skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post used to link to an article on the Daily Reckoning site, but has been changed to a completely different article on the NYT site.

Old link:

http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/argentina-is-going-down/201...

I must say I'm uncomfortable with the idea that an post can change title and URL to a different domain after comments have been posted.
Could be a reverse honeypot for bots?
Such Doge, much wallpaper, wow :) Free live Android wallpaper
The gaming market has ALWAYS been choked with shit. I don't understand how people can forget Sturgeon's Law so quickly and proclaim the death of the gaming industry. If anything, there are more great games now than there ever have been, if only because the barrier to entry is low.

You know all those old games that are so great that you wish they'd make now? They're still there! You can still play them! Go grab Dungeon Keeper and relive those days. So many amazing games to play, so many new technologies to make new ones with. Quit complaining and be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem.
Show HN: Simple presentations w/ version control and collaboration
It's simple.

IAP of extendable resources is a sham.

IAP of shortcuts and powerups is a sham.

IAP of extra game levels, something that extends existing game universe without changing the rules (and that also maps onto a non-trivial work on developer's end) is NOT a sham.

Easy-peasy.
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Software developers at all experience levels. Front end web, back end, big data, iOS/Android. We don't care what languages you know, as long as you're highly skilled in at least one. We use agile and tend to use the same kinds of technologies you'd see in your typical YC startup. Email me if interested:

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Bonus: Just for fun we're giving 10,000 Dogecoin to anyone who sets up an interview with us in the next two weeks. (You may have to do a couple coding problems first if you don't already have a solid GitHub portfolio.)
Ask HN: What is your ideal work environment?
I'm still trying to find a lifestyle that works for me, so I'm constantly looking for ideas of how to do this.

What do you consider your ideal work environment assuming your company is flexible with your needs. It could even be a work from home (WFH) environment or an in-office one.
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http://linkedin.com/in/jamespollack
Full-stack Javascript Engineer
I think he did this to show how even with a very restricted dictionary you could still build a relatively secure login system. Having a restricted dictionary could also help with the issues other people are discussing with humans being socially programmed to select certain word orders as their password under this scheme.
It couldn't hurt. At least the general populace's purchasing power would increase.
Thanks to the mod for the link change. Only found the standaard translation and thought the gigaom was at least some form of a summary and better than a google translated document.
You are completely correct that Stripe has no control over this and this is at the sole discretion of the issuing bank. I think I was pointing that the "you can't win intangible good chargeback" is not true anymore and if you can put together a good case with lot of proofs sometime you might win.

By the way, no one really talked about this but there's always a possibility to sue the customer if the charge is really big and the customer reside in the same country than you are (for example US). Of course this is up to you to decide if this is worth the effort (Most cases this isn't).
The August 21st Sarin Chemical Attack in Syria Plotted to Google Earth
and neither does my terminal emulator...
The way this brief interaction is constructed would lead one to surmise that the SOFTWARE is not what is protected/IP/sold to you... it is the LICENSE key.

Thus, downloading software should never be an offence.

He paid for the serial, not the software..
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Learned Ruby in 2002 and started working with Rails professionally in 2006.

http://www.intentionally-blank.com/
People forget things. I probably remember about 30% of CS class.
Keep Calm and keep kaam
Learn You The Node.js
I'd say the latter is much more likely to be misspelled since you abbreviated it arbitrarily. It's easy to write it prodDB or proddb, or was is productionDb?

Using actual English names actually minimizes the risks of mistakes.

And of course, using a statically typed language makes all these concerns moot since the compiler won't let you make these mistakes in the first place.
App is ListRunner, a collaborative tool for teams of doctors.

Listrunnerapp.com

Happy to answer questions and share more information by email: phzbox at gmail.
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My IT budget for the year is about $500. Doesn't fit.
I would say that the low quality of WP apps is a separate failing of Microsoft's. In other words, their decision to focus on app counts in consumer marketing didn't force a consequence of low quality.
About a decade ago I bought some OCR software. I used it for a few years, then flattened my OS and had to reinstall it.

No dice. It was not supported any more; I even had the license, but the company's activation servers no longer worked. I could pay $400 or so to buy a new version or do without.

I did without. I refuse to buy that company's products.
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Developer and designer (4+ years), work out of my own shop, Heta (http://heta.co). Primarily develop, design, and customize WordPress themes, or convert PSD designs or HTML/CSS/jQuery to WordPress. I'm also building an app and run my own server as a hobby.

I've worked on complex sites for digital agnecies (30+ templates, 25+ plugins), as well as on smaller sites for small businesses/individuals (10 templates, 10 plugins).

Technologies I use: PHP, HTML, CSS/LESS/SASS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, WordPress, mySQL, ZURB Foundation (3/4/5), Bootstrap, SVN or Git for version control, Fogbugz or Sifter for issue tracking, HipChat to stay in touch. Self-taught and resourceful.

Reach out to me at: hn [at] heta [dot] co (not com). I can send you links to live sites I've developed, sites I've converted to WP, etc.
Besides the GCHQ aspect, doesn't seem terribly different from other less catchy news stories: "Immunologist gets the flu", "Physical therapist fractures shin", etc.
He's not assigning entropy per word. He's using NIST SP 800-63, based on the character-length of the phrase, to assign the entropy value.

Proof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7163362
And if you play blackjack as well as possible, they kick you out.
I'm a fan of nvAlt (notational velocity fork) along with todo.txt and Dropbox (or whatever sync system you use).

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
I always thought of the Whitehouse petition system as some form of employee suggestion box. Gets emptied once every quarter and you are lucky if there is actually some intern shifting through it who doesn't just drop everything in the trash.
Somewhere sunny, mostly quiet, with standing desks and tall chairs. Close to home so I can take breaks and make healthy food/exercise.

I call it Starbucks
Hey Anurag - this is ok, we stuck with you mainly because you were (and still are) disrupting an industry led by heartless cyborg and you guys were doing something good. I could understand why you didn't have any good prevention tools but I think 2014 should be the year you guys make a step toward accomplishing this.

I've emailed you when you made that initial comment on this thread - hopefully we can discuss about anti-fraud and that will result in better tools in your arsenal in the longer term.
SimpleEnergy in Boulder Colorado is hiring for a number of positions both on our engineering team and other departments.

* Django/Python positions for our application team.
* Front-End/EmberJs developer.
* Dev-Ops
* Automation Engineers

More at http://simpleenergy.com/company/#jobs
I have been looking forward to this.

Of course there are a lot of features missing, but the overall feel of the application is, so far, pretty nice. It's U.I is very nice. Man, I can't wait for the final release.
How to find your people: A brief guide to crowdtesting
At the thin, early edge of lean startups, you’ll find a hypomanic, fast-talking guy named Justin Wilcox. He’s the one with the mohawk, black tie and beard. Wilcox leads workshops all over the world teaching aspiring entrepreneurs how to figure out who will buy the dreams they spin. The way to find out, generally, is to talk to strangers — lots of them.
Hey, I'm one of the developers at LiquidPlanner in Seattle. It's primarily a Ruby on Rails shop, with a really great development team. Our application provides predictive project scheduling, dynamic collaboration, and easy time tracking.

If that sounds interesting to you, here's the official job posting:

Software Development Engineers

LiquidPlanner is looking for full-time developers in the Seattle area to help us build next-generation scheduling and team collaboration tools. We have an industry-leading product, a smart team and a great work environment. These positions include stock options and an excellent benefits package.

Core responsibilities

Develop advanced web applications using Ruby on Rails and Javascript
Maintain the highest levels of software quality through test-driven development
Collaborate with customers and the team to solve interesting problems
Help support and improve our production and development infrastructures
Help design features and build the roadmap for LiquidPlanner
Required skills

A commitment to quality and a pragmatic approach
Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, Javascript and HTML/CSS
Strong knowledge of SQL and Linux
Experience developing and operating complex web applications
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http://www.liquidplanner.com/careers/#software-development-e...
> "downloading the software from the Adobe’s server"

twitches again
Cat rides skateboard
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets.

We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading strategies and infrastructure. We are a very small team (I am curently the only employee) and aim to add one or two engineers who will focus on strategy and/or on infrastructure. No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

An example of an infrastructure project is designing and building a system for logging to non-volatile memory. We generate large logs that cover everything from prices to transaction data. NVDIMMs are a form of RAM that survives power loss, and such hardware has been on the horizon for a while, but it is just now becoming available to early adopters. Writes to NVDIMMs will be nearly instantaneous and immediately durable. This project will be to develop an NVDIMM-based system that simultaneously functions as a log, an IPC mechanism, and a searchable database for analysis. Making this work will involve a number of pieces: kernel drivers, CPU cache control, lock-free synchronization, a daemon to write everything back to long-term (i.e. less expensive) storage, and more. If this works well, we plan to open-source all the pieces.

Visit http://amacapital.net/careers.html to learn more, and send applications/inquiries to careers@amacapital.net.
I'll just pop this here:

$ cat `which xkcdpass`
#!/bin/sh
perl -MCrypt::XkcdPassword -E 'say Crypt::XkcdPassword->make_password for 1 .. 10'
Android still wins in sheer installed base. I believe all the metrics still show that iOS users -- on average -- use more data, buy more stuff, and install more apps than Android users, but there are still fewer of them. I don't have any data to support it, but I would guess that Android's foothold in international markets has allowed it to really grow out localized apps.

http://www.businessinsider.com/androids-dominance-on-smartph...
Binpress (500Startups '13) - http://www.binpress.com/jobs - Mountain View, CA

Binpress provides a platform for developers to build profitable businesses from working on their open-source projects in the same mold as MySQL, Redhat, Magento and other commercial open-source solutions.
We are based in Mountain View and backed by 500startups and other respectables seed funds/Angels.

THE POSITIONS:

* Head of growth - We need someone with proven past experience in growing users and revenue through multiple acquisition channels to head our growth efforts.

* Content marketer - We're looking for someone who has a knack for creating great content in all media formats, and a track record for exposing that content to the relevant audience.
Positions are ideally onsite, but we will consider very strong applicants for remote work (at least initially - hopefully we can convince you to relocate later :)

COMPENSATION:

* A competitive salary

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When the comic first came out there was a bunch of analysis
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Stre...
"xkcd's entropy estimate of 11 bits per word assumes that the password is being brute-forced with a dictionary attack, and that the words are being chosen from a dictionary of 2000 words (log2(2000) ≈ 11). (For comparison, the entropy offered by Diceware's 7776 word dictionary is 13 bits per word.) If a dictionary attack were not used, the "common words" password would take even longer to crack than depicted. (25 random lowercase characters would have 117 bits of entropy, vs 44 bits for the dictionary words.)"

So yeah maybe it is implicit in the comic, but the math is backed by a specific set of assumption on how the words were selected. Or I could be wrong, I haven't verified it personally.
Yet another Adobe story:

I paid for CS4, infrequent user, after a couple of hardware changes (SSDs etc) it wouldn't install anymore. Long Skype call to US (over an hour), treated like criminal.

Forget it, I'm your customer taking the burden of your business problems. Happy Acorn user now.

So many dollars over the years on PS/Macromedia/etc, never again.

So tired of companies treating honest customers like criminals.

Edit: how many times have I bought a movie on iTunes to show my kids how to do it right, and then torrented it as I couldn't wait for the download, too slow.
Bug: I clicked the little down arrow to minimize the chat window and it beachballed Chrome (latest version, OS X).

Pretty awesome overall, though!
What is the future of the mobile app (specifically games) economy? 
IAPs, Ads, and Paid apps rule the day today, is the a future beyond those three? The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/) for mobile? Others?
It's a problem of economics. The costs of making table stakes-quality mobile games has been holding steady, if not increasing. Meanwhile, the price people are willing to pay up front has been converging on $0. Something's gotta give.

One could argue, and perhaps somewhat convincingly, that the mobile gaming space is in its chaotic adolescence. It started off as an undifferentiated mass market, but making games for the mass market is extremely challenging unless you're a big publisher with economies of scale. Enter IAP, the best way to bootstrap a game and maintain cash flow over the lifetime of a given gamer.

So now IAP has been exploited to the hilt. It's everywhere. It's the new mass-market model.

Don't want to do IAP? In that case, you should find a lucrative niche. Differentiate. Certain developers are doing fairly well charging large (by iOS & Android standards) up-front prices for deep games in hardcore categories. Square-Enix, for instance, routinely charges upwards of $15 for its Final Fantasy releases, and by all accounts, it's doing just fine with them. (S-E is a fairly big publisher, but I see no reason why a small RPG shop couldn't attempt the same, provided it got itself in front of the right initial audience.)

Devs and publishers who don't have $10M+ in venture funding in the bank are going to have to make their peace with freemium, with niche pricing, or with IAP. Any of these things can be done well. IAP can be done well, for that matter. It's not, in and of itself, an unalloyed evil. De facto-forced IAP, of the sort you need to opt into in order to pass a roadblock, is the dickish (if lucrative) way to go. But IAP that is a fun add-on to an already awesome gaming experience is a bird of a different feather.
That is incorrect. Quisquater was not involved in any of the AES candidates, let alone the winner.
Kansas City, MO

C2FO - https://c2fo.com - hiring software engineers.

Our name stands for "Collaborative Cash Flow Optimization" and we maintain a web platform that dynamically prices working capital so companies of any size can connect with each other to meet cash flow needs without involving traditional financial intermediaries like banks or financial factors.

The platform runs as a marketplace similar to a stock exchange where the assets considered are approved invoices. We work mainly in JavaScript and particularly node.js; our open source projects are available at https://github.com/C2FO. We also have some great investors on board including Mithril Capital Management, Summerhill Venture Partners, and Union Square Ventures.

More about the openings at https://github.com/C2FO/jobs
The weird thing is the moderators never seem to post about their choices themselves. They seem like anonymous shadows with unclear motives. I really don't understand why they do what they do.
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Aruba networks is hiring awesome devops systems folks and great python, angular, flask, data folks to help us build great online cloud apps.

Come join a fun team with the stability of a mature company and the can-do attitude of a startup.

Jobs are here - https://career4.successfactors.com/career?company=aruba

The one I'm hiring for is here: http://tinyurl.com/arubadevops-2014-02

You can mail me directly ahannan@arubanetworks.com with any questions, or send me a resume and introduction or through the linkedin process.
Why Supporting a Team isn't Like Choosing a Washing Machine
Those are not equivalent. You still have to pass on the parameters:

this.setup = function () {
this.on('tweet', (e, data) => this.handleStreamEvent('tweet', e, data));
this.on('retweet', (e, data) => this.handleStreamEvent('retweet', e, data));
};
Sumo Logic - Redwood City, CA http://www.sumologic.com/about-sumo/careers/

Multiple openings for Scala backend devs, JavaScript (Backbone)/Sass front end devs and SRE engineers.

Backed by substantial VC and with a fast growing customer base, we are leveraging log data to bring machine data intelligence to the cloud.
Until the next time...

Seriously. Hellbanning is the worst part of hacker news.
The "right way" to reinstall DVD/CD based software to your Mac without a drive is to buy a SuperDrive or use the remote DVD/CD option that OSX provides.
SEEKING WORK - remote (or Vancouver, BC)

LAMP/jQuery/Android developer looking for contract work. I can send you my CV, github account, please click on my username for contact information.
It's far easier to just logout, and create a new account.
Spotify for games
I don't know why you are being downvoted. Humans are physical creatures as much as thinkers, and not letting kids find physical limits is going to have severe effects on their ability to think and take creative risks with their minds.
oo oo oo

Feedback Loop - San Francisco, CA - Frontend Engineer

You know how when you read reviews or testimonials on a businesses' website you don't know whether they're real or fake? We help people trust these reviews by connecting them to social profiles. Our customers write their own loving testimonials about us because testimonials collected and published through our widget get them more sales, leads and partners.

We're a tiny startup (team of three) but we're founded in Sydney and currently spread across 3 countries doing sales and development. We've won funding from Australian state government and universities and our customers also pay us money.

You'll be our first SF hire as we're positioning ourselves to grow in the US market in terms of both technical talent, sales and funding (I landed here 7 weeks ago).

If you join us you'll be helping us:
- Improve our widget and badges on clients sites to measure and increase conversions. This is fun because your one simple change can help many clients.
- Improve our setup funnel and flow so that more users activate and use our product
- Win in the US

Skills/experience
Python/Django
Javascript <--- important, please let us know the most challenging js work you've done
Responsive css
A bit of UX flare
CTO attitude/experience desirable but not required

To apply go to http://www.feedbackloop.io/jobs and hit the apply with linkedin badge (note this is actually a SF position), or email me directly at hnjob@feedbackloop.com.au

oo oo oo
It's not just games using these strategies now, it's everything..
On a phone, yes, they can be harder to control.
Objective.st has a very clean syntax. But this can also be done with Objective-C:

[[@[@1, @2, @3] valueForKeyPath:@"@sum.self"] integerValue] + 5

This can be improved:

@implementation NSArray (Private)
- (NSInteger)collect {
return [[self valueForKeyPath:@"@sum.self"] integerValue];
}
@end

And then you can write:

[[@[@1, @2, @3] collect] + 5;

I know: HOM is a more abstract/generic thing. If it was built in the language you could just use it as is without reinventing the wheel all the time... I just want to point out that Objective-C can be made look nice as well :)
I remember my amazon password from ~15 years ago.
This is also possible with jQuery's proxy function if you can't target only modern browsers.

http://api.jquery.com/jquery.proxy/