skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#1,2, and 7: Yes.

The others: not so much. When it matures (jQuery) perhaps worrying about branding is in order. But if you are spending your hours making a tool for me to freely use, I'm ok if your design isn't so pretty. And if you don't want to spend much time on Twitter. And ...
It's 10^23 time again
Cambridge, MA (sorry, no remote)

HubSpot is hiring web developers (Java/Python/PHP)

We're also paying $10,000 as a referral bonus if you help us find an awesome developer. Details at http://BostonBattle.com
Some examples:

- Open file with, select one or a bunch of files and specify the app to open it with

- Move multiple files to another location

- Clipboard history

- Keyboard triggers for custom actions (open all the apps and files I need for a certain project)

- Custom web searches (I have one setup to search "site:news.ycombinator.com + search term")
Unless your communication platform is designed to send SMS messages and/or tweets, I'd say a slightly more generous limitation would be better.

It is possible for communications to have the virtue of brevity without the need for URL shorteners and abbreviations everywhere.
Android tops global smartphone ranks
6 tips for making prospects list
New York City - must be on-site.

A little bit of game design, a little bit of project management, a little bit of community management--a lot of fun. No programming required, but familiarity with web and game development is a plus. Interest in games, especially RPGs and puzzlers, is a must.

Full time freelance in NYC for an established book publishing company. It's fairly entry level.

gbrown at scholastic dot com
Like a lot of Coding Horror articles, there's less here than meets the eye. Unless I am missing some subtle subtext, the content is basically "Netscape did some cool things, back in the day", to which those of us over a certain age can only reply "No duh."

A deeper analysis of the Netscape case would be a fascinating read. This, however, isn't it.
Anti-Tivoization is only in GPLv3 but most people are still using GPLv2. The problem with the App Store and GPLv2 is its ban on additional restrictions.
I am trying to influence intimate sharing behavior between exclusive groups, but I want them to be bite sized to be digest simply, promoting usage.
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Divvy lets you create custom sizes. Once you map those sizes to a single key, it's very fast.
Actually it makes a ton of sense to asynchronously require javascript files on your production page. If you load them asynchronously and in parallel, you can often get much better performance than one single request (serially).

http://blog.getify.com/2009/11/labjs-why-not-just-concat/
"I have a lot of experience in a variety of industries, but I wouldn't say i'm an expert in any."

This is going to be your biggest challenge. You need to become an expert in something. Or at least, adopt the mindset that you are an expert. Consulting is one of those careers where image matters quite a lot, and if you aren't very confident in your own abilities, clients will pick up on that doubt and pass on hiring you.

You can even be a technology generalist, but at least position yourself as an expert in "using technology to solve whatever problem in whatever industry".

Remember that the reason companies hire consultants it to get problems solved. You have to know a lot about what those problems are and how they are being solved by other companies already.
Spotlight still takes a few seconds, rather often, to open up and receive keyboard input. I HATE waiting a few seconds for something that's a part of my thought process. When I think "Open chrome" and I move my fingers into the magic incantation needed to make that happen, it should be opening, now, RIGHT THIS FUCKING MOMENT. Not three seconds later.

I don't care if it's fast enough most of the time. It needs to be fast enough every single time.

Launchbar is always there within 200ms, no matter what my computer is chugging on at the moment. That's well worth the 20 bucks.
Iirc okcupid would let you login with one click via email via a token. I'm fairly sure they stopped doing this a while ago. A much better solution, with a better experience as well.

Neither way is ideal, but making it easier to login probably helps viral growth.
Well, don't trust a benchmark that you haven't faked yourself they say.

I was just trying to point out that MongoDB is too easy a target here. The problems it has under high load are fairly well-known, at least to anyone who tried to benchmark it outside of their MacBooks. Just bulk-load a couple million records and watch it tip over if you don't believe me - I'm not making it up and neither is Sergei.

However if Clustrix wants to impress with benchmarks then they should pick an equal opponent. MongoDB is not exactly relevant for companies that consider the calibre (and cost!) of Clustrix.
Teenager builds Death Ray - 5000 sun intesity
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It is disappointing that Startup Visa did not even get a mention, despite Brad Feld being on the panel.
No they don't have to. They can email users a link with an embedded hash that automatically logs them in. These links can expire. This is similar to how an email password reset works.
My, that comes across as a bit preachy. You get something for free. So what if it doesn't have a twitter account associated with it.

The important things are 1) does it do what I need 2) is there a good community and 3) is the licensing clear, and compatible with my needs.
The definition of karma whoring isn't posting irrelevant things just for upvotes, it's focusing on getting upvoted rather than answering. His posting low-quality questions quickly just so he can get upvoted while refining them, posting irrelevant pictures just so the posts look nicer, etc, all points to karma whoring, not just answering a lot.
Android selling 3x their closest competitor in the US market (RIMM) last quarter is also a very big number.
Ok, I'll bite. What do people actually use dropbox for? All of my employer's code is in SVN, and personal code on Github. All of my email and my calendar is on Gmail. All my photos are on Facebook. All of my documents are in Google Apps. My writing is on my blog. My TODO list is in Workflowy.

If my computer dies (which it has recently) all of my stuff is covered. Is there some area of content creation that I am just missing altogether? I guess I don't back up my photoshop or audio work I do occasionally on dropbox, but that's probably not it.
I don't think it would be that difficult. The one big change I can think of is Clojure's pervasive immutability (a la Haskell). But even if you've never played with Haskell, I don't think it would take you too long to get comfortable with it.
Easy Rails Admin Login with Google Apps and OmniAuth
It's great feedback for people who are interested in attracting more people to their project, which is clearly (to me, at least) the manner in which it's intended.
It's been the best selling smartphone OS in the US for a while, this news is that it's now the best selling globally (unseating Symbian AFAIK)
Maxima is extremely hackable, because it's entirely written in Lisp. I remember making modifications to the tex() function some years ago because it didn't use the particular notation that I liked, and it wasn't hard at all.
Nearly Twenty Million New Malware Threats in 2010
Yep, overselling for the lose I'm afraid.
Savvica - Toronto, ON (must be on site)

We're looking for a Design Lead and a Senior Developer (http://savvica.com/jobs)

We are India’s leading educational marketing and recruitment services company. We work with universities and colleges primarily in the US, Canada, UK and India to recruit Indian students for their programs. Savvica operates learnhub.com, studyplaces.com, and jumbotest.com, reaching more Indian students than any other education-focused sites in India.
Groupon (Chicago, Palo Alto)

Groupon is still hiring developers. We have an aggressive hiring plan for the rest of the year. All job openings are at http://groupon.com/jobs. The jobs are all cooler than the posts make them sound - we're working on that.

Location: We have offices in Chicago and downtown Palo Alto. A unique thing about our dev team is that for most jobs, it doesn't matter which office you work out of. Both offices have most jobs, people travel between offices as needed or desired, and we have good teleconferencing practices.

Upcoming projects:

- scaling for big, big traffic growth

- Big Data work around personalization and more

- lots of new projects, both internal and public

- Most work is in Rails but previous Rails knowledge isn't a requirement. Previous awesomeness is a requirement though.

Benefits:

- job security, market salaries - we're making money and just raised $1B

- talented and excited coworkers - there's energy here I haven't felt at any other place

- good development practices - increasing test coverage, requirements planning, post-mortems and retrospectives, etc

- laser powered cat mascot

- visa assistance and relocation on a case-by-case basis

If you're interested or have questions, email me at peterc@groupon.com and I can direct you to the right people.
I don't think the issue is as much about design as it is about seriousness. Having a homepage for the project, spending some time or money on design and reaching out to the community shows you're committed to the project which will get others to commit. That's the best insurance a user can get against the project being completely abandoned one day.

As someone whose tried to use open source whenever possible I can tell you there's no feeling worse than using an open source component that's been left for dead
Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
Not intended that way, in fact, that's the purpose of the article - how to build that community. Even if the code is good, it takes time and there are practical steps you can take.
I am a great admirer of TechStars and I think their book _Do More Faster_ was great, but frankly this scares me a little.

When government contributes money (our money!) or fosters an environment in which we can blossom, great. When they try to do much else, not so great. I have trouble understanding how government resources can replicate the contributions of people who have actually done it, ie Techstars or yc.

Entrepreneurship is something that is done and shared, not talked about or theorized upon. I sure hope Techstars influence can find a way to harness these resources without having the pontificators fuck it up. Good luck with that.
It's pretty good marketing advice for many things. "How to market your open source project" might be a nice, less linkbait title. I guess it worked, though:-/
Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Get A Job
If you want to be an entrepreneur, maybe you should get a job.
At Google and Mozilla, Bug Bounties are Big Successes
It uses synchronous XHR to load the JS-File. Then evals the JS-String.

This is great, but I could not figure out debugging my loaded code with this solution.

Any ideas ?
Most of GNU is now GPLv3+. BeTrains is GPLv3
I was thinking the opposite, actually (though I don't notice the flicker at 24Hz).

My TV has one of those modes called "motion-smooth" or something like that, and what it purports to do is smooth the transitions between frames. It does this surprisingly well - too well, I would say. The end result is that movies end up looking like cheap soap operas, and I can't get over it.

Granted, the 48fps is not the same as 60fps, and maybe the difference is enough for me to subconsciously forget it. But if it wasn't the change would probably be enough for me to forgo MaxiVision films.

I think refresh rate is one of those things that our minds compensate for in the background, and the slightest changes one way or the other are instantly noticeable.
Bingo.

There are multiple mission scenarios and our intention is to support as many as are practical.
Google’s Android becomes the world’s leading smart phone platform
Meat Lab - the iPhone of food
That was over ten years ago. For context, Mark Zuckerberg was all of sixteen when the original web bubble popped.

Yes, you will have incredibly lucrative job offers in this bubble. That's the easy part. As Startup.com and Code Rush illustrate, the hard part is figuring out why you are working all those long hours.

If this is supposed to some kind of reminder as to what we're doing with our lives, it's not going to work to stop a bubble. Those who will work those long hours this time aren't old enough to have lived through it the first time. The people who were the foot soldiers of the bubble ten years ago are not the ones who are going to be the foot soldiers in the next bubble: I seriously doubt anyone who worked the long hours ten years ago is going to consciously make a choice to do so again. It's not just that our collective memory is short, it's that there are so many new, young, impressionable, minds with no memory to influence their decisions.
Skitch (http://skitch.com/) is my favorite Mac app in terms of usability. Of course, I need simple screen capture software (not everybody does).
Au revoir, not good bye. I'm sure you'll be back, for old times sake.
Ready for linkbait, I read the article and...it's good!

If open source figures into you company's strategy, as it does more often these days, you need to do it professionally. Yes, even if it is free.
Absolutely terrible reporting from the Daily Fail, as usual.
An API to build apps like Smartr, Flipboard and Lazyscope
Applications like Flipboard, Lazyscope, and Smartr.mobi are all built using backend technology that prefetches web content, and cleans it up for better readability.

http://cln.me is an API for developers who want to build similar amazing applications but are stuck figuring out the backend.

I saw that HN has an embedly version, it's almost trivial to build a similar site using cln.me

What would you use such an api for?
>SizeUp is not free, but it's only $13 and worth every cent. It adds keyboard shortcuts to OSX to move windows around.

Only? Compiz has a plugin for this and it's baked into Windows. I couldn't imagine paying $13 for that feature. Also, not sure why Chrome got called out when it has similar extensions to Pentadactyl. (Probably the same misconceptions that have people thinking that ABP can't block downloads in Chrome. [It can and has been able to for nearly 7 months])
>The definition of karma whoring isn't posting irrelevant things just for upvotes, it's focusing on getting upvoted rather than answering.

Why is there a negative stigma around wanting karma and seeking it out even in the case where you're being helpful? It seems as though karma is something good to have but if you want it, that's bad. This seems similar to how wanting to be cool makes you so uncool.

>His posting low-quality questions quickly just so he can get upvoted while refining them, posting irrelevant pictures just so the posts look nicer, etc, all points to karma whoring, not just answering a lot.

Fair enough, my definition of karma whoring might be a bit off from the norm. I always took it as trying to gain karma from a community while basically doing nothing to further the quality of the community. I wasn't aware from his post that the pictures he was adding to the answers were entirely irrelevant. I must have missed where he said that (and I don't use Quora).
Perhaps but he's preaching against the very attitude you have which is "you're getting this for free so you'll take what you get and like it"

If you're someone writing an open source project you're wasting your time if it goes completely unused. So even as an open source developer you're still trying to sell your project to people. You're just giving it to them at a VERY reasonable price.

So what he's saying is all the same "selling a product" rules apply even if it is open source. You can't just throw it out there and expect people to use it
Add: your source has so many accidental dependencies that its agony to extract the bit I need.

Actually, I do use open source, even so. Its just lots harder than it needs to be.
You are tickling the uncontrollable urge I have to try to guess what type of smartphone any given commenter has.
Great to hear AlphaLab is part of this. I've considered applying to the AlphaLab program before, but timing has always been an issue for me. Hopefully next time around! :)
Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB
Kewl - might wanna try that
Sergei,

I think it was a mistake to put this post on a blog with no other content. I think it leaves the reader with the impression that this is the only thing you want to contribute to the community... and as other commenters have pointed out that contribution could be perceived negatively.

Something to think about next time.
As usual, deviantart.com:

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Oh, sorry I didn't mean to reply to this comment.
OT: That stock photo that I was just greeted with was creepy and a major turn off for me looking at the site any further at all.
Here is my general take on this:
Going to a top school can probably be a great experience, have you learn things from top professors/researchers in the field, get exposure to great companies recruiting at the university, be part of a pool of highly competitive high achieving students, etc. All this is probably worth a lot and might lead to one being better prepared, having connection or access to a network of people who might have more influence, connections, means, etc.

However, there is not sure path to success and the things mentioned above might give one a higher chance at success, but no guarantee. I would say that ones personality, ambition, and hard work play a huge factor in ones success, perhaps even a bigger factor, so I believe someone can be successful irrespective of the school they attended.

Taking on $100K+ debt at such young age is a huge risk as well. There are many problems with debt, but the major one I consider is how it ties you down and prevents you from taking risks and being able to take risks at a young age is really important. If one graduates with lots of debt, one has to have a steady job (and hopefully one that pays very well) to meet the financial obligations. That might hinder one's ability to take a job at an early stage startup or other opportunities that might enable one to learn and grow faster than working at a more stable company.

I personally like experiencing freedom from debt (as much as possible), so I would (and did) pursue the best educational option that would only cost an amount that I feel would still grant me a certain degree of freedom/risk-taking ability.
That doesn't seem consistent with Siegler's statement, "So next quarter should produce a dip for both," because that describes a change in the growth rate will occur next quarter. Given Siegler's prediction is predicated on the continuance of"insane" growth, there really ought to be a passing attempt at demonstrating the basis for his belief.
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I'm really enjoying the arms race between YC and TS. This is as fun as watching the browser wars, or Android vs iPhone, or Windows vs Mac vs Linux. Competition is driving everyone to be better.
So no one here has a startup ? :)
Jesque: A Resque client in Java
I can tell you there's no feeling worse than using an open source component that's been left for dead

I'd say using a commercial component that's been left for dead is much worse.
6. You don't have a Twitter Account

Seriously? This would never in a million years have crossed my mind as a reason to avoid using something.
Sony sends DMCA notice to Github over PS3 files, keys, and tools
Point taken, but a) they've already got plenty of good anchors, and b) many of the anchors (and all of the reporters that I've seen thus far) seem to speak Arabic as well as English, and can therefore do things like talk to people on the street, understand government broadcasts, etc.
You are not wasting your time if you learn something.
I use it for my documents. Not everything can be google docs. I just finished up my taxes online, and printed the forms/reports as pdfs, which I saved into my ~/Documents folder, which is symlinked to dropbox.
Although the headline kind of loads the answer, and sets the whole tone at a preachy level, his feedback is good - if you want to drive attention/usage of your open source project, you have to put in a minimal amount of marketing.

If that's not something you're worrying about, ignore the article.
The last time I was looking for a job, the subject of Fibonacci as a "Fizzbuzz" or coding screen came up in discussions with colleagues. On a whim, I decided to write the most unlikely implementation possible and blog about it so that when someone asked about Fibonacci in an interview, I could say "Oh yes, I blogged my answer to your question in advance."

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-12-...

As it happens, I have never been asked to code Fibonacci. But if I ever am asked... I'll be ready!
Their operating expenses could easily be covered; the "black budget" was estimated at $30B / year pre-9/11 ; no doubt it is higher now.
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Many of us just want a folder that syncs.
> I don't think the issue is as much about design as it is about seriousness.

You get what you pay for. And your best insurance against the project being completely abandoned is to have the source code.
Well, if jaquesm convinced you to come back, that's just one more great thing he's done that he won't be around to do anymore...
Jacques, thanks for what you've contributed here. You are a voice of reason and capture the spirit of why I lurk and occasionally participate on HN.
Not a reason not to use. A reason I might have found you in the first place.
I find this surprising. Can you please explain?
I think the snippet about "Code Rush" being available online was useful, and perhaps there's a deeper analysis of Netscape available there.
Remember, not everyone is a hacker. For my non geek friends, Dropbox is magic. It just works.

I could imagine the world 1000000 times better if everyone can fire up a shell and do something with that. Sadly it's not the case.
Download caps are way too low, no doubt about it. Providers are protecting their own self interests by undermining businesses like Netflix, no doubt about it. However that is an entirely separate discussion.

It is not a separate discussion, is THE discussion right here. For the life of me, I can't figure out what discussion you're trying to have or what it is that you find so disgusting/disgraceful.
Obama Proposes Tax Relief for Small Businesses