skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avenue100 Media Solutions- Woburn/Cambridge MA

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. Awesome place to work, laid back, flexible, extremely talented cast.

Our company is a leading analytics-based performance marketing company that helps institution acquire qualified customers. We are experts in the art and science of education digital marketing. Our sites are seen by nearly 30 million visitors annually.

Our engineers work with the research, sales, and traffic teams to build solutions to their toughest problems and rapidly deploy tools to keep our business ahead of the competition. Our small teams are solely responsible for their projects. This allows each engineer a high level of independence and flexibility, but also demands responsible project and resource management.

Built by data driven MIT scientists, our successful startup company has transformed into becoming one of the major players in the online education space. We need highly motivated, independent thinkers that want to make an impact on the business while not having to wait for a successful exit. Our compensation plans are highly competitive and we prefer short-term bonuses over any unclear or hazy equity package.'

Why us?
-Excellent pay/benefits/and bonus
-Laid back environment/flexible schedule
-Gym/cafeteria on-site
-Ping Pong table/video games
-Free snacks
-Company outings

If you are interested please send a resume to cdestefano@avenue100.com
Google's terms of use prevent them from having humans read your data.
How to use Pipe Command In Unix
Bad trailing slash, I think, though it really should just err on the Wiki, not get hijacked by an ISP.

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis
Meth Addict Accidentally Burns Down Ancient Tree
SVN Two Week Development and Release Process
Six days ago, during the last HN cycle of 37signals blog/marketing, I said that I thought they were desperate to prove that their path was so awesome because there was tension about not getting acquired and not really working on anything world-changing (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3629729). I think this post of introspection from 37S supports my point. It confirms that all the other 37 Signals stuff was part of their program of constantly churning out contrarian pablum because it's good marketing, because people (young men usually) like to do that and because they have this uncertainty about them which needs to be masked with an aggressive stance.

Whatever the past reasons for posting I welcome this blog, if it's genuine, because it might be the first signal of a change from the usual blogspam from 37 signals that magically makes it's way to the HN front-page on a regular basis.
So is it unhackerlike to be politically charged?
Spreadsheets can make simple and flexible CRMs - and Google Spreadsheet's notification feature helps keep everyone informed of changes.

Keep an eye out for some Google Spreadsheet features coming soon from Wishery.
I've once worked in a company on the other side of this. I needed a particular piece of software for work that was ~$50 on Amazon, with a $10 rebate, and something like $60 when bought from their website directly. They had a trial, and buying it was as easy as giving them your credit card number.

Now the company I worked for had a policy to only obtain computery things through a supplier, which would be a local vendor or shop selling this software. The trick is, nobody does that for some random software on the interwebs that's only $50. The purchasing process itself also cost something like $700 for any individual invoice.

So two minions and a purchasing manager set off on a journey to find a supplier for this software, with my boss, my office manager, and me constantly nagging them, as it was urgent. After two weeks they came back and said it was sadly impossible to buy this software. We ended up shipping our software late due to the delay, and buying the tool from Amazon, expensing it as a book.

Moral of the story: the old BigCos indeed force this behaviour out of suppliers.
I'd love to see Android implement a filesystem sandbox (chroot?). For one thing, it'd clean up my ridiculously cluttered SD card.
Yeah - using Railo and have been really happy with it. Was a little worried about memory issues, but it's pretty efficient.

For the buttons, I was thinking that Edit Menu let's you add/remove recipes from your list (or multiply them). "Add Items" will let you put additional items on your list but not associated with any specific recipe.

Though for your secret ingredient, you could actually edit a similar recipe and then put in your own ingredient(s). Once it's in the db as an ingredient, the shopping list would be able to parse it out and lump it together with everything else.

I'll definitely put recipe creation in there sooner than later.
Taking a quick poll here - how much would everyone be willing to pay for this?
I was looking for a similar comment. Not just from an acquisition standpoint, but having all that information right where Google can look at it doesn't sound smart just from a common-sense standpoint.

"What could possibly go wrong?"
Why you shouldn’t just jump straight into starting your first company
Interesting ... I was just in Vegas and noticed that the credit card cabs hit the passenger with the processing fee. I believe it was $2 or $3.

I've also noticed in general that cabbies simply don't like credit card customers.
Interesting! Thanks for the pointer.
I'm saying they had the same method of operation: take demographic data to show better advertisements. Nothing has changed except they're adding new products.
If I were not a software guy who had used git, after reading this I would say "So why don't I use Dropbox for everything? It does everything hard for me."
It would indeed be nice if the project had a proper introductionary page or something. Either way, the paper "Networking Named Content" is pretty much the best introduction you can get, and a very interesting read at the same time. Googling gave me a PDF at the following URL: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/papers/Jacobson....
NASA squandering technology commercialization opportunities
> Google's terms of use prevent them from having humans read your data.

Given the choice of

1. spending a few zillion dollars on a lemon of a startup and

2. violating terms-of-use behind your back

do people really believe 1. over 2. is the most likely outcome?
The Fallacy of Sign Up Funnels - What Data You Miss
I've been a confirmed Kayak fan.

I don't need to go anywhere at the moment, but you comment got me to try a search on Google Flights. Let me just say, Wow! Simplicity, organization, speed!

Of course, the true test will be when I do have to book. I'll be sure to try 'em both out.
Agreed, but even if your laptop HDD is encrypted, you still need to do a risk assessment as to the value of the data/code before trusting the drive encryption technology.

Example: Google doesn't allow source code on laptop HDDs, even though we use full-disk encryption. The risk of a bug/attack on FDE is non-zero, even though it is probably pretty small, so it's enough to tip the scale.

(edit: grammar)
It is not the same as stealing bread to feed a family. That too is hyperbolic. You know what is just plain disingenous though? Framing discussions about how copyright could be different (better for many), as pointless or silly since copyright infringement isn't the same as stealing bread to feed a family. Possibly even in the same hyperbolic way, since "everything is perfect because it is not an extreme" is itself hyperbolic.
Exploring Xcode's Interface Builder
Exactly how did you "notice" this?
An alternative to this is my site UseTheSource where your Hacker News karma gives you the right to post jobs.

http://jobs.usethesource.com/
At this point, it's fairly clear that there is no mind body distinction. The "mind" is an emergent property of 10^11 neurons performing complex processing operations on streams of sensory data. If you take away pieces of this machine, corresponding parts of the "mind" also disappear. I'm not sure why this keeps people up at night.

What really interests me (as a PhD student in Neuroscience at Stanford), is how it works, and how the uncoordinated action of neural networks leads to complex behaviors.
If nothing else, make the app as practice for taking your ideas from concept to reality.

Besides, you can always compete on metrics other than execution, i.e., price or features.
Do you have any better information than this? (a hubpages page? really?)

This is a pretty extraordinary claim, and since I don't believe in magic I need to see evidence and analysis of that evidence by people in that field.

Some guys page where he handwaves though a "quantum" explanation while not knowing what quantum means is ... not convincing let's say.
>We do all of his wrongs, but we don't sell to small companies.

I have no real experience with big companies. Could you educate me on a few points? In particular, it strikes me as odd that these would be any different from consumer to small company to big company:

Don’t hide your pricing behind a sales process

Do people shopping for solutions for big companies not have any idea what their budget is? I understand there are always details to work out in the sales process on deals like these, but it seems to me that immediately knowing that your product costs five times what I'm supposed to spend would save your sales people some time.

Don’t make me read a whitepaper in order to get essential information about your product. Put it on your website. In HTML.

A web page with a URL that isn't a mile long seems like about the easiest way there could be to read about a product and share what you've read with other people in your company. Why would you not do this in 2012?

Don’t make it hard for me to talk to a technical person at your company about the nitty gritty details of how your product works.

I know a lot of times, technical people aren't the ones making the buying decisions, but is it rare for them to be involved? It seems like some easily accessible technical information could really speed things up when the purchasing guy asks the tech guy "will this actually work for us?", or is that not how things are done?

I can think of sensible reasons people would violate the author's other demands when smaller companies aren't the target market, but these seem universal. Since I might some day make things I want to sell to bigger companies, I'd really like to understand what I'm missing.
Will mobile help Turntable.fm monetize?
Quora programming contest: Solve real problems of Quora and get hired.
I'm scanning the GitHub repository and it doesn't seem much different from when I last looked. The code is extremely Java-y. I wanted to make a small change to some command (I forget what), but I had to wade through 4+ levels of indirection simply to find a single line of code doing the real work.
No, it doesn't. Every major airline publishes their fares, schedules, and availability in a standardized format; furthermore, all of this data is available from a single collection point. If Google wanted to allow international searches, they (or more importantly, ITA) already have everything they need.

They quite literally just need to "flip a switch" to enable it.

Most likely the reason they don't is that each additional origin or destination city that they add requires additional servers and storage and computation, and so it's much more practical for them to limit the tool to the top 50 or so Domestic USA airports.
Google Music said to be floundering as user count declines each week
My impression is the opposite. Patent cases one hears about seem to start with 137 patents, and the judge throws out all but a few claims of 2. Perhaps this is self-selecting, but the impression is that most of the patents granted are, in fact, bogus.
Seattle, San Francisco, Cupertino (and other places), FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B

A lot of people think Splunk must be a terrible place to work at because they think it is an "enterprise" company. But the truth is, we have great jobs for a lot of people. Want to work on awesome visualizations for gigabytes and terabytes of data daily? We got it. Want to work on building a development platform for an extremely powerful data analysis tool? We got it. Want to help make the core server that powers our extremely fast indexing and performance better? We got it.

For example, my project for the past couple of months has been to develop our new Node.js/Browser SDK, including pulling some of our propietary UI components and sharing them with the world. We also do a lot of work with customers to best help them use Splunk. One of the projects I was involved in included analyzing social data using Splunk (like Twitter/Foursquare).

Whether it's UI, core systems engineering, dev platform or anything in between, we likely have something for you. I personally work on the development platform in the Seattle office, but I'm happy to answer questions about anything. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), or comment here.

I wanted to highlight a few specific positions we're looking for:

* Dev. Platform Software Engineer: This is the team I work on. We strongly believe that there is a use for Splunk outside of logging, and we're enabling the usage of the technology for dealing with large quantities of data, whether it's for social network analysis, cloud management or anything in between. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=oHkCVfwi

* Cloud Software Engineer: we're developing the next stage of our product, which is a hosted version of Splunk in the cloud, with all the benefits you'd expect (like automatic elastic scaling). Come help us make this a reality: http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=o4U8VfwL

* Hadoop Software Engineer: Usage of Hadoop is exploding to do batch-oriented processing on massive quantities of data. We think there is a lot of value to be had by combining the power of Splunk and Hadoop, and we're developing solutions to make this possible. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=oqCaWfwS

* Software Engineer in Test: Splunk is a complex machine, deployed in a distributed manner, many times being used for different things. Our testing team is top notch, and helps us deliver quality releases. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=o5ZvVfwe

* Windows QA Engineer: Splunk is putting a lot of effort into making Splunk & Windows to be a match made in heaven. We need people to help us make sure we're getting everything quite, because details matter. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=oLpdWfw3

* Server Sustaining Engineer: Splunk is a very customer-focused company, and it's important that customers are happy with the products. The sustaining team is in charge of making sure that after major releases, we can keep customers happy for a long time. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=obAdWfwE
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So does that just mean no programming via laptops, or do you do your work on network drives? Or perhaps remote interactive session?
San Francisco, CA or Portland, OR - FULLTIME or INTERN - Engineers and business people

Urban Airship is hiring all kinds of engineers and business people in San Francisco and Portland. We have a travel program between the cities, so you'd get to know 2 badass cities.

Urban Airship helps mobile developers send push notifications at high volumes across iOS, Android, Blackberry, WP7, Kindle, etc.

- 10 billion push notifications sent. We're sending about 2.5 billion per month now. We sent 150M push notifications in a 24 hour period just this week.

- Our systems are engineered to send about 50,000 push notifications per second. We want to "light up a stadium in a second".

- We have huge customers like The New York Times, ESPN, USA Today, Groupon, LivingSocial, BET, etc.

- We're about 65 people and just raised $15M from Intel, Verizon, and SalesForce.

- Working on advanced segmentation of users to send smarter push notifications.

- Great, hardworking leadership, one of the most important things in a startup.

- Ping pong showdowns. Lagunitas keg and bourbon in the office. Fun, connected, smart, and badass co-workers that are 100% startup.

The formal job listings are here: http://urbanairship.com/company/jobs/ but we're hiring smart engineers with a broad range of skills.

Hit me up at ben (at) <companyname> (dot) com if you're interested!
MagicTree v1.1 – Penetration Testing Productivity Tool
100% of your sales, support, and bug tracking information will be reflected in the email inbox of your employees.

If you're not hosting your own email servers, all that information is available to some 3rd party.

These companies have contracts in place preventing them from abusing the potential information they can gain, and they usually have a lot more to loose from violating it than what they could gain from cheating like this.
The cabbies raised a ruckus when credits cards were introduced...however, data shows that when rides were cash only, cabbies received 10% tips. With credit cards, the average was 22%. Hard to complain about that:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08taxi.html

The Times also reported that the fact that cabs have cards - and livery cars do not - may have helped the taxi industry while hurting the private car business.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/nyregion/25taxis.html
Our users told us. As we were building features, we'd email our users and ask them for feedback.
PostgreSQL 9.1 now default on Heroku Postgres, Cancelable Query support
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Palo Alto, CA - Full-stack Web Developer - LOCAL or REMOTE (full-time preferred)

We're one of the thousands of startups doing social networking. Our focus is on groups and events.

We've built a real-time stack of our own that bridges backbone.js <-> socket.io <-> gunicorn+gevent <-> django. The web application is nearly all single-page architecture, with both web and mobile making use of an API. We use coffeescript pretty much everywhere.

* backend: python, django, gevent, gunicorn, nginx, postgres

* frontend: coffeescript, jQuery, backbone.js, socket.io, compass

We're looking for an advanced full-stack web developer. You know a lot about several or all of the above. Backend/frontend/query optimization/deployment.

We'll be growing our user base very soon -- we've amassed a small army of interns at most colleges around our initial metro launch area and need knowledge/experience optimizing and scaling the above technologies. We're on the lookout for those who want senior developer ownership and can be mentors/leaders as we grow.

I'll be at PyCon.

gmail - davidmarble
Umm. That slideshare post has one upvote. And that is from your submission. It didn't have significant traction and then get buried... it just didn't move once you posted it.

I posted something yesterday not exactly critiquing YC, but presenting an alternate idea to how they should run housing for batches... that post didn't get buried because it had a different viewpoint. PG even commented in it.

Also... any reason to link "Hacker News" 12 times in your post to your old thread? IMHO it makes it looks a bit SEO spammy.
I decided to play CEO of Yahoo for the day...
You're mistaking evidence of creation with the ability to enforce the copyright. The first goes to your ability to win your case, the second goes to your ability to even file the case in the first place.
Zynga launches new Platform for social games
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This same idea was my excuse to learn javascript/node :) I went the "re-invent the wheel" route and skipped node-irc and Backbone for extra javascript fun.

The interface looks good from the screenshots but how well does it work on a phone? For that reason I went with a minimal terminal-like interface to make it possible.

I will check this out tonight. Good job.
Well that's an unpleasant mental image...

However, cockroaches actually aren't any better at surviving radiation than any other species, mythbusters tried it.
Something missing from the article:

user> (doc with-open)
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clojure.core/with-open
([bindings & body])
Macro
bindings => [name init ...]

Evaluates body in a try expression with names bound to the values
of the inits, and a finally clause that calls (.close name) on each
name in reverse order.
Not aware of anything like that. My guess is that it isn't feasible or that there are significant concerns about adoption.

How would you scan? Bar code? Seems like a pain in the ass. Putting RFID on everything in your fridge doesn't seem feasible either.

Any solution like this has to be easy to use and cost effective for it to have adoption.
Nicely done. Two concerns: 1) exposure to breakage when Gmail changes, 2) potential introduction of protection against invasive integration.

Google has three options: 1) turn a blind eye, 2) block deep integration (same game AOL played with AIM), or 3) introduce client-side integration API. #1 is temporary. #2 is nightmare for Streak. #3 requires strategy change by Google.

[update] Rapport doesn't have this problem because they are using Outlook PIA to work directly with Outlook object model.
Do it anyway.

1) Creating the app is half the battle - executing on distribution is the main thing you'll have to fight.

2) You don't know what their end game for the app is - they might be creating it with a totally different function in mind. So even though up front you may think they've created something identical to what you are, that might not be true.

3) The fact that there's another app out there that does what you are planning on doing further validates that you have a great idea.

4) Don't be concerned with competitors. Phil Libin from Evernote said it best - on the list of top threats to your app's ability to succeed, a competitor's success doesn't even register.
I was going to ask wether using full-disk-encryption on Apple's Lion OS (aka "File Vault 2") would be sufficient. It sounds like Google is uncertain that it is.

Still, Apple's FDE is much better than no encryption at all! No excuse, NASA should require FDE on all laptops (even if they're working on something better eventually).
The software you wrote is good copyright, but the movie you want to watch is bad copyright. I don't see how this is a viable position for someone trying to make a living writing software (assuming you are).
I don't understand the HN community stance on this.

MegaUpload was blatantly profiteering off of copyright infringing materials. DMCA take down notices affected only a single link to a file and not the file itself. Premium users could spend money to "clone" files by generating a new link without having to upload a single byte. MegaUpload paid users based on the number of times their file was downloaded. It is claimed that MegaUpload accounted for four percent of all internet traffic. They did all this to the tune of several hundred million dollars in profit.

There are numerous websites that are 100% dedicated to the streaming of copyrighted material (TV shows and movies). They stream content from MegaUpload directly to your browser with no download needed.

MegaUpload blatantly and clearly did not care about hosting and serving copyright infringing material from their servers. It does not require an IT genius to detect that the file Game.Of.Thrones.S1.E01 which has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times may possibly be copyright infringing material.

Someone who actually cared would look at which websites are streaming content to MILLIONS of users. If that website is 100% solely dedicated to serving copyright infringing material then you should probably take down the files they are streaming.

The wiki DMCA Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act states "To qualify for the § 512(c) safe harbor, the OSP must not have actual knowledge that it is hosting infringing material or be aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent." IANAL but it was pretty damn apparent that MegaUpload was being used for infringing activity to me.

I seriously don't understand why this community supports Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload. I really don't.