skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't be the only one who gets annoyed by the following: I wish to try services and tools, for example the disqus commenting function under some blogs or the mentioned IDES. When I click on the "Signup with..." button for an oauth access via twitter, facebook or, in this case github the software will asks me to create a username, password or email address.
Then what is the point of oauthing in the first place? This leaves me baffled and angry and I immediately lose interest.
IIRC, the VS compiler loads mshtml.dll to parse XML data.
You can use emblemjs for HAML/JADE style templates.

http://www.emblemjs.com
Show HN: Detecting File Type in Node and Browser
Print is particularly important for learning and "deep" reading. I find my IQ is at least a few points higher when reading in print rather than on screen. eInk devices are kind of good, but made awkward by the 0.5 sec screen refresh delay...

There is something to be said about the versatility of hypertext, but I think we lose something in concentration, attention span, etc. because of the links.
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We are working on private cloud platforms (the P in PaaS), based on Cloud Foundry and Docker. Also well known for language distributions like ActivePerl and ActivePython and the Komodo IDE. Stackato development is done in a mix of languages (Ruby, Go, JS primarily).

We prefer on-site in Vancouver and would relocate the right candidate, but make exceptions for top talent with a proven track record of remote contributions.

http://www.activestate.com/company/careers/
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Remote work.

We're nearing the launch of Webhook.com, a backendless CMS targeted at designers, front-end developers and anyone who wants an easy to use, easy to deploy CMS system.

We'd like to get a couple prebuilt themes out for when we launch in late June. Themes can be for anything, not just blogs. You must be able to code your own designs in CSS/HTML. We use Swig JS (similar to Django) for our templating language. Your work will be released open-source and available free to anyone who wants to use it.

Please check over our site and documentation, then send an email to dave@webhook.com if you're interested.

We're also in the middle of a successful Kickstarter.

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That's not necessarily a bad thing. When they cut you off, respond to their question. The goal of an interview isn't usually to talk interrupted for 10 minutes.
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Full stack developer (html,css,javascript,php,mysql) with extensive jQuery and Backbone experience. Also dipped my feet in iOS/phonegap and elasticsearch.

website: www.aakilfernandes.com
Mirus Research - Silicon Prairie (Bloomington, IL) - onsite.

We're a small, established company that does B2B and Enterprise-level software. We have 10 employees and 4 of us are full-time devs. We work in whatever tools are productive and pleasant to use (historically we've used Python, Node, Clojure on the backend, and we're just figuring out how to make good use of the new-hawtness frontend tools like Knockout/React/etc.). We're not afraid of experimenting with new stuff, but we tend to favor tried and true solutions, so working with Django, Postgres, and JQuery should not make you want to claw your eyes out.

We're looking for both backend and frontend developers who are willing to relocate to a family-friendly college town in the Midwest. We have a wide tolerance for your experience level, PLEASE get in touch if you're interested. (don@mirusresearch.com)

We have a lot of the startup-style environment (chef-prepped lunch once a week, massage therapist once a month, couches, ping-pong, macbooks, trendy office, etc.) without the stress of worrying whether you'll be on the streets in a month. Also, we're not a frat house, so if the keg-in-the-office or brogrammer scenes aren't really your thing, you won't have to worry about that here.

Email me: don@mirusresearch.com
> The most influential factor, he found, was whether they could see pages in their entirety. When they had to scroll, their performance suffered.

There are still no good electronic devices for large format, color books. Which includes most textbooks. If a larger iPad is released, that will presumably be the primary target market.

I'm looking forward to such a device myself, as a nerd with a large collection of tabletop RPG PDFs.
Amusing note from the NPR story:

> Champagne was considered a stimulant. And a lot of trainers — these guys had trainers — advised their pedestrians to drink a lot of champagne during the race. They thought that this would give them some kind of advantage. The problem was a lot of these guys would drink it by the bottle. That definitely was not a stimulant to say the least.
Very good points, and you've corrected a misconception I've had for a while now.

Still think my original point stands - that this UI decision isn't so different from entering a service for the first time.

> To solve that, you need a more stable addressing system instead of just not using addresses at all

I think this is generally solved with wishy-thinking and redirects.
What are they studying?

I find that scientific textbooks (machine learning, etc) are much more usable as books than as pdf, as I need to often jump from one chapter to another and it needs to be the matter of a split second (or I won't bother to look for the information).

But perhaps mileage varies.
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I wonder if they could set up some kind of "regenerating Denmark" minecraft mod that causes the "saved" file to gradually and automatically re-grow while non-Denmark features automatically gradually erode.
It might test well in metrics, but this is the kind of thing that points out why purely data based decision making can be dangerous. A-B testing assumes users will all behave the same in the future as in the past. But people's future behavior is dependent on their present behavior and experiences.

With repeated exposure to URLs more people will learn how URLs work. Hiding URLs means that people will never be able to learn.
I can't agree more. Walking around a new city is a wonderful way to get to know and enjoy it. I worked for 2 weeks in Tokyo in the 80's, and I spent many summer nights just walking (3-4 hours a night).
I know people think this way. But its pretty hard on minorities/women who don't want their github/stackoverflow accounts tied to a identifer to avoid harassment.
Is this going to be similar to the debacle of Netflix's Qwikster?
My favorite operating system, unfortunately I had to uninstall it since I intend to learn Android development. If you haven't tried it yet & it looks like it has the software you need I invite you to give it a try.
The Golden Age of Basic
If you can't deform the terrain then it isn't really Minecraft, is it?
I think you mean eigenvalue of 0 for the stationary distribution.
It really depends what you need. I just launched a pretty trivial Angular app, which required ngRoute and a local storage interface. Total size of the three: 112.7k. All the standard-issue angular modules put together amount to 129k.

For non-trivial stuff, I'm sure people need a bunch more extras, third party libraries and so on. But it's a pretty major bonus for Angular that you can use it productively either for a full SPA, or for the kind of trivialities that one typically duct-tapes together with jquery. The small-ish size (I know, not THAT small) is part of that, but so is the flexible and modular design.

Not that I dislike Ember - it's very nice. And I am in the fortunate position at the moment where page-load size is not a huge concern (or rather, a battle that has already been lost before I clock in).
Joyce wrote a fair bit about purposeless walks. Probably about half of A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man occurs during pointless walks.

I get some good thinking in while commuting on my bike. Probably a similar effect.
What you do is a bit more complicated, but has the benefit of making your data "private" within a closure. You are using a function as an object, and assigning other functions as fields within its "prototype". I think these inner functions can call each other w/out a prefix, as methods of the same object.

My version is the "static method" version that requires the namespace and a dot before any function calls. I'm OK with that, unless I need a bunch of instances of something.

P.S. - the semicolons don't really do anything (other than make Doug C feel good), as JS is a line oriented language, and will complete statements when they "look done", semis or not. Think of semicolons in JS like colons in BASIC: they let you put a second statement on the same line.
Reminds me of another quote from C.S. Lewis (who was cited in the article) on the subject.

"Even on those rear occasions when a modern undergraduate is not attending some such society he is seldom engaged in those solitary walks, or walks with a single companion, which built the minds of the previous generations. He lives in a crowd; caucus has replaced friendship."

- C.S. Lewis from the essay "Membership" in "The Weight of Glory"
The company I work for provides us with transportation, although it's a 30 minutes ride, I prefer to walk about 30 minutes and then I would pay a bus to work or home. Why do I do this? Because I get a lot less stressed out when I get to my destination. And because I get to see alot of beautiful girls either at their jobs or walking :)
@julien421 I'll "buy into " docker when:

* I can create my own docker binary from scratch without needing to use a black-box magic binary provided by the docker project.

* When I can create my own base images from scratch (using detailed instructions of how and why, not just some pre-made script in the docker repo with no explanation).

* When I can maintain my images off of the docker repository, ie. my own server becomes my repo for my images.

* Docker is not "enterprise ready" just because the project declares it to be and adds a 1.0 version marker... it will take years of solid versions, low security problems, and high stability before it can be accepted into enterprise as more than a pet project.

* Docker is just an abstraction layer over-top of LXC - and therefore will not become the "standard" since anyone can implement their own abstraction layer and compete, and they will. (look at the Xen project and the KVM project -- there are a great many 3rd party user tools, management tools, abstraction layers, scripts, etc. The same will become of LXC and docker will become just one of the options).

* The half-baked git syntax is just annoying. Sometimes docker commands are like using git, other times they are like using a package manager. Stick with one work-flow please.
actually since none of its tests ask to sync the data onto the disk, he might just be measuring each method efficiency in creating dirty pages.

of course that depends on the amount of RAM the system has, and how the kernel VM parameters are tuned (sysctl vm.dirty_*)

just add a fdatasync() call and you will take into account the time it takes to flush all dirty pages into the disk.
Projects I liked:

- Projects I worked alone on or at least was the single person responsible for my code (I do like to work with a good designer or a smart guy for the API)

- Projects that involved learning new techniques

- Projects where I was doing a healthy balance of new code vs maintenance

- Projects with very little red tape and lots of responsibility

Technology by itself can be interesting and rewarding but it's never the reason you'll like a project.

I had a lot of fun doing a very simple CMS backed website in Python with Django where I did basically everything I already knew in another language, only targeting IE9 or more sane so I could use CSS Animations and other nice stuff. The subject itself was not appealing itself although the client was nice and the designer was very good.

If you find yourself using cool hip framework x in hipster language y and you are still not happy: perhaps you're just doing too much maintenance on an application that really starts to remind you of that old Java Enterprise stuff you so desparately was trying to get away from, dragging yourself from meeting to meeting while you wait for that half-assed designer to finally give you the design you are now asking for for two weeks on end already.

My goals for the future are:

- Do more small projects that I can rule completely on my own, until I

- Find a product that will either be completely mine, or

- Get into a startup with brilliant people
The reason is that Github does not always pass on your email to us, and we need to be able to contact you. Also, your Github username is not always available on our system, so you have to verify or choose a different one, as someone else may already be using it on our system.
For those interested in this topic, I found the following Senate hearing to be quite entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_azyt1JhI0

Elon basically going head-to-head with Michael Gass from the ULA and holding his own quite well.
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Here's a small sample of the most recent remote/telecommute jobs posted on https://www.wfh.io:

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Trainer @ GitHub https://www.wfh.io/jobs/493 [Anywhere in United States]

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We're a small, non-profit tech startup trying to give a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Here's a testimonial we received last month:

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Two year ago, I would never have imagined that any 13-year-old could be in Calculus BC. Today, I am 13 and wrapping up my second semester of it, and with an A+, too, thanks largely in part to this site. Sal, I would say you are the best teacher I ever had. Teachers in school just don't seem to have the time or, in some cases, even the knowledge to pay as much attention as you do to the actual intuition of the material being taught. How am I supposed to understand a theorem if I don't know where it came from, why it works, or even what it really means? Khan Academy also seems to explain everything in a very easy to understand, and even fun, manor. You make calculus almost as easy as simple arithmetic. Anyway, thank you very much.

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Every month we get hundreds of letters like this from people in all walks of life who're thankful for our free, high-quality educational content.
Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, partnerships with organizations like MoMA and the California Academy of Sciences, and a huge library of interactive exercises. Over 20 million math problems are done every week on our site.

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Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers and be sure to mention that you're coming from HN. Feel free to email me at alpert+HN@khanacademy.org if you have questions about applying or about KA in general. Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas right now unless you're from Canada, Australia, or Mexico.
Thanks. Will give that a read.

Edit:
Very interesting read liked from there ... https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/reactjs/eUespJPdyas/...
Never tried any of them. Could you please explain how Cloud9 and Nitrous.IO were superior? For the speed concerns, doesn't your browser being a thin client with a cache solve those problems?
Scientists watch high-temperature superconductivity emerge out of magnetism
An approximate map of the U.S. locations posted: http://www.mapyourlist.com/share/aHkkP_DSCl

[As an aside: why is the Pacific Northwest so unrepresented?]
Prisma: Photoshop extension built with Meteor
Not completely. Not an expert on this, but I believe issue at least partially stems from the interaction with the older LLVM JIT we are using. We are moving to the newer LLVM JIT in the 0.4 release cycle and I understand this will address the issue.
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Instamotor -- San Francisco, CA && Remote -- H-1B/F-1 OK

Instamotor.com aims to be the world's first completely decentralized and distributed car dealership. Since our launch on Hacker News, we have been struggling to keep up with demand. Having raised a seed round, we are now actively looking for help.

Skillsets we're hiring for:

-full-stack angularjs/ruby

-android dev

-devops to push code fast

email us: info@instamotor.com
We interviewed twice and were rejected as well.

Overall the experience was awesome and we hope to get the opportunity to meet with them again.

One thing we didn't realize was how nerve-wracking waiting for the phone call / email would be. Our email came at 11pm. We figured that after 9ish it would be an email but weren't sure.
Your jsperf test is not measuring the same thing as the other frameworks.

You need to insert m.redraw() in the loop to make the comparison apples-to-apples. My test shows it is as 3x faster, not 100x which is completely implausible.
Regarding the 2k38 problem, 24 years from now will any 32-bit systems still be in production? Won't mean-time-to-failure handle this for us? Software wise, it might be a different story.
That is very strange, because I also use Firefox 29, and all works fine for me. What OS are you on?
I currently work at Studio Skylab and it's a great place to be which is really looking to expand. Bonus points if you know how to work a fancy pants coffee machine!
I'm terrible at walking w/o a destination in mind. A while ago I made this crappy little web tool to give me a random destination to meander to: http://roust.sknkwrks.net/
QPush – The Easiest Way to Push Text and Links to iPhone
The URBN Mobile Engineering Team is responsible for creating and delivering the URBN brand applications (UO, Free People, etc.) as well as a suite of applications that power our retail experiences. We are located in a new building on the URBN campus in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

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The mobile team is leading change at URBN using the latest SDK features, cross-functional collaboration, and hard work. The engineer for this position should be someone who has shipped multiple applications to the app store; that can collaborate and influence designers, product owners, as well as peers; someone who can translate features and work to other members of the company. Good ideas come from everywhere and the mobile team expects open mindedness when approaching a solution.

The right engineer for this position should be passionate about Objective-C, while having the ability to pickup other languages across our stack (Java, JavaScript, Python) if needed. Futhering the existing automation and testing suites will be one of the main goals of this candidate, so experience is a must. The mobile team engineers also have strong opinions

Guidelines:
- Experience with the software development cycle: product specification, design, implementation, QA, release, and maintenance.
- 2+ years professional experience in creating native iOS applications, preferably ones that have been approved for release in the App Store.
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I've definitely been known to go out and walk 5 miles across town for the sake of it.
This is a neat integration by 1Password! 1Password is probably my favorite Mac/iPhone app that I use. Their product is always top notch. Great work guys!
Good news, thanks :)
I'm not going to claim that it improves my creativity or makes me a better person, but for the last few years I've generally taken at least a half hour out of the middle of my workday to walk (I'm lucky enough to work next to a park). It massively improves my mood, and I'd fight hard against giving it up.

There was a tube (underground metro) strike in London the past few days, so I walked to work, leaving my apartment at about 6.30am and arriving in the office at 8am, mostly along the river. It was excellent and I'm considering doing it 1-2 days a week even when I don't need to.
I do this daily, whether I'm at work (Amsterdam) or at home (a smaller town in the neighborhood).
Ask HN: Are late applications to S14 no longer being accepted online?
I was writing a late application for S14, but when I tried to edit it last night the link was dead (ycombinator.com/apply displays as blank page).

Is this a temporary glitch or are late applications for S14 no longer being accepted online?
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Rent the Runway is hiring front and back end engineers. Our stack:

* SOA with Java 1.7 (soon to be 1.8!) + DropWizard. Modern Java's a thing and we've got the proof.

* Ruby + Sinatra for lightweight, scalable web applications.

* JavaScript + Backbone for a front end that's becoming faster and more awesome to work on every day.

Rent the Runway is building the first online rental platform for retail goods. We're a disruptive e-commerce business that believes that democratizing luxury products in the US is just the first step of a broader vision to drive aspirational experiences for tens of millions of users across the globe. We're more than "Netflix for dresses"—we're Cinderella Experience as a Service. Find out more about the challenging product-oriented problems we face across the boundaries of e-commerce, mobile, analytics and shipping/fulfillment here: http://blog.tech.renttherunway.com/

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