skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look for things that are directly applicable to the posting I have up.

I dislike seeing filler like "SVN", or "Word". I hate it when people list every piece of software they've ever touched. Tell me what's relevant and I'll assume that's not the full corpus of your computer using career.

Here is a snippet of something I pulled out of a random resume from my 'rejected' file:

MS Office, DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP/ASP.Net, C#,
VB/VB.Net, AJAX, JAVA, SQL

This was for a C# gig. I don't care at all about Windows 3.1. Or MS office for that matter.
I originally had a few lines about how it would "just" be usable for static analysis, debugging, etc. otherwise, but that would still be worthwhile. I haven't looked into StrongTalk yet though, so thanks. :)
I learned a new word: exfiltrated

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exfiltrated
Author seems to forgot. People doesn't use Non-SQL DBs because Famous X site uses that. Most people choose those because it is easy to use for most of use cases, and often that is what they needed instead RDBMS.

Sometime RDBMS are perfect solution. Most of the time simple key-value(or JSON based) DB.
We created a new compiler front end that allowed LLVM to understand ActionScript 3 and used its existing ARM back end to output native ARM assembly code. We call this Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation—in contrast to the way Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR function on the desktop using Just in Time (JIT) compilation.

"AOT Compilation"?! Amazing!! They should patent this!

but yeah, sounds pretty cool.
PACER data is now being collected and made available to the public by the RECAP project run by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton.

https://www.recapthelaw.org/how-it-works/
How To: Pick an iPhone app icon color
These games are actually more boring than watching paint dry. It's sad that people find this more interesting than their work.
It is the sports page. Even if it wasn't, how would a journalist segue from this to investment and careers?

"In other news, no matter how shrewd you are, you will never achieve a fraction of Tiger Wood's net worth. But let's talk about 401k plans, anyway."

or maybe

"If you happen to be rich, remember, Tiger Woods got there by playing golf - you had to spend 20 years trading natural gas futures in Calgary."

There doesn't seem to be a great angle...
This information could be extracted from historical data. "See what people that were like you (four or five years ago) like now".
There are C interpreters around, like "cint" -- http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint -- which is somewhat more stable, having been around since 1995.

This C-REPL one seems to have the advantage of using gcc directly while cint is basically its own compiler.

If being able to "evaluate" C code like that gives you some ideas, you might want to have a look at "libtcc" -- which seems to be getting some development love again compared to last time I looked at it (finally an x86-64 target). (I have some higher level code that converts well to C that libtcc or a gcc/dlopen approach would be nice for)
Thank goodness they aren't as bad a case as AT&T. I'm still waiting for some Apple-y goodness to rub off on them.
For any of us using hosting services from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. this should be a wakeup call.

Next time we should coordinate, and pull a "Spartacus".
What alleviates more suffering: when I do volunteer work in Africa or when I work as <whatever> here and donate a substantial amount of my income to the Red Cross? Me comforting some children dying of AIDS or me supplying the means for a hundred blankets in a refugee camp?

Just saying if you have freedom, you should use it wisely.

Who's going to be the judge of that? It would suck pretty bad if Elon Musk had decided to spend his life in Africa as a volunteer, now wouldn't it?
He would be able to make twice as much in salary if he went to Europe but he'd probably lose more money in the long-run by not playing in the NBA.

I get the feeling that Lebron will be able to leverage the Chinese ties which a new minority owner of the Cavs has and find a way to tap into the fledgling basketball market in China. Yao Ming has opened up a gigantic market for the NBA and someone is going to make a lot of money off of it.
Even if CS5 won't include it at launch, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before there will be a full-fledged library of "iPhone-like" controls available.

Besides, Apple can be as anal as they want about interface consistency before they approve something to the App Store, and they're probably not thrilled by this. They can use the interface excuse to great effect if they choose, to neutralize the effectiveness of this tool by simply rejecting many Flash apps.
IPhone App Video Mirroring
Being different and being good are orthogonal.

Anyway, here's the thing about "relaying ideas". Nobody will be able to receive them if your message is garbled by incorrect spelling or style. Your idea might be good, but if nobody can understand it, nobody will ever know about it.

Stick to standard English and you should be fine. If you want to do something like not use words with "e" in them, that is also fine. But spelling "you" as "u" just makes you look illiterate, and ideas from illiterates are usually not well-received.
sitting in multi-touch session at AdobeMAX... yes, for iPhone. Will check out the AIR session (for "mobile") on Wed.

A lot of sessions that were titled "for Mobile" have changed to "for iPhone": http://arno.org/arnotify/2009/10/max-2009-adobe-air-2-0-and-...
That is funny, I started thinking about fencing (or rather sword fighting in general) a couple of weeks ago.

Do you by chance have the link to his article? My google-fo seems week.
AVG 9 Antivirus Adds Significant Enhancements in Speed and Protection
It used to mostly be playing, trading, collecting, teaching, and admiring guitar. And audio production. I owned a boutique guitar store (high-end, appointment only) on the side, and I still own a recording studio and mobile unit. I find that my formal business interests are now crowding everything else out because I simply enjoy it more. I was so into guitar (interest, time, and money-wise) for so long that I'm trying to force myself to give it a rest. [Well, to be fair, I also had some paralysis for a while that helped slow me down.] I haven't taught in a while, no longer play out, and the studio is professionally managed and run by others now...so it has become too difficult to justify to the wife why I need $750,000 worth of guitars to entertain myself. She thinks one guitar and one amp should suffice. Philistine! ;)
Microsoft's 'MultiTouch' Mice
The Simpsons meets Social Media
The Simpsons discover Twitter, Facebook and blogging.
Facebook publishes Gross National Happiness index, based on status updates
In rural Africa, a fertile market for mobile phones
Ask HN: how would you help a person to choose an occupation?
This isn't an abstract problem: I have a very close person in my life, who's 25 and he does not have specific skills. He works in the office as an HR, hates his job and wants to change his life. We agreed, that he will quit his job (having enough savings) soon after we choose what is he going to learn to do in life. The problem is, he does not really know what could that be and feels completely lost.

I would like to help him very much, not just seem like I'm helping. So, I decided it would be not such a bad idea to come up with a certain algorithm (which, possibly was used before or could be reused in future for others). While I believe certain personal aspects should be involved when helping to make such a decision, I still can't get rid of an impression there should be some general abstract patterns of which I'm not aware.

What would you do? Any ideas or suggestions?
House Republicans call for delay in net neutrality vote
There are like 5-10 top apps built with Unity3D such as Zombieville USA that is Mono based and cross compiled. So in short, now they love them because they make money from them (30%).
Massive interview with fantasy author Janny Wurts
Balls of steel mate. Respect.

EDIT: Apparently your webserver is a little less resilient though. :-p
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862216 w/link to paper
I found the conclusion of this author, and, presumably, the scientists, to be questionable.

Rather than to praise "the body" for "knowing 40 cards before the brain, which deck was the bad deck", I would submit that no praise is necessary.

We all learn, eventually, to discount failed trials in the experiments of daily survival. We don't quit asking out girls the first 10 times in a row we're shot down. We don't quit fishing the first 10 times we come back empty handed. We don't quit trying to light a fire, the first 10 times the spark from our rock doesn't ignite our dry grass.

We do, eventually, figure out when the game is rigged. When the girls are married, the fish are sleeping, and grass isn't really that dry, we do, eventually, give up. We're not idiots. However, we've learned that the body is not as smart as we are. Too often, it's told us to quit, when, by ignoring it, we've succeeded. The body's responses are the instinctive, reptilian responses of the cortex, while we succeed on this planet by using our mammalian frontal lobe to find less obvious solutions.

So ...

My point is that, the scientists rigged a test, where the reptilian response of our body was the correct one, and then brag about how smart our body is. In this instance, like a stopped clock, it happened to be right. But I'm not trading in my frontal lobe just yet.
Not to be negative but why the perception that someone spelling "you" as "u" is illiterate?

Also if you look at my all posts I personally use the full form and correct spellings (thanks spell checks) of words. My movement was not just limited to the use of incorrect spellings but also HN not excepting any idea other than their own. It makes it look like fashion where the real review are done by only people in Milan or New York, for the rest these reviews are just copied and translated.
Community: The American Way of Living
I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm sure he didn't mention one thing I did. I answered all the support emails, and I tried to personalize every one of them with a joke or something. And put my real name and email.
Moving Hippos in the Post-9/11 World
It's worth noting that Kevin himself didn't use these tricks to go from "one to one million", and already had many fans and lots of momentum by the time Digg was launched. He was already a celebrity of sorts and even used his later appearances on the Screensavers show to plug Digg.
Actually Perl is more like the crazy cute you wonna slap yourself on the face for ever letting her go!

The madness was too much, and you wanted sanity, but now that you know better, you know that the madness is the only thing that could save your spirit today! But its too late and you are so sane!

You are happy to hear that she is doing well, but the better truth is, your are happy to know that you could have been happier! It gives you hope that maybe you still can do better!
I kind of agree... but how would you do it in a controlled way is absolutely incomprehensible question...
Yes, but the "people in charge" would logically be the stock holders through the board of directors, not the top management in any case. In many ways, the situation where management has enough equity to control the company is the worst, since they can essentially siphon the rest of the company's equity off in bonuses covering this up by inflating the value of the company - indeed, one might well argue that the class of investors has already completely dispossessed by a class manager/"investors" through exactly this process.
Rock climbing, mountaineering, backpacking, SCUBA, sailing, aviation, traveling, snowboarding, having fun!
Steve Blank: Ardent 1 - Supercomputers Get Personal
It is interesting that not many people talk about this personal brand or reputation building when it comes to successful Entrepreneurs.
He designed it.
It looks to me like the FBI was wondering why exactly this was a crime.
Right. The only explanation offered for the shootings was muggings. I wonder how much that explains, though. There are certainly those, but also gangsta stuff as the parent post notes; crimes of passion; drunken idiots; and on and on.

Seems like a stupid study, as we really can't draw any kind of conclusions from it.
It could have used some more info… On one of my screens I have a lot of red icons. It's probably just depending on what YOU use.

But that's something I have noticed for the Mac as well: a lot of the icons I have are in the blue-purple range. Again, probably because of what I use.
I think you misinterpreted the results. The point is that better bodily awareness enhances other cognitive abilities which sounds quite reasonable.
yes, I was not trying to stress their nationality (one has dual anyway).
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A guide to Android: March into the mainstream
FTC: Bloggers must disclose payments for reviews
Honestly, this makes no sense. It doesn't matter how famous you are - if your product sucks, people won't use it. Look at Ashton Kutcher's Blah Girls. It's a miserable failure - even though he's much, much, much more famous than a mere Kevin Rose - because no one really needed to see cartoon girls do a weak TMZ imitation.

I think people like to chalk up Digg's success to Kevin's "celebrity", where in reality, he's a nobody and Digg actually is a really, really good product for the niche it's serving.
Pulse or no pulse is not relevant for the results. They just needed some metric to measure bodily awareness.
You can't do anything.

I know that's not the answer you want to hear, but it's the correct answer. People aren't truly happy until they are following a passion. For many people, passion isn't profitable; or at least not as profitable as they feel it should be.

Your friend has a few things to discover. First, the passion. This is step one. Without this, life will always be a void of meaningless motions. You can't help here. He must find it on his own. About the only thing you can do is encourage him to try anything and everything until he finds this passion. It might take a while. He must not stop until he finds it. If he's wondering if he's found it, he hasn't.

Once that happens, he has a choice to make. Find a way to turn his passion into profit, or failing that, find something that he is content doing to sustain himself so that he can pursue the passion. It isn't often that your passion is lucrative. In many cases, it actually costs you money. There must be a "second calling" that he can use to fund the passion. Again, you find this out by trying many things, and only by actually trying many things.

Most people never find their passion. The things that people asked them they would be when they grew up are either long forgotten or inconceivable. I will tell you that they are not - they're simply unrealized. Sure, you may not be able to play QB for the 49ers, but there are modifications of this passion that can be expressed. You must follow this lead if you are to be happy. Passions also change throughout life. I for example, am completely passionate about my sons. I've gladly supplanted some of my previous passions to spend more time shaping these two people. We make these choices from time to time in life, and that's okay.

A personal journey though is exactly that. It's not something that you can really contribute to aside from encouraging. You in fact must realize that the journey itself may not align with your own, at least temporarily.

You can't use faith/religion to solve scientific problems, so don't expect to use math to solve emotional/spiritual ones. Your heart is in the right place, but this is his path to take.
I'd really like to know why they had a pound of liquid mercury. Samurai swords I understand - who doesn't want a few of those? But a pound? Of mercury? (Come to think of it, mercury is pretty heavy - how much volume is a pound?)
I don't know much about what PACER includes and what exactly is covered by Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis, but Altlaw (http://altlaw.org) is a "free, full-text, searchable database of U.S. case law", and I've heard it being mentioned in the context of Lexis-Nexis. Also has the extra cool aspect of having been done by Stuart Sierra, whom all the Clojure folks around here probably know well.
The author is trying to convey his passion to other people when they ask him what he does so it certainly is not besides the point.
I recently noticed the prominence of blue icons as well, and thought to myself "If I ever make an iPhone app, the icon will not be blue."
You can't sell it without a writing a [certified] check for the difference or getting the bank to agree to a short sale. True that people in dire financial straits may not be able to do the former, but the latter is not out of the question.
Artists work with an entirely logical medium as well. There is nothing more logical than the physical properties of color and the geometry of perspective.
Presumption of guilt?
surely there is more to flash than video. all those stupid sites with navigation headers, or worse, complete splash/intro screens that you can't get past without clicking somewhere on the flash applet.

it's hard to navigate pretty much any car manufacturer's website these days without flash.
Ask HN: LA area entrepreneurs/meetups
Hey everyone, I'm new to the startup scene in LA and was wondering if anyone on HN knows of any good meetups, events or groups that they can point me to. (digital media, online/mobile software, etc... really open to anything)

I've doing doing some research, but wanted to hear any suggestions from HN community as well as I would highly value the input.

Thank you!
I'd understand your point if this story was even remotely associated to HN, technology, or "hacking the system".
Speaking of Mozilla security what is ex-Mozilla security chief Window Snyder upto? IIRC she used to work for Matasano previously but if she has started a new startup I'd like to keep an eye on that!
Gary Vaynerchuck has been trying to get that in the heads of anyone that will listen for the last few years.
I'm available either one. Email me (address in profile) if you want to set something up.
Thanks for your answer. And for the "Passion", it is the word I kept in mind and wanted to mention instead of occupation.
I think one not necessarily has to do with the other. In this example Kevin simply used his existing network for the launch of Digg. I agree with you that Digg is a great product for the niche it is serving. That's why it is successful. Pownce on the other hand wasn't a good product and had limited success despite Kevin's efforts to push it.
I heard this is a wonderful game, I've been meaning to take it up.
Spending on health care is often frivolous. It's just that consumers have no better alternative than to trust their doctor when their doctor tells them that it's prudent to order an MRI, or that an expensive brand-name drug has advantages over a generic alternative.
I fail to see how "bodily awareness" can "enhance cognitive abilities". You'll have to spell it out a little more carefully than that for me to understand you, as that sentence alone makes no logical sense to me.

I don't think they, or the author, are so far down the rabbit hole as to imply anything like that. What they are implying is more rational, but still, in my opinion, is wrong.
Foreclosure is an option. If it's your only option, it sucks, but it is a way to cut costs. Is it expensive in itself, given the damage it does to your credit rating? Well, yes, but that doesn't mean it's not there, or sometimes the best choice. Should you not have ended up in the position where that was the best choice? Well, yes, but if that's where you are, that's where you are.

It's important to separate the ideal fact that you shouldn't be in that position from the practical fact that it is indeed an option.
>hates his job and wants to change his life

Last time I checked there was a difference between your job and your life. If he hates his job then fine he can change that but if he hates his life(which I would assume since he wants to change it) then changing jobs is lip stick on a pig. Perhaps he just needs a new hobby?

>The problem is, he does not really know what could that be and feels completely lost.

Well when completely lost the first thing to do is stop moving and figure out where you are. Put together a list of skills everything from tying his shoes to painting the mona lisa(and perhaps rate them from good to bad). Figure out how he feels about the skills he does have. Use these to determine things he finds interesting. Now attempt to do these things in a non commited manner but with an eye towards doing it professionally(don't play video games and then say I am going to be a game developer). Be wary of new car smell(something seems good because it is new and exciting.) Talk to people who actually do it about their experiences. From here make larger investments in the field: training, credentials needed etc.
How to Monetize a Web Site: A Real World Tutorial
I love how the case was closed as soon as his lawyer got involved. "Oh damn, now we have to decide which law he broke."
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I personally don't find this terribly interesting, but billionaire athletes are certainly a new phenomenon.
It makes it look like fashion where the real review are done by only people in Milan or New York, for the rest these reviews are just copied and translated.

OK, whatever.
I keep a list on my site: mixergy.com/events

Shoot me an email about yourself and who you want to meet. I'll make some intros to local events.
Emotions are a rudimentary form of decision making and processing. Many people are aware of strong emotions only in relation to how it makes them feel physically so the more aware you are of your body and how it reacts to various emotional cues the better you are able to asses where that cue is coming from. Plus, you don't need to be down a rabbit hole to suggest what I suggested.
Some of the problem could be mitigated by having multiple reviewers score answers, and taking the average of the score.

Of course this would increase the cost of grading such tests...
there are high resolution PDFs in the supplementary section.
FTC to bloggers: host your blog outside of the US.
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