skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't understand your question either. It feels very...jargon-heavy.

It sounds like your question is: if you know who you want to sell to, can you just ask them what they want rather than polling them for feedback on different ideas? Honestly, I think people often don't know what they want because they don't understand which things can be made simpler. That's why someone with a different perspective (hackers) can learn about a market, have some new insight, and come up with something disruptive.
We're looking for a clever, can-do, motivated, part-timer (and possibly something more!) in Vienna, Austria for http://letsfreckle.com and other secret, saucy SaaS products that help real customers & earn real money :)

Your specs: motivation & problem-solving are key, Ruby/Ruby on Rails experience helpful, and any kind of HTML/CSS/JS skills are cream. You've gotta be willing to wear many hats, cuz the rest of us sure do.

Could totally turn into a f/t position, once we figure out the logistics.
Looking at this this post, I think we need hackerjobs.eu
The quantity and quality of content Khan produces is astounding. I've found the videos useful for reviewing linear algebra and probability problems.
Someone needs to tell Apple about http://mobile.youporn.com/ and all other thousands of web sites that stream porn for free on the iphone/ipad.
I've never minded the disorganization: I think of these threads as a good way to see who's busy and learn about a few new companies and products.

Besides, considering the high quality of opportunities that are usually offered here, time spent combing through these threads is more efficient than sifting through the piles of trash on regular job sites.
While we're on the subject, would "Bloggitus, ergo sumus" mean something like "We blog, therefore we are"? I hope it does, I use it as the subtitle of my kids' blog: http://ludvig.eiman.tv/
We were talking about silencers and automatic weapons, not shotguns.
Same as me.
It requires some work, but it's relatively easy: http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/living/official-matters/knowled...
I don't know. Maybe I would feel liberated?
Accurate and exhaustive?

I suppose you could apply those words in this context but the article sets off my BS detector in a huge way, reminds me of my old hometown paper when their editor was insulted at some dinner the previous week.

EXCLUSIVE: Shakeup at Wikipedia in Wake of Porn Purge

... oh wait it turns out that the huge shakeup was some privelege change that was done a long time ago, and some extremely mild quotes from a "source"

Then we have these gems:
Those images have been the subject of heated discussion within the community since their existence was revealed exclusively by FoxNews.com on April 27.

...

On May 7, FoxNews.com reported exclusively that Wales had personally deleted many of the images from Wikimedia's servers

...

The debate heated up when FoxNews.com began contacting high profile corporations and foundations that have donated to the Wikimedia Foundation for comment — including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Best Buy, USA Networks, Craigslist, Ford Foundation and Open Society Institute.

What the fuck is Fox News' problem with Wikipedia?
Good God, this is ridiculous - this should be a bigger news story, show how MPAA respects noone.
Because Google has never genuinely competed on quality, except for search results, and that was only for a blessed golden period. (And not counting Gmail, which was a 20% project, and is only considered high quality because the rest of the state of web-based email interfaces is horrible, open source shit.)

Google doesn't need finesse: They strongarm, using brute force & sheer volume. That's what they do.

Ergo, they don't need to finesse the SDK or truly court developers. (The best way to court developers is to ensure apps sell - and the Android marketplace numbers are dismal.)

They think they will win anyway.
It was emailing the login credentials to a gmail account (supposedly) for development purposes and was 'accidentally' left on in production.
+1.

It's interesting to see it in this form; otherwise, you could miss interesting opportunities that aren't in your local area. I referred one non-local (WRT to me) person to an interesting post because of that.
more OS going into end-users hands than ever before, what is he smoking?

Android, iPhoneOS, Maemo/Meego, Ubuntu, WebOS

itd be nice to have a single source for important developments in each of the above. i might even cal the site OSNews. are they relinquishing the domain?
It doesn't work at all in IE. It's not anything to do with flash, rather, IE's lack of support for canvas. It gives a JS error on page load (object doesn't support this property or method), on line 28 where it tries to call Canvas getContext.
Mac sales, at the time, were a non-elastic market. The clones did not increase the Mac marketshare, they just took sales of machines from Apple.

Keeping the clones wouldn't have helped them do the things you are saying, it would have just hamstrung them further.
Maybe it is time to get http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs a little bit more useful and turn it into a job posting board? Then it's just one step to create a specialized submission form to make things more organized.
It has been a while ago since I last studied Latin, but from memory it should be something like Blogito (for 'I') or Blogimus (for 'we').
I'm sad that this is what qualifies as geeky.
Many games are essentially open at this point, in that Nintendo and other publishers haven't asked that the roms not be distributed.

The ones they really care about they have an ESA request on. See http://www.romnation.net/srv/page/esa.html (WARNING : horrible flashing ads). This includes all Mario games, Zelda, and so on.
How does this compare to Clojure's approach?
I think that he blogs internally a lot @ Google. But he might have quit that too, IDK.
Well, it was written by a moody 22-24-year-old. :)
Squeezing maximum computes per watt out of the Sheeva plug computer
No, it's because Applets, like Flash, are a narrow, specific, proprietary setting. Nobody has ever questioned that Java can handle something like that.

The interesting part here is that it is showing that browsers and JavaScript, with a very different approach than Flash or Java, can now handle this sort of computationally intensive, graphics intensive application without any OS-specific plugins.
Flagged - enough with HN turning into the pile-on of the week (whoever is in the news - Google, Apple, Facebook - becomes a swarm of HN posts, amping the noise to signal ratio).
Appleseed: A Privacy-Centric Facebook Slayer With Working Code
You make a couple good points/ideas.

I like the carbon free lawn service idea. My current mower is actually an American lawn reel mower. Coincidentally, I bought it on craigslist for $35. It's from 72, and still cuts like a champ as long as your willing to maintain it. The "carbon free" service would work great in my area where there is a high density of people in town homes with small front lawns.

Maybe YMMV on the small lawn mowers. But I have had extremely good luck with them. I think that most of the problem people have with mowers is failing to maintain them properly. In my experience, if you can buy a used mower that will start quickly without much hassle it can generally be kept in decent working order for a long time. But purchasing one of these used mowers was why I said the idea scales. It's pretty easy to get enough work out of a used mower to buy a better quality mower.

Thanks for sharing your insight. I hope someone jumps on the reel mower service.
If only this website had a section for potential employment opportunities...
yeah, but as people have noted this doesn't work on anything other than the latest builds of chrome and safari. Still impressive but this is not exactly a compatibility win.
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It's true, but manga in Japan is not limited to 12-13 years old but very segmented throughout age groups. For example, anything labeled with "Seinen" (usually those published under magazine with title prefixed with "Young", e.g. Young Jump, Young King) is intended for the 18~30 age range. Even "Shonen" (male 13~18) nowadays are not very strictly shonen. "Shoujo" (female 13~18) most of time shouldn't really labeled shoujo.

The problem is that Kodansha never publicize the title of 30% that has been rejected, so we're in no way to know whose standards are at issue here.
You do have a point, and I actually agree with you :). I just found this article too hilarious to not post it.
If you work in any industry where food is being served, it's very hard to stay hungry. :)
Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss
Or... people could just use one of the 278 existing job sites that have proper search and are generally better suited to the task than a generic forum.

If you want to bring YC people together it might be easier to agree on a "secret handshake", like the string "YCYC" somewhere in the description?
Ask HN: What do you think of your iPad?
I hope this is found to be relevant. I ask because I seriously think the iPad represents an inflection point in the way people interact with machines, possibly even with magnitude similar to the introduction of the mouse to the masses in the early '80s. If that turns out to be anywhere near true, then the iPad and its soon-competitors represent a HUGE entrepreneurial opportunity.

So, owners of iPads, is it qualitatively different? Is it better? Is it close but needs another iteration? I've not bought one yet, but have gone to look at it twice, and been, well, underwhelmed. But something keeps me thinking about it.

Sorry to resurrect something that dominated discussion for a while, but I'm genuinely curious if the honeymoon is over or if the iPad has real traction.
Really, this would be neat, but would it help at all?

If you actually wanted a job, why not just read through them all and contact the ones that are near and interesting? - it's really not that hard, I read them all and I'm not even looking for a job.

HN could instead do with a proper job board. I'd suggest that a job board should not be restricted to advertising just specific jobs like every other board does. In a small startup roles will not be that well defined yet. You should be able to post just a company and say they are looking for good people, by stating:

- What the Company does / the problem it solves
- Capital raised and current situation
- Technologies currently used
- Location
Yes, Gmail can be installed on your own domain, POP3 or SMTP all your other accounts and you're set.
No you haven't offended me... and I haven't missed your point either.

But I do feel like you are putting words in my mouth: "are you seriously saying that you know everything"

Where the hell did you see myself saying that?

If you read my other replies - I said I have an intense passion for learning. This means I do learn from other people than myself.

You're right... A competent programmer should be able to jump between languages.

I don't think Ruby is the best programming language in the world - but it has suited me well for what I'm doing and allows me to iterate through development cycles quickly with ease, plus there is a large community built around it in San Francisco.

When something better for the job comes along I'll pick it up just as quickly.
someone should create a job posting board platform and get every high profile blogger to start their own job board for their audience.
I've actually been wanting to read more about the script of this film. Especially since it was written by the creator of "The West Wing"

You flagged this just because you personally are tired of hearing about Facebook?
Jimmy Wales gives up administrative privileges after community backlash
The business name registration is just an alias, yes. It means that you can do things like enter into a contract using your business name rather than your personal name. If you move, I'd assume that you would need to register the name in your new jurisdiction.

The $30k number probably comes from either GST (at that point you need to register) or as a rule of thumb for when income taxes start to work out better.

As long as you're not doing weird stuff like charging people in picoUSD, GST is quite straightforward. If you go to the CRA website you'll find lots of documentation. The registration process is simple too -- fill out a form, send it in, and wait for a number to arrive in the mail. (I think it's free; if not, it's only a nominal fee.)

The worst problem I've had with paypal has been a few customers being blocked from making direct credit card payments -- but after they created paypal accounts everything worked fine. (I'm guessing that they were borderline on paypal's fraud-detection systems, and providing information as part of the process of creating paypal accounts was enough to push them into the 'safe' category).

If you're taking payments mostly from Canadians, mostly from businesses, or mostly in >$100 amounts, you might want to skip credit card processing in favour of cheques.
Firstly, I would get and idea of what your minimum living expenses really are. You say you'd love to work a few days a week in a cafe or book shop, but worry that it would not pay well enough -- you should figure out how much you need so you know. You may need to adjust your lifestyle - it is far easier to not spend a dollar than it is to get a dollar.

You may find it hard to get a part-time job to start off with. It may be easier to work a full time job for a few months, and then ask to cut back. If you save money in the mean time, you can quit if they refuse and seek out a better position.

There are a lot of posts here about the best kinds of part-time jobs. In reality, you are probably not going to be able to pick out the ultimate pay-the-rent-while-I-code-my-startup job; you are going to end up with one of the first few you actually find, and finding that job itself may be a full time effort for a while.

In that light, I'd like to suggest that the actual job and environment doesn't matter so much as you'd think, and that the fact that it is DIFFERENT is what matters.

Ideas for good products come from experience, not from cloistered ivory tower environments. You might come with a great product after working with several different inventory or point-of-sale systems, or observing how an independent roofing contractor maintains all his contacts on his phone, or whatever.

All the great American writers first learned by writing about real life things - Steinbeck filed many short newspaper stories on dust bowl refugees before he wrote the Grapes of Wrath, Clemens did the same and wrote of real experience in "Roughing It" before his masterpieces.

Here's my advice: 1) know your expences and cut them where appropriate; 2) get a job, and quit it within the first 2 weeks if it obviously sucks, and then get another one; 3) while working, agressively attend meetups and similar events so you don't become socially isolated; 4) after 3 months, ask your boss if you can cut back to part time if you need to do that - if he says no, work another 3 months and ask again; 5) if he still says no, quit, re-evaluate working a corporate development job, and start over again at step 1 if that's what you need to do.
These guys have a startup that is exploring this area:

http://www.supercoolschool.com/
...and it's need to hire a foreign national...

That reminds me to a funny story. A few friends of mine used to be in an (internationally) rather popular rock band in the 90's (if you're over 30, it is quite possible that you've heard of them). They have stopped playing together since then but now, after many years, they decided to do one last world tour. Given that they're all British citizens, they had to get a US working visa for the concerts in the US. To get the visa, they had to actually prove that the fans wouldn't be exactly satisfied with the performance of a similarly named tribute band (formed by US citizens). I know that this is required to keep foreign "commodity musicians" from playing in bars and restaurants but sill quite funny, considering their (former) popularity.

(In the end, they managed to get their visa.)
Perhaps, but "higher taxes" and "no benefits" are a great way to justify a higher contracting rate ;).
Why isn't there an absolutely definitive guide of advice to individuals who need such advice? After all it seems to me that there must be a finite number of them.
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> And then the university will sponsor my visa?

That would be the hope.

I guess that more related your startup is to a field of research at UCB the better your chances.

> What kind of visa would that be then?

J1, although possibly H1B (I believe you can switch if you stay long enough as a researcher).

> I have no problems trading capital for a visa :)

That's my intent. It (probably) can't hurt to ask:
http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/resources/bel.html
I see. The App Store is a private art gallery.

Stop kidding yourself.
Speaking as a startup CTO who would love to recruit HN hackers, I'd welcome any additional structure that helps people find my jobs - a "microformat" as suggested by the OP, or a proper job board, or anything in between.
How Group Dynamics May Be Killing Innovation
If you think libarchive is flaky, you have incredibly high standards.
As a developer I believe you have general computer skills. Try taking up a Tech support or sys admin gig. You wont be programming everyday but your developer skills will be very handy. This has worked for me, I did this till my side project became a start-up.
So, they're censoring anything with blood or nudity? Just for fun, let's look at the most popular manga on One Manga:

http://www.onemanga.com/directory/top/

1-4: Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tail. These all have blood and violence. They generally don't have much sexual content, though there is occasional mild fanservice.

5. Hajime no Ippo. It's about boxing. There will be blood. And broken bones, and so on.

6. Full Metal Alchemist. Pretty gosh-darn violent. Dark, too.

7. History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi. Guess what: it's another fighting manga! Less bloody than you might expect, actually, and I'm pretty sure they keep the sexual content down to PG-13 levels. This one would probably get through! Way to go, Apple!

Skipping #8, because I've never heard of it...

9. Hunter X Hunter. Quickly flipping through it at random turned up a page in chapter 28 where a murderous nightmare clown is carrying a severed head. Pretty tame sexually, though.

10. No Bra. There is no way in hell this would pass any censor, anywhere, ever. Moving on,

11. Mahou Sensei Negima. Oh dear lord, no. It's not just the violence, although it has violence aplenty. It has pretty vast amounts of sexual content, most of it involving characters who are, at most, 15 years old. (Fun fact: has a freakishly long TV Tropes page.)

This kind of strict policy doesn't just block a lot of manga; it blocks almost all of the most popular manga. It's madness, and the policy's only redeeming virtue is that it probably won't be applied consistently, so they might let some stuff through that they would have blocked if they'd been more thorough.
Why not just read the (draft) script? http://wiscreenwritersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/S...
Google: "Sugar Daddy" is ok, "Cougar" not so much
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> So your comment cheered me up at least a little bit :-)

I should probably taper my words with some warning then.

I'm the kind of programmer that has always thought about methodology, design, and best practice. And after thinking about that for years, and talking with other programmers like me (only smarter) and learning from them too, I can tell you not only is it really really hard but the pursuit of the nicest possible programming experience (clarity, simplicity, lack of repetition) can make you very unproductive.

The guy who spends all day writing frameworks, testing tools, and language abstractions is rarely the guy getting the most done. Unless he's a super-genius.

Only recently I was trying to apply TDD to a really extreme level. I didn't work. I ended up throwing loads of useless tests and suddenly was much more productive. But I probably lost weeks because of that.

But there is some good news: My hardcore desire to make everything wonderful barely exhibits when I program in Haskell. I think this is because the lack of side-effects, strong type-checking, and high-order functions give you such a good baseline and I don't feel like I need to write lots of abstractions and complicated things just to feel like I've got a handle on the situation. But then I'm unproductive because of inexperience with Haskell and FP in general. But that's a temporary thing.
Sounds like a perfect use for the workatastartup.org domain name :).
Nationally, yes. $36/hr is ~$75000/yr, which is quite comfortable in many states (including Utah, which is the densest programming state listed on your link). Major metro stats are usually higher. That's after employer-provided benefits and employer-paid taxes. A $150 employee-paid group health plan could easily cost an employer $850 on top of that, and a contractor has to pay for his/her own facilities and equipment, so contracting rates necessarily should be higher than hourly wages.

Also keep in mind that national statistics, and mean statistics in general, are brought down by lower-cost states and below-market jobs writing VBA macros that got categorized as computer programmers.
I'd rather just read a summary of it, not the entire script, thanks though.
And what is the issue? Is it something that is being interpreted? If so, it had better be in JavaScript otherwise it would contravene 3.3.1. Anyway, if you look at most of the magazine apps that do this so far, they are far more elaborate than HTML and JavaScript creations.. Given there is scripting involved somewhere down the line, they must be using JavaScript or will ultimately violate 3.3.1.
No.

Initially I asked you if there isn't something your roommate could teach you which would be good and I gave the examples compilers, creating games or advanced algorithms.

Where you responded What makes you think I don't already know about compilers, algorithms and game creation?

This I read as a you're being offended and/or missing my question or as if you're telling me that you already know everything about compilers and the something (which alas is everything).

It's great that you like to learn, just like me, and I think it's a great opportunity to learn and to get a roommate who knows a lot of good funky stuff. This is also why I don't think purely focusing on programmers who knows Ruby is a good idea, instead you should focus on good programmers who know stuff you'd like to learn.

I don't want to pick on Ruby, in fact I think it's great.
Even if Zuckerberg is as much of an asshole as many say, nobody deserves to have this kind of publicity. How he chooses to live his live is between him and the people he interacts with. Something like this is unnecessary fuel to the Facebook fire, especially given how exaggerated it likely is and that it's all in the past now (I believe).
Instead of the first point (what the company does) I suggest link to a Company website. 3 other points are very good - maybe one more point with the salary/equity info?

And all of those posts should be aggregated under http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs link.