skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also, to the point of the bit of work to write and manage code hitting the various external API's... most times the developers for these organizations have created well documented API's and code samples for simple implementation of their features on other sites... so it's not like you're reinventing the wheel (although facebook has caught some flak on here for the way they up and changed basically everything about their api and authentication and whatnot when they implemented the social graph, but I've worked with it a little and it doesn't seem that bad).
Wouldn't that mean that you disagree with lionhearted? The undergraduate and medical school degrees are supposed to give general, not specialized knowledge. Residency is the specialized section.
Note to Startup Competitions: I Want to See How the Sausage Is Made
St. Louis, MO, USA: Oasis Digital is hiring.

http://oasisdigital.com/
Astonishing presentation, keep up the good work :)
Ahhhh interesting, so it doesn't provide you with a generic payment system, but instead provides you with a way to meter content on S3 or the use of an AMI.

That's still an interesting service model, where you charge users on resource consumption rather than on a per item basis. I wonder how well this would work for an image or video processing service or other similar services.
Isn't the attitude of "If Company A Wins, Company B Loses" kind of a dangerous mindset to have when you're running a startup?
Is Entrepreneurship Just About the Exit?
This reminds me of doctor Mengele[1].

LE: I've only said that it reminds me, not that it's the (exactly) same thing. Making other people to suffer in "the name of science" is at least arguable.

LE2: Also, the experiments took place at almost the same time (only a couple of years difference).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
Ohm shouldn't be used for everything, but for the specific design pattern of mapping objects to Redis, it helps you to avoid coding errors.
Craigslist is still hiring in San Francisco : Coders, i18n/l10n engineers and i18n/l10n QA Engineers.

My mail address is on my profile.
Bug: Looks like the text field doesn't handle comma properly. Any character beyond the first occurrence of a comma gets truncated.
Anywhere. Intridea is still looking for people for consulting gigs in Rails and mobile stuff (iPhone and Android!). We're 100% remote, so you live where you'd like and have a sweet, sweet, job.

Ping me directly if you want to discuss how we work, or contact the company at jobs@intridea.com.
If you can demonstrate that your business is in fact a business and not a hobby. This isn't too difficult if it is, in fact, a business: you prove it was conducted in a businesslike fashion (or just make a profit on it next year).
Web Storage - important facts about the new alternative to cookies
I'm looking for:

1) talented information visualization experts (protovis,
raphaeljs, flash/flex/actionscript, HTML5 strategies)
who are comfortable working with large scale data

2) anyone fluent with large scale data mining with
Mahout (hadoop, hdfs, clustering strategies, SVD,
latent semantic indexing, noSQL [hypertable and/or
cassandra]

3) fluency web app development at tier 1 properties
with startup experience using common stacks with
large user bases. django expertise in particular

fastest growing startup in atlanta. full benefits
will relocate appropriately talented individuals.
US Citizens only (sorry).

proven management team with multiple successful startup
exits (over $2B). earle {dot} ady {at} gmail {dot} com
No its about the freedom and adventure, but without the exit no one would embark on the adventure in the first place.
The most important question for me is have they improved the compression and resizing quality at all? Historically Facebook's treatment of uploaded images has severely degraded them, often to the point where an originally sharp image looks blurry.
>Under previous law, there was no legal limit on flex spending accounts. Obama care limits them to $4k.

Maybe in that last sentence your confusing HSA with FSA? Under previous law there was/is a $5,000 limit on Flex accounts. As far as I know that limit is not changing (I'll find out for sure in December when renewal time comes around) however Obama care will no longer let you use a Flex account to buy over the counter medicine like ibuprofen without a prescription (starting Jan 1, 2011), band-aids are still OK.

Edit: Upon further research I can definitely say with certainty that I have no idea what the hell will happen next year. I've spent the last thirty min trying to trace through http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/ppacacon.pdf and the US Code to figure out what the changes to FSA's are and am getting nowhere. wikipedia suggests that the limit will actually drop to $2,500 in 2013 rather than the $4,000 next year suggested by anamax. I'm going to have to spend a lot more time on this.
You’re Not an Entrepreneur
SnapBill (South Africa) is hiring developers, preferably local but remote is good too :)
The Height and nearby neighborhoods like Cole valley and inner sunset are fun, central and have plenty to do. That said there is no shortage of geek socialization opportunities (meetups, etc.) seemingly every night of the week.
Marc, thanks for the post-mortem. We make the best decisions we can w/ the info we have at the time - this is definitely a useful piece for other founders to read. Hopefully airing things out like that serves an "expunging" purpose and helps you clear it and move on. Best of luck in whatever your next pursuit is.
Great domain name, first of all.

Second, why only goGo? Are there other services?

Finally, I put in a random flight number and got a mysql error message. You probably want to turn off error reporting. You might also consider allowing people to select their origin and destination cities, rather than putting in their flight number.
Please come up with a better name that doesn't lose all the meaning required to describe the study.
Supporting evidence:

Two years back I tried Mint, Wesabe and the new Quicken online.

From those three sites, only Mint could retrieve data for my WellsFargo visa. So I stayed.

Quicken was the worse - they actually made changes to my account (for which WF notified me by email) and their support was basically useless when I asked them about it.

So, the name had almost nothing to do with my decision - if Wesabe had the same scrapper as Mint, things would have been different.

(I misspelled Wesabe twice while writing this post - so maybe the name does matter... but I still maintain that a working product matters more)
I know I'm going to get a ton of shit for this post, but seriously, I meet/talk to/write about/help entrepreneurs all the time, and this phenomenon has me completely fed up with the tech "scene."

Why do people have this bottomless need to claim to be things they're not? Why can't they just revel in and promote the wonderful things they already are?
"Q: How could governments get something so complex right?
A: Trick question. Nice. Next question."

That one caught me off guard.
I just wonder what is the criteria for the pictures: it's obvious that there aren't real people manually selecting the pictures, but couldn't the driver flag a location as "inapropriate" since he was right there when it hapenned?

So yeah, I still expect to see a lot of bizarre pictures around.
> Only if you activate gems linearly. Bundler solves exactly this: it looks at all dependencies then figures out a combination that works. Bundler will only activate bar 1.x because it sees that foo is compatible with all versions but libcat is only compatible with 1.x.

You're absolutely right, I misread your example.

> I argue against the notion that being traditional here equals being good. There's no good reason why the developer should do this manually instead of having some system do it for him.

It's a trade-off. Either the developer has to do it manually (once, which will then work with every sane distro), or the sysadmin has extra work to do (many times, once for each language-specific package manager).

In an ideal world, the language communities would gang up on Debian and Red Hat and improve dpkg and rpm to make this issue go away. I don't see this happening.
New York, NY (remote not an option, sorry): foursquare

http://foursquare.com

We're hiring server engineers, operations engineers, and mobile engineers.

Our backend is built with Scala, Lift, and some Python. Our main datastore is MongoDB, but we have some stuff on Postgres. We're hosted entirely on EC2. We develop mobile clients for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

We're a location-based social network that's changing how people interact with physical space. We've got a lot of exciting projects we want to work on, and we need all the help we can get.

Email: jorge@foursquare.com
Ikea reveals Earnings for First Time
If I understand correctly, Ruby our universe with algo's and math's (Rouwam) tries to bundle all algorithms obtained from Wikipedia as a Ruby package.

I'm unsure about the handiness of that, given that I usually do not struggle do find a working implementation of an algorithm (think Rosettacode http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page) but rather which algorithm I actually want to use. I appreciate Python's standard library largely hiding the implementation details from me but rather concentrating on use cases.

Edited to clarify: the list of algorithms is fetched from Wikipedia. I think he wants to publish his algorithms in Wikipedia, not sure abut that though.
One thing I always find interesting is that the % of Opera users on Ars is always close to the universal %. I always assumed that Opera users were more technical, and therefore more likely to visit the Ars site, than the average user.
50 most powerful women in business
A few years ago I was in Athens and some tech guys introduced me to the idea of wireless community networks. I was amazed at what a few people had achieved with just directional antennas and a few ADSL lines, back when broadband was almost non-existant in Greece. They called it the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Ne...

Today they have 1120 backbone nodes, 2900 client nodes and another 9000+ people that have expressed interest in joining the network.

Apparently this is happening all over the world. Wikipedia has an extensive list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_netw...

We need this super wifi thing in the hands of those people.
That's hardly surprising. When you increase the supply of a good, consumption of that good goes up.
I thought that wesabe's integrating at the bank level might have been a smarter approach. For instance Bank of America has a mint-like finance aggregation tool built into their online banking. I already entrust them with my finances why not use their tool?

As far as I recall, Wesabe was providing a similar service to smaller banks, as their solution for this, right? Personally I would guess that market opportunity would be at the bank level, you sell $500k-$1m/yr licenses to integrate the tool directly with a banking website, you don't even need consumers, just a really friggin good sales team...
Vowch Stillborn
Trying with a value of 1e20 , 1e21 gives interesting results.

More curious is that using konqueror I get one value but with firefox i get another. Seems to be some bit flipping somewhere, since with firefox I get
Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000004096.00
4096, 16384 , etc

but with konqueror i get:
Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000005000.00

Maybe some bug with the javascript interpreter ?
IE8 CSS-based forced tweeting
There are many books on basic home organization and document retention for tax and personal purposes. 95% of what comes in the mail can go right to the trash. All of my bills and insurance documents are already available on the various web sites so there's no reason to keep them or file them for posterity. Same with bank statements. Even with nearly 50 years behind me, house, three kids, etc. I can easily keep all important paper documents in a single plastic file box. I cull old stuff out every year while doing my taxes. A "software solution with possibly open database format, API, lots of support for third party tools, etc.?" Do you really need something like Documentum for your bills and insurance card? You aren't gonna need it.
Not new, but seems very nice. Any huge application written on that ? Like a stock screener or anything else ?
If your in Madison WI look us up. We're HealthFinch, info in bio.
Sorry to disappoint, but the data says otherwise - amongst advanced countries America has some of the lowest social mobility recorded. Your ladder is much less skewed in other places.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/28/38335410.pdf

I know this is one of the sacred cows of American Mythology, but should it be surprising given the differences between inner city and white suburban schools, legacy admissions and any other number of differences between rich and poor kids?
Which is actually not vital for doing a successful startup.
Disqus is hiring Engineers and a System Administrator: http://disqus.com/jobs
These kids are first generation Americans - they went to school in the US.
Two corrections to your non sequitur:

1. The quote you've selected doesn't mention second, third, or eleventh generation "immigrants", it mentions "second and third generation children".

2. Many of the "first generation immigrant children" are also citizens.
Ask HN: Anyone got startup school 2010 confirmation?
Wondering if anyone got the confirmation email? Are those rejected also get an email?
Bronze casting with the crew of QC-Colab - MakerBot Industries
I thought "hybrid sleep" just meant that the machine is in sleep, but it can also transition to hibernation if your battery runs low.
Yeah, and I find the way they load the documentation and blog in a frame quite annoying.
Ask HN: Recommend an IDE for noobs/novices?
Hey folks.

I'm pretty new to programming, and I made the mistake of asking a few friends for IDE recommendations. What an opinion-laced minefield. I had no idea developers were so emotionally attached to their workflows.

To try to make this process (choosing a good IDE) easier for others, I'm trying to write a decent compendium for entry-level programmers. I'd love to get some good recommendations for IDEs for various languages, their pros and cons, their costs (financial and/or system resources).

Can y'all help me out? What IDEs do you use, and for what languages?

I really appreciate anything you can throw my way!

_______________

Edit: Thanks a bunch to everyone who's answered! Keep 'em coming. =)
So, the following comment was made: "Part of the reason for Friday's split, said Facebook spokesman Jonny Thaw, was to help reduce the price of Facebook's shares, which have risen significantly in recent years."

Now, a reasonable argument can be made that once shares start to be worth more than $10,000 - and certainly in the case of outliers like BRK-A (currently at $124,015/share), there is an argument for a split (or, in the case of BRK, a tracking stock - BRK-B) - simply to prevent the creation of pools that allow people who don't want to buy $10,000 in a single stock to participate. (I think that's why Warren had BRK-B created)

But, facebook is trading in the secondary markets (sharespost) at $72. Even assuming they double in value, that would suggest a price that anyone who wanted to purchase, could do so.

So, clearly, there is another reason as to why this stock is being split - and I don't put much merit in the "When a stock is split, it shows an increase in value" - I have far too much faith in the efficient market to put much belief in that nonsense.

My theory, is that there are other, secondary benefits from splitting a stock. My two guesses are:

o Bankers get to book a bunch of revenue from splitting the stock and the paperwork that goes with it, so they sell mgmt on the idea.

o Some legal advantage to splitting shares, and possibly doing an inventory of all the stock certificates outstanding, getting an audit of the shareholders, etc...

Is there anybody that has been on the decision making team for a stock split that would like to weigh in on this one?
Oh, shoot I just made a comment about this. I was suggesting if they had focused squarely on enterprise earlier, they might have been fine.

Do you think a future finance aggregation tool, that was focused entirely on enterprise (with subsequent accountability), would have had a better chance of success?

So many smaller banks have online banking that is lacking, I'm always frustrated that there aren't more companies trying to make that experience better.
I think you mean that _you_ pronounce them differently. I've heard 'Nike' pronounced in more ways than any other brand name; I myself pronounce it in at least two different ways.
Canada's new Governor-General has binary sequence on official coat of arms
Show HN: IRestoredSanity.com, share a ride to the Stewart/Colbert Rallies
Simple app to find or give a ride to the Rally to restore sanity and/or Rally to keep fear alive in Washington, D.C. on 10.30.10
I haven't done much visualization of large datasets, but I've always loved interactive visualizations. Check out my logo on my site: http://jlongster.com . Email me if you think I could help you all.
How can one implement a lock on x86 without cas/ll-sc? Lamport's Bakery?
NYC, EnergyScoreCards.com is hiring. We are in the hot energy efficiency / cleantech space, helping measure large buildings measure their energy use. We are looking for:

Developers (grails / java, but anybody with sharp skills would be considered).

Product manager to help work on new features, somebody with good visual sense.

Account manager - we sell to real estate portfolios and state agencies and need to manage those relationships.

UX person on a freelance basis, especially with experience in data visualization.

Bonus skills are experience in real estate market (residential multi-family or commercial), or background in energy efficiency / energy audits / building science, etc.

email: jean at energyscorecards dot com
> * MSFT announced 7 million blogs, not 30 million.

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...

> * The stuff about Azure is a complete non sequitur.

From (linked): http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Windows-Azure-open...

"Ozzie said that a few companies would take Azure into production starting today. With that as introduction, Ozzie announced that Automattic, creator of open-source WordPress blogging system, would be one of those companies"

and, from TFA, "Automattic’s Paul Kim said that it has no plans to host the blogs on Azure."

Also, from http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show..., "Microsoft decision-makers debated about customers moving from Internet Information Server running on Windows Server to ngix running on Linux" and "I’m hoping for a second half to this story, where we’re hosting these WordPress sites on Azure…moving 20+ million to Linux seems like shooting ourselves in the foot"
I can vouch for earle. Worked with him in the past.
I'm wondering what google would like to say about this... Apparently their SPDY is intended to do more and "better" than what http pipelining can offer. But if these modifications of pipelining do get into the standard and got large adoption (although that may take forever...), then SPDY would have fewer advantages over pipelining, and thus much less convincing.
Oh no, I'm not saying it failed because it wasn't simple enough. Not at all. It failed because we were unable to find a reliable revenue model for our users.

I'm also not saying that you shouldn't work for a nice looking site and a non-buggy service, just that those things can be continually improved as you go. You don't need them for launch.
Any time I start to get too trusting of people / government, or too dismissive of conspiracy theorists, I read something like this.

This is pretty evil.
That's actually what BankSimple is trying to solve, right?

The problem with enterprise is, like I said, they have so many regulations and tight tolerances, they are not very startup friendly.

However, if Wesabe was bought by Intuit and in turn Intuit offered exactly the same product that Wesabe already had, the banks would easily pay $10,000 a month for it just based on the name.

For reference, Wesabe was around $2,500 for their most expensive enterprise plan, which was very inexpensive when compared to having Intuit add your bank to Quicken for $10,000 a month.
Toll Free Mishaps: It’s Ok Ochocinco You Aren’t the First
There was a stock trading startup with the domain trade.com (this was 10 years ago, when day trading was en vogue and E-Trade was going to put Schwab and Merrill Lynch out of business, etc.).

They also spent a lot of money acquiring the domain, thinking it was perfect.

But they executed poorly, and was gone in a few years.

The name is such a small part of it.
Its a wealth transfer - young people pay in, old people get paid. Also, some amount is currently being set aside for when there aren't enough young people paying in to pay for all the old people directly. That amount looks like it won't be enough, so in the future either a) old people will get paid out a little less or b) young people will pay in a little more.

Where's the scheme?
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Richmond, VA: Any php/mysql programmers or designers in the area looking for contract work or more, contact me (see my profile). We've got several full time remote employees, but I see some benefit in having some local contractors/employees.
Couldn't they test the drug on people already infected??
San Francisco / Wikispaces / Front-End Engineer
http://www.wikispaces.com/jobs
The Hummus Manifesto: Problems with entrepreneurship in Israel
My god it's a 45 meg PDF! Still, looking forward to reading...
ASP.NET MVC: Using RESTful Architecture
"Currently Microsoft isn't doing anything evil."

Heh, heh: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

No longer true.
I don't know... Judging from this article, I think these conclusions are premature: http://englishhard.com/2010/10/01/real-world-analysis-of-goo...

I am especially interested in the lack of banding vs. JPEG.

Now - next question: Can it support CMYK?
"There are two types of government spending — discretionary and mandatory. Discretionary spending, which accounts for roughly one-third of all Federal spending, includes money for things like the Army, FBI, the Coast Guard, and highway projects. Congress explicitly determines how much to spend (or not spend) on these programs on an annual basis. Mandatory spending accounts for two-thirds of all government spending. This kind of spending is authorized by permanent laws. It includes "entitlements" like Social Security, Medicare, and Food Stamps — programs through which individuals receive benefits based on their age, income, or other criteria. Spending levels in these areas are dictated by the number of people who sign up for these benefits, rather than by Congress." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#Federal_Spe...
That is also mentioned on TC

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show...
I use simple textmate for Ruby/Rails and lite java coding. I haven't done heavy java coding in 3+ years (yay!), but when I did I used eclipse and it worked well for me.
Zencoder (YC W2010) is looking for:

1. an awesome salesperson. Tenacious, resourceful, ambitious, but also comfortable with learning, discovery, and building a model (rather than following a model).

2. a junior designer. Someone with HTML/CSS and design chops, to help expand and improve our web presence. Some work on our core product, plus work on several small micro-projects.

jon at zencoder.
wow! it seems a sort of delicius + a GTD + collaboration tool
You should start a start-up when your idea is so strong, that you are willing to sacrifice it's monetization for it's success.