skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to see KeyRemap4MacBook. When I first switched to Mac from Windows, little things such as "Home" and "End" not working the same way were quite annoying. KeyRemap4MacBook allows you to reconfigure everything.

One very nice feature is the ability to configure different keyboard profiles depending on your setup. I maintain separate desktop and laptop configs). Thus, when I dock my MBP to an external monitor and keyboard (Microsoft Ergo Keyboard), I switch to the desktop setup that remaps the Left-Alt key to Cmd and the Windows key to Option among others. When switching to laptop mode, I also remap the right-option key to function as a forward delete (which normally requires two keys on the MBP).
I'd be interested to know why you created a whole new language instead of improving on Sass. Just seemed like more fun?
You're not quite right with your conclusion. Sorry you didn't read all the way through.
http://easyunsubscriber.com/removeemails.php was our version 1a. It's a working prototype without any payment mechanisms. ####Edited to add This version is no longer functional - it will say you unsubscribed, but it doesn't actually unsubscribe you.

Version 2 is now at http://easyunsubscriber.com and has a few payment plans. We're still doing a lot of testing and tweaking.

We plan on doing a lot of multivariate testing on the current version (2) to find out the best pricing plans to maximize our revenue. We're also testing to see if users are more likely to buy if we have a video demo or just a screenshot.

We also bought version 2's design from http://www.chimerathemes.com
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Bump is building an awesome design team. We are hiring interaction designers & visual designers - come join us.
> the first person I ever "noticed" on HN

Same for me. Is there any statistics like average number of posts of the user per day? I'd be really curious to see that number for "high karma" users.

As I've noticed him, I actually had an impression that JacquesM really does only sit in front of HN pages, refreshes, reads and responds.

Afterwards I also found out myself why and how HN is so addictive.
Kontagent - (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2162845)
Just a model train in a tube. Don't hold your breath yet.

From the article:

It's just an experimental success. Its actual value is slim as there is a great gulf in adopting it for practical use,…

The technology only has an experimental significance and is not currently feasible due to its astronomical costs…

Developing a vacuum Maglev train is a complete scientific fantasy.
Firebug and the WebKit Inspector allow you to set breakpoints by just putting "debugger;" where you want to jump into debugging.
They get strangled by their DBA before they're finished with it.

And: the point of document stores is that you can denormalize (i.e. put lots of stuff into one data item) and _still_ use indices into the lots of stuff. Most commercial RDBMSes have means and ways to do that (e.g. storage of XML content), but afaik it's not standardized and would tie you closely to a single ($$$$$$) database vendor who will not hesitate to make you bleed whenever they can.
a friend who i trust recommended just using varchar(255) to represent all IDs. any other comments?
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What absolute drivel. Any engineer worth their wage doesn't pigeon hole themselves into one technology. Those that do, you simply don't hire and they fade into obsolescence.

Concepts are more important that technologies. If you embrace the Microsoft stack, that gives you but one view of how things can be pieced together. If you embrace some different stack that gives you another view and so on.

To claim that you are somehow inferior as a developer for using a Microsoft stack is just bigoted and really doesn't have any place on hacker news.
This is some serious Star Trek stuff.

Or maybe the TV show "Timecop" (I think that's the one), where the protagonist, using little more than his wits and a handheld credit card computer kept chrononaut baddies from altering the past. Considering how close my phone is to the size of a credit card, we may be less than a decade away from that kind of thing.
it's definitely nice to see some activity around this area.
When expectations were on the order of millions of units, they must have expected some non-hacker consumers to buy the units for themselves or as gifts. Even if every Android guy and HNer in the world bought a Galaxy Tab, they still wouldn't sell a million without significant numbers of ordinary consumers deciding to buy one on the basis of ads, retail displays, and consumer electronics reviews. But that won't happen, because consumers won't pay several hundred dollars when they don't know how to distinguish a quality product from a crappy gimmick, especially when they know from past experience that (at least some) electronics manufacturers will rush to bring out a superficially similar competitor without waiting until they can replicate the technology.

Imagine if there was no Android -- you think there would be no competitors to the iPad? Someone would toss together something worthless based on Windows CE or Palm OS and call it an "iPad killer." Consumers do NOT want to fall for that, and the only way they know how to avoid it is to steer clear of non-Apple tablets for now.

Uptake of Android tablets will depend on tech-savvy folks buying them, showing them to their friends, who will buy Android tablets and show them to their friends, and so on. It will be slow.
Thanks - done!
The Nerdery (Minneapolis - HQ, Chicago - satellite office). http://www.nerdery.com/jobs

Hi HN. We're not a product/platform company, and aren't in SV, but we do have one hell of a culture, myriad projects, and an unending pipeline of new work. To support that growth, we're planning on adding an additional 100 people during 2011. If you're interested, have questions, or send in a resume, please let me know. I want to make sure anyone coming from HN stands out in our application pool. matt.albiniak at nerdery d0t com

Most common thing heard around The Nerdery - "I learned more here in 3 months than I've learned anywhere else." Dog friendly, caffeine provided, developer owned and operated.

We have immediate openings for:

* Front End Dev - JS knowledge required, jQuery experience preferred.

* C# ASP.NET Developer - ASP.NET MVC preferred

* PHP Developer - Zend

* Actionscript Developer - AS3

* IA/UX Designer - previous FED experience

* Software Project Manager - you make juggling look easy

* IT Systems Technician - we're tech-centric. Not so much "can you install this" as much as "need ____ provisioned."

* iOS Developer - please hurry.

* ExpressionEngine Developer - see above.

Oh, and if you're not a great developer but understand tech (like me), we're hiring in sales, too.
What made the offer better could have been that it was coming from Quora rather than Google.
Calling author(s?) of POF `duct tape programmer(s)' does harm to jwz (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html)

They (people who don't actully know how to program) can build a large system on a shoestring budget exactly because they don't know how to build it properly, or how hard it is to. No distractions over those pesky little matters like ACID properties, security, accessibility, etc. etc..

Because those are a major part of what slows programs developed by professional developers.

No distractions, no slowdown, until a security consultant mails you a proposition you can't easily refuse. The hackers Mr Chris Russo alleges were exploiting the hole did it quietly (if at all), for obvious reasons. Nobody knew, nobody cared until now. Several years of good business, right? And free publicity now, isn't it?
Quite a lot of open source stuff is written by paid-for professionals nowadays. That may or may not be a good thing, but it's not new.
I can't find a way to submit the form. It just stops after the HIGHEST priority question and has no scroll bar, no sensible end, and no submit button. Using Chrome something-or-other on Windows XP something-or-other.

To answer the questions, I cook pretty much every day. I hate it, but it's the fastest, cheapest and healthiest way to eat. It's even faster than take-away, but I wish I never had to cook again. If I had money that's one of the things I'd happily spend it on.

EDIT: OK, now I can complete the form, but you ask if you can contact me for a follow up, but give no way to give you my contact details!
My team is just me. And I'm a lousy, but improving designer. I essentially find a site I like, and then "borrow" design elements from it. I don't scrape or steal - just take some direction. Without it, I'd never be able to get started.

I'm slightly ashamed to publicly admit this, but my design is a poor imitation of what I think is a rather good design here:

http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/

I took some cues from them, simplified it so that I could actually do it myself, and then stopped improving it when it was no longer absolutely embarrassing.

The logo is just Arial. Go figure.

I have since redone it almost completely, and I think the new one is much better, but like I said, you won't be able to see it until sometime later this week/next week.

The new design is much more focused and less scattered. Each page has a clear point to get across. Aesthetically, it's nicer as well, although I've confirmed that with precisely zero people.

As far as the app itself, I just made that up from scratch.
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Yep - essentially this. I have made cold calls in the past and I have no problem with people trying to make a living. However, we get many calls where it's very hard to get the caller off the phone. These are 95% recruiters. Despite the fact that we politely tell them we aren't interested.

Also, it becomes obvious so quickly that it's really not much more than a way of saying "not interested" and getting off the phone.
"That[Yuri's uncapped convert notes] drives up the check amounts, removes the incentives for the angels (uncapped converts…really?) and doesn’t really allow any one angel to take the mutual fund model, which means they would be investing with no due diligence. "

Yikes...I never thought about it that way. Basically Yuri is encouraging the speed at which the angel/super-angel bubble is hyper-inflating. I wonder if most incubators/angels have responded/will respond with refusal to go along with Yuri, or up the ante with larger amount of angel investment?
The idea is that Bell is the 'gatekeeper' to the internet for their customers. By hiking up their internet rates to make it more expensive to do something like stream NetFlix while at the same time introducing their own competing product that is exempt from those charges it comes close to (and probably is) using their position in one market to leverage another. My contention is that ISPs and content-providers should be required to be separate because there are multiple conflicts of interest there.
pg already gets tons of applicants per round, I don't think Yuri's plan will triple the number of applicants so I doubt it will be a problem in the short term at least.
I said nothing of the sort. Look back at who posted which comments. You responded to my only post in this thread.
YuMe is hiring in product, engineering, BD and sales.

Product and engineering openings are in Redwood City, CA and Chennai, India. Remote not a possibility.

Sales and BD openings in Redwood City, New York City, LA, Chicago, and Seattle.

We're a profitable video advertising technology company backed by Accel Partners, BV Capital, DAG Ventures, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Menlo Ventures.

http://www.yume.com/content/careers.
font-face is 404'ing

https://github.com/learnboost/stylus/blob/master/docs/fontfa...
Sure, it all depends on context. If I'm talking with someone and he's obviously knows what he's doing, then I'd certainly make allowances.

At the same time, you'd certainly hope that an interviewer had the basic English-language terms down pat for one of his standard interview questions. (Presuming he's giving interviews in English, of course!) It's not a single mistake here, it's jumbled throughout the article in a fashion that makes the simple question sound much more complicated than it is.

For what it's worth:

my @fib := 0, 1, *+* ... *;
my @fib-digits := @fib.map(*.comb).flat;

Okay, I guess given an adequately expressive language, the problem still isn't very interesting even if you're really asking about the digits. :)
We read the EventVue postmortem with interest: http://blog.eventvue.com/post/372936164/post-mortem

We're not really in the social-network-for-your-event market, though some of our functionality might address part of that problem space. Services like EventVue are limited in terms of growth because they need to convince conferences to sign up (and pay for the service) one at a time - it's a sales problem.

With Lanyrd, the event itself doesn't need to have anything to do with the site for a profile to be created - and the more events we have listed, the more valuable the service is to our users. We have over 5,000 events listed already, all entered by our community.

Thanks to Start Fund, we've got a healthy runway to figure out our business model. We have a bunch of options and we're confident we can find something that works for us.
thanks man. yeah it is a love or hate thing, just like lots of people love jade or really hate jade haha so I suspect it will be the same thing. I think named args would be fantastic to have as well, more expressive for mixins that have many params
Excellent idea. I'll have to try that.
I sent you guys a resume once upon a time and all I got was a form-letter. Was pretty excited about your company.
Your posts here are consistently useful and informative. The HN community is definitely better for your presence. I'm glad you are getting something in return, while at the same time providing jobs to HN readers.
Pretty meaningless to me. I responded to a few awhile back and all I got were form letters.
My Alternative Android App Stores Download Numbers
iPad is still where the profit is, as most of the cheap Android tablets don't make much profit.
Ask HN: Thoughts on tiered data usage by ISPs?
What businesses do you see failing due to implementation of tiered data usage protocols by ISPs?

How will it affect your own business/startup/planned startup?
I agree. The fact that they wouldn't or couldn't confirm Honeycomb would work on the Tab pretty much killed it for any informed consumer.
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First cosmonaut's name is now a TM
That's as a result of the interpolation your TV has to perform. If the content was actually filmed at 48fps it would look natural.
I'm still angry about my Samsung Instinct, and now with my Samsung Epic being stuck at Android 2.1... Samsung has negative credibility with me, and anyone who asks me for phone advice.
Most of the lowercase brand names you mentioned are only lowercase in their logo. Facebook, MSN, Amazon, Twitter, and Hulu all use a capitalized name on their own site when written in non-graphical text.

It's all about what image you want to present. Lowercase can seem more friendly and casual. If you have a two-word brand name, capitalizing (and using CamelCase) can help highlight both components.
There are a few strategies I use.

1. Dinner parties. Nothing formal, just invite people over for food. I am pretty well compensated, so while I spend a little more than is strictly necessary, it is less than eating out all the time, and I can share tasty meals with friends. Further, costs can be amortized by having others bring dishes, and you'll start getting in dinner invites too.

2. Know lots of recipes and variations for a few ingredients. This helps with the "too much" problem, as you can use stuff quickly without getting bored. When you add new ingredients to your repertoire add them with depth. Eventually you will start learning how things work together and just whip up stuff pretty easily. A good way to get into this is make it a game -- try to figure out how to make a tasty meal from say, only things on shelf #2 or have each friend bring one ingredient and it is your job to make a dinner.

3. Similar to the previous one: get good at what I call "ingredient chains". There are lots of these, but a classic example: Buy a chicken, roast it. eat it hot. Take some of the meat for sandwiches this week. Take the bones and bits and pieces of meat and make a stock out of them for soup.

4. Don't worry about throwing away food. Seriously, I throw away ingredients all the time... sometimes I just don't get around to using them, or I change my mind. This is still so much more frugal than eating out, that it is worth it (within reason of course).

5. Buy the good stuff.. reasoning here is the same as #4. I can pay $100 for groceries per week, getting the quality stuff, and still spend less than eating out at all but the crappiest fast food places.

None of these are clever solutions, but they are a different approach to the situation that obviate the problem by either eliminating the problem via base assumptions or by changing the problem to "not actually a problem".

hth :)
Ok, this specific feature description makes a lot of sense (pulling data from issue trackers to find projects with tasks you can do). From having read the readwriteweb article I was left with this feeling of "but that's exactly what GitHub does".

Under the possibly totally incorrect assumption that that article is based on marketing copy from you, I will offer a key suggestion I learned on product differentiation once: you need to say things that your competitors aren't just going to claim applies to their products as well.

Example: "our shoes are comfortable" is going to be a really difficult campaign because every single company in that space is going to be claiming that. In this case, saying "social layer for GitHub" is incredibly confusing (even if it is theoretically accurate, as another responder just pointed out), as GitHub bills itself as "a social network for programming projects".

To bring it to this case, when I looked at the readwriteweb article, the general idea of "find people to work on your projects" seems to be exactly what people are already using GitHub for, so my response was "wait, wtf" rather than "oh, that's an interesting take".

In particular, I got here: "the ability to find and promote repositories, showcase developers' skills and repositories, as well as reward those who contribute", and I thought "this article could have been written a few years ago about the launch of GitHub: what are they actually doing here that GitHub isn't".
What they pioneered isn't the seed accelerator concept, but rather a repeatable model for it.

It's the difference between the idea for a burger bar, and Macdonalds developing a franchise model for it.

YC have always stated that there can be only one YC and that's the global YC. TechStars have the position that they can design a playbook that allows their "magic sauce" to be replicated.

Although they should (as they have done in the past) acknowledge YC's inspiration of their model.
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Come work with us on solving the problem of local discovery.

We're hiring for a variety of positions including web and mobile developers, biz dev, and designers.

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I landed an internship earlier (and a job eventually) from one of these threads.
An email from Hosni Mubarak...
Geek opinion can go further than just the people who hold those opinions. For example, device enthusiasts' lack of acceptance means that everybody's "Guy who knows about computers/phones/electronic gizmos" is giving the Galaxy Tab a thumbs-down. When you're selling a pricier alternative to an established brand, you need those cheerleaders.
http://blog.jquery.com/2011/01/31/jquery-15-released/
Interesting. Maybe the Tab can find niche use in harsh environments like warehouses or factory floors.
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Did you read the same article I did? The article said very little about which stack you used, and spent as much time, if not more time, attacking Facebook and Google employees than Microsoft employees. He basically said two things:

1) if you're a facebook or google employee, get out more and interact with people who aren't also employees there.

2) if you're a microsoft employee, make sure you work on stuff that uses a non-microsoft stack.

In other words, he agrees with you on the Microsoft side and you're just aimlessly ranting about an article you didn't read.
Could you set the record straight then? The site is already down. Perhaps you could post a text only version here?
Ask HN: iPhone app or mobile website for nanny management website?
We just launched our MVP, http://akfamilies.com - a nanny management website. We know that we have to take this thing mobile since nannies are always on the go (picking up the kids, getting groceries, going on playdates). I would know BECAUSE I am a nanny (or "manny" actually, ha). It's a pain in the rear-end to get your schedule via text message and sloppily written to-do lists on a pieces of paper - so we want to keep everything in one place and on your smartphone.

Anyway, what's the route we should take this? And of course, feel free to bash away on the website and/or idea. All feedback is appreciated, even if it's harsh.

Thanks,
-Nick
various reasons, we have full control over the syntax and features. Plus this is written with JavaScript, for nodejs, not Ruby.
I'm 34 and recently engaged, but I would seriously move there and work for free if you would let me (and had a couch for me to sleep on). I am a US citizen but unfortunately my fiancee isn't on board.

Keep doing awesome things guys/girls.
Over the last couple months, I recall seeing a lot of requests for ways to block content farms from Google Search. I have found this extension works really well.
I've been wondering this, so here goes.

By accepting this money, is YC basically saying that $10-20k isn't enough to startup? Or at least that having the next $150k promised is beneficial to startups in general?

If that's true, why doesn't YC just give more money to teams to begin with? I thought the low amount was part of the secret sauce - constraints leading to creativity and all that.
The headline is wrong in two ways:

1. Android only squeaked ahead globally in the fourth quarter of 2010. I would imagine Nokia still held the lead over the entire year since Android had much lower share at the start of the year.

2. The source says that in the US things might be different in 2011 due to iPhone carrier exclusivity expiring, but Android is not merely leading sales in the US, they are 3x higher than the next highest which is Blackberry (it's roughly 60/20/20 Android/Rim/iPhone).
Well, Apple writers write mostly about Apple and that is exactly what Siegler does. I don’t think he knows very much about Microsoft so it’s probably a good idea of him to not write about them all that much ;-)