skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing contract work for three years; 95% of my work has come from Craigslist or from referrals from people who I connected with through Craigslist. You have to wade through an incredible amount of junk, but the volume on CL can't be touched anywhere else, and there is good stuff in there. I look in computer gigs and I also periodically post an abridged version of my resume in the resume section.

Other places I've found stuff include Dice.com, 37signals Gigs Board, Freelance Switch, and AuthenticJobs.

I get a lot of recruiters for contract jobs contacting me through Dice, my resume post on CL, and my blog. That might not be the kind of thing you're looking for, but it doesn't hurt.
I'm working on a couple of apps. And I know of at least one person who's creating a HN app using my http://api.ihackernews.com
"We don't teach English classes with the intent or expectation of turning all of the students into professional literary critics, and we don't make everyone take algebra because we think they will or should all become mathematicians."

That's right, we teach English because we expect students to be able to read and write and speak cogently. We teach algebra because we expect them to be able to use it in most jobs that will be available to them. We should teach programming because... We you know? It really isn't quite as urgent.

I believe that kids should be taught just enough about computers, including programming, so that they are demystified. A student in high school doesn't need programming as a skill, but he doesn't need to know that a computer is a tool to be manipulated, not an 'experience' to be bought. One course in Python in high school would enough for this, but more valuable possibly would just be teaching them that can open up the command line once in a while.
Authentic Jobs has design/development freelance listings: http://www.authenticjobs.com
I never voted for that formulation of the "Hacker ethic"... certainly not in any binding way. :)
Also, nootropics / smart drugs / neurohacking.
Hmm.

Showing tips / help one line at a time might not be the best idea. For instance if you want to figure out what the filter does, you have to just click next over and over again and hope that at some point it will tell you.

Otherwise, this is pretty nice. Probably better than using a search toolbar. Though, I have quicksearches in my address bar for all of these, which means it's not really useful for me.

For instance if I want to research some programming topic X, I will go into my browser and type: "g X" -> Ctrl + T "w X" -> Ctrl + T "so X" to open tabs with searches of google, wikipedia, and stackoverflow (for instance). That's easier than clicking around on your site.

Now if you could display all search results side by side, it might be more interesting. And if you could create quicksearches for groups of that... So if I want to search Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de at the same time and see results from all side by side (or in a grid layout if there are more than 3 sites). If you could do that, I'd totally use it.
It looks like it worked :)
Since the biggest employer in San Jose is Adobe, the "hardware" moniker may not be the best.
Agreed. (Thanks for the link.) However, I don't think people are aware of the distinction; I think it's just a parroted meme.
I'm with pilif on this one, when someone sends a skype message, all my devices ring (two laptops, one desktop and three mobiles). This happens for every message. It's so infuriating I log off Skype on every machine apart from the one I'm currently on.

You can continue a Jabber conversation by just sending a message from the device you moved to. As far as I know, all subsequent messages will go to that one. It's also great for preventing snooping when you leave one device on at work and chat on another at home.
How could I figure out which results are good, and which are bad?
20% Chrome is surprising. I would've guessed Firefox's share to be much larger.
I've had success with this one: http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/

It works the other way around. Job listing is free; job seeker has to pay.
feed://news.ycombinator.com/rss
This article raises some excellent points. While I don't think everyone needs the ability to actually write a functioning program, the ability to break down a problem into a logical set of instructions is a critical skill. Whether the instructions are implemented as a functioning program, pseudocode or just a general algorithm that can be followed by another person is not as important as the thought process.
Cindy Gallop PtII on Changing Venture Funding for Women
Thanks for the interesting post Jacques. Keep it up.
Webs.com - Silver Spring, MD (On the Washington, DC Metro)

We need a front-end developer. We're at a point where we are about to be rolling out a lot of important new products and updates to old ones, so we're looking to bump up our front-end team.

Looking for:

-Strong in HTML/CSS/JS

-Familiar with, but not dependent on, jQuery

-Interested in new technologies

-Likes getting things done the right way

-Some experience with Rails/Java is a plus

We give you all the standard startup benefits - medical benefits, commuter benefits, catered lunch, full kitchen, foosball table, etc.

>> Relocations are fine, I don't think we're looking for telecommuters

Email me at daniel (at) webs.com
> I care that it's even harder for Joe Blow with a startup to get on the front page now.

Interesting, this was written with the exact opposite in mind.

see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1758505

And it worked, his article is now on the homepage and he's getting pretty solid feedback.
Essay: From Opinion to Belief to Knowing
This is completely off topic, but do you know if I can install Vanilla Android on devices that come with Sense? I'm getting a Desire HD and I'm curious if I can just remove the entire HTC thing and install the plain Google one if it comes with too much crapware.

Does everything work, or do vendors have too much integration to install the vanilla OS?
And I never signed the Social contract, but it is a philosophical concept that is well accepted by third parties.
Your personal data db could be private and you could use filtered replication to create a local clone with only the data you want to allow replicating.
I'm not sure, but Woobius might be UK-centric, and Google have been heavily pushing Chrome in TV advertising there.
Yes, google "Mifi disconnect" and you'll find endless stories of Mifi problems with the wifi mode (it works perfectly in dongle mode), across carriers: Verizon, Spring, Virgin Mobile.

Bottom line (sad to say, since I own two): the Mifi doesn't work in wifi mode reliably. It drops offline every few minutes, breaking your ssh connections and any downloads in progress. It does reconnect within 5-10 seconds, so it sorta looks like it's working to your average undemanding browser user.
Hard Copy - Unofficial Instapaper client: http://www.appbrain.com/app/hard-copy-instapaper-app/com.ton...

It's a fun project to get into Android with. I imagine that my pizza/date money income from the project is going to disappear now that Marco is working on Instapaper full-time (as he's probably working on an Android client).
In Defense of “Beautiful Code”
I thought the future was going to look like the metaverse from snowcrash, not a distributed version of twitter or facebook. So yes I am disappointed but in a more general sense.
Hmm, not sure if we really need this kind of posts (even if it contains only "white hat" recommendations). If you are going to write something oriented to "new" HN users, something that tries to define what a productive member should do (posts should be good "discussion material", don't ignore the new page, karma is not that important, etc...) or give some insight into the community could be more useful.
Just my $.02.
Are you telling me that if I come up with a way to build a cold fusion reactor, start to finish, that is commercially viable but will cost me $1,000,000,000,000 to build but can power the entire human civilization, my only option is to either build it or forget it? That if I obtain a patent it is somehow my obligation to actually make the damn thing?

Also, how do you propose the patent office make sure that I am actually going to build something? Isn't the workflow "invent, patent, produce"? Or should I alter that workflow and go with "invent, produce, patent"? If so what happens to everyone that imitates me in the produce phase once I get my patent? Seems to me I'd be much more of a troll then.
What would the idea of the iPod have been worth in the 90s?

Very little indeed.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
W3Schools sees IE below 50% since September 2008. However, it's not representative.

But as they say on their page: "Anyway, our data [...] clearly shows the long and medium-term trends."
But the U.S. can't do that forever without inflation, because they either have to cut spending (which wouldn't happen due to fears it might affect unemployment and the economy), raise taxes (same deal, and is even more of a political mess), or print money. Printing money in bulk over and over leads to inflation. Inflation causes people to slow spending.
Ask HN: Is this a bad business model?
Traditionally, I think a great deal of companies (FogCreek, 37signals, etc...) start out consulting to get regular income and build a product they can sell over time and eventually move away from the consulting business.

I think this is a great idea and it seems to work well. However, since I already have a full time job that I enjoy and don't plan on leaving any time soon, I figured I would just skip the consulting phase and go straight into developing software products.

The idea was to focus on small businesses that may not have the money to hire someone to build a complete software application for them and leverage their business knowledge in a niche market to build the software they want and sell it to them in license format later.

On the surface, this seems win-win since the business owner gets software built on the cheap, and my company can sell the software to whoever we want when we're finished since we own everything.

However, this hasn't quite gone as planned. The small business owner I'm working with keeps expecting each iteration of development to be production ready and tries to go out and use the software right away. He then gets upset when it doesn't do what he expected (which, he's not 100% sure about in the first place).

The problem is, I don't have the domain knowledge of what the software needs to do. And the other guy doesn't really know what software is capable of doing. This is OK if both parties are willing to work on growing the software iteratively, which is what I thought I made clear we were going to do in the beginning.

To make matters worse, I'm 99% sure he's either sold or given a copy of the software to at least one of his friends who owns a similar business.

So, at the end of the day. I get all of the stress of a consultant with none of the payoff. I've only sold one license to this guy and I doubt he'll buy any more.

I'm definitely not going to bail on this project. I'm proud of the software I'm building and I think it will grow into something worthwhile. I just think I went about this the wrong way.

Is this a dumb idea? It hasn't worked out well for me so far, but I don't know if this is the norm.

Have any of you tried something like this before? If so, how did it go?

Thanks for the advice.
Wish I'd had this for my first GDC conference in San Jose.

I went up El Camino Real, and saw fabled places like Palo Alto, but I couldn't help thinking "This is just like Scarborough" (ugly Toronto suburb). It's just strip-malls. KFC, Taco Hell, KFC, Taco Hell. What a disappointment!

I guess I expected there to be code and money dripping from the trees, while pot-smoking surfers built rockets, or something.
The power of cross-promotion + The power of the brand.
Do you know if this thing will replicate all data of every person in the network? Or does it just connect to your friends' nodes and pull only their own changes?
When I saw the title my first thought was a system like
http://flattr.com/

which would monitor your tweets and then distribute your monthly $3 to the sites or persons.

That way your donating that you have interest or a book that you have read. Instead of spamming your friends
HBO, CNBC, Twitter, Netflix in Google TV lineup
Court Documents for Mirror Worlds v Apple
As the author notes, one aspect of humor is that it can tend to be off topic, ie about being funny rather than the content of the thread. But, he is mistaken about absurdity; absurdity has a logical form and is commonly employed in discussion. The difficulty is that absurdity easily slides into sarcasm because it can't be wrapped in rainbows and delivered by unicorns.

The article misses a key aspect of humor (and its intellectual companion wit): appropriateness. Sites without humor may be appropriate for some purposes, particularly those which strive to provide only factual information -- such as the previously mentioned Wikipedia where humor (and wit) is never deemed appropriate.

From my observation, HN is accepting of humor and wit, but the standard of appropriateness is generally higher than elsewhere on the web. As is the case with Wikipedia the standard is maintained only by a ruthless and constant editorial commitment to community standards.

I believe that for sites where users generate editorial content at least some forms of humor will always be deemed appropriate, e.g. self-deprecating and that which softly defuses contention. For building a diverse community of experts, some level of off topic humor is necessary. Otherwise you only get fanatics.

Although most people don’t want to participate in 4chan, they have an intuitive sense that life with Jorge of Burgos in charge is likely to be worse.
Be careful of what you wish for, though. Powerful companies would most likely lobby for changes to patent law that benefit powerful companies.

For example, they might lobby to require the invention be a "real product", defined as N x 100,000 units or $N million dollars revenue. While that would eliminate patent trolls, it would also destroy small companies and individual inventors.
Sadly, one of the most beautiful spots in the valley was at the old DC Power Lab (named after someone called "DC Power", but it was the Electric Power Research Institute before it became the old Stanford AI Lab, and was eventually torn down).

In its decrepitude, a laser printer startup I helped found (Imagen) lived among the ruins (we traded space from Stanford for laser printers ;-), and it was glorious. It was up in the trees not too far from the dish, and we'd work out on the deck (watch out for holes) under the eucalypti on every fresh Palo Alto morning. Heaven.

Now I think it's a riding stable.
I think HTML should be taught in English class. In English, they teach you composition, research, etc. They should also teach you how to write valid HTML in order to publish your work in today's most common publishing format.
David Gelernter is a CS professor at Yale, an author, and as far as I can tell, not really a scumbag. But who knows, he did name his coordination language Linda, because "'Ada' is to 'Ada Lovelace' as 'Linda' is to 'Linda Lovelace'".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_%28coordination_language%...

He's got quite a few essays on edge.org of some repute, including this one from 2000 in which he eerily and in detail predicts the move to event stream-based information presentation. Quantity, not quality, he says.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759763

In any case, all the Mirror Worlds patent trial documents are available here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759843

From the summary there:

The document display lawsuit involved Apple's Cover Flow, Time Machine, and Spotlight displays. Plaintiff Mirror Worlds LLC alleges that Defendant Apple, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,006,227 and 6,638,313 B1 entitled "Document Stream Operating System" and 6,725,427 B2 entitled "Document Stream Operating System with Document Organizing and Display Facilities," 6,768,999 B2 entitled "Enterprise, Stream-Based Information Management System".
I noticed IE drop below 50% last spring on http://flashcarddb.com

It dropped from 50.17% in March to 49.05% in April, continuing to steadily decrease since then.

My traffic is about 70% North American. I have many students. Macintosh is a 20% slice of my OS pie and Safari isn't too far behind Firefox in browser share.

September => IE: 48%, Firefox: 24%, Safari: 16%, Chrome: 10%
Isn't that the point with these projects? Managing a central service for 500 million users is hard. But with a decentralized setup, I won't need to connect to a million nodes. I don't know quite that many people.

Course, a friend request changes from a simple button click to getting my local couchdb instance to do a filtered sync with your couchdb instance.
Silly Kiddie, Exploits Are For Free
I agree, but you're entirely missing progrium's point.

I think PG's emphasis on places like Skyline and 280 was trying to help compensate for the fact that a lot of people come here and stick close to highway 101, which leads them to think this is an ugly place. But in focusing so much on the landscape stuff, he left out some of the best people stuff.
Yeah. I noticed there's also a human touch somewhere in the mix. I think the editors choose a "boost" on certain posts. It looks like mine was selected (thankfully) to benefit more per upvote/comment than yours.

Your post has more comments and upvotes than mine, but is ranked lower. It was ranked higher for a period of time, then suddenly dropped down to the bottom. Mine, on the other hand, jumps up 5 spots anytime somebody upvotes it.

Or, maybe it matters who upvotes/comments on posts. I don't know, but it's made me have more faith in HN.

Edit: I've been on here for this long and have not once ever noticed the "flag" button.
I'm certainly not going to push meditation on anyone, but I don't think the "it wasn't developed in parallel" argument is a poor one-- meditation practices are pretty much ubiquitous throughout all of Asia. That's not nothing. Furthermore, besides the obvious Buddhist and Hindu traditions, there are meditative traditions (albeit minor ones) within Christianity.

I'm quite surprised to hear that you tried meditating every day for a month or so, without "getting it"-- to me, that sounds like you had a terrible meditation instructor.

Anyway: feel free to not meditate, if that's working for you, but the "not invented here" argument seems pretty weak to me.
Startup micro opportunities
..."refundable" credits to those who don't pay taxes. In other words, welfare.
Interesting concept -- It seems like it might work better as a browser plug-in though.

If you want to keep it as a web site, I would make the interface (your search box, browser list, etc.) as unobtrusive as possible (remove all the daed space, try to move your entire search interface to a bar at the top or left perhaps, and create a results pane who's vertical scroll bar is flush w the right side of the screen -- this will create a much more comfortable and familiar experience for users.
Top 4 Reasons The Twilight Zone is the King of Sci-Fi
What follows are four reasons exactly why this yearly marathon favorite remains the reigning king of sci-fi. Step aside Wookies, Cylons, Klingons and dream-thieving fugitives; we’ve just crossed over... into the Twilight Zone.
So, how long before someone makes a twittinator? (See http://www.mailinator.com/.)
> So it's okay because one person who needed to benefit did?

Check out how many good things fall through the cracks on a regular basis.

Need I remind you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1723734

This is not meant to give people that want to 'game' the system a leg up, if that's the thing you're after there are probably much quicker routes to a pay-off than this.
oh brilliant was in my post title.

when I came across Max's app that Guinness image was the first thing that popped up.
Google lines up Internet TV programming partners
My bad, yeah I caught that he cloned the API and updated the post this AM.
Steve Rosenbaum: Why VCs will totally miss the online video revolution
Simple way to backup your Google Account (Gmail, Docs, Contacts, Calendar etc)
Great design advice. I'll experiment with that.
I don't know "Happy to Burn", but Bhante G's "Meditation in Plain English" is an excellent book.

However, I think that learning to meditate from a book is a bit like learning to swim from a book-- I'm sure it is possible, but it's definitely not the easiest (or most efficient) way to learn.

I'd recommend that anyone who is interested try to find a center to visit, and take some in-person instruction.
Working on KalSMS - an app that lets an Android device function as an SMS gateway: http://github.com/niryariv/KalSMS/wiki

If you live where Twilio/Textmarks/etc already cover, it's just a fun hack, but in developing nations it could be a bigger deal. Current solutions require non-trivial setup (software + cell modem) and NGOs sometimes send technicians for a couple weeks to Africa just to set up the gateway. KalSMS (like any Android app) could be installed by simply scanning a barcode - and maintenance just means keeping the phone on, something non-techies easily do already.

Looking for beta testers, and anyone who might donate/sell me a Nexus One to develop on..
Ha you're right about that.

I heard that our brain can only hold a certain amount of blood, and that blood carries the sugar that fuels it. So when you're scared, and blood is pumping to your amygdala, your frontal lobes have less fuel to make decisions.

Do you program for your day job? I do and I've found I'm under that sort of stress consistently, and with harder problems to solve. I guess it does affect me but I've been working on my 'not caring' skills to compensate.
Yeah I wanted to build a stand alone media sharing app (big data files, images, movies, etc), but now I may not need one. Continuous replication of parts of subscribed databases was the idea I was going to go with.
40% of Groupon merchants say "never again"
Ask HN: Should HN links have a target="_blank"?
opening to a new browser window when clicking a link to an external site?
Really cool and useful tool ;) Great job
May be interesting, but the pictures don't look very interesting to me. Perhaps because there's not enough detail?
Nice work Max. You should do a show and tell at tonight's pdxruby brigade.
No, this post was flagged a couple of times so that's what penalized it. Flags are an input to the ranking algorithm once a post gets more than 10 upvotes.
becareful with supplying your email address!
it said i had to provide it for my gravatar, but it turns out it is _publically_ visible and _unchangable_ after you entered it..

it's a trap! :-P
Maybe there's some long-game benefit to supporting Windows XP forever, but I can't see it. Windows XP was released in 2001. It's a nine year old operating system. Software costs money to develop and maintain, so why should Microsoft continue to release free updates for such old software? Is it unreasonable for Microsoft to expect users to upgrade at this point?
It was unexpected to see that StatCounter is headquartered in Ireland.
The particular implementation will pull all I think.

But it's not a big jump to setup a "follow" node that replicates only the last X messages from personal friend nodes. At least that was how I was planning to do it, but I hadn't intended to mimic Diaspora's protocol.

What I could do is work with Max's construct and set it up for personal publishing, and distributed following. One node for broadcasting out, and as many different nodes as I want for following updates from other nodes
ARM actually designs and licenses whole chip architectures. You can license a design from ARM and have it built it without much additional engineering.
Are there docs?
Looking forward to restart of continuous replication after restart, according to @couchdb on twitter it's in the trunk :D