skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York, NY. Full time. We're looking for devops, python engineers and frontend (js/backbone) engineers.

Percolate is a very quickly growing SAAS company in NYC. We are building a tool that helps brands create content across social. What makes us unique is that we're the only platform that doesn't already assume a brand knows what to say. To help them figure that out we pull data from across the web and make recommendations on interesting content (whether their own or third-party) that might be interesting at any moment.

We're looking for devops (!!!), backend and frontend engineers (we run backbone.js alongside our RESTful API) to join the team (the company is 21, product team is currently at 12). On the backend, we're especially interested in folks with good experience working with lots of data and excited to build real-time systems (we run python).

Here's a few reasons why you should come work here:
- You are gonna work in SOHO on Broadway
- Your chance to work with big data
- You come in early: We're only-and-a-half a year old
- As we get bigger, you will be able to focus on what you are good at
- We are all different and we love it
- GPL compliant company
- You choose your workstation
- You choose your tools
- No worries, free your mind: NY salary + medical + dental
- No vacation policy - does not mean no vacation ;)
- Company invests in you: Fly to PyCon and other conferences
- We prefer quality over quantity: Focus on clean code and test coverage
- Your voice will be heard

If you're interested email us at jobs@percolate.com. If you have any questions you can email me directly at noah@percolate.com

Thanks.
Whenever I'm using "enterprise" software or some equally-awful tool that's sold using a feature checklist, I can't help but think about Steve Jobs's line about how innovation is saying no to 1000 things.

edit: Well, a feature checklist and $50,000 worth of sales dinners, games of golf and "gifts that do not violate the professional ethics rules of the company buying said tool."
Why you tweet, Why you no Croak?
The only winner out of this is Nokia who paid for the hotels and flights home of those bloggers. http://twitter.com/clintonjeff/status/242358009249026049
I would love to hear some more on this if you don't mind. If you are making that kind of money, then our company is clearly doing something horribly wrong :)
About $150 per month with http://www.catgifpage.com (growing fast) and 10 bitcoins per month with a speed logo design service, I really enjoy earning money this way!
It's a sad state of men when day 15 is How to Change a Tire, when it ought to be how to fix one: http://www.alpharubicon.com/bovstuff/tirepluguzi.htm
Living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and still with my parents (I am 21), I would be more than glad with 1.500 USD per month.
I had a similar thought partway through writing my critique. I think that, given how close wearable computing seems to be getting, it's definitely worth pointing out things that don't work, even if they're a metaphor for other internal processes.

It would also depend on how the drone's AI is implemented. If it's based heavily on imitation of a human mind, overlaying data on the optics might well be the best way to get stuff like that in. Or if this "drone" is actually a Robocop-type brain in a box, as PayUpPal suggests.
University: The Great Lie
There might also be the fact that OS X and Windows are more than decent desktop OSes and competing with them is not easy.
How did they get the subdomain?
I generate about $1K-$2K a month in passive income. I spend approximately zero hours on maintenance every week, and I bootstrapped it while holding down a full-time job. It took an extra 5-10 hours per week for about a year. Here's what I did:

a) Got a job at a major software company for very high comp.
b) Spent an extra 5-10 hours a week working intelligently at my full time job; got promoted.
c) Invested the salary, bonus, and stock from my high comp. corporate job in real-estate and tech-heavy index funds, and reap the (literal) dividends passively.

b) is optional; even without the promotion, I would still make enough money to generate almost all of my passive income via investments. Not bad for zero hours per week.

A stable income has allowed me to buy a house at the bottom of the housing market, which will appreciate at about 1% over inflation; my other investments typically do 2-8% over inflation (especially retirement funds, which grow tax-deferred). All in all, at least $1K per month, spiking to much more. At the rate I'm continuing to invest, I'll likely double that monthly return within 18 months.

Sure, this is all pretty volatile, but no more volatile than entrepreneurship, and with much better worse and average case scenarios.

Best of all, these investments will, in the long term, outpace inflation, which is more than can be said for selling software or tech stuff, which tends to depreciate in price over time (after all, the marginal cost of software is zero, which depresses prices due to competitive dynamics).
Do we to start another debate with an inflaming article?
I created FRUJI.com (Twitter Analytics service) and it keeps generating a minimum of about $50 a day, sometimes (often) more. It's fully self-maintained (unless the server or database crashes), which is just purely amazing. The machines sell, process the orders, upgrade, and provide the customer experience. All I did was programming it. I go for a run, my phone rings a couple of times, I look, PRO account purchased, PRO account purchased, THIS IS F* AWESOME.

I tried creating/selling other things to businesses. This time, it's mostly you and me's, paying it out of their own wallets. Never expected this to work so well.
Behold, PoWa!
Absolute base would be about $70k to pay for living expenses for myself and my family. To be comfortable, I'd like to make about $90k. A realistic, "reach" amount would be $140k based on freelancing 20 hours a week at $60 an hour as well as my day job.
Apache Drill - interactive analysis of large-scale datasets
I think you misunderstood me. It wasn't a good analogy, though.

They were proposing an alternative when I want a fork of what I already use.
A little over $2700/mo with Planscope (https://planscope.io), my SaaS product that's been out since February. I'm averaging about a 8% growth rate month to month, so very excited about how things are going.

* Bootstrapped

* Raised my consulting rates to free up more time for products (= same amount of consulting income)

* Most new customers come via referrals from existing users and organic traffic (via targeted blog posts)

* Wrote a complementary book targeting people who aren't necessarily looking for PM software (http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com), and upselling Planscope through that. Extremely successful so far.
They have a term for that kind of government - "police state".
I used make about €200 a month on hubpages until Google Panda hit.The majority of this came via Amazon affiliate sales. I still make a bit now, but it is way down.
It's kind of hard to understand what the site does exactly. Do you have an 'about' page?
This ain't new for Samsung, they did the same during the olympics.

Officially they were invited to live the games from the inside but in the end they worked as Samsung publicist for free.

http://int13.net/france/blog/i-won-a-contest-to-go-to-the-lo...
He's known about it. I wonder why he's trying a new one...
The FTC does have governance over endorsements and testimonials. Not sure that it applies completely here. The trouble comes when you start talking about people and companies outside of the US. International law for bloggers or journalists seems like a difficult situation to say the least.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm
The point of desktop linux is that it keeps MS and Apple honest. If they push things too far away from where the common good lies (ie. toward the short term interests of their stock holders) then expect to see a huge resurgence of desktop linux, supported by OEMs who will suddenly be pushing cheaper faster linux machines with tested specs as a way of winning back territory. Until then, don't, because it will be down to a volunteer community to do heroic work to other peoples schedules and basically that's always going to be hard.

Server side stuff has a lot of support from big shops that need their iron to work well - so that can go along just fine as is.

My point is that because it exists and is nearly viable it is a success and does what we need it to, even if using it can be nightmarish.
>Now I don't know why anyone would not choose PostgreSQL for almost any project.

No offense but people who make statements like this clearly don't know much about the current state of databases. PostgreSQL is pretty bad in many areas compared to the newer databases e.g. ease of clustering and sharding, developer friendliness, JSON support, tool support etc.

It's great as a replacement for a typical RDBMS but if you're working on a new startup project I would see no reason to use it.
Measuring costs of hardware in beer brings a whole new twist to "free as in beer"
yet another piece of software to maintain?
What's happening to Solaris ?

It is still open and available for download at http://opensolaris.org. It just isn't being supported by Oracle anymore since they are focused on Oracle Linux.
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I love the layouts on these SAAS products. Is there a central resource you guys all use for design? Any recommended reading? Websites/blogs?
I read it as completely a made thing; I'm not sure there's really any evidence in the video for either reading. Just a few lines of text in the beginning talking about "autonomous drones".

As to whether or not the whole HUD is realistic for a software person, see my response to the previous reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468104
MS SQL Server is mainly used by corporations for corporations, so there is a market and good money for apps and expertise in those circles if you have the expertise in the MS stack.

For OSS projects that require a RDBMS, PostgreSQL is a good choice. I instinctively choose it over MySQL years ago and have been pleased.
I made this case last week.

"Apple products are like a good classy restaurant or hotel chain. They take ingredients everyone has and put a lot of work into fit and finish, they make the customer feel special for a slightly higher price."[1]

And I stand by it. I'll go even further actually, I think Apple is one of the least innovative big companies. Look at all the big research labs at Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM or Google. Anyone who seriously follows this stuff knows a) Apple doesn't have a profile in the academic world and b) knows enough computer history to know Apple is claiming things invented decades ago.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4435504
It's maddening how badly almost everyone sucks at understanding and interpreting statistics (including many who have had significant training in doing so), and chilling when that is combined with a forensic method that is at heart statistical.

OJ Simpson got away with murder because the jury didn't understand statistics, and now more and more innocent people go to jail because juries and judges don't understand statistics.
It was replaced because the original title was perfectly fine, and your version was a bit editorialized. I'll grant that you provided a good summary, but the "revolutionary" word is an adjective. Some people, including myself, would not find memristors to actually be revolutionary. They are an important technology advance, but that is all. Penicillin was revolutionary, as was the Magna Carta. The word is too-oft used for things that really are not revolutionary at all.
This is awesome, thanks. I would love to see an equivalent using C so that one could learn to make a more portable OS for other ARM chips.
According to Wikipedia, "(March 23, 2012) A team of researchers from HRL Laboratories and the University of Michigan announced the first functioning memristor array built on a CMOS chip for applications in neuromorphic computer architectures." - this technology is two-three years away from being available in consumer packages.

You should expect to be able to purchase something (for more than the equivalent flash package would cost you) in 2015-2016. If they play out the way they should, the price/performance slope should cross over with flash around 2017-2018.

These new technologies usually take about 10 years to come online at volume. No conspiracy required.
How many sites did you mention? And how much unique visitor do you have in total?
-$20/mo from http://www.golfingstat.com. Can't get any traffic and the traffic I do get doesn't click on ads. FML
NodeJS is insanely easy to do that with, it's one of the best reasons to use it in my experience:

var queue = [];

// request handling
module.exports = function(request, response) {
queue.push("bla");
response.end("bye");
};

// out-of-request work
setInterval(function() {
// do something with your queue either locally
// or moving it to an external job queue that can
// leverage the same script on a different thread
}, 1000);
Patents apply to the recipe, though, not the actual mixture.
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The winning formula: Headline that keeps people from clicking the back button; subheadline that briefly describes the product; a few bullet points, testimonials, or short blurbs of text describing the benefits of the product; supporting imagery (screenshot); clear call to action (sign up!)

I did my own design, but there are plenty of themes out there that could incorporate the above formula and do just as well (or better).
Yes, but so would a comment, and it would come off as more constructive and less self-promotional.
Where's the inflaming part?
I would pay (prepay) for this. OmniGraffle has been painfully slow to improve, and just doesn't seem to cater to web or app ui design. Unfortunately it's the best thing out there so far. Need something better.

Build this as a native app and charge $monthly. That way people can get started with it for cheap and if you keep making a good product, they'll keep paying you for it.

I really feel like the 1 time app charge model is severely broken for consumers. Omnigraffle gets my $200 bucks and all of a sudden there's nothing I can do to influence them anymore as a customer. The product stays pretty much the same for 4 years, as they move on to find the next pot of gold app to build.
I make a little over 600$ selling a Newsletter script on Codecanyon http://codecanyon.net/item/newsletter-mailer-v13/149365

Currently I am planing a SaaS Newsletter Mailer.
This doesn't really have much to do with operating system development.
Where do you draw the line if they didn't? If everyone was allowed to submit whatever title they wanted, it would quickly degrade into Digg-quality submissions. In rare circumstances, it is necessary to change titles. A piece of content might not have any title at all, so needs one. It is better for the health of HN that mods act on the conservative side.
Every test has a false positive rate and if you scrutinize close enough you can often guess reasons/justifications for those false positives. These rationalizations really aren't so important though--- the crucial bit is understanding that there will always be false positives and making a reasonable estimate for how often they'll occur.
The person making this change seems to have not read the original comment either. It sounds like your change made the previous iteration of that code faster.
Apologies, I did misunderstand.

I cut a bunch of apps (and their large databases) over from MySQL to Postgres several years ago. It was tedious, but I've never had cause to regret it in any way.

When MySQL became Oracle I was very relieved to not have to think about the implications.
It's clear that you didn't actually read the linked article, since it argues precisely the opposite.
In a couple months I'll find out of the first full year of my Tarot deck's publication[1] will have resulted in continuing royalties. It came out only a couple months before the end of last fiscal year, and came close to earning out its advance, so I'm hopeful.

Royalties: passive income 1.0.

[1] http://egypt.urnash.com/tarot/
You must not have read the article. It was not about having a service running two home-screen button taps away from all iPhone users that is also better than Siri. It was about being able to sell a service to businesses with similar AI features as Siri but that provides useful information in specialized fields. This was very obvious if you read any of the article.

> IBM expects to generate billions in sales by putting Watson to work in finance, health care, telecommunications and other areas

> IBM’s path to the mobile-assistant market contrasts with Apple’s. For one, IBM is focused on corporate customers, while Apple is targeting anyone who buys its phones.

> The program will be able to understand oncology well enough to advise doctors on diagnosis and prescriptions, said Martin Kohn, IBM’s chief medical scientist. One iPad application for Watson -- a health-care program developed with a Columbia University professor -- is being used to demonstrate its medical capabilities for prospective IBM customers
IBM isn't interested in $100M. The article plainly states they're going after billions.

> Finding additional uses for Watson is part of IBM’s plan to tap new markets and boost revenue from business analytics to $16 billion by 2015.

> IBM expects to generate billions in sales by putting Watson to work in finance, health care, telecommunications and other areas.
It doesn't feel very inflammatory, just re-iterating a point that to some seems very contentious, that the composition of separate parts Apple does is innovation.

Anyway, I very much like JLG and I liked and agree with the articles push.
Graph algorithms and graph analysis in Dolores Park on a Saturday? This job's way too hard for you, man. You should be thinking about Photoshop instead. Then you'd have something to check on that form on their hiring page, at least.

Besides, face it, coming from an R and Perl background, you'd never be able to grok the nuanced complexities of PHP or Zend.
Its an old idea to remove everything until just the essence is left. Apple succeed in identifying markets that was making over complex products.

The silly part is that complexity goes in cycles. New products need to differential themselves with old ones, so they add new features. After a while, you end up with a car stereo with 20 buttons, and suddenly a "new" competitor comes out with a clean design with just 3 buttons and the 20 button design looks ill-designed in comparison.

Stereos is one of the earlier examples, but you can see the same phenomena in web-design with today’s White and clean design vs the old dark and complex design.
Well, personally, my favourite database is SQLite.

I don't build large apps, although for many-read-few-write-type sites SQLite isn't so bad.
If you're from .net background you'll (probably) already be familiar with MVVM (Knockout's approach)... its how the Silverlight framework is designed to function (and its no accident that MS got behind Knockout for this reason).

Unfortunately I can't comment on backbone as I haven't used beyond tutorials, someone else might be able to assist though.
It isn't inventing the next DTraces and ZFSes.

FreeBSD is doing a great job of catching up with Solaris innovations. I love those guys! And maybe we can ride for a few more years on Sun's largesse. But who will push things forward?
Side note: I don't think error messages should ever start with "Whoops!" It sounds condescending and unprofessional, at least to me.
Ask HN: what jars do you use on your android projects?
As a follow up to my rant about android development I am currently thinking on how to implement a cocoapods like system for jar files. Should not be that hard to implement. But the important thing for this would be a list of jars that are commonly used by android developers.

So what do you use?

Btw: this gist explains what I am up to: https://gist.github.com/3603015
"Because it happens" is not a very good technical answer. Anything can happen, even 1GB session data.

But even anything approaching even half a MB of session data I would take as an architectural failure, and work to fix it, instead of letting it dictate what tools I use (ie. redis vs memcached).

>The point is that there are solutions offering equivalent speed without that barrier, so why select a technology that has limitations?

Because all decisions have tradeoffs and it more wise to depend on your particular use case to choose than to depend on a scenario (> 1MB session data) that can only happen with a seriously fucked up application design.
I interpreted the author's claim to be that, assuming that all tested hypotheses were false, 5% would by chance alone be publishable anyway. So one must not take too strongly as evidence of truth the fact that a hypotheis was published. (Indeed, this observation has led to cautionary papers like Ioannidis's "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" [1]).

[1] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
I don't get this story. They were asked to wear a samsung t-shirt. That's not how shills typically work, isn't it typically, pretend you're independent, give good review, rather than, pretend you're part of our PR team?

Why would it benefit Samsung to have random Indians bloggers demoing devices in Berlin?

Something about this story doesn't make any sense.
Dell is a non option for me at this point. The company has tried to cash in on its previous reputation and now sells garbage with the Dell logo on it. I have already been burned and will never buy another Dell product.

Dell used to make decent laptops but hasn't since about 2000.
Being stranded in Berlin is certainly not the worst that could happen to you.

That said, this is exactly what happens when, as a journalist, you start to blur the lines. As a reader it's hard to feel any sympathy when reading paragraphs that try just a bit too hard to rationalize the behavior:

Again, a reminder – Behavior such as Samsung’s is not uncommon in the world of tech coverage. It’s perhaps considered more normal in some parts of the world
>Software is all zeroes and ones, after all. The quantity and order may vary, but that’s about it. Hardware is just protons, neutrons, electrons and photons buzzing around, nothing original. Apple didn’t “invent” anything, the iPad is simply their variation, their interpretation of the well-known tablet recipe.

You can make cookies and cakes from the same raw ingredients, doesn't mean that the person who invented cookies also invented cake.

Also the 'Software is all zeroes and ones' argument irks me. It's the bridge between an expensive paperweight and a practical device.
I can't think of any reason, least of all working on a video game, where I would not take a break in a 52 hour work stretch to go home and get my required meds. I definitely can believe that the game industry is cut-throat but you have to take care of yourself too. Sounds like this guy let people push him around, which is not necessarily his fault, but if you're in a tough industry you have get tough yourself.
>It's because "how to make a website scale" depends heavily upon which website, what it does, and how big it needs to be. Making a messaging queue like Twitter or G+ scale is very different from making Google Search scale. Hell, making the indexing system of Google search scale is a very different problem from making the serving system scale.

For most websites is not THAT different.

Actually, most have pretty similar needs, and you can sum those up in 3-5 different website architectural styles anyway.

There is far more duplication of work and ad-hoc solutions to the SAME problems than are "heavily different" needs.