skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nice counter-move to the investors who stopped funding for now because startups got "uppity" with their unjustified valuations and high cap/no discount convertible note demands.

Sidenote: Things to put at the top of guest or aggregated posts: byline and date.
This quote had me laughing:

"Founded by Django creator Simon Willison and his wife Downe after finding themselves stuck on their honeymoon in Casablanca with nothing else to do".

:) Congrats on the launch!

ps: the site is pretty slow right now, can you crank up some instances or something?
Wow, that post is just wrong.

Open source is not a product. Open source is a community effort. If you don't want to use it - well, it's your problem. No one will shed a tear about it.

If you actually would care about open source you wouldn't be making shitty top10 lists. You would get your ass up and contribute to the project of your choice. If you think twitter is important ... fine! Start a twitter account for that project. Draw fancy icons. Do "SEO". Do something to help. And do something to get rid of that false sense of entitlement.
Conshohocken, PA (outside of Philadelphia)

Monetate - jobs.monetate.com

SaaS provider of testing, targeting, and personalization tools for online retail stores.

Open Positions:
* backend engineers - work on data and web problems at scale in Python.

* front-end developers - build and test experiments on our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We're small, profitable, and growing fast while still having fun (happy hours, free lunch everyday, group cycling, running). We've hired people through these postings (3 now!) and look forward to interviewing fellow HNers.

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Here's a suggested "work-around" (if you can call it that) - it's far from ideal...

In actionscript you can:

detect whether there are webcams present on the system
examine the pixels output by the webcam

So you could add some logic along the lines of:

if (hasWebcam && imageFromWebCamIsAllBlack){
showMessage([pick your own verbiage] + ' Skype v5')
}

Not ideal, but maybe better than nothing? Beware - the list of cameras reported to Flash often includes junk (e.g. 'Google Camera Adapter 1', and more on Mac), so you need to filter those from your list. Happy to give HN contributors some pointers on how to do that, for free. My Skype handle is my HN user name with a dot inserted in the obvious place.
San Diego, CA - StockTwits

We're looking for a Senior Ruby Developer to join the team in Coronado: http://stocktwits.com/jobs#rd

---------------------------------------------

New York, NY - Apartment Therapy

They haven't posted a job description yet, but I'm leaving my front-end developer/web designer position, so they'll be hiring soon. Email me at cgurga@gmail.com if you want me to send along the job posting once it's up =) Local is preferred (I'm leaving because I took a job with StockTwits now that I live in California).
This morning they replaced the aspx server error on http://www.iconbuffet.com/ with the redirect to the mail login -- still, they've been down for months, with no explanation.

Related: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ficonbuffe...
Easy text-shadow in IE (CSS Only)
Have you found a new similar community to join? In the sense a new community with fresh "ideals" you are thinking of joining or already did. It's been more then 6 months I've been trying to find a good place (I need a way to keep track of trends).

I think I've assimilated all HN could give me. And good luck!
5 Opportunities in West Africa for 2011
A very sincere thank you, yours were the comments that would be on the top of my list. Good luck!
They probably care about "white hat" SEO such as having appropriate headers, and descriptive urls. However, all that is important for their actual store front and not their blog.
The funding means we have a much better chance of building a viable business, without having to go back to freelancing part time to support ourselves.
First year of income tax code - max. rate is 7% . Tax code is >400 pages.

Now - max rate is ~40%. Tax code is 13,000+ dense pages.

Not to mention the red tape at the state level.

Reducing the complexity of business formation would by itself, encourage entrepreneurship.
I can't really argue with that, but sometimes having a specific destination in mind helps you get there faster.
How Plenty Of Fish Got Hacked [video]
Government plan is still publishing intentions and not actionable items?

I'd expect that to be limited to campaign only
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If you have any quetions or are interested, drop me an email:
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Thanks for all the responses. We are located in downtown Orlando, we created an urban incubator to try to build up the start-up community in Orlando. We are working on the website for workurbn.com, should be up within the next week.
I'm completely selfish, for I only read stories that are >80
That may be their assumption (clearly is, given the evidence), but I think it's a pretty poor one and it's certainly off-putting as a potential user.

A dating site contains, practically by definition, a fair bit of personal information. It's not online banking, but there's a lot of ugly stuff that an attacker could do if they could break into a large number of user accounts, and particularly if they could de-anonymize those accounts.

POF was pretty clearly sacrificing security -- which in this context means the potential privacy of their users -- in order to get more engagement and build userbase. Bluntly: they were taking risks with their users' data in order to build their business.

That's not terribly cool in my book, even though I can see why they might have made the decision. The fact that it's understandable doesn't mean that it's right.
Performance seems OK over here, and none of our monitoring is showing any issues. I'll keep an eye on it though.
hehe :)

It was a long term honeymoon - we gave up our flat in Brighton and just set off into the world with just our backpacks and laptops. We were also ill in Casablanca (and it was Ramadan so couldn't find any restaurants open) so we rented a flat for two weeks to cook for ourselves and built and launched the first version of Lanyrd.
can't disagree with any of that...
I don't see how the anti-Tivoication clause is incompatible with DRM in general. It only seems to be incompatible with DRM on bundled software:

If you convey an object code work under this section in,
or with, or specifically for use in, a User Product, and
the conveying occurs as part of a transaction in which
the right of possession and use of the User Product is
transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed
term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized),
the Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must
be accompanied by the Installation Information. But this
requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third
party retains the ability to install modified object
code on the User Product (for example, the work has
been installed in ROM).

Optional add-ons for a device sold in separate transactions after the sale of the device on which they run would not be transactions "in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred".
i use it to sync catpics to my phone for mms'ing to girls. that's it. i'm serious.

some people use it to sync their 1password database.
The world’s first living Google, made entirely of microorganisms [video]
Absolutely, these "initiatives" simply give lip service to the idea of fostering true entrepreneurship. Too bad they are passed off as legitimate actions in most media outlets.
Thanks for the info. It has given me a starting point. For the moment this would only be me so I would not have to worry about worker's comp but will look into General Business and E&O.
I think I see Redis more than Mongo.
Jquery Toastmessage – Android-like Notification
Inside London’s Secret Crisis-Command Bunker
"Strengthen commercialization of the about $148 billion in annual federally-funded research and development, which can generate innovative startups and entirely new industries;"

i'm curious what exactly they're planning to do there. would they be funding the VCs already involved in university research commercialization, or are they going directly to the research groups?
UFO Sightings on 1/30/2011 - Faked or not?
Buying oil futures does not help, because cheap oil is a fundamental part of the economy. As we already found out, when oil reaches a certain price, it stops rising because of demand destruction. Instead of paying more, industries dependent on it simply shut down. The only way to bet on peak oil, at this point, is bet against the economy as a whole--and that exposes you to huge counterparty and currency risks.
I think it's pretty clear what are the links. In this context, underlining them would just make them more difficult to scan.
Thought so too. Classic! Thanks for pointing that out.
I am not a UFO believer but the speed at which the light rises back up into the sky was crazy.
There is a little known bug in the HN code, but karma tops out at 65534 and then rolls back to 1. So, upvote this story ~15000 more times and he'll come back.
It's a brilliant way for Yuri to invest $5M in a portfolio of companies that others are selecting and are almost certain to get investment from top-tier Silicon Valley angels and VC firms -- which gives him relationships with everybody. As you say, cheap at the price. Good article.
No, you have to have massive prejudices to see what Siegler writes in that way.
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Check out http://www.startupshiring.com for an aggregated list of startup jobs from many of the companies on this thread. If you're company isn't listed, please add a request. http://www.startupshiring.com/add.
Amazon prepares streaming video for Prime members, will challenge Netflix
The website says that the dress code is 'business casual'? So, no jeans or sneakers?
Seems quite popular in Canadian business circles too.
MySQL Seems to be Surviving
Love ShiftIt. Nice, simple, and if you disable the menubar icon, completely out of the way.

(Use it at least 10x a day just for putting any two windows side-by-side. Seriously, changed my Mac OS X life).
Dear YC Company, How To Use Your $150K Uncapped Note To Your Advantage
It's depressing, I know. Having so many nice places and no starship Enterprise to take us there is no fun at all.
The PC version is getting bleh too. I had to ask my friend how to find the pm messages when he was showing me his screen the other day.
Jeux de Grattage en Ligne | Cartes à Gratter
Why every journalist paints google in gold and say that ONLY the evil operators add customizations to android?

I have a google phone and if I want to install from source I will miss several niceties that can't be added without closed google code. I will also have others niceties that are availabe to everyone but my google build

...lastly, try to uninstall amazon mp3 store from your GOOD google phone
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“Add Analytics” is a Terrible Requirement
You're right. That is a very important part of the story. I'm wondering if they'll give preference to any one sector (mainly, will they be matching investments for all startup types, or just those that could potentially compliment govmnt systems?)
Me.

Looking for free lance web developer to help extend an iPhone based social network to the web. We utilize MySQL and a lot of PHP (so you need to be familiar with both). App is called Groupie. We wont port all of the features, just the group management and posting (etc). Will provide majority of the artwork, just need you to piece it together and do the programming. We understand full well that you dont get quality unless you pay for it and are willing to pay for it. Will ask for examples of previous work and references so please have them handy.

Leo
leo@groupie.mobi
617-488-9920
Sure.

A digit is "a symbol (a number symbol, e.g. "3" or "7") used in numerals (combinations of symbols, e.g. "37"), to represent numbers (integers or real numbers) in positional numeral systems." (Source: Wikipedia)

For example, the number 17 consists of the digits 1 and 7.

So n digits of the Fibonacci sequence is ill-defined. Maybe a reasonable interpretation could be: n digits if you concatenate Fibonacci numbers. (At least, that was my working interpretation while reading the post until I realized that the OP had no idea what a digit is.) Since the question does not ask for the first n digits, you can choose any digit. I assume the Fibonacci sequence has n "1"s (actually I have no proof for that, but since the Fibonacci numbers are infinite it is reasonable assumption IMHO). Hence: print "1"*n
Intel recalls Sandy Bridge chipsets due to SATA screw-up
Apple’s holiday quarter is always much better than the other quarters. If you look at the graph I linked to, you can see the regular spikes in Apple’s revenue and earnings, that’s the holiday quarter. Apple will very likely grow year-over-year next quarter while its earnings and profits will shrink sequentially. That’s the way it has always been in the last years and its not the least bit surprising. There is not really a need to justify such a prediction. You can’t just look at sequential growth.
Number one thing the federal government could do to spur entrepreneurship and innovation:

Simple, single-payer (sure, self-paid in cash until my company can foot the bill) health coverage that I don't have to think about. Without this, it's a huge waste of time, money, and cognitive effort to apply for and maintain COBRA and related coverage until your venture can afford it. And you're boned if you can't get to that stage and your COBRA ages out.

How many otherwise ambitious, eager tech and business people are locked into their current work situation (or stuck working for big-cap companies) due to pre-existing conditions or the threat of a family health emergency? This applies to all kinds of people, not just the Silicon Valley startup crowd. The health care 'leap of faith' is a huge elephant in the room and a real drag on the growth areas of the economy.
First off, how do you download Clustrix?
With MongoDB, simple as pie:
http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Now, where are the docs?
Again, Mongo has great docs
http://wiki.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Home

How can I verify your claims?

Oh that's right, you call a salesperson first....
Barely is appropriate in the context, considering how quickly Apple’s earnings grew in the last quarters.
Facebook Deals Goes Live in Europe
Thanks for the heads up; we'll look into this right away...
I really like how easy it is to set up an ad-hoc network using Mac OS X. If the government shuts off the internet Apple computers would probably be foremost in the creation of a private ad-hoc internet.
It's fast now, might just have been a hickup.
Dozens of things:

If I stick PDFs on it, I can view it on all my computers and devices. This holds for both contracts and ebooks.

If I stick pictures in the public directory, I can quickly show them to people

If I stick zip files in the public directory, it's faster than uploading to an SSH site

If do photoshop/fireworks/balsamiq mockups work out of dropbox, it's on all the computers, and can be pulled up on an iPad in a customer location.

If I stick the scanner on one computer with the output directory in dropbox, I can connect the scanner to one of the desktops, then have it automagically copy over to my mac laptop when done.
I've actually put a lot of time and thought into this very question and am happy to discuss with you further. gberrio has hit a lot of the points. No one can compete with their database of deals and pricing but I think that so much changed post Lehman that you can get away with going back to 2007.
Amazing how we go from;
Stock market bubble to Netscape to Facebook to Stock market bubble.

Jeff Atwood should write for CNN or USA today.
Pioneered by TechStars? Really?
Well you've whet my appetite - I look forward to learning more, particularly to see if you managed to overcome the dual chicken-and-egg problems before going out of business.
http://twitter.com/search?q=clojure

(forgot)
Cool! I have been following Lanyrd for a while but didn't realize they were with YC.
Congratulations! As someone who lives in a country where conferences are quite rare and scarcely publicized a tool like lanyrd (increasingly used here(italy)) helps really a lot.
I disagree that GitHub's project pages "suck for SEO". GitHub's pages rank quite highly on Google. A search for "cancan" for example returns my project as the first result. A search for "homebrew" returns GitHub's page as the 3rd result and the custom project page as the 4th result.

Also, creating a separate page for a project means there will no longer be one page for people to link to. Links will be split across the two pages, and links are important for SEO.

I agree a separate project page is great for branding and makes it look like a dedicated, serious project; but I wouldn't do it for SEO purposes.

Otherwise thanks for the great list of ideas.
http://bugs.jquery.com/query?type=feature&component=unfi...
Animoto is hiring in New York, San Francisco and remote. Animoto is a video creation platform that automatically produces stunning music videos using images, video clips, and music.

We are hiring for multiple roles including software engineers, testers, product managers.

http://animoto.com/blog/category/company/jobs/

Email devjobs at animoto for more details.
[gripe]

Why do people think the highlighter type functionality is a good idea? I, as well as quite a few people I know, tend to highlight as we read to make it easy to read text in contrast and keep our place within a page...
Hierarchy in Communication
This version was obviously built for people who only use one application at a time.
Apple has had about the same gross margin for the longest time. It was 38.5 percent in the last quarter compared to 40.5 percent a year ago. Microsoft’s gross margin in the last quarter was 75.8 percent compared to 80.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. No need to speculate about that, it’s all publicly available data.
Guidewire Software - San Mateo, CA (mid-peninsula in the Bay Area, for non-natives)

We do core systems for insurance companies. No longer a startup (we're about 9 years old), but still privately held and doing very well financially.

The core work is in Java, but the platform is mostly a proprietary stack, including the Gosu language that we've recently open-sourced (http://gosu-lang.org) and are still actively developing.

We need developers on our applications and our platform, as well as product managers and QA. http://www.guidewire.com/careers for more details.

Feel free to e-mail me directly (akeefer@guidewire.com) if you're interested or have any questions (I'm the tech lead on our platform team).
Now that's a job worth taking. Do you guys sponsor visas (I'm not sure exactly how that works, to be honest)?
A look at Textaurant, a 500 Startups backed company
Home - Hero Dono
A best comments for a particular user page. Say I am looking at the profile of a retired user. I open the old great user's profile, I click on comments and I only see a list sorted by newest-first. I am looking at some of the old greats, but I have no effective way to look at the comments that made them great. Please allow sorting by karma or an alternative page for best-of comments for that user.
Thats wonderful to hear! we are getting quite a bit of traction in countries other than the UK and US which is fab
On a local level (which is on par with this whole open insurgency thing), opening up your WiFi and using Bonjour services (and why not some kind of custom landing page) seems like a brilliant idea. Big plus: it doesn't require a computer degree so that's something that can spread easily, and cover a wide range.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it amazing to have all the elements at hand and already working, and never having thought of this
Good point, I will do some further investigation :) I am trying to create a more exclusive groups product, but I want to keep information sharing to quick bite sized chunks. I guess that might not be a solution though.
With all of the printing of money going on and no other sound investments around to absorb it, its no wonder another bubble is developing. You literally cannot even safely buy municipal bonds these days. So anything that has been growing will get bubbled. Until, of course, it cannot be bubbled no more and an extreme lack of people willing to overpay arrives.
Preventing CSRF and XSRF Attacks
Photos from a trip to North Korea
Indeed. A lot of the reason I like document databases so much is that you can solve problems differently (and many times, much more easily) than you could in a relational database. Compare:

db.posts.find({tags: {$in: ["foo", "bar"]}})

to:

SELECT * from posts JOIN taggings ON taggings.post_id = posts.id JOIN tags ON tags.tagging_id = taggings.id WHERE tags.tag IN ('foo', 'bar');

(Single query tag lookup; naively joins the entire taggings and tags tables before limiting with WHERE)

Or a "better" query with two subselects (yikes!)

SELECT * FROM posts where post_id IN (SELECT taggings.post_id FROM taggings WHERE taggings.tag_id IN (SELECT id FROM tags WHERE tags.name IN ('foo', 'bar')))

And that's the "find where any tag matches" case. Try the "when all tags match" case ($all in MongoDB), and you'll go grey a few years earlier.
It’s Good to be Netflix
Interestingly, if you try to do the following:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+The+Hacker+E...

It will still take you to the login gate, however using my search terms and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky from the Google main search page does work...
Encryption should occur higher in the app layer. For cache privacy everything should be over https and avoid proxies. There are uses for fully public blobs too and those do not have these issues.
I recently wrote an interpreter in C for a made up language. As a test of its performance, I coded up a powmod function, powmod(a, e, n) = a^e mod n (where ^ is power not xor). The program contained the lines:

if (n % 2 == 0) return (powmod(a, n/2, p) * powmod(a, n/2, p)) % p;
else return (powmod(a, n/2, p) * powmod(a, (n+1)/2, p)) % p;

The embarrassing thing is that even after having spent years writing mathematical code, it took me ages before I figured out it was not my interpreter, but this algorithm that was so ridiculously slow. Fortunately the interpreter is now really fast!
Ah. I was hoping that the behaviour of "1"*n was interesting :-)
Where's the job opening?
Despite 4% Mobile Market Share, Apple Accounts for Majority of Profits
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