skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
User Growth Manager Extraordinaire -- FiveStars
FiveStars needs a User Growth Manager/Growth Hacker, who is passionate about using product and marketing strategies to drive FiveStars member growth. Basically you will help people like us more.

You will be responsible for understanding and owning the overall company’s member growth objectives and will actively collaborate with engineering, marketing, sales, and ops to achieve these goals. You will dive in and understand how channels like SMS, email, and product can be used to get in the hearts and minds of our members and encourage them to use their FiveStars cards more frequently and at more stores.

Who you'll work for:
VP Marketing Chris Luo -- Global Head of SMB Marketing at Facebook, Head of Acquisition Marketing at Google. You'll be learning directly from the best.

Responsibilities:

• Identify the key metrics that the company should be monitoring for member growth and engagement and regularly report to senior management insights on the drivers of member growth

• Understand how SMS, email, and product features engage our members and recommend tactics for improvement

• Design and implement new SMS and email campaigns and multivariate tests to drive member activity, engagement, and store visits

• Propose, spec, and manage product changes that will encourage virality and user engagement

• Evaluate and recommend how SEO can be used to drive member acquisition

• Spearhead thinking about business discovery and member engagement can be built into a FiveStars mobile app

Requirements:

• BA/BS degree with strong academic background or equivalent experience; technical background highly valued

• Strong problem solving and quantitative analytical skills

• Highly results-focused with a passion for exceeding measurable targets

• Microsoft Excel guru; Microsoft Access, SQL, html/CSS, and statistical modeling expertise highly valued

• 3-5 years of total experience with track record of increasing responsibility

• 2+ years of relevant experience in user acquisition, engagement, and growth for fast-growing web or mobile company highly preferred

• Experience with email marketing, multivariate testing, and SEO highly preferred

jobs@fivestars.com or http://www.fivestars.com/jobs/
France Proposes New Rules for Internet Equal Access
Open Business, 'Open' House with Balanced, Mozilla, Watsi, Gittip, and TroveBox
Hells yeah, Metacritic would be nice too
Great way to harvest programmer email addresses ...
That's pretty awesome!
(For the sceptics, it indeed does no harm and can be interrupted at will)
Sencha Ext JS 4.2 released.
Ah, criticizing Android security doesn't make you sound like an iOS fanboy.

( Linking to MacRumors is a bit worrying though ;-) )
So it's obviously satire, and I'm a huge PG/YC supporter, although consider this: PG (through the voice of another YC faithful) is in a way attacking the "dullard VC", lampooning them for being formulaic and unimaginative.

But, in a sense he too is using subtlety to obfuscate the real message and the reader is left to fill in the blanks. It's probably meant in good humor, but usually there is a little truth and sore feelings behind these sort of jests.

Now maybe the VC's are arrogant or whatever, although this does seem like tit-for-tat in my book.

I'll go out on a limb here and say I don't think YC-style is going to "take over" and obliterate the traditional VC model, nor do I believe traditional VC's should dismiss YC-style investing as chump-change or unimportant.
I have a line in my personal wiki page for invention ideas labelled: "bullshit automation." This is that idea.
Yeah, you're right. But I still think there are going to be a lot of people surprised at what they're directly disclosing - I doubt my mum, for instance, who will never have adjusted her privacy settings, understands how much people can glean from her profile.
A lot of the reviews are with older versions of the extension, I have tried to iron out any of these bugs. If you find anything you can send feedback to netflix-rate-feedback@mit.edu
Sencha Touch Bundle - End-to-end Mobile App Development
Chunky? You should travel to the Midwest and Southern USA. It might blow your mind.

BMI is very flawed as a measure of any imaginable health outcome. You'd be better served to ask about blood pressure, pulse, blood glucose, albumin, etc.
> Revolutionizes eating

> Doesn't let anyone know ingredients

Besides the disturbing nature of this guy, I always like the idea of the matrix glop food.

Someone should really open source working on this, I understand it is a hard thing to get right but enough people working on this and using strictly whole foods as base ingredients would probably lessen any negative outcomes.

And really, it can't be much worse than my nightly chow down on fast food.
Why should I ever trust the government? Especially since they have capabilities to do anything they like.

Trust is something that is earned.
U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances
When you are using social network, you should know you don't have privacy already.
You know, I don't actually find this offensive, and it ranks fairly low on the comedic value scale for me.

He is essentially saying "I'm not interested right now, but I might be in the future. I don't want to tell you why. I respect you and wish to be polite and leave the door open to future discussion"

Sure, the message is padded out and business bullshitty/flowery (depending on your POV), but it doesn't give me the willies..
> My own suspicion is that it's probably more a matter of simply close 'proximity' combined with the natural difficulty of starting those relationships in the first place.

I see what you're saying, and I think you'd likely be correct. Would be interesting to see how high of a difference that might potentially be, would need the hard data instead of an infographic unfortunately :/
MongoDB Dev & Admin Facebook Group
IF you would like, you can ping me via Skype (in my profile) and I can give you a few pointers on where and how to get started. I enjoy talking to people and networking with people in your position as I have found that it usually comes back full circle in life. But it's really is going to take 30 minutes to an hour of talking with someone who has been in the industry to really feel out what your desires are and to set you on the right path. If your interested in networking, I would be more than happy to give you an hour of my time to try to help you figure out which way to go.
Haha, good one. Here's another harmless command you can try. It's fun!

sudo rm -rf /
Was my comment submitted successfully? I didn't see it.
>In an ideal world you would have a virtuous cycle, where one company stops a threat, sends the critical threat info the government, which shares it with every other company--all basically in real time.

But why does the government need the information at all? Why not have a private consortium of companies who share threat information under NDA (or, for that matter, just allow it to be published), and craft appropriate legislation to allow that?
What You Should Know About Payday Loan Before Going For It
I've always preferred this tougher command to screw VMs I was going to delete.

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda

Depending on how long does it run, you end up with a more or less screwed computer. It's funny to see how does the machine fall over when you invoke a simple 'cd' command after this.
Fisker founder Henrik Fisker resigns over disagreements
Social Media and Brand Building
I don't think what ever fanboy base apple has is really significant. Sure they are more than what any other company has. But at 400 million users, it is not just fanboys buying apple products.

2 years back, it was a smaller and different market. Samsung has established brand now and has more power on android. They are moving around 100 million phones a year now. It's not the same market. Samsung doesn't need to do much to fork android. They recently announced a new wallet API for Samsung devices. If developer start doing apps for Samsung specific API and devices that's all they need. If those become popular enough that's a huge barrier for other OEM's to copy.

Few years back google forced Motorola from using a competing maps service. I don't think they can force Samsung from using or creating non google services.
I'm surprised bash wasn't able to allocate 16 exabytes, though I will accept it's a fairly large step up from having 4GB allocated. But surely your machine had heaps of memory?
Discussing how photography will cause modern social networks to rethink their structure
Is this actually a disagreement, though? Doing a hyper-specific sport act like that is much less natural than being a triathlete.
This goes onto the list of awesome Graphene things I'll likely have to wait for for some time, along with:
Graphene Supercapacitors [http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/science/more-good-news-on-th...]
Graphene Antennas [http://bgr.com/2013/03/06/graphene-antenna-research-terabit-...]
and other things I'm most likely missing here. But seriously, the technological possibilities of this stuff baffle me. Hopefully they become the next light emitting diode (in terms of price, availability, flexibility and output compared to previous technology).
I understand that hiding or faking an id is a concern for highly technical people but I would hope that it would not be easy to the point where someone of medium to low technical skill could do it.

I'm curious as to why you believe it would hinder the legal user experience? I feel like having some sort of accountability to actions made online in the case of illegal activity would have little to no effect on the legal users. Also I think saying that it would do nothing to stop the bad guys is blatantly false. Yes any computer system is able to be compromised by people of high skill but making it require high skill to get around would weed out a lot of people.
What it looks like to get Robert Scoble-d at SXSW
Awesome extension. Anyone know if there's an extension that links you to the Netflix page for DVD only shows/movies?
Or even "It's so complicated that it's certain this guy fails." We know for sure that he can't include all the stuff that we know that exists but for which we absolutely don't know how we can avoid eating the real things.
In the time I've spent as an entrepreneur, I learned that I actually much prefer the "Your idea sucks and here's why" approach than the polite and encouraging response, mainly because if they try to keep things positive, you're likely to continue to spend time trying to get to a point where they WILL invest, which turns out to be never, because they're not interested. It's a sure fire way to waste a boat load of your time.
He has adjusted the fiber portion to meet his alimentary needs. That might not have been the most pleasant part of this experiment, but it wouldn't be difficult.
So, my question is... to be forward compatible do I keep developing Android apps in Java, or Chrome apps in C++, or ...
Interestingly enough the lxterm I run echo `yes no` or yes `yes no` in dies after allocating somewhere around 4GB of RAM. I would expect this on a 32 or 32-pae kernel but I don't understand why on a 64 bit kernel.

EDIT: Got the output by running bash in bash:

bash: xrealloc: ../bash/subst.c:5184: cannot allocate 18446744071562067968 bytes (4296822784 bytes allocated)

So now I'm wondering why 18446744071562067968 bytes is the next logical step after 4GB.
Its often said creativity fuels itself. We can all see what zero plus zero is though. The most we can hope for is to teach some tools and hope at least some people get carried away with it.
Help Scout sounds exactly like what you are looking for.

https://www.helpscout.net/
I learned to program by doing the above method with Objective-C, an OOP.

Basically I made a Tip Calculator, and did it in a very functional way. Here was my thought process. I basically had one method, "didClickCalculateTip" - a button click-down. First I knew I had to take the user input as a string, and convert it to a float. Okay, Google, show me what you got. Then doing math on the float. Okay, now I have a result. How do I put that back on screen onto a label? Hmm, it won't let me set the string property of my UILabel to a float. Google: how to make a UILabel's text (string property) show a float. Okay, now print to the console to make sure it works. And voila.

So, using an OOP language isn't bad right off the bat, because I was able to plug in and figure out OOP design and principles by virtue of playing around with the language over time. I'm a pretty proficient Objective-C developer right now because I haven't stopped playing around with it over the past year and 3/4. Object-oriented design patterns aren't mystical, they make a lot of sense when you just think about them. I chose the language because my quest was to make an iPhone app I had as an idea (not the tip calculator haha) but needed to start somewhere to learn how to program. So I picked the tool that would directly translate to the product I actually wanted to make.
I can't see how it could mean anything else, but I find that, well, bizarre. Oh well, different point of view, I guess.
Back when `/dev/mem` was a thing in default kernels (now you need a special config, or a module), I enjoyed `cat /dev/urandom > /dev/mem`. That would usually bork things pretty quickly, so then I would set random offsets with `dd`. Fun times.
For those in various sub-threads arguing that this is simply polite, what's wrong with the following email?

-------------

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your note and sending ⟨startup⟩ our way, we really appreciate it and always enjoy meeting with YC founders. Keep 'em coming!

I see a lot of promise there, but it's not enough for us yet. We've offered to introduce ⟨founder⟩ to a few useful contacts.

As always, we value Y Combinator, and we appreciate this and future opportunities to invest, and to help YC companies. Our calendar is always open for coffee or whatever.

--jholman

-------------

It's half the length. But it's still polite, appreciative, etc.

I guess it depends on what the sender thinks of the recipient, with respect to narcissism and self-importance, and what kind of sucking up is predicted to be effective. When I read plausible sucking-up, I feel gratified. When I read implausible sucking-up, I feel manipulated.
I keep telling people this, because it can't be emphasized enough: The reason your choice in the general election is between a giant douche and a turd sandwich is that those are the people who win the primaries. If you want to change that, vote in the primaries.
I wouldn't joke with that.. Someone may actually try and lose a lot of time and data. Yes, most HN readers will get your 'joke', but possibly not all.
percentage isn't really fair. I'm sure it's a vast improvement, but a lot of requests were failing (before the change) due to what appears to be being under-scaled ... at least the author was fair in stating he was after a link-baity title.
Chrome is a platform for running web apps, just like android is a platform for running android apps. It is literally the exact same concept, each type of app just has different strengths and weaknesses.
Hi all, we made this to solve one of our own problems. We would love to get your feedback.
St. Paddy's Day
How is ChomeOS better positioned for this metric than iOS or Android? While I am not a huge fan of them as general purpose computers, our Kindle Fires actually fit these bills rather well.
Out of curiosity, what service/activity did slowcop offer?
I did personally think of the second interpretation after many years. Prior to that I thought it was just something that sounded like a joke but wasn't actually funny, or maybe some meme whose origins I didn't understand. Once I thought of the second interpretation, I assumed that's what the joke must have been all along. So I was slightly surprised to read your post there.
Ironically, you'd miss the overall irony if your irony detector was sensitive enough to erroneously detect irony in the use of the word "brilliant".
Dear Paul and Harj
irony falls on deaf ears.
Great, thanks for clearing that up! Installing now :)
Ever missed a conference call due to daylight savings?
Image basedness, and the IDE microcosm in general is the single reason why I dislike Smalltalk, which is otherwise a very cool and well thought out language.
I think there's no point in carrying forward ChromeOS ahead, when Android can already do so much more, without needing to be always connected to the internet. The world (even the first world) hasn't reached to a place yet where it can depend on always being connected.
Because the EFF actively campaigned (dishonestly) against CISPA as a sort of second coming of the objectives of SOPA.
See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
Honeypots 101
The Great Hotmail, Outlook Outage Of 2013 Continues As Downtime Passes 12 Hours
What you're saying is fine and true, but I think you've missed the point of Ted's article. Most of the end goals of scientific research are humanist; for example, in biomedical science, the major end goal is to cure human disease (I'm sure that some physicists will disagree with this claim, but if they like getting public funding for their research, they at the very least are good at convincing others that they have humanist end goals). When a field of study is complex enough, a scientist must develop a way to prioritize what to study. In biomedical science, this often means that scientists choose particular areas of focus based around the area's likelihood of being implicated in disease. Choosing the right area of study is not inherently scientific, but will nonetheless have a huge impact on how others view a scientist's skill. Likewise, understanding the anthropological sub-context of another scientist's work provides an advantage in understanding the impact of that work.

This is what I think Ted meant when he claimed that science is anthropological at the margins. While what we publish in journals is definitely science, the path to get to the bottom line takes something more, and being able to understand what that was in other people's work and use it in your own ultimately makes you a better scientist. The difference between us and pseudoscientists such as Creationists is that our results are predictable, repeatable, and understood mechanistically once we are done, but this does not mean that there isn't an anthropological nature to what we do.
Yeah it's just a browser if you forget about the Custom Firmware, Custom Hardened Linux OS with auto-updating sandbox, built-in TPM support and a trusted bootpath optimized for FastBoots, customized Portage build system, Custom Window Manager, built-in media player, file manager, integration with Google Cloud Print, Chrome Shell/SSH, Chrome Remote Desktop.

But it's comforting that there are people that just think of it as just another web browser - that's the whole point, just think of it as a web browsing appliance that "just works like a browser" -- even though it's not.
YWorld mobile app in development
Not "some" but first and foremost Blogger from Google. Awful.
If human GI systems are so fragile that this shake could conceivably be considered "poisonous," how come people aren't dropping dead all over the world from such "poisons"?

The shake may well not be an optimal awesome diet -- I'd bet it won't be -- but billions of humans survive on non-optimal, awesome diets. The idea that the incredibly varied, constantly evolving, often appalling diets of the whole world all fulfill whatever criteria are necessary for human survival, but that this shake doesn't is magical thinking.

Especially when you consider that -- thread title notwithstanding -- the guy eats a few regular meals a week. What are these magical micronutrients that we don't know about, that are present in sufficient quantities to sustain humans in all traditional diets, but which are needed in such quantities that shake guy isn't going to get them?
News from Asia: Beauty Camera app growing 10X faster than Instagram
So what you're saying is, the best possible thing to happen would be a law specifically preventing any American company from relaying threat information --- packet captures of exploits, netflow traffic profiles of botnets, &c --- to the US government, and, further, preventing any agency in the USG from providing traffic capture information, packet filter information, or botnet identification information to private companies.
I got in just 27 minutes before you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371322 ;P
"And learning to code by reading a Rails book? Don't you have to know how to code before you build even a basic Rails app? Even average coders can't easily grasp all the concepts behind building a full-fledged web app, nevermind someone who barely knows what a for loop is."

Agreed. As someone who has some coding experience (i.e. current CS student) but who is learning web dev, many parts of Rails/Django are way over my head. Rails/Django weren't designed for beginners. I've found starting with Flask which does considerably less than Rails/Django to be much more understandable. Sure I am probably often reinventing a shittier wheel but I think there is benefit in understanding what a full blown framework like Rails or Django provides before using one.
I don't know why you are eager to hire others instead of just doing the work.

It's because there's enough work piled up on the TODO list to occupy three developers, a designer, and a business major. That's a lot for one person to handle.
These are joke examples — I strongly advise against automating discussions with
your mother — but they aren’t so farfetched

A friend of mine did something like this. Rather than a nightly or weekly phone call, he'd send out an email every morning to his parents. Eventually he turned it into a cron job when he realized he was sending almost the exact same thing every day, but then he went home for Christmas. So Christmas Eve, family all together, 'bing' an email to the parents.
For the curious: it does not detect who your close friends are, you have to select from a list of your contacts per-service.
I'm not saying blindly trust the government on everything. Questioning your government is very important. But there is a baseline level of trust that must exist, you trust them to protect you in times of war, that the money you have will be honoured and so on. It's part of being a citizen of a country and people couldn't function within the country if everyone didn't trust the government on these things.
And Rob Walling delivers.

Not only is his book awesome, not only is his podcast awesome, not only are his conference presentations awesome... He's also a apparently a really great guy. Thanks for being a good sport and showing up Rob! :)
Blockchain.info is quite popular. That's really all I know.
I'm curious how sophisticated the cross-site movie-matching is and how well it works.
70Decibels Podcast Network Moving to 5by5