good at compiler construction do the bytecode generation.

Is this it? or is there a much smarter reason that is eluding me (as it usually does)?
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because unlike a standard material commodity, a playing card's value can be dramatically affected by whatever the publishing company decides to do to the game. whether it be printing more of the card, releasing a new version of the card that's more powerful, making that one obsolete, or even discontinuing the game altogether.

i'm sure you COULD make something like this, but really with the value of the item being intangible and largely based on emotional/prospective value, it'd be hard to get traction with the idea...

<disclosure: i know nothing about WoW cards>
CafePress Raises Another $8.3 Million From Sequoia
I have looked at several apps that work in similar ways. The big advantage I had was that the lists are "private" as well as the ability to get a private RSS feeds for your list.

I thought very hard about doing progressive signup, but I couldn't find a good method that didn't require a user to finish the signup on the same machine they started on. If you have any examples of sites that do this well, or at least in a way that you like, let me know!
SCO owes Novell $2.54 million for all that trolling
Here's a more plausible example. Let's say you are trying to call one function out of a list of functions. What do you think this code does?

function getIndex() {
return 0
}
function f1() {
alert("foo")
}
function f2() {
alert("bar")
}

var intIndex = getIndex()
[f1, f2][intIndex]()

It looks like it should alert "foo", but run it and you get an "intIndex is undefined" error. Good luck debugging that!

The problem is, the javascript rules for continuing lines are that whenever the next character is any of [({+-, the line is assumed to continue. This is generally correct but not always. For comparison, the analogous Python rule is that a line continues either with an explicit \ or when one of [({ has not yet been closed with its pair. The Python rule doesn't lead to any ambiguous cases that I am aware of, because unclosed parentheses would just be invalid syntax.
hmm all of a sudden I dont feel so bad about not getting through the site-interview!!!
This isn't tied to a single location/browser. You can mark sites from your javascript enabled phone, and read them on your desktop, or vice versa. If you use the web interface you can have it auto-hide any links you've already visited through the site. You can also get an RSS feed of your listings so that you don't NEED to use the web interface if that's your thing.

Edit: Thanks for the mention of the design, I'm far from a designer so I've been as worried about that aspect as any other.
http://contrastream.com, my previous startup.
Have a sign up button at the end of the learnmore page.
Just for the record, if I were looking for a job, and you used hero (or ninja, or rockstar) in the title, I wouldn't take you guys seriously. This seems to be a common sentiment.
I was doing some work this past summer trying to extract good feature sets from job ads so users could train a neural network to help filter through ads.

I see there are a lot of sites that to do something for employers but its good to see someone else thinking of job seekers. Not much out there for us and I think an opportunity exists for someone that can optimize and organize the process with us in mind.
actually the last startup weekend in Sydney by Silicon Beach, had 3 startups:

utag - http://www.ut.ag/
TrafficHawk - http://www.traffichawk.com.au/ and
LinkViz - http://www.linkviz.com/

showed nice rankings on alexis (cant recall the numbers).
yeah actually i had hoped to see some insight in the article, but didnt find anything new in there.

Again I wanted to see something like info on more favorable climate for entrepreneurs (which, is getting better).
in that article there was a bit about doubts on whether facebook would enforce the fine. Why wouldnt they? And why wont they be able to? Surely 1Bn is no pocket change!!
I suspect not - interns are usually good for cheap labor.
What do you want to build?

Ruby or Python is good. Just pick one. Flip a coin. Or do what I did: I picked the one that _Why's book was about, and that proved to be a very amusing way to choose:

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

(See also: http://hacketyhack.net/ and http://shoooes.net/ .)

Also good, but for different things: Scheme (as learned from SICP), C, Objective C, Java (so that you'll know what everyone else is complaining about).
I can see Lennon saying this. I would like to have him in some of our VC meetings!!
Technically speaking, yes.

But, if you want to uniformly map a random number from set X to set Y where (IIRC) lcm(|X|, |Y|) != |X|, it seems you need an infinite worst-case running time.

Here's an informal proof that you can't have a finite upper bound to the number of iterations. After n iterations, you have |X|^n possible outcomes. But, since lcm(|X|, |Y|) != |X|, |X|^n cannot be divided evenly by |Y| (since its factors are the same). So some outcomes in Y must be more likely than others.

(This is not nearly complete, but hopefully it's enough to show how it might be right.)

Of course, in practice it is highly unlikely that you will get past more than a couple iterations before determining an outcome.
Isn't the term "hero" used in _The Mythical Man Month_ to refer to the one talented individual that ends up saving the project? Thus, a "hero" is indicative of immature development process.
I checked that out about a year ago. How come you moved on?
You would have to work on the packaging for the "Mark is dead" button and the "Is Mark dead?" email you'd be sending out.

Aside from that, this seems like a really elegant solution. Occam's razor.
If you study the history of the Futurists, there's a bit of black humor in there.
Fleaflicker. If you're passionate about sports and software development and you have a CS degree, contact me. We operate like a startup but you get all the cushy benefits of working for a large company.

http://www.fleaflicker.com/jobs.do
I was thinking fractional reserve banking in general, but that is certainly true.
I'm looking for a marketing or business related internship with a tech startup for the summer. Check my profile for my blog and contact info
Show some respect during the interview process. Possibly make their point of contact an engineer rather than an HR person. I interviewed with a company that had a technical recruiter who knew technology and I was very impressed by them for that.

Also keep in mind, how you run the interview process says volumes about what its like to work in your company. Taking > 2 weeks between responses shows lack of interest. Making a person have to "ask" for a plane ticket to come to the interview is a big turn off too. The interview process is a great time to show that you take care of your people and make it easy for them to do their jobs. Take care of us as candidates and we'll assume you'll take care of us as employees.

These are pet peeves. One other thing... communicate the type of position you're looking at putting the person in before lining up their in-person interviewers. I've had situations where I interviewed with people who did stuff I found interesting and I felt rapport with them. Likewise I had one company thought about putting me in a position completely wrong for my skills and the people I interviewed with had nothing in common. They later offered a position after the interview that was more in the right direction but this would have been good to figure out in a phone interview.

Thats my $.02.
As someone who's seen approx. 73,801 job postings, I prefer just about anything to "software engineer." Just for flavor.