skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
List NYC startups that are hiring in your console
curl -s -L http://nytm.org/made-in-nyc | grep "(hiring)" | sed -re 's/<([^>]+)>//g;s/^([ \t]*)//g'
Finally in agreement. IMO, technical people are more often not good salespeople or recruiters.
From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.
I don't mean that it's dripping with poo. I mean that you've wiped it with paper and it still needs a wash. In this case, you're not going to be using your hand normally, picking up your things or putting it in your pocket, are you?
Or we could just eliminate software patents. That would sort it.

I tend to agree with this, but: what if we had some other rules in place, not just for software patents, but all patents? Like for instance, anyone who files a patent must also file documentation that they have searched for prior art and either not found any, or have documentation as to why their patent is different enough. If the patent examiner finds prior art that the filer didn't disclose, automatic denial of patent and the filer's privilege to file is revoked for a limited period of time. That and outlawing non-practicing entities from holding patents would probably go a long way to fixing the situation, and might even have a chance of happening.
Show HN: One curl command issues next-day ACH deposit
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-d bank_account[routing_number]=121000358 \
-d bank_account[type]=checking \
-u 7b7a51ccb10c11e19c0a026ba7e239a9:

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No, they don't expect to make money off of it. They expect other ISPs to lower their prices dramatically/speed up their service like AOL did after the Kansas rollout.

http://www.qgazette.com/news/2012-12-12/Features/Time_Warner...
OK, so if the project has a 501c3 non-for-profit corporation holding the website and trademarks, that's a good sign.

What about all the other open source projects?
Could write books about all that was wrong with him... Yet he would probably get bored with StormFront faster than with actual science.
The Top Ten Risk I/O Blog Posts of 2012
In honor of another year having come and gone, Risk I/O took a look back at their top blog posts of 2012, which covers various security industry topics (vulnerability management).
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There's an idea, scalable cloud service for blogs posted on HN :)
Climbing a 1768 foot gided tower[2011]
I think he made a whitehat report and probably waited for everything to be fixed before releasing a write up.
There was a court case about building codes, where the court ruled that you can't charge for the standard because it was the law. Let me see if I can find it...

Edit: I can't find it. If someone more versed on finding court cases can find it that would be awesome. IIRC, it involved a company suing a city(?) for publishing a copywrited building code they had written but the court ruled that you can't charge for the law.
Carriers are totally the problem. Yesterday, Vizio announced two phones running stock Android (Jelly Bean) at CES. They look gorgeous, and The Verge staff, which has had hands-on time with them, says they're amazing. They would use these phones as their daily drivers.

But these phones aren't being released in America - they're being released in China. Why? Because the American carriers won't play ball (because the phones run stock Android), so they're forced to take their product overseas. In China, you can just buy a phone, put a SIM card in it, and you're off to the races.

Think about that for a second. A rare American hardware upstart success story is forced to sell its first phones in China because American carriers won't accept them.
Agreed. Hopefully, Valve will respond with something official soon.
Shadowmint touched on what I meant by that - other companies make creative software which doesn't directly compete with Adobe's lineup, but which costs 2x - 4x more.

As someone who uses this software and occasionally tries the alternatives, I would say that there isn't really anything better out there than Adobe software. But it's also quite affordable when you put it in perspective with how much you can do with it over time.
Yahoo adds HTTPS support to Yahoo mail
The number of i386 installations have been relatively constant since 2007. All the growth has been in amd64.

I guess Debian is the kind of distribution you put on a computer that is going to to sit in a room and run the same non-taxing services for years without attention.
I'm currently in the process of going through my (Python) books and making a bundle that includes assignments. These assignments are self-checking unittests. (I guess they would be akin to fill in the blank). Maybe I need to include free form assignments as well (essays).

Personally, I do most of my reading on an e-reader, in bed, before going to sleep. I think the approach suggested here would require my re-readings to take place closer to a computer.
Why does an enterprise level SaaS have such weak security? It is a rookie mistake for a company who emphasizes security.
I was just peeling a banana this morning that had a QR code on its sticker. I suspected it would be a page about bananas, but unless it told me this banana I was about to eat had been recalled, I really couldn't care less.
Functional Composition. Music and Programming (Clojure/conj)
Have you used the Galaxy S3? You can root/unlock it and install CM. I'd say that's better than a Nexus 4, especially if you have LTE.
Here's a recent post of somebody else channeling tptacek: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940291

I got it from a quick 'password reset' search here, I recall a lot of these discussions, if you're curios click around on a few more results. :)
I still run i686-bigmem since I only have 8G and since PAE only causes a small reduction (a couple of percent) in performance. It didn't seem worth switching to amd64 and risking some compatibility issues. Now it seems like it's time to switch. I'm finding some packages (not Debian specific) are built only for amd64...
You're right, but I don't think that's the full picture. Even if the Wii was up to performance with the 360/PS3, there still wouldn't have been many ports because they cater to fundamentally different gameplay. Most Wii players never owned the gamepad, only the Wiimote and nunchuck combo.

I think the Wii's problem was only partially related to its performance, and much moreso related to the fact that motion gaming was a fad that ran aground fairly quickly.

It wasn't just the Wii either, remember when the iPhone came out and developers imagined a crappy future where you'd practically fall out of your chair playing a racing or flying game.

Once the novelty of Wii Sports wore off, the Wii was dead in the water. The DS in contrast was a much stronger, much longer-lasting platform that could keep its player base interested for more than a few months.
Sony Xperia Z unveiled with 13 MP camera and impressive water resistance
I love Trello, but cannot commit to using it more for business until I have an expectation of service, which comes from paying for it. They're awesome, but they owe me nothing, and that's just too risky.
You can find the link to redeem your free course on your dashboard after you sign in. For those requesting access to the beta, please be patient as we send out invites.
Clojurewm - a "window manager" for Microsoft Windows written in Clojure
if you want to really see people scannen QR codes, there is a site for that http://replycam.com/browse.php
You shouldn't give up on your future, just because professor isn't making class interesting. Other people's shortcomings should not deviate you from getting your diploma.
>You are glossing over the fact that the current board of directors are not the same people who got the company into trouble in 2008.

That doesn't bear on whether they could (jokingly obv.) claim to be an unsophisticated victim of predatory lending, only the board at the time matters for that.

The board can run the company the way they want, barring gross misconduct or fraud, the shareholders had their say at the AGM.
I dig this overall process (and transparency), but I'm bummed that ultimately it came down to "I have an idea." It's an idea that has some customer validation, but the value of this series of blog posts for folks was to prove a process for creating a web application that didn't start with "an idea."
Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it...
Used to work at a market as a grunt and later in mgmt doing orders. No supermarket orders pallets of blades. Cost per sqft to warehouse a pallet for years as they slowly sell or are stolen is too high.

If you're using it as a proxy for cost per volume then lately prices have exploded such that blades win, but the winners used to be pharmaceuticals, batteries, film (ye olden days), and oddly enough spices. Spices were good enough for galleons in the middle ages, so I guess its no great surprise. The price of a cardboard box full of genuine vanilla flavoring or maple syrup is fairly shocking if never considered before.

If you demand pallet level ordering / money laundering it is surely laundry detergent. Nothing else comes close in cost at the required pallet level sales volume. Certainly not $1/gallon distilled water pallets or $5 bags of road salt.
Security updates? The huge number of performance boosts and resource use reductions later versions have seen? The very large number of css properties and selectors added?
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Computing Fact Or Fiction
I hate to think of doing the stuff I used to do in high school 15 years ago now because of all the extra security and terrorism links.
That's basically right. Generally you generate the nonce when someone clicks the 'forgot password' link, but I suppose you could do it when someone creates the account as well.
The funny part is that the GTA ports are more playable than their Windows originals (on modern Windows boxes). There are a slew of backwards compatibility issues that now exist that make games like GTA:SA nearly unplayable.

In any case, I wouldn't put Civ5 in the "victory" category either. As with most Aspyr ports the performance is awful, and it doesn't support a bunch of pretty core features like cloud saves, or the very popular built-in mod installers that exist on PC.

OS X gaming is about as dead as it's always been.
17 Ways To Use The New Psychology Of Sales
Plus, in case of the Xbox, you have to pay for multiplayer abilities which are free via Steam.
You have to admire someone who has built a business like that single-handed.
What's your calculation to adjust for both?

from 2000 to 2010, nominal GDP increased by 45% (from $9.9T to $14.4T), or 3.8% annually

http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTableHtml.cfm?reqid=9&step=3&...
Here's the problem I see with exercises for professional, working developers.

Are exercises useful? Yes. But doing a significant fraction of them increases your read time substantially. It pays off, but now there are other ways (at work, or in open source) to learn things that are less structured but still effective.

Exercises help you get a deep knowledge of the material, but the market doesn't reward that. You're better off with a more shallow knowledge of a lot of things.

The old cycle for learning X:

1. Get an X book. Do a basic reading to get the vocabulary and core concepts.

2. Decide if you're interested in deep knowledge of X. If yes, continue. Otherwise, terminate and choose a new X.

3. Do the exercises in the X book. This will take a while.

4. Do some X at your job.

5. Read the research papers if you want to get to the frontier.

New process:

1. Get an X book. Do a basic reading to get the vocabulary and core concepts. (Same as above.)

2. Decide if you're interested in deep knowledge of X. If yes, continue. Otherwise, terminate and choose a new X. (Same as above.)

3. Get a job doing X. The knowledge and vocabulary learned in (1) should be enough to pass an interview.

4. Refer back to the book and, when needed, read for deep detail to supplement your on-the-job learning.

5. Read the research papers if you want to get to the frontier. (Same as above.)

Step (4) of the new cycle is where the exercises would come in, but most people by that point are just trying to solve the problem at work.
A nice wrapper to handle rhino from clojure
> And, oh, whilst I'm at it, perhaps "Most Recent Streak" would be more motivating than "Current Streak" which I imagine would be at an awe-inspiring 0 for many of us way too often.

Not to mention, give it a day of leeway. I pushed code yesterday, but none yet today (it's still first thing) and my streak is 0.
Case in point: touting Quartz, quite possibly the worst modern UX I've ever come across in the wild.
It seems like it went down again. I'm getting the DB error as well.
2012: A Year in PHP
PS3 was $500 for the lower version, $600 was for the bigger HD. It also didn't sell well. PS3 didn't start to pick up in sales until the price started to drop, and at the time of release PS3 was incredibly powerful.

I can't imagine someone dropping $500-$1000 on this, at that point just build your own computer people!
It's an amazing service but the more I use it the more I become reliant on it. As it stands I don't have any justifiable expectation that they will continue to provide the service to me which makes me nervous.

I use it for a lot of smaller projects but am sometimes uncomfortable using it for larger, longer term ones due to the lack of any sort of contractual relationship.

It's not that I really think they're going to stop providing it at a moments notice - those guys have a great track record - but paying for it (or having the option to) would provide that extra layer of reassurance that I can expect a given level of service.
This is a very liberal use of the word 'proof', to put it kindly. The strategy the author outlines doesn't sound markedly different to me then when Google Plus launched, so I'm not sure what makes him think there will be a sudden change in adoption rate.
WoW I am building an automated tool right now for exactly that. It is in private beta. Anyone interested in test riding it drop me a line!

http://site-analytics.org/
The intro is already outdated, I'll make a new one very soon.
FYI, a $500 PC that attaches to your TV is not going to sell well. It might be profitable and a good idea, but it's not going to stop console gaming from "winning". The magic price point is $199.

Something like the OUYA is more likely to hit the mainstream. $99 is a great price point. What people are discounting is that something like OUYA could get updated every 1-2 years unlike the 7ish year console lifecycle we are currently in. ARM keeps getting faster, it will certainly be "fast enough" soon...
Robot barf on everything? Please, stop.
These sort of product celebrations (with users providing feedback on what the product means to them) are fantastic. As a user it's great to be able to see what a product means to others too and how they're using it. We had a similar page for a website we run and reading user feedback is so much fun, companies should do this sort of thing more often.

Trello only reached 500,000 users in July of this year, that's some spectacular growth: http://blog.trello.com/trello-is-now-500000-strong/
JavaScript libs usage change 2012: jQuery +11.7% Mootools -0.3% Prototype -0.6%
"So then why didn’t Google shut down Google Plus if it was purportedly such a colossal flop?"

Because failure wasn't an option, considering the landscape of social networking and the consquencies of failing.
Bus time tables, giveaways and product advertisement are normal things that people are interested in. A train ticket with a QR code is going to be sitting in someone's hand on the train while they've got their phone in the other hand. If they are curious about getting a 2012 games ticket, or if they're just bored they might play with this QR reader thing.

A salt package however... Maybe you're in a restaurant, do you pull out your phone? Do you hide away the salt package just so you can read the QR code later? This isn't even described, so why do you want to read it?

We already have a ubiquitous machine-readable way of identifying things, barcodes. Just because you own a barcode scanner doesn't mean you go around scanning the multitude of barcodes on your stuff. In fact, we get kind of blind to the number of barcodes on everything because they are used on everything and given without context.

If QR codes are overused on everything, maybe leading to things as mundane as an infosheet on salt (oh, this is high in sodium, who knew?), or forgotten broken links, they're just going to be ignored except when given appropriate context.

Are "normal" people really interested in getting detailed information documenting the unique ID of the salt package they purchased?
QR codes are annoying to use even on phones that support them. Get a short URL and forget QR codes.

Typing proving to be too much? How about working on better OCR?
What are you talking about? I had both a NES and a SNES as a kid. Super Mario Bros was originally released for the NES and later re-released for the SNES as Super Mario All-Stars. But this HTML5 version runs worse in my broswer than the original did on my NES, nevermind the SNES.
Greg: A command-line podcast aggregator
As much as I'd like to see copyright terms reduced, this law clearly had the intended effect. Without the copyright extension, it sounds like Sony would not have released these old recordings at all. They don't really seem to be music lovers, and they have no reason to hold on to old recordings unless they can sell them.
Wayfair and the Future of E-Retail
To me that sounds like a mechanism to help boost. Not automatically, but definitely an advantage.
If Noopept causes rebound anxiety, isn't that a sign that it could build up resistance/dependence over time?
The people in Chelsea Houses [0] might appreciate it.

[0] http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/manchelseael...
Html5 / getUserMedia QR Code Reader
Facilitating Serendipity with Peel-and-Eat Shrimp
Top Consumer Electronic Products From CES 2013
One saving grace is the High Line. I think it works well to serve public WiFi in places where tourists are going to be- they're likely not using their (expensive, international) data connections but need to get access to info.

WiFi like this already exists in Union Square and Times Square.
G+ hangouts are a pretty effective "carrot" for parents with children living far away. Both my parents have G+ accounts.
Your ISP could do the exact same thing, except SSL, etc., etc., etc.
Where will the Internet of Things really lead us?
My major concern here is the speed of the service, maybe by bringing in some cash they will feel more accountable to their users for speed.
The key line for me was at the end, when he says "trying to make the best movie possible is making me live the best life possible". If this is nothing but a trick to make one more introspective and aware of one's own life, I applaud it.
The categorical distribution's structure (and why programmers should care)
Toward resilience in communication (the end of cc)
Can email interfere with HTTP headers though? There's no \r\n, ";" or "=" in valid email.

Anyway, I have seen sites where it was used as a security measure. Or so the authors thought I guess. Storing login password in url parameter? Seems safe if it is encoded.. But it was years ago.
More accurate to cross out "the same non-taxing services" but otherwise basically correct.
I think I'm too ADD for this. Here's how I read programming books:

1. Open Table of Contents and find topic I'm interested in.
2. Open page of topic. Read about it. Start coding along.
3. Close book.

I feel like I can't really read them any other way. I haven't read one cover to cover in years, and that was when I was doing tech editing for publishers and I had to read the whole thing.

Am I alone? Do most of you read the whole thing like a novel?
Besides the regular Qrcode there's also Mirco Qrcode[1]. Also the Reed–Solomon error correction in qrcodes take up a lot of datablocks. If a new standardisation for mirco qrcodes would allow for a version without error correction you could store even more.

[1]http://www.qrcode.com/en/microqr.html
Bob Lazar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar

To the uninitiated, Bob Lazar runs United Nuclear, which is an online store that sells some...dangerous things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar#United_Nuclear_and_le...
> Are they trying to conserve space?

While I haven't read the four you mention not having examples, in my experience, "conserving space" is the last thing most programming books do.

Reading this post, my first thought was "How do you read a programming book 3 times? They're so long?"

I actually feel like most programming-related books are artificially padded with unneeded content, just for the sake of making them longer. Perhaps so they'll seem more like they're worth their price?

In my opinion, too-long technical books are a problem. If you've only got an hour or two a day to read, it can take a week or two to get through a decent-sized technical book. Add in xentronium's point about lack of exercises, and I don't know how anyone is supposed to retain much knowledge from these books.
Charging for premium features - Sure. But the basic version will remain free according to the Trello Guide.

Free... for how long?

Trello is free forever. We may add pay-only features in the future, but everything that's free today will be free tomorrow and forever. Also, we'll not make a for-pay feature that forces you to compromise on privacy, security, or portability. Those are built-in. [...] Trello is free.

https://trello.com/guide
Homographic disambiguation. It's hard for even the best AI to tell the difference between 1lI!| etc.
You are in the UK.

The maximum fees for Uni are £9,000. You get excellent loan rates, and you only need to repay the loan when you're earning more than £21,000.

That £9,000 you pay each year? That's subsidised by government grants.

I'm not sure how much salary you think £9k is going to buy. Add in employer's NI contributions, pensions, etc. Then add in cost of heating and lighting the buildings. And then the cost of the buildings.
While Fog Creek doesn't announce features and services prior to shipping, we do keep a fairly public account of what we're working on at http://trello.com/dev. Note the cards labeled "Trello Power-ups" in green.

Specifically, check out https://trello.com/card/i-want-early-access-to-these-paid-fe....
How to get your first freelancing clients
> I couldn't care less about programming exercises, but I'd love to have some mini project ideas or examples at the end of every chapter so you can put in practice what you've just learn.

"mini project ideas or examples at the end of every chapter" sound like exercises to me?
Hmm, interesting, thanks. I don't foresee custom domains being a big challenge, and it probably won't take too long for us to add support, but I would just want to make sure we stamped out the lion's share of bugs first.
You act as if "Get a job doing X" is a trivial step in the learning process. What if someone doesn't want to get a new job in order to practice X?
Someone actually managed to get one? Wow!
I see. So the real problem is density?

There's a company here that is developing 4Gbit pS-MRAM modules on a 65 nm node:

http://www.mram-info.com/updates-spingate-working-4gbit-ps-m...

What does it mean when the article says a "cell size of 4F^2 in 2D configuration"?