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I do d3.js and visualization consulting. Within the next week or so, you will probably see my latest project on the front page of Hacker News. I do all the basics (jQuery, CSS, HTML5) and prefer to use the advanced tools (coffeescript, less, bootstrap). While based in Cincinnati, OH, I've worked with people all around the globe.

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Why would you ever work somewhere where employees were not considered part of the company?
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Looking for senior Ruby on Rails, JavaScript rich client, or Django developers for our young, privately-funded startup (no plans to take any more $$). You'd be engineer #1 aside from the CTO (me). We're building technology to help disrupt the small/medium business recevables space. Our software will help mom-and-pops collect money that is owed to them; without us, their options are pretty bleak (try and recover themselves or go to the guy around the corner who will do the proverbial "baseball-bat on kneecaps" ploy).

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Contact rogish at fundinggates.com with your github, stackoverflow, etc.

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Happened to me as well, I even got it to the front page, but for some reason it disappeared from there in a matter of minutes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4045377
I don't think you should feel guilty for that at all. In fact I'd encourage it.

Voting systems which are based on momentum are inherently fickle. Whether or not people see the story at all comes down to whether or not it gets votes in the first few minutes after being posted.

If you really think your thing is worth attention, I say go ahead and try again later. We can flag spam; you're not hurting anyone.
Los Angeles, CA

NationBuilder is hiring developers and a designer. We build tools for leaders, mostly focused on politics right now.

We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sean Parker, and many others.

http://nationbuilder.com/jobs

Our stack is Ruby/Rails/Postgres/Redis/Mongo, details here: http://dev.nationbuilder.com/about
Why talking-to-text has taken off in China
Show HN: I'm building a social network around hiking and backpacking
I wonder what it sounds like in units of noise cancelling headphones.
How much does animation cost?
I didn't found it either until I read this comment, great copy writing and design otherwise,
I think there's a big opportunity here on the gift front too- everyone gets socks from a relative at some point!

Let relatives buy subscriptions (the socky gift that keeps giving).
yes, noise is pollution. I would tax cars based on air and noise pollution and nothing else.
Show HN: Blockify
Show HN: Please belittle and insult my free online notes and textbook platform
We used to have one at HP. I hated going in there, supremely disorienting and creepy, especially with the weird panels on the walls.
Well now there are 5 Show HN's on the front page.

Well done.
Show HN: shelf-reading & inventory management with augmented reality
MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS TO BUY THIS

Put a gigantic button under that sock graphic that says:

"Sign up now for $11/mo"

I want to sign up for your service, but I almost closed the page thinking that you hadn't launched yet. The only thing that kept me looking was the gallery. Since it looks like you've been doing this, I /kept/ looking for the sign up link.

You need ot change this immediately!

Also put a price on this thing!
If you embrace the Smalltalk roots of Objective-C, you'll be a lot happier, and "all those braces" are completely comprehensible.
"... every PhoneGap app I've seen looks like trash compared to other iOS apps"

That's because the you don't notice the good ones. ;)
This has changed a lot for the better in recent years.

Also, a lot of geniuses are socially inept. I doubt you said everything right in your interview either. It helps to smile and keep going when one person in ten shows a flaw.
Feature debt
Having the same uncritical acceptance of what a news outfit prints - but for a different news outfit from the people around - doesn't make you better, just different.
I just spent the last month learning about iOS (and Obj-C). I didn't find the square brackets that terrible. Explicit is better than implicit after all. It seems like dot notation is best used for properties, but I will reserve judgement until I have more than just a month of casual experience.
Security: How Many People Does It Take?
Do you only get one pair of socks? A months worth?

Edit: Just found it, I would make it more clear that it is one pair. I easily overlooked the splash image, maybe make it stand out more.
I'm upvoting this.
I got tired of the facebook clutter, spam etc. So, after the last backlash over the stream, my partners and I started experimenting in making our own client.
I had to look up "FizzBuzz" to know what you mean, but you are correct. (I have actually been asked to write programs like this, and this is great even if it is minimal. I think the questions may need to be a bit more complex than this, but at least it is possible to solve in one sitting.) Asking an applicant to write simple programs like this would be good. Or, if the person is a front-end JavaScript developer, you can ask them how they would handle thumbnail mouseovers to display larger versions of the images in a separate div. Things like this are fine and have purpose. Asking a database administrator about the difference between joins makes sense. Another question might be how would you write a class to represent a deck of cards including methods for shuffling the deck. 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. There is a difference between asking programming questions and asking programming puzzles, and I wanted to voice the opinion that puzzles should not be misconstrued to the point of suggesting that people cannot program because they cannot solve them.

Real programming projects are best. I think one of the best methods would be to give a person a reasonable assignment that should only take a couple hours to complete (if that long) and ask for the results within a few days. (This will give them plenty of time to clean it up, add surprising features, and create a nice design and front-end after they are finished with it. A day can be used for the promise of completion, and the remaining time can be used to overdeliver.)
no external sources allowed :)
Show HN: SchemaFreeDB - Rapid Database Development
I was aware of that this approach towards alpha was oversimplistic to begin with, should have pointed that out. Thanks for posting the correct formula.
Er, it sucks? Also, I don't understand what the product is or does?
Hello, I'm Eric, developer and co-founder of Xornet, Inc. the company behind our new service, SchemafreeDB.

SchemafreeDB was designed from the ground-up to enable Rapid Database Development.

SchemafreeDB's unique combination of features include:

* Free-form data structures created at insert-time.

* No worries about issuing UPDATE TABLE on large data sets. In fact, we did away with the entire concept of UPDATE TABLE.

* Support for complex, nested data structures. Objects can contain simple attributes (String, Int, etc) or other Objects.

* Support for querying across disparate object structures.

* Familiar SQL query language.

* Simple join-free, dot-notated syntax (e.g. WHERE $s:person.address.city='Rochester' AND $i:person.income>50000).
This is familiar to the ease of working in an ORM, but without the impedance mismatch between in-memory objects and database objects.

* Free indexing. Delivers fast index-like queries without index configuration AND at the same time delivers inserts at fast no-index speeds.

* Lightweight, consistent, platform-neutral connection library - JSON over HTTP.
Access your database the same way from from any network-enabled platform.

Please check us out at http://schemafreedb.com

We're looking for feedback!
You're sure? I don't understand deafness to mean not sensing any vibrations whatsoever.
preordered, sounds cool
…because a virus like Stuxnet could never, ever infect a command a control system for nuclear weapons?
It should be a category on NSObject so it supports anything that supports fast enumeration which could be anything. And the indentation in the above is correct. The way you've implemented it is "anti-conventional" and bad form, imho.
Likely a GPS spoofing attack. Not difficult but the designers should have protected against it.
jobs would hate it.
Wlang 2.0 - a user-defined templating engine (beta version)
This is a very real possibility but my logic is that not everyone will up vote every 'Show HN' post, and assuming the number of 'Show' posts doesn't increase at a rapid rate, it should hopefully stay within reason. Of course, this might just be me looking at HN through rose tinted frames. The last thing I'd want is for the front page to become spam. My hope is to only get more people to support their fellow hackers, not to ruin the community.
The Navy and a Sanctioned Class Divide
Passing the torch to the next generation of tourist cum expert. You can't expect these folks to stick with their avocatiom more than a few months before quitting.
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If indenting gets messy, just put the block in a separate variable. I think it's a shame Xcode doesn't give me an option to put accolades on the same vertical line (Xcode indenting prefers the K&R(?) style).
That's one cool idea! And I like the not so serious aproach. Thumbs Up!

unfortunately it's not working in europe... Or am i wrong?
One of the best things is also when people write blogs and submit them to HN. It differentiates our feed from just mirroring what you'd see in Slashdot or Reddit.
Your faith in rational human behavior is much stronger than mine. All it takes is one person making an irrational decision (driven by anger, false sense of security, accident or other) to essentially doom everyone. Death-row is filled with people who made similar decisions (do something even though the consequences of that were dire), all it takes is one person making a similar decision on a bigger scale.

MAD doesn't prevent anything, it at best postpones things and at worst forces both sides to escalate to the point where they feel they can completely destroy the other even given significant losses (i.e. building significantly more bombs than they need to destroy the planet).
Seriously, I'm looking for harsh and honest criticism optimally of the constructive kind. I am having difficulty attracting users, especially content creators.

Is it something you could see yourself using? If not, why not?

It is currently compatible with Chrome, Safari, iOS and Android browsers.
It's not only start-ups that need dashboard or visual metrics, established companies can benefit from more information about how their services/applications/etc work.

Its one thing to give the numbers to the management group, but its more readily accepted when combined in a visual manner. i.e. dashboard

My current employer is only now beginning to see the advantage of collecting good metrics and how it shows the behaviour of both the users and the application.

Their decision making and planning becomes more accurate over time due to having good information at their fingertips rather than an educated guess because originally the system was a black box.
I have been working on my webapp for 3 yrs and knowing that lot of weekend projects get decent exposure on the front page, I had my hopes high.

I submitted my app couple of times but never made it. It seems like my website is flagged. It is a great tool for startups and small businesses.

Do you see anything wrong with the web app that it deserved to be flagged?
https://my.infocaptor.com
Many historians argue that dropping the bombs was unnecessary. With the USSR transitioning its army to the east and preparing to invade Japan, it was clear Japan was going to lose with or without nuclear weapons. There is evidence that the US sped up deployment of nuclear weapons so that their effectiveness could be demonstrated to the world before the war ended. This argument is usually used to point out that the bombs were used unnecessarily.

Obviously the bombs killed fewer people than a full scale invasion of Japan (and from the perspective of the US, the only casulities were Japanese, not American and Japanese). But many historians would argue that a full scale invasion of mainland Japan was never going to happen after the USSR decided to engage Japan as well. The writing was on the wall.

That said, I think you have a good point using the counterfactual of what would have happend if anyone else got to the nuclear weapon first. Germany would have absolutely nuked anyone and everyone if they could. Japan might have as well (not sure what they would have used it against, maybe the Panama canal? I don't see how they could have launched one against mainland USA without an ICBM). The UK and USSR probably would have if they could.

Basically anyone that showed the stomach to firebomb entire cities would also have used the nuclear weapons of the day if they could.

It also took a couple of years before the full appreciation of the dangers of nuclear fallout became apparent. Not to mention, the nuclear weapons used in WW2 have a tiny yield in comparison to modern nuclear weapons.
Dashboards don't have to be expensive to build. My company uses Graphite now, but before we were at that level, I just had engineering give me credentials for our DBs, and used ODBC + Excel.

Next thing you know, you have a dashboard tracking:
- Real time revenue/revenue projections
- Real time payments funnel metrics (impressions on payments page, conversions, average transaction size)
- Real time tutorial completion rate by hour (aka application health monitoring)
- Other KPIs tracked by the day (revenue, install, etc.)

In fact, there was a period of time when my dashboard was the most effective health monitoring in the company, and detected an issue before engineering or ops.
I absolutely love this and was about to sign up when I noticed that you don't specify sizes.

I have large (size 15) feet. Are your socks going to fit me? You should mention sizing or let people choose.

Also the blog isn't working.
You realize objective-c is almost 30 years old and started as preprocessor for C?
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It happened to me. It happens the drives had a bug where there death time was hardcoded in the drives. Past a predetermined time of usage, they would fail. Of course, I never believed RAID was a backup strategy so I was able to recover.
If you can get Robert Griffin III to endorse, you're set! His socks are very weird and very awesome.
They look like they might be harder to solve then normal mazes. Usually I just follow a wall for a maze. Would that work here?
The footer blog links don't work, looks like they got deleted from the blog itself (or were placeholders and thus never existed in the first place).
Just a guess, but the public options are basically the NSA and their contractors (ex. Booz Allen Hamilton). There are excellent hackers in those places.
I was an engineer on the Nook team. It isn't possible for the device software to change text of books.

Most likely the author or conversion service took the Kindle edition, ran a search and replace for 'Kindle' and there you have it.
very cool!

but it spams my webhistory with every keystroke i think, renders my back button useless.
This is probably a best practice you could learn yourself to implement every time you know for sure you don't want a GET/POST variable to be a hash/array. This can also prevent other application errors when someone passes a hash/array which is used somewhere in the code where it is expected to be a string or something.
maybe -

I have taken the time to build a graphite/stasd setup. It is over engineered for now, but it grows and is really easy to add in new metrics. (there is even a fab file to install on ubuntu buried in github/lifeisstillgood/frozone)

but, you are right - a dashboard that measures how the site is going is useful. One that measures cashflow, email conversion rates and more is more useful. Linking those into graphite is not a good idea. A more traditional data collection is needed.
My sense is that people continue to think that monitoring is hard mostly because it used to be. There are great open source tools and services available now to make both collecting the data and watching it pretty simple to set up.

Yes you need some customers, otherwise you have no data to look at. However, as soon as you have _any_ customers if you aren't looking at real data to decide what is important to do next you are essentially just guessing.

For a long time that's what we did because tracking what was relevant was just too hard. Now what I see in a lot of startups that are leading the pack is that they are monitoring everything whether they think they'll need it or not - then when they have a critical question the data is already there.
The socks are cool, I'm just not sure if the suggested pickup line "I'm in this sock club" works.
This feels more like a blog than a quirky site that sells socks. You need a couple of things fixed:

1. Front page needs to be clearer about what you are offering. The socks themselves are not directly described, the cost sort of shows up in the wall of text below, and the call to action buttons are small. The option to actually view the socks is hard to find at the top bar

2. The sock gallery page needs a lot more work. I can't seem to click to actually see more images. Why are the images themselves so completely boring? Take some filtery pictures, take pictures of you wearing your socks, I don't know, SOMETHING. You're only selling a small range, this really shouldn't be a problem. Remove whatever php 2002 gallery code you're using and build something more image friendly that's less about lists. We live in the age of pinterest.

3. When you fix your gallery, replace your front page with it.

4. I think your actual product has a lot of potential, although I don't think your socks are particularly quirky enough. For example I don't see what's so special about the May pair (maybe because I can't click to actually look at it in detail). I want a pair of socks that has Captain Picard and Darth Vader having a fist fight.
Indeed. Plus I think well-designed Objective-C is some of the prettiest code out there. Though I've been using it for a few years now almost exclusively (for the most part) so maybe I am a bit biased.
WHITE HOUSE PETITION: Require free access to scientific articles from taxpayer $
Way to show your ignorance. Maybe your comment would be interesting if you provided a single reason or fact to back up your claims. Since you don't it sounds like "Hurr, America number one, Iran savages".

Iran has one of the most sophisticated intelligence apparatuses in the world(just ask the CIA what they think about them), and incredibly talented people at their fingertips. Individuals within their organizations also have little oversight on their actions, and large amounts of cash to buy what they can't provide themselves.

Ignore them at your own peril.
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I agree with you.

"someone took a risk and put themselves out there for judgement"

People don't build things to never see the light of day. People build things that they hope other people will use. Bringing it to HN is basically a huge show and tell/brag fest.

Show HN: I used (x language) to build this in (random time)
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I'd recommend reaching out to (or just researching) http://manpacks.com and see how they're doing. It seems like a similar business model and you may get some insight on what does/doesn't work for them.
Stupidity like this only hurts the long-term goal of making printed books something only hobbyists are interested in (like vinyl records), but what's the solution? Data integrity regulation from governments? Or will the markets take care of it?
We should keep the thread in the official one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053076
Ask HN: Aren't the HN voting buttons too small?
Hey guys,

I feel the voting buttons on HN are too small. Now that the points aren't visible on comments, I'm not even sure which button I clicked on. I'm worried if I've been down-voting good discussions by mistake.

Does anyone else have the same issue? If yes, can we have bigger voting buttons please?
Exactly what I was going to say. I had to dig around for the sign up link.
I should note here that if you use Myna, you will be using a much better multi-armed bandit approach than the epsilon-greedy which lost in this blog post.

See my longer top-level comment for some of the trade-offs.
TurboVote! (http://blog.turbovote.org/2012/05/were-still-growing-know-a-...)

Must love Rails and democracy (maybe not in that order). We're based in Brooklyn but have a remote developer in Denver who would love to expand the satellite "office"...
But it has to start out on machines connected to the public internet before spreading to the secret facility via USB drive. If it didn't spread when connected to the Internet, it wouldn't work. And it already doesn't blow up centrifuges when it's not on the target network.
Correct. Typically the cache snoops the main memory bus. If a remote CPU starts a read on a cached memory location, the caching CPU sends a "stall" or "retry" signal to the reader, does a cache flush to main memory, and then lets the remote CPU proceed with the (now correct) main memory read.
you are right

history.replaceState()

would be a better choice than the

history.pushState()

i'm using. livecoding right now.

[Update: fixed (and deployed)]
From their site (http://superiorformatting.com/), it appears that's not the only problem they are having (from their site):

Some of Our Titles

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