skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your criticism is great as are your alternate ideas, but I think you might be missing the point of these questions.

For "why do you want to work," you can detect immediately any BS answers. What it really does is show whether the person LOOKED AT YOUR WEBSITE or whether they're spamming their resume.

(Although I agree that something more functional WOULD give you more information!)

On the second one about failure, of course it's NOT about failure! It's about what you learned, whether you were introspective. And you'd be surprised how many people say they've never failed.

Same on the third -- it's about them as a person rather than their technical prowess.

In fact, my main argument against your technical questions is that it's hard to know anything about that in writing. You have to ask them questions on the phone where they don't have a chance to research or ask a friend.

Finally, you don't get 100 responses as you keep saying. The point is to take the 100 resumes and whittle down to 10, which is about the rate I get.

BUT STILL, again I do like your points and perhaps you're right that your questions give you more information than mine. I suppose it depends whether you're trying to ascertain technical aptitude or personal attitude.
SemiAccurate says 50 GFLOPS per chip; that's pretty weak at only 500 MFLOPS per core. Sandy Bridge will probably beat it for floating point.

I saw a presentation somewhere of Erlang scaling up to 64 cores on Tilera, but besides that it's very short on benchmarks.
It's not really frugality - think how many HN users would redesign the page (even just to fix the broken tags!) for free!
Kind of interesting with the lack of communication when you look at comments like this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=906820 (left parent for context)
Conveniently, the author disagrees with himself on that point:

"You're both going to get kicked to the curb by someone outside your industry who is rightly focused on the consumer (and not either one of you)." Emphasis mine.
Hahha WTF? That is a very interesting... and head-scratching contest indeed.
I get the same extra box.

Using Safari 4.0.3 on Snow Leopard.
Ask HN: How programmable is an Android phone, really?
I'm not thinking of the apps, so much as how 'open' the basic operation of the phone is for users who want to hack it around. I'm struck by this engadget story http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/motorola-milestone-does-what-droidont/ where they point out that a Euro version of the Droid has multitouch, which is missing in the US, perhaps because of a patent situation with Apple. When I first heard of Android I was attracted by the idea of a totally programmable phone, which might allow the user to implement thing the carrier doesn't necessarily offer - like call blocking, for example, or custom behavior in response to incoming emails from various people. As things are, it seems like apps float on top of a more closed-off level of firmware.

Any Android developers out there care to share their insights?
I don't see why it matters whether or not he uses cash or stock. If he had bought dexter using cash, the investors could have turned around and used that cash to purchase berkshire stock - making the deal equivalent to buying with stock. The fact that the stock went up over time would have been true in either case. I think that the comment about it being a mistake to have used stock instead of cash, and that it was compounded, was simply to make for a better story.
When I first saw Google, I thought someone made a typo.
The point is not a failing charity, it's that demand for food assistance is going up. It's going up all over the nation, not just Chicago.
I'll put it in my queue of things to write about. Honestly, if I just gathered together content from my comments, I'd already be halfway there...
Russia Leads Nuclear Propulsion Space Race After U.S. Drops Out
Not really HN, but I held off flagging it because healthcare is an expensive business issue for self-employed people and startups. Anyhow: how is an anecdote about a localized system failure in the public sector any better or worse than one about localized system failure in the private sector?

These stories are compelling because it's awful to be sick and not get the treatment you need, but at the same time it's like trying to extrapolate software architecture from a collection of bug reports.
"Electrification has a high initial capital cost but the operating costs are lower."

"Even in sparsely populated large countries (Finland, Sweden) electrification has proven to be more economical than diesels."

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselization)

10 $ per kW/h sounds very high. Are you sure it's not 0.10 $ per kW/h?
Memoization in Clojure
Vancouver Open Data
30 Fresh & Priceless Wordpress Themes Out in Octomber
I needed a while to get used to the colorful interface, but I like that it includes favicons.

I don't think it would replace Google search for me, but since I found it to turn up good results, and it had "Add to Chrome" links everywhere, I made it my default search engine in Chrome and I'm willing to try it out for at least a week. Unfortunately, that means giving up auto-complete in my search bar.
Which payment processor are you using ?
Ah, I found it. Industrial electrity costs 11.17 cents per kW/h in California. Not Dollar. See http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html
Ask HN: Office lighting recommendations?
What's everybody using for office lighting?

My halogen torchiere broke off at the base this morning. It was hard to find one in 2003 and now they're gone from stores (liability).

I've tried traditional incandescent lighting in the office but it's too dull. The halogen has sharper and warmer light.

I read a bit about Full Spectrum's products but they're more expensive and proprietary.

Are there any other good options I've missed? Thanks.
Perhaps that's the point. iDont display flash websites either.
Right now Google takes a 20% cut of every auction price. What if you were willing to take just 10%? You could give ad sellers a slightly higher CPM — they’d gladly run your ads when they paid more and Google’s the rest of the time. Then you can offer ad buyers a slightly lower CPC. As long as the money people made was more than the cost of setting things up, they’d switch. I’m actually not sure why this hasn’t happened.

"You've never heard of me, but I'm 10% cheaper than the best company in the business. Why not trust me with the task of introducing your brand name to thousands of potential customers?"

That's why.
Maybe for some SEOs that's what it means. I've seen too many where it's all about astroturfing links for pagerank and inserting junk into pages to fool web spiders.
Just as impressive duckduckgo team, a search engine startup from the Philadelphia are -- not the most likely of locations to see this technology come out of.

Kudos and keep up the great work.
Thanks. I'd really appreciate you emailing me the results of your tryout. Auto-complete/suggestions are on the short list for new features.
The cost analysis is great ;)

Just by following the guidelines of using a complex character set and decent length for your passphrases is sufficient to make the cost of cracking it brute force ridiculously expensive. Just watch out for the wrench exploit ;P
Thanks for the encouragement. We will see the outcome in 6 days. Im confident in my statup, and hopefully YC will see the opportunity as well. We are working hard and creating something special.
Best line ever: "Even more disturbing is that 2,000 Americans were willing to answer 50 questions about bison."
"EDIT: A new cpu architecture is always an exciting sight, though."

Don't tell me. I would _love_ to have a workstation based on one of these. While the hypervisor is a very interesting element, I would be delighted to see a kernel taking advantage of the bare-metal partitioning scheme for managing core-affinity on processes sharing a single memory space.

It's fun to imagine a thread-migration mechanism based on memory-access-hop-counting for dynamic optimization of process/thread/tile allocation.
Bringing theora to youtube (the hard way)
I've been using it for the last several weeks and at least for me it has been returning much more valuable links than Google. Part of that may be that they aren't big enough to have indexed all the lower quality sites.
Man I see this so much at my job. Its amazing that architects don't catch things like this. Was there any requirements written up or charters that justified moving accounts payable to real-time?

Its pretty inane, as you point out, how companies blindly apply strategies. Alot of times this is caused by simply cutting corners. If they would have had a body write up requirements (even high-level) for each department the would have caught this.

Were there any problems with the actual implementation? If there are these kind of problems at the architecture level, I can only imagine the issues that came up actually initiating and executing the program.
Yeah, why on earth are they interested in this?
In general, there isn't that much stock on the market (millions/billions of dollars worth) that an outside investor can get his hands on. So, if Buffet had bought dexter using cash, the investors couldn't have just turned around and used that cash to purchase Berkshire stock.
its not the only way to make the clock tick, for sure. but i've seen a lot of communities grow using this process, and it is effective and time-efficient. its not easy at all to get users to submit quality content for free.
Which with 350 Million people comes out roughly to 7 in every million people.

Meanwhile 1 out of 218 die from falling, 1 in 63,000 from legal execution, and 1 in 350,000 from a fireworks discharge.

So you've got a 30,000 times greater chance of dying from falling down than from hunger in the United States.

Hardly a statistically significant problem, especially since in every community I know of, multiple sources of free food are available. Sometimes dozens of sources. You could argue at these rates these are "accidental" starvations and not due to prevailing societal conditions -- perhaps due to mental illness, bad weather, age, etc.

http://athletesheart.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting-facts-...

That doesn't mean that any death is okay, just that context is important.
Seems like A/B testing for the new sites is a chicken/egg problem of its own - you first have to have users to test how to get users.

For me too, Adsense was either too expensive or gave too little traffic, both without any real learning opportunities.
This post is pretty weak on economics:

First, customers often give you more money over time. Maybe they buy level one of your video game when they click on the ad, but then they may buy levels two and three the next day after they beat level one...In the first case, the worst that happens is you don’t buy as many ads as you should.

It should make some difference to you whether the lifetime value of a customer is equal to the value of your first sale (e.g. you sell caskets) or the value of the customer is many, many times the first sale (e.g. you sell heroin). A casket seller should try to make a profit on every sale; a heroin dealer can pay 5X or 10X the cost of the first sale to acquire a customer, and still come out ahead.

Similarly, AaronSW claims that it's okay to advertise to people who were already going to buy your product, since the money you lose would just have been used to fund more ads. But that seems equally true whether you lose the money by buying ads or by flushing it down the toilet.

Aaron's assumptions aren't key to his argument, but they betray a real willingness to simplify his model past the point of absurdity.
Impressive results, and unlike others I like your branding overall.

Minor complaints: it is a bit garish, color-wise - maybe dial down the saturation and white a bit. Fonts are too big, I prefer more info and don't need to read from across the room. On Chrome, as the page fills it starts gently scrolling down and search box slides of the screen...oops. The 'web links' section is getting kind of lost and most people won't notice it exists.

Finally, I don't like 'Zero-click Info tm' - I hate 'TMs' and you don't have one on your logo, so why here? Second, it's a service mark, not a trade mark. Third, it's only an element in your service, and branding it strongly competes with your primary DDG brand and creates pointless confusion for the user.

but overall I really like it, and think the quality of the results is very high. I will use and recommend regularly. If you are going to commercialize it with ads or the like, do so early so people don't call you a sellout later. Excellent job!
I saw that you said somewhere in here that you are concentrating on 7-8 schools in Michigan. That's a lot of classes, a lot of books.

Maybe you should try ONE school, namely, yours. You could even prune it down further to certain majors or departments. If someone says "do you have it for English as well as Math/Computer Science?" then you know its gaining steam.

The idea of class reviews, teacher reviews, along with "do I need the book?" would be a natural progression as others have discussed.

To get more popularity with your own school, heavily brand it as long as they don't get on your back for using their logos. Because its a tool to facilitate their students they may not care, but because its a tool that could dampen their book sale profits, they might.

Another opportunity to make it easier is possibly integrate with existing school systems. I went to Virginia Tech, and for web developers inside the school system (again, speaking merely from my own experience) they had APIs that you could lock into course/class IDs, and even had an API that could authenticate with University PIDs and passwords. Doing so this way would automatically manage all of the classes and book information - then the students would merely have to thumb up or down if they found the book helpful. When you expand schools, integrating Facebook or other social networking credentials would be the obvious route, but to paraphrase 37Signals, "you don't have a scaling problem until you have a scaling problem."

You have an EXCELLENT idea - anyone who has been to college and has felt the weight of text book costs (along with the economy) would instantly see this as a great opportunity to save some beans.
Obama weather report
Bender, House and Angelina also available to tell you what to where based on the local weather report.
This chip looks cool, but "FP code is still frowned upon" is a shame. I would actually be more interested in a 100 core chip, if its cores were tuned to accelerate OpenCL.
I gave an overhead modern chandelier-type light in my office. It uses 10 12V Halogen bulbs and is connected to an X-10 enabled PCS dimmer switch. I can control the lighting from the switch, my desktop, or my iPhone :)
The person teaching the class can be legitimately called "professor". It signifies their position as "that guy teaching the class", not their academic rank.

Similarly, "that guy commanding the ship" is called "captain" regardless of actual rank [1].
Introducing Resque
For the record, the top hit for each term:

"droid Keyboard" - http://pocketnow.com/hardware-1/verizon-wireless-motorola-dr...

"droid apps" - http://www.droidapps.org/

"droid camera" - http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/motorola-droid-review/

"droid development" - http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-development/

"droid customization" - http://swg.wikia.com/wiki/Droid_Customization_Kit

"droid widgets" - http://phandroid.com/2009/04/20/android-widgets-to-the-rescu...

"droid batteries" - http://www.accessorygeeks.com/motorola-droid-batteries.html

The "Droid" site isn't on the front page for ANY of these terms. In fact, they're all third party or Star Wars related.

Just wait til they launch multiple phones with "Droid" as the imprint (Droid Eros, for example). Then it will be a real mess.
What Your Taste in Beer Says About You
The 37signals Podcast
37signals have started their own podcast.
I like MongoDB because it is very natural to think about databases as storing JSON-style objects. It's also useful for simple text processing pipelines. You iterate over your database and apply the next step of preprocessing, assuming it doesn't exist in the current object (e.g. if no "POS tagged text" field exists, transform "text" into "POS tagged text").

I use MongoDB because it is C++, so it was simple to set up. CouchDB is based upon a Java stack, which I am less familiar at setting up.

TokyoDB has the "tables" DB type, which I believe extends the value in "key-value" to more complicated schema-less types, but the Python support for this DB type isn't very good.
Rediff is a very bad excuse for an internet portal. It just lives on flame-baits, scarcely dressed bollywood divas and lots of mediocrity. A simple example of their technical capability -

http://shopping.rediff.com/product/%22;-alert%28document.coo...

Few more @ http://karteek.selfdabba.com/tag/rediff/
That's true unfortunately ... regressions in the kernel do happen.

But on the upside, there's more older hardware that works in Linux than in Vista for example.
Can anyone explain the implications of the AGPL license used by MongoDB? I'm pretty confused by it.
Ask HN: Review my startup: Weddingjojo.com
Hey All,

I have recently launched, http://www.weddingjojo.com, a site that allows future bride and grooms to set up a wedding announcement site seamlessly. Not only can they present useful information to attending guests, but they can have a blog, registry links, photos and more.

My concern right now is that people don't understand why they should upgrade. Furthermore, they can't really see the advantages and benefits of upgrading to a premium account. Granted it makes sense to me, as I know what all the pages represent, I would love to hear any thoughts in this regard.

Thanks in advance.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: any process which includes, as one step, "Start an AdWords campaign" tests your ability to work AdWords more than it tests anything about your market, customers, ability to craft a landing page, etc etc.

"This validated my earlier finding that [search engine marketing -- by which I think they mean exclusively CPC ads] might not actually be a viable distribution channel for CloudFire."

No, it did not. It only proved that, today, you were not able to create a profitable AdWords campaign.

I can't bang on this enough: AdWords doesn't have a skill curve associated with it. It has a gentle skill slope followed by a 1,000 foot-tall basalt monolith slicked with ice, guarded by ill-tempered yeti, and governed under rules of physics different than the rest of the world which change constantly and cannot be disclosed to you.

For example, trust me on this: there is much, much, muuuuuuch cheaper inventory available for those keywords. (Check the content network. You'll be amazed.) The blogger just wasn't getting it because ahem it is not in Google's interest to give everyone cheap inventory when they could be overcharging them for worthless Youtube page views.
But: "Duck Duck Go knows Computer can mean different things." Isn't this a bit braggy/evident/confusing? Why not just "Computer can mean different things"?
Vertical splitting has been available in screen-git for over a year.
How Much Money Could You Be Making?
There are definitely a few streams that are very time-dependent and service way more utility near the event, rather than after the fact. Some recent examples, searching for "caltrain" after it was stopped a few weeks ago. Searching for "280 flooded" during a rain storm. Searching for "comcast near:SF" to see if anyone else was having connection problems at the moment.

We're not used to having down-to-the-second real time search yet, so it's harder to come up with use cases until we really become comfortable with these new systems. Most use cases we do see, like Trending Topics on Twitter, are discovery queries that will eventually be covered by Google's spidering, but there are whole categories worth of search cases in the long tail that won't be covered by just discovery.
Thanks for the response, I do appreciate it. I wasn't aware of how active lojban still is (and it's much more accessible to to get information on thanks to the internet).

I should point out that I'm fairly familiar with the general range of opinion in the linguistics community (as an undergrad I did dual math / linguistics, which made me at that time quite the rara avis, though it's more common now apparently).

Generally I don't give much credence to the idea of semantic primes (at all, not just in some pragmatic sense) but for stuff like spatial relationships + tenses (+ aspect, mood, etc.) it'd seem not an impossible undertaking (do enough reading in linguistic typology and you start seeing enough "repeats" to think such an enumeration might be possible).

After going through a bit of the grammar and the vocab list on wiktionary it seems like you'd have constant problems with synecdoche, which'd bother me (but perhaps only me, and it's not as though natural languages aren't riddled with similar problems).

I've walked away from this with a much stronger sense of the sense in which lojban is attempting to be a logical language, thanks for your time.

It's heartening to see substantial effort put into engineering language; good luck with your efforts.
From someone who only unlocked his iphone to use another network, can somebody explain the steps needed to change the default ssh passwords?
+1 Fast Company

I also like Technology Review

Cheers
Hurk. Don't have a Mac. I'll see what I can do, though. I have an idea what's causing it.
>> "We try to free you from "search yo-yo," the endless clicking forward and back between links."

FWIW, I don't think many people do that any more. If they're not sure, they just open a few results in new tabs until they get the one they wanted.
passphrases are still pretty secure

... at least until someone comes along with a microphone (or a cell phone) and exploits the acoustic side channel. :-)
More like iPhone and those terms, I'd say ..
It is prudent to create a sufficiently interesting image to attract media attention. The I'm rich and don't give a fuck image seems to play pretty well.
PayPal. Easiest integration.

Paying invoices works largely like Etsy's integration with PayPal, too.
Black. Readability should trump aesthetics (especially on search results). Maximum contrast, plz.
Yes, Haskell is not pedantic enough!
Most techies maybe, but not most people.
Here's a (somewhat overly cynical) marketing->reality translation I performed on their whitepapers for one of my bosses. Obviously, given that I only looked at the whitepaper, some of my interpretation might be slightly inaccurate, but I think it's close enough.

(He was interested in running x264 on it.)

The TilePRO64 Processor is programmed in ANSI standard C

You'll need to use our custom proprietary (and bad) compiler, and we probably won't give you an assembler.

32-bit VLIW processors

You'll have to spend thousands of man-hours rewriting all of your assembly code.

H.264 HD encode for 10 streams of 1080p (baseline profile)

Even when we make every last possible marketing cheat that we can possibly make with custom CPU-specific code, we can only get 10 streams going realtime, barely more than what one can do on a standard dual-Nehalem system with x264 (with similarly marketing-cheat level settings).

700mhz, 866mhz operating frequency

Unless every part of your application is embarassingly parallel (read: not x264), there's no way you'll get it to run at any reasonable speed on this thing.

iLib APIs for efficient inter-tile communication

You'll have to rewrite your code yet again to use a new library.

5.6 Mbytes of on-chip cache

Our CPU has an embarassingly small amount of cache per-core, which is why we can get so many onto the die at such lower power usage. Your program will be overwhelmed by cache misses.

19-23W @ 700mhz for typical applications

We're selling a big fancy DSP, not a real general-purpose processor. If you want to get good performance out of it, you'll probably have to rewrite a lot of code.