skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX, Los Angeles. Working remotely is not an option for new-hires. In December we became the first private organization to put a spacecraft into orbit and return it safely (highlights: http://spacex.com/multimedia/videos.php?id=57). The other entities who've done this are all governments or governmental collaborations. SpaceX is continuing our expansion. Want to write code that lives on the International Space Station or controls our vehicle while it visits? Want to help humanity colonize Mars? Drop us a line, we're hiring. Visit spacex.com/careers for more info. For reasons relating to ITAR, you must be a US citizen or permanent resident.
It might not send it automatically (I don't know, I haven't tested it), but since you're the one building the XHR, you can send the header if you want. The same origin policy won't let you see the results of a cross-domain request, so it seems like requiring the header is an effective technique.

Obviously this is only true for read operations: anything that updates state would still be vulnerable to CSRF (since you don't need to be able to read the result to make the request).
There's a lot more overlap between Apple and Microsoft than between Apple and Ford.

Previously you could argue that Apple was purely a hardware company because they bundled their OS and software with Mac hardware, and Microsoft was purely a software company because they didn't but recently the lines have blurred. Apple, like Microsoft, backs the creation of consumer devices for hardware that they did not invent nor own (e.g. the Zen vs the iPod). Microsoft also is now selling software bundled solely with hardware---the Kincet, and the Xbox---taking a page out of Apples book.

When it comes to software/hardware hardly anyone competes with a company that exists in a proper set of their own industries. For example, Sony is competing with Microsoft when it comes to consumer entertainment hardware (Xbox/Playstation), but they're competing with Amazon when it comes to eBook readers and Apple when it comes to portable music players.

Sure Ms and Apple are not identical companies but they are worth comparing.
Why SV Angel/Yuri Milner Investing In Every Y Combinator Startup Is Brilliant
Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales Actually ‘Quite Small’
You can't randomly throw numbers around without listing your benchmark code, the config files, etc.

Secondly: even though it becomes clear eventually, you should mention up front your relationship with Clustrix. Just because you are a founder of Clustrix doesn't necessarily invalidate your findings, but full disclosure is always a good idea.
"How can anyone manage with 25 GB per month?"

Very, very happily thanks. I used to "manage" quite happily on 1.5GB/month (Wireless in Australia).

Now I'm in the UK, I'm doing about 25 (thanks to BBC's streaming, which I could cut out a lot of I was PVRing more). It would only become a pain when I want to download something like a VM image.
Plus, we get Flour Bakery goodies delivered a fair amount, which is a great - but dangerous-to-the-waistline - perk.
Would HN participation be more manageably casual if the home page kept popular stories around for more than a day? Then you wouldn't feel like you had to visit every day just because you might miss something.
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StartUP America Partnership
I'm not an attorney, but I have done consulting on and off over the last dozen years. Hopefully this helps:

1. It's a good idea to incorporate - not only for the individual protection, but for the ability to reduce taxable income as much as possible. C-Corp is probably best, but also most complex. You can start as an S-Corp and change down the road if you want. Many other reasons to do this as well. It does have its own set of expenses though - particularly, in CA you have to pay $800 per year just to exist. For the first several years, I worked as a sole proprietor. To mitigate personal risk as much as possible, I had certain clauses put in the contracts (and others removed). For example, no warranty for work - it is time and material, and liability could not exceed what was actually paid. I would also negotiate to have any insurance clauses removed - as I didn't carry any.

2. You should get insurance - General Business and E&O and if employees, workers comp. Many clients may require this. Note, however, that I never had it. If you have employees, it's almost a requirement.

3. Do pay estimated taxes quarterly. This will help reduce penalties and also help you not spend all your money and then be screwed when tax time comes. Set aside at least a third for this.

4. If forming a company that processes payrolls, get a payroll service like ADP. You screw up a payroll and the penalties are huge. It's worth the extra money to pay someone to get it right.

5. Make clear separation between personal and business expenses. Have a business account you use for business and don't mingle them together.

6. Get an accountant! Learn Quickbooks, or something to track income and expenses. Meet with accountant more frequently than April! Meet in Oct/Nov and get input on what you need to do before year end. With a C-Corp, any money left in the company is taxed as retained earnings and then taxed again when you pay yourself. You want to avoid this double-taxation and an accountant will help you figure it out (either through equipment purchases or payroll).

Have fun, and good luck.
Autarchy Versus Anarchy
For BCC? "Thanks for the email Cindy. I'm afraid that, as I live in Japan, I'm not in a position to offer phone support to customers of Bingo Card Creator. You can find instructions for installing it at ... or I would be happy to answer questions via email. Regards, ..."

For AR, I do try to call customers/prospects, if for no other reason than to get feedback on what their needs are. As it matures, I will probably still make it a point to call at least some prospects -- the expected LTV on landing some white label accounts is "quite high indeed", and depending on my observed conversion rates for e.g. $80/mo or $200/mo accounts, it might be worth my while to screw up my sleeping schedule a little bit. (If I'm late to work the next morning, it is rather unlikely my boss will fire me.)
Announcing the TechStars Network
I understand what you are worried about, but we can do something about it. How about we non-uber-high-karma-types strive to be better contributors.

HN attracts some of the most insightful and eloquent commentary around, but there are enough resources here and enough trial-and-error opportunities for aspiring contributors to thrive.
Designing LED brightness Circuit
Things like these make me want to be a US citizen.
Will miss you. Farewell.
Two words: Evaporative Cooling.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665

http://searchyc.com/submissions/%2522evaporative+cooling%252...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367
Try LaunchBar instead of Quicksilver. It's not free, but is worth every penny. It's like Quicksilver, except it's actually quick.
"...While not a grant-making entity..."
My personal solution to the HN addictiveness problem is to use the noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway that are built into your user settings.

Mentioning here as it was probably 6 months before I realized these existed - from the original thread:

"Like email, social news sites can be dangerously addictive. So the latest version of Hacker News has a feature to let you limit your use of the site. There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero."

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
Then again, you could argue that people interested in such projects like Pharen are likely to have modern PHP versions ;-)
In fact, it goes so far that in double blind tests, teenagers were found to generally prefer the distorted sound of MP3 over lossless.
Ask HN:  Why isn't Y Combinator affiliated with the  White House Initiatives?
I've been seeing news all morning about Tech Stars and MassChallenge - is YCombinator affiliated with the White House in their initiatives?

Why or why not?
Washington DC (no remote):

I'm sure they'll start posting soonish. Here's a tweet I saw this morning to tide you over :

From @farrelley:
If you are a Python/Django Developer looking for a job and live in Metro DC I have a Job for you! good pay excellent company! Please RT!

Here's a link to his personal website with contact info:

http://www.farrelley.com/

You could also use the "Proudly Made in DC" website to find any startups who are hiring, but haven't posted here. The DC area is on a hot streak for startups as of late:

http://proudlymadeindc.com/
Another point to notice: He seems to have run his benchmarks under very trivial data-schemas with a single/simple table. A big (speed, simplicity) advantage of No-SQL is the ability to embed lots of data within the parent model and manage a single table where you would have to manage many in a SQL database.

I would be very interested to see a comparison where a large and "real" data model (that contains 6-7 "joined" tables for the SQL setup and a single table with the embedded document model for the No-SQL setup) is injected into each of the technologies.

Also, it is just horrible style not to include the benchmark code for peer review. Delivers near-0 credibility.
That is standard behavior for many web sites whose purpose includes no important personal information. vBulletin and some other forum engines do that by default. These site owners figure, probably rightfully so, that the support burden for a forgotten password exceeds the expected value of some black hat actually intercepting the plaintext email (low) times the meaningful impact of any ensuing activity (also low). The chief risk is in compromising a password that this user also uses for applications of high security impact, but it is not the responsibility of this particular site owner to protect a user from generally dumb behavior.

More generally: security best practice is not always about enforcing as tightly as you possibly can. Security has real costs and it's a cost-benefit tradeoff against many other factors.
Well, in the United States at least, it is illegal to operate a drone unless you: A) have direct line of sight with the drone and B) can manually take over the drone at any time. This means you would need to have someone watching each drone unless you can successfully hide its operation from the government, which could be difficult since its mission is to relay electromagnetic signals back down to earth.
Apple's 4% mobile market share rakes in over half the industry's profit
It's not right, how about all the entrepreneurs who did not join Y Combinator? Yuri Milner, open your pockets for them! The Y Combinator people are not the best example of real entrepreneurs who struggle. It's basically a training program for those who want to be entrepreneurs.
EA2D - Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area)

http://www.ea2d.com

We're a small, autonomous studio within EA building social games for gamers. Our first monetized title, Dragon Age Legends, is about to enter closed beta and has been generating a lot of buzz (http://pc.ign.com/articles/114/1146553p1.html).

Our Platform team is looking for mid to (very) senior engineers. You would be responsible for building the platform on which all EA2D games will run, from the pages that serve the HTML to the suite of game servers supporting them. Analytics, social network integration, shared services (REST), scaling, real-time stateful and stateless game servers -- this would all be your domain.

Our stack is primarily Java with MongoDB on the backend, but we're becoming increasingly polyglot (Python, Ruby) in the middle tier. We're hosted on EC2 (w/auto-scaling and on-demand environments) and practice continuous deployment. A sampling of the tech we use: Chef, git (GitHub), Hudson (now Jenkins?), ant, ivy, SQS, S3, EMR, Loggly, PagerDuty, Mixpanel, Kontagent, NginX, Tomcat, Hive, and Google App Engine. We contribute code back to the open source projects we use, and we've even started open sourcing our own (https://github.com/EA2D).

The Platform team is small and young -we're still building out the initial implementations of many services- so you would have a tremendous impact on our architecture and direction.

We're a tight-knit team with lots of whiteboards, so you'd need to be on-site. On the plus side, EA's campus is fantastic - we have a stellar gym, cafeteria, theater, shuttle service to Caltrain, soccer field, volleyball and basketball courts, tournament-quality foosball tables, and much more.

Drop me a line if you're interested, mikeb@ea2d.com

We've already hired two people from previous HN "Who's Hiring?" threads, so you'd be in good company!
I hate "not in my backyard" stuff that assumes the rest of the world will be just fine if a few places run into trouble.

If even a handful of entire states go bankrupt, the people outside of those areas will not be immune to the effects. The same is true for a lot of other things that happen in the world. This isn't something to be watched from the sidelines, it's something that should receive real support. The story should be, "here's how you can help these struggling areas".

(Oh, and thank you Comcast for insulting my WebKit-based browser and suggesting I "upgrade" to something you "support". Time to join 2011 and stop displaying these browser-sniffing pages.)
Thanks doubly for the detailed response. I very much enjoyed Fromm's Escape from Freedom when I read it a few years ago, I will definitely buy the Art of Loving.
Ask HN: Anyone have an MVP?
Is anyone working on an MVP they want to share/get feedback on? I'm reading a lot about lean startup methodologies and would love to see a few.
I applied for a company where a significant portion of the first phone screen was devoted to basically making sure I knew what modulus was.

After the screen, I asked them about what percentage of applicants failed - it turned out it was something like half. Sad.
more substantial info (thus far) http://www.startupamericapartnership.org/
I too stumbled upon this (just last night) looking for NBA tickets. Good luck, Tom.
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If you are familiar with Scheme and Common Lisp, I would say not hard. Much easier than if you were a Java-only guy coming to Clojure I would imagine. (disclaimer: I'm only really a dabbler in any of them, but I found starting out in Clojure very comfortable after learning the crippled Scheme from SICP and enough Common Lisp from Practical Common Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Land of Lisp...)
We use IB for most things and actual code for very specific things. Make things much easier when you are dealing with localization when you have to adjust text elements due to translation. "The best code you can write is the code you don't write" or something like that
There are also lots of programmers who are clueful about security, but work for clueless managers or organizations. I've had many a conversation that went like this:

"Okay I put together this prototype and it's working. I should check it over for SQL injection spots and---"

"StoptalkingnotimeforthatSHIPITNOW!"
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I don't care if he taught a cat to fish for tuna, he fucked up big, and in a bad and trivial way.
Yes, but that would be a different word!
maybe YC doesn't want to spend time gaining that clout? they're like the sequoia of incubators.
Very cool. I've been thinking about something like this (asynchronous message transfer) lately. I would want to use good public key crypto for message signing and encryption. If it was built as a pass-the-note game (with points, achievements, etc...) that ran on phones and could talk to other phones via bluetooth and wifi, I could see it getting pretty popular in schools. The protocol should also support transfer via thumb drive (dead drop) and internet (if available).
How to calculate Big O notation from piece of code
SB Nation is a media/technology startup in Washington, DC. We're hiring Ruby developers and visual designers (local preferred, remote considered):

http://www.sbnation.com/jobs/developer

http://www.sbnation.com/jobs/designer

We're a network of 290+ sports news sites & communities. As newspapers are shutting down their sports sections, we're quietly reinventing the media model with profitable, high-quality, innovative coverage by and for fans. Our investors include Accel Partners, Allen & Company, Comcast Interactive Capital, and Khosla Ventures. We get around 16 million unique visitors every month.

Our small product team develops the custom publishing and community platform (built on Rails) that powers the sites. The interesting problems we face range from editorial analytics, to social distribution, to scaling the system to handle our rapid growth.

Here are some of the humans you'd be working with:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlovitt/4507489423/in/set-72157...

And some recent press:

* Why sports is driving innovation in journalism: http://markcoddington.com/2010/10/08/why-sports-has-taken-th...

* NY Times profile: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/media/07fans.html

* Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab: http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/sb-nation-ceo-on-how-were-f...
Java Is Code Smell. Ruby Is Clean Code!
"we've never spent 1 minute or $1 actually SEO'ing our own website."

Uh, why? Isn't that something that a company should care about, getting into the top Google results? Not saying you should be submitting to shady link farms, but not spending a single minute on it...
Articles like these confuse me. Who is the audience, tiny children?

You use Firefox. Everyone does. You use Dropbox. Everyone does. You don't like Terminal or want some features that other people have.

Perhaps we need to elevate our discourse. Move on at some point?

At the same time, I just posted about my favorite iPhone apps, so it's confusing.
From the Google Custom Search API:
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "usageLimits",
"reason": "dailyLimitExceeded",
"message": "Daily Limit Exceeded"
}
],
"code": 403,
"message": "Daily Limit Exceeded"
}
}
New York, NY

SeatGeek - Data-driven search for event tickets

Looking for a frontend developer (Javascript/HTML/CSS) to have complete ownership over that part of our web app. An eye for design and Photoshop skills are a plus.

On-site only. Drop me a line if you're interested: jack@seatgeek.com
good point, but i think the original intent is to transmit information if the government began to censor the net. Therefore, you can imagine _anything_ you do is going to inhibit the free flow of information, therefore you're just as sensible to go ahead and and run some nice drones. :)
I agree with respect to mobile device users and they would understand given limitations of text messaging and how they have become familiar with messaging with few characters. PC users will want to explain in more detail and this should be accommodated. That said I suggest not leave it open ended, but some limit so they net their feedback.
The attacks on NoSQL seem a little harsh to me. People needed scalable systems. They needed them ASAP. Nobody in the RDBMS camp was even hinting at products targeting this market. Then, the NoSQL camp built systems that scale (albeit with compromises).

The fact that this has spurred the others to start building scalable RDBMSs is great. But let's not pretend these new RDBMSs won't have compromises, they'll just have different ones.

The important thing is for developers to make smart decisions about what tradeoffs make the most sense for scaling their application. Different applications will require different tradeoffs.

Disclaimer: I work for VoltDB.
That's very entertaining to me! I never really cared about quality myself, though nowadays I love Pandora as compared to youtube.
what does convertible note/solid terms mean?
Oh, oops, guess who’s not been following the release schedule? :) Thanks for the heads up!
I am working on a similar project right now and would like to join efforts for a better and unique product/experience.

http://haxapp.appspot.com
They're not quite documentaries in the standard sense, but I like the 1920s/30s "city symphonies", which try to capture some of the mood and rhythm of cities. Three are: Manhatta (USA, 1921), Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (Germany, 1927), and Man with a Movie Camera (USSR, 1929). They're plotless and a bit avant-garde, though, so may be boring if you're not into that sort of thing. Man with a Movie Camera is the most avant-garde, and is as much about the reflexive idea of filming a city as about the city itself; it also invented a bunch of now-standard cinematic techniques.
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Three Points on Innovation « AOPAD
Really? You think there is a linear relationship between tax rates and hours worked? It's never worked that way in my experience, either as an employee or as a founder.

As an owner, you don't get paid for hours, full-stop. You get paid for outcomes. I don't know about you, but if the government raised the corporate tax rate by 5%, that would have no bearing on my desire to have my company succeed.

The same holds true, ceteris paribus, for my years as an employee. I worked hard (and a lot of hours) because I enjoyed what I was doing, and wanted the company to succeed, even if my income was divorced from the hours worked--as it was, most of the time, as a salaried employee. In other words, I got paid zero percent of the "extra hours", and yet still worked them, gladly, for other reasons.

Naturally, YMMV.
GitHub — San Francisco, CA. Remote's doable, although we dig SF'ers.

We're looking for someone to help us out with GitHub's Enterprise product, Firewall Install. Basically we want to add 22 units of awesome to it, at a minimum. See our job page for details and to apply, or feel free to ping me at @holman if you have super special questions.

http://jobs.github.com/positions/93a9f09a-2a4e-11e0-9546-9a4...
Storing passwords using reversible encryption is not much better than plaintext.
You're correct. GPL regulates non-source forms (section 6--Conveying Non-Source Forms). However, I think in this case it's the anti-TiVoization clauses that interfere with the App Store DRM.
An alternate name for the result is the Dead Sea effect: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d....

However I think that it is too early to get too concerned about hn.
I'm working on a few right now, but I'm keeping it limited to only Adwords Traffic so I have good benchmarks for future changes.

Here are some resources.

http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product-exam...

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-examples-of-Minimum-V...
Cheezburger Network is looking for web devs, product managers, C# devs, etc. Most technical employees are remote.

http://jobs.cheezburger.com/
I agree that Dropbox is ...hmm... "MARVELOUS". Please tip them a goldspot at Spottiness.com. It's a site where the real perception of things emerges through anonymous messages and opinions.
Agreed. These are good places to start because you can just start building and learn as you go. Once you start building, you'll figure out what you need to be reading very quickly.
Adversarial Web Search Monograph from Yahoo (food for SEO thought)