skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be awful, though. To always be considering every move you make and everything you say because it may offend someone. Just the fact that I have a business requires me to censor myself, which I hate. That's absolutely nothing compared to being on camera 24/7.

I suppose if I was always on camera I'd kill myself because it would be a life with far too much compromise.
That kind sounds like what the Haxe Project is doing now.
Doesn't need a job, then. Will make his own.
I agree, network effects is the answer. All other explanations about "feeling the love" and "unsophisticated design" are post-hoc justifications.
> Are you sure you know what monadic computation is?

I think so, but of course I could be wrong. In my ignorance, I understand monadic computation as a functional state transfer in which a seed is threaded through some computation -- be it for purposes of I/O, or in general fold operations.

Have you seen the SSAX parser? To my mind, the way that it builds its "answer" by threading seeds through the parse tree is monadic. What do you think?
Induction cooking.
Objective C is a really interesting language and the Cocoa and UIKit frameworks are designed in a way that makes great use of the features of the language. Is there something like KVO (key-value-observing) available in .NET with the newer versions?

If you want to have fun driving a Ferrari, you better learn driving stick ;)
Apparently, Web 3.0 is the logical progression of web 2.0 for a generation of recruiters who picked the impression that the higher the version tag, the better a system is. Reckless protologism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism#Protologism) rampant in blogosphere is to be blamed, to an extent.
I'm not so sure - I think they timed it just right, when the market was at its most bullish (not too long after youtube).
The thing that also has to be pointed out for kulveer and harjeet is the difficulty of doing what they did when they had to regularly fly back to the uk because of visa restrictions. I think their commitment in that respect would be a big selling point for a buyer.
Cappuccino based view of Appstore (Safari/Chrome only)
I think it might take over Craigslist, maybe they just started out later. In Germany I don't think Craigslist is that well known. When I needed to sell something recently that wasn't a good fit for ebay, I also found Kijiji and will probably keep using it.
How do we know the LHC really is safe?
24/7 MacGyver? you have my click!
But if you send clean dishes and clothes, they will become dirty !!
See also the original paper:

"Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes"

http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5515
Good article ... though the point made about research scholars going back to their native land (India/China, particularly) to excel in their field, is little far fetched. Because in those countries, the daily grind of life is little overwhelming, so much energy is lost. But its all improving ...
The schooling system and methods of teaching are very different as in India (from my own experience) and US, at least in elementary/high schools. And in USA, they have to emphasize on the grade school education system, if they have to remain competitive globally.
Which can get clogged up with crappy posts like the OP, and then everyone slows down to look.
Review my app: Head Hunting lets you post jobs to your facebook profile
Hi all,

My (UK) Cambridge-based startup has just launched its first app into public beta.

It's called Head Hunting and its main purpose is to let managers, startups, and small business owners post job vacancies to their facebook profile and share those listings with their "friends".

Check it out at:
http://apps.facebook.com/headhunting/pages/recruiter
[you don't need to "install" the app until you post a vacancy]

Shorter version:
http://tinyurl.com/bpoq9p

I'd love to get your feedback. There are a few bits and bobs I know aren't quite perfect yet but hopefully its usability is good and the concept is strong enough for people to find it useful.

The tricky part with launching a venture like this is getting enough content to hit critical mass. If you're willing to twitter or blog about the app I'd be eternally grateful - hopefully it will prove to be a great new way to find employees!

Thanks,

Lee.
Crossbone Systems
I think you might run into breach of the guidelines of the mobile marketing association. All messages application to mobile should be sent from a short code, to make it easy to opt-out. See http://www.mmaglobal.com/policies/code-of-conduct
I'm not sure what craigslist's weak points are

Craigslist is good for some things but it has a lot of trash posts. Sometimes I get lucky and someone happens to have what I want but it's easy to get bogged down by all the junk. These days if I don't find what I'm interested in there very quickly I go to someplace with a better signal/noise ratio. I wouldn't compete directly with them unless I had a way to improve that.
AppStore: Cappuccino based view of the Apple application store
I can offer an alternative point of view in that they're clicked numerous times for other applications. I write tracking software for one of our clients who sends out hundreds of thousands/millions of emails to their 400,000 person email list (all legit/opt in). The emails have links to short movies that they can then click a Share Now/Send To A Friend button so their friend will get the movie link too.

I don't have any numbers off the top of my head, but they have a pretty decent click rate, way more than 10%. Most of these people are a non-technical audience, so I think that has a lot to do with it too.
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as a very proficient front-end designer/developer, and a competent but generally average backend person, the short answer is a resounding YES.

whether or not it's worth your time depends on why you want to learn and to what extent you want to be proficient at it.

here are the best reasons why i think you should delve into the front-end:

- you want to be able to bootstrap reasonably well a site from front to back
- you don't want to be completely reliant on a front-end person
- you want to become a better back-end person by learning the needs of the front-end
- you want to fully appreciate the value a front-end person brings to the table
- you want to have more control over how users directly interact with and perceive your product

if you agree with any of those reasons above, you should certainly consider delving into the front-end. however, let me get to my second point.

if you're going to jump in, i recommend you afford yourself the time to really get deep into the subject matter. why? because we've seen a tremendous diversity of front-end design patterns/methodologies sprout up in the last decade; all of which can have a sizeable effect on how the back-end is designed.
The name doesn't stand out - it's complicated and hard to remember the spelling, plus it arrived after Craigslist was already popular.

Of course, Craigslist isn't nearly as big in other countries - In the UK gumtree is the winner, and in Norway finn.no is the place to go for classifieds.
I've been job-spammed a few times by recruiters on Facebook, ie:

"I am also in the Scottish Developers group, I work for 9-20 recruitment, an IT specialist recruitment consultancy based in Glasgow. One of my clients in Edinburgh is looking for a .NET developer for an urgent start - just wondering if you are available or know anybody who is?"

I've sent them a link to your app and a polite request not to message me again.
Maybe a system of colour-coded hats.
Open source data integration software maker Talend has raised $12 million
Why exactly do you want public transportation? I left Denmark and I definitely don't miss the public transportation or the high prices on taxis and cars.

In Denmark people in general prefer cars even though they are taxed very aggressively. And public transportation is subsidized very aggressively.

If you "can be anywhere" being a hacker, why do you drive around in a car if you don't like it?
Spaceship game editor (Thruster design and Linear algebra)
His comment was awesome. I like Robert Scoble a bazillion times more than Kevin Rose. I know Robert's geeky and nerdy and a little bit kind of strange, but he's awesome. A lot more awesome than Kevin Rose. Did you know Kevin Rose paid someone on Elance $200 to build Digg? No joke!~
1) Name. "Kijiji"?

2) Layout. Craigslist is beautifully simple. Kijiji looks like "web 2.0".
another Cambridge hacker - axod and I will be proud :D

I really love the usability of this, I love the form fields and the javascript usage to make all the subtle changes (eg, your location changes the currency) -- its great.

I also love the large form labels "1" "2" "3" telling the user what to do - very nice touch.

I think the toughest part will be getting eyeballs - you need jobs to get users to get them to add their job positions.

I'll blog/twitter about it - are you on twitter?
Twitter could unseat Craigslist, especially for employee classifies. I.E. I Twittered Im looking for a graphic designer and boom I got 20 designers (non followers) @reply to me. Each had a portfolio and I could get a better sense for who they are via their Twitter stream.

I prefer this over posting on a job board, as it's quicker and some other things too!
Please PG, work your magic and keep HN sane!

You can help him do that by not commenting about how the media "punished" Ron Paul.
why would the recommender want to give the platform a cut?

Because setting up affiliate accounts and links is a pain in the ass. You gave Google a cut by not making it a direct link - a 100% cut... if there were an easy way of inserting a link straight to Amazon, you probably would have done it.

Also, platforms would be interested in providing more prominent placement for recommendations than they would other content. In other words, ads configurable by the website's users. Kind of like what Adpinion is doing, but instead of just voting on ads, you actually recommend relevant ads for the content.

I'm usually really cynical about my own ideas, but this one seems pretty solid... am I missing something?
Network effects is as glib an answer as "got there first."

These things can be a factor, but are not an explanation.
what word would you use?
Thanks for the feedback!

I'm an occasional twitterer: guybrush0.

I'm really hoping that by appealing to the startups to list their jobs, they'll share the job listings on their own facebook profile and that'll attract job seekers as well, building the momentum...

Lee.
It's not the only factor, but it's an important one.
I've had an idea to build a list app for a while, but the devil is in the details.

My mental list (ahem!) of features went like this:

- It needs to hold lists of key/value pairs of any size (bit like memcached, or a list of dicts in python)

- It needs to have RPC access to add/insert/delete/update keys and values

- There needs to be pub/sub access to the RPC interface, replication needs to be instant, and it needs to be able to advise you if the replication is degraded. Some sort of MQ service.

- It needs to have client libraries in a few languages, and some example apps

- It needs to have a web front-end for inspecting and managing lists and permissions

Imagine the possibilities!

- you could have a desktop/web and iphone app that monitored stock prices, your server status, or other arbitrary figures

- you and your wife could have the ultimate shopping list (delete butter on one and it's instantly gone and deleted on all devices - fantastically useful)

- you could re-invent irc

- you could make hypertwitter 2.0

- you could make a message queue service

- you could build a CDN or cache on it.

Has this been done? I know Google Spreadsheets is about 5% of the way there.
Why is paying somone $200 on Elance to build Digg connoted negatively? Is it bad to be economically apt?
Maybe he loves helping others get their jobs done through software that doesn't suck?
awesome. :)

convinced @vero and @taptu to use your app, I think :)
Ask YC: Radar Collision Detection Algorithm?
Hi guys, I've had this problem that's been bugging me for a while. Say you have a series of radar images, that show something, like a thunderstorm or a tornado, marching across a map. How would you calculate whether a given area is going to get rained on? The thing that makes it tricky is that you're not talking about some definite shape X that has a constant area. It's a problem that people are relatively good, if imperfect at, because you can see the thing moving and say, yeah, it'll probably hit that point soon.
Cloud interoperability must dig deeper than the virtualization layer
On the contrary, we have them all the time. Sometimes companies are even valuaed based on how many followers they have.
We're moving to colors next year, but heard that Magenta had a lot of problems with plaids.

Right now we're looking for developers who have experience in Web Fucia, preferably using Hot Toddy with Lemon Slices.
Hrm... Wikipedia says people are best:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_forecasting#Nowcasting

I guess really good models would include history, and actual knowledge of weather. I'd be happy with something simpler, though.
In short:

Compare two images with a known time difference.
Remove all the parts that appear not to have moved
Remove all the small stuff
Compute the "centre of mass" of what's left
Do a finite difference to compute the velocity.
Repeat on another pair of images
Tracks the centroids using Alpha/Beta
(or Kalman, or unscented Kalman)

For large masses that are moving fairly consistently, this approach will work pretty well. From here you need to:

Write clearly the assumptions made
Test that your assumptions are valid
For those that aren't, decide their impact on tracking
Modify the tracking process to allow for the differences
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Finding and removing small centroids can be tricky, but doesn't matter so much if they're not moving. Coping with your "cloud", "rain" or "tornado" breaking up is harder. You can for example, smooth your image to help remove holes.
There's a bunch of stuff to help with that.
With all the layoffs over there and the cost of living and the ability for technomads to live anywhere and build great companies, I see no reason for Silicon Valley to remain there.

I know they were using the term as a metaphor, but SV people have their head in the clouds. Startups go there because the VCs are there, but the VCs are going under. They made bad investments in a lot of Web 2.0 companies with little value to the world. The cost of starting up is lower so entrepreneurs need less of their money and are demanding higher valuations. VCs don't call the shots as much anymore, so, at least internet, companies are starting up in other places.

But more to the point, as indicated in another article here about the higher ed bubble, we don't need to be investing more money in higher education. There's plenty of room to educate more people in the engineering, mathematics, and practical sciences in the United States. What we need to do is shift our culture from one emphasizing popularity and entertainment to one of value and productivity.

Spend more money helping, guiding, and encouraging the best and the brightest, and start leaving some children behind. It sounds callous, but we have to do it. We have to think about our future and the achievers and the motivated students who want to learn need a place to do it. This needs to happen way before higher education. It needs to start in kindergarten.

Stop the federal subsidies for sports stadiums and start buying books and computers for our schools. Stop buying gyms and helmets and football fields and start buying chemistry sets, magnets and tesla coils!

We have to refocus our culture into one that sees benefits of productivity, intelligence, and rationality instead of entertainment, gluttony, and waste.
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Why don't you package all three as an investment vehicle and sell bonds right here on hn? Since it was my idea, I choose to rate them AAA.
Apple inherited Obj-C in late 1996 when they decided on NextStep as the replacement for the aging Mac OS. (That purchase also brought in Steve Jobs as an "adviser" to CEO Gil Amelio... Six months later, Amelio and the executives that had made the Next decision were out and Jobs was running the show.)

At first Obj-C's future at Apple seemed far from certain. First there was a proposal to make the syntax more like C++, and later there was a strong push to switch to Java as the main language for the Cocoa API. Next's flagship product WebObjects (a Cocoa-based Web app server and framework) was rewritten in Java by the year 2000. Mac OS X still hadn't shipped, but Obj-C was not getting a place in the limelight as most of the new APIs were plain C (CoreFoundation, CoreAudio, new Carbon) to accomodate both old Mac developers and cross-platform developers.

Apple's Obj-C faith was gradually restored during this decade. The touted Cocoa-Java bridge did work, but there was a fairly fundamental "impedance mismatch" between Cocoa's API design and Java's static nature. Cocoa-Java was deprecated in Mac OS X 10.4, leaving Obj-C as the only native development language for Cocoa.

Carbon on the other hand kept growing up to 10.5, and it gained a lot of features that were effectively plain-C wrapped C++ implementations of Cocoa features (HIViews, NIB support). Clearly the notion of having to maintain these parallel APIs for GUI development didn't please decision makers at Apple, as 64-bit Carbon was pulled at the last minute from OS X 10.5, thus leaving Obj-C and Cocoa as the only game in Mac town for 64-bit GUI applications (which of course sent a clear signal that building new applications on Carbon isn't a good idea regardless of whether you need 64-bit support right now).

So why did Obj-C win? At least one thing that makes it a good fit for publishing OS-level APIs is that it's inherently late-bound and duck-typed. A Cocoa program can thus easily make use of new API features without having to explicitly link against the new version of the framework. (This is particularly important because Apple doesn't update their frameworks separately from the OS, unlike Microsoft with .NET.)

For example, if Mac OS X 10.3 added a -foo:bar: method to NSWindow, an application could easily check for the availability of this particular method while still maintaining compatibility with older operating systems, like this:

if ([window respondsToSelector:@selector(foo:bar:)]) {
// do fancy 10.3 specific effects here
}
Statistically, the author of this article cheated on his wife.
Domains, like anything else, are worth what someone is willing to pay for them :) There is no magic formula that can tell you what something will be "worth".

IMO/IME speculative domains that have been registered but just sitting idle have very low value. You haven't done anything to prove what kind of traffic they could get, or how they could be useful.

Sure, I can speculate some good ideas for "startup.tv", but at the same time I could come up with 80 other domain names just as good for the same idea. "startup.tv" itself has no significant value without something more to it. (this is true for any idle domain name, I'm not picking on yours specifically).

You're probably better off just holding them, on the really long chance that someday somebody will really want those specific names and make you a halfway decent offer. In the mean time, throw up a couple of simple pages, maybe some adwords stuff, and let them get a tiny bit of traffic.
in Italy, you sometimes get credit added to your account per SMS received ! :)
Confessions Of A Pack Rat (aka My Document Retention Policy)
Second system syndrome?

You are reimplementing x86 - with no gain. Just use the actual x86 language. Or if you need multiple machines use C.

C is your new VM programming language.
State of the Semantic Web + Freebase Presentation
Personally, I think Ron Paul's supporters punished Ron Paul.

Honestly his followers are often just downright creepy in their devotion.
When will Manmohan Singh tweet?
I feel the same way about my eeepc 901. Everything is fast enough.
The EU put the bosh on it. Roaming within the EU is much cheaper with a pan EU contract. There is a surcharge if you don't have one but it's not as bad as before. There's no rules on data though so people get screwed that way.
I noticed the article started out by talking about Asus' EEE PC, but then went on to talk about how Acer is stealing Apple's market position. Is this a typo? I know Acer still exists, but I'm pretty sure Asus still sells the most netbooks.
I really can't understand why people are so fond of Ron Paul and how his positions would solve this country's problems.

Can you be more specific on what approach you believe should be taken to pull through this recession? What is so mislead about Obama's approach? What's The Ron Paul Solution?
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I agree, a lot of them are. But not all of them. Some of them are quite thoughtful and rational people.
Fast Forward to 2:40 for the WebObjects part
What's The Ron Paul Solution?

http://www.google.com/search?q=ron+paul+irs

"When I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing." -Ron Paul
I like Ron Paul because he is honest. He says the truth, even when it isn't in his best interest. When I listen to him, he says the things that I have come to believe over time through independent study and research regarding the world around me.

He has a solid understanding of world politics, economics, and history. He is literate and he reads a lot.

He's also a genuine guy with a huge heart. I think he'd be willing to do the hard things the nation needs in a time of crisis. He has a vision to the future. He is concerned about generations other than his own. He is concerned about the world outside his own home and he really wants to make the world better.

He's prophetic. He warned us that what is happening right now was going to happen and here it is. I think being able to predict the future and accurately analyze the current situation is something we want in a leader.

As for The Ron Paul Solutions that I would like to see implemented: responsible fiscal policy, libertarian ethics, ending imperialization, a focus on the home front, and shrinking of the size of government. Obama has none of that in mind.
Well, I guess that the fact that sending data through SMS costs four times more per byte than downloading data from the Hubble telescope sort of tells people that they're being screwed.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/303/1046303/sms-cos...

And sure - it costs the operator more than zero to send an SMS, but it's so close to zero that it's hard to tell the numbers apart.
"advertise a fire sale, and then don't have one"

That's tricky when your customer can pop-up a smartphone from a pocket and do a quick on-line search for better deals.
Some of these points are fairly obvious ways to advertise anything, others - like linking to Twitter from everywhere help Twitter become more popular, not necessarily you.

Lots of web start-ups (inc my own) use Twitter to spread the word - so you want a lot of followers, but how does linking Linked In, Facebook etc to Twitter help?
I think something like Facebook might be in a good position to do an SMS replacement app and put some muscle behind it. Most people I know are on there already, and others would probably join if they could send SMS's for less money.
What, specifically, is a responsible fiscal policy? How would he have prevented this economic mess? How does he suggest that we fix it, now that we're here? What economists support his views? Obama hasn't failed yet, how do we know his approach is wrong?