skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skift.com - Data Developer; New York City, NY

We're looking for a developer who has a strong interest in data and news. Ruby preferred, but we're flexible. Full job description here:

http://skift.com/jobs/

Skift is a travel news and intelligence company looking to provide services and information to help the travel industry and professional travelers make smart decisions about travel. We are building the travel industry’s best competitive intelligence data platform that will provide insights and intelligence on how travel brands are operating. Because the travel industry encompasses nearly every area of endeavor, including business, government, and leisure, the datasets will include everything from public financial reports to airline arrival performance statistics to how companies use Twitter as a 24/7 instant customer-response service.
How sadly true that is.
That layout will fail if both sides write many short single line posts. You will have to alternate between both sides of the screen all the time and might lose the line on the way.

I never got the appeal of the "left and right" movement. I much prefer messages being shown top to bottom without me having to look left and right. I am not updating my SMS app because they switched to that layout and I found it annoying to use.

I also find a timestamp on each message useful, much more than whitespace or bubbles.
Thanks, I need a Whiskey now ;)
Most TAS communities have different categories for glitchy and non-glitchy runs. Take a look at http://tasvideos.org/ for examples.
I hope people will put some effort in making WordPress compatible with App Engine. WordPress' reliance on local files is usually a big pain point.
Seems like there's a difference here, though?

You made your choice from a set of predetermined options. Handwriting (and not handwriting-like fonts) communicates more than just words, but attitude, character, and mood as well. That level of personalization might just translate through this digital -> analog experience.
Your choice of words, "stole" and "my" implicates a mindset that is not very aligned with the reality. They didn't steal. He was not yours, but free. He evaluated his options and made a choice. Now, we could find fault in his character for signing a contract and breaking it soon after. But startups offering below market compensation packages would do better not thinking about employees as their property.
Currently taking a long time to respond for me. Might just go find the app in the appstore as your site is getting hammered :)
Yes, all card images are photos of actual Felt cards written using the app. So, thanks! Some are written using a finger and some are written using a stylus. We found that it comes down to personal preference. A stylus is easier for most people, but some prefer to interact using their finger.
I voted "I don't have one now but I may have one," but after seeing on in person for the first time a week ago I am a little more hesitant. It took 3+ hours to print a chess piece!

I definitely see the value, but it will certainly take another five years before I'd be ready to actually buy one.
Ghost - blogging platform
I will give you all of my money if you include support for dietary restrictions. I have food allergies and can't consume milk.
Bastet: http://blahg.res0l.net/2009/01/bastet-bastard-tetris/ (HN user RobotCaleb created this Flash port!) and slightly more twisted Hatetris http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html
No, it is not clear as you present it. It says that for personal use this is not required. However, what is personal is hard to say.
Is there any concern with keeping the price of an individual bitcoin down so that they can be used more like a proper currency? Meaning, at around $140 per coin currently that's not exactly an ideal 'base' value of a currency.

Is there an equivalent to a stock split that could be applied?

Just seems like Bitcoin can never really fulfill its dream of being a true global currency if the lowest value of an individual 'coin' is so expensive.
I'm in the camp of - any printer I could afford or justify spending money on in the discernible future would not produce the quality of product I would want. Until that machine eventually arrives, I will send out or find a hackerspace.
Sweet, been wanting PHP support on App Engine for a long time.
I was skeptical of the idea until I watched the video. Great execution!
Goo idea! Not as of yet though, but it'll come for sure!
>Dart doesn't come close to qualifying as a "very popular" language.

Dart doesn't come close to qualifying as a "popular" language.

Fixed. :)
Search would be helpful, but I would also want a joined "recently" watched, "favorites," etc. I don't mind, much, having to open different applications; it's possible it would be cumbersome to do so, if I had more than just Hulu and Netflix -- HBO, WB, etc have their own apps. I just can't understand why it takes more than a second to open and close what is essentially a browser and webpage. Again, (Netflix?) is this partially due to the platform (PS3 or Xbox)? Does a Roku launch an app, or does it work faster by controlling the interface and merely making API calls? I should really fire up a sniffer when launching/browsing PS3-Netflix; it'd be curious what parts of the sluggishness might be explained by network trips having to, for example, going through the PS network, which I can imagine sucks.
>Mind you, an employment contract has been signed with the candidate. However, I'm not upset at the candidate because he was apologetic.

I assume you are in California? From what I understand (and I'm no lawyer, but I am an employer.) if you think that you can force someone to work for you because they have an employment contract, well, I believe you will be disappointed. "at will" employment cuts both ways.

I mean, really, the "validation of your hiring decisions" is the only rational way to look at this. Handle it properly, and you have another contact at google who speaks well of you. Handle it poorly, and, well, you just end up looking like a dick.
Cool, thanks for your reply. You could use the hash tag #pricecheckUK or #pricecheck and #uk or something when you decide to branch out. Also do you have a plan for when you do start reaching the limits?
Somebody get Elon Musk on the phone.
yeah; we're working on it. lol
I have a RepRap and am in the process of building a Rostock.
I was thinking C# (mono) as well. My second guess would be Javascript. Looking in existing runtimes for hints is cheating.)
Comments and submissions are already non-anonymous, what's the advantage of anonymous voting ?

The knowledge that votes/flags are public may well change incentives, but I suspect the overall effect will be positive. That is people will be more thoughtful about what they vote up/down, rather than just voting for something because it's posted by a friend or flagging an article about a competitor.
It's a rather dull future. Bret Viktor written a really good post on why it's so: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
This kind of single player "video poker" has nothing to do with the rules of actual poker.
It's a great problem to have! Loved what I saw and I think I am going to drop a card for Mothers Day!
I want to pay you $10 a month to be able to use this. Please include a recipe/ingredients list for me to be able to go grocery shopping. Plus give me a weekly list of my meals so I dont have to think about what to cook or eat.
I'd love to do something like this in London. Inspired by the manual, I've created a signup page at hackerschoollondon.launchrock.com Perhaps we can get one going here if there's some interest.

n.b. Hacker School have asked me to stop using their name - I don't mean to mislead or imply any affiliation with them. I'll change it shortly. But I do want to copy the idea :)
Important correction, checking fda's actual numbers it's only 30 million pounds, not billion. So that's only an 80 foot high pile per year, which is still quite a lot but not as crazy an amount.

Regardless, somewhere between 3/4 and 4/5 of antibiotics used in agriculture is used "sub-therapeutically", merely to increase the growth rate of animals and not to treat disease.
One thing that would be really useful would be a "family mode". My wife and I are currently working out together. I want to gain weight, she wants to lose or maintain weight while losing fat and gaining muscle. We always eat together and it's unrealistic for us to cook two different meals every time. Ideally it could propose a meal for two at least for the main 3 meals and tell us the proportion of the meal that she should be eating (since the composition will probably be similar, just the quantity will differ).
Workday is hiring for just about everything, mostly in the bay area, but also SLC, Chicago, and New York. It's an awesome place to work, and we were just named the #1 place to work in the bay area.

Check out jobs here: http://www.workday.com/company/careers.php
I'm not sure if it makes sense as an investment to own a 3D printer when you can order anything custom from Shapeways when you need. I don't have a constant need for 3D printed parts, so it probably wouldn't pay itself back.

Edit: To add, I've never even needed to order anything from Shapeways to date. For sure I'll need it when I start building robots. I think there should be some kind of new trend hobby which requires or is complementary to custom 3D printed parts, like robot building or something similar.
I think you guys are taking this too seriously. Take a chill pill.

Realistically, there is nothing a startup can do to compete with Google for employees unless you are a founder/co-founder.

You guys can't be seriously about thinking that I was actually pissed off at Google for this?!

While we are making good money, I was just shocked that we would be competing with Google for talents since we are so tiny.
> I feel sorry for anyone whose life as a programmer is library spelunking instead of solving new problems.

You do realize that the vast majority of all the things that need to be done are essentially "library spelunking"? Not every programmer can spend his time doing AI research. A lot of the things that need to be done are "easy" but very work-intensive, and can be made much, much faster by good libraries. The majority of programming jobs are still essentially crud apps with a db backend, and CL is simply just a bad language to implement those in.

> If you think libraries are more important than having a truly interactive development environment that is Lisp 100% of the way down, you are missing out hugely on power and expressiveness. It has to be experienced to be understood.

I have experienced it, and understood it. And after 6 years of it, I switched to Java, because that's actually a more productive language to get things done in. Because even if the language itself is shit, things like internationalization and input validation have good libraries so I don't have to spend weeks working on getting all the little details right. Clojure buys me that, and a better language.

Clojure may not be a good enough lisp, but it's certainly better than CL.
I love the idea, and great execution too! Just one thing - the domain, feltapp.com, sorta sounds like "felt up." I think that's pretty funny.
To follow up on this, I configure my editor to de-emphasize parens:

http://gr.ayre.st/s/images/parens.png

I can still see them if I need to but they have the same visual weight as tabs/end of line spaces. I like this because it makes it feel more like python to me.
A similar concept was used to play a perfect game of asteroids.

http://www.heise.de/video/artikel/Asteroids-Helmut-Buhler-de...
My own personal (anecdotal) evidence, that I can never say, "I want to watch a movie right now" and find anything on Netflix.
In your account page there's a "Reset meal plans" button, but it's more like letting you run through the signup process again - it will nuke any edits you've made to your templates to match what you put in the signup form. And I didn't think anyone would want to plan more than a week in advance, but I'll definitely consider it.
I dunno, 3D printed ABS parts are nowhere near the injection moulding strength of ABS. The construction of a part tends to be porous, and the inter filament bonds are weak. Geometry alone suggests layering tubes ontop of tubes is not the best way to make a strong solid. If a machine keeps breaking due to wear you don't want to replace its metal parts with ultra fragile plastic parts. Maybe it depends on the machine a bit.
I seen people try to make a usable prop shaft out of 3D printing, it broke immediately.

I have built three 3D printers so far and a CNC. I like the CNC best and am designing my second. I use shapeways over using any of the 3D printers I have to hand, if the purpose is to build a working part (or the CNC).
He's looking for a job, not advice in this thread. You are making him look bad to potential clients. If you want to help, just send him a private message.
This is genius - great job! Also props for having the discipline to code it up from a ski resort!

For those of us who don't have ipads I would love the ability to custom send hand written cards from the web. I'd be fine with even somebody else writing them.
Certainly not by building a case through local mass media. Assange often quotes a statistic that the UK has more media gag orders in operation at any given time than any other state on earth.
Request HN: A programming mentor (Rails & Node.js)
A little bit about me:

Been coding since 13 (sold my first piece of software at 14), but still not very good

Currently attending Stanford University (CS Major)

Interested in building things to spread information that betters people's lives (with a focus on doing things in a way that makes sense given our knowledge of psychology)

Been using rails for a while, and node.js&javascript recently. I built a new site last week in rails (email for link) :)

Have many personal projects on the go (i'll tell you all about all of them :) )

Mentoring a complete beginner in rails, and saw how much faster they were able to learn - so I'd love the same thing!

I could really use someone who I can email/chat with a few times a week to ask small questions (e.g. right now trying to create a site with DocPad/node, and I have a few questions, these things always come up and I solve them eventually - but it takes far far longer).

I have been mentoring someone who is a complete beginner at rails, and what I said to them is that the blocks I experienced when learning rails would generally involve me posting on stackoverflow, waiting a day or 2, and then getting an answer and being able to continue - something which hugely slowed down my rate of learning progress.

I'm still pretty much a beginner - and when I do ask these questions to someone knowledgable they are generally solved in less than 2 minutes - but really slow me down otherwise :) And I only have a few questions like that a week!

Feel free to ask me any more questions about my full story via email :)

Please send me an email or reply here with any questions!

hn@withoutfriction.com
10gen(MongoDB) - New York City, San Francisco Bay Area (Palo Alto)

We're developing and supporting the open source and document style database: MongoDB. To date, we've raised over $80M, including strategic investment from Red Hat and Intel. Last year we doubled in size while revenue grew 4x. We're solving huge data problems for companies like Disney, eBay, Craigslist, foursquare, and over 500 others…recently closing out additional very BIG name companies.

...with that said... looks like a very bright future for us... Feel free to reach out to me if there is any interest working here.

...still reading?... We are looking for all types of positions & backgrounds
Feel free to reach out to me at jason.chen@10gen.com so we can setup an informal chat.
Note to employers: this is how a job posting should read. Sufficient detail, makes you want to work for them, scares you into sending your resume, then is soft and sweet with the benefits. And the humor is an added bonus. I read this in the movie narrator voice, "In a world...."
Woah, desperate much?

Headline roughly translates to "we're willing to pay the perpetual maintenance cost of a new runtime because our existing runtimes aren't attracting enough users to justify the product", and the reasons for that cannot be fixed by adding yet another layer of lipstick to a pig.

Having worked on 7k+ reqs/sec sites on App Engine I can expand on this in great depth, but please google my comment history before making me write another essay!
Curious, is there a link to your site on the printed card? It's a better user experience for the recipient if they don't know how the hot dogs are made.
Weird that the skipped out on Hartl Tutorial in their announcement, it's actually been in Beta for awhile:

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book?ve...
Good to be in this position!
I'm excited by the potential of 3D printers but they aren't quite at the price/convenience/quality intersection I'm waiting for.

I'd pay current prices for machines (the relatively consumer-level ones that are like $500-2000) that are faster and produce better output without having to do acetone-based "post-processing". I'd pay less than current prices for the current tech just to dick around with, but I don't want to pay the current prices for the current tech. As impressive as the price levels are already, I'm unlikely to get enough practical benefit out of one to make it worth laying down "real money".

I'm absolutely sure I will own one sooner or later, but not today.
"after a failed attempt to do so via Mt. Gox, the value-setting Bitcoin exchange based in Japan; my bank refused to send funds to Mt. Gox’s account saying it was suspended"

Funny how this journalist is the only one having gotten that. Seeing as MtGox is the biggest exchange, that would've been quite the news otherwise, but it isn't, because it's so far working for everybody.
You don't need a hidden option or patch for that, there are several extensions that work well: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/popup%20blocker
I used OpenBSD a lot ten years ago but I don't anymore. Two things have changed: OpenGL and filesystems. I use Linux on GUI machines because it has good GPU support. I use FreeBSD on servers because it has ZFS.
The design of the protocol (the spec for which is public and open) was funded by the government. What you said was akin to a mathematical discovery being made by a university with federal funding and not trusting the math because of that.
You can increase the number of people in the meal settings: http://i.imgur.com/9JOlhCV.png
I can't wait to buy one, even if it's just to print gifts for friends and nameplates for the office.

Every time I hear more about this domain (typically from folks like iamwil at CubeHero) I become more excited by the possibilities. It's a enabling technology, so looking for a "killer application" is probably the wrong way to think about it: the impact is likely to be more fundamental and spread across a variety of small use cases for a long time until it's ingrained in our culture. I still remember walking into a VC's offices and seeing a row of neatly-printed 3D 4-polytopes sitting along the counter to welcome entrants.

Sadly, it's the one piece of equipment where I can't think of even a tangential application in crowd labor, so there's not one here at the office yet. I expect this'll be as ubiquitous as a 2D printer in offices within a few years, though.
SEEKING WORK

Professional and serious WordPress development. Also quite proficient with jQuery, Backbone and CoffeeScript.

I run a WordPress Plugin business (http://wpadpress.com) and also open source some of my code (https://github.com/omarabid)
I remember first reading about these 'lifters' as a kid, and being overly fascinated with them: http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm
Brainstorm HN:  Unions are dying - can technology help?
It seems to me that the massive economic and social dislocations brought on by technology are mainly hurting the middle classes of the world. In one industry after another, the fact that companies can recruit workers in other countries to do a given job for less has completely taken away the bargaining power of workers - the result is massive income growth among the rich and stagnation or decline for the rest of us.

It seems to me that technology could be used to even up the score. What I have in mind is some kind of unionization platform, in which workers from any industry can organize and bargain collectively.

I think initially the platform would have to focus on a very skilled group of workers whose wages are roughly comparable worldwide. I'm thinking VFX artists or computer programmers.

The idea would be that when you register your dues are collected automatically. In order to prevent picket line crossing, it might even make sense to have your paycheck paid via the union itself. All accounting would have to be fully transparent, of course - but I think that would be one of the advantages of doing it all online.

I'd love to hear from people on this - it's come up several times for me and I'm wondering if there's a there there.
I think that rapid drone delivery will become a reality before 3D printer costs will come down enough so that it makes sense to have one in your house.
And I could go into any company in the world and make an A performer a B just by using their procedures.
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I actually have wanted this for a long time, and seriously considered making it myself. I'm much happier that someone else did this.

You have one user already.

I love that you have presets for Atkins/Keto, and that you allow me to remove certain types of items like beef and pork. That has been sorely missing from others I've seen like this.

If you integrate this with Instacart, I would love you forever.
You don't need to use Bitcoin in 1-coin denominations. The clients even have support for viewing it in much smaller (millionth) pieces. So the "base" value is really quite irrelevant apart from psychological aspects when trading BTC.
It's not obvious it's a bug, not at all, and it's a slippery slope to say otherwise.

Intent matters on both sides. Did the programmer intent for this bug to happen?
But it is used to incite strong emotions against Google.

Just like "stealing movies", isn't really "stealing", but "copyright infringement", but the studios call it stealing anyway ("pirating movies is just like shoplifting", etc).
This is a huge step forward to a big release! I myself built a little app with the RC, Ruby 2.0, and deployed it to Heroku yesterday, and that whole stack works just fine.

_Please_ give the RC a try, and file any issues you have on the tracker: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues?state=open There's nothing more frustrating as a maintainer than getting regression reports the day after you release when you've done two or three RC releases. :(

I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about the release either here or over email, as well.
That's what I was getting at. You said it better. Thank you.
App Install Ads Earned Facebook “Real Revenue”
I added the family meal planning feature a few days ago, but it's more simple than what you're asking - it basically just scales up that meal X times in your grocery list, so the rest of your family is forced to eat whatever random meals my site spits out :-)

Something like an account link would be awesome, but would some serious complexity to my algorithm. Definitely something to shoot for though.
Especially since most of the house design is now done by software.
This isn't an exploit of a specific PRNG algorithm, just the constraints specific to Tetris-- 1 of each piece is put into a bag, and pieces are chosen from the bag at random. The bag is refilled when empty.
Aren't you attacking the wrong thing here? The expectation is performance, not necessarily brilliance. I'm personally tired of the perception that performance is even correlated with hours worked, let alone causative.