skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYC - Full-stack JavaScript developer

DISTRO.fm is an early-stage startup working to revolutionize how artists distribute their music.

We been building over the last few months, but there's lots of work left to do. Our website is a single page application driven by JavaScript, backed by Node.js and MongoDB.

Us: http://distro.fm/
This is the kind of bullshit that makes this day painful -- I wasted my time reading the first part of it.
Many thanks for sharing your experience :)

About where to place the illustrations: That's a great challenge for us. We are trying to get as much feedback as possible from kids, dads, professional storytellers, psychologists, writers, professors etc, to learn where's the best spot to place the illustration. There's no consensus, but we hope to have a formed opinion soon.

About the layouts: iBooks renders EPUBs in a funny way. We have improved many times the way illustrations are formatted each time updating our books in the iBookstore. We are in the process of updating once again our styling template, using new CSS3 properties supported by iBooks. We are learning along the way and improving our books a lot! (If you send me an email to victor at pictorical com I will send you an updated version of Rapunzel when we have it ready.)

Thanks for buying the book, supporting Paola and giving us feedback. Please do a "like" to Paola (the Chilean artist who draw Rapunzel) to send her thanks.
7 Things to Know About Asana
I assume that higher fps = higher digital payload = higher bandwidth load for ISP's, considering services like Netflix Since this will place a bigger burden on ISP's, they will use it as added ammunition when lobbying Washington re Net Neutrality, and the whole thing will become a political clusterf*ck. Ain't life in the US grand? But other than that, it sounds like a good idea.
Vancouver, BC, Canada - Summer Intern

Matygo - Delivering Education. Very young and close to profitable. Founding team looking for first outside help creating a platform to be used across the Province in Fall 2011.

If you want to get your hands dirty with some awesome tech (Sproutcore, Scala, iOS), live the startup life and have a real impact on our company and Province let us know.

This is a $2000 honorarium / unpaid internship. We know that sucks (we pay ourselves less than minimum wage), and will try to make it worth your effort in every other possible way including but not limited to extensive mentoring / training, referrals, lunches, total freedom over your work, etc...

Feel free to contact me directly with any questions: paul@matygo.com

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The Psychology of Success, Part 1: Obsession
When I was very young, I loved Monty Python for the funny faces, costumes, and silly voices. As a teen, I loved them in an oddly rebellious way. Now, I realize it is just a documentary slightly reworded to make a satire, more funny than ever.

"Life is a piece of shit, when you look at it

Life is a laugh & death´s a joke, it is true

You will see its all a show, keep em laughin as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you"

P.S. I am still trying to figure out which one of you is Tyler Durden.
Was there anything funny in there? Yeah, they collage buzzwords, mock Louisiana and the blurry guy approves—but how is that funny?
Hi! I'm a university student in Ottawa with some Linux, Java, C++ and .NET experience. Are you looking for a hard working student? :)
How Startups Can Use Social Media To Court Angel Investors
Douglas Trumbull's 'Showscan' fprmat shot and projected 70mm film at 60 fps. The huge cost kept it from succeeding, though the visual impact was supposed to be amazing.

Cameron's proposal will introduce similar perceptual problems to HD video - fake stuff will look more fake, every tiny detail of a performer's face will be apparent, and scenes that play a certain way at 24fps might fall flat at 60. One study showed that physical comedy was funnier in low res/low frame rate, and the same action looked painful to the audience in greater definition and detail.

I'll watch a good story in any format, thanks.
Fund Size Matters When Picking a VC: How to Align VC and Founder Incentives
Neat idea, though I feel like it would be better implemented as a command line tool using ncurses or something similar so it could be used on any Unixy system (including logged into another server, for example)
http://blog.quartzy.com/
University of Washington unveils new entrepreneurial fellows program
People are used to 24fps for movies now, however.

In my opinion, higher framerates just end up making everything look like a sitcom.
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ISP's don't enter into it. The goal is to have exclusive tech in movie theaters only.
Natebook's landing page
I do my own DNS hosting, I've never used a registrars DNS services, I've never found them to be reliable enough, nor do they meet my needs in terms of being able to update records quickly or in programmatic way (such as hosting my own DynDNS like service, keeping a record updated for my home IP address).
Yeah, I saw this last night. I'm not a subscriber anymore and it was really annoying and I was confused. I didn't even think of April Fools though. Good one.
It's also very unambitious.
Life's also about working to get what you want, then enjoying what you wanted so much, then realizing that you wanted something more, and then working harder to get that as well.
This is surely the most elaborate excuse ever for not writing those maintenance scripts?
I'm sorry you got some downvotes, because what you're asking about is interesting: Am I merely saying "Don't post stuff I don't like?"

I don't think that I'm asking people not to post stuff I don't like. For one think I like some of the stuff I'm asking people not to post. Yes, I like lame jokes. I don't think "lame" and "dislike" are strongly correlated. If people upvote something, it could be popular yet lame in some way. And if people don't want to see it on HN, they might still like it.

Here's an example. I like puns. I especially like spur of the moment puns. But quite honestly, puns are usually a fairly low form of joke. They rarely have any kind of serious insight into the human condition. I don't mull over puns and repeat them as anecdotes years later.

So, I can tell you that something to do with a pun would be (a) enjoyable to me, but (b) lame, therefore (c) I wouldn't submit it to HN, I'd probably tweet it.

We aren't really discussing puns, but i use them to try to illustrate the idea that there are things that I might like or you might like that are funny and fun and worth repeating, but they don't necessarily belong on HN. I don't blame you for liking such things, just as I'm not ashamed of enjoying a pun.

So perhaps "lame" is a bad word, because it is pejorative. Perhaps the suggestion might be "Don't post April Fool stories that lack any real insight or clever prank that takes you in." Lame might be the wrong word.

But I think the idea is worth discussion, the question of whether there are things someone likes that shouldn't be on HN. I agree that the rule "Don't post stuff I don't like" is wrong, as is any proxy for that idea.

And thank you for raising an interesting question.
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The problem is that 24 FPS is now part of the Hollywood "look". 24 FPS is associated with high quality high budget productions in people's minds; 60 FPS looks like a home movie or low-budget TV sitcom. It may take a while to change people's perceptions.
Ex-Microsoft Games Chief Apologizes For ‘Consolization’ Of Gaming
I'd guess our brain fills in data when the frame rate is only a few per second. When it's much higher we have to directly absorb what we see without mental filtering. This is why 24fps is more "cinematic".
San Francisco

The Usual (http://usual.com/) is hiring generalist engineers to work on our back-end (python/django/rabbit/possibly socket.io) application as well as client applications (android, iOS) for mobile/online restaurant ordering. We're looking for smart people who'd like to tackle a variety of problems.

We're early stage, in a big space (online restaurant ordering), and have an experienced team. We'd love for you to be a part of it.

simon at usual dot com.
True. But if during that process you are always by default happy with what you have at any given moment, then you can't lose.
Why I’m Ditching iOS and Becoming an Android Developer
So is listen.grooveshark.com
Alright, I've been slightly unsure with each of your replies in this thread, but this one finally convinces me that you're just good at this "April Fools" thing.
NPR News for Android 2.0
Trademark on the word 'Sales'
We're at a local maxima. It will look better after it looks worse.
Wasn't Showscan also projected with more lumens? A quick search didn't reveal this, but I am sure I remember that Showscan was much brighter.
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Los Angeles (remote/H1B for the right fit) - Ruby on Rails Developers

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You simply can't give unlimited post-contract support -- it's unreasonable for them to expect it and it's unreasonable for you to give it.

In a better situation, as zck said, you should have this written into your contract. Lesson learned. The next lesson is the client should not -- and you should not -- have blessed a version without having it experience production loading, as it will shake out different issues than qa.

If I were in your situation, here's what I'd do. First, no more free time. Second, you're going to have to charge for your time fixing these issues at a rate in line with what you originally charged; it's not fair to suddenly jack your rates up now that they're kind of stuck. Still, I think you can have a happy ending here as long as your client is reasonable.

You need to write them a letter and politely say that this went through acceptance testing and you're happy to support ongoing issues at $X/hour. If I were you I'd actually make $X about 2/3 of what you originally charged to make it clear that you aren't making out on this. Just be politely clear that you can't give them unlimited support for free and be very clear where your time goes when you send them billing reports. Also, some permgen errors can simply be fixed by increasing permgen and throwing ram at the problem.

Good luck, and make sure that in future contracts, you break out acceptance testing, qa, load testing, and put in a firm price for ongoing support. I like to make my ongoing support price about 4/3 of my contracted price but with the first 10 hours free. Of course larger blocks can be pre purchased at reduced prices.

Also, once a client accepts code, all changes cost -- bug fixes too. If you want to make a living you simply can't hand people blank checks to your time. Now particularly egregious bugs might get fixed for free, that's a judgement call, but be firm. Good clients will understand.
I think it is just fun! Why not have a little fun? I think its a nice break :)
Thanks! Have been hard at work on it. Looking to get it on the front page with the new landing page we are working on as well
They've been done in the past. Seemed fairly popular, when they appeared. I'd suggest putting its creation under the same, organized control that has been established in the past couple of days, if there's sufficient interest.

Note: Sometimes, someone may not be hiring but may know of a position e.g. through a friend. "Who's Looking" might be useful, in that context. Also, those of us working for firms may well not have the authority/permission to publicly post a position (that may seem kind of backwards to some of you; nonetheless, it's not infrequently the case). But an interesting seeker might get a private email.

P.S. Then again, maybe HN has since become too large and known, so that such a thread would no longer work. It might become overwhelmed.
Why not just use dsh for this?
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This is a great on-going opportunity for those with other clients and looking for an extra boost of work here and there.

Pay hourly or project-based.
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Well I certainly have never been one to complain about current film standards.

I suppose I am just wary of change simply for the sake of change. I would like to be able to see the same 24fps and 60fps scene side by side and evaluate the advantages myself.
PagerDuty (YC S10) Pivot - Fixing the Public Transportation System
Ask Paul: Why did you launch Gmail on april fools day? 
Was there a story behind it?
no remote? darn ;)
There are differences between tail -F and tail -f.

tail -f will continue reading a file for as long as possible, but if that file is renamed underneath it, then tail won't know and you will be wondering why you don't see anymore log lines being output to your terminal.

tail -F checks to see that the file we opened is still in the same location as before, so if the file is renamed underneath us, and a new file is created in its place (think log rotation) then it will open that new file and continue outputting data to its standard out.
Angel Investors Counter Y Combinator Start Fund With New $100 Million “End Fund”
Building a Brand on the Smell of Mom's Kitchen
Obviously. But the cognitive mistake is the same. This is not me getting on my soapbox, it is a point of view held by psychologists, it's there in the literature.
My idea of great film tech? 8K, 60fps, and true 3-D (not the hokey 2-level thing)

It'd be awesome, but it's a long, long way away.

As Jim says, this is low-hanging fruit. Easily done with most everything that's on the shelf today.
Haha. Check out http://libsxe.org
I have to disagree, and I could actually use Boyer-Moore as an example on this:

Split the string you're searching into four roughly equal pieces, with an overlap so that potential matches is guaranteed to be found. Then do a Boyer-Moore on those in parallel. E.g. if you look after FOO, you'd have to split the string like this (pipes are the start/end of the piece exclusive, i.e. piece 1 does not contain the last O)

piece 1 here|
...7890abcdeFOOghijk
|piece 2 here

Now, what we know is that in the worst cases, this would require more operations: The O may be detected by piece 1, and it will check if the character in front is an O as well. Piece 2 will also check the same O, so there's redundant computation going on. However, this is theoretically faster (I'd guess it is practically faster for large files) even though this requires more operations.
I'm well familiar with the expression. However it's not helpful to someone who isn't already familiar. It's another form of "you're doing it wrong" without explanation.
> The filmmaker said that when he begins shooting the "Avatar" sequel in about 18 months, he will be shooting at a higher frame rate, though he has yet to decide if that will be 48 fps or 60 fps. He said George Lucas was "gung-ho" to make the conversion, and also called Peter Jackson one of his allies. Jackson, he said, had at one point been heavily weighing shooting "The Hobbit" at 48 fps.

Awesome!

It's finally happening. The 24 fps speed is a relic from the stone age of cinema, back when technology simply could not cope with higher frame rates. So all they could do was shoot at 24.

Then something odd happened. Everyone was shooting at 24, including the grand masters of the art. All the procedures, techniques, all the clever things they devised, took that frame rate as a given. They were not simply shooting AT 24 fps, they were shooting FOR 24 fps.

Thus the "film look", which is the way a motion picture looks if it's shot at 24 fps using the standard cinema techniques. From a technical limitation, it became a cultural given. Because Bunuel and Eisenstein and Bergman all shot at 24 fps, everyone simply assumed this is how cinema is supposed to look like. Higher speed video ended up being seen as "cheaper looking, made for TV".

But it's exclusively a habit, a purely conventional thing, imposed by culture.

I remember thinking a while ago that, what it would take to break the mold is a few big names in cinema to start purposefully shoot at higher frame rates, and at the same time try and figure out new ways to express the same things at the new speed. Some geniuses need to reinvent the art to break free from the old stereotype.

Cameron filming at 48 or even (please, please, please) at 60 fps cannot do the same things that Cecil DeMille did at 24. Or, rather, is free to not do the same things, because the lower frame rate is limiting in many ways.

And now finally it happens. This is great. I hope 24 fps finds its true place - in the history books. It's time to move on.
If we were exposed directly (without magnetic shield), it really might not be so healthy? I think staying in space for too long is not healthy, either? Haven't researched it, though.

In any case these useless comparisons only make me not trust the pro-nuclear-power crowd, because their arguments are dishonest (comparing apples with oranges).
It's a reaction so powerful you can see it with the naked eye.
But how would it work?
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Located in Palo Alto, CA. We will pay for your travel if we want to interview you.

We are hiring for the following positions:

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We are looking for hackers to join our team in SOMA. We have a bunch of ex-Metaweb and Googlers hacking on:

* Android / iOS
* JS (Google Closure)
* Python (Pylons)and MongoDB.

We have a crazy amount of users on Android. =)

Email me hn@catch.com or http://catch.com/jobs

Danke!
What opportunities are avaliable?
Part-time?
Contract?
Telecommute?
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Como puedo validar paypal sin una cuenta?

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In Soviet Russia, lame April Fool's submissions skip you!
Do not feed the trolls. Guys like this just sue people until they are paid to go away. Somehow I doubt facebook is what damaged the middle east.

Next he'll sue the telephone company for letting people call each other for nefarious purposes.
The weak password problem: chaos, criticality, and encrypted p-CAPTCHAs
Sorry. I have a love hate relationship with the Internet on April Fools Day. I hate the annoyances, but I love the brilliant stuff that happens. I think Hulu.com is my favorite today.
"120 fps ought to be enough for everyone."
lol. Nice one.
SourceN - San Jose, CA - A Digital Agency/Venture Incubator that focuses on Mobile Dev, Web Dev, and New Product Dev is hiring Technical Project Managers, Front End Developers and Lead Architects.

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Not another lame April Fools' joke.
Google hiring autocompleters / spell checkers (YouTube)
This like these always makes me uneasy. Yes, you can do stuff on X number of machines all at the same time. That also means you can break things all at the same time.
If you're ramping up the shutter speed on the projector, you gotta compensate with more light coming through.
No. Stacking a new paradigm (iphoto/whatever) on top of an existing one (file folders) is not simplifying, it's complicating.
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This is probably april fool :)
Not lying, just a joke :) Specially when you blame their lead dev, ATT and the NSA...

Hard to believe :)
Have god have mercy on the poor souls that shall use WORD to format their RFCs ;-) That sounds like a truly horrible idea.
Tasty Labs is hiring frontend and backend engineers in Sillicon Valley. We use Python and Java. We are building a way to help people use their social networks to get things done.
http://tastylabs.com/
and that's why we use cppcms, nginx & mongodb. thousands connections per second with templates, localization, setting timezones, db queries...
AntiTrusting
Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine
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We are about to release Dust Up for Two - a tactical 2-player space battle for iPad http://huikea.com/dustup . You'll be working with us on a game based on it. Think StarCraft that can be played both online and face-to-face in bars & schools.

For internship position, we are looking for coders and graphic designers that are passionated about game design. Read more from http://huikea.com/jobs

We expect you to work from Helsinki during the summer. It's a great summer city with a lively game development scene. After the summer other arrangements are possible.

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The Real Story Behind Google +1
I don't even get where that accusation is coming from? Everything was versioned prior to building out, rather than allowing devs to drop dll's wherever they felt like it. Sure the local dev environment wasn't the best...
- "AND ONE MORE THING: We would steer these guys into TechStars or Y Combinator, but they're way too far along. If you're a VC playing catch-up in the cloud space, ship these kids $1.5M and do monthly board meetings."

I don't think they are too far along for Ycombinator.

I still prefer dropbox but that could be 1) because its what I already use 2) the design is too much like Itunes on Receivd
Heh.

I think it would be wonderul if everyone started logging to twitter.

Then you can just follow each machine to get a read of its logs... or, at least pipe the output of LogWatch or something like it to twitter.

Maybe for 4/1/2012 - we should organize all sys admins to output logs to twitter randomly choosing @jack or whomever else and flood them with @ log bursts...
http://www.flickr.com/

Kinda subtle.. check the title..
South Florida Hack and Tell #3 (Show and Tell for Grownups)
I think staying in space for too long is not healthy, either?

Space is uniformly lethal to unshielded humans within minutes and you have about a ~2% chance of dying on any attempt to get there, but yeah, in principle, that radiation is some scary shit!
There are some televisions that have the ability to interpolate a 24fps format and produce an apparent higher frame rate. Watching sports on these televisions is great, but I tried watching Iron Man on one and it made it look like an after school special. I believe this is colloquially know as the 'soap opera effect'.

Google for 'samsung soap opera effect'.