skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It crossed my mind, but it really doesn't answer the OP's specific need for a recommendation of someone he can happily work with.

I've heard it said that Haystack really just shows you the middle quartiles of designers. The top quartile don't need to list themselves; the bottom quartile don't have an exciting enough portfolio to do so. I dunno, maybe there are some great designers on there, but having some form of testimonials is sorely lacking.
This guy is not a guy.
Ask HN: Please review my web app, Docley
I have been working on Docley for about 6 months.

As the product sits today it has the following functionality:
- User and Group Management
- Creation of Folders and Uploading of Files
- Versioning
- History
- Document and Folder content searching

You have to create an account at: http://docley.com/admin/create_customer (I thought about it, but I can't really get away from account creation.)

If you don't want to create an account:

url: http://docley.com/demo

username: demo

pass: demo3
If a child needs help in public then it makes sense not to be frightened to approach an adult (a mother for preference).
Clickable Link: http://docley.com/admin/create_customer
A link would have been clever.
I don't know if this is the case, but Android should have a set of guidelines specifying the current known hardware variations to test against in terms of screen size, memory and processing power.
That devices take into account physical and on-screen keyboard should be a give, however.

The most likely thing is that different manufacturers will have some sort of certification process a la Appstore, but less restrictive in terms of allowed functonality. I know for a fact that Sony and Motorola are pointing that way.

I'm still pretty sure that within a year this situation will be normalized as more specific guidelines come up. Indeed, some devices will be left out. However as long as most devices have access to the important applications I don't think anyone will be too worried.
once the technology is mature, it will be 1 ebook reader as a client for thousands of books. They don't use that much energy during operation.
What does it do that a shared drive does not?
For solid state qubits (spin/flux) you need:

* e-beam lithography: expensive machine

* high quality materials (GaAs 2DEG, or reproducible Josephson junctions): you need collaboration with other scientists

* a huge supply of He4: money

* a dilution or He3 fridge with He3 in it: more money

* a lot of low-noise amplifiers and electronics: collaboration and a lot more money

And a lot of time and persistence.
There was one near my school. I went there a few times, it was fairly grungy, with cheap decor, beer signs, etc... Laundry room was divided from bar (with plexiglass windows so you could monitor your clothes) and they also had like cheap nachos and other snacks. I think there were TVs with sports. It was ok, but never felt like a place I wanted to spend more time in than I had to. One serious donwnside (for poor college students like me), iirc, was that the machines were more expensive than at regular laundrymats.
I've been thinking about different kinds of coding interfaces for a while. I do think that code is represented better as a graph/tree of connected text blocks rather than a series of large files. I want to be able to drag things around more easily.

Unfortunately, I don't have any concrete designs to go along with these vague notions. I'll come back when I do.
Quick Full content searching. You can share with people outside of your network.

Also you don't need a sysadmin to install and manage a shared drive.
Why are DRAM SSDs so pricey?
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I hope this guy writes in some kind of shorthand/code that conveys meaning to some subculture, cause it didn't make any sense at all to me.
nice idea, I am a JSON junkie but I tend to leave it at the transport layer
Might it be pointed out, I never said he "sucked."

He titled his post by stating that Designers "suck."

Then he had a rant about why he thought Designers "suck."

Then made a request for Designers to contact him if they want to work with him.

All I did was quote from his own post, and point out how it came across. Apparently a lot of other people agreed.
I'm writing a new blogging platform that is definitely much simpler than Blogger, Posterous or Tumblr. I'm hoping to get my first iteration out by the end of the week (yay for Thanksgiving break!) and will post it on Hacker News. But I couldn't find an email on your account so feel free to email me - abii @st anford.edu
So she isn't. I think of Quinn as a male name and did not read her "about" page.
Unfortunately.

Maybe we should all spend more time on the new page to catch the good articles.
Exactly! That a blogging service doesn't let you insert images into a post using the web UI boggles my mind.
I'm suggesting that you run all of your trades with play money, and see how it goes. I'm not talking about Monte Carlo simulations.
I've heard great things about squarespace (http://www.squarespace.com), though I haven't used it myself.

They seem to have import/export functionality to all the other big blog platforms, so it wouldn't be hard to jump out to another platform if you wanted to.

It's not free, though (starting at $8/mo).
You imply that link refutes the idea chording keyboards could be much faster, but it (1) only discusses a single small chording keyboard, the 'Twiddler'; and (2) still suggests "the Twiddler would enable typing and error rates superior to those of the mini-QWERTY keyboard while the user is walking or otherwise mobile".
Thoughtscream's crew ranges from 21 to nearly-30. Personality and chemistry matters more than an arbitrary age range, I think - though I suppose my statement's weakened by the fact that we are still all in our 20s.

I can't see where in that sentence you said that the age range was narrow IYO. Was it in another comment?

Yes, I'd agree group chemistry matters more than a specific age range, but you appeared to be saying "look this group has people all the way from 21 to 30 years, this huge range shows that personality and chemistry ...". Group chemistry I suspect is highly dependent on age and background and specific circumstances of the group.
Four things on how your small organisation can compete with a large corporation
Sharing is a plus. If you can do search better than Google Desktop I would be very surprised.
By reality one could consider any of a number of small prop trading shops which do rather well.
Perhaps Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond would be a good book to pick up.

Although it doesn't directly apply to any of the subjects you listed, I think that knowing a bit about world history is a good way to make connections in the philosophies of different areas.
http://www.taliacohen.com

She is a member of our tribe and used to working with 2 uber open source computer scientist geeks that we are at (rmdstudio.com). She is actually dating a young oxford post doctorate mathematician.

But she doesn't work for people, she only works with them. So instead of asking her to send in a portfolio, perhaps you could contact her and let her know that you need some design help.
Jason Santa Maria did a great job for the inital design of Kongregate, and Happy Cog did very nice HTML/CSS. Jason was with Happy Cog then, is solo now. I'd recommend both of them.

http://jasonsantamaria.com/

http://www.happycog.com/design/kongregate/
I'm a fan of http://www.monfx.com/ -- Monjurul did the design for http://www.feedbackarmy.com and later http://www.afterthedeadline.com
At Guestlist we believe in short iteration and customer feedback. The best advice I can give you is to ignore the waterfall method of design that would have you believe you need to "gather requirements, sketch, create wireframe, etc." in order to be successful. There is value to such a method (if only to create a paper trail that you can use to sell your design) when you are working for clients, but when you are a co-founder the absolute best way to go about is to simple do it.

Start with a specific section of your app and create a mockup in Photoshop. Work on it until you are happy and then implement it. Don't do 10 different variations. Don't worry if you don't know how everything is going to fit together. Just get it working so you can move onto a different page.

The first designs we implemented at Guestlist were pretty terrible in retrospect. It had a lot of fatal logic flaws. We had no idea what our initial feature set would be. We knew we needed a public event pages so we started there. However, as we added more and more pages we realized our first couple of pages where shit so went back and iterated over them. Given enough time and iterations things will start taking shape. Just take a look at the very first mockup I did: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/410315/event.jpg It looks nothing like what we currently have. For reference here is the current public page: http://guestlistapp.com/events/7311

Now, it may seem like you could follow the 37Signals route and simply skip the Photoshop step altogether and get to using it faster. _Don't do this._ You cannot be creative with CSS. The Photoshop stage gives you a chance to do crazy things and not think with boxes.

This can also be applied to websites. The current Guestlist website is very weak in my opinion. It was created over a weekend. There is a much improved version in the pipeline. Not a radically different site, but an evolution that iterates over the weak areas.

The key is to never stop iterating. Never lock down the design. Never let somebody tell you you can't do something because it's inconsistent with the rest of the site. Just change the rest of the site too! Design must evolve constantly.
This experience has nothing to do with the designer's design skills or work-style at all. This is an experience based on someone who didn't treat you well as a customer.

Find someone with good recommendations, contact the businesses they include in their portfolio and ask how the project went. Find someone who's clients would actually recommend and you're more likely to have a good experience because you've established that the designer has a track record for delivering a good product and providing a good customer experience.
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If anyone knew, they would be crazy to tell you.

Besides, the bigger players could easily afford to risk a few hundred grand finding out whether they can plug the existing system into the small market profitably.
If you run out of ideas, the best thing to do is to steal ideas from others and try to execute them better. :)
A really skilled intruder won't leave any obvious clues behind if he gets in. You are likely to encounter this only if someone is deliberately targeting your server for some reason.

That said, most intrusion attempts are unsophisticated, analogous to a person walking around a parking lot trying car doors to see if any are unlocked.

Tools I've used (it's been a while so some of these may be dated) include logwatch to check for suspicious log activity, portsentry to watch for suspicious connection activity, and tripwire to spot modified system files.
http://wordpress.com

it just works. for everything.

i've tried posterous and returned to wordpress.

edit: i've used wordpress both as a tech-dumb, just-want-to-blog-fast user, as well as set up and customized on my own server. curious what problems others have found with wordpress.
Set smaller goals. If you're using a designer for the first time, have a 15 minute progress chat every few days. Use it as a time to cover any questions that have come up, look at his progress so far, take about any scope changes, etc.

Also, how much were you paying? A lot of designers (well, a lot of people) don't want to say no. You can oftentimes talk people into working for less than they think they are worth... Which leads to them de-prioritizing your work. If you're the least lucrative bit of work that they have, it's not good.

And, when it comes to hiring (contractor or otherwise), you've GOT TO DO THE WORK. Ask them for references, call them, and ask them hard questions.
As I am learning a new language - this is the type of distinction seems most heavily used in English. The world isn't dualistic.

There aren't good and bad people that wear different jerseys.

There will be some hardcore thug who looks like the scariest dude that will protect your child in an emergency.

There will be some teacher/innocent looking person that wrongs your child in some way.
There is also splintering in the Linux sense, where the actual software is branched into a number of moderately-compatible versions that include different features, different ways to manage the software, and different interfaces.

Despite its open-source nature, we haven't actually seen any real forks of Android yet. I'm assuming that's the sort of splintering the article refers to.
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Qemu is pretty good, but ARMv7 emulation isn't quite complete yet. Anything compiled by gcc will probably run though.
:D, terrible how true this is. Is it fear of flushing a potentially bad sounding idea that we keep all our absurd thoughts around so long?
Never heard this gent before, thanks _pius.
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Might it be pointed out, I never said he "sucked."

I was paraphrasing. I believe it was a fair enough summary of your point. To make sure we're on the same page, I'm mostly looking at this part:

Let me see, according to you, designers that are "great to work with" (the ones that just shut-up and do whatever you tell them) produce "eye pollution". The ones that are "difficult" (have opinions and give input whether you want to hear it or not) end up producing "incredible work", but you just hate working with them.

Deliberately or otherwise, that is needlessly condescending and aggressive. What's more, you pulled your parenthetical statements out of the air - the OP never explained what made certain designers difficult to work with. You simple assumed that the worst plausible interpretation was the correct one.

All I did was quote from his own post, and point out how it came across. Apparently a lot of other people agreed.

I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but from my perspective the argument I was just pointing out how he comes across; I didn't actually say he was like that is entirely unsatisfying. (Whether other people agree with either of us or not is, I feel, immaterial to my point here).

For instance, I could suggest that your original post gives me the impression that you are a not-entirely-pleasant person who is looking for opportunities to be miserable - it would be rather unfair of me to then immediately backtrack by saying "I didn't say you were like that, I just said it gave me the impression you were like that."

The possibility that the OP was legitimately frustrated by working repeatedly with designers who actually did suck was apparently not entertained by you - instead, you leapt from his expressed frustration to the hypothesis[1] that he is, more-or-less, an asshole. Behaviour of that sort reduces the value of the discussions that go on here, imho.

[1] If I were in a less charitable mood, I would say "conclusion".
If you're looking for ease-of-use, posterous or Blogger. I'd probably go with Blogger, but there's nothing wrong with posterous either.

If you're looking to eventually do "cooler" stuff with blogging, go with WordPress or MoveableType. I've been with MT for almost five years. If I had to do it over again, I'd probably stay, but WordPress is looking awful good as well.

But for now? Just kicking around? Make it as easy as possible on yourself.
Logs are great for forensic investigation after one has been alerted to an exception, my question is more about expanding alert coverage to various other suspicious activity.

Do most people just make a strong password and trust that that keeps the baddies away?

I think one thing that would be interesting would be a utility that checks the checksums of files and contents of directories of various installed components against canonical versions stored elsewhere. Does this exist?
when would that be useful? people usually have a single blog rather than duplicates at different domains...otherwise your users and comments are fragmented.

furthermore, the features are in the interfaces for writing and reading posts. you might as well choose a platform that allows you to write posts with all the image floating and code snippets you want. or whatever.
Awesome, those tools sound great. I hadn't heard of anything like tripwire, but it's one of those things that I was hoping existed.
No problem. :)

I was reminded of this today when I saw the IntentBox folks launch today on an idea in direct competition with one I'd been sitting on for a while.

Anyway, I love Ze's message here.
Too many restrictions on the use of the data:

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/sagreement
I'm using movable type because it renders to static pages, so it will scale better.

My blog and static product description pages use it
http://www.gridspy.co.nz/
http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/

It is easy to use and a nice fast loading time (pre-rendered html) for visitors.
I think the fact that you're pointing out that she is too far to the other extreme, just points out how far paranoic parenting has been socially accepted. I think her stance is very correct, and also I am very grateful that I was able to grow up in a third-world country, which allowed me great freedom. I would never want to raise a child in a place where parents do not let their kids walk to school for example.
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what's your differentiator? how do you get any simpler than posterous and tumblr without becoming twitter?
Is it possible to not end up with a generic and dull UI with IB?
For better or worse, yes, that's an accurate assessment.

You don't want to live in a world where what you describe is impossible, and neither do I.

And if it's not impossible, it will happen.
It's also coded like shit and has security issues constantly. Anyone who uses wordpress on a site a hacker's spider might find is asking for trouble.
I had the same kind of experiences as the OP. Part of what I found frustrating is that they don't respect the "2 out of 3" rule (which is mostly for engineers btw). What the designer in OP's case showed was an astounding lack of respect and common sense. I doubt compensation was a factor.

Some time ago I tried to find a copywriter to help me with a marketing campain. I talked with two people, and both were very interested, actually enthusiastic when I told them the concept. Both said (which made me protest and feel rather unconfortable) that they don't want to discuss compensation in the beginning, part because they want to give the project a shot anyways just to see what it looks like, and part because they don't know the amount of work beforehand.

After a week one of them didn't answer my phone calls, and the other sent a couple of texts completely off-topic, and obviously not very worked. I ended up writing the texts myself.

The moral of the story is that it's not a money problem. But that a percentage of "artistic types", in both mine and OP's experience, tend to show less professionalism then desired.
Ironically, I have a Ph.D. in Physics, so I will have trouble recommending a decent primer. ;)

You can't go wrong with Feynman's stuff. But his Lectures really are notorious for being the books that physics grad student wish were the standard primers, rather than books that are known to be easy for beginners to learn from. On the other hand, if you're gonna get lost, getting lost with Feynman is always more fun.

I've had good luck so far with the Very Short Introduction series -- specifically, the one on quantum mechanics didn't offend me too much, which says a lot. (Once you've actually learned a bit of real quantum mechanics the popular treatments will tend to drive you to drink.)

http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Theory-Short-Introduction-Intr...

If you're looking for intellectual stimulation I wouldn't go toward medicine, per se. For practical medical skills I've been thinking of dabbling in first aid and EMS classes, but for intellectual stuff what you really want is biology and chemistry. I think it's been long enough since I last plugged Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun on HN, so let me recommend it again:

http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Made-Simple-Third/dp...

It's corny but the science is solid, and it is so much lighter, more readable, and cheaper than The Molecular Biology of the Cell, which is a classic text and a book that I still intend to read someday, by god, whenever I have something like three entire months of spare time and a very solidly designed reading desk. [1]

Incidentally, have you looked at the online courses you can get for free these days? The other day on MIT Open Courseware I found an intro biology course taught by none other than Bob Weinberg and Eric Lander:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-012Fall-2004/CourseHome/...

It's a bit tricky to listen to in the car, or even to watch, as the slides for this particular class are hard to see and some of the topics are necessarily visual. But, still, these guys are star professors for a reason.

---

[1] Or when the Kindle version comes out. MBoC is a book designed for that big Kindle. If I tried to read the print version in bed I'd probably crush myself to death.
Check out http://OSSEC.net, its a host based intrusion detection system. It does everything you described and more. I am slowly working on a better Web UI with real time alerts.
the not-native comments for tumblr surprised me, too. i don't like the disqus solution, though i think anonymous comments are still possible.

i don't like the design of tumblr themes, but that's obviously personal. i guess i'm more of a word-blogger, and thus my attachment to wordpress.
Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News?
Although I enjoy reading hacker news, I haven't found a satisfying interface for doing so. I have major gripes with both the website interface and the RSS feed.

Why I dislike the website interface:

--Front page stories are not in chronological order (I can't keep track of which stories I've already read)

--Stories are limited to the latest 210 (if I don't visit frequently, I can't see which stories I've missed)

--Links to comments are too small and not not in a consistent location horizontally (I almost always want to read the discussion before I click through to the external site)

--I would also like to be able to filter stores that are below a certain points threshold.

Why I dislike using the RSS feed:

--Does not show the number of points or the number of comments (crucial for selecting what to read)

I'm not just trying to be a hater; I think these things significantly harm my experience here.

So, am I just ignorant of better ways to consume HN? Do these things not annoy you too?
What was I thinking joking on an American website? Sorry guys.
It seems that you are entering a crowded space with what is currently a weak offering.

How do you plan to beat

http://basecamphq.com/

or Google Docs?

Do you have any paying clients yet?

How do you plan to differentiate yourself?

Why would I use your system rather than a shared folder with controlled FTP access?

You need to address these questions on your front page.
There isn't one single solution to cover all angles.
So yes, logs are useful but won't protect you either. And yes, they could help you to discover intrusion.

Regarding authentication, you could use public/private key auth for ssh. This is stronger than passwords.
You could also use two factors authentication (look for yubikey for an example)

And yes, such a tool exist: for instance tripwire.
I think that sounds like so many people on here. I wonder how many are sitting on extremely viable ideas. I know I am sitting on 2 that could be enormously successful, I suspect fear has a lot to do with the hesitation to execute.