skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of your js files should be compressed into one file, browser cached, and gzipped.

And then, served via CDN.
Yeah agreed. But I can ready Python (and many non-functional languages) effortlessly and Clojure (and most other functional languages) take WAY more effort for me to read. I mean huge amounts. Enough to where I've never been able to make a serious effort since getting anything done takes forever.
This is great! I've seen a couple similar sites but not anything nearly as well executed as this. Good job!
They're a large part of why I've almost entirely stopped reading comments on HN. Too many people more interested in being right than having an actual discussion.
Why are designers so bad at scoping?
Then I'm not sure if it will remain simple for you :) But you should have plenty of tools to get the job done. I can't comment much on the security features, except maybe for the firewall. PF is much simpler to understand than iptables. Rule definitions read almost like English. If you understand TCP/IP it's pretty easy to come up with a simple config. No need for a frontend à la UFW.

In my case I use it on a personal computer and as long as I've got X.org and network connectivity I'm happy. By default OpenBSD doesn't have much software installed. In term of user software, you get ksh, vi (not Vim), optionally X.org with FVWM and I guess that's pretty much it. Then you just add what you need. Oh you also get Tmux, which originates from the OpenBSD project.
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I thought the engineering aspects were fascinating.
Totally.

My thesis is that some people truly think that way. What I find to be obtuse, obfuscated, tortured, overwrought is apparently pure poetry to others.

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

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Relocation is definitely available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
I don't have a problem with this. I think it's great to imagine and mock up improvements to an app. But at the same time I don't have anything good to say about the result either.

The fact that something looks "early 2000s" is so far down the list of my priorities for an IM app that it's effectively a non-issue. I think a lot of the sentiment here is simply that the important issues aren't really being addressed, and implementing a radical change like this is likely to raise a whole slew of new ones.
Better way to do this:

Go on localbitcoins and find people who mail cash for bitcoins, or find somebody on IRC to do it.

Sell them bitcoins, have them mail the cash to SDF for your payment. Now you avoid all the problems of physically mailing something from where you live. It's actually common for people to ask for single US bills in the mail too, for collecting.

I also would edit Torrc file to use semi trusted exit nodes from torservers.net so you aren't using a malicious exit node.
Homebrew supports bottles, which are binary versions of forumlas.
$149.95 per month? That's a spicy meatball!
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zyzz brah
Mountain View, CA. Full time.

DNAnexus - https://dnanexus.com/careers

DNAnexus aims to become the data platform of the genome era.

We are funded by top investors TPG Biotech, Google Ventures and First Round Capital. We have a small team of ~25 people working on challenging problems in cloud infrastructure, security, genomics, interactive visualizations and more.

Experience with DNA isn’t necessary, but really strong software engineering aptitude is. We are looking for talented people to fill these roles:

- Vice President of Engineering
- Software Engineer in Test

- Systems Engineer

- Front-end Engineer

- Bioinformatician

Here's an article that would help give an idea of the kind of work we do:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/genetic-data-gl...
Just another suggestion: invoices was something I needed last year. I imagine, though, a lot of such services exist.
Can't the serial number on a dollar bill be traced back to the last bank it was located? Not very accurate, but it's a lead if someone, for example, in the government wanted to find you.
The internet isn't a game though, so restrictions based on intentions is fair. I think games, especially those which elicit feelings of competition or a strong desire to win, are all about finding the discrepancies between the rules as they are intended and the rules as they are implemented. When you push those boundaries, you get the advanced techniques and high level play which makes competitive gaming so interesting.
We're currently only accepting US-based developers because we're US based ourselves, and we'd like to walk before we run. There are some intricacies with contract law across global borders.

Also, our payment processor (Stripe) only currently supports the US and Canada.
>OpenBSD will run on almost everything, just the kernel does not contain binary blobs in order to support absolutely everything.

Not running with 3D acceleration with nVidia video hardware is a big stopping point. Yes, it's not their fault, but that's not running on "almost everything".
Not that weak. Imagine you had computer chess instead of computer poker, and imagine you discovered that if you play black and choose some special kind of Sicilian defense, the computer plays very weakly because of the bug in the algorithm and your chances of winning are greater. Is that illegal now? Would it be illegal if you played chess with human (for a wager) and knew he's weak at certain positions and specifically played for those? Using opponent's weakness in the specific area of the game to win is a very common thing in sports, not making it illegal in casino setting is a very strong argument IMO.

Doing something like magnets is different of course because it violates implicit assumption of the playing on the machines, but just pressing buttons is not.
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Like git pull --rebase? Make it default
Fortunately we don't live in the wild west. If the bank forgets to lock its vault it's not free money season.

He didn't just find some way to, say, outsmart the random number generator. (And I think that would be fine: casinos encourage people to think they have founds ways to beat the system, because they keep on trying them, putting more money in the casinos' pockets. If someone manages to somehow actually beat the system, good for him.) He found a bug in the payout calculator.

If you figure out a way to press buttons on an ATM that makes your withdrawal credited as a deposit, it's neither legal or right to repeatedly exploit that. There is no "gee, I really thought it meant to do that."
Then they get investigated, then give the investigators your contact info that they used to transact with you.
Fascinating - I worked on the original database application for tracking CAFE practices in the field as part of an internship program with Conservation International. We worked with a coffee co-op and field office in Chiapas, Mexico. It was entirely offline, based on Access, which was a strange journey for a developer mostly doing work on the web.
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Wouldn't publishing this data enable those who "game" the system to learn more about the system they are trying to beat?
How do you like duplicity? I tried it a few times and got various errors (like corrupt files, couldn't resume uploads, stuff like that), so now I'm wary. What's your experience?
Oh, they might need a minority of "A" level players for a couple of the really tough jobs. Whoever runs netflix routing and NAS gets a total tip of my hat to them and at least some of them must be "A" level. I bet they've got some guys who know a few things about video codecs too. On the other hand, the dude who files expense reports in the correct filing cabinet most of the time, well, lets be polite and claim its hard to say. Describing the entire corporate culture as "A" level is just laughable.
Simple stuff should be simple
Agreed. The worst ones harm all three parts of the triangle - the client company, the candidate, and their own recruiting firm. Here's an example from last week: junior recruiter contacts me for an ERP PM role because she won the first round of key word bingo in my generic CareerBuilder resume. That's primarily an instructional resume in which I tout my ERP training experience, although I'm a certified PMP as well.

Dolly the Bimbo asks me to update my resume for PM - done. Dolly the Bimbo then asks me to draw out my manufacturing ERP experience - done, along with addendum with details. (two resumes, three days) Wisely, I've learned to demand review of my info as it will be submitted to the client. Amazingly, she only used the original CareerBuilder resume, with wrong job title and scant mention of ERP, rather than the well-written, targeted resume that she herself solicited.

Certain outcome: the client company rejects application ("What the heck?! This isn't even a PM resume!"), so they suffer without a good candidate. Client company also downgrades their estimation of recruiting company, so that's a hit. And, of course, my name is on the client reject list, so the candidate is burned as well.

Dolly can't read.
I'm guessing he is using HN over tor, as well.
Really impressive. Hope to get the Mobile app soon. Any plans for other recipe sites integration?
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Well, yeah, in Version 1.0, but we included a change request process, too.
Solaris support would be nice...
It's not virtually impossible. It may be virtually impossible in crappy cheap boards from Taiwan, but if you're buying cheap parts then you're likely not making money off the results that you're producing.
I don't discount the work designers do, but making mockups is only the start of a designer's job, IMHO.

It's like a programmer saying "Job's done" because they made a DB schema.
(I mean we're definitely never making anything in the US again, that's for sure

??? What does this mean? The US is making more stuff today that it ever has at any time in its past. We may not make a lot of super-cheap consumer gadgets, but there's more to the manufacturing world than disposable crap.
I saw this on reddit /r/fitness about a month ago.

Having tried more than a few of these I was prepared for disappointment.

I was delighted. Excellent tool! It really is that rare thing that you can't wait to tell people about.
If only. Aside from very, very standard patterns, software development is like building a totally different house each time, and builders tend to have a bear of a time when things deviate from accepted patterns. There is an immense range of productivity and quality among developers, and you can't make up for having less skilled developers by hiring more of them.
Your biggest competition is probably livecareer.com they have an outdated Flash/Flex product and poor user experience. They have the SEO for "resume builder" locked down through use of fighter sites and multiple domains.

In addition to layout templates that you guys provide, they also provide quality content templates. Most people suck at writing the resume content and that is a core need.

In addition to the content need people don't see the value in using a pay for resume service when they could just do it them selves. If you can provide some metrics that like 75% of your users got a job afterwards then you have some more value.
Oh noes, then they get a Tor exit node where you contacted them on IRC or Bitcointalk forums, or a JonDonym free proxy you will never use again
If he outsmarted the poker-logic, I'd say great for him. If the game always shuffled two aces next to each other, that would be fine knowledge for him to use.

He didn't use something like that, though. The payout was supposed to be $820 and by messing with the denominations he got it to be $8,200.
If we're talking about wishlist items, I'd like a tool, any tool, for detecting memory leaks. I understand they can't use Valgrind itself[1], but as it stands, detecting where leaks exist can be very difficult.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=782
Ask HN: Best examples of responsive design?
What site showed off responsive design and impressed you the most?

I know a lot of designers/engineers use Bootstrap, but what other alternative frameworks do you prefer and why?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Internet Explorer 10 share doubles again on the back of Windows 7
Is MariaDB still substantially slower than MySQL?

http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/2013/02/mysql-performa...
Thank you for charging for this service. I am tired of sites that turn the user into the product, and will gladly pay $9/month for this if it will make eating easier and simpler (and help me become healthier).
Now I have enough fonts to play with that I'll never get around to writing anything in a word processor.
To add to that list, there's also pfsense: http://www.pfsense.org/ a FreeBSD based distribution for building routers which uses the pf firewall, originally from OpenBSD. I know a number of small companies, my own included, which use it and there's even a book written about it!

I'd hazard a guess that there are similar projects based on BSD floating around for various other uses too.
Actual quotes from actual sources on the new iOS 7 appearance
K this app is something i've been thinking about making because I really want it. So feel free to charge me money if it means you can spend more time adding cool features.

here's what i'd like:

* You generate about 90% stuff alright, but that extra 10% is hard, I found myself hitting refresh many times. Can you give me a netflix style like it or not which will try to make better guesses?

* Can you hook it in with fit bit? They've already automated a lot of the information you're asking for. It might be nice to receive an email "Hey you didn't meet your daily goal, maybe this would be a better dinner than the one you planned"

* I'm not sure if i saw this or not, can you plan a week ahead so I can shop on weekends.

* I'd like an API, so I can add my own cool things. For instance on days where I have a lot of meetings I'm usually too exhausted to cook. So i'd like to plan easier meals.
Was just about to write the same comment, but don't feel an upvote is enough. Great work on the ux, and the help texts answered my questions spot on.

Great job :)

Edit: And it remembered my entered values when i accidentally left the page!

Edit again: To add some constructive: I'm not to good at ounces, oz and cups, would it be possible to add an option for using the metric system?
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* JavaScript / Python engineers
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* Software engineers
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- Understanding of socket programming a plus
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Very impressed. However, I had to laugh at this meal suggestion:

http://imgur.com/tVz5WCp

Not two things that usually go together!
That's like saying floor plans or a logo is just an idea.
One month of data is hardly enough to call it an exodus. This seems like a link bait headline.
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A/B testing is an excuse for bad design decisions
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Building "business-scale" software is almost always a team effort. It doesn't matter how brilliant someone is if they can't work well with their team; in fact it's generally a recipe for disaster. 2 and 4 here are deal breakers for any decent software team.

The ability to "disagree and commit" is crucial for members of any team that want to both express creativity, but deliver results.
Show HN: Felt – Personal, handwritten cards mailed from your iPad
You can describe any illegal action as innocuous.

I don't think it's black and white. Inserting money into the machine and pressing buttons is a lot more innocuous than, say, taking a screwdriver to the machine, manipulating it with an electromagnet, etc. I can't think of any way to describe those kind of manipulations in an innocuous manner.
> I realize it may be possible for law enforcement to find you through tracking down the location the card was purchased at but in reality no one else can find who you are.

Well then it's not fucking well anonymous, is it?

For saying things that won't piss off the cops, we can just sign up on Tumblr from our residential ISP IP.

The whole point of having anonymity is for safely exercising the right to unpopular speech. If the cops can track you down, then it's not anonymous.

Imagine if Wikileaks had been fully pseudonymous, and then tried what you suggest. They'd be just as fucked as they are now (for being non-anonymous).
Loyal followers generally don't mind weekly/monthly sponsorship acknowledgements. I think that's a good route for an interesting/authoritative site like yours.

See examples:
http://www.marco.org/sponsorship

http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
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Weev was sentenced to 3.5 years for simply downloading AT&T's data that was made available over a public (but obscure) API. So yes, seems like you'll get prosecuted pretty harshly.
Can you link to a few that you've found useful?
you had a month to learn it, what's stopping you! :)
"Millions of people are leaving Facebook for greener, newer, shinier pastures: Instagram, smartphone chat apps, Path"

Have they really left Facebook when they just go to something else Facebook owns?
Great site! I can see it being super useful.

edit: Can you integrate into Google calendar at all?
It's also hard to get any significant amount of bitcoins anonymously in the first place to begin this process.
As others have noted the UX is quite intuitive. You should definitely add more low carb options. Perhaps pairing this up with simple workouts (walk 3 miles), to allow more calorie intake but maintain the overall daily goals.
Oops, of course. I meant we didn't have to set up/have access to persistent storage like a database.

That sounds basically exactly like our course so far. I'm only in the first year though, so I guess it's a bit early to comment on course coverage. But yep, all RAM data structures so far.
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Back in my smalltalk days (mid-90s), we used to call this "going below the C level" - take sections of code that need to be optimized, and rewrite them in C as a DLL/shared binary, to be called by the smalltalk native layer.

The % of C code was less than 3%, from what I remember, and C is significantly more verbose than smalltalk, too.

I hear that happened a lot with java as well, using JNI sections for performance purposes (this was before hotspot compiler got decent).
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"Informer" is a great song.
And tomorrow it'll be a cumulative $200, and in a few months it'll be a cumulative $450,371, until the next day when it's only been $2.17.

Ok, that's mostly hyperbole, but I have to ask, does that figure include the amount the bitcoins were worth at the time of transfer?
Say you live in Syria and one of these days wake up to find the other side of the street where you live completely smashed down by shelling. Oh, there's been a civil war going on (or so the media calls it; "public uprising" maybe?) for some time now alright, but you could be dead tomorrow, you need to understand.. what is truly happening? what's the prognosis? Better ask everyone around. Oh, it's the government, targeting rebels. Ok. Well, what's next? While at it: what's the rebellion up to now? Nobody among your acquaintances wants to talk about it, or knows anything certain. The official news is a joke and is of no help in any case. You've heard there are facebook groups for that, and you have internet.. better log on and post a message. Whoops, apparently somebody did not like your 'too neutral => pro-rebellion' point of view, and now various body parts of yours are being sent out to your relatives, as a message, or just because.

There's been actual demand for anonymous message boards for folks in Syria / friends/relatives of those living there to discuss matters, to understand what the hell is going on. I can't quote sources, though. And there've been incidents of 'facebook message -> whoops, body cut to parts', discussed in some CCC talks, though I haven't tried to follow up and find anything more conclusive. (could dig up the CCC video in question maybe.) In any case, a mere illustration.

Tor usage spikes up during Iran elections (next one's in June).

Folks in cartel-controlled places, or places where public uprising is happening, wanting to understand what is truly happening, or to organise something, etc. are afraid to post to FB etc., and sometimes they are very right to be afraid.

TL;DR This is for real.

[/drama mode]
It depends on the number of users, but I found it was very affordable for my network. I think it's less than $200 for the year. Beats using GPOs via Active Directory, visiting each machine in turn, or relying on users to do it (which is largely impossible anyway). The central repository is handy, but the software expires fairly quickly in some cases so it's most useful when I'm updating many PCs at once. If you can persuade your finance dept to fork out some money, I would recommend it.
Seconded. An API would really be appreciated. I have some really cool ideas for things I can probably do with this service as well.
Regarding #5, I doubt that the name is a useful lead. It seems to me that "voidnull" is just a play on the concept of anonymity and not something that you could tie personally to the OP.