skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just had to deal with this yesterday:

sprintf("%04d-%02d-%02d", $dt_now->year()-1, $dt_now->month(), $dt_now->day());

Yes, it's a solved problem, yes, that's totally insane and wrong, yes, the guy who did it was a dummy, but I get the feeling that a lot of people writing comments like this have never had the experience of working on a large code base that has had many different developers over time. This particular beauty was introduced two years ago by a temporary contractor brought in by management to "help out" during a period of particular time pressure. He only lasted about a month, but in that time managed to introduce a line of code that would crap out on a leap day. Fortunately, it was only in a unit test, so the result was our automated builds failing, rather than a production outage. But I'm not so quick to judge others these days.
PasswordFox - Reveal the user names/passwords stored in Firefox
Meth User Accidentally Burns Down Tree "Older Than Jesus"
Good tool.

I note that it puts a lot of weight on Css minification, which I don't like (I value the readability of HTML/CSS seen through curl) and doubt the value of with reasonably clean, lean source HTML. About half of the grade Fs on my sites come from this. The others need fixing.
TDD on an Arduino
> They don’t teach rails at uni. So straight off the bat it eliminates that large segment of people inspired by the dot-com bubble to get IT degrees to earn good bucks. Java and .NET developers are a dime a dozen. Also the barrier to entry with learning rails is a little tricky. PHP by comparison is fairly easy to get up and running. Some view this in the negative, or as arrogant elitism. I tend to think the high barrier to entry is innocuous and unintentionally weeds out those who arn’t committed to their craft.

Is there not a single rails developer who isn't totally full of themselves? It's a programming language. It's not magic, and rails doesn't mean you're a good programmer. I'm more and more frustrated every time I read stuff like this. When I was learning Rails I was berated with tutorials that made statements like "Rails is a whole new way of thinking" or "Rails means you don't have to work with cruft like braces!!". It's like being the apple fan-boy for a programming language. "Oh it's amazing and everything else means you're not committed to the craft".

I don't hate Ruby or the Rails framework, but I do hate this attitude that I see proliferated through the vast majority of people I speak to who use Rails.
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Freelance iOS (iPhone/iPad) developer.
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Portfolio/website coming soon.
Cotton Candy: USB Stick with ARM CPU+GPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI
OpenStreetMap is an interesting project in crowdsourcing geographical information.

I am really curios and heager to find out what would happen if more companies will start sharing their efforts with OpenStreetMap.

I would love to see the project getting some efforts and recognition from a larger community :) .. Who know what can start out of this..
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Last month was slow so this time I'm gonna slash my rates 75% off for any recently funded startup who needs to have an MVP off the ground real quick. Python, golang, php, objective-c, cloud platforms like app engine, amazon, heroku and open shift, full web stack with html, css, javascript, all sql and no-sql databases, over 20 yrs of experience in the industry to solve all your problems.

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The Internet can’t decide how old I am
Lattice Engines (www.lattice-engines.com) - Manhattan, NY

Analytics Engineer

As the Analytics Engineer, you will use SQL and analytics tools to transform business requirements into actionable data & analytics. You are adept at solving unforeseen problems in a creative manner. You thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You fluently convey complex ideas to colleagues and customers.

Responsibilities
Execute data analysis, ETL, and data mining to support customer deployments
Configure enterprise Big Data analytics platform and tools
Work closely with a customer delivery teams with mixed backgrounds (business & sales, mathematics & predictive analytics, database & data management)
Solve problems arising from dynamic data and changing customer requirements
Qualifications
Strong knowledge of SQL (via SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, etc.)
BS degree in a technical discipline such as math, physics, computer science, operations research, engineering with relevant intern experience; advanced degree preferred
Experience delivering business insights from data using pivot tables, advanced excel models, or business intelligence tools
Experience with analytics tools such as SAS, SPSS, R, or MATLAB
Strong project and time management, as well as written and communications skills
About Lattice Engines

Lattice Engines is revolutionizing B2B sales and marketing by transforming Big Data into big sales for F5000 companies worldwide. Its predictive selling platform, salesPRISM, overcomes the limitations of CRM and arms front-line sales pros with real time, actionable insight to engage the most receptive customers in the most persuasive ways. More than 100,000 sales pros at companies like ADP, Dell and VMware rely on Lattice Engines every day to achieve peak sales productivity. Lattice Engines is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital with headquarters in San Mateo, CA. Learn more at www.lattice-engines.com and follow @Lattice_Engines.

To apply, go to http://jobvite.com/m?3IArgfwJ or send me an e-mail at sberi@lattice-engines.com with the subject line "Hacker News"
I think he/she is referring to jQuery UI and/or jQuery Mobile. Like Enyo, those do contain user interface elements and widgets. See this for example: http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/forms/forms-all.html
From the article comments:

"This is the bottom line. Whether or not the business model is out-dated or not has absolutely no effect on whether what Kim was doing was either immoral or illegal.

In the Governments eyes, what Kim was doing illegal. I can't just steal something from an Amish person's business because "their business model is out-dated." It doesn't matter.

Unless Kim can prove that MegaUpload was actively taking down downloads as requested my DMCA takedown requests, then he doesn't have much hope.

I'm a long time Torrent-Freak reader, and it hurts me to say this. Torrentfreak has become a breeding ground extremists dedicated to the theft of music and movies under the guise of a "moral" obligation/right to do them. File-Sharing, such as giving my friend a CD I burned, is not file sharing in the same sense as Torrenting something which is also being torrented by 400 other people. Think about if they DID buy that CD. That's $2,000 to the artist.
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"profits from the web server market"... WHAT profits? Apache & Nginx are both... wait for it... FREE! So is the underlying OS. And who's number 1 and 2 in the market? Oh yeah, Apache and Nginx...
No it's not ok. It's a reflection on my fear of instability :).
Node.js to pass Ruby on Rails in search popularity
UPJS
A new and fresh JavaScript Library.
to read or debug code with them in it one
has to under­stand them

Perhaps I'm missing some subtlety to the post, but when was that last time that you were able to take a pass on understanding while debugging?

I think what the author is looking for is better compile-time checking and error reporting in the the with-* macros. I'm not sure how to respond to the "understanding" points. Is the need to understand your language constructs considered a sign of leakiness? I would say no.
These guys are doing very interesting work. Recommended.
Flurry, SF and NYC

http://www.flurry.com/about-us/jobs.html

Our analytics and advertising SDKs are in tons of apps on Android, iPhone, and Windows, and we're dealing with more and more data every day. We're hiring for web, backend, mobile and ops roles (sales and business roles too if you're interested)

aki at flurry dot com
It's easy to sprout bullshit (yes, bullshit, unmitigated) about "natural state that shouldn't be interfered with" and "playing God" when it's not yourself or your loved ones that suffer from a debiliating disease.

See if you can answer this question directy: by your logic, is there any reason to cure any disease at all because "for all we know" some may be necessary for the fitness and survival of the species, and some inspire great art?
San Francisco, CA - Trulia

Trulia is still growing at a rapid clip. Lots of interesting scaling and fun data challenges.

We are looking for a data scientist type with very hands on coding skills not just analysis.

Search engineer well versed in search internals or heavy use of solr/lucene

Core data pipeline engineer to work with complex data workflows in hadoop

Other eng positions on the front-end and mobile apps too.

Great company culture, apply at http://www.trulia.com/jobs
Hot to expand the community?
Child porn law could affect everyone's privacy
Black rats are extremely common worldwide and are at no risk of extinction so nobody is 'wiping out' black rats. They're only talking about on Howe Island. The goal is not to avoid killing animals, it's to preserve biodiversity. Same reason people try to wipe out Kudzu, zebra mussels, snakeheads, rats, and other invasive species that displace endemic populations.
Not to the artist. There's the vendor and then the publisher first.
New York, Brooklyn, NYC - Etsy.com is hiring all kinds of positions from engineering to design to marketing. Come join an awesome team, our last engineering hire was Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP. My contact info is in my profile if you have any questions, otherwise http://www.etsy.com/careers
Definitely the rebel alliance :).
Hm I do not agree with you re: `->` and `->>`, and have had no problems with Clojure's context-managing fns (though my experience is limited). Not sure how they're "leaky" at all. They do require a little getting used to but once you understand what's happening they're great.

I say that mostly as someone who is very picky about how his code looks, especially with regard to whitespace, keeping line length under 80 columns, and so forth. The threading macros are great for presenting code in a very readable way.
If all goes well, you'll be a mid-sized company at some point. I say that from painful experience - we're about to hire our second developer at work, and I'm not looking forward to the time it's going to take to document all those little edge cases that I know about, but they won't.
Even that, this means genocide for a species.
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Looking for a developer to clean up some loose ends on a fairly simple iPhone app. It's not a consumer-facing app, so it doesn't need to be perfect. It has three or four screens and acts mainly as a front end for our API. One week max, looking to start ASAP.

Contact via github (github.com/farski)
Stratasan (stratasan.com) - Nashville, Tennessee

Python Developer

Prior experience with other web-stack languages is fine (Ruby/Rails, PHP, Perl, etc), as long as you're willing to learn Python. Remote is an option for the right candidates, but we have a strong preference for someone local or willing to relocate.

We're a small startup in the healthcare sector. We take data from public and private sources and allow healthcare companies (hospital systems, non-profits, etc) to look at markets from multiple angles. Our biggest competitor is Thomson Rueters. More information on our full job post on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/1827430

Currently our team consists of two developers (and an intern), with 20+ years of programming experience between us. We are lazy developers, so we like to do things correctly the first time around (this means unit tests, readable code, etc.) so we can go home and be with our families. Rockstars, ninjas, and studs need not apply. If this sounds like a good fit for you, email us. We would prefer a mid- to senior-level developer, but if you're a junior and looking for mentorship in the trade, we still want to talk to you.

You can email jobs@stratasan.com, or email me directly at brian@ (same domain).
There's something really annoying about the IG saying that NASA lost "the algorithms used to command and control the ISS" (emphasis mine). I understand that the laptop could have contained authentication information, including credentials, code, and/or documentation. But this seems oddly specific in a totally unintuitive and non-informative way.

Which, come to think of it, might have been the goal in his Congressional testimony, but really: this doesn't really say much useful about the incident.
KATE MOSS TOPLESS IN SPECTACULAR beautiful as ever-photo-
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I design things. I'm particularly interested in iOS projects. Have worked with many, many YC companies: Posterous, Mixpanel, Greplin, Talkbin, Parse, and more.

http://raj.so
Are you saying these people voluntarily built tools that effectively made themselves obsolete?
Thanks! I admit not reading TFA.
Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing
We are proud to be working with CERN, EMBL Events and ESA to solve some of greatest computing challenges!
He got one. Read the story of Ars Digita sometime...
Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649844
How to be a successful creative guy.
"I can't just steal something from an Amish person's business because "their business model is out-dated." It doesn't matter."

It doesn't justify piracy, but it is a way for the media industry to solve the "piracy-issue" themselves. In short: Give the people what they want and they will pay you.
You could know the inventory pretty well with FareCast[1] and ExpertFlyer[2]. Paying a few bucks to lock in a lower fare before prices skyrocket at the last minute seems quite reasonable.

1: http://www.bing.com/travel/
2: http://expertflyer.com/
There's something about beautiful design that gets me excited and sparks a desire for me to create something beautiful myself. A great design like this also pushes me to try out an app when I probably normally wouldn't. Great job!
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We're looking for a freelance designer for a Web site redesign. Interesting (I think) 3-6 month project. If all goes well there would be continuing work. Email me: clay@franchisedirect.com.
to me that sounds like a market waiting to be developed: some enterprising (get it?) coder can cook up an IDE and compiler and target the XP market.
Yeah, when a native app crashes, it just dies.

Whereas, generally with Common Lisp, I can trap the condition, fix the problem, and keep running.

I know what languages I'd consider starting grounds for 100% uptime systems (not 5 9s), and languages that segfault and die as part of their usual crash hangling are not among them.

(Erlang, Lisp, and Smalltalk would be my shortlist)
Their "new" privacy policy isn't really new, just tweaked. Google's been doing business the same way they are now for years. If you just suddenly decided you needed to divest and you couldn't get that done in a month or two... were you sleeping the whole time, or did you just not realize they were using your demographic data the whole time? AppEngine notwithstanding, moving from the other services could be done in one weekend, and Google makes it pretty easy.

Nowhere near enough notice? It's like someone told you that you live in a flood zone and you didn't realize you've been standing in water for almost 10 years already.
Verisign seizes .com domain from foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities
That's a pretty ridiculous suggestion for someone like Linus surely...
FTA:

For example, rather than just telling a customer how many visitors came to their site from Twitter, Mixpanel can show how many visitors came in from Twitter, broken down by country, and limited to those were between the ages of 10 and 13.

I don't want to know for certain that I have any users under the age of 13. I don't even want to provably have the capability of knowing.

There are serious implications under COPPA if you have such knowledge. Without it, you instead fall under the "directed at children" prong of the test which is far easier to avoid.
Where Detroit's tech talent is coming from
i stopped reading after

> You don’t want to go through life being one of those smug Internet people whose sole contribution ...

smug people on the internet? frankly, i don't appreciate his overgeneralizing mischaracteristizations of people who use the internet. it's 2012! everyone and their mom uses the internet! phrases like "Internet people" make it seem like the only people on the internet are defensive, awkward neckbeards who can't relate to regular people.

honestly, things like this call into question his entire argument. if this is what he thinks about people on the internet, he can't possibly know what he's talking about (which, is presumably, colors or something)
INACCURATE TL;DR

I don't usually post in all caps here, but many readers, myself included, will sometimes go to HN comments first to get a TL;DR version of an article. The thoughtful rebuttals by po and sams99 can easily be overlooked by people in a hurry. I think it's too late to edit or delete the parent comment, and the "flag" function is for spam and uncivility, not for carelessness.

As po and sams99 pointed out, the article is not about not doing slow start. It's about tweaking slow start parameters. This particular tweak has been adopted by the Linux kernel authors and others who do understand why TCP slow start is important.
Now remember kids, this should be applied to already existing website. When developing, use whatever works so you can ship. That's why we have updates and maintenance developers.

I'm not saying be as sloppy as possible, but if you sweat the small stuff, not much will happen.
Right at the end of college I took a philosophy course as a required gen-ed that went into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem the Mind Body problem - whether the mind is different than the brain.

And I found that it's one of the few things I think about from college constantly, like, really persistently. It's changed how I think about everything, and is close as I really get to spirituality right now. If I obsess over it long enough I start getting little panic attacks questioning what reality even means, and all sorts of other things. It makes me wish I knew people that would want to discuss this with me at a quiet diner.

I always likened the spirit to the state of a cpu, and the brain as the cpu. You could import someone else's spirit into my brain, and their reality would have my body. Someone else's memories are the way my neurons are connected, their current thoughts stored in whatever the registers to my brain are.

All of these states of my spirit can be imported into another brain and I'll be unaware. It could be possible every morning a new body is recreated for me on another planet and my state is imported into it with my memories, and I am oblivious. In fact, I could be created at any discrete instant, even just now, and be unaware.

Someone said that if we ever got technology good enough to emulate reality virtually, then the odds of us being in one are really good. That single concept sort of blew my mind. There's just so many interesting facets to this correlation between the brain, mind, and computers. I know this post isn't particularly focused on a single point but I just find it fascinating and would love to hear other people's ideas.
Mashape (http://mashape.com) - San Francisco

Java/Play/Scala Engineer

We're building the App Store of APIs.

Mashape provides a world-class marketplace to manage, distribute and consume any kind of API in the world, both cloud and internal, both existing or just born, targeting every developer, company or organization committed into the Internet.

We're a small, passionate team. We think we're revolutionizing the way data and services are distributed and consumed and we’re backed by top tier VCs in the world such NEA, Index Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Ignition Partners; as well as outstanding angels such Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO) and Eric Schmidt’s (Google President) Innovation Endeavors.

You can email me or hackers@mashape.com

More info: http://blog.mashape.com/become-a-mashaper-were-looking-for-a...

We have one of the biggest stack for a small startup in Silicon Valley - Including: Java, Play framework, Ruby, Python, Obj-C, PHP, Erlang, node.js, Javascript, Memcached MongoDB, SimpleDB and DynamoDB, HTML5/CSS3 with LESS, Git, Maven, Linux/CentOS. Soon we'll add Scala and .NET and C#. As we scale we're going to use Hadoop, Lucene/Sphinx, Redis and a bunch of other amazing technologies. Tech challenges? Well, all the API calls pass through a proxy, the Mashape proxy, so scaling this shit to billion of calls/month while keeping a latency under 100ms or storing and analyzing the huge of amount of data that pass through it every second won't be easy.
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia, PA) - ReminderMedia is currently looking for entry-level and senior developers plus a web designer to work on our PHP-based applications.

We're currently in the midst of moving our CRM from a homebrew framework to Symfony2, improving test coverage, and "measuring everything" so that we can boost performance and usability.

Feel free to contact me directly at jcampbell@remindermedia.com or visit our careers page here: http://remindermedia.com/careers/search/state/PA
Nokia Location & Commerce (formerly NAVTEQ) -- Chicago, IL and globally

100+ open positions in Chicago alone, mostly engineering

http://corporate.navteq.com/careers.htm
Seeking Work - remote only

HTML5, JavaScript, and WordPress. http://codecanyon.net/user/omarabid (also writes articles, and tutorials) Email in my profile.
Thanks for noticing us. We're focused on early stage consumer Internet startups. We are higher touch than other programs - focusing on fewer companies and layering on more resources, connections, partnerships, etc.
I had asked this question of Google and received a response from a Google Maps Product Manager a few months back. I wonder if they still feel the same way.

http://www.quora.com/What-is-Googles-strategy-in-charging-fo...
2000 / 400 = 5

Are you kidding me, no artists gets $5 per sold record. If you sell a lot and have a really good deal you get around $2 (britney spears kinda big).

The records my fathers band have recorded give them about $.5 for all of them (six members). They barely cover their production costs with that...
I came here to say that I hope they improve the default map theme, but then I realized I'm off to the Maps app anytime I want to actually play with the map or get directions anyway.
SEEKING WORK - Edinburgh/remote

As of this month I'm starting to take on freelance sysadmin work, which could mean things like helping you automate your infrastructure using Chef, set up monitoring, or figure out why Apache hates you.

I'm also available for emergency on-call work on a retainer basis.

john@semantici.st / @semanticist
Location often determines how quickly you can expect to find a job. I don't know what the St. Louis job market is like, though, but probably not fantastic? You can consider determining whether the bug is with St. Louis or with some (improvable) aspect of your employability.