skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you know anything about paid maternity leave in this country as compared to the rest of the world: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/maternity-leave-pai...
Can you imagine how crazy you'd think the customer was if you were giving technical support and they insisted they had to do this?
Simulating dynamic systems in javascript
Complete and utter bullshit.

That they blatantly employed blackhat SEO techniques and are back on Google within a matter of days is sickening.

Think of all the sites that are penalized in various ways for similarly shady SEO practices and have to spend _months_ to regain their previous position.

Hopefully Bing et al can capture some marketshare and bring some degree of neutrality to the search engine landscape (i.e. not have every website owner on the planet beholden to the beast).
Ask HN: Google Groups Message Exporter?
I belong to several Google Groups, and would like to keep a backup archive. It seems Google hasn't made it easy to export data, and it's become even tougher since they switched to an AJAX interface.

Is there any service that does this? If possible I'd like to avoid building the regex and scraper myself.
That one is a lot more enlightening as to the creative process for this kind of music.

(Of course the prodigy didn't do it like that, all point and click. There would have been a lot more twiddling of knobs and generally wigging out with actual hardware.)
Or more (?) famously, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_%28drug%29
To save having to click the article

This years list (2014)

* Radioshack

* Blackberry

* HTC

* Zynga

* AMD

* Bitcoin, Litecoin, cryptocurrency market

Last year (2013) it was

* American Airlines

* Talbots

* Current TV

* RIM

* Pacific sunwear

* Suzuki

* Salon.com

* Oakland Raiders

* MetroPCS

* Avon

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-brands-that-will-disappear-...
According to the medical examiner's report[0], Jack's girlfriend and a friend told the investigators that he "would take opiates and use Xanax," and that he "would drink and occasionally use cocaine".

So the answer is yes.

[0] http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy...
Fair chance is that plethora of use-cases covered by Evernote are not covered by any other alternative. OCR, Web Clipper (favorite bit of mine), audio notes, location-aware notes, sharing, cross-platform support, awesome note indexing and subsequent search, offline caching, 3rd (as well as 1st) party app ecosystem integrated with their API... You name it. Even their free as well as premium tier give you a lot of bang for buck.

Which is kind of explanation of why they can get away with some issues in their service - they own the space. Period.
I ran NT 3.1 and I don't remember that at all. Of course, I also don't know if I ever tried to move the mouse while shutting down.
A very interesting read. Also, I think I saw you on facebook's hackathon this year!
I applied, took a few days. They sent me a letter about 'bulk payment' I received. (They must have accessed my tax records of 2 years ago). True.

What I got out of the article was a comment to use http://lucyphone.com , and I will.
Any currency controlled by any one individual is either (1) used by only one individual, or (2) not a crypto currency.

As for making the USD easier to use on the web, I think we call this system PayPal. Except it should be less evil.
I use DevonThink as well and love it... but I also don't need to sync between multiple devices. All of my dissertation sources, notes, files, etc are in DevonThink - love the tagging and search features, folder levels, etc. I'm able to quickly find, navigate, and even discover relations I didn't discover before. Also, multiple file types and I now have the PDF -> OCR stuff for older documents. I keep my footnotes/endnotes/bibliographic info in Zotero.
It almost always programmer error to use defaults mode for NSURLConnection, especially on Mac where they are more runloop modes used by the platform that are not inclusive of defaults mode, unless the user has a very specific reason. File IO is usually ok in defaults mode because it makes code easier and you don't have to worry about timeouts.

We make Objective-C run on Android at Apportable :-) The entire stack. Everything from clang, GCD, CoreFoundation, Foundation, UIKit, and dozens of comm frameworks. It's fairly popular with game developers.

We recently re-developed all of Foundation from scratch on top of the parts of CFLite that Apple open sources and no longer use GNUStep.

http://docs.apportable.com/release-notes.html#1100

We have even open sourced all our tests around Foundation as well and this is one of them. Check it out:

https://github.com/apportable/FoundationTests
>or worst case scenario, to someone who gets access to weakness in the cryptocurrency. Resulting in world economic chaos.

we are talking here about the same measures and standards, taken to make sure there are no counterfeit paper currency in the market.
The "technical digression" with Github code on how to do a mass scrape is cool, though not surprising (er...how else would you accomplish such a big data task...though I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses Typhoeus, a great but underused gem).

But what's surprising to me is that a company that knows how to automate things and work with data...why the f--- were they manually soliciting bloggers to post links? That seems seriously inefficient and comically backwards...as if Sergey Brin spent his early Google days modifying SERPs by editing and uploading Excel spreadsheets to the server.

It seems seriously inefficient to me because at this point, Rap Genius has a lot of traffic and a lot of linkage already. So did the few backlinks, per day, that RapGenius got, through lame blogmasters who would participate in such a thing...really have an effect on their SEO rank, i.e. is it so easy to still game Google?

Or, was RG just doing it because they thought it would have a worthwhile effect (keep in mind that this is one of their co-founders who was individually emailing people), i.e. RG was being naively optimistic?
It looks like this submission with the correct spelling of the Senator's name in the submission headline will get more traction for discussion of the substantive issues in the story. I'll begin, and I look forward to comments by other Hacker News participants.

United States Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon[1] and United States Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky[2] run for election with the endorsement of different political parties, and have plenty of other differences on issues of public policy, but they are agreed that NSA surveillance programs need to be reviewed for legality. That's a demonstration that there is a reasonably broad base of support among the American public for taking a second look at how government intelligence programs have been operating recently, and perhaps revising the legal framework for regulating those programs. The large volume of lawsuits connected to NSA surveillance pretty much guarantees that the Supreme Court will consider the issue after the various trial court and intermediate appellate court decisions in different cases have shed light on the issues.

[1] http://www.wyden.senate.gov/

[2] http://www.paul.senate.gov/
I'm not saying that the people responsible shouldn't be punished (if we ever figure out who was behind it...), just that it's inaccurate to claim that the fraud was responsible for the Conservatives getting elected. The Conservatives won those elections because Canadian voters collectively decided that the Conservatives should win.
If you are paying for it you do get to complain.
Apparently, it's gradually being reduced until next year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_...
There is no misspelling on the latest submission of this story (thanks), and I'd be glad to discuss the actual substance of the story over there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011368
I can attest to this. I spent some time in the stand-up comedy community. The penetration of serious alcohol or drug abuse within the stage professions is mind-boggling.

I got out when I realized that I was consuming far too much alcohol for the life I wanted to live.
Same here. Been loving nValt and saving my notes in Dropbox. Super simple, and incredibly fast.
On a side note: How does the whole legal process work? I mean, the original tracks, or at least parts of it, are taken from a song and re-sampled to create something new. So far so good. But is everybody allowed to do it or do you have to ask the original creator for permission, especially if you want to use the new sample in/as commercial products?
This story reminded me a bit about the death of UK hacker Gareth Willams[0], who worked for the secret service.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
Is leaking your users' private information wworth $100 Billion?
Are there any other sources that he was a user other than her? I'm not trying to pull out my tin foil hat but if I had gone to all the trouble to fake an OD I'd pay the GF off (and/or threaten) as well to say he had done it before.
Knew a guy in his his forties who wanted to work for an ad agency. Convinced them to use him for free for a while as a test and they wound up hiring him. YMMV.
And if you do not have a mouse ? :D
The Wall Script
Is someone confused here? Isn't the dollar already the digital currency of the Federal Reserve and the international banking system?
The dollar is a digital currency pretending to be a physical currency for the naive.
I clearly remember old times with Windows 98/ME, where if you keep moving mouse, long-running operations like directory coping would be faster, thanks to CPU power savings not kicking-in.
When I read this "I ran a viral email campaign that signed up a person a minute for the week preceding launch, and then generated a firestorm of media coverage when the product opened for business. Shit, I had just released a new version of our website two days prior that improved on-site conversions by 400%.", I was wondering if the OP did all these alone? Not giving credit as it is due will definitely cause friction once the team grows.

Being a generalist is never an issue, as long as that role contributes value to the team. Taking oneself too seriously, however, will be.
Sorry, I was referring to iOS and Android mobile support. There's a webversion though accessible from https://skydrive.live.com, but I've hardly used it (so can't recommend it. Also, I suppose a desktop version is crucial for a good note taking app so I guess it's not worth trying on linux / mac).
In that case, check out Deft: http://jblevins.org/projects/deft/

It's a lot like Notational Velocity, but for Emacs. I've used it for over a year and love it.
The very notion of a secure crypto-currency controlled by the Fed is an oxymoron.
+1, couldn't agree more.

I have dropbox aware editors on all of my devices, and have a good directory layout for storing and working on ideas as text files. BTW, I use the same setup so I can work on my book projects on any of my devices (using leanpub).

I use Dropbox a lot for clipping web articles, taking pictures of bills and records, etc.
JFC, have you never been to a hacker con? Drinking and drug use is not exactly rare.
Microsoft designed and built the OS and two of the three applications involved. And the third application was almost certainly built using Microsoft development tools according to Microsoft guidelines. How could this not be their fault?
Heroin and cocaine is a somewhat common mixture once you're heavy into drugs despite it's dangerousness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug) It's the killer of lots of celebrities.

The other drugs found in his system were Xanax and Benadryl again fairly common for people to take/to have in their system.

Go read /r/drugs sometime a lot of those people regularly mix a ridiculous number of drugs.
Zim is pretty decent if you like something on the desktop and like wikis. Its strength is in quickly organizing a bunch of related ideas/notes (being a wiki) but it is much faster to use than a browser-based wiki. http://zim-wiki.org/

I tend to just scribble in Vim though, or use paper and pencil.
Is the Evernote OCR better than using the bundled ABBYY FineReader?

Using the software that came with my ScanSnap I just push the button on the scanner, and an OCR'd PDF gets added to my folder of scans. I could then just add a symlink to this from my Dropbox folder and have them immediately synced everywhere.
The results of being on page 1 of Hacker News
i did it at 29 and it worked out well for me. many of the other interns were just out of college, but it didn't seem to matter that i was a bit older. after 3 months i got a full time position and stayed with the company for 4 years.
Don't know if he travels a lot, but that's generally when people get overdoses. So much tolerance is psychological - a person readies their drugs with the same ritual in the same room - that their body doesn't have the same tolerance when it's taken another way. I think foul play
As an aside I really think its crazy that its so difficult to change careers midlife. We have a solid 40+ years of working life. That would be plenty of time for two sucessful expert level careers in two completely different areas.
Which is exactly how a note taking app should be.
...is a little premature. (Phone fingers)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug)

The other drugs were Xanax and an allergy medicine(benadryl). So they were likely already in his system when he decided on the speedball.
Room for Debate on Strunk and White (2009)
I'm not sure if this is helpful, but as a full stack-developer, I still work in a similar structure to the way you've described.

Essentially you're talking about two sides of development. Front-end vs. Back-end, and yes, it is very common to split up work like that. I've never heard anybody describe 'modules' as 'models','views','urls', etc. etc. though.

A back-end dev, team, or when doing back-end work, you're focused on the server side architecture and code. That would include your models, views, controllers, routes, database, etc.

A front-end dev can then take these end-points (routes or URLS) and build the templates, and front-end experience (HTML, CSS, Javascript).

I think the problem you may be having is in how you're defining what you're working on. You say specifically 'when we add a new table', but a front-end guy isn't going to know what to do with a 'table'. That is back-end. Both teams should be focusing on the feature or capability you are providing, not the technical structure. So rather than saying to the front-end guy 'we added a table and need a view into that table', you may have more success saying 'we want to show how weather patterns affect our shipping rates' or whatever it is the table does. Then the front-end guy can take your URL and from a user-perspective build a solution which solves the problem.

Another thing to consider is that design and user experience is not part of Front-end development. You may have a front-end dev who is good at UX and design, but if so, you'll be very fortunate. Some Front-end devs can do design, but not all. So you may want to make sure that before the Front-end (or even Back-end) guys get coding, they have the design of what they are building. That may help both sides come to the best solution quickest.
Is it a sign of getting older when black background web sites get harder and harder to look at for longer periods of time?
That's exactly it. And more: it stole the headlines in the exact weekend between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. How clever is that?

What's even more impressive: they hand-picked a story that is so good that even months after the pseudo-hoax went public, you still have hundreds (thousands?) of really smart folks on HN and other forums discussing the feasibility of the idea, the economics, or if an hex-copter wouldn't be better than a quad...

And just think about the wave of CS students applying for a job at Amazon, "because I want to work on cool projects". Certainly more cost effective than driverless cars.

Amazon Prime Air is already a success. They don't need to fly anything.
The point is that workers are no longer necessary because everything is automated.

I do not believe this will ever really be feasible because you still need lawyers, the government, police, teachers, etc. But I do believe that as time goes on more and more industries will become more efficient in production capability, rendering a large part of our society fairly useless in relation to productivity.
All of the links in the poetry section I can see have "lyrics" appended to the URL.

And some of those are not even poems:

http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Herman-melville-bartleby-the-scr...

This one is particularly weird / egregious:

http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Engineering-genius-understanding...
What happens if there are fewer women studying CS? Do we reach critical levels and then people stop caring like how nobody says anything about the lack of men in hospitality and child care?
I've had 3 interns on my team since last summer. One is a bit older than a typical college student, I believe she's a 26 yo bioinformatics major.

I can only speak for myself, but I look for 1) definitely a student, so expectations of going perm don't hit us by surprise, 2) either not too far off from graduation or the ability to work part-time during school 3) interest in the work, has some tie-in w/ the direction they want for their career, and 4) open to the possibility of going full-time upon graduation.

I'd love to have someone making such a transition working w/ us, we actually might have a need coming up shortly. But then again, I'm 37, and we're in SoCal...

One word of caution - make sure the scope of work is locked down. A smaller company might see you as a cheap backup system admin resource since you have background in that (under the guise of "we wear many hats here"), but you really need on the job experience before going full-time in what you want to transition to.
You're never too old to be an intern! I was typically the oldest intern at the places I worked at (interned at 27 and 28).
Self managed encryption keys is not "hard" any more than any other secure web service. I can't imagine why you think that this would have any effect on features other than from a cost benefit perspective.

Linux support is fine, if you're willing to accept HTML5 and JavaScript executing who knows what in your browser.

If evernote can't make a good text editor with HTML5 and JavaScript then it proves that apps in the browser is a dead end. Text editor is basically, the "cost of entry" and if an entire team focused on that single feature can't deliver it after years, well... I'm not really surprised given the state of JavaScript (collectively ruined by Mozilla's lack of resources and Google's ill will) and HTML5 (collectively ruined by nobody giving a shit about the language before their own interests).

Given the crumbling of infrastructure of the web, I'm kind of surprised anyone still uses the internet at all for anything more important than facebook and tabloid news. Maybe nobody does?
No, I have never been to one before. I was just asking a question, sorry if it was a stupid one.
Once when I used magic mushrooms, I went into a bad trip and to deal with the bad trip, I lied on the bed, facing the wall.

I faced the wall, cause the hairs on my arms appeared to me like ants walking on me and I also didn't want to look my friends' faces, caused their faces looked very pale, which scared me a little.
It still happens, i have seen here in Mexico in the Gov Agency that collects taxes when they send something to print/export pdf's they keep moving the mouse or their progress bar doesn't move at all. But they made this natural i think it is part of the training they receive, maybe some devs there tough it was the only way to get the rid of that bug, JUST KEEP MOVING THE MOUSE!.

Agency url: http://www.sat.gob.mx/sitio_internet/home.asp
Conference proceedings available via git-annex
We Need Viable Search Engine Competition
The fact that none of his friends have come out against the claim is probably a good one. No one is going to go speak to the press or police about their friend and say "Ya he had drug issues" unless they have to. But a lot of people will go out and say it's wrong when it is.
I know people your age or older who have successfully transitioned careers to software development, from a standing start. I wouldn't let it put you off at all!
by voting someone in again and again, and knowing his agenda, it basically legitimizes anything he does.

No, it doesn't. In all 3 of those elections more than 60% of the voters voted against Harper; he only won because there is only one right-wing party but 4 major left-wing parties.

Plurality voting is a sham.
It's probably running out of entropy. If windows is anything like Linux, it will use certain random events like mouse movements, keystrokes, boot time etc. to generate randomness.
Just because they give you a C compiler and a library to link doesn't mean you blame the compiler developer for letting the user shoot himself in the foot.
Exactly. Everything about how Google handled this is wrong, in my opinion. I couldn't care less about RapGenius - they're just a symptom of the underlying problem which is we don't have any real competition in the search engine market, and we're paying for it with unfair antics like this. Longer thoughts here: http://peebs.org/2014/01/04/we-need-viable-search-engine-com...
I am making use of StackEdit https://stackedit.io/ - brilliant and works fine across devices.
So back in the early-mid 90 days of terminals and 24.4K baud modems...I would FTP into a university server to download game demos...and in many cases, in order to get the progressbar moving beyond a slow crawl, I would have to move the mouse around (this was on Windows 95 or something similar)...and the faster I moved it, the faster the download seemed to go. Looking back, I think of it as one of those times when I was just dumb and didn't know how computers worked. But maybe it really was mouse powered...
Evgeny vs. the Internet
I'd love to see a private controlled answer to these services - some kind of owncloud-box with apps for various mobile platforms. F/OSS server software so I'm confident in it, and then paid/closed everything-else.

Then again, the challenge is that hackers love to hack, so we'll put up with kludgy mashed-up solutions instead of a nice one-stop-shop of convenience. Meanwhile, layman users are perfectly happy with the lock-in of modern webapps.
Wonder why this was hard to imagine. x+y is constant along diagonal lines, and any given bit flip will happen every 2^b pixels. Multiplication may be a little harder but still it's a quick way to paint contour lines.
Tomboy [1] + webnotes [2] with the notes folder automatically synced to Dropbox/SpiderOak/etc. Or Vim + VimOrganizer/vim-orgmode.

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy

[2]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webnotes-powered-by-ubuntu/i...

[3]: http://lifehacker.com/5839633/tomboy-is-a-free-lightweight-n...
Free exchange: All men are created unequal
You have a powerful background - use it to your advantage. Don't try to compete in web dev startups - go where the work is harder. Leverage your Linux / Bioinformatics background to your high advantage. Look at sensor based IoT companies, or healthcare companies, big data companies specializing in healthcare, Or DevOps.
Yeah. I'll bet he did.
Great post. I have been trying to make this point here on HN this past week or so, only to be downvoted into oblivion. Thank you for putting it so eloquently.