skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This page has already been submitted a few times (it's the same URL as his death announcement was posted on), so that needed to be added to get around the dupe-checker.
Jive is hiring senior software/platform engineers (Utah, USA)
Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Description:
Jive has developed a scalable, highly-available cloud platform to deliver enterprise-grade phone service to customers throughout the United States. The selected candidate would potentially be working throughout the entire stack of the platform from the Linux kernel to call handling logic and web applications.

Qualifications: At least intermediate experience with the following:	Linux, C/C++, Java, Relational Databases (PostgreSQL preferred)

Experience with any of the following is a plus: Cassandra, PBX Platforms, OpenSIPS/OpenSER, SIP and RTP, Python, Web Development (HTML, AJAX, CSS), XMPP (Jabber)

Because of the wide variety of technologies used, a candidate must be able to learn and adapt quickly.

Location: Orem, Utah, USA (Headquarters)

http://www.getjive.com/careers/
> I am getting tremendous value from using their site to interact with and stay connected with friends.

What about the people who haven't signed up to Facebook, but who still have data about them logged? I see nothing mutual about that relationship.
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You can't submit a URL to HN twice - since the Steve Jobs tribute page had already been submitted, I'm assuming an arbitrary parameter was added to allow the URL to be reposted.
While I agree with most of your post, I feel I MUST point out some problems with some of the analogies you are using.

1) The analogy between hacking your phone and reading messages is really NOT the same as Facebook storing data that you supplied to their system.

2) Google did nothing that should be considered illegal regardless of what European courts decided. The data they collected was on OPEN WIFI routers. This is the same as being accused of breaking the law because you listen while having a conversation in a crowded room. Open wifi comes with the implicit idea, that the owner of the router is actively allowing others to use the router.
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I agree with OP. People are mostly over-reacting. Trying to regulate the collection of personal data is a waste of time.

We should be focused on limiting the 'evil' applications of personal data, regardless of the source. If an employer, bank, or insurance company discriminates against you on the basis of personal data they purchased from Facebook, Facebook isn't the offender.

We regulate the credit rating agencies and how credit scores can be used. That's sufficient. Why wouldn't a similar model work for personal data?
This is what I love about HN. A little heat to a discussion creates more insight instead of a flame war.
If we want to go down that road, we end up back at Akzidenz-Grotesk. Almost all modern grotesque fonts (and certainly the popular ones) are derived from some previous work. I still prefer Helvetica Neue, but I don't begrudge Google for developing their own font based on Helvetica.
I have used both iOS and Android extensively. I like most of the "core" (email, browser, maps, navigation) apps better on Android - but I still find their third party apps mostly 'behind' their iOS counterparts. While everyone will use different apps - here is a list of apps I use almost daily on the iPhone which have no (or poor) counterparts on Android:

Instapaper (Read It Later is pretty good - though their iOS app is much better, too)
Instagram
AirVideo
AlienBlue
Reeder
DipTic

These are the apps which I classify as "almost" as good as their iOS counterparts:
Twitter
Any of the 'Photo Editing'-of-the-day apps
FourSquare
Not really. There was a story on here about a month ago where the CBC (a company owned by Canada) was going after a guy who provided hyperlinks to their audio streams.

It would actually be pretty interesting to hear how his story has progressed in light of this. Hopefully we'll see a follow up story.
Can someone please explain the graphs in this post? I am not familiar with whatever software generates them and there is no legend.

What do the different colors mean? What are the red dots?
Y'know, for a random BBC news article, that was pretty well written, and set out pretty well the advantages and disadvantages of these sorts of things.

I strongly reckon that the best way to learn anything is in a one-on-one conversation with an expert. The second best way, I've always thought, is a small interactive lecture where you can ask questions. The third best way is with a well-written book, and the fourth best way is in a non-interactive lecture.

However, I can see that there's an opportunity for a new second-best option just below the one-on-one conversation with the expert, and that's one-on-one interaction with software that simulates an expert. (An infinitely patient expert, in fact.) It can explain something to you, test your knowledge of it, and if you don't understand it then it'll go back and explain it again. A really well written teaching system like this could make learning things far easier than it currently is.

Writing these sorts of things, though, is incredibly difficult. I may be an expert on certain subjects, but I can't anticipate all possible lessons in advance. It would be a huge time and money committment to put such a lesson together -- you'd write it, test it, improve it, and slowly get to the point where it really worked well. In order to make this worthwhile, you'd need an assurance that the lesson, once finished, would be widely used for some time to come.
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Space is back. All technology developers should keep it as an option. There is money to be made and scientific discoveries to be made with space venture.
White-label software products--comprised of daily deals and social gaming--might boost a newspaper's online ad sales temporarily, but at what cost to the identity of the local publisher?

I feel fortunate enough to live in a small, quirky, University town in which the residents still value (and support) its 65-year-old weekly print newspaper. In fact, the paper does a terrific job engaging the community in local government and has a strong presence at local events.

I'm not sure if the technical solution to saving local media is turning readers into online gamers and shoppers, but rather developing a unique online forum for engaging residents in the beat of local issues and interests.

I suppose every community is different, and that's exactly the point I'm trying to make, but I hope local businesses will continue to support local media (so long as the editorial voice is there).
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Your interests, browsing habits, purchases, etc. are still yours, even though you may have also given them to someone else. They're not physical goods. When you 'give them away', you don't lose them.

I'm not familiar with every mobile platform's current agreements with its users, but back when I was, most had you agree to a pretty broad policy regarding third-party apps to spare their developers the need to write their own terms of service and privacy policy. That's generally where the consent happens. In the exceptions, the developers do provide terms of service, which you consent to as a condition of installing the app.

You almost certainly didn't give your fully informed consent, mind you, unless you enjoy reading legal documents - but that's the current state of the industry both online and off, and in my mind far superior to an extensive batch of lengthy in-your-face disclosures you'd have to agree to before viewing any website. You may disagree, and you may wish that things were different, but that's just how the world works right now.
The original post (with many thoughtful comments): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128
One of the reasons why one does not typically experience something like that is because most companies would go out of business if they blew that much money on a faulty product. Microsoft has other revenue streams that allow them to throw billions at any problem.
Will your computer's "Secure Boot" turn out to be "Restricted Boot"?
People tend not to complain about the stuff they've chosen to put online. People are complaining about the huge quantities of data that Facebook holds about you, with no option to stop them gathering or processing it, when they keep stuff that you've asked them to delete, and when they gather data about people who are not even signed in to Fb.
Easier access to credit is a huge detriment to small businesses, in ways that we (startup-folks) don't think about... One example - the typical small business restaurant. It is a VERY different businesses than the startups that we create. You can't create a restaurant without any money, for example... You can bootstrap an online business by not paying yourself, but when you have to pay for a building and kitchen etc, things are much tougher.

Programs like this that leverage your dollars effectively are pretty useful - there are lot of people out there who want to start small businesses or hire someone seasonally etc that are just in a cash crunch... You have to hire someone before you get paid for their efforts, and you can't offer them equity.

What they're doing (in my understanding) is eliminating the default risk for lenders, so they are able to leverage the dollars 1 to 7. This is also common in the microfinance field. It makes a lot of sense. Also, SBUX is the best place I can think of to market this. I'm in line paying $5 for a coffee... can I give a dollar for small business? hell yeah. A question arises in my mind though, shouldn't I just pay $4 for a coffee at an actual small business?

We made an infographic on small business lending... it isn't our best, but it does have some useful stats (TL;DR - credit is a big problem for small businesses and loans are really hard to get):
http://feefighters.com/blog/ff_infographic/the-truth-about-s...
Perhaps it's because of the use of the loaded term "ripoff". That's a troll's term; don't be surprised if you get into flames when you use it.

But the core issue here is that you don't understand the typography industry. Typeface vendors have been cloning and selling each other's work since long before fonts were something rasterized on a computer. Helvetica happens to be one successful font, and it's spawned a huge number of clones. You're probably aware of Arial, but there's also Nimbus Sans, Swiss, Triumvirate (yes, I used Google to look those up, but I'm pretty sure the list gets into the dozens).

So Helvetica Neue and Roboto are new entries in the family. Apple chose the former and plugged it needlessly via marketing. Google hired a font designer (for reasons that likely have to do with the ability to open source the result, c.f. the Droid Sans fonts earlier, or the Bitstream Vera family in desktop linux) to do their clone, and likewise plugged it needlessly.

That you insist on making some kind of platform flame out of this is beyond me. It's just not interesting.
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What I'd like to see from RubyMonk, CodeAcademy, and others, is a good list of resources for taking the next steps in programming their respective languages (i.e., here is the best list of instructions for setting up your development environment/installing Ruby on your machine, a good tutorial you know of about Rails/Sinatra, a suggestion to find a meetup group in your area, etc.). A curated list of resources for each of these languages would be extremely valuable for newcomers.

I've been learning Ruby myself lately, and I don't think it's quite as simple as "go build stuff in it." Much more helpful for seasoned people to say "take a class, join a meetup group, and get some help because it's normal to get stuck and need help." For someone who's never programmed before, just installing the right software and setting up an environment of any sort is intimidating and easy to get stuck on.

Sure, you need to start building stuff, but RubyMonk, CodeAcademy, and others like them are great ways to get people interested enough to take the next step. We just need some good resources to take those next steps, and Googling doesn't always lead you to a good, accessible resource (I hear http://learnpythonthehardway works for Python, but don't really know of similar resources for other languages).
I'm reading through a book right now titled Factory Girls, by Leslie T. Chang. She was the former Beijing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. The book is a fascinating piece of work. It delves into the factories of Dongguan, which is a major factory town, perhaps the most active factory town in China (among other things, cough, cough). I have to say that this book is singlehandedly making me understand everything I didn't understand about China, since coming to live and work here a year ago. I currently live in Shenzhen, about an hour south of Dongguan. (edit: coincidentally, where much of Foxconn's operations are based)

This book explains everything. The mindset of people when they look for factory jobs. What they do to get ahead. How stereotypes and stigmas come into play in deciding the roles in society. How their background influences their future decisions. Etcetera, etcetera. All the people I see every day seriously make a lot more sense after reading this book, and I'm not even half done yet.

Highly recommended.
> Second, never say you were fired

In my CV I don't mention I got fired. However, from the certificates of employment (I'm not sure this is the correct translation for the German "Arbeitszeugnis") you can easily figure out that I was fired.
Tell that to Microsoft. They sat stagnant on WinMo 6.x for nearly 5 years before rewriting and releasing Windows Phone 7.

That highlights my point. Until the competition arrived, there was no real force driving them to continue working on it. The money was rolling in regardless of what they were doing to it. Microsoft could have went down to the unemployment line and set all of those people to work on the product, but unlike in other industries, there was no reason for that to happen.

The reason why programmers make upwards of 200k/yr. (depending on region and specialization) is because there's not enough of them

Again highlighting my point. Farmers have to hire anyone, not because farming is easy, but because you can't wait to find a great farmhand. The job has to be done now. Tech companies can wait for the best of the best. Why aren't those software companies hiring that guy who lost his manufacturing job for $9/hr instead? It is because they don't need to. They can wait for the one who is great at the job.
As far as I'm concerned, anything with the "Made in China" label has to be equally scrutinized. We in the US are complacent in buying these products, but this also applies to toasters, refrigerator magnets and just about everything sold in the dollar store.

I refuse to make my quality of living worse because this nation is undergoing it's own industrial revolution and hasn't worked out all of the humanitarian kinks. I buy US products whenever I can, and don't when it's not possible- buying and entirely "American" smart phone is not possible.

Singling out Apple here is not going to fix the issue, China as a nation needs to address this aggressively. With a population of about 1.5 billion people, the governments needs to protect it's workers like a union would here.
Duartes' articles are really well written. I had forgotten about his blog. Thanks for re-posting it.
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My shrinks don't know how awesome I am and dropped the ball on God talking. They're worthless.

God says...
C:\TEXT\HUCKFINN.TXT

hat-air ladder made out'n rags, Sister Hotchkiss," says old
Mrs. Damrell; "what in the name o' goodness COULD he ever want of--"

"The very words I was a-sayin' no longer ago th'n this minute to Sister
Utterback, 'n' she'll tell you so herself. Sh-she, look at that-air rag
ladder, sh-she; 'n' s'I, yes, LOOK at it, s'I--what COULD he a-wanted of
it, s'I. Sh-she, Sister Hotchkiss, sh-she--"

"But how in the nation'd they ever GIT that grindstone IN there, ANYWAY?
'n' who dug that-air HOLE? 'n' who

-----

Mark Twain needs to get an editor.
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Fix the economy by fixing negative equity.
its not really a big deal. I have no doubts you'll be able to hide them on phones that have hardware buttons.
Amen. It doesn't matter if it takes a second or ten seconds of manipulation as long as the process is straight-forward and you don't have to distract yourself from the actual love-making.

A condom that can be mounted with one hand, correct side up, and preferably through one continuous movement would probably remove 95% of the annoying and frustrating condom usage problems, at least in countries with average Western education or better. (No hanging of the rubber above bed or anything, like somebody said.)
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I've been quietly learning web development for about a year now after getting intoxicated by the media darling startup scene back when it was REALLY going mainsteam with the release of the social network. So I drank that koolaid and joined the club and I resolved to create a semi-competent web dev from my humble highschool CS 1 roots. A year's gone by and my first project is finally done. It's a simple online dating app that tries to make online dating appeal to a more casual crowd while removing a few of the major pitfalls of current online dating websites, most notably fear of rejection, by only selectively showing positive actions and obscuring all negative ones in some way or another. Here's the site.

http://www.heyithinkyourecute.com

It's not pretty and it's not perfect but fail fast and fail often right? Please tell me what you think!
The key to remaining relevant to the business community in a small town is to provide the online services that they need to buy anyway. If the newspaper doesn't help local businesses make the transition online, someone else will.
It's Dropbox. The 'b' isn't capitalized.
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Facebook is the offender for gathering all that un-needed personal data; and then for processing it; and then for selling it without the permission of the data-owner.

To be clear: Gathering too much personal data, and holding it (even when the user has asked for it to be deleted) is itself an evil application, and that is why the EU has laws about it.
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I think from a sending/tracking perspective most of the services listed here are somewhat comparable. All of us realize that delivering to inbox is a high priority and we do many of the same things to make sure your infrastructure is optimized to achieve that. In addition, most services have analytics that track your emails. Of course, I am biased on which is best.

From a broader perspective, Mailgun's focus is being a complete mail platform (sending, receiving and storing messages) and integrating email with your application vs. a sending/delivery service. A quick glance at the front pages of the websites reveals that.

I would encourage you to review the documentation of all of the services in order to make the decision of what is right for you.
Most people aren't designers, the point of hiring designers and doing things like the HIG are so that regular programmers can create pretty good looking apps out of the box.

Yes, the guys at Flipboard will probably be able to out do the HIG but it's a great starting point. Not having a HIG means that regular programmers will have to reinvent the HIG themselves.

I've had app rejections for HIG violations and to be honest I'm sure I could have kept my bad design if I replaced some stock Apple buttons with my own, but when I thought about it it made a lot more sense to just go with the HIG. (I was using a detail disclosure button for a login button)
With a quick glance to both paragraphs I felt I could notice a difference, although I had difficulty distinguishing when I starting trying to compare individual words.
Where do you get that? He recommended in his resignation memo to the board of directors that they make Tim Cook CEO, as per their succession plan.
sorry for the fanboy, but their are plenty of shortcomings in iOS, and because of the apple reverance on these forums, there was nothing but praise in the discussion of iOS5 but with ICS theres nothing but complaints even though there were some really awesome announcements. Just written because people can't have intelligible conversation about the disagreement in os's. If you don't like android, thats fine but in the article about android's new features and releases and the thread is filled with complaints from people that probably never used Android for longer than a demo period, not really relevant. Like take this lag issue. That was one writers opinion on what could be considered a demo unit. Now the comment underneath links to articles saying how fast it is and responsive. Its a non issue, but its something that most people want to shout about here in these threads. Another issue is fragmentation, the apple community loves to shout about that but from the sales most people don't care. As a former iphone owner, i know of Apple's shortcomings because I used it for a period of 2 years. I doubt any of these people's complaints none of them used a modern Android for that same time.

the sad thing is there's more intelligent conversation about Androids new features in the techcrunch article than here. Its sad once theres a hivemind mentality in a community.
I like http://icanhazip.com
Great for scripts too.
Hey I can understand the confusion. Will add a legend.

First there are 4 data points.

1. Total number of visitors
2. How many of those are mac users
3. How many of those clicked on the "Buy" button
4. How many bought (those are the red dots)

As you can see in the vertical axis it's a laymans logarithmic scale since I had high numbers of visitors compared to how many bought the app.

Second

I actually hand crafted the graph.

1. Getting number from Analytics + numbers from App store

2. putting them into a google document spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As_7Yc_iucRqdGo...

3. Then building the basic graph in illustrator
4. Styling it in FireWorks

Do I wish there were an easier way for what I want to accomplish?

You bet!
Maybe you just need to be more cynical. :) I saw the headline, thought, yeah, they figured out some way to connect it, and got pretty much what I expected.
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Not a lot here, Apple fan screams defiantly at new Android release claiming its not a threat to tablets.
Great puzzle, easy workaround is to change top, to bottom in generated div-s, but it is much more fun, to find proper solution
As far as I know Apple plays pretty fast and loose with the HIG if you aren't using their UI elements. Where Apple will bust you is if you use their UI elements to do something that's a big stretch for the HIG.

I don't play much with Android but is there anything that even approaches Flipboard?

You can certainly build ugly UIs on the iPhone and get them accepted.
And this is supposed to have something to do with the correctness or incorrectness of what I wrote?

It would be bizarre if your ideas, beliefs, and opinions didn't reflect themselves in your economic interests.

Engage with the argument and not the arguer.
Why in heavens name would you want to change wordpress like this? If it doesn't live up to your standards, just use Ruby+Rails or Python+Django. (Or even PHP+some framework)
Mail pg, he can reset it for you. The email address is not a secret, you can find it easily enough.
Thanks man. That's great feedback. Perhaps I could play around with the sizing of the video a bit. I try to keep it out of the way of the code so that it doesn't overlap too bad.