skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The horizontal one looks pretty cool too.
The much sadder reality is what actually happens in a company that posts that ad:

1) Optimistically post the job ad.

2) Receive hundreds of responses within hours of posting it.

3) Begin going through those hundreds of responses, reading cover letters and resumes. At first you're pumped then you realize very few people here are qualified for the position/read the post.

4) After ~20 resumes, you close your email for the day. If you made the mistake of using your personal email address, I'm sorry.

5) Despair. Pick and choose random emails (maybe filter by email, are there any harvard.edu's in there?) and immediately call the first person who seems remotely OK. Iterate step 5 until you find 'the one.'

I've worked with/observed dozens of employers in this process, a tiny fraction of resumes actually get read, and frankly it's impossible to stay focused through the experience. A "fun" experiment is to print out 40 resumes in a pile, write a job description for those resumes and then try to find the most qualified one in that bunch. Free-text association with often poorly-articulated job requisitions is a nearly impossible proposition. Add in the step where you have to download and track those applicants, and it's damn near impossible to use Craigslist to find the best candidate.

This was the original inspiration for our company, Foundry Hiring (www.foundryhiring.com). We're trying to build tools to make this process as painless as possible. In this instance we will give you a free link to post in your CL ad which has an application form in front of it, so that emails don't hit your inbox, the applicant's are stored directly in our database. We then give you tracking tools on top of it to make the process better. We're still in beta, but I would love user feedback.
Keeping ZenCoder running is right in line with BrightCove's core business. I can't foresee them shutting it down.
Anyone else think http://join.app.net/ should introduce some lower donation tiers?

Like
"$10 — You give a shit about this"
"$25 — You give a shit about this and you want a t-shirt"
I need to move to CA to party with Robert Scoble! :)
Sounds like a job for latent semantic indexing. This is a very accessible piece on how LSI works and how it can be applied. http://www.knowledgesearch.org/lsi/
Note that they often invited aliens of unknown origin onto their ship (dignitaries, ambassadors, first contact, etc). This is hardly enforceable.
Exactly why is it outright illegal? I guess Google can make a fair argument that the added exposure to google ads will pay for the running costs of the connection.
Editing and journalism are still very necessary, but somehow the actual streams of monetary income for them have almost entirely dried up.

The result is that we get very little independent (of state funding) journalism, and what we do get from any sources is very badly edited. But somehow there's no need being expressed on the market for journalists or editors?

Sounds like a market failure to me.
jwz's collection and instructions for getting old versions of Netscape running:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...
The list is here: http://www.london2012.com/mm/Document/Documents/General/01/2...:

– Personal/private wireless access
points and 3G hubs (smart devices
such as Android phones, iPhone
and tablets are permitted inside
venues, but must not be used as
wireless access points to connect
multiple devices)

I wonder if they have through through how they plan on enforcing this control freakery?
The question isn't whether it's useful to a lot of people or not but rather how can FB make money from all these people? The infrastructure to support almost a billion users costs a lot of money. If FB was a subscription service with such a large user base, I think it would be valued quite a bit differently than it is as a free service.
Don't understand this.

MAS has a killer feature (as with iOS App Store) - one purchase for multiple users or machines with one credential set to manage purchase and upgrade.

Handling multiple software instances and licenses is a HUGE pain point for the customer - it gets exponential if you're forced to manage licenses across machines and/or users (thus site-licenses for businesses). It is tough enough even for a power user with license management software, but literally a nightmare for the un-initiated.
It makes complete sense. Having the 'find friends' feature as an open API enabled Instagram to instantly build a network for you. If they didn't have this feature from the start things might have turned out very different. The only people I ever followed on Instagram were people I followed on Twitter.
Pretty much agreed. The notion that there will or must exist demand for labor corresponding to every individual's basic needs has never actually been proven. The statement is then left as a should statement, but why should we force our society into the mold of a bizarre reverse-moralization?
Interview With New Jersey Startup: Clipix, Pinterest For Everything
I think there's something to be said about identifying what direction you want your career to go in. In my last (pre-startup world) job I was being slowly edged into a management role- I was in charge of a team, and had meetings and agendas to assemble. I hated it- I wanted to be programming.

It sounds like Alex came to a similar conclusion. Being a CTO involves less programming than being an engineer. Sometimes it's an assumption that our career paths as engineers will take us toward being CTOs, but maybe that isn't right for everyone.
One day Google will launch something new and there will be a highlighted note at the top "based on your IP this release doesn't apply where you are [and probably won't ever]" and then I won't need to stare blankly for 10 seconds at an address form working out how it's possible to enter a real [read: my] address in to that weird configuration.

But then again, maybe not.
Update: the US iOS App Store is currently split almost exactly 50/50 between free and paid apps.
Great timing on this for me. I just posted a job (a real one) to Craigslist and received a handful of responses.

Making the assumption that I would get a bunch of resumes I decided to add one little hurdle. I asked the applicant to copy & paste their resume into the email body. I did this to see who was actually paying attention and who was just spamming every posting and hoping someone would bite. Sadly this hurdle come not be overcome by the majority of the people I heard from... The search continues.
Comprehend (YC W11) Hiring Software Engineers and Testers
Egnyte is hiring like crazy
We just closed our latest rounded of funding, thanks to Google Ventures, and we're now hiring like mad.

Unfortunately, we're so busy, we haven't had time to update our web pages to make it cool and hip and exciting like some of the other cool kids on the block - but that's because all of us are madly working on the next features and pushing out products.

You can see our jobs page at https://www.egnyte.com/corp/jobs.html

If you're on the engineering side, we need you: Architects, Senior Engineers for Client Applications, Senior QA Engineers, Senior Python Developers, Java Developers, UI Developers, and internal tools - build and release.

If you're on the marketing side, we need you: product marketing, tech writers, product management, PR.

We need you!!

Don't worry about having your information filtered by a "corporate HR" drone. Contact me directly. I'm the hiring manager for the marketing side, and I will get engineering resumes directly in front of the hiring managers on the engineering side.

jpoller (at) egnyte.com
+1.510.919.5100
Depends on the distance. I have 14ms roundtrip latency to the closest google CDN -- that's less than what the typical monitor adds. Most of world's population lives in cities where putting up a game CDN is potentially worthwhile.
Regardless of age, I'd assume they'd rather take notes [on her behalf] than not attend.
I'll share my experience on how I get jobs. I never won any job answering job offers. All the jobs I got (6 or 7, doesn't matter) I got knocking doors.
Literally.
I never "lost" any interview that I got this way.

Is this a rule to follow or was just luck? I don't know the answer. I know that it works for me. Ok, I'm in the architectural field, within other industries and corporations probably would be impossible to have this approach. Age is also an important factor. Knocking doors when you're during your 20's is not the same as during your 40's. Even during your 30's is already more difficult.

It's my experience. I hope it can help somebody.

edit:
This way people who could make the interview already know you. You are already interviewing without any appointment! If they ask you a more formal interview you're in.
Early mornings always choose early mornings. Afternoons are terrible for this approach. Everybody just wants to go home. Nobody will have any patience to listen to you.

Smile in the face and confidence of course. This can make the difference. Of course lucks has a big role also: if the decision-makers are in the office or not, if tehy are free, if there is any (even a slight is enough) need of people, etc
Who on earth thought deeply nested directories for packages was a good idea?

FWIW, if I were listing "things to criticize Java for", I can't imagine that the package mechanism would be anywhere near the top 25, top 50, or even top 100. Unless you're routinely navigating around that structure using command line tools (which I suppose some Java developers do), I don't see the problem. Pretty much any modern IDE makes it nearly painless to navigate around the source code.
It's the worst company motto of all time!

They seemingly can't make any pro-company decision without being accused of consorting with the Devil.

In contrast everyone knows Apple just cares about Apple. Whenever they do something evil, it just gets labelled as "Oh, that's just Apple being Apple".
...every few months an exec would trot out and talk about how GOOG/APPL's entire revenue fit inside some small MSFT division's numbers.

When was that?
Even if there are legitimate reasons behind incidents like these, it's problematic for Twitter that there essentially hasn't been a positive story about the Twitter API since summer of 2010. And there have been a lot of stories about the Twitter API since then.
Some companies are just incompetent. I had that too, although I had decided I was not interested by hour 2.5 so was not so bothered. They still advertise on HN sometimes...
Would it have been better ? I'll prefer a company that produces massive advances like these to one that would just provide better service or lower costs for some customers at some point in time.

We had some big advances in France too, when telcos sold telephone for stratospheric prices. Now they still charge too much, but just use their cartel agreements to get more revenue. I know which one I prefer.

Full disclosure : i'm from Europe, so not a real capitalist.
It creates a lot of ill-will from customers which translates into bad reviews:

"I bought this app for $9.99 and then I found out that all of the good features require in-app purchases - 1 star for you!"
Except when searching by metadata doesn't find what you want. Or when it finds too much. This is now 99% case for me when I use spotlight.

I have a huge library of PDF books (tens of gigabytes). If I search for a bunch of keywords or even if I know entire title, the damn spotlight returns way too many irrelevant results. Now I could perhaps spend 10 - 20 seconds thinking about how to write a more specific query, but it's faster to actually go to ~/Reference/Computer Science/CS Theory/ and get right to my damn book, which I know will be there based on how I structured my filesystem and the topic the book covers.

This has in fact gotten worse since snow leopard, before the default was to show file name matches first then content matches. So if you want a book on algorithms, almost all CS theory books will match. You have to type filename:"book title" to be more specific.

Now one could argue that Spotlight should get better. But I'm arguing that you will always encounter cases where it will be really difficult to find what you want, even if you know a lot about what you are searching, let alone if you vaguely remember a detail about what you want to find. But by being able to restrict what you are looking for you will have better luck.

Searching for photos is much easier, because photos are binary content, so apart from EXIF there is not much to look for in there. But if you have documents with plain text or searchable content like PDFs, things get a lot worse.
Manipulating Ableton Live directly using python is tricky as you need to impersonate a proprietary device. However, there's a fairly there's a fairly straightforward Open Sound Control API here: http://livecontrol.q3f.org/ableton-liveapi/liveosc/

I few years back, I wrote Ruby and C wrappers to communicate with Live via OSC: https://github.com/tassock/ruby_4_live, https://github.com/tassock/ofxAbleton
I guess people think it's a snarky remark.

My guess is you read Steven Levy's book (or at least an excerpt).

I read it so I get what you're talking about.
IBM has one of the most extensive patent portfolios known to man.

Whatever basic research they do, it's definitely in pursuit of digits for the bottom line.
This is why you excise your options early.
Note that this doesn't mean the latency is irrelevant. All latency is additive. Unless it's zero, matter how low it is, shaving away another millisecond is always worth it.
As I recall they were simply outbid - and by a lot.

Refresh your memory:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMbsPSv2vatAVvbz_8n0xU3M...

The FCC did everything google wanted, and there was no collusion.

Are we reading the same news articles?
I routinely navigate by command line.

But yes, Java's packaging is mostly a good thing.
> I had broad competition

While the competition in these situations is not often that broad (though there will always be a few ivy leaguers in that mess), the real problem is the noise factor. The chance that your resume even gets read is slim due to the fact that it will take many hours to go through 600 applications.
Twitter apologies
This is absolutely crazy.

I'm guessing a pictures product is down the pipe...
The penrose tiling goes on for ever, but never repeats the pattern, a bit like a geometric version of an irrational number, so to make a propagating 'glider' out of simple rules similar to conway's game of life played out on that form of grid, would seem to be very difficult at first glance. So this is very very cool.

gliders - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_%28Conway%27s_Life%29

penrose tiles - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiles
The problem isn't siloing, that's a symptom. The problem is hosting. No matter which way we spin it, major services still need to pay for the physical hardware on which it runs. Given the size of Twitter and Facebook, this means thousands of machines that need power, space, cooling, and maintenance. None of that stuff is free. This, of course, invites business thinking and money, both of which want to further silo it's systems.

The other major problem is the client-server nature of the web itself. I, as a user, must request information/page/JSON from somewhere where it's processed by the thin terminal of the browser. Backbone.js and such technologies are trying to beef up the browser, but until the entire paradigm changes we are only applying bandages to the problem. That invites scaling problems to solve and the possibilities of a single outage bringing down entire services. We all remember the AWS outage a month ago, but problems arose in the platform before. Anybody using Tumblr last year will remember the tongue-in-cheek Tumblbeasts when it would go down several times a day.

I really do believe P2P technologies are the paradigm that will deliver the openness that the web promises, but it's also very hard to build. Concurrent multi-threaded programming hard. Security and veracity are a nightmare. Just analyzing how to propagate information is difficult. But it brings with it a built-in solution to scaling and reliability. Unlike central services, a P2P service experience gets better when more people are involved because it makes the network effect an actual strength. Bittorrent is the classic case. I believe mobile phones, with their native applications and built in network hardware, could be leveraged into an ad-hoc P2P/mesh network.

I talk about some of this here: http://blog.jamesleonis.com/says/the-end-of-an-age/
A 'glider' is a self-propagating pattern generated in Conway's Game of Life. It's a basic simulation of complex behavior using a grid governed by simple rules made to suggest isolation, reproduction, and overpopulation. These simple rules produce some incredibly complex patterns, some of which can be likened to creatures. The 'glider' is a very basic one that travels in a relatively straight line and can be used to activate or transmit information between other patterns.

One actually showed up drilled into the side of a new retina Macbook Pro; I wrote it up for TechCrunch (with suitable woolgathering):
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/23/laocoon/

This Game of Life uses a totally different grid style, which changes the patterns that emerge and the math involved. This guy has created a glider for a rhomboidal grid environment, and that's... pretty cool.
I posted an ad in the newspaper with a similar kind of experiment in mind. A dead marketing dude was daring me to do something crazy. What's the worst that can happen? (About midway through this: http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/Newsletters/aslz_winners...) You can read this first to see what he actually dared me to do.

The short version of what happened: my cellphone was ringing off the hooks and I had to just turn it off for a few weeks. Totally insane response.
I have to sign in to read this? =/
Gateway timeout for me as well, but I love how after hitting the submit button on the form it simply redirects to the page where the samples are at. That way I don't have to wait for a link to be emailed, saving me a couple of taps. (I actually felt a little duped — I was expecting some kind of dynamically created URL; I felt silly for not have simply guessed 'samples.bidsketch.com'.)

The site looks great and the plans are very clear; if the service itself is anywhere as good, I'll be signing up for sure.

EDIT: page loaded. Turns out that I do have to check my email: "Your template is on its way! Please check your email for the proposal in a few minutes." That's too bad.
Of course there's a divide.

Users are using a free service that they enjoy and want to continue to be free. Those who invest in Facebook want to make money because they're risking money. You have faith that they'll figure out their adwords, but are you putting your money where your mouth is - are you (or your friends) risking thousands or millions of dollars on your faith?

This really isn't anything new or unique to Facebook though. Customer satisfaction doesn't automatically make something a good investment.
Ah, yes, the U.S. exceptionalism. No other country like it! No one else could have an invasive dominant culture, a disadvantaged minority group, large prosperity divides, and a God-given fear of groups of other people (you call it "government").

Oh well. It's no water off my back if you guys are fine with answering my original question with "nothing" and continuing shooting each other up as price of freedom.
It is common for 100% of all shares of an IPO to come from insiders and VC firms? Or should at least some of it come from the company itself?
>Why would you want to use plain old "grep" instead of "ack"[1]? //

First time I've heard of it. Thanks. Only been grepping my way around for the last dozen years or so ...
He probably established the "Early/often"policy for Mojang though.
I think Apple may end up eventually paying for their treachery.
> Facebook now has independent ROI data from more than 60 advertising campaigns using a variety of third-party methodologies like panels and marketing mix models. The results show that 70% of campaigns resulted in a return on ad spend of 3x or better, and 49% of campaigns showed a return on ad spend of 5x or better.

This has pretty much been my experience in CPA and CPS on FB for 3+ years (in the 5x bracket most of the time). I'm glad to see this data finally backed up by Facebook.
> And it is not obvious to me that it's not a valid comparison; ... Android is a lot younger, so you could just as well expect it to be less mature and therefore less secure.

There is a reason why PC games are so much more advanced in their design, graphics, and game-play today than they were 10-20 years ago.

By your logic, there is little reason why Crysis 3 should not have been developed 15 years ago. If they can do it now, and the product/market fit for it is good now, why not 15 years ago!

That's just not how it works.

> In the Unix world...

Different world, different people, different needs/wants.

Microsoft didn't ignore anything; they have maintained a billion users for more than a decade. And profited more than most companies with an increase in sales every single year. They did something right, more than they did something wrong.

Easy-of-use was a priority for them over security until after XP because...

1. It would have impacted their users negatively (do you remember the response due to the new security in Vista?... people couldn't handle a pop-up, couldn't understand privileges, etc).

2. There previous OSs started from a single-user standpoint and it's difficult to change that (and maintain backwards compatibility, 3rd party drivers and software, support, etc).

You make things seem so easy. That's not how it works.
Google is a direct competitor to Facebook when it comes to Ads. It doesn't really matter if the advertising is search based or social. They are vying for a piece of the same pie.

The really high valuation of Facebook is partly because investors expect it to grow substantially, at least in the short term. The fact that it's growth is lower than that of it's direct competitors (who have a much lower P/E) is not a good sign for the stock in days to come.
Sorry, I was unclear. It is "free" to use it, but all usage still counts against your plan. I don't expect free phone service because I own a femtocell but $20/month for unlimited calls is "fuck you" pricing.
Flixel {Flicks in pixels} - Movie posters all RaphaelJs'd up.
Yeah, that's what I expected, but is sadly not the case. I don't know what variety of IPS the 2007FP is but the U2412 is e-IPS. Perhaps I need to pay some real money and go with the H-IPS or S-IPS to get that experience. Maybe I can score one of these knock-off Korean monitors to test that.

I also feel like maybe the glare coating could be contributing to the problem. I should get a glossy one to test.

Oh, btw, I think the colors are fine from any angle or orientation. The best way I can describe the problem is that the "sharpness" is off.
The paragon of inefficiency
I've gotten several gigs through Craigslist. Both fulltime and one-off / freelance. It rarely has taken me more than a couple days to get an interview/callback.

My single most important tip for doing this successfully is to get your app in fast. Like within 30 minutes of the job going on the site max. I'm certain that almost no one looks at more than the first 50-100 submissions. It helps to put relevant categories/searches into some kind of rss reader that updates frequently and allows you to see multiple feeds simultaneously so you can see at a glance as soon as something you're interested in pops up.

Second to speed is writing a good cover letter. The letter should be concise, active tense, probably with bullet points for easy scanning, and talk about what you have done and what you will do for them that will make their life easier. Having most of the letter drafted in advance will help you get it in fast, but you will likely want to at least touch on a few key points from their job posting.