skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're supposed to depend on the government. Having $40 in your pocket would force you into the bread lines pretty quick, eh? And if you're in the bread lines it becomes a lot harder to actively protest the government....
Cracking IP Surveillance DVR
FYI, the actual cost of the average MRI is ~200$. Everything else is just padding.

Let's take an example of how these low costs work. In Denver, where I live, if you get an MRI of your neck region it's $1,200, and the doctor we visited in Japan says he gets $98 for an MRI. So how do you do that?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/i...

Anyway, the idea it's just one person filling out a form is a mistake. It requires time from the patent, a doctor, the doctors admin staff, and the insurance company's staff.
To spend $100 in order to find a better job, I think is worth it. $100 isn't a lot of money, especially when you consider it an investment into your future.
$100? If nothing else, an entrance fee cuts down the numbers of resumé spammers.
... so explain Crown prerogative in the UK then.

(and don't tell me the UK has no constitution - it has no unified, codified constitution, but it sure as hell has one)
One nice benefit of the change is that the home page now looks much nicer in a "top sites" or "speed dial" or whatever you want to call it mode. It stands out.

I like it.
I'm too lazy to look at the site, but I'm wondering how they are solving the problem of people forgetting/not bothering to uncheck the "available" option? I suppose if they charge a small fee, people would have an incentive to delist themselves after they find a job.
Can be tricky, as the managers decide salaries, and most managers aren't happy giving someone they manage a higher salary than they have.
Are the founders non-technical? I think that makes a huge difference.
Won't this have the same problem as linkedin, programmers will delist themselves when they started getting daily calls from desperate recruiters ?
I'm not all that impressed by the street view clone. The 3D geometry has potential, but the shearing/tearing is highly objectionable to me.

What is impressive, however, is the 3D buildings as seen in the isometric views: http://imgur.com/eySVw.jpg It all feels very SimCity!
What can I do?

What's wrong with "so long, and thanks for all the fish"?

Tell them it's not working out, it's not worth your time, and that you found something better.

If you're 3 weeks behind and they're paying you $2000/month, it seems that your worst-case liability is that you owe them $1500-$2000. I would probably tell them they can keep their 3% and we'll call it even. Bye.
This is interesting Joel is just now discovering this.

As the co-founding CTO of Hotjobs.com, we provided this functionality on the very first version of Hotjobs in 1996, and subsequently ended up purchasing Resumix to provide a very in depth technical solution to allow employers this exact functionality you're describing.

Of course, we had tens of millions of resumes in every possible industry imaginable all searchable through a very robust search interface that did all sorts of fancy lexical analysis and data extraction from random resume formats.

Over the last 13 years, thousands upon thousands of people have been hired through the exact mechanism you're describing.
i know this is just one anecdote, but i respect that people often get what they pay for. you sound like a compassionate, collaborative, we are all in it together person. i bet you build teams. you weed out the non-committers from the beginning, and other savvy practical stuff. that's cool.

your parent post could also be sound. it depends on the philosophies of those hiring.
Good points but ...

It just often isn't appropriate to have a single, world viewable resume. Job search is a delicate dance. Personnel departments and higher management may want to filter job seekers out an arbitrary criteria ("we want a backend/frontend programmer") while a job seeker may wants to make contact with the project lead and show they he/she is good fit for their process in particular. This kind of thing makes "spinning" your resume important and perfectly legitimate. If just exposing everything worked for programmers, Google would already be a great way to find programmers.
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Is it just me or did anyone else have a lot of trouble reading that press release excerpt because of all the exclamation points. I know that the trademark name "Yahoo!" includes the bang but I found it really annoying.
Mass mailing might be, but highly-individualised large-batch mailing? Every card distinct? Even if this is largely a holiday gift, I'm certain they're collecting data on it. The only question is what. Maybe some of the cards will be "tracers" sent to confederates who can verify delivery times of things sent in big batches? Maybe they have multiple printing-and-distribution locations throughout the country and they're testing those? Who knows....
99% of DVDs use CSS encryption, trivially breakable but encryption still.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I did read of one participant, however, who used Python and his solution would not finish in the 8 minute time limit for the large data set, but it worked for the small. So that would certainly be a consideration.

And the ones i did see in C++ were light use of C++ features, with STL.
A friend of mine has a hand-made e-postcard service as well, they are free but he doesnt mail them. Its pretty off the wall.

http://xn--74h.cohitre.com/
I would think it's time to have a conversation. If they're worth keeping, find out how. If not, wish them luck.
Flickr doesn't branch their code, they check in conditionals
100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science
If you like science and do not know what to read, there you have material for a while.. ;)
I think LinkedIn is viewed in a similar fashion. While it's sole purpose is not job seeking, it's clear that it can be very useful for that.
Is this supposed to be what everyone sees? I don't see any fade-in effects on their home page. (Mac OS X 10.4 and Safari 4).
But "arresting normal people" would be a great outcome for this (at least from the philosophical perspective I think he's coming from): it would make it a lot harder for Joe Random to push off a law as "stupid, but doesn't affect me, so whatever". If "normal people" start getting arrested and irritated, the law will be fixed.
Yet another example of Gibson's disturbing prescience.
Not to take anything away from hotjobs, but I would argue that the real value Stack overflow careers offers is the fact that an employer can not only see your CV, but at least somewhat determine your level of expertise through your stack overflow account/reputation.

I imagine Joel believes this has more value then just the data extracted from a resume.
I like it, but it's mostly an aesthetic response. Maybe it's not a big improvement in usability, but it certainly is visually.
Me neither. But I'm also using Safari 4.

Few weeks back, on my friend's IE8, the homepage was missing the Google Search and I'm Feeling Lucky Buttons. So they're probably just testing it on select users still, or testing it on IE 8.
One was technical, one was not.
I'm sure they know what they are doing but the way that the slice is extracted after each pass seems really problematic to me. It looks like the slice "bunches up" and they extract it manually with some kind of blunt instrument. Wouldn't that result in a lot of unintended tearing and deforming of the slice? Perhaps someone who has used a microtome before can explain.
It seems like if you move your mouse, the homepage will show everything. The idea seems to be just go to google.com, and type what you want to search without moving your mouse.
I think Joel's post's only point was to talk again about the Careers option on StackOverflow, not necessarily that it was new. Well, it was presented as a new thing to show his product under a good light.
A test case could make it clear(er) whether using drm-cracking software for personal use is allowed. Writing drm-cracking software would still be in a grey area as you say, but putting a primary use-case for the software firmly in the white must help.
Yes, seems like trying to stop free markets from developing is just like trying to hide information or keep a theatre free of ringing phones. It can be tried, and sometimes even successful, but gosh it's a lot of work.
It's implied by the last paragraph (the bit about test-driving) that you have to sign up to see the actual CVs.
Can we get that bullshit out of the way? The guy was misquoted and both Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, pioneers and creators of many of the Internet's base technologies, recognize the man's achievements on this matter. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt
The first employee is getting this percentage before most of the dilution, whereas the CEO is getting his grant after some dilution has happened. So you can't compare E#1's 1-2% to the second CEO's 5%, because these numbers are at different stages of the dilution process. (Generally, you don't have a second CEO before a few rounds of funding have occurred.)

Also, the first employee may not be more important than your second CEO, but he should certainly not be outranked by post-funding VPs.
Silverlight? No intrested.

I'm not trolling. I just really have no interest in adding another piece of software restricted to Windows to my existing repertoir of plugins.
I would submit that that would perhaps be a sign of a bad manager.

The purpose of management, in theory, is to (by whatever means) enable the people they manage to more efficiently create value for the company. Someone who would rather drive off a valuable employee by underpaying them instead of "manage" someone making more than the manager does is probably a manager in name only.

In general, it's almost always a bad sign when employees who don't directly create value for the company have ego issues directed at the value-creating employees (see also: power-mad HR or IT departments).
HipLogic brings smartphone functionality to the masses.
According to the article, it's not illegal for North Koreans to hold foreign currency.

I was in North Korea back in August, and bought one of each denomination as a souvenir. Guess they're going to be more valuable now.

Foreigners are not allowed to spend the North Korean won within the country. Instead, you pay in RMB, EUR, USD at locations approved to take foreign currency -- so we couldn't just go buy stuff at the same stores as the locals. Now I'm wondering how much of that foreign currency makes it back to the central government, given this news.
The United Kingdom (and more specifically, England) is an exception. Actually, I had the United Kingdom in mind when I've said "most". The system of the government of the United Kingdom is exceptionally complex and in theory it is still ruled by the Sovereign by the Grace of God. In practice though, the Royal Prerogative is exercised by the Crown and not the Sovereign, which means the Government which is lead by the Prime Minister who is in turn the leader of the parliamentary majority which is elected by the people.
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In the spirit of XKCD Explained:

Joel Spolsky thinks we should all hire people who regularly use his software. He thinks those people are cool and he really likes how their time, effort and reputation on his site are something they can sell to recruiters for additional revenue. This is literally his dream come true.
Yeah I was pretty sure I'd seen that concept somewhere before. It looks cool, but certainly not "different" enough from any other piston engine design to not have been conceived and tried by now. Thanks.
XMPP fail
couldn't agree more with Dave K. http://toastdriven.com/fresh/xmpp-fail/

but I have none the less successfully used xmpp for rpc
The Swiss Franc used to be 100% backed by gold. No longer, they removed backing and convertibility in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#Gold_as_a_reserve...
> You can have wild fluctuations in the supply of magic, shiny rocks -- it has happened before, and it will happen again.

This is not unlike eschewing seat belts because asteroids have been known to smash into the Earth.
I can't argue with that, it seems that they actually made themselves a constitution that makes their current government legal.
Or Chrome, so perhaps Webkit is not supported yet.
i like it -- pretty impressed as I'm learning Silverlight atm and is inspirational to keep on doing some more coding in it.
Ah, well spotted. I didn't notice that. I stand by my original point though, why should I have to wait?
I don't think there's any other reason than old school marketing. The same way they had free Gmail stickers at some point.

Your Mom get the card, put it on the fridge and learn that her son is using Gmail. At Christmas, maybe you should ask him what it is... etc.

That plus the fact that we are now talking about it. :)
True, there is probably an interpretation of the laws in which they are not contradictory. If the intent of the home backup law was to allow copying of any video/dvd at home, and the intent of the drm law was to stop any copying of videos/dvds, then it really depends what exactly the laws are, and whether a court case about intent can lead to those laws being changed/clarified.

Unfortunately we only have uninformed guesses, so I say wait on it for 3 months and see if the guy gets his day in court. I shall set a date in my calendar to google it :-)
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Thanks for the photo.

One of my earliest childhood memories is falling asleep to one of these things.
Digg's Plan to Save The News Business
Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street
You're right. I wonder if this was part of the plan for stack overflow from the beginning. This is an ingenious way to monetize its existing user base while creating incentives for stack overflow users to keep creating valuable content for free.
Yeah, the results of the search are programmers. The search engine is not necessarily for programmers to use. Bad title.
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Perhaps the definition of "me" in use is much more limited than my take.

I think you're defining "me" to mean "in my chosen profession/hobby/main interest". That's fair.

For myself, however, "me" is defined as everything that I am, do, can become and have been. Of that, only a subset of interests and influence would be books about programming and such.

It's possible that we are in fact using the same definition of "me", in which case I find it intriguing that your list is as narrow as it is.

Not a judgement at all, just an observation of difference.
The title sounds randomly generated.
But it might be good FUD, because it might reopen intelligent discussion on a topic where debate has consisted of name-calling for just as long.

My suspicion is that it will renew name-calling in a discussion that has consisted of name-calling for just as long, but then, I'm a cynic. Fingers crossed, though.
That probably happens with Stack Overflow anyway, but only people with the JobHunting bit set will come up in search results.
No problem, you can let gmail fetch emails of any pop3 or imap account. This is what I do with my university email account.
I am just barely old enough to remember the late 1970s, when US inflation went over 15% per year. People certainly noticed the inflation; it is one of the major reasons that Jimmy Carter was voted out of office. The chairman of the Federal Reserve dealt with the problem not by returning the country to the gold standard, but with the orthodox Keynesian technique of hiking interest rates, and it worked.
Are they saving the slices or just photographing each layer as it's cut down?
I can't tell if you're referring to the US position here (as you did originally), or the Danish implementation of the EU's Directive 2001/29/EC. If it's the former, I'm afraid you're wrong.

Per DMCA, every three years the Register of Copyrights solicits written appeals and holds a series of public hearings to consider which classes of works should be exempted. The Librarian of Congress makes a determination about the exemptions for the following three year period. The 2009 rulemaking process is ongoing, but so far this has been done in 2000, 2003, and 2006.

In those appeals, the public asked for exemptions for circumvention of DVDs for non-infringing use. The Librarian of Congress asked for them to fuck off.

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/anticirc.html

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/index.html

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/index.html
Do the inner functions get cleaned up after you exit the function body?

I'm used to Lisps, where def/defun/define/defn imply internment. For example, in Clojure:

(defn foo [list]
(defn n-to-nth [n] (Math/pow n n))
(map n-to-nth list))

Would intern the symbol 'n-to-nth in the current namespace. So every time I see "def", I think of something that has that (mild, almost always innocuous) side effect.
Ahh, but see, what if we also took away the laws which governed who could run a Telco?

For example, there's cases where cities have been forced to remove their free wifi networks.

The technology exists now to make (slow, but) free wifi mesh networks among citizens. If anyone can make An internet, then who cares if The internet is no longer neutral?
This isn't just any brain, it's HM's brain[1], who possibly contributed more to neuroscience than any other single patient.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_(patient)
They should have used 99 balloons.
Do you use the shotgun clause for buyouts? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_clause)
That's the story ... explained much the original article.

It's only a very, very roughly a programmer-search engine. It's much more an extension of the stackoverflow community.
Very good, they built the app that I dreamed up two years ago!

Maybe this will actually be good enough that I won't find myself wishing I had time to write my own...

I do have my doubts about the dependency on eBird, though. Given that eBird = Cornell Lab of Ornithology = the top birders in the USA, linking up with eBird is obviously the right move from the branding standpoint, and the right move from the I-don't-want-to-piss-off-the-establishment standpoint. But from the user's standpoint? They claim that "participation in eBird has exploded in the last two years". Either they vastly improved the eBird interface or birders are a very stubborn and obsessive lot [1], because I looked at eBird a while back and it had one of the worst interfaces I had ever seen. Like, corporate internal Java application bad.

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[1] Which is to say: I'm not convinced they've improved the interface.
>It seems quite odd to include this one IMHO.

Chalk it up to American political correctness.

I'm not sure how well it is known throughout the USA. Probably >50% of people in urban areas of heard of a dreidel.
How reliant are we overall on tree data to track temperature trends?
SEC Files Lawsuit Against Canopy Financial And Co-Founder For Fraud
Padre de Familia: Brian se Revuelca y Peter Traga - Mundofox - La Tele Online
Joel Spolsky thinks we should all hire people who regularly use his software.

I think you have this characterized a bit wrong - he thinks that people that use his website would make for good job candidates.
Ask HNers: Who would you want at an open source confrence?
I'm organizing a open source conference called flourish. It is a student run conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I was wondering what people would be interested in talking at the conference or if people on HN would be interested in talking. Also if you are interested in advertising please contact me.
Their metrics indicate that it works, and I'm inclined to believe the hard evidence over the vague guidelines of the UI textbooks. Besides, Google is used extremely frequently. They may want an interface that is efficient rather than one that is immediately intuitive.
Perhaps it will be so lucrative because employers will get sick of paying percentages of salaries in recruiter's fees and so many of them will sign up for this more-modest subscription fee?
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I think the number of people who will be confused, frustrated, or won't be able to find something they were looking for on the google homepage due to this change is pretty close to zero.

Calling this "hiding controls" is a rather terrible way to frame the discussion.
Stack Overflow charges quite a bit of money for the right to search for candidates (plans range from $500 for one week access to $5000 for a year) so that should limit the number of inquiries.

Also, you can easily remove yourself from the search results.
Surely the flabbergasting thing is not whether this proves or disproves GW but that scientists are allowed to flat-out refuse to release the raw data they used to generate results.
Who is this a problem for? How is it a problem?
Public funding should require full disclosure of all data as well as the paper generated by the research.
I'm pretty sure they just care about the photographs at this stage.
They're called canals, sir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canal
Silverlight runs on the mac, and there's Moonlight for Linux. Not trolling indeed.
I bet it will only take a day to solve this. Several groups are planning to data mine using Twitter to solve the problem.
They are making you wait so that users on their happy path have less distractions.

Worth noting that the animation lasts about half a second, not three. And that people on the happy path will not need to wait. And that the main problem isn't the wait, but that if you want Mail or News you have to move the mouse before you know where to click, so the initial movement will be in the wrong direction.
I suppose if you're still getting phone calls and emails, you'll be reminded to go uncheck the available box.
If software is the product, I suggest the first engineer should be taken on as a co-founder and/or get the same equity as the non-technical founders. Anything less will undervalue the incredible and unique contribution of that engineer.

Otherwise, I've seen two methods of valuing startup equity offers:

1. Options are worth nothing, until they are worth something.

2. Options are worth their face value times the probability you will meet that face value. Example: 2% equity of a startup targeting a $100M exit, with a 1% probability of hitting that exit = (2% * 100M) * 1% = $20,000.

I agree with other commenters that a chance at "life-changing money" is usually required for higher-risk situations like being a first employee. So that's the real test, not a fixed percentage.
Oh my, one of these opened up something called "webcam girl."

Be careful guys.

*E: Does anyone know if Shodan is a System Shock allusion?
It's possible, but people should note he already had a job board at jobs.joelonsoftware.com.
Ya, I was a resident in the 2nd term of its existence, and will be again this spring. My first term's stay wasn't very impressive: the way it was run, the scope of the projects (except ours of course :P). They are taking major steps to improve it now though, with a new management.
I am not an expert, by any means, but my fiancée, a med student, says the brain is encased in and has had its water content replaced by paraffin. Paraffin doesn't stick to itself very much, so the sample is not likely to be damaged by the bunching. The "blunt instrument" you see is probably just a soft brush.
I'm pretty excited about this. Carl, one of their engineers is someone I've been trying to poach for my own company for a long time. This is giving me a good use for all of my telephoto lenses besides tech conferences!
This may be picking nits, but HM could not create new long term episodic memories. He could use short term memories and learn new skills, but he couldn't remember times, places, and events.