skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because iOS is getting features like "Facebook integration" while Android rolls out 360 degree panoramas on a device that outspecs the iPhone 5 and is less than half the price.

I'd be worried too.
MIT researcher creates an algorithm that can identify Twitter trends
Freshplum (YC S11) Launches Helium
Hey guys this is my first thread on HN, but I thought I would share my latest adventure, PosterFuse.com. PosterFuse allows users to create a collage of their instagram and Facebook photos which can be turned into a physical poster, or a Facebook cover photo.

I would love feedback on the idea / design / anything.
Thanks!
I really don't like the core language developers spending time on an IDE or editor (which is why I would have loved for IDLE to never have been part of the Python standard library), but just as a tangentially related anecdote on the value of interaction between language designers and text editors: I found it eye opening (and insightful) when I learned that in Python the reason why statements that introduce blocks (if, with, for, while) have colons at the outset, even though newlines would be enough (as it is in Ruby and elsewhere) is so that text editors have an easier time indenting: To put it simply, if you see a colon at the end of a line, you know it's time to indent. No need for too much parsing.
Commercial speech has to do with the content of the speech, not the motivations behind speaking.

If I have a statement: "hats are on sale 50% off tomorrow" that is commercial speech. I can tell on it's face that it's commercial, without knowing anything about who spoke it.

If I have a statement: "Hilary Clinton is a terrible candidate for such and such reasons" that is not commercial speech. It does not, on it's face, propose a commercial transaction. Now, someone might have commercial reasons for disliking Hilary Clinton, but the motivation behind speech is irrelevant to whether it is considered to be within the "commercial speech" exception.

This is why music, movies, and video games are all fully protected despite the fact that they are for-profit commerical products. It's the content of the speech, not the motivations for speaking that define speech as commercial or not.
He is mocking Apple's keynote style.
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Follow him on Twitter, use a hash tag (#SupportRaviSrinivasan or whatever), if you are outside India, tweet to your local/national news papers. Or just bomb @KartiPC with your complaints.
Why you should take your 20's seriously
Interesting topic, but the discussion could have been a lot more in depth, I thought. If anything, Grouper seems like a relatively complicated product relative to the many "feature" products out there these days - from Gantt Charts to Underwear Subscriptions...
It did not work for me in Firefox, but I switched over to Chrome and it then worked.
Good point sorry - ck at vine dot co
This does seem to need more of a sell. Intuitively it feels cool - but then I’m not sure of what I’d use it for.

My first thought was that it’s the other half of the https://www.webscript.io/
That's why if you're going to present this as a case study (which it is not) the title should be "How 'I Am Playr' Hit 4 Million Users in 6 Months - A Case Study."
I used Fiestah for an event in NY and was very happy with the experience: it made event organizing much easier. Its a pretty solid idea if they can scale up both sides of the marketplace.
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Teardown: Microsoft Surface Tablet
Go join a crossfit gym near you. You'll get this.

http://map.crossfit.com/
does anyone else think that screen is a bit too much?
It would be awesome if you had a "Poster This" widget that publishers could put on their website images in exchange for a cut of the poster sale.
Here's my question, gas stations are closing here in NJ when running out of gas. Why aren't they jacking up the price to astronomical rates? There are lines for miles to the gas stations that have electricity. Is this a failure of capitalism in the face of human compassion or what?
Founders: Respect the game we play and love the grind
Great service guys!
Good luck I think you are up on something big
I'm just curious: are there any java programmers out there who don't use eclipse or intellij? Having gotten used to intellij recently (and it didn't take that much effort), I can't really imagine using a plain text editor for (java) development work.

Edited to add: I'm currently working in Spring, and being able to click from an xml bean definition directly to a class, and/or from an interface to implementing classes is pretty nice. I hadn't used Intellij until recently and it makes working in java much less painful than I had found it in the past. (It's still somewhat painful...)
I don't think things have to be mutually-exclusive. The article suggests that you have to be in either the language camp or tools camp because of the time-investment developers have to make in either - but in reality the investment is smaller than portrayed IMO.

As for parallel programming - that itself is a wide-spectrum of different types of programming, and again I don't think we have to paint it as choosing one or the other.

For example, when I worked on parallel algorithms for very large clusters, I was really missing some of the things IDEs provide like graphical debuggers. While a better-designed language may have made some parts of my task easier, it would also have made low-level optimization much harder.

tl;dr - different things needed for different situations
I watched the webcast of the Robocall summit, and it was fascinating.

It was clear that most of the telephone industry really hates phone spammers. An AT&T guy was saying that evil robocall outfits often forge the numbers of their existing customers, causing AT&T no end of headaches. Plus they get a ton of complaints from call receivers. I am sure that the major carriers would shut down phone spammers in a heartbeat if it were easy.

Looks like the FTC now has the videos from the summit up on the web:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/robocalls/

Anybody seriously interested in the problem should check out the videos. There's a lot of good stuff in there about the technical issues. And there are some interesting technical solutions as well.
You risk confusing and annoying other people who read your code. It's a non-lethal risk, to be sure, but still a reason to follow the local naming customs.
Professionally: Having gone from web design & development into the print design world, I'm looking at getting back into pushing the (and my!) limits of web design & development (starting with building a Personal Portfolio website), and am also interested in continuing my artistic endeavors be it digital or print.

Personally: I have a BJJ grappling competition at the start of December, so by using November to hammer out my game, I will be ready for this tournament.
Price gouging during an emergency is illegal in NJ and Christie plans on going on the warpath after this is over.
Great question for us new entrepreneurs. Great platform
How can you leave NYC out!!
That's narrow. He may be a businessman, but that doesn't mean he's not a programmer.
Browse better: How to make your Internet connection faster and more reliable
Tend to agree with this. There's some great stuff they've added for developers, but even non-technical users like my parents have complained about some bugs — not to mention how awful an experience Game Center is.
Sharable, Open Source Workers for Scalable Processing
Actual Release Notes: http://www.openbsd.org/52.html

Detailed Changelog: http://www.openbsd.org/plus52.html

Lyrics for 5.2 Song "Aquarela do Linux": http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#52
>"You don't seem to realize that these are important domains of expertise"

No, I realize it. These strategies are open and replicable. Apple is great at them, but other companies are closing the gap. Supply chain means margins, and those are getting squeezed. Joe Public can get a product that's functionally like an iPhone for a similar or cheaper price, so the supply chain management ability isn't unique.

What they've done with the brand, on the other hand, is remarkable. Apple is a status symbol. You think "fanboyism" occurs only on hacker sites? Go to any forum anywhere and people are vehemently praising the company. It may be my opinion, but it's the most valuable thing they have, and why they protect it at all costs, up to and including disobeying orders and making sure people know that competitors aren't as cool.
New Jersey has an "Anti-gouging" law that makes it illegal for retailers to increase prices by more than 10%.
Good riddance: Halo 4 creators threaten permabans for sexist comments
- the cost of porting to other platforms

Where in mobile can you live-debug an application both visually and functionally like you can with Web Inspector? I mean literally you are coding and debugging your app at the same time. And with LiveReload you don't even leave your editor to see your code changes instantly.

Not to mention you are coding in JavaScript and CSS so the time it takes to iterate between various solutions is a fraction of the time of Objective C or Java. I think you have your first point backwards. There may not be an equivalent IDE, but we have a runtime inspector/editor baked into our runtime platform. You can't beat that.

- forcing users to upgrade their hardware to stay current

On Android you can update your default browser through the app store.

- app discoverability issues

Perhaps, but then again your app could just be rejected/removed at any time. Plus the whole 30% cut, time to release, limited sales options, etc. You're not in control of your app.
I came close to the drafting table experience with a pen-driven old-style a4 tablet (not a screen) that i had mapped to my screen coordinates. Hovering the pen over the tablet moved the mouse, and tapping clicked. At the time i felt it was a far superior way of working than a mouse. (Had to stop using it when i moved to the mac and couldn't find a driver). But even on that you would get gorilla arm from constantly moving your arm across the tablet, despite being able to lean on an elbow. I suspect a drafting table ui would suffer from the same fatigue issues as a touchscreen interface.
Also, iOS 6.1 beta for developers: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/01/apple-seeds-first-ios-6-...
btw, love bsd but i think that the whole bsd familiy would gain immense traction within common users if there were a simpler (graphical) install process.
Ohh wow, I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing. Good thing I've already deleted the DB and have absolutely no plan on emailing any of these email addresses...
Hall is Hiring a JavaScript Hacker
Out of curiosity, why don't you like the idea of language developers spending time on tools?
The complaints are almost universally about the quality of the data, which can definitely be fixed on the backend without requiring an update.
What baffles me is that legitimate banks actually do hire incredibly shady-sounding third party outfits with names like "Cardmember Services" or "Card Services" to handle credit card customer support. I once inadvertently dodged a genuine fraud-investigation call from my bank for weeks because it sounded like such an obvious scam. I don't understand why they don't draw the connection: scammers like this only work because the banks prepare the ground and make the call seem plausible.
Evernote 5 Beta
1. Launch a premium wordpress theme I made for personal site/blog/portfolio targeted mainly at freelance hackers/designers. I made it as a side project to be used at my own personal website and I believe there are many others who would love to use it. I will complete its documentation this week end.

2. Decide about what my next side project will be (preferably something that can be a source of passive income). If possible begin working on it.

3. Learn Haskell.

4. Will try to include tabata in my exercise schedule.

5. Will spend a weekend helping someone else.
Ok there Jim Norton.
neat - never seen those before - thanks.
Do you not work in an equal opportunity workplace? Are you concerned that someone might be grepping the DNS resolution logs to find closeted homosexuals? Are you legitimately concerned about retribution if someone believes that you're homosexual?
Please don't share this link outside of HN. I'm trying to make sure as many HN'ers get accounts with this discount as possible.

It's 25% off the first 3 server hardware profiles we're launching with, for as long as you run them.
I still can't get myself to embrace Twitter, but this was a good set of thoughts around it. Maybe someday I'll get it together, re-read decent articles like this, and get myself out there. In any case I appreciate the poster's point of view.
Bug Hunters have Windows 8 Zeroday Exploit
I thought so, but when I got to see one 'in action' its a lot less of an issue. In terms of surface area the intrument panel on most cars is about equivalent, its just shaped into a long dashboardy kind of thing.

I worry about glass shards in a side collision though.
Sure, also, don't take my criticism as an admonishment or lack of respect. From your posts that I've read, you and I agree on a great deal, and I aspire to write as prolifically and competently as you do.
I'm not sure what Rich Hickey uses to write the java portion of clojure, but it could be emacs (just wildly guessing).
The Myth of Motivation (And What You Need Instead)
Would love to chat if you're interested. Our office is in Mountain View, directly on Castro Street.
Ok that's it, unsubbing from HN, and I'm no ms fanboy either.
Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza
I always used Java with Eclipse or IntelliJ personally. But in the Microsoft world it is not uncommon for coders to use tools that are very 'plain text' and 'ungraphical' like WinDbg even with languages like C#, alongside other tools like Visual Studio.
But the pro spammers use proxies that make it hard to trace activity back to a person. And many of the people spamming are not in the US.
Interesting, when I look at the given "Things HTML5 can do that native Apps can not", I notice that those things are important to developers, not to the end users.

End users do not care about "write once deploy everywhere". But they do care about the responsiveness, battery life, native look and feel, etc

So far HTML5 apps are following the trajectory of "Java on a desktop".
First, this FPGA is still not implemented by things that are the lowest level - how do you know that 7404 doesn't actually contain secret logic looking for specific patterns on the 6 "independent" inputs (based on your widely-propagated design) that alter it's behavior?

Don't let your paranoia get the better of you.

With only 6 inputs, if there is any anomalous behavior, it will quickly be noticed. And this subverted 7404 would need to have all its gates used on the same bus to have a hope of seeing that you're illegally copying a movie, and that is a rare application.

And I think someone would notice that these inverters are using 6 orders of magnitude more power than necessary.

Even for more complicated parts like CPUs, such tampering would be readily evident.

For a long time to come, it will be a lot easier to hide nefarious code in software in some corner of a general purpose system (PC, tablet, etc.) than to put it into the hardware layer. Even nefarious code needs network communication these days, otherwise there's not much point.
From what I know, the screen is optional!
The animation is in Settings on the Update page while the update is being downloaded.
Agreed. I found this article generic. Actually most articles of the like are. It would be more interesting to know how companies get their first 500 users.
Lugging fuel up stairs shouldn’t have been needed
Another item is that the drones are very cheap to operate for long periods. Where a helicopter needs re-fueling and maintenance after x number of hours of flight, drones can fly for days(?).
Sign-in isn't working for me still. It's just text - not a link.
(OS X, Chrome)
My Science Tattoo: Why I did it, and what it means
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This is a full-time opportunity -- permanent employment candidates only.
Company offers Health benefits
Send resume to olga@dreamworldpartners.com
Our idea is to help web and mobile developers

- to sandbox API workflow (server-side APIs and/or client-side APIs) into the REPL interface "prototype"

- and then create a new API based on this API workflow(or "prototype")

- use this new API in production into their own application and share it with other developers

we want to bring fast API discovery and exploration, easy multiple API mashups or scripting, then new API creation for use in production.
We make for them maintenance, and one-line-of-code authentication and some cool builtins.

This with server side APIs as Client side APIs, in the same shell interface, Javascript, Coffeescript, or even Typescript.

But is seems not obvious apparently... ;)

Can you share with us what and why you did'nt understand it when testing the tour?

PS: Everybody can also brings to Webshell API explorer its own API (you can read the doc on how to add your own API to be scripted and used by developers)
We're looking for feedback from startups raising capital as well as investors that feel the pain of trying to manage deal flow in spreadsheets or CRM systems.
Philadelphia, PA, NY or DC - Sr. Technical Engineer at PipelineDeals

About PipelineDeals

Our team has been developing, delivering, and zealously supporting the PipelineDeals CRM solution for over six years.

We’re passionate about creating software that people want to use and share. We love what we do, and we want our customers to love us for helping them close more deals and rule the world.

We are looking to hire a Sr. Technical Engineer for our flagship product and future products. We’re interested in people who like to make a difference and will thrive in our culture, which revolves around our customers.

You will help create an overall user experience where every pixel counts, user feedback is instantaneous, performance is blazing fast, scaling is automated and downtime a very rare event.

What we are looking for:

- Software engineering chops - you value how code is written and enjoy teaching design patterns and coding techniques to others.

- Significant experience designing, developing and delivering web applications/services.

- Demonstrated success working with cloud-based infrastructure services.

- Ability to manage technical operations / devops.

- Experience utilizing agile methodologies.

- Strong application framework experience as well as extensive experience with a SQL backend.

- Fluent in Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and experience with Rails upgrade paths.

- Fluent in javascript based frameworks such as backbone.js and / or ember.js.

- Great communicator at all levels of the organization.

- Strategic thinker and detail oriented.

Responsibilities

* Design, develop and architect technical solutions to support product enhancements and new products.

* Own the development methodology and delivery of our product.

* Drive error free deployments.

* Perform rapid bug-fixing.

* Obsess about page load times and application snappiness and speed.

* Manage and maintain our infrastructure and technical operations.

* Manage and test regular backup and disaster recovery processes and procedures.

* Coordinate and perform regular security testing.

* Perform capacity planning and manage our infrastructure costs.

* Set technical direction and software architecture with input/planning from engineering team.

* Perform root cause analysis.

Location

* Ideally, you will be based in the Philadelphia or the surrounding areas.

* We will also consider candidates New York, or Washington D.C.

* Remote work situation also possible but not preferred.

Interested? Please contact nick@pipelinedealsco.com.
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Emerald is an interdisciplinary, early stage, venture capital-backed startup with a team of scientists and engineers from fields as diverse as computer science, organic chemistry, electrical engineering, cellular biology, mathematics, and chemical engineering. We are working on anti-viral nanotechnology with the potential to dramatically revolutionize and reshape the entire field of therapeutics.

If this sounds compelling, please check out the job description posted at http://bit.ly/RrMe5Y then submit a cover letter and CV to info@emeraldtherapeutics.com (feel free to include your HN username!). Applications will be considered if you are able to adequately address the following "genius" problems in your email:

a) Generate a 500 nt DNA sequence using every base at least once without introducing folds of length greater than 1 nt and without single nucleotide repeats longer than 5 nt (impressive)

b) Generate a sequence of DNA that is as long as possible without introducing reverse complementary or repeated regions of length 9 nt. Hint: maximum length is 131,080 nt (very impressive)