skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a normal post -- it's a special job posting only available to YC companies. Comments aren't enabled for those posts.
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My mistake. I should look up some statistics on this. US census or some other dept. should have statistics on this.
Another classic fallacy: trade is more complicated than the basic picture of comparative advantage you got in Econ 101. If America had kept pursuing its comparative advantage, we would still be trading beaver skins to the British for manufactured goods. Instead we took a protectionist stance and allowed our fledging industry a shield from foreign competition so that it could develop. This is what every industrialized nation has done, even all of the "Asian Tigers." The only places that haven't done so have been forced into "free-trade" under colonialism or quasi-colonialism, where they get to do great things like send all of the countries bananas out to another power in exchange for a few luxury cars for the elite ruling few. Back when Ireland was in a colonial type situation, it had the distinction of being a net exporter of food during The Great Potato Famine.
By the time you've heard the click, it's too late.
My MacBook Air is choking on it either way :P
Amazon Flexible Payment System? - http://aws.amazon.com/fps/
Does anybody use ExtJS? If not (or if so), what for and why?
I'm trying to understand if people do not use ExtJS because of its licensing model or for technical reasons and I'm also looking forward to use cases.
Perhaps it's more of a good "science movie" than a good "hacker movie", but I adore Carl Sagan's Contact. I get chills whenever I watch the scene where the signal is first detected.
I like The Lawnmower Man a lot too. Stunning graphics and it really captures the spirit of a computer enabling you to do much more cooler things than Real Life.
I have also compiled a list of all currently existing social networks and their shortcomings, but did not include that in this post.

The problems of the academic, related to journal publication, etc., are problems I face in my everyday life.

I suspect if there is not interest here I will eventually address them from inside an academic institution.

In any case, thanks for the exchange. I'm willing to share more details privately, even if all they do is spur someone else to create an improvement in current methods for information distribution.
There's already a garbage collector in the Objective-C runtime for regular Mac OS X. People targeting OS X 10.5 and higher (that's anyone writing a new app) are happily using it.

They've just chosen not to enable its usage on the iPhone.
I've seen s1mOne; the basic premise is very hacker-y. A guy living in his house develops photo-realistic CG, telling no one, and delivers it to a movie producer and then dies. What should he do with it? His choice == the film.
Thanks. We had a discussion about a similar topic a year or so ago.
The article says that a mandatory "click" is already in place in Japan and I am almost certain that its the same in the EU. I cannot turn off the loud click or turn down its volume on my phone and many of my acquaintances have also tried with no success.

While not very nice from a philosophical viewpoint it is actually a good measure. Those phone cameras can get pretty annoying and very disturbing. Now with the clicking sound I can identify the offender and become aware that I had my picture taken.

There is a downside, too - when I am in the library or during lectures taking dozens of pictures of some paperwork can be very unpleasant for others.

I think the privacy of the individual is a lot more valuable than the "freedom to not make a clicking sound" ;-).
I think the privacy of the individual is a lot more valuable

Individuals have, or can have, privacy in public?
Interesting Google Advanced Search Operators
Google
supports
several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, “link:” is a special operator, and the query [link:www.google.com] doesn’t do a normal search but instead finds all web pages that have links to www.google.com.
AFAIK a good CMS for e-Governance domain is not solved.
Is there a reason there are "you are monitored by CCTV" signs?

Do people only take pictures in public?
Enterprise Software is Not Dead Yet
I use ExtJS for an application that I created. While I find it's licensing model an annoyance I have also found that, for the facilities it provides, it's unmatched in terms of quality and breadth of offering. I know there are a number of other potential alternatives out there but I have found that I like the way the components look, it's strong in the cross browser support arena and believe theres a coherence to the API that simplifies learning how to use it too.
Ah. Would this be followed by more job postings - paid too ?

It is a niche audience here for hacker jobs and more. Highly valuable and I guess people wouldn't have much of a problem either once in a while to look at a good job posting. But still it might be better if placed on a different link or on a small strip on the right ?
This is not a new feature. It just isn't used very often.
Is there a reason there are "you are monitored by CCTV" signs?

CCTV signage is in place to discourage shoplifting. http://www.google.com/search?q=discourage+shoplifting+cctv+s...
I'm using it with AIR to create client-side apps.

I've enjoyed it so far, it seems very elegant, but can be a bit tricky to learn.
The Gothic Vision
I find any computer without at least a 20" screen unusable, so no notebook as a desktop replacement for me.

My custom-built desktop is also about 1.5-2x faster than any laptop currently made, so also no thanks in that respect.
There is a jobs link in the header. http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

However, it does not notify (e.g. show as a highlighted link) when there are new job postings. Perhaps that could be a new HN feature someday.
Actually, it appears the UV reflective decals are already available. I'm not sure if the Ottawa boy's are substantially different.

http://www.mmdnewswire.com/uv-reflective-decals-stop-birds-f...

You can order them for $9.95:

http://www.duncraft.com/Window-Strike-Solutions-C227.aspx
Maybe because it's true. When two minds think the same problem through...
As far as I know, it is mostly restricted to certain strains of American Protestantism.
I've often thought it might be nice to route around the lack of comments by having another post that points to the original. I'd rather have something like "job poster gets to moderate comments" than not having them at all, but I guess pg is a bit busy:-)
There were surely some bits worth celebrating in the thousands of years of prologue to manned spaceflight.
Verizon launches femtocell (home cell tower) for all comers
See, but C, and the x86 architecture, has none of that, or it all can be changed (like calling conventions), and yet all languages and VMs can be implemented in C. Despite the explicit lack of support for those things, many C libraries are available with specific language bindings.

That being said, those things can be _defined_ for a VM that still uses a flat address space and direct memory manipulation model of the x86 architecture. There is no support for objects or garbage collection or module interfaces in assembly or C, yet those things exist on top of it in languages that are implemented in C and run on x86 (or any usable architecture). There has to be a superset of many languages' conventions that can be used to define the semantics of calls, types, data structures, objects, garbage collection, modules, dynamic dispatch. This already exists somewhat as the ELF (and other) executable formats for things written in C.
ReloadCSS Stylesheet Reloader - make development a bit easier
Do you throw out your jets after one year?

My little firm did billion dollar deals, and we used private jets to flit our management teams from one investment fund to the next. Citigroup is much, much bigger. 400 hours (per year!) could easily be worth $50 million.
I find any computer without at least a 20" screen unusable

The new 18.4" (though widescreen, which is not as large as squarescreen) laptops get close. http://news.google.com/news?q=18.4+laptop
That would actually be a serious obstacle for commercial usage of AppJet.
As an aside millenium actress was really a great movie I thought... But of course not a hacker movie at all
I agree with most of the advice given so far, but be careful that you do not interpret it too liberally. You can't get around payroll by just calling your workers contractors and sending them a 1099. The IRS has pretty stringent rules about who is a contractor and who isn't. Furthermore, you can't get around paying payroll taxes by not taking a salary yourself. The IRS presumes no one would work for free so expects everyone working for the company is getting compensated somehow. If you are a valid contractor, it is fine to get paid as such. But if you are working full time long term for the company I can't imagine there is an accountant or lawyer who will tell you it is ok to call yourself a contractor and skip doing payroll.
I'm fascinated by how impossible it is for geeks to have an intelligent conversation about religion. This was a good article that many people chose to misread.

Yes, there is no invisible man in the sky, and gays are normal people. Evolution is real. Look how smart you are.

Now, there is a fascinating history of religion in human society probably dating back 500,000 years. To most people, it continues today. Yet we are so insecure that we cannot examine that tradition as inquiring minds while noone is demanding that we accept it for ourselves.

Such intolerance and misbehavior from intellectuals! How do they interact in our society, hating and condemning most whom they meet, totally unwilling to take others at face value? I do not know. I hope that I can be more generous.
Peer review isn't the problem. It is as important today as it was a hundred years ago.

The problem is the way in which it is paid for in the majority of journals. There has been a trend to enable the original researcher to bear the costs of reviewing and making available their research but this can cost several hundred pounds and is rarely covered by grants. For an impoverished PhD student / PostDoc the money isn't always there.
So far, Sobcov has tested his flying falcon-shaped decals on the sunroom of a cottage neighbouring his family's cottage.

"Immediately the birds stopped flying into those windows," he said.

Haha, awesome..
Perhaps people interpreted your post like you would only contribute the idea?
rsync is fine, just make sure to exclude .svn and anything else you don't want the world to see, for example:

cd $build_dir
svn co path/to/project
rsync -qaz -c --delete --exclude=.svn project $host:/var/www
Why would you use this? And why would anyone disable javascript? Nothing makes sense anymore...
Comments are especially valuable on the bizarre phenomenon that is scribd.

I personally hate the fact comments are disabled for job postings.
I'm not sure the bureaucracy of this would be any better than the current (flawed) patent system... In fact, I'd venture it would be much, much worse.

At least in the current system you're protected, and potentially rewarded - even if everyone thinks it's a bad idea (which is often the case for break-through innovations).

The current system is not well tuned to current technology. If you patent the steam regulator, the idea was that you would sell then far and wide... In the industry now it's used to lock up a technology for exclusive use.

Maybe a patent should coffer the rights to an invention - and the patent is also opened up for auction by the govt to "n" organisations (where n is somehow determined to maximise profit), with the profits going to the patent holder.
Bollocks, "clicks" are not required in the EU.
Privacy is important, but trying to save it by making silly demands on user products is not the way.
Instead focus on government policies or corporate laws.
why?

I think it'd be kind of annoying if you post a job request and all you get is commentary on your company :)
I'd mind less if the job requests weren't mixed in with everything else. Put job postings over to the right there or something if they're "non interactive" adverts.

Surely it'd be nice to be able to ask the company some questions though? Like "Do you have a wii console?" "Do any hot girls work there?" etc
I have to admit the first thing I thought when I saw that scribd advert was to post a comment expressing my opinion on scribd :>
Before I was overcome with a hell-bent desire to actually learn how to program, ExpressionEngine (EE) let me build relatively powerful custom database-driven applications without using any code except its template tags in addition to the obligatory HTML/CSS/Javascript. If that's the definition of what a CMS is supposed to do, then I think EE nails it.

I haven't used it since 2005, but it looks like they've been steadily improving (their dev team was really responsive) and I believe EE was used to run Change.gov.

It has a powerful templating engine. My inner designer is obsessive about fine-grained control over the end result of any project I do, and I don't remember a time when EE prevented me from achieving the design I wanted.

I also liked its custom fields and 'weblogs'. EE 'weblogs' can be thought of as custom database tables, which are easily created and modified by the EE graphical interface. You can then create as many custom fields as you want, and relationships between fields, and then insert your data however you want into your website using simple template tags.

So, for example, I made a personal website in which I could keep track of books I'd read, the authors, quotes that I liked, and my book reviews. Each kind of item was stored in its own table and I could insert all the relevant information for any book into a blog post by using a custom tag.
IIRC, the spate of hauntings in the movie was brought on by the imminent return of Gozer the Gozerian (or by the same rare set of conditions that allowed Gozer to return).

By the sequel, the Ghostbusters had mostly closed up shop due to the collapse of the haunting bubble.
Disqus Adds Friendfeed Integration
Ask YC: Is this a bug in hacker news? Half rendered pages
[Commentable] Scribd is on pace for 70M uniques this month with just 5 Rails developers.
"Scribd launched less than two years ago, and has grown around 25% per month since then - that's somewhere in between the growth rates of Facebook and YouTube. For the month of January 2009, we're expecting to end the month with over 70 million unique visitors. The most amazing part is that we have only 5 rails developers working on the website - that's 14M+ uniques per rails engineer!

Last month we raised $9M in a series B from CRV and Redpoint. As we prepare for continued massive growth and for launching a whole bunch of cool new features, we need more rails engineers. Come join one of the fastest growing rails sites on the web. If you are a great hacker and looking for a job, send us your resume to hackers@scribd.com or visit scribd.com/jobs" -- tikhon
heh ok, ok same here...

To be honest, I'm surprised they didn't take the text

"Scribd is on pace for 70M uniques this month with just 5 Rails developers. Come join us!", and wrap it in a 250Kb flash file, and 'stream' it over to the front page.
My concern is that it does not really foster a community around it so with the odd licensing model and without the community itself it can slow behind other alternatives.
I've had item pages render "half" the content - eg, to the line below the subtext table row for the story heading.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5
I've disabled Adblocker Pro & I can't believe it'd be my greasemonkey script. Reloading does nada.

When I view the story in another browser (eg, 10.5.6 Leopard) it just loads the top menu bar.

This story: http://is.gd/hmZX
If you get a chance, ask him to work on the RSS feed. I've seen feeds that are worse, but not by much.
Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension
Shy guys can always host themselves and hide their source as much as they want.

http://appjet.com/download

has all the software you need to have your own appjet server.
Ask HN: Why do non-techies simply not "get" the idea of a wiki?
We here at work have been trying to reduce paperwork while simultaneously increasing knowledge dissemination. For some time the techies have been using a wiki, and others are starting to get the point that when they ask a question the first response is "Have you checked on the wiki?" The answer until recently has always been "no", and the question now is answered about half the time by doing what they should have done in the first place.

It's like "Let me Google that for you"

So we've moved the holiday booking system to the wiki. Now people can say when they're away on site, working from home, sick, or on leave. The leave days can be booked in advance and then confirmed by their line manager. At a glance we can see who is in, out, available or away, and the system is really helping our planning. Suddenly everyone knows when someone is on site and might need support, or on leave and unable to help. The non-techies have themselves said, when shown it, that it's really useful.

But the non-techies just don't "get it." They won't update the wiki, they still don't look at the wiki, they never add information to the wiki. Instead, they insist on sending things by email. Then in a few weeks time people are asking, and we have to trawl through email systems to find the information.

Except we (the techies) don't, because when we get information we put it on the wiki. Then when the non-techies ask us anything we can say "Have you checked the wiki?"

And they still don't get it.

Where is the mis-match? How can we make a wiki as accessible/understandable as a Word document?

How can we help the non-techies attain enlightenment?

Can the non-techies attain enlightenment?
There. Commentable :)
Katie Stam Bikini Pictures
That could get really creepy, really fast..
I can't argue with that but I suppose the way that they are looking at this is that, as it's least partially a commercial venture, there are people being paid to keep it concurrent. Only time will tell whether this is how it actual works out however.
It seems to be what HP and Cisco are using for their immersive telepresence systems. I have seen plenty of rave reviews of Halo, and never any complaints.
You can ask him just as much as me or anyone else. I've never met the guy and live on the other side of the world.
"Top words being used online: the"

Is this some kind of parody?
True, lshort was good introduction. Brief and succinct. I liked it.
The .git directory, however, is top-level, rather than in every directory in your repository, so it'll only be a problem if your site root is the same as your repository root.
RFID Document Management Solution
DAILY RFID, a Chinese leading manufacturer of RFID readers and RFID tags, has launched a RFID Document management solution to track and manage document. It enables the automated gathering and sending of document information. This RFID document management solution,base on UHF, integrates RFID smart labels and multi-tag RFID reader to allow organisations to manage document more efficiently.
Another Potential Benefit of a Calorie-restricted Diet? Better Memory.
"Flawless logic" in here:

> Lots of arguments do turn out to be wrong. To get an idea of how many, Ord and his colleagues looked at the proportion of published scientific papers that are eventually retracted. Using Medline as their source, they found it to be around 1 in 10,000. Given that Medline covers mostly top-ranking journals, they estimate the error rate for all journals to be more like 1 in 1000, which suggests a fairly high chance of error in any argument. And remember, scientists often don't publish painful and embarrassing retractions unless forced, so the true rate may be even higher. <

It's true. Studies have shown the error rate of physics papers to be 1 in 10000. But that was only high-quality papers, for the average paper we estimate it to be 1 in 1000 or more. Also, physicists are self-absorbed egomaniacs who would only admit a mistake if their professional reputation depended on it, so the true error rate is at least 1 in 100 in fact. 1 in 10 if it's about string theory, which I don't understand anyway.
I'm not sure I see the distinction, especially with smart objects and vectors in Photoshop these days.
Is Yahoo Messenger free? Guess again
I guess many of you know how much time it takes for this software to start, how much memory it uses and so on. However lately I discovered a more disturbing thing: it also eats POWER. Yes you heard me electric power.
This sounds like a classical techies/non-techies problem. The techies are trying to implement something, in this case a wiki, that is an unknown concept to everyone else. And since the techies "get it" they expect everyone else to get it too.

The thing is that to the rest of the organisation there are probably the following problems:

- they don't know what a wiki is, and they don't much care. Even though they use wikipedia they don't necessarily grasp the concept behind it: They just see a single entry, happily oblivious to how it got there.

- they don't want to learn what a wiki is, unless it directly helps them in the short term.

- They have ingrained ways of doing things. Changing people's behaviour is like changing direction of a supertanker: It takes a lot of time and effort.

The solution is to keep pushing it, paying attention to the following:

- Make it worth people's while in the short term. Reading your post it sounds like you may already be well on the way here.

- Make it easy. Usability should be top-notch, and there should be help available everywhere. If it's as simple as a mac it will be much easier to turn people around.

- Make sure that some things can only be done in the wiki, forcing people to do it. Don't put people's e-mails in the wiki, force them to do so themself.
Lunarpages uptime for december 2008 - www.lunarpagesreview.org
Lunarpages uptime for december 2008: 99.921% over the internet. Source by www.lunarpagesreview.org
I've had this problem too - maybe arc isn't quite ready for primetime :-)
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Globalization will only succeed when wage slavery (in Agriculture, Manufacturing & Services) is prevented in the developing nations.
I used to use that for all my development too and thought it was great at the time. I even wrestled with it's crazy syntax highlighter to get ActionScript colour coding working. The lack of Unicode support became a bit of a problem for me towards the end though.
Reminder - London Hacker Meetup #7 tomorrow night
Hey guys, for those not already part of the Facebook group, here are the last minute details. Looks like we might break 100 people this month!
Its not necessarily about disabling javascript... its that js is often a poor way of detecting browsers. Remember how the User-agent header was supposed to identify the browser? All the browser's put arbitrary crap there so they will be served this or that version of html. Now browser's are all trying to look like each other in js land for the same reason -- so that apps work right. Sometimes these css subtleties are all you end up with.

The reason you would use this is that you can optimize your application in all sorts of arbitrary ways. maybe string concatenation is faster a certain way in safari, great; lets just make sure its safari before we do that optimization.
Will there be any speakers?
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