skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source magic? http://code.google.com/p/omaha/
I guess R is a bit more DIY than these frameworks, but it has a very large collection of tools. I've found libraries for everything from CART (classification and regression trees), to SVM, to HMM learning, to clustering, to EM. R with libraries from CRAN is my go-to tool for statistical learning.
I don’t think this was posted here by the developer of the app.
Remember that you can easily use SVN to update your wordpress installations with a single line. I've yet to have a problem with doing it this way. I wish they'd move to git officially (I know there are some mirrors), but this does the trick for the most part. Someday.
No I won't. In the future I'll live in a normal house but I'll read about these little houses. I might even be inclined to purchase one and put it on a lake somewhere for fishing trips or by a beach for surfing trips but live in it full time? Tell that to a wife and children.
Those are two separate arguments. Why run my own? Control, customization, cost. Why not use something like Jekyll? Because the people who I collaborate with do not use tools like the command line, textile, and markdown.
UK (South east)

Mibbit, we're looking for an intern, PHP/sql/js/java/etc
No remote work available.

axod@mibbit.com
I'm fascinated that the votes here reflect rational, rather than kneejerk, responses to your posts. Do you think it is because HN users are specifically empathetic to small businesses, or do you think we are actually avoiding the cognitive bias responsible for holding up the minority that strikes against the hated outsider?

To put that another way, in an isomorphic situation with forged evidence of, say, spousal abuse (pretending that that has some relevance to HN for some reason, and wouldn't get flagged), do you think the votes here would go the same way on your, the parent's, and the grandparent's comments, even if there were many people here who had been victims of spousal abuse (like I am assuming that there are many people here who have been conned by a business at some point)?
Waltham, MA- Savewave is looking for a few more Ruby/Rails programmers to help us with a new fully-electronic coupon solution. Experience with Mongo is awesome.

The full description is at http://savewave.com/jobs/ or email me if I can help.

WRT Remote- We're mostly looking at people who are in the local area, and can come into our new office and work with our team here.
All social media experts "are actually the same person"
Competing against the big guys
This is in reference to the direct video hardware access module in Linux, not digital rights management. But it is mostly about the polite use of git in Linux kernel development.
Washington, DC (no remote at this time)

National Geographic Education is looking to hire two engineers to help us build a platform for geospatial Citizen Science: http://goo.gl/1aRLZ
I've seen some great stuff done with Rapid Miner. Really cool package -- plus I've heard it supports all the Weka components.
Thank you for your insight. A bogus IP - one that no one is listening on - would also not ACK a RST, right?

Doing a little googling this process seems to detect an attack (from a valid ip) that has been programmed to ignore RST - presumably because some intermediate ISPs (like tier1 borders) will detect a DDOS and forge a RST to attempt to mitigate them. Much like the firewall configs that circulated to defeat sandvine RST throttling of bittorrent.
London, UK (remote also considered)

We're looking for devs for both of our products.

Pusher - our hosted websockets service: http://pusherapp.com/

Panda - our video encoding service: http://pandastream.com/

If Ruby, EventMachine, Redis, AMQP etc.. make you happy, drop us a line: jobs@pandastream.com / jobs@pusherapp.com
Philadelphia, PA

Wingspan Technology, we're looking for Java/C#/JS developers, we do Documentum and Sharepoint integration products.

www.wingspan.com

rvolpe@wingspan.com
Microsoft not paying WP7 developers before Feb 2011
This is what happens when you try your best to build suspense. It was Apple that announced "tomorrow is a day you will never forget". If NASA is playing the same trick, shame on them.
You're probably right. The reederapp.com website actually mentions made@gloria at the bottom. But the made@gloria website has a very club like feel. So I figure it's a hacker group.

Also, the link has "brewery". So yeah, the hackers at the cafe it is, probably. :)
I second your points and add...

Not being an iPhone user, I am confused that I cannot tell whether this will have any relevance to me on my Mac. Nor can I find any indication of how I may register in order to log in (or whether registration is free).
Betta Tank Maintenance
A properly setup betta tank or betta bowl will set the stage for a healthy home for the betta fish. A complete betta aquarium will consist of a proper sized tank, bottom media, proper filtration and heating system. Once a tank is setup and running properly, routine and simple maintenance will be required. A schedule should be worked out to ensure healthy habits are established.
Awesome to see Dwolla taking the next step in world domination.
The app is really nice. It has already dethroned NNW in my dock. It’d be useful to have an indicator of what’s happening when fetching feeds — like the one on the iPhone. There’s a lag between creating the note, and having it listed in the notes pane. Are notes synchronized to a server or stored locally?

Reeder is my favorite iPhone app and I can’t wait to buy reeder for Mac. Great job.

edit: notes are synced with Google reader.
A VC: Donors Choose Wrap Up
why is it a scam? the original review, while generally giving poor marks, wrote "All the said, he recovered every single file from my external hard drive."

And where was the withholding of property?
from my bookmarks:

http://gate.ac.uk/

http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/download.php

http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/index.html

http://incubator.apache.org/uima/

http://elefant.developer.nicta.com.au/
http://train.usaco.org/usacogate

It walks you through the algorithms, though you need one of the languages.

There's some terse list at

http://www.algorithmist.com/

that might help. (Disclosure: I started Algorithmist)
This subdomain is up: http://hackfest.140kit.com/
I like Rand's proposed solution, and I'm confident that the folks at Google can come up with something even better and more effective.

I'm finding that natural link building is getting harder and harder. Much of this is because social media sites (that often use nofollow) are now how people talk about stuff they like. And when they do have a Tumblr or Wordpress.com blog, the links aren't very valuable.

Most of the valuable links that I've been able to build lately have come from my asking people to link to my sites. In a way, we're seeing more and more PageRank inequality. The people who control the sites with the most link equity know what they have, and they're not willing to share.

I'm lucky that my niche isn't completely commercial, so there are still plenty of easy, valuable links to build, but I can't imagine how tough it would be to SEO a site in a competitive, commercial niche.
BlackBerry Trumps iOS In U.S. Mobile Web Wars For The First Time
Ask HN: Abandoning app alternatives?
So we're a little start up and we've got a couple of apps on the App Store that are selling just about alright (a few hundred $ a day on avg). Due to other commitments, we can't really spend much time over the next 6 months maintaing them and adding features. Seeing the apps just rot for such a long time doesn't seem right and we've been thinking of possible alternatives.

One option would be to hand them off temporarily for a certain % of the profit to someone who's got free time on their hands and wants to work a something that's being used by people. I'm not sure how realistic that is or whether we want to do it, so any thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Good list, but I would add NLTK.
Perl Advent Calendar 2010
Recessions are good for health
You'd have to accept the inverse, then - "no one attacking this business without concrete evidence has ever been falsely accused by an asshole customer."
What is the purpose of only notifying 65% of the sites found (and publicizing it that way)? Is that to create some uncertainty, so that even sites that weren't discovered by this method will give some thought to changing, for fear that they are part of the 35% not notified?
Columbus, Ohio: http://www.covermymeds.com/main/careers

Ruby / Python folks who want to work on a successful healthcare product with a team that knows what they are doing. Great work environment and management that respects and understands software development.

No remote.
As long as you're using web technologies why not make it cross-platform? It's pointless to use them JUST for the iPhone.
Your linkedin link on your resume has an error (double ..).

http://shareme.github.com/resume/
This is what "intelligent design" proponents are trying to prove all the time, isn't it?
Solve problems. After that, solve more problems. Having done that, read some algorithms book and solve even more problems.

The thing is that most problems on such contests are designed so that classical algorithms are of no use in solving them -- the jury want you to figure out the answer, not to know it beforehand. Of course, there are some algorithms that are helpful anyway, but not many -- here is an almost complete list: merge sort, quicksort, radix sort, Dijkstra, DFS/BFS, Find-Union, KMP, sometimes Manacher and various maximum flow algorithms. Regarding data structures, the following ones are useful: self-balancing binary search trees, interval trees, (mergeable) priority queues.

Learning more algorithms will not help you nearly as much as solving more problems.
"People are starting to get a clue, I think."

Sigh. Moral suasion does not work and has never worked to promote environmental objectives. What works is a rebalanced system of incentives and disincentives in which consumers make decisions.

The median house size went down over the past couple of years because we've been in a sharp, deep recession triggered in part by the collapse of an overheated housing bubble, not because "people are starting to get a clue" that they don't need 4,000 square foot houses.
Yeah, I know. You should also mention the European Court of Human Rights, whose decisions override national courts (of course, the decision is usually "this case not is our job, go with whatever the national court told you".)
Thanks for the project! Will definitely try it out soon.
Ask HN: What's the best way to license your software?
Our product is coming into the Beta/Release phase, and I'm curious as to what other developers/companies use to license their software applications.
The proposed solution requires a lot of manual tweaking:
"Have manual spam raters spot check through a significant sample size of the pages", "If the false positives follow some easily identifiable pattern, write code to exclude them and their ilk from the filtration system."

Google seems to avoid this kind of thing as a principle.
Suggestion for Amazon S3 and static sites
Evolution of Groupon's CEO
How to successfully launch a startup (go-live day)
blip.tv in New York, NY:

http://blip.tv/careers

All sorts of positions incl. finance, design and systems engineer.

Edit: No remote.
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that startups should take more time to train their people.

Back when I was doing a lot of hiring, I found that post-startup developers tended to have gotten broader (more technologies and spattering of business/customer skills) than college hires, but had neither better problem-solving skills nor had they improved their core development abilities (estimating, engineering at larger scope, etc.). That's as opposed to veterans from some of the shops with either training or mentoring programs like Google, where someone with even a couple years of experience has far superior fundamentals than a new college grad.

Though I hate to reference him, I think it's related to the Gladwell distinction between just hacking up code and dedicated practice with the goal of learning and improvement.
Well, as gort pointed out, if they adhere to the central dogma (DNA > RNA > Protein) then the answer is 'probably not' (i.e. you can get everywhere from there). However, if they used an entirely different type of chemistry to make life then I think it would be likely that they evolved separately.
How do you get around the network-effect benefits of large cultures? While more vulnerable by being larger (and a more attractive target), these cultures also develop self-defense mechanisms and an ecosystem of support.

While a custom culture may be safer from wide scale attacks, it's still more vulnerable to targeted attacks. If you're a bank and you rely on security-by-obscurity you are in greater danger than if using a tested and documented standard system.

As an aside, the potato famine was not caused by a singular condition. The law of the land up to some time before the famine prohibited the purchase of land by Catholics; only about 7% of the agricultural land was actually in the hands of the Irish. This meant the vast majority of them were serfs to English lords and had to rely on small/fragmented patches of land to feed themselves. The reason potatoes were grown was that no other crops could be grown on these small plots. In the absence of potatoes, people would have been starving much sooner.
Before leaving for my startup I worked at the great FreshBooks here in Toronto, ON. Great company to work for and a whole heck of a lot of positions open.

http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/
the shifting-by-one is probably not intended to throw off people, but search engine indexers. They probably don't want to contain their competitors' names.
You Can Now Follow Quora Topics on Twitter
Of course it's possible. We might be on the only planet in the entire universe that had the right combination of chance events and conditions for life to arise.

It's generally considered unlikely, but it's possible up until the instant we prove that there's life on another planet.
I'm looking for somewhere to intern at Summer 2011 and I see that you have a posted internship. Do you have any details about internship at 10gen? If you do, I would love to talk to you about it. My e-mail is in my profile.
Google Readies Ebook Launch
It's quite nice, aesthetically. A few things:

1. Using it a bit, it seems I just keep typing "j v space space space j v space j v..." If there was some sort of flow where it would automatically open the web link in the preview pane instead of showing you the RSS feed item (and if you could advance to the next one by spacing to the end of it), I could just press "space space space space..." to read my whole RSS list, top-to-bottom, even when some of them just say something like "new page up! click to go there." That would be amazing, and totally worth ditching Google Reader.

2. It currently doesn't have a Menu Extra (a system tray item). I'm used to using Reader Notifier Reloaded, which has a nice workflow if there are some items you want to immediately act on when they appear: you get a Growl notification on each newly-synched item, which you can click on to open its permalink + mark it as read automatically. If you miss the notification, you can click on the Menu Extra to see a list of the 25 most recent unread items, to do the same from there. I imagine this would piss someone off who has thousands of feeds, but if it could be filtered to only apply to certain feeds, or feeds with a certain tag applied in Google Reader—and if it could do something clever with them, like automatically opening them in Safari without giving it focus—that would be exceptional.
I believe most mobile devices already have unique device IDs built in. Perhaps they're not accessible through JavaScript, but it sounds like this technology already goes beyond the web browser anyways.
My experience would tell me either you don't own a small business or you haven't had a bad customer. We could argue how rare bad customers are and it varies drastically across business types, but it just takes one. I have no clue on this particular case and that is the exact point - neither does anyone else on here unless you have actually used them.
I am the founder of a HackFwd backed Company, but we just started this month. Of course its not cheap for founders with a good prototype, but the landscape in Europe is very different from the US. You dont have a lot of Angel Investing in Europe and VCs often only start at 500K EURs...so they are really filling a gap here, which is pre-seed/seed funding.
Besides the money you get to know some of europes best and most successfull entrepreneurs who might make finding a Series A funding much easier as if you were on your own.
You could also view it as a very special 1 year program in entrepreneurship because they teach you alot of things. We are really happy and look forward to the ride!

Our project wouldnt be able to take off with the money Y-Comb provides because its just too complex for that, heck we even invested twice that amount of our own money before getting HackFwd funding. If you have a pretty simple product and can show its potential with 20k$ and score a Series A, then YComb is probably a better fit but moving to the US from Europe for 20k$ wasnt an option for us anyway.

If you get accepted you will also be a referrer for the program, that way they want to built a big network of passionate founders/entrepreneurs in the future. Sharing knowledge is a big part of that and founders can say "Thank you" to anyone in the HackFwd network with the 3% equity reserved for that. You can also view most of their great talks at the quarterly events at http://www.passionmeetsmomentum.com
It's fun to speculate. Most people talk about sports stats or politics. We speculate about NASA announcements.

And NASA could learn a thing or two about branding from Apple. Space needs to be cool again.
Mac Twitter App Round Up
Cloudera is hiring engineers in Palo Alto and San Francisco, plus a few customer facing travelling people (eg support/consulting/services) based around the world. Also various sales/PM/other roles.

http://www.cloudera.com/company/careers/

Getting paid to work on an open source platform (Hadoop) is pretty sweet, plus we have a fantastic team:
http://www.cloudera.com/company/team/
Actually, there is at least one book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Challenges-Contest-Train...
The only one we for sure is in the wrong is Yelp, because they are letting people who have never been customers post bad reviews.
This is really no different from a publisher taking public domain works, putting a cover on it, and charging $12 for the paperback. There's a slight value-add for which Amazon is charging a slight price. I personally don't see the problem.

The consumer, who could roam the web and find free Mobi versions from Feedbooks.com or Gutenberg.org, decides to pay a few bucks for the app store convenience. That's their choice.
Cambridge, MA - http://www.performable.com/

Performable, a Web Analytics startup, is looking for engineers that want a key role in helping us take our analytics platform to the next level for our customers.

We have serious skills in large scale infrastructure, python, big data, hadoop, and JavaScript. If you are an expert in any of these, please email me at elias@performable.com
Can You Hear Us Now? Technology helping Africa.
I wrote this article with one mouse click
And even in this specific case, in espionage cases, the US can choose to prosecute and basically abduct anyone in the world they want, provided they're willing to put up with the political consequences.

The people who abducted the suspect might be operating under USA law, and they might not be guilty when they go to the USA. However just because it's legal to do it in USA doesn't mean it's legal in the country they do it in. They would still be breaking the law in that country. Would you like if a person broke a USA law while in the USA and then said "But it's OK, it's legal under Irish law?"
I guess it is a testament to how messed up the banking industry is, that I actually dream (quite literally in my case) about the launch of this bank/site.

The most annoying thing is that I don't live in the US any more, so even when this launches I won't be able to partake - but I have been longing for tech entrepreneurs to take a stab at some 'traditional' foundational businesses.

Banking is one of those things that really needs some TLC. Plus, there doesn't have to be branches.

We need a bank for tech entrepreneurs. Not just based in the US dammit.
seems like a pretty good list. I have seen a few of these in the past, and this one seems to capture a lot of the main points.
US deploys 'game-changer' weapon
Boston, MA: http://jobs.crunchtime.com/

CrunchTime is looking for Groovy / Java / perl / javascript developers to help us scale out to more and more customers.
"Do people not realise that it's really annoying"

Annoying like the decision to use "rape" for your issue.
SSH also checks public keys, without relying on any central signing authority. You could generalize this to SSL easily.
You do need to be able to publicize your public key somehow with as little risk of MiTM as possible, but every secure communication method has this problem.
Tor solves this by making a hash of the public key part of the URL. Of course, there might be more user-friendly solutions.
I think a more accurate prediction is that people will be living in smaller houses than they have been in the past 20 years. I live and grew up in a quad home townhouse in a pretty rich community, and my mind would always boggle at the size of some of my friends' houses. It seemed insane that some people had second dining/living rooms that they only used for special occasions, but sat collecting dust the rest of the year. This kind of opulence is part of what got us into the whole housing crisis, so I suspect that the next generation will be a little more practical when it comes to these McMansions.
> The obvious solution for the bad guys (not gonna call them hackers, can't call them crackers can I?) is to use the cloud too.

I'd say a botnet already qualifies as "the cloud". Why pay Amazon when you can get a million desktop machines doing it for free?
Maybe it's a consequence of the language choice (typically C++)...

Because it allows them to type as fast as they can, or because it forces them to do so?
I am amazed R didn't make it to the list.
Note: The DMCA is a specific piece of American legislation. It does not apply in the UK, or Canada, or in general anywhere outside the United States. Different regulations apply.

(I get irritated by articles like this that assume the whole of the world is governed by US law.)
definitely would be into discussing potential ideas... rwjackson5@gmail.com
Bingo. Bob Woodward publishes leaks like this all the time in his books. Some of it is TS stuff, too, IIRC.
I semi secretly released a gem related to the pomodoro technique on Saturday:

http://rubygems.org/gems/pomodoro
https://github.com/steveklabnik/pomodoro/

Basically, it builds off of the noprocrast gem (metioned here: http://rfw.posterous.com/33144299 ) to toggle your sites in conjunction with the timer.

It's still a bit rough around the edges, but somebody may find it useful...
Apple iOS And Android Tied for “Most Desired Operating System”