skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, I suppose.

Of course, I find myself wondering - in what world is such a thing most likely to happen? In a world where lisp sits in obscurity, or one where some "revolting" lisp actually gets a significant developer base? :)
I should have been more clear. I am not. I meant we would do it, whether they do or don't.
If it's in Germany, then why is the ad in English?
I'm a hacker
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Both of the things you mention are directly work-related. Can you give some other examples of " things on the public Internet that reflects poorly on the candidate?"

For example, does posting something about anti-semitism reflect poorly on a candidate? How about a candidate that makes strong statements about the correlation between race and IQ?
Probably one of the HN moderators.
Congratulations to BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos!

Actually receiving the prize will stimulate more people to do ML research. I would be happy to see some other AI competitions similar to IOI, IMO or TopCoder with big publicity.

Netflix are pioneers in such challenges and have the opportunity to be some of the founders of such future competitions.
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Since there seems to be a tie, between this idea and another contestant below, I'd like to transfer all my points to this idea :) (as much for selfish reasons as the public good).

Also other comments suggesting the same things have points which they should get! :D
Axis does use fancy extrapolation. But yes, with Skycam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycam) awesome angles are possible. Baseball fields are too large for Skycam and the Skycam would probably interfere with play. For the NBA and NHL, Skycam is really impressive.
I also hire and I have two answers to that.

First, you are already supposed to ignore facts that you can see when hiring. For example, you are supposed to ignore that you are interviewing a person in a wheelchair, or that is of a different race/age/gender than you, and focus on their ability to meet your requirements. So, when I google (which as others have said, I do to check out open source activity - something I rate highly) I just try not to read personal stuff, and if I can't avoid it I do my best not to let it affect my decisions.

But...

Secondly: if you post content that is inappropriate under most social and professional circumstances under your own name, even if it personally does not ick me, then you show distinct lack of judgement. I quite like my people to show good judgement.

There are a myriad of ways to express yourself online without it ending up in the face of someone casually googling you. Certainly for a technical job, I would be perturbed if you showed blatant ignorance on how to do it.
In my expirience the the mix of XML and code quickly grows into a worse situation

It depends on how you do it. In any environment, there are ways that scale and ways that don't.

We've had very good results (seperation of concerns, plugability, extensiblity, blendability) using the ViewModel pattern, an IOC Container and Command objects.

The good part of WPF is that you can do all this, or other things, if you want. The same is not true of Windows forms. WPF enables some nifty ways to scale that are just not there in Windows forms.
He paid the price for being an early adopter. His first surgeries were in the early 80s IIRC.

Technology has advanced a lot since then. Just watch any sort of celebrity reporting on TV and try to make out who's modded and who isn't. As a matter of fact pretty much all A- and B-celebs are. But on many you can't tell or just barely.

With a nod to HN one might say that MJ was in perpetual beta in that regard...
You're deeply confused about what "working" means.

Ads work when they lead to conversions.

Public service ads work when they lead to a change in behavior.

Anyone want to bet $100 that there's absolutely no process in place to determine if all the money spent on this ad campaigns results in any change at all?
why all the negatives? I did have to hack the page to use it, still signed up though.
Somewhere at the height of his career, I believe he performed at some benefit concert that was broadcast on PBS. Being the only station I was allowed to watch at the time, and living in a rural community of about 2000 with very little pop culture, it was essentially the only exposure I had to him during his height of popularity.

At the time I remember thinking, "Who is this guy? I guess his song is kinda catchy." I don't remember which one it was.

I am sure I was in the minority.
My guess is that I don't ever want to know your attitude about that if we work together. I want to know your attitude towards things like continuous integration :-)
"Each button in the UI has to be tediously positioned and configured ... Windows UI programming is as tedious today as it was in 1995."

Clearly he's still doing Windows forms.

"When is Microsoft going to learn the real lesson about simplicity of HTML?"

About three years ago.

WPF ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation ) has been around since .Net 3.0 ( 21 November 2006 ). The XAML markup, where you don't have to "tediously position and configure" each element is heavily influenced by HTML, CSS and SVG.
"Let's take a moment to ponder this version and the Alto version, and just how many wasted instructions, layers of abstraction, frameworks, toolkits and outright cruft have gotten between the algorithm and the frame buffer in the intervening twenty-seven years. This program makes my phone hot. Hot, I tell you."

There is a great comment in there in need of a few minutes of silence out of respect: for the world that has changed, and for those who still know how a computer really works, all the way to the transistors.
Hilarious. But this sentence is great:

My standard of comparison for any technology will always be everything previously achieved by mankind, rather than what is available on the market today.

Exactly the right attitude, except here it seems to be harming this guy's life.
This is insane, not because you're wrong, but because popularity and quality should be equivalent for us. We have some of the very best natural language processing algorithms going over most of our posts - and several comments in this post are suggesting that they're failing miserably (in many important cases, I agree).

This is a problem with the community, not with the software.

One thing I dislike about the simple arrows is that they give no indication of on what basis posts should be upvoted. If, when clicking, we were forced to select from a menu vote types [+1 insightful, +1 clever, +1 informative, +1 antigroupthink, +0 I agree, +0 funny, -1 rude or troll], even if we did not track these, this would be giving people feedback on voting expectations and force them to pause for one second to put a bit more consideration into their vote.
With all due respect to Eric, his guess is as good as any one else's. I would be much more interested in reading his insight about business leadership.
Thanks for the comments - I'll definitely move it over

its written in PHP :)

Although my next project will surely be RoR
I've updated the right side - and will be updating those icons later this weekend:)
It's a community attempting to define its norms. I'd rather have "this is not an appropriate post for this site" upvoted to the skies than nearly silent removals of content deemed unacceptable or a ten page "me too!" AOLgasm.
I imagine that they set it to English to take the photos?
Cheap, fast, tasty, healthy. Choose the last or any combination of the first three.
Build something for someone that would have a pre rather than an iPhone. Email work flow, task management, a login to a Point Of Sale system.
What about the people who invested 12 million dollars in the company. How many YC round is that?
Not surprised.

I don't know why it took them $12M to figure it out though.
You say "feedback I've got from people". People will tell you what you want to hear and often don't really know. Most important ask customers or potential customers, listen to them.

And on the financial part lots of good ideas here and as usual minimize your expenses and find some income (part time, consulting) you can go a long way.

You need to believe in your cause and if you listen to the successful entrepreneurs they will tell you don't give up than you know what you need to do.

Set yourself specific limits now when it is time to stop (financially, emotionally), but when you agree to give up, give up fast and learn from it.
Jefferson had so many accomplishments that it's interesting to see the three that he picked as his most important:

http://www.mccullagh.org/image/13/thomas-jefferson-tombstone...
Maybe we should move to a 5-point rating system. A whole lot more data to work with!
I don't like capping, sometimes there are truly exceptional comments that deserve 99.9%ile rankings. What about some form of logarithmic decay? Perhaps the first upvote should not be worth the same as the 101st.
I agree that it's a lousy gauge, but it does seem to serve as a rough barometer, indicating bad weather.
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I've already taken out a substantial personal loan to supplement my savings when starting up the business. I've thought about looking for angels, but I'd like to have at least just one paying customer before that, so I don't have to completely give up the farm in terms of equity for whatever money they offer.
Done: http://github.com/srosro/tehcrowd/tree/master

In a month if anyone has built something cool with this code and wants the domain send me an email: firstname@lastname.com.
I'm not that concerned as to if WPF is novel. I am concerned if it is better than Windows forms. And that it certainly is.
(I just voted you up because I agree with you. Hrm.)
I think those people were investing in mostly La Meur's name and not his company. Keep in mind, we didn't see his sales pitches, which might have been very convincing.
I've been living on a (personal) variation of the South Beach diet for the past eight months or so. One mostly eats proteins and fats and only low glycemic index carbohydrates.

I was also raised on the typical foods: white bread, frosted flakes, white rice, etc. However, although cutting out the starches was difficult, it was not impossible. The hardest part was during the first two to three weeks. Probably partially because of chemical factors as well as psychological. Since then, it hasn't been too difficult at all.

I feel much healthier now and have lost a lot of extra weight I had been carrying around for years.

On the other hand, my diet is much more expensive. It takes a lot more protein to feel full than carbs, and proteins are more expensive.

The best thing about this diet is that, budget notwithstanding, I can actually live the rest of my life on it. It's not a binge type of diet which cannot be used for prolonged periods of time. It's very practical, as long as you can find the foods you need.
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Yes, especially since I've trained myself to think that carbs are so good.
its not over till its over :)
They're the same effing O/S. :rolleyes:
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The Chevrolet Volt has been getting a lot of attention. Maybe it is because some think it will be the saving grace for General Motors. Or it could possibly be that the GM PR machine is working overtime to combat the negative press that has been prolific over the last eight months.
There's a local (to me) startup called The Resumator that does a bunch of stuff related to hiring. It's mostly about dealing with CVs, but I think he supports automatic posting to a few sites.

http://www.theresumator.com/
Hey, raganwald, you jumped on my comment, not the other way around. I said, "it's not public if you publish it". You said, "it's personal, though". I'm not sure the hair-splitting card is in your hand to play.
Work with Zenter guys on a mobile side project
Google is great and all, but we love startups so much that we've started another one as a side project: www.fitnio.com

We're looking for one or more hackers to do any or all of the following:

* add features to the iPhone app (Objective C)

* add social features to our web site (Java / JavaScript)

* create an Android version (Java)

* create a Pre version (JavaScript)

* create a Blackberry version (Java)

We're offering equity in the (profitable) company in exchange for part time work. We work a couple hours a week and 1 weekend per month. Most of all, we're looking for fun people to work with on a fun project.

Email us at founders@fitnio.com if you're interested.
I don't care for OSX at all. I hate the way the window manager works, for one, and I don't like the model where I make changes and close instead of saving or applying, giving me the chance to stop the change. Maybe because I'm used to the way Windows works, but, nonetheless, at least for me, your statement is false.
Developing? Not developed?

Sorry, there are too many stories that start this way, and then vanish.
You people really do live in your own little world, don't you? The average person hasn't a friggin' clue what Ubuntu is, never mind thoughts of installing it on their computer. LMAO.
Seesmic "failed" because people love to comment anonymously.
Despite the introduction, this is not really about the controversy around the word "hacker" ... it's about hacker culture and making it more explicit. Perhaps I'm preaching to the choir here, and I'm sure you're sick of the semantics discussion ... but my point is that I'm sure some of us self-identify as hackers. Why not make it more explicit? Why don't we encourage the values of this culture more?
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Execution is important, no doubts there. And I agree that for mass products it is more important than vision. However, I think that if the product is targeted for a single customer or a small niche group then vision is way more important - users will tolerate much of the shortcomings in execution if they see a great future perspective and are excited about it.
Buy a $5 mouse and an OEM copy of Win 7 Ultimate from newegg for $89 (or whatever it turns out to be), like anyone with a brain did for Vista Ultimate.
They can thank their governments for that stupidity.
Awesome example of this I just found:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675881

The original post nor the reply are particularly interesting or insightful, yet the negative one is at -4 and the positive one is at 8.

Something goes here about how, "You can take the links out of Digg, but..."
How about removing the voting widgets on that page?
Is that an absolute or is it just our current reality?
Please don't do this. If you're going to work out (and you should!), you want to use a real routine. Here's a quick check: if your routine doesn't involve doing all of weighted squating, deadlifting, and benching every week, it's a bad routine (for beginners). Every day that you work out (and you shouldn't more than every other day) should be a full body workout. Skip all that crappy machine work, there's really no substitute for a barbell. I suggest either doing the Starting Strength or Stronglifts routines (google them). Also, don't forget to do research into what to eat. If you're trying to gain weight, eat 500 calories above your maintainence level every day, if you want to lose it eat 500 under.

Don't just make up your own routine. It'll certainly be ineffective and could lead to muscle imbalances and injuries.
Book from the Sivers list's question:
"How to create maximum profit with minimal effort" (Mark Joyner, the Great Formula)

Book from TriinT's list's question:
"What is the nature of reality, and how does it work?" (Feynman lectures of physics)

Surely, we can all agree the second question is more interesting.
I agree with you completely. If I wanted to get self-righteous about being passed over for a job for knowing the words to "Title and Registration", I lost my leg to stand on when I posted it here.
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Although I've gotta say, Canada seems to have some pretty hard-core PSAs:

http://www.metafilter.com/70806/There-really-are-no-accident...
Besides the USPTO link isn't any better. Here is the patent on Google Patents: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MAUgAAAAEBAJ&dq=U...
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I think it's more accurate to say "choose any two of the four." Certainly there are ways to have tasty and healthy or fast and healthy foods, but you may miss out on the other things.
Glad you added this link for discussion. I've been curious about crossfit for sometime and I'd love to see HN comments about it. I like that it kind of challenges conventional wisdom.
It is, and it isn't funny, or clever. Flagged for stupidity.
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The Clojure user who is missing some routine or other will run crying to Java for help, rather than implementing the feature himself correctly.... Clojure pisses on everything I’ve ever loved about Lisp.

In other words, Clojure bypasses a major part of what everyone hated about Scheme and Common Lisp, the unfortunate combination of inclination, culture, and fragmentation that prevented the natural development of a library ecosystem like the ones enjoyed by Perl and Java. Furthermore, this guy's comments reveal that for some Lisp hackers, at least, the bias against libraries was real and not accidental. To guys like this, the desire to just install a library and get the job done stands right beside "too many parentheses" as a stupid noob concern that a real Lisper will grow out of. Let's hope Clojure represents a symbolic moving-on from this self-defeating and chauvinistic attitude.
Of course, it's entirely possible that the book being reviewed didn't cover WPF. Maybe it's not fully supported, maybe the authors chose not to cover it, maybe any of a lot of things happened.
Keep in mind that their widget has been on every page on TechCrunch for a long time (Arrington is an investor).

They really failed :(.
But its possible that it has an immense bearing on their work. Likewise having 10 years experience doing one thing could have either incredible relevance or none at all. Its a matter of likelihoods and what society has deemed acceptable for making hiring decisions.
"Hype: you're doing it wrong."
they seem to see it as their mission to make sure no one else uses it

I don't think they necessarily do - they're just saying what they think, but then other people read it and get annoyed (justifiably.)

That's the thing with blogs, the entire world can hear your opinion, and sometimes it would have been better if they didn't.
It's definitely obvious - I agree. It's only a matter of time before this model becomes prevalent. The next milestone is for Hulu to reach critical mass. The networks still make much more money with cheap, high-volume ads from the millions of TV watchers in the U.S. that haven't switched yet.
I agree growing things is the way to go, and it's worked for me. Mistakes in some areas are harder to fix, such as in public APIs that others rely on - but they still can be fixed by deprecating older approaches. It's painful; but perhaps even worse to keep delaying til it's perfect...

A hard one is patents: you can't patent after launching, selling or even demoing it publicly, so you have to finalize the design well-enough to describe it in detail, without the benefit of experience with actual users.

You can file a provisional application beforehand, but it has to be as complete as a full application, because you can't add materially to it. I Believe that in the USA, you can apply up to a year after inventing it, but you'll still need sufficiently good documentation to be able to prove that the invention date, if challenged. A meticulously kept notebook is probably sufficient.
If you like great poetry check out the drafts of Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for a Doomed Youth' - Sigfreid Sassoon helped him redraft it into possibly the most iconic WW1 poem, but the original version was relatively weak. Fascinating to see the changes, for example:
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Agreed, this would be closer to a correct outcome. Especially for users like me who generally comment in offpeak times (being on the other side of the world) and usually come to a discussion many many hours after it has long died down, so his comments remain at the bottom of the page, ignored.
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It's not that you should avoid upvoting what you agree with, just that it shouldn't be the only reason you upvote. A lot of the posts that violate this simply bait existing divisions, which contributes nothing. Perhaps I should add "and people don't need to see that which they already agree with."
Nothing wrong with being an idealist, sure. There is something wrong when someone goes out of his way to criticize something for no reasons other than "it doesn't fit how I think things should be".

For a proper criticism, I would have liked at least a little more explanation of the advantages of actually using Lisp all the way down.

I'll try my hand at that: having a system built out of a few simple types of parts interacting in tons of different ways also leads to flexibility and power. Ant hives and bee colonies work in similar ways, one individual alone is useless and will probably die soon, and having a whole mass of ants just meandering around won't get you anything. Now, create a few (by which I mean very very few) rules for what happens when an ant meets another ant, and immediately you get a structure out of it.

For example, ants have the property of laying down pheromones. The interaction rule is knowing to follow another ant's pheromones (there are some subtleties with detecting certain types, for sure, like danger signals, but we'll keep things simple). If an ant doesn't have a trail of pheromones to follow, it will wander using its senses to find food.

Combine all of this and you end up with a system that gives you the quickest way to a food source. Simply because ants who have found the shortest route to a food source will probably return soonest, and other ants follow the pheromone trails they lay down.

Note that there's no real comparison method where all the ants sit down, compare notes, and try to figure out who has the shortest path. It emerges naturally.
Is it open for registration? I tried signing up but I'm getting this:

"There was an error signing you in. Please ensure that you entered your email and password correctly."
Whether they reflect poorly or not is a matter of personal philosophy. If I was face with someone who was blatantly racist, it would reflect poorly on their suitability for a job where they to interact with people who would take offense to such views. For such things, a decision would depend on how negative I anticipated that interaction to be. This is no different from not hiring someone based on their poor social skills during an interview. It is in public and they must expect it to be scrutinized and associated with them.
Thank you! I was going to ask if I could look at the source code to learn from, and now I can!
"The early bird catches the worm. But the second mouse gets the cheese!"

More examples of second mouses: Google (search, gmail etc.), flickr, Skype, del.icio.us ...
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