skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what term you're in but startups - particularly the smaller 2/3 team ones, can't absorb more junior developers. But if you're in 3A and above you should be strong enough to hit the ground running.

There's also immigration issues. To get a J-1 visa the host company needs to meet certain requirements.

In any event as a Waterloo alum currently doing a YC-backed startup in SF, we'll be posting jobs in the next co-op round.
You're heading the right direction.

I'm one of the authors of http://greendizer.com/docs/api/, and https://github.com/mohamedattahri/Nuages

Take a look at them.
Top-tier major US employers all know about Waterloo's reputation, and recruit very heavily there. Most startups are completely unaware of Waterloo, but so many Waterloo grads earn their stripes at a major top-tier employer (Google, Facebook, MS, etc) that many of them (including myself) graduate out into the greater world of US startups.
The add more privacy info at https://www.coursera.org/account/placement/faq

Including it here since it is behind the subwall:

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What data will be shared?
The data we share may include:
* Name
* Score and percentile ranking
* Percentage of assignments completed
* Forum points (a numerical value summarizing forum participation)
* Information provided in your Coursera profile and your Career Services settings.

You will always have control over whether or not we continue to share your information with employers and you can use the opt-in field on the Career Services settings page to opt-in or out at any time.

Note: We will not share your age, gender, or email address (unless you separately provide this in your resumé, personal website, etc).

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I wish they would share who they will allow to access their database and what the retention policy is. Will they allow third-party recruiters? Can someone scrape their database?
Do you have push notifications turned on as well? For some reason it seems that I can't have both at the same time.
http://readwrite.com/2012/11/09/readwrite-deathwatch-the-rea...

There are services like ListHub and Point2 that you can contract with for data, but point2 just launched their own consumer facing site. Zillow just bought a few companies to enhance their offerings in this space.

I'm not saying don't give it a try, but you'll have to offer something special to get noticed.
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I attended and had a great time (and lots of food too).

Thanks again to Matt for hosting this event. Good luck with SwigMe.com
School is in the Flatiron district in NYC, named after the Flatiron Building, the world's first skyscraper. You can find more about the school on flatironschool.com - email info@flatironschool.com with questions.
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One has to wonder what the problem was with Market.
Old news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92rYjlxqypM
#ingress
WTF of the day: MySQL integer-string comparison gotcha
It's answers like this that make me wish for the karma/comment score system to be returned. I 100% agree - the "information density" is just digg-like and, as a result, I'm out. But if I just upvote you, so what? Maybe it floats to the top, maybe it doesn't. Who knows how many people agreed with you? You might get 150 votes but no one will ever know that 150 people agreed with you. And if I was the developer/Brad, I'd want to know that "150 people in my target audience agreed with this" vs. "This is the top commment as voted on by an unknown number of people".
The research paper linked to by the author of this article also shuns mutable state, but takes a different approach to how you might do it in Pure FP languages (e.g, with monads).

They basically describe a modified C# language, with global state (static variables) eliminated - any global state is immutable only. Naturally, anything marked immutable cannot access anything marked writable, so unless you want to put writable permissions on everything (turning it back into standard OOP), you're going to need to design programs around immutable data by default. Also, anything marked writable in the new language can only be written to by one thread at a time anyway, since the writable references are unique.

The result is a significantly different style to the traditional imperative OOP people are used to, so it's not like you can lift an existing program into this paradigm without problems.

If the author thinks that FP won't become mainstream, what makes him think that this will?
You can stop using those products.. that's one way out.
I don't know what you're talking about, I logged in using my password and OTP without any problems.
I had an issue, as a buyer, very recently. The item was not as described. I was frankly flabbergasted how quickly and decisively eBay worked in my direction. A little too quickly. (There were issues with my purchase that could have been fixed with a partial refund, but instead I got everything back, while I still have the item. I actually feel a little bad about it, like I don't want to use eBay again, even though they probably think they made me happy.)
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I don't know that I would have lead with "Brad Feld" while he's certainly a respected entrepreneur it takes away from the news-esque site that wants me to earn rewards. No thanks.
Thoughts on Mashable new design?
EventSlice: A startup that helps you rent out/find a venue for your next event
I think the problem comes from that the world is a large mass of interconnected mutable state. You don't know if updating a particular object will update another.

Think of a player crouching on a plank that another player just phasered. If you continue simulate the first player's movement "crawl forward" by itself, how do you integrate the result of the plank being disintegrated, causing the player to fall? The first player's simulation outcome depends on multiple inputs, but they aren't findable directly from that player's perspective. You have to first simulate the phaser beam to know the plank is gone to know the player is falling now, not crawling.

And then imagine that with far more complex rules and a few hundred thousand objects having similar interactions, each one possibly modifying any other one.
> The site says you shouldn't host your private data on certain free services because they show you ads, so they recommend instead using free services that don't show you ads?

> Come on HN, you know how this works. If a service doesn't show you ads, and doesn't charge a monthly fee, how do you think they make money? Either they're not, so they'll go out of business when their VC funding runs out, or they're selling whatever they can glean about your habits to third parties.

I've said this before but I'd love to see some people doing not-for-profit versions of major services. Some advertising, but just enough to pay salaries and costs but not return 10x to investors (which you wouldn't get in the first place). No founders cashing out with $1bn+ payoffs after IPO, no IPO, no funding rounds, just a bunch of employees that would be treated fairly and collecting a safe regular salary/benefits with no expectation of a huge payoff.

If only I had made my millions in order to fund such an endeavour...
Wasn't he some kind of general, or philosopher, or something?
I thought Canadians could work on a TN visa in the US with minimal complications.
I'm going to be that guy and ask: why?
> Think about this, in your experience - why do go have a look at the implementation of a method? Either you need to change it somehow, or it isn’t behaving as you thought it would.

When I have been left stranded without API documentation, I look at method implementations to figure out which method does the thing I want, if any. This is normally at least somewhat painful--but it's occasionally downright pleasant, when the author of the original code has written it in this "every method is written as if it is exactly as deep in the abstraction hierarchy as you'll need to go" style.

Which is to say, when you code like this, it's pleasant enough to read the source for that purpose that docs become somewhat redundant. I could imagine an editor designed to interact with code written like this, just displaying in a sidebar the implementation of any function you scroll past in autocomplete--because that's exactly as much, and as little, as you need to know to decide whether that function is the one you want.
Agree. I havent been able to download the Gmail app yet but I always thought the swipe to be able to archive or delete was really useful. Send & Archive was great as well. I've been slowly looking for a new mail client on iphone lately because it seems like Sparrow is much slower to receive mail than the standard mail app.
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Computers are an existence proof - the universe is indeed at least a Turing machine.

The halting problem can be effectively solved for deterministic finite machines - it would just take a long time time.
If you really want to know how many points that comment received then use the HNSearch API.
I have run computers without TIM, for extended periods of time, and it is perfectly possible. In fact, most people put far, far too much TIM on which gives you far worse thermal transfer than no TIM at all!

All the TIM is meant to do is fill in the microscopic gaps between the heatsink base and the top of the CPU, so it fills in the gaps where air would otherwise be. However, with a decently smooth HS and CPU, there should be a lot of direct contact between the two surfaces, and metal <-> metal transfers heat better than metal <-> thermal goo <-> metal.

If you were able to get a 30 degree drop then they probably either had far too much TIM on, or the heatsink was not making good contact with the CPU.

However, this all said, I think I have now disproven my point that the CPU is not the most complex part of building a system (not that it being integrated into the motherboard will make heatsink selection & attachment any easier).
> The average maximum force the bricks can stand is 4,240N.

Ah, but that's not quite the issue, if the question is how high of a tower you can build.

If a tower is 3.5 km tall, then the lower 100m (to pull a number out of the air) are all supporting pretty much the same weight. And that 100m is about ... 10,000 bricks thick? If one of those bricks goes, then the tower goes. So what you want to know is not the average strength of a brick, but the expected strength of the weakest brick out of 10,000. I imagine that's significantly less.

Exercise for the reader: Given the probability distribution of brick strength, how do we compute the height at which we expect a one-brick-wide tower to fail? (Assume that vertical compression of bricks is the only issue; there are no lateral forces, the tower is perfectly balanced, etc.)
Chrome Packaged Apps and the CSP Dilemma
What is this “Asperger's” you speak of? It doesn't seem to be in the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/asperg...
A "pink" revolution?
I was asked for my normal password and not an application specific password.
Hack-Walk-Repeat: A terminal walking wizard to help hackers walk
While it is very similar, and there are glaring thefts such as the style of the buttons, it does have several important changes. Color is used extensively, when it is totally absent in Svbtle - a change I greatly appreciate, as Svbtle has very ambiguous visual hierarchy between the two columns - it's not terribly clear which one is the content, and the fixed chrome around a tiny content column is distracting. The combination of the color and typography changes draws your eye towards the content. The content column is more prominent for several reasons - it is the brightest spot on the page, the headline has the best size and contrast on the page (black on white stands out much better than white on blue), and the contrast between header and body is much more pronounced, due to a larger size headline with all-caps and a thicker font than Svbtle. The larger font size and more generous line height on the body makes it much more readable, and the reversed color scheme in blockquotes, while I'm not entirely sure is an improvement, is certainly a significant improvement. Also, Principles is responsive at any resolution, while Svbtle is broken on the reading screen from 1024px down to 640px, and is unreadable from approx. 850px to 640px. (This would be due to the fact that it uses resolution breakpoints designed around specific common device widths, instead of sensibly placing them to fix the layout when it needs to be, as good responsive designs do).

It also includes some backend stuff that allows for customizations that Svbtle obviously does not.

So, while it is heavily derivative, and in some cases (the buttons) does rip off Svbtle, it's hardly a copy-paste bootleg. If it was, no one would buy it - the free wp-svbtle theme already does that.

Things that actually are problematic about the theme:
- Change the buttons. Seriously. I don't even like the Svbtle buttons, with their absurd pill shape. This applies to the fields in the comment form as well.
- Move the written-by tagline below the headline. It makes it much clearer what the tagline refers to, and allows the post header and site header to line up, which would look much better. I didn't like its placement in Svbtle, and I don't like it here.
- The drop-down menus (another addition that doesn't come from Svbtle) look really odd because of the reversed color scheme, the space between the menu and the buttons, and the inconsistent border-radius between the top-level button and the drop-down menu.

In summary, Svbtle does not and should not have a monopoly on a two-column layout with a fixed left column and the basics of good typography implemented. Being minimalist is a style in and of itself, and this theme has significant differences. If it wasn't Hacker News' darling Svbtle, no one would be complaining - no one complains about the numerous WordPress themes based on Tumblr.

Maybe Dustin should have got a design patent. ;P
To get a TN Visa you need 3 years work experience in the relavent field (there's a list) and it's on the whim of the agent you face.

1.5 years for me to go~ (currently in TO).
"IN PRIMARY school Babbage learned that there were nine planets in the solar system. None were known to exist outside it."

There were only 7 planets known when Charles Babbage was a youth. Neptune was discovered when he was an old man, and Pluto was not discovered until almost 60 years after his death.
Does he count as Chinese if he died before the Qin dynasty began?
Improve Rails Bootup Time
Steve Jobs Lost Interview 1990 - A must watch for any entrepreneur
Social experiences lend us to distribute the computing of our problems to those other humans around us. We naturally store problems we can't solve, then reach out for additional processing power when others are near. It's an expression of love, in that we can probably leave with positive net calories after the problem is solved.

In a sense, you're renting out your head for distributed computing without charging anything. You're like Folding@Home for your friends' lives.
The author states that "we made the fastest CPUs that physics allows," linking to an article that doesn't exactly say that.

Assuming that he's merely talking about CPU frequency, does that hold? And if so, why?
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Docopt – command-line interface description language
Of course, the blog post seriously breaks when viewed on an iPhone (and rotated from landscape to portrait) and breaks the back button. Lame.

Otherwise the app update looks pretty good.
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Probably performance reasons on mobile. Past 5 large accounts the app probably starts to get slow
Over the last two or three months I have forgotten to read who I am following in Twitter, and its great. I sometimes post because it triggers other services for me but I recommend giving up twitter for a month to see how it feels.
I don't like apps anymore. Why would I want Hotel Tonight (for example) on my iphone from a trip to Dallas two months ago. The constant updating, notifications, etc. Apps are a mess. I don't have a solution but I do know I'm tired of apps.
I quit tweeting for a few weeks and I noticed zero difference.

I was actually kind of disappointed given how much everyone talks about how we're "addicted" to social media.
Actually, fortan has had successful auto-parallelizing compilers in industry for many decades.

Same with C/C++
I'm not sure what you mean "without anything substantive making it to industry".
University of California changes its logo
This is slightly offtopic but there used to be a clone of Hacker News that someone created. It was HN without all the startup stuff, instead focusing on hardcore technical topics. I lost the bookmark a while ago and have never found it again. If anyone has a link, it will be greatly appreciated!
The point was that using twitter encourages a mob mentality, which doesn't mean the mob is right if it isn't provoked.

The other point was that the mob in some part is more than capable of helping instead of getting out the pitchforks and torches. It simply chooses not to help (via the afoorementioned private channels).
PlayStation 3 is the Most-Used Netflix Streaming Device
If you look at his source for that, it is purely based on the clock speed and not, (which you might assume from the context), "the speed at which <some given software> runs".

The assertion that we hit the limit in 2004 and CPUs have not gotten any faster (in the useful sense of the word) is ridiculous, and for someone to still be perpetuating the gigahertz myth in 2012 is bewildering. My MacBook Pro has a 2.2Ghz Core 2 duo, and my netbook has an Intel Atom 1.6Ghz, and I can tell you now the MBP single core speed is not merely 40% faster!
Users. Even if you have absolutely no chance in hell of monetizing you can get shitloads of VC money if you have traction.
This is exactly what I thought. The purpose of the "isTestPage" method is to hide the implementation. It's a basic OO principle, not some controversy stirred up by Robert C Martin.

I hated seeing somebody argue against it because we'd be better off as developers if more people understood this and made a habit of hiding implementation to this extent.
Good point. Also everyone in this thread, even the OP, failed to realize the main difference/point with the site: it's about LOCAL entrepreneurship and building your LOCAL community, something Brad has been writing about.
http://www.startuprev.com/about

Although, they did do a crap job at emphasizing 'LOCAL' on the site besides using the once in the sidebar description.
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Exactly. That's also the reason the rewards program is on there (I work for BigDoor). Brad is great at dogfooding his own investments.
You can also use this to produce PDF slides that have multimedia embedded in the PDF itself - something guaranteed to impress as you seamlessly play a video without having to alt+tab, buffer, or go find an IT guy to work out why the wireless has decided to stop working.
To all the people saying "use a cd key":

On iOS a paid download is a transaction that is 100% managed between apple and the user, and as a developer you receive daily aggregate statistics. You don't receive any user identifiable information that you could use to limit accounts. There is no way to supply serial codes as part of a purchase. There is no way for them to create a single account as a part of the purchase.

The only thing they could have done is to change their game to a free download and make multiplayer an in app purchase. This would, of course, require that they also make something that is playable outside of multiplayer (since apple won't allow you to ship something that is non functional in the default state). Also, the server-side verification of IAP receipts can fail, which if they do strong checks can block potentially valid users from playing, through no fault of either the player of the developer. (notably, there have been cases of apple's verification server going down or incorrectly reporting receipts as invalid)

So please, before you eviscerate the devs, please realize they were trying to do the best they could for the consumer, and as a result got thoroughly screwed over. I wish them the best and hope they recover.
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The most important advice I've ever been given is to time myself talking through my slides. It is incredibly difficult to guess how long a particular presentation will take, which makes things rather awkward when you have conference organizers with schedules; talking through your slides gives me an accurate number which can result in me adding or removing slides. Even when I don't change the slides, knowing if I have plenty of time or need to squeeze helps me determine how much to re-iterate points and let things "sink in" before moving on to the next point.
Just updated the readme; thanks for the suggestion :)
One thing I find useful for transitions is to set up some unrelated points in advance.

So instead of doing :

Thing a, thing b, thing c

I do:

We had to do a few things, then tie them together, First thing a, so we also had to do thing b. finally to get going we had to thing c. They all work together like result.

Another transition method that works for me is to just announce the seeming non-sequitor. "Now I need to talk for a minute about X. I know it seems unrelated, but it turns out to be vital..."

HTH someone :)
I'll just leave this here...

http://www.rsync.net/philosophy.html
Was it this? https://lobste.rs/
NodeSocket is shutting down
It's not like you have to pick between the two even with the default Mail.app - you can browse one inbox at a time or select "all inboxes". I happen to like unified view 90% of the time, but for that other 10% it's literally two taps to view a single inbox at a time (back, select specific inbox).
Exactly, Mobile Apps (not games) are rapidly becoming the CD-ROMs of the modern times. Too much waste of space and resources for such a minimal use.

I only use email/rss and twitter apps. Everything else I always try to do in the browser.
Nope - it's still all or nothing. Hope you don't get much mail…
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Should this qualify?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
Take out that automatic nonsense and I think he makes a good proposal. A URL can currently load a local app rather than a page in webkit. Only in this case, there would be some markup that would tell the browser to check for the installed app, perhaps the browser would present some unobtrusive indicator that a hybrid app was available to download. Just keep the address bar and the rest of the browser chrome there, swap the webkit frame out with the app's window, let the app access some of the history APIs, and you'd have a good portion of this figured out.
scene.org also was a curated ftp for distribution of music (in addition to the demoscene) .. that was pretty cost effective if you were amongst the approved ones.
Does Paypal have a messaging system like eBay? Whenever I've had an eBay dispute (rare), I always communicate using their messaging system so they can see exactly what we are saying to each other.
"Babbage" is the name of a column in the Economist, and is used in this sense to refer to the author of the column. So the writer is talking about his or her own schooling.
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Are you sure he knocked goto? Like inheritance, it has great potential to turn code into spaghetti. Like inheritance, it can be useful if you're careful.
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