skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like where you're going with this, and I honestly don't mind the use of twitter for authentication. You've already addressed the double sign-in thing, but I think my biggest issue has come from Disqus loading time.

At least 25% of the time that I've clicked on a comments link, I've had to sit around (after the page has loaded!) waiting for Disqus to load the comments (what I actually came to see). Sometimes they don't even load at all and I have to refresh the page. I completely understand that you guys love supporting your portfolio companies, but it seems like this type of site isn't quite as well suited for Disqus.

Just my two cents. I'm excited to see how you guys improve on this, and other than these issues I think you've done a great job so far.
As someone who knows the founders, I've been following them since their pre-YC days. One thing I have gotten from URX that isn't related to their business model, but clarified something that I had always struggled to grok, is the difference between a URL and a URI. URLs are web links, URX's are deep links, but both are URI's. I just needed an example of a non-URL URI.
Heroku Adds Node.js WebSockets (Beta)
I don't really download software much. If you had a web app I would probably try it out.
Spritesheets, Grunt, and You
Since I spend a great deal of my time debugging (I would really say that I spend all of my time debugging), I would say it's a good thing that it's not that exciting.
Electronic publisher ZZ Wolf released a new photo voice recorder app
Yes, they're EIG now just like Bluehost, Hostgator, etc.
If you want to freelance then in a lot of cases you don't need any Gewerbeschein, especially in IT

Right, but a Gewerbeschein helps if you have any other income that's not from freelancing. For example Google AdSense or Amazon Affiliate links etc.

Limited Liability is what you're aiming at.

That is correct, but in most cases highly overrated for people just starting out, especially in IT. An IT-Betriebshaftpflicht (insurance) could be considered though, depending on the type of work you do.
Oracle attacks Open Source
Its definitely big and active, not dead at all. The people are very open and most quite friendly, I can recommend it. Its just more on the hardware side of things, or at least thats the impression I got.
Contextual color-temp changing is nothing new at all. Putting a GUI wrapper on it and publishing for two dominant consumer platforms is real innovation I guess.
Assuming you are not operating dangerous machinery are you likely to be sued for simply allowing alcohol to be consumed?
I can see that you might be held liable for some other problem of which alcohol might be a contributing factor but simply eliminating alcohol may well not solve that problem anyway.

The potential benefits of allowing responsible alcohol consumption might be more than you think, if it helps provide a relaxed atmosphere where people want to go to work and are less likely to jump ship to your competitor for a marginal pay increase.
Get 3x more usage with this SDK
Snapchat works with law agency. News not so much.
I'll make a small margin if I get I bunch of orders, but haven't had many orders yet. Any improvement suggestions?
That's really awesome. But I still don't think describing MapBox themselves as "Open-Source" is accurate. There are LOTS Of other companies that open source a lot of their code, but certainly wouldn't be considered "Open-Source" themselves: Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, id, Novell, Oracle. The list goes on.

I certainly don't want to take anything away from MapBox. I really love what they offer. I just don't think it's fair to describe them as "Open-Source".
I agree for design. But for development, I feel like I can get the feel of what I'm doing even without full luminance.
Europe, the Cloud, and the New York Times
If your language has a way to put an if condition around a block of code and change the value in the if condition at runtime, then you have enough to hide experimental changes behind a flag.

If your language has a way of calling an existing block of code from a new location and checking the results, you have enough to write unit tests.

I don't know any languages which are unable of those things.
So turn it off while you are working.
Mapbox also pays Artem Pavlenko, the lead developer of Mapnik [1], which has for a while been the main tile renderer used by OSM. Their interests there align nicely, because Mapnik is also the rendering backend for Mapbox's TileMill software.

[1] http://mapnik.org/
Can I ask what language doesn't have any form of unit testing?
Anistock Video Backgrounds
The Chinese are switching on their new lower-powered ASIC mining rigs.
you still need the paperwork to open the bank account and for stuff like paymill, so it's more convenient to do it the paper way :)
But maybe they'll get so much coal they never wanna see another piece again?! ;)
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson on Maker Culture
PhantomCSS
Actually, the issue with that phrase is that it's a common one, likely to be found on the web or in books - It's not just a collection of random words. You can't just consider the length of the passphrase.
Yes, we all mess things up, but that remains true with or without alcohol. But the fact of the matter is that there will be alcohol present at some time with company events, be it a summer picnic event, holiday party, or dinners. Not to mention the fact that your employees are going to be going out for happy hours together, and just because it doesn't happen on company property doesn't make it any less a company issue if two employees have an incident.

So I ask again why you would want to have someone on staff that you would think twice about giving access to beer in the office?
> I don't understand why companies don't promote an ice cream culture.

That could cause problems too: http://youtu.be/e5i6BHBuqxE?t=2m44s

(Though in fairness, in the video it's Tofutti, not ice cream.)
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732403480...
Razuna Launches Version 1.6 With Over 400 Enhancements
I looked into that some and it didn't sound like coal was an item that'd get flagged
I'm a freelancer, typically with several engagements at once (1 major, a few minor), and my biggest problem is figuring out how to take a vacation. I can take two days off, and I suppose I could take 2 months off, but how do I take 2 weeks off? I'm sure how to do it!
Excellent feedback. Even after having hundreds of emails of correspondence with users... this is still better :)

1. Business model - in the future the $ comes from dealers and additional functionality (stores/featured auctions) not present on the site.

2. Traditionally the collectibles markets are tough because while you can supposedly sell something for $xyz, you'll need to actually find a buyer willing to pay that. Many items are worth a lot of cash but end up selling for next to nothing because collectors are very specific. What we're doing is basically a reverse-marketplace on the back end. Users say what they want and then dealers get a feed of the most "wantlisted" items and compete for the bounty of filling those wants. All marketplaces have to solve the chicken and the egg problem (as you went on to note re: buyers and sellers both needed) -- this is our attempt at overcoming it for both sides. There is incentive for sellers, as they'll get a near instant sale. There is incentive for buyers to stick around as they just add something to their wantlist and get a near instant offer. At least that's how it works in theory :)

3. You can use the transaction system without the site right now, yes. It's just not well documented. I suck at the documentation :)

4. Agree on all. The help and support section is brilliant, will be working on that right now. Facebook login is a step in the "user start" page that lists a few tasks for them to complete in order to gain trust in the marketplace. That's a big push for us, trust building.
Aliases are supported out of the box in PowerShell. There may may be cases where you have to use cmd instead of PS ... though none come to mind ...
This is great work, thanks for sharing!
McKinsey’s Susan Lund on Tomorrow’s Workforce
Black swans and startup companies
US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)
[ask HN] Partnership with Designer/Front End Engineer on Paid Projects
TL;DR; I'm looking for a dope designer & front end engineer (JS/jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Mobile Responsive, jQuery Mobile a + and Angular a huge + but not required)to build out my consulting team. I have a few large projects coming down the pike that I need help with and would rather partner than outsource. I'm in NYC but you can be anywhere as long as you're responsive and responsible.
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I'm a self taught back end developer (LAMP + JS) with 5 years of experience. I'm based out of NYC just getting a consulting business off of the ground. I've lined up and knocked down a few projects thus far in the ~5-10k range (yes, I know that's small potatoes) and am looking to expand my business aggressively and break into larger projects for businesses.

What I've found is that my major limiting factor is front end. I can design and code for front end (both responsive and static) but there are people out there who can do that 10x as fast and 20x as pretty (I pretty much use bootstrap and customize for the most part).

To be up front, I'm not interested in this being a company that launches 1000's of crappy base level WP installs to make a few bucks a pop. I'm primarily interested in developing mobile web applications, single page AJAX powered applications with Angular or Backbone and generally applications of substance.

At some point if all goes well, there might be an incubator component where we help build/advise companies like a Betaworks.

If you're interested, drop me a line at evanmrose [at] post.harvard.edu
"Any other's you're interested in?"

mutt?
>can't do this on iOS.
It can, and has been done, it's just Apple won't allow apps that do this in the store, hence the need for jailbreaking
Self-Publishing: Pulling Back the Curtain
>Timid? Boring? That stuff drags down a whole team.

The previous 3 I get, but these two? Maybe we should be interviewing for the ability to get work done without being affected by other people?
We send a multi-part message so that text-only clients get a plain text mailer as well as HTML.
MapBox does not sell any software or hardware -- all the tools are open source. Unlike Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, id, Novell, Oracle. The list goes on.
If "ask your attorney" is good policy, it's good policy regardless of whether the topic is one that you find intuitively naughty or one you find intuitively innocuous.

One potential benefit - you signal to employees that your workplace is fun. Many growing companies will die if they don't get the right talent. Compare the large risk of getting the wrong people to the tiny risk of an employee getting drunk and raping/murdering everyone, and the calculus is far from clear.
curious-- I do this sometimes (often) too, but how does f.lux help you tear yourself away?
That would be fairly easy for us as we have "wantlists" and we do a good job (i think) of getting user information in the interest of establishing trust.
I gave this a shot, but it doesn't instantly let me see all the interesting data...

Could I have an invite?
Or process your incoming requests at once (;
The people at test.com! They sounds a bit cranky.

http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm
I hear so much about f.lux, but to me I don't know if the science quite backs it up like everyone says it does. I've found it suffers from the, "They used the word science so it must be good" problem.

Why hasn't anyone done a study on specifically what f.lux attempts to do? Sure, light at night causes people problems sleeping, but does f.lux actually make a difference? Can we quantify that difference in a way that controls for the fanboy (formerly known as placebo) effect?
Are you keeping up with your duties? Did you perform your ritual of self-criticism this morning? Remember, you have to chant your oath of loyalty and subservience to Gen^H^H^H Lord Alexander at least five times a day!
It is faster mainly because of the startup time of the python interpreter.
You can improve performances using the "-S" on the python interpreter.
I get inconsistent results with time, I think maybe because of context switching as stated here [1].

See my results here: http://pastebin.com/HMUErzee

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9006596/is-the-unix-time-...
I'm not sold that always being in the social context of work is healthy. And as my cofounder says "Keeping healthy is the cheapest way to get stuff done"

Further, productivity drops if you work 24/7.

On a personal level - time for other things (including laundry) outside of work does make me more productive because it gives me to time to think about work. The mind relaxes and you make connections you would not otherwise.
We're adding in invite code to the post, one sec!
Don't pay for hosting. Run your own box on a static IP. I've done it for a decade for the 12+ sites my business operates for its various brands. The traffic is fairly light, sites are mostly static, but the cost savings add up.
So, who's going to write the ROT13 algorithm for images. Just call it ROT128 and rotate the color value of the bits and use a ROT128 image viewer to view the original image.
Twitter Reports Sharp Rise in Revenue
Grunka Lunka Dunkity Dingredient, you should not ask about the secret ingredient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_%28telephone_number%29

Much more interesting (from a hacker's perspective) were all the telco services provided using specific exchanges. For any given ILEC there was an exchange used for services provided to customers or employees, including everything from phone testing services and remote terminal access to business customer information and voicemail. By calling these numbers you could find some neat hidden services, and they were free from any phone. You can imagine how bored kids at school with a payphone could discover quite a bit in their spare time.

The DATU was my favorite. It was a secret lineman's number to test circuits, which also enabled you to listen in on live lines. Using these numbers without proper authorization meant jail time, but they had to catch you first :) Ringback was also a fun way to pass the time. Dial the number and hang up, and 30 seconds later the phone would start ringing, and i'd watch who would go answer it. Like I said, bored kids...
is it so non-obvious that it requires the state guarantee decades-long monopoly to ensure f.lux can make a return on the significant research & development costs?

could we expect no more non-obvious apps like f.lux get made if the state doesn't guarantee decades-long monopoly?
So in other words, the theory is that unemployement due to increased automation is still not a systemic problem - it will just take a number of years (perhaps decades) for the economy to readjust. The somewhat obvious corollary to this theory would be that in the meantime, you want to make sure you're employed in the field which is causing the disruption. This is where the fruits of the increased automation will be seen first.

I can accept this theory. Personally, I believe we'll eventually get to a point where the economy will have to do a dramatic shift in the direction of greater taxation of the richest and more leisure time for most people ("most work is automated"), but we might not be close to that point yet. As of right now, these two outcomes are indistinguishable.
This isn't new at all. For as far back as I can remember you could dial 555-1212 from any area code and get directory assistance for that area code. There's even a toll free 800 number (1-800-555-1212) which prompts you for the city you'd like.

Haven't used it in a long time (seriously who would when you can search the internet on your smartphone?) but I think it's the same service as 411 minus the $X/min fee (the 800 number version is free, I think the non-800 versions might bill you).
No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 Spaceships
Angels of Debt Cartoon
Microsoft kneecaps Xbox One performance to spite AMD
I find it odd that you glorify poverty.
Typesafe gets Spray(ed)
Result from a quick pubmed search (I haven't actually read the paper):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24110034

>Effects of LED-backlit computer screen and emotional selfregulation on human melatonin production.

>[...] Finally, we can also report that the blue light of LED-backlit computer screen significantly suppress melatonin production (91%) more than red light (78%) and no light (44%).
Wonder if it's possible to use two receivers, given that are so inexpensive ($19).
> You have to keep in mind we're ridiculously over-provisioned, we're handling that load while maintaining 10-15% utilization on 3 year old web servers.

So you've premature-optimized for performance far past the point where you gained anything from it?

I'm not saying you shouldn't be happy with your performance, but if the best thing you can say about your platform is "it has adequate performance" then, well, it's not a very compelling platform.
I believe the original Square payment system processes billions of dollars in transactions every year at 2.0%. Perhaps this is more of a customer acquisition platform with premium features to come.
Hate to break it to you and others; but there is a high degree of likelihood that it is actually even an NSA funded operation, not to mention having assets that add backdoors.

How do you prevent and deflect efforts to develop a truely secure solution? ...You provide a solution that works and looks shiny and nice and defuses any kind of efforts. It's jiujitsu.
> think about what your devs really need (...) Sunlight, on occasion

I'm sure this is entirely tongue-in-cheek, but sunlight is extremely important; we don't get enough; all those people constantly attending "conferences" held indoors where they watch people talking on stage and slides flickering on a screen while never seeing the light of day make me sad.

Get out in the open. Look at the sky. Drop your iPod/iPhone/whatever. Think of nothing.
Also found this book helpful for more practice questions & solutions: http://interviewsolutionsmanual.com/
Through the eyes of Felix Baumgartner - Multi-Angle, Data
Continuous Deployment and Delivery both are there to remove the fear of change. Coupled with testing this is definitely a way to 10x your engineering productivity.

We've stopped counting how many times per day we push changes at Codeship as the number is meaningless in itself. If you feel you can't push regularly you giving up before starting the fight already.

It's just a very different and way more relaxed method of software development where you can actually focus on pushing the product further without getting stopped by infrastructure all the time.

Immutable Infrastructure will be the next big iteration in getting this 10x productivity I think.
-1 for forcing sign in. What if I don't care about saving my progress? What if I'm not a member of any of those services? Answer: 10 second pageview guaranteed to not become a return visiter.
That function is typically called "Invert".
And the mail for 123 Fake Street?
The latter. We actively discourage interns from doing overtime.
Well, you're not saying that didn't work out for PayPal, are you? :)
I have tried using f.lux several times as it is a recurring theme on HN, but it just does not work for me. All it does is give everything a red tinge, but the light intensity remains the same. I feel like it is cooking my eyeballs and blurring my vision.

I have working alternatives now neither of which work well with multi-screens and neither of which are sophisticated as f.lux, but they do reduce the intensity of my screens which is what I want.

One is "Dimmer" which I use on my left screen and the other is the built in Nvidia tool to reduce brightness, contrast/gamma etc, which I use on my right screen. Pretty primitive but works for me.
The only thing that annoys me about f.lux is the lack of flexibility. Why can I only disable it for one hour? Why are there only two transition speeds - 20s and 60m?
> Yep, bash is more readable for small scripts

I don't agree with that, in my opinion bash is more coincise while python is far more explicit and thus more understandable.

Python is not meant to be written in one line; the script could be rewritten in a readable way like this:

import sys

inp = open(sys.argv[1], 'r')
out = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')

out.writelines(sorted(inp))
I also don't like the taste of beer and have never had a glass of beer I've really enjoyed. If I'm not careful, the aftertaste can actually gag me a little bit.

I've had one or two unpleasant encounters with people who truly can't accept that all beer tastes bad to me. One person went so far as to tell me that you can't dislike beer if you like bread because, you know, beer is just liquid bread. I've since learned to just never bring up my distaste for beer except possibly on forums like this. I'm sure there are more of us out there who just keep quiet about it.
Well, yeah. That's the expected way to do it.

My way has the benefit of bending the rule without breaking it. After all, we weren't told to not allocate memory, we were told to not create another string.
Invent an algorithm that can calculate humanity's creative thoughts.
"This multi-TB disk array labeled 'Porn' has a legitimate business use!"
Facebook Compromises: Social Fixer Can Keep Feed Filtering
What does sending coal to a congress member do? Why not donate the money to the candidate you think you should be in congress?
Insurance is a good idea. Also, there are GmbH cooperatives, that have the sole purpose of limiting liability. Its members are basically freelancers, but are employed by this proxy company.
Apple is in the headline because it got you to read the article. Same reason most media outlets publish articles about Apple, positive or negative.
Sure they do. They are a SaaS provider. At least I presume that's what they're charging my credit card for every month.
The area-555-1212 one actually is the most expensive at $3.50 according to Wikipedia [1]. There is toll-free directory assistance (it doesn't say what number) from AT&T, where the 800-number owner pays for any lookups.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555-1212
would any one be interested in purchasing an API subscription for this kind of service ? IMO, a pipeline of AI filters can be efficient to some extent.
Pushing the Boundaries of In-Memory Performance
Look up how blue led light can disrupt sleeping. Ever notice how bright blue led is compared to others (red, yellow)? My cable modem has blue leds for the indicator lights, and in a dark room, it is amazing how bright they are.
f.lux makes your monitor use less of the blue components of light and more of the reds. It will make your screen look funny till you get used to it, which takes minutes. To really see what it does, in a darkened room, turn off f.lux
Didn't we see this yesterday?
> Like a lot of things, I think porn is fine if you're adult about it. We've got quite a lot of porn in our Chicago office...

> Like a lot of things, I think guns are fine if you're adult about it. We've got quite a lot of guns in our Chicago office...

(I'm sorry, did I misquote you?) Just because some things are fine if you're adult about it, doesn't make them appropriate at the office.

Why would you have alcohol in an office?

> But nobody drinks while they work (...) so many of us are parents

So they're at the office, not working, and drinking beer. If their work is done (it has to be since you can't work after beer) why don't they go home to their family and kids?
One step closer to extract Google Authenticator Keys from iOS backup
This is a word game.
You can't define away the problem of backwards compatibility by saying "well it wasn't us who changed in a backwards incompatible way, it was the underlying language we subset".

You especially can't do this when the parent made the claim that PNaCL has exactly this issue.
Not a native english speaker, so thank you, I'll keep in mind that professional means anywhere between useless to pro.