skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://blog.travelfli.com/

They are talking to a lot of airlines and hotels.
It really is a pity, too -- I have two college degrees, and wish they had been printed on toilet paper, because then they might be useful.
I agree, but there's also nothing of solid value for Twitter. They don't even have the servers. It's two absurd unproven valuations talking to each other. Comedy gold!
This is almost straight-up plagiarism of the (pretty bad) article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375355
All of the Beatles were entrepreneurs, as are most entertainers (at least those who are more than mere performers).
I can't imagine that working when moving an existing site as suggested.
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I also feel the need to comment about respect. I'm working now, for a great start-up in Palo Alto. Before starting here, though, I turned down an offer with a company that's actually profitable, because they were not just rude, but incredibly arrogant as well.

Insulting your candidates, and then calling them back begging them to come in for another interview, and then ignoring their availability... this is not a way to encourage people to work for you.
I've been reading this post throughout the day and I must say, what an amazing act by the community here. You guys are awesome, all of you.
markitforlater.com on the footer is missing the l and reads markitforater.com.
how is this any different than delicious?
Sorry, but I just don't see a compelling reason to leave Instapaper for it.
I had to look it up: UX is User Experience. I'm embarrassed I didn't know -- but I am all the wiser now.
San Diego would almost be enough for me to forget that I've really, really come to hate Perl. ;p

Too bad I'm already working...
delicious + tag as "toread" is what i've been doing
http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1990/westley.hint:

Some ANSI compilers will not accept '1s' as a short integer - for
these compilers replace the '1s' with '1'.
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my gut is that you make him a co-founder with a strict (and very clear-get lawyer help!) vesting schedule

he also needs to have skin in the game, which means a monetary investment if you have invested monetarily, and he needs to be full-time if you are full-time (as I hope you are!)
nice post - deep thoughts, but presented in a simple format
Is there a market for a moderated rentacoder? Think of the difference between yahoo answers and ask metafilter. Same goal, different leagues of quality.

/me has a startup idea.
Damn. If I weren't deliriously happy with where I am, I'd consider applying just because you said "mean level of seriousness"
as a long-time 61 user - no. a ton of it is indie music. it just happens that the few pirated songs on there get popular very fast and flood the homepages.
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Males have only one copy of the X chromosome, which makes them more fragile. Not sure if this is the mechanism proposed, but if male fetuses do not make it to term due to environmental insults, there would be fewer males in a given population.
I suspect the profiler's UA detection code is confused by the way WebKit nightlies just run your installed version of Safari but linked to the newer WebKit framework. (Look inside the WebKit.app bundle: the binary itself is under 100Kb.)

Unless you have installed Safari 4 Developer Preview (available to any body with an ADC account), your WebKit.app User-Agent string will say Safari 3.x, with a nightly revision number. The exact same revision on a system with Safari 4 will have a different string, though. So it's entirely possible to have a newer version of WebKit running in an older version of Safari, and vice versa.

I think any nightlies since the DP was released in August _ought_ to be counted as Safari 4, but some may not be for this reason.
Linkbait aside, HN death rumors come in phases, and the real content is always still far more signal than noise. The anger a few months back re: TechCrunch-heaviness was more shark-jumping in accusation than anything I've noticed lately.

Edit: Glad to see this post swept away so quickly (between comment-new and comment-create).
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It's intentionally non-social, your stuff is yours. It doesn't require a redirect when adding a bookmark, and in general I find it simpler and quicker to work with than delicious (especially the newest version).
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"... I'm going for a university open-day tomorrow, I'm applying to do CS, and although I'm not being asked for a formal interview I am trying to think of a few topics to chat about ..."

Q. Do you:

- do you use linux here?

- teach C, lisp or Scheme? ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...

- have any electives I can do in entrepreneurship, learning to write or economics? ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html
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Don't worry, there's no permanent damage, and Disqus does seem like an interesting company. :-)

I think I, and a lot of people, respond to ninja, etc., negatively not because They're Silly Words And This Is Serious Business, but just because they're tired and non-descriptive. I have about the same response to something like, "Senior Solutions Manager". It's not a logical reaction based on evaluating the company, more like just an automatic, "Ugh..."
Using lots of small, short-lived branches conditions you to think about your development in a new way: instead of a single, linear development process, you have a number of parallel development efforts, and you know that only some of them will be successful.

By taking full advantage of fast branch and merge operations, you train yourself to experiment with many possible implementations of the same idea, without completely losing the history of your trials.
Love the choice of accompanying picture :) The unwritten statement here is probably that those feet are now being held to the intense heat of simmering resentment,
Rather than replying to one of your several other posts, I'll just ask here - what do you think is so "complex and arcane" about git that makes it so difficult to learn?

Speaking as someone who had very little experience with SCMs before git, I have never found myself particularly stuck or frustrated, and have really found it quite easy to learn. There are plenty of great resources online and I've found the man pages detailed enough for quick-reference type stuff. I taught my co-worker how to use git in about 15 minutes, and in another 10 we both understood branches and conflict resolution.
Ask HN: Is there a RentAPhD.com type service?
I know Russia/China are pumping out plenty of graduate students with experience in Machine Learning/NLP/distributed algorithms etc. It seems like it would be relatively cost-efficient to tap into this stream of expertise. I'm sure it wouldn't be cheap but probably still cheaper than hiring a local person with the same skillset.

Unlike normal outsourcing, it seems like it's possible with this sort of work to keep it tightly scoped and have a well defined target to hit which would cut down on miscommunication problems.

Does a site like this exist?
I found this a difficult read, and difficult to draw a conclusion from. I think partially because I think the title is quite misleading - it should be "how will languages evolve?".

Also, it's surprising that this article doesn't touch on the Semantic Web; which is clearly one of the initiatives that is key to all of this... Although he does mention the important of ontologies.

Right now I don't buy the premise that we'll just be wiring (mashing) together components in any near future.
On FreeNode, I auto join these channels when I bother to start my IRC client, which may or may not happen any given day.

#trilug (Triangle Linux User's Group)

#trijug (Triangle Java User's Group)

#trilug-mtb (people in trilug who ride MTBs)

#fedora

#centos

#asterisk

#centos

#openmoko

#java

#eclipse

#spring

#jboss

#hibernate

#ruby

#erlang

#prolog

#lisp

#ai

#swig

#machinelearning

#openqabal
Genius: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-w...

Drove one for a while - just wasn't switched on enough to think of that plate!
I've heard of this method in 2003 or so. It's a very old method started by internet marketers.
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Interesting that you describe the position as a "Computer Scientist". Unfortunately it sounds more like software engineering.
It'll be interesting to see how well it works in the coming releases of Merb.

I'm not being a hater, just saying it hasn't been tested. Hopefully they can pull off upgrades more smoothly than Rails and Rails can learn from it. That way everyone wins.
We have openings, in particular (as I keep posting!), Trovix is looking for a search hacker. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=355208
An environment? A web platform? Are you asking a question, for an opinion on the idea, which could be good or bad dependent on what it is exactly your trying to say.
the delicious plugin for firefox is quite handy. i can save a link and tag it as 'do not share' in about 2 seconds.

sorry man, not trying to bash your idea, but it's been done before :-/.
Any bookmarklets for that? i.e., tag and save it automatically?
What makes you suspect that? Advertisers drool over programmers who make $70-100k a year.
WoW .... dude you totally ripped off this http://readitlaterlist.com/ . ReadItLater has been around since august 2007 and featured on Digg here is an article from one of Om Malik's network sites http://tinyurl.com/5bsuf4

Dude reconsider the name it screams of copycat and a lack of innovation!!!
I don't see how firing someone after they've left their previous job behind is better for either the employer or the employee.
I wrote this quickly when I should have been listening to my professor.

I guess I envision it as a site with some supportive app-like properties for simple sketchbooking of ideas to peers.

I want feedback on the idea
I have the firefox delicious extension so I just hit Cmd+D then tag it whatever I want (usually I add all the popular tags) and then type in "toread." a 3 second process and it works for me.

http://delicious.com/pstamatiou/toread
But why would I pay $500 once to get something done right when I could pay $10 every month to get something that will almost certainly fold before I do?

(Although that does leave me with one practical issue: if I go to my trustworthy small town lawyer tomorrow and say "Hiya Taro [he's not Bob -- Bobs are quite rare in these parts], in the event that I pass away suddenly, I'd like you to take care of my final affairs as I'm about to instruct you:", and Taro gets hit by a bus, what happens to my plan? Should I be asking my lawyers "But before I give you my business can I ask you a little more about your business continuity contingency planning? How about we start with your bus number?")
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I work sort of methodically, so Ideas are key to me right now.

I can write code for whatever and if I cant, I got a friend for that.
Hmm, really good point. And I suspect beyond that you can exploit elitism by making the process seem artificially hard.

It seems clearer if you think about the converse: If you were offered a job 10 minutes into an interview, would you value it as highly?
Actually, I think the article you link to is ripping off this article. Both are pure garbage though, so it's hard to tell :)
Always e-mail a candidate first to set up a phone call.

Don't cold call at 8.15AM because it's business hours somewhere. Every. Single. Day. Didn't need an alarm clock that week.
I've always run my startups very cheaply. Then again, I haven't had many interns either :). So point taken.
What is your point? That your single case of not getting the job means that it is not true that they hire college drop outs?

I mean there is plenty of other things than just experience related to hiring someone. "More qualified" may well be a nice way to say "you don't seem to fit in" or whatever their reason not to hire you.
I'm offended. Limiting the job to a CS major is the equivalent of limiting it to a design major. UI/UX specialists require skills/knowledge in BOTH design and computer concepts. You aren't going to find someone who is 100% qualified (according to their degree(s) alone) unless they have a BOTH degree in design AND CS, so why discriminate against one or the other?
I just read this paper (it took me a while to get it) and it does not make any reference to fractions at all. It only supports the first claim:

>That difference means that Asian children learn to count much faster. Four year old Chinese children can count, on average, up to forty. American children...

It does not support the second claim:

>The regularity of their number systems also means that Asian children can perform basic functions—like addition—far more easily...

I don't have a copy of the book to hand (in India and haven't managed to find it yet) - I can only see the online excerpt. Does he cite other papers in support of the fractions claim and/or the second claim quoted above?
http://www.liveperson.com/ ?

Or why not just contact graduate students directly?
The lesson here is not to divide equity 50/50 with any friend who wants to join you, but find someone who brings equal value to the startup.
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And looking for a job? What's your profile?

I am from Finland originally, but working in Manila right now. We don't exactly have openings right now, but never know what we might need in the near future.
Yep, pascal had ^ and @.

Around 5 years ago I was spent a lot of time working with really old Object Pascal and some C code that was upgraded to OS 8/9 and then left to rot. Let me just say that low level networking code on a OS that does not have threads is a PITA. They had something like interrupts but you could not allocate memory during them. You had to first allocate using Handel's and then do something before working with actual pointers as part of your run loop and then use that memory during the interrupts. Meh, I think it might have been the most fun coding project I have ever been on, but I don't want to do that again.
Thanks. That got me all wet to dance.
Brad Feld's Blog has been down for a week plus?
Our services can be considered more consultation and customization around our core product and expertise at this point(integration of data and geospatial technologies). Although I would love to have 500 customers (a milestone I look forward to), our current team size (3 people) would make that hard and would probably result in my head spontaneously exploding!

We are however working diligently on a couple of utilities and technology that can be considered a single product/service and would allow us to scale quickly.
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Yes. University of Phoenix. Err... wait, you want someone with PhD level knowledge? Can't help you there.
I am in Cebu. IT is also good here.
I have been doing PHP (LAMP) for almost 3 years now. Right now, I am passively looking for a job since I am currently employed. If I like the job opportunity, then I'll leave the big corporate environment in a blink ;)
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I've been working for a non-profit for the last 6 months doing a complete technology overhaul for them. My gut says that there are a lot more out there that are paying too much money for crappy software or not using technology efficiently.

Do you think this would be a good market to build a product or set of products for? Do you have experience working in the non-profit sector to support your claim?

Let me know! michael[at]faceaids[dot]org
i still dont understand the how downvoting actually works here... i found i just got downvoted on a different thread for no apparent reason.... what the? oh well such is life :D
This post is old. But just want to follow up that as of now (11-25-2008), Mor.ph is now offering PHP - currently in beta but worth a look...
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2 of my friends have been hired within the last couple of months.
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As someone who has a fair few miles in each of 6 different FFPs I like the idea, but it's probably not useful enough for me to use it. I don't find any of the things listed in 'With acruw you can...' hard to do today (= you're not removing pain).

Where you would be removing pain is if you could do searches for reward seat availability for me. Like a kayak.com but for points. I would use that for sure (searching for reward seats is real pain).
No, no. I meant what is your specific idea.

The specifics you stated - "based on design", "the constant retooling of objects", "an environment, not a forum" - are extremely vague. You need to know exactly what your plan is, before you'd begin designing.
"I've never liked the approach of multiple applications tightly coupled through a common database - you can't get bigger breach of encapsulation than that."

So true. We have some apps here that people didn't make good interfaces for, so when we needed to integrate with the data some folks decided to get at the data directly. Now we're committed to the current schema (and database).

Everything else about this article kind of rubs me the wrong way though -- all the talk about these "non-relational" databases. "Non-relational" databases often don't have relational db features because they can't figure out how to do it given their distributed and/or massive nature. It's certainly not because relational dbs are bad.

Also, the reason why object databases failed is so obvious: there's no precise agreement on what an object is. It's too vague. There's no theory behind "objects", (compare with relational algebra). Do you have multiple inheritence, or not? Are classes first-class (Smalltalk, Python) or not (C++)? Are "objects" class-based or prototype-based?

What we really need (perhaps in addition to less-than-relational databases that are able to handle distributed and large datasets) are more completely relational databases that, among other things, have a rich enough feature set to obviate any need for denormalization and allow us to tell the database more information on what we need it to optimize for us, etc, etc.
Any private music tracker forum will do. I have invitations as well, if anyone is interested.
"Business Plan Preparation" is a line-item? In my mind the credibility of this document is already shot for this audience, and we're not even half-way in.

Two founders? 50/50. If you find a co-founder that you see eye-to-eye with and you have non-overlapping responsibilities, you can make it work. I'm an equal partner in Wikispaces, and it works. The alternatives are worse. Get over the theoretical deadlock case, if this happens for real, you're in serious trouble regardless of the split.

Three founders? Find a split that works based on background, past and future contribution, etc. Use a spreadsheet if it helps, but be prepared to really, deeply debate this. How the three of you handle this early discussion is a good indicator of how future -- possibly much more difficult -- discussions will go.

Four or more founders? No idea. Probably trouble.
its what academia.edu will become
How many people here would have less social contacts if you took away their electronics?
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He only cites secondary sources in the book. I just linked to that paper because I happened to know about it offhand. (Wrote a couple papers about it in college.)

If you want to find the paper supporting the second claim, Gladwell explicitly uses the keyword number-naming systems so that is a pretty big clue. There can only be so many cognitive development papers with that as the independent variable, so it should be pretty easy to find. It wouldn't surprise me if the research supporting the second claim was done by the same researchers who did the other paper I linked to.
This is really, really vague. Please resubmit a more thought-out version.
Yes, what.cd is equal to waffles, are there other ones?
I only lived in LA for about a year, when I worked for a small film compositing software company that was later acquired by apple (like a genius, I left for grad school before that happened). We were located in hollywood, right in the middle of it all.

It was kind of fun to be in LA. It has a different vibe from SF. But all in all, the hacker culture seemed pretty similar to me. Very friendly folks - a dude who had an academy award (the science achievement kind) was willing to sit down with me to explain how to use a plugin for a couple of hours.

This was back in the late 90s, before things truly exploded. Maybe it's different now... I also didn't get around all that much, so I can't say if my experience was typical of hollywood high tech.

BTW, Kathy Sierra had an interesting post on the "hollywood model"
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I didn't say I was only replicating--I said that it took me a few hours to be able to replicate SVN. The reason you switch isn't to replicate SVN, its to take advantage of the other features available, like local commits (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374413 ).

My point is that the only time you lose is the time you spend relearning what you can already do with SVN: all time spent learning new things isn't lost time at all.
If I were making such a post to this crowd I would use "uber-hacker".
We're hiring a Rails Dev in Portland, OR.

We do 1000 req/minute. We have tables with 100+mil rows. 30" monitors, MBPs, and the office is on the 5th floor looking out at 7 (of 9) bridges, the river and downtown. There's a bar 1/2 a block away with 14 taps.

Agile, RSpec, Pairing, the works.

Our CEO is Ward Cunningham (the Ward in TDD by Example, inventor of the wiki and terms like "Stories").

It's pretty freaking awesome.

Email github username + resume to jon.farr -at- aboutus (dot) org
yeah i think you are right. The consolation is you are downvoted only by top guys!!! Yeah atleast that makes me feel a bit better now :D
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I thought they were hiring. Atleast 2 people I know got identical emails from them detailing a SET (software Engineer in Test) position. These guys had interviewed with GOOG in the past though.
Thanks Alex. I guess I'll wait until I can get my hands on the book to find out what sources he is citing.
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I'm actually a big fan of Perforce. I don't feel that any system I've tried (~dozen) really beats it when it comes to internal software development inside of an organization. For open source, distributed version control makes a lot more sense, but internally, Perforce is pretty hard to beat and modified versions of it are used at places like Google and Microsoft.

What reasons do you dislike Perforce? Maybe we can help you pick by comparing what you're trying to move away from.

If by "given the OK" you mean you need to swap because your company doesn't want to admin/pay for Perforce licenses, then maybe you can clarify that a bit, too.
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