skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the secrets of useful dead reckoning systems is damping which is basically reducing your velocity toward zero (or some expected value) by a measurement slightly greater than your error. The result is if your cellphone sit's on a table you don't accumulate errors. Coupled with the occasional calibration and you end up with some surprisingly accurate systems.
Hasn't it always been that way? Human primates want to impress other human primates, so they get themselves titles. Doctor beats Master, Master beats Bachelor, Bachelor beats Drop-Out, Drop-Out beats Secondary School Graduate. Higher Education is part of a schooling system designed to perpetuate a stratified society. Graduating demonstrates agreement.
+1 for pelican https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/
Seven ways to get 'Facebook fired'
What will this mean to the Ubuntu Store (and other distros "appstores") since steam is arriving on linux? I know competition (even if it's against a free service) and new things move the world but god damn everything is a mess, everybody wants to sell everything and make their own software haha.
Zo kies je de champagne met de beste prijs en kwaliteit
Microsoft: Windows Phone sales up 300 percent
I tried jekyll, octopress and toto. ended up with toto and a hosted my blog on a free instance on heroku.
That sounds pretty cool. Have you considered publishing it under an open-source license?
HTC confirms the Windows Phone 8S will not be coming to the US
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Interns OK, no remote work.

Silk (www.silkapp.com) is looking for a DevOps engineer, and front-end and full-stack engineers: http://jobs.silkapp.com/

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.
The team is still small (~11 people), so you'll be able to make a large impact. We are well-funded by top-tier VCs and located in the city center of Amsterdam.
Do you have a version of the core/DataTable/Filter/Megre.php file as well?
exactly, i developed a solution based on pavuk (which has a bit more options then wget) - still in use as far as I know after almost 8 years!
It has always been known what classes were good for little work and easy grades. On-line information must have made this more accessible in the largest schools, but has it really made a difference in those with fewer than 10 thousand undergraduates?
Microsoft's Future Looks Grim
Chris Brown Quits Twitter: The Comic Responsible Responds
Hakyll, since it has Haskell type safety goodness and is very customizable (it's basically a Haskell EDSL for static site generation):

http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

The other nice thing about Hakyll is that it uses Pandoc, so it supports different input and output formats (such as HTML slide generation from Markdown).
I think that the Twitter analogy was awful. It implies that you have to have an incredibly large team writing Java to be "enterprise", somewhat implying that Java is needed to handle load. It isn't. Facebook is a great example of a company that still survives uses a scripting language, and GitHub is as well. I worked on an excessively large Java team, and the main highlight was slow progress. I'd argue that the better way to look at it is that you often need to be fast-and-dirty in development in the beginning, but later you just need to slow down and be more careful and thoughtful- language and team size aren't equivalent to success at later stages.
cached XSLT output :)
Wouldn't be much of a problem with exponential backoff time and even a 6-digit pin.
San Francisco, Full-time. No remote work.

famo.us - we are the company making HTML5 web apps performant. Go to http://famo.us/ in a modern browser on desktop and mobile devices to try out our stress test demo built on our JavaScript engine.

We are all engineers. Our CEO, Steve Newcomb, is a founder and the former CEO of Powerset (which now powers Microsoft Bing). Om Malik just called us his current favorite startup:
https://twitter.com/om/status/273081831014952961

All positions, except PR/Marketing require very solid HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience, but even for that position it is a huge plus. We're looking for:

Senior front-end engineer $100k—$175k 0.25—1.0%
Mid front-end engineer $90k—$125k 0.1—0.5%
Junior front-end engineer $75k—$100k 0.1—0.25%
Famo.us Template Design Engineer $90k—$150k 0.1—0.5%
3D and/or Physics Game Engine Engineer $100k—$175k 0.25—1.0%
Documentation Writer $75k—$125k 0.1—0.3%
PR/Marketing/Social Media $60k—$90k 0.1—0.5%

If you don't know JavaScript like the back of your hand, but are an excellent polyglot programmer that believes web apps are the future and you have skills that you believe would be valuable to us, please apply.

Our new office will be at 3rd and King St in SoMa, right across the street from AT&T park and one block from the CalTrain station.

Please read Steve's essay "Cult Creation" if you are serious about applying:
http://blognewcomb.squarespace.com/essays/2010/10/14/cult-cr...

Apply via AngelList: https://angel.co/famo-us#recruiting

If you have any questions, email me at andrew+jobs@famo.us
Hastie - https://github.com/mkaz/hastie

A static site generator in Golang. My favorite because I wrote it :-) but it is also super fast, however low on features.
Columbia College students seek SEAS-like computer science major
I do not particularly like ikiwiki, but I use it and have no good reason to switch.
Potsdam, Berlin, Germany. Autodesk GmbH.

We are looking for a senior UX designer.

Please get in touch via lars.schneider(AT)autodesk.com
I use nanoc rather than jekyll for my blog for reasons I give here: http://theatticlight.net/posts/nanoc3/
Kinda.

When I need a 'static' site I just use whichever CMS/framework is best and wget --mirror the output.
Wow. the Cliki has gotten a makeover since the last time I checked it.
The Singularity Is Already Here
Nashorn Proposed as Replacement JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK
Recently, a fairly large number of people where unemployed for 6 months to 2 years which where receiving unemployment checks significantly above minimum wage. There was no point in them being ditch diggers as they would have earned a negative wage by doing so. Arguably, if most of these people had spent 20 hours a week doing manual labor they would have been far heather and even more motivated.

Now, there where plenty of reasons to set things up like this, but it also distorts what people thought was reasonable 100 years ago.
Java-Based Jelastic PaaS Integrates with Eclipse IDE
I know people who have worked with the Intel 48-Core SCC (Single-Chip Cloud Computer). While I don't remember technical details it was very hard for them to build software that actually benefits from that many cores. If I remember correctly sharing data between the cores was a big bottleneck.
Not bad, but you should get rid of jQuery, it's absolutely not needed in here.
What Is Vitamin B For? - A Quick Reference Guide
What is Vitamin B for? This is a question that is often asked and understandably so. There are many important vitamins that we need to be taking on a daily basis.
Disable Java, security experts urge
Dispersant makes oil from spills 52 times more toxic
http://geekmonkey.org/articles/42-the-anatomy-of-an-exploit
1+ for hakyll, has built in customizable deploy command too
Mozilla backs HTML5-focused start-up Everything.me
SudoEdit
AutoComplPop
TagList

btw, you don't wanna miss repeat.vim if you stick with surround.
Mercenary groups like Academi (nee XE (nee Blackwater)) count as contractors.
Half Of The World's Largest Supercomputer Clusters Run SUSE Linux
I'm curious why that is? I remember a table that showed the deaths per terawatt-hour of each energy source [1]. Coal was the highest, and nuclear was the lowest (below all the renewables even). I don't know if this data is accurate, but assuming it is, I can't understand why nuclear doesn't have more support.

[1] http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...
The Smartphone World Needs Microsoft
Show HN: A radical new step in online publishing (video)
San Francisco, CA (full-time, intern, H1B welcome)

MindSnacks - http://www.mindsnacks.com/

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We believe that education games don't have to suck, and judging by the popularity of our stuff, people agree!
Our apps have been downloaded 5 million times, with over 80 million words mastered by our users!

* Apple voted us Educational App of the Year in 2011.

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* We recently secured funding from Sequoia Capital, and are kicking it up a notch.

Do you want to disrupt the educational gaming space? We'd love to hear from you!

We're hiring in lots of areas! Here are a few:

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OSM does too (OSMand client for android). I like it. It was very useful when in Ecuador and I only had a voice-only cell signal.
rst2html and Makefiles. Sometimes Sphinx.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amirkabir_University_of_Technol...
I'm just going to throw this in: Facebook has developed its own VM for PHP to make it fast enough for their scale.
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150415177928920
'Discrimination in CSS exams'
Coleslaw
Will Microsoft be seriously backing the TouchDevelop project as a commercial effort? (ie. marketing it to developers and cultivating a community?)

I have the feeling TouchDevelop is what a next generation IDE should feel like. Not just with the touch-friendly editor, which is nice, but also how the rest of the IDE is constantly reacting to what is happening in the editor.

Is the web-app a subset of the WP7 project? Will it be possible to define types like the 'Board' type in the demo? Perhaps by linking to javascript(/typescript) libraries? (the library functionality didn't work for me in Chrome so I assume it's just not implemented yet)

Congratulations on creating a truly impressive IDE :)
Please wait for the "Who Is Hiring" submission by whoishiring
homebrew (your own solution)
Mozilla Firefox 18 Claims IonMonkey Boosts JavaScript Speed
Notting Hill, London, England.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases - but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, we have a mix of Linux, Windows, and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. We expect developers to be generalising specialists, ready at the drop of a hat to refine an algorithm, write a tricky integration test, tune a SQL query, or discuss feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is one of the UK's leading private shopping clubs, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.
Battle of the Internet giants
Hastie
Although I'm not sure if it counts as a static site generator, about 3 months ago there was a Show HN for a blog generator that was entirely client-side that had a pane on the left where Instagram, Github, etc. content was displayed and the actual blog posts were from your Tumblr account.

Does anyone remember the name of that project? I've been looking everywhere for it...
If you use/like Freemarker, FMPP is a terrific generator.

http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/
I just started using Hakyll and it's really awesome. It's very configurable, and integrating with Pandoc makes it very versatile.

Maybe this doesn't matter to most people, but having Pandoc means support for math (e.g. TeX) is standard.

I have a fairly complicated setup at the moment, and yet it still has less than 100 lines of configuration.

Also, being in Haskell, I've found it pretty fast so far despite being written in and configured with a very high-level language.

I'm short, Hakyll is awesome. Much better than my old solution which was a bunch of hacked-together php. (I was using my school's shared Apache server, a don't judge me :P.)
All You Need to Know About the HTML5 Data Attribute
Does this happen anymore? I flew out of Boston the day before Thanksgiving (when I would imagine tons of people are traveling) and it took <5 minutes to get through security. Same thing on the way back.
Shit... Correct now, thanks! :)
How is it compared to the Russian 3rd generation GLONASS-K satellite?
It's in the list now!
Now,i'm a web developer and i'm new to this.
why don't anyone write a html page from scratch?
what is the real use of site generator?
i have worked on wordpress, drupal, and others.
Anyone please be helpful to me.
> Basically, avoid floats, use tables, use inline styles.

Yeah, that's what I was finding too -- and that advice is pretty much incompatible with the "responsive email templates" offered in the OP, no? That's what I'm wondering about.
You're booked Amazing Airbnb stays in Europe
Commence shameless plug for my project, "fragments":

http://glyphobet.github.com/fragments/

It could be used as a static site generator, among other things. But it uses version-control style diffs and merges, instead of any structure or language, which has the advantage that there's no generation step, and you can just edit the files as pure HTML.
LONDON, UK.

Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.

We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded startup playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.

We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise.

Please read more about the role on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/careers

Email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for details.
So, as someone who works with HTML emails all day long, do you have an evaluation of the "responsive email templates" in the OP?

They seem to conflict with much of your advice to me. That's what I'm wondering about.
GitHub needs to take open source seriously
^ This please. (No value added by my comment, but hoping that having children and an upvote will make the comment appear higher in the list)
Yes indeed! Of course, that doesn't reduce your position error, it only stops your position error growing while you're stationary. And you can't be stationary all the time (or if you can be, you don't need a navigation system at all!).

Inertial Navigation Systems like OxTS make [1] use GPS to get rid of this integration error that accumulates over time. For applications in vehicles you can also use the vehicle's speedometer, so you're measuring speed directly, which means fewer integration errors.

[1] http://www.oxts.com/default.asp?pageRef=69
There is always a lot of packaged up implied assumptions in stuff like this.

Maybe there are problem domains where immediately rewriting everything in Scala and applying TDD would be a huge win over some PHP that "seems to work".

Of course you have to weigh short term vs long term consequences and not rush to conclusions (especially if you are new). You may have hiring difficulties but that may work in your favour (see "python paradox").

Also I think that the best way to write code is to assume that bad code will be written and apply stuff like unit testing as a means to make replacing that bad code as easy as possible.
Perl 6, using Rakudo:

perl6 -e 'loop { print <9585 9586>.roll.chr }'

In fact, perl6 -e 'loop { print <╱ ╲>.roll }' will work too if your terminal is set up properly.
python -c "print ''.join(__import__('random').choice(u'\u2571\u2572') for i in range(80*24))"
Site generators of this type form a happy medium between the inefficiency of writing HTML from scratch (after all, most boils down to templates filled with content) and the inefficiency of regenerating static content upon every request (as WP and Drupal are prone to do).

If there's no dynamic stuff on your site, why pull everything from a database? And if you save time by using templates, why roll your own HTML?
Investigating now... looks like it went down at 12:26am eastern time for no apparent reason...
Hackers make headway porting webOS to Android
Thanks for the Ars link, very informative. Based on this article, it looks more like a kind of intelligent, dynamic RAID0 than a cache, which makes me dubitative with regards to its reliability (talk about multiplying SPOFs...). I'd rather go for a smaller SSD holding the system in this case.
Facebook developed HipHop a compiler for php, they don't use php as an interpreted scripting language.

Twitter uses the JVM, but the code is for the most part compiled from Scala.
Apple, Google, Amazon, And Facebook Have Declared World War3.
The Nexus 4 is a dud
Nevermind, found it: https://github.com/rigoneri/syte
I would love to know the source of this quote. Any chance you have it available?
Hi! Thanks for response. You get me wrong.

I was not talking about Java, i just mean then when your projects scales to twitter/facebook level you will have to use different tools, and it's ok.

Regarding Facebook, someone already replied about PHP. But i also should add, that Facebook use LOT of Java, just check their open-sourced projects http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/.

At such scale its ok even to develop own hardware.
Cracking the Code on Facebook Search Marketing Success
Added! Link for the lazy ones: https://github.com/mythmon/wok
Here's the Finnish equivalent:

http://www.posti.fi/smartpost/english/receiving/

We've had these for about a year or two. The company behind this is the privatised Finnish postal service.
Forecasting solar activity with planetary configuration
NYC, full-time

MediaMath. Successful market-leading company with a solid engineering department. Various positions including Perl, JavaScript, C++ developers, data warehouse, sysadmins, network engineers, etc.

jobs@mediamath.com
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012) 
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Also see:

"Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857717

"Ask HN: Who is meeting up?"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857727
Thanks for link :)

I did't mean that code should suck. There are lot of techniques that allow you to write good enough code, that will be easy to maintain. For example TDD, and using code-reviews (hello to Github pull-requests).
[EVIL]:New Most Powerful Metasploit Backdoor Generator/Encoder ..
This is a new Metasploit Backdoor multi generator/encoder Tool..It is more powerful,extended and simple to use. It is able to generate backdoor for windows,linux and other systems with php,java,ruby language and it allows users to encode the backdoor files..Besides,if desired, it creates automatically web pages for redirect,download and run malicious file on the remote machine to hack. Every option of the tool contains the possibility of launch Metasploit automatically.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012) 
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.

Also see: "Ask HN: Who is meeting up?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857727
Original Paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219997

More sources (mostly in German):

http://www.eawag.ch/medien/bulletin/20121128/index

http://www.wienerzeitung.at/themen_channel/wissen/natur/5044...

http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2012/10/j-a-...

http://www.pro-physik.de/details/news/3760901/Wettervorhersa...

http://science.apa.at/site/politik_und_wirtschaft/detail?key...

20min online: http://www.20min.ch/wissen/news/story/22007722

Wiener Zeitung: http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/top_news/504413_Plan...

Der Standard: http://derstandard.at/1353207552665/Planeten-koennen-Sonnena...

Nachrichten.de: http://www.nachrichten.de/wissen/Sonnenaktivitaet-Eawag-ETH-...

Romandie News: http://www.romandie.com/news/n/__Bientot_des_previsions_clim...

ProPhysik: http://www.pro-physik.de/details/news/3760901/Wettervorhersa...
> Also I think that the best way to write code is to assume that bad code will be written and apply stuff like unit testing as a means to make replacing that bad code as easy as possible.

Can't agree more. Tests and code-reviews help a lot.
It's meant to be an experimental app. I'm surprised it does so much already.
Absolutely agreed. The sales team is for outwardly following up and helping get people into that top of the funnel - and educating them to pull them further into that funnel. I wouldn't ever have a business without them.

Inbound is a great harvester of existing interest, but not 100% reliable.
SEEKING WORK, Remote or in Sweden

Skills includes Django, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3 and Linux.

Would like to pick up some cool Django projects while I'm bootstraping my own product.

More info and contact @ anderspetersson.se
Rumor: Microsoft bringing a cloud music player (and streamer?) to SkyDrive
Microsoft bringing cloud music player to SkyDrive.com
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and You
Ask HN: Who is meeting up? (December 2012)
Let's try to build a list of all Hacker News meet up groups and organize new groups for cities that don't have one yet.

Please post the name of your city and a link to your group.
Cambridge, MA

Dimagi

Role: Engineer/Adventurer/Do-Gooder

At Dimagi, your work can take you literally anywhere. We're looking for talented, adventurous coders to dive in to one of our core mobile health platforms already affecting hundreds of the world's poor and underserved. Our team of top-notch coders has on-site experience in over 20 countries covering East Africa, Central Asia, South America, and the Indian subcontinent, and travel is an important part of every developer's experience. Dimagi's prioritization of global impact and employee growth and satisfaction over the bottom line makes Dimagi a continuously fresh, exciting, and genuine place to work, and keeps us all honest about what we're in it for.

http://www.dimagi.com/careers

You can also read about our company's recent month in Brazil here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201210/adam-bluestein/letting-em...