skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My misadventure with Google seems to have occurred because I was a mensch to my former employer and stayed a couple months longer to finish my project after Google recruited me out of the blue like gangbusters.

During this time several really intriguing projects in Google expressed interest in me but immediately lost said interest when I told them how long it would be between their phone call and my arrival at Google.

So when I got there, after having quit my former employer, I arrived unallocated and got thrown into the blind allocation pool. There were seemingly 3 choices for me but 2 of them were effectively withdrawn for different reasons almost immediately (and it was pretty bizarre the way this played out IMO). This left me with one choice - to work on a team that made zero use of any of the skills that attracted Google to me in the first place (and I got the standard silly speech about Google wanting generalists). But having quit my job for this I accepted and decided to dive in and give it my best. It didn't work out in a big way - it was a crappy project and I was blocked from transferring out and even taken aside and scolded for discretely talking to other teams.

Fortunately, I've been at enough dysfunctional startups to have become adept at the diving catch (I just never in a million years thought something like this would happen at Google). So after 4 months of this nonsense, and talking to some friends who had gone through similar experiences there in the past wherein it took them 2-3 years to climb out of the crater it made in their career, I left for greener pastures, taking a very slight cut in pay to go back to doing what I do best (which is insane because IMO Google really needs people who do what I do well but I digress).
Is the authors implication that in the digital nature of ebooks the ability to manipulate text becomes easier? Regardless of medium isn't this always a possibility? Whether it happens at the publisher and then printed on dead wood or otherwise -- to me it seems like one in the same?
Cloud backup services have taken away any possible excuse for not remotely backing up any non-ginormous collection of data. It's push-button easy and a lot cheaper and easier than dealing with taking tape backups and moving them offsite.

Not to say that it's the best solution for everyone, but simply that it leaves people no excuse for doing nothing.
To be fair, I'm two episodes behind on Game of Thrones, so two weeks back. I've seen only one spoiler for the most recent episode, but if I hadn't already read Books 1 - 3, it wouldn't have been a spoiler. I only knew what I was looking at because I've read what would happen.

But you're right, it is very difficult.

I think it comes down to: You want to be a part of the culture. Go online and talk when everyone else is excited. Get excited with the fans at the same. It fosters a sense of community that is rewarding, something many watchers love to participate in.

It sucks when you get content a week or a month or six months later, and 90% of the fanbase is WAY past you, not interested in talking, not ranting and raving any more.

For many people, good TV and culture is social, regardless of whether or not the old industries can see it happening in front of their eyes.
I wanted to mention that I was aware of this trick in the thread description, but removed it because I thought it was obvious. It's too many key strokes and clicks to zoom in, upvote and then zoom out again to read text at normal size.
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syfcmV3mwQ
You're (respectfully) not terribly familiar with Rails, then, because the interpretation of foo[bar]=xxx as { :foo => { :bar => 'xxx' } } is one of the core patterns in the framework. Code all across the platform depends on that behavior.
I cannot help but think that under a sufficiently precise set of assumptions (prior knowledge about the various one-armed-bandits, cost of losses, gain of winnings, expectations of being still in business in the future, etc), there is a provably optimal strategy.

Isn't there?
The landing page is too wordy, I think. But other than that I won't use any such service unless I can download a local copy of the books and my notes for backup. I wouldn't want to waste hours creating notes and then having the service go away.
Show HN: Pump Ups, Birchbox for the supplement industry
Agreed. I read them as slowly as I could manage over the course of about five years. Even 21 was a great read. I was blown away that I was still maintaining the same enjoyment 15, 16 books in. I just assumed the quality would have had to deteriorate. Although O'Brian does get a lot of reuse out of Stephen's joke about the dog watch being cur-tailed.

I wish I still had eight and a half more to go!
I like the idea of a reskinned Facebook... but that is a pretty broad concept. A set of screen shots and a couple paragraphs is probably all it would take. I barely trust Facebook with my Facebook data. How am I to just blindly trust some other site with my Facebook data without even seeing anything about what it does?
wow... the turn around on confirmation of conspiracy theories these days is a year, rather than the decades of past.
I think it's an awesome idea, much like http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/. And just like that site, you should A) make a funny video that will make people laugh. I almost signed up to DSC because of that video and know friends who did. And B) make a big ass button next to it with the price that leads you to the subscription page.

It's almost there. The design is compelling and made me consider it and click all over the site to see what else there was to see.

Also like DSC, consider adding a couple pricing tiers. A $1 a month?! I almost can't say no and would just sign up for the hell of it. Maybe $1 a month just gets you fresh pair of white socks. $11 gets you the amazing mustache socks.
Might be crazy, but (as you've seen) these displays have good resale value. Perhaps you could buy one at the apple store, then resell it via e.g. Craigslist when you leave - I bet it'd cost less than renting it.
"No open hostilities" is a definition by non-essentials. It's fallacious. As I already said and as you failed to address.

Whether certain people happen to know whether there is an attack or who is behind it does not change anything. A state of knowledge does not change the reality: someone is planning and attacking.
Lots of crashing upon photo capture on my vintage droid. I have the sdk, so give me a yell if I can help debug.
This is an awesome tool. I'm sold already!

My only advice is to keep some form of this service free.
Please don't artificially limit the e-mail addresses that you'll accept. My address, before adding in a + tag is 27 characters.
great idea, makes highlighting points and presenting / discussing design over the internet very easy. Will use this in the future.
SF - Rails - HALF-TIME-ISH :)

I've mentioned before that we have a couple of engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480

We're ready to hire a couple more in this vein, so if it sounds interesting let me know!

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Advantages for you:

- you get 2-3 extra weekend days for fun and profit

- we provide health insurance and all that jazz

- if some weeks you don't have lots to do and want to work more, and other weeks you have lots to do and want to work less, we can be flexible

- we're profitable and growing! so if you decide "wow I really love Verba and want to spend every waking moment there" we can make that dream come true

Advantages for us:

- you have more time to learn new things, meet new people and generally be a friendlier, happier, more knowledgeable person in our workplace

- we can hire faster with less anxiety (instead of the "gulp i just committed $100k/yr" feeling, we have the "smaller gulp i just committed $50k/yr" feeling :)

- you get to be a part of what we're doing, we get to hear about all the cool stuff you're doing, and that can only lead to good things for both of us

Anyway, I've included our spiel and "what we're looking for" summary below, so shoot me an email if you're interested (ragalie@verbasoftware.com).

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The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps college bookstores transform themselves so that they a) understand and embrace the power of the nets, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make a healthy profit.

We're a B2B company working with just about 200 colleges and universities, and we're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck. The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

Be sure to check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) so you can read all about our current products and hear people say nice things about us.
And I heard there's an organization called the IAEA that's unaffiliated with any particular nation-state that's been at the center of this extremely contentious global issue that would agree with exactly what I said, because that's exactly what they're saying, so uh, enjoy your limp sarcasm.
NoSQL = NoSecurity? Security Implications of Big Data
I'm in similar shoes. Been working on an app for about 2 years and submitted it a couple of times after major updates in order to get feedback on the changes. After the original submission it started to just fall off the front page with out any votes or even many click throughs (according to Google Analytics). Which makes me wonder if it's impossible to resubmit something -- even if the old submission is months or years old or if it's been deleted.

Even today, in this atmosphere of upvoting Show HN posts, it fell right off the new page.
What is kinda hilariously terrifying about the legitimization and anonymous nature of selling 0days is that it provides a venue for creators of software that people rarely pay for and that have few contributors (free tweet or voip clients, say) to purposely build in mistakes, get traction and then sell the exploits.
Doesn't it? Figure ~200k readers. Figure ~1% of readers are working on something this year they might like to Show HN. 2,000 / 365 = ~5 projects posted per day.

These numbers are obviously just guesses, but there should probably be several Show HNs on the front page at all times.
However, it looks that that room actually has a regular floor

Look carefully at the picture, he's not standing on a solid floor, he's standing on a wire frame over more absorbers. Their website has a better pic: http://www.orfieldlabs.com/Researchtour4.html

IOW, their chamber is (fully) anechoic, not just hemi-anechoic.
Now if this can just be incorporated into Dasher, I can finally get rid of these pesky hands.
Social Caller ID with the FullContact Phone Lookup API
This is another common question I get. Let me try to answer it again (I need the practice).

For readers:

-Optimizes learning of complex concepts.

-Books are like web pages with links that open inline. This prevents readers from having to manage dozens of browser tabs. This often happens to me, for example, when browsing wikipedia.

-Makes books available on more devices than native apps.

-Features such as word highlighting, starring etc.

For content creators

-books can easily include inline sections from other bookvoid books. The author's job becomes part authoring part curation and it saves him or her from writing suff that has already been written.

It is all based on optimal principles of hierarchical information organisation.
In my view, there are very fundament ontological principles, rooted in mathematics and philosophy, that make this kind of hierarchical linking of concepts optimal to human reasoning.

I see it as solving some of the problems that wikis have by providing the enforcement of hierarchy, the inclusion of different levels of details about subjects in a single text and the ability to maintain a chain of trust on material. Anyone can't edit everything like in wikis. If your own books is not popular, you have to have been curated-in by more popular author to gain visibility. You can't simply insert yourself in a popular page like in wikis.

edit: formatting
Thanks for the feedback!

The map has zero instructions which I agree is totally opaque. The idea is for the map to be used to plan trips with others; someone can zoom in or search for the area they want to take a trip in, trace a route over the topographic map, and then copy and paste the pushState-updated URL to their friend. Here's an example of the trip I'm taking this weekend:

http://wenthiking.com/map?lat=44.87548303572588&lng=-122...
There's a little arrow on the left to expand the map, but it should definitely happen automatically. Thanks!
Reverb rooms are much easier to build (and more common) than very-quiet anechoic chambers.
Yes it is, but your parent post was asking how they knew how large the source code was. This quotation is reporting the size of the final binary.
Uh, I did read it. Yes, it's a bad idea. So is adding random things to NSObject for protocols that it does not conform to. That's actually worse, I'd argue, since you suddenly have -[UIColor map:]. What does that do? Pass RGBA NSNumbers to the block and return a new color? Throw an exception? Silently disregard the message and return nil? At least this approach has type checking.

Just declare a normal function, which can correctly throw a compiler warning if you try to pass anything that does not conform to NSFastEnumeration to it.
I've been having too much fun with this at work already, and It's been open for 3 minutes. I gotta say I do very much enjoy the simple and straightforward interface.
First, I don't believe I need real security, that protects me from most of the worries you cited.

I know it's not safe, and I don't care.

It's like mail or gmail or anything, I know someone has access to my data, and I don't care because it's unavoidable/ not an issue.

You have to trust, but actively try to prove wrong, that weeds out most of the crappy software, like MySQL, MSSQL (lolwut 32 trigger chain?lets cut it here silently) or others.

You have to base your decision on stuff that really works rather than the latest fad, so fck ruby and all that crap, write in C, that's safe, proof is even the chinese and the military have their OS written in C.

Proprietary/closed source, you remain paranoid, test it yourself for what you can think, never think it cannot be the cause.

Hardware you cannot trust, have to learn where the limitations are, remain paranoid as well, question the status quo (is ECC really doing its job or am I just trusting my enterprise data to magic).

Poor decisions that you realize later ? everyone makes mistakes, who cares ?

IMO the main thing is, don't trust anyone to do it right, especially in IT, sometimes you come to trust a specific group, like linux kernel or pgsql because they're proven right time and again - and imo you have to leave it there, I don't want to write an OS at the moment.

Most poor security decisions are related to trivial things like:
-using windows
-not updating your OS / kernel / tart
-using testing tech, like the latest release of ruby, node.js, mongolianDB, etc.
-not researching tech before using it (i.e. google mysql ACID, you'll read a few of my posts from when I was pissed off to discover it was in fact just a toy db with half-implemented features)
-not actively trying to hack/destroy your own creation
-not spending a few K on a honeypot session
-not actually knowing anything about hacking
-not reading about standard hacking tactics, like SQLi for nubs, XSS, MitM HTTPS, tomato launchers and many more

etc. I'm no security pro and I wouldn't pretend being one before winning several honeypots.
Never a truer word was spoken. I remember RM "PCs" from schools and they absolutely sucked. It's a wonder kids didn't go blind from looking at those horrible curved 14" monitors that they probably charged £100s for.
And AS3, if you're into that sort of thing (self-plug): https://github.com/amacdougall/underscore.as
Ah, that famous HN logic; this doesn't bother me, so I don't see why it should bother you.
Okay, but are perfectly diffuse rooms really more common than perfectly absorbent rooms?

Anyway, I didn't know that before today :)
It's getting more and more crowded. I guess the number of show hn posts overall is higher as well.
I would say that because it spread beyond Natanz it was a big fuck up :)
I think your parent post is saying that metrics are for control and not planning. Once you've identified what your business depends on, and have identified good metrics that (at best) are proxies for those things, a dashboard is a great idea. If on the other hand you don't actually understand your business model, your first goal is to start to understand it, and fixating on a particular set of metrics will only make that harder IMO.
I will assume this is why my feed is now blowing up with Show HN posts. I up vote on substance... not because the title started with "Show HN"
Hi friends,

This is a project I've been working on in my free time for the last year. The idea stemmed from the huge amount of outdoors-related blogs that are out there, and my frustration with the fact that all of the data is unstructured and thereby unsearchable.

Went Hiking is an attempt to be a better platform to post your outdoors-related content (starting with hiking) so that it can be structured, searchable data. It's running on PostGIS and more geospatial tools and search options will be added over time.

I'd love your feedback!
>>> You're at a party talking to an attractive member of the opposite sex.

You're at a party talking to a member of the attractive sex.

A small change to make. I feel a bit conflicted suggesting a change to be inclusive of gays when the idea to do so was triggered by the stereotype in my head "What about all the well-dressed gay guys?". Odd...
I sometimes do that even for articles that aren't "Show HN". The oldest article on the newest page is currently 31 minutes, so if your submission doesn't get at least a few upvotes within 31 minutes, it will never be seen.

I've previously said that there should be some kind of algorithm for that page other than "here are the latest entries", such as "here are the randomized latest entries over the past few hours without enough upvotes to reach the front page, removing the entries that are on the front page, removing most-likely-spam entries that have at least one flag and were submitted by a new account, and (maybe) giving weight to submitters with higher account ages or karma scores."
Thanks. This helps :-)
What do you think of this for Responsive Images?
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Selling online marketing strategies as an asset and not just an expense.
You camouflaged your sign up button with a nature color. Took me the longest to find it.
thanks for checking it out!
An observation: your 'feature box' shows two things that I can do (create & read; add notes & highlights), and one mildly techie thing (tablet optimized).

Concentrate on what people can do on your site and what problem it solves. To be blunt, I don't care if it's been optimized for tablets, phones, or Big Chief notebooks. I want to know why I should spend any more time on your site.

Also: the navbar and title take up a lot of vertical space. Use that space to show and tell me how you can make my life better.
And of course, 0-day exploit trading isn't news to Schneier; in the early-to-mid '90s, many serious Unix vulnerabilities were traded among vendors and admins on secret mailing lists.

Of course, those lists were the laughingstock of the hack scene, and posted to tfile BBS's right next to cDc zine issues. They made the list participants feel a little more special, though, and they did keep vulnerabilities from being disseminated... to the majority of system operators.
This looks like absolute trash in IE9.
I've worked with tapes offsite before hard drives became cheap enough to use for backup (of the appropriate amount of data of course).

My current setup goes as follows:

Servers in colocation get backup daily to a server in the office. That server in the office then gets backed up daily to a iosafe.com fire and water proof hard drive in the office which when I get a chance will be bolted to the desk for further security. Clones are then made of that server biweekly (which are bootable) and one is kept in the office and one is taken offsite.

So the office server is the offsite for the colo server and the clone of that is the backup for the office.

The clones allow you to test the backup (hook it up and it boots basically).

Added: Geographically the office is about 3 miles from where the backup of the office is kept. But the office is about 40 miles from where the colo servers are kept.
The whole upvote thing is like a freemarket concept to ideas. I guess if enough people decide to upvote something even though it isn't interesting (to them) then it will be more likely to reduce the quality of the front page if we all share the same idea on what is interesting or not... which is I guess the point of voting and having a community of like minded individuals.

Personally, I don't think people would sustain upvoting things they don't like.
> I think it comes down to: You want to be a part of the culture.

This is the crux of it, and why HBO et al are just completely behind the times. How people consume entertainment has changed drastically and pretending otherwise simply won't cut it any more. The good news is that all these people with outdated concepts will eventually retire or be overtaken by newer businesses that ‘get it’, but the transition is going to suck (in a first-world-problem kind of way).
What's wrong with waiting till after document.ready, to get browser width and then load the images up. Resize your screen to get different images is then no problem.
> Completely rewriting things is one of the worst decisions an intermediate engineer makes. That's what killed Netscape.

This is commonly trotted out to discourage re-writes, but how does that square with another piece of common advice: "build one to throw away" ?

I'm genuinely curious, and I'm not trying to pick on you specifically. There are just many different situations where one or the other makes sense, so I don't think it's so cut and dried.
Why nothing else? How about congestion?
Show HN: dropped out of
Brilliant idea.. though probably bait'sy title... I would love to spend as much time as i can over there... If it's becoming annoying i can always sit down and start practicing vipassana(http://www.dhamma.org/) that would be fun to listen to only my body. :-P
This is a great idea.

Popup photos of socks need to be larger with more detail.

Consider annual subscription at $99 or less and see if that helps. 11*12=$132 is a lot for socks, especially since some of them are going to be duds.

Need more photos to jump start this than the first 4 months of selections so one can more accurately judge your taste.

Consider a birthday or holiday bonus sock - annual subs get 13 socks.

Bug report: I see 5 blog titles listed but the urls to all but the first one lead to a 'not found'.
The State of pushState and REST