skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rotifers may reveal the secret of elongating life
Caveat Lector. Misleading title. This is not talking about OS boot speeds. This is is talking about the time from flipping the switch until the OS begins to load.
Palo Alto, CA - Flipboard.

Seeking awesome iOS or web developer who cares about design that works and building cool things.

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@+hn@%@.com", @"charles", @"flipboard"]
It seems unlikely that synchronising emails, calendar and contacts is carried out in exactly the same manner on a linux based Android device as to one based on a Windows OS.
For HTML (and frankly most every other languages that I don't need compiled as I type) I use editpadpro. It's just a text editor that can color code keywords, has FTP built in, other than that, not many frills, which is good.

Otherwise:

C# - Visual Studio 2010

SQL - SQLYog/MS SQL Manager

Java - Eclipse

c/c++ - dev c++
If you think "faking it" is despicable then you're right about one thing -- you are not an entrepreneur.
If you’re not an entrepreneur, you might be:
Designing a new product.

Developing a new idea.

Looking for funding.

Looking for a partner/co-founder/developer/CEO.

Working on an app.

Working on a side project.

Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln
Palo Alto, CA.

Udemy is hiring rockstar engineers and developers. http://www.udemy.com/static/jobs.html
i like how clean the site is, but it could use a little more content... i think you could probably do something better with the links at the top, they feel too spaced apart and the arrow box thing feels really disconnected. maybe if you added a little color to accent certain parts of the information... here is an example of what i mean.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1529856/vuruanalysispage.jpg
That's the "Market Cap will be higher if Stock Price is smaller" theory that I'm not a huge fan of.

If it were true, then there would be a _great_ arbitrage opportunity for efficient market practitioners who were instead focused on ROE/ROI/Cashflow principals of stocks that had excessive value because they had been "split."

In the short term, market is a voting mechanism, long term it's a weighing device. The major challenge is trying to differentiate between the two - but Market Splits would seem to be custom designed to be 100% voting bias.
If you engage in discussion about the definition of entrepeneurship, you are probably not an entrepeneur. Like I just did.
I was an Eclipse PDT guy (came from Java), but when [unnamed] broke PDT last year, I gave up on it. Once I picked up NetBeans, I was pretty happy with it. I found this article later on:

http://daveyshafik.com/archives/743-netbeans-for-php-continu...
Can you explain how one misplaces a comment?

(I wasn't the downvoter, I voted you back up)
That's true at just about every company, even Google.

The question is are the patents used for offense or defense.
Mountain View. iTeleport.

http://www.iteleportmobile.com

Prefer local. Telecommuting is a possibility. We would be able to provide relocation assistance as well.

We're looking for two awesome software engineers who want to work for a startup, are motivated to dive into new technologies and platforms, and want to help shape the direction of iTeleport.

We have a remote desktop app for the iPhone. You don't have to know Objective-C, or even own a MacBook or an iPhone (we'll provide all the hardware).

Email me with your resume:
vishal at iteleportmobile.com
Please review my startup - Answerous
We built Answerous to solve the following problem: there is no easy way to receive private video answers online. This is a problem because it makes it very difficult to do things like teach foreign languages at scale; solicit video feedback from customers; ask job candidates screening questions; and survey dispersed populations.

As a business, we intend to be a platform that is used by businesses (primarily) for a variety of applications, including those already mentioned.

We are aiming to roll out our pricing plans by the end of October following further product refinement. To that end, i'd really appreciate your input and perspective. We will be making one fundamental change this weekend that automatically makes the first video question/message public, giving users a choice to respond...fyi. Thank you Eoin (@bitesizeirish) for that feedback!

Thanks for your time.
How Terrafugia Designed Its Flying Car
I see I have been rated down for posting the truth. If you would like to read about the truth, you can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)

"Congress invested these surpluses into special series, non-marketable U.S. Treasury securities held by the Social Security Trust Fund. Under the law, the government bonds held by Social Security are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government."

"According to most projections, the Social Security trust fund will begin drawing on its Treasury Notes toward the end of the next decade (around 2018 or 2019), at which time the repayment of these notes will have to be financed from the general fund."
I'm still excited by this. Since I installed an SSD boot drive, the bios startup time is half of my boot time.
It is a shame that not even Amazon is challenging PayPal's monopoly in Europe. Neither Amazon DevPay nor Amazon Simple Pay is available in Europe, and Google Checkout is only available in the UK.
Frankly, if I can trade dollars for increased health or increased life-span I'm going to do it, and be happy to do it even if it means giving up other luxuries (which are worthless without health and life anyway). That's not the problem. The problem is inefficiencies in the system (due to byzantine regulation and taxation, perverse incentives, etc.)
It is absolutely imperative that we all formulate our opinions in ignorance of the patents themselves. Pay no attention to the following words and numbers.

Common Name Space for Long and Short File Names: 5,579,517
Common Name Space for Long and Short File Names: 5,758,352
Monitoring Entropic Conditions of a Flash Memory Device as an Indicator for Invoking Erasure Operations: 6,621,746
Radio Interface Layer in a Cell Phone with a Set of APIs Having a
Hardware-Independent Proxy Layer and a Hardware-Specific Driver Layer: 6,826,762
Method and System for Managing Changes to a Contact Database: 6,909,910
Flexible Architecture for Notifying Applications of State Changes: 7,644,376
Context Sensitive Menu System/Menu Behavior: 5,664,133
Method and System for Supporting Off-line Mode of Operation and Synchronization Using Resource State Information: 6,578,054
Generating Meeting Requests and Group Scheduling from a Mobile Device: 6,370,566
If you want to reduce friction, just require an email and permission to contact up front, save it, then gather further information in a subsequent screen or follow up.
Review of The Social Network
I agree. I've been "Lead Developer" on development teams of one - and I didn't give myself that title. That's what the corporation gave me and printed onto business cards.

For me, I felt most uncomfortable when I first got hired as a "senior engineer." I was 25 and only ~2 years out of school. I told the HR person, I don't think I'm senior. Didn't matter. They were tasked with hiring senior level talent, so that's the level I needed to be. Turns out, I was more senior than I thought and did great in the post. It just was weird at first because I felt as if I hadn't earned it.
Ask HN: Recommend some good books for a dev with no design background?
I could think of top 10 lists for algorithms, web application security, reversing, design patterns... Things programmers should or might want to know about.

I think to be a more well rounded individual I would like to start reading up on design. Graphic design, UX design, typography, style. Please tell me where to start!

Also: it seems like all the important design communities are by invite only (Forrst for example), which makes it hard to get started from a social-web perspective. This isn't true for the programming community given sites like this, /r/programming, StackOverflow, github and bitbucket, and the multitude of open source projects. Oh well. Just an observation.
clickable: http://answerous.com
how is C good at expressing algorithms

Fundamental algorithms can't be expressed sanely in anything other than C. How the heck do you implement a hash table in perl, for example?

Sure, higher-level languages provide some data structures; but they're not always going to have the internal tradeoffs required to make them a good fit for your problem space. A few weeks ago I had to rewrite malloc (well, technically I added a caching layer in front of it) in order to get a 4x speedup to my code -- you're never going to do that in a language which doesn't even admit that malloc exists.
Palo Alto. Opzi just announced on TC, great reception.

https://www.opzi.com/jobs
Meh, all those billions still buys a gaggle of lawyers.
I'm actually reading "Hackers" (the Levy book) now, and I've spent a lot of time thinking/writing/educating about the term, so I dig what you're getting at. =)

And the "hackers as founders" thing is kinda what Y Combinator is all about, yes?
It's not the money that matters to a hacker, it's the accomplishment of surpassing a tangible value that does.
Do you have any data that shows the rate of homicides committed by "gun nuts" is higher than for other people? There are a lot of people in the US who like guns, but as far as I can tell gun hobbyists are much less likely to kill people than the general populace.
I agree the name matters a lot. Good names are really hard. I write down company names all the time, and have a list of well over 100. The hard part is also getting one that can translate to an affordable domain name.

A perfect company name may have to be rejected because the domain name is unavailable. While all domain names are available, for a price, it may be better to use a different name if you feel new competition could pick up your ideal domain name because it is out of budget.

There is also the issue of the founder realizing that the name is not as good as a competitor. At that point, it is game over, as you will never be able to mentally think about your own business in a way you are 100% passionate, and it will show.

When you are the only kid on the block, any name will do, and you have the advantage of first to market. Sometimes #2 comes along with a better name, and side steps every mistake you made because they had a chance to watch your mistakes. At that point, having the stronger name is going to be very important.

I remember Mint, Silk, WordPress, and a several others immediately. Those names are simple to remember. Those are great names to start with, and it is a huge advantage for a user who is told a website they will need to remember.

Company names that evolve into a brand, must be a brand that is significantly more worthwhile to the user. It is hard to build a brand; much easier to start with a good name, and the brand building may build itself.

Wikipedia used to scream out to me as a terrible name. I can't think of a better name any longer, as it has been branded, signed, sealed, and delivered. Amazon was another I thought was terrible, and MySpace, was on my list at the top of my list. Then again, I discounted MySpace as a stupid idea. Repetition and time can fix anything, determining if you can afford that time is the rub.

Wikipedia had lots of time. They are a non profit, and a large scale idea. Not many will come to compete with something that large, and it is even harder to compete with non profit. This is another factor to consider when naming. Wikipedia could afford to be much more idealistic about their name.

Mahalo is one of the worst currently in my book. I have heard it was not a cheap domain to buy, and Calacanis loves it, believing it is a great name. That alone is worth a lot, that he loves it and believes in it. I think the name sucks, it tells me nothing, is hard to spell for some, and in general, has no relevance at all to the product or service.

Company names are indeed a challenge, and a very important one at that. It would be a very interesting article to read about the process of company naming from the likes of Amazon, eBay, Flickr, Delicious, MySpace, FaceBook, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Yelp, Bing, and all the rest of the big guns.
The two main opensource IDE are Eclipse & Netbeans:

Eclipse is the jack of all trades with many plugins, you'll need to know which plugins to add in order to build your environment however it's really customizable to suit your needs.

Netbeans is the state of the art Java & JEE integration with less plugins and customization hence less cumbersome. As long as you only need to use its features you're on a smooth experience.

You should try both in order to define which one you prefer based on your tastes and needs (GWT/GAE support is better in Eclipse).
What is this about 2nd-, 3rd- and 5th-generation languages? I'm pretty sure most of us are using something like 20th-generation languages.

http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf
Motorola still ships WinMo devices, but the only market that still needs them is industry. In NYC, traffic cops carry them, and I know that several food delivery companies use them. Between this patent suit and the late to the party Windows Phone 7, I hope Microsoft finally dies in the mobile phone space.
How To Attract 57,000 Likes And Become Famous On Facebook
Wavii is hiring in Seattle, WA. Remote is an option.

Wavii automatically creates social content in real-time from news across the web.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/21/time-to-meet-wavii-the-supe...

Email me at <my-first-name>@wavii.com for more information.
I use Panic's Coda for PHP, CSS, JS, and very lightly for Ruby on Rails. It needs code folding and git integration, but otherwise is quite pleasant to use and doesn't take up very many system resources.
Or even simply "+".
For those of you who are curious, here's more info on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%C3%A9tat

"The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala."
mint.com was 2 million for the domain? Do you have a source for that? Is there a source for general cost of domain names owned by companies as of today?
I really didn't care for netbeans--- the look, and it was more laggy for me.

Could be I'm also way more used to Eclipse because I use it for everything else. ;)
Vinod Khosla: CEOs Should Spend More Than 50% Of Their Time Recruiting (TCTV)
and jail
Mobile Developer Survey, June 2010
Pairing for Life
Well, for one, the 'reach' reduces drastically.
In my experience micro instances are not suitable for on-demand services since they have no reserved CPU and frequently stop responding for minutes at a time. They're basically a way for Amazon to sell excess RAM to grid computing customers. On the other hand, I tested them a few days after they first became available and was just experimenting with them as a way to test scalability of a product, so things may have changed since then.
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.

Judging by the fact that it has been over a year since the most recent code on the RethinkDB website was released, you might want to add "take the time to solve problems properly rather than throwing together quick hacks" to this list. ;-)

(To be clear, I think taking the time to solve problems properly is a good thing -- I spent two years writing code before Tarsnap moved into public beta -- but it's a philosophy which seems to run contrary to the general standard operating principles of the startup world.)
It's WordPress
Look, it is WordPress
Notice the capital P
It is CamelCased
http://wpcamelcase.com/
You could try http://goo.gl/xbYN
Here is a review: http://goo.gl/jRCn...in french...who knows!
I have not read it myself, but I trust the one who wrote the review. To sum up: great book for sleek designs!
I'm a HUGE fan of .Net...my list will show that.

For simple HTML, PHP, or javascript I use NotePad++. Color codes for pretty much every language out there.

For ASP.Net / C# I use Visual Studio 2k8 or 2k10 if I'm at work, and Mono-Develop if I'm at home.

For Java I have always used eclipse. But I RARELY write java.
While I'm sure there have been overtures, these lawsuits are often just juice to try and force the settlement.
What I like about these lawsuits is the possibility that the big players will start aggressively campaigning for patent reform. As long as they all entered into cosy cross-licensing deals with each other, they were running an oligopoly that erected a barrier to entry against upstarts.

But now that they're starting to sue each other, the oligopoly's ranks have split and patents are going to bring everything to a stand-still.
Newton, MA: TripAdvisor

We used to complain about a table having a billion pins. That's yesterday's news. Come help us figure out what to do with 100B rows of data. And how to do it.
Because of what it tells us about the design and utility. This particular tool looks like it will keep working through inevitable period of hyperinflation everyone keeps warning me about, all the way up to the when we cross the National Debt Event Horizon, at which point accounting is suddenly agreed to be an entirely new art form, and computing a restaurant tip requires a PhD in materials science.
The flash crash of May 6 explained - one human, thousands of algorithms involved
Sure, we could do that. Email me at jason@37signals.com.
Free riding is usually considered to be an economic "problem" only when it leads to the non-production or under-production (in a collectivist sense) of a public good (and thus to Pareto inefficiency), or when it leads to the excessive use of a common property resource.

I'm arguing that free riding isn't a problem in this case.

Drug companies have a rather unique demand for credible certification of their products' efficacy. Of course, some certifications will simply be shills for the drug companies, but doctors and health insurers will learn which certifying agencies are more honest than others and hence certification from a more honest firm will be worth more to the drug company since it will boost sales more.[1] It's no more of a "free rider" problem than Google, which has tons of free riders (search users) but whose customers (advertisers) want there to be more free riders, not less. Likewise, drug companies will want to get a certification that has tons of doctors and insurance companies and pharmacies that respect that certification, even though those are all "free riders".
That's where the customizing comes in. The actual data is stored and can be referenced using other tools/extensions/customizations.
One reason Mint left me with a bad taste as a brand was that Shaun Inman had been using the same name for his analytics webapp for at least a year (at haveamint.com). The duplication felt tacky, to say the least.
I don't like the look or sound of whiteboards. They don't age well either. I love the feel, sound, look, texture, and patina of chalk on a nice dark chalkboard.
Forget the technical things. While in college, get a job in marketing. Get a second job in technology if you want, but chances are if you are a CS student that can actually program, then the technical side is the least of your worries.

Running a business is extremely hard for some people. Expose yourself to it. It would be even better if you worked for a smaller company to get a more holistic view of it.

When I was in college my first job was managing the entire ecommerce side of our business from building to maintaining to figuring up innovations. There were 4 of us. I got significant experience in accounting, marketing, cash flow, customer service... everything. Having that exposure has helped me immeasurably thus far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-generation_programming_la...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation_programming_l...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_programming_la...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_l...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_la...
I guess I misunderstood your requirement of real time - I am guessing you meant that you want to see up to date information when visiting a page?
I would find it highly amusing if Microsoft manages to change the standard for patent lawsuits in their other case, and thanks to the changed standard they lose this one.
By universal, do you mean the US average or the world average? Opera is very popular in some parts of Europe like Russia and Scandinavia, and significantly less popular in the Anglosphere. The higher use among technical users could push it Opera representation from the US average to the world average.
I use Eclipse everyday for Java programming. We use a Subversion server and create Tomcat webapps, both of which integrate easily with Eclipse.

The only drawback is that Eclipse, when it bugs out, can be a serious headache to fix.
I <3 gEdit bigtime, and all my Mac-using friends are constantly enthusing about TextMate. Is there a Windows equivalent?
They look so... normal.
get a real browser...like chrome or safari
Some visual feedback. I don't know if it's just me but the mission text "The easiest way to ask..." is blurry. I'd consider changing the shadowing/background color/font.
Hi Mark,

Good article, thank you for that. What exactly is 'Wesabe' and how did you come to that name? Is there a worthwhile backstory to it? What other names were on the whiteboard before you settled on Wesabe?

Were you the first owner of the domain in April of 06 according to archive.org, or did you have to negotiate the domain name from someone else?

Do you think there is value in the name being a zero hit on a google search? In other words, invent a word entirely, making sure that at least for your company/product name, regarding the domain name space, you have a complete monopoly on the name.

Thanks.
> I completely agree. But I can't think of a way to solve this.

Charge people more to use IPv4-only networks and make it slower. Oh, wait......
With the exception of 6,826,762 these are pretty laughable.
A big deal was made when Apple licensed the "ActiveSync protocol" (which they used to allow iPhones to talk to Exchange servers via EWS). I never heard about Motorola licensing this, so perhaps that's the attack strategy.
Review my app for making server stacks social
Rails Developer - Salem, MA or telecommute

Work on back end of customized fashion platform.
Lots of interesting and challenging problems.
Posting here: http://www.fashionplaytes.com/content/jobs
Send me your resume: gsam@fashionplaytes.com
True. The space is full of really rich textures. From the different woods we choose, to the felt walls, to the cork and carpet. Plus it's a corner office on the second floor with huge windows - the trees and big sky outside bring a lot of color and texture, too.
Woah, check out those angled sliders.
I'm interested in the headline, but really don't want to have to register to read the content.
The will be no early adopters.
Does the Defense number include expenditures on Iraq and Afghanistan? Those have been tracked separately from normal Defense spending up to 2009:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#Bu...
Can you put little voting arrows next to the line items so I can vote up NASA and vote down defense spending? Oh wait, representative democracy. Damn.
Works on FF 3.5.5 in linux.
No, you've been rated down for a reply that does not actually address the comment the parent poster made.

Your comment on Social Security accounting (which is correct, as far as I know), has no bearing on the parent's observation that FICA tax doesn't scale linearly - because it is capped at a certain point.
Open-source means non-commercial now?
Ok, you win. Although again I would like to point you to the initial smily, ":)", meaning, "joke".