skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title of the site is "Hacker News." That is to say, it's a news site, as stated in the title. A random individual offering their services for sale is not, and probably never will be, news. These posts are just topic drift, and they belong somewhere else - maybe reddit.

Disclaimer: I also spend lots of time on reddit
Maybe it's just me, but I would have just responded to the email instead of posting on HN about it.
Offer HN: A/V help, with a web-savvy background
Hey guys, thought I could throw myself into helping out. I've worked on big broadcast productions like ESPN, TNT and others, as well as working for "big internet brands" like CNET, Engadget, AOL, Netscape, Justin.TV and others. Would be happy to help anyone out with any A/V advice. Be it on the small scale, the huge scale, etc., I'd love to help anyone produce something they're proud of.

I'm on twitter @randallb, or email me: halp@vidplusplus.com
Agreed. I am happy with Heroku so far (I am pre-launch so the effect hasn't been great), and intend to stick with them for at least a while (I might have most of two decades as a dev in this business, but zero of those are as a sysadmin), but 45 minutes is low:

I may be showing 48^ errors in my per-minute checks but those errors occurred in at least^ nine separate blocks across an eleven hour window.

In other words, we are probably looking at around ten hours of issues, even if not outright outage.

^ I disabled the checks at times because it was just a waste, so the true stats are likely worse.
An experienced web developer where I'm living at (Western Canada) contracts at about $60/hour, with the recruiter taking away usually $10/hour. Yes, it's a decent chunk, but the bigger picture is that companies paying the highest contract rates almost exclusively go with recruiters from a convenience and insurable standpoint, and the fact that good engineers are not plentiful. That adds up to around $1500 to the recruiter every month for their bounty.

If you want to avoid this overhead and the luxury of contracts being offered to you on a regular basis, and you don't have a solid network of peers that can fill you in on opportunities, you'll need to spend quite a bit of time on your own scrounging online ads, or the Careers sections of companies you'd like to work for, or market yourself some other way, all of which require effort.

Now we play the opportunity cost game. Frequent contracts are offered to you making you around $10,000/month by headhunters looking to make a buck off you. Or you can spend a few more months looking by yourself, and save yourself that $1,500 cost per month that you're unemployed, but ultimately taking longer to land a contract. Is every month spent 'looking' and being without a contract worth the $10,000 in lost revenue?
Rolling back to a known-good state is the safe approach

Absolutely.

However, they rollback should be atomic, which means all pieces of the infrastructure/code should be rolled back to a known-good-state.

When I said "gymnastics", I meant for rolling back one piece of code, only to find incompatibility with other pieces.

I do not intend to judge them, knowing its difficult not to panic in the difficult emergency situation, but not working effect out on paper (or not knowing, which versions of software components are inter-compatible), before actually doing it on code, look pretty novice to me, for a company of heroku's scale.

I really hope this is not an unfair criticism. (handling emergencies are difficult)
Could Offer HN be added to the main navigation bar? Otherwise I fear it will quickly fade into obscurity.
I don't want to be dismissive of your point of view, but I take issue with your mode of argument. You've made a lot of assertions without evidence and done a lot of hand-waving. These are valid concerns but I think we need to get away from this mode of thinking and get to the details.

TDD makes pretty specific claims. Most of those are testable (at least to some extent). To assert that it's all relative is to dismiss the possibility that TDD advocates are onto something. As I outlined before, outright dismissal is arrogant and unprofessional. Please, back your assertions with evidence so they can be debated.

Edit: Removed an paragraph that diluted the point.
Ask HN: When you have production issues, what chat application do you use?
Two questions -
1.) When you have a production issue going on ( and if you ever do production support), what chat application do you use ?

2.) Do you wish there was a better application than the one you already use ?

3.) If you do, does it have capability to put attachments, etc. inside it and store the timeline for post mortem ?

<p>I've not found one, which is stable, can be used internally(security concerns) and has the above. I'll start building one if I don't find one. One last check before I dive in.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what are the advantages of this over simply enabling HTTPS for everything? Performance, maybe, but Google has been often-quoted these past couple days calling that a very small issue.

It sounds like you're still assuming HTTPS to start the connection, then transitioning to a different encryption / authentication scheme after that. It would still require the time and effort involved in making the switchover (both HTTPS and the new bits) on a large scale, and any new parts of the plan would need to be made to work with old browsers and operating systems on the client. And since most of the data would be unencrypted, a lot of potentially-sensitive data could still be sniffed.

So I think you're overcomplicating things. We already have a good system in place to handle this stuff, people are just too lazy / ignorant / indifferent / resisistant-to-change to make it standard. See also IPv6.
I know Jacky chan donated a large amount and his son didn't get in.
Just updated my profile.
> Zuckerberg is flat-out wrong in his assertion that Hollywood doesn't understand people building something just because they like building things.

He's not insulting the creative drive of moviemakers, he's lamenting the fact that they choose not to (or cannot) make this drive understandable to the laymen in the context of IT.

(P.S. I love your book! But your justification for CP maps is misleading!)
Computer problem blamed for missile site malfunction
You forgot to count the GPU. A modern GPU can pump numbers much faster than the fastest general-purpose CPU.
The real value isn't actually in the money, but in exchanging it. Money is made to exchange wealth. Even though there isn't any money in these free offers, there is wealth which is being made. At a large scale, I'm curious to know how this will result.
Best. Screencap. Ever.
http://broker.mapthatpad.com - looking for advice on making this look more professional. Would also like to pay you for your work if interested in taking on this project. Hit me up via email.
'early indications are that a computer component on the fifth launch control center continually tried to communicate with the missiles in the silos when it wasn't supposed to. He compared it to five people with walkie-talkies and one of them sitting on the button, making it impossible for the other four to use theirs.'

Now that is a scary design "feature".
Can we stop over-applying the word "hacker" to everything that produces something or other? I know that Graham loves doing that, but it just dilutes the term till it becomes utterly vacuous. Screenwriters are not hackers. There's very, very little commonality.

Well, both create text at some point. I'll give you that.
I planned to add similar list to just released HNResources (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840164) Now I'll just add links to offers and offerless lists.
One issue I didn't know how to fix is that most offers is limited in time and better to be removed. Are these lists are cleared or old offers just shifted down?
So what's your take on Ask HN: posts and Rate my startup ?
I would actually argue that Microsoft has actually become a more consumer-oriented company over time. Xbox was only released 9 years ago and the Zune was only released 4 years ago. Prior to that, what was Microsoft's consumer focus? Their primary products, Windows and Office, have traditionally focused on selling to businesses (OEMs, VARs, etc). The majority of consumers do not go out and purchase Windows directly -- it is included on their computer.
If you've never had someone contact you to stop (spamming|scraping|crawling|DOSing) their web service, then you're not experimenting enough.

That said, once they ask you to stop, it's the decent ethical thing to simply stop :)
ESXTOP And Zenoss come together
There no doubt is a gap in the market for PornForGeeks. Chicks with C64s. Overclocking. Salacious LAN parties, etc.
You missed the "I don't really care" option.

To me it's just another fad. Like when we get a bunch of Apple Appstore, or Facebook privacy, or Clojure, or Android, or whatever posts clogging up the main page. After a while people settle down and we get back to having a nicely varied set of articles to read and discuss.
Apple-Unisys team targets businesses, government
If you told me that you watch bloomberg for ambient noise and use CNBC mostly for comic relief or to get frustrated/angry before a hard workout I'd be more interested.

If you told me that you peruse nuclearphynance but that (almost) all forums are mostly crap, I'd be more interested.

I've only just perused it but I don't think a covestor model is that valuable because things like survivor bias and small sample size even with a sizeable history (unless they are very frequent traders, in which case I think there are better places for them than covestor).

I also don't think I would (nor should anybody else) act on any "tips", since to me at least the connotation of the word is that someone tells you a "fact" without you understanding the mechanism. If you don't understand the mechanism, you might as well just go full bore with the survivorship bias and pick the best track record. Related to the requirement of understanding of the mechanism is the idea that you should invest in what you believe to be valuable investment philosophy, regardless of past performance.

Also, I find offers like this generally worrisome.
I'm a long-time Evernote user, hater of the Evernote 3.5 client, and I write .NET code for a living.

There is no question that Evernote 3.5 sucked. It was slow, yes, but that was only part of it; using it one got the sense that one was using software without polish. The text editing experience was particularly broken, with formatting as simple as a bulleted list behaving strangely.

I've experienced some of the same WPF issues as Evernote reported, plus a few they haven't, and I'm sure those issues impacted the usability of their client. There is no question that WPF 3.5 has some serious issues. However, the lack of polish and poor fit and finish of the Evernote 3.5 client cannot be blamed entirely on WPF.

Having played very briefly with the Evernote 4.0 GUI, I can already tell it's better. It's back to feeling like a polished, performant tool. I imagine some of this is due to the use of native code, but at least a bit of it must be due to a team of great C++ developers working in an environment they know well.
Conrad, absolutely loved your video. My 6yo will pore over your comic and Ill no doubt see land-of-lisp refs crop up in his battle scenes.

This all got me thinking about developing interactive stories and the ideal lisp game development environment...

I hear from people who want to create interactive books and lessons for iPad. I recommend they prototype things in PowerPoint or Keynote first, then hire a developer to turn it into a cocoa app or a HTML5 web app with webkit animations. Its too hard.

If the ideal tool was a web app, you could develop games and interactive lessons for iPad and other tablets directly on the device.

You'd want a DSL for standard slide/rotate/scale animations, and write code in lisp for game logic. This would bypass expense of developing native cocoa apps yet reach nice platforms.

Ideally you'd prototype quickly and be led gently into the best language. I guess mobile is the primary computer for most young people, so would be ideal to take a lisp environment to them.
The new Glamour thx to Hollywood: "I am an Entrepreneur" -Sean Parker(/Timberlake) to the girl is just slept with
What do you mean, it suggests that? I'm against the offer threads, and I flagged this post!

A vote up doesn't mean "I agree." I don't want to see a webpage full of things I agree with.
Our web app (free to use) was released earlier this year, it's pretty simple and I'd be keen to get your views the UI. http://www.tabzon.com. matthew@tabzon.com
If you search, I believe there's been a couple discussions on this recently. It comes down to being able to justify it, either by a.) increased roles and responsibilities or b.) value/scope of work completed.
As someone who's trying to recruit developers for our startup, Hirelite looks interesting. Is there any way to target only people within a specific location (like San Francisco)? Or only people who are willing to relocate?

I'd definitely pay to interview 20 "screened developers"* if they were all in the SF Bay Area already. Much less interested if they could be anywhere.

*What does "screened" really mean? Are you only showing me people that match the skillsets I mentioned?
forgot to mention, please don't suggest IBM sametime, it sucks the life out of me.
> Having to wait until a video loads before you can seek to a specific point

That isn't true.
Just curious. How do i trust you? :) More importantly, Why many of the commenters trust bemmu?
Sorry, but am I missing something? I'm currently watching a video on Vimeo with Safari 5 & plugins disabled. All you need to do is to click the "Switch to HTML5 player" link.
I fully agree.

Zuckerbergs comment obviously resonates with the startup-happy audience he was and is facing, so the reaction here as well as there doesn't surprise. But I openly doubt that the history of Facebook rests on nothing but the desire to build cool things. The first prototype? Maybe. But he took it further, much further. It's not necessarily what Sorkin decided it should be. However, I'm willing to bet money that other factors did play a role.

For evidence, just remember that there were lawsuits, that there was drama, that significant amounts of money traded hands before everything became harmonious. Plus, the narration at the beginning of the movie? That is Zuckerberg.
I can see some potential for awesome things to come out of all this. Where people meet and start exchanging ideas and simple services bonds are being forged and where bonds are being forged the seeds are planted for a higher level of collaboration in the future. So even if all of these are totally altruistic I do not doubt that there indeed will be some real world pay-off, if not for the individual than definitely in the aggregate.

I'll be watching this whole development with great interest, it is one of the most exciting things I've seen on HN in a long time.
I haven't seen the movie, but I'm a bit confused by these comments. Zuckerberg signed a contract and did work for the sake of the contract, then later branching out. I don't see how you can ascribe his motives to be purely creative. Perhaps, I have missed some fact in this?
Doesn't sound like much of a story. He's jailed for obstruction of justice. His password was requested because he was already arrested and under investigation for something else. The fact that it's a computer password doesn't make this a 21st century "Big Brother" issue.
you need to be checking from an iOS device, not your desktop. I just checked YouPorn from my ipad (for research!) and it plays just fine.

EDIT: YouPorn, PornHub, Tube8, KeezMovies, ExtremeTube, Brazzers Mobile, all play videos fine on iPad, and that was just with 5 min of Googling. There appears to not be any shortage of mobile porn.
We are open. I just sent you an email.
Ask HN: I'm launching a story-telling site next Monday. Review my site?
Not too long ago I made a site for playing Choose Your Own Adventure-like books by email...

Last Friday, I realized that I should share the writing tools with everyone for National Novel Writing Month! Unfortunately, that's in a week or so.

I just updated the landing pages:

http://adventurecow.com

http://adventurecow.com/init/default/writers_corner

What do you all think? Clear? (Needs more color?)

Thanks! -C
There is some evidence that you can beat the overall market by overweighting ETFs that are trending higher or whose relative strength is higher.

I created a site ( http://ETFtable.com ) to make doing this pretty easy. Sorry for the plug, but I think it's contextually relevant. Let me know what you think.
"Creative" people don't all have one type of motivation. I think people in the entertainment business don't usually have quite the same motivations that hackers do. When people in the entertainment business make things, even when they have the purest motives, they do it to affect an audience. Whereas hackers often build things mainly for themselves, just to see if they'll work.

Movies are messages. Hacks are not, necessarily. I think what Mark meant is that people in Hollywood would find it hard to imagine someone building something like Facebook just to see if it would work, rather than to have some effect on its audience, especially considering that one of Facebook's most distinctive features, at least now, is the enormous number of users it has.
One thing about contracting through an agency is usually they pay the contractor weekly, but actually get the cash money 90 days in arrears from the client. They need to maintain a lot of working capital, and it's got to come from somewhere.
No, I would not qualify the Offer HN threads as spam, rather the opposite, ham of the finest variety.

Some spam may eventually occur, but we already have a pretty good way of dealing with that, I'm sure the 'flag' option works just fine on Offer HN type posts that are not above board.
"I know that Graham loves doing that"

I do?
Are you familiar/comfortable with setting up a live video stream transcoder based around ffmpeg and/or openrtsp? (or another package of your choosing)?
I'll gladly advocate for people to go directly to companies in the hopes of finding work.

What about, then those companies that want a recruiter to go out and find someone? Hirelite is definitely an interesting approach to the game of finding work, and this post is accurate in some respects of the recruiting model.

It misses though that most companies operate with a lean model, and simply do not have the resources to source, identify, isolate, and shrinkrap a by-line procedural methodology for finding new hires. Enter us recruiters.

For what it's worth, hiring is rare unless you're with a firm that places 500 people or more a month. If you, like me are a solo virtual recruiter, factoring in just operating alone (the costs of subscribing to job boards, paying to post ads), the ends justify the means.
Fair enough. Thanks Paul :)
A compromise also could be a hn irc channel, people ask for help there and people qualified (or otherwise) can help them out.
If they are being voted to the front page wouldn't this poll be heavy on the support side?
Robotic Limbs that Plug into the Brain
http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/
On that note, I was contacted by a start up that is working in the field of tax in the NYC area. So I'm definitely meeting people from the hn community and hopefully I can help provide some insight or just make a new friend.

So I think that offers on hn is definitely having that effect of exchange ideas and helping forge (or at least create the opportunity to forge) bonds.
Offtopic and I'll eat the downvotes accordingly:

Submitter, your link in your profile appears to be broken. I attended school with someone sharing your name (doubtful it's actually you) and was going to look up your profile. Just a heads up.
But I'll bet that what gets a great writer like Aaron Sorkin up in the morning is the same kind of creative impulse that drives hackers.

Maybe. But maybe writers don't see technical people (like hackers) as creative people. They wouldn't be the only ones. Or maybe they do understand that impulse, but underestimate their audience and assume the audience isn't going to understand the creative impulse.
That makes sense, if you plan to stick around. If you are job-hopping anyway, as some people are, you can just add the bonus to the salary.
Point taken on the "default subjects" on the homepage - they were just meant to show off some of the most common stuff we have, but with 3 millions flashcard sets it's not easy to show it all :)

LaTeX, SRS, and study reminders are all three on our ideas list. We're making a big development push on audio first, and then are going to look more into these.

Our "Learn Mode" keeps track of what you know and what you don't - but only in the short term. We'd love to have better ways to help you remember things long-term.
Ruby:
HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business
But no-one was.
You're talking about SRS (Spaced Repetition - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition_software). We don't technically do SRS (yet -- although we're thinking about it).

But our "Learn" mode does keep track of what you know and what you don't know, and keeps asking you the terms you have trouble with until you know them all.

Hit me up by email if you have any more feedback for me - would love to keep improving the product.
Thanks! We're still very early stage, so we haven't expanded to other locations but definitely plan to. So far, we've focused on back-end and generalist software jobs around NYC. For our first web-based event, we required developers to be in the NYC area, but for this event we're accepting developers who would be willing to relocate to NYC.

We've had a lot of interest in remote work. What do you think of that? We're targeting full time jobs, but would be open to getting in to contract gigs (which seem to be mostly remote jobs).

>> What does "screened" really mean? Are you only showing me people that match the skillsets I mentioned?

We screen developers with a brief programming test in the language of their choosing and look over their profile and github account. Currently, we don't offer to match specific skill sets. We look for companies that are comfortable letting developers catch up on whatever their tech stack is.
What about an "offers" link in the top nav to group these together, like "jobs" and "ask"?

It strikes me also that this could be a valuable part of the community here. I think the HN has an ethos of startups helping each other out (albeit with a good dose of skepticism).