skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@wedtm co-founder of streak.com here, we apologize that the job posting came off as offensive - as you said in your post it was totally unintentional.

We would love some constructive discussion on where we went wrong and how we can improve. Re-reading the job post again (deleted but we have a copy) using your comments as a lens, I can see how the title may come off as abrasive. However, in our actual post - we use competitors as a way to contrast and illustrate what our beliefs are - not to belittle them.

We actually disagree with posting requirements for our positions, mainly because there aren't any fast and easy rules that would make someone a good fit vs. not a good fit. That's mostly determined by meeting and talking - all we can really do is try to attract people who are interested in our space and beliefs.

Your other point on posting the actual salary we are offering is a tough one. Its not tough because we don't want to be transparent, rather, we're such a young company that we don't have a set role, skill set or persona we are hiring for. Compensation is LARGELY dependent on the applicants personal situation (young with high risk tolerance implies more equity, less compensation vs someone older with family and mortgage). We're totally transparent with all of our applicants once they've contacted us.

We are totally open to your help on figuring out a better way to do job postings given the above constraints. We've been a part of the HN community for a while and definitely don't want to offend others here.

[edit] Happy to chat over email too: aleem at streak
Um: https://bitbucket.org

Not necessarily a reason to avoid the niche, but the reasons you listed to enter aren't very good (namely, too expensive for lots of small projects) as BitBucket solves that problem.

Never ever ever ever compete on price.
This is cool and I keep hearing its coming to coffeescript soon, but just the fact that the TypeScript website doesnt mention "debugging" or "source maps" anywhere on the front page is disheartening. Its more important than anything to me, yet its still just a "we'll get there eventually" priority for all these alternative javascript languages.

I would think microsoft wouldnt want to release this until source maps were tested, working and included as part of the language as a major bullet point feature. These languages are nothing but a novelty to use in prototyping until that happens. I'll never use any of these languages in my production development workflow until proper debugging is available.
I worry about Persona, for exactly the same reason OpenID chose the design it did: It's a serious mistake to permanently tie email to identity.

It's still possible within the framework of Persona to fix this -- the browser / identity provider needs to support freshly-generated opaque "email addresses" for each new site that needs a login. This prevents tracking and spam problems, but will also require both providers and relying parties to downplay the 'email address' token in the UI, which I fear is far too much to ask.
Nonsense? You're a real charmer, tisme.

There's a bit of mis-information here.

First, while credit card companies and banks can chose to honor disputes of any age, your rights under the FCBA protect you for only 60 days -- and the FCBA doesn't apply to debit cards at all.

My tip -- that you should never use a debit card and with credit cards you should dispute charges before paying the bill -- is correct in spirit but not in the letter of the way I worded it, so mea culpa on technicalities but the point is correct. The FCBA only grants you 60 days to dispute a transaction (after the statement cut, not the transaction itself).

Also, CC disputes have some consequences. Companies aggregate & share lists of customers that have charge-backed. Finding yourself on the list can see you turned-away from legitimate, good businesses that have to protect themselves against dispute-prone customers.
Cool. It is quite expectable too, at least considering the capabilities of the C# type system :)
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Yeah performance is another issue. But providing a type that compiles to a defined type that implements decimal representation would be very useful. GWT pulls off something similar by compiling the Java BigDecimal to a JavaScript equivalent.
Is there a problem with the current format lacking definition?

I thought the major factor for listening quality was listening equipment rather than the actual format (as the quality on cds is rather good).
> "The UI for recovering an in-app purchase is the same as the buying UI, which leads many users to mistakenly believe they are being double-charged."

This makes sense for low-price + IAP apps, but not the free + IAP model mentioned in the thread you're replying to.

Free + IAP seems fine, and it's probably been the most popular PC/Mac software sales method since the 90s.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597716

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597744
Is it really a best practice if there's a better way of doing it?
> the rules for Windows 8 certification is that manufacturers must allow the user to disable secure boot and allow them to install another OS

This is not true for ARM-based devices. Any ARM-based device that comes with Windows pre-installed will have its bootloader locked and only be able to run Windows.
It's an open-source iniative - great ideas like this are best seeded and grown through a great community effort. You sound like you want to be given the whole tree.
I just tried to login into your site without being registered with Persona. All works fine, I can choose a password, and receive an email with confirmation link. When I click it I see an info box from Persona, but after only 3 seconds or so I get redirected to your site - so that is buggy. I see then a notice that your site couldn't log me in, which is fine, as I don't have an account. However, your site then starts to log me in over and over again. Which seems an issue on your site. Hope this info helps. I'm using chrome on OS X.
Ok, I paid 300 for this laptop (I know - but I booted and ran bsd on it before purchase)

anyway, I just lost nearly twice that in day rates

so frankly you could sting me for 2000 pa depending on your guarantees - which is something like a MacBook pro every six months

dunno - I am going to go for the n+1 laptop idea. I looked like an idiot this weekend and that's not helping
My subconscious did. I didn't mean to imply that HN lacks group think --- I just don't want to see it in the submission summary, and HN's structure prevents that to some degree.
I've been following Slashdot for a long long time now, probably 12 years or more. Was an avid, daily reader. Recently of course its been proggit and HN and newer sites. Nostalgia !
I hope they stay around for a long long time. One complaint is that the rate of new articles/stories is slow when compared to the newer sites.
This is an absurd and outrageous statement. Akin to the full pay glossy ads for oil companies in Vanity Fair with messages like "We care about people and nature".

M$ is serious about embrace, extend, extinguish. M$ is not serious about supporting the computing community, is not serious about creating powerful platforms, and has gone out of its way to serious damage the knowledge economy.

Microsoft will destroy this technology just like it destroys everything it touches. Microsoft is the Chuck Bass of computing. If you get that reference, you are probably looking at someone else's computer right now.

The thing you see in front of you is, perhaps 10% Microsoft and 90% the work of a small number of dedicated individuals. Microsoft has shown a track record of destroying good technology and ignoring the community standards process.

I sincerely hope that someone rips this idea off and liberates it from Microsoft. Typed JavaScript is not patentable or copyright-able, and Google beat the daylights out of Oracle over Java, so I think this is fair game.

tl;dr I give this project 18 months before the M$ business machine starts using TypeScript as a weapon.
Facebook Acqhires Founders Of Carsabi (YC12)
Congrats Renee. I've only met her a few times, but she's an insanely good listener, which is rare enough in programmers to count as a super power :)
That's a riot, Glass Tty VT220 in stunning amber. Just like my xterms!
Steve Wozniak: too hip for reddit.

More seriously, I love the dude. I often wonder what would have become of Apple if he had played a more central part.
Maybe but it means a coherent focused government policy applying for decades controlling sone of the most rapacious and powerful industry interests known.

If it's a smackdown between a n other us administration and the whole oil industry I would not bet on the politicians needeing reelection
>There are limits to the amount of due diligence companies should have to do to ensure that people know they are clicking on ads.

There are also limits on disguising search results as ads.

>For the rest, there's not much short of an acknowledgement overlay that will get the message across reliably (for text ads -- image ads are easier, but google doesn't have them)

Really? Just increasing the contrast or adding a border around the border or using extra spacing as a separator or another separator can help a lot. But it's hard to make changes that hurt the bottom line. Changing it the opposite way is much easier. Google has a lot of UI and UX experts and I don't think the changes are accidental at all. In fact, they must be very carefully planned.

Edit: Found an old screenshot where the difference is much more apparent.

http://www.jensense.com/archives/adsensehijack.gif
This is a weird article that pretends that Github is the only git hosting service that exists. Bitbucket would probably suit their stated needs.
Got it! I'm so happy...
I am sad that the minidisc lost out to the cd :(
What unit test framework are they using in the source? It looks like Jasmine ('describe', 'it') but then it has 'assert' and I can't find an include for it.
Also: much of that "traditional male superiority" is simply non-existent. Statistics is a field where half of all working professionals are women.
Last time I looked gitorious.org was also a nice option.
here is a pdf document talking about blends in 2004: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05421.pdf

"There were 12 distinct gasoline blends in use in the United States during the summer of 2004: 11 special gasoline blends and the conventional gasoline used everywhere a special blend is not used. When different grades of gasoline, special blends used in winter, and other factors are considered, the number of gasoline blends rises to at least 45. New ozone standards and other factors may further increase the number or the use of special gasoline blends in the future, in part because EPA must approve any state’s application to require use of a special gasoline blend as long as the proposed fuel meets EPA’s environmental standards."

and a pdf map from Exxon: http://www.exxon.com/USA-English/GFM/Files/US_Gasoline_Map.p...
>simply not trained . . .

Which is something I've never understood, personally.

Granted I'm a bit more concerned with another car flying through and ripping my door off; but you bet I'm worried about traffic when I open my door.

No matter how you assess the situation, there is no excuse for such carelessness.

Why would anyone risk human lives [possibly your own] and personal property in such a fashion?
---

Based on your time in Amsterdam, would you say drivers there are more _patient_ with cyclists?

I've often held the sentiment that a large number of US accidents are simply a result of impatience. The way people handle switching lanes, controlled intersections, merging, etc. in the US has always seemed rather "selfish" to me.

As an example: it always seems that drivers here in the states, when switching lanes, would rather overtake than undertake, even when undertaking is clearly the safer option (e.g: less traffic behind the car in question, little or no traffic behind you but considerable traffic in front of you).
I'll grant you that; I expect a more impressive release from a company like Microsoft. Why is there so much work put into the website when the tool and its documentation are sorely lacking?
You lost at "browser plugins". Persona uses a JS shim that requires no plugins or browser changes.
Well, before the student loan craze it was not difficult to find an affordable university in the US.

Certainly not Ivy League, but not bad.

E.g.: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-09-08-tui...

Today an Ivy League tuition year will set you back around 40k
(possibly more) http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
>>a rough idea of a specific language's properties<<

No, but maybe a rough idea of a specific language implementation's properties.

>> if there are valid criticisms <<

There are plenty ;-)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.p...

Readers obviously jump to conclusions based on box plots and summary statistics -- when they really need to look at the individual tasks and look at the program source code, because there's so much variation.

I think there would need to be incredibly tight constraints on minimum program run-time, source code size, and memory use; before summary statistics could be taken at face value.
I'll just be blunt. I think you're SOL. People were providing these types of services for FreeBSD* and Linux back in the 90s into the early, early 2000s but almost all of them dropped off the face of the Earth.

Your best bet seems to buy last year's or (preferably) older model of a well-supported ThinkPad. Something with mature "support".

* BSDi/Telenet/Name-Du-Jour being one example for FreeBSD systems, before their divisions died and they were bought by Wind River.
I like nmh, myself.
Microsoft also has Github a account/accounts - I thought they were going use it for all their open-source projects, but they seem undecided now.
...and then you'll offer a salary that has been painstakingly researched and calculated to be as close to median as you can get it, without going over.
Github offers free educational accounts to students with *.edu addresses:

https://github.com/edu
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Never. First, CD audio quality is good enough. Second, the market is in transition (already transitioned?) to a pure digital format, distributed either via flat files (e.g. mp3s), or via SaaS streaming services.

Similarly, Blu-ray is probably the last physical format for movies.
After switching between keyboards with Esc in different places, I've learned to use

Ctrl-[

instead. Can hit it without moving that far, and it works just as well in GVim as it does in all terminal programs.

The only downside is being confused when nothing happens in a browser...
Americans Have Spent An Estimated $5.9 Billion Repairing Their Damaged iPhones
The lack of women in the industry isn't the problem, it's the symptom. The problem is a monoculture of chauvinism and sexism.
> I have a theory about this - how you feel about static typing is related to whether you see the compiler as your friend or as your enemy.

An alternative explanation is a dislike of overly verbose languages with terrible type systems (the poster child for this category being Java), and as a result of low exposure to better statically typed languages painting all of the category with a Java brush.
Yet I've tried at least twice in the past to fix the sidebar patch, with 0 response from the maintainer. I'm not really interested in trying to push my fixes to each distribution that is using the sidebar patch.

E.g. try various combinations of "help = yes/no" and "status_on_top = yes/no" with the sidebar enabled. It's obvious that someone wrote it just to fit their configuration.
I can't speak for Doug Cutting, but is my understanding that both Torvalds and Spolsky are XWP for values of X=Really good at managing projects and programmers, and in the case of Spolsky also pretty good at the whole running a business thing.

Certainly in Spolsky's case I don't think he writes much if any code at Fog Creek or Stack Exchange. Torvalds probably still codes a fair amount, but certainly when it comes to Linux most of his value comes from the architecture and management side of things rather than the lines of code he writes.
We all know that feeling dude. It's terrible. But, don't give up just because Google entered your space. Sometimes having a team that is dedicated to doing one narrow thing very well is preferable to a mega-corp that is trying to be everything to everyone. You may need to pivot or adjust your stance, but this isn't a death sentence.
e is not rational.
But the overhead is much larger and let's be honest, this solution is only used by a tiny minority of (mostly tech) users. Mozilla Persona could be used by everybody because for the end user it is exactly as complex/easy as it is currently or even easier.
Cool that you're linking to this mail, this shows yet another problem that I forgot about - that pypy extensions are uncool, while GCC extensions are cool (and say a custom malloc library for GCbench - after all the benchmark does not do anything, an empty malloc would do just fine).
thanks.

the front end is written in haxe and compiled to js. the backend is python on google app engine.
start off with reading 1) linux kernel development 2) linux device drivers 3) linux kernel module programming guide

have - understanding the linux kernel as your reference manual.

by now, you should be comfortable to read/understand the kernel source; download linux kernel source and start browsing through the code.

simply reading books wont get you anywhere - you need to play around with kernel source inorder to understand the linux kernel behavior and different problems you may come across. write simple kernel modules to get a hang of how you can interact/modify with the kernel.

join some opensource project and start fixing bugs you're comfortable with or just play around with your local linux kernel source - make changes; build and deploy and observe what happens.

EDIT:

if you have no prior knowledge of OS Theory and Fundamentals; then you should start here first - read either of the following books
1) Operating System Concepts by Galvin, Silberschatz OR 2)Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum

For programming related - system calls and stuff
read 1) Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - by Richard Stevens
Breaking the Bias Against Women in Science
After a few searched I found a few :

https://splitabill.com/

https://wesplit.it/

http://splitwise.com/

https://www.paydivvy.com/default.aspx

I've not used any of these so I just hope you find one that suits you.
If you are asking in general, there are a bunch of internships in a bunch of different groups listed on the careers website.

Our group would probably also be open in to an intern, but I haven't given it much thought yet. Get in touch with me if you are interested in Stationary Storage and the work described in my original post.
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Just select and split off all the text to a new layer, then apply the distortion to the plot layer and not the text.
maybe not too hip for Reddit, but still an active Slashdotter to this day..!
ShowHN: GetURL - A CLI tool to get a public link for any file
Stross on spimes, carpal tunnel, and alternative input methods
mplayer (keyboard only video player) uses [/] to alter speed by 5% and {/} to alter speed by 25%.

PS.
Please, alter speed by 5% by default. I very often change speed of video or music by 5-15% only (to watch lectures at higher speed, or to listen foreign speech at lower speed, or to dance to music a bit faster/slower than usual).
The code is already out there, all 3.7 integration would represent is a stamp of approval. Consider that there is no hardware for the architecture yet, I don't know why approval would be very interesting:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aar...
It already exists. It's called SACD.
Im finding it very enligthening, have anyone read it? care to share your opinions?
Hopefully one that isn't based in US and can avoid being targeted by frivolous patent lawsuits.
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I would argue that major content providers like Comcast and Time Warner have done a lot to keep us from having access to bandwidth or imposing data caps even when they provide the speed with their cable internet providers.
NPR mentioned this morning that digital music download sales far exceed physical media music sales already. This might explain there being virtually no record stores around anymore.
"without a doubt"

I have, unfortunately, seen a great many things beyond the shade of doubt come back and bite people.

Note, too, that GOOG has a 9% higher beta than MSFT and that we are in a rising market. We cannot let our ex ante biases colour our attributions.
Email + Trello = Emello
Sorry to say, but as a customer that's what you get for buying a glass phone.
False, a trade secret was stolen, and said employee did not have the right to copy it or disclose it.
while, I totally agree with jdietrich's fact based approach to the discussion, I have ton's of personal experience in the area. Helmets were optional for me growing up, though I often deferred to wear one riding on city streets, racing mountain/XC, riding downhill in Vail and the Olympic Mountains, and riding biketrials extensively. Separately, but also connected had many years of interstate motorcycle riding experience.

I commute by bicycle to work in NYC daily. I feel safer riding here than any other city I have ridden in, because the traffic knows how to deal with bicyclists. (This backs jdietrich's claim that 'more cyclist on the road' == 'safer riding conditions for cyclists in traffic'.) Personally, bicycle dedicated lanes and separate bike lanes, increase my already overwhelming comfort riding in this city, because they eliminate a major variable that is out of my control, being hit from behind.

I have been in dozens of really bad crashes on trails, closed courses and even streets, and only hit my head once. It is my experience that while a helmet won't save you from a car going 50mph, you stand a better chance of surviving when your head makes a 'light tap' on the pavement below you. That one time I hit my head is when I realized the human skull moving at any speed is the equivalent of cantaloupe; soft and rip, waiting to be cracked open to reveal it's juicy insides. From that point forth, I unconditionally wear a helmet. There is no question bicyclist wearing helmets in particular types of collisions will fair better than their helmet-less counter part. Also I have done some really crazy stupid stuff on a bike, but I am not more inclined to do so with a helmet on versus off. In fact, I usually forget I have it on at all. I should add, no amount of safety gear will save you if you or someone else who makes contact with you does something really stupid.

http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm

Also, there is also no question motorcyclists fair better with a helmet.

TL;DR I don't ride more boldly with a helmet on. Helmets are a safer way to ride, and cities with lots of bicyclist are better at dealing with cyclist in traffic.
Yes, and very annoying for my children. And for me.
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