skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple fact is that as long as such posts attract hits, people will keep writing them. Better to just ignore them and focus on creating and consuming good content. It could be time to start filtering my RSS feeds to remove any entries that start with a number...
There is a large number of tools that I'm not showing. I just want to show the framework side of things. Basically how easy it is for you to integrate it into your own environment.

There is an indexer side. To put this into perspective, it takes me 12 hours to index the the Linux Kernel Git repository on my icore 920 system with an Intel X25-E SSD. The indexer is not parallelized right now, which is why it takes so long but I figure it would still take 4 hours to index. So there is more than meets the eye right now.

Unless you've designed software development environments for 100+ software designers, spanning multiple continents, it's a bit hard to explain the other implementation details and why it matters.

I appreciate your skepticism as it usually takes me a half an hour to properly explain what it is meant to do. And this is only because the person understands the pain.

To see it as just a Gitweb replacement is my problem because I clearly did not show enough.
Killing the cash cow: Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word
Or $599 for a Mac Mini (I've used it for iPhone development and it works beautifully).
Well now, I haven't read the details of the suit, or their product, but it sounds like the plaintiff is selling an extension to Word - not unlike many companies (and myself) sell extensions to, say, Photoshop; or fibreglass spoilers for Hondas. Microsoft has frequently been caught red handed stealing other companies' ideas and converting them into Microsoft products. When a product has enough market share to become the market leader, and beyond that into monopoly status (Windows, Office, and Photoshop are ideal examples) then the owner of that monopoly only needs to fart in order to asphyxiate thousands. To roll over in bed might be a genocide. In the monopoly context, otherwise-harmless misdemeanors become positively harmful: For example, Adobe's passive-aggressive support for third party developers. In the continual drive to force upgrades and meet quarterly targets (etc), where the corporate well of originality - always rather shallow - has run dry, where else would you take your inspiration but from third parties? Anyway, I think "ought not to exist" is a bit strong, as the market for extensions would seem to be very helpful to consumers. It's just inherently dangerous to be a flea on a giant's ass.
Does it explicitly tell you want it's going to be sending on a daily basis?
I have looked into doing startup work in NZ. Try getting a visa. As a U.S. citizen, I can get a travel visa. To go that route, I have to leave every few months (I forget which it is, but even 6 months is too often/costly). As a visitor, you can't do lots of things a startup might need (bank account, home DSL modem, house lease, etc).

Options on permanent residence or long term stays are limited. NZ has a great visa program for attracting qualified folks for hard to fill jobs. But that doesn't fit for doing a startup.

I was hoping this blog post had some new info like "NZ creates a tech startup visa"
The GT library gets pretty stuffy during the summer.
I'm very interested in working memory and attention, and know very little of the literature on those subjects. I'll look for your comments on posts about those issues.
I would not recommend starting a company to anyone over 135 years of age or older.
> what Palm could use this information for that I would not be OK with

Let's try:

Random Palm employee gets a constant feed of your location == knows how soon you can be back home. He also knows you have enough money for gadgets like Pre, so you must have some valuable things at home... Easy burglary.

Yes - it might be a very unlikely scenario, but I'm pretty sure we could come up with a lot of others, more serious. If there is no real reason for them to have that data, they should not collect it: security 101 - close down everything, then enable things you need.
That is true, but I'm more concerned about the skeptical part. Take "ismarc" comment. Clearly this is a problem that is not fairly understood and it's something I'll need to better explain.

The challenge is comparing it to something, but the closes thing that I can think of is it's an ALM but I really don't want to sell it as such.
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Apple is. For example, in Vancouver BC: http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.s...
Gravity Mobile of San Francisco, CA is hiring talented mobile engineers. We prefer Java/C/C++ programmers with experience in Java ME, WinMo, Pre, or BREW but would consider iPhone developers with a track-record of published applications. Here's our website (http://www.gravitymobile.com)

We're a small boutique software house. (Less than 20 people) However, we work directly with some of the biggest companies out there. (Verizon, AT&T, Major League Baseball, Pandora)

While not a startup (we're a subsidiary of Gracenote which is a subsidiary of Sony corp) we like to work in 'startup' mode as much as possible (except the crazy hours)

If you're interested, and can legally work in the States, email haseman -at- gravitymobile +dot+ com
My problem exactly. But I have always thought it was because English is not my native language. I guess the forward/back metaphor turns out simply not to be a good metaphor here.

Forward, back, down, up... why not just say earlier or later? :-)
The naming conventions of the schools make it a little confusing. I've lived in Maryland my entire life; hopefully I can bring some clarity.

UMUC (University of Maryland, University College) is the place Kundra attended for his Masters. While UMUC offers online courses, it is primarily a brick & mortar accredited college targeted at working adults. They advertise heavily for working professionals looking to get graduate degrees. UMUC is not competitive on a national level.

UMCP (University of Maryland, College Park aka "University of Maryland") is where Kundra did his undergrad. UMCP is a competitive & prestigious college on undergrad and post-grad levels. They are particularly known for their math, science, and engineering. There are many notable people who have attended UMCP, including Sergey Brin of Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Maryland,...

There are many other schools in the "University of Maryland" system which use the name. When someone says simple "University of Maryland", they are typically referring to UMCP. Most of the other colleges are referred to by their four-letter abbreviation.
Why go through Om Malik on this? Why not contact Dvorak directly? Why not use that awesome, expensive whitehouse.gov to interact with us directly? Why say Dvorak is lying? Do you honestly thing he is fabricating things or really doesn't believe what he has written?

Ugh. So many failures of communication at so many levels with this shitshow.
>take note of the "wtf is this guy talking about" downvotes you've received on this thread

I don't rely on opinion-polling to determine who is right, esp. when it comes to questions related to science.

>conversation with anyone else on the planet

On your planet, a move from 0.0001% to 0.001% would be reported as "an improvement of 1000%" No thanks.

> It's about metrics that matter and revenue.

Yes, we established long ago that it's about marketing-speak versus math.

So, since you have so many upmods, perhaps you can tell me what happens in your world when the conversion rate goes from 0% to 1%? :-)
Not when you're married. :)
Out of curiosity, how would one go about bringing their app to Apple's attention to be potentially listed there? Or is that process, as well, completely opaque?
The down side: homeless people hitting you up for change every half hour. Not to be a jerk because some of these people really are in a dreadful spot and need help, but it /does/ make it hard to work in some libraries, for instance (in the Bay Area), San Jose MLK, Los Altos, Palo Alto main branch.
I think mint is having a hard time monetizing. I love their value proposition (i.e. costs BofA $300 to acquire a new mortgage customer, mint charges $150 referral while saving mint's user x from their previous mortgage) but I have never been interested in any kind of offer from Mint. Maybe it's because I am satisfied with my financial accounts or I just rather hear a referral on a great new card from a friend. Has anyone ever taken up mint on their offer? Or even clicked through?

I'd like to see Mint leverage on it's user data but since it hasn't yet I doubt it is as simple as turn on AdSense and watch the money pile up. Which leads me to wonder when will they start leveraging it and how?
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Justin.tv is: www.justin.tv/jobs

Send us an email - it's a great place for developers and we always love getting news.yc applicants.
Let's do this...without the micro part!
The Dell Mini 9 (which is Atom based) wouldn't be fast enough for the iPhone emulator (which you would use most of the time even if you own an iPhone). Moreover, Xcode on OSX86 kernels is unstable and buggy (first hand experience).
I always thought people don't use non-Windows cause of software. For example I have a friend that wants to use Ubuntu but also wants to use itunes. I'm sure a lot more people want to play games, use microsoft office, etc, too. Frankly if microsoft were to go away and die, then we'd have more software geared towards linux/os x.

The way I see microsoft, they're very manipulative. For example, instead of making the most powerful video game console, they pay off developers for exclusive titles or game features. I think in the OS department they exhibit the same strategy where they aren't doing the simple make the best product so it will sell the most strategy. While it may be an effective strategy for a business to be sly and manipulative, the consumer gets screwed. For the same reason I hate cell phone companies. Why can't they just have us pay the actual value for the phone and charge a fairer monthly fee?

So it would be great if microsoft would die. We'd have less manipulative proprietary crap and more innovation.
We're hiring interns at the moment. Internet marketing, designers and developers. Anyone that has a basic background and is will to learn is considered.

http://www.mybanktracker.com

Currently sorting through 100+ candidates, but HN readers would clearly go to the top of the list.
these are very pretty charts and graphs but none of them seem to actually convey the intended information very well.
San Jose's MLK library lets you bring drinks and food, with some restrictions. There is also a decent coffee shop on the ground floor. The down side is the large number of homeless hitting you up for money, the fragrant bathrooms, and some SJSU students who can be a little inconsiderate about noise / cell phones. Still, if you need a quiet place with internet to work, I'd recommend it.
Hence the qualifier: likely not a serial killer. :D
ReminderMedia in King of Prussia, PA is hiring for in house positions: We need developers with strong software design skills to add features to our PHP-based custom CRM and we also need someone to write functional specifications for our developers.

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I don't say I "believe" the nextgov piece simply because he published it. There is less of a barrier to publication there since its not tearing down a person. But if your going to publish an accusation like Dvorak did, you better have done _all_ your homework.
What about alter performance?
Twitter is hiring: http://twitter.com/jobs

A lot of different roles for engineers, come join us.
Hope they spend some of it on supporting Canada
I think we're going to have a list of common words found in the results that you can uncheck to remove the irrelevant results.
You won't find any analytics service that gives you numbers anywhere close to server logs. This is because log analyzers include all search engine / robot / spambot activity. All hosted analytics (e.g. ones that use javascript and don't have access to your logs) will only report human activity, and seeing 50% less traffic shouldn't come as a shock for this reason. It doesn't mean they're inaccurate, but if robot activity is important to you, you won't find a service you're happy with.
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No. Describe something too generally, and too much outside of the scope of existing understanding, and people will not only not be able to find you (because they were searching for things they know and understand that might solve their problems), the folks who accidentally do find you will move along because they already tend to know what they're looking for, and a vague description won't match that.

We know all about this problem. Our products cover a ridiculously wide array of problems, and they're named a bit confusingly (historic reasons, and several years too late to change), and we have a lot of problems with folks not understanding what our products do. And, somehow we often end up getting tons of questions about a very small subset of related things that we don't do (at OSCON we heard "so how is this better than Nagios?" about 25 times a day, and our products don't really compete or overlap with Nagios in any significant way).

Be very specific. If it means you have several landing pages that cover various aspects of your products capabilities, so be it. If it means you break your product up into modules so that you can be specific about what each one does, so be it. You cannot win if your product description is too vague for people to know exactly what you do. People are looking to solve problems; they are not generally looking to learn new things.

Besides all that, if you can't describe what you're doing in a few words, and have most folks understand it, you are probably doing a lot of work you don't need to do (yet). Focus on solving real problems that real people have. When you have real customers, you will then find that they provide the guidance you need to keep moving forward without losing your focus or your ability to communicate with new customers. Reinventing an entire market, and rewriting the language people use to describe things, is generally not something that you can do solo.
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It isn't possible as far as I know. And it wouldn't make much sense since everybody would like to be featured.
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Look into the Working Holiday Visa. For US Citizens under 30, it's one full year, without any real work restrictions.

The main hooks:

- You must be coming to New Zealand to holiday, with work being a secondary intention for your visit.

- You must not take up permanent employment (unless you apply for and are granted an ordinary Work Permit while you’re here).
I've never seen justin.tv not hiring, and it always seems to be the same positions - do you guys actually hire people? :)
"Why get so emotional? It's just a web column, for chrissakes. The truth was outed almost immediately. Whatever damage happened happened for about 2 hours."

And during those two hours this story was everywhere. Remember the old saying: a lie can run halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.
Would you be looking for interns in Jan 2010? I'm currently in the valley on an internship, heading back to school for 4 months in sept, and then an intern candidate again :D
Twitter is: http://twitter.com/jobs
I always thought they should leverage their users against the bank. Rather thank taking in money from a referral fee, why not gather 100 customers @ at least 10k and get them all 1% more on their savings accounts, and gather 50 customers looking for a new mortgage to get them a lower rate. I'm sure that would raise all sorts of complexity problems for them, but it seems like another avenue than simply referrals.
The Wavelet Tutorial.
I looked into this and really like the idea of the service, but found there was one shortcoming that I couldn't get around. Perhaps I missed something, but I needed a much shorter escalation window than 15 minutes. If my site is down, I cannot wait for 15 minutes for the next person to be notified if the original person doesn't respond. It needs to be within 3-5 minutes, maximum. Perhaps this was configurable and I just missed it.

I really like this service and should the escalation change I would sign up in a heartbeat, it's exactly what I was looking for.

We left a comment on UserVoice, but I thought it couldn't hurt discuss here.
Hey, I never said it was perfect, but do you agree it's the best in the country? I submit that this fact is evidence that making a good government site is harder than it looks. Or do you really believe every single other city and state technology office is full of luddites?

Yes, findability is a problem. It's probably always going to be a problem when you've got lots of pages generated by dozens of autonomous agencies. But most government sites don't have this problem because they don't bother putting any of this information online in the first place. It either doesn't exist or exists only on paper. I'd take a site full of useful information that's a bit hard to navigate over a pretty site with nothing on it.

Also, I take issue with some of your examples. If you click on "Visitors" there are indeed links to Metro right on the main visitors page. It's a different domain because it's a different entity; Metro extends well outside the city limits and is funded by DC, VA, and MD. Also if you had searched for "ward" or "what's my ward" the first link is How can I use "Where You Live" to find out about DC neighborhoods, wards, and school districts? (DC Guide) which would have answered several of your other complaints. Search for "xml feeds" and the first link it to the catalog of XML feeds. It ain't perfect, but it ain't nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
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Citrusbyte http://www.citrusbyte.com is hiring software engineers. We're based in Los Angeles and build custom web applications of all types. While we mainly work in Ruby, we believe in using the best tool for the task independent of language. On previous projects we have written custom ejabberd modules in Erlang, bots in Python+Twisted, and Tokyo Tyrant extensions with Lua, among others. Ability to self-manage is crucial. Feel free to apply even if you are new to Ruby if you have significant experience in another web framework (Django, Catalyst, Ocsigen, etc) and know HTTP inside-out.

If you are interested, send an email to jobs@citrusbyte.com subject "200908 dev application". Include a file named <yourfirstname>_<yourlastname>-phase1.tar.gz with code in any language that does the following:

Given a word, output all anagrams of that word that are legitimate words. Notes: use a reasonable dictionary of your choice, for sample input "EAR" your output should be "ARE ERA", this will be benchmarked
Hey, are you a UW student? If so I'd love to chat: karan.bhangui@gmail.com :)
Independent component analysis and SVM in magnetic resonance imaging
There's a long practice here for posting, on their own, submissions that are related to the discussion in another submission. I like this practice, because it gives the feeling of a meta-discussion across all of HN.
Of course that whole time, we on the Delicious team were watching the rise of those apps, thinking "Wouldn't it be cool if we could..." but being told "Maybe, though first you'll need to..."
They always say they are - they spam craigslist every week like clockwork - but I haven't heard of anyone being hired in quite awhile. There were rumors of a undisclosed hiring freeze awhile back; I wonder if things ever got better.
Did you know that a lot of apps on the App Store are the sample projects from Apple themselves with just some images changed (almost all the level apps for instance)?

Some didn't even changed the images.

And, since the people approving the apps are a completely separated department, they couldn't know and they even featured some of them.
I work from my home. It's the only place with a huge armchair that could fit two people, and a 26 inch monitor that I can plug notebook into.
Ask HN: Techniques to go around IDS systems?
For background about my site http://www.classhunt.com, read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600478

Since I posted that, I had a meeting with the Vice Chancellor of IT. At the end, he basically said there is nothing he could do to keep my site functioning. I told him I will continue to find ways around them blocking me even though I don't enjoy playing cat and mouse.

Also, the site has become a huge hit amongst incoming freshmen. Back when I posted about it here, we had few hundred users. Today we have few thousand students that are relying on it. This has furthered my motivation to keep the site alive.

Here's the deal: the python bot that scrapes latest scheduling data off of uni's server keeps getting blocked by the uni's IDS system. I've put random delays and intervals but haven't had much luck. After a day or so, the IDS removes the block only to put it back later.

The IDS blocks my personal uni account, not the IP. When I first made the app the data was public. But then the uni, in an attempt to block the site, removed the data from being public. So I had to modify the POST string and go through my uni username/password to retrieve the data.

What I am doing right now:

- randomizing # of threads between 2-4

- randomizing the pause between new requests between 1-3 seconds

- randomizing how often my bot runs between 3-7 minutes

This is what I get when the IDS blocks it:
To protect the univeristy from a denial of service attack, script blockers have been enabled.
Your transaction has been blocked besause you have tried to login too many times in a short period of time.
Please wait and try again soon.

How do I fool this sucker?
No need for downmods; nostrademons works at Google.

However, won't HN people applying through that method just be sent in to a black hole?
Offbeat Creations is looking for a great Flash programmer to do client/server work interfacing to our Rails backend, and a great Rails programmer to build backends for our soon-to-be-awesome Flash front ends (we also do web front ends too!)

Any experience with mid-size scale would be great too!

We're in the Seattle area, and have found we don't work well with remote people.

Email to jobs@offbeat-creations.com for either position
http://GetGambit.com is. YC & Facebook alum. One of the leading companies monetizing online games today. We are profitable too:O

Let me know what you'd like to be developing, noah [at] getgambit.com
Hi! TickrTalk is hiring a Rails developer.

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I'm also hiring sales reps for another one of my startups, Classleaf.

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See our profile at http://www.crunchbase.com/company/giltgroupe

We run 36-hour sales of discounted luxury goods.

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Triggit is hiring. We are looking for engineers, online ad sales people and account managers. We are in San Francisco CA, venture funded and profitable. Come check us out
That was a reference to a quote regarding Netscape. Not 1992.

But maybe the US and EU monopoly courts are complete idiots...
Netflix certainly is hiring http://jobs.netflix.com/cojobsFlix.asp?Region=LosGatos
TripAdvisor is always looking for good people, my team is especially awesome, and it's a great place to work. We're based outside of Boston and work in Java or PHP.

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Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.