skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Now look at 2012: the long tail is responsible for 68% of the revenue generated, with the top 25 at 15% and the top 26-100 at 17%.

>>Bottom line, in the new app economy, there’s no struggle of the 99% here. The richer are getting richer, but so are the middle class and the poor. And those last two are gaining fast.

She seems to be defining "long tail" as all apps that are not in the top 100 ranks (i.e. 99.98% of all apps are in the long tail)

Not surprisingly, this definition leads her to the absurd conclusion that the poor are getting richer.

However, data (see http://daveaddey.com/?p=893) suggests that the bottom 80% of apps probably make just around 3% of app store revenue. If you define poor as apps in the bottom 50%, I'd say that their daily revenue is either zero or negligible (and a "middle-class" app in the 55th percentile isn't making much more)
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Dropbox has become “problem child” of cloud security
I don't understand what 3D printing has to do with floor space. You can't print an iMac.

Also, this post assumes that Apple will make TVs 'ranging from 27 to 60 inches', which seems very un-Apple, at best.
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(I'm a first batch donor) in my understanding, we donated to support the development, but never bought a license (unless I'm mistaken?)
While there's still a lot of stigma about men in some women related fields (ask male nurses), the issue in software is of larger scale than you imply.

Try 1 female for 40 male programmers (That's about the ratio in both my internships, as well as my Software Engineering bachelor's degree group) and add to that the wannabe cool guys making sexist jokes in their public announcements and you might be closer to the current situation.
I've enjoyed Reddit for years, but I'm about at my limit. Incessant memes, novelty accounts, meta-commentary about novelty accounts, reposts, complaints about reposts, kitten pics, and a million other annoyances that trace back to karma whoring make the site difficult to tolerate. If the new Digg could successfully counteract this trend, I'd be on board.
Recruiters have their best interests in mind. They want to get the highest salary possible because that means more $ for themselves. They also probably want that person to eventually be placed full-time (if that's what the position is for) because that typically means more $ for them. If that person leaves the company in 1 year (bad for the company), the recruiter probably doesn't really care as they can rep them again and the $ cycle continues.

I'm not knocking recruiters, I've been employed full time via them since 2008 (on my 2nd gig now). It does get me, though, that my current recruiter has been getting paid since January and literally all they did was set up an interview. She told me she didn't even check references, that "my resume was enough". Granted, I've been in the game for quite a while, but literally, she's still getting paid for setting up an interview.

They do everything, and nothing.
Please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323597
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The people returned in the results would be much more useful if they were clickable links back to Wikipedia.

Edit: also, its a little thing, but please add autocorrect="off" to your input element, the iPad keeps mistakenly auto correcting place names.
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This sounds really interesting, but there's a distinct lack of specifications, especially when this is targeted at the developer/early adopter community. How high is "high resolution"? Some display glasses companies (Vuzix) consider 852x480 high resolution, which differs greatly from what I'd consider an acceptable resolution for anything but old/SD TV shows. More details are needed.
The online productivity tool Book’d is releasing an all-new engine to allow small businesses to create a responsive website or landing page with online booking and eCommerce functionality in under 15 minutes.

This SaaS has been under development for the past two years. It will launch publicly later this fall. In the meantime, individuals who register in advance of the launch at www.bookd.com will receive early access and other exclusive benefits.
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Feel free to ping me at riley@instaedu.com if you have any questions. To apply, send your resume, GitHub profile, blog, and/or any projects that you're proud of to jobs@instaedu.com. If you're awesome, we want to hear from you!
Ask HN: Does anyone have experience comparing genomes? 
What types of complexity would be involved in computationally comparing 2 genomes to find over-expressed genes?

There has been news of success in comparing the genome sequences between cancer cells and healthy cells. I would like to hear any expert opinions regarding the complexity.

Some background:

The goal is to sequence patients' and their cancer's genomes, then compute the gene candidates to target for drug therapy, based on the difference of the two ( I know it's more complicated than that ). It took researchers a month to process the data, between the diff of normal and malignant cells. They then found a likely candidate gene that was over-expressed in the cancer cells- and coincidentally, a drug existed that targeted the gene, to the apparent success of the patient.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12455
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/in-gene-sequencing-treatment-for-leukemia-glimpses-of-the-future.html
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We work mainly with JS (jquery and node.js) and HTML5. Mobile developers should be familiar with iOS/Android.

Curious? Contact [my username] at alum.mit.edu. Including your portfolio is preferable!
For a slightly more balanced take on it, check out the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and...

There are definite problems with CISPA in regards to privacy, but a lot of the stuff on that "Do you have a secret?" page is just mindless FUD.
This has been my experience.

I've learned a bit about FP (mainly by reading books on several FP languages, and attending the SF Bay Area Functional Programmers group back when it was still meeting).

However, I have never seen a reasonable way to use a true FP language in my work. Most of what I do is inherently stateful-- at the core are iterative algorithms that update vectors of state variables with small corrections until a problem converges. This is a really hard use case for a pure FP language (i.e., one that "takes away assignment") to shine.

That said, learning FP has influenced the way I write the code that pumps numbers into the core update algorithms. Think using PURE and ELEMENTAL functions in Fortran, for example. And of course scientific programming has a rich history of passing functions in to general numerical algorithms. I just don't use closures, or create functions on the fly, or any of that other FP goodness.
Thanks. Sorry for the delay
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Perhaps that is a definition of sentiency: being able to observe that which is "you."
In the past we had a donation campaign where users can donate arbitrary amounts of money to us. We called it an "enterprise license" as a joke - the "enterprise license" just gave you a fancy logo with the word "enterprise" in it.

Phusion Passenger Enterprise is no longer a joke. It is now a real product with real features. A while ago we started "de-joking" the old donation page. As you can see at, the page now explicitly mentions that it's a donation. The 'enterprise.html' URL is kept to prevent links from breaking, but we may change that as well in the future to reduce confusion.

That said, we're grateful to all the people who have donated and supported us. Our Startup license type is our way to support other startups.
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I never said having more women in STEM would be a bad thing - having more people in STEM will always be a good thing, all things considered.

However your opinion that women are just as intelligent as men is not backed up by any statistics, and one of the best statistics we have for assessing intelligence, IQ, does not jive with your assertion.
>Finding floor space to display 15 TVs ranging from 27 to 60-inches, plus hundreds of units of inventory, is no easy feat.

What in the wide, wide world of sports indicates that Apple will or would introduce a line of 15 TVs? Assuming they ever do enter the market, there will be exactly one model (edited to add: including a good, better, best within the model). Maybe more models and sizes later, but there will be only one to start.
Thanks for the heads up on the problem submitting the signature. We're working on it now.

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You've probably heard it before but I'll say it again: learning functional programming will make you a better programmer, regardless of what you use in your day job.

If you measure only dollars in your bank account and time spent, it probably will not be worth it. If you add in the enjoyment and enlightenment it brings, and the new career options it might indirectly provide you with, it will be worth it. At least to me, learning Haskell and Lisp has been one of the best things I've invested time in.

I write my day job code almost exclusively in C. But for some in-house tools we have used Haskell and gotten better results faster than any other tool I can think of could provide. Certain problems are a very good fit for the functional paradigm. In contrast, many problems are not a good fit for the imperative paradigm but we use it anyway, because our computers work "imperatively".
Although I'm convinced that this does seem like a possible outcome to the current situation the article reads as extremely speculative. Any further supporting links to his argument would be much appreciated.

I can't help but think, "Really? Cards? That's it?"
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Altera is one of the leading designers of FPGA devices in the world. I'm an engineer in the software team, developing mostly embedded design and instrumentation tools for FPGAs. We are looking for software developers experienced or with a strong desire to learn about Computer Architecture, FPGA design, Digital Logic, Embedded Systems, and more, while at the same time developing engineering design tools in high level languages.

To give you an idea of what we do, these are some of the projects that involved me at Altera :

* Designed and implemented a high performance on-chip network that's used
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* Modified the GCC toolchain to add support for Altera's processors, like our
NiosII soft processor.
* Implemented a GDB Server from scratch in Java.
* Defined and implemented the pieces of an ARM CoreSight debug subsystem.
* Implemented infrastructure used in a C-to-Gates compiler.
* Spent hours hacking away with the tools and many of the available
development boards.

If the above sound interesting to you, then Altera might be the place that you've been looking for. Send me an email to sbrugada at altera.com telling me why you think this would be a good match. You should attach your resume too.
Apple already puts TVs in their stores to showcase the Apple TV device. They could just replace those with the Apple "TV set".
With which you also say -- or so Reddit believes in its current level of imperfection -- "and I have complete affinity with everyone else who happens to vote in /r/fitness".

No. With that I tell Reddit to show me different opinions on fitness coming from people who aren't morons (since the submission was not downvoted). You seem to think that if a person subscribes to /r/fitness, he surely has the same opinions as the hivemind. That's not true at all.

Good subreddits allow all kinds of opinions. And by allow I mean they aren't being downvoted automatically. Of course, there is the hivemind and a dominating opinion, but other opinions are not repressed, that's my point.
Yeah quite a few. I haven't updated the site in almost 6 months + there are NDA issues with a few. So until they launch can't add some of them to my folio.
> Hmmm... Which person do I engage? Maybe the guy with
> the rifle, down in front of the screen, who is facing
> the audience, shooting everyone, with a clearing around
> him?

Imagine every person in the theater was packing. They all pull out their weapons. Through the smoke and the dark, which is the good guy, which is the bad guy? Just shoot everyone that has a gun?
SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME-ISH :)

I've mentioned before that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480

We're ready to hire a couple more in this vein, so if it sounds interesting let me know!

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Advantages for you:

- you get 2-3 extra weekend days for fun and profit

- we provide health insurance and all that jazz

- if some weeks you don't have lots to do and want to work more, and other weeks you have lots to do and want to work less, we can be flexible

- we're profitable and growing! so if you decide "wow I really love Verba and want to spend every waking moment there" we can make that dream come true

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- you get to be a part of what we're doing, we get to hear about all the cool stuff you're doing, and that can only lead to good things for both of us

Anyway, I've included our spiel and "what we're looking for" summary below, so shoot me an email if you're interested (ragalie@verbasoftware.com).

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The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps college bookstores transform themselves so that they a) understand and embrace the power of the nets, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make a healthy profit.

We're a B2B company working with around 225 colleges and universities, and we're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck.

The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

Be sure to check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) so you can read all about our current products and hear people say nice things about us.
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"11000 places available. One exceptional benefit."

"You are applying to join a club of which you know nothing about ..."

"The more people you refer to the 11K Club ... the higher your chances of becoming a member."
I really wish I had something more constructive to say, but I just want to tell you guys that I really appreciate the product you've developed and the philosophy behind it.

I've tried a lot of other app servers, and while there are a lot of great products out there, I didn't find any of them to match the ease of installation, configuration, and stability that Passenger provides.

I'm looking forward to being a paying customer. Congrats!
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| Redwood City, CA - UI Engineer |
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Tidemark Systems (http://www.tidemark.net, note ".net") is hiring.

Like everybody else in the industry, we're finding hiring to be a difficult problem. For those of us on the UI team it's been an extra challenge -- there are lots of people out there who have experience with toolkits like jQuery, Ext, Sencha Touch, and a whole bunch of other ones, some of which we've never heard of. But we're not simply using frameworks, we're pushing them well beyond what they were intended to do. So if you've got relevant framework experience, that's great. But we really need engineers that are good at the basics: JavaScript, DOM, HTML, and CSS. You'll also need to be decent at UI design and user experience. If you're not just good but great at either of these things (or both!), that's awesome, but we also need you to be able to write code. This isn't just a run of the mill web dev job. This is actual, hard core software engineering, it just happens that the stuff we're (the UI team) doing is all running in the browser.

Tidemark is building a hosted business analytics system, which is way more interesting than it might sound. The company is well-funded and we have people with decades of experience in the field.

We've got a bunch of other openings as well (see http://tidemark.net/company/careers)

* Technical Support Engineer
* Director of People Operations
* Operations Engineer
* Graphic Designer - Web Developer Emphasis
* Sr. Technical Writer
* Enterprise Account Executive
* Application Tier Developer
* Computation Engine Developer

If any of these positions sound interesting, my email is on my profile page.
Awesome project. Are you releasing the source code?
That's pretty interesting reasoning but it's based on a key flawed assumption: that Apple would offer anywhere near 15 screen sizes. Given Apple's history I think it's reasonable to assume they would sell two or maybe three sizes max.

Also, this is their first product that would be primarily wall mounted. Not needing space for peripherals would open up new display options -- like sticking them on a wall.
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In general very nicely done, but the $4999 option with every detail negotiable seems a bit amateurish. "Lets throw a number and see what sticks"

Having said that, the intention is, I imagine, noble. You want to be, and be seen, to be flexible and willing to work with your customer. But I think the way its presented will come across as wishy-washy.

I like the design, thought it may be a little busy at times. But certainly eye catching.
Kellermann states that as an emergency room doctor, he noted that the number of gunowners injured by their own gun or that of a family member seemed to greatly outnumber the number of intruders shot by the gun of a homeowner, and therefore he determined to study whether or not this was in fact true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kellermann (I could quote from this, but it's IMO worth a read.)

When the team looked at shootings in which victims had a chance to defend themselves, their odds of getting shot were even higher.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carrying-a-gun-i...

EX: "owner that was armed with a shotgun got shot with his own gun"
http://texasfred.net/archives/2671

PS: As to why you have not heard of this. The final appropriation language included the following statement: “[N]one of the funds made available for injury control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control”. These words appear in every CDC grant announcement to this day. [5]
Owned by eBay, as it happens. A long-time competitor (and part owner) of Craigslist.

In choosing between evils, I'll still stick with Craig.
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Web developer specializing in Wordpress. I’ve done: themes, plugins, migrations, general feature additions, and even minor hacking on the core.

Disclaimer: Wordpress is not for everyone and you should consulate an expert before running a Wordpress instance on your server. Side-effects may include: a blog you will never update, traffic spike induced crashes, and non-optional security updates. Always have an expert you can email should things go very wrong.

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Open source wise I contribute to Linux’s printing sub system:

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http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/fooma...
FundingGates (http://fundinggates.com/jobs/) - NYC - Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (Ember.js), or Django experts! Local (or relocatable to NYC); full-time permanent (no contractors).

Looking for senior Ruby on Rails, JavaScript rich client, or Django developers for our young, privately-funded startup (no plans to take any more $$). 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).

Requirements are: Super smart, amazing at Ruby on Rails OR JavaScript OR Django. You must be willing to attend and/or present at meetups, conferences, etc. and represent Funding Gates so that other awesome folks want to work here, so you must have great written and verbal communication skills.

Our company is optimized for developer happiness, have unlimited (mandatory) vacation and a Results Only Work Environment (http://www.gorowe.com), and is run by folks that know how to treat developers. See one of my submissions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3729302

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

Thanks!!

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Matt
That's not the point. The point is if ISPs and backbone companies can cope with all that bandwidth.