skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've built LeaseMatrix (http://lease.io/) over the last 18 months. The stack is Linux/Apache/MySQL/Rails along with Bootstrap and Javascript. The app is a web-based alternative to a spreadsheet for commercial lease analysis and comparison. We (obviously) use Bootstrap 2.3 with very little customization, as most of our development focus has been on the backend thus far because it is heavily finance focused with many complexed calculations. We use AWS and Rackspace for hosting. Other apps we use include Stripe (love it), Intercom (love it), Optimizely (love it), Google Maps API, Google Charts API, Feedjit and Wordpress (for blog only). We've played around with integrating KISSMetrics and considered Mixpanel, but our traffic volume is such that Google Analytics + Intercom + Feedjit works well enough for now.
I picked up a copy last night. Thus far, it's mainly challenging my patience and my tolerance for lousy writing styles -- it wanders all over the place. I haven't read any of Schlosser's other books; is he always like this?
Meet the Life Hackers (2005)
I'd have to respectfully disagree. While I've never worked in the valley I have researched and interviewed with 10+ companies there.

My findings were that startups there are extremely busy. They are slow to respond to emails, meetings and interviews are often missed/rescheduled, and salaries are relatively low (<100k). When talking to execs it became clear that they demand 45+ hours a week.

Compare that to Austin, Seattle, DC, Chicago, and Portland, who all have thriving startup communities that often match SV wages, and SV starts to look less appealing.

SV working conditions are not something a college grad should strive for. They should focus on locking down a nice salary with relatively cheap living costs, clearing themselves of debt, and growing their personal worth with side projects.
Right, but that only encourages hoarding.
if only the rest of the world thought like this. Not the case unfortunatly
The most extreme I can think of was one reported by Raymond Chen on his "The Old New Thing" blog which I can't find the specific link for, but is discussed in an article by Joel Spolsky:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

To quote:

"I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by another running application right away. The testers on the Windows team were going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing. They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it."
Thanks, will do if I get it to work on a Google Nexus :)
Yes, please dissuade others from mining. It makes it more profitable for those of us who are already doing it ;)
Are they actually ported? I've played Sonic games on iOS that were just emulators (awfully done emulators).
A bit offtopic: where can I get recommendations for good mobile games? Geared towards a HN-like crowd :)

I've read about more interesting Android games on this article's comments (didn't know there were Layton games for Android) than in several unsuccesful searches. And all the "most popular" Android games the Play store shows me are not for me.
Xcode could do with auto-creating the stubs for methods required by protocol interface. My 2 cents.
In my opinion it still lacks more automatic deploy mechanisms. Ansible has some great ideas, but I guess the time to write your deploy scripts is needed. I'm still hoping for a salt package like system. (https://github.com/saltstack-formulas) Where you only use your top.sls and perhaps some custom pillar data, to define how packages interact or where packages are needed.
Define wordpress running on 2 appservers + 1 database node + 1 loadbalancer with ssl termination and export db and pipe it through gpg via this pillar key. etc. pp
Old school Metroid-style game ReVen lands on Kickstarter
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You are in a huge minority of companies that actually expect to hire someone to clean floors and move up. If it works for you (which it sounds like it doesn't) that's great, but it doesn't change the standard hiring practices in current businesses which is the opposite of that.

I've never been responsible for hiring outside of the technology sector, that said, I've been responsible for hiring, and have hired across a variety of age groups and have noticed no trend among any of them for who works harder/more efficiently/etc. Employee retention is most certainly a hard job, but it isn't because of the age of my employees, it's because I strive to hire really good ones.

For what it's worth, I put this question to my wife who hires in a non-tech small business setting, and she has also never experienced specific problems with millennials that don't exist in other age groups.

Perhaps it is your hiring practices that are at issue not who you are hiring?
Am I the only one that finds the resemblance with SteamOS page disturbing? I thought halfway that there will be controller shown.

My opinion is that we need some better generation currencies that are extremely hard to scale for mining before doing advanced stuff with them.
Why Android apps get way more reviews than iOS apps
http://www.ractivejs.org/ is another similar client-side view framework that uses a shadow DOM.

I don't know how suitable it would be for server-side rendering though.
This. Currencies function well when they grow in-line with the growth in the economies they serve. When they fail to do so, people become reticent to actually use them in commerce, which increases hoarding, increasing theoretical value, but reducing actual utility.
If think you could experiment with an interface that actually does to solve this problem and does auto detect the language:
http://translate.google.com/#auto

Once a language is detected it won't reevaluate the input, so you have to paste whole sentences in it. The implementation really goes above and beyond to guess the input, I think that's what you and other mean by matching several languages at ounce.
For instance "J'aime pas la philosophie du 'just do it'" will translate both french and english parts at the same time.

The thing is, 'just do it' is a ready made english sentence, but you could autocorrect it to 'juste doit' or 'jus doit', both of which are valid single words in french. There's no way to know what you really meant on the autocorrection front (we have to assume you made a mistake to suggest something), and you'll need an interface constantly suggesting correction that you'll dismiss 99% of the time. This feels like hell in a popup to me.
Two things. One, the title is a little misleading. Trove existed before CmdrTaco joined WaPo. Second, when it was owned by WaPo it had a nifty API. I'm not sure if that's still true (the WaPo API page still exists):

http://apiportal.washingtonpost.com/api/trove
This comment struck me:

"He compared the PCs changing status to how trucks took a diminished role when the U.S. shifted to an industrial
nation from an agrarian one."

It seems myopic now as the F-150 is still the #1 best selling vehicle in the US.

I do see the point of the PC as the 'utilitarian' device vs. the iOS devices as the more mainstream, recreational devices. The analogy was just bad.
I'm not a lawyer and don't know the intricacies of the CAN-SPAM Act, but I think one provision is that you can't contact people via harvested emails gathered by bots/scripts.

But this is done on mturk manually by people?
Actually, that's a good point. Maybe, for a smartphone to become a "real" gaming platform as stated above, it's not game titles we need first, but hardware.

I know there have been Android phones introduced designed for gaming, and I think they flopped pretty hard (I didn't hear much about them for long). But maybe instead of a whole phone, a company could produce and sell a gamepad that plugs into the phone? Then they ("they" being the producer of the gamepad, and any companies that it enables to sell bigger titles) could target the DS/PSP/portable console market.

Interesting thought.....
A Google search for "windows glacier backup" turned this up in the top few results, so this may be doable:

http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-glacier-storage-backup.a...

And for Linux it seems like this one might be an option, but, YMMV:

http://www.janoszen.com/2013/10/14/backing-up-linux-servers-...
Love this wish list! Some great points you got there.

About videos: I rather if they'll allow animated gifs instead. Indie developers just don't have enough money to spend on videos and we'll lose to the bigger companies.
Build 3d web applications with MontageJS
Was Uber really the 'first'? Lyft a similar service came out of zimride.com which was doing ride sharing as early as 2007 though perhaps not through a smart phone in real time.
I don't develop for iOS so this one surprised me: "How many downloads on iPad, iPhone, iPod separately". Does Apple really not tell you the device breakup?
Certainly it's a free speech issue if I took the picture of you, because you were naked in front of me?
Apart from scripting, they came up with a new proof-of-work function, which takes exponentially more memory to compute compared to checking. It is probably of independent interest.

http://wiki.ethereum.org/index.php/Dagger
Facebook,twitter,myspace,reddit,digg,tumblr,linkded-in...

Why would ConstantContact be a social site???
> This required FDR to save capitalism by (unthinkable before 1930) regulating it within an inch of its life.

I'm not a historian, and I don't entirely disagree with your premise, but I think you're overstating how laissez-faire America was before 1920. Regulating food prices (as well as various other parts of the economy) certainly predates the Great Depression.

Examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_bank#United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_histor...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administrati...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Freedom
On the Complexity of Making Progress | Nice and Complex
You think that's bad? Try counting Fields medalists!
Hey! Those floppy icons are from Mini vMac! This could be seen as Apple condoning the emulation of their products and software...

https://www.apple.com/v/30-years/a/images/1989/closeup.jpg
There are plenty which are production ready and good quality. Some examples that I use are haystack, compressor and rest-framework. If the customer tells you to use a shitty app, explain to them why you can't. They don't know better. You're the expert.
Ethereum is designed to be extremely hard to scale for mining. It does not use Bitcoin mining. Go read about it.
That's correct, we're not bulk harvesting emails by any means. We use google news api to find blogs, and articles written about your niche based on search terms provided. We then research those blogs manually with real people using amazon mturk for crowd sourcing. We then provide you with the blogs, articles, and information about the author so you can begin interacting with them.. Reading their blogs, following them on social media, and maybe pitching them.
What seems to be happening is that someone's server gets compromised, and the attacker uploads malicious JavaScript to attack the site's visitors. Of course, a competent admin will reverse these changes as soon as they are detected. So, attackers have started modifying the copy of jQuery that's already deployed on that server to insert malicious code, as the developer is unlikely to notice or overwrite changes to that file.

So, the message is "don't trust anything on your server if it might have been compromised". :-)
so did angry birds and most popular mobile games. There were flash trebuchet games years before angry birds with the exact same gameplay
Because they saw the success Uber has experienced and wanted some of the pie?
Do your clients have highly variable workloads? I'm curious how cloud hosting can be price competitive with dedicated or colocated servers.
Typically a publisher would like to see a sample chapter or a few sample pages before investing. That would be nice here.
> Unix is 45 years old. Stuff still compiles and runs from circa 1974.

Ergo, mac?
Case Study: The Lean Startup Methodology
Maybe because proper font rendering trapped is behind patents? Chrome and Firefox probably rely on public system APIs. IE probably uses private APIs to render fonts. That's just my guess.
The video felt more like a demonstration of software that works on Macs rather than 30 years of Mac hardware to me.
free market != fair market
Ingenious 404 page or gimmick?
How to fix those Nokogiri libxml version mismatch errors
There's a maximum velocity, but no maximum energy. Photons get higher frequencies when they have more relative energy, and lower frequencies as they have relatively less energy.
This article seems pretty concluded. For one, it doesn't seem like they are charging anyone for the revenge porn site, rather they are charging him as an accomplice in "hacking" peoples emails. Worse yet, they then bring in the $250,000 fine imposed by the court for defamation and that has nothing (or seemingly) nothing to do with the current case at all.

In other words... what the hell is this article about?
Wow. This is low.

The statement is absolute bullshit too: "In this instance, the New York City team was a bit too ambitious and we'll make sure they tone down their sales tactics."

No, this is unacceptable. This sort of fraudulent behavior deserves consequences larger than "hey, stop that".

I live in NYC. The Uber app has now been banished from my phone. It's too bad the Gett app is kind of an unpolished turd.
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ...) is a very different thing. It's counting distinct values of a particular column in a result set and totally not a square peg/round hole situation.
And this would be a reason to use a trusted CDN location for serving your jQuery library.
No, but Google's public resolvers¹ support it and it's very easy to set up your own local validating resolver like Unbound².

¹ https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using#se...

² https://unbound.net/
Actually you can get a better result by walking them through a play slowly, then faster and faster until they've got the muscle memory and speed to succeed. Combined with drills for strength/accuracy, and you can bring a kid up to speed pretty quickly.

Giving them the ball and letting them run is not coaching. It works for the 1st 5 minutes; then they'd probably like to have some success or learn something. Kids are like that.
Bill Gates' sharp, prescient analysis of the Mac's prospects in business (1987)
A Journey to the End of the World (of Minecraft)
Justin Beiber is BREAKING THE LAW (New Music Video)
Make access to the chain important for other reasons, and it stops being replaceable.
No clue on SEO, any hints on tips on how we can improve our site.
Hi guys,

We run a site getinspired365.com and it is just a fun hobby for us. I like inspirational quotes and videos and my mate likes building websites so we decided to create this. It's been going for a year and it's been good fun.

We don't get a whole load of traffic and we want to try and grow our audience if possible. We think our content is interesting, and potentially beneficial to people. Our problem is how do we get more users. Any major tips or hints? As I say this site is a hobby but we'd still like people to be able to find it!

Sites like brainyquotes get great traffic, a lot of from Google, and we are not far removed from them. Any major things SEO wise we could implement do you think?

Thanks! Really appreciate any help you can give us!
Designing Multi-Tenanted Databases
I'm sure some crowdfunded projects have ended up being mis-managed but that isn't a very fair statement to leverage against these guys (if you don't know them).
For the last 15 years people have said that about everything Daniel Bernstein wrote. Meanwhile, people deploy the stuff, use it, don't have security holes, get better performance, and generally don't have to think about it every week... see if you can say that about BIND.
SkySQL goes after Oracle MySQL with enterprise release
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"Fraud" isn't a singular thing. The Penal Law of New York State defines around 40 separate types of fraud, most of which are misdemeanors.

http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/index.htm
This might help: http://nshipster.com/xcode-snippets/
Great teacher, great course, I've been dabbling with it while teaching myself the fundamentals of Objective-C.

Once I get comfortable, I plan to run through this one in full.
I am not sure how this tool is any better than buzzstream or followerwonk or ontolo ... Lots of cheap, free, or more robust tools that do the same thing...

I don't recall the company but if you look at the data providers on removeem.com they use a company with 80 million webmaster emails, etc...
Just a nit pick, but index-only scans were added in 9.2 https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Index-only_scans
It's interesting that all these ride services are so aggressive about recruiting drivers. I looked into driving for them to make a few extra bucks and the one thing they could do to get a leg up on their competition is clarify the insurance situation.

They all essentially claim that a driver's personal auto insurance is good enough and combined with the companies umbrella policy provides sufficient coverage. But then if you go and read their fine print that really isn't the case and if you were to be involved in an accident while driving for them there is a good chance no insurance would cover damage to yourself as the driver or your car.
The F-150 might be the best selling vehicle, but are trucks the largest selling segment?
Nacl is the most widely used and supported high-level crypto library in the world. "Stillborn"? Nonsense.
Look at race games that have many versions.

The early version will be $10, no in app purchases. The latest one will be $0.99, with a million in app purchases.

In-app is fine. (As someone else says, devs need to get paid.). But some companies exploit confusing conversions (X gems to unlock! Y gems for $0.99!) and similar shady tactics.

And they do it because it works.

People do filter buying decisions by price, or number of good reviews.
libsodium is the nacl code; it's just been forked to make it easier to compile on different platforms.
>In the end what matters in business is sustainable profit not marketshare.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't get this. They are so concerned with "winning" that they lose sight of what's important.
And then there are table statistics or fragmented indexes that cause the optimizer to choose a different path. Even when you've done everything and you think the optimizer should choose a particular index it will surprise you.
I assume time-dilation accounts for that, since the ship perceives that it's launching something at 0.5C but its perception is skewed by time dilation... but that implies the reverse, since time dilation means that the ship perceives time traveling slower than the outside universe and thus the outside universe is faster and so the 0.5C missile should actually be moving faster than the sum of the accelerations... but relativity says that both sides perceive their counterpart as slower, and then you get the to the twin paradox.

ow, my head.
Give me a way to (optionally) provide separate packages for retina / non-retina and iPad / iPhone / iPhone 5. Sucks to have iPad retina assets sitting an iPhone.
NASA's Opportunity Rover Celebrates 10 Years on Mars
Back in August 2010, coughed 80% of my cash on a 15" MBP when i started to freelance because a) had the cash at the moment b) wanted a reliable machine and a motivation boost for the rough times ahead, which i eventually upgraded to 8GB non-Apple memory and SSD disk (replacing Superdrive with the old HD).

It's Jan 2014, still my power horse and going rock solid, i'm quite happy.
Non-taxi on-call cars have existed for many, many decades before Uber. Especially in NYC where this article is relevant, car services are a dime a dozen and have been a regular part of city life for decades.

The difference is between picking up your phone to get one vs. using your smartphone. Uber was first to market, but it's silly to pretend that without them it wouldn't have happened. That's like calling the Pizza Hut app a clone of the Domino's app, because they both order pizzas and Domino's came out first. Ultimately Uber is a newfangled (and more convenient) front-end to a service that has pre-dates itself by a wide, wide margin.

The extension from "call the car company to get a car" to "use an app to get a car" is a pretty obvious innovation, particularly in NYC.
Magnus Carlsen VS Bill Gates
In a world where you generally only get one chance with a new customer, I wonder how many people decided not to use Gett because there wasn't availability at the time that they wanted to try it.

As much as I love über I think these tactics aren't going to win them fans. Competition in the market should be a good thing, right ?
Cloud 5: Cloud's IT paradox, cloud has won and PaaS isn't dying
If you were my client and asked me this, I would probably suggest you wait. My personal guess is that any effort you sink to deploying DNSSEC is going to be wasted, not in the sense that "DNSSEC will have bugs" (though it will), but in the sense of "the world is not going to end up using DNSSEC".

In the immediacy, you should know that deploying DNSSEC isn't going to do anything for the security of your site, nor is it going to make it more reliable for computers around the world to reach your site.
Facebook is Dying, Admit It.
I'm very familiar with dithering, thanks. It was in that context that I was shown the example - I was wondering why anyone would feel the need to dither down to 24 bits.
How do you know they aren't selling? It would be nice to have actual data before making blanket statements that conveniently support your point.
I would argue that specialization in software is more about delivering solutions and value. I agree that in general technology evolves, but there is clearly a 20+ year lifespan for some technologies. Cobol is still in demand. As a botique software shop you offer a company critical business infrastructure that gives them an edge. 90% of the software in business is developed or customized for the client. As developers we don't necessarily like it because it is not always elegant or optimal but it exists.
Poll HN: Working fulltime on someone else's startup while building your own?
More then ever, companies claim to want employees who are entrepreneurial-minded. I am wondering how many of us are working full-time at somebody else's startup while building our own on the side. I want to stimulate a conversation about the ethics of this and if anyone has stories, thoughts or tips to share. If everyone is an entrepreneur who will be the employee?
Work at a startup and am building my own on the side.
Work at a startup and WOULD consider building my own on the side but am not currently.
Work at a startup and WOULD NOT consider building my own on the side.
Do not work at a startup but WOULD consider building my own on the side if I was.
Do not work at a startup but WOULD NOT consider building my own on the side if I was.
I agree with everything you've said, however I want to add that the general technique of compressing your data through pre-aggregation is a sound one, whether it is performed auto-magically by the optimizer, or manually through whatever hooks your DMBS provides.