skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything I think getting attention has become much easier compared to say 5 years ago. You used to have to go to Techcrunch and their friends to get covered or your project would never have any other means of getting significant attention for the launch. Nowadays sites like HN and Product Hunt provide pretty much democratized way of getting attention for your projects. On the other hand, getting meaningful adoption has indeed become harder, exactly because getting attention has become easier. There are too many projects and startups launching everyday that even if you place 1st on PH or HN today, tomorrow people are onto the next shiny thing.
I recall hearing about that one. One guy had a image of his recently deceased daughter plastered across the screen...
I am aware that in the grand scheme of things, this "spill" is a drop in the bucket. It is also bullshit. If we are to reverse, not just stop global warming, we have to pull some serious magic out of our ass immediately. Thermal runaway in imminent.
The quotes presented on that page mean really nothing, which is somehow expected when written by the guy who doesn't understand the subject, being scientifically illiterate.
Carrier Pigeon as a Service (CPAAS)
I think you've nailed the toughest part about working on projects in general, not just side projects - determining whether the thing isn't working or just needs more commitment and time.
Who is giving out 250k in seed money these days? Asking for a friend.
I work at Asana. There's no way we'll drop our free plan. It's too fundamental to our sales model. We are, however, thinking a lot more actively about what features to make premium. Largely new features we haven't released yet.
Slim fitted sleeves to make your arms look bigger
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SK Aesthetics Casual T-shirt provides slim fitted sleeves to compliment your physique. Soft and comfortable for working out, but also casual and elegant for everyday wear.
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10x Genomics builds hardware and software that adds new capabilities to existing genetic sequencers. We use advanced chemistry to barcode the fragmented DNA that flow through sequencers, and then software pipelines to group them together again. This regrouping process can resolve biologically relevant questions about large structural genetic mutations, inheritance, and variation of gene expression between cells. The market for our platform is growing rapidly, and our instruments and software are used at some of the top research institutions and hospitals in the world.

We are particularly looking for systems engineers who have experience developing cloud architecture, and UI engineers who have developed dynamic web applications. You will be developing software that will enable researchers to get from basecalls to answers much faster. You can view a demo of our existing software at http://loupe.10xgenomics.com.

We manage our pipelines with Go, develop analysis code using the NumPy stack, and drive our front-end applications with AngularJS. Our software team is small; four people are working exclusively on system architecture and visualization, with about a dozen computational biologists developing the analyses. No previous biological experience is required; we have plenty of folks here to handle that.

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The motivation triple is "autonomy, mastery, and purpose" http://www.danpink.com/drive/
This exactly. My eye was drawn to the orange button last night as I went to send an email to my professor. I nearly clicked it, not remembering the date. Luckily, I just thought it might be some new weird voice feature I must not understand...that was close.
Interview with Lachlan Hardy, GitHub Engineering Manager
Yea, I agree that her reasoning isn't entirely well founded. But I'm nonetheless empathetic, because she's an embattled blogger fighting trolls to justify her work all the time, and the gap between that experience and the idealistic motivations for a universal annotation platform must be enormous.

From our tech-centric perspectives, the value of a universal annotation platform seems self evident, but for a layman's perspective, it just seems like another toxic commenting layer that content creators can't moderate (which, in the ideal, it is). The fact that it's then collocated with their content, instead of, say, a click away on HN or twitter, makes it feel more violating.

The truly ideal platform would have massive adoption with benevolent power users that both prevented abuse and generated value adding content by verifying factual claims, adding appropriate context, etc. This ideal use case is pretty far from Genius's original platform (explaining rap lyrics in an entertaining fashion), and that mismatch of intents seems to be the source of the problem.
0b01 | 0b01.com | San Francisco, CA | San Francisco or REMOTE
0b01 is an AI that learns the way you annotate.

We're looking for people to help build out our Python/Angular service.
We use Python as much as we can, with AngularJS and ReactJS as our design tools.

* Software Development Manager
Key skills include Python, Postgresql. The backend has already been written with a lot of room for improvement.

* Front-end Engineer
Key skills include AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Git, Python and JavaScript. Python experience would be ideal, but is not a requirement; this role is all about the frontend. Other beneficial skills include SVG, JSON, Gulp, and Babel.

Location: Bay Area or Remote

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As a C hacker, I really enjoy this guys blog. He posts about a lot of topics of interest to me.
fred's point is that competing for attention these days feels like you have to build broader, which is something you see a lot and probably contradicts the one secret weapon startups possess, focus.
When you have a product you give away for free, it's always a challenge to find new and inventive ways to pay for it. Ads are one way so I don't begrudge FB for tweaking something I don't have to pay for if it means they somehow make some money on it. I like using it and find it pretty useful. I think it's just going to impact buyers of ads because they'll likely see their numbers dip as more people abandon Instagram for something else like Snapchat. Users are fickle. If you start messing with something they're used to eventually they'll just find something else to keep their A.D.D. in check.
Could be. but using a "dumber" terminal seems to allow the connection to last longer...
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Looking for great work-life balance at a job where you can say "I can't find my keyboard under all these robots!" ? Want a place with half-day Fridays during the summer so you can spend extra time with your family on Friday afternoons? Then iRobot might be the place for you.

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We're looking for smart people who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but a robotics background is NOT required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)

We're looking for people for these roles:

* Cloud software engineer

* Embedded software engineer

* Product manager

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Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec and then guess the rest, it might involve irobot and a com.

Please email even if you're not sure if you're a match; I'm always happy to talk to other HN'ers!

PS: We have hired people from these "Who is hiring?" posts, thanks to HN for this service/forum.
Senior Software Engineer, ONSITE, Vancouver, CANADA
Willing to provide VISA.

IUGO is one of the most prominent veterans of Vancouver's mobile gaming industry, with years of experience creating and operating large-scale free-to-play mobile games on iOS and Android. We're best known for developing successful titles with our major global publishing partners, such as Knights & Dragons and the Walking Dead: Road To Survival, but we're always innovating and building our own original and unique player experiences in-house.

What you'll do: Develop games for the iOS and Android platforms, Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of programmers, artists, producers, and designers
Develop tools to support mobile game development and other interventions, Program games and applications in C/C++, Obj-C, Java, Xcode, Android SDK and our proprietary mobile platform

Hopefully you have the following: C++ Mastermind. 2-3+ year of professional development with iOS/Android, 3-5+ years of relevant professional development experience, Expert in C/C++, Obj-C, Java, Xcode, and Android SDK, Strong foundation in logic, computer science, and mathematics, including areas such as algorithms, optimization, and vector/matrix/3D math, BS/MS in Computer Science or qualifications in a related technical discipline

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Tesla's Model 3 Mistake
Can you tell the difference btwn a model S and a model 3? I can't. That means everyone who previously spent $100K on a Tesla, just lost their status symbol.

It's true that Elon has always said this was the plan. That the luxury car sales would enable the mass market car. But why do they have to look the same? Why not make more of a distinction btwn the cars, i.e. Toyota/Lexus? Or at least have more distinct names than "S" and "3".

Obviously this is a minor gripe. The car looks incredible and I hope they sell millions. I just hope they don't burn bridges w/ the people who helped get them here.
Just to be clear, this is an open source _sample app_ that isn't a standalone P2P communication app, meaning that it still requires an OpenTok account - https://tokbox.com/. Correct?

p.s. Long time fan of the TokBox team and their easy to implement platform.
Scratch is 100% a success in the sense of being fun and educational.

Visual languages like LabView were a big deal in experimental physics when I was a grad student in the 1990s. Many data analysts do work with tools like KNIME and Alteryx and from time to time they've handed a model off to me which I would package up so it could be built into a client or server application.

Way back in the day I worked for a web development shop that had a language called Tango that would let you define the logic of a web application by snapping blocks together, and then you edit web termplates in a side window.

Tango may have compared favorably with ColdFusion, plain PHP and other tools from its time but it lacked the model-view-controller, model based kind of thinking that came in with Ruby on Rails...
Here: https://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttGuide/UseGPG is an article from Mutt's wiki demonstrating how to use PGP with Mutt.

Mutt is pretty nice.
The evidence I've seen suggests the opposite: the self-motivated natural autodidacts that do well in MOOCs would do well in nearly any educational setting, whereas the many people who need more scaffolding, support, and personal instruction do much, much worse.

Teachers do add an extraordinary amount of value: if what you're doing can be summed up as a reading list and lecture series, rather than a conversational interaction and personal attention, then it isn't actually adding a whole lot of value to the instructional setting.

The problem is that while university teachers add can add huge amount of value, their profession makes actual teaching a chore to be foisted off on graduate students and adjuncts rather than a goal, in favor of really dubious publication.
ZeroCater | SF | Full-Time | VP Engineering

We’re the world’s largest catering marketplace. We’ve done over $100m in sales and have built a self-sustaining, scalable business with only $1.5m in funding. We’re looking for a strong technical leader who can help us dramatically scale our engineering team.

https://jobs.lever.co/zerocater/9488d8f8-4697-4c14-9528-6375...
an interesting aspect is that the bank secrecy act was passed in 1970, but has not been adjusted for inflation, so when the law was passed it was more like a $60k limit that has been encroaching on us ever since...
Big Trouble in Little Changes
Helix | San Carlos | Full-time Onsite | Principal Front-End Engineers

Here at Helix, we have a saying that "There is a part of you that you've never met before." We believe that every person deserves the opportunity to discover insights into their DNA, and that those insights are accessed securely, accurately, and affordably.

That's why we are building a platform that will serve millions of users at an unprecedented data scale. We are building an app store that will be a one-of-a-kind genomics storefront, rich with partner products ranging from carrier screening to fitness to diet and nutrition. We are building a developer ecosystem that will unlock the creativity of the community to discover new insights that we can't even dream of today.

Interested / questions? Please email me at jim@helix.com

Apply directly at http://www.helix.com/careers/?id=155414
I've been using Quip for a few months now, it's awesome. Can't really describe it as a Slack competitor because it really has all the core features of Dropbox, Dropbox Paper, Google drive-like documents and slack combined. The text editor is extremately pleasant(even when sometimes gets a little crazy, hopefully they fix it soob) which is such a huge accomplishment since, at least on OSX, the app is super smooth, doesn't consume lots of resources and really feels OSX native.
While you're thinking it is NOT okay to work 40 hours on your side project, someone else IS working 60 hours on their side project. So yeah, no one is wrong, you can do whatever you want and you are right based on your own standards I guess.
>> Laaw: "But I don't want end to end encryption"

Sorry, but I thought you didn't want encryption. Bit puzzled, just click ignore error to fix the issue.

Clearly this advice is based on you not wanting end-to-end encryption; heads up, NSA flags users that visit Tor's website, though clearly, you've done nothing wrong.

(Yes, I'm making a point, hope it's clear.)
Partender | San Francisco | ONSITE | Python/Django

Make a big impact on a small team at a seed-stage startup with excellent revenue, revenue growth, and backing.

https://angel.co/partender

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2016/03/17/mark-zuckerbe...
Unsure if April Fool's joke...
I think there's a lot of follow-through beyond just llvm and clang support in order to make a full OCL platform -- device enumeration, etc. Plus I don't think clang distributes a complete front end (headers/type defns etc). There's some open source projects that could supplement this, though.
This uses an existing feature called "muting" a conversation, and yes they can be un-muted. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/47787?hl=en
This is a feature I've wanted for such a long time. While it's perfectly feasible to do through the command line, I've always found myself having to force push to update the history on github's side of things.

I typically did it through git rebase -i HEAD~N, so maybe someone here on HN knows of a better way to squash a commit whenever you're updating remote history. Albeit, it seems that updating remote history with a squashed commit isn't entirely attractive behavior and that's why I was forced to force push.
Pascal Metrics, Washington DC (Georgetown)

We're a healthcare startup focused on keeping patients safe in hospitals.

Our software platform enables clients to detect, track, and analyze patient safety issues across hospital systems.

We're looking for full-time software engineers to help build out our SaaS platform.

Check us out at http://www.pascalmetrics.com/about/careers/

If you're interested in making an impact in healthcare, improving work culture, and tackling hard technical challenges, please reach out to me directly to chat in detail.

theo at pascalmetrics.com
IP based reputation has served us well, but it's no longer relevant. IPv4 has reached exhaustion, carrier-grade NAT is being deployed and the idea that an IP address correlates with one person or a very small group of people no longer holds. You can sort of pretend it does if you only serve america and europe, but that will change too.

Any company that currently bases their offering on IP-based reputation better be working on different solutions to the problem or they're not going to stay relevant for long. This is an existential issue for CDNs.
Show HN: My Shop Squad – aggregate suggestions from friends before shopping
Extra cloud resources, what do to?
I have a free month of cloud computing resources and I can't figure out what to do. Cryptocurrency mining is against the TOS, so that's out. I've been thinking about some long-running computing projects but I'm not sure how to best take advantage of a large cloud server for only one month. Any ideas?
Location : Mountain View, California , USA

Remote : Yes

Willing to relocate : Yes

Technologies : Full Stack, microservies, docker, OS, systems, Data science, kafka. Languages : C, python, Java.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronakpatelu

Email : ronakkup@alumni.cmu.edu

The domain of systems and data science are key focus area. Other skill sets that are related to or incident part of this profile are listed on my linkedin profile. Feel free to mail, if resume required.

University : Carnegie Mellon University
I'd cry.
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We're looking for a senior Rails dev to help us build out more powerful search and discovery features on our platform. You'd be working with, 2 other Rails devs, 1 senior Angular dev, and 1 Swift dev.

We're a super early startup with seed funding. It's an amazing time to join, as you'll have a lot of autonomy, and you'll have a good amount of control over the direction of the product. Every week is a completely different experience.
If any of this sounds interesting, contact me at jchwick {at} liquidtalent {dot} com
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All labor is a tool for capital to produce more capital. The fact that the laborers seem to mostly survive the process is incidental.
stupid is as stupid does
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=stupid+is+as+stup...
If you have a good idea and a team that can execute, seed money is still fairly easy - assuming you're actively seeking it, and you have enough proof that you can execute.
Slack has a pretty nice integration with appear.in. It's a free in-browser video conferencing service. We've used it with Slack very effectively in the past!
I could see this replacing the git workflow of creating a temporary branch that's used just for merging pre-master.
I guess my question is, why use Slack at all when you have Quip?

Quip has chatrooms that work like Slack (or IRC, or any other group chat in the history of the Internet).
That's a subject I find interesting. Successes are rare though.

LabView is nice. Yahoo pipes was pretty cool.

Neither is a general purpose programming language.

The Russian space agency had a visual programming language called Drakon -- obviously I never used it. Looks interesting.

I've been tinkering on my own for a while. It will also be unsuccessful more than likely (but I don't care -- still interesting).
This is a classic comment from a VC perspective that isn't broadly true. From his perspective, all the smart people he knows are getting seed funding easily. However, by definition they are well connected to the VC community (they are friends with him), and the vast majority of people are not.

Though YC is probably a small fraction of overall seed funding, the fact that the acceptance ratio into YC is so so small is an indication that the vast majority of people/projects who want seed funding are not getting it.

The point is also ridiculous for another reason, which is if you get 250k in seed funding that doesn't mean you can pay yourself a 100k salary. In the short term at least, it is much better for you and your family to get 100k salary+benefits from somewhere else and then work on a project on the side than it would be to quit your job and raise 250k for your side project.
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | Engineers

We have open positions for Backend (PHP, Node.js) and Frontend (Javascript) engineers.

We bootstrapped the company passed $1M in annual recurring revenue, then raised a seed round from some great investors, including Google Ventures and Mark Cuban!

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Come Geek Out with the Original Inventor of DNS
The mic drop button mutes, whereas send and archive does not. Therefore the behavior of mic drop is not "normal".
Believe me, I've seen bad Perl[1]. Luckily I was already very familiar with Perl, so I was able to discern that the developer was just batty.

1: Global variables everywhere. Every function call did not pass arguments, but instead they assigned data to global variables in the immediately preceding lines, called the function, and then used those global variables. Copious use of SQL where every query was saved in a variable called $stmtA, $stmtB or $stmtC, depending on how many levels of sub-querying needed to be done in a loop. Obscure variable names in general. Zero comments. No use of modules, everything in one flat text file (for 5-10 or more flat text files), no code reuse. PHP used in the same project, to the same standard (one large sprawling multi-thousand line PHP file). This was an open source project, and to this day I wonder if possibly it was all a purposeful design decision, so they could charge for development requests.
Neither satisfaction lasts forever. But some last longer.
I don't disagree with your conclusion, but I think your evidence is wrong. A PhD is first and foremost a research degree and for many research is their primary responsibility. More educational resources won't reduce research in any way.
There is such a huge disconnect between people humanities professors and humanities PhDs who are successful but did not seek to become a professor. Programs don't keep track of them, there is a general disdain for anything not tenure-track, there are no "scripts" to prepare students. Professors think there are jobs for PhDs outside the academy, but in general have to way to prepare grad students for them.
That number does not fit with the 1:380 ratio of Tor IPs that emitted malicious requests, though. That is, unless the vast majority of all Tor traffic is routed out of only a couple of exit nodes, which does not seem consistent with the way that Tor works.

How can Cloudflare assert that 94% of all requests over Tor are malicious, when Akamai seems to be saying that less than 1% of Tor IPs contain malicious requests?