skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see a response. I didn't catch the original job posting before it was taken down, but I have to wonder: why was it taken down in the first place?

Regardless, Streak seems like an interesting product.
A different approach to task lists utilizing flow
Download the Videos You've Uploaded to YouTube
> We have problem A, which is alleviated by crutch B.

It's not a crutch. It's "we have textbook market failure A, which is alleviated by textbook government intervention B; we can remove the intervention, but we have to substitute one of the other textbook interventions suitable for addressing market failures."

> If there is a problem with the FDA approval system, let's fix that.

First, the FDA approval system is a major but not the biggest cost in getting a new drug to market. Making it dramatically cheaper wouldn't eliminate the underlying problem.

Second, the FDA process is thorough and therefore expensive for good reason. The drug market is problematic because its exceedingly difficult to trace a condition to a particular drug, and because conditions sometimes show up years after treatment with a particular drug.

And the cost of letting a bad drug through is astronomical. A popular drug like Vioxx might be used by 50 million people worldwide. David Graham, and FDA scientist, estimated that Vioxx caused 90-140k preventable heart attacks, and estimated 25-55k preventable deaths from those heart attacks. What's the cost of this damage? How much would you have to be paid to have a heart attack? Remember the target demographic of Vioxx, middle aged men with decent jobs that provide health insurance to be able to afford an expensive medication, is one of the most expensive demographics in terms of lost income from premature death. Between premature deaths and heart attacks, the actual cost of the Vioxx mistake could be $50-$100 billion in the US. Merck had spectacular lawyers and ended up settling for a fraction of that, but that's the nature of class-action settlements--the tortfeasor only ever pays pennies on each dollar of damage their products cause. The public bears the rest of those costs.
Shit out of luck?

It seems an odd ecosystem - companies selling pc components must see the writing on the wall. Windows no longer fits all sizes, it's out ofthe mobile / tablet race, it's nearly out of the corporate desktop space (headless Linux running a web browser, people complain give em an ipad) and so which os is going to provide growth? Apple won't let the oems into it's patch, especially with their super tight manufacturing.

Never mind - two laptops, github and tarsnap and regular tests of the backup process.
Congrats! Really awesome that you followed your interests and made the leap.

It says great things about twilio that they are willing to train and grow their employees. Other companies should take note.
Geoffrey Moore: To Succeed in the Long Term, Focus on the Middle Term
The company I'm a contractor for originally hired me as a customer support agent. 9 years later, I'm one of the lead developers. Keep up the good work!
That's quite a good idea to combine with the whole backup routine.

In theory I could carry the whole thing on a USB stick.
Basically, clutter up the page more? Facebook has no background, nor do Yahoo! (front page) or Reddit (sidebar). Bing's and Yahoo!'s SERPs and Reddit's sponsored link are near Google's in terms of contrast and signage. Although Reddit opts for a border but conflates ad space with space that is used to promote results algorithmically, because it's not sufficiently confusing I guess. In terms of HN darlings, DuckDuckGo is actually worse (approximately the same contrast, "Sponsored result" doublespeak rather than just calling a spade a spade). You're asking Google to follow a standard of behavior that none of the other major sites I visit reach.

In terms of industry norms, Google is about as good as it gets. Maybe you feel that's not enough, and I guess that's a qualitative judgment that you're free to make. People will differ on things like this occasionally :P. I'd ask for some kind of harm analysis at the very least before I accept that there's anything untoward going on.
Can you slow down to go faster?
I got sent to redhat in my companies project to go from Solaris/HPUX -> Linux. It was government software and the project got put on hold....

The instructor was excellent.
https://www.redhat.com/training/courses/rhd361/course-exam-o...

Well thats kinda expensive....

One thing I found a little different was that the OS has its own libraries for everything (string.h etc..) which makes sense if you think about it.

If you want to browse the source code on-line with this software website thing called lxr (Linux Cross Reference). Its got a good search tool and linked headers. Clicking on a function name shows you where that function is used.
You can install it yourself and I think its much faster..
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.6/
http://rhkernel.org/

There is linux weekly news too, which is a decent site when I was still in the Linux porting world. Like many Linux sites, seems to lack in style, but makes up in content.
http://lwn.net/
Wilson Sonsini Retools Strategy to Land Internet Start-Ups
I learnt that `Ctrl-W` removes a whole word backwards in vim and the terminals.

The only downside is being confused when
Well, it's a one-time investment so your marketers/whoever else can make easy changes in the future. Will be useful for SEOs. Personally though I'm concerned by how checking a remote server will add to page load time.
Hasbro Brings Popular Zynga Brands to Life
Thiel on Distribution: The Binary, The Hidden and The Magical
Send email stragiht to Trello with Emello
I have to admit I'm impressed with MS here.

Contrast Dart and TS. Dart announced a year ago and they're only now dealing the JS interop issue, so to most people its still only really interesting as a play thing. TS announced and from the looks of if we choose to we can immediately start using it.

I know Dart is more ambitious and maybe long term their focus on issues other than interop will be proved to be correct, but I doubt it.
Want An RFID Chip Implanted Into Your Hand?
Non-intuitive? ASCII ^H is Backspace, which moves left, and ^J is line feed, which moves down. How much more intuitive can you GET?!?
There were three and a lot of noise around them at the time: HDCD; DVD-A; and SACD. A very small handful of audiophiles cared, nobody else was paying enough attention to hear the difference. (For the people who are going to bring up Nyquist, that is true of the frequency domain, but not of the time domain, and differences in timing affect spatial resolution more audibly than they do timbre.) Really, it only matters to people for whom listening to music is an activity unto itself, and we're a really small group. You can still get good players, but the catalog of available media is a few Sony-owned classics in SACD and the odd bit of audiophile porn (you know, where the recording is amazing, but the actual performance wasn't really worth the bother of recording it).
Something I threw together over the weekend. I've been using filepicker on a website of mine. Realized that I could hack it to upload and share files in a simple tool.

Inspired by cloudApp, when I found myself wanting a command line version.
I have more than a sneaking suspicion that this project is essentially a proof-of-concept, and that it is not heavily used at Microsoft.

My team has been dogfooding TypeScript for several months now, providing lots of feedback and writing > 30,000 lines of code (in many cases the new TypeScript code is shorter than the original Javascript).
Principia Cybernetica:Placing the Web at the Center of Man’s Quest for Knowledge
The idea seems interesting. In france we have already this kind of social network with www.senscritique.com and they also handle books and video games too, don't know if you've heard of them (as they seem limited to French language for now)
Correlation not causation.

As someone who has built large scale JavaScript applications, and has a lot of experience in other languages I really don't like JavaScript. My experience is that a lot of people know JavaScript, but very few people actually like it... Those people generally make writing JavaScript their day job.

Overall, cross browser js isn't really that difficult anymore and I rarely see people complaining about that. Of course, I've been part of the AltJS community for a while, and the people I follow closely are not front end developers.
How to Come Back from a Usability Lawsuit, Target Style
Paperless Pipeline - Full-time, Remote - Front-end Designer & Developer

We are a small, boostrapped, profitable, and growing company behind the most friendly real estate transaction software on the market.

We are looking for someone to join our team on a full-time, contract basis to lead front-end design and user experience. Our team currently lives in Austin, Chicago, and New York. You can live and work anywhere.

You code clean. You follow best practices. You comment key areas of your code. You meticulously test for cross-browser compatibility. You have a talent (and obsession) with writing highly responsive, speedy code. You take pride in what you've written, but can set your pride aside when it’s time to debug.

You have a pixel-perfect eye for design, or at least you think you do :). When looking for the color gray, you nudge left and right on your RGB scale until you find the perfect shade. You understand and can implement fluid, grid, and responsive designs. You're not afraid of retina screens, because it doesn't really change the way you design things anyway.

We work from anywhere and believe in your ability to manage your own schedule. This is a contract position that pays competitive rates. If you need to upgrade your gear, we'll pay for it. If you're interested in a coworking space outside the home, we'll pay for that too.

Sound interesting? Learn more at http://www.paperlesspipeline.com/jobs
@JackMorgan and @dmiladinov, you two have eerily similar timing and views on this one :) Any chance you're co-workers and happen to know Steve?
98% in agreement.

I think the "built by a nonprofit" is a fantastic point that they should keep pushing, though.
You could use a terminal multiplexer (tmux, screen, etc) to just split-screen your terminal.
Neat. Is this a self-learning project? Not that it's amateurish (I didn't look much at it besides clicking the link), but strikes me as that. If so, good luck
There's a higher S/N ratio for UX architect, and it's a bit easier to bullshit your way into a job as a UX architect. Of the great UX people I've met in my time, none of them actually worked as UX architects.
When you stop paying your developer account membership fee, the app isn't deleted from the users' devices - it is merely removed from the App Store. This means that existing users who don't have a copy of the app on their computers will still be able to keep the app if (1) they don't delete it from their devices or (2) they don't try to restore from iCloud (which basically downloads previously installed apps from the App Store).
Working as an animator, we found that a pretty good way to mimic wobbly lines like this was to use a 2d fractal as displacement map. Does anyone know of any algorithms for 2d displacement? Would be quite fun to port it javascript
A few points:

- The website name generator is free. If you're a startup founder, this is probably the tool you'll want to use.

- The business name generator is the paid version. It helps you generate business names for offline businesses. Compared with the time it takes to brainstorm + check domain availability on your own or use a tool like CrowdSpring (and even then you'd have to buy the domain name for thousands after you find the name you like) this is actually pretty cheap.

- The website name generator pairs your search term with 2,500 other keywords and shows you only those that are available; the business name generator pairs your search term with 4,000 other business names. The point of the WHOIS check is to confirm that the domain name is still available.

Hope this helps clarify things. I'll see what I can do to make it clearer on the site as well.
Show HN: create forums on the map
Start a company. I just did. It is also the only conceivable way these days to learn and potentially get paid. Having worked a range of jobs, much of the important stuff you can learn in a job they don't want to teach you: winning business, pricing products, etc.

Those skills are readily transferable and the owners/bosses/overlords want to keep you an employee.

When you start a company, any company will do. Check out my latest project to educate myself: https://www.rolldelivered.com
3. Maintain server

I'll gladly pay a reasonable fee for hosted services so I don't have to worry about such things.
One problem with tag management systems and the whole concept we noticed is the hassle it can be spending a lot of time searching for those tags in your website's code, especially as a marketer. So we created a tool that finds tags in your website's code and generates a report of all tag locations for you. TagInspector.com will save so much time automatically pulling tag locations for you and sending you a report, definitely worth a look. We're looking for any feedback and hopefully this saves you some time and trouble!
Language output is more important than SourceMaps. Coffeescript output is substantially harder to read than TypeScript, and personally I've never had an issue tracking down issues. I'm looking forward to it, sourcemaps or not.
if I understand you correctly, That rather defeats the privacy defending part of persona. At the moment any site who wants to verify me through openid has to request back to gmail. So google knows every time I log into a openid site, which site it is, and can also refuse to verify me if they choose (not in enough circles, arrived at site with a bing.com referrer header etc etc)

no, I like this design, and I am guessing the reason only time crossword signed up is that google and yahoo like knowing which sites I have visited. Making me even more happy to move away
Apple just released the SKStoreProductViewController in iOS 6, which allows a user to access the app store from within an app (like a modal view that slides up from the bottom). In fact, the WWDC video presenting it uses cross-promotion of apps as its first example use of the view controller. If you're right about Apple's motivation, I would think using the SKStoreProductViewController would be an easy compromise for developers to take.

Edit: If you haven't seen it before, this https://www.dropbox.com/s/eytnivsz5ft43mh/iOS%20Simulator%20...
Apple should rank apps based on actual usage not downloads.

On the web we call unique users vanity metrics, and monthly active users the real deal. Why not the same for mobile?
Show HN: circuit and PCB design in your browser
What keeps you from asking those questions then? Go ahead! Thankfully the other comments seem to focus on the actual project.

Now your reply gave my comment way too much impact on the discussion list.
There have certainly been worse offenders in the annals of job posts on HN than Streak, but I see the point here (mostly).

However, job boards are classified ads, and oftentimes the controversial ones get the most eyeballs. Think about it from Streak's perspective: "okay, we're a young, relatively unknown company, and we're trying to hire the best engineers we can. Also, ideally, we want to screen for people who actually find our challenge interesting."

Through that lens it makes perfect sense that they call out an entrenched, better known enemy. It's controversial enough to be memorable--especially for people who aren't big fans of Salesforce (exactly the types they're looking for).

The problem is that those first few words is often all they have to get your attention. The forum's all wrong, and job posts in general are terrible places to tell people about your culture.

I'm just happy that folks have mostly weeded out the "rockstar" and "ninja" job posts. Those were god awful...
Well, there is/was SACD. I don't know much about it. It remains a niche market; whether sustaining or dying, I couldn't say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD

Interesting to think about it in comparison with Blu-Ray, which has also had issues around uptake.

P.S. And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio , I see.
Unfortunately not on touch devices, as far as I have ever been able to tell.
The fact that a massive Internet backlash was required is a sign that the system is broken.
1. As others have said: BitBucket.com. Every time these guys are on here promoting this service they act like they've never heard of it. But they're in this space? Doesn't make sense.

2. I don't know how good I feel trusting my source code to a sorta-startup run by a small group of fulltime students. I don't think you should quit school to run this startup, but I do think this is an awfully serious service to try to offer in your spare time.

Yes, it's a developers job to ensure that he has backups -- and Git repos lend themselves to this very well. But that doesn't absolve you of the responsibility to treat your user's code as if they have no other copies and no other backups.

3. Your post about why the world needs another Git hosting service just explains why you think Github isn't the right fit. It doesn't really make your case.

4. When you're talking to engineers and you write this big setup paragraph about how much work it was just to share a git repo, and all of us are familiar with the myriad of hosting options, it just makes you look like you either don't know about your competition or you're hoping we don't. Not an effective strategy.

5. Github will give free repo's to students. And if you're not a student and you want a private repo paying a small amount for it is not a bad thing. In fact, it's a good thing. My code is valuable to me. I want to pay you a fair sum for a fair service.

I don't think you should quit what you're doing if you're having fun, learning, and believe in your idea. But GitHub is a huge brand with a ton of goodwill from the community. BitBucket is own by Atlassian which generally makes great things. Both have fantastic GUI's for Windows & Mac and great websites. So far I haven't heard anything that differentiates you. Don't treat me like I'm dumb, just show me why you're better.
The reason we loved Tower is the reason it died: just about every one of its stores was a record museum. You could find almost anything you were looking for, which meant that they had to stock just about everything anyone would ever be looking for. If I'd damaged (or inadvertently "lent" permanently) an album that was a somewhat obscure gem in a less-than-popular genre when I'd bought it ten years previous, I could always walk into Tower and get a new copy. Great for the customer, but I can't see it being a great business model overall.
I've noticed that when I'm on a laptop with a glossy screen, the difference in background colors are a lot harder to distinguish.
Nice! There's an opportunity for some company sponsor this (a la localtunnel.com and twilio).
CardSpace was 2003ish.. "browser plugins" were the standard option for all kind of things, while JS shims merely provided <blink> on non-MS browsers.
Torrent Sites Down after Hosting Site Raid
Be positive
If the request is async, it shouldn't cause any problems.
John Carmack did post there somewhat regularly.

http://slashdot.org/~John+Carmack/firehose

Paul Graham used to be a regular user as well.

http://slashdot.org/~bugbear/firehose
It is easier to mentally calculate the approximate circumference of a circle whose radius is a multiple of 7 using 22/7, than it is using 3.14(...)

Admittedly, that's a pretty niche use, but a use, nonetheless.
Well, I am Steve, the author, and yep, we used to work together a few years back.
This impacts free + IAP models also. Here's the classic use case:

1. User gets a shiny new iPhone.
2. User installs my (free) AwesomeApp on new device.
3. User is missing premium AwesomeApp features, is now confused about why.
4. User goes to IAP part of app and tries to recover the IAP/premium features, except Apple's UI here would lead user to believe they are being charged for the IAP again.

This is often followed by:

5. User contacts support and is very confused. Support cannot verify whether or not user owns the IAP, because the App Store is a black box and we get no information about purchasers.
Why does iTunes 10.7 try to contact the domain bogusapple.com?
:D Good one!
Thats because the 2007 law only applied to large stores (ie, Safeway, Walgreens). Smaller stores were exempt.
http://assembla.com - Free private repo (svn/git) with ability to add many users.
Very awesome tool, it's a great way of sharing nice and quickly!
4. put repos in dropbox folder

(5. have repo world readable when security fails)
Can't wait to get into the Beta. Another great technology coming out of Austin.
Given that it uses Filepicker.io, probably makes sense for us to take a look. The idea of turning files into URLs is one that we really like
Will you be willing to sponsor a visa? This sounds great.
Can you give a brief summary of the issues here. I'm not planning on implementing this for anything, but I'm curious why it's more complicated than it appears to be.
Stop Bashing TypeScript
Oh, please.

So because of Dart -- which isn't exactly storming the internet and converting developers -- this is some lame Microsoft me-too attempt?

Look at the ecosystem! How many JS Frameworks? Variety is good.
In this case, I must infer that the culture of documentation is not the same at Microsoft as it is at Google.

Further, how can you have a tool like this and nothing for generating type-aware documentation from your source code? Google uses jsdoc-toolkit, so this is a moot point for them. Either you guys are using this in an informal fashion, or documentation isn't that important at Microsoft, or you just haven't released the doc generation tool(s), which would be a really odd choice!
Nice utility!

Just a note:

28: exit("`curl` is requrired. Please install it")
Hasbro is rebranding 3 of their properties to use the name of the Zynga game which used the Hasbro game for inspiration:

Scrabble becomes Words with Friends
Monopoly becomes Cityville Monopoly
Pictionary becomes Draw Something
Hungry Hungry Hippos becomes....Farmville Hungry Hungry Herd
Why not have a document with hardware accelerated effects? Anyway, we're talking about a feature which already existed and worked quite well, which Apple felt the need to discourage the use of, probably for battery reasons. Which is fine, but it's annoying that they didn't document it in more detail.

It's ultimately the developer's responsibility to make good choices on behalf of users, whether on native, hybrid, or the mobile web.
ChaCha

Multiple FULL-TIME & CONTRACT engineers in Carmel, IN (just outside Indianapolis)

Our engineers work on exciting and difficult problems - our goal is to answer any question algorithmically in realtime. That's a BIG challenge, and it requires a lot of NLP, search, code optimization, and other fun work.

Our website is currently ranked #46 in Quantcast's US rankings, and earlier this year we answered our 2 billionth question, so there's plenty of traffic & data to keep us busy.

We do most of our work in Java, but we also use Groovy & Grails, Rails, and a handful of other tools. Data-wise we use MySQL and Cassandra for OLTP, and primarily Hadoop & HBase for OLAP. We deploy to CentOS, and use git for SCM. We use a Kanban SDLC.

We have a very collaborative open office environment in an open-air mall with easy access to places like Whole Foods, Starbucks, and a number of great restaurants. Company lounge with an xbox, regular "office olympics", and plenty of other perks as well.

If you're interested in seeing our open positions, head over to http://chacha.myexacthire.com/searchjobs.php
The Down & Dirty Lighting Kit