skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's that bad.

Why would you lie about yourself on an interview? An interested employer is unlikely to drop you because you are also proficient in, say, Final Cut.

The question is, how do you get to the interview?

It's simple: if a potential employer or client needs a Java programmer, they are likely to look for a “Java programmer”. Therefore, if you have a website that says “John Doe, Java programmer”, you seem more likely to get that job than if you only have a website about some John Doe that has Java listed somewhere among his multitude of skills.

Your website is probably made for other people. In that case, optimize it for other people. It seems easier for them when they can “classify” you. People who could appreciate your complex personality are your friends (and maybe family), but are they probably are outside the target audience of your website.
FiftyThree (New York, NY and Seattle, WA) - creators of Paper for iPad

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Our ambition is no less than to change the way people create, and we're just getting started. We're building world-class engineering teams in NYC and Seattle — spanning hardware, software, and services — to take on this challenge.

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Oversvømmelse
Environment Solutions har til hensigt at reducere skader ved oversvømmelse. Den mobile dæmning ”The Mobile Flood Defence Barrier” er erstatningen for sandsække og formentlig verdens mest omkostningseffektive løsning til beskyttelse mod oversvømmelse, samt midlertidig opbevaring og indkapsling af spildevand.
I love this idea. I love the site. I hate that 3 minutes of searching didn't reveal to me the price. I'm going back to search a bit more.
That's kinda the point: blaming autorun will make people who are "smart" enough to switch off autorun feel secure.

But they aren't. There are vulnerabilities far more insidious than autorun.
Ha good stuff. I just emailed this to a couple of friends of mine who love interesting socks.
(Toronto, Canada) - Full Time, Local

Desperate developer seeks accomplice to stave off lonliness. Passionate and comitted ruby developer looking for lasting code-relationship. Must be willing to commit code changes, and be okay with sharing a repository. Brogrammer tendencies a nice bonus, but not required.

vince@sprouter.com
I'm curious to know if anyone who doesn't feel like they might be successful doing something someone else points out as a good practice has actually TRIED doing it.

If you've tried something and it didn't work out, write up a rebuttal and post it! Personally I'm a little dismayed at the negativity surrounding these posts when it's obvious that everyone is armchair quarterbacking here.
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Can't find the price. But I love the artwork.
If you are looking for custom charts for graphite, shoot me an email: zack@zacharymaril.com. I've done d3 consulting previously and can get it done for you. </plug>
Huh? Front page, under the first headline, it's the second paragraph of text on the landing page. $11/month.
ecoScorecard - Atlanta, Ga

We're a fast-growing startup focused on making green building easier. We're looking for an excellent Rails developer with an interest in sustainability. email stuart at ecoscorecard dot com
what-if, you open more bars and let them stay open late 4am., then housing in that immediate area becomes available for 'cheap' because nobody wants to live next to a bar that is open until 4am. except people who go to bars until 4am.
The Skinny on Cross-Browser Compatibility in Sage CRM V. 7.1 Service Pack 2 
If you missed the recent announcement, the Sage CRM V. 7.1 Service Pack 2 is finally here. The Service Pack 2 has some brilliant new features that will push your CRM to the next level.
Wow, good job. A search function would be great (apologies if I missed it).
This has nothing to do with bind variables. It was not a bug in how variables were bound/escaped. The bug was that Rails treated a variable (which sometimes is a user input) as a column name in certain cases.
i'm guilty of something: when i submit a "Show HN" entry, and i see it drop of the "new" list too fast (within 5 to 10 minutes) without any(!) upvotes, i delete it and wait for a better time.

my rationalizing behind that:

a) I'm sad that i didn't get any feedback on my latest weekend project. (That's the emotional part)

b) But also i believe that the timing was just bad. 5 to 10 minutes isn't much of a window.

deleting gives the opportunity to resubmit it.

said that: i know that this is kinda "gaming HN" and should probably not be possible. (@pg)

my vote/like/+1 for a http://news.ycombinator.com/show view.

p.s.: shameless self promotion: here is my latest "Show HN" submission https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=4053553
VIRAL GROWTH PISSES ME OFF
Would be great, when they got android support (for tablet). And with an Bluetooth keyboard you could rock also a lot. I don't know how complicated this is, because of the dalvikJvm engine.

But this IDE is amazing, really nice. Would be great to get also Rubysupport (with plugins you can Rock this also i think).

Does anybody know if they are working with flash, opengl or something like that? The look remembers me on Adobe Air and i hope this is not their engine.
Completely agree.

Show HN ought to be a top level tab, for a site labelled "Hacker News"! Think of it like a KickStarter, but just for kicks (mostly) :)
Oh wow. That's bad. It's in small font buried in a pargraph of text. The price really needs to be in big letters somewhere. Clicking buy doesn't even point out the price.

(Subscribe page has no price anywhere that I see : http://www.sotmclub.com/subscribe)
I'm curious - I've always felt that VitaminWater was a little misleading with the amount of sugar in them (deceptively labeled crystalline fructose), but, as the founder, you seem like a pretty genuine person so I'd love to give you the benefit of the doubt and hear what you think.

And I definitely enjoy drinking them, especially the ones with Stevia. :)

How does VitaminWater fit into your diet as a health nut?
Use Twitter to build a passport cracking wordlist
Design feedback:
Your 'buy now' and 'learn more' buttons on the homepage are very hard to see. They need to stand out. Make them bigger and bolder, or change the color (red would stand out much more and still fit into your overall theme), or fade out the background slightly. Or, ideally, do more than one of those things. You really don't want those buttons to be hard to see.

Cost and details of what you get should be listed prominently on the signup page. I see the cost on the homepage, but only after looking really hard. You need details on what kinds of socks you're going to be sending out. Pictures seem essential for something like this. (Don't make me go looking for them. Make them bigger.) Your 'learn more' page desperately needs actual information as well.
Review of the Tutorial on Algorithms for Memory Sensitive Computing at STOC
Totally. I'm not saying don't submit.

I'm just saying blindly upvoting everyone who tries undermines the whole point of having a karma system in the first place.
Burlington, MA - Acquia (www.acquia.com)

Lots of open positions. The team I work with is looking for an automation engineer (https://www.acquia.com/careers/job-listing/automation-engine...). Lots of internal and external tooling with Ruby on EC2 in a CI environment for web-based products. Some of the buzzwords: Ruby, Cucumber, Capybara, Jenkins, EC2, S3, Varnish, NginX. We're basically looking for somebody who knows their way around linux and the web stack from DNS to XPATH.

There are another cool job openings going in the same general direction:

https://www.acquia.com/careers/job-listing/cloud-sys-enginee...

https://www.acquia.com/careers/job-listing/cloud-software-en...

Feel free to reach out before uploading your resume using the page

p.s. also hiring marketing/sales/... https://www.acquia.com/careers/open-positions
Throne of JS: a Framework-Comparison-Conference
Tiempo, Working with STMicroelectronics, Unveils First 32nm Clockless Test Chip
Now look at the Java Generics FAQ.
Was this analysis based on testing only two variations, A vs. B, using A/B testing then MAB?

If so then that ignores one of the best advantages of MAB is you can compare variations A, B, C, D, E, F, ... all simultaneously, where if using A/B testing you'd have to coordinate a tournament between all of those variations to determine the best of the bunch ... so seems it would take just as long with A/B testing (as thus a large sample population) to arrive at knowing the best variation from many choices.
As more of the world goes digital and becomes accessible on the public internet, more damage can be done. Attacking power grids, wall street, phone networks etc could very easily cause chaos, whilst it isn't as terrifying as blowing a country to pieces, it's certainly up there.
There are two reasons for avoiding semis in JS, and similar languages, to wit:

1) Code clarity. Semis do not aid legibility. All they add is sad little bits of fluff that get in the way of your eyes reading the code

2) Symbol overloading. Some us (Yes I am one) do NOT like symbols being overloaded. I esp. hate the way both semi and comma are overloaded in C, Java, etc.

The result is that inside of a for definition (that is the bit in brackets after the word 'for') semis and commas almost reverse their meanings. I just find that so retarded. So, in JS I never use semis EXCEPT where they are required.

Note, that by doing this when you do come across a semi in my code, you DO notice it. Again, improves code clarity.

Cheers

TheIrishman
Am I the only who who likes of Jeff as someone to start an inserting discussion, not someone who has the best grasp on things?

His podcast discussions with Joel... geez!

His first attempts are often... bad. When he wrote about the MVC pattern countless people quickly started correcting him.

Any time he writes anything about crytpo or security it quickly ends up with red lines through it, and a correction, and then correction gets stricken out and there's a second correction, but to his credit he does not de-publish any of that. He keeps it all out there.

He is 100% correct only on fundamental issues. Have tests, have a build server, use source control, but not visual source safe. Those topics all have value to novices.

I guess I'm trying to say that's Jeff's work has made him more notorious than awesome in my mind.
I've tried that, but once you pass in blocks as arguments, the whole thing becomes a lot harder to read. I have no clue how to indent

[[array filter:^BOOL (id obj) {
return [obj passesTest];
}]
map:^id (id obj) {
return [obj transformedObject]
}];

Edit: Also, it's good practice to prefix your categories methods so they don't clash with other category's, so you'd have something like us_map:, us_filter:, reducing readability even further.
see the github Readme.md https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lalo.li

>ok, how does this work
>
>the speak functionality is thx to kripkens awesome emscripten compiled
>speak.js
>the knobs thx to the awesome knob jquery lib
>the cient side data in hash URLs was inspired by shortly - serverless
>pastebin service
>oh, and lalo.li is hosted on github pages
This is the second comment about not being able to find the price. I saw it on the first visit, but perhaps making it more visible (even with just a different color) might be helpful. Maybe A/B the current page with one with more prominent price placement?
This is AWESOME. I don't know why, but it is.
Agree with tseabrooks. If nowhere else on the site (why not?), the price should be large on the subscribe page.
the buy now learn more is really hard to read, thats why I also didnt find the price
The 99-cent War and Peace I see on their site is published by a third party, Superior Format Publishing. Could they not be the ones that search-and-replaced "kindle" with "nook"?
Putting in a good word for the greasemonkey script that I wrote

https://github.com/polyfractal/HNHalfLife

Edit: Or see the second and third links that ColinWright posted.
Get to know your client’s business and industry better
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San Francisco, CA - Full Time or Intern Web Developer at Locu (http://www.locu.com)

Front-enders, "desingineers" and full-stack all welcome for this position - as long as you enjoy hacking on cool new products and features. :D (We're not explicitly recruiting for pure backend or pure design positions right now, but we're open to resumes there as well - see http://locu.com/#jobs for details. If you're a perfect fit, we'll find a way to make it work.)

# Exceptional software engineering talent

# Exceptional cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery, HTML and CSS skills, or the ability to learn quickly

# Experience with Python / Django is a plus

# Previous experience building rich, interactive websites

# Basic design skills (Photoshop), ability to work with designers

# Experience in designing dashboards and user interfaces is a plus

# Previous start-up experience is a plus

Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) by creating the world's largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-business data. We are about to launch MenuPlatform <http://www.menuplatform.com>, our first product, which helps restaurants better manage their online presence.

Interested? Drop us a line at jobs@locu.com. Please specify which position you're applying for, as well as "HN", in the subject of your letter. Learn more about our open positions at http://www.locu.com/#Jobs

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We are looking for more exceptional talent to join our team and help us achieve our vision. We are committed to building a cutting-edge technology giant with a fun and challenging work environment. We have a culture optimized for learning and continuous improvement. We are 10 people with very diverse backgrounds, and growing.
Cambridge, UK

AllYearbooks is looking for one or two talented full-stack developers to help us build our Node.js single-page collaborative, real-time web-app (phew... bit of a mouthful that one!) for creating real, hard-copy printed yearbooks.

You'll be using: node.js, coffeescript, html5 canvas, backbone, jquery, ubuntu servers, redis, postgresql etc etc.

More at: http://allyearbooks.co.uk/jobs/dev
Please make a Show HN: topic for this so I can upvote it :P
Show HN is just another marketing tool and quite a few people treat it as such. I upvote Show HN posts that are good, upvoting them all because they're "putting themselves out there" is silly; it assumes HN is a very small community of people only here for personal improvement.
Ask HN: What is News.YCombinator.ORG?
It looks like a mirror but doesn't let you login in with oauth? Just wondering ...
Mighttpd2: simple but practical HTTP server written in Haskell
From your article, 'Article VI of the NPT explicitly obliges signatories "to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control."'

And your argument is that the US is in breach of NPT because Bush said stupid things about tactical nukes?

Question: at which date is a signatory in violation? What is the deadline?
4 Reasons Google Gives Your Website No Love
Inheritance is explicitly discouraged in style guides, except for specific cases of extensible framework classes with a vendor / customer split.
"I imagine we will always remain interested in preserving Earth as well."

Interesting thought, but after a few generations (or maybe 10+) of being born on some other planet, or some combination of other planets, people will have almost no relation to, or particular interest in earth. Let alone a million years after the fact. Heck, I have no idea where my ancestors are even from if I go back more than 5 generations. Does the entire human race currently have some interest in preserving some place in Africa or Mesopotamia? Doubtful. I'm not arguing here, I just think it's an interesting thought, about how quickly (relatively) we lose track of where "we" are really from.
Well maybe you should check that again.

Your approach sounds like you should have stored procs instead. Using prepared statements or variable binding to fight SQL injections is not the best idea, although its widespread.

In most cases where you want a prepared statement, you'd be better off using a stored proc, as you'll skip the expensive optimization every single time.

MySQL is not even a real RDBMS (no ACID, no triggers, fail APIs, etc.), anyone using it should switch to PostgreSQL yesterday unless their data really doesn't matter.

SQL injections are 100% avoided by user input control in the application, and the simplest way is to escape all escape characters, that may require reading a bit of doc but w/e.
Yes, they bought all those centrifuges to make smoothies. {sarc}
Novus (New York, NY - Midtown East): hiring hacker generalists

https://www.novus.com/

At Novus we're building the next generation of real-time financial analytics platforms. We use Scala, Akka, and MongoDB, and are looking for bright, motivated, eager to learn, and eager to add value hackers. There's no particular skill set that we require other than a good combination of depth & breadth, a keen eye for great design, ability to reason about code, and simply build things.

If you're interested, let's talk! E-mail me: max at novus dot com
Really?

Lets say you did blow Mastercard up.

Worst case, the government prints money to pay off all the debts (a 'bailout' if you will). We've done this for far less than a cyber attack. There is some inflation, a lot of hand wringing about cyber security, and the world goes on. GDP might drop a bit, maybe it triggers a recession, but a year later we're back on our feet.

15 nuclear bombs could kill millions of people. Entire cities could be wiped out with 300+ years of history, architecture, irreplacable museum artifacts, etc. People in general would flee cities en mass. It would fundamentally shake the country and likely lead to the US retaliating in a nuclear war, or at least a large scale general war not seen since WW2. The US would probably roll a million man plus army across the middle east or north korea to destroy whatever country allowed the bombs to be built. That war would not be the (relatively) white gloved affair that are the current rules of engagement.

I understand hyperbole, but that statement is just false.
Although I agree with the sentiment, I think its not necessarily correct, if every Show HN is upvoted regardless of what you think, we can end up with a situation where we have a bunch of Show HN links in top 10 which are nothing except the person putting themselves out there. Maybe this is not a possibility with the standard of the HN community, but blindly upvoting for the sake of someone putting themselves out there seems a bit crazy.
I'm not so sure. By that logic, no experiment has random assignment. I know when I place subject X in condition Y that I do so because I need Z people in condition Y. Thus, I have some information about where I've placed other people. This is no different?
Distraction Attraction – How to Curb Your Email Addiction
The problem with this math is that the difference in the scores on Friday are already pretty significant (http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/#A=60%2C500&B=40%2C50...)

Here is the absurd case. The conversion rate is 10% on Friday and 50% on Saturday:

Friday (~10% conversion):

A: 10 / 100

B: 11 / 100

Saturday (~50% conversion):

A: 5 / 10

B: 45 / 90

-----------------------

A: (10 + 5) / (100 + 10) = 13.6%

B: (11 + 45) / (90 + 100) = 29.5%

This is 99.9% statistically significant even though both variations are exactly the same: http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/#A=15%2C110&B=56%2C19...
Even easier now? McCarthy.
I love the humour in the copy 'Don't worry. Hike up your pant leg and show some October sock. "Wow those are good looking socks" says the attractive human being'
Great idea. The gallery could use some work however. Hovering over an entry creates all sorts of nervous animations that left me wondering if its just broken for my browser. Then clicking an image centers the image at the very same resolution, when I was hoping for something bigger.

Finally, the blog links seem to be entirely place holders.
If he's right about the incentive for internal code sabotage, I wonder if this will strengthen the security perceptions of open source software. Particularly strongly curated open source software.

He somewhat alludes to this with his comment:

"No commercial vendors perform the level of code review that would be necessary to detect, and prove mal-intent for, this kind of sabotage."
The new DDoS: Silent, organized and profitable
this is awesome this has got more attention.

I submitted my project yesteday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4048636) to get some feedback and got zero comments and 1 upvote. Not sure what i did wrong, but I think you really need some friends for immediate upvotes to get some serious exposure.

Whats interesting is that I posted the same project on reddit/startups and reddit/entreperneurs and got over 30 really useful comments and 30 upvotes.
This seems pedantic. Of course the product needs to work for some users before you can measure anything about it. Otherwise your dashboard is filled with zeros, which should be obvious because the product doesn't work for anyone (and isn't a product).

Once you've gotten to the MVP stage, you should be tracking the key metrics, and those should be easily viewable in some sort of dashboard. Tracking up-time (or if the service is working) is a small part of what should be measured. When you're just starting off, you need to quickly figure out if your market hypothesis is correct. You can't do that without data, and a dashboard is both easy to build and helps make more informed decisions for everyone involved.

No one is arguing that you should build a dashboard before you have a MVP. Once that happens, you need to be measuring things.
I'd certainly enjoy a break from the incessant yammering of humanity.

It's not just a break from humanity, it's a break from everything (including nature, which typically fills the void when humanity is absent).

If you haven't been in a very quiet space, it becomes disorienting very quickly. The quietest space I've been in has been <12 dBA (my measurement equipment only went that low so I couldn't get the true Lmin). At that level, I could hear the blood rushing through my ear. I have a minor case of tinnitus which is typically inaudible, but in that space it was like an alarm clock screaming into one ear. The other ear seemed to desperately find something to "lock" onto, so it was amplifying every little thing it could.

After about 15 minutes I wound up opening a window to let a little wind noise into the room. That raised noise levels up to about 19 dBA and was much more comfortable.