skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre-emptive FAQ:

Isn't this a horrible deal? Incubators typically inject more money for far less equity!
I earn $10K a month, I could easily save up $8K in a few months, and do this myself for 100% equity.

True. If you can get into YCombinator, for example , you should obviously go for it. I can't compete with that. If you're earning $150K+, or you've already been working on your side-project for a year, this may not be for you. On the other hand, if you're just getting started and you need a little push, both financially and emotionally, this could be right up your alley.

Who the hell are you? Why would I work with you?

I'm also a techie. Have had one moderately successful venture so far, which has given me a comfortable life (but not quite retirement amount). I want to reduce my coding time and instead help people get their ideas to market using my resources. Hopefully we can build a few success stories along the way. You can find out more during our first Skype chat!

Will you fund everyone and every thing?

No. I'll still need to like your idea, and feel that a positive long-term return is possible. But my belief in Premise 1, combined with the favorable structure of the proposition, means I don't need to be that picky. I'll also need you to commit to working on the MVP full-time until it's done. Evenings + Weekend work is something this structure is actively aiming to avoid. Sign up, ship it, then go back to earning a steady income.
I would love to hear feedback. I am a first time Author and my story is about my mother's struggles, heartache and pain as she copes with the abduction of her child. This is a story that has a prevalent impact on issues in our society today
ABDUCTION
A lot of Apple users praise the WPs since a couple launches here. Could this mean that Microsoft finally lures away a lot of them to their platform?
An "Objective" Review
2013 must be flying by, it's already April 1st...? ;)

Jokes aside, I don't understand why they are making such a big deal about this? I understand they have an existing large client base already and if they wanted to add this to their product list quietly that would be one thing, but why try to turn it into something bigger than it is...?

Also, I would say (based on what I've seen) that most of the Basecamp clients are somewhat "tech smart", meaning they could easily see there is next to no value in this for a price. There are countless free alternatives that anyone with a basic "tech smart" savvy could figure out. Not to mention a lot of those alternatives would be much more flexible. I'll even go as far to say that the average person (like my parents, family, etc.) knows about even easier alternatives (for free) like Google Groups or Facebook Groups. And both of those would include all of the functionality (plus more) presented by Basecamp Breeze (and again, for free).

I typically associate 37signals products with intuitiveness and creativity/originality, this seems like neither. I'm quite disappointed.
It's a step or two away, but demand for programmers & demand for courses is hardly unrelated.
The demand for programmers is geographically based. Essentially, if you're not in SF, NYC, Boston, DC, Seattle, DFW, or Phoenix (maybe a couple other high-population areas) I missed too), it's not going to be a easy job hunt.
Mailjet - mailjet.com --
Hiring in quite a few countries (Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Toronto..).
Possibly Remote for certain positions.

Mailjet is an all-in-one solution to send, track and deliver both marketing and transactional emails. Our cloud-based infrastructure is highly scalable. A proprietary technology optimizes the deliverability of the messages.

We also provide a few marketing features, such as a WYSIWYG newsletter editor.

We're experiencing strong growth... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4846864

Consequently, we are hiring in every domain. Our team is very international... There are about 25 people working for us.

Our job openings are listed on Angel.co https://angel.co/mailjet#recruiting (details for the salaries)

More details are available on our website: www.mailjet.com/jobs (details of the positions)

Maybe our DEV EVANGELIST is around?

But we're also looking for these people ;-)

- Community Manager
- Tech Customer Support Agent
- Business Development & Partnership Officer
- Human Resources & Finance Officer
- Technical Support Agent
- Web Designer

Don't hesitate to email me if you have questions: elie@mailjet.com
Or get in touch on Twitter @Mailjet

Can't wait to get in touch!
My humble opinion:
Scripting languages like python do have merits.

As a 20+ years C++ programmer, I sadly found there seems no scenarios that C++ can play very well. Compared to C, C++ projects are much harder to maintain. Whenever C++ should be used, C is always a better option.
If interested, drop me a line at hnproject2013@gmail.com

If you have questions or HN-style critic on the structure/proposition, write below and help me build proposition version 1.1!
I feel like I'm always trying to make this point to people, and doing so with far less eloquence. The fact that Katz is (a) an experienced and accomplished developer and (b) someone with very non-trivial experience with hot, hip, super-high-level languages should not go unnoticed. He's not some cranky old embedded systems programmer; he's doing thoroughly modern development.

Someone the other day said that the great thing about C is that you can get your head around it. When Java, or C++, or Erlang, or Common Lisp, or Haskell programming becomes unbearable, it's almost always because the chain of abstractions overwhelms the person building the system. And to be honest, it's why I'm a little less enthusiastic than most of the people here about Rust.
No no no, you didn't just question the trustworthiness of information put forward by the ECB, did you?
You say around 5pm the display turns orange, are you seeing an instant change? Try the slow option that changes the colour over a longer period so you don't even notice it happening.
You've focused on my parenthetical remark and totally ignored my main point: please don't misuse "Show HN".
I have considered it but the cost of living is a fair bit higher (e.g. London). So we're talking about a 20% cost of living increase.

Even the jobs coming out of London aren't that good. My current job is better than most. As I said there is a lot of unemployed programmers around here and competition remains tight.

A lot of people got thrown out when a bunch of service and or financial companies went bust, and they've been stealing all of the interesting or well compensated work.
I'd love to see this with a little more curation. An example (there are more): calling Inmarsat a startup is a bit tenuous when they are LSE listed with a market cap of 2.8 billion.
A couple of useful links: http://webdevchecklist.com/
Just because code is old and crappy is no reason not to open-source it. Many successful projects (e.g. firefox) started that way.
What's the scenario exactly? You can't make use of AD and DFS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Micros...
But there is more then just using them for food. Pigs for eaxmple can be used as a sort of biological recycling factory. In addition they produce _usable_ waste from _unusable_ waste. So your actually incurring a cost in not bringing them along that you will need some technology to replace. Then at the end you need to find a way to maintain or repair your technology while you could just mate the pigs and eat their parents. Additionally Bacon.
> "They may still wonder what the project is and think it's weird but that small detail makes all the difference to me."

It absolutely does. That said, the guy in the article could also very much say something like "I have a personal project where I make an outlandish request every day" and probably gotten more "yes"es.

It's all in the intent - I wasn't out there strictly to get rejected, I was out there to take some cool pictures for a project, and learn a few things about cold-approaching people and handling failure. It wasn't intended as rejection therapy, though it did seem like that in the beginning ;)
Many people of that age already put together that much money (or close to it) --- to buy real estate. I can certainly imagine people taking out mortgages to go to Mars.
In the UK the Open University has been doing distance learning for many years.

They approach this with distance learning materials, exercises regularly marked by real people giving feedback, IIRC regular monthly opportunities to go and speak to your peers and slightly less regular opportunities to meet the course tutors.

Once a year, depending on the course, they would run a 1 - 2 week intensive, usually in summer.
Looks to be http://galleria.io
Is genetically-engineered processed slime mold a vegetable?
Five reasons why the PHP silence operator @ should be avoided
This sounds like a win-win for me. Currently am using iTunes Match, which I switched to after using Spotify Premium for a year.

I still like buying discs from artists I like and collecting them on the shelf, and having this auto-import music is nice. If you don't like the disc version, then buy just the mp3 version for a few bucks less and you will still have it show up in your cloud drive. This auto-import is just a nice bonus now.

Also the CloudPlayer free tier gives you 250 songs free to import. Pay $25/year and you get 250,000 available to import.
These are all good points.

1) Anecdotally, round numbers feel more "honest" to me, it's probably been studied but I can't find any references.

2/3) Definitely reviews themselves are the most valuable and if you can find a way to increase their supply, you've got something really worth selling.

4) Potentially a good idea but could turn some people away. Maybe a throttle rather than a hard limit.

What about a ladder like this to get reviews in the bank?
1 gets you your first 1
2 & 3 get you your second
4 & 5 & 6 get your third
etc
No-one will loan people money to go to Mars ;-)
That's because NULL is the pre-processor define. The null pointer itself has no name in C or C++ (pre-11), except that the language will convert integer '0' into whatever the hardware's null pointer is (usually also 0) when converting integral types to pointer types. C++11 added a name and specific type for the null pointer but that's about it.
Because most people don't want FLAC. It's huge and incompatible with the most popular players for no noticeable benefit to the vast majority of listeners.

AIFF or WAV would be much better candidates if we were going down the lossless digital music route because they are more widely compatible (though a 320 kbps mp3 is the most I'll ever need).
When are you launching? Any chance to get bumped up in the list? I registered months ago...

And FWIW, Snappy >>>>> SnapReply
It's not quite Connecticut, but in New York City there's https://www.hackerschool.com, which lasts about 3 months. An acquaintance of mine did it and liked it a lot.
I've been thinking of starting a blog. It would be on my personal domain and basically represent my online self. I am a web developer professionally and as a major hobby, most of my posts would be about development topics. I have other interests as well: technology, design, guitar, etc... Should these other interests in my life be represented in my posts?
Can someone who knows this course, chime in:

Is this a way for designers & people who have dabbled with coding to become professional programmers (IE some sort of alternative to Uni) or a way for people who are already professional programmers to learn a new programming environment (IE alternative to on the job training)
The Rise of the Single Page Application
It depends, if you're going one way and staying there you're basically selling up and going. If you're fortunate you'll probably cover it mostly from savings, plus pension pots, house sale, possessions sale and so on. Like I said, if you're fortunate. Possibly if you don't want your children to have an inheritance or don't have any.
Not quite: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732444230457823...

Universities are already starting to lose the monopoly they once held as more and more students realize that $200,000 of debt might not be worth it for a piece of paper.
Big-corps: almost none.

Contractors/System Integrators who "body shop" for Big-corps: a lot more.
Awesome! Is that editor open source?
Ask HN: has the onsite feedback (button/form) concept failed?
It all started with getsatisfaction and uservoice (I think), and after a while there were like 20 startups in this field. I used to see those "Feedback" buttons on every site back then, now I don't see them that much. Zendesk doesn't even seem to support or advertise that mode, I've seen few uservoice integrations without it (with ordinary button in the footer). Off all those 20 startups I only see 2 that are more realtime chat oriented (olark).

OTOH, Uservoice seems to move from feedback/community to something more like help desk (where Zendesk was).

What is your opinion?
Depends on how much money you have to burn ;) There's also a crop factor issue when using digital backs, since they aren't the same size as the original film.

If you have a lot of money to burn, the latest gen digital backs are close enough to 6x4.5 that the crop factor is fairly insignificant. Older digital backs aren't even close, so you're shooting a substantial crop from the original intended image.

There is no such thing as a 6x6 sensor, unfortunately.
I think the video is in Frankfurt. Last time I checked, it was on Germany. ;-)
Pretty genius pricing--if the lifetime cost of your customer really is that low (which I'm sure that is), I bet their signup rates will be much better than something silly like "$2/year".
I know a couple of guys who got into I.T. with just a high school diploma. However, those people went through a lot more than 10 years of life's hard knocks before they got there.
My advice, set a hard deadline and announce to your clients and partners that could potentially send sales that you'll have it in their hands on that date. No excuses.
Foul depths of hell? I've never programmed in C or C++, but this seems to me to be a map from strings to vectors of strings. Reads easily. I don't like the :: namespace separator, but what can you do...
It's not about people being offended, but about making sure the notes are as neutral as possible, because they are used by Europeans in 17 different countries. Hence the imaginary buildings on the notes, instead of real national monuments.

It doesn't matter if the interpretation of the watermark is ludicrous or absurd, the fact is that they had a million options for the watermark that nobody would ever take note of, but they chose the mythological Europe, opening the door for euro-sceptics to mock the notes, the Euro and the EU. I'm not talking hypothetically here, the extreme right-wing leader of one of our most euro-phobic political parties has already twittered about this watermark. I think it is safe to assume this only fuels Euro-hate of his (non-insignificant) electorate even further.
> It's a tool for some jobs; definitely not all.

I'd completely agree. I would not use C for doing any web platform work (writing a REST service as you say). I may write a webserver in C if I had tight memory constraints.

Where I see C still being very useful: embedded applications, drivers, and latency sensitive code.

When you are trying to push the most I/O possible through a network interface or disk interface, C allows extremely tight controls on memory and CPU usage. Especially if you are coding to a specific CPU for an embedded product, you can really tweak the app to perform as required (though, this may require some assembly to do what you need).
There is late and there is staying power. When Google's G1 came out people said "Has promise but the iPhone has too much of a lead." People said that Apple would never be compelling in the personal computer business again. People said RIM was too entrenched to be dislodged from the Enterprise. It goes on and on.

Time and time again, making a good product, sticking to the mission and making it the best it can be, has resulted in success for that product. So if Windows Phone is a solid product, and Microsoft sticks to it, they will have a very good chance of becoming a force to be reckoned with.
There are three major classes of decisions that get made from this. In descending order:

1) We generally have pretty tight revenue targets, so one thing I and my teams do now is forecast out expected revenue on a daily basis for the next 30 days, as revenue is highly dependent on a stream of new content, features and what we call live ops.

Live ops are basically a combination of promotions, contests, events and tournaments. We have decent tools, so we can generally spin up a live op in a matter of minutes to a couple hours without doing an engineering push. We also have content we can release with a few hours of work, so if today is not going to go well, it gives us enough time to prep something for tomorrow.

It's highly useful to know if a Live Op or new feature/content release is "working" or not. With the real time dashboard and experience, I can know with high confidence whether it's working within 30 minutes of release, which gives me more than enough time to spin something else up so that we don't lose the day.

2) On many days, we actually do multiple releases or live ops in a single game -- the pace of releases is fast even compared to other web companies. As unscientific as this is, it's often easier for me to evaluate/get a feel for the impact of a release/live op based on how much it moves the projection in the first hour after release, and before the next thing comes along.

Obviously with stuff like that, you validate after the fact against more full data, but I've found after looking at this lot for over a year, I have a strong "feel" for what's working and what's not.

3) Related to 1) and 2), but I've found that using the tool gives me a much tighter feedback loop. When I make a feature release or live op and I'm sitting on the dashboard watching the release move or not move the projection, I have a much tighter feel on the impact. Most of my peers who don't have something like this often are not as rigorous in understanding and evaluating the different levers they have to impact revenue.
"Windows Server 2008/R2 shipped with ~230 cmdlets. Windows Server 2012 beats that by a factor of over 10 shipping ~ 2,430 cmdlets."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/05/30/...
Isn't it pretty obvious what happened?

Microsoft built an OS for hybrid devices. ARM chips can't run legacy apps so Windows RT is DOA. Intel didn't have low-power, high performance chips ready for launch. So there are no good Windows 8 devices out yet.

We'll know a lot more about Windows 8 in a few months as some non-crippled hybrids are released. It's hard to judge Windows 8 on bad hardware. Microsoft should have held off on the release.
I'd stick to similar topics such as: web development, technology, and design. Guitar may not be a good mix. :)
C is hardly a fad given that it is the foundation for the vast bulk of software that you interact with everyday (if not the top layer, ones below it). But of course at some point there is a looping back when silver bullets fail to pay off in the longer term.
Great proposal. I just upvoted it. Don't know if the typical freelancer dev will jump on it and has enough will power but I totally agree on premise 1,2 and 3, so true. Great post!
On the other hand, how are Mom and Dad going to discover Basecamp Breeze?
Why should someone do this instead of a KickStarter?
Koopjes: geniet van de winterkoopjes met een minilening van Ferratum
That's because they just don't have stocks ... I don't know what Nokia did, but their production is not up to the demand (the demand itself being not THAT extraordinary, even if honest).
That's a misleading statement and I think you know it. In general, you have to go extremely out of your way to end up with a remote code execution exploit with Java or C#.

Look at Microsoft's CVEs for 2012. Approximately all of the serious ones would be impossible with a proper type system. This is after all of Microsoft's static analysis tools and code reviews and security focus.
Yes, it is PHP's fault. It's endemic to the general attitude of the PHP team.

"Now just marginally less braindead than every other language" isn't exactly a selling point.

Sure, it used to be worse, but I see zero commitment from PHP to actually make real steps to fixing the situation. A real first step would be to start working on a 6.x release that actually removes the gazillion deprecated-but-still-present-and-thus-used things in the language.
On clicking through to the eligible CDs many of them seem to cost less to purchase than buying the MP3s to begin with. Isn't that a bit silly? If you just want the MP3s it's sometimes cheaper now to just buy the CD anyway.

Edit: am I right in thinking the difference is that this offer only nets you the tracks in your cloud player account whereas buying the mp3s means you can download them too and do what you like with them? If so it seems silly that you wouldn't also be given DRM free files with this offer as it would just save you the hassle of making them yourself.
It's essentially a program that trains attorneys on how to run their businesses. My partner is really the face of it and the person that designed the curriculum, but I put together all the tech, members area, sales pages, etc.
http://launchacademy.co/ - They are currently accepting applications, and the cohort starts early May in Cambridge. Hope that helps!
I have no qualms about deciding what gets downloaded and what runs on my machine because it's ultimately my machine. That's a pretty basic tenant of free software.

Of course the content curators can use the same argument. They have every right to restrict content access to whoever they want but ultimately that wouldn't be profitable so they have to very liberal with their access permissions and chalk it down as a cost of doing business.
This will make a great basis for an SF story -- most likely a comedy. The kinds of people who can front $500k for an exercise like this will generally be quite rich. If it's a one-way trip (or even if they're seriously contemplating immigration) rich people will want to liquidate assets and turn them into some kind of competitive advantage on Mars, but there's this really expensive cargo pipe (presumably with a waiting list), so I can see the 50 year old single software engineer with Aspberger's sitting on $750k in investments buying a ticket (and selling $500k of stocks to do so) and then discovering that some maverick billionaire wants to buy his ticket for $5M so he can bring over a suitcase of paté de foie gras and single malt Scotch, an antique stock ticker, and a catamite.

Here's a funnier idea -- offer shipment to Mars as an alternative to the appeals process for death penalty cases. It would save us money, and make for an awesome Nicholas Cage vehicle. This is how you establish a colony, dammit!
Only if it looks like you are trying to mislead me about your experience.
My wife wanted and picked up a Lenovo Yoga (i5 processor, 4gb RAM, ssd) for Christmas, and though it takes some getting used to, I'm starting to like the thing. I'll also point out that around the holidays it was sold out at every best buy (we had to order it).
This looks like a great way for someone junior at 37Signals to prove themselves, by developing a small product from start to finish.

I'm not 100% convinced 37Signals hires 'someone junior' though.