skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everfi - Washington, DC. (heart of georgetown)

Education Start Up - just raised a large series A from NEA.

We're looking for all sorts of people - from product managers to front designers to back end engineers, we're hiring across the board. Also open to internships.

If interested, drop me a note at ben at everfi dot com.
There is no chance that this chart is accurate for the US. Crack and heroin are together directly responsible for a ridiculously high percentage of gang violence and other inner-city problems, and crystal meth has destroyed many small rural towns throughout the south and midwest.

More explanation of their methodology would be nice, especially given their use of data from the Netherlands, which has a very progressive drug policy.
I think your probably right, most companies perceive remote working as a bigger hassle than the regular work environment, which is a great shame.

I've been remote working full time for 6 years and I feel that its made me more productive and motivated than working in an office ever could.

Now that now that I've started to look to progress my career further this kind of perception makes it very difficult for me to make the next step.
I think this pretty much qualifies as "first-rev": it's a major redesign and the first 11" Air. Also I'm not really talking about 'generations' in the sense of the MacBook{,Air,Pro}X,Y identifiers you can see in the HW info; more like the main board rev which isn't particularly public unless you take it apart. Apple presumably silently rolls out new board revs as they discover and fix problems.
Intel to start making chip for third parties, widens its role as chip maker
Twitter Issues New Guidelines for the Tweet Trademark
Dave isn't giving you a solution. He's pointing out a number of problems that need to be solved. Just because technology works fine doesn't mean it's the optimal solution. Tech develops incrementally.

Stack Overflow has a search feature and it works fine. But wouldn't it be cool if someone aggregated results from different programming websites? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854731)

Check out Union Square Venture's blogpost from May: http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/05/stackoverflow.php. In addition to describing their investment, the post describes problems in the space. If you had never heard of Stack Overflow and you only read about the problems in that post, would you say the solution was too complex?
Given the link between certain genes and smoking, why not
make autism illegal?

All that you listed is to protect others from your smoke — which I very welcome. I don't see how the analogy with autism holds there. And even if you have genes which just force you to smoke, please do so that others who don't posses these genes are not forced to breath your medicine.
You didn't really give us a lot of information. I'll assume you have a chicken and egg problem. Relying on media for anything is not a good strategy.

1. Divide your users into to chicken and egg categories. Build an egg plant! Build a website that allows eggs to show up and is useable without any chickens and add the chickens latter. Often times your eggs are a niche user or geography.

2. If you're going to pitch bloggers and they have no idea who are you already, it probably is a little late to start trying to build a relationship.
Yeah, I'm not devastated, just mildly worried. The main annoyance is I'd like to avoid maintaining a MacOS partition (more room for Linux that way), but of course the Mac partition is required if they release firmware updates. I might not want to get rid of it for a while, just to see. Apparently there's also a weird screen-flashy thing going on as well, which feels like a bit more than an OS/driver issue. But who knows.
Powermat Unveils iPhone 4 Wireless Charger, Ties It With A $60 Price Tag 
Powermat has just announced its latest wireless charging accessory. It’s a wireless charger for iPhone. As the name suggest, the Powermat iPhone Wireless charger lets you charge your phone wirelessly.
I actually did a research paper on rave culture a few years back. Pretty eye-opening; a fairly significant amount more people had died from drinking too much Red Bull than from taking ecstasy, even including where it was laced with cyanide / something equally bad to consume. It's literally one of the safest street drugs around.

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Some fun numbers from http://thedea.org/technicalFAQ.html:

>"MDMA-present" drug deaths occur at a rate of aproximately 2-3 users per 100,000 users/year. ... cigarettes ... on the order of 400 deaths per 100,000 users/year

With only "a handful" US-annually where it was the only drug, out of less than a hundred. Think alcohol can claim that?
It gets a little convoluted when they are giving awards for 'Best Packaging System' and the nominees are: apt, aptitude and synaptic.
Tübingen here. :)
Commercial Open Source Software Company Acquia Raises $8.5 Million More
That's "1 of every 5 deaths in US due to smoking," I've submitted it now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856015

Now how is then smoking less harmful than using some other substance? Or is the evaluation skewed somehow?
Intel to start making chip for third parties
Interoperability: standards or proprietary?
"if Facebook want to remain relevant, they must own a mobile platform. This is going to be Facebook's biggest challenge yet as a company. They are too restricted by building on Apple or Google. They must own the platform."

uhm..? Why is this? As far as I can tell, Facebook are happy with people using whatever OS and whatever browser to access their site. Why would this be different for mobile?
Conshohocken PA (Philly Suburb) - Monetate - Local only

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT) to internet retailers. We've got existing high-volume customers. We're small, profitable, and we're growing fast.

http://monetate.com/company/jobs/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale.

* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out!

Feel free to email me tjanofsky monetate com.
actually LSD and cannabis has never killed anybody ever.

just saying
There was an excellent presentation about real life social networks by Paul Adams from Google making similar observations:

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
Is that because the design is "right" in some way?

Nope. It's just that all the designers currently like ripping off 37signals. In a few years there will be another hard-on-inducing design, and then everything will look like that.
CommonPlace -- Cambridge, MA (http://commonplaceusa.com)

We're a nearly-funded startup creating a social platform for local communities and neighborhoods.

* Web Developer: Will be working on a Ruby on Rails web app with some civic-minded Harvard students.

Contact maxtilford at gmail
I have a hard time taking this too seriously because CVS ranked as the third best revision control system above bazaar
and mercurial.
A typewriter that runs Zork (among other things)
Are they? Does HTC, Samsung, etc. actually claim that their phones are "open"? It's Google calling Android open.
scare tactics induced by the media to try and cover up these drugs. I'm not defending drone, it's a horribly fiendish poison and it's certainly something which can kill you if taken in a large enough dose. But media corps lying about the facts on these drugs isn't helping us advance anywhere
The headline suggests he is proposing a solution: a social network which beats FB by prioritising intimacy.

I think it's pretty much like dating sites. Before you solve the chicken-and-egg problem, it's meaningless to talk about how you add value. And the proposed value-add here (intimacy) makes the chicken-and-egg problem even more difficult (a dating site only for Mac lovers, anyone?).

Edited for clarity
I'm Indian too (with ex-Pak immigrant parentage), and I can't say most of those things, except for the recent innovation of the Right to Information Act, are all that different here than in Pakistan.

Perhaps we shouldn't argue over what we cannot quantify.
Drug-related gang violence isn't caused by drug use, it's caused by drug policy. Changing the policy so that it no longer creates ridiculously huge profit opportunities around the drugs in question does make the problems go away.
CommonPlace -- Cambridge, MA (http://commonplaceusa.com)

We're a nearly-funded startup creating a social platform for local communities and neighborhoods.

* Web Dev Intern: Will be working on a Ruby on Rails web app with some civic-minded Harvard students. Some programming experience nice, but not required. We will help you learn as needed.

Contact maxtilford at gmail
Belbin's theory of Team Roles (which is one of the few lenses that doesn't strike me as complete BS) breaks people in to a number of categories: Plants (idea's people), Resource Investigators (starters), Co-ordinators (competent PA), Shapers (classical good non-technical PMs who take the project through from soup to nuts), Monitor Evaluators (critics, QA folk), Teamworkers (the quite guy who sorts out fights), Implementers (Intrepreneurs, who set up the bug tracking system that everyone agrees is a good idea), Completer Finishers (perfectionists), and Specialists (what tell you that they read an article 20 years ago that showed how to do it better in 3 lines of code).

Google seems to want "Plants", who are great people, but too many cooks spoil the broth.
Yup, this happened to me too this morning.

I even checked specifically for this last night: I was figuring that Apple would internally store the time in UTC and that my alarm time would have changed to an hour later than the usual time. Wouldn't have been ideal but I could have understood that. But no, when I checked my alarm the (display) time was still 8:00 AM.

This morning, I awoke for other reasons a little past 8 and my alarm hadn't gone off. Then, at 9, it did.

For some reason, there is some mismatch between the display time and the actual time, although I couldn't imagine what it would be. I imagine there is some caching of information involved somewhere...
Am I the only one who has become a bit bored by the current trend in web design? Those sites all look the same to me, and the big fonts make feel stupid. W I T H A B I G F O N T I H A V E T O R E A D R E A L L Y S L O W...
Erm, just look at the green bars, "harm to users". OK it's not ranked that way but its clear enough.
TripAdvisor in Newton, MA. No remote, sorry.

We are looking for interns and full-time in a variety of areas:

Product

If you see it on the TripAdvisor site it was built by Product. Everything our visitors see, interact with and love is built by this team. Learn how to keep 40e6 monthly visitors happy while stretching into areas of automated content summarization, deep social integration, building hugely-multi-platform handheld apps, serving 10M photos or to manage a billion pins worth of travel data generated by our users. Every project coming out of Product is carefully tuned to make our users happy and make TripAdvisor the best place to do travel research. We've got more ideas than engineers to build them.

Content Integrity/Fraud

TripAdvisor currently has over 35 million reviews written by our members, and the volume of reviews being submitted is continually increasing. The CI team works to to integrate automated systems based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistical natural language processing into our software to provide new capabilities for automated document classification, categorization, summarization, and recommendation. We focus on the real-world application of new technology to provide significant improvements in the efficiency and profitability of our business, and in the features available to our users.

SEO

TripAdvisor has the world's best SEO. Type in the name of pretty much any hotel in the world and we're on the front page of Google. The SEO team understands how to build pages so that robots and crawlers can read them cleanly. In doing so, we're able to use our unique content to get top rankings and appear in front of huge numbers of users. As part of the SEO team, you'll help to run experiments to learn how better to present our content to robots and extend our mastery into new domains.

Commerce

Having attracted traffic to TripAdvisor, we need to turn those visitors into tracked outbound links to each of our partners. Serious money flows through the fingers of the Commerce team as they identify how to direct traffic to the best targets to make our two sets of customers (visitors & partners) happy.

APAC

The APAC team grew the site from 0 to 4MM users in a year to replicate TripAdvisor's success in the most populous country with the fastest growing economy and Internet penetration rate. What makes it challenging is working with a distributed engineering team and system that is located more than 6000 miles away. Toe help develop and operate daodao.com, it'd help if you were fluent in Chinese.

Drop me a line
Another interesting article from 2009 by the ever excellent Ben Goldacre:

http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-...

This describes pretty concisely how governments might choose to use or not use evidence about drug harm and the reasons for doing so:

Drugs instantiate the classic problem for evidence based social policy. It may well be that prohibition, and the inevitable distribution of drugs by criminals, gives worse results for all the outcomes we think are important, like harm to the user, harm to our communities through crime, and so on. But equally, it may well be that we will tolerate these worse outcomes, because we decide it is somehow more important that we publicly declare ourselves, as a culture, to be disapproving of drug use, and enshrine that principle in law. It’s okay to do that. You can have policies that go against your stated outcomes, for moral or political reasons: but that doesn’t mean you can hide the evidence, it simply means you must be clear that you don’t care about it.
... to society
Math prof challenges granting of PhD to unqualified student in court
"A really good friendship would have found a way to stay alive over 10 years with or without Facebook."

That's true, and I certainly have friends that I intend to stay in touch with for many years to come, Facebook or no. Relationships fall into concentric circles though; there's acquaintances on the outside that only care about slightly, and there's lifelong friends near the centre. Somewhere in between are people that you would certainly talk to if you ever ran into them at random, but wouldn't make much of an effort to stay in touch otherwise.

Facebook is ideal for these kind of relationships, because the semi-public nature of wall posts keeps things casual (letters and emails feel very intimate, and it can be strange sending a long "hey, what's up?" message to someone you don't know that well). There's also the fact that you can see their recent activities and photographs, giving you an easy conversational opener ("I saw you visited x/did y/know z, how was it?"). I think it was quite carefully designed to afford such interaction styles.
the clarion call for revolution is not written in a soothing voice. distraction is the goal, not an impediment.
Suggestions:

- have a way to hide the left and right arrows on the screen.

- have a way to favorite, or, view on youtube.com the actual clip

- have a way to enter a username, then show their profile:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#User_...

and then display the favorites of that user:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#User_...

their playlists (maybe subscriptions) too:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Playl...

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Subsc...

a way to switch over to their contacts:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Conta...

(check out http://twitya.com as my example of surfing usernames on twitter)
That was definitely a "WTF" moment when I saw that.

Are we in the Bizarro world? I know that Git vs. Mercurial is a bit like Vim vs. Emacs, but I can't see how any rational person could rank them on opposite sides of Subversion. If someone likes centralized over distributed, Subversion should beat both Git and Mercurial. If one likes distributed, both Git and Mercurial should beat Subversion.
Bettercodes.org to offer free 2 GB code repositories for all developer projects
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bettercodes.org is open source and based on an AGPLv3 license. All developers on bettercodes.org can access the source code and contribute their enhancements, new ideas and new features. bettercodes.org itself applies a range of open source software components like WordPress, BuddyPress, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache Solr, and others which are part of the overall architecture. bettercodes.org works with Amazon web Service to provide a reliable code hosting with 99.999999999 percent durability and 99.99 percent availability of objects over a given year.

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> I'm sick of this nanny state bullshit.

People have been sick of smoke for years. It was never sustainable that a minority should be allowed pollute the environment of everyone else. Any politician who campaigned to bring back smoking in these places would fail spectacularly. Get used to it.
And information never informs action in your opinion?
> the backwards-compatibility burden sometimes running all
> the way back to Windows 95, maybe even Windows 3.1+Win32s.

Chen's wonderful blog (the Old New Thing) talks about this, like the backward compatibility hack in windows 95 to support BUGS in 3d party DOS/win3.1 programs like Lotus 1-2-3 or SimCity. No doubt many of those hacks have been ported to following windows versions.
I know a few guys who might be able to help out, but I can't find what languages you're working in on your site ;)

Your Developer site mentions Hibernate and Tomcat, so I'm assuming you're a java shop?
Hacker Monthly #6 is out
good point.

but I'm probably not the only one that didn't realize what I was doing by being "too friendly".
btw, u do realize this post had no crazy fonts in it as an A/B test for u Haterz out there, right? ;)
I'm confused by this. Why are you happier to fund someone's education if their goals are better job placement and personal salary than if their goals are to be better, happier people?

Because I'm not paying taxes to make other people happy.

My assumption here (and yes, it's possibly a flawed assumption) is that the person working for better job placement will -- on average -- end up contributing more to society than the person going to school because they like to read about obscure long-dead authors.

I don't believe tax money put toward education should be there to make people happy as a primary goal. It should be put there to encourage people to be productive members of society. Hopefully people find happiness along the way, but that's not my concern here.

In either case, you'd be subsidizing someone else's attempt at bettering their own life -- but why is improving their income tax bracket more valuable to you than improving their wellbeing by any other metric that person might choose?

You're putting words in my mouth here, or perhaps just misunderstanding what I'm saying. Jumping up the income tax bracket ladder is a side-effect of producing better work that ends up being a larger contribution to society.

In a hypothetical scenario where you were given the choice of funding Alice's education with the certain knowledge that her degree would get her a high paying job where she'd be miserable, funding Bob's education with the knowledge that his life and relationships would be enriched but he would never earn much, would you really be happier funding Alice's education?

In that specific case, no. I would be equally unhappy funding either of them. But you can't design this kind of public policy for specific extreme cases; you design it for the common average case.

You are presenting a false dichotomy where on one hand you have happy people who are low wage-earners/low producers, and on the other hand you have unhappy (or less happy) people who are high wager-earners/high producers.

There are people who make a lot of money who are happy, and who are unhappy. There are also people who don't make much money who are happy, and who are unhappy. Education in fields that also end up being economically useful need not be any more or less happiness-inducing than productive dead-ends, on average.
Datapoint: My new MacBook Air has had zero problems so far.
Yup, I was going to say the exact same thing...
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-Update-open-so...
Yes, it's a lot gentler. The anti-smoking movement has been going on for a long time, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-smoking_movement. If my "one century" estimate is correct, smoking will be more-or-less banned in progressive countries between 2040 and 2075; the high end of that range does not seem totally unreasonable, although I'm not an expert by any means.

Contrast prohibition in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_State...): the first thing most people noticed was probably a complete ban (1920), although there were already quite a few local bans in place by that point (equally abruptly introduced). Very little effort seems to have been spent on gradual introduction of the law, and it was introduced despite a lack of broad acceptance (contrast the "conditional bans" you complain about.)

It may well be the case that the anti-smokers will, like the "dry" people, eventually achieve a ban on the good in question. However, the anti-tobacco campaign is a lot more gentle than the anti-alcohol campaign, and denying that is just rhetoric.

Two notes: yes, I think an eventual tobacco ban is a good thing; and you may be amused to learn that the nazis were fiercely anti-smoking as well.