skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a very active user back in the day and I remember how excited I was when one of my submissions made the front page. Just the thought that hundreds of thousands of people were going to click the link I found for the short period it was on the homepage was amazing. The new digg kills all of that legendary feeling that you're contributing to a cause. The lack of my years of diggs and submissions is really a let down. I understand that they're starting over, but although most of that "history" was spam (after v4), it still meant something to me.
> The first is that the traffic coming in had JavaScript disabled. If this was the case then the JavaScript analytics software would not detect the incoming traffic and therefore would not be able to log the result at all.

Did you read their post? To quote:

> Here's what we found: on about 80% of the clicks Facebook was charging us for, JavaScript wasn't on. And if the person clicking the ad doesn't have JavaScript, it's very difficult for an analytics service to verify the click. What's important here is that in all of our years of experience, only about 1-2% of people coming to us have JavaScript disabled, not 80% like these clicks coming from Facebook. So we did what any good developers would do. We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it.

Emphasis added.
That's what I thought as well, but "yorhel" has been taken on Twitter for quite a while.
Yes, and look at the reviews. All of them were deceived, they think it's a scam, they demand a refund, they probably feel less safe about buying anything from App Store again, and other iOS developers pay (only slightly) the price of this "scammy" app. Apple should get rid of all such apps – it's better for the business (of Apple themselves and other iOS developers).

Why they approved "live wallpapers", but not "xScreenSaver"? I don't know. It sucks, it seems that their reviews are not consistent.

But just because they made a mistake (like approving "live wallpapers", which IMO is a misleading app created solely for the purpose of milking a few hundred dollars from naïve App Store customers) does not mean that it's okay to do it again.

Edit: look at the other apps created by the same developer: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-texting-for-message/id4... and http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-keyboard-pro-pimp-color... and http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icon-skins-with-builder/id429... - all of them are misleading, making you believe you can do things on the iOS that you actually can't.
Tokelau to become world's first solar-powered country
Firefox for Android's Font Inflation algorithm
Because it turns your entire platform / service into a Chrome widget and eliminates the need for your product?
I feel like this is going to make my anticipation for things so much greater.
That's essentially what NotifyWire.com did and got a C&D.
A large part of our FPS experience revolves around manipulating the player camera. Since the Rift would essentially put the function of the mouse on our heads, we could free the right hand with just a trigger or two triggers (one for alt-fire). The left hand can now comfortably use a WiiMote like remote, or a nun-chuck like controller. This setup would NOT break the previous control-model that the player is used to, since you can always switch back to disabling head tracking and using the mouse/keyboard combo. I'm pretty sure that this would increase immersion.
http://housingmaps.com - the mothership - how do they still exist?
"Lying is a necessary part of human interaction"

For you maybe.
Oh please.

Take one guy and have him, at the very least, back port user accounts into the new system. There's absolutely no reason why you cannot write an ETL job once you have your new database structure ready to go. Sure its more work, but we're also talking about an Internet property that at one point was a goldmine.
FYI, http://www.housingmaps.com/ is still a decent CL housing + Map mashup
SEEKING WORK: London, UK - Remote a possibility.

I'm a fullstack web developer.

On the backend I prefer using Ruby (Rails or Sinatra), but I've also got experience with Java, PHP, and some Python, C, Haskell, Clojure, etc.

On the frontend I know my way around HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, and though I'm far from the world's best designer I know enough about the principles of good design to create something decent. For example, here's the last project I worked on: http://ec2-23-20-142-233.compute-1.amazonaws.com/site2/

And here's my portfolio: http://i.saac.me/portfolio.

Email: isaac@i.saac.me
If I remember correctly, they did not use nofollow.
Hey there. Somewhat offtopic, but: thank you for shaking up an old industry by creating Padmapper. Kudos.
Mike you forgot to make a fake name for HN.
If you go to http://www.younoodle.com/startups/favilous which belongs to Mr. Doyle and leads to http://www.favilous.com/ which is copyright A Shade of Green 2009. The same copyright as 11kclub.
Still wanna say you don't know what it is?
I think some tend to think you are on a mission to prove a point or make money and have a popular site, slightly contrary to your stated position of just benevolently wanting to make craigslist apartment hunting better, so this could take your traffic and set you off the mission they really think you are on.
Exactly. It horrifies me that there are still programmers who don't understand this after so many years of OOP advocacy.

The benefits of a properly designed (not Java-like, but C# or PHP like) exception system stems from the fact that in the wast majority of cases you don't need to catch exceptions right away. Most exceptions can be handled in a few centralized locations higher up the stack. If you have 10 calls to ListenAndServe, this means having 10 times less exception handling code.

Moreover, when you design a library and the users actually care about errors, exceptions save you from needing to pass your error codes up the call chain from deeply nested methods.
Why? Everyone needs to come to the network owner, and it isn't possible for new competitors to create their own useful network. The network effect is really the exact analogy for information-exchange businesses as physical capital was for businesses selling physical goods.

Except that in one sense the network effect is even stronger: oil wells can be divvied up by a trust-busting government (and will still function) but some networks only work reasonably when monolithic. This is an argument for a monopoly administered by the government (like for road infrastructure) or a private non-profit (like wikipedia).
To sign your severance package.
I found maps and filters massively more intuitive than for loops. To be honest, I'm still more likely to screw up a for/while/until loop than I am to mess up using map/filter. Then again, I have a Math background, and Functional Programming is much closer to how Mathematicians think than Imperative Programming IMO.
Edinburgh, UK. PlanForCloud (from RightScale)

* Quotes we love - "In God we trust; all others must bring data." - W. Edwards Deming - "Warning! Notice is given that any person found Pilfering, Stealing, Robbing, or Committing any code without first testing will be summarily hanged." - We have this as a big poster in our office

* What technology do we use? Ruby, Rails, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Heroku, Amazon Web Services and many open-source codebases. Our simulation software is based on Ali's PhD research.

* Who are we looking for? We are looking for smart front-end and back-end Software Engineers who can get things done, you'll be core member of the engineering team and take part in daily 15-min status meetings. Ideally you should have:
- Strong computer science fundamentals gained through a degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience in developing web applications, and can show us your personal/work projects
- Experience with a scripting language (Ruby, Python, PHP), model-view-controller framework experience is a plus
- Be comfortable developing for and on Linux environments
- Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- If you are applying for a front-end position, you should have experience of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and developing rich client-side applications. UX and UI design experience is a big plus.
- If you are applying for a back-end position, experience with API design (REST) and relational databases is a plus.

* What's the next step? Sounds good? Email us at info@PlanForCloud.com and let's get talking. Feel free to include links to your LinkedIn, GitHub and any project websites.

More info here: http://www.planforcloud.com/pages/recruitment.html
I have to say, I think you are VASTLY overestimating the average facebook user.
I left my first employer after 2.5 years because I didn't like their direction and I didn't like what they were paying me. Everybody there knew I speak my mind - loudly. And I spoke my mind at my exit interview - in a constructive way, sure, but real content.

Why? Not because I thought anything would change (it didn't - it got worse and most of my friends have now left too). I did it because I knew what I said would get out, and I knew when I ran into my past colleagues in the future (it's a small industry) that they'd have good laugh about it all and only have respect for me for sticking to my principles and never backing down.

All the best people I've worked with have been straight-shooters and I admire that and look for it in the people I interview. Every position I've ever taken on has been through word of mouth, including that position. You can use this knowledge to your advantage. I think this blog post is overly conservative.
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I can't believe someone who has 'delivered highly scalable solutions' actually managed to write this line on his blog with a straight face. How were you not able to deduce that the devs likely detected disabled javascript without the use of javascript?

His whole post is devoid of content and nothing but statements without any real substance or evidence.
Inside Virttex, Ford’s amazing driver distraction simulator | ExtremeTech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415gf6vjytU&feature=relat...
Zynga, Nokia and the dangers of cliche-based speculation
"Betaworks Flushes Seven Years of Internet History Down the Toilet"

And not a single fk was given.
My boss occasionally uses my PC at work. He still hasn't figured out how to switch users after W8 being on my PC for a couple of months now.
Agreed.

The word "religion" comes from two Latin words: "res" + "ligare". "res" is loosely "thing" or can be used to refer to a concept (ie, "republic" - "res" + "pubblica" ['thing/item/abstract concept' of the people] and "ligare" is a 1st declension (if I recall correctly) verb meaning "to bind".

To be religious - fundamentally speaking - is simply to follow a set of rules or an ideology; to be bound to something.
Philadelphia, PA

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

We're not technically a start-up, but our small group inside CHOP is striving to be a startup within a larger organization. See my interview at OSCON for why you might want to work for us: http://youtu.be/wzcIOMp6ZKw

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We are seeking an experienced software development professional to join our small, highly focused, entrepreneurial R&D application development group within the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a member of our team, your technical expertise can have an immediate impact on patient care through our mission to accelerate pediatric research with novel applications and data solutions. Furthermore, your work here has the potential to impact the future of healthcare through our research into software solutions supporting genome-enabled personalized medicine. Our research mission fosters an environment where creativity and exploration of new technologies are promoted and encouraged.

Likely candidates should have solid experience and working knowledge in three or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, or Scala experience is highly desirable) and be comfortable with one or more relational database platforms.

Our dynamic academic research environment demands an individual with exceptional written and oral communication skills who can rapidly translate requirements from a variety of disciplines into intuitive, high quality software solutions that support our strategic vision.

Candidates with prior experience in the biomedical field, especially using highly complex genomic data and/or data from electronic health records are very desirable. Participation in one or more public open source projects is an added bonus.

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That's been my experience in academia as well: any person leaving can be rationalized somehow, and only individual staff personally invested in that person tend to do any introspection about what could've been done differently. Multiple departures can cause a shake-up, though, mostly because the higher-up administration that usually ignores such matters may feel the need to investigate if a trend seems to be developing. Of course, if the problem is the higher-up administration's own policies, that doesn't help, but it can help if the problem was unnoticed malaise in a department.
The flying Internet of things comes to burning man
| If enough employees leave for precisely these reasons, that may eventually cause change.

What i'm saying is that it usually doesn't. Usually the feedback that you give is already known. The good companies would have changed it before the company left. Especially if it's a huge known problem.
In the end, client side scraping of the data actually increases the traffic on CL's servers, because multiple people have to scrape the same posts, rather than a central server. If padmapper remained small, then they probably scrape more posts than they have unique views. Of the 100 they scrape, maybe only 10 are seen. As padmapper et al grow, it may reduce the bandwidth on cl.

In 10 years, if all clients looking for apartments use a plug-in however, now you have cl paying for a lot more bandwidth than outsourcing this functionality to a centralized service, because for every 100 posts they scrape, they may only really look at one and they want the ability to show thousands on a single map.

I really don't understand why cl doesn't just do it themselves. It's not hard. I've built these maps countless times on top of all the popular mapping services and using different geocoders.

The hardest part is figuring out what the poster means in their location: where is "forth and main" [sic] or do you mean "East 4th St at Main St?", but I can see a simple address validator that updates a map with their location until they get something that will geocode correctly. That's the best solution and everyone wins here, except padmapper and the like, but there are other sources of data to map that aren't from craigslist too.

It's really trivial. The only other issue is cost, but those can be covered easily with all the money CL leaves on the table.
Hmm.. posix compatibility is not high on my list. and hopefully, i won't need much in my future career.
-- planning to learn some data analysis and mining.
Just Change Your DNS To Watch The Olympics Live AT BBC
Did people have trouble figuring this out on their iPad when they first got it? It's pretty much the same deal. Press the Windows key on the front of the tablet/keyboard.
Compass and Slicy Will Make Your Sprites and Write Your CSS
Interesting read, I didn't even noticed the .xxx domain.
Brandon Mayfield was arrested as a material witness, not as a suspect. The problem here is the increasing use of material witness warrants to arrest people suspected of a crime, rather than actually getting an arrest warrant.

According to Wikipedia, "Ensuing lawsuits have resulted in a formal apology from the U.S. government and a $2 million settlement."

I'll be honest: I feel like I'm being swindled by doyouhaveasecret.org. Instead of presenting me with facts, they're relying on emotion and hearsay. And that's just as bad as the government wanting to search my laptop. The EFF's campaign is a more mature: https://cyberspying.eff.org/
did you mean section 31?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_31
I don't have any data for <100 miles, but I've gotten stuff across the country in 3-4 days at the basic rate, 2000 miles not just 100 miles. And there are options for next day delivery, it's not like it's not available.

Canada's low and spread out population has to count for something in this argument.
You don't think the contents of email messages could be used to inform advertising data? Even in aggregate? Do ads in gmail show up at random?

I don't have a grudge against google, I like my android phone over an iPhone and use google Reader and Chrome because they are the best at what they do, and use google analytics because it's good enough for the price. I just don't have any illusions as to what they expect in return for their free products.
Portland, OR or San Francisco, CA

PlayHaven

Hiring for:

* Python Backend

* Operations

* Android

See http://www.playhaven.com/team (scroll to bottom) for more info.

Don't fit into one of the posted job descriptions, but feel the work is right up your alley? Drop us a line anyway. We are always on the look out for awesome folks.

Shoot an email to jobs+yc@playhaven.com to bypass jobscore (of course jobscore works too).
http://www.youtube.com/user/kevinrose/videos

He's answering quite a few of the reddit AMA questions
osmeta

Location: Silicon Valley (Mountain View)

Jobs: Software Engineering - Full-Time or Internship

http://osmeta.com/about/ tells you a few things about the kind of people involved.

We aren't looking for any specific domain expertise because what we're doing involves significant depth and breadth of knowledge and programming skills.

It's highly likely that a great programmer with experience on any platform and in any compiled programming language will find our work interesting, challenging, and rewarding. Examples of "any" would be one or more of C, C++, and Objective-C on one or more of Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, and Windows.
For you maybe.

I think this is a lie.
An interesting pattern in all those objections is that they're focused on methods, not goals. It's a little like saying that getting receipts emailed to you makes organizing them harder than getting paper copies, because you have to print them out and stick them in a filing folder.
Kyle Weins: I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.
Pittsburgh, PA.

Software engineer for a research lab at the University of Pittsburgh:

https://www.pittsource.com/postings/61037

The software and systems engineer will develop and document data collection, management and analysis tools for complex neurophysiological experiments. This will primarily involve maintaining and continuing development of laboratory database tools for data storage and management. The position will also include development of software to integrate custom and commercial neural and biomechanical data acquisition systems as well as development and support of laboratory web resources. The candidate must have a strong software engineering background with an interest in neuroscience and physics. The candidate must also possess the ability to work and communicate effectively in a highly team-oriented environment. A bachelor’s degree and 3 – 5 years minimum relevant experience is preferred.
Palo Alto, CA - Euclid Elements

Help Euclid digitize the physical world. Through innovative sensor technology and data engineering, we’re arming brick and mortar retailers with a new class of analytics to help them improve their profitability and shopping experience.

The dataset we’re providing is revolutionary, and we want our product experience to be just as special. Current retail business intelligence tools are clunky, ugly, and tedious. Euclid wants to break to mold by delivering insights AND a beautiful and effortless product experience.

The Visual Designer will work closely with the Product and Engineering teams to create this experience. Primary responsibilities will include prototyping and designing user interfaces, producing gorgeous visual design, and delivering production ready assets. The Visual Designer will also help make sure the product is well represented on our website and in our marketing collateral.

Things we’re looking for

+ A unicorn with deep experience in visual and interaction design for web and mobile

+ Empathy for the user, can eliminate pain-points with minimalist interfaces

+ Artistic ability to create beautiful graphics, textures and layouts

+ Thoughtful communication of design decisions and processes

+ Mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite and relevant prototyping tools

+ Experience producing clean and accurate HTML and CSS

+ Proven success working in a collaborative and iterative environment, takes ownership of the product design while incorporating feedback from the team

+ Obsessive attention to detail, misplaced pixels drive you nuts!

+ Passionate about success, but also likes to have fun

+ Believes that B2B products can be sexy too

Pluses

+ Experience with charting, dashboards, and data visualization

+ Portfolio that includes marketing projects such as print collateral, company websites and branding

+ Familiarity with javascript and other client-side programming languages
Agreed. I've wanted @marcomonteiro from the start. That account has never had a tweet since at least 2007. It's the only reason I don't use twitter.
Video tour: a look through Outlook.com features and fun.
Ideological war versus honest discourse. It comes down to which of these you believe is the engine of progress.

If it's war, then naturally all's fair in the name of winning the cause. If not, you probably believe that a cause is not a cause worth believing in if you have to betray it to make it happen, that the only way is through honest discourse and "being the change", even if it means social evolution.

The generally horrible state of politics is the direct result of too many people following the cynical view, that it's war. Another manifestation of our sad human tendency to favor the short-term over the long.
In fact, Carmack did make a personal angel investment. In the MTBS3D forums it was mentioned that John was the source of the copies of DOOM 3 BFG. He is buying them at wholesale price and "donating" them to Palmer's project so that it will improve the chances of success.
I totally agree. There's major street cred to be gained from speaking truth to power. But, as the article points out, there are consequences also.

I think the blog article is trying to tell newer/naive employees that, when asked by a soon-to-be former employer to provide an honest exit interview, the whole premise is a charade. How we handle that charade is still up to us, though.
As are http://mapliv.com and https://www.padmapper.com/
That is a really good point, if you don't constrain the term change you have to include 'damage' as a form of change. Certainly it can be damaging to a company for an individual to leave. I've got personal experience with this and I am sure many people have a similar story in their history.

When I left Sun I got an email from another long time Sun employee who had just quit as well. They said that if I was leaving then the place must be irredeemable and so they were moving on as well. It left me feeling profoundly conflicted because while I had given up on the company by that point I had never intended to cause others to leave.

So I have to accept your point that a company can be changed by the departure of an individual. It may or may not be the change the individual was seeking however.
Bridges tend to be interconnected - I'm afraid the analogy breaks down here but you know what I mean. It might be tempting and your ego might demand it but the advice in the article is pretty solid. There's nothing to be gained here except feeling smug (probably briefly).