skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Myrtle Beach, SC

I and members of our coworking space: http://www.coworkmyr.com in Myrtle Beach, SC have a lot of projects we want to push forward, like http://www.gfscale.com

We're looking for any development, design, marketing, etc. skills to come out to the coworking space and get involved. Eager to pay the right people! Primarily looking for folks in the geographic area first (even if you would only occasionally be in coworkMYR), but if you're going to be in Myrtle Beach this summer - stop by!

You can find my contact info in my profile.
We did the same sort of thing in the pkzip source code 20 years ago. There were a number of pointless routines in the program that would be clear evidence of code theft.

These days I suppose an optimizing compiler would be smart enough to strip away any truly dead ends.
Canonical is the face of Ubuntu, both to consumers and enterprise customers. Until Ubuntu is freed from Canonical's sticky fingers then Ubuntu will continue to be tainted.
My point isn't that I could smash this out in an afternoon (Noone could, obviously. Doing something like this takes tons of trial and error).

My point was just that, it's almost entirely trial and error. This isn't the culmination of a drastic change in our understanding of sleep cycles and time allocation, it's just something that works for this guy.

I just think it's blown out of proportion, all things considered.
"To us, it makes more sense to keep track of users than of page views. Nevertheless, for December 2012, StatCounter listed Chrome as first with 36.53 percent share, IE in second with 30.88 percent, Firefox in third with 21.93 percent, Safari with 7.89 percent, and Opera with 1.26 percent."
San Francisco, CA

Mixpanel (YCS09; http://mixpanel.com) is the most advanced advanced analytics platform available for web & mobile applications. We're making millions in revenue, we're profitable, and we're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Max Levchin, etc.

INTERN

We're looking for engineering interns for the summer (and the fall, winter, and next summer... we really like interns).

Interns here work on very real projects - a few examples from this summer are:

* A CRM for the sales/support teams, built on top of our custom datastore
* Android/iOS push notification infrastructure
* Advanced query optimizations for the aforementioned datastore

You will learn more with us than you will almost anywhere else.

FULLTIME

We're hiring for a number of positions (engineering, sales, admin, and more), but I'd like to highlight a few:

1. Solutions Architect - hybrid support/sales/marketing/engineering role. Really awesome for developers who want to do more client-facing stuff. See http://mixpanel.theresumator.com/apply/Eoh3qJ/Solutions-Arch...

2. Product Engineer - work on building the parts that people interact with (from APIs through HTML/CSS). Mostly Javascript and Python. http://mixpanel.theresumator.com/apply/rhQrIj/Software-Engin...

3. Office manager - looking for someone super smart & organized to keep the wheels greased around here. No job post yet, but you can email me directly.

If you're interested, please email me - tim@mixpanel.com.
I'd love to

* switch open apps windows via voice (eg. chrome, files, terminal) instead of Alt+tab tab tab

* switch to a specific tab in one of these apps via voice

Is there a working solution for this, today?
Vestmark - Wakefield, MA (near Boston)

Looking for software engineers of all levels, both front end and back end. See http://vestmark.com/Jobs/SoftwareEngineering.html for more info.
I am looking at the chart and I see C# as third and Java as first.
I'm glad you liked the article, and it seems to have struck a chord. One of the things I've found very handy is that I now have a place to point people on, say, StackOverflow when someone asks "How do I get started in open source?" I started 89starts.com as an offshoot of the article, but I haven't yet gotten it ready for prime time.

Agreed about documentation, and at the top of my to-do list for today is making final edits to another article for them on open source documentation. Should be out in a week or two I think.
(For anyone interested, statcounter's stats are here: http://gs.statcounter.com/)

"IE6 somehow managed to gain 0.06 percentage points", which may indicate the NetApps data isn't very reliable. (maybe?)
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SEEKING WORK - Based in Southern California

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Joe Cortopassi

Email: joe[at]joecortopassi[dot]com

Skype: joe.cortopassi

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iOS developer

Full stack web developer

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Technologies:

(not just the language, but also the appropriate frameworks and libraries)

Objective-C

iPhone/iOS

PHP

MySQL

Javascript

HTML

CSS

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Specialties:

Business Analytics

Digital Marketing Strategy

Api integration and development

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http://joecortopassi.com

http://linkedin.com/in/joecortopassi

http://www.facebook.com/CortopassiConsulting

https://github.com/JoeCortopassi

https://twitter.com/JoeCortopassi

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About Me:

I started off in web development, doing mid-large size lead generation web sites. As a big part of dealing with lead generation, I became proficient in RESTful API integration and development, along with complex javascript web applications used for analytics. I then began working on iPhone and iPad applications over the years, working on apps for Cie Studios and their perspective clients. My ability to understand complex api's, also helped me build connection management and caching systems for iOS apps that assured the user that their information would always be posted to the server, regardless of their data connection.

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Agreed, it does need a little more hierarchy for navigation. Too much scrolling at the moment.

#1
I outsourced all the translations (and audio recordings) on www.elance.com

#2
The goal was to spend 3-4 months playing/experimenting with product design. The project is a learning exercise in how to craft something original (hopefully) and useful (even more hopefully!). I enjoy building things and playing with ideas. I guess the end-goal is to help me shape my career direction and find my next full-time job :)

The reason for it being a Mandarin learning app is that I was frustrated by the existing products in the marketplace. Designing this was a very iterative process, I have a set of test users and tried all manner of mechanisms to help them learn. First couple of mechanisms I threw away because it didn't help recall and were too confusing. I had the luxury of being able to discard ideas that didn't work very quickly.
gources are a cool deliverable for end of sprints. I do them on occasion at my day job.
Hmmmm, didn't realized that when I was doing it. I was thinking of using primary colours - RGB and since I used blue in my last project - hiredturf.com, I was just choosing between green and red. Guess is just a coincidence.
Pradux, New York City (Soho) [full time & intern]

Pradux is hiring in NYC. We're a very small team that is revolutionizing the e-commerce space. You will take ownership of major functionality of our site and operations and will have creative freedom to GSD. Come make a meaningful impact to a small company. We work out of WeWork Labs on Varick and Charlton, so stop by and say hello!

Looking for:

* Web developer/hacker (full time, intern) -- we use PHP, lots of javascript, redis, memcached, aws.

* UI/UX Architects/designers (full time, intern)

Competitive salary (cash + equity). Shoot me an email if you are interested!

email: bailin at pradux com
Wingspan Technology - Greater Philadelphia (Blue Bell)

Join a team of software engineers building the next generation of SaaS apps for regulated pharma. We're growing quickly, providing many opportunities to learn and grow.

We have new projects starting up, with Scala, Postgres, and ExtJS, although many of our current products are Java/C#. We're looking for Software Engineers, DBAs, Ops, and QA-
http://www.wingspan.com/careers/

Interested? Contact gsieling@wingspan.com
how about var that = this;
> There are very high recovery rates for schizophrenia in 3rd world countries, which he believes is due to the lack of medication.

Looking at the state of schizophrenics in India, I find this hard to believe.
The future of surveys - meteor
I have been working on this over the holiday and I'd like to share it with all of you and hear what you think. Happy new year!
Mobile version!
Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk.
IE10 below 1%? I guess that will change when the Windows 7 upgrade comes through. And then finally we will have reasonable support for CSS3, WebSocket and ES5 Strict Mode for Windows 7 IE users.
I commend you on the cleanliness of your reference implementation. It looks to be a completely by the book rails application. Anyone could contribute I am sure.

This is in sharp contrast to the tent guys who for some reason rolled their own web framework in ruby, leading to a very messy codebase in my opinion.

But more on topic, I am having a bit of trouble understanding what this service is going to do. What is the usecase? I think I got this from it:

1. A user wants an identity, so he registers at aka.nu (or other provider) and gets a nice url like tinco.aka.nu.

2. The user uses this url as an openid url to create an account on stackoverflow.

3. Stackoverflow gets information about the user by querying the url for meta information.

But.. this is exactly what openid does. I have an openid account at myopenid.com, and pointed me.tinco.nl to redirect to it. Now when you go to me.tinco.nl you see my public openid profile. And I log in to stackoverflow with me.tinco.nl as the identifier. And stackoverflow filled in some of the fields with information it got from myopenid.

What is your unique selling point?
If you don't mind, could you share your development stack. Are both the apps written using native languages (objc and java) or are you using frameworks that are cross platform (phonegap, titanium, etc)?
Show HN: controldeck.js
Applying that to MH problems we see that people with mood disorders like depression were cocooned away from stress. "Don't go back to work, because you'll trigger another episode of illness". But many people want to work. They do not want to live a life on benefits.

I think the problem is that white-collar professional hazing is designed to weed people out. It's built to separate and elevate the uber-reliable (who are often the least creative) above the rest by subjecting people to contrived stresses and subordination. Investment banking analyst programs (120+ hour weeks) are the worst for this, but it's far from limited to one industry. Most companies aren't interested in someone who can't show that he went through 3 years of stressful bullshit and came out a survivor.

If offices start accommodating people with these illnesses, then the whole hazing program has to be thrown out. I would argue that the hazing is not really necessary for most jobs, but my view is a minority position among the people in power. The hazing doesn't only come from above, of course. Subordinates and colleagues can "shit test" (one of many Game-isms that applies to white-collar employment) just as hard as managers. This is why "too nice" managers often end up with young wolf problems, and the eaten are the people who are less able to deal with the inane, nonproductive stress.

I say this as a person of extremely high creative talent with a mild mental illness (panic disorder) that has slowed my career considerably (now, less so, because the therapies work and I'm down to 2-3 serious attacks per year, although I'd have a lot more if I tried to compete on hours). In this corporate uber-reliability game, I'm one of "the weak" and I'm supposed to lose. The fact that I'm extremely strong in other ways (creativity, software, mathematical intuition, writing) is irrelevant to subordinate white-collar positions.

I absolutely agree that we should give these people meaningful creative outlets and allow them to have purposeful lives. No question there. However, this requires dramatically re-defining "Work". It requires eliminating the years-long wringer of nonsensical competition that people have to engage in before they're trusted to do anything real with their time. We have to blast centuries of social behavior, not all of which is the fault of "management", away outright. It's not something that can be done overnight.
I spent last year studying in Beijing, and I reached a certain level of fluency, but now that I have come back, I have trouble maintaining it. I read books (许三观卖血记，活着, both by Yu Hua), and go through my Anki flashcards, and sometimes read through my textbooks.

My reading abilities haven't fallen much, but it's my ability to create sentences, i.e., talking, that's failing me. Mainly because I'm not talking with anybody, can't find anybody to talk with.

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
SEEKING WORK - Southern California. Can travel.

Full stack Ruby engineer. API architect. Front-end frameworks like AngularJS and D3.js.

http://scottmotte.com

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Guess that's what happens when people shift to selling 'how to be a freelancer' tools, books and content on HN :)
The alternative is that a bunch of unelected people will tell us what to do and not to do. That seems worse.
I always forget what the difference is, so I always go back to this same wikipedia page to remind me of the differences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Dif...

You can click around on each source, and they have an explanation of how each source get their numbers and adjust them. It's very insightful to understand the differences in measurement. For example:

> StatCounter statistics are directly derived from hits (not unique visitors) from 3 million sites using StatCounter totaling more than 15 billion hits per month.[17] No weightings are used.

> Net Applications bases its usage share on statistics from 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors per month. The mean site has 1300 unique visitors per day.
On 1 August 2009, Net Applications began weighting its raw data based on the number of internet users in the countries concerned, using data from the CIA ; the changes were applied retroactively to older data.
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Switzerland

I'm interesting in helping people build low-level networking software. Interfacing to the kernel and to hardware, getting NUMA right, taking advantage of exotic hardware features, writing firmware, etc. I have a lot of experience. I've recently started focusing on open source with the Snabb Switch project (my baby) and I'm funding this with consulting.

Links:
Snabb Switch - https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/wiki
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukego
My homepage - http://www.lukego.com/
My company - http://www.snabb.co/
Actually somebody else here pointed out that strangely they offer a subscription to additional content via the iOS app -- so I may be wrong. I would think they'd make it prominent on the web page as well to get more eyes on a way towards revenue.
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Seeking Work - Based in Calcutta, India

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Prakhar Srivastav - prakhar1989[at]google's email service

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Full Stack Web Developer (Python/mySQL/mongo/javascript/css/linux)

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Github - http://www.github.com/prakhar1989
Permitting payday loans sounds like allowing the poor to make decisions on their own to me. As long as the terms are clearly stated, I don't see the problem. By not allowing such lending, you are hurting poor people who are responsible and really need that money.
This is very true. I studied abroad last year, and some of the students who could not read had an incredibly difficult time. Eventually, they were forced to catch up, and life got much better for them. They could explore the city much easier, do things on there own, without having to have someone who could read with them.
First line of the article: "C# had the highest growth in popularity this year (2.3 %), and Python the highest growth this decade (8%)". One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth.
A while back I made a plugin based Game of Life simulator.

I only created 3 plugins for it, but one of them was similar to the picture in the article, where each new round of evolution is placed on top of the previous level.

Here's a screenshot: http://jlarocco.com/crap/3d_life.jpg

If you're interested, the code is up on GitHub. It should work out of the box on Linux, but I was having some problems getting the plugin shared libraries to build and load on all platforms. I think OSX works, but it might still require copying the plugin shared libraries into the .app. Don't know if it works on Windows.

https://github.com/jl2/LifeAutomata
both, as for windows office their are free open source alternatives such as Libre Office and Ubuntu for Desktop
Developer expelled by Google Play Store on posting Malicious Android apps
Good luck, OP. Major props for seeing someone with a horrible disease (that terrifies most people, hence the stigma) as a human.

You have a hard road ahead of you. Some advice, from someone with plenty of experience with bipolar disorder (family, romantic relationships, business partners):

* Study Eastern approaches to mental health and spirituality. Buddhism will accept you regardless of whether you have any metaphysical beliefs whatsoever. "You may not believe in God, but God believes in you." (Actually, Buddhism is theologically agnostic and compatible with theism or atheism, but that's an aside.) Don't expect miracles, because it takes decades to get good at this and mentally ill people can't "meditate out of" their illnesses, and but the insights into the mind from meditation and yoga can help both of you.

* You both should avoid all recreational drugs, including alcohol and tobacco. Both of you. Normal people can use drugs like psilocybin, marijuana and LSD with low levels of risk. You can't. Even if you're neurologically normal, your circumstances are abnormal and these drugs are unpredictable even in the best circumstances.

* You have hard travels ahead of you. It's probably good, even if your mental health is totally normal, for you to see a therapist.

* Exercise. It won't always clear everything away, but it will make the situation better.
How i promote this project?
Meditation. Google "Jon Kabat Zinn", "Ajahn Brahm" or "Eckhart Tolle".

PS: Meditation has nothing to do with Hinduism, Buddhism or any other religion. ;-)
This could be amazing as an addition to Join.me. Great work.
Fiscal Cliff Detail - Tax line drawn at $450k joint $400k solo
2012’s biggest winner? Airtime
Quirky.com - Full Time - NYC and SF

Quirky is a social product development company where people from all around the world submit invention ideas to our website. With the help of our passionate community, we select the best ideas each week to develop together and try to bring them to market. If an idea actually makes it, then everyone who helped along the way gets a piece of the pie. You can find our products at retailers such as Target and Bed Bath & Beyond. Our mission is to make invention accessible.

Quirky is a rails shop, and we work with lots of fun technologies like AWS, mongo, iOS and heroku to name a few. We're a small team that works on lots of big, fun and interesting problems. We've got a brand new, fully custom office space in Chelsea (and currently working on a new one in SF). Oh and we also had a reality show on the Sundance Channel last year. VC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins among others.

We're looking to hire rockstar rails, front end, back end and mobile developers. Designers too.

More details here: http://www.quirky.com/about/careers

If interested, shoot me an email greg at quirky dot com.

Relocation is definitely available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
No thanks, Mom!
Windows 8 proving less popular than Vista
"Basically, there is no medical evidence for classifying schizophrenia as a disease."

I think the best way to think about it would be use the biopsychosocial model. It might start for psychological or social reasons, but it eventually causes biological changes in the person.
I used the snoremasters a couple years back - good idea, but I had two problems with them.

1. Just one size. They fit ok but not as snug in one ear as I'd wanted.

2. The whitenoise sound - something 'broke' in one and I was starting to hear one specific frequency straight through the whitenoise. I don't mean from the outside - I mean the generator was not random. I can't describe it very well, but someone else here can probably describe it better.

Were they to be better fitting, and bluetooth or wireless so I could program them, they'd be great, but for now, $5 earbuds on a whitenoise clock/radio next to the bed is much more efficient (and I can choose my whitenoise - snoremaster only had one sound at the time).

For $300+, the snoremaster was simply too expensive and didn't deliver what I needed, but I have hope people will continue developing this idea.
Localist - Baltimore, Maryland

When we built Localist, we went back to the drawing board to revisit how people connect around events. Instead of looking at traditional online calendars and creating minimal, evolutionary changes, we started from scratch. The result is a complete rethinking of an online calendar, with Localist at the core; one that connects communities better than any website or social media campaign. We think of Localist as more than a calendar, just as a Content Management System is more than a collection of blog posts.

Seeking:
FULL STACK RAILS ENGINEER
We're looking for an experienced developer with top-notch software design skills. Our stack includes Ruby, Rails, Sass, Erb, Coffeescript, jQuery and MySQL. We prefer generalists who have lots of successes at every layer of the stack.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
To reach our goals, we're looking to hire a Business Development Associate. Our BD Associates are an integral part of Localist's team, securing licensing agreements with new customers who need to connect their audiences to events.

CUSTOMER LIAISON
We consider top quality customer support to be vital to our business. Our priority is keeping our customers happy, not abandoning them after they've signed up. Depending on workload, this position is a split between support and implementation training.

INTERNS
We don't like hiring interns just to do the grunt work; we want interns to feel like solid members of the team who are making real contributions to Localist. We're looking for students interested in all deparments at Localist, from Sales to Web Development. Have a passion in these areas?

For more information, check http://www.localist.com/about/careers
> One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth.

I would think one of the key metrics in determining popularity would be popularity ...
NearlyFreeSpeech adds IPv6 and SSL
SEEKING WORK

Old-school consulting - Software Engineering, System Programming, SQL, Performance tuning, etc.

Informix, Solaris, Linux, *BSD. 15+ years of experience.

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/
Simplified comparison of various Open Source licenses for developers
Saying "shut up you're boring me" is equally effective and frankly would make you seem less weird.
Stop specialisation, embrace generalisation to face real world industry problems
super cool idea!
Quite deservedly so, you can't argue with statistics!

Anyway, I saw something interesting in the graph. If you just look at C and C#, then in 2011 you notice that where C made a sharp decline, C# made an almost equally sharp incline.

Are these movements correlated? What happened in 2011 that made a bunch of wannabe (since they look for C tutorial) C programmers suddenly turn to wannabe C# programmers?

I realise it may very well be two randomly occuring uncorrelated events that causes these jumps. But I'm very much interested in what kinds of events move the worldwide interest in programming languages.