skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco, CA. Full time.

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For more on the problem Academia.edu is solving, see the guest post on TechCrunch last Sunday on 'The Future of Science' by Academia.edu's founder, Richard Price http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/the-future-of-science/
Academia.edu has over 1.3 million registered users, and over 3.5 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics tripled in 2011. Over 4,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,500 academics join each day.

We recently raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

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I'm teaming with a designer friend of mine for a redesign of ABQ. We'll keep this in mind! Thanks.
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DevOps Borat, consider this a job offer to work at HelloFax
Nice, I love it.
Your arguments assume that the number of companies with jobs is fixed; that the same technologies that increase productivity for existing employers can't be used by individuals to create new businesses.

This web site that you're posting on is dedicated to entrepreneurs who create businesses in their home offices without the need for a big corporation to back them and provide HR, Accounting, and other overhead services. That revolution in new business model opportunities is afforded by the advances in technology that your thesis is decrying.
You may want to research Distilled, the company this SEO Consultant works for. They're as above board as it gets and you'd be thrilled if they took you as a client. If you don't understand SEO, ask questions and you may learn something. Or, just keep making lazy & superficial observations.
As noted below, I'm teaming with a designer friend of mine for a redesign of ABQ. We'll probably get rid of those JQuery sliders as the don't work well on mobile devices. In any case we'll keep this in mind. Thank you.
A big difficulty I think is that some people have a tendency towards idea reductionism. The idea for the iPod was a great one, but reducing that idea to its bare essentials of "I want to create another mp3 player" leaves a lot to be desired. But there are also some ideas that are so elegant and straightforward to implement that they can't be diminished by over simplification and they are valuable all on their own (hesco barriers being a perfect example). And there are some ideas that are tricky to express correctly and to execute but are still incredibly valuable. Ideas aren't everything, but they're a lot more than nothing as well.
I'm in your Museum, scanning your Art.
There's minimalist, and there's functionally incomplete. Right now you guys are the latter as a torrent service, whereas TB are not.
This seems like an unfortunate case of Microsoft looking to what will be the standard several years from now - a good thing for most web technology, given their slow browser development speed. However, due to the politics and industry regulation that is still being decided, this will actually sway the direction of DNT and make it useless (as many users have pointed out here). There are two fundamental things to keep in mind:

1) There will always be ads on the internet. We are not moving to a direct pay internet economy anytime soon.
2) Behavior targeting is significantly more effective than other types of targeting including the context based approach heavily favored by privacy advocates. (See http://idaconcpts.com/2011/04/13/behavioral-targeting-double...). Because of this, the advertising companies will find ways to keep doing behavior targetting - ranging from the benign like site retargetting to the more troubling association with private data.

DNT as an opt out solution is great because it allows people who probably won't click on ads to say they don't want them. Private users and advertising companies both win. But third party cookies exist for a reason and if they are removed from the equation then advertising companies will simply find another way.
I don't know which I feel saddest about:

1. Whether or not this is actually illegal, it is clearly unethical and not in the spirit of good clean business and technology practices we should all be aspire to.

2. That it quickly made it to #1 on Hacker News.

3. That I seem to be one of the few who cares while most others nit on details.
I also find the second style much more readable.
I just tried googling for the cached version, hoping that they were able to grab it, but interestingly they have only a screenshot of the article. It's even clear enough to read all the text, but there's no cached version. Surely the page itself would have been easier to store than an image?
Other than companies like Google most marketing companies couldn't give a shit about what you think of them as you aren't their customer. Additionally a lot of marketing companies would likely publicly get behind a DNT header when the recommendation is that browsers send "no preference set" by default. As soon as a browser vendor goes to default DNT the marketers support of the standard and honoring of it will go out the window as it's not in their interests to participate any longer.

The end result will be that Microsofts choice will result in everyone being tracked rather than only those people that have no preference set or have explicitly opted in.

A good example of companies not honoring a restrictive default is the P3P header. Damn near everyone sends a P3P header but most of them don't actually honor the settings from the header, or have the other components set up. It's all about getting third party cookies set successfully and not honoring how MS implemented P3P in IE or what the user wants.
For that case in particular, you're talking about a new business model that uses an insurance and liability model that might not be suited for it quite yet.

That case hasn't been decided and the only article I saw on it just was warning about possible problems.
Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.4 released
Where does this term "lambda users" come from?
Wanted to clarify on:

> Sure you are. You're directly helping people perform it. I'm not saying what you're doing should be illegal, but let's be honest here. You are "interested" in piracy. One could argue you're even involved in it.

To be, again, completely honest with you, no. If you could have that much exposure showing photos of shoes, we'd do it instead.

I see it as... a start-up without the worry to make profit. We use analytics only to improve the product. We use this as a product building exercise, that's all.

We don't upload movies, we don't run a tracker, we don't belong to any release groups: that's how not interested in piracy we are.
As someone not too familiar with p2p technologies: What difference does that make for the user?
No, it's not legal. But only non-MPAA-affiliated films are the subject of torrent lawsuits. The MPAA gave up that tactic a while ago. Movies like The Expendables and The Hurt Locker aren't MPAA-affiliated. Those lawsuits are being pushed by independent lawyers trying to get rich quick through mass settlements. Of course, that doesn't prevent them from suing in the future.
Yeah, you and Nate Lawson were totally out to lunch on that. I was honestly amazed that anyone thought it could have been anything else, and still am.

But I see nothing idiotic about it.
So someone else created Stuxnet, but many months after its discovery the US government orchestrated a leak involving multiple government agencies and a detailed backstory to falsely take credit for it?

That seems like a complicated and unnecessary conspiracy theory that runs a very high risk of unraveling in an embarrassing fashion. It is not plausible.
I used my diary (pure pen) but similar principle.

Never burn the boats as you might need them!
Now do one with Metacritic! :) And for Canada.
you incite the wrath of the gods. hope you know a lawyer.
This would have been a good opportunity to educate the public about APT. Mikko's argument is essentially that this was an APT attack, which is by definition unstoppable.

A more productive way to take this essay is how to detect and close breaches once they've happened. But AV companies aren't interested in pursuing this part of the market, because it's not as simple as selling a piece of automated software.
The http://www.themoviedb.org/ are doing an amazing job. Using their V3 API right now, it's very nicely designed.
Why It's Okay to Write Crummy Code
On the contrary, hypocrisy is all about believing that "when I do it it's not wrong". Decrying something when you are ashamed that you secretly do it yourself is not hypocrisy, because it doesn't involve a double standard.
I agree completely with the GPS data. I love backpacking/hiking and the ability to grab GPS data from previous hikers is pretty crucial for me.
In a room this quiet I assume using keyboard will sound very loud.
It's the same with spammers. If you are a public email provider, the spammers create accounts and spam them before unleashing their spam. Since they have access to both sides of the wall, they can keep trying till they are successful.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Interesting article - the only question I had was about the "Pay with a tweet" to get upgrade/unlock extra features. I've started seeing this and actually thought it was kind of clever. Are most annoyed by this?

I understand the point of the article though that you're missing out on the impact of big influencers as they're not likely to tweet to their thousands upon thousands of followers.
Generations show affinity to the technology present when they were 15-25
Don't Be Evil, Google
Ask HN: Good resources on UI/UX
Can anyone recommend good books/sites/articles/resources for UI/UX? I feel this is a particular weakness of mine, and I'd like to work on it but I'm not sure where to start.

I've heard the recommendation "The design of everyday things" a couple of times, but are there more concrete resources for a web developer? Be they technical tools or just guidelines.
Jobs and Wozniak started by building freaking boxes.
Wake Up Startups, You're Behind the Times
I got hired for a summer internship off of hackernews. The total time from my response to a job offer was about two weeks. We're serious and we have some very intriguing problems to solve related to how to scale existing systems with custom database backends (Not just mongo or mysql or riak) to higher levels of performance.
According to the Netflix terms for their affiliate program[1], they won't let you participate in their program if your site includes "illegal activities."

Seems understandable, but maybe if they allowed torrent sites to direct users to them they could help prevent some piracy AND everyone would make some money.

[1] https://signup.netflix.com/Affiliates
Totally understand your position.

Hesitated a lot about this, and finally thought "fuck it, let's do it".

I think it's like people working in porn: they don't necessarily enjoy the industry, but at one point they thought "man, there's really something that needs to be done".

I'd much prefer a legal solution. I'd much prefer content owners to expose APIs for the licensing of their content, and have them let us create the front-ends.
it's pretty, but it's a worse experience than legal alternatives like netflix because you have to take the gamble deciding which copy to download. I value piracy for pushing the user experience forward (without the competition it provides, i doubt we would have netflix instant streaming now), but nothing here seems different than anything before it, just prettier.
"phreaking"
Great question.

When the app is opened, the default view is for the scanner to be open and ready to scan. The only reason for the "scan" button is if the user has gone to "history" or "settings" and then wants to go back to "scan" mode.

Feel free to test the app out yourself: http://bit.ly/IcwM62
Nice job! You make some great points!
Ahem. That's "phreaking"... As in phone phreaking. -- coming from an ex-phone phreak ;)
Does anybody actually use that? Vuze has some sort of commenting system too but it seems buried.
Parent might be referring to long-held stock as a use of capital that doesn't earn anything while it sits on a shelf (yielding a hit to cash flow).
Just wanted to comment on the replies you were getting. Wow, I have rarely seen a comment jumped on with so many negative replies as this one!

I agree with you, I have very negative opinions on the term 'SEO', and those who use it. Sure, there might be 'good' SEOs, but I believe the experience of the majority of people, even geeks, of SEO is finding websites high up Google rankings which clearly have no place being there.
http://www.dreamershope.info/ my opinions are yet to gain peoples reviews. I'm waiting for someone to comment on my blog.
"My dad was an armchair politician who had a "brilliant solution" to every social ill imaginable and never got off his duff to implement any of his ideas. So he never really got real world feedback concerning which ideas had merit and which were him just blowing smoke up everyone's ass."

Part of what I do outside work is help out with housing cooperatives in the UK. We put ordinary not very rich people in charge of their homes. They become the landlord. Targets include < 4% void rent in any year, < 28 days property vacant &c.

Real decision making and budget responsibility (landlord liable for repairs) works wonders. You can see people grow taller, and many now have supervisory jobs...
Mountain View, CA - Matterport is looking for a Full-stack Web Developer and Computer Vision Engineer

Web Developer:

Scanning is only half of the Matterport experience. What happens after scanning — viewing, annotating, and publishing scanned 3d content — is essential to giving users a seamless and pleasurable experience.

The Work:

Build out the Matterport website and server infrastructure, including both the database of scanned 3D content and the user interface for browsing it. You would be the first web developer we hire, so you will have a chance to set your choice of language, framework, and best practices for web development at Matterport.

Preferred Skills:

Well-versed in Ruby on Rails.

Past experience scaling a website from inception to large numbers of users while maintaining reliable performance.

Past experience doing user experience design for new categories of product.

---

Software Engineer with Computer Vision & Algorithms focus:

A creative Engineer who can invent new algorithms, not just apply known techniques. There are still big, interesting problems to solve which are central to our product.

The work:
You will be working on 3D alignment and mesh reconstruction algorithms, improving robustness and quality. The ideal candidate is comfortable with messy data and uncertain results.

Preferred skills

Past experience in computer vision or a related field such as machine learning.

Experience with high-performance code (optimization, parallelization, CUDA) is a plus.

Very comfortable coding in C++.

---

A bit about us:
Matterport (YC W12) creates a low-cost easy-to-use 3D scanner that lets you turn reality into 3D models.

We scanned Y Combinator shortly before demo day -- you can see the scanning process and the automatically generated 3D model on our demo video starting at 0:40 http://matterport.com/#video

We're proud to be creating something incredibly useful. This is going to become a vital tool for the millions of professionals who work with 3D spaces on a daily basis, including construction companies, film studios, building operators, real estate companies, industrial engineers, remodelers, architects, retail designers, insurance companies, and more. Our site is being deluged by requests for new uses for the system every day.

We're starting our beta testing program with several large companies, and we've already finished raising a very sizable seed round.

We are all experienced founders and were previously early employees at PayPal and Google. We like to work hard and get stuff done. We are intellectual and curious. We know how to communicate and get along. We have fun. We feature a brogrammer-free workplace. :-)

Most of all, we're driven to change the world in a deep and meaningful way.

We feel that it's worth giving larger than typical equity compensation for early employees -- we want you to do really well if the company does really well.

jobs@matterport.com - put a 1 in the subject for the vision position or a 2 for the web development position.
I believe you mean "phreaking" boxes.
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Who let the MPAA in here?

Seriously, unless you are a massive copyright holder, attempting to exploit every red penny out of your brainwashed masses, I don't see how any user would have a problem with this. Maybe the movie industry should try to out-innovate?
A lot of what I've seen in the structures of how they keep track of things efficiently seem to be very similar. Though filesystems are adding a bit of extra data to it compared to the GC, (filenames, locations, etc) a number of the design constraints and things seem to be very very similar. Like the idea to keep track of what's free and doing the allocation seem to have very similar solutions even given the different constraints. I think part of this might also be because some of the more modern filesystems are being designed to also consider SSD which end up even closer to normal memory. The way that (at least at a layman's understanding) btrfs seems to handle COW looks very similar to how this new garbage collection is being designed for lua. And the arenas look very much like the extants in ext4 (not sure about that in btrfs).

This also makes me wonder if a design that takes caching of the drive into account could make some small improvements on things.

EDIT: added small snippet about the arenas.
More info:

https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/june-9-help-wikipedia-test-s...

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5
Data Science is the Old New Thing
I would never 'pay with a tweet', unless I made it completely clear that I was being forced to do it, and didn't actually agree with anything I was saying. I suspect that wouldn't make the person paying happy.
The first result should be reasonably good. We're working on that to improve the algorithms and find the best possible torrent.
It was only a matter of time until "Area Man" had a blog.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
USB Power for Apple Trackpad
Notice how he/she doesn't use the word movie/film in his rant. How do you expect to watch movies without a TV? A laptop/monitor is not the answer.

I never watch TV shows either except for Mary Tyler Moore on MeTV and Antiques Roadshow occasionally.
Yup, that seems to be a stupid policy.

Anyway, linking to Netflix/others is nice in theory but clutters the interface. Until we find a good solution for that, we won't do it.
The real shame is that this could have been a good money-maker had it been built to link to instant purchase options on iTunes, Amazon, and so on using affiliate links.

Or even taken a "pirate with a conscience" strategy and offered purchase links alongside the torrent links. That way, everybody who claims they only download movies from torrents because the experience is better can both purchase a legit copy and have the better download/viewing experience they desire.
You continue to not really be thinking about my point, insisting on framing it in a pre-canned terrorism argument. I am explicitly talking about high-cost events, and at best you can call the probability unknown, for things like a biological attack or a computer attack that perhaps even accidentally ends up taking out some very important part of the infrastructure. We already have good reasons to be concerned that a high-cost biological attack could be launched out of someone's literal garage, and it is not an irrational fear; we have plausible plans on how it could be done. Indeed I'd argue that being unconcerned about it is irrational, and being unconcerned about it because so far "terrorists", a small subset of the group of people I'm concerned about, have only managed to "fly planes into a couple of buildings". It's basically a non-sequitur argument, because a great deal of the point I'm making is that is only a small part of the total interesting threat profile.