skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twilio, the cloud communications company, is hiring!

We're a venture-backed startup located in downtown San Francisco, and all roles are for in our SF office, except for our developer evangelist. This is great timing, because we just launched our jobs page: http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs

We're a quirky group, but if working on mission critical communications technology delivered in self-service pay-as-you-go style sounds good to you, please drop us a note or just drop by the office to say hi.
I heard it from a person.

This is far from proof, but the first result in the only search I did (total time-9 seconds) yielded this
...http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Fyodor_Dostoevsky
We are looking for someone with a strong math/science background to work on our matching algorithm and pull insights out of our logged data. Email me if you want to learn more: jake(at)bu.mp.
AgcoNet
If stock options are part of the deal, my understanding is that generally the more senior your position, higher the ratio of options to salary and the bigger pay cut you are expected to take.
K. I have a simple solution for this guy. Don't change your Firefox persona. It's a feature, and guess what? You don't have to use it!

I, myself, sifted through a few of them and landed on one that I quite like. I've lived with it for a day, and I like it. It's not distracting, and it livens up the grayness of the toolbar a little bit.

So I fall on the side of people that like it. There will be some that don't. But again, you have the choice to do so or not. Nothing to create a whole rant over!
What's your app's Superpower?
SurveyMonkey is hiring. We're just starting some very exciting things and are looking to fill a wide variety of different roles - http://www.surveymonkey.com/jobs/Home_Jobs.htm

We have offices both in Portland, OR and Menlo Park, CA (right next to Caltrain). We're looking mainly to hire in the Bay Area. We've got a really great benefits package, competitive salary, and most importantly a really awesome team.

Any questions, or to reach out to me: timc at surveymonkey.
Not to nitpick, but the other reason acquisitions sometimes make sense is that a bigger "parent" might open doors that it would take a smaller company a long time to get to, particularly in terms of scaling. In a sense, getting bought by a big parent can (in some cases!) be equivalent to taking VC - funding, yes, but also advice and connections (traded for a measure of control!)

Now, the benefits are often illusory (see: pretty much anything Conde Nast has acquired). But sometimes it's actually true - particularly when there are economies of scale or actual (I hate this word) synergies.

This is pretty much the Google promise, isn't it? "Get bought by Google, get access to infrastructure you could never afford on your own!" This makes sense for some businesses, not so much for others (FWIW, 37s is probably in the latter category).
Looking forward to this. Will be using this on my commute for sure. This will also be very helpful for Wifi Only iPad users.
Another good trick is that if you want to comment privately on someone else's email, always forward, never reply.

That way you reduce the risk of accidentally emailing it to the person you're talking about.
Austrian and German are like Canadian English and American English.
I personally always liked that Chris Rock monologue for the exhortation to build capital rather than frivolously consuming status symbols. Probably true in tech, too. (I don't know what our rims are, exactly, but I'm sure we've got a couple options...)
They don't -- they work with the local ssh command. Its just that ssh when invoked with a "command argument" runs that command instead of a shell, with the stdin and stdout being run through the network.

The end result is similar to what you said, but the mechanism is different, the pipe itself is strictly a local construct.
I like 37 Signals. I like Joel Spolsky. I like Paul Graham. I occasionally even read Techcrunch. However, I believe all of these people (and many others) tend to occasionally overstate and undersupport their positions. I can’t blame them for it. After all, shoddy generalization provokes snarky rebuttal, which leads to counter-rebuttal, which leads to increased exposure. It’s a great play for the writers; unfortunately, while the writers are busy racking up traffic, readers are unwittingly pissing away the hours spectating a geekier version of Jerry Springer.

I would pay good money to obtain access to a stream of intrinsically interesting content without any of this overstated, undersupported crap.

Edit: My (overstated? undersupported?) assertion that this article is overstated, undersupported crap is now the top comment. The irony is disturbing. I hope someone builds a product that eliminates these frustrations for me (and others) in the future.
As a matter of fact, I have, though I have not been here on HN so long. This is hardly the place for a political argument, but I believe a pragmatic approach is entirely compatible with robust debate.

I do not care for the zero-sum outcomes which often result from or are promoted by the adversarial nature of our political system. But I learned very early in life that no matter how bitter a competition becomes, almost all the spectators are united by a disdain for the referee.

This cartoon humorously summarizes my worldview; I like that fellow with the pipe. http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u316/sisdecadence/subgeni...
First off, almost everything is for sale at the right price. If someone offered 37signals one trillion dollars would the sell? Of course.

Also, there are other reasons to sell than "some sucker is willing to pay x". Maybe you are burnt out, want to spend more time with your family, try something new, take some risk off the table.

There is a nugget of truth in much of what 37signals says, but it is always stated in such absolute terms that it becomes off-putting.
SIDN Improves Custom Application Response Times By Up To 20x with F5 Solutions
wow. i'd definitely be interested in seeing the full image and seeing if there are any weird artifacts going on at the transition area between the selected border and the generated "content-aware" fill. from what i can tell , this is close to magic.
Unique items do not sell well due to attracting too much attention.
Well, this makes me an even more enthusiastic Google user.
I don't understand why this comment is being voted up. What does it mean, and how does it relate to the comment it's responding to?
Y Combinator vs. TechStars Application
I thought this was interesting:

"protip: 2 dudes talking is not a pitch video. show me, don't tell me."
@davidcohen 5:16 PM Mar 17th

vs.

"In the video please introduce yourselves, explain what you're doing and why, and tell us anything else you want to about the founders or the project. The video should contain nothing except the founders talking. No screenshots or postproduction wizardry please;"
http://ycombinator.com/video.html
I've never seen a company announce so incessantly that they are not for sale.
IIRC, it was basically funding a couple of salaries. Which uses up money a lot faster than hosting costs.

Edit: Oops, it's apparently $600k to fully fund with salaries, and $200k to just fund operations. Still seems crazy high.
btw, I work in the field of user experience. I see zero usability problems with this. Any choice a user makes for his or her own interface is their choice, and if it works for them, then who is to tell them that they are wrong? It is the usability expert's job to discover how and why a person does the things they do, and not tell them how they should be doing it.

For example, have you looked at some of your coworker's desktops? Everyone sets it up differently to how they prefer to work. Some have icons littering their desktop. Some have 50 apps in their taskbar. Some people like to use spotlight. Some people like to click through folders. There will always be a better way, certainly, if they so desire, but some people just like things the way they like it. And if they're happy with that, then they're happy. And that's the most important thing.
Depends on the complexity of their template system and theme engine. I doubt that it's that big of a deal if you look at the majority of their existing themes the engine and capabilities of the site are extremely simple. There are plenty of sites/designers/companies out there that will turn any PSD into html/css for between $99 and $299 including ADA compliance and cross browser compatibilities.
Facebook was the former (they could've benefited a lot from Google's infrastructure and knowledge). Google could've also benefited from Microsoft's experience and infrastructure.

Who's the sucker now?

The biggest disadvantage is that big companies that are willing to buy aren't risk takers ... they'll either dilute your idea, or kill your project. Google is my kind of company, but they've killed at least a couple of startups they've bought already.

Of course, I wouldn't place 37signals in the same league. But he does have a point ... if your company can handle the growth without external resources, than why sell?
If you look at the cloud area above the 'created' mountain, then look at the slope to the left of the mountain (inside the panorama) and the cloud area above that, you can see that it's very similar.

My guess as to how this works is that it looks some distance in from the selection edge, and then repeats that outward (or inward), but matches up the edges to the selection. You can see it in the deleted road where the 'desert' on the bottom right of the new area matches the brush to the left of it, but the rest matches the brush to the top and right of it.

It's like creating a seamless tiling background, except instead of doing it in a square, it does it in an arbitrary selection path.
Unbelievable. My head is hurting from trying to imagine the concept behind the algorithm to do this. The desert and sky recreations are especially mind boggling.
I stopped using icombinator.net after reading a comment that mentioned this service from google.

http://google.com/gwt/x?u=http://news.ycombinator.com/
Google is hiring all over.
Also it seems that after July 1st 1997 moving something to Hong Kong is not a particularly good way to escape Chinese jurisdiction.
Checking out your app. very cool idea.

There's a semantic problem though. I DO NOT like how you treat the people I'm following as a list that I need to add people to. It's really confusing. If you're going for the gmail comparison there should be a way to check off people and then click a button that's separate from the list drop down that says "Follow them." As is, I found it really counterintuitive.
So it's OK to be an acquirer of companies (Apple, MS, Oracle, Berkshire), but it's not OK to sell out to one?
Interview: Ethan Galstad - The Nagios future
I simply didn't remember your name. Months ago when I looked at your website and commented with you here, I was impressed. I was not impressed with SI when I just read the 2 or 3 sentence description, only because of multiple coincidental reasons.

First, I didn't remember that SI was your company and I was impressed with your company, so my thought was, why is this company in the list better than the company I remember chatting with a few months back that was struggling, yet passionate and interested in saving local news. I was disappointed that companies like yours weren't represented in the list. It just so happens that the company I was reading about was your company.

So you're an interesting case, because I knew about you and knowing about you was why I wasn't impressed with the SI I was reading about, simply because I knew of an impressive other company in the space. It supports what pg is saying, that with deeper investigation, some of the unimpressive companies become impressive, because I had done deeper investigation on you months before and was impressed.
Can you really get all that with $1m and still have some money left?...
Nano Based RFID Tags
Also, please don't hide the logout button under the @username dropdown. I had to try about 3 guesses before I found it.
No, no functional difference. The key difference is that personas are just a wallpaper for the default chrome, whereas themes can actually change the shape and positioning of the chrome, not just the color.
An interesting perspective, I guess. He seems to be saying that he's in it for the fame and the glory, which I guess is fine if that's his preference. Practicality suggests taking a good payout when it appears, but of course every circumstance is different and requires individual consideration.

For the record, many of the listed business leaders have sold businesses, and considered selling their flagship businesses but felt the offers were too low. I remember reading this specifically about Google, but don't want to find a source (searching "google acquisition" isn't really helpful these days). Jobs sold NeXT; I think he would have sold NeXT even if Apple was not the buyer. etc.

Buffet et al are driven by practicality. Dynastic ambitions are an obstruction on the way to Buffet's status.
The point isn't that they're the only ones doing it right. In fact, he lists off other entrepreneurs that did the same thing. I think their point is made well, and they're just citing other examples of people doing it or that have done it historically.

What they're saying is build a business, not just a thing to flip. Focusing on the business will, even if you end up selling it to someone else, make it a better venture in the end, and more satisfying to you as a person.
Cloud Computing - The Demise of Network Analysis?
Is network analysis still relevant if you're moving to the cloud?
I mainly disagree with your last sentence. I don't think it detracts.

But if I had to choose which I think Americans should be more angry about... on one hand the US treatment of illegals and prisoners, and on the other hand the Chinese government. I'd say that Americans should definitely be far more concerned with the former.

What do you get when citizens of one regime care too much about citizens in another? Neoconservatism. I don't think it's a coincidence that this is occurring just at the time when the US is attempting to start a trade war with China (see the tariffs started by Obama and some of the fallacious and destructive rhetoric on China's currency spouted by Paul Krugman). How is this any different than the way Bush sold the Iraq/Afghan war -- he cited treatment of women and religious persecution and taliban censorship.

The ultimate result of all this is that war with China will be far more likely. The US propaganda approach to sell war starts with feeling sorry for "them" because of their "backward" social customs, with a focus on the impact upon women... then moves to indignation, then a call to action / call to war.

Consider how many Americans believe strongly that going to war in Iraq and killing MILLIONS is a humanitarian improvement over Saddam's rule. Before that we killed millions of children via sanctions. Talk about shaping and corrupting people's minds.

It's always easier to see the corruption and shaping of minds from across an ocean, but that doesn't mean we're not all very corrupted and misguided here. I think our primary responsibility is at home... let's leave the neocon warmongering to someone else and act where we have clout, not just join a big hurrah anti-China bandwagon.
I think that Beamer is a good alternative for those who want a relatively nice-looking presentation without shelling out $2000 for a Mac + another $80 for iWork.

http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
I feel like I've been getting less intelligent, like my brain is dry, un-lubricated, and pumping sand. I used to be so smug about my intelligence, too. Even declining the gifted and talented program. I was an arrogant kid.

I was never taught how to use my intelligence to best effect, and right now I feel like I'm fending for myself with it. I kind of learned the wrong thing: how to be extremely lazy yet acceptably productive.

Intelligence should be constantly evaluated, as early as possible, and children placed in the proper learning environments.
37Signals pushes people to ask WHY. A lot of entrepreneurs are only in it for the end game -- money, fame, et al -- they demand that you do something you care about. Too many people view startups as a means to an end so it's a welcome message.

It just so happens these same people ultimately have the most success because it gives them the endurance to stick with it.
Ok, I am going to create a Twitter clone
Coming of Age Among the Venture Investors
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, it seems to be a perfectly reasonable request. I, for one, wanted to get in touch.
Why in the world would you apply 37s advice on building software business to real estate?
I thought we were talking about attracting the "Normals" around here today, and then this rant appeared. It feels kind-of out of place.

This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when software companies start going after the "Normals".

Pretty pays, so function tends to take a back seat.

I believe that if you ask a "Normal" if they'd rather have more keyboard shortcuts or a rainbow colored browser, they'd probably take fancy over function every time.
There are many women in math & science undergrad programs; I'm sure you didn't scare them away. There aren't many women in engineering, and computer science in particular.

My theory is that regular computer science and programming education for all students starting in the 5th or 6th grade would balance it out a bit.
You have a good point. However I think your analogy doesnt take into consideration that you can't really grow your house beyond that of whats dictated by the size of your land and planning permission, whereas a company's size is completely elastic. It can start the size of an outhouse and grow to a factory (or, unfortunately, sometimes the other way around!)
MX Telecom are looking for devs in London.
Mobile messaging and applications for folk like 118118/KGB_ BBC and Twitter

We like great software, Frisbee and the colour blue

http://www.mxtelecom.com/uk/careers/roles/softdev
It means that the free and open exchange of information is the public's best weapon against corruption.
You don't look at the camera even once during the whole video. It really bothers me and reminds me of when I'm talking to a blind person and they can't make eye contact with me because they can't see me.
Hacking Passwords; Most Common Passwords&How long it takes to hack a Password
No remote working, sorry.
Thanks =). It was meant as a trailing joke. Can you imagine actually getting that every time you press a button? =)
Gmail: Detecting suspicious account activity
The Dense States of America (Map)
Cool place. Though the embedded youtube video with the fs=1& was killing my browser. I guess fullscreen flash in a small box was not ok with firefox on a mac.
Well since they don't use obscure keyboard shortcuts it's sort of a no brainer. But if you asked whether they would prefer unicorns or more pages rendering correctly it's not so clear cut.
10 KILL "POWERPNT.EXE"

20 PRINT "PROBLEM SOLVED!"

30 END

(Hint: The KILL command in old Microsoft BASIC deleted a file.)
Rebuttal to aforementioned article: http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/2006/11/01/an-attack-on-p...

(copy-paste from my comment on the "How to nap..." article)
Controversial Poll by World Pubic Opinion: Ahmadinejad is Legitimate
Google was already working on Chrome when gazelle was announced. They didn't built it in a day.
Yea, from the HTTP headers it looks like they are running Apache-Coyote server.
Besides, it just makes me feel guilty for being one of the awkward teenagers who reinforced the stereotype that math and science are for unattractive, unpopular, socially retarded people.

Why does women's intolerance of people like you make you feel guilty?

What next, should Indians/Asians feel guilty for driving racists out of computing? Making computing unattractive to intolerant people is a good thing.
I had a thought that it was actually posting a quick job on a Mech Turk when that progress bar was crawling across the screen :)
Quite. I first heard about Firefox Personas in a group inhabited mainly by 'Normals'. They liked it. One person decided to switch it back off, but wasn't upset by the process.
Calacanis hammered dhh pretty hard about it when he was on TWIST last Friday http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2219-jason-calacanis-vs-david...
Wow, this is very interesting if true. Is there public information backing up the assertion that Microsoft wanted to kill IE as we know it and integrate it into Windows?
How big is a nugget-of-news?
I can't "already have any" when I'm hiring a team from scratch. With that logic, only women could hire women engineers for a new project. Is this the case? Do women have an easier time of hiring other women?
Facebook 'linked to rise in syphilis'
English Wikipedia down due to dns issue
Steve Jobs was a serial entrepreneur—starting Apple, then Pixar, then NeXT, then returning to transform Apple. Maybe he didn't want to be at the time, but in his Stanford commencement speech he said (with the benefit of retrospect) that getting fired from Apple was one of the most important events in his life. Here's what he said:

"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

Now, Steve didn't flip Apple, he didn't sell out. But the point is that he did start over from scratch. 37signals are right that building a business for the principal purpose of flipping it is probably a perverse goal. But being a serial entrepreneur is not a bad thing, and Jobs is precisely an example of why it's not a bad thing.
Heh, I also transferred, but Cornell was the only school that didn't accept my transfer application.
Hotmail does the same with "New | Delete | Junk"

My CMU webmail recently moved the Delete button to the middle of the button bar, as far away from other buttons as possible. It's practically impossible to misclick, unless you're clicking around with your eyes closed.
Yelp is still hiring. We're in downtown San Francisco.
Frontend, backend, iPhone, Android, you name it. Lots of python.
http://www.yelp.com/jobs
Pickup 'Crossing the Chasm' by Geoffrey Moore.

You have to initially market to early adopters and then assuming that's successful you make the jump to the 'normals' by graduating your marketing strategy.

It's a simple concept that many companies fail to implement.
http://hoth.entp.com/2010/3/23/we-re-hiring-2 (Portland, Oregon)

Good timing. ENTP (Lighthouse bug tracker + Tender support) posted some Ruby on Rails job listings last night. We're a small team of 10 employees, located in downtown Portland.
Just to clarify, did you mean AdWords where you said AdSense?
I just realized that my email address wasn't public and only my personal website was.

My email address is nolan at nolancaudill.com. Sorry about that and please email away!
"I couldn't figure out how to make it work, so it must be broken."
Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding
It'd be nice if this feature made it into all web applications that handle sensitive data.
tl;dr: Reddit dropped offline due to a known bug in a down-revision Ubuntu kernel, and the Reddit pinger dropped offline due to the same known bug in a different instance of the same down-revision Ubuntu kernel, and they're now implementing an outboard pinger.
Or evolve your Business? Apple did Desktops/Laptops and started selling iPods, MS did software and started selling Xbox, etc.