skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice but I think it is a little bit lacking on the feature side even for a pet project. As others point out there are already a ton of ways to obtain a word count.
Maybe you add value by providing a frequency chart of words?
Author of the article here, and I agree that the problem is the bad recruiters. My business is doing quite well, but I could see where job seekers question the motives of recruiters mainly because of the fact that recruiters get paid by companies, and only get paid (generally speaking) when they take the job. So recruiters have the short-term incentive of convincing candidates to take jobs, and not necessarily to do what is right for their career.

Long term requires recruiters to be fully ethical or lose credibility. If I send you for an interview and it isn't the best fit for you, I'm financially motivated to try and get you to take it anyway. As your agent, I would tell you not to since you are my client.

The agent model would be advantageous to the tech community, but obviously more costly to them. Whether or not it would be sustainable is something I would be curious to find out. I'm not sure if an agent would only get paid during a job search, as there could be advising going on during your entire career that has some value (how to negotiate a raise for yourself, what is hot/not, trends) - some of this engineers are good at, and some they are not.
The feeling is mutual, he stated in the post that he wouldn't bother with you either.
China’s Broken Train Ticket Site Cost $50 Million
What would an inquisitional legal system look like? No litigants, just aimless fact finding?
Well, I don't know if I agree with some statements here... Art does not necessarily "reflect the life as it is". I think art is an artist's expression of his/her view of the world (or life). Some may see the same scene in bright colours, some in gray, if you see what I mean.

EDIT: However I do agree that majority of the "good" movies these days are just targeting the entertainment nerve of a potential consumer...
Stop worrying about voting rings. I don't have a startup or a blog, and contribute only intermittently to HN, but have little difficulty in engagement with the HN community. Just ride your own horse to wherever you're going; the fact that others may passing you by in the same direction does not make it a race.
Yeah, I had a similar experience. I was inspired by Jason when I first heard his story and tried out barefoot running, only to give myself plantar fasciitis instead. I'm glad it worked for him though!
We'll see. I've got a few ideas, but more than open to joining better ones.
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Any bright ideas on how to break through this firewall?

One trick that worked for me.

I created a description of my ideal client. In fact I created a few descriptions of different ideal clients.

(If you've a UX background - I basically researched and created personas for my clients http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(marketing) )

I then figured out where those clients hung out.

Then I hung out there and listened to their problems.

(For example - there are reasons I am now very happy to spend multiple thousands of pounds attending some conferences - outside of the personal development stuff I get from attending :-)
Private pensions didn't invest on Wall St? That's news to me.
That website needs a major redesign. I can tell you that most people spend three seconds on a web page before they decide to move on or not, and there is no way a generic bootstrap website is going to grab anyone's attention in that three seconds.
You cannot buy tickets on the train, that's another issue with Caltrain. See that hourly train coming? Don't even think about catching it if you don't already have a ticket. You'll have missed it by the time you get your ticket.
There's two sides to this relationship: the media know apple sells as well, so they do their best to keep them prominent.

That said, the iMania can go too far at times: Today on the BBC news website (even right now), first item is "19 people killed in pakistan protests", 2nd item "Apple says map app will improve". I understand that first world problems have their share, but we 're talking about a very small part of the population that will actually care about either maps issues or the people who are affected by them.
[go easy on the non-tech guy]

A couple I've thought up but never had the time or know how to make. If you want to take any of these and run feel free, if you'd like to talk more about any my email is in my profile:

-A dating app that more closely mimics real-world dating by bringing spontaneous discovery and subtle-interactions into play. Traditional dating apps require you to a) know what you want and b) know how to find that in a text-based profile. That's not how the real world works. In real life dating you either meet through a third party (friend, roommate, classmate) or you randomly meet this person in a bar, library, etc (serendipity). In the latter case you choose to interact or not based solely on a) attractiveness and b) very basic personal information (age, general personality, intelligence). This app would try to closely mimic that form of meeting. It would also control a major pain point with current dating apps where men send out hundreds of messages without hearing back and women tend to get buried in a sea of copy and paste messages. It would do this by first requiring the female (in hetero users) to indicate interest in the male (real life: raised eyebrow/come hither look). Men can say they are interested in a girl (real life: buy her a drink) but they cannot interact with them any further until the woman says she is interested. The idea would be to start this in colleges where the majority of users are of similar demographics and actively seeking casual dates/hookups.

-an online marketplace for premium artisan greeting cards. i've always thought there was a market for the $10-$20 greeting card as long as you can really bring something people want. You see it with Hallmark trying out fresh ink and with the rise of Papyrus. The idea is that you can find plenty of very good artists who are looking for a way to pad their income. Personally I'm family friends with a good number of cartoonists but a look in any liberal arts university could surely uncover 5-10 quality artists. So the idea would be to seed the site with numbered, limited runs of the best of these artists greeting cards. You would need to find a quality printer and make sure your packaging is worthwhile but if you could seed the site initially with 10-20 new/unique quality greeting cards it could turn into it's own machine. Especially if you allow artists outside those you "invited" initially to submit their entries and have the top 5-10 make it to print each month/quarter. After allowing for printing and shipping costs you could give the artists 60% and take 40% of the proceeds. If done right this could be a place for artists to get started/make extra money.

-and iphone app built to be a "personal assistants assistant". An app that can take a persons calendar (google, outlook, ios), travel plans (tripit), address book, etc and make common tasks for a personal assistant much easier to do.

-a site/app that makes it easier to find a workout partner. it's been shown that people work out harder and more consistently when they have a workout partner but finding one (especially in urban areas) is incredibly difficult.
It does puzzle me that they also require monthly pass user to tag off. I paid for a 1-3 pass, you shouldn't need me to tag at all!
This sign-in exists only so that your Aero FS-running computers can get the 2048-bit RSA encryption keys keys they need—your computers then authenticate against each other using these keys, and can do so even if the AeroFS servers are down.

Does this mean that if AeroFS goes down (gets sold, shut-down, whatever), the clients running on my machines will continue to sync P2P?
Yikes. Surely there have been security bugs discovered since then, no? I wouldn't use that browser.
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Hey Steve, I'm not aware of that definition. Hmm...Would have to have a link to that definition? I guess tweak the script pretty simply if that's the case.

But yes, to answer your question, this is a word count as defined by spaces between words.
My Fav - I wish there was a website where non-profits could ask for what they need and people could work for them from home.
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I have been thinking of same being a 1 man small business owner. I m using wave right now but it just doesn't solve my problems.
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MSFT has come a long ways in the past 2 years, but whew... they have so far to go to capture the hearts & minds of the people. Hope this story makes it to the ears on high
True, but only when it's not an isolated incident. I know or have spoken with many unpaid Titanium developers and this is the first time I've heard of something like this happening. I haven't seen comments on this thread from someone else experiencing this.
It's not really supposed to have a lot of "features." It's a single-purpose site – find your basic word count.

It took me a few hours and taught me a little about programming. I view it much more as a stepping stone to understanding development and programming than as a full-time business project.
>immediately recognize they were paying tribute to the original //

s/were paying tribute to/copied.

Surely the point is that an ethical business seeks license from those they choose to copy before doing so. It is not at all respectful to copy verbatim without seeking any form of warrant or approval.
The metered paywall seems like a decent approach though. You can view X articles for free in a month. So if you just occasionally land on an article, you don't need to pay. But if it becomes something you look at regularly you need to buy a subscription.
There's not many worse things day to day than to run up to the Caltrain as its approaching only to see someone fumbling with the ticket machine, knowing you're about to lose a whole hour sitting there.
comming back to comment again and I'd have to say that I think instructing someone completely new to linux to use a more "stable" linux like CentOS or Debian can be just as damanging when they cannot figure out how to get java installed correctly or they need to connect a printer. I think the gnome shell is responsible for those things, however those things work less in CentOS and Debian than they do at distro's aimed at the desktop. You are recommending stable server distro's for desktop deployment... there is no crime there but I do question your logic (because I'm curious) about how CentOS would be better than Ubuntu for your typical desktop user.

I should note that I use Ubuntu 12.04 w/ Unity as my developer workstation at work but I use Arch linux on my home machines. Would I ever recommend Arch over Ubuntu? Only if you are a developer. And only maybe then.

I think Ubuntu is far from perfect, but it is rock solid stable by end users definitions.
I've used Caltrain+clipper quite a lot, the real issues is that there are no gates (no one forcing you to tag out), and not enough readers on busy stations.
This is really an investment issue, and with Caltrain not having reliable funding from year to year, we should be glad you can even use clipper on it, because the old paper ticketing system sucked, and I've missed a lot of trains because of it.
I'm thinking actually, perhaps the solution to micropayment tips would be Bitcoin. It seems ridiculous, but it would allow you to bypass credit card processing fees, at least once the money is actually in the system.
Overall, this is such a non-problem compared to things most people in SF have to deal with (i.e. street sweeping/parking)

If you can remember to scan when you get on (which doesn't fit the "normal" behavior of a paper ticket either) then you can remember to scan when you get off. It's no different than BART, the main difference is BART funnels you through an exit. If you have a round trip commute, then you are going to enter and exit at nearly the same points.
Author here - never even thought about the stock possibilities. Was thinking more about annual fee for access (career advice, inside info, moving within companies, negotiating raises or promotions, etc.) and perhaps some search fee. As I've written in other comments here, the difference is that the agent represents you and not the company (since you pay the bill) - it's a big difference and the agent will give you more honest opinions that are not at all clouded by fees. I was hoping some dialogue would come out of this.
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My point is not that time is money. My point is that instead of the title talking about his movie his selling point is that is cost him 0$. Well that's fine and all but that is not impressive to me.
I completely agree and curse Caltrain every time I pay $12.75 for a $4.75 ride. Thinking about it, I'd probably save money buying oneway tickets as much as I forget to "tag off".
I would love to have an agent - I am not very good at selling myself, and it could free up time and attention for other things. If you can help me come out ahead financially (while giving me at least comparably interesting things to work on) I'd happily part with a good chunk of that monetary difference in outcomes. In principle. In practice, figuring out what that difference is seems nontrivial, but I'm listening.
Thanks for the suggestions and for the bug report.
> Normal users shouldn't be running their own Tent servers

I used to agree with you that the general public shouldn't run their own server, but that argument may no longer apply.

For example, my home PC (a mac) wakes up from sleep whenever I remotely need something off of it (took no setup on my part). The machine is always backed up, and already has all of my photos and address book. It's been just as reliable as my paid shared web host. So, why not start deploying services from our home PCs.

Think of the obvious benefit—I no longer have to upload photos. Given some additional thought I bet we could come up with other benefits to hosting from home.

I'm not quite ready to advocate for this, but maybe it's time to reconsider this assumption.
Trading is already gamified. You pick correctly, you make money. You pick incorrectly, you lose money.
>I am not too bothered about them needing to do more work given that they produce a premium product, in fact putting more care in is their entire shtick!

Putting more care in the LATEST offering. Putting more care in older versions if a loosing proposition.

And it's not just a "throw more people / money at it" problem. After some point the complexity of legacy support grows exponentially and the code suffers (or gets hold back).

>Car makers don't stop making spare parts a couple of years after a new model comes out. If they did no one would buy them.

5 years in computing is like 20 car years...
Take a look at a fantastic metro system, the Hong Kong MTR - doesn't matter if you're paying by disposable ticket (ie, cash) or octopus card (ie, tap-to-pay - system existed more than a decade ago)... you need to check in, then check out (turnstyle).

Because you can't leave the system without going through a checkpoint, there is no need to check tickets while in the train - THAT part sounds pretty inefficient to me.
Sigh, I have a monthly pass, I tag once per month, then I don't worry any more.

One could go to turnstiles like bart where you have to 'ticket in' and 'ticket out', it will probably come to that.

One solution would be to have RFID readers scan for your card coming off the train but that opens up other issues.

If you are a gadget person, having an app on your phone which geo-fenced your ticket usage would be another option. Harder to do the verify on the train step if its too easily forged/spoofed.
You should put your e-mail address in your profile on HN. The e-mail field isn't publicly visible.
The product itself can at times be news--especially if it is a major technological advancement. What is NOT news is the "event," the perfectly choreographed dance between the corporation and the media, where the company manufactures fanfare and urgency and theater around the launch and the media turns it into reality by writing about it.

Many news staples fall into this category from movie premieres to press releases to anniversaries to deliberate "leaks."
Clipper is a terrible service but not for the reasons outlined in this post. This post misses the point that tagging on and tagging off is a simple and relatively elegant solution to the problem posed by Caltrain charging by distance traveled.

But that's not the real problem with Clipper. The real problem with clipper is their horrible customer service. Here's my story with clipper - and I hardly think I'm alone.

I got my card about a year ago when I was going from San Jose to Redwood City once a week. On their web page I set up an 8-travel auto-pay system where I get 8 San Jose<->Redwood City tickets, and when I run out it buys a new set of 8 automatically.

This works great until one day I missed my stop and wound up in Gilroy (woops). What SHOULD have happened is that I tag off, pay full price for the ticket I actually traveled, and have the 8 ride ticket refunded. If the card 'balance' (non-ticket cash on the card) goes below $0 (or, for them, $1.25 for reasons I don't understand) then it debits my account for the remaining balance.

Instead what happened was my card went 'negative', and they shut down the card until I went to a Walgreens (?!) to pay the remainder of the balance. I was cautioned that paying online could take 1 to 2 weeks to clear the card. Where in the heck did Walgreens come in to the picture? By the way, despite having a banner outside advertising Clipper cards, my Walgreens had no idea what I was talking about. They had to call the GM to call the Clipper people to figure out what was going on.

Fast forward, and now I'm commuting between Millbrae and San Francisco via Caltrain again. I just started at this company and they pay for Caltrain, so I link my Employee benefits clipper system to my clipper card - a process they made surprisingly simple which unsurprisingly completely F'ed up everything.

All of a sudden I can no longer add funds via my regular portal and have to go through the company portal - and get this, though I bought my employee-benefit-purchased monthly pass on Sept 4th, that was too late for September. So I had to go to - you guessed it - Walgreens to buy a monthly pass with cash for the card that could no longer be used online.

I'm hoping that it will work again in October... we will see.
I would be more interested in a "collusion score" that analyzes whether you upvote certain users or posts consistently when they are just submitted.
Some notes:

- When you go to "Apply as a Developer" the title is "Apply as a Designer" then the copy says "Apply as a Developer"
- When you're on the "Apply as a Developer/Designer" page, the "Post a Job" button gets squished.

- Also on that page, none of the modal windows display.

- I'm a developer, but I'm curious...how are you handling payments? Are they wiring money? Why do you have to approve projects if they are willing to pay $100 for you to find a developer?

- There's an error on line 156 in the wufoo.js file.

- The bottom says "Apply as a Designer" but it goes to the same page as "Apply as a Developer". There is a big difference between the two :)

- I don't mean to be rude, but is English your first language? From reading through the copy on the site, and your blog, I found a lot of grammatical errors (I'm not saying I'm perfect, nobody is perfect). I'd go on fiverr or have someone just proof your site, it's worth it. I always have a friend double check stuff for me :)

It looks cool though. I found your post for the fact you asked in another thread if anyone knows any mobile app developers. I'd probably delete that thread, because it makes you look like a recruiter that's just getting started.

Good luck!
Completely agree. Bad design to place card readers in non-obvious places. You should be basically unable to leave the station without running into one.
Fuck you, got mine!
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Mozart had a dice game to create minuets.

(http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Mozart/dice/)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel)

Your question is tricky because you haven't mentioned anything about time signatures or length of time for each note, nor how many octaves you want to work with.

A regular piano has 88 keys.

So, 88 notes with a 32 note length sequence (with fixed times etc) means 88 ^ 32 or 1.6728057e+62.
You do realize that it's quite easy to solve the halting problem in most cases, right?

The halting problem is unsolvable because _very particular_ (and pathological) cases are unsolvable. If a process is in a loop between the same instructions at the same states, it's very easy to tell that it's not going to halt -- the only challenge is that you can't make this determination for all processes all the time.

Mathematically, note that the concept of an oracle for the halting problem is well-defined (and a useful concept).
I don't follow how HTML leads to centralized services. Explanation?
Seriously, what is wrong with all these people? Apparently, thousands of people showed up after an innocent girl posted on facebook that she would have her birthday party. And lo and behold, just like the movie, thousands of people showed up and began to riot. Why on earth does something simple like this bring up the worst in peoples' minds?

We like to think that we live in a civilized country, that this kind of stuff just doesn't happen here in The Netherlands. It saddens me, makes me ashamed to be Dutch.
It's even worse than that - if you tag off at the wrong station, your monthly pass gets locked in at that other station. You can't change it. I had a friend who traveled TO work on a shorter route than when he traveled back FROM work - so on the 1st of every month he had to drive to a farther station from his house to ride the train in, lest his card lock him in to a shorter route than he needed.
and then what excactly should happen?
Best quote:

"If you got into this business to make peoples’ lives better, and you have produced something which will succeed with that, and you are aware of truth about reality such as “better marketed products beat better engineered products every single bloody time”, then you have an obligation to get better at marketing yourself."
Monthly passes are also zone-based, so on the off chance that you are making a cash-based trip outside of those zones, you still need to tag in and out for that trip.
It's been a while, but I seem to remember, if you have a monthly, you only need to tag in and out on the first trip of the month to activate it (no refunds after that).
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Aren't those turnstiles exactly the solution? In London I used an Oyster card and it worked exactly that way. Scan it once to get in and scan it once to get back out. Works brilliantly.
That's why the big G will always be the king of search. :)
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This is why I still buy the paper tickets -- it's less of a risk than dealing with forgetting to scan when I get off. If I'm only going 2 zones, I'd get charged $5, but if I forget to scan off, I would get charged $12. If I pay by paper, I don't have to worry about the possible rogue charge since I'd already paid.
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I more just wish these systems gave some sort of discount for taking the same path at the same time nearly every day.