skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought the book yesterday and it's definitely worth it. I would buy it again even if I knew it was free. It's in my top JavaScript books, along with others like Maintainable JavaScript, Testable JavaScript and Effective JavaScript.

@raganwald I hope you plan to write other JS books as well, you're one of the most original && intelligent authors out there.
> Bad use of screen-space

Slightly customized Firefox 24: 54 [1]

Chrome 31: 61

IE10: 55 [2]

Opera 12: 61

[1] http://i.imgur.com/eBiIZHc.png (Also, no close button on tabs and they shrink down to the size of pinned tabs. All other browsers do that shrinking stuff by default. There used to be a property for that, but one developer decided to remove it. Now you need a custom userChrome.css and other voodoo.)

[2] Sounds close, but 50% of that space are actually unused. There is a lot less room for tabs.
I had this problem for ages, in the end, the actual problem was gastrits. Any gastric problem has that same simptom, so if it persists, go check for them.
Primarily to annoy people, it seems. Sounds like a fucking horrible place to work.
Some people are bad at DDOS: Crash Healthcare.gov
How Evan Moran replaced CSS/HTML/JS with OJJS
I did not know that. You learn something new every day!
Balanced is the underdog, but IMO they have the best product right now and for a while Stripe et al were on the back foot playing catch up.
Reimagining the music video
Where's this support chat? I can't find it for the life of me on getanomalous.com.
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We are a team of developers, product managers and 2 designers. Located in the Bay Area with experience in the familiar SV giants, we have worked on solutions customized for BRIC markets as well as the US and France on everything from watches to responsive web, to mobile.

Contact us at info@ibeautifulweb.net
Geoforce - Full-time - Coppell, TX (Local only)

Full-Stack Web Developers

We're a growing company that tracks field equipment remotely via cellular and satellite trackers. We're mostly a RoR shop, and nearly 100% Ruby. We've also begun doing a ton of front-end stuff in JS (primarily Backbone). Also recently switched over to Kafka for internal messaging, and we anticipate implementing Storm for event stream processing/ETL.

http://www.geoforce.com/Our_Company/Careers/
Interestingly, going to 0,0 in Google Maps shows an icon for Ace Lock Service Inc.
Merchantry - New York, NY.

Front End Lead
Senior Engineer (Java / Groovy / Grails)

We are building our product team in NYC and hiring the nucleus of a growing team. For UI Engineering Lead, we are looking for an experienced engineer to own user interface development and help scale the team as we grow. The senior engineer will also be a core founding member of our tech team and will work on product and our APIs.

Merchantry is a growing, fast-paced SaaS company with customers across the globe. In May, we raised our B round, and are funded by top NYC and Silicon Valley VCs (Greycroft, Kite and e.ventures). We were rated by Crain’s as one of the best places to work in New York in 2012.

Our Tech Team

* We are committed to doing things the right way, using the best technology available, and we want talented engineers who can bring these ideas to the browser.
* We started out as a Java shop, and are now adding other languages such as Groovy / Grails and others.
* On the front end, we are moving to Single Page Apps and are considering Dart and TypeScript. You will help make some of these choices.
* We are agile and continuously integrated. We want to be continuously deployed when we grow up, and also service-oriented. We use Puppet for our DevOps, TeamCity for Continuous Integration, Zabbix for monitoring, Solr for search, and many other technologies.

Our Product

We connect product and fulfillment data between online retailers and their vendors. The product has several APIs for integration, and two user interfaces, one for vendors, another for online retailers. Our professional services team is responsible for integrating product with high-volume clients. To give you a sense of scale, we are currently hosted on 20 servers in a premium data center and we are just getting started.

Please email resume to: jobs@merchantry.com. If you have some publicly accessible work (github, portfolio, photos of drawings you did as a child), please include links…..

More info here: http://goo.gl/uVZP9U
A great illustration of why OOP style of development is wrong.
OrgSync (http://www.orgsync.com) - Dallas, TX

We were founded in 2007, have over 300 colleges and universities as clients and are growing rapidly.

We're an experienced development team with a wide range of skills. We regularly host meetups for local Ruby, Node.js and Clojure groups. We're on the hunt for experienced developers to fill several current openings.

* Ruby Dev: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/11960/ruby-developer-b...
* JavaScript Dev: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/16895/javascript-devel...
Your point is well taken. It may not be jealousy per se, but more a need to 'mark out' people who are different in some way.

Either way, it is ridiculous that tech 'journalists' feel that they have open license to mock the physical appearance of males in the technology industry like this, because, face it, who's going to stand up on their behalf? It's a thin line between general mud-slinging and actively malicious intentions . The classroom bully also sometimes does it "just for fun", he doesn't have "actively malicious intentions".

On the other hand imagine the outcry if an article had described Marissa Mayer in this photo (http://i.huffpost.com/gen/881509/thumbs/r-MARISSA-MAYER-INTE...) as "having a cartoonish smile, with stringy blond hair, BO, and a surprising number of wrinkles." (note: NOT something I intend to be taken seriously, just an example of generally saying horrible things about a person). People would have been up in arms about "objectifying women in the tech industry and criticizing their looks instead of concentrating on their successes."
Just noticed that too. What surprises me the most about this is that only ONE business/landmark is listed at 0,0 in the entire Google Maps.
That's shared source, not open source. Anyway, I usually use BSD or WTFPL
This one made me swear a lot:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842136

... remote login to a windows 2003 server changes the default locale, breaking servers that depend on the default locale (which of course they shouldn't!). When this bit us, we were working on the server in a different room from a guy who was very occasionally logging in remotely, as I recall we only realised when he left his door open and we saw the two things happen at once.
I used to keep my design/debugging notes on paper too, but the ability to use "grep" on years worth of notes convinced me to switch to plain-text files. (I still use paper for sketches and diagrams, since I haven't found any software that's anywhere near as good as paper for drawing.)
If you close your tabs via mmb or Ctrl+W, you can remove all those close buttons, too.

browser.tabs.closeButtons;2
Arggh...

Barcelona (awesome) + (mildly irrational) dislike of PHP == cognitive dissonance.
Machine Zone - Mobile Gaming Startup (YC 2008) - Full time in Palo Alto, CA

www.machinezone.com

We are focused on creating the most engaging free-to-play mobile social games in the world. After launching in 2008 with Y Combinator, Machine Zone has seen explosive annual growth with its highly successful free-to-play games, including Game of War: Fire Age, iMob, Original Gangstaz, Global War, iMob 2, Race or Die 2, and new releases on the horizon. To date, the company has well over 40 million downloads of their iPhone games. We operate profitably and have raised two rounds of funding from Anthos Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Menlo Ventures.

Winner of the Crunchies Award (Techcrunch), we are a unique, highly talented and ambitious team of free-to-play game experts and rock-star engineers, all focused on building highly engaging mobile experiences for its gamers. We continue to expand our teams and look for top talent around the world to build not only the most exciting technical and social projects in mobile gaming, but to help create the best gaming company.

We are currently looking for any and all sharp, driven engineers but are particularly interested in talented individuals with backgrounds in:

-DevOps or Systems Engineering

-Big Data, BI, or Backend Engineering

-Android, C++, or Server-Side Game Development

We pay competitively and have excellent perks (including catered lunches, onsite massages and house cleaning services, snacks, etc.)

If you are interested please shoot a quick email with your resume and any relevant links to akoike@machinezone.com
>the only proof we have are stories from abductee hypnosis sessions.

That isn't proof of anything.
"Creativity is a product of curiosity, which is a product of privacy." Snowden
Why I stopped reading at hack #2:

"Offer Unlimited Vacation"

Everyone talks about this, but it's pretty obvious by now that it's a rhetorical ploy with no substance.

Ditto for "20% projects."
Couldn't agree more with both points. Of course android ate Nokia's pie (cheap phones for everyone). Rather unsure about blackberry, i think thats more a thing that android and ios both now have excellent infrastructure integration (MS exchange etc) for corporate support.

You're also right with how cheap OEM android phones are taking over the market. iOS is losing marketshare pretty much everywhere where phones are not heavily subsidised or the comparative income is low, namely everywhere but the US and UK (and a couple of others). Unless apple drops its ios prices to more reasonable levels (they are really taking the p*ss), it's going to be the same story as the one that unfolded with mac/windows.
Wiping a phone in dfu mode removes the password as well. I learned the hard way when I forgot my pin and had to wipe and restore.

It also bypasses activation lock because phones sold overseas are usually sold to countries that do not subscribe to the national blacklisted imei database and this won't block the device on their network.
Hey! Thanks for the long and detailed reply. (On a side note I enjoyed the Pascal reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales#Other :) I definitely agree with your main point, inventory is the enemy. I'm not trying to claim that this is an entirely new idea, however, it is a fact that brands are moving online and doing so quickly in a way that has not happened en masse before. I cover in the article that many brands will probably mis-manage this transition and go out of business.

My own TL;DR of the article would be something more like this:

Brands are moving online rapidly, this will mean they have to hold inventory. This is a new risk they have not taken before and some may fail because of it. They will take this risk because there is margin benefit as well as threats from direct-to-consumer online retailers taking their business. Going forward, direct-to-consumer with higher value to the consumer will be the 'new normal'.
Can you at least teel us what you are looking for (DevOps, developers, ?) and for what technology (rails? python? js?)?

Thanks.
Please do not use [curl https://.... | sudo bash]

Provide packages, please, not arbitrary tarballs from s3.

Besides a well-behaved package being automatically uninstallable, what's the difference? Either way you're running code that you only trust because of where you got it from, rather than because you've read it and understand it.
You know, most of the times the problem is really solved, and the inventor just loses the time and money he could invest on some unsolved problem.

Yeah, some times an extraordinary invention just changes the scope of the problem, or solves it so much better that "good enough" stops being enough. But if you have one of those solutions, you probably know it, and should also know that the problem is solved - how can you revolutionize a mature market without knowing it's mature? (That'll probably be the case here if that brush really works.)
Note that Pullum is also the one who's probably written the most about this on LL, but certainly that's a nice consolidated case instead of a scattering of examples - thanks! :)
Done! Github will take a few minutes to show the latest version.
$110 million well spent.
Sightings of other assorted sea monsters are common, but the frequency of sea monster sightings is still not as concerning as the frequency of bigfoot sightings because we typically expect evidence of shit in the sea to be less forthcoming. This is the key takeaway from the article: not all improbabilities are made equal. Failure to find evidence in one case is not necessarily as damming as failure to find evidence in another case.

Rolling up all "sea monsters" and all "other great apes" only makes sense if all of these "sea monsters" are said to be basically big tentacled squidy things... The reason we roll all those "other great ape" claims together is because, frankly, it is all the same shit. Hairy biped, grunts a lot, leaves no trace like a model boyscout, etc. Same story, different continent.

> Accounts, but a dearth of specimen.

No. We have had credible specimens of giant squid since the 1800s. This isn't in hindsight, they were quickly accepted at the time by the scientific community as credible.
Hi,

My name is Andre Alves Garzia and I am a Mozilla Rep (a.k.a. Volunteer) working on Firefox OS awareness. I wrote a quick guide for Firefox OS development that is also available for Free with a CC license on Leanpub at https://leanpub.com/quickguidefirefoxosdevelopment

I think your book is really great and I would like to add it as a recommended reading on the next iteration of my quick guide if that is ok with you.

Thanks very much for the hard work, your book is a wonderful resource!

Cheers
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iOS Engineer - We're looking for an awesome iOS engineer who knows the ins, outs, and annoyances of the iOS platform.
We're a venture backed startup (Spark + OATV) that is making reminiscing online fun by taking your digital exhaust (ditial photos, tweets, checkins, etc) and showing you the most interesting things you've done on this day in history.

In an age where we're creating more digital data than ever before, we're trying to take the 90% of stuff that isn't real time and searching for the important signals and making it useful again.

Our stack is mostly Rails with PG (and decommissioning Mongo). As of late, we're adding more and more Go into our stack.
As part of the iOS team, you'd be contributing to the iOS efforts on all fronts: making major decisions about how the codebase progresses (libraries, code conventions, etc), major part in hiring, etc. Since we're a small startup, you'd also have a huge amount of input into the product.

We're also looking for junior iOS folks as well!

We've raised $4mm thus far and have got a bunch still in the bank :)

Shoot me and email, I'd love to hear from you! benny@timehop.com (tech cofounder)
No.

Apple are perfectly happy with the second hand market for iPhones.

I've just ordered a 5S. It's costing me £709. My iPhone 4S 64Gb is worth about £200 second hand. Even a new 8Gb 4S, the cheapest model available new, is £349.

Anyone interested in my second hand phone was almost certainly never going to spring for a new iPhone.

The market for second hand iPhones does next to nothing to cannibalise the market for new iPhones (which Apple cares about) and strengthens the iOS ecosystem (both by bringing in new customers who might buy apps, music and movies but also keeping customers away from competing platforms).

There's more upside than downside for Apple in second hand iPhones.
Yeah, some have gone that route: http://www.ed.gov. Just put up a notice and leave everything accessible.

Others aren't redirecting, but are unavailable: http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds
Browxy, an online java compiler to be acquired for 2.5M
"Then the market shifted. Suddenly my father was stuck holding quantities he couldn't move. "

Excellent story. The above statement shows why people who have only been in business for a short time, and specifically only in tech, have no long term view of how quickly someone can be on top and then "poof". I have heard over the years many stories like that spanning many different businesses.

I have a friend whose father in law is a "garmento". Runs a big factory and imports things from the Dominican Republic, Asia, China etc. Lately he told me of the problems they are having just as a result of there being less department stores than there were 5 years ago. This was a business that did really well for many many years. All the sudden a formula that worked doesn't work anymore. And these people were on the top of the world for so many years.
If you think talk therapy works, the burden of evidence is yours, not mine. The default scientific assumption under these circumstances is that there's no effect, and as it happens, there's no evidence to contradict this assumption, and plenty to support it.

I posted what I did because it's relatively new and unfamiliar to many of psychology's advocates. As to talk therapy, these findings are in some cases decades old, with no change in the outcome.
I can understand that website won't be updated, but that doesn't seem to be a valid reason to completely redirect it to an 'offline' page. Servers keep working without anyone there to press buttons.
Quite similar to the GitHub map from a few days ago[1], i.e. no Latin America, (almost)no Asia, no Africa.

[1] http://aasen.in/github_globe/
> But let's just say you're okay with Apple sharing your fingerprints with the NSA

Can we stop with this BS already?
I think that it's worth it to keep in the code examples - because it's simple code to understand, and if you omit it newbies will be wondering if it's something that d3 is doing automatically.
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction (2009)
Splunk Cloud: Available on AWS
Finally, someone else who agrees that the iPhone was a disruptive product. It had all of the hallmarks of a disruptive product except for the low price. It appealed to a different set of values (i.e. usability and interface), ignored features that were seen as critical in the existing market of smartphone users (No third-party apps at launch? No copy/paste? No editing of Word documents?!), and it blindsided the incumbents (who focused on business users rather than the new market of everyday consumers). Nowadays you'd have trouble convincing people that existing smartphone users mocked the iPhone when it first came out.

It's worth noting that even Christensen didn't think the iPhone would be a success.[0]

[0] http://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/
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Freelance Illustrator and game artist

I can create:

* Game Art (backgrounds, environment, items)
Character Design/Development
iOS Game Art

* Logo design

* Flyers

Here's my portfolio site: http://kelsey-bass.com

Email me if you're looking for a creative illustrator:
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Well, using DataDog I can 1) increase a counter when something happens -- like an error or an expected user action and 2) setup an alert when the average amount of events over a X minute period is sustained above or below a certain threshold -- with a separate trigger per e.g. host.

So more than 60 error in a 5-minute period, or a sustained 10mbps for more than few minutes triggers, and sends me an email with a nice embedded graph.

Compared to all the other DD features -- like dashboards with all the metrics that can also be, to some limited degree, shared, Anomalous seems kind of limited at a glance. DD is $15/host/month.
Fountain Digital Labs - Python developer - London, UK

We are a funded one year old startup working on children's iPad app with interactive video as a core offering. We want to find a new way for children to learn about the world around them using something that looks like a TV app on the iPad but is way smarter, more interactive and enjoyable.

Our product is currently in pre-alpha stage and is planned for a limited release this Christmas. Of engineers working on the product, one person is responsible for the iPad app, three more are working remotely on the Python-based backend. The backend is an elastic video processing system: ffmpeg-based transcoding, dynamic allocation of EC2 instances, tons of supported video inputs, strong focus on the resulting video quality and crazy scalability, all managed via a custom web panel. We're looking for another backend expert to join our team. If you'll join, you'll be the first permanent engineering hire.

At the moment we're based in Google Campus but will be moving to a new office very soon. Compensation (and equity) is very competitive.

Buzzwords: Python, Bottle, ZeroMQ, boto, MongoDB, Redis.

Interested? Tell us about yourself: mikhanov@fountain-digital.com (my name is Sergey).
What is non-well-founded paranoia? Is it when you think there's a conspiracy behind the conspiracy behind the conspiracy... and so on indefinitely?
Just state "40 hour workweek" as a pro if you're running job ads. There might be a different problem though if you're only getting young inexperienced applicants, are you offering a high enough salary and going through the right channels? Most experienced programmers/engineers use their networks to find jobs instead of looking through ads, maybe use your network or LinkedIn to find employees. There's also the possibility that they don't want to shoulder the risk of having to find another job soon if your venture goes belly-up. You're looking to fill a risky job with someone who isn't really in a position to take a risk.

Be somewhat careful how you word your ad, age discrimination is a thing and you just want to avoid any appearances that will make a rejected applicant think about getting a lawyer involved.
I am just learning Objective C as well, and this is very helpful! Thanks!
Honestly it's something we haven't encountered yet. I think it's in large part because we do a lot of work vetting projects on the front end before we put payment into escrow.
I don't understand what Yahoo did wrong. They didn't have to pay a cent but they did. I understand that it is nominal, but it is better than nothing. I guess just not in the case where the press can get a hold of it.
Draper, UT
Cognitive Ability Changes and Cortical Thickness Development (.PDF)
So do most people invest a couple thousand dollars in legal fees? What about kids for whom that would be over half of the money they have to their name?
Well, it is Carnegie Mellon. CMU is a pretty great college. But, then again, it's not too hard of a program to code. Just takes a little bit of thinking and OpenCV experience.