skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc.

You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

One of our guys created statefulapp.com during the recent Rails Rumble (been on the frontpage of HN recently), many others contribute to open source.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £100m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December (meet us all there next Thursday) and we've recently returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.
Indeed, this article is very focused on North America with its huge houses. Then again, I do expect houses to become even smaller in the future, in any country. After all, there will be more people in the same space.

Even further into the future, people might spend their entire days in virtual environments so 'real space' will start to matter less.
Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness: China and the U.S.
Dattoos would be the ultimate user/machine interface
If we could get around the planning issues this would be the PERFECT solution to the housing problem faced by the young, single and poor in the UK.

If we can get these classified as temporary dwellings, it could be both an energy efficient way to house people who are currently being stiffed by society/the economy, as well as a great big fuck-you to the housing market.
500 euros (US$ 650) for whoever can solve this business model brain teaser
No Operating System Is Perfect
Can Japan deliver a holographic World Cup?
If technical people spent a significant part of their time on how to bring a message instead of the content of the message, they would hardly be technical people. You need smart minds to be doing what they are good at.

You are presenting a dichotomy, that technical people can be smart or empathic but not both. Citation, please? I am keenly interested in learning why smart minds cannot be good at "what they are good at" if they take the time to improve their empathy and communication skills.
Optimizing the asynchronous Google Analytics snippet
Finding Out-Of-Sync (Python) Packages Across Servers With Fabric
FTA: "But the result — being able to automate what used to be a monotonous task — is totally worth it."

Some of the best hackers and coders I've met were the laziest folks around; but they'd spend hours working to automate a 1-minute monotonous task.
I agree. I'm not downloading a random app that doesn't give me any sense of what it does, or is for.

It's easy and respectful to your prospective users to at least include a screenshot and maybe a paragraph describing an app.
Virginia Beach, VA. Must relocate.

Looking for an outstanding software engineer. We help people find apartments. We're an Agile development team for the flagship division of a well-established Internet advertising company. We run multiple sites receiving over 3 million unique visitors a month.

Our company is primarily a PHP shop, but we care less about your knowledge of PHP and more about your understanding of object-oriented programming and interpersonal skills. (If you'll invest in us, we'll invest in you.) Also, we maintain a lot of mobile apps and are developing some new applications with Ruby on Rails. We're looking for people who at least have an interest in design patterns, unit testing, test-driven development, and Agile project management.

In addition to just running traditional big websites, projects focus on mobile websites, mobile apps, client-side awesomeness, SMS services, web analytics, reporting, automated testing, highly available systems, user experience, web services, data distribution, email marketing, search engine optimization and various administrative tools.

It's very rare to work more than 40 hours a week here. As a new team member, you'll get a brand-new iMac and a 24" second monitor. You can run whatever OS and IDE you like. Your meetings will be focused on collaboration rather than process. We focus on working software, not comprehensive documentation. We hire motivated individuals so we can give them the tools they need and trust them to get the job done. There are frequent technical training sessions. There are various user groups within the company that meet once a month and lunch is always provided. We also provide tuition reimbursement.

Call Andrew at (757) 739-0397.
If I were ever to get a house that small, I would want one that I could take with me:

http://www.lazydaze.com/photogal.htm
I already do --- and it was built in 1885. How's that for keeping emissions and resource usage down?
First time ever I see a belgian company here! Good luck with the search.
I think he was predicting/speculating that any complex life anywhere will have arisen through Darwinian selection; that there's no other process that leads from simple replicators to complex life.

Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vueDC69jRjE

Jump to 1:20.
Why creating a Flash only website is a bad idea
"For kicks, he took the tryout test for Harvard’s team. He came in first place."

I knew I recognized him from somewhere! ACM Regionals in New York took place a couple weeks ago. MIT managed to solve 7/8 problems, Harvard solved 3.

No one on our team has been doing competitive programming for nearly as long as some of these guys have. It took me only about a year of (very casual) practice to get to this point. So it doesn't necessarily mean you need to spend every waking moment on TopCoder.
Maybe they're not tackling this problem, because they realize it's futile?

If exact keywords stop working, spammers can easily start adding extra words or variations to anchor text (with something like Markov chains one can create lots of believable variations).
Earlier submission, same story, different source, some comments already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957424
Is this is general geek trait? I have a (very good) friend who always rubbishes my ideas as unworkable, impossible, idealistic, or whatever. He earns a much better salary than me but the funny thing is, I got him into tech and taught a _lot_ in the beginning. He gravitated towards the Microsoft ecosystem and I gravitated towards open source so that whenever we find something we would both like to work on we can't agree on the tools! Groooan. He's one of the smartest guys I know and he's always coming up with ideas (as am I in my own way) but whenever I say, come on, let's do one of these he always demurs. (Not that I'm much better.) I love tech and coding but I'm in the process of giving it up to a certain extent for a stint in academia.

That was a sly dig at Engerland, right ;-)
Micro Copy: Content Strategy and Writing the User Interface
In fact the house in the link is a trailer, so he should be able to hitch it to a truck and take it with him too!
Show HN: Kaleidoscope Changesets for Git, SVN, Hg and Bzr
Yes, please think about what that word actually means before you chuck it into a sentence.

I'm not saying by any means that it cannot be used outside of its dictionary-defined context, but sub-optimal CPU utilization probably does not warrant a sexual violence metaphor.
Cambridge, MA

Localot is hiring developers for the backend, web UI and data acquisition. The stack is Java, Jetty, Solr, MongoDB and GWT running on Amazon EC2. We're doing applied analytics on web and other data in some interesting domains. We have angel and government funding.

Find out more at: http://localot.com/jobs.html
Yes, I´m interested too... Germany has nothing like as a Limited Liability company ???
There are some details in the internship description, feel free to email us or post here if you have any specific questions.
Groupon Buys 3 Asian Sites, Gets Ready for Google Acquisition?
Freak of nature in absolute terms, or for being a talented chick?

From the article: "... evaluators tend to make negative judgments about women who behave in masculine ways to fulfill the needs of their jobs."

(Oh, instant downmod for asking a question related to gender issues. Silly me, forgot what site I was on.)
No Tweeting Allowed for President Bill Clinton's Keynote at Salesforce.com Event
If you watch the video, he says that he's lived in small houses for years, but no longer lives in this one. He and his wife live in the 500 sq foot house next to it, as they're expecting a baby.
They do actually filter reviews automatically using some secret algorithm.
I agree, but Github is a tool, it doesn't have an easy way to discover projects to work on. This is why I started this site http://hwknd.com that you can use to post your new github projects and find collaborators. It's still in early steps, but its own code is on github too so you can build on it if you like.
Apple Wins Patent for Glasses-Free 3-D TV
The Real Cost of Building Blackberry Apps
Pandoc - swiss army knife of markups (markdown -&gt; PDF, HTML, EPUB, LaTeX ...)
Piknik Live // Color Picker for Designers
An implementation of the Piknik Color Picker which works live on the Web site you're designing. :) Choose HTML elements' colors on the fly. Also has a fun bookmarklet to enable it on any page.
People couldn't afford their houses because of balloons, variable APR's, and losing their job, not because they had an extra room.

Um, no. A balloon payment or variable APR would not hurt you if you bought a smaller house that you could afford. Neither would short term (read: 1-2 years) job loss [1].

It's fun to blame the banks, but real estate speculators (aka "homeowners", as the media calls them) are just as culpable.

[1] There are likely to be several recessions over the next 30 years, and you have a reasonable chance of losing your job. If you don't plan for this, it's your fault.
any success stories yet?
How to create winning web content
Articles like this make me so glad to be in the software business...

Replace <anyBullshit> with "Does she ship?"
More info about the release at http://www.madebysofa.com/blog/double-rainbow/ and http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com
She sure looks tough enough  [pic]
Copywriting and Tone of Voice
And this is a perfect example of an uninformative error page. Why they felt the need to pad it out, I don't know.
I don't know how it works exactly, and whether it's significantly different in Germany, but to register as a (foreign[1]) sole trader in Austria, I had to show proof of no convictions in my home country and declare that I had no history of bankruptcy. I vaguely remember this to be 5 or 6 years, not 30, however. If you're Austrian, they already have this information on you. As far as I can tell, either precludes you from being a managing director, sole trader or partner unless you have someone who will effectively run the business on your behalf (!).

Setting up a limited liability company (GmbH) is an expensive and complicated process here, any decision by the board of directors must be witnessed by a notary public, etc. I suspect this is why so many companies have a non-fulltime lawyer in their founding team here.

Starting a UK limited company and operating it from Austria or Germany seems to be the main way to avoid all this cruft these days. The filings required in the UK are much less bureaucratic and arcane, plus there's no lower limit for starting capital. (Austrian GmbH require €35k initial capital, at least half of which must be cash)

That investors here are super conservative and don't "get" technology is pretty much common knowledge. Being so conservative, I can see how a company where some of the founders had previously been involved in a failed startup wouldn't stand much of a chance raising capital.

[1] I'm a UK citizen.
"Houston, we've had a problem" - new interactive of the Apollo 13 mission
Something like SAS or DAP would be better suited for large data sets, as R tends to load everything on the RAM.

From http://www.gnu.org/software/dap/ : "Because Dap processes files one line at a time, rather than reading entire files into memory, it can be, and has been, used on data sets that have very many lines and/or very many variables."
Lemme rephrase something (comment edit window timed out):

The end goal of Zazu is to build Jarvis from Iron Man. We have delusions of grandeur, but we will not rest until it's done. The current iteration of the product is an Android application that replaces the built-in alarm clock with an alarm clock that we believe to be more intelligent: it pulls whatever information you find important -- like your RSS feeds, your calendar, your email, your twitter stream -- and reads that information to you using a Text-To-Speech engine.

We're working with a few big brands to create a new form of interactive marketing/advertising and we promise that we're only going to be providing relevant information to our users... so y'all won't be blasted with Colon Blow advertisements 1000x a day.

We're going to be leaving the morning space fairly soon, meaning we'll integrate with your calendar to let you know what you need to regarding where you are and where you need to be (both physically and metaphorically). We're trying to transform the moment of alert into a moment of informed decision making. We'll be looking at emails and other areas that involve alerting and decision making, too.
Fog Creek Software - New York, NY (no telecommute) - http://fogcreek.com/

Current Openings:

* Software Developer
* Marketing Analytics Focus
* Sales: FogBugz and Kiln
* Intern in software development (Summer 2011)

Fog Creek Software is a small, friendly software company in New York City that was designed from the ground up to be a great place to work. We work on interesting projects with smart people, treat everyone like royalty, and eat lunch together every day.

Software developers at Fog Creek get spacious, sunlit private offices, unlimited computer gear, electronic height-adjustable desks, Aeron chairs, and a plush office featuring marble showers, a library, a salt water aquarium, professional espresso machine, daily gourmet catered lunch, unlimited snacks, video games and movie nights, and the opportunity to work with a great team.

We've been profitable since inception, and are growing rapidly, developing software products that help software developers make great software. We offer world-class compensation and benefits and a terrific work environment. We're always on the lookout for great people to join the team.

http://fogcreek.com/Careers.html
Nice article. It could be improved if the author collected numerous, diverse lottery result articles and used these to create a script that outputs randomized articles.

This is already done in the sports area, which is significantly more complicated: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/the-robots-...
University of Glasgow gives away software, patents, consulting
An implementation of the Piknik Color Picker which works live on the Web site you're designing. :) Choose HTML elements' colors on the fly. Also has a fun bookmarklet to enable it on any page.
How long does the recruitment process take? I've applied month ago and haven't got any response yet (application status = submitted).
>One of my friends has a random 4 inch pipe in the middle of her bathroom in her NYC apartment, and another in the hallway. Worst architect ever. You just have to squeeze around it.

I absolutely abhor these. Even with the insulation wrapped around it you would still risk getting burned pretty badly if you were to mistakenly brush your hand across it.
I remember interviewing for a position at a company I was already at, moving from one department to another.

I'd gotten a new manager in the old department, and I don't think I'd had enough time to get over an initial bad impression. I was the night shift guy, on a help desk, and the call volume was generally low. To help better justify the use of my time, I was tasked with some additional duties, like processing account delete requests and other tedium.

My manager at the time found fault with the fact that I had written a series of scripts to completely automate the additional tasks I'd been assigned, and considered me lazy.

In the interview, I was asked the question "How do you respond to the accusation that you sometimes cut corners?"

My answer was something like "I think cutting corners is a good thing. If there's not a requirement for square corners, and the rounded corners don't impact the quality or integrity of the work being performed, and if the corners aren't irreparably damaged in the process, I think that taking the more direct path of least resistance is not a bad thing."

I got the job, and I was later told that the manager was very impressed with the answer.

Uhhh, that was a roundabout way of saying "I agree."
Very interesting. It seems to me like this approach responds to some of the points people have made about potential entrepreneurs who don't fit YC's profile.
Sass Ruby's Clever CSS
Your text editor options are usually vim, emacs and pine (or nano) depending on where you are competing. No one uses IDEs, even if they are prohibited.
MMS issues affecting unlocked Windows Phone 7 devices
See I can seriously see the utility of a mobile home with a bed and such small space but when you are planting down some things are nice to have: like running water and a washing machine. The articles tour looks terrible (from youtube) as you would feel constantly squished and adding a second person to the mix would make the house feel even more like a prison cell.
Panopticlick claims that my user agent (Firefox 4.0b7 on Windows XP) is about 1/15,000. That seems unlikely.

It claims that my http_accept (text/html, STAR/STAR ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,STAR;q=0.7 identity en-gb,en;q=0.5 -- except that I've replaced asterisks with "STAR" to avoid HN formatting confusion) is about 1/19,000. That seems even more unlikely.

I suspect these have the same cause: they have this big database of browser information, gathered over time, and recent browsers are underrepresented. So anyone running a Firefox 4 beta, or a recent Chrome build, will show up as being very unusual in the database, but that's misleading because some of the older entries in the database will represent browsers that are no longer in the pool, whose users are now using something more recent.

On the other hand, I don't find it so hard to believe that my browser plugins give 20 bits or so of information. (Though some of the same bias will affect this figure.)

In case it isn't obvious, by the way, their figures are simply the fraction of records in their database that have the same user agent / browser plugins / system fonts as yours. The browser plugins figure is 1/1,277,632 (or, for me a little later, 1/1,277,946) because that's how many times the Panopticlick site has been used.

Hmm, I wonder how they defend against having the same user run their test twice in a row. (Answer, having tried it: they don't. Probably a good thing since the obvious non-privacy-compromising way could skew their figures a bit.)
I'm not too impressed with this article. If we replaced women in this article with any other underrepresented group in the software business and asked that group to conform to a stereotype to get ahead, it would be considered offensive and rightly so.

Dave Thomas's keynote from Rubyconf comes to mind. http://confreaks.net/videos/368-rubyconf2010-keynote
The Royalty Free version is open source, however it appears to be a highly restricted version of the GPL v1 license, where any application that uses lingpipe, by API calls or even by separately using the output of lingpipe, must comply with an Open Source Initiative license.

Somewhat interesting clause that may restrict "freedom", but none-the-less still enables it to be open-source.

http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/licenses/lingpipe-license-1.txt
Strange Loop 2010: "Adopting Apache Cassandra" [video]
This article contains little information. Five minutes I will never get back.
LinkPeelr: How a 3-weekend project grew to 3000 users
I agree. I'm not downloading a random app that doesn't give me any sense of what it does, or is for.

Indeed: I still have no idea what it does. I figured that it's an RSS reader, based on the name, but I could easily be wrong.
RIM's BlackBerry overtakes Apple's iPhone in US browser usage
The layouts are insane sometimes. I lived in an converted mill in Natick a few years back. The high ceilings and big windows were great, but to "upscale" it the space was divided into two equal rooms (plus bathroom): a bedroom and the _everything_ else room.

They took what was a great amount of space for a loft and turned it into an oversized place to put my bed and a smaller place for where I spent 90% of my time. Without the arbitrary wall to make it a "one bedroom" the place would have been fantastic, even if people saw that I had a bed.
Thanks for sharing your code! Much appreciated!
The code is a steaming pile, but the ecosystem is amazingly good, and the user experience is heads-and-tails above most CMS systems. You can have a Wordpress-backed site up in minutes, and (for very little money) it will look fabulous and you'll be able to change stuff on it without having to call your nephew who knows lots of stuff about computers.

(I use Wordpress all over the place, including for the marketing site for my new product. It saved at least a week versus having the marketing site also served out of Rails, and decoupling them made my designer's life much easier.)
This article belongs on Digg, not HN.
NYC - Demdex, a well-funded startup in the Internet advertising industry, is still hiring for numerous tech (and some biz) roles.

http://www.demdex.com/Demdex_careers.html
Interesting. Wonder if they're aware of each other?
Endgame Systems, Atlanta GA: http://endgames.us and http://www.iptrust.com

With $29 million in a recent Series A round we are rapidly expanding. Endgame Systems is a security software and services company. Our recent http://www.iptrust.com app shows one of our applications.

We are current hiring two types of developers:

* Python: Django, JavaScript, Cassandra, MySQL. We use Python all throughout our stack and in our big NoSQL backend systems.

* Visualization: we have petabytes of security related data, and presenting this in a sharp UI is challenging. We're looking to build with HTML 5, Protovis, Flash, and other related technologies.

Sadly no remote work is available right now, but our midtown Atlanta office is cool.

Please email me at mattculbreth AT gmail.com.
Game Physics 101
The site you linked to is for another bar(and a page with a Flash intro that pumps Jennifer Lopez into your ears, I should add)...

This is the correct site: http://www.manabar.com.au/
I have the same problem. Realistically, all your ideas will fail, so instead pick the one you find most interesting.