skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now this is a good use case for Google Glasses. :)

I really love this concept, even though I don't work in a library.

I haven't dug in beyond the landing page, but I wonder if they have technical specs or possibly even open source portions of the code for their tag and the real-time processing of them.

I've been looking at the feasibility of creating QR codes for all the coins I inherited from my dad's coin collection to make it easy to look up the info on them. One of the advantages of QR was that it would be possible to store the basic information directly in the tag without requiring a database backend, but it felt pretty laggy to snap the QR then click to read the text.

I love the fact that this system is drawing the status info on screen in real time.
I like it. I'm going backpacking tomorrow, and would love to discover new trails.

I had trouble with the signup/login process.

* After I registered, it showed the form again instead of a success message or the homepage.

* So I filled it in again, thinking I'd done something wrong. The error "already taken" that popped in under my email address could be improved "It looks like you've already created an account with that email address, do you want to reset the password?"

* The registration and password reset emails went into the spam.

* When I got my password reset (I guess I fat-fingered it twice on the first signup form) and logged in, I got a login form under the "welcome" message. I hacked the URL to get to the homepage.

Great concept though, and you're off to a great start. I'm looking forward to seeing what all you do with it.
It's beautiful. Who's your designer?
Great roundup. Its nice to see all this points. One big difference between scripting and non-scripting languages is that, in scripting languages you can modify the structure of the program at runtime, while in compiled languages you are stuck once you compile it. C++ does have metaprogramming through the use of templates and those programs look immensely complicated, but it can't introduce new data types and logic at runtime. I kinda dislike C++ from beyond templates as the code looks super ugly.

The ability to modify the program at runtime (and elegantly) is a huge advantage over compiled ones and allows you to express new category of solutions.
Programs that change itself is in my opinion pretty advanced.

So it seems, Python and Ruby allows the programmer to free the mind from the low-level housekeeping and focus 100% on logical thinking and give incredible expressiveness. I would buy that.
I wonder how often an above average python/ruby programmer use its metaprogramming / reflection capabitlies?
> You're at a party talking to a member of the attractive sex.

For some, there can be more than one attractive sex.
I don't know what you're getting at, but I think you are underestimating the chance that your RAID controller will fail.
Yeah, the entire front page is now Show HN...

Perhaps we could have a category? Like /ask, but /show?
Easy: because vendors won't buy them.
Show HN: An easy way to share YouTube playlists
At any given time, there are a near infinite number of things your business "needs" to do: add a dashboard, A/B test your landing pages, test your database backups, fix your security holes, improve your customer service, add more metrics tracking, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.

A big part of running your business involves looking at this list and picking the ones that make sense for your business, not what the blog-post-du-jour is telling you.
you dropped out of what?
What would be the point talking to people about this loss of a loved one, who merely ask you because social norm dictates it so?

What would he have gained?

He was obviously of sound mind and spirit, and did not require "grief counseling" from his analytical co-workers. So he ended that conversation.
I joined your site. As an avid backpacker/canoe tripper, meetup has been basically useless. It's very hard to gauge the experience and skill of people on that site. I've had a few bad experiences, such as people flaking out, not being able to walk more than a 5 miles in a day, not knowing how to pitch a tent, etc.

The feature I really want is the ability to find future hikes, know the skill and reliability of the people going, and how I can join them. I don't have any friends that backpack, and my wife hates when I go it alone. I actually don't want to spend much time on your website. The reason I'd be going there is to get away from my computer and go outside :)
thought :)
This is fantastic. Great, simple idea, and looks well executed. I can't wait to have a reason to use it.
Mesmerize: It's like Heroku + TestFlight for Mac Developers
On the homepage it says $5/month and then $10/month on registration. What's the thinking here?
My thoughts exactly. We have an "ask" section, so why not a "show"?
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Freelance

Mac OS X & iOS developer with 2 years experience working on the iOS App Store and 1 year working on the Mac App Store. I've been writing Objective-C & C on both platforms for just a little over 3 years.

My software has been featured on TUAW (http://www.tuaw.com/2011/12/13/daily-mac-app-mi-fi-monitor/), and climbed the paid charts on the Mac App Store to top 10 spots repeatedly, most recently with Codepoints (http://infincia.com/apps/codepoints).

Website: http://infincia.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/infincia

Email: steve@infincia.com
Discoverability is a much different issue than learnability. I don't know how discoverable edge swiping is, but it seems really easy to learn.

I doubt that discoverability is going to be a major issue, though, because edge swiping will get a lot of exposure through ads, and through any in-store use as well. It's such core functionality that every Windows 8 touch user will have to learn it in the first 2 minutes. If nothing else, they'll turn to the person next to them and say "how do I get back to the start screen"?

As for closing metro apps, there's not really any need in general. Just go back to the start screen. You can also close apps in the app switcher on the left, but the current app isn't in there if I recall correctly, and it's still not necessary in general.
feature request: make it usable via a URL http://lalo.li/?text=hello should playback "hello"
Survivor (1982 Commodore 64 Game Remake)
mDialog - Toronto, ON - Local

At mDialog, our product powers video delivery for some of the largest, most well-known brands in the world and helps bring the most popular shows to connected devices like the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android, and Roku. We partner with the most successful device manufacturers and are considered thought leaders in the future of television broadcasting. We believe we are at the dawn of new age in broadcasting and are the technology leaders enabling the shift.

We're looking for developers willing to help us unleash the power of Scala and Akka (http://akka.io), two core technologies powering the mDialog platform. While there aren't yet many experienced Scala developers, we have successful team members with backgrounds in Ruby, C#, C++ and, of course, Java. At mDialog you will gain experience with functional programming, distributed systems, messaging and adaptive bitrate video streaming. If you've got a passion for software you'll succeed on our dev team, regardless of your current day-job language.

If you're interested, please visit http://www.mdialog.com/careers.html or email cdinn@mdialog.com.
I've played only the original DoTA, and it's possible there. You can either play solo against a single AI, or have n AI heroes in the opponent team and (n-1) AIs in your team - I'd recommend the latter with n=5. The AIs play like an intermediate level player (albeit with a few exploitable weaknesses).
> 2. Scattering files all over the partition makes the longest seek times.

Yes but it isn't guaranteed that there will be less fragmentation on a windows file system. It depends on when was the last defrag, on the way file are created, and your disk occupation.

Also, when you scatter files on different disks it can be more efficient because you can read several cluster simultaneously. But I guess Windows does this as well.
They are different physical phenomena. Sound is a pressure and is produced by compression and expansion of the (local) environment. RF or light is a self-sustaining electromagnetic wave (assuming we are not right next to the source [i.e. far-field]) produced by a time-variant electric field inducing a time-varying magnetic field, which induces a time-varying electric field, which induces ... All these induced fields end up supporting each other and propagating the wave.

While they are both considered waves, it is not frequency regimes that differentiate acoustic pressure waves and RF waves -- RF waves can be anywhere within the "audio" spectrum and beyond, and audio waves can be well into the ultrasonic range and into the UHF regime.

The idea of the anechoic chamber is the same (blocking all reflections), but it is not just as simple as tuning to different frequencies. They do however need to be designed for a specific frequency range.

I am not an expert on anechoic chamber design (or acoustic wave propagation for that matter), but an RF anechoic chamber is not the same as an acoustic anechoic chamber, although it will show some functionality as one. Does that make sense, or am I just confusing the conversation? It did when I started writing all this. :/
Actually, I don't have a RAID controller. But at least I don't think I have one!

If I did get one, I wouldn't get one that tended to silently fail, since that would pretty well defeat the purpose of thinking my disks were redundant, wouldn't it?
Also: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/171172/Former_relocated_3...

I feel for the people working there.
I agree with most of what was said, especially the use of goto! I don't like success boolean, but that's probably just me.
Well we've A/B tested several pages, and showing $5/month + shipping on the homepage converted better than just $10/month with free shipping. We may just change it to say $10/month with free shipping so there is no confusion.
Brightcove - Boston, MA; Seattle, WA
http://brightcove.com/careers

We're hiring Software & Systems engineers in Boston & Seattle to help build and scale our video publishing platform. We use Java, Clojure, Node, Rails & Groovy to build the service that streams over 750 million videos a month (second most after youtube).

We just moved our headquarters to a LEED Platinum building on the Boston waterfront (5 minutes from South Station), complete with the Aeron chairs at every desk, plentiful whiteboards, an R&R area and fully stocked kitchen. We have frequent social gatherings (from board games to a company wide talent show) and offer excellent benefits (health, vision, dental, life, 401k, unmetered vacation).

i've been here for 4 years and love it! There's a really great culture of nice people who are wicked smart. Send me an email if you have any questions!

We're also hiring Account Directors in DC, Atlanta & London, Technical Support Engineers in Boston & London, a Sales Director & Engineer (Atlanta & London, respectively), and a Product Designer in Seattle.
Sometimes it's exactly what is needed to push a personal project to completion.

For example, I had my own "Show HN" time for nyan-mode for Emacs [1], and while I was thinking about playing around with Elisp anyway, I don't think I would have motivation to finish it, if it was not for the thought that I can do a "Show HN" with it.

I don't want to say that this was HN-targeted. It's more that when you know there is an audience that could a) appreciate, b) comment and c) actually use what you are building, it gives a lot more of a drive to actually finish the project.

[1] - http://nyan-mode.buildsomethingamazing.com/
If the UN security council was a fair body Stuxnet would be judged to be an unprovoked act of war and the US and Israel would be sanctioned in some way. But of course the US gets to have it's thumbs on the UNSC scales. But the question is, if the US is going to blatantly abuse its privileged position like this how long is it going to last? There has been a Western consensus on a liberal framework for international law going back to WWII which was based on the idea that we are the good guys, democratic, moral, law abiding, etc. GWBush and Obama have been doing their best to destroy that because of lobbying by our war mongering Israeli "friends".
SQL Shells, Rebooted
I suppose the fairest way would be to try to equalize the number of eyeballs that have a chance to look at each submission headline on 'new'. So removing stories from 'new' once they can be seen on the front page, but also somehow adjusting for periods of low 'new' page views, and peak submission times.
Future Of Filmmaking with a Kinect and DSLR
Agreed.

This book not being under copyright (afaik), the text is almost certainly from some guy in his garage grabbing Gutenberg Project, etc., books and formatting them for various e-readers.

He probably has some boilerplate stuff like "Formatted for Kindle by John Doe", which gets inserted into the Kindle .mobi version (Kindle being the dominant platform, he does that first). Then he does a search-and-replace, turning "Kindle" into "Nook" in order to create a version appropriate to that platform.

In fact, he could use something like Calibre to do the conversion from .mobi to .epub, which I believe allows for regular expression substitutions as part of the process. That would allow him to get whole shelves of the Gutenberg library in one simple, automated process.

Nothing insidious here. Just somebody being a little bit careless.
Meanwhile, the US continues to attempt to extradite Garry McKinnon from the UK - without a trace of irony.
I'm glad I am not the only that is particular about these things. Computers may not care which order your IF statement is in... but some people completely disregard that their code is going to be read by humans too.
Ask HN: Can we please stop the Show HN madness?
>In comparison, sometimes you will have technical questions thrown at you that have no real world applications or literal brain teasers, and I think those types of questions are pointless

My point was that nobody else is talking about that. You just brought that up completely out of the blue, but in response to someone. When you reply to a post, those of us reading the thread tend to assume your post will in fact be in reply to the parent post, not a completely unrelated post just stating your opinion on something else entirely.
Delivering on the Promise of APM: Tracelytics at 2
Google Glasses as soon as next year?
I'm really liking this. I guess I'll make it my personal homepage.

A quick feedback: I'm reading your profile right now, and I wish there were more links: I'm clicking in your favorite books to read more about them, or on "Founder of Twollars" to know more about it.
I hope so. I love the hype for aspiring devs, but most of these demos are shit. I'm sorry for being coarse, but that's just the way the code compiles, I guess.
Some things are so obvious it's worth wondering why we don't have them yet. I mean, multitouch is the best we can do?
You may already know this, but you can also enumerate over NSDictionary entries using enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock: [1] and enumerateKeysAndObjectsWithOptions:usingBlock: [2].

The latter giving you the ability to enumerate in reverse order or spread the enumeration across multiple cores using Grand Central Dispatch.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...:
[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...:
It's been reported that he's done programming before.

Of course; that's the astonishing part. This was more than a capable judge - this was a capable judge with deep intuition for the domain. You don't get that by cramming from scratch.

For once, we software people got a lucky break in the courts. If only this guy could be set on a patent troll case.
HMTL5 may be winning the war against apps
Seattle, WA - ExtraHop Networks - Software Engineers, Testing Engineers, Support Engineers, Sales Engineers, and more.

ExtraHop is a ~4 year old, fast growing startup building network appliances for application analysis. Think HTTP/DB/memcache/NAS/etc processing times for all the servers in a datacenter, all by passively watching the network.

I'm a software engineer at ExtraHop and here's why I love my job:

1. The team is amazing and everyone makes a difference. The two founders, Jesse and Raja, designed and built BigIP v9 when they were at F5 Networks before founding ExtraHop, and are still very much involved in engineering. It's a great working environment and we have a lot of fun.

2. Hard problems at all levels. We parse a bunch of different protocols at 10Gbps by writing high-performance multithreaded C and our own linux kernel drivers. Our datastore handles 200,000 inserts a second with 10MB/s of data. Our UI has a ton of charts and tables, with data going through django and tornado. We use python, C, javascript, flex (slowly moving to a new UI with html5 + javascript), and a modified yacc+bison for some of our protocol parsers. You can hack anything from C to the front-end design and anywhere in between.

3. Our customers love it. It's awesome to see problems diagnosed and solved with our box.

jobs@extrahop.com

http://www.extrahop.com/company/jobs/
SaferWeb: Injects in Various Ruby Websites Through Regexp.
The Death of a Social Network
24 Ways behind exhibit glass
Isn't this the sort of thing digital signatures are for?

Author can sign the text of the book, and publishers can sign the container. I don't know how future-proof this is (and it obviously isn't going to work for something like War and Peace), but it's something that can be done today.
I think you should make a landing page or demo page that doesn't use cache.manifest. This will probably solve that problem.
There was a small room like this at my university. It was fitted with a "panic" button, because if anything happened you in there, no one could hear you shouting.
The more and more I read about modern garbage collection design the more and more it seems to be remeniscent of filesystem design. It makes me wonder if there's some large parallels between them that can be used advantageously to benefit both. Things that people have learned work well on filesystems might apply to garbage collection and vice versa.
>Well, I imagine one reason is that there are exactly zero static call sites in Python.

Are there in Smalltalk?

>There is just very little you can learn from parsing Python code, you need runtime state to understand some functions. It is potentially as difficult as Lisp, and with a much larger set of primitives to cover.

Yes, but Clojure, a "Lisp", is supported no? If in that case it's the JVM that provides extra runtime intelligence, they could make it support Jython instead of CPython.
What problem does this solve? Sell benefits, not features. Also, the spacing is terrible. I'd take a standard Twitter Bootstrap over this any day.
San Francisco, CA | H1B ok

Sift Science uses machine learning to predict user behavior. To start with, we're predicting whether a user about to use a stolen credit card on a web site. There's $4B in credit card fraud per year, and it literally drives online merchants out of business. We're helping our customers take a stand, building a machine learning and data visualization system to detect the bad guys before they strike.

We have a strong team of six engineers, including five ex-Googlers and two ex-CTOs. We recently raised an angel round from top investors and we'd love to bring on:

* Amazing engineers with expertise in machine learning, data visualization, NLP, and/or scaling distributed systems.

* An awesome product designer with expertise in data visualization

If that sounds exciting, shoot us a resume at jobs@siftscience.com!
Show HN: JSONForm, A JSON-Schema form generator for Twitter Bootstrap
I'd say if $5/month + shipping is testing better, just make the checkout page say $5 + $5 shipping and maybe put the $5 shipping somewhere on the homepage as well in the description text.
Thanks for storing the password in clear text and sending it to me in the registration email!

Seriously, WTF? Have you slept through the last 20 years of information security research?
Generally good advice, but w/r/t the first recommendation, I prefer to structure if/else clauses so that common case is handled first and the exceptional case is handled last.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053076
We are a marketing agency in Mexico City and we are looking for a webdev/hacker to build amazing web products.

There's a small landing on what we do and what we're looking in the following link: http://bit.ly/buscamoshacker
Military power is a requirement for international politics.

Do you think counties summit to laws because of what? If no one can over power then, they have to abide to no law. UNis just to cut costs for the dominating military powers.

Want something done? It costs less to send some talker to tell about the power you can mobilize than to mobilize that power at once.
Okay, I am a huge fan of the gay community, but if I was reading the news one morning and saw that Zuckerboy got a Nobel Peace Prize, you know damn well that I would spit coffee everywhere. He's done a lot of good, but he's done just as much bad. I'm not concerned enough to properly counter this article, but I think I've made myself pretty clear.
You're definitely right that it was a war of decimation and sheer destruction (eg the fire bombing). It was a fight to the death. It's what makes a war like that so damn scary, the gloves literally come off. WW1 of course had plenty of that as well (chemical weapons). The civilian population required to support the industry necessary to build the war machines are part of the targeting if your intention is to survive that sort of conflict and stop the opponent's ability to produce more tanks, planes and weapons.
Thank you for the kind words.

I completely agree, we are constantly working on bringing new features out and one of the upcoming ones (end of next week) will be what we call the "expanded work module" where users upload more types of content for a work experience to go beyond text.

There is still a LOT of work to be done, but we're working hard at it on our end.

Thank you for the feedback!
I should also comment about the concept, I think its great! The big pluses are quick access to read and to create which simple, and folks could use it to make their own books.

As a comparison, I use Dokuwiki for my site, which is similar but a lot more prep to setup and get into (it's not a SAAS). I think if you take a quick look at it, it might give you some ideas for format concepts: http://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=larry:projects...

Print out one page to see how the layout differs from the screen.
Terrorist, the new communist.
But the problem is that it ends up being a self-fulfilled prophecy.

People without any part in the original conflict is getting affected by it and then suddenly they are part of it.

That is the root of problems here.
San Francisco, CA - Blurb

Blurb lets people tell their stories - currently through print-on-demand books, but increasingly through other venues.

We are both established and growing like mad (we were #47 on last year's Inc 500). We have a great group of people and a lot of fun challenges in the year ahead. We just launched a bevy of new products (our iPhone app is getting great reviews).

We play with fun tech: Ruby, Rails, ember.js, git, RSpec, Cucumber, Haml, SASS, RabbitMQ, Puppet, Obj-C, and more. We have great benefits, a great work/life balance, and we're in a great location close to the BART, CalTrain, and lots of food options.

We are currently hiring for many positions - front end, back end, QA and more - at all levels.

http://www.blurb.com/about/jobs
Security lesson from the article: "It turns out there is always an idiot around who doesn’t think much about the thumb drive in their hand."