skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're hiring at Urban Airship ( http://urbanairship.com/ ). We're located in Portland, Oregon.

We do push notifications and content delivery for mobile devices - currently iPhone and BlackBerry, but (very) soon Android and others. We have lots of really awesome customers and power some really big mobile apps.

Server stuff is in Python, but there's also work in Objective-C and Scala.

We're funded by True Ventures and Founders Co-op and we currently have 7 people - 6 engineers and our CEO, Scott Kveton. It's a place where everybody works on every layer of the stack and we're having a fantastic time working on new products and scaling out. You should join us.

jobs@urbanairship.com
Perhaps. Prison inmates who receive plastic surgery are less likely to get charged with new crimes. Of course, maybe they also don't get charged as often in much the same way as better looking people don't get convicted as often.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3420443
I did a bit of Googling and I'm pretty convinced that some of the numbers are medians and some are means. What'd be really interesting is a direct side by side of both (perhaps even doing an RP 10% in a third column.)

I might Mechanical Turk that, it'd be worth a few bucks to see.
Strange, a whole passage about how he developed several steam tractors has been cut out between the left and right column (the non-sequitur is pretty obvious).

Full text here, starting just under middle of p.25: http://books.google.be/books?id=DeYw_wMlwqoC&lpg=PA26...
Educationize the World
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And he manages to have a website with more style and personality than much of the internet.
> Did you know that in Firefox a switch statement is one hundred times faster than an object lookup?

A switch statement in what language? I presume by "object lookup" you mean the "bar" in "foo.bar" in javascript.

With all respect, I think you are worrying too much :)
Your edited-in statement is wrong. Though the mortgage appreciates in value, this appreciation is pretty small and is highly unlikely to cover the cost of maintaining a home (which the rent covers).

Mortgages are good if you want to own a house outright. For many people, this is actually an economic disadvantage, because now they have this big expensive asset that demands a lot of attention and is hard to get rid of. Unless you are gonna be there for a decade plus, better to let a property manager worry about it.
but all flash apps, up till 10.1 where not. where as all HTML 5 apps are.

listen, I get what you are saying: the past is the past, but we want to move on, now, and adobe seems to be moving glacially.
You may be correct, the lack of conjunction and my reading left to right, top to bottom conspired to introduce ambiguity in my interpretation.
I've had Clear for a few years at my office. Its gotten a bit faster recently, but the latency is still terrible. It will also arbitrarily cut out for a few hours with no explanation.

Unfortunately, there are no better deals for business internet around here, unless you're willing to pay $400/month to TWC. But if you have any option, do not sign-up for Clear.
More precisely, Carnegie and Mellon, after whom CMU is named, made their fortunes in steel and banking.
> debian sadly is too dated for my hardware and I don't feel like using sid

Did you try debian testing?

My experience with rolling release:

I tried Gentoo and then Arch, moving off both after they pushed updates which completely broke my system.

Gentoo has a disclaimer that you need to check each update individually, Arch was a little bit more realistic, but on the flip-side contradictory - some places they tell you to just update often, and others tell you to check packages for problems as with Gentoo.

If you do not intend to check each update for breakages (like me), then my advice is to not use Gentoo or Arch (but if you are willing to check all updates, then I'd recommend them).

Debian testing's been okay for me so far and I've got greater confidence that they a) won't be as likely to break my system, and b) will send an update to revert or fix in a reasonable time if they do.

If (or when?) this breaks, I'll go back to Ubuntu, full circle.
Heroku is to hosting and deployment what Rails is to web development. It's so easy. And it keeps on getting better and better.
If it were possible to slap a [citation needed] on other peoples' infographics, this is when you would want to do it. In addition to the context-free nature of the 'facts' provided, I have a suspicion that at least some of them are outright wrong. (And if they were right, I'd want to know more. I'm sick of this culture where information exists in the form of blurbs, factoids and opinions.)
The difference is that you could update those apps if you want to. Your laziness affects your app; Miguel's hypothetical future laziness affects thousands of apps.
Just for your information, this might not bear much meaning to people outside USA.

I'm a Russian guy and it is mostly gibberish to me. No saving for retirement? No mutual funds, stock or bonds? Is it supposed to be striking or what?

Also: less than 4/10 of American adults have an emergency fund to fall back on. This is still pretty big fraction of prudent people if you ask me, isn't it?
I'm not sure if I'm missing something, or doing something wrong, but following the author's directions, none of my links are mangled whatsoever - copying the google.com link simply pasted google.com.

I do have Javascript enabled as stated.

I tried with each link in the article, and not a single one of them is redirecting via Viglink.

(edit) Using Firefox 3.5 on Linux
At the very least, they will need to share Spiderman with Steve Ditko.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ditko#Creation_of_Spider-...
$1000/mortgage is not always better than $1000 in rent.

I have family members who have $1000 mortgages in the middle of the country, and make about $38,000 per year.

Similarly I have friends who have remained in rent-controlled apartments in NYC for LESS than $1000 and make over $150,000 per year.
How do I know when to use microdata, microformats, or RDFa?
I couldn't repeat the link copying trick mentioned in the article. When I right clicked on the link and copied it there was just google.com, no affiliate link.

I can see the viglink JavaScript in the source code for the page, though. Yet the dynamic DOM inspector shows that the link href has not been changed, nor is there an onclick handler added. Perhaps it does not work on Safari, or only works for specific users?
Carnegie was a steel baron. Melon was a banker. Hence Carnegie Mellon became "steel bank".
doubleTwist is hiring. Our office is in San Francisco CA.

http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Jobs.dt

email: chris at doubletwist dot com

We're also looking (although it isn't listed in the link) for Android engineers.
I think you can safely say any Flash iPhone app is going to be larger than the Hello World app. The only issue in question is how much larger.
Metrowerks PowerPlant wasn't open source. MonoTouch is. If Miguel gets lazy, you can still update your apps as long as you aren't lazy.
Amazon EC2/S3 has servers in europe (Ireland). Though it's a litte bit more expensive.

Also I've met the guys from Flexiant.com/Flexiscale (http://www.flexiant.com/products/flexiscale/) at FOWA:London years ago. Not sure how they deliver.
You're welcome. A lot of credit has to go to Chris and the Reddit guys. They were awesome. One phone call, some code, a few emails and it was done.
I think when they say "crash" they mean crashing Safari, not crashing OSX.

That stat came from Apple's automated crash reporting tool, and I can't imagine that'd work after a kernel panic.
Sass provides inheritance to accomplish this same result but without spreading your selectors all over the place.

.uno {
@extend .dos;
text-align: center;
}
.dos {
color: green;
font-size: 18px;
}
I hope that double entendre was intentional.
Ask HN: when can a vendor of a platform decide its development language?
There is a lot of debate on Apple forbidding all languages except C, C++ and Objective-C on iPhone OS. Reading one more article on this topic, a question popped into my mind: why Google App Engine is different?

Google App Engine is a platform that allows only Java (or better, JVM) and Python. Ok, it is a web platform, but like the iPhone and the iPad are mobile platform. Yet nobody ever complained about this limitation.

I'm not saying they should have. I'm not implying what is right or wrong, I haven't decided by myself yet. So what I am asking is: where we draw the line? Where is the border between being able to decide the language for a platform you own and not being able to? We should complain also about Google's decisions? Or we should not complain about Apple's ones?

Are iPhone OS and GAE comparable? Maybe this is a silly question, but I'm not able to decide by myself, so I'd like to see someone here on HN to elaborate on the subject. Thank you.
Huh, didn't livejournal try the same trick a month or two ago?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100304/1741458425.shtml
I would guess because a google.com link is not a link to a product, hence, there's no affiliate code for it in viglink databases? Try an amazon link perhaps?
Think is hiring! We're making this:

http://www.thinklink.com

We are looking for web, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry developers near Palo Alto, CA.

News coverage:

http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/04/19/will-facecash-the-m...

Job application:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html
How is Metrowerk's Powerplant the horror story? Any apps programmed using the classic Mac OS APIs were just as incompatible come OSX.

Are we seriously talking about Apps not being updated with the latest features five years down the track as a reason to ban middleware? Those Apps aren't going to be updated anyway, and if they are they'll probably need a complete rewrite anyway.
Startup Lessons Learned
The author of the post specifically says that he can copy the google link and see an affiliate link.
That's a bit silly, their whole draw is in the fact that they change your content. If you have a youtube link, they turn that into a youtube embed. If you have http://..., they change that into an anchor. There are dozens of examples of content that you can put in an email and they will transform into something more useful, and this is generally regarded as being quite valuable.

If you have a problem with posterous manipulating your content, you should probably be hosting your own content.
Ignore the scary banner -- it should work just fine.
Just curious, but what's the business model behind embed.ly? How does one generate revenue from such a service?
I get the affiliate link when copying in Google Chrome on XP.
Again, the Hello World App is entirely irrelevant -- the question is whether a real world Flash iPhone app will be substantially larger than a native iPhone app that does basically the same thing.
If you look at the GDPs, it seems that they area actually talking about England-Google tells me $2.67T for UK, $2.13T for England alone.
Its more like they seem to think that England's flag is the UK's flag-But honestly, most Americans probably wouldnt be able to tell you what England's flag looks like anyways (they would say the UK flag)
blippy.com is hiring:
Chief Security Officer, engineering, and product.

We're trying to free your purchase data to allow any developer (including us) to add value. Social commerce (as a space) is ripe to explode, and we are at forefront.

Some of our tools include ruby, rails, haml, memcached, mongodb, sphinx.

Backed by August Capital, CRV, Sequoia, Ron Conway, Evan Williams, and many other awesome angels.

Team:
http://blippy.com/about

Funny pictures:
http://blippy.com/jobs
Ah, so it may only work on specific browsers. Safari seems immune.
Is remote work possible or only on-site?
List the courses in alphabetical order. Use something similar to http://travid.info/discounts (on the right hand side).
I got the mangled link. Opera 10.52 on Windows XP.
If you have ad blockers installed, you'll probably not see this. I can't see this on FF3.5+ with AdBlock plus
adBock?
> A switch statement in what language?

Javascript.

> I presume by "object lookup" you mean the "bar" in "foo.bar" in javascript.

Yes, but more specifically what I tested was the foo[bar] form, where bar contains a string, versus switch(bar).

> With all respect, I think you are worrying too much :)

For a language that is supposed to be nearly ready for writing rich interactive applications including pixel-by-pixel manipulation, two orders of magnitude (and widely variable across browsers) is a huge deal. I'm guessing you haven't tried to do much canvas programming?
How serendipitous - I was just wondering when or if they were coming out with an app last night :)
Apple disallowed options that used to be allowed. Also, there are many ways to deploy Web servers, but Apple is the only way onto the iPhone.
Small detail but neverthless annoying while comparing a stock & a flow.
"2 Trillion of Debt is more than GDP of England"

Its like I am saying I am worth more than 1 year of your income.

More here:
http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2007/11/is-mar...
Arizona police chief criticizes immigration law
But honestly, most Americans probably wouldnt be able to tell you what England's flag looks like anyways (they would say the UK flag)

I suspect most English people would struggle with it too if it wasn't hijacked by xenophobes and soccer nuts.
I think Gruber's point is that regular Mac apps could be ported to Carbon relatively easily, but PowerPlant apps couldn't.
What grudge? How are you measuring grudge-ness? How do I know with confidence whether a company is grudging or not? And furthermore, why would I care?
Here you go:
A bit old the data, but still interesting.
Net Worth and the Assets of Households 2002: http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-115.pdf
WiMax can not possibly provide 100Mbps to many people. It can't even do it to a small number.

There is a reason it's expensive: they can not provide service to large number of people at once, instead they aim for high speed to a small number, and you pay for it.

Additionally the farther you are from the base station, the slower the speeds. To provide even decent speeds to lots of people you need many many base stations.
while it would have been nice to get a heads up, this doesn't bother me in the least. props to posterous for having a revenue model that doesn't interfere with the user experience whatsoever
You can develop in C#, and have it converted to Python and run it on the App Engine. Something you can't do on the iPhone.

Google does not limit the language that you can use to write your app, only what languages its App Engine can understand. Very, very different.
I too don't actually see it via copying like the article mentions... however a quick View Source on this and another Posterous blog does reveal some javascript to call these guys:

http://www.viglink.com/

Pretty neat, I think! Assuming they're not overwriting existing affiliate URLs, then this seems like a reasonable game to play.

In my mind, Posterous is providing free hosting / platform for the blog, so they have at least some claim to having helped make the affiliate sale.

This isn't going nearly as far in bending the rules on affiliate programs as Browsarity (another YC company):

http://www.browsarity.com/about.php

(And good for Browsarity -- but I'm still surprised that various affiliate programs haven't disconnected them yet because of their much more tenuous connection to the underlying transaction.) [EDIT: clarifed this last sentence]
I also got the mangled link, Chrome on Ubuntu 9.10... right click > Copy Link Address.
It didn't work for me in Opera 10.10 on Mac OS X.
upvoted for sincerity
I found this part disturbing: "The business-savvy Komisaruk already has taken out a patent on the peptide that creates [post-orgasm bliss]." What an awful thing to do.
No affiliate link for me on Safari on Win XP.
What happens if the user is already trying to monetize their posterous content using affiliate links? Does Posterous steal the affiliate credit, in that case?
Always a Bridesmaid is looking for developers to start ASAP (open to contractors, summer interns or full-time employees). I am a second year at Stanford GSB and will be graduating in June and working on building this business full time. We are going to build a one-stop shop online for bridesmaid dresses. The bridesmaid dress industry is a $2 billion industry in the U.S. that is fraught with pain and dominated by brick and mortar local mom and pops shops (only 19% of bridesmaid dress purchases were made online in 2009). We are going to do for the bridesmaid dress industry what Blue Nile did for diamond engagement rings.

What we are looking for:
Web developer – either one person who can handle both front and back-end or one front-end developer one back-end developer. We are going to build an e-commerce site that is overlayed with additional functionality, including workflow and coordination tools; this will be a group shopping platform where the bride can act as a mini site administrator with her bridesmaids connected to her account. We are either going to use Magento as the e-commerce platform upon which we customize or we are building from scratch (we need help evaluating the risk of customizing on top of Magento given that the coordination tools are critical to our value proposition).

Front-end skills should include UX and UI experience. We would love to have someone who can help us with look and feel but are planning on having a graphic designer work with us on this if we cannot find a front-end developer who can do this too.

On the back-end, we would like to set up our website for robust analytics, inventory management, integration with an accounting system, etc. Past experience building a website end-to-end is a must; experience with e-commerce and/or social-networking platforms is a plus.

Founder, Ilana Stern: Prior to the GSB, Ilana worked as a Buyer for Bloomingdales, where she spent a portion of her time purchasing dresses for Bloomingdale’s nationwide. Last summer she worked for Bonobos, an e-commerce apparel start-up, and as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Ilana received her BA from University of Pennsylvania in 2005 where she focused on International Relations.

If interested, contact Ilana at stern_ilana@gsb.stanford.edu
Well, here's a few examples from the apps on my iPhone:

Tweetie 2 (very full featured twitter client): 2.8MB

Things (todo list manager): 983KB

Strategery (game, simple graphics): 6.3MB

Canabalt (game, slightly fancier graphics): 8.8MB

iOctocat (github browser): 749KB

Prowl (internet notification client): 351KB

Simplenote (Note taking, iPhone/iPad universal version): 853KB

Edit:

A cursory run-through of the flash apps listed by Adobe http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ indicates that they're all approximately 10-11MB.

MTV's South Park Avatar Creator is 9.3MB. Three other avatar creators that seemed similar in the appstore averaged about 6.5MB. Not a very scientific comparison, admittedly.
John Resig inducted into the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame
Of notable interest, they're added the sb-concurrency module. The best part about lisp is how it can incorporate new programming ideas into the normal syntax.
If you had the time/resources/expertise/inclination to support and extend the entire stack yourself, why would you have used the middle-ware to begin with?
That's one thing the iPhone App Store isn't.
Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com/) is looking for an engineer to help with our backend architecture and scalability. Lots of nasty, difficult challenges interfacing with millions of software clients and keeping a multi-petabyte filesystem running. We're located in downtown SF.

Needs to be proficient in C, Python, MySQL. Needs to be able to pick up new systems quickly. Great GPA from a top 5 CS school a plus.

If this sounds like you, send me an email! r@dropbox.com
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Wow, talk about a sampling bias.
40% of Internet using US adults research government spending online
I agree here, Posterous is free and a dam great service. If you want full control code your own blog or go the wordpress custom install way. They need to monetize somehow.
I too hope you've done well out of the deal. I've been a paying Fastmail customer for ~7 years and am very happy with it. The 2006 downtime and a few other hiccups around the same time were annoying, but since then things have felt rock solid.

I find the spam filter better than the one in Gmail, so thanks to whoever's done the hard work with that.

And thank you for keeping the old web interface around, I prefer it over the newer one. There's nothing particularly wrong with the newer one, I'm just very used to the way the old one works and find it fast enough without AJAX enhancements. That you kept the old interface going is one of the reasons I stayed with Fastmail, if you'd forced a switch to the new one I'd have probably gone to Gmail.
As I have always said, anonymous tags are the answer:

class based <.person>britney</>

id based <#person>britney</>

You can style them as usual using css, and there will never be conflicts in the future.
You can't get a T1!?
Tell NH: All the website reviews on HN indexed by Google
http://www.google.ca/search?q=review+my+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Search term on Google:
review my site:news.ycombinator.com

I've also created a Linkedin group where people can ask help on reviewing their websites and projects:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2998582&trk=anetsrch_name&goback=.gdr_1272665375838_1
Is this isn't a market, I don't know what is. My experience working with government has been that they really want to engage with citizen but don't know how, and moreover they don't know how to do it at scale in a meaningful way.
They could be more transparent about their usage of this, since it isn't indicated anywhere on their admin pages, especially for people who may have been using their own affiliate links which are being overwritten.

Having a paid version which would disable this would be another nice option for them to provide.
Continuations: One Control Flow Construct to Rule Them All
"$117,951 average debt" includes home mortgage. The poster states 95k of this is in mortgage and 2.2k in credit cards, but not where the other 20k is located.

Cars?
ack, he's using p-tags for what obviously is an ordered list. =)
David Cameron: 'There are entrepreneurs everywhere'
Yeah, 5-10 years ago no one except the niche community of Mac users and developers was following Apple this closely. It's almost hard to remember how small Apple's influence had gotten by the time of Steve's return - before the iMac, iPod, iPhone, or iPad. How many people even remember products like "Performa" or "eMate"?
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Whitepages.com is hiring a bunch of software developers. We're a great place to work, use Rails a lot.

https://whitepagesinc.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/alljobs...
Computing a Theory of Everything
Wikipedia has a good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Middle_Eas...
U.S. Officials And Massey, Owner Of Mine Where 29 Died, In Bribery Probe
Also, the renter doesn't pay property taxes (directly, anyway), while the homeowner does.
The average American has one breast and one testicle.
Viglink does not strip existing affiliate codes.
Yeah, I don't know how I feel about this either. Especially when they don't tell you.