skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read through a large portion of the PDF version of your book quite a few times. It is very well written and helped me understand a number of different techniques very well.

I definitely recommend Sean's book as a starting point if you are interested in this field.

(I don't know Sean, and don't get anything for this recommendation other than the happy glow of helping a well deserved author get more recognition)
I did a year of Ocaml at Jane Street and Clojure for over 2 years at a startup that failed for non-technical reasons.
The only time IE6 was mentioned in this article was in:
"and Internet Explorer 6 picked up 0.66 points."
Kinda worried that you run your own business and dont understand the difference between a link to your public fb profile and the login information to your fb profile. I guess it can be explained by the fact that you came here to diss YC, why do it in any sort of logical manner when you can say something moronic instead?
You know its pretty easy to install the GoogleWallet.apk file on it, and be up and running with GW in under five minutes?
To me, the resignation was linked to thinking of the consequences. At first the (fictional) manager just did what he was told, then quickly thought of it, and instead of fighting it, put a stop on it. Moral grounds, economic grounds (the fear of discrimination lawsuit is economic), etc.

This is all fiction, but while I always thought snooping on a (potential) employee via any way (including FB) was morally wrong, this fictional story just opened the eye wider why it is wrong.
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I feel like I have to get good grades, work research projects, and develop good relationships with other students, TAs, and professors in order to become better. I find it hard to relax because I feel like I'll be mediocre and end up working with third-rate soulless clock punchers; I want to work with first-rate colleagues.
former facebook employee here. Everyone who entered the campus signed NDAs, period.
I guess I'm showing my age here, but I've now got the song Novocaine by The Eels running around my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yy141q8HQ

That seems like a pretty good "hook" to hang your audio library off (I guess targeting your audio library marketing to people who were listening to pop music in 1996 is a questionable tactic though…)
To get around the paywall:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...
http://cranksomeone.webs.com/

Just built it this weekend. If you want someone to talk to that is also starting out in programming, drop me an email anytime.
Hmm true, I always considered Flash/Actionscript to be dead simple (Drag image to the view => click on it and add code to make it do stuff) However maybe it's because I grew up loading 5.5inch floppys in a computer without a hard drive that only ran DOS. This is actually something I've been thinking about lately since my son is now 4 months old and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to teach him this stuff, I grew up evolving with the technology so a terminal window does not feel foreign to me. How do you start from scratch in the age of iPads etc.. ?
I actually think this is a great point. As much as I completely agree with the letter, the idea that the first thing job applicants do is threaten me with legal action for something they presume I will do doesn't really inspire much confidence in me that they are good people or that they will contribute much to the organization.
Well, regardless of how useful they are in production or how many livelihoods depend on them, they are simple for a beginner to understand the concepts of. They lay the groundwork for more advanced classes that go into web creation such as Javascript and Ruby. Many people versed in HTML go on to learn Javascript next, because that's the next logical step and next increase in complexity.
Hmm. While thought provoking, this should be identified some in some way as fictional.

Anyhow, even in theory, complying with the policy for a moment would be unethical.
Snippets: The unsung heroes of web search
Online faxing service that doesn't suck?
I just signed up for 5 different online "e-fax" services and they were all terrible. Buggy transmissions, terrible user interfaces, etc. Can anyone suggest a decent alternative? I'm happy to pay $10-$20 a month for it.
"Illegal"? They just passed the law and regs haven't been written yet. That's why I stated "if permitted by law" - I don't think there is "law" yet.
You'd have to be a really shitty security officer to leap from bong to illegal drug use. There's a reason it's legal to sell bongs, because they have lots of other uses than illegal drugs. Also, many of the drugs used in bongs are legal to use in many different circumstances.

The laws in Ontario are written this way to prevent exactly this sort of idiocy. That's why you don't even ask these things because it's irrelevant to the job.

If illegal drug use doesn't disqualify the President of the United States from his job why should it exclude anyone else?
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http://hellofax.com
All anecdotes aside (I started in HTML and VB, gotta say the VB was more useful to me as someone who didn't go on to be a professional programmer), maybe there's some poll they took to see where people started. Maybe there needs to be. I could see a case where people typically start with a easy-to-grok language like HTML. For one, it's quick to see progress in HTML proficiency.
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It needs the IQ Routes feature. I don't know if it is standard or not.
How Apple and Google help police bypass iPhone, Android lock screens
At least they learned something while they were doing it. :)
Ask HN: Tips for parsing data in python? 
I'm a noobish programmer and I would appreciate any thoughts on how to go about parsing Aluminum prices with python.
Next thing you know they'll be asking for our 4chan passwords.
Fair point, and well-taken!
Very cool, and a clever algorithm!

I've been playing with the site, and the sheer number of results can be a bit overwhelming. It might be neat to help address that by grouping together the suggested domains into categories of roots?

For example, there could be Places roots, filled with roots like hub, spot, -ocity, etc. There could be Frugal roots, with roots like cheap, cheapo, bargain, steal, etc. There could Newspaper roots, which add words like Observer, Times, Post, Chronicle, etc. to the users input. Other users could also create their own Roots, and share them... it'd be a great way to encourage community and create stickiness. If I have my 100 favorite Roots categories saved to your site, I'm much more likely to continue to use it to hunt for new domains.

When I search for a keyword, the results could be displayed in conceptual groupings (i.e. the different Roots categories)... that would help me quickly scan the results.

Just a thought... feel free to use or disregard. I'll definitely be using your site in the meantime!
>Hmm. While thought provoking, this should be identified some in some way as fictional.

At the end maybe?

>Anyhow, even in theory, complying with the policy for a moment would be unethical.

The OP admits this in the comments here.
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Why keep working at big bureaucratic businesses?

I really believed that Google culture was still alive, and not just a bunch of marketing drivel.

By the way, most startups aren't much better. The best startups are great, but there's a major survivorship bias in what we think of as "startup culture". The ones that implement shitty MBA culture don't get off the ground because people leave.

I think it's impossible to say that any particular strategy will allow Google to beat Facebook.

Sure, and "beat Facebook" was bad word choice on my part. I don't think "beating" Facebook would even be desirable. Right now, though, G+ would do well to have 1% the relevance of Facebook in the social space.

People have short memories. In mid-2011, a lot of people hated Facebook. That was a selling point of G+: we're like Facebook, but we're not Facebook. Ok, cool. Except... no one uses it yet, and there's a major critical-mass effect to social networking sites. Also, in mid-2012, I think the hatred for Facebook (a consequence of those shitty Zynga games, which Facebook has seriously curtailed) has waned and people like it again. As I said, short memories. Google+ was perfectly timed to take advantage of Facebook fatigue by providing something more... qualitative is, I guess, the word... but they blew it.

My thought on games was that getting a few very high quality games would give people an incentive to use G+ even if they were the first ones on it. We wouldn't make money on the games, but that would get people into and comfortable with the system and give G+, at the least, a fighting chance.

Instead, they put huge amounts of money and gambled internal engineer morale for... a "Me, too" product that will probably be shuttered in 5 years.
Ask HN: What is a reasonable rate to submit stories to HN?
Is there any limit or checking of how many stories people submit each day?

I ask because a small number of people submit very many articles.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=daegloe)

88 posts in one day.
The Love Principle in Investing
I interviewed for a medical device company a few years back, I signed an NDA for it, they showed me some cool technology they were working on, I got to take a tour around the place, and actually see what was being developed, how their processes work, and how far along they are on certain things. How they design, and fab up their products. Companies that make you sign NDA's are really just protecting their back. How do they know I wasn't actually working for some rival company, and just got their interview to see what was going on. If that was the case, an NDA gives them a bit more leverage in court. If it was just some random joe like myself, no big deal. Corporate espionage probably does happen. (I say probably, as I can't say i've ever witnessed it though.)
Yes all of these request the mobile page. The big problem with html5 development I find is that mobile phone developer have no reason to make browser good enough so that web apps can compete with mobile app. I mean why would they intentionally undercut their own business.
At work I use Windows / linux, but about a week ago I switched from using a MBP as my primary computer at home to a Transformer Prime.

Impressions so far: it's awesome. Consuming is much better, which is most of what I do at home. Most producing I've done lately has been of the pure text nature (emails / blogs etc). The onscreen keyboard is mostly find for this, and if I need to bang a lot of text out I can attach the keyboard.

I'm a bit overwhelmed with work work atm, but when that calms down I'm keen to try AIDE[0], as well as look for a more light weight editor for python / html hackery that can connect via ftp/ssh or similar, and play with developing web apps that way.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
I do agree with you that it's an over simplification, there is certainly a balance to be struck but I don't think the one that's currently struck is the best one.
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We can't see any results. What are the results?
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"Free - as in Beer" has always been the more important point to me. This is followed closely by the ability to screw around with anything I want which, I suppose, is close to the "Free - as in Speech" argument, but for me it has always been about pragmatism rather than ideology.
Square, the Google Wallet exodus and NFC
While we're playing the annoying buzzword game, I've noticed that 'delight' tends to get knocked around a lot lately.
> Try googling novocaine - guess what, you won't find this in the first page of results. Good luck with it. I'm sure it may be one awesome piece of software, but the name is just dumb.

A lot of web projects are "un-googleable", especially when they are first kicking off. Django would be a good example of this—searching for "Django" would often return results about Django Reinhardt, a jazz musician, instead of the web framework.

I think it's a fair assumption to say that an interested programmer might think to append github[1] or audio[2] to their search, in which case the result is in the top 3.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=novocaine+github
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=novocaine+audio
As far as I am aware, there is no public, non-destructive way way to do this with the iPad 2 or iPad 2012, or the iPhone 4S.

The memory of the phone is encrypted. There is a tamper-resistant chip in the iPhone which contains that code, as well as device-specific passcodes (e.g. the 4-digit unlock passcode), in the Keystore API.

Prior to the above devices, there was a way to plug the phone into a host computer and image the memory (even while locked), then brute-force the unlock passcode (often a 4 digit numeric). The brute force still requires the physical phone, but the "10 tries and delete device" protection doesn't apply, because you've already imaged it. ElcomSoft among others make software to do this (it's about $1k). You can do about 5-15 attempts per second, so 10k search space goes fast.

After the iPad 2, that was fixed -- the only way to attack the phone is to brute force the passcode on the device itself, and the "10 tries and erase" protection DOES apply.

There may still be a backdoor (such as a way to disable the "10 tries and erase" function), or an implementation flaw.

The only way I know of to recover the passcode technically is to attack the secure processor, which I think is a FIPS 140-2 level 2 thing. Maybe $3k per device, and physically destructive to the phone.

I would kill for a FIPS 140-2 level 3 phone (hardware and software protection), or at least something which protected Keystore to that level (or higher). All source code and chip masks would need to be published, if not open source, because otherwise it would be a really tempting product to backdoor.
... unless, of course, you happen to be in that narrow window in life where it is optimal for you or your partner to have children. A woman's biological clock waits for no job.

Here in Canada, parental leave is self-paid through Employment Insurance at a rate that is proportional to our income in the previous year. The employer does not pay directly---they do, however, need enough flexibility in staffing to accommodate new parents.
A simple "Hello World" app for Node.js using the Twitter Streaming API
Look up Orman Clark from PremiumPixels.com. He's sold well over a million dollars on ThemeForest. Unfortunately, the marketplace is now filled with a lot of get rich quick schemers. I know they're (Envato) trying to work on cleaning up the community, but it's going to be a challenge as the market grows. If you want to be successful on ThemeForest in the long-term, I suggest building your own brand to co-exist with the marketplace. Orman serves as a good example of creating a brand differentiated from others. His sense of design is incredible and his success is well deserved.
A Programmer's Portfolio
The system goes into the toilet tank, which is separate from whatever may happen in the bowl and contains clean tap water (which still isn't the best idea for watercooling).
http://www.kongregate.com/html5-games

It seems Kongregate supports HTML5 games. Perhaps you could try hosting them there?
This technique exposes you to a new pool of mediocrity. Sure, you're guaranteed exceptional candidates, but what how are they exceptional?

Did they, in the past, work for exceptionally abusive employers who need them back? (The new guy quit after his fourth month of unpaid overtime!)

Did they work for exceptionally dimwitted individuals who can't measure their new workers? (The new guy doesn't understand the old system! Fred said it was SO EASY!)

Did they do exceptionally niche work, where almost no other candidate will do ? (e.g. managing physical linotype inventory -- no one ever got our 'e' and 't' counts in the same place as Fred! His database management was magic!)

Using former bosses as an uncalibrated barometer isn't very much better than phoning them up and trying to draw inferences from their tone of voice. Garbage in, garbage out. (But I bet it saves time on collecting your crap data.)
You've been fooled!
Foxconn recruiter says next-gen iPhone arriving in June
I have been reading about this and it not only seems like an absurd invasion of privacy, but in violation of several federal employment laws. Being somewhat familiar with employment law, I would be nervous to ask a prospective employee ANYTHING that was not directly related to past work or the position in question. Employment law is one of the most murky and sensitive areas of the law, and I'm convinced that the only reason there aren't more lawsuits is that most people simply don't know their rights.

Let me cite a specific example. I once sat in on a lecture by a former attorney-turned successful media entrepreneur who owned a fairly successful magazine. During a routine interview for an art director position, one of her staff members who was conducting the interview noticed that the candidate was wearing a Yarmulke. She said something to the effect of "During certain seasonal spikes, we have a huge increase in workload that can extend into the weekends. I see that you're Jewish, and I am too. Do you think working on weekends is something you can do?"

The interview concluded, and they exchanged goodbyes. The interviewer expressed interest but asked the candidate to send over some work samples, but the samples never came. Instead, after a few weeks a letter arrived from the candidate's attorney informing the magazine that they were being sued. They settled out of court for nearly $50,000.

That seems pretty egregious and the woman was pretty naive to bring up such a sensitive matter in an interview, but I don't see how it's any worse than demanding to see somebody's protected Facebook account.
Not much to this, I started to learn Node.js today and this is the result. Using Socket.IO, ntwitter and Google Maps, this is just a few hours work and pretty much a Hello World entry into Node.js.

Any ideas for extensions and more complex things to try that will help me learn more about Node would be great.

Code at https://github.com/danpalmer/node-twitter-experiment
Firm slaps $1001 target on Apple shares
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Rails Developer

At Bandzoogle, we build tools that help bands succeed online. Our app powers tens of thousands of artist websites, and helps them make a living by selling their music and growing their fan base. We've been “bootstrapped, profitable, and proud” since 2003 and are growing fast.

We’re looking for an experienced Rails developer to become a core member of our dev team, participate in key technical decisions. You’ll work on varied and challenging projects, from backend media encoding on EC2, to integrating external APIs, to adding new front-end features. Even better, our Rails 3 codebase is squeaky-clean and ready for you to jump in and start creating.

Requirements

* Sample code that we can take a look at (in any language).

* Solid Ruby on Rails experience.

* Ability to be productive in a distributed team environment. Our 12 member team is spread across Canada, UK and USA; we work where we love to be.

What we offer

Beside working on fun projects that empower musicians, Bandzoogle offers:

* A great salary plus generous performance bonuses.

* A fast paced startup atmosphere, with the stability of an established, profitable company.

* A family-friendly schedule — no overtime or weekends.

* Health insurance for US and Canadian employees.

* Reimbursement of home office expenses, computer, and use of co-working spaces.

* An education expense account - reimburse books, conferences, etc.

* Yearly meet-ups in fun locations (last one was in Montreal for the Jazz fest), family included!

To apply: Email jobs@bandzoogle.com with the subject "Rails developer".
Making of the genie lamp
Is making books social a good thing or a bad thing?
You know, I sit around here and occasionally run into classic Michael Church writing, which I feel like I dig pretty well. But the clearly provable missteps into blatant lies, such as this failed startup comment, just need to stop. Your honesty and your truth, Michael, are more important than your thoughts. Please stick with that.
I definitely think that there is significant room for improvement when it comes to hiring. However I think that significant progress towards #1 through preventative screening is next to impossible.
Giving Women the Access Code
I clicked into this thread specifically to see if someone had cheekily added emacs as an option. Color me disappointed. ;)
It's so much more complex and amazing than that, especially in problem spaces that have numerous local optima. My personal favorite weird genetic algorithm exploration paradigms are where you start looking at the behavior of the genome; and, instead of searching out best behavior, you search out ~different~ behavior. It's called Novelty Search, and it's awesome!
What Obama’s “Startup America” Means for Your Small Business
New Dropbox API Features: /delta, /copy_ref, OS X SDK
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I will be visiting Seattle and Portland this summer, and I was going to ask at some point if there are any hacker hangouts in the pacific northwest that would be good to visit.
You just made me shit my pants!
The problem with apps is having to download them. HTML5 is way better for applications that have single time use or where you want an interaction as quickly as possible.
One word, debugging. Stopping program execution at a break point and inspecting a memory location can be incredibly helpful.
This is a really excellent idea.

If you (or anyone reading this) is interested in categorizing the 2,000 modifiers like this suggests, please drop me a note: matt@leandomainsearch.com -- I'd be more than happy to compensate you for your effort.
Show HN: Market for selling business documents (beta stage looking for sellers)
This is a site for people to sell business documents. Specifically, these are documents used by folks who work in a business function (e.g. Corporate Strategy, Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Product Development, Supply Chain, etc.).

My background is in management consulting, which provides the backdrop to this idea. In consulting, we are constantly re-hashing the same business documents (e.g. templates, business frameworks, etc.) for different clients. I quit my job a couple years ago to pursue creating a startup. However, up until a few weeks ago, I've only been dabbling in smaller side projects. One such project is a site where I sold my own business documents, which now serves as validation that there is a market for consulting-esque business documents.

In the initial prelaunch/beta stage, I am looking to recruit sellers. As such, the copy on the homepage (and throughout the site) has been written to target that market -- so please keep that in mind.

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Codeacademy is really good, it's helped me brush up on my Javascript for one thing.

But as for creating and contributing content, their terms [1] are a bit draconian. They specify complete ownership of anything you contribute to the site, and aside from your right to delete your contributions, it appears that there's no way to export content.

I'm no lawyer, perhaps someone here is: do their terms prohibit reusing my own contributions in another venue?

[1] http://www.codecademy.com/terms