skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's be realistic. At some point in time the University also stopped being the place where privileged elites, noblemen and merchants and the like, sent their children (already destined for reasonably lucrative careers) to become better people and to appreciate refinement in things like Knowledge and Philosophy, rather than just in Money.

It's now a really democratic institution, with large sums of taxpayer funding available to people from all walks of life. This is probably a net win, and it shouldn't be seen as ostentatiously degrading to pay some heed to the exigencies of The Real World and outcomes there.

The question, naturally, is one of balance, how to avoid both "university as trade school" and ivory-tower head-in-the-clouds detachment from reality.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote

Rails full stack, with a focus on the front end

I've been building two mobile-first Rails web apps using contractors for several months. The apps work and I have a good senior back-end Rails developer working for me adding new features. But I now need a new senior full-stack Rails developer to help me upgrade/reinvent the UI/UX - particularly, making the apps look better, easier to use, faster loading, the flows more intuitive, and helping user onboarding. I need someone with very strong HTML5/CSS3/JS development skills along with full-stack Rails, to build out my ideas and improve performance.

The developer needs to be able to make changes directly to the Rails apps, including adding and changing automated Capybara/Test::Unit integration tests. Consumer-facing UI/UX design experience and interest is a plus, but is not required.

I'm looking for someone full-time, paid hourly/weekly, to work with me and the back-end engineer in a very agile, collaborative way, to improve the product and get it launched. I need the right person for several months.

Ideal candidate:
* Computer science or engineering undergraduate degree
* Several years experience developing web apps in Rails
* Interest in consumer-focused apps and friendly UI/UX
* Based in North or South America, for good time zone overlap with West Coast US each day for iterative/agile development
* Independent, not agency
* Fast written English for live text chat
* Interest in helping to shape a consumer product, rather than just building against specifications
* Possibility of joining as a founding employee in due course

I'm a self-funding, hands-on, full-time sole founder, with a strong business and computer science background. I'm based in Silicon Valley, and the ideal person would be based in North or South America, to give substantial time zone overlap for collaboration via live chat (HipChat).

The stack:
* Rails 4
* Bootstrap 3
* Javascript and JQuery. No front end framework currently in place
* PostgreSQL (relational) and DynamoDB (NoSQL) databases

It's mostly a server-side Rails apps that need some JS/JQuery for user input, validation, page transitions, widget integration

Target:
* Primarily HTML5 mobile web - primarily small screen sizes, iOS and Android devices
* It needs to work (but not necessarily be optimized/responsive for) desktop and tablet too

Tools:
* Git for version control
* GitHub for code hosting
* Code Climate for automated code quality review
* CodeShip for automated testing
* Heroku for app hosting
* Amazon RDS and DynamoDB for database hosting
* Amazon CloudFront for CDN
* HipChat for chat
* Trello for project management

Target compensation: $35/hour, i.e. $1,400/week for full-time

David <at> lab955 dot com
Space is expensive if you are using an SSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United...

Which recognizes the unalienable right of self-defense ... and a bit more.

If you think not, you're welcome to try to take them away from us.
Try out Wuala or Spideroak. Dead simple and client-side encryption enabled so there's no need to trust anyone.

Full Android and Linux support on both. Wuala and Spideroak even offer automatic camera upload on Android.
I am certain I've seen Communist sentiments scattered around HN but with actual discussion. The same goes for Libertarian sentiment, however I think OP's comment seems flippant at least and reddit flair flippant at most. He contributed nothing by stating his opinion and seemed to be asking for a retort.
Is there a way to use rsync on iOS?
If only we could uninvent the CNC and the firearm.
oh gosh, i didn't know. let me close the account...
Even if I didn't need Dropbox for storage, a number of apps use it for syncing.
One thing does not follow from the other. Core 2 has had paging bugs, ergo x86 has a barely working paging system => Pentium had the FDIV bug, ergo x86 can't be trusted with arithmetic.

For the claim to be properly refuted, the claimer would have to show systemic problems in x86 paging. I believe such a claim can be made, but it simply wasn't yet.
Ask HN:Need help dealing with a VC
Was in discussion with a venture firm from last one month . They liked our product and were heavily interested in investing(seed money of $200k). We had 4 meetings till now and we were very optimistic. Now in the very last moment the investor firm raises concern over Market size( we have a new consumer based product and its tough to calculate the market size). It looks like everything is falling apart. Any possible theories as to how to deal with it ? Final decision is not made yet
is this somehow different than just buying a business?
Actually we are planning to port it to a language suitable for embedded use. Maybe Rust?
The real truth is this poll is not a representative of regular dropbox users. Vast majority of them don't care who is in the board or even at the helm of the company. For many the thing that matters are whether the product works for them or not? Are they getting the value for their money? Switching costs . Etc..

Undoubtedly dropbox has one of the best offering in this space. It is highly unlikely for anybody to dislodge them.
Yes - if you work in the tech industry you are affected by policies which affect the industry as a whole.

Wedding corporate power to political influence is wise for the industry because that is exactly what we are up against already: corporate power has been wedded to political influence for a very long time and one can easily point out attempts that have already been made to protect previously established industries.

See, it's easy, I was able to argue back without resorting to name calling.
Don't give up just yet. They might take away some of the work in the solution but the world will still need people who can think about the problem. Most people can't do that.

I am sure they will do much better than MS Access. But still, years ago I had to work on a couple of projects where the spec was some system in Access that the domain experts had coded up. What a mess! - Really, you have no idea. They eventually could not fix the bugs themselves which was why the new system was being written. So there will always be room for people who can organise and abstract things.
I love these transcripts! Thanks for posting
You didn't read anything from the '(' on where I mean exactly what you explained.
How DevOps Changes R&D in Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei and Alcatel
You can take advantage of the Haskell compiler with a shallow embedding, you can do your own compilation steps with a deep embedding, you can do partial evaluation to speed up compilation.

You can introduce your own type system, of course, but it's really nice to have most of that infrastructure pre-built for you (otherwise why embed?).
If you've built your environment properly, you don't require live migration.
Note that the operand in each case is 0x00000000.

I suspect this is a disassembly of the .o file, or maybe it's some runtime dynamic linking thing? There'll be a fixup table somewhere and this stuff will be sorted out before it's executed.
Atomic Object - Developer - Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids MI (atomicobject.com)

The Right Fit: We don't care so much about your specific technology background. We're much more interested to know that you learn quickly, are disciplined in your work, and have already demonstrated interest and aptitude by having become proficient in a variety of languages and tools. We look for people who are passionate about development, who program in their free time, who are continually uncovering new things, and who enjoy sharing them.

A Variety of Technologies: At Atomic, it's not uncommon for someone to move from developing a new web site in Ruby to creating an internal application in .NET to building a mobile application in Objective-C or Java. We're passionate about quality and owning our clients' mission, so we select the best tools for the job.

A Broader Mindset: Atomic is a consultancy. As such, you'll be empowered and expected to interact directly with clients every day. You'll need to become comfortable and effective at understanding and discussing business goals, budgets, and timelines with clients. Additionally, you'll help market our services in a variety of ways including presenting at conferences, contributing to our shared company blog, networking within our client's organizations and among your peers, and expending your creative energies in ways we will not attempt to predict.

Interested in working for us? Send us an email to get the conversation started. We'd love to talk with you. jobs@atomicobject.com
What we learned from YC S14 (even though we weren't accepted)
The Text Messaging LeadPages Uses to Get 17% Lead-to-Customer Conversion Rates
> i find it very unlikely you will ever loose those files to corruption or a single point of failure.

Unless you happened to live in New Orleans in 2005. And really of all that sounds like a lot of work to set up and maintain for the near zero chance that some government type wants to spy on me to look at harmless and boring pictures of my pets and family.
Show HN: HackerBracket – What are you working on?
> Our first bastion is websites, you can think of it as filling in the gap that Microsoft left when they killed VB6.

They've created LightSwitch. LightSwitch is also a great example for the usual outcome of using RAD tools: You often come pretty soon to the point where the provided abstractions are lacking some functionality or performance. The customer / user doesn't care how the software is built, it's compared to the greatest there is.
"The question is whether it is possible to run a significant business in the United States without interacting with the federal government. I don't think that it is."

That may be true. It probably is true once you reach the numbers-beginning-in-B level.

Nevertheless, there are lots of political operatives, former officials, and other contacts you could find without stooping as low as a former member of the Bush administration.
The start of this sub-thread is rgrieselhuber saying "This is why gun owners get nervous when people who don't understand firearms try to legislate their ownership."
Resume: https://resume.creddle.io/resume/hbhgysg8lbn

Looking for Houston, TX or remote

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS, Python (currently playing with Flask), JavaScript (and jQuery)

Also basic Java/C/C++ knowledge
Proper is Shutting Down October 29th, 2014
It's also fairly natural-disaster resistant. We get floods now and again, but that is managed fairly well. Otherwise, we aren't very susceptible to tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc.
I used to use my own Dropbox account at work teaching kids computer-stuff, so they'd have an easy way to share files and a place to store their things without having to remember which particular PC they worked at last time (and messing about with USB sticks back and forth, it was chaos).

This was of course a bad idea, especially after I got a Galaxy S4 phone, which came with a 50GB Dropbox upgrade, and I started using my own account for personal stuff a lot more.

So I disconnected my Dropbox account from the work computers, and I'm now actively looking for a solution that is not Dropbox. The main reason is this Condoleezza Rice thing, and the fact that we need a bit more than the default 2GB storage (my old acct was already 4.5GB due to referrals), and getting a paid Dropbox account is really the last thing I want to do (before it was because their pricing scheme is kind of steep, but Condoleezza Rice gives me an extra reason).

Problem is what are the proper alternatives. I'm open to suggestions!

We're using Google Drive now for a bit, but it's soon going to be replaced. It's got sufficient space, but it's got some weird problems with making duplicates, duplicates(1) duplicates(2), and it seems it doesn't always sync up the latest version either, and you still have to try and remember which was the PC you worked on to get the file. This again causes chaos and mess, if you have many different children all working in their own little folder on 7 different computers. Additionally, Google Drive seems noticeably a lot heavier load on the computers than the Dropbox client. And this is a big deal, because these are donated PCs, so they're not the fastest to start with.

Currently I'm looking into SyncThing, see how that performs. But I've only set it up on two computers yet (sharing the computer IDs for initial sync is quite cumbersome, they should add some simple feature to help with that or something). We wanted to try BitTorrent Sync, but it's not open source, and I figure as long as I'm trying to do the right thing, I might as well to it right and open source.

SyncThing doesn't upload to a "cloud" storage, but we don't really need that. We just need something that syncs up all the little folders and tidbits between all seven computers, so everything is available everywhere. Maybe we should instead just set up a shared network folder thing? (this is not at all my line of expertise, I'm a comp.sci/math/code guy that likes working with kids, if any of the people here have some solid advice to go with one solution or the other, greatly appreciated) (the computers are partly Win7 partly Linux Mint).

Finally, while finding alternatives for the above has my priority, if I happen to stumble upon something that'll allow me to easily drop my personal Dropbox account, I'll do it in a heartbleed. I'll probably have to, at some point or other, since the 50GB bonus only lasts a year or so.
Still No Recovery for U.S. Entrepreneurship
ok. Next I'll wish for a raise and a George Lucas AMA. :-)
This looks great. Do you have a server or are you just syncing between PCs?

I'm wanting to set up a backup server for music and such, but most virtual server providers (like Linode, DigitalOcean) don't seem optimized toward hard drive space. Could you point me in the right direction?
I'm using LP in production as a solver for LAD(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_absolute_deviations). We've thousands of jobs running on Mesos ( see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394718 ) and I forecast & provision their CPU, Memory consumption over time. So essentially, fit an LAD through thousands of historical time series & predict what happens to the usage in the future, so we can optimally provision clusters. My LP code is essentially this http://bit.ly/1vxknUi , with performance optimizations. So it uses the OSS Apache math libs to do LP, not Glop. But I'd imagine we'd get the same results with Glop, maybe much faster. Google GSON for example is a very fast json parser for huge jsons, which we also use in the same project :)
Inside a Cybersecurity Startup
Hah sitting in Bangkok here also ;) I liked that
He is talking about "access to computation". No one is talking about making normal people into professional programmers.
The US has a similar system to the UK called Income Based Repayment. It is not the default option, but I think it works similarly in principle.
موعد اعلان نتيجة مسابقة وظائف وزارة التربية والتعليم 2014 ونشر اسماء المقبولين
True. Yeah, the part about California is important. Or maybe even "The Silicon Valley" produced it.
Zillow Rentals, San Francisco, http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?l=san%20francisco

Zillow's SF office is near Montgomery station on Bush & Sansome

We're fast, efficient, passionate developers building the best and biggest rental sites on the internet: zillow.com, hotpads.com and postlets.com

All our teams are growing and we're hiring tons of folks:

Software Engineers (front end, back end, full stack, test)
DevOps
UX Design
Data Science
Dev Managers

Come join us. davidpe@zillow.com

Zillow also has dozens of job openings in Seattle, Lincoln, Irvine, and New York: http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings
I am a bit disappointed about Light Table, though it was obviously coming.

Good luck with Eve. I am sure you have read it already, but the paper "Out Of The Tar Pit" by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks might be of interest.

http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf

The first half is pretty dry. Around Section 7 they get into describing a non-standard way to look at application design. Their language design ideas might fit well with the goals of Eve.
And what if we're talking about, say, a proprietary SSD, which is replaceable but you lose your warranty?

Apple's Macbook SSD upgrades are quite a bit more expensive than you're positing.
Ask HN: How To Manage Frequent Android App Updates?
We are an early stage startup working on an Android mobile app. We are still looking for PMF and release new features every two weeks. It's been painful to constantly ask users to update the app. Any best practices on how to manage constant update on users' side due to frequent product iterations?
Please do; as noted above, lots of us would be interested in hearing the various stories of how groups have monetized open source successfully (and even unsuccessfully).
It was when we decided to send everybody to University instead of just a certain set. A different group of people went in with different expectations. If you understand it properly it's hard to even call it wrong.

As it is often easy for the elites to forget, knowledge-focused university training is a luxury, in the sense that we can only have it if we also have a solid enough social foundation that we have the excess resources to dedicate people to not-immediately-productive tasks. Lately I'd say our elites have done a fairly poor job tending the foundation.
Some quick replies: (I work at Inbox.)

1. Yes, we expose unread state via the tags endpoint.

2. Yes, check out the files endpoint

3. Currently we have filtering on subject line, and we're working on full-text body search. (It's hard.)

4. Depends on the size of the emails. In general less than a minute.

5. Our OAuth flow is super quick. Access tokens are valid forever unless the user or developer revokes them.

6. Yes, see the `offset` and `limit` filter parameters, which let you page nearly any API query.
> A casual glance at the deplorable accidental and unintentional discharge rates in the US statistics

What do the statistics imply? Per gun-owning capita is the rate of accidental discharge higher, lower, or within the median compared to other populaces around the world?
This. Sten plans to give you an idea how easy this is:

http://stevespages.com/pdf/sten_mk2_complete_machine_instruc...

Really don't need much of a machine shop to knock one of them out.
That's good... the cron job thing (which is bizzare by the way) is a show stopper for me but if that changes I'll be spinning up several servers for sure.
It's JSON as AST!

Two things that bother me:

First, the insistence on changing the way keys are written so as to break compatibility with JSON.

Second, the assumption on the ordering of keys in an object--it's my understanding that the standard does not require the order of keys to be preserved. Even if everyone does it, that's not a good thing to force on people if they are otherwise following the official standard.
What's the best mosquito repellent?
Having lived in both Florida and Las Vegas, Las Vegas is so much nicer. This might be cliche, but the humidity really does make all the difference. High temps are 20 degrees lower in Florida, but I'd rather stand outside in 110F heat in the desert than 90F in a Florida summer.
Maybe social mobility is low everywhere because smart parents breed smart kids. But considering genetics is deemed to be politically incorrect.
Apple didn't start with public funding. It was a hobby for a couple guys who sold their homemade computers at a club.

Don't confuse the fact that, during startup, a business used available public funding as just another available opportunity to leverage, vs a business that never would have started/survived without public funding.
It's worth noting that for programmers with some degree of RSI or a similar injury, a keyboard can potentially be a far less painful interface than a mouse or even touch.
You're welcome to try. Please leave a printout of your preferred funeral procedures where it will be found on your body.

US POWs ended up picking up the tab for My Lai.
Care to expand on the thought that MBAs are poor financial investments? They've seemed like a far better educational investment than law school or most PhDs. (I'm genuinely curious as a programmer at a startup who's seriously considering business school because I find it intellectually interesting. They do seem like a bad idea if you want to do startups, but otherwise a solid investment.)
English version: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso
The Coordinator pattern
Really? I hear it all the time.

The argument paraphrased is "we've maxed out what we can do in a serial fashion, so we need to start working concurrently and/or in parallel. Functional paradigms are much easier to reason about concurrency so we switch to them for the win!"
I don't think it's fair to lay all the blame for any current blockage on Larry. I think the same issues that apply with just using Perl 7 as the name of the next version apply to just using the secondary version number.

It also ignores the validity of the underlying assumption of this line of reasoning, that Perl would be more popular and more used if only the version number was 7.3 or something else that suggested change. I think there's enough holes to be addressed in that argument that making changes based on it is really just flailing in the dark, twiddling bits hoping for a better outcome.
This is not true, though. There were armed security personnel on site[1] at the Columbine shooting that actually had a shootout with the duo. There were guns on campus, unfortunately they did not stop the massacre.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/columbine.cd/Pages/DEPUTIES...
Am curious what exactly is too slow about Emacs. What operations, I mean.
Um sorry I am confused. Are you saying that C. Rice is going to help dropbox
"navigate political regulatory waters"... in favor of their users?

Am I understanding this correctly? C. Rice watches out for me?
Same here, the VM rebooted and restarted all services correctly but the connectivity was failing intermittently. Not fun.

Concluded we better just start a new VM... and it worked.

Next time there is such scheduled event, I guess being proactive and creating a new VM beforehand is the better solution.
I am surprised that crowdfunding isn't a big deal in the open source world. It seems ideal: people pay to get software created or improved; nobody pays just to use it. No restrictive license is required. It seems possible that a developer doing stuff that is both difficult and very useful could raise substantial amounts of money.

Certainly there have been a few crowdfunded open source projects we have heard of, but the model hasn't taken off to nearly the extent I thought it would by now. Anyone care to speculate on why not?