skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuel Industries, we're a game dev / advergaming shop focused mostly on social games at the moment.

We're looking for web developers that like big jobs and small ones. My team handles everything from portal sites through full real time MMO server development, and we're always looking for talent.

http://fuelindustries.com/

Our dev shop is in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We have sales offices in LA and Seattle.

No remote opportunities right now, but we offer competitive salaries and relocation expenses for the right candidate.

Contact me for more info or shoot me a resume: shunter@fuelindustries.com
IE9 Tech Preview beats latest Firefox alpha, as Chrome 5 clobbers King Opera
We used ScreenFlow for the screen cast along with SimFinger for the touch indicator. For site integration we used flowplayer.
This works in ZSH as well, I also didn't know about it so this is definitely going to save me a lot of keystrokes. Although I already had some of the regular shortcuts memorized (like ctrl-a goes to start of the line) being able to use one set of keybindings is great!
The US practices censorship just like China does. Let's all applaud Google when it agrees to host a WikiLeaks server! Yeah right.
At Last.fm we're looking for an experienced web developer in London:

http://www.last.fm/about/jobs#job_PHP+Web+Developer

There are also a few other jobs on the page there, all based in London.
Let's all applaud Google for hosting a WikiLeaks server to accompany it's bold anti-censorship stance!
I've known about Vi mode for a long time, but have never been able to make the switch. It's a brain bender!
As often as possible.

If I can do a front-load of reading data and only have the data radios on for a fixed time (ideally, over wi-fi), that's going to be less of a battery drain than the on-again/off-again of casual browsing. Not to mention that it dramatically improves the reading experience to not be waiting on inconsistent data rates and server speeds during my reading time.
Complete and total nonsense. While the US Government has severe issues it is not by any stretch equivalent to the Chinese Government in its repression of human rights and freedoms and censorship of the Internet.
NewsLabs is the most exciting one from the list for me, but probably not the one with the most upside.

The list sounds good. I'd add Notifo to the most promising ones (going just by this short description of course!).
I've given up voting here on my iPhone for this reason - I hit the wrong arrow too many times. Either the arrow size/proximity or the lack of an undo feature have to go.
Summary: an anecdote about a hotel dining room with 2 bean-to-cup coffee machines. One exposes the beans so that users can see it is fresh ground, the other does not. A queue forms for the explicitly fresh coffee whilst the other machine remains largely unused.

Hypotheses: we are pack followers, we like to see our coffee is fresh.
I definitely lost my respect and trust to WePay founders because of their seemingly support for unpaid internships. Their justification is that interns can gain learning experience though they're not paid. This is okay if none of the intern's work goes to production code. If the interns are doing real work that impacts the company's products, then it is not only illegal, but also unethical.
I make that mistake all the time, especially on my iPhone, and I always experience a pang of regret when I downvote a comment I actually really liked. Why can’t you change your vote?
Rather little How in the How To here. That's unfortunate.

Here's my top five:

1) SEO and AdSense. Learn 'em. Really, this could be points one through five.

2) Focus your marketing attention on the pain point your software/service addresses and how their lives will improve as a result of using it (benefits), not on what your software/service does (features).

3) Instrument freaking everything and remove anything which causes more people to fail at whatever the core task of your application is. If you do this, you will find places where your view of the world is so different from your users' that you could not possibly predict what their issue would be. e.g. for the significant percentage of your users who think Google is the Internet.

4) Email is the single best way to maintain your relationship with someone when they're not on your site, which is most of the time.

5) About 1 million people Tweet. Some 3 millionish people subscribe to Techcrunch. Twenty million voted for Ross Perot. Please recalibrate your understanding of what broad mainstream appeal is.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
Last.fm and Moo are right on teh roundabout, though you're probably just referring to startups.
My article is in no way focused on "how to" attract normals. This is simply an opinion piece on why you should focus on Normals rather than techies and early adopters. I just saw this post on Hacker News and I did not select the title. :)
Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein blames the Droid for the Pre's lackluster sales
I'm sad to say that after the 1986 tax "reform" bill I just gave up on this sort of thing and became a wage slave.

I know from my father that it's a lot of work to keep up on this sort of thing; having an ongoing relationship with a lawyer, retaining an accounting firm, and paying a lot of attention to the issues (back in the bad old days that entailed subscribing to several good newsletters) seems to be safest path. (Check my account and email me if you want me to put you in touch with him for how he did this for 5 or so decades; you might say that startups are in my blood.)

For your case, unless you want to fold the company, it's necessary for you to find out what's going on. If you made a mistake, just paying off this demand is unlikely to prevent ones in the future. If you didn't, well, if you can figure that out without spending too much money you then know you have a $3K legal and accounting budget (minus your opportunity costs) to try to set it right.
Fuel Industries! We're looking for smart web devs, flash developers, and some management positions:

http://fuelindustries.com/
Schwartz Recalls Apple, Microsoft Patent Threats Against Sun
"In response to Apple's lawsuit against HTC, Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has written a very intriguing blog post providing an insight into how major companies like Apple and Microsoft treat patents. He recounts two occasions on which Apple and Microsoft threatened to sue Sun - and how Sun retorted."
We're looking for a few great .NET developers in NYC - we're the US division of a large (but privately owned) international media company (http://www.haymarket.com). Located right in Chelsea, lots of exciting projects and technologies. Email web@haymarketmedia.com if interested! Thanks, Christian.
Fair enough = )
Sure, their PR methods are edgy.

But what is paranoid about that piece the other week? The US Army describes Wikileaks as a potential danger to their operational and information security, due to moles being potentialy able to securely leak information to them. It then calls for, shall we say, further "awareness" of this potential "danger", and for submitting fabricated information, identification and prosecution of whisteblowers etc. What makes you think Wikileaks is being paranoid instead of realistic?
Thanks for posting this as it helps demonstrate that 37Signals' signature visual style is not developed without tweaking and fedback and effort.
Involuntary part time employment is a problem for 1.5% of the poor. 89.8% of the poor do not work full time and are not seeking full time work.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf

We don't know if they can't get jobs, all we can do is speculate about what might happen if they looked. Health care is also available, it's called medicaid.

So basically, your only correct complaint is that our educational system is broken.
ptipng and advpng are great, but pngout still produces smaller files. Without it, I'll be sticking with imageoptim. I would love for someone to figure out what pngout does and start an open source implementation.
Wolters Kluwer Health in NYC is embarking on several new projects on the SharePoint 2010 platform. This is a new platform for most of us and we'll be spending a lot of time getting training, so we'd like to fill an open Sr Software Developer position with someone who's already got relevant experience.

http://www.wolterskluwer.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fu...
They said that the US Army had attacked them and were planning to shut them down.

Which, if you read the document, was not actually the case.
On a site with a community of this size each individual vote often makes a fairly significant impact

Really? I've always felt the opposite. Law of large numbers, yada yada. I've mis-voted a fair number of times over the years, and I can't say I've really lost a lot of sleep over it.
Where are you based?

I'm finding most technically naive computer owners have at least IE7 now - their IE6 bearing computers having got a glitch and been replaced. Isn't this remaining percentage supposedly business users or those using corporate owned computers?
We're looking for a Flex plus some reasonable combination of: PHP, MySQL, jQuery, CouchDB. Seattle based.

Contract to perm, pending closing our Series A (hopefully in the next few weeks).

Some remote is a possibility.

http://myprofitsee.com peterj at myprofitsee.com
I came here to say something similar.

I think all this labelling as "normal" / "other" is unhealthy, because it leads to unexamined associations about the group, and thoughts like "the 'normal' people are morally better, anyone with different preferences is wrong and evil" or the way some people treat the "normal" as the only kind of people that exist, and try to deny the existence of any group that has a different preference.

There are certainly different groups with different preferences and abilities, but I think it's important to avoid value-laden terms when thinking about them. (except possibly "value" in the strictly commercial sense").
TinyPrints is hiring in Mountain View (onsite). We're looking for LAMP experts (P stands for PHP). We have exciting projects in the social network areas, distributed system development and platform areas (MongoDB/Cassandra), CMS and many others.
Apply at BeAStar@tinyprints.com
I think you are right in terms of the ultimate effect (more weight gain). People are already taken in by the various psuedo-mythologies concerning fats, and so they will be scared into eating more empty carbs.

Somewhat orthogonally, I think the government is overstepping its bounds.

That said, as someone who actually has a reasonable idea of what is "healthy," I'll be quite happy see what is in the food I may or may not be ordering. Say, for instance, what kind of oil is going into a salad, or searing some fish...
They don't tend to go "round and round", really -- what usually happens is that someone posts something that points out the obvious inequality in our industry, wonders what to do about it, and the top-rated response is from someone who is "tired" of the conversation (because we've clearly exhausted all the options, naturally!)

At least we're consistent.

I have very little patience for people who are tired of the conversation that we never seem to have. There are no women in this industry. It's unnatural, it's stifling, and it's a problem. And I think it's a situation where the wolf is guarding the hen-house -- the chickens keep disappearing, but nobody knows why! Whatever could it be?

One thing I've noticed amongst my female friends is that while they might get interviews, they tend to be rejected at a much higher rate than equally qualified male applicants. Given how completely idiotic and machismo-driven the interview process is at most tech companies, it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that this is an industry-wide phenomenon.

Do I know this is a problem? No. But like most other latent sources of bias, we'll never know if we stick our heads in the sand every time the subject is raised.
With all the crap Adobe gets for Flash, this is where their primary area of expertise lies. I've been using Photoshop from when there were no layers and very limited number of undos. They never fail to deliver something incredibly useful and time-saving with each iteration.
I think you're missing my point. Find a large group of less Internet savvy folks to target and build a product for them. Pulled from my article:

1. Normals stick around a lot longer and are far more loyal than early adopters.

2. Normals are friends with other Normals, which propagates the cycle.

3. The Normals group is a larger market than the early adopters and techies group.

4. Normals appreciate simple, so it's easier and less time consuming to build a product for them.

Further reading on Chris Dixon's blog:

http://cdixon.org/2010/01/22/techies-and-normals/
Ask HN: I suck at marketing, can you give feedback on my startup's homepage? 
http://braintrust.io

I'm a designer, programmer, an entrepreneur (meaning, I've started plenty of stuff), but I'm coming to terms with the fact that I might suck at marketing and getting the actual word out.

Can you give me feedback on my startup's homepage and copy? Any suggestions on how I can better get the word out?
"Finally cracked the encryption to US military video in which journalists, among others, are shot. Thanks to all who donated $/CPUs." http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/9412020034
This may have to do with it.
D'oh, you're right. I didn't even see your H1 tag -- my brain mentally skips them on the assumption they match the HN title, as is the case 99.99% of the time.

In addition to your rationales, which I largely agree with, I'm sort of partial to "People who are normal pay money for things, even things not made by Apple, even in prices above $1.99."
If it's a bad decision we should rule out as many as possible from making it.
You have to be careful about things like this. While Foosball and learning Clojure are both not work related, one looks a lot more like work. It's a lot easier to forget where you are and program something cool in Clojure for 2 hours than it is to accidentally play Foosball for 2 hours. Other than that - your breaks are your business (in most states).
One way to achieve that would be to make the user check a confirmation box before enabling the submit button. I've used this in a couple places and I've never seen it confuse anyone.
Censorship is censorship. It's either bad or it's not. If Google truly cares about the issue of censorship it should act consistently, not just try to find an area in which opposition to censorship is unanimous among people in the US and make a big stink about how bold it is being.

This is a business decision. Try posting a video of a naked 17.5 year old person on youtube and see how long it takes before it is taken down. Try posting a video slide show of sensitive wikileaks docs and see how long the video stays up.

Your argument also falls apart in terms of the humanitarian argument. Search increases freedom and thus is helpful to humanitarian goals. If Google makes a decision that results in less search, the decision results in less freedom.

Similarly, if you are running late to an event and you drive 100 MPH on the highway and you get pulled over for speeding, you might actually get there later than if you'd just driven the speed limit. If you want to optimize within the law you don't speed. Google is doing the equivalent of going 100 MPH and then blaming the cop.
IPad app user interface quality is going to matter a lot more than on the iPhone
I'm often still in bed then when I'm most alert?

My work often starts at 11am, sometimes 9am, sometimes 7am. I finish at 6pm-ish though sometimes 5pm, sometimes, 9:30 and sometimes 2am or 3am. If a 7 hour day sounds good, it can be but generally I'd do a couple of extras to avoid doing a 14 or 21 day cycle without a proper break.

Thankfully I hate routine.

I do have a second job too.
Ways to make money from this:

1) Make a brochure for your area "Eating Better in NAME_OF_TOWN USA". List all the meals that have the lower calorie counts. Ask the local businesses to pay to be listed. Publish this bi-annually. Do this in every town you can.

2) Start an eating-healthy club that uses goal-setting and social shaming to help people lose or maintain their weight. Ask local businesses to sponsor membership fees in exchange for listing their lower-calorie menu items in your newsletter. Do this in 1000 towns. You'll need to find someone local to set this up. Start by contacting people in outgoing/enterprising professions such as real-estate.

More ideas?
Bizo (http://bizo.com) is hiring a Web/UI/UX Designer in downtown San Francisco. Essentially, we need someone to own design and usability for everything we do. Full description here: http://bit.ly/adbvhQ

Bizo is a year and a half old and already profitable. In December, we closed a $6 million round from Bessemer Venture Partners and placed second in the Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge. We have ~17 people (7 engineers) across the country, and we'll be moving our SF headquarters into a new space (Commercial & Sansome) next week.

If interested, drop me a line: mike@bizo.com
I agree with you in that it could be a good market segment to go for, but I think there's a lot of potential value in other market segments.

For example, the ISP I use targets technical users, and they seem to be doing quite nicely.
I have found that the easiest way to keep my day job and startup separate is to have a separate laptop for both so that I'm not tempted to work on startup tasks on the company's computer while on the clock or off. Not too difficult to do during the day but it can be during the off hours when the company's laptop is better than your own.

I think the harder issue is trying to avoid answering emails that are startup related while on the clock. Even if it's webmail they still own the internet at work.
Totally agree with that. Normal folks are happy to drop $10-25 or more a month for products that they like, enjoy, need, etc. While a lot of my entrepreneur friends are pretty stingy when buying products and things online unless they really need them. It's quite comical, because most of us sell products online. :)
Clickable : http://braintrust.io

I've got a couple of remarks about the video :

- I'm not sure that drum'n'bass is the right kind of music

- You should stare at the camera instead of talking to your interviewer

- You don't seem to be convinced by what you're saying. You have to sound more active.

Finally, concerning the pricing options, privacy is not a commodity, ssl should be available for every plans.
I changed the title to "why you should" though I do think there's a lot of "how to" in the article - just not in the typical list form that makes how to articles digestible.
I updated the article to include 2 more angels in NYC. And here is a link to 10 seed funds in NYC. http://www.kartme.com/phil/seed-funds-nyc
yeah, that saves a lot of time. I'm sure for serious jobs you really need to go back and touch up things, but this is a pretty good first pass.
Google is still illegal (in China) by putting server in Hong Kong
It depends on your personality/character in part: the physic cost of not fighting can be a lot higher.
Palantir Technologies (http://www.palantir.com) is hiring for various technical positions in Palo Alto and for business development positions in NYC. On-site only. Contact me if you're interested: http://bit.ly/aJiAWP
New Cappuccino App: TimeTable
We have an opening for a junior or intermediate Ops engineer at CBS Interactive in San Francisco (on-site).

You'd be supporting the Gamespot, Gamefaqs, and Metacritic production, dev, staging, and load testing environments (as well as some Business Intelligence sites related to the video gaming industry).

Linux/NetApp/scripting/Redis/MySQL/Varnish/Memcached/Gearman/LAMP/mod_rewrite/CDN/Jira... that sort of thing.

Email: gml-ops@cnet.com
Accessing Arrangement, Arranging Access: The Jeremy Blake (Born-digital) Papers
I'm not so sure of that.

The problem with web-based advertising is that it is so damned measurable-- it's trivial to see if your ad is working or not (where "working" is defined as leading to a conversion appropriate to the task at hand.)

In the old days, a company might pay $X to run a print ad, and suspect that it was helping business, and then run it again, etc.

Now, it's trivial to know for sure, one way or the other. Which means that ad prices get tied to actual effectiveness, not to some amorphous notion of "prestige".

In other words: a lot of print advertising was horribly overpriced. I don't think a cartel is going to be able to put that toothpaste back into the tube....
"wget" is not installed on a iPhone. You would use something like NSURLRequest/NSURLConnection.
IPL 2010 revenue will cross billion dollars
Metaweb (San Francisco) is hiring

http://www.metaweb.com/jobs

systems programming, C, ml, python
Oh. There's certainly room for building products/services for technical users. A lot of people do that well and make a lot of money doing just that. It's just a lot more difficult to penetrate the market and there's less room for massive scale. Your users are inherently more tech savvy, will voice their opinion far more often, and be a lot more critical of your service.
Hotlist (http://www.thehotlist.com/) in New York City is hiring a server side developers. The person has to be able to write PHP/Python/Ruby/Perl without difficulty. Experiences with MySQL or can learn Database programming on the fly. Please check out our startuply ad http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Talented_LAMP_developer_backen...
One really really annoying thing about this: pressing return in "normal" or "insert" modes executes the command. That behaviour just doesn't feel right.
It also helps them that you still can't manage Firefox settings remotely for your desktop estate, and you can't change policy across all your users instantly. Both of these give IE massive traction.
Google's Brin Talks About China Gamble
I suppose I structured that sentence in a "jerk" fashion. My intent was that I was looking for some more research into this method other than a story, well-written I might add.

I didn't expect you to be paid by Pzzzzz, but I did check for affiliate links ;)
My niece entered Iowa State and resided on an all-women floor of the dormitory. A good mix of freshman majors, medical and engineering and so on. By the time she graduated, she was the ONLY technical major left (biomed). All the other women had switched to journalism or Phys Ed etc. Why?
In Atlanta, we're looking for a developer with Java, Spring MVC, and jQuery to join our team for a new product launch. Drop me a line if you're interested or know of someone who might be.
Reading Festival Tickets - Reading Festival Festivals Tickets
Reading Festival Tickets - Buy Reading Festival Tickets and Sell Reading Festival Tickets on Sold Out Ticket Market. Reading Festival Tickets on Sale Now for All Venues with 100% Guarantee. SoldOutTicketMarket.com is specialized in buying Reading Festival Tickets and selling Reading Festival Tickets. You can buy tickets for Reading Festival online by our safe and secure system.
"The real world doesn't observe someone's wedding on the other side of the planet"

I think your definition of "real world" is not entirely correct.
Need contact info, or is that part of the prescreening? ;-)
Yep, I do the same thing. I just got a netbook to work on my startup, it's easy to tote around should I find myself in a lunch cafe or coffee shop setting and want to crank out some startup code, and it's cheap, which goes along with my whole bootstrapping my startup thing :-)