skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a joke/conversion project a little while ago that achieves the same ends without having to compile to JavaScript.

The only reason I wrote it was to prove to a co-worker who was "hating" on JavaScript that it IS possible to have a type system in JavaScript - if that's what you want. Its not the same end result but similar enough to warrant a mention.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/christopherdebeer/TypedFunc
Why is this a question. Of course we are. Black computer scientists represent less than one percent: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/computer-science/cs-peeps.ht...
Embrace, extend and extinguish?
I'm interested in reading about other HN members that deal with this struggle as well. Or, am I just crazy?
This is very different than my understanding of coffee script and dart in that it is a superset of JS. This means you can incrementally make use of and learn it.

MS came with a different approach. Rather than recreating the language of the web they asked how they van make it better.
This is going to be unsatisfying, but the only thing that works for motivating me to understand a piece of kernel code has been wanting to change it and having to learn exactly how it works to achieve that.

If you just want to learn more about how the kernel fits together, reading http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ (Linux Device Drivers, freely downloadable) is a fine start.
SEEKING WORK - Greenville, NYC, SF, Remote.

I am a kick-ass front-end developer and designer with a focus on UX. I've cofounded a startup in an accelerator, worked with a startup out of Harvard, and worked with several design agencies and other startups. My skill set is HTML5, CSS3/SASS, JS, and mobile. I'm familiar with Rails and the command line. I love making users lives easier and building beautiful applications.

If this sounds like what you need or want to see some of my latest work, get in touch. josh@joshmlewis.com.
Out of the Enlightenment period, there came about what scholars called enlightened absolutism; its meaning was often simplified into a short but accurate phrase: "Tout pour le peuple, rien par le peuple" (in French), or "Todo para el pueblo, pero sin el pueblo" (in Spanish).

I'm not aware of how much of it is taught in English, but the translation is roughly "Everything for the people, without the people's consent". The point of this phrase is that the governments/monarchies said they would act to protect their own people, apparently in good faith, but they only acted to protect themselves and the majority in power.

To directly address your point, those in government do not have "the same personal pressures as anyone else". Why? Because they are entrusted with representing an entire population.
Thanks for the feedback. We're still working on nailing the design - we need a way that all the buttons look uniform, and want a way to explain what they are (namely Persona, as I said, still working on it.) And fitting the multiple options in the small space is no easy feat. Fortunately hover isn't necessary for interaction, so the touch screen device point is moot. And the "moving target" is the same reaction as people gave Apple's dock. But you're right - this design isn't perfect yet.

Once a user's source authenticity is verified, we give the option to merge accounts once we detect overlaps. So if you login via Twitter, verify your Yahoo! email address through the profile, and then login through Yahoo!, you'll be in the same account as you were in the 1st login. We have ~20 scenarios that we maintain for logins, and have heard 0 complaints on the assumptions we have in practice.

Thanks for the screenshot - we'll get that fixed today. Would you like an email once it is resolved?
Syntactically, I find it very warty for a language that was designed and released in the last five years.

It's 2012. Should we still be talking to computers in arcane syllables, or is there a better option?
Sublime Text, Vi, Emacs: TypeScript enabled
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/10/01/...
Sometimes it's not so much "NIH syndrome" as "Everything else really, truly is crap". Scottschulthess mentiones that all CMSes are terrible. Some of my colleagues, for example, needed to spin up hundreds of virtual machines very very quickly, and as it turns out, OpenStack is absolute crap. So they took 2 weeks and wrote something a fraction of the size of OpenStack which can have hundreds of virtual machines running in the time it takes OpenStack to boot up 1/10th as many... and crash.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has baby boy
PyPy (on it's good day) is within 2x mark from the equivalent C. We're planning on closing this gap, but also we're planning on making every day the good day (right now you kind of have to know what you're doing in case you want to hit the sweet spot). This might be an interesting read for you:
https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/2cameron_spar...
The website itself has a lot more information:

http://www.typescriptlang.org/

At a glance, this looks like a rather elegant solution to the problem of adding optional type-markers to JS without completely destroying the nature of the language (as AS3 did, IMO).
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores, CA) -- https://www.rumblegames.com

We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not too niche-y.

Our first title is a cooperative multiplayer 3D action-RPG. Think Diablo on Facebook. But free-to-play, and no big download. No obscure plugins, either -- we use Flash, but you wouldn't believe it. Adobe says they've never seen anything higher quality in Flash.

Seriously, check out our trailer: https://www.rumblegames.com/kingsroad (and that was 7 months ago)

We're in closed beta. Let me know if you want to give it a test drive.

Rumble is backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures ($15mm series A). We have one of the strongest founding teams the gaming industry has ever seen. (No, really: https://www.rumblegames.com/about/our-team)

We're both a developer and publisher of games, and we need help on both sides. If you want to develop the next generation of top-quality games, or you want to build and scale infrastructure to 1mm+ concurrent players, this is for you.

Positions: https://www.rumblegames.com/careers (contact me directly if something isn't listed)

Engineers

* Platform -- Java/Groovy/Grails/AWS (esp. Senior and Architect/Lead/VP)

* Web -- HTML+CSS+JS+(PHP/Python/Ruby)

* Game -- Flash+AS3/Java/C/C++/C#/Unity

* Data -- Hadoop/R+ML/Stats

Other

* Producers

* Product Managers

* Analysts

* Artists

* Designers

Drop me a line: mike.babineau@rumblegames.com
San Francisco, Ca - Chute is Hiring!

TL;DR: http://www.getchute.com/jobs

We are a venture funded, Y Combinator-backed, engineering-driven startup in SoMA, San Francisco. Our goal is to serve, route, or analyze every photo and video on the web. We are a small team of mostly engineers and growing, but are already collecting and serving photos and videos for huge, paying customers including NBC News, TNT, Taylormade, Golf Digest, Lucky Magazine, Saks, and many more.

We have a fast-paced and fun team and a highly collaborative culture.

DEV OPS ENGINEER
We're looking for a badass Lead DevOps Engineer to address the challenges of building an internet-scale platform. You'll join a growing team solving extremely challenging engineering and operational issues. You'll be in charge of all of our development and production environments and software deployments.

RAILS+NODE.JS ENGINEER
We're looking for a badass full-stack engineer to join our growing engineering team. We have a fast-paced, fun team and a highly collaborative culture. You're versed in all things Ruby,Rails. You relish solving problems at scale.
An introduction to the magic of Google Tag Manager
Sublime text, Vi and Emacs syntax files for TypeScript too
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/10/01/...
Sure, the dialog iOS provides is not particularly friendly. To fix this issue:

Download iOS 6 GM from developer.apple.com/ios
Restart your device is DFU mode
Option click 'Restore' and select the iOS 6 GM .ipa from its download location
Restore.
I've heard of another Enron project where they installed EM devices on land adjacent to power line ROW, to measure the current. If you understand when certain lines are near capacity you can get a better price for your supply over other lines.
The online playground can do live syntax and type checking as well as provide function call hints. That's pretty cool.
Downvotes are fine, but I would appreciate a counter-point.
I do wish Sidekiq had an option for using postgresql for the job store (like queue_classic: https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic)
Samsung has already patched this vulnerability.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/samsung-patched-dirty-USS...
A lot of newspapers have horrible websites. Aside from aesthetics, search is broken on many of these sites. Another problem is local government, city council minutes and other information is not made available in digital format.

I work at a newspaper that is a controlled by a corporate office across the country. (They know best) I also live in a small town that has been slow to adopt technology.
The worst thing is that they already have the runtime that is language-agnostic, performant, has a great standard library and so on. When they tried making it available on the Web, the so-called "open stadards" won. Which are in fact a bag of shit.
Oh God... I always said that the only companies I'd give up my startup ambitions for was SpaceX and Tesla. I just returned to Toronto from San Jose and I saw your plant from the 880. Absolutely amazing looking.

Can you tell us more about what the stationary storage team works on? From the name, it sounds to be the systems that the user uses when they store the vehicle at the end of their trip?
I'm not sure one is more dead than the other.

Mutt is Open Source.
The Compact Disc turns 30 today
- Slashdot has the best moderation to show you the best posts.

- Reddit has best conversation because the red envelope tells you of replies.

- Hacker News has the best audience.

If these were combined into one site it would be hella cool, but unless HN evolves the tech I can tell you what site I won't expect to be around many years from now. Blacklisting unsavory contributors and deleting posts is only going to work to maintain standards for so long.
Not more than an hour ago I checked in with my Facebook map on iOS 6. It found all nearby places and I didn't have any issues with it.
Square buys 80/20
i agree, that seems like a huge pain in the ass to configure when sparrow is working fine for me.
Xkcd style graphs
Simple Background Jobs on the JVM with JRuby and RabbitMQ
Yeah, that is very true. These are meant to be smells, just something to watch out for. I personally think its impractical to remove all smells, just to be wary of having too many.
Show HN: HourlyPuppy - a new puppy each hour, every hour
NYC Wordpress Developer or Web Designer - NYC

I'm looking for a junior Wordpress developer / general assistant. $16/hour part-time (approx. 10 hours a week mostly on site at General Assembly NYC).

You have ONE or SOME of the following (let me know which apply to you):

☆ Experience developing with HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery

☆ Experience developing with Wordpress

☆ Experience with git, Ruby or any other languages is a bonus but not necessary

☆ Web design skills

☆ You have excellent writing or proofreading skills

☆ You are curious, and passionate about web development and you're constantly improving your skills

☆ You have a portfolio (or a few example) of your work

☆ You're not above doing admin work, research or grabbing coffee... I wear a bunch of different hats and I'd hope that you would also have an open attitude if we work together.

About me:

I've been developing websites for 12 years. I've worked with a variety of big names like Toyota, Grey Goose, Sony Records. I'm looking for someone to assist me on some upcoming projects, and in general to help me manage/organize projects.

Email me info[at] blue150.com
Thanks!
There are some amusing parallels to their WWW competitor that was first called MSN/Microsoft Network in 1995.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Msn_classic_si...

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/history/ScreenShots/msn_news....
The most thorough treatment is Bovet & Cesati (944 pages): http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Linux-Kernel-Third-Editi...

A good "gentle introduction" book is the Love book (440 pages): http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/d...
You can also lock orientation on iPhone in the menu that appears with the triple-press of home button.
What is the rough range of cost for Satellite?

For those interest to know more, the Satellite link:

http://www.searchdiscovery.com/satellite/
Linux 3.6 kernel released with 'hybrid sleep' capability
Weird that I didn't spot a friendly list of features.. seems to have some cool ones, like a shortened function expression (from the doc PDF):

(x) => { return Math.sin(x); }

and modules, which are implemented using the immediately invoked function expression pattern:

module M {
var s = "hello";
export function f() {
return s;
}
}

Syntax seems more clear than CoffeeScript and tool chain will probably shape up better. Looking forward to seeing this get some traction.
There are definitely studies that show this is why some women leave the field, even after overcoming the hurdles to get into it in the first place.

http://www.lpfi.org/sites/default/files/tilted_playing_field...
Reddit's default UI went the same way, if not as far, but you can turn the vast majority of the previews and other debris off so that it looks very similar to HN (and very similar to how Reddit looked around a year in, which was UI perfection for me). I'll agree that if I'm not logged in, Reddit is a confusing jumble. Turning off previews goes a long way toward making it a solid block of paragraphs of text, which is most easy to read. For me. :)
Boston, MA - AppNeta (aka Tracelytics)

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Front-End Engineer

We're working on an awesome product that helps devops run their web apps more efficiently. We do distributed tracing, ala Google Dapper / Twitter Zipkin, then turn it into actionable SAAS-delivered performance insights.

Our team is super-smart, very autonomous, and well-funded. We get to work with cool technology and solve high-data-volume problems in real time.

Technologies: Python, D3, backbone.js, C/C++, Cassandra, MySQL, EC2, git

More info: http://tracelytics.com/jobs

(we've also got hackers located in Providence, RI and Vancouver, BC -- inquire within for details!)
Maybe start by removing all shortcuts, bookmarks to HN. Make it as inconvenient as possible to access HN.
osmeta

Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain View)

Positions:

* Full-Time Software Engineering

* Full-Time Design (UX and UI)

Come work with a remarkable team of programmers who have been the key people in the creation of numerous well known products: Android, Chrome for Android, Chrome OS, the heart of Google's crawling infrastructure, AdWords, ZooKeeper, and many, many more. http://osmeta.com/about/ tells you a few things about the kind of people involved. It's not time yet for us to publicize details of our technology, but do look carefully at what our team members have done in the past.

For the software engineering positions, we aren't looking for any specific domain expertise because what we're doing involves significant depth and breadth of computer science. The ability to context switch between a diverse range of things is the primary thing we care about. It's highly likely that a great programmer with experience on any platform and in any compiled programming language will find our work interesting, challenging, and rewarding. Examples of "any" would be one or more of C, C++, and Objective-C on one or more of Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Twilio's first support hire joins engineering
I've written a lot of JavaScript, including large-scale projects, and never once have thought, "Gee, I wish I had type checking."

Haven't we come to a consensus that types are more trouble than they're worth? They hurt clarity and catch few bugs.
Patio11 and Ramit Sethi did a series of podcasts recently. In the second one they talked about why it's important to raise prices since it helps weed out stingy clients who can also be stingy with their gratitude at the same time, and he says it also encourages you to do a better job.

All things that i agree with, but they also stated that if you increase prices the value you add in terms of what you deliver should also go up to reflect the increase in price.

I contacted some freelancers only shortly after and was quoted some astronomical rates for freelancing, and yet there seemed to be no reflection of the immense increase in value that i'd be getting as a result. Basically, they didn't substantiate the increase in price, and it didn't seem like they were able to.

PS - Admittedly, this could be my paranoia and cynicism kicking in, since i had nothing to compare the history of their rates, but it just seemed a little too co-incidental that i was getting quoted some bizarre rates a day after the podcast released.
Looks like this is being run from Belgium. Do COPPA laws affect US children that may try to use this service?
On the Techcrunch article also posted to HN recently, the designer said they would not be baking TypeScript into Chakra, but rather letting it compile to JS and running it the same way everywhere.
As when Knuth stopped releasing new versions of TeX because it reached a point where it was "done", software that has been around for long enough can eventually mature to the point where there's nothing left to add without expanding the scope of the project beyond its original definition.

Mutt may simply be at that point. I use Mutt as my primary MUA in a very similar manner to the author of the article, and I can't really say that there are any features that I want that it lacks. Of course, I can't speak for everyone on that point; for instance, some people actually want to send and receive HTML email, and Mutt can't easily deal with that. But for some of us, lack of HTML support is itself a feature, and when you really have to, piping a text/html MIME part to a browser for rendering is really easy to accomplish.

I know essentially nothing about Sparrow, but I suspect that it is a much newer product than Mutt, has had far less time to mature, and as such simply requires a more frequent release schedule than a project with Mutt's long history.

Basically, a comparison between most recent release dates doesn't necessarily mean what you think it means.
JIBE

New York City and Washington, D.C.
FULLTIME Rails and Frontend Developers
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We're the leading innovator in recruitment technology.
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We're hiring Rails and Frontend devs.

You can apply online or just email me directly. bk@jibe.com

http://www.jibe.com/jobs/listings?q=jibe
Here is the interview and the whole story about this so called 'hacking'

http://www.pcinpact.com/news/74060-exclusif-pcinpact-intervi...

English translation
http://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&j...
Sounds like a code an idiot would have on his briefcase.
The TechCrunch[1] article states otherwise:

"Asked whether Microsoft might do something to prioritize TypecSript in Internet Explorer, Lucco, the chief architect of IE’s JavaScript rendering engine Chakra, says no."

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/microsoft-previews-new-java...
Back in the day, Microsoft would use a strategy called "embrace, extend, extinguish." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

Recently, Microsoft has been pushing Javascript very hard (embrace) and now it looks like they've started the "extend" phase.

Luckily, no one really worries about them being able to pull off the "extinguish" part anymore... they just don't have enough market power these days.

EDIT: Yes, I conceede the fact that TypeScript is OS probably addresses most of these objections.
San Francisco, Mission district

Yardsale (YC), Mobile Marketplace, seeking early iOS/Rails engineers

Contact jobs@getyardsale.com

We’re a small team of developers rethinking the way people buy and sell things locally. We're building a product in a multi-billion dollar market, and have a clear path to revenue.

We're a rails/iOS shop, looking for an iOS specialist or hardcore generalist. We're looking for individuals who:

- Above all, learn quickly

- Have a strong understanding of everything from optimized PostgreSQL to performance hacking UIWebViews

- Seek out the latest in tooling, iOS open source or clang features

This is a key technical hire (1st engineer, but founders are technical), with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

Yardsale is well-funded, and based in San Francisco's mission district. If you'd like to hear more please send your github profile or something you've built to jobs@getyardsale.com, or visit us at https://www.getyardsale.com

http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-yardsale-the-startup-tha...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/craigslists-challen...
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/yardsale-launches-nationwid...
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/yardsale-app/
http://gizmodo.com/5922187/yardsale-use-your-iphone-to-sell-...
http://lifehacker.com/5920320/yardsale-is-the-fastest-way-to...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-15-startups-everyone-is-t...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/story/2012-06-17/truon...
San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Full Time

Stealth, not your typical X-for-Y startup - consumer web / mobile

* Designers
* Engineers (Full-stack / Frontend or Backend)
* Mobile Developers
* Data Scientists (Search / NLP)

---

We are an early-stage, funded startup fundamentally changing how people interact with online services. We combine UX/UI innovation with data algorithms to allow users to accomplish tasks in a more usable, efficient, and social manner. If you're interested in making a product that people will use everyday, then you should check us out!

We work mainly with JS (jquery and node.js) and HTML5. Mobile developers should be familiar with iOS/Android.

Curious? Send your portfolio (github, dribbble, resume, etc.) to [my username] at alum.mit.edu.
Yep, collabrorative filtering works very well. It's very rare I have spam in my Gmail inbox.
Of course there's someone "trying to read and/or control your thoughts with radio waves". The technology has been around for over 60 years and it's called TV.
Import.io : real-time connectors to any data source: APIs, datasources, websites
You're missing the whole world of intensive lawyering (for the sake of it) we're living in.

Yes you can download Chromium source (which is the base for both Chrome and Yandex Browser), but actual Chrome has restrictive EULA which I linked.
Oh M$ Oh...
When you look at a bill like SOPA, there's no reasonable conclusion other than the majority is corrupt or the majority is willing to vote on something they do not understand. Both situations are fairly disturbing.
Made me immediately think of QuickBooks: http://www.intuit.com/

For a brief instant I thought it could be an official release from them, but then I realized they aren't that cool of a company.