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Show HN: A search engine for your browsing history
Fed up with not being able to find pages that I knew I had visited in the past I wrote a Chrome extension that automatically indexes the url, title & content of every page you visit - allowing you to search your entire browsing history.

Why is this useful? Imagine you know that last week you read a news article by author "X" but you can't remember where, or how you got to it; by searching your recawl history for "X" you can easily find the page you were looking for.

http://www.recawl.com
Clickable links

Website: http://www.recawl.com

Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pmoicpmjnblomdapfi...
That is startups, you have to clean toilets too. Your second and third reasons a short term, think about the future when you attain profitability and what kind of people you can surrounded yourself with then. The first reason is common, and I am thinking why do it half assed? Commit fully but with a deadline and milestones.

A common theme in your issues is you seem to ignore the "time" domain.
Hi Colin, I would like to ask your advice on postings. Where can send an email to? Mine is: k.degani @ noax.eu ...
Some of the best designers I've had the pleasure of working with didn't know how to write HTML or CSS. The did, however, deeply understand the constraints of web design. Knowing HTML and CSS gives you a de facto understanding of the constraints, but you don't actually have to write it in order to become a competent web designer.

I also think most people are thinking from the perspective of the scrappy start-up, where you must be multi-talented in order to cover various roles. In large organizations there's designers that only produce wireframes, then another designer comes along and produces the final visual output, and finally another guy comes and codes it. Not that it's the right way to do it, it's just that the expectations are being set too high.

Instead of putting down web designers who can't code, appreciate web designers who do it. This comes from a web designer who can code.
Thank you. I agree that whenever someone writes such a post saying that web designers should or should not "code" then they should define what coding means in that context.

Creating HTML markup and CSS is debatable of whether to call it coding or not. But every web designer I've ever interviewed I expected them to write their own HTML markup and at least be of average skill with CSS. Ability with Javascript was a bonus but not required.

I have a design degree and I learned HTML in class as part of my minor. This was before CSS was common so it was all font tags and tables. They used FrontPage for this but I refused and stuck with Notepad in back of the class.

I, as a web designer, create my design, write the HTML markup, write the CSS and code the javascript. In some cases I tweak the back-end code to suit my needs if it's light. Heavy-lifting on the back-end is done by a programmer.

Truthfully, I'm probably more of a front-end developer these days though.

I am not a print designer therefore I would have a bit of a learning curve to re-acquaint myself with the medium which I learn in school. But it would be expected of me to learn it. Therefore, I don't feel it is wrong to expect a web designer to learn their medium as well.

But hey, everybody should pick what works for them. Some companies don't want designers involved in markup, that's fine. Some companies do, that's just as good.
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The link pointed to an IP address that appeared to be a wikileaks mirror; the z.gpg file was buried deep in the mirror in a directory that also, interestingly had a large x.gpg and a y.gpg.
All tarbals are signed via linux kernel archives gpg key, which according to the kernel.org security breach announcement was not compromised. So I don't see a problem here.
Great post, thanks for sharing. This gives me a much more actionable set of criteria to evaluate with the next time around.
It's fun how these are a matter of perspective.

Many view the very fact that it's possible to write obfuscated Perl as a weakness in Perl itself, while others see it as a strength. Similarly, the fact that a piece of code can look perfectly innocuous and do something evil is, in my view at least, a serious problem with the C language.

Also, I laughed at "Underhanded C Contest: The official perfectly innocent web page for law-abiding good guys".
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Who you'll be a part of: We're the developers of JDownloader, the market leading download management tool with over 15 million happy users. On top of that, we work on client-side applications for some of the top 200 websites worldwide.

With only 3 people, we're still a relatively small, but highly motivated team with high aspirations, great opportunities and an extremly optimistic outlook on the future. Joining us, you'll have the opportunity to experience rapid growth right when it's happening while actively being a part of building and growing a big company.

What you'll do: As (Senior) Java Developer, you're in charge of diverse responsibilities and work on them either alone or in teams. You're responsible for parts of JDownloader, but on top of that will also have your own projects or products, for which you take the lead developer role.

Because we usually don't have strict deadlines or draconic specifications, we expect you to prioritize and get things done by yourself. You should feel cozy in your code, but also keep an eye on things like SEO strategy, project- and product management as well as user interface and experience. Your own ideas and innovations for projects, features or products are more than welcome and will actively be supported.

Send your resume, links to your current/past projects, github/social profiles (HN for example :)) or whatever you think we should know about you to e-mail@appwork.
We're looking forward to working with you :)
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in HTML5 and push what is possible in a browser.

We are a profitable startup (~20 employees) experiencing massive growth, with over 100,000 players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs
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I'm wondering if freelancers specializing in web design would be interesting I reselling my service DomainPolish (http://domainpolish.com) as a whitelabel service to their clients to make extra money per job. If anyone out there is interested I would love to talk.

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This is one of the most interesting comments I've seen on the issue of early hires and equity. Thank you.

However, from the founders' perspective they can't have these kinds of negotiations with many early employees. How much equity could they realistically give up to get the key hires (and leave enough for an option pool for later employees)? This is obviously a complicated issue and it would be good to hear a founder talk about how they dealt with it.
Thank you very much for this post. It was all I need to read at this moment and probably saved me a lot of time and money.
"makes no presumptions about language of choice"

Yes, but don't they do this by running everything as CGI scripts? That won't perform well.

http://example72.nfshost.com/versions.php
Methinks we are ignoring the elephant in the room. Sure, good teamwork will solve a lot of problems, regardless whether the designer can code or not. A team with all the skills combined can deal with both.

But there are people that have a vested interest in playing designers and developers against each other.

I've seen this happen time and time again, both via internal management and external clients: feeding designers and developers separately different bits of information (but never the whole picture), letting them make commitments based on that information and only then bringing the two together. The end result is that in order to make good on their separate commitments, designers and developers are left with very little room to compromise, which undermines the cooperation. The goal of this little divide-and-conquer game is to pressure them to come up with a result they otherwise would not have committed to given the time and budget constraints.

There's a reason why designers and developers are often very deliberately hired or managed separately for the same project. There are plenty of people who believe having designers and developers work together too closely is not in their interests.
Becuase its on everybody's mind, for the sake of clarity, let it be known that HockeyBias.com (http://hockeybias.com) is not currently hiring (and will resume posting by the end of the month).
Where do I get $25 textbooks?
There are many benefits to working at a large company over a startup. Many of the items in this thread alone are proof to that. If you have a mortgage, and 2 kids in college then working for a startup that could fold tomorrow is not exactly the safest bet.

In addition, working at breakneck speed and being completely accountable for failure is just not within every programmer's capacity. Some need more structure to be successful. Not everyone is a rock star programmer.

That being said the software industry is changing rapidly. Being a rockstar makes you more valuable as time goes on. Large s/w companies are having trouble even maintaining marginal talents and the workforce of programmers is dwindling. Us hackers will continue to be more valuable than ever.
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$25 for a textbook? If only! I spend $50-$300 per class for engineering textbooks.

Also, the analog port is, I believe, only available on the $35 version of the Raspberry Pi. It also works with HDMI and DVI (the latter through an adapter), so you don't need to go scrounging for an analog TV.
It's a bit unclear from the article whether the woman is a channel moderator, an IRCop (her statements seem to imply so, or someone physically hosting the network.
(The source of her problems seems to be the ips hosting the network). Besides, the question I would ask is "If an ISP's main purpose is hosting illegal activities, can we prosecute him ?"

Regarding the decentralized nature of Anonymous, well, okay. What does that change ? If we consider that Anonymous is an organisation (does it need fixed members to be called an organisation ?) that uses illegal/questionable methods, supporting it (as an organisation, I'm not talking about people in it) is illegal. IANAL, but I suppose it could be seen as incitation or support to illegal behaviour.

All those are claims, that can and most likely will be analyzed by a jury, and people who are better informed than us. My point was just that I think saying she is innocent from the beginning is a bit exaggerated. She did questionable things.
Or you can ask for a refund of what you paid for the browser.
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Wow, what a way to say I'm not good at either but it doesn't really matter in the end. Really? So you say you're not good at either but having knowledge empowers you? In what way? It gives you the ability to point out people better at those skills than you? I think you should focus on one until you feel you are good at it and then move on to the other.

Yes, anyone with an IQ above 70 can learn just about anything. Doesn't mean they will be good enough at it for a career. You make sound as if those abilities are not challenging or difficult in any way and anybody can do it. If that's what you are saying then I have to seriously disagree.

Good point about being a good programmer can save you time as a designer, but it can work the other way as well.
Herein lies the problem for early stage companies trying to hire. The people they really need/want are probably capable of starting their own companies.
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BorderJump

Need a Senior Python developer to both maintain the existing project and help guide the company from the tech side. Experience with Ruby or PHP would be great! More job description here: http://bit.ly/qxcZCU

Email Chuck Bryant, chuck dot bryant at borderjump.com
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I suspect $25 for a textbook is more common in non-Western countries, which would likely be a great market for these things as well.
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Pune, India - we are looking for a general purpose developer who is smart and gets things done.

We are building a search engine/knowledge representation system for fashion.

http://styloot.com/parametric_search/search/dress-search

The best way to describe working here is to describe my last month: I built a document classifier (based on max entropy), a backbone.js app, fixed bugs in django-tyrant-cache and started building a NoSQL database which supports color-based queries ("find all the items with color similar to #df3426" [1]). Your job will be to do similar things.

(If all that stuff sounds out of your league, it sounded out of mine too, until I got started.) We use javascript, python/django, hadoop, and haskell, though we really don't care if you've never touched any of those technologies.

Contact info is in my profile. Send a link to your github or other work you've done if you are interested. Here is our github: https://github.com/styloot

[1] We aren't jumping on a silly NoSQL bandwagon. It's very easy to compute l^p distances on RGB records in your favorite SQL database, but RGB doesn't map very well to human perception of color.
The password is publicly accessible using Amazon's "search inside" feature - see http://i.imgur.com/9euXr.png
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Wikileaks has demonstrated a propensity to keep things close to chest. Perhaps the insurance file contains private documents not yet released that are personally embarrassing to important individuals (e.g., those likely to be involved in the extradition and/or untimely demise of Assange) but not particularly relevant from a national standpoint. Not sure, but I definitely don't think that the cables are the only potential information contained in the insurance file. Wikileaks, especially after their bout of airtime last winter, got a lot of data from a lot of different sources. There's a lot of stuff there to collate.
People working on teams where each occupies some vertical niche -- designer, developer, etc. -- should have a solid understanding of the territory their own niche abuts.

I don't think visual web designers should necessarily be able to fully and efficiently implement their designs, but they should have a general understanding of how their designs will be implemented. IMO part of a web designer's educational experience should include interactive design (not just art and print design), HTML and even a programming class.

Likewise, front end engineers should have some exposure to art, design, maybe even have taken some drawing classes, and definitely be able to operate Photoshop and Illustrator (or whatever the predominant tool is).

You don't hire an architect who doesn't already know something about contracting, materials, and geology, even if they're not going to be driving the bulldozer. Same goes for web design.
Can we do some negotiation on "some German required" ?
Used on amazon.
The contest is defunct. It hasn't been updated in two years.
I did not mean that ANSI SQL was bad. However, by not being turning complete it has fundamental limitations that limit it from expressing certain logic (as you might need to do in a stored procedure). This frequently means that you must use proprietary extensions to SQL (such as PL/SQL) to accomplish these tasks.

My interpretation of the parent post was that it was a response to a comment about vendor lock in. I was only trying to point out that it is not always possible to ensure compatibility between databases by writing strict ANSI SQL.
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A great deal of people do refer to HTML markup as coding. It's debatable if it should be called that but in many cases when someone says "coding" the context is HTML and CSS.
doesn't work for me. When I start a session it keeps saying waiting for connection, when someone tries to join it doesn't respond at all (no new window or anything).
More start-ups are an inevitability of the future in my vision. I'm not discouraging or encouraging it either way, in fact it's probably not the best outcome, but because of popular media and the cultural dramatization of the start-up world and how entrepreneurial innovation works, people think it's a "Let's work out of a garage for awhile and then see what happens" type of thing.

I really hope that methodology and philosophy never becomes the penultimate choice for those that want to start their own business or innovate something.

The government could potentially destroy that balance though, I agree.

Where there is a need, there will be an innovation of some kind. The best ideas come partially from necessity.
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Programming is Product Design
It's fairly common these days to use something beyond FSMs, e.g. simple planning (whether classical or hierarchical), or hierarchical behavior trees. In other cases, more emergent "smart world" type methods, like influence maps or smart-objects.
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Sooner or later it's going to happen; obtaining forged SSL certificates is just too easy to hope otherwise. What can we do about it? Don't load the Google Analytics javascript when your site is accessed via HTTPS. This is easy to do: Just throw a if("http:" == document.location.protocol) around the document.write or s.parentNode.insertBefore code which loads the Google Analytics javascript. On the website for my Tarsnap online backup service I've been doing this for years — not just out of concern for the possibility of forged SSL certificates, but also because I don't want Google to be able to steal my users' passwords either!

I don't understand - if you are uncomfortable loading the GA javascript into your pages when users are using https to visit your site, why are you ok with loading the GA JS when visitors are using http?

Or is it implied in here that the analytics is used on http only pages because the sensitive pages on your site are https only? In other words, you are only using GA on non-sensitive portions of your site?
I worked at Honeywell as an intern one summer during college. My cubicle-mate ran a full time truck routing business on the side...
Social Tables (http://www.socialtables.com/), a DC/NYC- (I'm in dc but ready to move back to my hometown of nyc) based startup, is looking for a CTO. My co-founder had to leave because he couldn't quit his job (boooo). I went all in and quit mine a few months ago (freeeeeedommm!!).

Social Tables is a web-based seating chart designer for weddings and other events with assigned tables. We help event/wedding planners create floorplans and assign their guests seats. We're called Social Tables because we have a social feature that lets guests meet who they'll be sitting with beforehand. We have a tested product, over 1,000 users, brand awareness, and deep industry expertise. In other words, we know our stuff and people love our product (we save an event planner 4 hours per event). We've been self-funded to date and are currently talking to interested angels.

Like I said, I'm looking for a CTO (understanding of Rails is a must, love for SproutCore is a big plus). You should have that startup fire burning in your belly, ridiculous drive (e.g. you like some degree of risk), appreciation of test-based development, and passion for learning new things.

If you're at all interested or just want to shoot the shit, send me a quick note: dan@socialtables.com - I love meeting new people and helping others out.
Cheers for re-linking this - I've was looking for this contest after mentioning it in conversation a couple of months back, but my Google-fu failed me (I was looking for "sneaky C contest" and variations on that term, but never thought of "underhanded") :)
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Interface designer: I work with companies around the world on application design, usability, and branding.

Experienced working with developers, version control, MVC frameworks, template languages, information architecture, conversion rates, etc++ across multiple time zones.

Tech -> HTML5 / CSS3 (Sass, Stylus) / Photoshop / JS (some)

Portfolio site -> http://nylira.com
It might have also been

> is their any real analysis

driving some of the downvotes (I did not vote myself).
I imagine this is why the parent poster mention enabling two-factor authentication first.
Interesting, I didn't know about SQL/PSM. Although judging by this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Procedural_extensions

It looks like a lot of vendors still only support propriatary extensions.
Youre not getting screwed if you walk into the job with your eyes wide open.
Is it premature scaling or is it forgetting you are building a product for people, not just giving yourself an excuse to code and play with cool technology.
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One of my favorite Drucker quotes:

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- P. Drucker
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Washington, DC - AKQA, Inc.

We're looking for a Senior iOS Developer and a Mobile Architect: http://www.akqa.com/career.
Did you just "I know what you are, but what am I?" me?

Anyway, dumb and smart people do not have disparate interests. I bet you probably feel like you're in the smart category and you think that means other smart people think like you, but things like football, NASCAR and /r/jokes attract a wide swath of humanity. If I score high on my IQ test you going to show me nothing but "smart" pursuits? Chess, Go, Astrophysics? Bio chemistry? How about sustainable farming? Or animal husbandry? How about kinesiology? That qualify as smart to you? Or does hanging out with the jocks mean you're stupid by association?

You don't have to defend your statement to the death. You can just say "Geeze, I didn't think about it and IQ isn't really a good indicator for what a user may want to see as content."
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This is just a special case of "Working on a startup? You are probably getting screwed." The first employee doesn't have it too much worse than the founders, the second employee, or the third.
I think you should emphasise that the browsing history is stored remotely. That looks to be the main advantage for me, because for Chrome users at least, the inbuilt history search is already very powerful. (As an example, I visited your site, then hit Cmd-Y and searched for 'italian restaurant' and it came up straight away.)

Google Account users can already activate Web History to get a similar service. Not everyone is a Google Account holder, of course. Does your service offer any additional features to Google's offering? What about a different privacy policy? For a service that will essentially store all my browsing history I found that section in particular a little sparse.