skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I write in the morning, go for a long bike ride and run errands in the afternoon, and in the evening I see friends, read or watch a movie. This, it seems to me, is a sane and pleasant pace for a day. "

Summary: reflective thought helps creative work. Modern communications can interfere with time for reflection. Many of us are secretly anxious about the value of our work and need to convince ourselves of the worth of what we do through having a lot of tasks to tick off.
If you like unixutils, you might like GOW a bit more:

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki

Kept up to date, every .exe (once installed) is self-contained (no external .DLLs) and portable to just about any Windows box I've run into.

No Cygwin or MinGW installation required.

Bash is actually available in the list (albeit an older version) if you really wanted "bash on Windows"
That won't work either. A job with Apple is highly sought after. Even jobs in the retail stores get hundreds of applications. Engineers still flocked to Microsoft even during the "dark" days. I don't think a company that had an $89 stock price in 2008 and a $584 stock price now is going to have any trouble attracting top talent. A strong stock price and massive earnings == no problems recruiting.

When it comes down to it, the average employee wants to work on interesting things and be well paid. They want job security. They choose their jobs less from ideology and more on finances, work-life balance, quality of work environment, innovation opportunities. If ideology was a defining factor, then people would be lining up to work for non-profit organizations, which they're not. Some 2-bit boycott attempt by a bunch of hysterical Android nerds will not make a dent in anyone's universe, much less Apple's.

I doubt Apple is shaking in their boots over a silly hashtag on a social network only used actively by 89 people worldwide.
I'm glad he mentioned Google glasses I think that's what smartphones and tablets will evolve into.

Who knows maybe we'll see blank white walls solely for staring at as a polite area to stare at instead of someone's ass.
If you think that being 64-bit protects you, then you do not understand the problem.

The problem is that 32-bit time is embedded in filesystem representations and related protocols. (eg the POSIX specification for file times in tar.) Therefore even if your machine is 64-bit, it still needs to use 32-bit time for many purposes.

To name a random example, the POSIX specification for times in the tar format is 32-bit. GNU tar has a non-standard extension that already takes care of it. But will everything else that expects to read/write tar files that a GNU tar program implement the same non-standard extension to the format in the same non-standard way? Almost certainly not. And there will be no sign of disaster until the second that we need to start relying on that more precise representation.
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are Google Public DNS, not a "ping responder." https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Google does provide time servers, although I'm not sure whether they are officially supported. The addresses are:

time1.google.com
time2.google.com
time3.google.com
time4.google.com
I totally agree. Moore's Law equivalents mean that this technology is becoming more affordable very quickly.
Android has had voice actions and voice search since 2.2--over a year before the Siri beta was even announced. Speech control has been a rapidly evolving and increasingly robust set of features in Android, but for some reason people are claiming Apple moved first. Honestly, I'm amazed at the extent to which marketing can completely overwrite people's recollection of objective reality.
More importantly, why is being sexual perverted?
"There is a significant shift going on this year, much more significant than we saw last year, from web to mobile"

what? so these mobile apps do not use the web?
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DBA/Database Operations Engineer

We’re seeking a DBA/Database Operations Engineer who brings an operations perspective to database administration and a data perspective to scaling web operations. You love to write code that automates your data infrastructure (from bare metal/bare cloud to taking production traffic, at the "push of a button"). You modularize, reuse, and version control that code. You use the latest technologies, but still value uptime, performance, and stability. You follow best practices, but iterate over your projects quickly and smartly.

Responsibilities:
Provision and optimize PostgreSQL infrastructure for rapidly growing consumer web application
Maintain various staging and production PostgreSQL database instances
“Infrastructure as code"
Troubleshoot production database issues

Requirements:
Database administration (PostgreSQL, Redis, pgbouncer)
Linux systems administration (CentOS, RHEL)
Configuration management (Chef, Puppet)
Monitoring/availability (Nagios)
Trending/metrics collection (Collectd, Statsd, Graphite)
Web/application serving (Apache, Nginx, HAproxy, Rails)
Continuous integration/deployment (Jenkins, Capistrano)
Scripting (Bash, Ruby)
Version control (Git, Svn)
Network administration (DNS, firewall, load-balancing)
Hosting (managed hosting, VMware, Amazon Web Services)

To Apply:
Please send your resume and cover letter to brian@paperlesspost.com
San Francisco, CA - priceonomics.com/jobs
Software Engineer

Priceonomics is the price guide for everything. We're a team of four who are passionate about reinventing how people search, discover, and purchase products.

Crawling & indexing millions of pages per day is not an easy task, but you're good at it. You enjoy optimizing systems, making them perform faster, and appreciate git commits where more code is removed than is added. Our backend stack currently consists of Postgres, Celery, Django, and ElasticSearch. We need to be able to handle billions of data points, and hope you can build something to that can do much more.

Small puzzle with instructions to apply:

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AFAIK Apple is the only mobile phone corporation who refuses to pay Motorola a royalty for the fundamental patent of a "portable hand-held telephone device".
Do you systematically reach this state ? Personally I'm having the same "thought-less" state you describe but only when I'm running close to my VO2Max or after a long slow session. But when I run in low speed endurance (70% or less of my heart-rate) thoughts fly through my head.
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Quality Assurance Engineer

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to serve as a liaison between our Product and Engineering teams. In this role you will live between our two top priorities: product-enhancing features and flawless functionality, ensuring that Paperless Post is constantly growing and adding new features without sacrificing quality. We provide a consumer-friendly product that over ten million people interact with, and the successful candidate will be involved in a mix of quality assurance, feature management, and advocacy for our users.

Responsibilities
Fully understand project specs, and create and manage tickets for development team
Vet the readiness of features for production via feature testing and regression-testing other areas of the site
With Product Managers, discuss bugs and other issues and their effect on specs and deployment goals
Work closely with the Production Manager toward the goal of optimal production performance by: Ensuring technical quality of projects and features before and after deployment Incorporating solutions for user-facing bugs and usability issues into the feature development process
Push forward the development of new features, advocate for the fixing of user-facing bugs and usability issues, and ensure the general stability of the products we release

Qualifications
Passion for delivering an extremely high quality product
Passion for delivering an extremely high quality product
Superb communication and organizational skills
Understanding and strong interest in web technologies
Ability to listen carefully and execute within changing priorities
Knowledge of software development methodologies and tools
Track record of proactive project management a plus

To Apply:
To apply for this position please send a resume to brian@paperlesspost.com with a brief cover letter included in the body of the email.
Try http://namestation.com --> go over there & start a name contest. It's kinda like crowd sourced name picking. You might get 20-30 odd names, but other than that the participation isn't great. For instance, people don't seem to vote on name ideas given by others & are more interested in posting their own ideas.

But FWIW I think that StamSted is quiet good, and homestead means a persons home, so I can see the connection there.
In fact, if you don't use it, I might commandeer the domain :P
That is why Facebook should (and it looks like will) break its big monolithic web app into a bunch of small mobile apps. Messenger, Instagram (not yet owned by Facebook), and Camera are the model for Facebook on mobile.

I don't understand the complaint about Facebook not being mobile-ready. When I was on it, the mobile fb app worked almost as well as the regular website. That's how I'm guessing most users want the damn thing to work, the same across every platform and not fragmented because, well, it's on a phone. I'm trying to figure out why everyone thinks they're a non-entity on mobile.
HTML5 game development course?
Can anyone recommend a good course focusing on developing HTML5 games?
London (Mayfair), UK. AlphaSights is looking for a full-time web developer to join a cool and friendly dev team. We mainly use Ruby & friends, more details: http://www.alphasights.com/ruby

Also, we have a nice interactive code challenge in our application form! http://www.alphasights.com/apply/ruby-developer-london
Why Google wants us all to be Larry Nerd
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Mobile Web Developer

We are seeking an exceptional Mobile Web Developer to join our new mobile team. In this role you will work closely with our Product and Mobile team to help us shape, design, and build the mobile Paperless Post experience for our mobile customers across a variety of mobile devices, and browsers. This role is a great fit for an experienced web developer who is looking to move into the mobile space. You will tackle design and software architecture challenges as you make the rich Paperless Post web experience live on mobile browsers. The ideal candidate is an excellent programmer, user-focused, and passionate about the mobile opportunities for Paperless Post.

Responsibilities:
Develop our mobile web application throughout the product lifecycle: code architecture, feature implementation, integration, and code verification
Solve complex technical problems under system constraints such as performance, form factors, and data service availability
Lead and participate in code reviews
Collaborate with the product, design, QA, and support teams to understand product requirements prior to implementation
Ensure continuous high product quality through code testing, bug fixing, and feature changes based on consumers feedback

Requirements:
2 years of experience developing for web/mobile web platforms in JavaScript, HTML, CSS (Ruby, Ruby on Rails a plus)
B.S. / B.A. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Creative with excellent problem solving and analytical skills
Passion for product quality and attention to details
Must be a team player and effective collaborator with excellent communication skills
Experience coding for multiple mobile platforms (Android, BlackBerry, Windows) is a plus

To Apply:
Send your resume to brian@paperlesspost.com
Remote - Telecommute from California, Nevada, Oregon

Sr. Software Engineer - .NET / JavaScript / SQL Server

Moraware is a small software company making scheduling and estimating software for countertop fabricators. We’re profitable and have been around for over 9 years with no outside investors and no debt.

We all work from home, and we're adding a 3rd person to our development team to build new features, products and internal tools.

http://www.moraware.com/company/careers/
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Front End Developer

We're looking for a creative, innovative front-end developer to architect and maintain paperlesspost.com, a site that over 10 million people interact with. Projects involve our main and mobile sites, and range from simple enhancements to weeks-long projects dedicated to completely new features. In this role you will get to work on a visually elegant site that puts a major emphasis and value on the front-end -- your work here will be noticed and appreciated.

Responsibilities:
Receive all front-end tasks, including new projects, current site updates and changes, and bug fixes
Work with the Product team on project specs, providing input on the overall interface of the existing site and new feature development
Receive Illustrator files from Design team and slice images, if needed
Convert design to readable HTML/CSS
Ensure the site supports older browsers (IE6 and up only)
Commit your code in the Git repo and hand off for implementation
Use of CSS3 is encouraged, as the site does not need to look identical in all browsers

Requirements:
Proven good judgement when it comes to implementing design
Ability to make reusable and fast CSS
Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Standards a must
Experience using Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks
Haml/Sass, jQuery, and Ruby knowledge a plus
Mac OS X experience a plus
Excellent communicator and collaborator

To Apply:
Please send a resume and cover letter to brian@paperlesspost.com
Abe Fortas of Gideon's Trumpet fame resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court following ethics allegations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideons_Trumpet
SEEKING WORK- Remote/Freelance in Cincinnati. I do data visualization with d3.js and backbone.

Open source portfolio (much of my work isn't publicly available):

* https://github.com/zmaril/d3.js-boilerplate - get started quickly with d3.js and a ton of other useful libraries.

* https://github.com/zmaril/d3-bootstrap-plugins - Bootstrap plugins for d3, do tooltips and popovers easily via d3. Examples: http://bl.ocks.org/2981335 (front page of hn last week), http://bl.ocks.org/3012212

* http://zacharymaril.com/d3/ - Going through and annotating the d3 source code bit by bit. Getting back to the source.

* https://github.com/zmaril/Visualization-Data - a bunch of data sets that are useful for visualizing data, particularly geographic data.

* http://json-outliner.herokuapp.com/ Fun project using edge detection to outline upload pictures
Annotated d3
SEEKING WORK (remote USA or local Dallas, TX)

I specialize in low-level embedded devices typically involving driver development and low level board bring-up on Linux devices and TI processors.

This covers everything form hardware review, boot-loader, kernel, and root filesystem of the embedded device.

More information and contact details @
http://www.kylemanna.com
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Web Developer

We are seeking exceptional Web Developers to join several of our feature teams. This position is ideal for someone who knows Ruby, Rails, and jQuery. You will work with a small feature team on all parts of the development cycle, in many different areas of the code, and on constantly releasing features that millions of people use.

Responsibilities
Develop and implement new features written both in Ruby and JavaScript
Develop maintainable software through various methods, from peer reviews to writing automated tests
Lead and participate in code reviews
Collaborate with the product, design, QA, and support teams to understand product requirements prior to implementation
Ensure continuous high product quality through code testing, bug fixing, and feature changes based on consumer feedback

Qualifications
2 years of experience developing in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript
B.S. / B.A. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Creative with excellent problem solving and analytical skills
Passion for product quality and attention to details
Experience in and enthusiasm for working with a team of software developers
Able to and enjoy learning new concepts in a quick time frame and apply them professionally

Our Stack:
Ruby and Ruby on Rails
jQuery & Sammy.js
Git
PostgreSQL
Lots of bleeding edge tools and technologies: Redis, Node.js, Canvas

To apply for this position please send a resume to brian@paperlesspost.com with a brief cover letter included in the body of the email.
I think this is true of most endurance sports really. In my own, I wake up well before sunrise every day, bike through the city which is completely deserted and get to watch the sun come up over the water all morning.

It's become something of an addiction as while its stressful on the body, there is nothing that parallels the serenity of being completely alone out in the middle of a perfectly flat lake or river.
If they'd commented the exact opposite, but with equal subjectivity, would you have thought the same?
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iOS Applications Developer

We are seeking an exceptional iOS applications developer to join our new mobile team. In this role you will work closely with our Product and Mobile team to help us shape, design, and build the mobile Paperless Post experience for our iOS customers. The ideal candidate is an excellent programmer, user-focused, and passionate about the mobile space and the mobile opportunities for Paperless Post.

Requirements:
2 years of experience developing in Objective-C with the iOS SDK and/or for desktop Mac apps
Excellent understanding of optimization and performance issues across iOS software layers
Experience coding for multiple mobile platforms (Android, BlackBerry, Windows) is a plus
Experience submitting and releasing iOS applications to the Apple App Store is a plus
Creative with excellent problem solving and analytical skills
Passion for product quality and attention to details
Must be a team player and effective collaborator with excellent communication skills

To Apply:
Send your resume to brian@paperlesspost.com
San Francisco, CA (INTERN, H1B welcome)

MindSnacks - http://www.mindsnacks.com/

We build wonderful educational games in San Francisco. If you are nice and want to help us make splendid products, we'd love to hear from you.

We're hiring in lots of areas! Here are a few:

* Backend engineer: So much data, so little time! If you can extract signal from the noise, and want to improve the way people learn through our products, we want to hear from you! Experience with scaling multiplayer games or web services is a huge plus.

* Mobile engineer: You build pocket-sized awesomeness on iOS and/or Android. We make games that teach people stuff. The perfect combination! We have plenty of fun and challenge projects for both mobile app and game developers.

* UI designer: We believe that great design is essential to build products people love. If you live to make jaw-dropping UI experiences (web and/or mobile), this is the place to be!

Email us at jobs@mindsnacks.com
More details: http://www.mindsnacks.com/careers/
At least for the hosting part I guess he didn't search hard enough. Hosts like http://www.mediaon.com/ are accepting even cash via regular mail to start an anonymous website/register a domain.
It looks like this page on their website allows you to control public-ness:

https://kindle.amazon.com/your_reading
Jeff Atwood is a muppet
That's not really a definition of time, just a way to postulate its direction. Time as a physical unit has been decreed to be the rate of decay of a certain Cesium atom; i.e., a fixed regular interval, whereas the increase of entropy varies from moment to moment. E.g. right now I'm typing and before I wasn't, that doesn't mean time is going ever so slightly faster because of that ...
Yep. Even if he patented it, a larger company could probably find an earlier similar patent to buy. Especially since awarded patents are often like this: "a technology to let people share their thoughts".
maybe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184957
> In almost all of the things you mentioned, google has the advantage to make a better product. They have an enormous power to train their creation, to achieve a higher level in terms of speech recognition and understanding. I'm not saying that they are already there, only that they have what is needed.

I'm not sure why you think this. Both Apple and Google probably have vast amounts of unlabeled voice data that they could use to train their speech recognition engines. Just having a product gives you that. Either would need to collect labeled voice data for training purposes, and both have plenty of money to do this.

As far as understanding goes, having a shitton of training data may not help all that much. What you really need is a superior algorithm. While one could argue that Google's engineers have more expertise in this regard, NLP isn't really either company's specialty, and Apple can hire smart people too.

I think the advantage Google has is that they can do search better. That's basically what this comparison shows. The reason Google Now is faster is that Google does search better. I would think that Google should also be able to get Now to answer harder questions, but this demo doesn't show that, and in that respect I think it's a bit of a disappointment. I was expecting to see Google Now do things Siri can't, but it isn't yet clear that it can.
"I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter."

This man is treading dangerously close to some deep truths about late-stage, debt-ravaged, finance-dominated western economies (and societies.)
Oh, I hadn't realized that even though the ram is soldered on the SSD is on a relatively-easy to remove card. It's the only thing that looks feasible to upgrade.
IOS: The Reason Why Apple is Still The Better Option
1. Drive to coffee shop.

2. Change MAC address?

3. Create new account on Blogger/Tumblr/etc.

4. Publish.

No?
With Nexus 7, Google Finally Gets Android Tablets Right
Do you honestly believe that Apple wouldn't have sued Motorola if it didn't sue Apple first? Do you think they found infringing patents among thousands and assembled a full lawsuit and filed it in in about 15 working days?

Your own link states several times that Motorola was trying to pre-empt the attack and that Apple's attack was 'long awaited'. Do you really think Apple was not the patent aggressor in this case?
Nice video but what if we used Sidereal time? (i.e., star time, which ignores the earth's rotation around its axis).
"Cool" and "appealing" and "innovative" are inherently subjective.

Nevertheless, "Apple is getting in the way of us getting neat things" seems a more plausible source of the anger expressed than, than to believe that people have deeply held views about IP laws as they apply to this particular case, or that they have strong opinions about Apple's business practices generally (the spark point is a ban preventing consumers from buying a product, not, say labor practices in China)

If Apple were to announce a bright shiny new iPhone that was seen as innovative, and people were still angry and wanted to #BoycottApple, then this subjective hypothesis will be proven incorrect.