skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... and a new job at Yahoo."

Poor kid.
Why does nobody use URIs? At least bittorrent magnet links got this right.

We have standards for a reason, guys.

Furthermore, any system in which all nodes receive all messages will not scale. Additionally, without proof-of-work, it is trivial to disable the network through flooding.
> it also allows you to detach/reattach your running session

I use dtach(1) for this. I'm sure tmux is far more powerful, but dtach is much simpler and does all I need at this point. It's still less than a year since I learned Vim, so I'm taking a break from learning arcane programs with a zillion options for a while :P
That looks super fun. How do I contact you? (If there is a messaging function on HN, I'm not savvy enough to figure it out.)
SXSW, bikes, and the Zen of finding things out
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I come from a text analysis background - there are a lot of nice packages in python which make it easy to do data analysis of any kind. Have a look at Numpy + Scipy, nltk. You can easily find insights without a strong statistics background, but that would certainly help. Even just the basic median, mode, mean gives you a level of insight that you can extrapolate and give extra meaning to your data.
Text Summary background introduction
Hear hear!

Now, for the rest of us: we've got some bootstraps to pull, because we can achieve success too, if we work hard enough (yes, that's sarcasm, not purple koolaid)

The class system is alive and well in the USA too. Less easily recognized perhaps, as the myth of the American Dream(sm) with its "look at these successful underdogs" is the perfect misdirection. Dig a little deeper and you'll most hugely successful startups came from money (i.e. "friends and family" rounds under rule 506).
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Who is the target audience for this sort of advice?

The people who will understand this figured it out long before they were in a position to hire other people. It's just obvious and is repeated so much (don't hire for specific experience) that it is a cliche.

The people who don't get this will never get it, even if you paste stickers that say it on the windshield of their car and whisper it in their ear as they fall asleep each night.

So it's all great to repeat this for the 3 newbs who joined our community in the last 5 minutes and haven't heard this 80 times already this week, but it shouldn't be on HN's homepage.
I'm guessing it was the ted talk by the same person.

http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...
A lot. Mostly one day projects that I lost interest in after I built version 1.
In general, this article belongs among the best articles nobody will read.

It looks like I might finally get a job as a Django/Python developer after 3 years of unemployment. Encouraged by my local course for unemployed, I visited the company personally and handed them a dead tree CV and cover letter. I was mildly amused to find they seem to be just 3 guys in small dusty room. I ended up on a job interview of sorts I wasn't prepared for. It ended with a talk about games, Fallout and Counterstrike were mentioned. The best part for me, I got a homework assignment to test my skill.
I'm not so sure the "boys club" is really the "boys club." It's more like the "in crowd." And many people suffer from not being part of it, men included. Anything that threatens the in crowd's exclusiveness is shunned. That said, there more than a few misogynists out there, and not just in the tech realm. You should have worked at my last job. Boss literally thought a woman's place was solely in the kitchen, and hired accordingly (or as much as he could get away with). He also thought all black people should be shot, or so he said on one incredibly surprising occasion.
Stop over-analyzing things. Saying Yahoo made this acquisition for the sake of publicity is an extraordinary claim which is completely unsubstantiated.
I was aiming for a simple desktop fanless machine where I could run Emacs.
Doesn't look like there's a PM system. mr.meker at gmail
One of our customers just alerted us to this copycat website.
We view it as a really nice compliment to our designer, Micah Wolfe! I love the comment someone left in their feedback "an original website". https://recomio.uservoice.com/forums/198081-general/suggesti...
"Now we've wasted $10,000 as we dont have the article to accompany the efforts. / That puts us in debt and we can't pay that back for ourselves so now I'm going to have to go without food for the next month."

What an elevator pitch! If this Yahoo! thing doesn't pan out....
Hi, I'm andrewsmedina on github. I want to help. When docker will be opensourced?
It's possible to run a Debian or Ubuntu install side by side with Android (or simply install it instead of Android).
My response, in two parts:

- Whatever

- Pay me

Here's the baseline: pay your people what they are worth and build something worth building. Everything else - free beer, foosball, catered lunches, tall ceilings, hardwood floors, is just details.

This may be my curmudgeon coming out (I'm in my 20s, WTF), but this really rubbed me the wrong way:

> "The Possibility of Making a Lot of Money"

This is a myth that needs to die, and founders need to stop perpetuating it. It's insulting to be approached like that, with the assumption that I'm going to be so wowed by your beanbag chairs and artisanal coffee that I lose the ability to do basic arithmetic.

The amount of equity I see being tossed around to employees - even relatively early ones - is pathetically little, while many founders strut around as if they're writing your yacht check personally with a 0.1-0.2% offer.

If the amount of equity you're offering is supposed to trump cash, you better be bringing a lot of it to the table. But guess what, you're probably not.

If you're not willing to pay market salaries, you can either bring >1%+ equity to the table or GTFO.

> "In a successful start-up, the potential financial upside that comes from stock options can far outweigh a low base salary."

LIES[1]

[1] Barring Black Swan events.
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I wonder if that means OS X's ruby will be upgraded finally.
You're better off just using one of the many great mobile-optimized versions of HN out there. I don't think HN will ever have a mobile version, although I would love to be proven wrong.
Proof of market - And when that's complete, they also have their first few hundred units off of their shelves.
Made by Sandwich Video http://sandwichvideo.com

They do the best (and most imitated) promotional work for tech companies going.
Here is my submission (written in standard Go): http://nurble.nickpresta.ca/

Source is available here: https://github.com/NickPresta/nurblizer

There are some minor differences (due to Go lacking backreferences with it's Regexp package, as far as I can tell) that I don't care to fix. Still, in ~74 lines of code, you get something pretty decent (and no external web server required, either).
Notice the price (free). I wonder whether this app would actually be very useful. Are you updating issues on the train?
Me too; arrows are just CSS to avoid pixelation.

The code can be found here: https://gist.github.com/AltIvan/5243025

It looks like: http://i.imgur.com/iYrfuOf.png

I know that the login button disappeared but it ask you to login in when you try to reply, up-vote or submit.
Why is this not a web app?
Yes the design looks similar but it looks like just a UI copy. The styling, scripts are pretty much different.

Fun fact:

keen.ico (OP) : banner_icons_light.png 800 x 454

recom.io(Alleged copier) : banner_icons_light.png 3928 x 2228
The issue is that "tallent" is nebulous, and difficult for companies to both define and measure. How does a company determine one's capacity to adopt new technologies? How do they adequately determine who is "smart" and who is not? The reason companies resort to hiring based off of experience is that experience is a reasonable if imperfect proxy for skill, and because someone who has worked with a technology for some given amount of time can be reasonably expected to have attained competency in it. Experience is quantifiable and the link to ability is solid, making it an efficient metric for use in hiring.

Obviously, the best case scenario would be for companies to deduce who will have an affinity for certain technologies before they actually use them, but that's too complex and involves the type of decision-making to which HR departments are averse.
That is not exactly a natural consequence. It just gives you a leg up.
> I fail to see what "rising up" against an army of random alt accounts on Twitter would have accomplished.

To let women know that they will be supported when speaking out against sexism. To let everybody know we defend our own.

> I don't really see evidence of this having caused more fear among women in tech.

Keep looking, then. I've seen plenty of it.

> And it turned out she had a history of doing such shockingly antagonistic things to anyone who wasn't black and/or a woman.

That claim has been debunked: http://www.technologywoman.com/2013/03/24/digging-beneath-th...

> She handled the situation in a shockingly ridiculous way.

That's a matter of perspective. I hope that I would have handled it differently. But given the thousand-paper-cuts thing, I can't say that I would have. She didn't fire the one guy who got axed. The guys making the jokes are not being discussed by name. All she did was post a conference pic and a summary of what they said in public. I'm not seeing anything particularly horrible. The one negative outcome for the one guy, firing, could have come just as well if she'd complained to his boss.

> A good number of the talks at the con were given by women.

And you know why? In good portion because of the hard work of the people you anonymously denigrate here. Because of decades of effort to make tech, and everything else, less of an old boys' club. Because however much you scoff as systemic misogyny currently, you don't have to go back far in time to see something that even you will recognize as systemic misogyny. That you don't see it now could mean you are incredibly perceptive. Or it could mean you are just like the guys back then who couldn't see the systemic misogyny that benefited them.

> Less unsubstantiated political BS, more meritocracy.

Well when you get around to understanding why a sexually charged environment keeps women of merit out of tech, drop me a line. Then maybe you'll be ready to do something to further the meritocracy you're seeking.
kat.ph has a guy called Gandalf, german composer, instrumental easy listening, really good for coding with.
Not as extreme as fashion, there's a reason vogue is called vogue :)
Success breeds success. There is very much a class system alive and well in the world today, which reinforces wealth creation. While there are many exceptions to the rule, it's undeniable that those who come from the upper classes (not necessarily wealthy, mind you) have certain privileges the hoi polloi don't.
I think the most interesting bit of the Stripe article was that they did most of their hiring via referrals. That's really one of the very few ways you're going to be able to hire "people" rather than specifically to certain job descriptions. Their recruiting method matches their strategy. All too often companies will say "we hire people, not roles" but then post all their jobs on job boards where the specific role is well defined. :-/
We can't really offer rewards and we aren't selling anything. This is more for fundraising than capital. I don't know if this fits Kickstarter's ToC, and Kickstarter campaigns take more time than we have. Hopefully, we can buy these bikes in a week or two and have then attached and working with enough time to create some good art and make it go FAST!
Dude. Y U SO grumpy?
Lots of speculation about how this young man managed to achieve these accomplishments, a lot quite negative and bitchy.

Seems straight forward to me - his prototype generated interest and investment (nepotistic or otherwise), he paid SRI to develop real technology behind the product, Yahoo bought that technology.
Although as an add-on to that, many people abstain from alcohol for a variety of reasons (not because they're "no fun" or stuck up) so I'd leave that out to avoid making potential candidates feel uncomfortable.
The analogy above was more akin to, you'll never reach level 70 if you just keep grinding the tutorial. It really doesn't matter how fast you learn. If you are not getting new experiences and being challenged, you will still be on a slow growth trajectory.
Love the css work. Much more efficient way of targeting.

Thanks for sharing, I'm taking some cues from this.
I scratched my own itch a few weeks ago.

Check out:

https://m.news.ycombinator.com.moovapp.com/

I took a weekend crack at it recently using moovweb's sdk:

http://console.moovweb.com

It's far from complete, but already much more usable.
Not crashing my mobile browser (ie not using OnSwipe) would be a start.
Startups - Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
What I really want to know is why he's planning on majoring in philosophy. Why not computer science?

Also, did he write this app himself? Watching the video/ad he made with Stephen Fry, it seems like it was one hell of a lot of work... I frankly find it hard to believe he created that all himself by hand at age 15. (Or did I miss something?)
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believe me, I know plenty of people who wish they could afford half of that for their kids. with that said, the threshold of an affordable 'household pc' IMO plateaued years ago with a 4GB 2.5Ghz system, if that. if you look around, you can find an old system to revive for less than $100, and you can get a standard mouse/keyboard for 20 bucks.
Considering his dad is a VP at Morgan Stanley and his mother is a corporate attorney, he is a great actor.
this is the stuff that dreams are made of, other people's dreams

This sounds a lot like René Girard: people desire others' desire. I think it's one of the most important things to understand about human psychology. Without it, you can really run aground in a painful way.

It's worth noting how shamelessly the article's headline exploits this. How many people here are compulsively comparing themselves to what it depicts?
There is a serious shortage of analytics skills in the market right now. I recommend you set up an ifttt that emails you anytime a job posting is made to craigslist with the terms "analytics", "big data", or "data mining". Update your resume to express an interest in this field and describe the work you've done that's related to it. Send your resume to all the postings and talk to the companies about the type of work they have available. Most companies don't need a data genius; they need a smart person who is passionate about analytics. There is a ton of opportunity in this field; you'll be welcomed with open arms!
For whatever it's worth, I got more out of my graduate level logic sequence about logic and the deep grounding computability theory than I did from any of my CS classes as an undergraduate (philosophy was one of my majors – CS was a minor)

Personally, I think this kid will be fine majoring in Philosophy because, well, he has other skills to carry him through =) (I still wouldn't go back and change my education one bit)
I'm confused. What does 'cat myimage.jpg do'? You can easily display images using other programs. The terminal is for things that can be easily manipulated.
HTTP ETags are probably the most widely used workaround for 3rd-party cookie blocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags

Not sure whether the Firefox folks have figured out a way to patch this workaround up or not.

I do think that retargeting businesses are in for a bit of pain given the headwinds re: third-party tracking across the US and world.
Why bother with a CS degree if you've already written software successfully and cashed out?

Regarding philosophy: in the UK, graduates of the "Politics, Philosophy and Economics" course at Oxford are pretty much running the show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11136511
Where did i ever say you should have fought them?
our designer made that icons banner, and the github button, and the gray arrow, and we wrote the text about "the old fashioned way". we also designed the tabs for the code samples :)
Heh. Our solutions came out very similar. I clearly did something wrong, as I thought backreferences didn't work in Go's Regexp package. Oh well. I'll remember for next time.

https://github.com/nickpresta/nurblizer
This is a fair comment. A company of Google's scale simply cannot monitor every Adwords account for compliance, so they are being safe. It doesn't mean this advertiser isn't untrustworthy or loose, just that Google cannot effectively monitor advertisers of this size.

I also can't understand the mantra of 'don't be evil' still gets mentioned. This is nothing more than cute brand association with no real grounding in truth. Google are a public company who can be evil. It is like the platitude that Google shuns product managers and welcomes engineers, implying that Google products sell themselves because of rock-solid engineering (totally disregarding the fact that Google have an aggressive sales force and have spent billions on marketing activities, both directly and indirectly).
Here's some relevant articles, given that we all need to get onto 1.9.3 ASAP:

Sam Ruby's "What to expect in 1.9.x" slideshow:
http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/ruby19.html#1

Airbnb's migration story:
http://nerds.airbnb.com/upgrading-from-ree-187-to-ruby-193

Another migration story:
http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/2012/10/03/ruby-1.8.7-1.9.3-m...
Maybe, but I can guarantee it won't get done until 10.9 comes out. EDIT: If you really want to see the level of effort for them to do this go buy OS X Server from the app store and dig around for ruby files ;-)
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Why would you want to? Because they are no longer providing you with as many free services as before? I mean yeah of you are selling ad space maybe. But otherwise I don't really see it.
"How to cause massive ressentiment among your current employees?" Well, maybe he's a genius but there are no examples provided, so I'm guessing this is an expensive promotion by Yahoo!. From what I've seen, summarization software's quality is no where near the typical tldr at the end of reddit post, so what exactly has he done that's worth 30 million dollars? What does the average Yahoo! employee think?

Is that the point? To get >30 million dollars worth of them to quit in rage?
Hence Site44[1], which has a lot of other benefits like gzip compression, in-memory caching, etc. (I'm a founder of Site44.)

[1] http://www.site44.com
He says he has quit Google, but its unlikely that he has quit using all third paty apps that sit directly or indirectly on Google services/APIs such as Maps & Search.
Sorry to hear that. Sounds like it's their bad. When I got the email I moved the one site I had left there (my fathers ceramics site) over to weebly.
Even if he's only a little rich as some say he is, a bit of money could put together a ragtag team of outsourcers. Anything's possible I guess. 16 year old dev managing some extra help? Why not?
Glad to see someone mention Jamis Buck's excellent series on these. This recap[1] gives a good overview of the ground covered, with nice interactive bits.

1 - http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit...
FAA may finally let customers use laptops and tablets during takeoff and landing
Yes, but it does combine its functionally inspired features seamlessly with its object-orientedness.
The costs of "boring" are too high in online education.
Microsoft Replacing Photography with Hyper-Realistic CGI
I like it! And from a fellow Texan, too. :)

Our dev team is even smaller than yours, and we also spend a lot of time getting to know developer candidates, of course. We've found it helpful to assign a programming project, but usually one that takes around 20-30 hours to complete. We like to pay them market rate for this work because we are busy with our work and personal lives and know they probably are too, plus we often try to give them a module we've been meaning to get started on, so we actually plan to incorporate their work into our codebase. It seems to be a very unique experience for developers applying to our company, and so far it's been very successful.
I'm betting it's about talent acquisition.

Like you suggest, the technical part just isn't quite there. I used Summly for almost 3 months, giving it chance and chance again to impress me. It never did. The summaries were mediocre at best and commonly irrelevant, and it got deleted soon after. It's stuck at the point voice recognition is, where it works ok at time, but generally isn't worth the hassle.

Yahoo's been buying up start-ups with good talent but middling traction to do a turn-around. Stamped, Jybe, and now Summly all fit the mold. Yes, they're purchasing at a premium - it's hard to convince a young, scrappy start up founder to join a company with Yahoo's stodgy reputation. But that's exactly what they need - a new infusion of big thinkers to turn around the company.
Someone has worked for Amazon!
Ask HN: Should I learn and use ROR or stick with what I'm comfortable with?
I've been working for a software company that uses Java Struts for building web applications and I've become very, very good at it. It's boring, verbose but the runtime is efficient and I can crank it out.
I started looking at ROR tutorials, but have been a little bit turned off by the hand-waving of scaffolding and usage of GEMs (granted, I bailed mid-way through even the first tutorial).

What are your thoughts on building a Java Web Application (using Struts, likely - other suggestions welcomed), versus building a Ruby on Rails (etc.)
I like how they're linking directly to the keen S3 bucket that hosts google prettify's CSS.
Email is hard because it is both architecturally insecure, and tremendously valuable to malicious attackers. It's hard because addressing its problems leads to buckets of different bad solutions rather than a single standard one. It's hard because the handful of big fish have decided that a reasonable way to combat its problems is to rely on interoperability with each other at the cost of you, the guy running mail.

That said, as someone who does run mail, from my perspective it's more like the rest of the internet got easier and mail is still where it was a decade ago. Everything used to suck this much. With mail, the old hassles got addressed (goodbye sendmail and your m4 configuration nightmare) but got replaced with new hassles fast enough that it's kind of the same difference. But nowadays running the rest of your web stack (DNS, HTTP server, etc) is not very hard, though the cost of a DNS screwup is still huge.
Is it cool to have the exact same "indie" ad that every other tech company has? (http://sandwichvideo.com/)