skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So.. Once you know and understand the solution to a problem or a puzzle, what's the point (with respect to the company that is hiring) in candidate getting lucky in the interview and answering that question?

Usually people say that solution is not the important thing for a question but the process of getting to a correct or wrong solution is important. Some times interviewers ignore this fact.

Instead of puzzles or problems which may surprise some candidates, how about American Idol auditions style interviews. For example, you ask a candidate (for programming job) to design/implement/test some small problem giving the full requirements or simulating changing requirements. Will this process help select a right candidate?
This article wasn't referring to traffic, rather accounts created. While it did cite inactive accounts, it didn't touch on spam accounts.

As far as legit users moving over to Facebook, I speak from personal experience with my friends and colleagues. That statement was more personal opinion and speculation, rather than fact. Sorry if that caused confusion.
This article completely misses the point of social news -- it is news people WANT to read, not news you think people should read for their own good.
Imagine if you had to go to the weekly YC dinners and you knew that the guys to your left were ranked higher than you, and the guys on your right were ranked lower than you. How much would that suck. Good luck giving and receiving objective advice in a situation like that. If you're not trying to form a community it doesn't matter. But if you are, ranking and judging people is a serious barrier to collaboration, teamwork, and innovation.
No, Bezos.
The choice of editor matters in the sense that you would gain quite a lot by using an IDE with automated refactorings.
Puzzles are fun, but really not the way to judge a person.

If I were interviewing for a person and wanted to test for technical know how, I'd just ask them how they think ___ works (where the blank is some popular, semi-related product), and use that as a spring board to talk with them for the next hour about stuff. You get a good sense for the type of knowledge and comfort people have for material that's actually relevant to the job at hand, and on top of that you can suss out things like how well you'd work with them.
The source is NOT free - although I'm not not sure about their copyright - who is the dev team?

iUnlock v42.PROPER -- Copyright 2007 The dev team

Credits: Daeken, Darkmen, guest184, gray, iZsh, pytey, roxfan, Sam, uns, Zappaz, Zf

All code, information or data [from now on "data"] available
from the "iPhone dev team" [1] or any other project linked from
this or other pages is owned by the creator who created the data.
The copyright, license right, distribution right and any other
rights lies with the creator.

It is prohibitied to use the data without the written agreement
of the creator. This included using ideas in other projects
(commercial or not commercial).

Where data was created by more than 1 creator a written agreement
from each of the creators has to be obtained.

Punishment: Monkeys coming out of your ass Bruce Almighty style.
It's only nominally a loan. I think the main attraction to angels is that it protects them from VCs. They convert into the series A round alongside the VCs as the same class of investor.
I already answered that here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=53934
The reason fat lines feel better in a sketch is that you're not forced to overcommit about the precision you want. Another alternative (often used by architects) is to make thin lines but deliberately make them wobbly.
Should have called it: VIDEO GAMES CHANGES BOTH MALE AND FEMALE PERCEPTIVENESS
Yes! Or, an IDE which integrates a debugging tool, key bindings, API-sensitive auto-complete, run-time manipulation, and many other language-specific features geared toward easing development in that language.
Took a break from my startup to start a startup
Depends. Smart, flexible people can get the job done with any tool as long as that tool is "good enough". However, a bad tool will cripple even a good programmer.

The Emacs/vi/IntelliJ/Eclipse/Netbeans/Kate/jEdit/TextPad debate is meaningless, because all the above choices are "good enough". However, a decent programmer's productivity will be severely hampered by Notepad. Similarly, the Rails/Django/Pylons debate is pointless, but choosing JSF can easily kill your project.
I can't see that happening for the same reason that enterprise software will never die: people equate quality with cost, rightly or wrongly.

OSX is essentially BSD++ with a massive price tag associated with it. You could put the exact same OS out as open source and it would remain in the realm of the power-user/hobbyist.
Yea... and then when you're finally know what to do, you're held back by bottlenecks and deficits of your editor/IDE. Doing "context switch" on your brain, switching from the problem you're programming to "how the heck do I tell it to stop auto-indenting 8char tabs?!" is frustrating. It's slowing you down. Things get only worse when you're dealing with many files.

It's not the "typing time" that good editors save you, it's the "thinking time" they save since you're not forced to think much about them.

When I was forced to switch from Visual Studio 6 to VS2003, my productivity really suffered. Things did not work the way I wanted and I kept cold-rebooting my brain after every little interruption. Now I'm switching to vim and while it may not be as "fast" for certain tasks, its consistency and transparency makes me forget it's there. Besides, by not relying on arrow keys, pageup/down, del/ins and so on, vim allows me to be equally productive on unknown keyboards, especially on laptops, easily switching computers, which I happen to do quite often.
If males are driven to playing fast twitch games because of their biology, then are the subsequent physiological adaptations considered biological or cultural?
Raganwald: We have lost control of the apparatus
Three Startup Dudes looking for an apartment in SV
After two years of dominating the soccer-playing robotic dog world, two of us are doing a startup in the education space. One of us works for a startup. We need an apartment!

Any suggestions for Mountain View, Palo Alto, or SF would be totally sweet, and by that I mean completely awesome. No need to exalt the virtues or bitch about the landlords at YScraper -- we've read quite a bit about it.

Rock On!
Good job. At-least you did better than me. I wanted to start a new project for the long weekend and met a couple of interested people - and at the end of the first day, after we had divied up the work, one of them said "it's too hot to work today - i can't concentrate" .. :)

Maybe I should have gone at it alone as well...
Yahoo to Break Open
5 Ways to Redesign the Movie Theater Experience.
I just got back from xobni. The product looks great and the they guys were great to talk to. I can't wait till it gets released and IC an use it on my own PC at home :-)
I suspect that an economic downturn if it does come will be good news for online advertising. Why? Only because there is nothing quite like a downturn to accelerate efficiency. Last time round, the recession was great news for Indian IT companies -- simply because it became efficient for American companies to outsource certain things that they do. Though I dont have figures to back it up, there are quite a few articles out there that point out that the following 2 ratios are not the same (which by implication points to an inefficiency in the allocation of advertising dollars):

Time spent by people online:Time spent by people on old school media
Dollars spent on online advertising:Dollars spent on advertising in old school media

The 1st ratio is of course larger than the second.
Or KILLING VIRTUAL PEOPLE IS GOOD FOR YOU ;-)
I understand what you're saying but I think you're missing my point. If any tool was empirically "not good enough" or "crippling" it would be abandoned and the show would go on. The focus is on the end result. The SFP gets there one way or another.
I agree, meat is a must. =) But you can get frozen chicken at Costco for very cheap, along with Cajun sausages and frozen meatballs which are also quite reasonable. A large meal that you cook at home can be done with 15 minutes of prep and only cost a dollar or two.
Of course it is interesting - this is your major tool. Photographers are obsessed with cameras, programmers with editors...
I'm interested in the advances digital cinema projection can bring. Smaller cinemas (20-50 seats) for on demand viewing of a catalog of 1,000s of films. Simply select what you want and go watch it in comfy seats with food served to your seats. Whilst your watching the 15 mins of trailers any other people can choose to also come watch the film. Then on the way out pick up a copy of the DVD..
This is basically the "you throw like a girl" phenomenon. With a sister who played NCAA Division I varsity softball, I can assure you that girls can learn to "throw like a boy", and then some. And yet, many more girls than boys "throw like a girl" (hence the stereotype). The reason is simple: throwing well takes practice, and boys throw more than girls.

But why do boys throw more? Boys and girls have different preferences, and many of these preferences have biological as well as cultural roots. (Indeed, are there any cultures where athletic prowess is more valued in women than in men?) And so we're right back on the African savannah, where men who liked to throw learned to throw well, and thus killed more game.

It seems that, even with a "cultural" explanation, you can't escape nature.
legal fees: most important term sheet clause
Wikipedia: 2 Million Article Milestone
Any words of wisdom on hiring an outside C.E.O?  Cautionary tales?
Does this even matter? How many bots actually respect robots.txt?
Keep on buying ads like that until you find the right ones, over a few months I was able to find the good sites that had low prices for there ads (far too low, like $5 to $10 a month). Now I get significant traffic for almost no money compared to spending huge sums on Google Adwords. Adbrite is excellent over the long haul.
Don't Break the Chain made lifehacker.
I don't have any personal experience, but here's an article that's been posted here before:

The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 9: How to hire a professional CEO

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/08/the-pmarca-gu-1.html
Oh, come on, don't turn this into a general news site. Save that for Reddit or something.
I do quiet a bit of photography, imho photographers should not be obsessed with camera. and that further implies that this is not a good explanation for programmers to be obsessed with editors. The key word is "obsessed". You should definitely think about it. But save the obsession for other important things.
The Emacs/vi/IntelliJ/Eclipse/Netbeans/Kate/jEdit/TextPad debate is meaningless

To the extent that it becomes a religious discussion about which one is the best, which happens all the time, I think you're right. However, the exchange of ideas that results can be meaningful. This is especially true of emacs, since there's so much room to use it creatively, but is applicable to all those other editors as well.
Cautionary tale: Fernand Serrat.
WSJ: Are Technology Limits In MP3s and iPods Ruining Pop Music?
Why Some Apple Fans Won't Buy the iPhone
Such people are properly known as "camera fondlers". [1] Only some of them are actually photographers.

[1] http://nemeng.com/leica/002e.shtml
Facebook Apps are pointless if they don't work; Here's a way to fix it.
Agreed. Exchange of ideas is valuable, esp. w.r.t. emacs.
If anyone around here creates something based upon a lifehacker post and then subsequently would like them to feature what you've built I can now recommend from experience simply emailing them at tips@lifehacker.com.
Feedback on my new website?
Hello everyone,

I'm doing a website to host demos of LAMP websites (Drupal, Mambo, osCommerce, SugarCRM, WebERP, MediaWiki, Joomla, etc..).

I like demoing new websites from Sourceforge.net, but it's annoying to have to download and install each one. Plus, some of the websites on Sourceforge require root access and/or have security vulnerabilities. VMware is great, but that still means spending time going through README's and tweaking webserver config files. Some of these websites have online demos, but not all of them work. And some of the demos
that do work are really slow.

So, I'm creating ESer.org.

So far, I've got 105 website demos on eser.org. See: http://www.eser.org/usa

I'm looking for interesting/new/unique open-source websites to add to eser.org.

Any suggestions?

eser
"That has several implications.... one is that playing violent computer games can have beneficial effects."

I doubt this study demonstrated that the 3D game has to be violent.

Logically, 3D game which involve aiming and tracking mechanisms help raise situational awareness in ways two-dimensional puzzle games cannot--it's very likely that non-violent 3D aiming and moving games, if they existed, would also work.
Heh, you'd be surprised at how many businesses cling to crippling tools because management has made their decision and refuses to abandon it. Moreso with languages than with editors, though I know of companies that standardize on a toolset (often one that's not top-notch, though I don't know of any that would mandate something as ridiculous as Notepad) and refuse to let you use anything other than that. Sometimes customers mandate certain technology choices too - I know of one government-sponsored project where they had to use Java/EJB even though virtually every engineer in the company thought it was a terrible choice.
Once "citizen journalizm" gains widespread popularity, expect reddit and digg have their front pages occupied by Paris Hilton news, fart stories, soft porn and updates on mysteries of Anna Nicole's tragic death.

Real crowds suck.
I saw this topic come up somewhere else, and here are what the most sensible conclusions seemed to be.

The question of male to female biological differences can be answered better when you compare the best male athletes versus those of the female. There are clearly huge differences in physical abilities, and it's not because more men play sports than women.

Girls develop faster than boys in K-12, so a girl who played a sport can definitely get a college scholarship and play better baseball than the average male. However, I don't see how that proves it's in any way cultural. Sounds like genetics to me.
Take your time.

Understand the new CEO's motivations.

Create a new board seat for the CEO: http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/ceo-board-seat

Bring him on board as an Advisor or Director first and see how that works out.
I just don't get what your site does.
You should explain it better.

Other thing you have to do is to improve your HTML and add some CSS, don't use tables.

Hope that helps.
Misleading headline: the disallows affect all crawlers equally.

Missing context: what is someone, expert at reading robots.txt or not, expected to find interesting in the target link?

Bad submission.
Hm, been googling him but not much comes up besides mentions that he was lousy and made a surprise resignation at Linuxcare...
No one is arguing that the bell curves don't overlap.
Since when does a contest have to have a fixed number of winners? Having a startup to begin with is a contest; a contest against oneself and the company's rivals. In essence, you are accepting people to contend, and those applying are contending for spots in the program. For all intents and purposes, SFP _is_ a contest; perhaps just not one where there's a defined "winner" and a runner up.
Inflammatory article that makes many misleading statements.

downvoted. twice.
Right. But still a contest nonetheless. See my reply above.
Perhaps it won't happen in ten years. But I'd be willing to wager that it will happen in 75 years. In the real long term, for products like desktop environments that aren't niche products, open source can't lose.
It's a bit shallow to sum a 5000 word essay which spans the history of the FSF, the rise of linux, and the cultural friction between the two, viewed (oddly, but intruigingly) through the lens of one's editor with 'you said editor, let's not talk about editors' .. well it's sort of missing the point of the essay, IMO.
This is just flame fuel. We don't need to go there.
Even though I don't like him, I'm quite sure that in asia it would be Kiyosaki....

But it's true that from my experience a lot of people in the us have difficulties seeing the difference between japan and china.....
The Hudson Institute = right wing think tank = press release from them is meaningless.

Just as long as these guys don't get as much power as the PNAC did, we'll be fine.
Will email :-)
Very nice. I like the clean page design and dead-simple UI.

On Wamily, a subjective opinion: make the front page fit horizontally in the browser window with no scrolling (I am viewing this on a non-widescreen laptop with 1024 x 768 resolution) and maybe reconsider the color scheme. Orange on blue is not pleasing to my eyeballs' palette.
The Jim Cramer book (of all books) Confessions of a Street Addict chronicles his hiring and firing of a few clueless/alcoholic CEOs when he started his web venture.
Where are the Indian hackers?
Definitely. The economics of the thing are actually really nonsensical. A "home cinema system" of any serious quality is, at least for now, at least a thousand bucks. That buys a lotta movie tickets.

Just figured out a sixth point: re-run famous movies of yore. It's almost 100% profit on the ticket, as I understand it, and with the comfy seat + some sort of pre-movie kickoff drink, you attract fellow fans of said movie (cult movies are a plus), and you make more money on the sales.

I'd SO go to those for the movies I got in my all time top 10 list.
Ubuntu World Domination in Progress
Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites
I added a sixth point to the article that was kicked off by your comment. Thanks, danw!
Yahoo's Open Invitation
Many of the projects I've worked on have succeeded in spite of lousy tools, insane deadlines and other various hardships. Those experiences were the genesis of my personal philosophy that good people get the job done one way or another. Luckily the people I've worked with have all been pretty smart!
Great point. It reminds of a lot of scholarship applications. It sounds good, until you realize your chances. In some cases for scholarship money, you're better off trying to create your own wealth through a job or business idea.
Well, I need this explanation. Do Facebook Apps need to drive revenue or page views on the sponsor's website to be valuable? Aren't they valuable enough as a matter of branding?
In my experience in nanotechnology, green technologies and/or clean tech are the new buzzwords for VC's. I would be really interested in leveraging web applications for this up and coming industry. One great application might be a way to use the web for carbon credits. You bid on carbon credits, real-time. Think EBay goes green.

Another more cynical side of me thinks that this is "green-washing". Big companies want to appear friendly to the environment, when they really aren't.
<em>Lesson Five: You don't have to be a genius to do creative work.</em>

Creative work is not the providence of genius alone. It's part luck, part risky personality, and part intelligence.

I've begun to write on this extensively on my blog: http://myphdblogged.blogspot.com
Wow, beyond Facebook and YouTube, this has to be the first major use of the social-networking website towards a targeted group of constituents. Could more creative social-networking campaigning be coming? What would it be?
But four years makes a big difference.
It's kinda funny. Apple users are realizing that they should wait until the next release for something better. I guess it's true for any piece of technology.

For a technology company in a consumer electronics market, it's so rare to see them take their product off the market at its peak and then replace it. This is a common practice in the computing world, but not for consumer electronics, like TV's, etc.

It's taking some getting used to, as the market penetration for the iPod and related product is increasing. Are iPod users willing to consistently shell several hundred dollars every 1 to 2 years to keep up with newer, cooler products? The answer is yes if they can see the benefits.

Who knows? Maybe, this is the major move from iPod to iPhone.
Lovely dig. Greenspun's_Tenth_Rule is also encompassed as a point to top it all off :)
You are correct. Always, check your sources:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute
Any Brazil hackers around looking for startup partners?
Please drop a comment with contact details and areas of interest.
Agreed. For me, the worst piece of writing is:

That has several implications. One is that playing violent computer games can have beneficial effects.

Ummm... seems like a really rash conclusion based on scientific article.
Any thoughts on applying visual search technology to solve new problems?
Visual search technology (content-based image and video query-by-example) has been applied to some problems, namely: copyright infringement tracking, image retrieval, mature content filtering, quality assurance etc. Is there any other application left to be explored by startups?
Being that I'm relatively new to the *nix world (installed Ubuntu for the first time in May '07), I've been extremely glad to see such a great community behind the OS.

Ubuntu is taking over the world? Fine by me, I haven't looked back at Windows in 4 months.
The PNAC. I still cannot get over them. A perfect storm they rode, in plain sight, documented. Unbelievable.
I find it unbelievable that a bunch of guys whose job was to sit around and write papers were able to hijack the USA and destroy Iraq.
Agreed, hopefully an editor removes it soon...and submits it to Reddit to gain some karma!
Does Social Media Make You Dumb?
Educational software needs work, I agree. Someone should really make a better Blackboard...
Alrite, Lemme cut the BS, if you can Hack or Design.. Give me a shout
Ok, YC applications close in less than a month. And I am looking to do a "StartUpMonth"( not really, but im ready to getting my app going), in one month I want to grow and develop my startup. But of course I need GOOD persons to assist me.

I am looking for a Hacker/ Programmer who can and loves to code to develop backend.

Also looking for a Designer to develop the front end.

Looking for a 33.3 % split. All equal partners.
I have the basic precise, but its all open to suggestions after the team is formed.

A little stuff about me : http://redrory.com/about/

All interested apps: Email me: redrory (at ) gmail ( dot) com OR MSN : gemini_bwoy ( at) hotmail ( dot) com

ASaP

Thanks Much

---- Rory
What's Up at Lending Club? New Web Site and No Facebook Needed?
One of the biggest differences noted by the researchers was the emphasis put on a single story. While the mainstream media tended to revisit the same story from a different angle each day, users were happier dipping in to a variety of topics.

That's a big reason why I basically just never watch the news on TV.

"It was more hit and miss with a sense that they wanted to know a little about a lot of things," said Mr Rosenstiel.

Which is basically like the format of BBC World News Today (if it's still called that). It's a little bit about stuff going on all over the world. It's just the news, without all the self-important analysts clogging up airtime with commentary almost bad enough for YouTube.
robots.txt is not a security feature. It's a courtesy that saves resources and makes life a lot easier for everyone who is willing to play by the rules.
I think you're right. I over-simplified things.

But that doesn't mean I find the discussion on this page interesting. Editors are very utilitarian, and for some reason lots of people talk about them. Feel free to have at it. I'll refrain from comment and up-votes.
Check out omnigraffle (mac only).