skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: I would love to hear what exactly is "offending" people in the following.

"Any one hiring in india?"

As far as I can see all the jobs above are in the United States.

(Edit : changed order of paragraphs to address Paras's comment below)

Most software companies in India are either body shoppers (TCS, Wipro, Infosys) or are "Offshore Developement Centres" (ODC) (e.g IBM, Intuit, etc) which do crap work no one in the US offices want to do. Neither type needs or inspires great engineers.

Indian companies aren't (by and large) startups and/or doing technically sophisticated things, which is what would need great (vs just decent, or worse) engineers.). When you have an industry dominated by outsourcing/ODC it is hard to find a engineering focussed organizations.

Even the India centres of great companies like Google or Yahoo do (comparatively) uninteresting work - I have friends in both Google Bangalore and Yahoo Bangalore and they confirm this. Yahoo Blr does mostly operations , the "Yahoo Research" division in Bangalore is a joke. Google Bangalore is not much better, though it has a couple of US returned engineers who are decent but by and large no really great projects happen here. Goog blr doesn't have much of a reputation within Google either.

To get the kind of jobs advertised here, one of two things needs to happen (1) India develops its own rich ecosystem of technically sophisticated startups (except a couple of very small unfunded startups, most are just trying to copy existing ideas and don't need any skills beyond pretty generic php mysql etc) or (2) great engineers in India should be able to telecommute for the startups advertised here.

Neither situation exists today, which is a tragedy. I know seriously good people who don't want to go through the visa/greencard grind and so are stuck in awful jobs.

All that said, I'll be glad to be proved wrong. If there are any Indian startups which are (1) funded (enough to apay a decent salary) (2) doing (technically) interesting things and (3) looking for great engineers, I hope they add a job listing here.
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Online chat rooms come with a number of benefits such as finding friends and online dating etc., they are certainly not immune to online security issues. We can easily come across so many people from different backgrounds and this can be a highly enriching experience. This also poses a major security risk to us because we will never know about the person at the other end
Maybe, but as numerous people have said before, there are likely thousands of businesses that have internal websites that only work with IE6.
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What do you mean "starring/flagging items for later"?
1. To read an article later as you have no time now.
2. To save a read article for later reference.

I use google reader, so:

For 1. I just keep items unread (key 'm'). This means I keep all my 'unread' and 'read-for-later' items in the same list in the same view in the reader.

For 2. I do not flag/star anything for reference as I trust Google Reader's search options to find stuff in the feeds. Google will find things way more easily than any scheme I think of to keep stuff referenced.

For your question: Why use 'star' or 'flag' at all as they have inherent semantic meaning depending on the person.

Why not leverage that to its fullest and just say 'marked/unmarked' and leave it up to the user to define what it means.
I'm going to side with Dvorak here. "University of Maryland, University College" is a correspondence school. These days they also have online classes of course. They offer only nontechnical majors, including Information Systems Management (they do not offer CS, Math, Physics, etc). I believe many of the courses at UMUC aren't even accepted as transfer credits to the University of Maryland.

The bottom line is that everyone who has gone to school at a state school in maryland knows that "University of Maryland" == "College Park". To list UMD as where you got your degree when you went to UMUC is both technically incorrect, and intentionally misleading.
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I don't like it... I LOVE it.
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"I think their strategy of using Silverlight [..] is brilliant."

Brilliantly evil, perhaps. All these stupid problems moving off IE6 have been because of people using, then relying on, proprietary, non-standard additions to the browser. It seems like a good idea at the time; a few years later it's an albatross around your neck.

So here we are, a few years later - lesson learnt? Hardly. The "solution" to losing IE6's proprietary, non-standard additions to the browser is to use another proprietary, non-standard addition to the browser. Wonderful. In 6 years time they'll be going through the whole process again - finally we can dump silverlight!. Perfect for MS, of course, they couldn't care less as long as you're still using Windows.

Anyway, luckily consumer web developers did learn the lesson, which is why Silverlight will never achieve any real penetration in the consumer market.
"Build a tiny portion of the idea"

Yes, this is the solution, the more you go with it the more you expand it. When it reach a certain level, it would be more interesting to VC and investors.
So to be clear, you think the reason that people need Microsoft Windows on netbooks is because Microsoft Office doesn't have a documented and interoperable file format.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying this is one of those malice/incompetence things when you should really lean towards malice. Blaming competitors (as it appears you are doing) is just mean, they've generally done a heroic job reverse engineering .doc to the point where they do a better job than Microsoft in some cases.
Directi are doing some very interesting things. They're not VC funded, but that's because they've been profitable from day one. They've also started recruiting from outside India.
I agree.

Imagine gathering the hundreds of people that worked on the Apollo missions and fitting them in the room that housed the project's main computers. They might all fit. Then tell them before most of them were dead they would be able to put all of those computers in their pocket.

Ok. Now imagine that we don't kill ourselves for the next thousand years. What are going to be able to do? What about ten thousand?

I'm going to state this, on behalf of all of humanity:

1) We're not alone. The universe is teeming with life much like this planet is.

2) What's technologically possible is bound only by the extent of our future imagination.

3) The planet will eventually be controlled by mild-mannered nerds like the ones reading HN. The internet planted the seed that will grow the tree whose fruits will destroy tyranny.

So it is written.
Even if he learns a new signature from your site?

Sorry, but handwriting may be one factor in the expression of a persons identity, but it is by no means the most important one, and to pretend so puts you so far outside of the mainstream as to render the project outside of my interests.
The best way to see the US is to drive it. I do it once a year and recommend it to everyone I know. I find that spending a couple of days driving through plains and desert is like defragging your mind. And when you finally hit a coast, it's a thrilling sense of accomplishment.

I personally couldn't do this. I absolutely hate airports. Good luck.
Are hackers too young and too busy bettering their lives?
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What are eigen values?
We looked at some of the international taxes/fees.

Most were between $60-$70. Highest we found were $110.

So it's definitely a great deal if you stay in the U.S. If you go International the math becomes more complex.

Still, one of my roommates booked it and others are considering it.
Your title is not what the bug report says.

The problem is that functions should not go in json (when you create json), but regex's are sort of functions, so the question is if they should go in the json anyway. The question is not if they should be treated as functions.
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I was under the impression that IE5 for Mac (with its Tasman rendering engine) was the most standard compliant browser at that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(layout_engine)

And it proved how ahead of its time it was by also being abandoned by Microsoft before they allowed IE6 to stagnate on Windows when they realised that good browsers and a viable web weren't in their business interests.

The author is correct that if Micrsoft went full bore for web standards, not only would they be commiting suicide by undermining their own Office and desktop OS monopolies, they'd destroy Adobe in the process. Luckily for Adobe they're not taking that course.

(I really can't tell if you're serious about thanking Microsoft for AJAX, being forced to build rickety technologies on top of whatever random ActiveX functionality they leave lying around isn't something I'm thankful for)
It's either us or them - personally, I choose the former.
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Poll: Who has been exposed to swine flu?
I've been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus
I've have been in contact with someone that was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus but have not contracted it myself
I have not been in contact with anyone who has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus yet and have not been diagnosed with it myself
Yammer just moved to SF and is looking for some engineers: http://jobs.yammer.com/
Arg. Must remember not to post random shit when delirious. Deleting.
That link was _not_ what I expected. It was a rockroll.
I guess I'll just have to aspire to be a tremendous dork then. It's worth it!
Why satisfy/dignify Dvorak's need for attention with a direct response? What should they do when the next person makes a claim? And the next? And the next? Why don't they have a direct line with Lou Dobbs or Glenn Beck?
The growth of the IT industry in India was very fast. It did not grow organically like it did in the US. Most of the work in India is outsourced work and this means that the Indian IT industry grows as fast the IT industries in the outsourcing countries. This inorganic growth is showing its ugly faces now.

A big issue I see frequently is that smart people do not have the opportunity to grow in India. This cannot be blamed on the system though. If you are smart, you ought to find other smart people and hang out with them. It is through sharing we grow and it was how the hacker community in the silicon valley and other similar hubs developed.

I think that the hackers in India should come together to form a platform from where they can start sharing ideas and innovate. Waiting for the other 99.9% of the so called IT industry to correct itself and follow the path of innovation and solve real hard problems is not worth at all.

If you are smart person or a hacker in India, (you are if you are reading this) you ought to make up your mind, find like-minded people and start engineering good systems. That is how every thing good in this world started.
After thinking about it for quite some time, I've decided that, in my opinion, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most important picture ever taken. While many argue that non-repeatable and awe-inspiring human events should be the root of "the most important picture," the HUDF shows that no matter how significant those pictures might seem, they are absolutely nothing on the scale of what really exists out there. A grain of sand on an infinite beach. I have never encountered any other picture that comes close to inspiring the simultaneous fear, awe, and wonder that this picture inspires. Thoughts?
As everyone else said, Skyline Blvd.

You can see them from the city tonight. I saw one just now from my apartment in the Mission. It's unusually clear outside.
You might be interested in an earlier post by axod, where he said that only 5% or so really blocks ads. It's just a very vocal minority.

Edit: Seems it was 6%, amongst Firefox users. The post is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526771

2nd edit: And this describes the entire experiment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604437
Yes, release early and iterate
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Find engineers that you think would know how to approach the unknowns of your idea. Ask them about components of the parts that you don't understand.

If you don't have time to build it: find someone who might want to use it and tell them about it.
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Wikipedia states that there has been 226,682 reports and 219,681 laboratory confirmed cases worldwide. With 2,047 suspected and 1,882 confirmed deaths.

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http://flowingdata.com/

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/

for examples.
The FarmVille (#1 app on Facebook) team that is hiring devs and PMs.

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I really, really hate these types of articles.

I manage the IT for a non-public school. We accept kids who are too disruptive to be in the public schools so we deal with several school districts extensively. So I have friends in the IT departments of just about every Southern California school district.

Given that experience I can say with some authority that this "high level thinking" means nothing until someone can solve the practical problems with getting technology into schools

Just one example, most school districts have something in the area of 1 support staff per 5 to 10 schools. You start deploying large technology outlays and make them integral to the lesson plans of the class and the need for support staff shoots up to 1 per school. So just getting the computers in the classroom requires 10 times more staff AND the money for the computers. While this very article cites how scarce money is.

Every IT person I know who works for a school district would love to see technology used in the classroom more. Many would work day and night if they felt there was a chance to make real changes. But the hurdles to getting there are seemingly insurmountable only serves to demoralize the people facing those hurdles.
Invercargill would proberly be a pretty good place for it, If they have decent DSL or better. I'm expecting it to be a good combination of cheap living with the benefits of a (small) city but may be wrong on both counts!
Sure. But they did it.
BTW, it's worth noting that most of the routes you list above are not non-stop flights on JetBlue. You will have to connect for most of those. (JetBlue won't even let me book a flight from Chicago to the west coast, for example.)
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Yea I can see if it has utility right now but it's really a temporary fix to the problem. I think it detracts from the better goal of making rich web apps that run without a browser and the gradual blur between desktop and web apps.
So basically there are two things. Sending usage data and GPS location. The first is not a big deal and most people are ok with that, but...

How can ANYONE be ok with sending their GPS location?
I just saw one from my balcony in Mountain View, so if you're too lazy to hop in the car, there's still hope. You'll get better views away from the light pollution, though.
Build an MVP and try it out.

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=748057

- http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product

Also, talk about your idea to as many people that you trust as possible, getting feedback is really important, especially in the early stages of a project. Don't keep it secret as that won't serve you well for developing and executing your idea.
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could not get you thrown in jail

Apparently I was half-asleep when I wrote that. I meant "could get you thrown in jail", of course...
Interesting experiment...
I'd love to see you put on some AdSense ads on it.
Thats an interesting bit. Thinking about numbers that is. But if you think about Singularity, it might seem like that might happen much sooner than you think.
Just trying to put somewhat of a box around what the "cloud" is. Especially since we're getting (I feel) saturated with the term. I put Linode and Slicehost in a non-cloud category because you pay by the month and the options for programmatic instantiation are limted. But yeah, I acknowledge that the lines get blurry.
Having worked with a startup in the valley this summer as a rising college freshman, I've come to realize this in the past 2 months. Maybe the scope of my dreams is a little too narrow. Thanks for this, it was a good reminder to diversify.
Who's voting this crap up? Seriously, does this trash deserve a #1 spot on the front page?
"just" might be an overstatement: I wouldn't know how to go about it, and I would feel uneasy about using a hack for professional development.
There are always much more big ideas than I have a time, so I am always try to forget them early to prevent myself from distraction.

Really great ideas will come back and if they show up few times then it is time to take a closer look to them.
I can think of a few reasons:

- Pets
- TV
- Fridge/Pantry
- Kids/Wife/Husband/Roommates

Beyond that, there are many opportunities for your non-work life to interrupt your work life. It's a culture thing, being that there is absolutely no work culture at your home where there is one at a place with others.

I'm actually in the process of setting up a coworking facility down here in Atlanta. We're going to have two rooms to satisfy both camps: The Loud Room and The Quiet Room. Each caters to a specific goal and lets people use the space they want to without inconveniencing others. It's sort of a coffee shop next to a library. Best of both worlds :)
Me.

I realize that here at HN we don't really do humour, mostly because I think we fear turning into Reddit with useless gigantic threads of people making sophomoric jokes and bad puns.

And I admit that that link was sophomoric. But given some of the large personalities that get linked from this site and the general tone of HN, I thought this piece of humour was very welcome. It lets everyone here laugh out loud about themselves, their ambitions and this community in general.

Many of those rockstar programmers are probably rockstars in the sense of Spinal Tap.
flagged ... partly for its inanity, but more so because I don't want to see more of these types of submissions
I've flagged it as well, but I don't think flagging is all that useful. pg has said that after 10 upvotes, flags won't automatically kill a submission. So we're just waiting until a mod sees this.

I don't know if more flags makes it more likely that a mod sees it, especially if we take into account that this submission is #1.
I'm pretty concerned by the upvoting and commenting patterns going on in this post... This is absolutely a Reddit-mentality thread, and, looking at the other comments, it is mostly liked by people who enjoy making one-liner jokes (i.e. reddit folks).

Hey, Reddit folks, you came to the wrong site - go back to Reddit. Kthx.
Heh. Our actual interview question is similar but we ask them to add instead of multiply. We ask them to add up all positive whole numbers equal to or less than x. Good developers (who make it to the next round) bang out the answer in literally 30 seconds. Ok developers (who still make it to the next round) usually struggle for a while, maybe implementing it non-recursively first. The other 70% just type nonsense until I cut them off after 15 minutes.

If somebody makes a mistake I tell them and give them hints until they fix it. Well... it depends on the magnitude of the mistake I suppose. If they're not even in the right ballpark I keep my mouth shut.
dammit, couldn't this story come around 2 weeks from now.

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I gathered you must have had some bad experiences with your own doctors. That's unfortunate.

There are drug guidelines for a reason: they are evidence based on the current literature. Of course they follow the path with the most evidence behind it.

My take would simply be collect some evidence. Then get someone excited. Someone wants to make their mark - this would be a relatively simple study if what you say is repeatable amongst the general CF population.
I upvoted it for a bit of perspective, which is always relevant. It reminded me that, outside of this particular culture, there's a whole world of people who have never heard of the people that we look up to. If I wore a shirt that said "pg was right" for a week straight, I would maybe run into 3 people that have any idea what it's talking about.

I would probably get far more comments on the fact that I'm wearing the same shirt for a week.
Just got back from the nearest canyon. Filtered out the light pollution nicely and saw 41 meteors in about 50 minutes.
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There was a series of pictures here a while ago about some guy that built a castle by his own hands. It doesn't really matter what you have available to you today, what matters is if you can keep your goal in sight over an extended period and persevere until you've realized your vision.

It's amazing what you can do once you really focus on something.