skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Navegas Media is looking front-end people
Hey guys, hope you are doing well.
I am right now realizing the Navegas Music Platform. One beautiful place in the web, to hang out with/for music. I want to build something, which a girl would discover and love, and then she would tell it to her strange geek friend... so no early adopter stuff - peoples stuff!

Sounds funny, but it is cool! (and essential!)

For that I am currently looking for front-end people, to realize this special look and feel. And there I will offer right now long- and short-term positions and tasks!
I want to launch as soon as possible a dummy version, to let the people go crazy about it, and to also get already feedback about it in a broader manner.

And in long term I definitely want my front-end team, to bring this music baby anywhere on the world, on any device, with this stylistic, easy and clean design.

So if that sounds good for you. Shoot us a mail and we can figure out what is possible.
Thanks for your time, and have a good one!
"In Twitter" in both senses of the word: http://twitter.com/skr/status/16864317315
Markham's Scale of Ignorance
Maybe they should add "Adds hidden affiliate codes to your links. Posterous: YES. Tumblr: NO." (http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/posterous-starts-automatica...)
I missed the how to hire article so I'm glad you included it. (For anyone else who did, here's the HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1445500 )

Are you going to also follow his advice and hire two or three different people to work on the the first bit of the project?

I think it's an interesting idea; it acknowledges how likely it is for a software project to fail, or to at least be mediocre. I've always wondered whether large companies might be able to do well with several teams working on the same projects, and a process where one team's code is periodically selected to form the basis of the next version, then everyone else starts from there.
Just tested. Downloaded a book on the phone that I'd bought on the iPad, and it gave me the "you have already purchased this book; press to downloaded it again" message you get from the App Store. If you go into the "purchases" tab it offers to redownload any books you've purchased elsewhere.

What the OP is seeing has to be a bug; after all iBooks does syncing between iPad and iPhone -- they can't expect you to repurchase each time.
The main point I took away from this:

Syncing to iTunes sucks. It's been broken for a long time and it's becoming more apparent with the release of the iPad.

It's easily the most frustrating experience I've had managing my iDevices mainly because it's archaic to have to constantly sync to your desktop in 2010.

Google was right: "We discovered something really cool...it's called the Internet."

Real opportunity for Google here to improve on this with Android/Chrome OS devices.
What if you think Peter is a quack too?
http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia for those who keep it real
Yeah, it's a stretch/sketchy campaign, but at least they're taking the gloves off, right? I personally am frustrated by the quirky Tumblr features (after many tries, I still don't get the formatting of reblogging) and miss plain on comments (when they don't have Disqus installed).

Will be interesting to see which of the easy-blog-tools wins out.

Right now, my bet would be on Tumblr.
Matz (ruby) is alleged by the following article to have grown a beard due to the claim that they correlate with language success: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/...
Tumblr and Posterous have revenue. Tumblr sell themes and micropayment sponsorship, Posterous offer premium blogs to companies.
if Zynga is already using it behind say Farmville that will give it some cred out of the gate
Us! Potato is a web dev agency specialising in cloud-based apps.

There are 6 of us sat in London & Vietnam, and we're interested in talking to freelance Python & front-end coders in London & San Francisco.

http://www.potatolondon.com
How can they afford to pay 50+ people $1000/month. Do they really pull in that much from advertising?
Unless dressing better has no bearing on your level of self-comfort.*

* - I am not one of these people. I work best recently bathed and shaved, in fresh clothes and with a clean workspace. Anything less drives me absolutely bonkers.
Missing entry on the feature checklist: "World's tiniest fonts by default".

Do the Posterous guys work in 800x600 or something?
In the startup world the carrots called stock options. Having been a consultant at a few dotcoms during the boom, I have seen many a developer work themselves to death because "their stock would be worth a lot" someday. Unfortunately that day never came for my colleagues.
Eclipse Helios delivers 39 projects and Eclipse "open" to merging with NetBeans
Whoa, it is most definitely not a makefile. Unless by a makefile you simply mean any file that has dependency information. If that's your claim, then I'd argue that every VS build engineer I've ever met understands "makefiles".

And I think most developers do understand what happens in their build files. Especially since most of them are now msbuild files. We actually handcraft our own, because of the way we have our integration server set up. It's not rocket science, but its not a makefile either. But yes, it does capture dependency information.

Either you just know really poor devs, or you know a lot less than you think you do about what people know in this space.
I always say that any aspiring programmer should read "Squeak by Example". Even if they end up never using Squeak (or Smalltalk), it will make them better programmers.

Eric Raymond used to say the same thing about Lisp. I wholeheartedly agree.

That said, I also like to annoy my fellow Java programmers by saying that Smalltalk 80 was more advanced than Java 2010.
This, absolutely.

I've actually moved to wearing just striaght-up all black all the time. I'm a tall skinny young dude, so skinny jeans + band tshirt is even almost in style!

Half the reason that I've done this is because I can just reach in my drawer and put on anything, and it works. It may not be as optimal, but it's good enough.
I've seen so many "collaborative task managers" -- I doubt that the tool is the problem. More the fact that people don't like to do this type of tracking, reporting, etc.
www.mahalo.com/type-anything-here
Posterous tweeted 2 days ago "Posterous launches new tools to switch from dying platforms: One new importer per day for the next 15 days". So Tumblr is a 'dying platform' after Ning huh? Which site is next? Is Wordpress another 'dying platform'? So does Posterous consider Facebook a 'dying platform' and come out an importer for Facebook?
I picture it going something like this:

1. you follow Medvedev on Twitter

2. KGB follows you
On the flipside of that is people using MySQL who have no idea what MSSQL can do (for example). The Linux world is no better or no worse in this respect.
Usually tenured profs who're producing good research don't get hassled much; heck, same with untenured profs who are producing good research to some extent.

It does vary a little by school, if the school's administration wants to cultivate a particular image. For example, CMU was getting a reputation for taking 9-10 years for a PhD. It was for a variety of reasons not all the profs' fault, but it did include some aspects of profs wanting to keep their senior/productive students around producing more papers by dragging out their PhDs. The administration decided they didn't want that reputation, so started putting strong pressure to get people out within 6-7 years typically, 8 years max, which reduced that considerably.
Your opinions about comments aren't informed if you think people moderate them only out of fear of feedback. That we're having this discussion here proves that issue doesn't matter.
Are you guys in midtown/downtown or off in one of the burbs?
The real question here is what kind of programmer wants to be limited to whatever "the enterprise" asks for.
I can't read Gruber's posts anymore. The inability to respond to his specious claims is infuriating. For example in this post, the policy does not explicitly state the ability to opt out. Also he ignores the studies showing that with large enough data sets, individuals can be identified by their behavioral patterns, nullifying Apple's claim to the contrary. Gruber constantly passes off pejorative arguments as cogent analysis, yet unbelievably is still well respected in most circles. I weep for the loss of independent reasoning.
Are you in a technical area? Why would someone's appearance matter? I can understand if you're hiring for Hooter's (or sales, not too different).

The appearance of judging based on pictures can also open your company up to EEO lawsuits.
Sure if you are talking about a few dozen books. But over the years I have collected, shall we say _dozens_ of books that are keepers. To have them suddenly, without warning evaporate for no good reason is simply an untenable situation. Especially since, as digital files they should be disaster proof, unlike several boxes I lost a while back due to water damage.

But even more to the point. Books, the written word in general are important. Very important. Do we really want to encourage the development of a system that effectively puts a "kill switch" on knowledge?
Feel an earthquake in Eastern North America?
http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo-is-a-trap

Looks like they are willing to pay me to make that page. I may take them up on it.
Check out Blackblot's new book on Product Management "The Product Manager’s Toolkit". In adition You'll find some good reading in this field on the following resource page http://bit.ly/9qOjwB
Back home in japan if there isnt an earthquake for a good amount of time people start to get suspicious thinking that a huge one is one the way.
This may work well once your resume makes it to the hiring manager, but chances are that it won't get that far. Most corporate HR departments will eliminate resumes with pictures to avoid any potential EEOC issues.
I don't think this is the right focus for posterous. I really like their approach to blogging, but bad-mouthing other services can backfire in the long run.
It's not misinformation, but it is marketing/PR (and I bet it's working).

Competing is not a low blow and it's not stabbing anyone in the back. They aren't saying "Tumblr SUCKS", they are saying "We're different, here's how, come give us a shot".
There was a link provided earlier to opt-out. http://oo.apple.com.

If you want complete anonymity, don't use a cell phone. Its unrealistic in today's world to expect it while also using connected devices.

EDIT: This is reality. If you think the loss of anonymity its wrong, I don't disagree. My comment was not to promote a personal opinion about what's right or wrong, but simply recognizing the obvious state of affairs. In today's world, some government entities do not believe privacy transfers to electronic mediums. In fact, the FTC has recognized that current law is not keeping up with new technology and mediums.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20008422-38.html
Arno Penzias when he directed Crawford Hill Laboratory at Bell Labs is said to have sent a memo to the scientists working there. In the memo he said that a VP had visited Crawford Hill and noticed that there were cars arriving in the parking lot late, between 8AM at least until 9 AM, and leaving early, at least between 4 PM and 5 PM.

Arno asked all staff reading his memo for the following. If you have to come in late, please try to arrive after 9 AM. If you need to leave early, please leave before 4 PM.

I never saw the memo myself, but I did have the pleasure of working at Crawford Hill for nearly 2 years in the late 1970s. I find the existence of this memo easy to believe. So at minimum, it is a good story, might even be true. My own meager google skills do not turn up any corroboration on our universal consciousness.
I think this is a really fundamental computer science thing people whose names are not "Alan Turing" have to be taught (ideally in gradeschool) but few are. In many fields, the more expert you are, the bigger the wall of tools you have. (48 wrenches!!!). But a computer can literally become any other computer. That's fundamentally awesome and, for many, hard to understand.

Knowing that a particular interface is almost completely accidental is often the key missing piece in going from being utterly helpless to solve a problem to being able to puzzle it out.
Initially I was thinking that this was a feature apple didn't want to include, but everybody kept asking for it, so they did. Now people are complaining that it isn't any good, but apple never really wanted it in their product to begin with.

However, the author points to the unruly tray and how you now have to close applications that you don't think you're actually running. This sounds very similar to OSX to me, where in the tray you've got programs you haven't used for weeks, but they don't close when you shut the window.

If apple 'blew it' with the tray, then I'd argue they blew it with the tray on OSX, which I do feel is more of a pain with all it's notifications, and icons for apps I'm not using anymore.
You may be right. I haven't heard that the 3G model was different, but I can't say for sure that it isn't.
It doesn't launch from the within the .dmg, but it starts if you put it in /Applications (at least for me)
Ask HN: What was the website that lets you create a "step-by-step" guide?
There was a site that let you create a step by step guide for your users. It would automatically attach to your links and buttons and tell users to click there.

It was posted on here around a week ago.

I want to use it for a project and can't find it or remember the name. I've tried searchyc, looked in google reader, but can't find it.

Anyone remember what it was called?

Edit: let me try to explain the site a bit better. What it does is let you add hover text next to a link that says "click me to get started"
Lacking that, lines of code isn't a bad place to start. Also, if you have coworkers, look at their facial expressions when you explain the thing to them.
Spot on.

I can't recommend people post their longer form content and media on platforms that have an opaque path to generating revenue.

I do recommend that they have someone create a self-hosted open source platform for sharing their content online.

The custom post types that have finally arrived in WordPress 3.0 allow people to create their own mini-Tumblrs on their self-hosted website.

I feel that if someone works hard enough to create their own content then they should give some serious thought to their publishing platform too.
Spinning a story about something that is noble (as I said), does not make it good science.
BackType (YC08) is hiring brilliant back and front-end engineers.

Why join us?

- we're very early on (3 hackers w/ revenues)

- tackling hard problems with big data at big scale (TBs of data, 100 node cluster, almost 1B monthly requests)

- chasing a massive opportunity (helping companies understand their social impact)

Our technology blog has more about what we're building and the tools we work with (http://tech.backtype.com). You can also learn more by checking out our presentation next week at the Hadoop summit, where we're talking about our tech alongside Facebook, Yahoo, Netflix and Twitter.

Email me (mm at backtype dot com) with links, a github profile, and why this sounds like fun to you.
Are they doing public blogs only? If not, how are they handling authentication?
There is an argument in favor of marketing to the perception, though. I am sure he/she is not the only viewer that might assume they are eating their own dog food and using it behind their website. We have countless tales on HN about increasing customer interest by speeding up your site. If you want to talk about how cool your tech is, make sure your website reflects a similar attention to the important details. I think the comment is legitimate for the perspective even if the technological reality is that the slowness is completely unrelated to the database.

Also, given the popularity of CRMs and so forth, it might not be good to assume that the pages are really "static". For all we know, their site is using their database to provide content -- edited by documentation/marketing folks -- to page templates.
Unless your an encyclopedia or going on Jeopardy! I don't think that amassing knowledge is a very interesting goal. To each their own, but I think creation is a lot better than amassing knowledge.

And to be honest, there was little practice in Lisp before 2000... and frankly little after 2000.
I have a major bone to pick with your characterization of Posterous themes. I hardly think the theme community is unhappy about suddenly being able to use their themes on millions of other blogs that aren't Tumblr.

Also, the themes that we build into our service are 100% licensed via partnership with the theme designers.

Attacking the ability to use Tumblr themes in Posterous is absurd. It's like saying Google Apps isn't allowed to open Microsoft Word documents.
If they wanted that they should pitch the benefits of their service (hey, you and your family members can just email in posts!) not:

> But blogging on Tumblr is sort of like being in high school. You have a lot of friends. You can navigate all the different cliques. You're comfortable. But you know deep-down that you can't be in high school forever. Eventually, you have to move on.

Posterous saying "tumblr doesn't support multiple contributors for a blog" when it does - what do you call that?
I love these checklist format comparisons that they do. It's an easy signal for me, “These people do not understand why one product is chosen over another.” If these are the dimensions by which you think Tumblr can be beaten, I wish you good luck but do not have high hopes for you.

It's sort of like when someone uses the word “skinning” in reference to UX. I just immediately know to disregard everything they say as a total waste of time.
Plea deal assailed as "judicial extortion" in scathing 9th Circuit dissent
It works out great, actually (if you mean as an answer to what have you been up too lately).

I find it's always much better to go to an interview when I've been working hard on code - mine or a others.

Also, if you write something useful it's more impressive to the potential employer.

I wrote a simple web-app to help find work last year; I found it to be a pretty effective way to demo my skills to a potential employer too. It's posted here if anyone wants to check it out: http://linkpro.dotglow.com (demo login below login box).
Something I think would be very useful: recurring tasks that allow anyone in the company/team to complete them, or with round-robin assignment. Would be used for those things that have to be done but nobody wants to do them.
I'm sorry to say that, but these are exactly my words. It is simply more of the same (even the web design).
> If his company doesn't pay him to develop Linux products, why on earth would he learn about developing for Linux? Or other languages. Or tools.

Because really good programmers love to learn new tricks. Because learning new tricks will make them good programmers. You admit learning about PHP made you a better C++ programmer.

A couple years back, on a mailing list, a novice asked what she should learn during her vacations, Python or Ruby. I answered she should not master, but learn a bit of Lisp, Smalltalk and, having time, Forth. There is little chance she will ever use any of those languages directly, but each language holds valuable lessons that will prepare her better for her career.

And that's why it's important for Dick to learn to develop for Linux.
I get that they're making good money by embedding ads in every inch of the site. Is this really a 'good' and respectable business model though? Something about it doesn't sit well with me, especially when the site doesn't offer quality content to the user.
This looks similar to http://www.gear6.com/memcached-product/memcached.
A Work Break: A Little Clip of Supermodel Christina
Here in Barrie it was pretty gentle. I thought I was having a seizure at first, actually, which illustrates my state of mind lately. Anyway, when I noticed that the wee containers of jam and marmalade were shaking too, I figured it was an earthquake.
What do mean? Honestly, I don't get it.
I didn't attack the feature, I said they bootstrapped their theme launch with the tumblr themes. That isn't attacking.

I simply meant they lent on the pre existing tumblr community to boost their own offerings - which was genius.

I do think to do that, and for Tumblr to nod or whatever, and then to do this, seems, IMHO a mis-step.
Exactly. He is willing to interject his own responses, but unwilling to entertain comments to his own posts.

Aside from that, your phone (whether you opt-out or not) being able to update its manufacturer (not your carrier) on your whereabouts at any given time IS creepy.

Apple asks now, and Steve Jobs says that Apple asks now, but is it illegal for them to change that policy? The only thing forcing them to include an opt-out is user backlash against the TOS change. Further down the road, when iOS disables opt-out because location-aware ads make Apple way too much money, I'm sure there'll be more justification from Gruber and other Apple evangelists.
1 Mahalo Dollar ~= 0.68 USD, based on the price of iPod nano in their store.

Or 1 Mahalo Dollar ~= 0.57 USD, based on their $25 gift cards.
A personal experience of mine:

game A: spent $100's on Google ads ... made $0 revenue

game B: spent $0 on Google ads ... made $100's revenue

(disclaimer about other variables, YMMV, take with grain of salt, etc.)
"Our culture celebrates the idea of the workaholic. We hear about people burning the midnight oil. They pull all-nighters and sleep at the office. It’s considered a badge of honor to kill yourself over a project. Workaholics wind up creating more problems than they solve. Workaholics miss the point, too. They try to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at them. They try to make up for intellectual laziness with brute force."

- Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, "Rework"
I only use the CDT package, but it appears to be completely stagnating. Helios ships with CDT version 7.0, which is a new major version of the C/C++ development tools. But as far as I can see, there's barely enough in there to justify a new minor version.
What does "mess things up" really mean though? Do you think people would stop writing books if it was harder to make money from them? I don't.
This guy's story is really charming. He will, of course, almost certainly fail. It seems most fusion research comes in the form of multibillion-dollar research nowadays. It's inspiring seeing a basement tinkerer--who's not a complete crank--making a go of it.
If we apply a design pattern from Smalltalk, we have Concepts. Every Concept has another concept which is its Misconception. This gives us an infinite regress of misconceptions, unless we can come up with a Metamisconception, which is a concept which is its own erroneous misconception. Then we can implement unbounded stupidity in a system of finite size.
At a boy iPhone app uses psychology to make you feel good.
> I mean, could you imagine quitting a startup before they shipped a product?

I did. (Granted, the product changed every month and the website I was working on changed every week.)
I think iBooks is a better app than Stanza (notes, bookmarks, PDF capability) and you can get your EPUBs in there via iTunes (even ones bought from other stores such as the one my startup runs, fifobooks.com).
Actually on day one every single theme that we launched, I designed.

We gradually added the best themes that we liked the most, some of them were Tumblr themes, and others were created by Posterous users, e.g. http://corywatilo.com