skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has built one of the most successful email spam filters and they've arguably done a decent job at cracking down on link farms and other black-hat SEO tactics. They'll certainly have more work to do but I don't think they'll have a problem identifying spam or fake "+1's". Historical user behavior and other signals will help them filter out spammers. Additionally, Google will likely emphasize +1's from your friends and my guess is most of us aren't friends with spammers.
1000Mememories

Currently at 5, +1 intern already hired for the summer

http://1000memories.com/

Software Engineering

michael@1000memories.com, jobs@1000memories.com

We're a Rails shop, but general web dev experience is all we require.
You know, it's funny. I got a degree in math with a minor in CS. While I directly use the CS much more today than the math, I firmly believe my analysis courses -- delta-epsilon proofs included -- set me on the right course in properly examining matters and not settling for handwaved explanations.

I suppose it's a matter of perspective, but then again the "math" that junior high and high schools usually teach isn't really math. Rather, it is a brief explanation of boring topics, taught in a boring way to emphasize rote memorization. I'd prefer to see teachers focus on the joy of exploring a concept so that you understand it actively versus passively, and (yes) rigorous logic as well.

We'd have a better citizenry overall if people thought like mathematicians, whether or not they "use" the material.
I love the polish. It is way too wide, though, and the left third of the window is wasted in most cases.
This is great news, I'm really looking forward to it. I loved "Inside Steve's Brain", by Leander Kahney, though it's the only biography I've read on him so far. It's got a lot of great observations and quotes, like this one on page 34:

"In the 1998 interview with Fortune, Jobs said that he looked to his hero Bob Dylan for inspiration. One of the things that Jobs admired about Dylan was his refusal to stand still. Many successful artists at some point in their careers atrophy: they keep doing what made them successful in the first place, but they don't evolve. "If they keep on risking failure, they're still artists," Jobs said. "Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure.""
Given his earlier (active) disinterest in biographies, I'd guess this'll prompt all sorts of talk about his health.
> Facebook has become the primary place web users spend their time and create content, and is mostly closed to Google’s crawlers.

Seriously? I'm yet to see any of my facebook friends to create anything interesting that google can't crawl. Every single artistic person I know has a blog or a website. Maybe it's just my friends, but the most creative thing they do is post a link from reddit or some crappy photo from a party two weeks ago.

Facebook is such a horrible platform for creative people. Name any creative area and I will name you a website that beats facebook hands down (in both community and convenience of posting and reviewing your creations).
"Bush's pointless Daylight Saving shift"

?

Staunch Democrat though I may be, how is the Daylight Savings shift Bush's fault?
The problem with how you've set this up is that you are not taking into account if the user personally knows the person you are asking them to recommend. Without that qualifier, you are likely to get a popularity contest and not an actual index of more accurate judgements.
As much as the discussion has focused on defending mathematics and the importance of teaching it, that's not to discount the value in teaching kids about coding. Whether or not they later become hackers, they'll have an appreciation for how things work and an interest in doing rather than simply watching.
Saltwater aquarium owner here-- I own many palytoxin soft corals and have never felt any danger whatsoever; however that doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful with these guys (zoanthids, palythoa, etc). I've never cut them open or anything, so I'm safe I think :)
High sobriety 
While this is not tech, it is interesting because this guy (Australian) tackled the issue of the weekend binge unconventionally. Instead of harping on the problems of alcohol damage, he turned his energy into blogging over a 3 month period of self-imposed abstention.

He writes about the gradual process of insight and discovery about who he is (doesn't have to drink to be fun), and who his real friends are (when he tries to abstain for 3 months), and eventual realization he doesn't need alcohol and how alcohol has embedded itself into society.
In other news, post security-check airport janitorial closets and bathrooms contain tons of unguarded ammonia and bleach containers all over the place.
Can Moving Averages be used to Generate Profit for Traders?
180 students for a single term can get over 5 million USD pretty easily in the US.
It's also quite possible that you have a more fulfilling life. Just because people are gallivanting hither and thither does make their lives better.

Also, the hard work your doing now may aid you in later years with a work ethic your friends might not have. Which will instill you to work 3 years straight with-out a break on your amazing startup and retire at the age of 29. ;)
I'd say an "easy-to-remember sentence" also has lower (actual) entropy than "an arcane sequence of letters, numbers, and symbols". If an attacker knows you're using this password-generation system, she will probably try brute-forcing your passphrase, not the password it generates.

I don't see how this is any more secure than having a normal password -- it's just security by obscurity. And in some sense it's worse, since you're led to believe these SHA1 passwords give you the same security as standard, locally-stored generated passwords.
I have an application that includes a browser password manager and have been working on this problem on and off for a few years. First, there's nothing new being stated here. Second, password generation is marred by similar tradeoffs as any other approach to this subject. Third, after a lot of effort, I might go as far as to encourage people to re-use a single password for all but their most important sites. Fourth, statistically, I believe this is what 99% of the world does today, it does make some sense.
Kohana 3 changed everything around, lacked documentation, and made things much more verbose for relatively little benefit.

This is the major thing that turned me off about Kohana. I loved the original concept - "PHP5 fork of CodeIgniter" - and we actually have it backing our two largest web apps. But I would never recommend Kohana again for a commercial project that is under active development.

Between minor versions there was major API breakage, that wasn't really documented - and was going on in parallel with 3.0 development (think Rails 2 -> 3 with no documentation). For a long time the "Unofficial Kohana 3 Wiki" was actually the only source of documentation for KO3 (even after release).

It seems like the PHP community keeps fragmenting into new PHP frameworks to replace old stodgy (cough PHP4) frameworks (good), with modern design practices (good), but then totally ignoring the community aspect of OS software, documentation, and maintenance.
Land and subsidies to lay fiber?
Not related to the mockup, but while you're looking at the thread - have you thought about making appleseed bittorrent-distributed instead of diaspora-distributed? In other words, no server at all, just a swarm of computers storing the social graph data, photos, comments etc. between them with some amount of replication?
While this is not tech, it is interesting because this guy (Australian) tackled the issue of the weekend binge unconventionally. Instead of harping on the problems of alcohol damage, he turned his energy into blogging over a 3 month period of self-imposed abstention.

He writes about the gradual process of insight and discovery about who he is (doesn't have to drink to be fun), and who his real friends are (when he tries to abstain for 3 months), and eventual realization he doesn't need alcohol and how alcohol has embedded itself into society.

Before the internet, this would have to be a very isolating process. One is almost a pariah, unless one decided to become religious or joined AA. But with the internet, he has found a bigger circle of people who cheer him on and gave him support.
Yeah, Ko2.x was pretty nice as well. You could always fork it an maintain it with all the other misfits;) (I kid I kid (about being a misfit))
I quite enjoyed Isaacson's biography of Franklin. Will definitely read this one.
I'd say yes, I have the 15" you are thinking about. The SSD I have is drastically better than my former HDD, and I don't think I could ever go back. I have an 128gb limit on the SSD, with the addition of an external firwire harddrive. If you're not looking to spend $500, maybe get a smaller, 128gb ssd for applications and OS, and then when a thunderbolt external/portable HDD comes out, you can store files on that. Hope that helps. If anything, I believe you cannot go wrong with any size SSD.
Still hit the 404 page when checking the career stats of different players in pitching and hitting.
Seeking CTO 
We are seeking a NYC based chief technology officer (CTO) for an exciting, novel startup. The business is directed towards bars & clubs, people who go to bars & clubs, and marketing companies who target this market. We plan to launch with a smartphone app and website in June. We are currently seeking bids from app developers, and the CTO will help us make the best choice. The CTO will also be responsible for app, database and website maintenance.

The CTO should have expertise in all or some of the following areas:

iPhone OS (aka iOS), Objective C, Mac OS, Cocoa, Xcode, SQLite, Unity, PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium
AndroidOS, BB Touch, java, css design, Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME, BREW, and custom api's
PHP, MYSQL, XML, SOAP, .NET, C, AJAX, Crystal Reports, .ASP, Java Script, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, VB, 3rdparty platforms (Magento, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress)
Integration with Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other Web 2.0 sites
Systems Analysis & Design
This is a part time position to start with an equity stake in the company. Why an equity stake? The better we make the product, the more money we will make as a team. I do not want a hired gun. I want someone who wants to build and be part of something big. We are currently meeting with investors and PR firms.

We do not care if you are working full or part time now, apply anyway. We work a full time job. We will consider every response.

Please send your resume along with any apps or websites you helped design. Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks......

Check out the website and twitter feed:
www.barandclubstats.com
info@barandclubstats.com
@barandclubstats
And Bitcoin has no clawbacks. (A concept I'd never heard of until Madoff.)
I actually don't think that's practical, at this time. Diaspora originally started out with that goal, but quickly moved over to the same server-to-server approach that Appleseed had been using.

Just adding the required usability to allow single-users to administer a social networking instance adds a whole ton of complexity to the software. Way more than something like Bittorrent.

I think it's possible, at some point, but for now, I think a more conservative server-to-server approach is necessary.
Ask HN: Any good BuySellAds(BSA) alternatives for the PSD to HTML/WP shop?
We are PSD to HTML/WP agency in Sydney, Australia and the business is pretty stable. http://www.xtmlweaver.com

We've been using BSA for awhile and the monthly budget is about $1~2K for advertisings (cross few different sites).

I'd say that BSA is pretty good and hassle free service.
But in recent month the CTR has been dropped for us so the money we spent doesn't give us good return.

I am wondering that are there any good BuySellAds(BSA) alternatives for tPSD to HTML/WP type business?

I don't think there is any wrong about BSA and actually I still really like their service, just want to see the potential for others.

Cheers,
We used the prioritization feature. Wow, I just noticed it on the website. That's a pain. Maybe we'll have to move back to pivotal tracker.
Ask HN: Summer Internships in NYC?
Going with the other post, I think the NYC tech startup scene is as awesome as the bay area, so who is looking for interns in NYC this summer?

Please post in the same format:

Company Name:

Company Size (number of people employed):

Company URL:

Position:

Contact Email:

Skills Needed:
Can you give us some statistics on that?
I'm going to be a dissenting voice here and say that these need a lot of work, because I think that's a lot more useful than saying they look nice. Please don't take this too negatively, because I'm not trying to tear you down and say these are terrible or anything--I'm trying to help you make them better. Mostly the issues are in the details, but there are larger things too. I don't have a lot of time right now (or any time between now and Tuesday), but if you'd like more specifics, feel free to send me an email (it's in my profile) and I'll be happy to get back to you later this week.

There are definitely good reasons to look like Facebook (which I'm pretty sure is intentional). The most obvious reason is user familiarity: people know how Facebook works and they're going to be a lot less intimidated if they've seen something like it before. However, one not-necessarily-obvious downside to doing this is that people know Facebook and know how it works, and if things look like they do on Facebook but don't behave the same then they're going to be confused. That's not necessarily a reason to change the look entirely, but it definitely is something you need to be aware of if you're going this route with your design. Another potential issue is that people really don't like change. (For an example, see your Facebook news feed any time there's a design change.) If you look similar to Facebook but not as good, you may have issues getting over people's initial reactions.

There are a lot of little details I could pick out, but I think your biggest problem right now is with spacing and whitespace. The info page, for example (http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/preview/images/info.p...) has way too much whitespace around the actual information. Whitespace can be a good thing when your content is balanced with it, but right now the whitespace is dominating the page and it looks very empty, which is not at all the impression you want to give off.

The other thing I think you can improve on immediately is your use of gradients and drop shadows. Right now they're too obvious: a little goes a long way. The design is otherwise very flat and text-based (not a bad thing!), and so they stand out a ton and look out of place. The combination of the square tabs and the very large drop shadow is especially jarring. As a first step, I'd suggest getting rid of all (or almost all: the subtle blue to white from top to bottom is working pretty well) of them. Focus on getting the basics of spacing and hierarchy right first, because that's much more important.

As a final note, the Appleseed logo in the top left is going to cause some undesirable behavior if left like that. Either the logo is going to be hidden by the edge of the window or the picture when the browser gets narrower, or it's going to cause a horizontal scrollbar. Both are bad things.

Hopefully that was at least somewhat helpful and gave you some things to think about. And like I said above, I'd be happy to give more (and more specific feedback) later in the week once my thesis is finished.
Loads of examples of companies that have apparently seen success with "white hat" SEO doesn't prove anything, without also showing what they have done to get that search ranking, and also showing that they haven't used "black hat" techniques.
Facebook doesn't let you input enough information to do anything creative. I would never, ever write a blog post on my facebook, then link people to it.

Can you even do that?

I would never, ever post anything other than cellphone snapshots into facebook, their photo UI seems to discourage it as a photograph sharing tool (snapshot sharing yes, but I don't know anybody that would ditch flickr for facebook).

Can you upload music to facebook? I don't...think so?

People are creating things, but facebook has no way of categorizing this stuff, so I don't think people are putting "valuable" things into it, because they know that they'll never be able to find them again.

The fact that greplin is looked at as such an amazingly exciting tool illustrates this, I think.
PagerDuty (http://www.pagerduty.com) is hiring both interns and full-time software engineers. We're still quite small - 5 people. We're located in the SOMA district of San Francisco.

Email: alex@pagerduty.com.
You would choose which site best represents your identity. Say that's the Cowboy Bebop site, so your identity becomes wmf@cowboybebop.example.com

You can now login to lolcats.example.org using that identity. So it acts as a single sign-on.

There are other planned features, like profile linking and cloning so that you can have multiple identities tied to a single user, but that's how it works for now.
This is largely true, and you should read it. One caution: SEO is a little bit of marketing and a little bit of engineering. You know what both of these fields have in spades? Project risk. You can do competent execution of a good idea which "should" work, even an idea which does work simultaneously for someone else, and have it fizzle on you.

I am totally not saying this wearing my consultant who wants your money hat: you often will make repeated investments in getting this right, have no discernible success with some, and continue having to do so for forever as your business evolves. It isn't a matter of tweaking titles once and getting back to "real work."
Happy Birds.
I left a job where I'd built a simple UI to a complex back-end using jQuery. A former co-worker told me the guy who'd taken over that project kept complaining that he didn't understand "all this JSON" in the app.

Friend: "Can I see some of the JSON?"
In-over-his-head Developer: "Sure, here."
Friend: "That's not JSON, that's jQuery."
Dev: "Whatever, it's the same thing."
Friend: "No it's not and you thinking it is, is the real problem here."
This is a variant on hashapass.com
Aviary has slick HTML5 image editor. Add to your webapp now. Source code soon.
Ask HN: Can you give me your opinion with this brand logo?
What do you think this brand logo (http://i.imgur.com/MfK4g.jpg) is most suited for?

Up vote comments, for the context that you think suites it the best.

EDIT: I'll respond soon, HN is giving me the "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." message. I'm reading all your comments thank you.
When I read that part, I thought: there is your problem.
music band (emo, punk, etc)
digital agency
Agreed. Twitter is completely inundated with spam and I consider trending topics to generally be among the worst examples of human expression, and yet I love twitter and use it constantly because I only see updates from people I follow.

google's "social" search results don't show up that often for me, but when they do, the little icon and note that says "so-and-so has shared this link" make me look at that link first because a) google has matched it to my query and b) so-and-so liked it enough to share it on twitter (and +1 now? not sure if it's working yet).

This mostly works for me for searches about programming, since that is the community I follow on twitter, but it does a great job of separating wheat from chaff and helping me stumble upon related cool things. Hopefully they don't screw this up and I can get similar benefits for other topics/related communities.
toy brand!
game programming company
I know that I am going to look for 2 interns during this summer.
Translation Cloud LLC, 10 people start-up
www.TranslationCloud.net
IT Interns
info@translationcloud.net
PHP/MySQL skills required.
clothing label
glamour photos for pets
I see your point, but it's not like there is some sort of +1 on-off switch. Google has some pretty sophisticated and effective means of detecting linking manipulation; I'm sure the same care and set of safeguards would be put in place if +1 was to be used as a ranking factor. Just a casual mention by Matt Cutts that +1 data is used as a part of the algorithm (no matter how small its actual impact) would likely be enough to drive huge adoption.
Along the same lines people in physics ask all the time: where is the next Bell Labs?
no, for just pandas
Or we could go the nihilistic way, and not even applaud those who act. They are, after all, only being consequent with who they are, and that's hardly special or worthy of praise.
Sorry, I've been reading too much Camus...
I think many people are confused and don't quite understand which message they should be replying to.. perhaps it'd be better to have 2 numbers? One for starting an exchange and one for completing them..
Hairstyling for teenagers
This was explained though, he received an aerosoled version of the drug, which was a very, very small dose, and not directly into the blood stream. Dipping a spear into one of these things then poking a living animal and that being is dead, quickly.
Play/review my crap game Rescue, and win a prize (Linux)
Good luck and keep us updated on how it goes.
There's also a really new one (they just launched their site a week or two ago) in Baltimore.

http://thestartupcity.com/
cool haha, thanks!
"I like" create is enough for fb :(
Your enthusiasm for Bitcoin may be innocent, but shills and astroturfers abound on the Internet. If Bitcoin is so interesting, other people will take up the conversation; you don't need to dominate it.
yakuza drug cartel? j/k
Here comes China: $95 Cortex-A9 Android tablet (video review)
Have you experienced the "lock-up/freeze under load" issue that some have had with these models? I'm getting ready to buy a new MBP, but that scared me a bit. Some said the latest software update fixed it, but many others are still having problems.

I'm looking at the SSD kits from MacSales/OWC, but I don't want to give up the optical drive. And I know very little about SSDs...
"a person who was poisoned had an opportunity to figure 'oh i dont feel well', went to a hospital, made it to the hospital, and survived"

I am not sure what point you are trying to make with that sentence. That this proves it's not very toxic? We know how toxic it is. The LD-50 has been determined with some precision. What this would therefore prove was that his dose was low, which considering the suboptimal delivery method isn't that surprising.
Apple plans Final Cut Pro makeover
While I'm sure it's not feasible in every travel instance, is it possible to travel with a lawyer so that you have counsel by your side when the harassment occurs again?
how about Bow Tie?
if this is for real not vapourware it would be stunningly good value for money
Wow, there are ePub and mobi versions too. I'm sticking that on my iPad.