skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; remote not an option.

Hiring Rails Developers and developers who'd like to become Rails Developers in Pittsburgh. We're building web-based decision tools meant to complement search and need folks interested in working on the front end and helping us to improve our algorithms.

http://pikimal.com/jobs
Academia.edu is hiring engineers in San Francisco.

Academia.edu helps academics follow the latest research in their field. Here are a few bullet points that sum up the atmosphere in our team:

- obsession with exceptional engineering

- obsession with building a great web product, and a great user experience

- intellectually inquisitive - we like delving into ideas, whatever the ideas are about

- fun and friendly - we enjoy each other's company a lot, and have a great deal of respect for each other.

We want to continue this atmosphere through the people we hire.

Here are some of the technologies we work with: Rails, Nginx, Node.js, Redis, Memcached. We are based in downtown San Francisco. More information about the team, and about how we think about software engineering and product development, is here http://academia.edu/hiring
A three day intensive workshop for women entrepreneurs
Doesn't work correctly in FF 3.6 on a PC.
Seems to be meant for webkit browsers only.
There are many entrepreneurs who exist within companies and absolutely fit the definition and spirit of the term Entrepreneur.

Good post, and I understand the motivation for writing it but it's wrong. If you think you're an entrepreneur, most likely, you are one and nobody can tell you differently.

For me, I've been an entrepreneur since the 8th grade. And yes, I'm a hustler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rhYch48fPg
It looks great!

One thing I'd like to see, if possible, is an adjustment to account for deficit spending. In other words, if the government is spending $175 for every $100 collected, adjust the expenses accordingly, so we could clearly see what kind of cuts it would take to balance the budget.
Is Javascript even helpful to most malwares?

Yes, very much so. Adobe PDF reader's JavaScript ability is the reason it's dangerous to open PDF files anymore. They issue a new patch once a month it seems and are working on a sandbox as the problem cannot be contained. Without JavaScript embedded in the PDF files, this would be a much more manageable issue.
I will not say you are "wrong," in fact, I see your side of it, but you need to accept the fact that language changes ever so slowly. More precisely, language is self-encrypting.

For example, you're posting to "hacker news" when this has nothing to do with "hacking."
Oh, I love Ubuntu and am never happy with anything but, but Windows Vista/7 have parity with Macs on resume, and way outpace Linux (if only because the hardware is built for Windows.)

My boss' Vostro was inexplicably hanging on logout/login, that seems to have corrected itself after a few forced reboots. (And I've had that experience a few times on all OS's, including OS X.) Actually, I can't remember it for Linux, but Ubuntu is much less careful about shutting down gracefully than Mac/Windows.
Normally you're only allowed to move one slider at a time, because shadows only point one way. []wtf lets you create multiple shadows in more directions.
Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.
He said the 35% was completely out the top of his head. That is a guess. He has little information and really what he is basing such guess is on his opinion that the name has such a great effect as to count towards 35% of the success, which, no offence to lionheart whatever because he is an esteemed contributor and I really like his comments, is ridiculous.

The name might and does have some advantages, especially if it is short and relatively easy to remember, but the 35% should possibly go towards the two things mentioned, that is design, and user experience in filling in the form, 20% possibly marketing and the name would at best have a 5% effect.
"Founder."

"Lemonade Stand Founder", "Google Founder" -- note how it puts the emphasis on the enterprise, not on the person. Problem solved. :)

But yes, people don't seem to understand that CEO implies that there are other executives, of whom you are the chief. It's not just a startup issue, I've also worked at large companies where Managers don't manage and VPs don't report to Ps. It makes sense; titles are the cheapest form of compensation.

Of course it leads to title inflation. By 2050 everyone will be a CEO, and they'll report to the CECEO.
"...and nobody can tell you differently."

Yup. Pretty much. That's ego, though, not entrepreneurship.
Society has always had people claim to be the things they're not. That's human nature Jolie.

You call yourself a journalist and student of computer science. Who am I to say you aren't? Sometimes your dreams become reality when you work to make them so, but for a while, you have to fake it till you make it. :-)
I gather from the other thread that Motorola used to run WinMo. When your customers don't want to buy your shit, sue them so they have to.
I love how out of one submission of an NPR article to HN there came about 4 different apps that all do an amazing job of making the 'tax receipt' concept a reality
Ask HN: Help me come back and choose the right technologies
I am attempting a come back as a programmer, after an unbelievable absence of 3 years. I need your help to refocus, and select the right technologies for what I'm going to need in the near future.
Here is my story: Java developer for about 10 years, up to exactly 3 years ago when I quit because of some major family issues that required my full time attention all this time. But there was something else, that is important for me to always keep in perspective: I was really burnt down and I also became unhappy because my profession took so much time from me, actually all of it, for constantly having to learn something new and being good at what I was doing. I actually love learning, but I my profession didn't leave time for learning anything else besides computers, and life is so much more than computers. I guess I'm a generalist more than a specialist. So this is the first half of my question, how can I be a hacker but in the same time have a real life outside computers. How do you balance both?

Having said that, I am ready to start again and I thought I'd start fresh, since my Java is probably already a bit rusty.
I've been looking these days at things like Ruby, Python and a few LISP flavours. I am attracted to LISP because of the paradigm change it requires, and I'm not really new to it, I used it a bit in the university.
The reason I want to come back is because I do love technology, always did, and I already have a project lined up, for which I'm looking to select a set of technologies that will make productive ASAP. This project is a directory of local activities for people. The closest model I can think of is Craigslist, with the major difference that all the listings have a temporal dimension, they start and end at some time, and that people can rate and comment on those listings. As an example of such activity, let's say a chess class, that starts in 2 weeks and goes for 3 months, 2 days a week. The project is about aggregating such activities, broken down on categories and geographical areas. How would you do such project, most efficiently?
This project is important for me to get it done successfully and on a timely fashion, I don't have time for too much trial and error, to spend much time learning something that turns out not a good choice. That's why I decided to ask you guys.
I would like to choose something that doesn't have a steep learning curve, so I can became proficient with it sooner than later, something with great support for web applications, tried and stable.
Should I stick with Java, since it's the only language I am now familiar with it, and it has so many mature web frameworks? Or is this a good time for me to take the leap towards something like LISP?
I must admit the idea of a paradigm shift associated with my comeback sounds very appealing to me. I've already started replacing relational databases when it comes to the data model with something more semantic, like TopicMaps and/or RDF.
In the same time I want to be realistic and maximize my chances of a successful comeback and project completion.
Sorry for the long post, thanks a lot for your kindness.
Why do people always try to break things? This is a serious question pertaining to human nature, not a complaint. I've noticed that anytime I demo something I've built, if the person/people I'm showing have control of the demo they go try to test the outer boundaries of whatever I've built. What makes us want to do that?
Before I was an entrepreneur (and I believe I am one), I had spend nine years as an untenured Assistant Professor at UCLA. And I remembered my colleagues used to spend a great deal of time and efforts subdividing their disciplines and making sure that everyone inside and outside academia classifying them exactly as they wished to be classified. This was a puzzle to me until I read the following quote from Henry Kissinger (after he had left the government but was turned down by Columbia University), "The reason why there are so much politics in academia is because the stake is so low." I believe the stake is very high in entrepreneurship and I think no one benefits from spending too much time worrying about what we should be called. However, I think the article is a very good one, in the sense that there is indeed a whole lot of work in being a "successful" entrepreneur. Good luck everyone.
Compression artifacts are loss of detail. Applying any kind of blur filter to an image that had compression artifacts would result in more loss of detail (and applying it strongly enough to remove the artifacts would pretty much obliterate any recognizable details).
Ah, bizarre. I'll look into it...
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"Hacker News" is also about startups, though. And a lot of startups begin with hackers. I don't think it's at all irrelevant, especially given the number of hackers with apps who may or may not be legitimate entrepreneurs, as well.
I wonder why this effect wanes off over future generations.
If Immigrant parents are able to instill the value of education, hard work etc. in their children; why are these children unable to instill the same in the future generations?
I believe that parents are the first teachers of parenting for their children. So what causes the message to get lost?
A key piece of being an entrepreneur is faking it until you make it. It comes out in many forms:

1) Minimum viable product

2) Acting bigger than you are

3) Creating industries and markets that don't exist.

Without that ethos and world-view, which you call ego (it isn't), one would not survive as an entrepreneur.
San Francisco

Posterous is hiring Backend and Rails engineers! We're a team of just 10 engineers -- 100% focused on being totally driven by great hackers who love building for consumer web.

http://posterous.com/jobs
I don't think this is right... FICA is capped, so my social security contribution should not scale linearly with income.
Mountain View, CA. RethinkDB (http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs).

Hard systems problems. Fun people. Good pay. A chance to build something meaningful and own a significant chunk of the company. Tired of rails-based clones? Join us, together we will rule the [database] universe.

This is everything we stand for: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713
Ask HN: Please review our UI - Feedback is greatly appreciated!
Hi Guys,

I'm currently working on my first startup. We're bootstrapped and prepping to launch into private beta.

Our web application generates simple, easy-to-read reports on stocks by applying value investing formulas & benchmarks. It provides the equivalent of two hours worth of analysis in the time it takes to load your page.

The report focuses on three key aspects: How much a stock is worth, Management performance & Key performance indicators.

This is the first phase of our product plan. We've also built a tool that provides an overview of your portfolio, from a value investing perspective.

HERE'S THE PROBLEM: The current design of our site isn't the greatest.

I've come up with a new look and feel and would really appreciate it if the HN community could give me some feedback.

Page users see when they first sign up:
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9710/vuruanalysispagesignupf.png

Sample Analysis (Please note this is just a mock-up not an actual report generated by our tool):
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9440/vuruanalysispage.png

Portfolio Page:
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/803/vuruhomepagev1small.png

So, what do you think? Where can they be improved?

I'll provide clickable links below and if you're interested, sign up to be notified when we launch into private beta (www.vuru.co).
It enables "wacky mode", which allows up to four shadows in different directions (NE, SE, SW, NW). Without it, you're limited to one direction.
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I call myself that because that's what I am, dude.

I don't call myself a programmer or a hacker -- I'm simply a student.

And "faking it" is despicable. How about "be what you are, and become what you want to be."
Palo Alto, CA - Quora

http://www.quora.com/jobs

We're looking for designers and engineers.

- Codebase is mostly Python, JS, and C++

- Real continuous deployment (every git push deploys the new version of the code if all the test pass)

- Product w/ traction that is growing quickly

- Hard problems to work hard on

- Smart people to work with and learn from ( http://www.quora.com/about/team )

jobs@quora.com or e-mail me directly at ccheever@quora.com
The site appears to just linearly scale the results, which is not always correct. For example, Social Security is only collected on the first $106,800 of income.
Couldn't they just be trying to keep the share price down in the ultra affordable range, so people will gamble with it upon IPO?
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Clickable:

Page users see when first sign up: http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9710/vuruanalysispagesign...

Sample Analysis (Please note this is just a mock-up not an actual report generated by our tool): http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9440/vuruanalysispage.png

Portfolio Page: http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/803/vuruhomepagev1small.p...

Our actual website: http://www.vuru.co
If you read the article, they were interested in whether or not Syphilis could be prevented using penicillin. Nowadays we take it for granted that antibiotics are not ever to be used for prevention, but they were very much in a formative era.
here's another take:

Patent protection key to Windows Phone 7 license

"Microsoft may be one of the only remaining mobile operating-system providers that charges handset makers a licensing fee, but in exchange vendors get at least one important benefit: protection from intellectual property worries.

That could be one reason that Samsung, HTC and LG are willing to pay to use Windows Phone 7, but it doesn't appear to be enough to convince other former Windows Mobile users, like Motorola, to commit to the operating system."

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188964/Patent_protec...
I want banksimple.com, or some other kind of 21st century bank that will let me do all this stuff natively from my primary banking....
I'd rather find a way to hook a new monitor for my old NeXT Turbo Station. The old one is busted.

I could still be fun to do tough. there are a few pieces of NeXT software I'd like to look at again for inspiration.
San Francisco @ Dogpatch Labs / Pieceable Software / http://pieceable.com

We're making Pieceable, a web service that enables almost anyone to build native mobile applications. The apps are assembled from pre-built "pieces", and the user only has to focus on content + styling instead of development.

We're launching v1 later this month but it only scratches the surface. There's so much more to do. We use Objective-C (w/ Three20) on iPhone, Cappuccino on the web, and (gasp!) Java on the backend.

We're looking for help on the engineering & biz-dev fronts. Email fpotter@pieceable.com
The U.S. also overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1954.
I'm suspect the author would be surprised to find out that the existence of Epiphany and Empathy is much more to do with a sense of exceptionalism on the part of Firefox and Pidgin than of GNOME.

Do tell.
You're right--the calculation I do is linear, so I will try and make this more accurate later tonight.
I think (don't know) that the Opera user stereotype is a bit off; most Opera installs are on phones.
The JVM wasn't originally createf for other languages as well. I agree it would be great if a vm such LLVM was builtin on all browsers. It is not, as specs that move the a better web development environment are not as aggressive as one would like, both in design and (even more prominently) in implementation.

The thought that developers should wait for browsers to catch up with their needs is what leads to such situation. But, if the JVM finally decided to host other languages, after they got a lot of attention, maybe so will browsers. But we need to justify it first. Not wait.
Apparently crime doesn't pay:

$12M stolen by 100 people = $120K per person.
NYC

kikin

http://kikin.com/jobs
Most of these different apps simply linearly scale the results, which is incorrect. Some taxes are non-linear (such as Social Security, which is only collected on the first $106,800 of income).
Cambridge, MA. Panjiva (http://panjiva.com/jobs)

Hiring a UI expert and web application developer. The company's product is built on Ruby on Rails but experience with Rails isn't required.

14 or so employees total working on a global supply chain service. The tech team currently consists of 3 MIT alums.
I agree with both the fact that Mint is a great name and also that it's not a determining factor of success. But especially in this case, it played a bigger part than normal. "Mint.com" instills a lot more trust than WeSabe - clearly, money was spent on the domain "mint.com", and people understand that. WeSabe could be a fly-by-night operation, and when the biggest hurdle is the trust issue (this is your bank login!), you need EVERY advantage you can get for people to trust you - so design and domain name are a huge element.
Softonic.com, most openings in Barcelona, some also in Madrid.
Knowledge of Spanish not necessary for technical openings;
remote not an option.
http://softonic.asp.infojobs.net/home/index.xhtml
Ask HN:What does an Operations Engineer do on a day-to-day basis?
It would be great if someone could fill in on something more than what a typical job description would say- best, from someone who is an Operations Engineer!
They'll only sue you if you try to make money of it:

"If You engage in the commercial distribution or importation of software derived from an open source project or if You make or use such software outside the scope of creating such software code, You do not benefit from this promise for such distribution or for these other activities...

Software is deemed to be commercially distributed within the meaning of this promise when the distributor derives revenues in connection with the distribution, such as from subscriptions, updates, or user-based connection fees or from services that are contractually required for a customer to obtain the current version and/or updates of the software product in question."
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moral of the (as yet untold) story: rocket science and javascript don't mix.

browser differences aside, javascript represents all numbers as floats, so as you attempt to store larger and larger numbers, you will find yourself with less and less accurate data.

i'd bet that some minor difference in order of operations between the JS implementations of FF and konqueror result in the differences you're observing.
A lot of people will suggest avoiding the Tenderloin (as you can see in the other comments), but I know several people who live there and haven't had any particular problems. Yes, there's a bit of a zombie infestation, but as long as you keep your wits about you and don't stumble around drunk at 3am you'll likely have no problems. It does get sketchier the closer you get to Market, so a little further up in "Lower Nob Hill" (aka the "Tendernob") is a better choice overall.. still fairly cheap, centrally located, and not quite as rough.

If it's feasible in your situation, I'd definitely recommend subletting for a month and getting a feel for the different neighborhoods. December isn't the greatest time to look for places since most people aren't moving unless they have to, so the extra time would also be a big benefit.
JPEG is an open format already, so that alone as an argument for replacing it doesn't really make sense.

Some features of JPEG haven't been implemented due to patent concerns, but I think those have expired now.
Next in the series: You're Not a Webmaster.

If people want to call themselves entrepreneurs to give themselves inspiration, confidence, or ambition, I have no problem with that. I doubt the term is going to suffer much dilution.

+1 for Inigo Montoya, though.
Foot, meet gun.
http://inakanetworks.com - rails, erlang, iphone - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Los Angeles, CA - SpaceX

Our team is looking for 2 more developers to help us build SpaceX's enterprise and manufacturing systems. We primarily use C# but experience in OOP languages such as Java or Ruby is just fine.

We offer excellent benefits, pre-IPO stock, and free yogurt everyday =)

Drop me a line at paulo[at]spacex[dot]com if interested.
What I was referring to is the shift from 2nd Generation Programming Languages to 3rd. The post is basically predicting the same fall off will occur when we transition to a 5th Generation. Hence, a programmer is more interested in creating something, since 5th Generation Languages is basically talking(not coding) and creativity process is what is common amongst the languages . http://github.com/languages - This as a reference, assembly is not in the top ten.

Also, doesn't like code is not hating coding. It also encompass being disinterested. Thus if a better option present itself there would be no hesitation to adopted it.

My perspective is to view programming as a tool for being creative and when it is abstracted out like this, the question arises what other tools can we use to be creative?

Yes there will be a few people who still use 3rd generation language still but it would be like some people still use assembly today.
I'm Azuldophin's partner, on a throwaway acct. Everyone's advice has been a great help so far. One thing to add, how would you compare certain neighborhoods in SF to ones in NYC? It would be great to have some context that we could relate to. For example, it sounds like the Mission roughly equals a more grungy Williamsburg.
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They're different questions. Seeing the Mengele reference above, one interesting ethical question pops up in cases like this. Do you use the data? One side says that by doing so, it legitimizes whatever was done. The other side says that not using it is just throwing away all the suffering that happened anyways.

Anyhow, it's one of those positions that you either waver back and worth on, or quickly find a position, and then never really move away from. For that reason, I rather avoid that actual discussion. Instead, I will point out that a great deal of current knowledge of how humans react in extreme cold is still based or built on experiments conducted in concentration camps.

So really, you can't dismiss the question of 'was useful data gained" by just saying "it was gained unethically".