skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but comments in this thread alone tell us that not all job hoppers do it for money/title bumps. I'm happy to pay market salary, and give competitive raises if warranted, but you aren't going to become the VP of engineering or CTO at any company I'm involved with if you are 24 and have worked at 8 companies for 4 months each no matter what skills you have.

That doesn't mean that person isn't good at what they do. But I'm building teams, not a group of mercenaries. If I need a mercenary I'll hire a contractor.
It is at present, and I expect it will be possible to use other desktops for 14.04, which is important as it is a Long Term Support release with support for 5 years.

I'm a bit hazy about what happens when Mir replaces X. I gather that this particular argument is about ensuring that the compositor for KDE will work with Mir, or, more accurately, who does the work to ensure that KWin will work on Mir.
Or really, any censorship applied to property by anyone other than the property owner. Reddit (specifically, the physical servers running the site) is private property, so any rules Reddit makes (or allows the moderators of its subreddits to make) probably won't be considered objectionable censorship. If the government, or any external entity, forcefully censored Reddit, that would likely be considered objectionable censorship. Compare it to the government forcefully preventing a physical newspaper from publishing certain things, versus the editor of a newspaper choosing which articles to publish.
Some people will complain that it is not a JVM at all, since it interprets Dalvik bytecode, not Java bytecode. You must run the Android toolchain, which translates Java bytecodes to Dalvik bytecodes, to produce code that runs on Dalvik.
It worked the last time I tried it.
You guys might want to add some content. Screenshots for search response to:

* Berlin: http://minus.com/lbzErr5MEypU8x

* Paris: http://minus.com/lpG6vZUm8QuI4

* Prague: http://minus.com/lbiTwT6lsWNKzQ
I also find this incredible. Particularly when you can spend $50k just renting a place in Vegas for three months. I realise there are slums in Vegas but the place actually looks quite nice for the money.

$200/month for an unlimited cleaning lady? Those are Thailand/China prices. Crazy.
Me too. But if we say nothing about believing this to be a prank, do we become the prankors?
Are you referring to actual data on the "Colbert Bump?"
That doesn't mean anything these days. UK universities are filled with students from all over the world.
Are you concerned at all that your job posting may be unnecessarily gendered? I understand that lots of people enjoy board games and beer, but in America they have a lot of strong associations with male-only culture.
Hey, saw your robot. (Freaked out that someone actually submitted a robot over 2k characters.) Trying to fix the issue right now. Thanks!
Ask HN: About web-based services/platforms and patent trolls
Think of Airbnb, Dropbox, Yelp or many of the startups that get shown here recurrently...

Do they have to worry about infringing someone's patents? Can someone give an example of this (if it does happen)?
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I wondered what the actual number was, related to HN's issues of course. Would be fun to know something like this.
there are apps for that and have been for ages if that is what you want.

they are all opt in and they don't automatically route all your phone call history and meta data to Google.

this is user hostile in the same way mandatory Google+ was. it's also another step in a slippery slope of android being less open and more of a source to feed Google data pipe.

what we're seeing here is the end of android as it was originally envisioned. and that makes me sad.
Good. The Puffington Host is nothing but linkbait.
Yea, its recaptcha. I'll try to get a screenshot the next time it happens.
Voluntarily - it's awesome. I'm trying to code out of office as much as possible - doing toy projects or checking on interesting open-source code.
The problem, from my point of view, is that they think it's acceptable to demand those hours without even talking to a real person, but rather as a trivial part of pre-evaluation. It's ugly.
This is an awesome idea! I signed up.

Random feedback. I think you should get to claim your first tickets on the confirmation page (this is what I came here for :)

Since I'm only familiar with your product insofar as the Insider's Club, I was a little confused when I went to http://www.upout.com and it was relegated to a corner link to click ("...oh yeah, it's upout Insider's Club, not upout"). It's just a pivot, but maybe it should have a first class site of its own?

There's all these great Premium Claim Events at the bottom of the claim page. I don't know whether or not that's an awesome idea, but it would be great if I knew when/if/how I was ever going to be eligible for that instead of just telling me that I'm not.

The claim page says "You have 1 Claims" instead of "You have 1 Claim"

You could price this more aggressively I think, but $20 makes it an easy choice for me to sign up.
Only a fraction of homeless are like that, there a good chunk of just regular people who have worked in middle class environments and used to have jobs, but had shitty savings & a combination of not being able to get another one led them to the streets. There are people who have decided to be itterant homeless by their own choice, many young homeless people have email addresses.

Look at this guy for example:
"NYC Homeless Man Learns To Code And Builds App In Four Weeks"
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/09/27/nyc-homeless-man-lea...
Is it possible to use it on an existing project? Change a couple things and save it back without all the html/css being changed?
Ok, I am aware of the higher click rates, but that is part of my point. Well crafted imagery is no doubt more catchy and attention getting than plain text. However, is visual stimulation (manipulation?) supposed to be a part of communication medium? Between the reasons for why HTML should be in emails, where do you rank recipients well-being compared to ROI?
Number of submissions is a bad metric, number of readers per submission is much more telling. /r/politic only has 13k readers, but /r/politics has over 3 million. Blocking these domains will have a relatively large impact as far as referrals from reddit are concerned. How big of an impact to their viewership in general, it's too hard to say.
This idea is awesome. I hope someone builds it.
Hyper-sensitive people like you are exactly the problem we have. I said something good about Ubuntu and you guys are off assuming that I said that the rest is not good and competent. Why do people assume that?

X is good doesn't mean Y is bad. If I say, trust me, you will get back to using X does not mean Y is bad. It means X is that good.
The only one I've thought of since writing this is to have a separate AWS account and link it as a sub account for billing. Solves someone shutting down your main servers, but still means they can spin stuff up / use lots of cash. This would be a massive pain for us as we'd loose our worker pool. I could do it the other way, move our infrastructure to a new account...but that sounds equally painful.
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OMFG, you again?? So much crap responses amounting to random bullshit with no content.
Your concept of "a drop in the bucket" and mine are a little different, it seems.
> Is anyone else's tongue tripping on the name? I keep saying "LooseProof" in an effort to make the syllables use the same vowel sound (English US speaker).

It could be that we pronounce things differently... but for me the single "o" in lose and the double "o" in loose make the same sound as the double "o" in proof. The two words (lose and loose) only differ in the way the "s" sounds. The "s" in lose is more of a "zzzzz" while the "s" in loose is a standard "s" sound. So... my tongue is not tripping on that.
As a League player, I am amazed and gratified that it is more popular that /r/politics. Not that I hate politics, I just love League.
If it actually did walk or quack like a duck, you'd be right--but it doesn't. It does not support the Java bytecode format; this is why Groovy, Rhino/LiveConnect, etc. don't work (and you can't do compile-time weaving, further limiting it). It does not support a recognized class library profile.

There is a JVM specification and Dalvik does not conform to it: that means it's not a JVM. It isn't pedantic to say that Dalvik isn't a JVM, because it's not. RoboVM isn't a JVM, either. Supporting Java does not a JVM make.
Love this idea! Great job Dave and team.
> this is user hostile in the range way mandatory Google+ was.

So, not hostile at all?
See http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"In my profile, what is noprocrast?

It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on News.YC. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero."
It was not available in the Play Store as a separate download, no - it was bundled with the OS.
Also, sorry about the slow load time. I didn't expect people to visit and now the server's in trouble.
out of aosp and into proprietary Google apps.

that's always a bad move. and they've been doing it a lot lately.
Many subs on Reddit have embraced the fact that upvotes as the sole metric do not always create the most valuable/enjoyable sub. Other forms of curation can often improve the quality of the sub, and quality content is the primary reason anyone goes to an aggregator.
It sounds like the insurers decision had more to do with visits to the emergency room than anything else. Those are expensive.
You should make it look better, imo.
That's a pretty condescending reply. Homeless in no way implies stupid or ignorant. To state that a homeless person wouldn't know how to turn on a computer is insulting.
The choice of Mongo vs Redis was intentional. Without configuration Redis doesn't guarantee persistence as well as Mongo. Since Redis is often used for non-critical data such as sessions I didn't want to enforce sacrificing performance of sessions for persistence.
Does this mean that third-party launchers won't work, even on custom ROMs?

If they do, will they simply sit "on top of" Google's launcher now?

If so, I don't like the idea of Google having that much level of access to data about my homescreen. Even if they're not accessing this data now, it seems that they're setting the stages for that a few versions from now.
Oo, definitely joining! I did a similar startup in NY a few years ago. We partnered with venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn and had teams of journalists and photographers who would curate lists of events -- no more than 20 a night. We folded around the time we introduced a monthly membership that would get you perks at events.

It looks like you've followed through and done a much better job executing this! I believed in the concept then and I'm on board now.
Sounds impressive until you realize they're #4 with 4% market share.
From FAQ:

>Will you guys spam my twitter accounts with commercial notifications?

>No, unlike some other tweet scheduling services we don't and will not ever use your account for spammy commercial
stuff! (and neither should you).

Is it mentioning Bufferapp?
Nokia is going to make the turn, against all the odds. This is really promising news for having a 3 platform horserace to keep things honest.
Yes/no.

Card value depends on a number of factors, notably usability in one of the game's "formats". A card printed today, that is both rare and very useable in many decks and/or formats, will cost anywhere from $5 to $60. A single card.

An entire deck? http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1167954

That's the deck that won one of the most recent tournaments. Average price of $630 for the entire set.

Point being, you can blow your savings on today's cards, let alone ancient ones.
in the US. In Italy, the Nokia line is outselling the iPhone.
> then we've actually created a lobbying group with a vested interest in keeping trolling alive

That was my first thought when reading this article. It's a shame that lobby groups can petition for outcomes that are worse for everybody but their broken business model - where profits are the only virtue worth considering.

Lobby groups for keeping marijuana illegal[0] perfectly describe this.

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, and any other big tech-player need to band together, form a lobby group, and destroy software patents. It should be in their best interests considering all the patent litigation that goes on among them.

[0] http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/
How would that solve the issue of it not making money?
I believe this is primarily to fix the latency that existed when you tapped the little search bar up top. Before, the Search APK had to be launched—now its already running.
Incoroporating number of subscribers may be skewed though since the default subreddits auto-subscribe, and even active users might not opt-out.
I had a play with a whole bunch of small to mid-size Android phones and concluded that the S4 mini is quite nice. It isn't as anemic relative to the S4 as the S3 mini was to the S3, and it looks and feels good. It's about the size of a Galaxy S2 for reference (seems weird that that's now a small to medium size phone, when I owned one I hated how big it was).
To answer your question, there's at least one company that believes there's money to be made out of this: https://urbanbellhop.com/. I read about them on Springwise a while ago, and they handle all the check-in/check-out process for Airbnb and VRBO hosts. They don't provide cleaners, but it would make sense for them or another company to do so. I think there could definitely be a market for that kind of all-around vacation rental management services, at least in cities like SF and NYC.
Edit: Airenvy mentioned somewhere in this thread seems to do just that.
For me it was one if several reasons to quit Google apps. I would definitely consider it both intrusive and hostile.
Enforcing measures of quality help subs avoid catering to the least common denominator. For example, without strict rules, /r/askscience would likely fill with many well-meaning commentators who don't actually know what they are talking about. This is bad for everyone, including those well-meaning commentators. Everyone wants the sub to be good, but that by itself isn't enough.
I'd say standardize on a deployment model that leverages lots of nuts and bolts ruby doesn't care about.

Specifically, try using the apr (apache portable runtime), or leverage tomcat (which can use apr) + jruby + jndi jdbc connection pools.

Let rails be rails, your best bet for performance is either making the underlying ruby runtime better or leveraging things that are designed to be high performance.
Hey, I think something that would make the experience a lot better would be to incorporate Ace editor into it, so you get a very well-featured editor incase you don’t have easy access to a better-than-<textarea> editor.
Lack of removable battery is the reason I didn't press the order button, at least as an impulse buy.

I mean, I might end up buying it later should there be no alternative, but at least, it gave me incentive to look around. I'm not so much of battery swapper (or remover) but not being able to replace battery when it can't hold a charge is just ridiculous to me.

I really don't understand the trend of non-removable batteries. I guess people (or the designer, maybe) want a thinner phone, but no one seems to care about practicality any more... (and I have bumper on my Galaxy Nexus, just because I can't comfortably hold it without fear of dropping as it is being too thin...)
Still tweaking around with the Premium Claims concept. We don't know yet what the ratio will be between normal:premium so right now we just give them out to longstanding members. Should look though like every 4 months.

Thanks for the feedback.
Why does he say "really successful" in the title, if it doesn't even break even?

EDIT: Must be the traffic, but these days that's not (that) impressive if there's no revenue model around it. That said, I'd love 6 million users/month.

EDIT 2: downvotes? I guess funding = success still around here, huh?
It doesn't really matter what the numbers say. If you have spent any time at all in Waterloo I don't think you would argue that it wasn't a sleepy little Canadian town. And there is nothing wrong with being a sleepy little Canadian town, of course.
Yes, it's got all the hallmarks of self-deception.

My guess is that someone (in his lab or close to him) is/was pranking him. And now that it's got this big, doesn't want to admit it.
I don't get them. I am only replying in hopes of getting someone to notice your ask and reply. Sorry I can't be more help.
My impression is pg has banned some sources manually:

Huffingtonpost.com - for linkbait blogspam.

theonion.com and buzzfeed.com - off topic entertainment.

gawker.com and its other domains - general sleaziness.

pg might want to consider unbanning Buzzfeed, though. In the past year or two they've added tons of reporters who do pretty decent long form articles you would expect to see on Slate, The Atlantic, or Forbes, and the risk that HNers will upvote "The 50 Greatest Cat Photos of All Time" is probably pretty low.
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That's not going to help his revenue problem, probably. The only thing I can think of is if he--in addition to making it look appealing--somehow places targeted ads based on user queries, in the midst of their search results. This is essentially the "killer" strategy a lot of companies like FB and Twitter have started using. Make ads a seamless part of the scenery. Not as annoying sidebar shit that no one ever looks at.
Thanks man. We're planning to bring this to NYC in January. Email me. Would love to hear about what you were trying to do.
I came up with the basic idea for showdown about a week before they posted that.

Lots of opportunity in the space, decided to build a chrome extension because Netflix doesn't allow new API access anymore...
Rockstar, Patent-Holding Firm Partially Owned by Apple & Microsoft, Sues Google
I am familiar with Kahan from his excellent low-error floating point summation algorithm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
You can cut out one step by directly installing OpenBSD on the USB drive, and then when you boot on the target machine enter "bsd.rd" at the boot prompt.
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I'd hate to have 6 million visitors a month if they're viewing pictures (high bandwidth) and I'm not actually making any money from them.
Nope. The so-called "news" is generally highly biased towards bad news. It has a negative slant. I think it actively creates problems in the world.
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There are some domains that, should submit a URL for them, are auto-instantly marked [dead].
The ten years included several startups. And while it appears all eventually failed or were put in the back-burner, he did raise $2 million in angel funding along the way. So, at least in regards to keeping himself housed and fed, I guess it was successful.
Techies advocate ditching work/life balance
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It's too bad they didn't continue things with Meego. I would've preferred another open source OS to be the 3rd platform instead of another closed source one.

Windows Phone owes the vast majority of its success to Nokia anyway, because most of the early adopters bought Nokia phones because of the hardware and despite Windows Phone, which is why Nokia has like 90 percent market share of the WP market.

If this wasn't the case, the market would've been more decentralized. You could also test the theory another way - if Nokia would've quit WP for Android this year (if Microsoft wouldn't have bought them), Windows Phone would be dead almost immediately.

Plus, Nokia's phones actually looked nicer with Meego:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/06/nokia-...

http://cdn.theunlockr.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Android...
What's wrong with WP?
Just in case you guys don't know this, since I don't see it mentioned anywhere, Dave is also the co-founder of ITA software which is basically the engine holding up modern transportation. It powers almost all of the websites that deal in transportation (hipmunk, kayak, etc.), and this is, and I believe this is Dave's term, a fractal problem.

Fractal problems are those that look really simple from 100,000 feet up (like a dot) and reach unimaginable complexity as you get closer (like a fractal). There are a lot of problems of this nature (like email, transportation, ecommerce, taxation, etc.) and solving them is worth a lot of money but requires a LOT of work.