skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, we are often looking for vegan food and it's going to be almost impossible to determine that unless the ingredient list is available. Maybe as simple as a photo of the ingredients/nutritional info would work?
Those Heroku guys are amazing! ;-)
How about (secure?) OO version

Nice. You should call it TwitOO.
I moved to Boston from the Valley and back for similar reasons last year and I can tell you its a very good move.

Finally, here is a link from arcana that discussed the same:http://whyorg.com/comp/startups.html
How is it a lie unless someone hacked into Google's server ad posted this: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm:1/di:1/do:1/ddo:0
Search and discovery is a tough nut to crack, but we think constantly about how to solve it as we grow the marketplace.

On the flip side, discovery can be very rewarding. I'm glad you like the Wild Nori--I had no idea such things existed until recently...and I spend a healthy chunk of time looking at cool food companies.
Just interview them. Your system might think someone has doubtful programming ability when really it just shows they applied to a lot of places that used your system. Also, it can never work for someone who is only applying one place.
Thousands of them, via index funds.
Web or desktop?

For desktop, a new entrance is Postbox, which takes a lot of clues from GMail: http://www.postbox-inc.com

Personally, I use gnus: http://www.gnus.org
Suppose after the interview you have these doubts but don't have better candidates.
I see this as an unexpected exception to the guidelines.

>If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This post is aggregated TV news but it interesting because it is new information precisely because none of us actually watch the TV news.
I'm struck by two things while watching this video:

1 - Those tents seem pretty nice.

2 - This is pretty shameful for a society that is right now bailing out executives.

I'm generally very libertarian in my beliefs, but tent cities are where I draw the line and agree with social assistance / intervention. They seem to be relatively small right now, but if they grow to large hundreds, or thousands of people, this will become a critical issue.
The article does mention something that people don't talk about too often--at least at my alma mater, the general attitude among CS students was that it was much harder for H1-B students to get internships and jobs than permanent resident/American citizen counterparts who were no more skilled than they were.
Agreed. +1
I actually go the other way around. I have email forwarded to gmail before then getting forwarded to an email server on my own domain. I use GMail for spam filtering, archiving and sometimes for search and a quick web interface. Mostly I process email locally using gnus.

I used to use GMail's POP3 interface, but I found it unreliable at times, so that's why I switched to my own email server.
Imo, crowd-sourcing graphics is horrible. In addition to development, I do web design and branding and it take more than just a computer and illustrator.

Because its graphics, developers dont mind it, because oftentimes they are on the benefiting end. But this would change if it was for app development. No developer (or graphic designer) with any regard for the future of their profession should be for it.
People love to scream when the best of us fails. At least they are completely transparent about whats going on.
Find more candidates. Picking a coworker is too important of a decision to take a chance like that.
Improve your debugging speed with EVars Eclipse plugin
Hi HN, This is my first post here and like a first time poster I am not quite sure if this entry in particular qualifies as hacker news or not. I created this little tool as a result of the 'debugging pain' I suffered from a mostly closed source application. I am hoping there are developers like me who could be benefited here, I would appreciate any feedback on it. Also, what tools you use for debugging apart from standard IDE?
If this were another web2.0 startup, I would have no problem. But this is also research. It seems a bit strange to rave about a research project without letting people judge it for themselves.
It'll be interesting to see if the regulators really do accept that Madoff acted alone; I personally think it's extremely unlikely. There must have been a hacker somewhere in his office helping him, because the investors received very detailed reports regularly showing what securities Madoff's "algorithms" had traded on their behalf. Obviously, there weren't quants and hackers back there making a real trading system, but still, somebody must have built up a lot of automation to keep those reports going. Supposedly the prices on the trade confirms did match the actual market prices on the trade settle dates.
I use Windows just because I like Microsoft Office 2007 better than any alternative. It just lives inside my MacBook Pro with OS X Leopard.
A Few Notes on Culture
"In the end I think what this illustrates is that writing a good, concise, clear, complete functional specification is not easy."

A complete, unambiguous, and functional specification is called a program. May or may not be "good".

The going back and forth that you describe as inefficient is where the collaborative creative act occurs, where you work with the person that needs a custom system to define what you can build for them.
I find this whole 99designs thing fantastically interesting. The marginal cost of going from the "good" work you get there to "great" work from seriously skilled, experienced designers is disproportionately high.
So let's say your friends admitted to smoking weed, and the paranoid VCs pulled out. That just means some other VCs would have invested instead.

(As another example, I have long hair. That means there are certain jobs that I probably couldn't get, as some companies have corporate policies against that. Do I care? No. I don't need those companies for anything.)
Primal Fusion demos semantic web tool
If they can figure out how to be safe in large storms, and a solution to piracy, I'd absolutely be interested in living on one. I also am curious how they will take care of the fuel costs. (Cruise ships are some of the most fuel inefficient vehicles on the earth.) tidal power would be quite useful in this kind of system.

After all, people have already spoken about using cruise ships as offshore platforms...
Woz on Dancing with the Stars
Glad he's exploring his horizons I guess. I thought you guys may like this.
No problem on my end! Thankfully.
Job opening: "Founder Associate" at Twitter
The Missing $1,000,000 Tax Bracket
http://medicalcannabiscaregivers.org
"No taxation without representation."

I have vague recollections of a Tea Party thrown to discuss that one...

I agree with the principle of Scott's article (let's have a discussion and see if anything better shows up). Greater discussion may lead to better solutions like using taxation as the measure rather than a civics test.
There's actually a lot more to it than that! For some services like Amazon and Yelp, we hook into APIs for quick retrieval/display of data. For others, we pull back data content from RSS feeds. And for others, like BestBuy, we do pass along parameters to their web services. It varies from service to service. But trust me, there's a lot of tech behind the app!
It looks like Erlang is the language in which I can just spawn processes withou even thinking about the overhead, and maybe it'll help me out if I have multiple processors or cores. Is that true? Or rather, to what extent is that true?

How well does Erlang scale to small, medium, large, and obscene numbers of processor cores?
We have hacker houses. Why not hacker tents? Give me power and WIFI and I can build it :)
I'm not quite sure i agree with it, but it's worth at least thinking about the converse of this argument:

Perhaps we let too many people vote already? The average American isn't just a little uninformed, but is provably wrong about a number of issues, like what the government spends its money on, who holds the power to do various things, and the resources and governments of our neighbors.
Heck, I'd bet that a non-zero percentage of voters don't even understand how the marginal tax rate works.

We don't let unqualified people fix our cars, work in our hospitals, or teach our kids, so why should they have the ability to make our political decisions?

Society has plenty of ways to accredit people to be 'knowledgeable' about these subjects (Basic civics test -> high school diploma -> college degree -> Degree in econ/poli sci -> masters -> phd, or perhaps business owners, workers in gov't service, etc).

We already treat voting as a privilege, not a right, (It can be taken away, as with felons) why not weight votes based on your investment in learning??

Obviously this plan is harebrained in that it would massively disadvantage everyone other than upper class white people, and probably lead to a civil war, but it's interesting to think that voting is probably the one place in society where are an objectively recognized expert in the field (I'm thinking more on the Econ side than the Poli Sci side) has exactly the same say as someone who just picks one at random.

The whole idea that some privileged group has the ability to say whether I can vote makes me a little uneasy, so personally I think I'd give a firm no to the idea.

If you're interested in the idea, the economist Bryan Caplan wrote a book called 'The Myth of the Rational Voter' that discusses the common fallacies and provides hard evidence.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691138737?tag=bryacaplwebp-20&...;

He also has the single ugliest web page that i've ever seen for an academic (a high bar indeed):
http://www.bcaplan.com/
Ask HN: What's the gist of Penelope Trunk for the ill informed?
Saw her mentioned on a thread here and didn't want to pollute the air with my ignorance. From my Wiki search I find this: "As a career adviser, Trunk realizes that a bio is not so much factual as aspirational." Is that a fair summary of her advice?
Tent cities are going to be preferable, in some cases, to the sort of hideous social housing available (especially here in the UK). At least you can up sticks and walk down the road with a tent.. in social housing, if your neighbor's a drug addict and kids are pissing in your letterbox, you're screwed.
How is protection from politics protecting the kids from themselves?

Given how much it pisses me off, I kinda wish I were still protected from politics.
A New York Police Officer Who Put Too Much on MySpace
:-) all these discussions itself is showing HN is good site for tech discussions.

If at all his post is worst post ever, i don't agree all of us won't comment like this.

Hidden meaning is, we do agree with his post but not completely.
I think a better question is how can we send our "kids" to die for our country when they can't drink or gamble.
No problems for me either. You'd think the world was ending. I couldn't get my email for 2 hours!! Aaaaaaaaaahhhh!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426786
How to serve a WSGI application via CGI
PG's last line in the article is amazing.
Currently living in Seattle, and our tent city has been apart of the area for many years now (nothing new). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_city#Seattle.2C_Washington...
Very cool, can't wait for my HUD. I imagine many of us will be wearing these in sunglass/monocle form in 3-5 years. Maybe even contact lenses.

It's unfortunate that these TED stories don't seem to do well on the front page anymore.
Google sort of has a preprocessor that does stuff like this. Probably not as much as Wolfram.

You can see it when you search Google for things like:

"What time is it in Las Vegas" (notice that it knows, and it also knows that you probably mean Las Vegas NV but might mean NM, and that Las Vegas NM is smaller)

"MSFT" (e.g. a ticker)

"Who is the president of France"

"16 USD in GBP"

From the stories, it SOUNDS like Wolfram can answer a lot more of these kinds of queries than Google, which makes me think that the best way to use a technology like this is to sell it to Google to plug in as their pre-search pre-processor to replace the simple ones they've already developed.
I've yet to run into a landlord who could force me to join the army, throw me in jail, take money from me, etc. The only thing that landlords can do is evict me for failing to pay an agreed upon amount of money, and I even get to refuse to deal with specific landlords if I don't like the deal.
Unfortunately (actually, very fortunately for me), I'm in Chicago; my partners are in NYC. Dave, our president, is a trained chef. He lives in an apartment the size of my back deck, but I still told him about Marlow & Sons, in the vain hope that he will buy a whole pork belly and confit it for me for the next time I come out to Manhattan. Thanks!
We (developers) already deal with competition from cheap outsourced labor and it didn't destroy our industry.
-facepalms-
They still don't.

And, as I pointed out above, we don't even use classes. This might seem crazy, but this project was started before PHP had actually decent objects, and now all the special workarounds have become part of the house style. So I'm living in a world of pure procedural programming right now. It's the 70s again.
> How laws are made and passed, but probably not on how to bribe a Senator.

That seems backwards.
Avtobus Reklamları
So, you don't carry inventory or have purchasers? How does fulfillment work? Just curious; you're more of an Octoparts than a Dartagnon?
Although I do wonder what the point of defragging an SSD is...
How Fog Creek uses FogBugz for Recruiting
You may not be "confusing" the two - because you're doing it consciously - but you're conflating them. From what I know, most sexual abuse is committed by friends and family, not strangers. The AMBER alerts seemed to be targeted at abductions by strangers. Put another way, AMBER alerts are targeted at the minority of sexual abuses, not the majority.
Create your own Skittles.com sensation
There is a daily struggle that good parents have with the media and advertising that many of us probably don't want to see amplified.
> I'm just a bit tired of people babbling on about software bloat when this pretty conclusively proves its the I/O subsystem that is the problem.

This proves nothing of the sort. (Office95 was bloated too....)

The time to boot is large because software is huge, scattered all over the disk, and has unnecessary dependencies.

It may be convenient to believe that everything fits in L1 cache, but doing so often results in slow programs. The same principle applies here. Some operations cost more than others. Software which uses slow operations will run slower than software that doesn't.

To put it another way, big O is the start, not the end.
Traffic calming
"That just means some other VCs would have invested instead."

I would say that would have worked if you wanted to build a software company. This was early 2001, the entire Tech bubble had just collapsed. It isn't very easy to find venture capital when you need tens of millions of dollars to afford world-class lasers, electronics and clean rooms. The scale and ambition of the project constrain you because there aren't many sources of venture capital of that magnitude.

I don't have long hair, but I wouldn't want to work for a company who had a policy against it either. Such a policy would only make it clear that the company had the wrong values and priorities.
You can renounce your citizenship and leave the country, and you are no longer subject to the draft nor U.S. taxes.
Site looks nice. Since you're watching this thread, the front page slideshow doesn't work in the latest Chrome dev build.
We have an API at Agree2: http://agree2.com/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=penelope+trunk
If she's so bad, why is she so popular? Aren't there enough bad blogs to choose from? Or is there a shortage of career advice on the web?
I give the lawyers 1.5 days. Any takers?
Andy Grove: Lessons from an American Role Model
Some people are just born with the linkbait gene.
All righty then. I still want in. It's one thing to set up a tentative pricing model based on one person's idea, and quite another to have the prototype up with empty dollar signs. Building the site would be the easy part! Setting up a pricing model as a first-mover is quite another. I'd need a sort of group brainstorming session to get started. :)
Startup PR on a Shoestring
Good Teeth.

A distinct lack of a criminal record.

Sociopathic Tendencies.

Enough smarts to hide the sociopathic tendencies.

A fanatical adherence to the idea of projecting an image of ethical probity.

A deep dark secret that I can hold over him like a damocletian sword.

Or not. Realistically a CEO needs leadership skills and a keen sense of what tasks are better handled by other people; everything else is optional.
I had worked with electronic signatures for years, but lawyers have generally chuckled over lay folks focus on signatures. As you rightly say intent is the only thing important.

However your argument about how a court decides if there was intent is also true for traditional hand written signatures.

In http://agree2.com we offer signatures, but only as part of a whole package from drafting, invitation, negotiation, signing and then management. The whole process is recorded, providing a clear audit trail should something ever reach courts.

More important as well than signatures are the contents of what you are signing. Most lawyers I know have never heard of a case where someone questioned a signature.
Well,
Firstly, I am sorry for my late response.
Secondly, I hope you received the $50 Google Adwords link I sent you via email.

About #2:
There is a fact here that you realize - I guess, that users will visit your website from Google paid adveritising. They chose your website - so you should not disappoint them.
Also you should choose the keywords carefully, and make sure that who search for these keywords is searching for your website! You can make a benchmark for 2 campaigns, to see which keywords work better, if you are confused about the best keywords to use.

Also about optimizing the homepage...
Users are more likely to have an idea about your website, even before they visit it - simply because they visited your website based on the keywords.
Whatever, you should make the landing page ready to use for the users!

I hope I am not confusing you, so I will give you an example.
If users are searching for a service like uploading and sharing photos, you should make the landing page with a demo video to show users why they should use your service, and upload box to use your photo uploading service. [this is an example]
Also give them a clue why your service is better than other services, like: unlimited storage, easy sharing, and all the benifits.

Talking about benifits... you should not talk about the features of your website! You should mention the benifits.

Sorry for making it long, but I did not have time to make it shorter,
Good luck for you.
The great thing about crowdsourcing is that it really reveals who can deal with volume and who can't. Similarly, it also reveals a very interesting element of time . . . buyers of logo projects can literally watch the rate of submissions over their contests. They can also see, for example, if somebody submits a fantastic design after 5 hours that it doesn't really take the weeks and months that some graphic designers say it does (and what they charge). It's so funny how some graphic designers really roll around in their "creative angst" and pretend like their work is really so hard and time-consuming and that they should be paid for it when in reality, it sometimes just really isn't.
How are you handling the images of the products? Just curious because I find some of the pages (especially the single product pages) really eye catching but some of the product listing pages like this one: http://foodoro.com/search?filters=c12&sort=popularity are a bit more visually confusing (at least to me).

Still, nice idea, nice work.
Not Enough Work
A Blackberry Storm Controls an F1 Car
"Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who now works for the Seasteading Institute, said floating cities are the perfect places to experiment with new forms of government."

There are no new forms of government. They've all been tried. There are only people ignorant of history.
A Simple Puzzle 2
"not that he should cultivate his unique potential as a pedestrian"

Ha, yes, that made me chuckle too.
What does one terabyte look like? Well, imagine we printed each byte on a slip of paper and...
Captcha Audio with ASP.NET
The problem I have with the phrase "Taxes for the rich" is not so much the "taxes" part as the "the". Who are these rich people? How do you draw the line? What does it mean for a society to push more and more people into this category in order to tax them punitively?
This question - for some reason, reminds me with the stimulus plan. [EDIT: I did not really know that this is about the stimulus plan!!]

Maybe a trillion dollars look like a 20 racks of servers - but cash instead? :)
This is really powerful. I just installed a git-based CMS shinmun using this.

And, it works like a charm - http://www.siong1987.com.

But, I still don't know how to point my root domain to heroku. I personally think that this is one of the most important feature that Heroku must implement right now. (if heroku already has this feature now, please let me know. I am currently forwarding my root domain to my www alias.)

Imagine a web hosting company that doesn't allow you to have your own root domain. How awful it is.
There is none. Even if there were some advantage with sequential blocks, SSDs should employ wear leveling, thereby spreading your bits across random blocks anyways.
for all sample signatures on the page, use famous ones like Abraham Lincoln, Templeton etc.

:)
also, the interface is optimized for speed and convenience. you can type 'www.bestbuy.com' into your iphone, but given the choice, our feeling is that many people will prefer to use an app that minimizes typing and maximizes speed.
Would you want to hire someone who's a huge fan of the service vs. someone with some professional distance? I meet people who gush to me about the Windy Citizen sometimes and that's great, but I'm always a bit more impressed by the people who offer useful criticism of how to make the service better.