skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The screenshots on the front seem poor to me. They're very light and empty -- not exciting at all. Four seems like too many. I didn't even realize you could click them at first, maybe add a magnifying glass in the corner?

No obviously call to action on the front page. I didn't feel like there was an obvious next page to click on to.

Overall nice, but being honest: a bit generic/standard/derivative.
If you're a developer, feel free to drop me a line directly: sanj<at>tripadvisor.com

I don't think many people realize what we do here and how cool it is. Or how selective we are.
Looks good, but move your javascripts out of the head and place them last before </html> that way you can avoid the page stalling and being white before showing content, it's a bit laggy now and flashes white for half a sec or so. When firefox (and some other browsers too, I think) encounter javascript they stop rendering until they have parsed the javascript.
DC only, or anywhere?
I refuse to participate in this discussion
It's not "wrong" if you're developing for Microsoft platforms.
This plugin is such a great example of how to use compass and sass to build simple abstractions out of some of the most complex css that exists.
A quote from

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/GlobWarm.HTM

The science, reduced to its simplest terms, is that carbon dioxide
is known to be effective at trapping solar heat. So are water
vapor (the source of 90% of earth's natural greenhouse effect),
methane, and other gases. The natural carbon dioxide content of the
atmosphere has doubled in the last 200 years, climate is getting
warmer, so the logical conclusion is that there is a connection
between the two trends. If you feel uncomfortably warm at night and
wake up to find someone has put another blanket over you, you don't
need to look beyond that to identify the source of the warming.

* Nobody - nobody - argues with the carbon dioxide trend. It's
established beyond doubt.

* The debate over whether climate is getting warmer is mostly over.

* The debate now is over whether the connection between warming and
human emission of carbon dioxide is real, or whether there are other
causes of climate change at work.

* The real issue is whether the benefits of taking action will
outweigh the costs and regulatory burdens.

* There are some who argue that warming will be beneficial by
reducing energy demands for heating, lengthening growing seasons,
and creating larger habitable and arable territory.

The case for human-caused global warming is simultaneously a lot
clearer than George W. Bush believes, and a whole lot less so than
Al Gore does. There are legitimate questions about the data, past
climate reconstructions, and the computer modeling still to be
answered.
what virtualbox settings did you use? The vdi seems to do nothing.
that's what she said..
Ask HN: How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup?
I've created a web site that functions nicely but before launch I want to improve the look and feel but lack the design chops to make this happen. I don't have much money. Are designers ever willing to work for design credit alone? The layout is pretty much finalized, I'm basically looking for colors and fonts and perhaps a nice logo.

Any thoughts?
Many more:

http://www.google.com/search?q=calvin+hobbes+snowmen
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It's funny, I knew that, and then somehow I still put it in the header. :) Thanks.
Palantir Tech is hiring for just about every position in the company (we're growing fast). The most YC-relevant positions are probably software engineers -- most of what we do is in Java (with a bit of Groovy glue). Most jobs are at our Palo Alto, CA hq.

See:
http://www.palantirtech.com/careers

http://www.palantirtech.com/careers/positions

http://www.palantirtech.com/careers/interviewing

Also feel free to contact my directly -- jhscott/at/palantirtech[.com].

My favorite perk is probably 4v4 Halo3 after dinner on the two HD projectors in the game room.
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Personally I place high value on knowing my customers and I would really like a comprehensive solution to get that knowledge. To be comprehensive it would have to include techniques to compel users to fill out surveys, participate in usability studies and other direct interactions in addition to the passive observance that you do. And yes, knowing the visited links is helpful in my quest, it's just not the whole story. The way I see it, I want either an ready-to-use building block to roll my own, or a wholes-story thing, but I have no use for a wholes-but-different-story thing.

I understand this would be a different product/service from the one you are making, but you may find this perspective valuable.

Also, lose the kittens. It's the wrong kind of childish.
Have you indeed concluded that all posts about global warming are 'political' rather than 'scientific'? Possibly true for the majority of such articles, but it would be nice if there was somewhere that the small remainder could be discussed in a scientific but non-political manner.
I can't tell if you're joking or being serious. Didn't using dvorak instead of qwerty help your rsi?

Also, did you try switching to an ergonomic keyboard, for example, a [Contoured](http://kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm)?
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Bored with building things? Want to learn how to rip them apart? Haven't gotten enough of me yet? Matasano is hiring app security people in NYC and Chicago. Knowing app security is great, but being an excellent developer is even better.

My contact info's in my profile.
I almost never powered off my Dell XPS R 450 for ten years; laziness and the theory of avoiding powerup/powerdown stress on connections. It lasted ten years. I replaced one of the two HDs once. I got rid of it for noise and not worth upgrading it to modern capabilities, and the ginormously large and heavy CRT monitor finally gave out.

I use my laptop as a desktop replacement (see above). I rarely power it down, although Ubuntu boots pretty quick.
Orbis Technologies is hiring Natural Language Processing engineers and knowledge/semantic engineers in Annapolis, MD. and Central Florida. Really interesting work!

http://orbistechnologies.com/careers.html
If I misread your comment, please accept my apology. I must admit that I responded in the way I did partially because of this statement that you made a couple of hours ago, and I assumed that the comment I replied to was making a similar case:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=952651

Sure, and if researchers are being forced to draw the line higher than usual due to external pressure from highly funded deniers, whose fault is that?

EDIT: Besides, if we define the adversary to be somebody making legitimate critical analyses of your data and models and showing up flaws in them, isn't dealing with that meant to be part of a scientists job? How different is it in practice to defending your work against criticism from other, supposedly more respectable, scientists?

It's ridiculous to claim that a lack of resources is a valid reason for intentionally hiding data from people with the skill to perform an adversarial analysis on it. If a scientist can't defend his results against Steve McIntyre, it means his results are indefensible. The person doesn't matter; the data, and its integrity, do.
Roost (downtown San Francisco) is hiring for a UI position. You get to work with sharp/funny/awesome people on sane projects, in a funded environment, in downtown San Francisco, while learning new things continuously and enjoying what you do, day after month after year. :)

http://www.roost.com/web/jobs.action
(jobs at roost dot com redirects to our CTO, hilariously, so include your most awesomest cover letter; bonus points for hand-drawn explanations)

We love students and part-timers, but we'd really like to hire a strong HTML5/CSS3/JS lead.
Agreed. I would go with 2 or 3 pictures, slightly larger by default, and showing screens that look like they're from people who actually use the product. Showing empty sections on the screenshots is just depressing. If I want something to sit empty, it can be anything. It doesn't have to be your product.
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RogueSheep used the Three20 framework, which overrode the method.
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That is a great design, very nice work.
A suggestion on the video tour: Put the "start here" video on the tour page itself. In typical user fasion, by the time I got to the page I forgot why I was there, so it didn't even occur to me to look for a video until I went back and remembered I clicked video tour. Then I went back to the video tour page and wondered why there was no video on it.
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My group at RIM is hiring devs to work on a WebKit-based browser for the BlackBerry. http://linkedin-us.simplyhired.com/a/li-jobs/view/jobkey-ceb...
I second that idea.
When we're talking about how much money is involved with this research, and claiming it as an incentive for climate scientists to lie, we realize that this is money that's being spent on research right? Do we? There is no incentive for them to do anything other than get published, and this by no means requires any lying or forging of data.

Please tell me we understand this fact. Nobody (that is, no scientists) is pocketing money and running here, they're spending this money on research gear and on hiring analysts and grad students and the like. Given this, how is the amount invested relevant at all?
We have a strong preference for DC. We're located downtown just south of the capitol.
AIUI, Hadley is the origin of much of the baseline data that everyone else uses. And that data itself isn't just raw numbers, but is massaged to factor out the heat island effect, for example.

The snippets of emails that I saw suggest (but don't prove, contrary to their opposition) that the methodology for building that baseline data was tainted.

So if that underlying data must now be considered corrupt, then it also calls into question any other research that used the baseline data.
> the serious problem of oscillating non-zero transverse moment in racing boats, otherwise known as wiggle.

Thank goodness for simplification of terminology.
Re: call-to-action, it's between the signup button and the video tour. I might try to make the video tour link stand out a bit more, though.

The product itself is (intentionally) sparse and understated. This leads to (we think) a great user experience, but doesn't result in very good screenshots. :) We also didn't really want to overwhelm the user with a complex display of features, because our value proposition is being simpler and easier to use than our competition.

Good points, though.
Soon enough we're going to get phishing emails from google.com.com
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Here's the question that interests me: how much is this information worth, and to whom? Who stole and published this information, and why?

Given the amount of money in play here, the value of this release to certain parties is enormous. What would a multinational oil company be willing to pay to derail Copenhagen? What would the Chinese government pay to avoid being subject to global CO2 emissions rules down the road?

While this is probably an inside job by a disgruntled IT worker, if this was a paid job the value delivered is truly enormous: definitely hundreds of millions of dollars, and conceivably much more.

Is there any level of data security that can protect against such a large incentive?
Engine Yard is hiring for multiple positions. We're hiring sysadmins, app support engineers as well as ruby engineers to work on our cloud platform.

If you like working with nosql, aws, cloud, linux, nginx, ruby, unicorn, passenger, haproxy, deployment automation tools, chef. TDD, BDD, pair programming etc, then you will like working here.

Send an email to jarnold@engineyard.com (Joe Arnold) with an intro and a resume.
You're right: science should restrict itself to saying things like "the continued release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is likely to cause an aggregate increase in global temperatures, which will cause a host of largely unpredictable consequences, probably including rising sea levels and changes in ocean currents. Reducing the release of greenhouse gases will reduce these consequences." And so forth.

Politics only come in when people don't want the climate to change. Which is another way of saying that science only gets politicized when it discovers something with the potential of requiring political action.
Yahoo is (always) hiring -- apologies for giganto-link:

http://careers.yahoo.com/jsearchresults.php?pagenumber=2&...
My impression is that the sperm are optimized for a brief period of super activity at normal human body temperature. This enables them to reach the egg once inside a woman's body. If they become adapted to this higher temperature then what would kick them into a brief overdrive and burnout?
Perhaps some chemical signal could be secreted to triger them, but that means two beneficial mutations have to happen at the same time. This makes it far less likely and perhaps only strong selective pressure, as in seals, could bring out this double adaptation.
Yeah, I'm on the fence about the tour start page, with the four summaries (http://agilezen.com/tour). I might just ditch it and funnel users directly into the first step of the tour. The summaries don't add enough to risk bouncing people before they get to the videos.
And indeed, that company was absorbed, the management fired, and the application rewritten.
A friendly suggestion: If your job posting is location-specific, please post what city you are located in.
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All I'm arguing in favor of is multiple markets, which requires an unlocked device. If a software developer or consumer wants to use Apple's store, they can. If they want to use another, including Apple's they also have that choice. At the moment, you must use Apple's store. Currently, secondary markets, like appvee, have to first go through Apple's store for their secondary market to work with a locked iPhone.

Some believe that free markets produce better results and others don't believe this. Further, some that believe free markets are the best approach also believe that precluding competition should be unlawful. This is an ideological argument, so I'll get off my soapbox now.
You have a lot more faith than I do in the scientific literacy of our political system. Before climate change became such a current issue, there was serious controversy about whether or not we should teach schoolchildren about evolution.
Only in the embarrassing overstatement. If it takes you three days to type 30 lines of code then yes it has an effect on productivity. In normal human typing range say 30WPM to 100WPM. It takes 1 min for the fastest typist then the slowest typist takes 3 min. for the slowest.
Zumbox is hiring a Director of Product Development:
http://www.linkedin.com/hiring?jobId=775114

Westlake Village, California.
We should have said you need to be able to work from our SF offices.
Fair point. And the thing about climate science is that while you may or may not disagree about global warming, the strategies we would employ to fight global warming are the same strategies we should be employing regardless.

Take the issue of renewable energy. It might prevent global warming, but it also promotes energy independence, reduces pollution generally, allays fears about peak-oil or peak-coal.
Yep, same here on Linux x64 2.6.31 and VirtualBox 3.0.12.
We're hiring at Wikispaces.

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Drop me an email at jbyers at wikispaces if you're interested.
Try a new keyboard. If you have a standard keyboard, get an ergonomic one. If you have an ergonomic keyboard, get a standard one. A few years ago, I found that using my laptop more frequently made me a better typist because I hadn't developed such bad habits and compressed layout drove my hands closer to the home row. Tape a piece of paper over the home/end/arrows/keypad/etc if you can't keep your fingers from wandering.
I'm looking for a few developers located in the Philadelphia area. If you want to do something amazing with your life, click the link below.

http://jobs.firstround.com/jobdetail.php?jobid=30503
The relevant changeset in Three20 where Joe resolves this should answer your questions:

http://github.com/facebook/three20/commit/8183ae25528bbc575a...
VirtualBox can read (and write to) VMWare images, FWIW.
Reboot the virtual machine? That hasn't been working for me so far. Disabling USB doesn't do anything else either. Perhaps you can post the VirtualBox XML file that describes the settings used for this VM, or tell us your platform and versions?
Just got back from Ghana. RT flight was about $1250 direct from NY.

Internet is definitely still spotty, though it can be acquired. Accommodations in Accra that match what you are used to in the Americas can be quite expensive, but food and alcohol are cheap. If you are moving around within the country though it will be much more inconsistent. There is decent mobile access everywhere though.
We are hiring at Paragon Lake (Lexington, MA) - Product Manager, E-commerce developer, Java developer, and more:
http://paragonlake.com/company/careers.php
Haven't we been here before. In 1996 or so both sun and oracle were hyping network pc's. That's seems to be no different than now except we have re-branded this client/server architecture "cloud computing".

I seem to recall a video where (i think ellison) was describing how your desktop would follow you no matter what pc you were sitting in front of. That is the same theme that Google had yesterday during there presentation.

As a sw engineer at one of the worlds largest aerospace and defense contractors we don't store much locally on our pc's. Our source is in SCM systems, the same with bug tracking and change requests. Most of our documents are on SANS to improve collaboration and sharing. So I guess i'm just not seeing something "entirely new" here.
As a follow-up, I don't think it would be unreasonable for climate scientists operating on public funds to be required to take the following steps:

1) Archive a copy of all raw data series used in publications with a public database

2) Archive a copy of the final processed data series used in publications with the same database.

3) Archive a copy of the source code used to produce figures and tables with the same database.

The default stance for publicly-funded science should be openness, not secrecy.

Hell, these would be good steps for any serious journal to take, on any subject, regardless of federal funding.

edit: Example of the pathology we need to fight:

>>"We should be able to conduct our scientific research without constant fear of an "audit" by Steven McIntyre; without having to weigh every word we write in every email we send to our scientific colleagues. In my opinion, Steven McIntyre is the self-appointed Joe McCarthy of climate science. I am unwilling to submit to this McCarthy-style investigation of my scientific research. As you know, I have refused to send McIntyre the "derived" model data he requests, since all of the primary model data necessary to replicate our results are freely available to him. I will continue to refuse such data requests in the future. Nor will I provide McIntyre with computer programs, email correspondence, etc. I feel very strongly about these issues. We should not be coerced by the scientific equivalent of a playground bully. I will be consulting LLNL's Legal Affairs Office in order to determine how the DOE and LLNL should respond to any FOI requests that we receive from McIntyre."
It depends on the application. I would install Google Voice no matter whether it has been approved or rejected by Apple.
I'm the author.

We all know reading comprehension isn't a prerequisite for commenting on the l33t internetz, but you might want to read more than the title of the hackernews link before commenting.

My post was motivated by this tweet:
http://twitter.com/jasongorman/statuses/5734675601

I didn't set up the comparison and there are certainly logical fallacies we can apply to that style of presenting questions and the implication that the answer to one implies anything about the answer to the other.

My main points are: First, that moving the chess pieces faster (in frequency, not in velocity) absolutely made me better at the game of chess, second, that if you are going to spend 8 hours a day sitting at a computer, you will never regret learning how to type.

Productivity is another question entirely.

One day I'll write about a past co-worker who could type 120 wpm and could fix any problem with one more 'if' (or 7).
Really cool read. It appears to be down now, which is a shame because I'm halfway done!
Our application is a data cruncher, it's not a public web site, and our controllers/views are just a GUI to control/monitor the process.

Memory usage shuts up to 700-800MB per Rails instance but it stays there regardless of how many documents we put through the pipeline.

Also our migrations stopped working in test environments - JDBC db adapter would "reset" itself back to mysql MRI gem ignoring database.yml. On CentOS it would happen with all environments, not just test. We were never able to figure out where/how this happens due to extremely dynamic/"magic" nature of AR and Ruby in general, so we're using MRI just to run migrations and we moved to Ubuntu in production to keep JRuby/JDBC happy

But my biggest objection to using JRuby in the future is that it's easier to use Java for accessing Java libraries, i.e. using JRuby simply because you need some Java-based OCR package is simply not worth it - my advice would be to use Java to access that API and then interop with MRI somehow, I would do it via HTTP-based REST API between Rails/MRI process and Tomcat-hosted JVM.
acta non verba
Students are often willing to do stuff- however the really good ones will already know what they are actually worth and charge for it.

Alternate compensation however might get them going. Fund a party or something for them instead of paying?
The free pricing plan seems too restrictive. If I'm going to evaluate it's usefulness for a team, I'll need to get buy-in from at least one other person and see how it works when several people are contributing.
are you using the 32 bit or 64 bit jvm? The 64 bit doesn't have the client mode so it's going to be a lot slower at startup.
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When I saw this I thought "All it needs is some graphical polish, titles/menu and sound and it'd be comparable to most Flash games."
Without RMS there might not be a GPL nor Linux licensed under the GPL. There would probably be no open source movement either because it relies on free software.

Yeah, but RMS doesn't shower as much as I think he should, so clearly he is not worthy of recognition for his work. GNU, Emacs, gcc, the Free Software Foundation... even a plant could have made all those. But showering... there's something that makes you truly elite...

</sarcasm>
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The issue is so heated because so much is at stake. The reason laymen have to weigh in on their opinions, is that ultimately, it is our tax dollars that will be spent and our way of life that will be altered. So at the end of the day, we have to decide, do we trust the scientists enough to spend $x hundreds of billions of dollars.

Most issues that a) have a lot at stake and b) are non-obvious are going to generate a lot heated controversy. But it seems to me those are precisely the issues that need to be talked about in a forum with a lot of intelligent people ( Hacker News).
I have a macbook wich i almost never power off, i see it as one of its advantages; is it a bad practice?