skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a script that runs every 15 minutes and checks the IPs of new users against Stop Forum Spam's API here:

http://www.stopforumspam.com/apis

It's caught the significant majority of spammers, giving me some time to write other spam protection checks.
Leaving emacs open makes it more IDE like, the stuff you were working on last is still loaded. Instead of having to quit and then find all those files again. I work the same way as you. Tabs for any large number of buffers would be a nightmare
So sad that this is closed source. It looks very nice but I feel very uncomfortable knowing that if there are any issues which bug or annoy me or things I would like to have but which do not exist yet, I can do nothing about it.
>Assuming the investment works out, it will pay for the cost of borrowing over time.

In other words, because the company is deciding to take on more risk, hoping for better rewards.

I'm recently debt free (I don't own a house), with car, credit cards, loans, everything paid off. It's how I could afford to quit my job and bootstrap my own company last month. Not just financially, but mentally, with buy in from my wife even though we have a four month old baby. Companies don't have four month old babies, and CEOs usually get rewarded nicely when the risks they take with other people's money work out, so the calculations are different for companies than for individuals.
Austin, TX - Ruby Programmer AcademicWorks - Scholarship Management in a SAAS environment.

We are working with a lot of cool technologies: Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.0.5, HTML 5, Jquery 1.5, Postgres 9.0, Redis 2.0 (yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll be upgrading 2.2 soon), Chef, AWS hosting and the list goes on ...

We are vigilante about getting the bullshit out of the way and doing what it takes to make coding fun.

We value passionate people, but won't sacrifice a healthy work/life balance.

We are an early stage, but funded and have more demand for our product than we thought!

Contact me if you would like to know more: aaron@academicworks.com
10gen is looking for people to work on MongoDB
http://www.10gen.com/jobs
Hm, I think Fermi problems are not as much in style, but certain interviewers still ask them from time to time.

I'm thinking more about just annoying puzzle problems with one right answer, that if you don't have an "aha!" moment you'd probably never get (and remember, this is in the context of a stressful interview). Stuff like the Two Glass Balls problem:

http://sites.google.com/site/mytechnicalcollection/puzzle/tw...
Sunnyvale/Mountain View, CA - Software Engineers

Room 77 - We are looking to hire several more software engineers to join our rapidly growing team. Room 77 is building the world's first hotel room database and search engine and looking to reinvent how people plan and book their hotel lodging online. You can see more details here and also try your hand at solving a few of our puzzles. http://www.room77.com/jobs.html

Our engineering team is 5 members right now with backgrounds from Google and Facebook. We're funded and since launching two months ago, we've already received recognition as the Best Overall Startup at the LAUNCH Conference and the audience choice award at the Web 2.0 startup showcase.

Benefits: Competitive salary + equity, 401k program, free lunch daily + snacks/drinks. We try to have lunch as a team daily and put together fun events monthly to foster a fun working atmosphere.
Yeah, good point. I'm new to this hiring thing, so I'm trying to establish a reference point. I specifically mentioned "junior", but still, you're right, all the good ones will be freelancing.

I'll rethink my strategy!
Nice start, looks like a nice bridge to Vim for textmate users.

It's missing a few of the basic vim movement commands (which I have on a wallpaper I put together http://naleid.com/blog/2010/10/04/vim-movement-shortcuts-wal...), but has most of the big ones. The ones I use quite a bit that don't seem implemented are:

C-d - half page down

C-u - half page up

ge/gE - go to the end of the previous word (you do have e/E for next word)

( - previous sentence

) - next sentence
Common Lisp.

Ruby.

C++.

Languages that are not Apple-specific.
This looks like a nice project. I wish the Android client was available in the market or at least for download as .apk

Also a map would nice to see the current status of the whole database.
It inacceptably blocks when accessing a Macfuse volume. But the whole design looks very good.
One down, 4 to go :)

ln -s /Applications/Vico.app/Contents/MacOS/vicotool /usr/local/bin/vico
| (a) I'm getting a raw deal; I'm putting into taxes far, far more than I get back in "benefits."

Good. Do you want to be elderly, disabled, cancerous, an injured veteran, jail-bird or a school kid (again)? You don't want those benefits until you need 'em. And you or your family will need 'em. If you're a self-made rich person, or one of your ancestors was, consider how they leveraged the taxes of others to get that way.

The "state of nature" concept as pre-societal (Hobbes, C17) is bogus and as out of date as phlogiston theory. The term was originally coined by Aquinas (C13) and specifically included society and culture until Hobbes removed them almost 500 years later. For humans, society is nature. Aristotle and Aquinas recognized this, and this is in line with current thinking, except apparently among libertarians who seem to believe that "red in tooth and claw" justifies their luck and screw you buddy to anyone less lucky.

But maybe you should get arrested every month just to get your money's worth. Make sure to tell the cops they are parasites.
San Francisco, CA

Expensify - Engineering Generalists
https://www.expensify.com/jobs

H1B very welcome.

We're a small and super close family. Who should you be? Be fluent in at least two of the following: C++, mobile app dev, PHP, JQuery. Be smart, fun, and nice and want to change the world :-)

Bonus points for appreciation of lulz, and of electronic music.

App details are on the website, please give as much time with it as you'd like us to give you. Oh, and, let them know Ayumi sent you from HN.
Ask HN: Cheap Bulk Storage?
2 years ago, BackBlaze released specs for their storage pod, which is basically huge tract of drives wired together.

It's not fast, but it's cheap, and it's great for bulk-archiving documents.

Now it's 2011- Is there a better way of solving this problem? S3 is crazy expensive for massive (100+TB) archiving, and I'd rather go one-step above building my own system using custom frames and components.

Are there any web-services which offer bulk storage at somewhat reasonable rates? Are there off-the-shelf cases which offer 50+ HDs for a non-insane price?
You forgot the "only buyer" case.
> ...wisdom of the crowds...

Hmm. My local newspaper just recently disabled all comments on their articles altogether while they try to figure out how to handle the "wisdom" of their particular crowds. A lot of effort has been spent on trying to figure out how to curate particular cultures on Reddit and HN, because of the habits of the crowds on those sites.

Otherwise, this looks like a cool new take on an old problem. Good luck!
Gorgeous visualisations here: http://crowdflow.net/blog/2011/04/27/first-results/

I wish they would make the database available right here right now. Also I would like to contribute with my Android phone.
Onswipe is hiring! New York City

I haven't announced these on our site our publicly

1) Lead Interaction Designer

2) PHP Back-end for analytics and algorithmic data fun

3) Sysadmin with a background in scaling high volume content sites

Learn more about our culture
9 Reasons Why You Need To Work At Onswipe: http://blog.onswipe.com/jobs/9-reasons-why-you-need-to-work-...

j@onswipe.com
The Future of Interactive Brand Engagement is Here (on Xbox LIVE)
Agreed, although some laxer languages - say, Javascript - will let you do it all the same. Like I said, it's not necessarily a rule to follow, but whenever I come across people who would do things slightly off (from common coding practices anyway) I notice the difference, and if it's something I recognize I put a little mark there in case they're really, really close. I come from a C++ background, so stuff like i++ and ++i really do make a diff.
I say to Color, “SWING for the fences!”

No rookie player (i.e. startup in this analogy) begins by swinging for the fences. Color are finding out that just putting the bat on the ball is a lot harder than it looks.
Thank you for making that site. I liked your examples, and it has sparked my interest in design.
I have this in my .vimrc (https://bitbucket.org/tednaleid/vimrc/src):

nnoremap <D-d> <C-w>v<C-w>l

nnoremap <D-D> <C-w>s<C-w>j

This makes cmd-d open up a vertical split, and cmd-shift-d open up a horizontal one. Same keybindings as in iterm2 and I find them easier than the chording that you have to do normally (which makes my hand feel like it's using emacs).
Is there much commercialization of neural networks going on? I own NeuralNetwork.com but am not suited to turn it into a business. If anyone is in the space and is interested in using the category killer name, I'd love to talk.
Justinmind prototypes inside a real iPhone
Ask HN: How do you visualise time (years/months)?
When you try and imagine/visualise where we are in the year in the current moment how do you see it?

How do you see the next weeks/months?

How do you break up the year into chunks: by weeks, months, seasons, based on holidays?

How do imagine previous years? If I ask you what happened in August 2004 how do you visualise it?

Below is the way I see things to help you give your answer:

I see the year as on oval track viewed from above, wider horizontally, with summer on the left and winter on the right. That would put May on the bottom left just before a differently shaded block which represents the summer holidays (still at Uni). There is also a shaded block for each of November break, Winter break and Spring/Easter break. We also have a two weeks off after our exams in January. That block however is not as prominently shaded as the others. I suspect this is because I have only had this holiday 'slot' since University and it hasn't been as deeply engraved in my visualisation.

It is hard for me to visualise different years, I can just about see a stack of tracks on top of each other, with previous years being further down the stack. It is hard to remember what happened in any one particular year but I can remember what part of the year something happened fairly easily.

I have asked friends and I have had many different responses from seeing weeks/months as receipt papers, or a round race track (viewed from a human eye level perspective) with little hills representing weeks and looking around the other side of the track when imagining another time of year.
I also had responses where the person did not see years in any time dependant way but as a collection of bubbles/galaxies floating around with links between them. Each bubble represented a different surrounding, sometimes related to location and sometimes to friend circles.

Please post your versions as a direct reply and comment on others as you feel fit.
Also I have not researched any academic material relating to the matter, I want first hand responses out of pure curiosity, however feel free to post interesting links you may find.
You're right; it looks like Racket is not in the C/LuaJIT ballpark, either. It's too bad the LuaJIT results are no longer on the web site.
Qlikview's options for getting data out suck royally. Your basically forced to use their native Windows client. Their web stuff is too immature to be viable.
Tying the Knot: mutually recursive data structures in Haskell
Jersey City, NJ - Constitution Group Hiring Recruiters

We're hiring recruiters for our quant trading division. Could work remotely. We'd definitely consider people coming from technical backgrounds, but you really have to be a self motivated person who is ready to be on the phones 2-4 hours a day. Very possible to make low six figures in the first year, but mid-six figures long term, but it is a commission based job.

To apply go here: https://constitutionportal.secure.force.com/FCMS__CMSLayout?...
How not to name your start up Product
Well, I imagine they do, but I'd be interested in finding out whether my imagination is misleading me. Which things I said don't apply?
Burlington, MA - C++ software development of engineering desktop products.

Exa Corporation (www.exa.com) is a CAE software company (primarily used for automotive design). We have a variety of positions open on our website, but I'm particularly focused on filling a couple of spots in my group. Here's the craigslist posting since it's not up on our website yet:

http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/sof/2351131911.html

I manage a team of three (including me) and I'm looking to add two developers for a big project that's coming up. Shoot me an e-mail if you have any interest or want more details -- the e-mail in the posting (swppjobs@exa.com), will come to me.
I wrote about this topic here:
http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/04/14/the-difference-between-...

I think that it boils down to more than just sharing skill sets, but that is certainly a good start. I argue that primarily, people have to become autodidacts and learn from the wealth of free information that can be found on the internet and elsewhere.
I was unable to get the Java application to create a valid gzip file on OS X -- it appeared to write the header but no data. Anyone else have any luck?
Features summary (others seem like bug fixes):

* Output in the REPL is now colorized, like Node's is.

* All text/coffeescript tags should now execute in the order they're included.

* Function calls can be used as default values for parameters.

* Splatted parameters are declared local to the function.
Well, if you know how Cocoa works, this is unsurprising. It makes it really easy to implement only the important stuff on your own and delegate the plumbing to a highly optimized, generic library.
How does one achieve reform without disruption?
I don't believe that Assange has advocated anarchy, and to equate the release of government information as such is at best poor reasoning. Particularly in the case of the United States because Assange is neither a resident or a citizen of the US.
San Francisco - Flickr needs you!

We're currently looking for a backend engineer to help build new features that millions and millions of people will use. If the idea of pushing code live a dozen times a day while being the official caretaker of the White House and the British monarchy's photos interests you, I want to talk to you. You can email me at caudill -at- yahoo-inc.com.
Awesome, congrats on the bootstrapping! Yeah, I agree, many investors have a higher tolerance for risk than someone who's putting the livelihood of their family at stake.
This is clearly a golfing exercise. If you want a more full featured Lisp check out Write Yourself A Scheme in 48 Hours by Jonathan Tang: http://jonathan.tang.name/files/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overvi...
Show HN: StoryFunded.com - Crowdfunding for Authors
EC2 does have GPUs: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/11/15/announc...

People have calculated that you still can't make money mining Bitcoins on EC2, though.
I bought a burger from a mobile restaurant (large truck) the other day. They swiped my card through a Square reader. I appreciated not having to find an ATM. I'll eat there again next time it shows up near my office since the experience was so convenient (and the food was great :)
A big question
I hope I'm not veering too far offtopic, but I've gotten the Homebrew PPC fork working, what problem are you having?
Portland, Oregon

There are a whole bunch of startups--including COLOURlovers (YC W10)--looking for dev talent and more:

http://siliconflorist.com/jobs/index.php/page/1
Some things just from a design and aesthetics standpoint:

- More white space. It's the easiest way to lose the "cluttered" feel of having giant blocks of explanatory text.

- Vary the fonts and font sizes. In particular, your nav. bar's font sizes are too big and distract from the section titles; you can lose the nav altogether for a landing page.

- Have a consistent coloring scheme. Pick 2-3 colors (maybe the ones from your logo) and stick with them: one color for the titles, one for links, one for text. E.g., using light purple for your secondary title text at the bottom makes them look like links.

- Make the "sign up" button stand out more. That's your call to action, and right now it blends in with the background.
Catch.com San Francisco - FT, Intern, Remote, H1B
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 aschobel+hn@catch.com or http://catch.com/jobs
Danke!
Personally, I do find the design on the right cleaner. The problem I have is that the big black bar behind the two lumps the two together into one weird single thing. I think they would be easier to evaluate if presented more like this: http://i.imgur.com/KrRl6.gif.
Trevor (or someone else), could you explain this note?

>Function calls can be used as default values for parameters.

What can I do in 1.1.0 that I couldn't do in 1.0.1? In 1.0.1, I just did the following:

coffee> x = 0
0
coffee> f = (g=(do -> x++), h=(do -> x++)) -> [g, h]
# (compiled JS)
coffee> f()
0,1
Im not sure how you would prove this, but if it could be proven, could Sony be held liable for identity theft damages that resulted from this data?
IIA ARG - Launched 24/4/2011
Few of you probably remember this from a while back (http://labs.blue74.com/) when it created a bit of a buzz here, they're doing a special offer at the moment.
To me, the ability to make a tabbed space is essential to any text editor. Any chance of that feature rolling out?
San Francisco, CA - Python/Javascript positions

Mixpanel (YC S09) is looking for full-stack web developers and scalability engineers. We're a realtime analytics company processing well above a billion events a month.

We're currently a very small team of 5, and we're looking for people who want to get in early.

http://mixpanel.com/jobs, jobs@mixpanel.com
I very often want to:

1) Look at docs in one pane and code in another

2) Look at some combination of the model/view/controller triad at the same time

3) Look at a header file and the implementation file

4) Work on a rake (for example) task while seeing the code it will run

5) Look at two different spots in the same file

edit 6) work on a javascript file next to the HTML page it's used in

7) look at a class and its superclass at the same time

8) look at a class and the code that's calling it at the same time
Images search for Twitter
Palo Alto, CA - Think Computer Corporation

We're looking for mobile developers (iPhone, Android and BlackBerry) to help add more functionality to FaceCash!

https://www.facecash.com

Send resumes to jobs@thinkcomputer.com.
I actually don't think I was ever "naturally intelligent". My current grades prove that. But the reason I could cruise through high school was because my parents drilled me with algebra, vocabulary quizzes, geography, and Montessori school when I was 4-9 years old. That undeniably put me ahead for the next ten or so years.
I guess a different question is, can you define "useful"?

Outside of maybe seeing immediate photos from people closer to the front row at a concert, I can't think of a use for color. But I could just be unimaginative about this kind of thing.
If you like this, there's a more involved version: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...
Austin, TX - Full-time positions for Java developers, a senior web architect/technical lead, PHP (Drupal) developers, HTML/CSS/JS front-end developers, artists and UX/interaction designers.

We're BioWare, a video game company, and we're making a Star Wars massively-multiplayer online video game called Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The Java positions are in our customer service and our middleware team: the live video game relays every movement and interaction of every player in real-time to a Java middleware on Oracle that feeds data into our customer service systems, our data warehouse, and our web site.

The senior web architect/technical lead would design and run the technical implementations of the web side of things.

The PHP (Drupal) positions are doing the back-end integration with that middleware and presenting live game data to the web.

The HTML/CSS/JS positions are the front-end development of our web apps and site.

Plus artists and another UX to design and draw it all.

Contact me if you're interested, or http://www.bioware.com/careers/austin
This may be the most "socially smooth" way of handling the situation, but be careful about the classic tooting-your-own-horn problem. In some situations, it may be "socially awkward" or egotistical to take a compliment directly to yourself, but it may be advantageous for your position.

Basically, try to be as nice and polite as possible; just avoid getting shat on.
I don't think you have understood properly what the mission of Assange is.

The point is not the create anarchy but to make the system leak. His point (and I tend to agree) is that technology can be used by those in power to conspire against their population. The better the technology the bigger the conspirations.

So the goal of Assange is to make sure that there is soo much leak in the system that it slows it down and thus make it harder for those with bad intentions to conspire.

You really should spend some time actually reading about what he want's instead of fighting strawmen.
Another great book on the psychology and neurology of visual design is Visual Thinking for Design: http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Thinking-Kaufmann-Interactive-T...

I didn't include it because I don't think it's for beginners, but it's super informative.
Might this be due to the explosion on neuroscience publications that are not related to artificial neural networks? There haven't been major breakthroughs in ANNs lately
Oops -- you're right I misread your comment. Sorry about that.
It was hilarious watching Bill Nguyen on This Week in Startups tripping over himself apologizing about how badly his app sucked. I think the lesson here is that you shouldn't put your app into the wild unless you're certain(and have beta testers confirm) that it's ready for prime time.
How to refine your elevator pitch
defaults write com.evernote.Evernote HideAdsInSourceList YES