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unsane1··on NLUlite: Natural language parser and database
Installer crapped out for me, giving a gzip error. Also, I'm not wild about self-extracting and executing archives. Would you mind perhaps just posting a .tgz that can be examined before installing?
unsane1··on Show HN: Queby, your personalized job stream.
We’ve tried to give users examples on the studies page to give an idea of how it works. You can see those here: http://www.que.by/studies

I had previously also put together a quick youtube video showing some of it as well, you can see that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6tkUa9OtlI

A summary here is that our main tool available right now allows the user to use a bookmarklet (we’re also working on browser extensions) to scrape the page being viewed and send it to our systems for parsing and saving. This means that any posting you find can be saved without relying on sessions, cookies, etc to keep track of it. And once it is in your saved list you have control over when it is removed, so that even if the job expires on the originating site you still have a record of it.

You can keep your positions private, or publish them to a public feed which others can then subscribe to thus getting a feed of positions you’ve found. Say you are interested in helping to support the Ruby on Rails community and you’d like to keep a list of good Rails jobs that is sharable with others. Anything you save to this queue is published to the feed and anyone can subscribe to it.

That's the quick-ish intro, we have more coming, but this is the start, and we’re hoping to get feedback and people using it.

unsane1··on Show HN: Queby, your personalized job stream.
We’ve just opened up our public beta, and while we’re very much still early in our process, I am excited to show it to everyone, get comments, and hopefully get people using it.
unsane1··on User Acquisition, from the Trenches
There seem to be at least a couple of spelling/grammar errors on the Stripe post, fyi.

we'll >>merges<< the information

You have an email >>provder<<

unsane1··on Google Reader shutting down
FINALLY. I let it work overnight and they finally showed. Now if only they would work on the OAUTH limits mentioned above.
unsane1··on Google Reader shutting down
theoldreader seems to have died on my feed import to the best I can tell, anyone seen anything similar? It says it is still working in the background, but no update past the first 3 it imported...
unsane1··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
New York, NY (Chelsea) -- Full-time + Freelance

http://www.sypartners.com SY Partners is hiring Interaction and Application Developers full-time. Both are heavy javascript, with the application developer also doing Ruby and node.js work.

Questions: whoughton@sypartners.com

unsane1··on Ask HN: Help choosing App name: Resume vs CV
Wondering if the possible reading of that as whore-ads-my-resume.com hurts you... I'm thinking it at least raises spam flags.
unsane1··on Use Dropdown Login Boxes for a Faster Login
Bleh, left a comment and forgot about it, bad of me.

Depends on how the fields are added/removed from the page, but if they're dynamically created (I don't think they are in this case) then they wouldn't exist at the document load time which is when the manager tends to fill in fields, to my knowledge.

While I can at least see the argument of form fields possibly being intrusive, it seems like a long stretch to me in this case. Were it a multi-field form collecting data, I get it, but for a login form on a site where 99% of the activity takes place behind that login it seems damn silly to me to hide it so much.

unsane1··on Ask HN: How do you deploy your PHP apps to production?
Yet I see at least one reference to `svn update`

I'm scurred.

unsane1··on Ask HN: How do you deploy your PHP apps to production?
Goodness, I hope all the people using SVN to deploy are making sure that they're taking care of the .svn directories and the resulting security issues.
unsane1··on Use Dropdown Login Boxes for a Faster Login
Worst. idea. ever. I hate this on Twitter, it breaks the password manager and it is an additional click just to show a login. How is it so intrusive to have 2 fields on a page?
unsane1··on Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)
I use everydns as well, and donated, but never got credit for it. Though I'm happy I donated and still like the service.