skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who has researched the company and shows me the relationship between their resume and the position we are hiring for.
We Can Just Determine Our Business Model Later
The specific news is buried towards the end of the article. Whitehouse.gov is moving to Drupal for CMS. This doesn't seem particularly radical, but is cool nonetheless.

I also enjoy reading mainstream articles that attempt to explain Open Source, "Under the open-source model, thousands of people pick it apart simultaneously and increase security" I like the idea of this coordinated horde all reviewing the source in a synchronized bug finding effort.
Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb
I would consider "bugs opened per month" to be a good metric, assuming someone uses the software.
Startup Accelerator: From incorporation to earmark in 16 days
#14 strikes me as the most startling. It's not that I hadn't guessed VC cluelessness, despite never having talked to them myself.

Rather, it's that so much pretense has been acceptable for so long. If technology knowledge isn't necessary to make successful technology investments, why do the asset managers put up with the charade?

Is it all just an effect of VC rewards being too loosely coupled with results?

(#15 seems to me to follow as a matter of course, and is, arguably, the other side to the same coin)
Garlic breath: Hazardous to our health
Wherein a naughty house elf makes his package compile after discovering that an ill-considered dependency makes it unusable on windows.
I'm sure YC will be posting Startup School videos up soon.
Worked in 5 minutes as advertised. Saved me a few bucks on a new lock. :-)
Windows 7 is all its hapless precedessor should have been
Well, it is and overflow tweet. =)
"Win 7 is Vista take 2"

More like Vista SP3
Will the browser be the future of mobile?
I'm imagining a lot of tiny emo makeup in the cages.
Every bad boss I've had who had no business starting or running a business.
Couldn't a vectorizing compiler be used to generate the code rather than assembler?
Haha I was just doing the math few days ago when I heard people spend 8billion minutes a day on facebook. The numbers look incredible if you apply the avg American minimum wage.

Of course this is just fantasy land. Anyone that argues these figures should be taken seriously has a lot to prove.
I changed my mind on event models in stateless protocols. I used to think, "Oh, that sounds nifty. I bet it works really well, and simplifies the wiring."

Now I think, "Wait, how can an event work in a stateless... Oh, that's just sneaky Microsoft."

Not by choice, rather by circumstance, I have been writing Web Forms apps in ASP.NET for the last year. Took me that long to realize that something about the whole idea just doesn't make sense.
I'm not sure that snark is warranted. This is a development tool. You use ldd when you're curious what libraries a binary links against; more or less by definition that's because you're planning to run said binary at some point in the future.

The only path to a security vulnerability here is to fool the user into linking against untrusted binaries and libraries. But that's protected by the default link paths already. So you'd first have to fool them into setting their LD_LIBRARY_PATH properly, and then get the bad binary on the system.

So how is this easier than just fooling them into opening a shell for you?
There are already lots of fertile girls who have adverse reactions to hormonal contraceptives.
Zappos' Startup School Presentation - Delivering Happiness
Energy Management: Are you a simple, savvy or super energy-saver?
"All Chinese users..."

Wow, that is quite the assertion you are making. An unqualified absolute. I'll be a gentleman, and simply trust that you have some serious data to provide backing to that assertion. There is no need to embarrass you by asking that you present it.
The autocorrect is maddening. I've been researching Riak recently. It's new so there isn't a lot available. Paired with another search term I frequently get results only for "risk." Let me know if I might have made a typo, but don't assume I'm an idiot and do something different than what I told you to do.

Dropping keywords also annoys me. If the keywords don't exist then tell me that so I can adjust my search. Don't give me a long list of results that I have to click through before realizing you screwed up the search.

The only reason the google search bar is still my default is because I use it as a quick and easy calculator.
Yes, giving some way of quantifying any accomplishment is a good thing for all resumes.

After that, I'd go light on keywords if applying to a startup, but rather get into the tech details of what I'd done at each company. I'd be likely to describe how I'd deliver software that changed things for the better at each company.

For a day job, I'm prone to keyword stuffing. I hate to say that, but to get the resume past HR drones and third-party recruiters, some form of black hat resume SEO is needed. I have a section at the top that has the keyword and years of experience for all relevant experience. I also have a roundup of keywords I'd used at a particular employer. For a startup, I'd be likely to leave that section off. I only use it for regular jobs because it works. My resume gets through the filters and to the people who will interview me.
But then they know the pill doesn't work, and will likely use a different form of birth control. In order for the mutation to spread, it would need to make the pill not work silently. And even that would be difficult, because women should realize the pill is not working because they're still menstruating.
My biggest mental shift recently is an appreciation for ambiguity in language. Three months ago, if someone would have asked me, "Can you gain important topical insights from the ambiguous use of language?" I'd have said, "No, of course not: if you aren't precise in what you discuss, that creates a barrier to communication and makes things more confusing rather than clarifying. Intelligence is, in a large part, the ability to make fine distinctions and precise language helps make those distinctions."

I still see the value in precise language, but I now see it far more as one more tool in my toolbox rather than "THE WAY THINGS MUST BE!" And I've also come to see that my near-totalitarian enforcement of precision was prohibiting me from using other tools.

By analogy: suppose you want to know more about butterflies. Certainly catching them and pinning them to a spreading board is one way to study them: you can measure them exactly, you can count their spots and identify their coloration precisely. But you don't capture all that it is to observe a butterfly that way--you don't comprehend its flight, its movement, its way of being in motion.

Now, clearly I understand that, in a sense, I've only become 'more precise' in my language, willing to 'evoke ambiguity' when precisely necessary. But I can only protest that this fails to understand what I've gained from a willingness to recognize the value of ambiguity.
Thanks for the tip of the + !!
As a long time Google Docs user, this is great news.

We have learned time and time again that you shouldn't trust your data to one service, so easy exporting of your documents is a great feature, and should be done on a regular basis!
You can improve a text editor without making it more complex. TextEdit on the Mac is just as minimal as Notepad, perhaps a little more so (because its menu's on the top rather than in the window), but it has powerful support for fonts, page layouts, and the like that you can access if you ever need it. I actually use it as my main word processor in most situations because it's powerful enough to handle it.
This may be true when you are searching for blog posts or articles, but when searching for code examples, I find that usually Google gives the best results. Also I have noticed that over time, these results have been getting more accurate. this maybe either due to the fact that the number of "code blogs" may have increased, or that Google's search tech maybe getting better. Personally I'm inclined to believe the former.
I really detest this type of statistic.
1. Why solely value the output of the 'national factory' in fiscal terms? Why don't we just jack in our leisure time, take no breaks, eat at our desks, reduce sleep and work 22 hours a day?
2. What about the economic benefits of (in this case) social networks? The serendipity of meeting new contacts and finding out new information, or the increased well-being from wider social interaction.

In the UK, the same statistic is traipsed out whenever it snows - 'Snowfall costs UK economy £X billion' - but come on, you can't measure opportunity cost like that and you can't value the positives of getting a day at home with family or friends.

The purpose of life isn't purely to work or increase GDP. Whatever it is, it isn't that.
Take a long lunch, enjoy yourself, keep an eye on the metrics but don’t go crazy like this.
Simple question - simple answer: quality of results is degraded for me (both technical and educational - I am a work in progress home handyman).

In my experience Google has not kept up with the assault of companies trying to beat its algorithms!
I haven't gotten an invite yet, so I'm not sure if it's 100% on, but generally the fourth thursday of every month is the Hacker News meet in NYC. Are you coming after thursday? If not, check out the website http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc
Introduction to Quantum cryptography
Seat belt laws.
For years, my inner Libertarian would cringe at the idea that the government could force someone to do something they didn't want to when it was their own life at risk. But then my inner Republican realized that if I were to be at fault in an accident, I would be financially and possibly criminally liable for a much steeper offense if the other party wasn't buckled up.
Adobe AIR App Breathes Cross-Platform Life into Google Voice
On the flip side, a cover letter that shows the candidate clearly has no idea what job they're applying for or what skills we are after won't get the resume read at all. I'm guessing most hackers are smart enough to avoid this, but be careful.
> The only path to a security vulnerability here is to fool the user into linking against untrusted binaries and libraries.

Not quite. You fool someone into checking what libraries is your file linked against, which most people would assume - is a safe operation (just reading some info, right?) It doesn't need any lookup path modification, because rpath can be compiled into the binary itself. Basically you can prepare anything you need in your home directory. The only part that someone else has to do is to run `ldd your_file`.

It's not only a development tool. It's also a sysadmin and packaging tool. Some parts of .deb and .rpm automation depend on that ldd (you don't have to use that, but it's nice when the dependencies are found automatically)
World's First 100-core Processor
I've been using awesome for about a year now, and never had it crash. Xmonad, however, while never crashing, would cause my Xorg process to eventually use all available RAM after several days of use without restarting.
Well, I was implying that the newspaper editors would cull the most interesting bits of news for you. Or perhaps you could wait for your mom to clip articles and send them to you in the mail.
Just curious, what gives you that impression?
I feel that your Google search results are only as good as your query. Sure my results are polluted with some sites that have invested heavily in SEO, but I usually can filter those out by tweaking the query a bit more.
Check out vimperator (though I guess you're an emacs kind of guy) to remove the mouse from even web browsing.
Last time I checked, EE was hiding all actual answers to visitors. It doesn't really qualify as a useful link, then.
I'd be much more excited about getting a MBP if I could replace the window manager part of it with a tiling window manager, like can be done with gnome/kde.
"By analogy: suppose you want to know more about butterflies. Certainly catching them and pinning them to a spreading board is one way to study them: you can measure them exactly, you can count their spots and identify their coloration precisely. But you don't capture all that it is to observe a butterfly that way--you don't comprehend its flight, its movement, its way of being in motion."

Nicely said.
I don't get it. How many times do I have to see this photo? Is it really that funny that a developer posed with a "thumbs up" by a competing product?
I agree. You can have the best resume in the world, but if your cover letter is underwhelming then it is all for naught.
Controversial study suggests magma pool under Washington state
Could you please elaborate on what led you to change your mind? I'm probably not far from where you were, and would like to see what I may be missing. :)
No, both of those appear to be 2560 at 30", which is a lower DPI than the one under discussion. Since that's the only way that the 27" screens are better than the pre-existing 30" screens, it must be the metric that was meant.
I'm personally happy that Microsoft didn't shake things up too much with Windows 7. At it's core Vista was a good operating system, it just needed a LOT of polish. I'd almost be happier to see smaller, incremental releases of Windows (that cost less of course), just so bugs can be ironed out easier and new features can be introduced more gradually.
My Dell 2407WFP is great too, but I bought it at a 40% discount. The price fluctuated between list and discount at seemingly random intervals.
You could also break each test into a separate TestCase where each case uses the setUp() and tearDown() methods to do the repetitive stuff.

On a slightly different note, perhaps the layout of the test looks off because you're testing too much. It's difficult to comment too much without code, but you might want to consider assuming that certain things "just work" when using them in more complex tests.

That is, if a User depends on an Account being created, create the account and just assume that everything went fine. If that happens to fail, another test elsewhere should fail also which will be more helpful when debugging.

PG's most recent essay said it nicely: every line of code is a liability, even tests. The more you repeat yourself (testing things were created correctly that are tested elsewhere) the more code you then need to maintain and update should the requirements ever change.
I now believe that C++ is a language worth learning (I haven't yet figured out if it's also worth using for anything dependable).
Do you think Linus Torwalds knows Linus Torvalds?
That's good. I like how they give you many format choices too.
A little bit? If you spec out a decent system, I mean not bare-bones, and it's not a corporate purchase, you can easily find yourself paying over 100% extra. As I mentioned in my other comment, I bought my Dell monitor at a 40% discount. I wouldn't be surprised to see a $1200 Dell monitor on sale at random intervals for $799.
Will microsoft follow suit?
If it so happens that their primary concern is financial developments, "market trends" etc., is that really news to anyone? I mean I'm a developer myself but I acknowledge that if they don't have as much of a clue as we would like them to have, maybe it's because the market(s) reward their other qualities and it Just Doesn't Matter (or make such a big difference to their returns). (The fact is that not everything that matters to us personally matters on other scales just as much.)
Hey, I've been looking for that, without even realizing it. My biggest pet peeve with Haskell up to this point is that refactoring was painful again (after so many years working with Perl), because you had to propagate all the type changes immediately to get it to compile. Even though I agree that it's great that Haskell detects these problems and I agree I need to fix them "eventually" (before release), it was making refactoring heavyweight enough to bother me, even on relatively small codebases. (Besides, sometimes refactorings turn out to be wrong, and I need to discover that before fully performing it.)

That's still not the whole story, I think, but it's a tool going in the toolbox.
am I the only one that really dislikes when people flaunt their age?
Generally, symptoms from a vaccine are mild compared to getting the full blown illness, so the upside is still there, even if you suffer the downside.
Yes.You can even use batch-export with batch upload to do a batch-PDF conversion ,absolutely Free of Cost!!!Upload files from your disk to a new folder and then batch-export them as PDF.
I agree with what you're saying, but I also think it leaves out the difference between an item appearing unfinished, and an item appearing gaudy.

To extend your metaphor, you're not merely carving a marble bust, you're also gluing on trinkets and coating it with glitter and plastering it with stickers.

I'm not at all dismissing the importance of MySpace and GeoCities and et al; I just think it's useful to look at them as a large body of research for the difference between professional and amateur design tastes.
Precisely. The point of this statistic, if anything, is that people don't work 100% whilst at work. Nothing new about that. When I worked for a big corp, FB/Twitter were blocked, so I would just spend the same time reading HN etc... People need breaks, whether that be getting a coffee or reading for leisure.
Txtr reader - an open ebook reader(Kindle alternative?)
Good Bumper Sticker Traits
For web design, I usually do this:

Let's say the site design has been approved, and the buildout is underway, and the client says: "Oh yeah I want to add a blog!" I'll tell the client: "Not a problem...once the site is built out to the specifications in the original contract, we can give you a custom quote for the blog."

I can add a Wordpress blog in 5 minutes, and adapt the existing design into a custom theme in about 10 minutes, but the client doesn't need to know that. Putting the additional tasks in a quote with a value attached to it not only cuts down on the number of additional requests, it helps the client realize the value of your time and effort.
where does he do that?
A review:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/15/new-e-reader-txtr-germa...

And according to txtr's site, it is going to cost about 319 Euros - http://reader.txtr.com/en/
They hide the answers to visitors who weren't referred by Google. As long as referrer=google.com, they'll give you the answer.
Nice hack! Pretty gnarly.

We used to be able to specify which assets/res/src directories to use in the shell build command. Google pulled this function in the latest release...which has me trying to figure out how to update our ant scripts and cruse-control build system.
It's close to 18:00 in his (and my) timezone.
I've been thinking a lot about happiness, learning, and experiences.

When you get right down to it, we only have a few short years in the sun. 80 years is less than nothing when compared to the age of the earth - let alone the solar system or universe - so it would appear rational to maximize your experiences, knowledge, and relationships because they would seem to lead to an increase in happiness.

One real-world consequence of this thinking is that I've found myself much more likely to consider switching jobs than my risk-averse persona would predict, especially if I see a new offer as a challenging opportunity to improve myself.
If you come to the page with a google search result referral, the answers are all at the bottom of the page. This is called first click free: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=...
the title should be != More Capacity
Dude, what school did you go to?
> Mark Bao is an eight-time technology entrepreneur, CEO, nonprofit founder/advocate, and is currently 17 years old. His Journal observes business, technology, and startups

also on his portfolio of startups: Mark Baio, Technology Entrepreneur, High School Student.
Invites usually go out a day or two before (they really should go out sooner). But the last Thu of every month is the hackers and founders meetup and it will be on for this month. I will have the organizers get the invite link out...
So you've just discovered poetry?
The last sentence of that Cochrane review summary points out that no randomized controlled trials have been done, and that the benefit to the elderly may reflect the lack of randomization. The second doi study cited is a study to look at that selection bias, and actually found that the entirety of the protective effect could be due to the bias. This makes it difficult to conclude that the influenza vaccine has any effectiveness in the elderly.
One difference between non-human primates and humans is that humans have a wide variation in the closeness of relationships, from celebrities you have never met but hear about occasionally on the news, to a soul-mate you know everything about. Presumably, the more intimate the relationship, the more cortical real-estate is taken up with information about that person.

Non-human primates have their troop; certainly there's variation in relationships within that troop, but it's still just one troop of finite size.

So, what this means in the context of humans is that Dunbar's number is very much dependent on the closeness of the relationships you're dealing with. Co-workers are different from close friends are different from comrades-in-arms.

Someone who's up on pop culture (i.e, not me) may be able to tell you something about a couple hundred actors, athletes, politicians and so on, in addition to their personal acquaintances. Are those people included in their "Dunbar group"? If not, then where do you draw the line?

It really is a problem of defining what, exactly, Dunbar's number means for humans.
Are pointers and arrays equivalent in C?
How to create and apply a patch with Git
Did you really just link, as an alternative to Apple's keyboard/mouse, a product whose first review is "Garbage"?

You figure design into the cost equation all the time in your life - why would one wear anything except Wal-Mart t-shirts otherwise? Ease of use, quality of construction, and yes, even styling, is incredibly important in all aspects of life.
Shakers? Quakers are the religious group that prefer the warm fuzzy feelings to dogma. Shakers were the celibate sect.
When it comes to the accuracy of historical numbers, I always think of the size of the Persian army at Thermopylae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#Persian_a...

Historical accounts were still a form of propaganda back then.
Apple IMHO has done much better with the widescreen format than Windows has - the UI paradigm does not encourage full screen use.

Look at, say, Visual Studio - the thing is practically unusable without being fullscreened (unless you enjoy 200 pixels actual code editor). I've always felt widescreens to be a bit useless on Windows in that regard - the overfocus on fullscreen apps robs widescreen of its primary strenght: multitasking.
I've only used spreadsheets and text documents there, both of which I never had any problem downloading.

Is the export ability new for some formats or just the ability to export them all at once?
PHP. It is neither useless nor used only by the contemporary version of AOL proggie coders. For many things, it really makes life easier (e.g. deployment via SCP).
I say ask for extra nights. If they are flying you from the UK, and they are a finance firm, they can afford it. And you deserve the opportunity to look around the city a bit, if you are perhaps relocating here.
Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities
Where is your BES Policy?
Microsoft’s Washington Tax Dodge Nears $1 Billion
That's 30" diagonal at a different aspect ratio (16:10), so the DPIs aren't as far off as they sound. The bigger problem is that neither of the linked 30" panels are LED backlit.
Hey, that's the company I work for.